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THE R.TJ RAI> NEW-YORKER 
February 10 . 
A LIME-SULPHUR STATEMENT. COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
On page 1211 of last year’s volume we 
printed an article on making the lime- 
sulphur mixture, giving the experience 
of E. J. McClew & Sons. In this article 
two formulas were given—one with 40 
pounds of lime, 60 pounds of sulphur 
and 50 gallons of water, and the other 
80 pounds of lime and 120 pounds of 
sulphur to 50 gallons. Mr. McClew 
stated: 
We found that samples of (a) showed as 
high average Beaume tests as did (b), and 
if anything had less sediment, and both 
were cooked under same conditions. We 
also found that the average Beaume test 
Winter Short Courses, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., November 2S-February 23. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Burlington, Vt., 
December 26-February 24. 
Farmers' Short Course, Columbus, O., 
January 2-February 23. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Amherst, Mass., 
January 2-March 8. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Durham, N. H.. 
January 4-March 8. 
Minnesota Short Course. Minneapolis, 
Minn., January 23-February 17. 
Farmers’ Special Course, Morgantown, W. 
Ya., February 1-16. 
Poultry Week, East Lansing, Mich., Feb¬ 
ruary 12-17. 
Farmers’ Week, State School, Lyndon 
Ctr., Vt., February 12-17. 
Farmers’ Week, Cornell University, 
Ithaca. N. Y., February 19-24. 
Eastern Meeting N. Y. State Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Ass’n, Poughkeepsie, Feb. 22-23. 
for the 40 barrels cooked this Spring was a 
fraction of one per cent under 30° Beaumg. 
A number of readers have asked how 
this could be possible when one lot con¬ 
tained only half as much sulphur and 
lime as the other. In order to settle the 
matter it was referred to Dr. L. L. Van 
Slyke and Prof. P. J. Parrott, of the 
Geneva Experiment Station. This is 
Dr. Van Slyke’s report: 
If Mr. McClew obtained the published 
results it must have been due to one of 
two conditions: Either he must have had 
unequal amounts of water or else the ma¬ 
terials did not go completely into solution 
in the case of the larger amount. If, after 
boiling and allowing to cool, the mixture 
was made up to exactly 50 gallons in each 
case it would be impossible that the two 
mixtures would give the same Beaum6 test 
unless the materials did not go into com¬ 
plete solution in the case of the higher 
amounts. On the basis of a 30° Beaumd 
reading the mixture should contain about 
115 pounds of sulphur in solution when 
made up to fifty gallons. This is reasonable 
when he used 120 pounds of sulphur, but 
when he used only 60 pounds of sulphur it 
is clearly impossible that he could have 
had 115 pounds of sulphur in solution. The 
result indicates that when he used the 
smaller amount he did not make up the 
solution to 50 gallons and it was more con¬ 
centrated than it could possibly have been 
if it had been diluted to the proper degree. 
L. I>. VAN SLYKE. 
Prof. Parrott’s statement is: 
We have found in our experience that it 
pays to use the formula as recommended 
by this station because there is a more 
economical use of the materials. With the 
formula that they use calling for such 
large amounts of lime and sulphur there is 
often a waste of the sulphur. They do not 
get it all into solution, consequently it is 
not an uncommon experience to have mix¬ 
tures which do not give higher densities 
than the Geneva formula of 80 pounds sul¬ 
phur, 40 pounds lime and 50 gallons of 
water. p. j. parrott. 
This Senator Needs Attention. 
I perceive that you are still hammering 
away at the parcels post matter. I am 
sending you a choice gem from one of Ne¬ 
braska’s misrepresentatives. If we get par¬ 
cels post and all that he fears comes to 
pass, our sanitariums will be full of poor 
starving merchants. lie asks questions that 
I must have answered to his satisfaction, I 
or discomfiture, at least I have not been 
able to get a lino out of him this Winter. 
“Hang to him, Tige.” r. r. 
Hastings, Neb. 
We answer to the name of “Tige” 
or any other when it comes to the par¬ 
cels post fight. But here is the “choice 
gem” of correspondence: 
WliAt is your scheme of getting farm 
products to market by means of the par¬ 
cels post? Would you have the rural free 
delivery carrier take them from the farm 
to the town, and, if so, what would you 
have him do with them when he gets to 
town? How many farmers on your route 
would avail themselves of this opportunity 
to send vegetables, fruit, eggs, poultry, milk 
and other products of the farm by the 11. 
F. D. carrier? I low many pounds a day in 
the height of the season do you think each 
farmer would load upon the R. F.^D. car¬ 
rier? Do you know that in Germany, which 
is pointed to as the perfection of the par¬ 
cels post system, the patrons are compelled 
to call at the railroad station for what i 
comes by the parcels post, and are com¬ 
pelled to take to the station the articles 
they desire to have carried by the parcels 
E ost? Is the value of a farm measured 
y its proximity to the business centers 
large or small where it does business, or is 
it measured by the amount of merchandise 
the owner buys of a mail order house lo¬ 
cated in a remote city a thousand or fifteen 
hundred miles. away? It occurs to me that 
the farmer is deeply interested in the 
prosperity of the small town in his imme¬ 
diate neighborhood, much more than he is 
In the prosperity of a large citv a thou¬ 
sand miles away with its big mail order 
bOUSe. ft. M. HITCHCOCK. 
United States Senator. 
That certainly is a star. Nebraska 
should be proud of such a Senator. He 
would have been wiser if he had said: 
“Careful consideration” and let it go at 
that. Read the article by Prof. Price on 
the German parcels post and see how 
much Mr. Hitchcock knows about it. 
He will know more in good time and 
Nebraska farmers will be his teachers. 
At any rate it is well to get these men 
out where wo can see them. 
In the State of Tennessee we are im¬ 
porting stock feed, and we have the best 
average rainfall, or at least one of the best 
in the United States. What’s the matter? 
We should be exporting. This is a fine 
stock country, short Winters and not very 
cold. We have been here nearly three years 
and find a good price for all one raises. The 
farmers are now buying hay. The greater 
number feed fodder. The principal crop is 
tobacco. Corn in the Spring gets as high 
as 80 cents per bushel. I do not believe if 
one went out looking for potatoes you could 
get 50 bushels within a radius of two miles 
from us. h. m. w. 
Tennessee. 
Corn matured badly in central Illinois; 
not one-fourth of it will grade as No. 2. 
mostly grading as No. 4. which is selling 
for 35 cents. Cows, $40 to $65; stockers, 
steers, $4 to $5 per 100 pounds; heifers, 
$3.50 to $4.75 per 100; fat hogs, $5.50 to 
$6 per 100. Weaned calves, $12 to $20: 
work mules, span, $300 to $475; ho-- s. 
$100 to $225. Sheep, per head, $2 to .>•*;. 
Timothy hay, $18 to $22. Sound corn, 60 
cents; oats, 40 to 45 cents. j. h. a. 
Taylorville, Ill. 
We are having a lot of zero weather; 
two weeks ago to-day it was 22 degrees be¬ 
low zero. Milk is selling for five cents per 
quart wholesale at the door. I sell a little 
bottled at the village for eight cents. Eggs 
are bringing 40 cents at the door whole¬ 
sale. Chickens, dressed. 18 cents per pound. 
Fowls and young roosters, about 14 cents 
live weight. c d p 
Arnold Mills, R. I. 
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Tacks (for making up boxes) per 
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Hay at $25.00 Per Ton 
With hay selling at $25.00 per ton. corn and other 
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