1911 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
466 
Rape for Summer Silage. 
IT. IF., New York. —Will Mr. Rogers state 
how much rape he sows with oats and peas 
for Summer silage? 
Ans.— We have varied the amount 
with conditions. We raised mostly our 
own seed, had lots of it and use it 
freely on poor land, five or six pounds 
is an abundance, but on very rich land 
one pound is often enough. The thinner 
it is sown the larger the plants to a 
certain extent. Single plants weigh sev¬ 
eral pounds, in fact we have weighed 
some that went over 12 pounds each. It 
may not be generally known that rape 
seed is easily grown, also that if plants 
are prevented from going to seed the 
second year they make a very rank 
growth again that year. i. c. Rogers. 
Trouble with Cement Cistern. 
J. F. F., Norwalk, O .—I have been hav¬ 
ing a great deal of trouble with a cistern. 
The water comes in on the sides and causes 
the cement to fall off. Is there any w'ay 
the cement can made to stick? 
Ans. —If the cement comes off at the 
same place each time the fault should lie 
at those particular points, but jf the 
breaks occur at different places each time 
the indications are that the whole of 
it is poor and will have to be rebuilt 
with first-class material. Try cleaning 
the surface of all locations where the 
cement came off, then rough it up a 
little with an old horse rasp or some 
such instrument, and I think the cement 
will stay all right. If you could get 
some cement on the outside that would 
be better yet. w. a. b. 
“Trap Crops” for the Flea Beetle. 
Reader (No Address). —On page 434 F. 
A. S. speaks of killing the flea-beetle ou po¬ 
tato vines. lias he ever tried “trapping” 
them by planting crops which these beetles 
are specially fond of? They leave almost 
everything to feed on the old garden huckle¬ 
berry, and I am told the AVonderberry is 
about equally attractive to them. This 
plan of trapping is often recommended. 
Ans. —The use of trap crops for in¬ 
sects depends for its success on the se¬ 
lection of a plant that is more attractive 
to the insect than the crop to be pro¬ 
tected. My observations thus far have 
been that the flea-beetle will leave all 
weeds and other plants for the potato 
and tomato. Furthermore, that they 
prefer the light cultivated soils, hence 
the trap crop would have to be grown 
on the sandy spots and cultivated. I 
have never grown the Wondcrberry, nor 
observed it at the season when the flea-, 
beetles were feeding. Let us hope it 
may be a blessing in disguise and that 
some one will test it. I have never 
tested any particular plant as a trap crop 
for the flea-beetle; but am willing to do 
so, provided anyone can suggest a good 
plant, but such suggestions should be 
made from pretty accurate observations, 
as tests cost time and money. 
Long Island. F. a. s. 
Homemade Lime and Sulphur. 
It'. A. B., Interlaken , N. Y. —Will John 
Q. Wells, page 260, inform your readers 
bow he makes his concentrated lime-sulphur 
test 31% to 35 11., while tin? best the ex¬ 
periment stations can make tests from 26 to 
30 B.? 
I refer to the Geneva Experiment 
Station bulletin No. 330, in which are 
the formulas used by 17 different home 
makers of lime and sulphur concen¬ 
trate, and seven of the 17 exceeded 30 
degrees B., which W. A. B. gives as the 
limit. I put 10 gallons of water in the 
kettle, and when it is warm I add the 
55 pounds of lime of a guaranteed pur¬ 
ity of 98 per cent, and when this has 
become quite hot, which will be very 
soon, on account of slaking, I add the 
120 pounds of sulphur and commence 
to stir vigorously, adding more water to 
keep the mass in a liquid condition, con¬ 
tinually stirring until the lime and sul¬ 
phur have become well mixed. T then 
add water to about 40 gallons, and boil 
until it has passed the foaming stage, 
and then add the rest of the water (pre¬ 
ferably hot), and boil until the sulphur 
disappears, which will take about 30 to 
40 minutes more. A little more hot 
water can be added from time to time 
to keep the volume up to the 50-gallon 
mark. John q. wells. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
Applying Fertilizer to Orchard. 
M. II. W., Spring City, Pa .—I wish to 
put 600 pounds of acid phosphate and 200 
pounds of muriate of potash per acre ou 
our orchard. Do you think that enough 
for a five-year orchard of apple and peach? 
What per cent of potash and phosphoric 
acid would this be, and how would you 
determine the percentage? 
Ans. —The way we would figure this 
is as follows: 
Phos. 
acid. Potash. 
600 lbs. acid phosphate. 84 
200 lbs. muriate. 100 
800 84 .100 
Thus in 800 pounds of the mixture 
you will have 84 pounds phosphoric 
acid and 100 pounds of potash. As 84 
is something over one-tenth of the whole 
and 100 is one-eighth, you have over 
10 per cent of phosphoric acid and 12*4 
per cent of potash. This will give 
enough of these elements for the peach 
orchard, but it will need nitrogen in 
addition. This must be provided in some 
form, or the orchard will not do well. 
Short Rotation with Vetch. 
A. B., GloversviUe, N. I'.—I have about 
five acres on my farm in Albany Co., N. A'., 
that I plant each year, the remainder be¬ 
ing always in hay and oats. The five acres 
I divide into two equal parts, viz., 2% 
acres in corn and potatoes and the other 
2% acres in Spring vetch sown as early in 
the Spring as possible, 100 pounds of seed 
and 1.730 pounds of a 3-8-6 fertilizer ou 
the 2% acres. The vetch will be cut for 
green fodder for the cows and poultry dur¬ 
ing August and September, and in latter 
part of October will be plowed and the 
next year planted to corn and potatoes, 
with same amount of fertilizer, and the 
other 2% acres sown with vetch, and so ou 
from year to year alternating. Soil is clay. 
I shall use 2% tons annually of ground 
stone lime on the five acres, spread in 
Spring on the furrows before harrowing. 
I shall start this rotation this Spring. 
What do you think of it? 
Ans. —You will do better to use Win¬ 
ter vetch in the corn at least. The po¬ 
tatoes may not be out in time to sow 
Winter vetch early enough, but we 
should prefer this to the Spring variety 
where it can be grown. If you are done 
cutting the vetch in September why not 
sow rye in the Fall ? This would give 
you more organic matter to plow under, 
and hold the soil during the Winter. 
You do not need to use lime every time 
the soil is plowed. We should think 
this is a waste of lime, and would not 
use it on the potato land anyway. Nei¬ 
ther corn nor potatoes are the best crops 
for liming. It would be better to use 
the lime, if at all, when seeding to the 
vetch. The plan is a good one and 
might well be imitated by farmers with 
larger acreage. By keeping half their 
cultivated ground in vetch or clover as 
you intend doing they could grow larger 
crops in the other half and with less 
labor. 
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“The effect on my health has been 
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when I dine or lunch away from home 
and drink the old kind of coffee because 
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