1911. 
I HE RURA.I> NEW-YORKER 
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QUESTIONS ABOUT CHEMICALS. 
G. A. II., Sagamore, N. Y .-—The soil bore 
In this locality is sandy, and even with a 
moderate amount of manure, grows a fair 
crop of corn, and strawberries seem to like 
the soil; but this year I shall have to use 
more fertilizer of some kind. Near by me 
there is a soil that is on the top of rock, 
flat lime rock. The soil has a yellow cast 
and is full of small roots. It has never 
been cultivated, as a good many places the 
rock comes to the surface, and other places 
it is 10 to 20 inches to the rock. I thought 
this soil must be full of vegetable matter. 
How would it do to mix the soil with coal 
ashes and chemicals? If this is used what 
chemicals should I want? If this mixture 
was the right thing to use I would only 
expect to use it in the garden and for my 
corn and potatoes; I could not use it ou 
my oats or buckwheat, for I have no way 
to distribute it even, as it would be too 
heavy. Also, I intend to plant several acres 
of beans, and. I would like to use some 
kind of fertilizer in the rows to push them 
along. What would be best? I saw in 
some issue of The R. N.-Y. that coal ashes 
mixed with chemicals and wetted down with 
water would be good to use. Would this be 
right for any crops? IIow would ground 
bone do for strawberries before they start 
to grow? 
Ans.— The coal ashes contain no plant 
food. They have some mechanical ef¬ 
fect on the soil. There is no reason to 
suppose that the soil over the lime rock 
has enough fertility to pay to mix it. 
You will gain nothing by mixing it with 
ashes and chemicals. Better haul and 
scatter it directly over your garden in 
case you want to use it. We doubt, 
however, if you will be paid for your 
labor. The case of mixing coal ashes 
with dissolved chemicals was where very 
strong and expensive chemicals like 
nitrate of potash are used. They are 
so strong that only small amounts would 
be used, and it would be hard to scat¬ 
ter such small lots evenly. To make a 
better job of it the nitrate of potash or 
phosphate of ammonia can be dissolved 
in water, and this water sprinkled over 
dried coal ashes. When the water evapo¬ 
rates these chemicals are mixed all 
through the ashes, and thus it is easy 
to get an even distribution. This would 
hardly pay with ordinary fertilizing 
chemicals, as they can be quite evenly 
distributed withouit dissolving. Your 
scheme involves too much labor for any 
advantage in sight for it. A simple 
combination of chemicals would be 
nitrate of soda or dried blood for 
nitrogen, acid phosphate for phosphoric 
acid and muriate of potash for potash. 
For garden crops you can use them 
in the proportion by weight of 1-3-1. 
For the bean crop use l-G-V/ 2 . Ground 
bone supplies some nitrogen and enough 
phosphoric acid, but no potash at all, 
and on such soil the latter must b; 
added. All soils from which hay, grain 
or straw have been taken arc sure to 
lack potash, as that element is largely 
found in the stems of such plants. 
Working Up Old Meadows. 
F. F., BartonsviUe, Vt .—In renewing an 
old piece of mowing, will plowing first and 
spreading and harrowing manure after give 
as good results as plowing manure under? 
What do you think of top-dressing with 
manure in the Fall as a means of renovat¬ 
ing old mowing as an economical proposi¬ 
tion when a man can do it alone, whereas 
he would otherwise have* to hire men and 
teams to do the plowing, having only one 
horse.? 
Ans. —On general principles we would 
rather plow the manure under. It de¬ 
pends somewhat on the condition of the 
manure. If fine and well rotted it will 
harrow in much better than if coarse 
and lumpy, and where it is fine the har¬ 
rowing will mix it better with the soil 
and give a better seed bed for the new 
seeding. With coarse, heavy manure we 
would rather plow under. The value 
of top-dressing either with manure or 
fertilizer will depend on how much good 
grass there is left. If the stand is still 
fair, the top-dressing will heln. If, as 
is often the case, the sod is mostly 
weeds and wild grass, you will not get 
much benefit until you break up and re¬ 
seed. 
Grubs and Potatoes. 
Do grubs work on potatoes every third 
year, and will they work this year? 
Salem, N. Y. t. q. 
You probably refer to the white grub 
which lives through three' years. They 
work every year, since some are hatched 
out each season. 
Failure with Rape. 
Tell your readers not to get too much 
excited over rape, unless they have tried it 
and know it will grow on their soil. A 
neighbor of mine, near Tuckerton, N. J., 
planted it ou about the best soil on his 
farm, and it grew about two inches high 
and quit, as did also the curled kale which 
he plauted same time. So it will uot do 
well on all soils. j. l. p. 
R. N.-Y.—We do not want our readers 
excited over anything. 
Harrowing in Canada Peas. 
I sowed Canada field peas with oats last 
season and was well pleased with them. 
Why wouldn't it be all right to sow the peas 
on the rough furrows and harrow them in 
with spring-tooth harrow, then sow the oats 
and harrow in? It makes a lot of extra 
work to plow peas in. Will you advise me 
in regard to this? F. e. k. 
Hodenville, N. Y. 
We doubt if this will put the peas in deep 
enough for best results. In a dry season 
they would suffer. They will come up and 
grow, but are better off four inches or more 
under. 
Sawdust—Green and Rotted. 
1. I have a large pile of green hardwood 
sawdust. IIow would this do to put with , 
straw and use as bedding for horses and 
cattle? I have another sawdust pile con¬ 
taining about 50 to 75 two-horse loads. 
How would this do to haul iu field aud use 
as you would manure. This sawdust has 
been lying past three years. This is also 
hardwood sawdust. c. H. s. 
Canton, O. 
The sawdust mixed with the straw and 
used for bedding will be useful. Green 
sawdust contains an acid. Large quantities 
of it will hurt the soil. Soaking in stable 
liquids will neutralize it. Three-year-old 
sawdust ought uot to hurt if used moder¬ 
ately. A surer thing would be to use lime 
at the same time. 
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