1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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VALUE OF TOMATO WASTE. 
G. J. S., Liberty Grove, Md .—Give me 
the value per tou of tomato peelings as 
they come from canning factory, and where 
would be best to use them, on grass fields 
or plow them under? What is their ac¬ 
tion on ground? I own and operate a can¬ 
ning factory and have been throwing the 
refuse in branch, but if it would pay me 
to haul it one-quarter mile would put them 
on my land. 
Ans. —The analysis of the tomato fruit 
shows that it contains 0.16 per cent of 
nitrogen, 0.05 per cent of phosphoric 
acid and 0.27 per cent of potash. You 
will see then that it has very little fer¬ 
tilizing value. The best way to use the 
waste will be to put it in heaps with lime 
scattered between each 10-inch layer. 
Then in its decay it may furnish some¬ 
thing that will help the soil. But I 
would assume that applied fresh to the 
land it would cause too much acidity. 
Putting it where hogs can eat and work 
it over till rotten will be as good a way 
as any probably, but really the waste is 
hardly worth the handling and hauling 
till completely rotten and sweetened with 
a little lime. w. f. massey. 
A CAMPAIGN AGAINST “STARTLING 
DEVELOPMENTS.” 
While The It. N.-Y. has bean waging re¬ 
lentless warfare against frauds and graft, 
and its “Publisher’s Desk" has become a 
terror to evil doers, it would seem that 
there is yet another field it could do valiant 
service in, and become a defender of the 
farmer; not only his interests, but his in¬ 
tegrity as a food producer for the masses. 
Just now, these seems to be a campaign 
of misrepresentation inaugurated under the 
guise of illustrated lectures, lauded as a 
movement for pure food, but seemingly in 
reality, to advertise substitutes, or exploit 
some health reform (?), possibly medical 
cult. Recently at a much-advertised milk 
convention, the chief topic seemed to be 
centered in a lantern slide lecture, wherein 
were views of barns and stable surroundings. 
Care and keeping of milk were portrayed 
in the most repulsive way, as to filth, and 
unsanitary conditions, the plain “object” 
being to convey the impression, that all 
farmers’ surroundings, and dairy operations, 
were of like descripi$S¥{. when the facts 
are that it would be about impossible to 
find anything of a like character, and to 
the informed, the pictures were make-ups 
as are so many of the “true-to-life” pic¬ 
tures of the moving picture shows. 
Not long since the women of a city or¬ 
ganization were treated (?) free, to a 
lantern show, to reveal to them the hor¬ 
rible conditions under which butter was 
made, and what the cream contained out 
of which it was made, and even showed 
the presence in it of the originating causes 
of typhoid fever, consumption, and other 
infectious diseases; last the filth removed 
from a certain amount of butter, and then 
put in a most -ingenious plea for clean, 
pure, healthy oleo as a substitute. The 
point of the talk was that all diseases 
were of country origin and taken to the 
city in butter and cream to be hawked 
about and distributed, as if the city would 
otherwise be free from disease. No men¬ 
tion was made of the fact that all dairies 
that contributed to city, or creamery, are 
State inspected three times a year, and the 
creameries scored as well and more; the 
city inspectors are on the job all of the 
time, to see that sanitation is up to the 
level, and few there be that get caught in 
the inspectors’ drag-net. 
In a current magazine is the picture of 
a scene on a State fair ground where 
there is a most repulsive sight of slaugh¬ 
tered animals spread out to the public 
to gaze at of cattle infected with tubex - - 
culosis, and one may be sure no mild cases 
are displayed, the object sought is to make 
repulsive the live stock of a farmer, and 
leave the impression with the public that 
this is about the usual condition of the 
beef and cow stock of the country from 
which comes the meat and milk for the 
cities, when the facts are that not over 
one-half of one per cent of the stock is 
diseased to the extent shown. A herd 
killed not long ago near the writer, pro¬ 
nounced by the test to be in a dangei-ous 
condition, failed to reveal anything more 
than “slightly affected” (official report) 
though in many cases it was difficult to 
find even that much, and so good an au¬ 
thority as Dr. Sinead of New York said 
that the lesions of the “slightly affected” 
ones were being rapidly encysted, and there 
was not a “dangerous” animal in the lot, 
and there is not a known outbreak of the 
disease, large or small, in Ohio, eagle- 
eyed as are the official, to warrant any 
such exhibition. These are not isolated ex¬ 
amples of the various forms of misrep¬ 
resentation that are going on. There 
are some diseases inherent to live stock 
but it is not a matter that needs advertise¬ 
ment with three-inch scare head lines. How 
the farmer lives, his lack of comforts, the 
horrible cooking he eats, the disgusting 
disregard for sanitation and the appalling 
death rate he invites upon himself and 
family, low moral pi’eceptions, fill other 
columns of reform literature, in face of 
the fact the city flees to the country in 
the Summer to escape the scourge of the 
cities’ destroying angels, and comes to these 
very country sources of disease, infection 
and food supply, that has invited all these 
attacks and warnings, and endaugei'ed the 
dweller of the city. It is time for these 
things to stop, and if essential in any de¬ 
gree, include the city as well as the town¬ 
ship and flay each as impartial duty com¬ 
mands. JOHN* GOULD. 
Ohio. 
Handling Chance Apple Seedlings. 
C. C. J., Pom fret, Vt .—Would not apple 
trees grown on a farm bo more desirable 
for setting out on that farm than apple 
trees grown in a nursery at a distance on 
.different soil and under different conditions? 
I have over a hundred last year's seedlings 
that made a growth of about a foot. Would 
you advise me to bud these trees this yeax - , 
or wait a year or two and graft them? 
These seedlings ax'e some that came up 
themselves in our apple orchard. I planted 
some apple seeds in my garden, but only 
one or two grew. 
Ans. —It will make little difference 
where the trees are grown provided they 
make a good growth of hard, healthy 
wood. A seedling growing by itself on 
the farm ought to have a fine root de¬ 
velopment, but this will mostly be cut off 
when the tree is planted. The nursery¬ 
men know how to grow a tree and can 
produce a better one than a chance seed¬ 
ling. We have used many such seed¬ 
lings, but cannot say that they make any 
better trees than root-grafted stock. In 
the case mentioned we should let these 
seedlings grow another year and then 
graft them—transplanting a year after 
the grafting. 
Ground Bone or Acid Phosphate. 
M. II. W., Spring City, Pa .—Which do 
you think would be best for us to use on 
an apple and poach orchard, raw ground 
bone and muriate of potash, or acid phos¬ 
phate and muriate of potash ? The bone 
costs us about $28 per ton, and has 16 to 
18 per cent, phosphoric acid, and the acid 
phosphate costs us $10 per ton, and has 
14 to 16 per cent sulphuric acid. 
Ans. —If the bone contains about three 
per cent of nitrogen, as is usual, we 
should use it in preference to the acid 
phosphate, though the cost would be 
greater. A mixture of three parts 
ground bone and one of potash is a good 
one for orchard fruit. If you used the 
phosphate and potash you would be 
obliged to buy some form of nitrogen to 
go with them. 
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