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Plowing Under Rye With Lime. 
A. S., T. B., Maryland .—I have about 
20 acres in rye, which I intend to plow 
under about the middle of May and then 
plant to corn. I also wish to lime this 
laud. Would you advise me to lime it now, 
or wait till after rye is turned under? 
Ans. —Do not use the lime now. Wait 
until the rye has been plowed under. Then 
spread the lime and harrow in. Then 
pack or crush the soil down and work 
the upper surface before planting. Un¬ 
less this is done the rye will stay in 
a porous mass soiling the ground and 
later drying it out and preventing the 
rise of water in the soil. 
Preparing for Corn. 
P. V., Oxford, K. ./.—1 have rented a 
piece of ground I wish to put in corn. At 
one time it was good corn land, but it 
lias not been worked much in many years. 
Two years ago it was in corn, planted 
late, not very well tended ; drought caught 
it and it was not more than half a crop. 
I propose to plow deeply and plant about 
first of May. There is not much to plow 
under except wild carrots, lots of that, 
some golden-rod and other wild stuff. As 
I am renting it I do not wish to put any¬ 
thing on 1 cannot get off. What grade 
of fertilizer would you use? I see most 
corn special does run above 2-8-5, most of 
them much less than that. What would 
you use and how would you apply ? 
Ans. —Of course you cannot expect to 
raise a large crop of corn on such land. 
Your best plan is to plow the soil early, 
turning weeds and trash all under. 
Keep the soil harrowed as well as you 
can until corn planting time. Use in 
the hill, or scattered around it, a mix¬ 
ture of one part nitrate of soda, four 
parts acid phosphate and one part mu¬ 
riate of potash, say 400 pounds to the 
acre. This mixture will be better than 
the regular corn fertilizer, since the 
former chemicals are all available and 
will be mostly used up this year. If 
this were not rented land we would 
suggest a different treatment which 
would mean building the soil up, but 
the tenant could not be expected to do 
that. _ 
Killing Woodchucks. 
J. M. P., Boston, Mass .—I think I saw 
in Tun It. N.-Y. some months ago a recipe 
for killing woodchucks. J have looked 
over my files but cannot seem to locate 
it. Do you know the preparation? it was 
put in the hole and then the hole was 
covered up and the fumes being confined 
suffocated the woodchuck. 
Ans. —Bisulphide of carbon is what 
you are after. A fair-sized stone is 
wrapped in cotton batting or soft rags, 
which are saturated with the liquid. The 
stone is pushed or rolled down into 
the hole and the entrance closed. The 
fumes of the bisulphide are poisonous 
to all breathing things. Being heavier 
than air they work down into the bur¬ 
row if air is shut off. Often the wood¬ 
chuck has two or more entrances to his 
den and unless they arc all closed he 
can get pure air and escape. Probably 
the surest way to clean out woodchucks 
is to have some good marksman with 
a rifle wait for them at early dawn or 
in late afternoon and put a bullet 
through them. 
Soil Under a Barn. 
0. B., Townsend Centre, Out .—I am 
going to work a small farm tins year and 
I am going to put a few acres into garden. 
There is an old barn on the place which 
has stood there for 50 years, the bay of 
which has not had any bottom in it except 
rocks and sticks all these years, and the 
result is there is about two feet of stuff 
fine as dust from decayed straw, hay, corn 
stalks, etc. it never gets wet. There is 
also a hay barn with stables under the. 
mow, with loosely constructed floors, and 
there are several inches of black substance 
under the floor. This of course is damp, 
but there is no circulation; but little air 
reaches it. Will you tell me the value of 
this for growing tomatoes, melons, etc., 
and what would be the best mode of ap¬ 
plication? 
Ans. There is no way of telling bow 
much plant food there is in this stuff 
without an analysis. As a guess we 
should call it worth about two-thirds 
as much as ordinary manure, ton for 
ton. The dust in the old hay bay prob¬ 
ably contains many seeds of grass and 
weeds. If you put it on garden land 
you will make work and trouble for 
yourself. Such stuff would be better 
on grass or grain; the black soil under 
the other barn will help the garden. 
We should plow first—then scatter this 
black soil and harrow in. 
Fly Prevention. 
C. M. If,, Iiushville, N. —I am greatly 
troubled with flics in hot weather. Could 
you tell me of any preparation that I 
could spread on the manure to keep the 
young from hatching out? How can I 
keep the cow stable free from flies? 
Ans. —The first tiling to remember 
about flies is that they breed in horse 
manure. If such manure can be kept 
oiit of their reach or treated with some 
substance that will kill the eggs the 
flies will be thinned out or destroyed. 
In small stables or where there are few 
horses the manure can be thrown into 
a pit or room with screened doors and 
windows. In such cases the manure 
is not allowed to remain under the 
horses. As the flies cannot get to it 
through the screens very few eggs are 
laid. There is no doubt that this helps 
Where the manure cannot be handled 
in this way you can use acid phosphate 
or kainit. A mixture half and half of 
these chemicals will answer. There 
should be used about two pounds for 
each animal—scattered several times 
each day over the manure behind the 
horses. These chemicals mixed through 
the manure will keep off the flies and 
also supply potash and phosphoric acid. 
Try to avoid the ordinary outhouse by 
changing to an earth closet. 
Persian Walnuts in Louisiana. 
A. G. S., New Hoads, La .—1 believe Prof. 
Van Denian is personally familiar with soil 
and climate conditions in the delta region 
of Louisiana. 1 would like to know his 
opinion about the cultivation of the Per¬ 
sian (English) walnut in this region. 
Ans. —There is no doubt of the mild¬ 
ness of the climate and the suitability 
of the soil of' the lower Mississippi 
delta region for the Persian walnut. 
This I have tested on our own planta¬ 
tion in Louisiana and proved to be true. 
But it has also been proved that the 
trees will not endure submergence dur¬ 
ing the growing season, for our trees 
were killed by the flood of last year. 
This included those planted in orchard 
form that had been growing for several 
years and I have heard of other and 
older trees of the Persian walnut that 
died at the same time. I fear that it 
would not be safe to trust the trees in j 
regions subject to flooding during the 
growing season, but they might survive 
if the water covered them when in the 
dormant stage. The trees of the native 
American walnuts, the black and Texas 
species, that were growing on our land, 
all of which was flooded for weeks last 
May and June, all passed through 
safely. h. e. van deman. 
Mixed Planting for Apples. 
On page 502 G. J. B., Union, N. Y., 
asks about setting out an orchard. 
Don’t plant a solid block of any one 
variety, at most not over four rows of 
one variety, then two or four of an¬ 
other, so continue mixing varieties. I 
feel sure greater success will be at¬ 
tained, not only more but better fruit 
by .cross-pollenization. 1 helped set two 
blocks of Baldwins, 15 acres each, both 
farms owned by same man; then set 
seven acres for a family orchard, two 
rows Greenings, two rows Baldwins, 
two rows Spies and so on, such varie¬ 
ties as are wanted in a family orchard, 
and 1 feel satisfied the seven acres have 
borne more fruit than the 30 of all 
Baldwins. All these trees were set over 
40 years ago in Wayne County, N. Y. 
1 helped set an orchard in York State 
in 1857, mixed varieties, and I own 
it now, one of the best orchards still, 
set four rows Greenings on west side 
next the road first, as the prevailing 
wind is from the west or southwest. 
The two rows next the road most years 
do not bear more than half what the 
other two do near the other varieties. 
I was a delegate to a State horticul¬ 
tural meeting held at Syracuse, and 
Senator Dunlap from Illinois was there 
to talk on cross-fertilization, and 
awakened a good deal of enthusiasm. 
He stated he owned a soiid block of 
Ben Davis, 40 acres, and over the fence 
was a block of Canada Red. His Ben 
Davis, first two ro\"s, were very full, 
third row fair crop, next four rows 
very poor, rest of orchard not a barrel ; 
of apples in it, and told of several other 
orchards with same experience. You 
may call me a fruit crank, but I have 
watched this cross-pollenization very 
closely for 50 years; apples, plums, 
pears, grapes and berries have been 
many failures, and not knowing the 
cause thousands of acres of orchards 
in Illinois are worthless and grown up 
because only one variety, Ben Davis 
crop, was on. I want to prove it is a 
mistake to set a block of one variety 
of apples, plums, pears and strawberries. 
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