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THE RURA.I> NEW-YORKER 
August 23, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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SAWDUST AS MULCH. 
Wo can get all the sawdust that we 
want, about half and half pine and oak, 
for hauling it one mile. It is right from 
the saw. Will it do to mulch apple trees 
10 years old. and how would it do for 
berries? Would it pay to scatter it on 
meadows with a spreader, or in what 
other way could we use it? Would it 
make humus? W. B. 
Missouri. 
This is answered in our little pamph¬ 
let on “Plant Food Wastes.” Such saw¬ 
dust is not safe to use until it has been 
rotted or “sweetened.” It contains acids 
which will injure the soil if used as freely 
as you state. If this sawdust could be 
used as an absorbent in the stable or 
mixed with the manure before use, it will 
answer. You could use lime with it and 
make it fit, but we would not advise the 
use of fresh sawdust as you suggest. 
THE TRINITY CHURCH PROPERTY. 
Will you give a history of the Trinity 
Church and property, by whom founded, 
when or in what year? Was it leased? 
If so for how long a time, and is it heir¬ 
ship property. G. N. D. 
Shelbyville, Mich. 
The land on which Trinity Church 
stands, on lower Broadway, New York, 
and the land around it for many blocks, 
is part of the Annetje Jans property, 
laid out as a farm in 1636. In 1670 this 
farm was sold to Francis Lovelace, the 
English governor, but although this was 
a legal sale, without real cloud upon the 
title, many persons claiming descent 
from Vrouw Bogardus (Annetje or 
Anneke Jans) are willing to spend time 
and money in chasing the mythical mil¬ 
lions which they think ought to come to 
them from the Trinity estate. Governor 
Lovelace joined this farm with other pos¬ 
sessions of his, and called the whole the 
“Duke’s Farm.” in honor of the Duke of 
York, owner of the province. In 1674, 
when the Duke became King James II, 
the tract of land was called the “King’s 
Farm.” a name it retained until the ac¬ 
cession of Queen Anne in 1702, when it 
became the “Queen’s Farm.” In 1705 
Queen Anne granted the land to Trinity 
Church and inhabitants of the city in 
communion with the Church of Eng¬ 
land, from which was formed the pres¬ 
ent Trinity Church Corporation. Trin¬ 
ity Parish is the wealthiest single church 
organization in the world; it cont^s 
nine churches, employs 26 clergymen, and 
aids 20 other parishes in the poorer parts 
of New York. The present church was 
built in 1S39; the original structure, 
built in 1606, was burned during the 
Revolution. It will be seen that there 
is no “heirship property” to be settled in 
this case, and one descendant of Annetje 
Jans in Tiie R. N.-Y. office says he is 
quite willing to present his chance of in¬ 
heritance to anyone who likes to waste 
money on such rainbow gold. 
CEMETERIES; DUTIES OF HUSBAND. 
1. our cemetery is incorporated. Can 
I get a fence and put it around our lot? 
We bought it before it was incorporated. 
Can they make me pay taxes on the lot? 
2. My husband works by the month for 
a man. They want me to work in the 
house for my board, and that is the only 
home he will give me. I do not like it 
there. When my father got sick, I came 
home and helped to care for him. I told 
my husband as soon as he would furnish 
a home for me I would come back and 
live with him. He came here to my 
folks to see me. Is he obliged to take 
care of me? Can he count that a home? 
E. B. 
1. Under the tax law of this State, 
cemeteries used exclusively for that pur¬ 
pose are exempt from taxation, hut the 
directors of cemetery corporations may 
tax the lot owners for the improvements 
of the cemetery to the extent of $2 per 
lot per year or with the written consent 
'of two-thirds of the lot owners or by the 
vote of a majority of the lot owners, a 
tax may be made to the amount of $5 per 
annum, but this is for use in improving 
the cemetery and not for a State or 
county tax. The directors of the ceme¬ 
tery may make such rules in regard to 
fences around burial plots as they may 
deem advisable, but under ordinary con¬ 
ditions, you would have the right to put 
a fence around your plot. 
2. Your husband is obliged to make 
and keep a home for you and he cannot 
compel you to come and work for your 
board where he is at present—that is not 
providing a home. He is legally hound 
to provide you with necessaries where 
you art, if you have left him for just 
cause or for his failure to support you. 
If at any time he does provide a suit¬ 
able home for you, it is your duty to go 
back to him. 
POULTRY FARMS IN NEW YORK. 
Your editorial of July 5 on misrepre¬ 
sentation of farms for sale in New York 
State is very timely for me, as I have 
sent for the bulletin, intending to settle 
in the State, and I certainly would have 
placed implicit reliance in descriptions 
contained therein. I wish to embark in 
the poultry business on a larger scale 
than at present and would like to learn 
what sections of New York you think 
most suitable for the purpose, sandy soil 
preferred. If you can give information 
as to where maps of soil surveys and 
streams can be procured such informa¬ 
tion will be greatly appreciated. 
Viola, Del. E. F. B. 
We would not place such “implicit re¬ 
liance” upon the statements of anyone 
with regard to farms for sale as to pur¬ 
chase without careful personal inspection 
of the property and study of the sur¬ 
roundings. A farm is more than a work¬ 
shop, it is a home, and the advantages, 
social and otherwise, that it offers as the 
latter should be as carefully considered 
as its productive power. You should 
bear in mind that the descriptions of 
farms in the government bulletins are 
furnished by owners or agents, and there 
is no reason for believing them to be any 
more accurate or reliable than as if they 
were not published at the expense of the 
public. Such farms are probably more 
often misrepresented by omission than 
by commission; what is not told about 
a farm is frequently more important than 
what is told, even though all of the lat¬ 
ter be absolutely true. There are but 
few sections of New York State that are 
not suited to the poultry business; suit¬ 
able soil can be found anywhere within a 
radius of a few miles, and shipping facili¬ 
ties are such as to make nearness to 
market a feature of minor importance 
unless one wishes to work up a local di¬ 
rect trade. The prospective poultryman 
would do well to devote a large share of 
his attention to other features of his pro¬ 
posed location, such as home conveni¬ 
ences, nearness to his shipping station 
and source of feed supply, neighborhood 
social conditions, suitability of the land 
for such crops as it may be found advis¬ 
able to raise, and last, but not least, the 
possibility of disposing of his property 
should he wish to do so. If I were look¬ 
ing for a suitable location in this State 
for the poultry business, or for any other 
branch of farming, I should first select 
the section of the State in which I would 
like to live; I would then go there and 
make a personal search for such a place 
as suited my poeketbook and ideas of 
congenial surroundings. Soil maps of 
various sections of New York State have 
been published by the U. S. Government 
Geological Survey, at Washington, D. C., 
and a list of these with price, which is 
nominal may be obtained by addressing 
that department. These combined topo¬ 
graphic and geologic atlases are exceed¬ 
ingly interesting and valuable, but 
would be of doubtful value to the ordi¬ 
nary farmer in selecting a location. 
M. b. D. 
Salting Bees. 
Does salting bees do any good? When 
a boy, 50 years ago, I lived by an old 
man who had lots of bees. He always 
had plenty of honey. He salted his bees 
every two weeks; put it just to one side 
of the entry. The bees did something 
with the salt, but as to what they did 
with it I do not know. w. S. 
Oklahoma. 
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Vertical Engines 8 to 60 H. P. 
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Should be sown during August and Septem¬ 
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for a copy of our Alfalfa Leaflet, (free. 
Crimson Clover 
the great soil improver; also early green 
food, grazing and hay. Special circular, 
sample and price of seed on request. 
Winter Vetch 
(Vicia Villosa) 
Valuable as a winter cover crop and for hay 
and green manure. Extremely hardy. 
Write for price. ________ 
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Ready early in September and mailed free to all 
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planting. Write for a copy. 
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-PHILADELPHIA, PA.— 
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Less than One Cent each will protect 
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Finest seed vheat, all cleaned, graded 
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You can easily grow 30 to 40 bushels 
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They possess wonderful vitality. 
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Old bee-keepers tell me that it used to 
be the custom among some of them to 
place salt where their bees could get at it, 
and that as the salt absorbed moisture 
from the air the bees seem to take the 
softened crystals into their hives. I 
think that the custom has fallen into 
disuse, probably from lack of any good 
reason for continuing it, and the only 
reference to the use of salt that I can find 
in my bee literature is the recommenda¬ 
tion to slightly salt the water sometimes 
given bees when it is thought that they 
do not have ready access to a sufficient 
supply. _ M. b. D. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
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