1911. 
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THE RUKAb NEW-YORKER 
utes until a smooth paste is formed; 
add 10 gallons water and 20 pounds 
stone lime, boil 45 minutes, add water 
to make 25 gallons, cool to 65° and test 
clear liquid with a hydrometer. Hydro¬ 
meters and tubes may be obtained for 
$1, probably through your wholesale 
druggist. Everyone who is going to 
make or use lime-sulphur spray should 
have one, as they are the only safe 
guides. Reduce all concentrated lime- 
sulphur solutions at the rate of one to 
seven if mixture tests 30° B., one-half 
gallon less dilution for every degree 
less the mixture tests, and one-half gal¬ 
lon more water to one gallon of mixture 
for every degree over 30° B. the mix¬ 
ture tests, or when hydrometer is at 
hand, dilute until mixture tests 45° B. 
Sediment is not of necessity detri¬ 
mental to the mixture as far as efficacy 
is concerned, yet as all tests are specific 
gravity tests, nothing but clear solution, 
either concentrated or diluted, should be 
used for making the tests or you get a 
false reading. By careful tests it has 
been found that 45 minutes was about 
the best length of time of boiling. After 
all ingredients have gone into solution, 
longer boiling is detrimental, as lime 
and sulphur again revert to solids, 
thereby increasing the sediment and re¬ 
ducing the amount of lime and sulphur 
in solution. Keep mixture well stirred 
at all times when making. Have some 
cold water always on hand in case mix¬ 
ture seems about to boil over. A close 
cover is beneficial in conserving heat. 
The sulphur enters more readily into so¬ 
lution if reduced to a smooth paste be¬ 
fore adding the lime or too great a 
quantity of water. Apparently as good 
results are had with the cheapest grades 
of sulphur as with the more costly 
brands. The cheapest is the ordinary 
sulphur flour or ground brimstone. 
Since January 1 all lime in New York 
State must be sold under a guarantee. 
Avoid lime that does not test high in 
calcium oxide; that which tests 95 per 
cent calcium oxide is practically pure. 
The mixture may be kept a year without 
much deterioration if airtight barrels are 
used. Jt may also be kept a compara¬ 
tively long time in a open head barrel 
by running a little paraffin on the sur¬ 
face. If exposed to the air for a long 
time crystals will form, also scales of 
sulphur on the surface. This is due to 
some extent to evaporation and the mix¬ 
ture is improved by adding some water 
and heating to the boiling point before 
using, and don’t forget to retest! 
When used as a Summer spray reduce 
not less than 30 gallons of water to 
one gallon of commercial lime-sulphur. 
(Some reports are to the effect that as 
good results were had at one to 40.) 
Add three pounds arsenate of lead to 
each 50 gallons of dilute mixture where 
only one application is made; reduce 
amount of arsenate of lead if more than 
one spraying is made. This will apply 
to apples and pears both. For peaches 
and other stone fruits, one to 100 is 
nearer right, and for late applications 
for rot one to 150 was used by the 
writer with great satisfaction. It was 
also used one to 25 on potatoes with 
good results. In early applications on 
potatoes lime should be added, as it is 
more effectual against flea-beetle be¬ 
cause more distasteful. About six 
pounds slaked and strained to 50 gallons 
is' all that will pass readily through fine 
nozzles. w. h. 
should think by February sure; that is 
if they have grown thrifty. As a rule 
late-hatched chicks do not grow and 
develop as fast as early-hatched ones, 
probably because the grasshoppers, etc., 
are gone when the late chicks are at 
the age when they should be bug-hunt¬ 
ing all day. Of course beef scraps takes 
the place to some extent, but nothing 
quite equals food that is alive. 
In regard to crossing the breeds— 
Rocks and Minorcas—the result would 
be a lot of mongrels that in all prob¬ 
ability would not lay as well as the 
Minorcas, and the eggs could never be 
sold for more than market price. On 
the contrary, if he breeds up the laying 
qualities of the Minorcas, and his 
neighbors find that he has some pure¬ 
bred fowls of extra good laying quali¬ 
ties, he can sell a good many eggs for 
a dollar a dozen instead of 30 cents, 
and that at a time of year when eggs 
are being produced most abundantly. 
There is everything to lose and nothing 
to be gained by crossing the breeds. I 
must admit there is a great fascination 
about it, and I don’t blame the amateur 
hen man for yielding to it. If I were 
worth a million dollars I would cross all 
the breeds in every conceivable way, just 
for the fun of seeing what the result 
would be. geo. a. cosgrove. 
Duration of Strawberries. 
Last Spring I set out one-half acre of 
strawberry plants, composed of the follow 
ing varieties : Bubaeh, Haverland and Ten¬ 
nessee Prolific. They were set two feet 
apart in rows that were four feet apart. 
About four hundred of them were killed 
by cutworms. I reset these by letting 
some of the runners form crowns, and then 
digging them up and transplanting them 
where needed. As it was a wet season all 
of them lived, and make a good growth. 
They were plowed and hoed after every 
rain, and worked on the hill Bystem., 
Mulched the last of November, with old 
clover hay. The ground that they are on 
is limestone and naturally drained. It 
was in corn last year, and 200 pounds of 
corn fertilizer applied. Can I cultivate 
and run this patch on four or five years or 
shall I have to renew it every year? 
Midway, Ky. ' ‘ j. h. d. 
Our own fields, handled somewhat in this 
way, but with the plants closer, are fruited 
three to five years and give good yields. 
We doubt if a farmer can afford to' plant 
strawberries iu hills, give them thorough 
care and fruit them less than three years. 
HENS THAT LAY. 
Last April I had seven Black Minorca 
hens and a rooster, and up to this date 
there have not been more than live days 
that the hens have not laid. I have six 
Minorca pullets and three Barred Plymouth 
Itocks hatched last dune. How long should 
it be before we should be getting some re¬ 
turn from them? Would you advise the 
crossing of these two breeds when iti 
comes to the production of eggs? The 
general feed for them all for the last three 
months or over has been cracked corn and 
oats or oats scalded and then fried in fat 
with a dish of scratch feed before them all 
the time; oyster, shells (ground), besides 
the waste from the table. We are at pres¬ 
ent getting three eggs every day and quite 
often four. g. w. m. 
Kingston, Mass. 
This man has no reason to find fault 
with those seven Black Minorcas. If 
they have laid without missing more 
than five days from April up to Janu¬ 
ary 6 they have done remarkably well. 
Didn’t they molt in the Fall and did 
they lay right through the molting, if 
they did molt? I have known some of 
my VVyandottes to lay until they were 
nearly naked at molting time, but when 
the new feathers are growing it is about 
all a hen can do to furnish material 
for feathers, without manufacturing eggs 
at. the. same time. But “soaked oats 
fried in fat” is a “red-hot” diet when 
combined with table scraps and scratch 
feed. The hens ought to lay. As to 
when Minorca and Rock pullets hatched 
in June should be expected to lay, I 
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