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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 4, 
A CROP OF SWEET CORN. 
The stalk of sweet corn shown in 
picture was taken from a four-acre 
piece of Clark’s Early Evergreen. It 
was a curiosity; I do not know the 
height of that stalk, the average height 
was seven feet six inches throughout 
the piece. The soil was limestone, clover 
sod, mowed one year; manure, 10 two- 
horse loads to the acre; phosphate, 300 
pounds 14 per cent acid phosphate, put 
on with a manure spreader; a half load 
was thrown on, 30 pounds of phosphate 
spread over that, then filled up the 
spreader with manure. It was spread 
on the land and plowed under eight 
inches deep, jointer used with plow so 
there were no raw edges. Fitted with 
A GIANT SWEET CORNSTALK. 
18-inch disk harrow first run with the 
furrows very light, then we threw the 
lever over to the last notch to .cut as 
deep as it would, and lapped half and 
went over the piece cornerwise, then 
with smoothing harrow the other way 
cornerwise, then marked, checked-rowed 
42 inches each way. The corn was plant¬ 
ed May 20 and 21, 1910, with a hand 
planter, what we call here a jabber; 
cultivated until the corn was so high 
we could not use the riding cultivator, 
hand-hoed once. The four acres picked 
32,500 pounds corn in the husks, that 
averaged 80 per cent at the factory, which 
made the average corn 26,000 pounds, 
price paid for corn 70 cents per 100, 
making $182 for the four acres, or $45.50 
per acre. This was grown as an or¬ 
dinary farm crop. A. 
Oriskany Falls, N. Y. 
DANGER IN USING ARSENIC. 
I have often wondered if the repeated 
applications of poisonous mixtures to 
fruit trees, etc., so common now, would 
not have a tendency to poison the soil 
and thus endanger health. The note be¬ 
low, taken from the “English Mechanic,” 
which, in turn, takes it from the pub¬ 
lication .referred to, tends to confirm my 
suspicions. “A number of determina¬ 
tions of the amount of arsenic present in 
soil, plants, fruits and animals are re¬ 
corded in a paper by Dr. Headden in the 
‘Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific 
Society,’ Vol. IX. In the virgin soils ex¬ 
amined no fewer than 2.5 to five parts 
per million were found, whilst the sub¬ 
soils contained even more, sometimes as 
much as 15 parts per million. Orchard 
sorls, where arsenical sprays have long 
been in use, may contain 10 to 28 
times these quantities, and yield appre¬ 
ciable amounts of arsenic compounds to 
water.” Crops grown on these soils and 
fruits from the trees all contained ar¬ 
senic, and it was also readily detected 
in the urine of three persons who had 
eaten quantities of these fruits.” 
J. T. SCHMIDT. 
Michigan. 
R. N.-Y.—At the Colorado Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station it was found 
that quantities of arsenic were formed 
in the soil under and around apple trees, 
in fact, the statements made in the 
quoted paragraph are from the station 
records. In Colorado conditions are 
peculiar. There is little rainfall and or¬ 
chards are irrigated. The soil contains 
considerable alkali, which combines with 
the arsenic to hold it in the upper soil. 
Also the Colorado apple growers fre¬ 
quently spray five or six times, using far 
more arsenic to the tree than would be 
the case in eastern orchards. All these 
things combine to make a peculiar condi¬ 
tion favorable to the accumulation of 
arsenic in the soil of apple orchards. 
The station authorities are experiment¬ 
ing with new forms of arsenic and other 
materials, like a form of nicotine or to¬ 
bacco which will kill the Codling worm 
without injuring the soil. Thus far 
these have not been fully successful. 
The chemists at the eastern experiment 
stations do not consider the danger seri¬ 
ous. They think that in our humid cli¬ 
mate the excess of arsenic will be 
washed off the trees and out of the soil 
without injury, and in any event our 
growers do not use as much arsenic as is 
used in Colorado. 
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