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PSYLLA 
COW MANURE FOR THE HOTBED. 
M. E. L., on page 392. asks for a substi¬ 
tute for horse manure in making hotbeds. 
If he can get cow manure he can make it do 
the work as well. I have used it for three 
seasons, and find it answers the purpose 
equally well, taking it for granted that it is 
wanted to raise plants in the Spring, say 
from March 1 on. 1 don't believe it would 
give heat enough for earlier use in the ex¬ 
treme cold weather. When I bought a small 
home with a good-sized garden here in the 
suburbs of Chicago 1 was pleased to think 
that I would be able to get all the horse 
manure I would want for making a few hot¬ 
beds in the Spring, but I soon found my 
mistake. Chicago is surrounded by market 
gardens, and there is great competition 
amongst the gardeners at that time to get 
hold of all the horse manure possible. After 
much trouble I secured a small load, paying 
$3, barely enough to raise a few tomato 
plants. I concluded that unless I could get- 
a substitute I should have to give up my 
idea of having hotbeds. The following 
Spring I resolved to try cow manure, hav¬ 
ing a family cow, and found it answered my 
purpose well. I will tell how I prepare it: 
Using plenty of bedding, I throw the ma¬ 
nure during the Winter, as it is made, in a 
pile, under a rough shelter of boards; the 
idea is to keep it from freezing as much as 
possible. When we get the first spell of 
good weather, on or after March 1, I start 
to heat my manure in this manner: 
I throw the frozen outside of the pile in 
a separate heap; then take the middle ot 
the old pile and build a new one, shaking it 
up loosely and keeping it level until about 
two feet high. Then I pile on a wheelbar¬ 
row load or two of hen manure, spreading 
it out, but leaving it thickest in the middle ; 
then another layer of about two feet of 
well shaken out cow manure. Then 1 have 
ready a couple of pailfuls of hot water, old 
soapsuds would be fine, and throw this over 
the pile. I finish the pile to a conical heap, 
throwing on the frozen manure, if there is 
any, on top. In about three or four days 
this will heat, and will have thawed the 
frozen stuff out, and should then be worked 
over and in fact handled like horse manure. 
I use only the two center sashes as my 
starting bed, the soil having been thrown 
out to allow me to have the manure two to 
2% feet deep when well stamped down, put¬ 
ting three to four inches of good soil ov 
top, so as to leave only about two inches of 
space on the south or low side of the bed. 
This leaves less space to heat for the ma¬ 
nure, but it will have sunken down about 
three or four inches more by the time the 
plants arc high enough to need more space. 
About March 7-10, I sow my tomato seed, 
also cabbage, onions and early celery. Cel¬ 
ery I sow close to the south side of the 
frame (east and west) where it is shady 
and the other seeds only make a stunted 
growth, the dripping from the glass keeping 
the seed moist, just right for celery. Prize- 
taker onion seed comes in a row to the 
west, a row or two of early cabbage along 
the east side. This leaves the middle for 
the tomato plants. While those first seeds 
are growing I make my other sashes ready, 
using only about a foot of manure, and of 
course throwing out that much less dirt. 
Rut I bank all hotbeds well with manure, 
even with the top of frame, and cover at 
night for the first couple of weeks. Around 
about the first week in April the tomato 
plants are ready to transplant and soon 
form stocky, strong plants. 1 raise and sell 
about 5,000 tomato plants that way, keep¬ 
ing 100 for my own use. Cabbage and 
celery plants do not sell as well, and I 
raise about 1000 of each. After the tomato 
plants are sold, I rake the beds over, clean¬ 
ing out all the weeds, then transplant my 
early golden celery (Self Blanching) about 
eight inches apart, making around 00 plants 
to a sash. When hot weather starts, I cover 
with a slat covering made of plastering 
laths, putting the laths equal spaces apart, 
keeping it carefully watered; the celery 
makes a fine growth and soon fills up the 
space completely. At the approach of cool 
Fall weather it blanches to a fine golden 
color without any trouble or handling, and 
finds ready sale. 
Another use of the sash is made as fol¬ 
lows: During the Summer I mark the 
heaviest stalks in my rhubarb bed. When 
the first hard frost has killed the growth ! 
dig up those roots and plant 15 roots each 
in those two hotbeds that had the two feet 
of manure in the Spring. When the sud 
begins to warm things up the following 
Spring I cover with glass, throwing a 
couple of old pieces of carpet over it at 
night. This rhubarb is about three to six 
weeks ahead of the outside stalks, and 
brings a fair price early in the season ; in 
fact, keeping up to furnish tender stalks all 
Summer if well watered, but the roots are 
wasted by Fall and only fit for the manure 
pile. c. h. 
Chicago, Ill. 
Li me-Sulfhue and Arsenates. —I have 
been spraying peach trees with the self- 
boiled lime-sulphur for several years; last 
year for the first time I used arsenate of lead 
in addition, with most satisfactory results. 
The self-boiled lime-sulphur was made ac¬ 
cording to the formula of 8-8-50 with three 
pounds of arsenate of lead added just before 
spraying. This is according to the direc¬ 
tions from Profs. Waite and Scott at Wash¬ 
ington. I). C. 1 started by using the form¬ 
ula 10-10-50, but burned the foliage badly. 
I have also burned it with the 8-8-50 by 
having especially good lime, and allowing 
it to slake a little too long. There is a 
great difference in lime, and consequently 
in the length of time it should be allowed 
to slake before adding cold water. I 
never knew of any bark injury. I feel the 
lime-sulphur is our salvation against the 
“brown rot" and adding arsenate of lead to 
kill curculio we thereby eliminate a large 
part of the danger from rot, since I think 
much of it starts from curculio punctures. 
The authorities at Washington could give 
late bulletins I believe on this subject, 
which would discuss it very thoroughly. 
Pennsylvania. D. m. weetz. 
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Paint Is Cheaper 
Than New 
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You know how 
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The boards rot 
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Only constant re¬ 
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An occasional coat of good paint made with 
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