1911. 
THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
383 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, March 18, 1911. 
FARM TOFICS. 
Use of Plaster; Seeding Rape. 346 
The Tale of a Seed Agent. 346 
More Michigan Potato Diggers. 346 
Asparagus Culture for Profit. 347 
Onions from Sets. 348 
Draining Barn Basement. 348 
Onions and Celery on Sod. 348 
Treatment of a Wheatfield.348 
Soaking Potato Seed. 348 
Value of Fertilizer. 350 
Vetch for Heavy Soils. 350 
Western Tomato Yields. 351 
Second-growth Timothy. 351 
Exterminating Thistles. 351 
Rent for Land. 352 
The Use of Tankage. 352 
IIow He Kills Quack Grass. 352 
Manure, Ashes and Bone... 354 
Rye or Oats. 301 
Facts About Virginia. 361 
More About Manure Spreaders. 361 
Nightsoil . 361 
Hope Farm Notes. . 362 
Seed Drill; Vetch. 365 
Checkers Start a Farmers’ Institute... 369 
City Manure and Fertilizer. 374 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
More About that Horse company. 368 
Care of Winter Lambs. 368 
How Process Butter is Made. 369 
Stiffness in Mare. 369 
Scours . 36!) 
Colt with Cataract. 369 
Cow with Itching Skin; Branding. 369 
Summer Silage without a Silo. Part II. 370 
Lice on Calves. 370 
Rickets . 370 
Rape as a Pasture for Sheep and Hogs 371 
Milk . 372 
Dairying in North Dakota. 372 
What Is Milk. 372 
Copperas for Congested Udder. 372 
4 The Cow vs. the Hen. 374 
A Large Mink Story. 374 
Ailing Cow. 375 
Sick Mare. 375 
Bone Spavin. 375 
Scurf on Hogs. 375 
Ringworm . 375 
Thrush . 375 
Ration for Holsteins. 376 
Ration for Milch Cows. 376 
Idee on Cattle; Insufficient Ration.... 376 
Ration for Guernseys. 376 
Distillers’ or Brewers’ Grains. 376 
Handy Poultry House. Part II. 378 
Early Hatched Leghorn Pullets. 378 
Vertigo in Fowls. 379 
Ivouse Killer for Poultry. 379 
Soil-sprouted Oats for Hens. 380 
Caring for Little Chicks. 380 
Minorcas or Leghorns. 380 
Figuring on Hens. 380 
Eggs in December. 380 
Those .$12 Hens. 381 
Introducing Mrs. Houdan lien. 381 
That Open Front House. 381 
Sprouted Oats Sod.381 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Best Stock for Cherries.345, 346 
Iieasing Orchard Land. 349 
A Tomato Grower Talks. 349 
Sediment in Lime-sulphur. 350 
American Pomological Meeting. 351 
The Himalaya Berry. 351 
Origin of the Apple. 352 
Transplanting Privet Hedge. 352 
The Prune in Western Washington and 
Oregon . 353 
Experience with Cherry Tree. 353 
Keeping Turnip-rooted Parsley. 353 
An Apple Orchard in South Indiana... 353 
Orchard Heating in California. 355 
Orchard and Farm Fertility. 355 
A Jerseyman and His Garden. 356 
Nut Growing in the North. Part II... 357 
Fruits for Wisconsin. 360 
General Questions About Lime-sulphur. 360 
Strawberries in Arkansas. 363 
New Head on Old Trees. 363 
Nitrate of Soda for Strawberries. 363 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Beginning to Know Birds. 
How to Preserve Goose Grease. 
Buckwheat Griddle Cakes. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Struggle with an Express Com¬ 
pany . 
A Master of “Guff”. 
Natural Brace for Gate Post. 
Pumping Questions . 
Editorials .. 
Other People’s Money. 
Events of the Week. 
Life in Western Nebraska.. . 
Syphoning Water . 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Farmer on Reciprocity. 
Publisher’s Desk. 
366 
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367 
367 
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347 
349 
360 
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364 
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382 
Peach Yellows and Lime-sulphur. 
n ay e there been any experiments madi 
with the lime-sulphur spray to determini 
whether it will prevent or cure the neacl 
yellows if used in time? H b s 
Cuyahoga Co., O. 
We think such experiments have beei 
used, but it will not cure a case of genu 
ine “yellows.” Even the scientific men an 
not yet sure just what the disease is. 
Core Rot in Winter Banana Apples. 
My Winter Banana apples are troublec 
with a rot which appears to start at th< 
core and spread through the fruit. Is li 
characteristic of the variety? What cai 
b0 1L P C ’ ne? . READER. 
Massachusetts. 
, U 1 have had no personal experience witt 
this trouble in apples. I have, however 
seen much of a similar trouble in Clapp’i 
favorite pear. This develops core ro 
immediately after maturing and while stil 
hanging to the tree, as you probably 
t.m?hi T his ^ ls P ure] y a physiologies 
trouble in the case of the pear, due t< 
tne fact that the tissues ripen and breal 
down at the heart before they do at th< 
surface of the fruit. There are no para 
sitlc organisms directly responsible for it 
in +»,therefore to be regarded as a defecl 
variet y> for which there is n< 
remedy As 1 said, I have no persona 
knowledge of the Winter Banana apple 
but I suspect the trouble may be of thi 
same nature. If so, it is enough to mak! 
varlety uns uited for commercial cul 
Wisconsin. Plant Pathologist. 
Lime On Alfalfa. 
Is it necessary to put lime on Alfalfa 
after it is growing? The land had plenty 
put in when sown with .Alfalfa. The plants 
are not quite two years old. G. h. l. 
New York. 
Yes, if the land is sour, though usually 
Alfalfa would not start and live two years 
on soil that needed lime. The way to lime 
Alfalfa is to use it heavily before seeding 
and work the lime into the soil; using it on 
the sod rarely pays. 
Oats and Peas for Hay and Grain. 
I heard a man say that he planted oats 
and Soy peas together, and when ripe har¬ 
vested same as hay, and then thrashed out 
oats and peas and used balance as hay. Is 
such a thing possible, or is combination cut 
when green and cured and used same as 
hay? j. v. T. 
You probably mean Canada field peas 
and oats. Soy beans would not do to sow 
early. The peas and oats may be ripened, 
cut like grass or like other grain and then 
thrashed. We think it more profitable to 
cut and cure them like hay before the peas 
or oats become hard. 
Applying Soluble Oil. 
I have applied the soluble oil spray to 
some fruit trees for the San Jose scale. 
The spray froze upon the trees; will this 
destroy its efficiency? Would it be better 
to apply on a warm day in order to do the 
business? s. o. 
It is not safe to spray In freezing weath¬ 
er. The liqu'd freezing on the buds is 
liable to kill them and the oil will not be 
fully effective. The best time to spray the 
oil is on a warm, bright day when the 
water will evaporate. 
Newspaper Fertilizer. 
Can you tell me if anything can be done 
with accumulated newspapers, in the way 
of making garden manure from it, perhaps 
with the aid of garbage of small quantities? 
The latter I collect and expect to use after 
decomposed. I get plenty of newspapers 
daily and generally burn burn it up, but 
would like it to make fertilizer for my 
small vegetable garden. a. f. w. 
It is doubtful if the newspapers would 
be worth the cost of handling for fertilizer. 
There is not much plant food in them. 
You can slowly decay them by mixing with 
garbage or manure, but old sods or ordinary 
rubbish will give you more plant food. 
Best Slope for Orchard. 
Would quite a steep side hill lying to 
the south be a desirable place for an 
orchard where there are a number of 
seedling apple trees? Some one has told 
me a northern or western exposure was 
better and not as apt to be damaged by 
frost in the Spring. v. H. 
Schoharie, N. Y. 
The west and north slopes are better 
than the south. The chief reason is that 
on the south slopes the buds are likely 
to open and bloom earlier and are thus 
more likely to be caught by a late frost. 
On the north and west the buds are slower 
to start. 
Crop to Replace Onions 
Some of the onion growers west of 
here who have been knocked out by the 
maggot, smut and scullions, are debating 
as to what is best to put on this rich 
ground. It has been heavily fertilized 
with manure and commercial fertilizers 
and lime. A few are going to try Al¬ 
falfa—a number of patches hereabouts are 
doing well after careful nursing. Would 
deep subsoil plowing, with lime, help; and 
would the drains have to come up? 
Erie, I’a. j. l. p. 
Subsoiling and lime will help any Al¬ 
falfa field. Let the drains stay. The 
roots will not work into them unless they 
run water all the time—as from a spring 
or pond. 
Manured Crop After Wheat. 
On page 165 I notice you invite dis¬ 
cussion on changing a Pennsylvania rota¬ 
tion. I will give my experience. E. G. 
says he proposes to plow sod down and 
sow to wheat, then after wheat is har¬ 
vested sow something to plow down for 
corn. If he wants to get a good growth 
to plow down, let him plow the sod as 
soon as possible after haying and sow 
buckwheat, one-half bushel to the acre; 
cover buckwheat well, then sow one pound 
Cow-horn turnip seed and two pounds of 
Dwarf Essex rape per acre, and cover 
lightly. He will then get a mass of vege¬ 
tation to plow under the following Spring 
for corn that ls surprising, even on poor 
soil. The advantage of this plan is that 
the rotation need not be changed at all, 
the ground is fully protected, besides 
weeds havd no chance at all, as thp 
buckwheat will cover the ground in a 
very short time. This will give plenty 
of time after haying to get these crops in. 
The buckwheat will freeze with the first 
heavy frost, then the turnips and rape 
will grow until the ground freezes. 
Lititz, Pa. l. b. h. 
Success with Speltz. 
On page 192 you asked any of your read¬ 
ers to give their experience if they had 
grown speltz in the East. We sowed two 
bushels speltz last April on clay loam. It 
grew finely to a height of 2^ to three or 
more feet. Straw was bright as could be 
and the horses ate it as well as Timothy 
hay; did not leave an inch of straw. We 
fed_ the grain whole to horses, not one 
grain passed them whole. Same horses when 
fed oats seemed to leave half of them or 
more whole or not chewed at all. I 
have been told that Russians farming in 
North Dakota raise large quantities of 
spelts and say it is the only grain fit to 
feed a horse. The single grain ls larger 
than barley and usually two together, which 
perhaps causes the horse to chew it bet¬ 
ter. It will stand cold, wet weather bet¬ 
ter than any Spring-sown grain I ever saw. 
It remained a dark green all the time when 
the oats alongside became yellow, with 
some red leaves, which died later; we 
thought because of excessive wet and cold ; 
the oats straw rusted, speltz was entirely 
free from rust and bright as a new silver 
dollar. I saw by the report from a State 
experiment station that speltz straw was 
equal to or -better than Timothy hay 
Germantown, N. Y. H c H 
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