THE RURAL* NEW'YORKER 
501 
1911 
ALFALFA IN A MULCHED ORCHARD. 
R. M., Frankfort, Mich .—Would Alfalfa 
be suitable as a sod mulch? What appeals 
to me is the fact that Alfalfa would pro¬ 
duce more mulch than any other plant, and 
Is also not so easily crowded out. At the 
other-hand, I am in doubt as to whether 
it does not rob the trees of moisture more 
than grasses or clover. 
Ans. —We should not think of seed¬ 
ing Alfalfa in a young orchard. This 
crop is such a strong grower that it 
will rob the young trees of moisture 
and hurt them. Even cutting it and 
leaving all on the ground would not en¬ 
tirely overcome this objection. With 
older trees, say 10 years or more in 
growth, Alfalfa might be useful, par¬ 
ticularly in strong soil naturally moist, 
We have seen such an orchard near 
Syracuse, N. Y. It was about 14 years 
old. The first crop of Alfalfa was taken 
out as hay and the later growth cut and 
left on the ground. This orchard was 
thrifty and strong, and the Alfalfa on 
all this mulching was remarkable. 
Keeping Up The Fertility. 
S. O. C., Paris, Ky .—Would the use of 
retch enable one to put the same land in 
corn every year for a number of years, 
without the use of commercial fertilizers? 
In this county we never use fertilizer, as 
the land is naturally a very deep limestone 
soil, and fertile. Could the vetch be sown 
at the last plowing of the corn and turned 
under the next Spring for another crop of 
corn, and this rotation kept up for any 
length of time? Do you know of any way 
in which two fields could be used, one in 
corn every year, without impairing the fer¬ 
tility of the soil to too great au extent, 
without the use of manure? 
Ans. —Yes, if you could seed vetch in 
the com at the last cultivation each year 
and get a good stand to plow under in 
Spring you could keep on growing corn 
for several years. It would probably 
pay better to use a mixture of acid 
phosphate and potash on the corn. The 
vetch will supply nitrogen, but the other 
elements will be needed too. This plan 
would keep up the fertility of the soil, 
yet the corn might fail, since after 
growing several years on the same 
ground smut disease and insects may 
become so bad as to injure the crop. 
The vetch or clover with the phosphate 
and potash mill keep up the fertility. 
An Old-Time Fake. 
T. IF. (No Address ).—I have just clipped 
the note enclosed from a Sunday paper. I 
would like to know if this is a fact, or 
merely one way of attracting the attention 
of the afflicted, or their friends, to some 
quack remedy? We have a dear cousin 
whose lovely young daughter has epileptic 
fits, and if there is a possible help for her 
would be glad to know it. We know they 
have tried a great many things without 
avail, and would not like to encourage 
them to try this new remedy without in¬ 
vestigating a little. Can you help us? 
What we would like to know is the truth 
there is in this “dispatch from New York.” 
Ans. —Here is the note with address 
omitted: 
A dispatch from New York, dated March 
25, is as follows: Advices from every di¬ 
rection fully confirm previous reports that 
the remarkable treatment for epilepsy be¬ 
ing administered by the consulting physi¬ 
cians .of the --Institute is achiev¬ 
ing wonderful results. Old and stubborn 
cases have been greatly benefited and many 
patients claim to have been entirely cured. 
Persons suffering from epilepsy should 
write at once for a supply of the remedy, 
which is being distributed gratuitously. 
\ou may put this down as an un¬ 
qualified humbug. It is probably a paid 
advertisement, put in this way to at¬ 
tract attention by pretending to be ac¬ 
tual news. . A nice “Sunday” paper it 
must be to print such stuff. This is a 
good example of what we call a “con¬ 
cealed advertisement.” The object is to 
give the scheme a fake editorial en¬ 
dorsement by putting it as reading mat¬ 
ter without any marks of an advertise¬ 
ment. It is hard to say which is the 
greater faker, the rogue who tries to sell 
the “remedy” or the paper that takes a 
payt of the “graft.” 
This “free distribution” is an old fake. 
It involves the purchase of some pre¬ 
tended article which can only be ob¬ 
tained from this “institute.” They will 
lead you on by “guff” and promises to 
buy their stuff. They have not “con¬ 
quered” anything except possibly a few 
trusting suckers who gave up their hard- 
earned money. We make much of this 
because it is a common form of one of 
the most vulgar schemes for getting 
money. 
“BLOOD MONEY.” 
It is not an uncommon thing to sec in 
the New York papers an advertisement 
calling for a supply of fresh human blood. 
Recently small notes were printed offering 
$25 to anyone who would furnish two 
quarts of fresh blood from his veins. This 
blood was needed for a woman patient in 
one of the hospitals. In certain cases the 
blood becomes feeble and incapable of doing 
its work of sustaining the body. In such 
cases the only hope, and that sometimes a 
slim one, is to put fresh blood into the 
veins of the patients taken directly from 
the body of a thoroughly well person. In 
the case mentioned the woman was rapidly 
failing from a bleeding from the nose which 
could not be stopped. It was thought that 
fresh blood would relieve this hemorrhage. 
In response to this advertisement 100 men 
and one woman offered themselves for ex¬ 
amination. In almost every case the appli¬ 
cant stated that he needed the money. 
They had been out of work for weeks, with 
no chance of obtaining employment, and 
they were ready to jump at the chance of 
opening their veins for the sake of earning 
this sum of money with which to support 
their families. It was a pitiful string of 
applicants to come forward in this way 
offering their life blood for $25. In a case 
of this kind it is absolutely necessary that 
the organs of the body should be perfect 
and the blood in normal condition. The 
applicants were first subject to a test for 
heart action, and this left only eight out of 
the 101 who offered themselves. They 
were surprised to learn that they were suf¬ 
fering from defective heart action, or kid¬ 
ney trouble, when they had supposed them¬ 
selves to be in good health. Most of the 
93 who were rejected were defective in 
heart or lungs or lacking in bodily health. 
It was said that the great majority of 
them were poorly nourished and actually 
needed food. Finally the eight that were 
left were dropped down to two. One was 
a working man with a family who had 
been out of work for a long time, and 
begged to be allowed to undergo the opera¬ 
tion, since he had passed all the examina¬ 
tions. Here was a man, strong and well, 
denied the right to earn money at his trade 
with which to support his family, and yet 
willing to open the arteries in his wrist in 
order that wife and children might have 
$25 with which to buy food. It was a sad 
disappointment for this man when the 
other younger man was selected simply be¬ 
cause his blood was a little better, and 
would evidently blend better with that of 
the patient. The operation consisted in 
strapping the wrist of this man to that of 
the suffering patient. The wrist was then 
opened and blood taken and permitted to 
run into the veins of the patient. It was 
apparently thoroughly successful, only one 
quart of blood being required, and the pa¬ 
tient now stands a good chance for recov¬ 
ering. We speak of this to show some¬ 
thing of the human side of life in a great 
city. One of the men who applied in this 
case had gone through one such operation 
before, having given some three months 
ago a quart of blood to save the life of 
another patient. The woman who applied 
had furnished live skin for the operation 
of skin grafting on two occasions. One 
would hardly like to recommend a trade of 
tois kind to his friends, and yet without 
question much of this very thing is being 
done in the interests of science and for the 
help of those who suffer. Not so long ago 
a poor man sold one of his ears for graft¬ 
ing upon the head or face of a rich West¬ 
ern man who had had an ear cut off in an 
accident! 
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MORE ABOUT THE MANURE SPREADER. 
Some time ago I wrote an article on the 
manure spreader. Five replies have ap¬ 
peared, seemingly in refutation of my ar¬ 
ticle. As a matter of fact all but one con¬ 
firm it. One says, “I keep it (the spreader) 
stored.” Evidently he does not use it every 
day. Another uses his 10 or 12 days, Spring 
and Fall. A third uses a litter carrier, and 
draws the manure out only occasionally. 
The fourth stores bis and draws it out 
only twice a year. These four ail do as I 
recommended, e., store their manure and 
only haul it out occasionally. The fact that 
their spreaders are used only occasionally 
accounts for the fact that few repairs have 
been needed. The other may not feed silage 
and roots to his cows, and hence may not 
have as much liquid in the manure, or he 
may have more straw available for bedding, 
or bis floor may be leaky. Even if under 
exactly similar conditions, his spreader had 
needed fewer repairs than mine, it would 
not prove that mine had not needed them. 
My spreader has always stood in the barn, 
and with the exception of the apron chains, 
has always received oiling. These would 
not be considered working parts. I would 
like to hear from some of those who have 
had the same experiences as I have had. 
'ihere must be such. A neighbor, win* 
bought his new, since I had mine, has had 
his troubles. In explanation, I will state 
that I did not state the fact that the wheel 
slipped, as a disadvantage, but to show 
what a heavy draft the spreader had. Fur¬ 
thermore, I did not set the repairs, but the 
depreciation, at $10 annually. If I had 
not known the good points of the spreader 
I should not have recommended it at all. 
As it is so much easier to get, through 
agents and advertising the advantages, than 
it is to get the disadvantages, I thought it 
well to give the other side. In conclusion, I 
would recommend to anyone buying a spread¬ 
er, that, before he use it, he give it one or 
two coats of hot linseed oil, inside, and 
that he never let the apron chains (those 
to which the slats are riveted) get dry of 
oil. as otherwise they rust together and 
break, thus starting a repair bill. If I had 
known as much about the spreader before 
getting it as I do now, I might not have 
gotten it, and I feel sure that I would have 
had a great deal less trouble if I had fol¬ 
lowed the course suggested above. 
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Rutland Co., Vt., Jan. 6,1911. 
The Rogers & Hubbard Co., 
Middletown, Conn. 
GentlemenI got last year 200 bu. of 
ears of Corn, 700 bu. of Onions, $300.00 
worth of Raspberries and $600.00 worth of 
Strawberries to the acre, fertilized en¬ 
tirely with Hubbard’s “Bone Base” Ferti¬ 
lizers. A net result of $200.00 better than 
ever before, due entirely to their liberal 
use. That is a satisfactory result on our 
stony knolls which some writer has called, 
“Pretty thin pickings.” 
Yours truly, 
W. W. Goodnow. 
