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THE RUIt-A.!* NEW-VORKER 
February 8, 
Chemicals for Grain and Potatoes. 
F. E. W., Orange, Max *.—I have used 
slag meal, sulphate of potash and nitrate 
of soda for grass top-dressing, mixing them 
myself. Will you tell me what part to use 
of each to get results, and how much to 
the acre? Fast year I had about one-half 
acre of corn planted on new land that is 
newly plowed; this was treated with a 
fairly good coat of stable manure on both 
sides of the sod before plowing, and after¬ 
wards also about one-half ton of burnt lime 
to the acre. The corn did well. About 
August 14 I sowed five pounds of clover 
in the com, which caught fairly well. Now 
I wish to plow under the clover this Spring 
and plant potatoes, and would like to know 
if I can use slag, sulphate of potash and 
nitrate of soda for fertilizer. If so what 
part of each and how much to the acre? 
I do not wish to use any stable manure, 
but want a fertilizer to get a good crop 
of potatoes. The land is fairly dry, but 
not a light soil, with clay subsoil. 
Ans. —It would depend somewhat on 
the character of the soil. The heavier 
soils usually contain more potash than 
the lighter loams. As an average we 
should say 450 pounds slag, 150 nitrate 
of soda and 100 pounds sulphate of 
potash, or in that proportion. On the 
lighter lands a little more nitrate may 
be added. We should use 600 pounds 
per acre of the mixture. The same 
mixture would not be the most suitable 
one for potato, for the lime in the slag 
might increase the trouble from scab. 
We should substitute a combination of 
fine bone and acid phosphate for the 
slag in making a potato mixture. 
SEEDING TO CLOVER, 
One of the most important crops 
raised on the farm is the clover crop. 
It serves a double purpose; it fur¬ 
nishes an abundance of feed for the 
animals kept on the farm, is relished 
by all, from the horse to the chickens, 
and at the same time the roots perme¬ 
ate the soil, putting it in better physical 
condition than it was before, and gath¬ 
ering the elements from down deep in 
the ground as well as the nitrogen 
from the atmosphere, making them 
available for the subsequent crops which 
follow in the regular rotation. The 
first essential is good seed. Without 
good seed no manner of after treatment 
can make a good crop of clover, there¬ 
fore it is a matter of first importance 
to select only such seed as is best 
adapted to the localitj r in which one 
lives, and then testing the seed in order 
to know what percentage of the seed 
can be depended upon to germinate. In 
selecting seed from different localities 
that grown near where it is to be sown 
but it insures a good catch, and in¬ 
creases the subsequent yield of the 
clover. The amount of seed required 
per acre is around four quarts on loamy 
soils and five quarts on gravelly and 
sandy soils. As to time of sowing it 
depends on locality and condition of 
soil. If it is to be sown and left for 
the rains to cover the seed from March 
15 to April 1 is a good time generally. 
When one is going to harrow the 
ground to cover the seed it is always 
best to wait until the ground is settled 
and in fine condition for working. When 
sown with Winter wheat the working 
loosens the soil, lets the air in and bene¬ 
fits the wheat by encouraging an early 
growth more than enough to repay the 
labor of harrowing. When clover is 
sown with Spring crops it can be thrown 
on the surface while the land is loose 
from being prepared for the grain crop 
soon after the grain is sown and worked 
in with a light spike-tooth harrow. 
Illinois. wm. HARDY. 
Missouri Strawberry Note. 
C. P.j Chicago, 111 .—I send two clippings 
which I will he glad if you can give space 
to comment upon in The R. N.-Y. I have 
no occasion, so far, to use parcel post and 
would like your opinion on the statement 
made. Is the article on strawberries cor¬ 
rect for all localities, or only from the 
writer's location ? These clippings were 
in the “Chicago Daily News.” 
Ans. —The parcel post clipping re¬ 
ferred to a Chicago man who objected 
to the rates and to the system of com¬ 
pelling the public to pay full rates. We 
think those faults will be corrected in 
time. The strawberry article is written 
from Missouri and contains the follow¬ 
ing: 
In August and September the bloom bud 
comes on the runners, and if you reset the 
runner the first year you will not kill the 
plant or runner, but will kill tile bloom 
bud. The nature of a berry plant is to 
mat and tangle up. The bloom bud is 
where the fruit comes the next year. The 
second year, in the Spring, the bud blooms, 
a small white flower, and then presently 
it turns green and then red. The way w'e 
plant strawberries in a new patch down in 
the Ozarks, where every farmer has from 
one to 120 acres in. is in rows four feet 
apart, with each plant three feet from the 
next in its row. Then if by Fall they 
are not all matted and tangled, we con¬ 
sider it a poor row. To be successful the 
first year the farmer must give about nine 
months out of the 12 to plowing and keep¬ 
ing down weeds and killing grub worms. 
We presume this man refers to the 
fruit buds which are formed in late 
Summer and early Fall. We have set 
runners in every month from April to 
November and made them live. Some 
varieties run or “mat” far more than 
others. Marshall is a light plant maker. 
Some varieties are lighter yet, while 
others run freely. Of course it is the 
nature of the plants to “run and tangle 
up.” The plan of planting between 
rows of trees is an old one but not 
generally advised. They may work the 
berries nine months in the Ozarks but 
will be much hardier and give better re¬ 
sults than that grown very much farther 
South. Seed grown north of locality 
where it is to be sown will also do bet¬ 
ter than grown very far south. The 
old-fashioned method of throwing the 
seed on the surface and trusting to the 
subsequent freezing and thawing and 
the rains to cover the seed will not 
work as well as when the land was new, 
and contained a large amount of vege¬ 
table matter, which encouraged a rapid 
root growth as soon as the seed began 
to grow and seek a foothold. This 
method can only be trusted on loamy 
soils that are fertile and inclined to be 
porous in the Spring. On gravelly and 
sandy soils, when seeding with Winter 
wheat or rye, it by far safer to sow the 
seed on the surface and then go over the 
ground with a spike-tooth harrow and 
stir it well. One can follow with a 
roller to make the surface smooth and 
compact the soil, after which it will hold 
the moisture better than when left loose 
If the surface of the ground is not well 
supplied with vegetable matter a moder¬ 
ate amount of commercial fertilizer that 
is rich in nitrogen, to start root growth, 
will help very materially. I would put 
the fertilizer on the ground before the 
harrow is started. I have obtained ex¬ 
cellent results by applying a light coat 
of compost made of equal parts of 
stable manure and swamp muck. The 
compost can be applied in the early 
Spring. The beneficial effects of this 
application will be noticed for two or 
three years. It works well on hard 
clay knolls, where much difficulty is ex¬ 
perienced in getting a catch of clover. 
I am aware that this method of seeding 
is more expensive in point of labor than 
the old slipshod plan too often followed, 
six month gives us a full dose in New 
Jersey. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
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