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THE KUKAb NEW-YOKKEH 
March 18, 
Red Clover Questions. 
I. D. 3 New York .—Can Red clover be 
sown in Spring and crop cut following Fall? 
How much seed to acre? Is this best clover 
for milch cows? What seed is best to mix 
with Red clover to make bay, how much 
seed per acre and what proportion? Can 
clover be sown in Spring with oats, and 
crop secured after oats are cut? 
Ans. —You could only expect a light 
crop of clover six months after sowing. 
In most cases it would barely pay to 
cut it We like Alsike clover better 
for cow feed. Better mix the two kinds. 
did not make good heads because pot¬ 
ash and phosphoric acid were lacking. 
Stable manure added to this muck will 
not give best results because it also 
supplies nitrogen chiefly and this is what 
the muck does not need. Potash is the 
element most lacking. We should work 
in at least one ton of burned lime per 
acre, and then use a mixture of three 
parts fine ground bone to one of muriate 
of potash. Such treatment will make 
this soil respond. 
For an acre sow 12 quarts Timothy and 
six of Red-top in addition to clover. A 
small crop of clover may be cut in the 
Fall, but it will not amount to much. 
Oats in Maryland. 
W. C. V., Federalehurg, Md .—Is it a fact 
that no oats are raised in this section (Car¬ 
oline County) on account of “lice,” as my 
neighbor says (root aphis, I take it)? I 
wanted to sow Red Rust Proof oats first 
part of March. 
Ans. —There was some trouble years 
ago from the green aphis on wheat and 
oats, but I have heard nothing of them 
recently. We grew Winter oats finely 
here last year and have them growing 
now. You should always sow oats in 
this part of the country in September. 
Spring-sown oats seldom amount to 
anything, while with good farming it is 
easy to grow 50 or more bushels an acre 
of the Winter oats that will weigh above 
the standard weight. Those we grew 
last year weighed nearly 40 pounds to 
the measured bushel. Spring oats sel¬ 
dom get up to standard weight here, as 
they are too long exposed to the hot 
weather, while those sown in the Fall 
ripen nearly with the wheat. You are 
right in sowing the Winter oats in 
Spring as they always do better than 
the northern Spring oats. But in your 
soil you can make a far more profitable 
crop from Fall-sown oats than from 
wheat, for the soils in the lower part 
of this peninsula are not adapted to 
wheat like those of the upper counties, 
where wheat is the leading crop. The 
important point is to sow clean seed 
clear of chess, though chess is seldom 
troublesome in the Spring-sown oats, as 
it will not mature seed from Spring 
sowing, though it may infest the land 
efter the oats are cut. Then seed of 
the Rust Proof oats, if from Texas, is 
very apt to bring in seed of the Johnson 
grass, and that grass, while a really 
valuable hay grass, is so aggressive that 
it will take the whole farm in spite of 
you. We sow here the Virginia Grey 
Turf oats. w. f. massey. 
Maryland. 
Handling Muck Soil. 
N. W., Dowagiac, Mich .—I am an ama¬ 
teur In the farming and gardening busi¬ 
ness, and I have been reading some of 
your articles on the use of lime, and would 
Destroying Rose-bugs. 
Can you tell me what to do for rose 
beetles? The first I ever saw appeared 
last Summer when they attacked a rose 
bush which I sprayed with Paris green. 
They left and literally swarmed on some 
plum trees and cherry trees. Will they 
return again this year, and if so, what 
can I do to destroy them? What are their 
habits? Do they leave larva? which will 
develop? If so, when and what is the 
best method of destroying them? e. w. 
Lanoka, N. J. 
The rose-bugs, or rose-chafers, have the 
interesting habit of appearing suddenly in 
great swarms and attacking all sorts of 
plants on the lawn, in the garden, orchard, 
and even forest. After remaining from a 
month to six weeks and doing much in¬ 
jury they disappear as suddenly as they 
come. When these insects were first no¬ 
ticed as injurious they seemed to confine 
themselves mainly to the rose, hence their 
name, rose-chafers. The mother beetles lay 
their eggs, probably in July, in the soil a 
few inches below the surface, where they 
hatch and the grubs feed upon the roots 
of grasses or of other plants they may be 
able to find. In the Autumn, the grubs 
descend into the earth below the frost line, 
but when Spring returns each one ascends 
toward the surface, makes a snug earthen 
cell, changes to a pupa, and in early June 
transforms to the adult beetle. It seems 
that great numbers of the pupae transform 
to beetles about the same time so that the 
adults issue from the earth in swarms. 
These insects prefer sandy soils as breed¬ 
ing grounds and are seldom found in clay 
lands. 
The beetles can best be controlled on 
shrubs or on a few vines by hand-picking 
them and destroying them. Often they may 
be jarred on to sheets saturated with kero¬ 
sene, but these methods of fighting them 
are tedious and have to be repeated every 
day so long as the beetles are present. A 
choice vine or shrub may even be protected 
by screening it with netting. If the breed¬ 
ing place can be located much good may 
be done by plowing the land and destroy¬ 
ing the food plants, thus starving the 
grubs. Moreover, by plowing the land in 
May many of the grubs and pupae may be 
destroyed. Heretofore, very little success 
has been obtained by trying to poison the 
beetles with our ordinary poison-mixtures. 
They did not seem to get enough of the 
poison to kill them. Lately, however, one 
or two experimenters have reported con¬ 
siderable success in killing the beetles by 
spraying the food plants thoroughly with 
four or five pounds of arsenate of lead to 
50 gallons of water with a gallon of mo¬ 
lasses added to make the poison-mixture 
attractive. The beetles seem to eat this 
sweetened poison-mixture with a good deal 
of avidity and many of them are killed. 
In controlling the rose-chafers on fruit 
trees or in vineyards the sweetened poison- 
mixture will probably prove to be the best 
method. glenn w. heehick. 
BARREL SPRAYER 
like a little more information if possible. 
I have considerable muck land. I have 
cleaned off and grubbed out the stumps 
from about one acre during the Summer 
and Fall of 1000, ditched it in the Spring 
of 1910, and put same into cabbage. They 
did not do well, grew well enough but did 
not head up. I attributed it to the land 
being sour, as water usually stood in places 
all Summer, but did not after I put in the 
"blind ditches.” I tended the cabbage well 
and have put on a liberal coat of barnyard 
manure, and intend plowing deep, put to 
onions; am plowing deep so as not to get ill 
results from the manure on the onions this 
year, but hope to get good results next. 
Would you recommend the use of lime or 
commercial fertilizer of some kind, and 
what? The muck on this piece is what 
they call black ash muck, and is all the 
way from eight inches (up near the hard 
land) to three feet, with a subsoil of a blue 
color rather sticky when wet, but extremely 
hard when dry. 
Ans. —The thing to remember about 
most muck soils is that thed are rich in 
nitrogen, weak in phosphoric acid, and 
with only a trace of potash. The muck 
is usually sour, so that the nitrogen is 
not readily available. Lime usually 
helps such soils by sweetening them and 
making the nitrogen fit to feed plants. 
The cabbage made a good growth be¬ 
cause it found nitrogen in the soil. It 
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