1913. 
LIST OF 
'I'MfcO N KW-YOHKKK 
NEW JERSEY FARMERS’ INSTI¬ 
TUTES 1913-14. 
Place. County. 
Nov. 1913. 
Ilammonton, Atlantic. 
. 17 
Vineland, Cumberland. 
. 18 
Swedesboro, Gloucester. . . . 
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20 
Wrightstown, Burlington.. 
. 20 
FTemington, 11 unterdon. 
. 21 
Ilarmorsville, Salem. 
. 21 
Williumstown, Gloucester. . , 
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Millstone, Somerset. 
OQ 
Crnnbury, Middlesex. 
Shiloh, Cumberland. 
25 
Marlton, Burlington. 
1 aiwrenceville, Mercer. 
. 20 
Blue Anchor, Camden. 
.... 20 
Earmingdale, Monmouth. . . . 
.... 28 
Toms River, Ocean. 
29 
Freehold, Monmouth. 
.... 29’ 
I )EC. 
1 
1 , 
Pedricktown, Salem.... 
Woodstown, Salem. 
Blackwood, Camden.... 
Somerville, Somerset.. . 
Wall, Monmouth. 
New Market, Middlesex 
Matawan, Monmouth.. 
Salem, Salem. 
Moorestown, Burlington 
Burlington, Burlington. 
Elmer, Salem. 
Columbus, Burlington. 10 
Blairstown, Warren. 17 
3 
3 
4 
4 
5 
5, 
6 
r 
Newton, Sussex. 
18 
Layton, Sussex. 
. 19 
Ramsey, Bergen. 
. 19 
1 Iackensack, Bergen. 
. 20 
Branchville, Sussex. 
Dover, Morris. 
Florhnm Bark, Morris. 
Jan. 1914. 
Red Bank, Monmouth. 
Allenwood, Monmouth. 
Cologne, Atlantic. 
Leesburg, < ’umberlnnd. 
Rio Grande, Cape Mav. 
0 
Woodbine, Cape May. 
Richfield, Passaic. 
.... 10 
Roselund, Essex. 
Westwood. Bergen. 
_ 14 
Stanton, Hunterdon. 
. . . . 16 
Hopewell, Mercer. 
Sergeantsville, Hunterdon... 
_ 17 
. . . . 20 
Chester, Morris. 
.... 21 
Englishtown, Monmouth. . . . 
.... 23 
Pemberton. Burlington. 
.... 24 
Kingoes, Hunterdon. 
.... 27 
Feb. 
Trenton, Mercer. 25 
QUICKSAND IN WELL. 
I drove a 1^4-inch pipe 15 feet and 
struck water, but could not pump it, so 
pulled up pipe and bored an eight-inch 
hole and found quicksand. What is the 
best thing to do under the existing con¬ 
ditions? There seems to be water 
enough. Does quicksand vary in depth? 
Island Creek, Mass. e. ir. b. 
In all except very dry climates, if there 
is sufficient soil not rock, there is a level 
seldom over 200 feet below the surface 
at which water is found. Sometimes the 
water surface is only a few feet down. 
The position of the water table, as it 
is called, is shown by the standing of 
the water in a well dug at any point, and 
the contour follows in a general way the 
contour of the land. In valleys the water 
is nearer the surface than on hillsides 
and the valley walls do not change level 
with the seasons as much as those placed 
elsewhere, because the water tends to 
flow to tin* low levels always. It is pre¬ 
vented from doing so rapidly by the dif¬ 
ficulty with which it percolates or drips 
through the earth. The finer the soil the 
harder it is for the water to drift or 
flow underground. In the case of fine 
quicksand the water is retained and sur¬ 
rounds each of tin* little rounded grains 
so that they freely slip on one another 
and form a treacherous liquid mass in¬ 
capable of supporting weight. Usually 
such a deposit is of considerable thick¬ 
ness, and rests on a clayey foundation, 
the location generally being near a river’s 
mouth. The difficulty of working in 
such soil except when it is frozen arti¬ 
ficially, is always enormous, and fre¬ 
quently a well is rendered impossible. 
The thickness of the quicksand deposits 
does vary. If you find it possible to get 
down some distance, a very fine mesh 
conical screen may be obtained for the 
point of your drive pipe and the sand 
kept out in that manner. Of course, flit' 
deeper the well the more water you can 
pump continuously, owing to the addi¬ 
tional pressure causing the flow into the 
"’ell. If the quicksand is the troublesome 
thing it may be possible'to get below the 
deposit with the smaller size pipe and find 
good water. 1 think, however, that un¬ 
less you have a very urgent reason for 
locating the well in that particular spot 
I would try somewhere else in as con¬ 
venient a place as possible. Tin* water 
level will be only a few feet down, and 
Hie digging and construction less trouble¬ 
some and cheaper. H. p. c. 
NOTES ANI) COMMENT'S. 
, On page 1182 N. S. of the Maryland 
‘Nation, seems to indicate that Kentucky 
;lue grass does not grow readilv on the 
Eastern Shore of Maryland, il' N. S. 
will come down here into this sandy, piny 
woods county of Wicomico, I will show 
mm a field of Kentucky Blue grass as 
dense as ever grew in Kentucky. It is 
r| ght across the road from where I am 
writing this, and is on a sandy ridge 
1 hut has been let; stand for years for the 
•^•ilo of lots. The grass has not been 
‘ "t^ior pastured, and to-day it will tangle 
ones feet to try to walk through it. 
Last year I showed this field to the noted 
corn breeder of Talbot Co., Md., Mr. 
W. Oscar Collier, and he said that he 
could have hardly believed it had he not 
seen it. Here, wherever the land has 
been brought up to a more fertile state 
and has had some lime, the Blue grass 
comes in. Between my house anil the 
main avenue leading southward is another 
block of land held by a realty company. 
Four years ago, this block was covered 
all over with broom sedge grass. Along 
the edge the Blue grass began to creep 
in, and as it spread it has driven out 
the broom sedge till now the whole block 
is nearly entirely sodded over with Blue 
grass, and not a seed has been sown 
there by hand. My house is on a new 
and unfinished street, that has not yet 
been paved, but it has a sod of Blue 
grass between the carriage cracks, and 
it is evident that Blue grass will thrive 
on the Eastern Shore if it is let thrive. 
Acid Phosphate in Manure. —It 
seems to me that the experiments in pot 
culture in the laboratory in Wisconsin 
and the field experiment of Dr. Thorne, 
demonstrate the fact that laboratory ex¬ 
periments cannot bo relied on as guides 
in field work, and that the results that 
I)r. Thorne had are of far more use to 
farmers than any work with pots. Re¬ 
sults secured on a 40-acre tract in a 
regular rotation demonstrate the wisdom 
of using acid phosphate in manure. Field 
work must be the final test of any theory 
of fertilization. What takes place in the 
open ground cannot be determined in pots 
in the laboratory. 
Seeding a Permanent Pasture. —Re¬ 
ferring again to what N. S. writes I 
would say that he is perfectly right in 
advising Orchard grass and Red-top. I 
have sown pastures with a mixture of 
Orchard grass. Red-top and Kentucky 
Blue grass and found that the Orchard 
grass and Red-top come in at once and 
shelter the slower Blue grass, and that 
finally the Blue grass will make the sod 
if the fertility of the soil is maintained 
by top-dressings and an occasional lim¬ 
ing is practiced. 
Hydrangeas. —If the Hydrangeas that 
•I. 1’. \\. of Ridgewood, N. J., writes 
about are the oltl II. hortensia there will 
be no difficulty in wintering them outside. 
I once had a lot of immense bushes of 
this Hydrangea planted on the north side 
of a dwelling in a very cold locality in 
Northern Maryland, where we had tem¬ 
peratures below zero every Winter. About 
the first of November 1 cleaned up the 
plants, preserving the strong canes of 
the season’s growth, and bending them 
to the ground and pegging them fast. 
Then I cut long sods of Blue grass from 
the roadside and sodded them all over, 
so that they looked like green mounds 
all \\ inter, and were not unsightly. They 
always wintered well and bloomed amaz¬ 
ingly. but always blue, while cuttings 
from the same plants grown under green¬ 
house conditions in tubs, made pink 
flowers. \\ hy they always come blue 
out in the open ground has always been 
a puzzle. Here those plants winter well 
with a cover of green pine boughs. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Getting Acquainted With Poison Ivy. 
Home time ago you published an ar¬ 
ticle on poison ivy. I wish to add a sug¬ 
gestion as to distinguishing between the 
poison ivy and the harmless woodbine. 
Aside from the difference in leaves, ivy 
with three and woodbine with five, the 
roots by which the vine clings to trees, 
etc., are different. The woodbine has 
little discs or suckers on the tops of 
rootlets by which it is enabled to cling 
to brick walls or any surface. The root¬ 
lets are like tin* toes of a tree frog. The 
poison ivy rootlets are like the legs of 
a “thousand-legged” worm, being without 
the discs. This distinction may enable* 
one to avoid poison ivy in the Winter 
season. p. e. w. 
<)hio. 
R. 
which 
two plants. The 
rootlets is very 
poison ivy. but it 
rootlets, of tin* 
creeper that are 
N-Y.—This is a homely simile 
will enable many to distinguish the 
close fringe of aerial 
characteristic of the 
is tin* tendrils, not true 
woodbine or Virginia 
tipped with little discs 
l>y which if clings. The non-poisonous 
vine, Ampelopsis quinquefolia (it has 
several other botanical names) carries 
some aerial rootlets, but not invariably, 
nor do they form the close fringe of the 
poisonous Rhus. 
Baby Rambler Rose. 
Would you tell me about Baby Rambler 
roses? I have three bushes, one of each 
color, which were set out last Spring; 
I wish to transplant them and would 
like to know when, and if it is neces¬ 
sary to build a support for them. 
Oneida Castle, N. Y. g. m. a. 
In your locality we would not trans¬ 
plant the Baby Rambler roses now ; do it 
in early Spring, before growth starts. 
They will not require a support, as they 
are dwarf in growth; the name "Ramb¬ 
ler” was first applied to the red one as 
a popular term, because the flower clus¬ 
ters rather suggested the Crimson Ramb¬ 
ler, while its true name. Mine. Norbert 
Levavasseur, was so easily forgotten. Be 
sure your plants are in a well-drained 
place, as they are very impatient of 
water at the root in Winter. Mine. Nor¬ 
bert Levavasseur blooms wonderfully in 
an open sunny spot, as for example along 
the top of a terrace retaining wall, where 
the color seems more vivid than in a shel¬ 
tered place. 
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