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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 26, 
The Farmer and the Pheasant. 
D. .J. I)., Marion, N. Y .— Was a farmer the 
right to kill pheasants that are destroying 
his crops? I mean at all times of the year. 
Or must he get a license and shoot them 
only in the open season? Last year they 
took nearly all the peas out of my oats, and 
a good share of the heavily tarred corn that 
the crows did not molest. 
Ans. —I would say that a farmer has 
not the right to kill pheasants which he 
believes to be injuring his crops, during 
the close season for pheasants. A pro¬ 
vision of the game law permits the kill¬ 
ing of rabbits at any season of the 
year which are damaging a farmer’s 
property; but there is no such provision 
with regard for pheasants. D. J. D. 
does not require a hunting license when 
killing pheasants on his own farm dur¬ 
ing the open season. He must, how¬ 
ever, comply with the provisions of 
Section 96 -relative to the open season. 
If the Legislature re-enacts the law as 
it was last year, only three male pheas¬ 
ants may be killed in one season by any 
person, on Thursdays and Saturdays in 
the month of October. There is also a 
provision requiring a man who kills 
these pheasants to make and verify an 
affidavit, which must be filed with the 
county clerk of the count}' of which he 
is a resident. From the best informa¬ 
tion which we can obtain, pheasants 
do not pull tarred corn, nor do they 
damage the farmer materially in other 
respects. On the other hand, they de¬ 
stroy great numbers of injurious insect 
pests, and are of the greatest possible 
benefit to farmers for this reason. They 
are the only birds, so far as I know, 
which destroy Potato bugs. I believe 
that the farmers of this State should 
protect the pheasants and support ef¬ 
forts which are being made to stock 
them. JOHN B. BURNHAM, 
Chief Game Protector. 
R. N.-Y.—The above represents one 
estimate of the value of these pheasants. 
What do the farmers have to say about 
it? Can you give facts to show that the 
birds destroy crops? Has anyone ever 
seen them eat Potato beetles? 
Fertilizer Analysis. 
C. TF. J?., Atco, 27. J .—Could you give 
me the per cent of nitrogen, phosphoric 
acid and potash in the following material 
per hundred pounds? Sulphate of potash, 
75 pounds; acid phosphate, 150 pounds; 
bone meal, 150 pounds; nitrate of soda, 75 
pounds; dried blood. 50 pounds. Is this 
good for potatoes and truck? Ground is 
sandy loam. 
Ans. —Taking average samples of 
those chemicals we should have the fol¬ 
lowing : 
Nitrogen Phos. Acid Potash 
75 lbs. sulphate 
37% 
of potash.... 
150 lbs. acid 
phosphate .... 
21 
150 lbs. bone 
meal. 
75 lbs. nitrate of 
4.5 37 
soda . 
50 lbs dried 
12 
blood. 
6 
500 Total. 
22.5 58 
37% 
This makes a 
mixture carrying A]/ 2 
per cent of nitrogen, 12 of phosphoric 
acid and 7)4 of potash. It is a 
good mix- 
ture for potatoes 
with three 
forms of 
nitrogen and two of phosphoric acid. 
Anti-Shipping League. 
B. F. S., Fairfax, Fa.—You of course 
note the formation of various anti-eating 
leagues because prices do not suit the mem¬ 
bers. Why not form anti-shipping leagues 
when prices do not suit us? If one is 
fair the other is also. Let farmers sell 
only when prices give him good retur»s for 
his labor and capital. If it comes to a 
show-down farmers can soon come out 
ahead if they will stick. 
Ans. —These “leagues” will amount to 
little in the end. It is all largely news¬ 
paper talk. So far as we can learn peo¬ 
ple will continue to buy meat and other 
foods so long as they have the price. We 
are surprised that some of the farm 
papers have taken this talk so seriously. 
As for anti-shipping leagues we shall 
wait with deep interest for some one to 
come forward and explain why they are 
not as fair as “meat boycotts.” The pro¬ 
ducers have no particular quarrel with 
the actual consumers. 
Coal Ashes as Fertilizer. 
In the late seventies I was at school at 
Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Ya. The 
coal in Montgomery County is of a peculiar 
kind. A man rented five acres of land for 
five.years and promised $50 for same, so 
you may judge its farming value. It was 
a very heavy reddish yellow clay, and most¬ 
ly bare of weeds. This man went among 
the people and got them to give him their 
ash heaps, which had been piled up in 
back lots and yards for years, thei’e being 
no one who wanted the stuff. He then 
spread the ash over bis land, got a wet 
time and plowed with a heavy turner, and 
sowed to wheat. At wheat harvest the 
following year he did not cut over eight 
bushels to the acre, but broke up land and 
planted to fodder (stover) corn, cutting a 
fair crop. He then gathered up the town’s 
ash and repeated, wheat first, and then 
corn. The corn was extra, but if I re¬ 
member rightly the wheat failed. The 
third yoar he repeated the dose and the 
owner sued for the recovery of his land, 
but lost the suit, and our friend made an 
extra fine crop of wheat and then planted 
to corn. I left there that Fall. Ash in 
back yards is apt to have house waste, etc. 
thrown upon it, which may have brought up 
its plant-food value, but I judge that the 
ash acted as a loosener to the tight clay, 
and let in air, moisture and warmth. The 
ash of the Montgomery County coal has 
but few clinkers in it. j. s. b. 
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