1912. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
397 
THE FARMER’S NITROGEN MIXER. 
Many will say that “clover is good 
enough,” and there is something to that, 
but the progressive Wisconsin* farmer, after 
he has given the matter thought, will 
be inclined to say that nothing is too 
good for him—and there is no getting away 
from the fact that Alfalfa is the king of 
forage crops. 
That is taken from a bulletin of the 
Wisconsin Advancement Association. 
Clover is certainly a great help. There 
may be places where it is the king of 
nitrogen plants. In this same bulletin 
is a statement of what H. E. Krueger 
of Dodge Co., Wis., does with clover. 
Mr. Krueger keeps 28 cows and uses only 
13 acres exclusively for pasture. This 
would be impossible under the ordinary 
farm practices, but under the modern plan 
it is easy. He sows clover in all crops. 
The condition of .his soil resulting from 
the proper treatment is such that rarely 
ever does he fail to get a good “catch.” 
The result is that after harvest every 
field for a time is a pasture. Some of the 
land that is plowed in the Spring serves 
as pasture until it is plowed. Then the 
cows go upon the regular 13-acre pasture 
until the rye is harvested, when they are 
put upon that field. Soon the barley is 
harvested and the clover in that field is 
ready for the cows, who have hardly done 
away with it before the wheat is out of 
the way and that field in turn serves as a 
pasture. When the cows have got the 
better of the tender young clover in the 
wheat field, they are sent back to the 
regular pasture until the corn is out of 
the way and they are put upon the clover 
in that field. 
In this way Mr. Krueger saves the dif¬ 
ference between the 50 or more acres usual¬ 
ly assigned to pasturage for that number 
of cows and the 13 acres, but that is not 
all by any means. The result of this 
practice of putting clover in with every 
crop is that the land is kept well filled 
with humus, the nitrogen content of the 
soils is well maintained and the inamfre 
put on the land is nearly equal to the 
plant food consumed in their production. 
In addition to this, the soil is kept in 
shape for the easy action of the plant roots, 
open for the penetration of the air, more 
resistant of drouth, less affected by exces¬ 
sive rains and more comfortable for the 
bacteria that are the wonder-workers in the 
production of crops. 
That gets pretty close the limit, yet 
vve know of farmers who are doing 
even better with Alfalfa. This plant 
endures for years, gives crop after 
crop, and saves much plowing and 
seeding. 
Fertilizer for Pasture. 
IF. B. N., Lynnfleld Center, Mass .—I have 
just bought a piece of pasture land. It has 
been cultivated, though not for some years. 
I wish to sow a piece of this to oats and 
peas. What should I use with ground bone 
for fertilizer, or is there anything better 
than ground bone? 
Ans.—W e should use for this crop 
the following proportion: 100 pounds 
nitrate of soda, 400 pounds ground 
bone and 150 pounds muriate of potash. 
This will start the oats and peas and 
keep them going. 
Fertilizer and Spraying for Potatoes. 
J. T. M., Greenville, Pa. —I would like ex¬ 
perience in using fertilizer on ground for 
potatoes. I have been talking with a lot 
of potato growers and they say they can 
grow from 50 to 100 bushels more to the 
acre without fertilizers than they can with 
it, as they have tried it side by side. They 
claim the fertilizer ripens up the vines be¬ 
fore the potatoes are matured and the vines 
seem to blight quicker. I have been using 
potato fertilizers of ammonia two per cent, 
available phosphoric acid 10 per cent, pot¬ 
ash 10 per cent, and my potatoes start very 
nicely and about the first of July the early 
commence to dry and the late ones about 
the first of August; the same way with to¬ 
matoes. If I thought it was the fertilizer 
I would be a quite better off without it. 
Ans. —The fertilizer is not responsi¬ 
ble for the blight any more than roast 
beef or fried fish would be responsible 
for smallpox or scarlet fever. The 
blight of potatoes is a germ disease. It 
is “catching,” as we say of smallpox or 
whooping cough. This means that the 
disease is spread by germs or little 
forms of life which may pass from one 
plant to another or one field to another. 
It is probable that if you used too much 
nitrogen—for example, a heavy coat of 
manure on a rich clover sod—you would 
drive the crop into a quick, tender 
growth which would make it run to 
vine and thus more liable to be attacked 
by disease. Such a fertilizer as you 
mention would not do this, since the 
potash and phosphoric acid would both 
act to make the plants solid and strong. 
You cannot feed or starve the potato 
crop so it will not take the blight if 
that disease is in the neighborhood. The 
thing to do is to spray the vines with 
Bordeaux Mixture. You will notice 
that successful potato growers claim 
that they are obliged to spray if they 
expect even a fair crop. Here in the 
East the use of potato fertilizer is so 
common that it seems hardly worth 
while to argue about it. What you need 
is spraying to carry your crop through. 
Fertilizing a Vineyard. 
G. B., North Collins, N. Y.-—I have six 
acres of clay loam soil, naturally drained, 
but very poor, now in old pasture, that 1 
wish to set to grapes with potatoes be¬ 
tween, this Spring. Will you advise me 
what fertilizers to use to feed both crops? 
Ans.— With our present knowledge 
of commercial fertilizer for young 
vines it is impracticable to advise any in 
youb case, as the turning under of the 
pasture sod should furnish enough 
plant food for two years at least. A 
study of the vines during this period 
will afford the best evidence for their 
future needs. Much fertilizer has been 
wasted on young vineyards. If the 
growth for the first year is poor, sow 
Mammoth clover in the vineyard about 
August 1 at the rate of 20 pounds per 
acre and plow this under the following 
Spring. F. E. GLADWIN. 
Geneva, N. Y., Exp. Station. 
Michigan Peach Bud Report. 
„ Fifty per cent Elbertas and Crawford; 
Kalamazoo and Engle’s Mammoth full crop. 
Berrien County. c. a. p. 
■From 25 to 90 per cent of the buds alive; 
Carman best, Elbertas the highest. F. B. 
Berrien County. 
Perhaps one-half a crop on the high ele¬ 
vation. a. p. G. 
Grand Traverse County. 
Twenty-five per cent of the buds alive. 
Kent County. a. w. b. 
Buds all dead. t. a. f. 
Eaton County. 
Ninety per cent of the buds on the 
hardiest varieties alive; 50 per cent of the 
Elbertas and Crawford. This is on the 
high location, flats and hollows all gone. 
Every cut showed brown in the under bud. 
If this will do any harm do not know. 
Benzie County. p. r. 
Not over 10 per cent buds alive. 
Lapeer County. a. s. b. 
Less than one-half the buds alive. 
Kent County. c. E. n. 
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Dear Sirs:—A field of early Mastodon corn yielded 
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Watertown, Conn., Oct. 23,1911 
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