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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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BEST ROOF FOR BARN. 
Tell .T. L. F., Castile, N. Y., page 90, by 
all means to use cedar shingles on barn, 
also 3 y 2 penny galvanized nails. Cypress 
will split, and galvanized roofing rusts out. 
E. m. it. 
J. L. F., page 90, asks best roofing for 
barn. It was a serious question with me 
last June. So many attractive advertise¬ 
ments, but the contractor advised only one, 
galvanized iron or zinc, I think .$6.50 per 
square. I was about to use the Maine ILed 
cedar at $4, when I learned and was con¬ 
vinced that all these so-called Maine and 
Canada shingles went from the water or 
pile through steam process, out in blocks 
about two inches short, passed under the 
knives and were split down like the carded 
matches, no loss from saw teeth, and the 
life of the timber all gone. I turned to 
the slate manufacturer and was surprised 
to find it was but little more than the 
shingle. I covered three large barns. 
New York. A. h. w. 
SHORT STORIES. 
Alfalfa in Maine. 
I would like to know if Alfalfa will grow 
in the State of Maine. d. j. d. 
Freeport, Me. 
• R. N.-Y.—There are, we think a number 
of fair Alfalfa fields in Maine though as a 
whole the State does not seem well “suited. 
Write the experiment station at Orono. 
Propagating Privet. 
Is early February too late successfully to 
cut and propagate privet hedge cuttings? 
Is it necessary or only a help to cut the 
lower end of all such cuttings on a slant? 
Lambertville, N. J. h. b. h. 
It will he perfectly safe to make privet 
cuttings during February, • and it is not 
necessary to cut lower end or slant. Cut 
them 10 or 12 inches in length, tie in bun¬ 
dles, place in dry cellar, cover them with 
sand and plant in Spring as soon as ground 
can be worked. ' t. m. w. 
Fertilizers for Peach Orchard. 
Would not nitrate of soda be a good thing 
to use on a young peach orchard for the 
first and second year, to make lots of wood, 
and something like potash the third and 
succeeding years to make fruit buds? R. 
It would be a mistake to use nitrate alone 
on young peach trees. You would get a rapid 
growth of soft, tender wood which would 
most likely be injured in Winter. The tree 
would not he as well shaped. We would use 
both potash and phosphoric acid freely with 
the nitrogen from the beginning and thus 
grow firm and solid wood. 
White Grubs and Strawberries. 
I have an acre of ground that I intend lo 
put into strawberries this year. When I was 
digging the potatoes I found a lot of white 
grubs. Would the w'hite grubs hurt my 
strawberries this season? j. m. c. 
East Berlin, Conn. 
If you found many white grubs we would 
not set strawberry plants this Spring. A 
safer plan will bo to plant some early crop 
that can be hand hoed and cultivated. This 
thorough working will destroy many of the 
grubs and their eggs. Then in August or 
September, after fitting the soil well, you 
can set out large layer plants or potted 
plants, and thus get a small crop next year. 
Gophers Destroying Corn. 
Do you know of anything that I can put 
on seed corn to stop gophers from destroy¬ 
ing it after planting? l. f. l. 
Wisconsin. 
I really do not know of any sure way of 
keeping the gophers from digging up the 
corn and eating it, but I believe coating it 
with tar, the way the Eastern people do to 
keep crows off it, would work all right. 
It seems to me that anything that would 
discourage so determined a pest as the 
crow, would also discourage a gopher. The 
tar is applied by pouring a small amount of 
thin warm tar into a bucket of seed corn, 
and stirring until it is dry and every grain 
is coated. h. f. 
Iowa. 
Planting Peach Trees. 
I would like to know from some experi¬ 
enced peach growers how many peach trees 
to plant to an acre and the distance apart 
they should be planted, as I am a new be¬ 
ginner and wisli to set three acres, and 
want to start right. My land is a clay 
loam, and rolling enough to drain itself. I 
have three acres in strawberries and rasp¬ 
berries and they do well on this soil. 
Lancaster, Ohio. n. m. a. 
We have peach trees planted all the way 
from 12 to 20 feet apart. The number of 
trees per acre with the following distances 
each way would be 12 x 12, 302 ; 15 feet, 
193; 18 feet, 134; 20 feet, 108. For com¬ 
mercial planting on such soil as you speak 
of we should set the trees 18 or 20 feet 
apart. 
Apple Pomace for Fertilizer. 
In nearly every issue of The R. N.-Y. I 
find something that I would like to write 
about. Recently a question was asked about 
the value of cider pomace as a fertilizer. 
Perhaps my experience on a small scale will 
help to answer the question. Near my house 
there are several trees of early apples whid\ 
ripen and fall before they can be used for 
cider. I apply the wood ashes from the 
kitchen stove, and cut a good crop of grass 
every year. The ground lias not been plowed 
or fertilized (except with apples and ashes) 
for 20 years. When I came hero in 1890 my 
nearest neighbor said he could not make 
clover catch on his farm. As soon as I 
could 1 began using ashes, and have had 
no trouble in making clover grow. e. m. t. 
New Hartford, Conn. 
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