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TH IrC RURAL, NEW-Y OR IN KK 
May 13, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Hen Manure for Corn. 
J. Q. B., East Dorset, Vt .~-What is the 
right way to use hen manure on a corn¬ 
field ? I have a lot that I have saved 
from the droppings boards, mixed with land 
plaster. Would it be proper to drop it in 
the hill and put a little dirt over it and 
then drop corn on it, or would this burn 
the roots when the corn sprouted? 
Ans. —The “right way” is the most 
economical way, all things considered. 
This will depend on circumstances. We 
would like to crush the dried manure 
and mix it with chemicals as often ex¬ 
plained. This might mean too much 
work or expense to be “right” for you. 
We should plant the corn first and 
then scatter the crushed hen manure 
over and around the corn hill. Then 
work it in with hoe or cultivator. We 
should expect to get more out of it this 
way than when put in the hill with the 
seed. 
Preparing Soil for Next Season. 
E. R. K., Sharon, Mass .—I have a piece 
of ground that I do not want to use for 
a garden this year, but I want it to be 
in best condition for next year. This piece 
was covered with young birch trees which 
were cut out and the ground plowed and 
harrowed. Nothing was grown on it last 
season. Would it be best to plow and har¬ 
row it this Spring and plant some crop 
to be plowed under this Fall and then 
left till next Spring planting? What 
should be planted for a green manure? 
Should something else be put in to be 
planted in the Fall and turned under in 
the Spring? This is a good loam with 
hardpan three feet down, slight slope to 
south. 
Ans.— The great thing to do with all 
such soil is to get as much vegetable 
matter as possible into it. As a rule, too, 
such soil is sour and needs lime. We 
should plow it early and sow Canada 
field peas. Let them grow until they 
mature and then plow them under. Then 
sow rye and Hairy vetch together and 
let this crop occupy the land until the 
next Spring, when it may be plowed 
under. It would help if you could use 
a good dressing of lime when seeding 
the peas. 
That Southern Corn. —The present 
week has brought me several letters 
from R. N.-Y. readers to explain more 
fully about the silage corn mentioned in 
a recent communication. I have little 
to add to that already said, beyond say¬ 
ing that while I think it the best variety 
for us in northern Ohio, where we are 
on an average of 1100 feet above the 
sea, with a full 120 days good corn 
weather, I have doubts about more 
northern localities. While it is a na¬ 
tive to and grown upon the plateaus of 
the highest Blue Ridge, I would not ex¬ 
pect it to do well on the ridges of 
northern New York, or New England. 
It finds great favor here, because of its 
strong germinating power, rapid growth, 
profuse earing, and for large corn, early 
maturing. In its local habitation, it is 
the regular field corn, is no new inven¬ 
tion to “fill a long felt want,” but trans¬ 
ferred to a new locality, “grows like 
everything,” as expressed by a delighted 
old farmer. While the corn ripens 
here, it is not wise to plant this seed, 
as it “goes wild,” and only reproduces 
itself in part. JOHN GOULD. 
Ohio. 
WANT TO KNOW 
Vegetable Cellar. —Will you tell us how 
to make an outside celler for storing vege¬ 
tables and fruit during Winter? a. a. u. 
South Haven, Mich. 
Vermin-Proof Granary. —You know it is 
difficult to keep feed away from mice and 
rats. My old corn crib-is worn out, and 
I wish to build a structure entirely rat and 
mouse-proof for holding both corn and feed. 
I would like it to hold a ton or two of 
feed, as one can get it cheaper in quanti¬ 
ties. 1 have in mind making first a con¬ 
crete floor under all, then put up a frame¬ 
work and cover this on sides and top with 
fine wire mesh. The part of this building 
for corn should of course be open work, 
and where feed is kept it must be closed up 
reasonably well. I don’t know just the 
most convenient plan for arranging the in¬ 
side of this structure. Could some of your 
readers give me a nice, practical plan for 
such a building? I am tired of feeding rats 
and mice. E. m. c. 
New Jersey. 
No doubt some of our readers will give 
just the needed plans for the interior. A 
rat-proof house should be built off the 
ground so that rats cannot climb into it. 
Make concrete posts at least three feet high, 
and put the house on them. Have movable 
steps and do not let them rest against 
the house at any time when not needed. 
Take them away after leaving the house. 
Do not permit any rubbish, piles of lumber 
or anything from which rats could jump 
near the house. If you follow these plans 
exactly rats cannot get into the house. 
A Virginia Farm. —Some time ago I saw 
the statement that some Western man had 
been back East, and he stated in his letter 
that he would not take an Eastern farm 
as a gift. As I am a Western man, coming 
here from the best State for agricultural 
purposes in the United States, I mean the 
State of Iowa, I want to make a statement 
taken from my farm books for seven years. 
I bought a farm here in this part of old 
Virginia in 1902, 138 acres for $5,000, and 
took possession March, 1903. I rented this 
farm out on the half for stock and grain ; 
we went partners in the stock, sheep and 
hogs and a few cattle, both living on the 
farm, as we -had a 12-room house divided 
by a hall, six rooms on each side, and have 
received for my share for the seven years 
$3,800, an average of $550 a year on an 
investment of $5,000. I have paid out for 
commercial fertilizer, $350 in the seven 
years, and my farm to-day is worth double 
what I paid for it. If the farms in Iowa 
that are selling for $100 and in many cases 
$150 per acre, can be rented out at a better 
per cent, than this on the investment, I 
should be pleased to hear from them. So 
much for poor run-down land. I should 
mention the crop of 1910: We have not 
sold all as yet; I have had eight crops 
from the farm, one is not all sold yet. We 
hope to spend the next Winter about 100 
miles south of the point where the three- 
gallon cow refused to lead for the Hope 
Farm man. s. a. s. 
Shenandoah County, Va. 
Hairy Vetcii in Pcget Sound Country. 
—I have grown it for a soil improver on 
heavy clay soil, dressed very lightly with 
stable manure, and at blossoming time it 
was over four feet high. Sown October 20, 
with rye as a support, it made little growth 
during the Fall, and the rye made a cutting 
in May before the vetch started; then both 
came along together. This soil had been 
worked but twice with the plow, one plow¬ 
ing being the breaking. Our Winters are 
mild, but cool nights the year round retards 
growth of grasses. I have found that 
Spring vetch answers just as well as the 
Hairy or Winter vetch for this section, and 
it costs one-third less for seed. This clay 
upland is entirely without humus in its 
virgin state, and must be built up for the 
growing of truck and small fruits, though 
strawberries do very well on new ground 
without any fertilization. I have fruited 
them at the rate of 3400 boxes per acre, sin¬ 
gle and double row system, but the market 
drops to as low as 75 cents per crate in 
about two weeks. No inoculating for 
legumes here; clover taking “like a duck 
to water.” This big timbered country is 
difficult to clear and put into a state for 
crop growing, but when the price of land, 
the quality of water and climate, the fuel 
and low price of building material, com¬ 
pared with other sections, are taken into 
consideration, I doubt if a man with very 
small means can find a better chance for a 
start toward a home of his own. One can 
set his fruit trees after slashing and burn- 
ing and clear the laud afterward; I did. In 
a few years most of the small stumps can 
be kicked over. The egg and poultry mar¬ 
kets of Seattle and Tacoma are good; cost 
of feed very reasonable, and housing is cheap, 
three tight sides to a building and a good 
roof. My houses are entirely open in front 
all the year, no curtains: but three-inch 
mesh wire netting for protection from cats, 
owls, etc. The stumps decay while the chick¬ 
ens fertilize the soil. A splendid crop of 
any clover can be had by sowing after burn¬ 
ing. and chicks like clover, as we know, 
while one can harvest rape, kale and any of 
the root crops as needed for chickens and 
cows throughout the Winter. Fine apples 
are grown here, and I have had the Wage- 
ner fruit at three years old. But one can 
sure get his start with poultry. 
Pierce Co., Wash. F. H. w. 
About 25 years ago New Zealand began 
shipping dairy products to England. Last 
year the amount received from this source 
was 21,946 tons of butter and 23,745 tons 
of cheese. Owing to its climate New 
Zealand is very favorably situated for 
dairying, and by the help of the govern¬ 
ment a superior system of inspection and 
marketing has been developed. 
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