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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 12, 
Renovating Poor Hayfield. 
D. B. L., Hanover, Pa.—I have four acres 
of sod for hay this season. It is last year's 
hayfield, but stand is poor. Mow shall I 
treat same so as to get profitable hay yield? 
Shall I use Cutaway, and follow with drill, 
sowing cow peas or Winter vetch? 
Ans. —The grass may be so poor that 
you cannot get a “profitable yield.” The 
surest thing is to feed the grass, using 
soluble fertilizers. Use on the four 
acres 4C0 pounds nitrate of soda, 400 
muriate of potash and 800 pounds acid 
phosphate. If there is any grass there 
this mixture will bring it out. The 
after culture will depend on what you 
want to do with the field and whether 
yon need more forage. You can break 
up the sod after haying and drill Whip¬ 
poorwill cow peas and get a fair crop 
with favorable weather. On our own 
farm, if we wanted this field as a 
permanent meadow, we should plow or 
disk after haying and plant fodder corn 
in drills; give thorough culture to 
break up the sod and after cutting the 
corn fodder, work up the' soil, lime 
heavily and re-seed to grass in late 
September. 
Fish as a Fertilizer. 
.4. II. 8., Georgia .—In composting fresh 
fish, menhaden, etc., what would be the best 
method? What proportion of the three fer¬ 
tilizing constituents do fish contain? Using 
the above compost as a basis, would not it 
be easy to add proper deficient proportions 
and get a good fertilizer for various uses, 
adding of course amounts proportionate to 
the crop needs? 
Ans. —Like all fresh animal matter, 
fish contains nitrogen, and phosphoric 
acid, but practically no potash. In a 
ton of such fish there will be about 100 
pounds nitrogen and 115 phosphoric 
acid. About the best way to handle the 
fish is to compost them with muck or 
black soil from a swamp, pond or river 
bottom. Make a layer of the muck and 
then a layer of the fish, and scatter 
on lime or wood ashes. Then more 
muck, more fish and so on, always keep¬ 
ing the pile covered with six inches of 
muck. In four months or so the fish 
will be decayed down to the bones and 
the muck will absorb most of the am¬ 
monia resulting from this decay. In 
order to make a complete fertilizer you 
should add muriate of potash or kainit 
to the compost. 
Moving a Maple Tree. 
A. H., Le Boy, N. Y .—I would like to 
know if I could move a maple tree from 
one place to another at any time during 
the Winter months. The tree is about 20 
feet high and eight inches in diameter. IIow 
close to the trunk of the tree should I cut 
the roots off. and should the ground be 
frozen hard around the roots so the dirt 
will hang on? 
Ans. —The maple tree if in a healthy 
condition and the size mentioned, can 
be successfully moved and replanted 
during the Winter. Hundreds of such 
and larger-sized than the one mentioned 
are moved from one place to another, 
by a nurseryman in this section. The 
usual method is to cover the ground 
where the tree is to be planted with 
•coarse manure to keep the ground from 
freezing, and to have loose, unfrozen 
soil to fill in and bank up around the 
tree; also to save labor from digging 
through the frost. Then dig around the 
tree to be moved leaving all the roots 
possible—taking into consideration the 
weight of the soil remaining to be moved 
with the roots. A trench about a foot 
wide or more is dug out, and deep 
'enough to cut off all the side roots. 
Let the tree stand until the sides are 
frozen enough to hold the earth, which 
should be two or three inches of frozen 
earth. The tree can then be upset by 
fastening a rope in the top, and with the 
aid of a pulley, placing planks across the 
hole so that the weight of the top will 
throw the root and earth up out of the 
hole. If the tree is to be moved only a 
short distance it can be rolled along on 
planks to its new position, and raised 
upright by rope and pulleys. Those 
who make a business of moving large 
trees have wagons made for the purpose. 
A shaft is fastened to the upright tree 
loaded and ready to move to the place 
where it is to be planted and placed 
and when the tree is upset it is already 
upright by horse power. It is seldom 
that a tree dies that these men move. 
Magnolias and the tulip poplar are more 
sensitive about having the exposed ends 
of their roots frozen. Maples and most 
other deciduous trees, and many of the 
conifers or evergreens are successfully 
moved every year. Care is taken to 
have the earth pounded down hard 
around the tree when planting, and 
mounded up around it until Spring. It 
should also be well fastened by rope to 
keep the winds from blowing it over 
and swaying it back and forth. 
E. S. BLACK. 
Figuring a Fertilizer. 
n. 8. C., Petersburg, A'. J .—I wish to mix 
a fertilizer analyzing ammonia eight to 
nine per cent., available phosphoric acid 
six to seven per cent., and potash eight to 
nine per cent. Will you tell me what pro¬ 
portion by pounds of the following to use 
to make a ton? Nitrate of soda (19 per 
cent ammonia) : muriate of potash (50 per 
cent actual potash) ; acid phosphate (14 
per cent available phosphoric acid, one per 
cent phosphoric acid.) 
Ans. —At your lowest figures you need 
160 pounds of ammonia, 120 phosphoric 
acid and 160 potash. If your nitrate of 
soda contains 19 per cent ammonia you 
must use 845 pounds of nitrate in order 
to obtain the desired amount. Figuring 
the same way with .the others you will 
need 320 pounds muriate of potash and 
850 pounds of acid phosphate. This 
makes 2015 pounds. 
Dibble’s Seed Oats 
Outyield all other varieties in field culture on our 
own farms in every case. 
During the past isix years we have tested all the 
leading so-called new oats on our Seed Farms, and 
in every instance oats of our own introduction have 
outyielded the others from 17-40 bushels per acre. 
DIBBLE’S OATS, for six years, growing from 120 to 
200 acres annually, have given us over twice the 
average yield per acre of the United States for the 
entire period. 
Several customers have written us that Dibble’s 
Oats produced over 100 bushels per acre, while scores 
have said that our Oats “doubled their crop.” 
Dibble’s Oats are early, stiff straw, long branch¬ 
ing heads, grain pure white, thin hulled, weighing 
34-38 pounds per measured bushel. Our oat fields 
are hand weeded while growing, and the grain is 
recleaned by the best mills known to the trade. 
Price. bu, bag, $2,25: 10 bu,, $8; 100 bn,, $75, 
Bags free. Liberal samples and our 1910 catalog, 
the leading Farm Seed Book of the year, FREE. 
Address 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower, 
Iloneoye Falls, N. Y. Box B. 
A 5c. Stamp 
will promptly bring to you a copy 
of our Catalogue or one of our 
SALESMEN. 
THE M. H. HARMAN COMPANY 
(A household name.) 
Nurserymen, Geneva, N. Y. 
VICK’S 
RELIABLE ASTER SEED. 
CpCL I would like every flower lover to give 
rntc my Aster Seed a trial. There is no 
packet .Wick’s Lavender Branching 
free to all who apply. 
Also beautiful ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST. 
E. H. VICK, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
p.. J. Medium, Mammoth, Alsike and Alfalfa 
\PP(1S Clovers, Timothy, Blue Grass, Orchard 
l/UUUU Grass, etc. Send for samples and prices. 
■■■ ■ ■ ZACK DAVIS COMPANY. DELAWARE; OHIO. 
WANTED AT ONCE. 
A few more responsible farmers to sell and use 
our Pure Animal Bone Fertilizers which are leading 
all others as crop producers and enrichers of the 
soil. Manufactured from by-products of our own 
seven abattoirs and stockyards, they are every 
pound a fertilizer, containing double the value of 
rock, rock-base, hair, leather and cheap materials 
fertilizer. No cheap tiller or make-weight used in 
our brands. We guarantee satisfactory prices and 
terms. Territory should be taken at once. 
D. B. MARTIN CO., 713 Penn Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. 
Alfalfa 
free. 
Highest Quality. Samples free. Write 
for prices. Vick’s Garden and Floral 
1 Guide describing Quality Farm Seeds 
James Vick’s Sons, 430 Main St., Rochester, N.Y 
No More Backache 
A Husted Transplanter means no 
more backache. Order now, and 
you're prepared to stand erect. 
Sets plants—plants seeds—better 
than old way. Inexpensive, 
labor saving. Needs no dropper. A 
Agents wanted. 
THE GARRISON BROS. CO.. Bridgeton, N. J. 
CflR C A I P —Scarlet Clover Seed, $7.50 to$8.50 
rUTi OHLLi bushel; Red Clover Seed, $8.50 to 
$10.00 bushel; Cow Peas Seed, $2.50 to $2.75 bushel: 
Old Fashioned Buckwheat Flonr, $3.00 per 100 
pounds; Onion Sets, $2.50 bushel; Alaska Peas, 
$4.00 bushel: Seed Potatoes, $3.50 bag. 
JOSEPH K. HOLLAND, Alilford, Del. 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
Strawberry, Raspberry, ltlaekberry, Grnpe and Currant Plants 
Extra Heavy Rooted High Grade Stock. 
18th Annual Wholesale and Retail Catalogue Free. 
A. R. WESTON & CO., R. 8, Bridgman, Mich. 
PFAPH TDCCQ- Fourand five cents—Elberta, 
ILnUll I ntCO etc. Orchard size. Send for 
our free catalogue. WOODBINE NURSERIES 
W. A. Allen & Sons, Geneva, Ohio. 
P LANT PLANTS— Early tomato, egg plant, peppers, 
cabbage, sweet potato, celery, etc.; also forty 
varieties strawberries. Prices reasonable. Cata¬ 
logue free. S. C. ATHERTON, Greenwood, Del. 
arkjye arJ3 o ok 
r ° r 1310 
19 ready to mail. It will be sent to any person interested in 
fruit-growing on receipt of 7 cents to cover postage. The 
Stark Year Book for 1910 represents an entirely new idea in 
nurserymen’s literature—it is a work of art as well as a 
catalogue of Stark Nursery products. Within its covers are 32 full-page illustrations of 
fruits and flowers, representing 175 varieties, done in four colors, and exactly reproducing 
nature. 84 pages are devoted to descriptions, prices, and records. 
Stark Delicious, the apple that has revolutionized orchard planting and established a 
new standard of apple values (selling at $10.00 per bushel box this year); Stark King 
David, another apple of wondrous quality and merit; Stark King Philip, a hardy black 
grape of California grape quality, and dozens of the very best things in the horticultural 
world are fully described, illustrated, and priced. 
To any one planting one tree or many, of fruits or ornamental, this book is of 
inestimable value—a horticultural text-book—a guide to proper selection. 
Stark trees have stood the supreme test of actual planting for 85 years—they are the 
yard-stick by which all other nursery products are measured—they are the first choice of 
this country’s most successful orchardists. The success of the orchard is dependent on 
the kind and quality of tree planted. Stark varieties are the best of the best. Our record 
of 85 years of successful selling is a positive guarantee of tree quality. 
Before you decide to buy, send 7 cents Jor the Stark 
Year Book—do it today before the edition is exhausted. 
Stark Bro’s Nurseries and Orchards Co. 
Lock Box 35, Louisiana, Missouri 
TWO MILLION 
Strawberry Plants 
Free from disease and vigorous. Grown in a 
light, sandy soil. You get all the small fibrous 
roots that make plants transplant well. 
Also, Raspberry, Blackberry, 
Gooseberry and Currant Plants 
and Grape Vines. 
Twenty-eight page Catalogue tells all about our 
stock. Describes varieties without fear or favor. 
Tells exactly how they behave here on our farm. 
It’s free. Send to-day and save money ou your 
Spring order. 
J. W. JONES & SON 
Allen, Maryland 
CTRAWBERRY PLANTS — ID-liable money-making varieties at 
u very reasonable prices. New 
BARGAIN PRICES 
a 
Bargain list. 
Apples for $1.00. 6 Pears for $1 00. 
C Plums for $1.00. 8 Cherries for $1.00. 
12 Peaches for $1 00. Trees guaranteed. 
Write at once for Illustrated Catalogue and 
ALLEN L. WOOD, Rochester, N. V. 
Address 
1910 Illustrated catalog Free. 
S. A. VIKDIN, Hartly, Delaware. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
Millionsof them—Aroma, Klondyke, Thompsons, 
Gandy, &c. Send $2.50 for 1.000 plants. 
JOHN LIGHTFOOT, Dept. 36, Chattanooga. Tenn. 
A DISCOVERY OF IMMENSE VALUE. 
Growing over one quart of .strawberries from 
each plant year after year, or at the rate of 30,000 
quarts to the acre. Five year old plants the past 
season yielded over quart each plant. Send 25 cents 
for Kevitt System or Chart. 
T. C. KEVITT, - Originator, 
Athenia, N. .J. 
PLANTS 
per 1,000 and up. Catalogue free. 
ALLEN BROS., Paw Paw, Mich. 
STRAWBERRY 
At $1.00 
S TitAWitEUUY plants _All the new and old money¬ 
making varieties at moderate prices. Send for 
new 1910 catalog free. DAVID RODWAY, Hartley, Del. 
S TRAWBERRIES-GRAPES-Most choice selection ever 
offered. Booklet free. MCKINNEY NUR¬ 
SERY CO-, Geneva, N. Y. 
Cl.emU a..u Plante —9^ the best varieties. 
OllaNUerrJ rialllo. Descriptive catalogue 
free. BASIL PERRY D-18, Cool Spring, Delaware. 
S 
TKAWBEIIRY PLANTS That Are Business 
PlantB. Descriptive catalogue free. 
I). M. TEETER, Bellville, Ohio. 
XJiXl llOU. 2LDLL.Y ±J. ft V/DD, ItUUICDIU, 
5?W.’. H “3 GRAPEVINES 50et! 
Sent postpaid. Best varieties—red, white and black. 
We also Offer Flvo Throo-Year-Old Vines for SI.OO. 
Will bear year after planting. Onr valuable book how 
to plant, cultivate and prune free with every order. 
Grapes are easily grown and should be in every garden. 
T. S. Hubbard Co.. Grapevine Specialists, 350Centra) Ave., Fredonia. N. T. 
Established Tears. 
.Melons, Cukes, Lima Beans DADCD DOTO 
and Tomatoes one to four iHlLll lUIOi 
weeks earlier if started in- 
P. B, CROSBY & SON, Catousville, Maryland. 
VICK'S ONION SEED 
Vick’s Rejected Danvers Yellow Globe. Early and 
sure cropping in any section or climate. 20c per oz.. 
91.25 per lb. Garden and Floral Guide, 61st year. Free 
JAS. VICK'S SONS, 430 Main Street, Rochester, N, Y, 
Qoorf Patalno-IIO —Send us your name and ad- 
OCCU uululUgUCi dress, and we will mail free 
our 1910 catalogue of seed potatoes, seed corn, 
seed oats, alfalfa seed, in fact, everything in seeds 
MACK & MANSFIELD, Greenville. Ohio. 
A RGENTEUIL ASPARAGUS ROOTS for 
sale. Strong crowns grown from imported seed, 
$5 per 1,000. selected, packed, f.o.b. E. LAURENS 
BEEKMAN, Middletown, Monmouth County. N. J 
M EDIUM, Mammoth, Alsike and Timothy SeeiL 
for sale. For samples and prices, write— 
WALTER G. TRUMPLER, Tiffin, Ohio. 
S EEDS, PLANTS. Pkt. Cucumber, Lettuce 
and Tomato for trial, 10c. Send for my Free 
List. C. H. BREWER, Rahway, N. J. 
Plnvor —Timothy, Oats ami Seed Potatoes 
UlUIOI OGGUi 28 varieties; sold direct; catalogue 
free. CLICK’S SEED FARMS, Lancaster, Pa. 
For Best EXTENSION LADDER at 
JOHN J. POTTER,If Mill St., Binghamton, X. Y. 
THAT YIELD. Our SENSATION 
OATS breaks all records. Nothing like 
it. Also SEED CORN, Samples and car. 
I1UKT & SONS, Melrose, O. 
OATS 
ogue free. THKO. 
Extra Fine TOMATO SEEDS For Sale 
A very early tomato of fine quality; 25c. per pack¬ 
age, 200 seeds in a package. All orders must lie in 
by Feb. 20. John Schweickendxck, Marion, Ohio. 
FRUIT TREES. 
General Assortment. 
Readers are familiar with the 
values we have offered through this paper for nearly 25 years. Beautiful 2-year Cherry, 3 to 4 ft., 
®7 per lOO. Our free catalogue will interest you. H.S. WILEY & SON,Drawer 5,Cayuga,N. Y. 
—Small Fruit Plants, Ornamental Trees and 
Shrubs. Hundreds of thousands of Strawberry 
and Raspberry Plants. Send for catalogue. 
FRUIT TREES 
T. B. WEST, Maple Bend Nursery, PERRY,O., Lock Box 287. 
“STRAWBERRY PLANTS THAT GROW.” 
ties with prices; also instruction for planting and culture of Strawberries and other Small Fruits, 
Asparagus and Rhubarb. 
C. E. WHITTEN’S NURSERIES, Box 11, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
S TRAW 
BERRY 
PLANTS 
MILLIONS 
OF THEM 
Excelsior, Bubach 
Klondyke, 
Lady Thompson, 
Aroma, Gandy, 
and all the best 
Commercial 
Varieties. 
lusty, healthy, mountain-grown stock at bargain prices 
CHATTANOOGA NURSERIES 
62 Mission Ridge CHATTANOOGA, TEN! 
will soon be here. Spraying Must Be Done this year 
more than ever to insure Good Fruit. We wisii to rec¬ 
ommend to you the 
SEED TIME 
H. E. FISKE SEED CO. 
Their 1910 catalogue states in a very concise manner the best varieties of 
■seed to plant for a profit; the most useful Spraying Implements; the most 
imjmrtant Perennials. Ornamental Shrubs and Trees. Maudy Lee Incubators 
and Brooders. A catalogue will be mailed for the asking. 
H. E. FISKE SEED CO., Faneuil Hall Square,Boston, Mass. 
