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THE; RURA.I> NKW-VOliKEtt 
April 5, 
THE VALUE OF CRUDE TANKAGE. 
C. F. C., Lansing, Mich, — I am located 
near a plant where meat scraps and bones 
arc steamed to remove the grease. Can 
this tankage be used just as it comes from 
the tank without grinding or drying, and 
What is its value as a fertilizer? What 
could I expect in nitrogen and phosphoric 
acid per ton? Should I use other fertilizers 
in conjunction and if so, what kind? I 
want to use it on onions and other gar¬ 
den crops. 
Ans.—S uch tankage contains nitrogen 
and phosphoric acid, but no potash. To 
“balance” it as plant food you can use 
three parts of the tankage to one part 
muriate of potash. The value of such 
stuff depends on how much water there 
is in it. There may be from 1 per 
cent, to 4 per cent, of nitrogen, depend¬ 
ing upon how it has been dried. In 
buying any quantity of it your best plan 
is to send a fair sample to the experi¬ 
ment station for analysis. Far better 
to know what such matter contains 
rather than guess at it. Unless you 
can dry and crush it probably your best 
plan is to mix it with manure or in a 
compost heap. Thoroughly worked over 
in this way the tankage will be finer and 
easier to spread. 
Postal Card Dun; Wife’s Property. 
E. L. B., Wells villa, N. Y. —1. What is the 
penalty for sending a dun on a postal card 
through the mails and how soon would it 
have to be attended to, to hold good? 
2. What form of business does one have to 
go through to put his property in his wife's 
name? 
Ans.— 1. A postal card demanding 
the payment of a debt, stating that it is 
long past due and that a collector has 
called several times, but in respectful 
terms and with no intent apparent to 
put in such form as to attract pubGc 
notice, or to make it offensive to the 
person addressed, is not illegal, but a 
postal card demanding payment of a 
debt and stating that “If it is not paid 
at once we shall place the same with 
our lawyer for collection” or similar 
statements is considered of a threaten¬ 
ing character and is prohibited and non¬ 
mailable. The penalty is a fine of not 
more than $5,000 or imprisonment for 
not more than five years, or both. 
Prosecution must be begun within three 
years after the commission of the of¬ 
fense. 
2. All that is necessary for a husband 
to put his property in his wife’s name 
is to give her a deed in the regular 
form of all his real estate and a bill of 
sale of all his personal property. Of 
course, if there was no consideration 
for the transfer unsatisfied creditors 
could have it set aside. 
Flowers for the Cemetery. 
8. J. W., Forest, 0.—Give me tbc names 
of flowers that will bloom in the Summer, 
and then drop seeds to come up the next 
Spring. I want them for cemetery planting. 
Ans. —For cemetery use we advise 
hardy perennial plants whose roots live 
over year after year, rather than an¬ 
nuals that may self-seed, though many 
perennials also seed themselves quite 
freely. However, there is not likely to 
be a congenial place for the young 
seedlings to grow, unless care is taken 
to have well-tilled soil around the par¬ 
ent plants. Among excellent cemetery 
plants that would be permanent are 
Achillea Ptarmica The Pearl, flowers 
white; herbaceous Phlox in great va¬ 
riety, white or colored (this self-sows 
very freely) ; Astilbe (Iioteia) Japoni- 
ca, white; Shasta daisy, white; Irises, 
German, Siberian, Japanese or Crimean; 
Chrysanthemums of the hardy Pompon 
type; paeonies; lily of the valley; 
Funkia or plantain lily, white or lav¬ 
ender; Gypsophila or baby’s breath, 
white; Vinca major, the trailing myrtle 
Or periwinkle; hardy English and Rus¬ 
sian violets. The plants named are all 
of tolerably easy culture, enduring some 
degree of neglect, though, of course, they 
do better when proper care is given. 
Poet’s Narcissus may be naturalized in 
the grass or in borders, the bulbs being 
planted in October, and Crocus bulbs 
planted at the same time will give very 
early Spring flowers. The Memorial 
rose, Rosa Wichuraiana, with small 
white single flowers, has a trailing 
habit, and is excellent for covering 
graves. Another favorite cemetery rose 
is the old Bourbon variety Madame 
Plantier, with its profusion of white 
flowers. Some of the hardy pinks men¬ 
tioned in a recent issue (page 439) are 
admirable for cemetery planting, es¬ 
pecially the well-known white variety, 
Her Majesty. 
Improving Flemish Beauty Pears. 
C. IF. F., Oahcag, N. Y .—I have a pear 
tree of the Flemish Beauty variety, bpt the 
fruit it boars is small, inferior and spotted, 
nothing to what it should be. The soil it 
stands in is in fair condition. Can you toll 
me what I should do for this tree to in¬ 
crease the quantity as well as the quality 
of it? The tree is of fair size. Would 
wood ashes be of any benefit? 
Ans.— It is quite probable that the 
trouble is scab, which is a fungus dis¬ 
ease that affects the fruit of the Flemish 
Beauty pear very commonly and badly. 
If the tree is sprayed with Bordeaux 
mixture and arsenate of lead as soon as 
the fruit is formed and twice again at 
intervals of about a month, there will 
be little or no trouble with this disease 
or any Codling moth worms in the fruit. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Consumption Cures. 
J. A. B., Booklet, 2V. Y. — Let me know 
what you thing of the two consumption 
cures enclosed. I have a brother who has 
already spent $50 for one of them. I can¬ 
not see that it has helped him any. The 
other he has not tried yet. What do .,ou 
think is the best home medicine to take? 
Brother has had no hemorrhages yet, but 
his breathing is not good and he is so 
weak he can do no work. lie does not want 
to leave home. 
Ans. —There is no medicine of any 
value in the cure of consumption, and 
those advertised for that purpose are 
fakes, pure and simple, designed solely 
to fleece the suffering, and enrich those 
human fiends who exploit the ignorant 
and credulous. Consumption is fre¬ 
quently cured under proper treatment, 
the chief features of which are outdoor 
living, abundant nourishment, and abso¬ 
lute rest. Simple as these may seem 
to be, it is very difficult to carry them 
out except in institutions established for 
that purpose where continued oversight 
may be had. Many counties of this 
State are now establishing hospitals for 
the free treatment of consumption, and 
I suggest that you consult the super¬ 
visor of your town, or some well-posted 
physician to ascertain whether there may 
not be such an hospital within your 
reach. 
M. B. D. 
Everbearing Strawberries.— The Ever¬ 
bearing Superb strawberry plants should 
be set in hedge-rows about 12 inches 
apart and all the runners cut off (also 
all the first blossoms cut till August 
10) every week. If not cut they make 
so many plants they take the strength of 
the plants instead of making fruit, but if 
the runners are cut every plant set will 
produce a pint or more large berries the 
first season from August till the ground 
freezes hard. A slight frost will not kill 
the berries after they are as large as a 
pea. The Pan-American and some of the 
other Everbearing kinds do not make many 
plants, but all the new plants produce 
fruit the first year. s. h. warren. 
Massachusetts. 
More About Hydraulic Ram.—A. O. R., 
of Ohio, on page BG0, tells of trouble with 
his hydraulic ram. I do not think the 
answer you print thereunder will remedy 
the trouble. If he will drill a small hole 
in the drive pipe near the ram, as described 
on page 154 (answers to C. I£. B.’s trou¬ 
bles printed on page 35), I am sure the 
ram will work all right. About turn and 
one-half years ago I started an old ram 
that had not been used for a good many 
years. There was a small hole in drive 
pipe, as stated above, and I, believing it 
had rusted in there, plugged it up. The 
ram had always acted as A. O. R.’s until 
I read page 154 of Tiie It. N.-Y. I at 
once removed plug and have had no fur- 
their trouble along that line. H. g. m. 
Tiie Starling in England.— An English 
correspondent of the New York Evening 
Post has this to say of the starling at 
home: “Those who have introduced the 
English starling into the American States 
have probably never watched its behavior 
in a fruit garden in England at seven 
o’clock in the morning. Certain it is that 
they will have to answer for the commis¬ 
sion of a grave mistake, if this bird keeps 
to the habits which it here displays. These 
starlings are robust, vigilant, and extremely 
destructive, and in a few days’ time a 
dozen of them will account for a large 
amount of fruit, their first choice being 
pears and apples. Too wary to go to 
the ground, where the English cat is al¬ 
ways stalking about, or to stay long in 
one place if watched, they pounce quickly 
upon a tree, sound their ‘barbaric yawp,’ 
sidle up to the best fruit, and get to work. 
They will cling to a pear until it drops, 
and then attack another, and another. 
After several successive raids I have seen 
pears, picked clean to the core, still clinging 
to the trees, and the ground strewn with 
riddled fruit.” 
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Get your spring suit at the Clothcraft Store. 
Look for the Clothcraft label on the neck of the coat 
and the guarantee in the inside pocket. If you 
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SEED POT A TOESfSL 
per bushel: F. O. B. West Rush, N. Y. 1012 crop 
averaged 385 bushels per acre. No rot. Original 
seed purchased of Peter Henderson in 1897. 
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Electric Light 
You can enjoy the comfort and 
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a home equipped with better, safer 
light and handy power for the 
whole farm. The 
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will furnish cheaper electricity than 
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the engine to priming the car¬ 
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This outfit will work for you with al¬ 
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It's built to give satisfactory service at 
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LA PORTE, IND. 
702 
WE CAN 11 
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J. S. WoodhouNP. 1 HU-105 Witter St., New York 
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A Bath in 
March is 
Good but 
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Orchard. 
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McIntosh apple, $12.00 pep 100 
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Fak Cain - -Cow Peas, $2.50 bushel. Seed Bnck- 
lUI «***“ wheat. 85c. bush. Crimson Clover Seed, 
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“•When the Juice is in the Apple’’ 
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The best, most efficient and most 
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