1913. 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORRER 
1273 
Rye for the Silo. 
Will it pay me to put rye in a silo to 
use for feeding during drought periods 
next Summer for a small herd, say 10 
or 35 cows? The silo will be a 10x30 
foot. one. and will he erected next Spring 
in time for use. I have about five acres 
of Winter rye that I can use for this 
purpose, and have thought I could cut 
this rye with a binder when it was in 
bloom, and handle it quite easily this 
way. I understand that if it had been 
filled this Fall with corn it would have 
been better, but I have recently taken 
possession of the farm, and cannot do 
differently. I have used silos for years, 
but have never had any experience with 
>ye for filling them, and do not care to 
lose my labor and time. j. d. m. 
Eastern Shore, Md. 
Vv e have had several articles on rye 
silage. It seems to give fair satisfaction, 
when handled right. This means cutting 
the rye early—when in bloom or before. 
Do not let it stand longer. The rye 
should be cut fine and thoroughly tramped 
into the silo. The stalks are large and 
hollov, and contain much air, so the silage 
will ferment badly unless it is tramped 
down solid. Rye is the- poorest of all 
the grains for feeding, but when cut early, 
while the stems are tender, it will make 
a fair feed. 
The Use of Raw Phosphate Rock. 
We expect to use 10 tons of rock phos¬ 
phate (first tried in our county) upon 
some good clover sod, and expect to plow 
n nine inches deep; will plow this Fall. 
Would you advise sowing before plow¬ 
ing, or sow in Spring and drag it in? 
Would it feed out all right from a fer¬ 
tilizing drill, and would it be decomposed 
enough to make a good crop next year? 
One hundred and fifty pounds of steamed 
bone would make 60 to 75 bushels of 
corn. I was fearful that nine inches 
might be too deep to plow’ it under. 
Potosi, Mo. (v. e. 
This was referred to a good authority 
on Missouri farming who says: “The 
best way for this man to apply this raw’ 
rock phosphate would be on this clover 
sod before plowing. The depth of plow¬ 
ing is really immaterial, six to nine 
inches so far as the rock is concerned. I 
would not attempt to put the phosphate 
through a fertilizer drill as this would 
be too slow. There are special phosphate 
scatterers on the market which scatter 
it much more rapidly than the ordinary 
fertilizer drill will do and these are to 
be preferred. 
“As to whether or not he would get 
appreciable returns from this next year 
will depend somewhat on the amount of 
organic matter he is turning under, the 
fineness with which the rock phosphate 
is ground and the need of his soil for 
phosphates. In my opinion, so far as 
next year is concerned, he will get bet¬ 
ter returns from the bone meal, although 
this may not be the case on this particular 
soil, especially if he uses rather a large 
quantity of raw rock phosphate. Still, 
even with a large quantity of raw rock 
phosphate, it may not bring the highest 
net return for the first year, but if he 
considers two or three years, it is possible 
that the raw rock phosphate would be 
the most economical. I think, however, 
that this might be doubtful under the 
circumstances, particularly on the land 
around Potqsi, Missouri, which is so low r 
in organic matter in most cases already. 
In general, this land is low in phosphates 
too, but the difficulty comes in getting 
the organic matter in the soil with the 
phosphate to bring about the availability 
of the phosphate.” 
Melon Vines Dying. 
Can you tell me a remedy for the loss 
of my melon (cantaloupe) vines this 
year? They were growing beautifully, 
the fruit was setting finely, and about 
the size of small apples, when all of a 
Midden the vines commenced to turn yel- 
■°w and in a few days the vines were all 
blasted. What can I do for such a cal¬ 
amity next season? K. w. G. 
Boston, Mass. 
The most common and best known in¬ 
sect enemies of the muskmelon are the 
squash bug, aphis and striped bug. All 
are more or less destructive to the plants, 
and difficult to control, but the striped 
•aig is considered the worst of the three, 
and is usually the most destructive, es¬ 
pecially when they appear in large num¬ 
bers. It appears from your description 
of the way the vines were destroyed, that 
tlie striped bug was responsible for their 
destruction, as blight very rarely, if ever, 
attacks the vines at that stage of growth, 
i'he striped bug lays her eggs on the 
sterns of the plants near the ground and, 
as soon as. hatched, the young larvae make 
their way to the roots of the plant and 
commence feeding there. Its presence is 
never known until the leaves of the plant 
begin to wilt, those nearest the hill or 
root showing the first indications of its 
presence. It may be several days before 
all the leaves of the plant go down, and 
thus, vine after vine will go down, until 
nearly or quite all in the patch will be 
destroyed. This nearly always occurs 
while the melons are less than half 
grown. Strong tobacco water applied 
around the stems of the plants at the 
first appearance of the striped bug, anc 
repeated two or three times thereafter at 
intervals of a few days, is about the only 
effective remedy that can be employed, 
that is not injurious to the plants. This 
will not only be offensive to the beetles, 
and in a great measure serve to drive 
them away, but will destroy the young 
grub before it can do very much, if any, 
damage. It is also well to keep the 
plants well coated with tobacco dust 
from the time they commence making 
their first true leaves, until all danger 
from the beetle is passed. This will also 
serve as remedy against the attack of 
the squash bug and aphis. 
For blight, use Bordeaux mixture of 
a strength of 3-6-50 formula, spraying 
the vines very thoroughly once in 10 
days or two weeks after the vines begin 
to run. This remedy will also be effective 
against mildew. k. 
A Big Spitzenburg Apple. 
The Spitzenburg apple pictured at its 
exact size on page 1271 was grown in 
an orchard near Syracuse, N. Y., and 
sent us by John T. Roberts. Mr. Rob¬ 
erts is something of an expert in the 
study of variety, and he says that this 
big apple was thought by many to be a 
King, as the Spitzenburg as grown in 
New York State at least is usually much 
smaller. Mr. Roberts is confident, how¬ 
ever, that this is a true Spitzenburg, and 
he sends it as an illustration of what 
can be done on the rich soil of Central 
New York, with the best of care for the 
trees. The quality of this apple was 
high. In the window of a high-class 
restaurant in New York City the other 
day we found two boxes of apples labeled 
“Oregon Spitzenburgs.” They were a 
little smaller than the one here shown, 
just about the same shape, but quite a 
little lighter in color, and not quite so 
high in flavor. As is well known, a num¬ 
ber of our apple varieties change their 
appearance in size and shape, to a con¬ 
siderable extent, when grown in var¬ 
ious parts of the country. If it were 
possible to grow a large crop of such 
Spitzenburgs as is shown here, the grow¬ 
er ought not to be greatly troubled with 
the 35-cent dollar. 
Shooting in the Dark. 
M hat you say about the John Camp- 
man case, and your advice not to shoot 
in the dark, brings to mind several in¬ 
stances illustrating the subject. I re¬ 
member hearing a neighbor telling of his 
father and some other young men shoot¬ 
ing at something white in the dark that 
the dogs were barking at, and upon in¬ 
vestigation they found that they had shot 
and killed a colored slave. The white 
they had seen was a white handkerchief 
tied around the colored woman’s neck. 
This occurred in slavery time, and was at 
the colored woman’s home, or near her 
master’s house in this county. Some 
years ago an acquaintance drew a gun 
on something white which scared him 
in the dark. The gun failed to fire, and 
an investigation revealed the fact that he 
had his gun drawn on his brother’s white¬ 
faced cow. 
Still another instance was where there 
had been considerable chicken stealing 
going on. Three men were seen passing 
the house of an acquaintance and acting 
in a suspicious way, to his mind. He 
Pursued with a gun. It was after dark, 
lie pursued his men for about a mile. 
They all lay down to rest, and lie was 
just about firing on them with a shotgun 
when he discovered that it was three of 
his neighbors who had been at the river 
fishing, and were returning home late 
in the evehing. These three instances 
are actual occurrences in which the 
parties endangered were innocent of do¬ 
ing any harm to the users of the gun. 
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