384 
ANOTHER SIDE TO THE COMMISSION 
QUESTION. 
There is one side to the “commission- 
man question’’ which I have not seen 
touched upon. In case of an overloaded 
market and slow sales, sometimes the 
commission man, with the knowledge 
and consent of the grower, will sell 
very much under, or even half of the 
“market quotations” as given by the 
newspapers, or by the commission man 
himself. When the grower and commis¬ 
sion man are in close touch, this works 
all right, but suppose the grower is 1,000 
miles away, and the seller is obliged to 
resort to such measures to save his 
stock. The grower, seeing the market 
quotations, which do not change and also 
having, perhaps, the quotations of the 
commission man (made previously to 
shipment) concludes that the commission 
man is “doing him,” whereas, if he was 
on the spot, he would most likely ap¬ 
prove of the course taken by the com¬ 
mission man. To illustrate, the commis¬ 
sion man and the papers quote carrots 
at 50 cents a bushel. The commission 
man sells them for 50 cents to a customer 
now and then. Mr.-comes along and 
offers him 30 cents per bushel for 50 
bushels for horse feed. He accepts, has 
a large stock sent in by various growers, 
slow sales, wilting and sprouting and 
growing poorer all the time; will be 
spoiled before they can be disposed of in 
the ordinary course of business; 30 cents 
is better than the dump—but his quota¬ 
tions do not change; that is, to his regular 
customer 50 cents is still the “ruling 
price” and the papers quote that price 
(50 cents) just the same. Is it any won¬ 
der that the grower is dissatisfied if he 
doesn't fully understand the conditions? 
Millbury, Mass. w. h. h. 
A CROP OF ONIONS. 
Amateur (Xo Address ).—I wish to plant 
half an acre in Prizetaker onions. This 
one-half acre is limestone soil, covered with 
poor sod and weeds, mixed with much that 
has been deposited by floods. Should 1 buy 
muriate of potash and nitrate of soda? If 
so, how much ? Or should I use chicken 
and stable manure, and, lr so, how much, 
and must I plow it under or disk in after 
plowing? This is my first experience in 
1 rucking. 1 expect to hire all the work 
done, but have a good market, and expect 
to follow the onions with celery, so as to 
get two crops. My main object is to demon¬ 
strate to our farmers that intensive farm¬ 
ing and trucking will pay. We are having 
the fight of our life to get our farmers 
uniled in institute work to make them 
progressive. 
Ans. —We should use a mixture of 
nitrate of soda, muriate of potash and 
acid phosphate in the place of the ma¬ 
nure. We doubt if you realize what it 
will mean to plow a weed}’ old sod and 
put onions on it. A skilled market gar¬ 
dener would hardly attempt it, while a 
new beginner would be swamped by the 
weeds and expense. If you take our ad¬ 
vice you will try only a few rows of 
onions for your demonstration. Many a 
man has started out with the best of 
intentions to show farmers how to do it 
without counting the labor or the cost. 
If by hiring labor at great expense you 
managed to kill out the sod and grow an 
onion crop you would not help these 
farmers by your demonstration. It would 
not be within the limit of their means, 
and it is not wise to encourage people 
to take a weedy sod for trucking. Better 
go slower. Use fertilizers on your sod 
and grow corn or potatoes until you have 
the ground fit, and then you can “show 
them.” 
THE SOIL FOR STRAWBERRIES. 
J. J. E., Iron Mountain , Mich .—How 
should the ground be fertilized and pre¬ 
pared before strawberry plants are set 
out to insure a big crop, and how many 
years ought it last, hill system? 
Ans. —The greatest need we have 
found is to have an abundance of humus 
in a naturally strong soil. A few va¬ 
rieties do fairly well on light soil when 
it is filled with vegetable matter, but a 
strong loam with some little clay is the 
most profitable strawberry * ' This soil 
THE RURAh NEW*YORKEK 
March 26, 
must be well drained so there will be 
no danger of having it water-logged. 
With some other crops we can manure 
an old grass sod, plow it all under and 
plant with hope of success. In general 
that would be folly for strawberies, since 
the sod is usually full of white grubs 
which would ruin the berry crop. 
Thorough cultivation will kill out the 
grubs, and usually, strawberries should 
follow cultivation. We usually plant 
after a garden crop. Sweet com planted 
on well-manured sod gives a good start. 
At the last working of the corn Crimson 
clover and Cow-horn turnips are seeded. 
In the following Spring manure is spread 
over what is left of this crop, and the 
whole thing plowed under. After a 
crop of early potatoes we can sow 
Japanese millet, plow this crop under 
in September and sow rye or barley and 
peas. The object is to put all the vege¬ 
table matter possible into the soil before 
the strawberries are planted. For a mix¬ 
ture of chemicals 100 pounds nitrate of 
soda, 300 dried blood, S00 acid phos¬ 
phate and 400 sulphate of potash will 
give good results. We should apply this 
when setting the plants, scattering along 
the rows and cultivating thoroughly in. 
No definite time can be given for leav¬ 
ing the plants in hills. We would fruit 
them as long as they gave 4,000 or more 
quarts per acre. We have some six 
years old which would evidently con¬ 
tinue some years longer, but the chick- 
weed has worked in so badly that it 
costs too much to cultivate. 
Campbell’s Early Grape. —I notice on 
page 226 a statement regarding Campbell's 
Early grape. In tlie Spring of 1905 I 
planted 25 Campbell’s Early grapes in two 
equal rows about 30 feet apart, on heavy 
clay soil overlooking the Wisconsin River, 
at an elevation of about 100 feet. The 
soil was poor, but well plowed at time of 
planting, and lacking in humus. These 
vines made a poor growth, not equal to 
Niagara, Worden or Martha—all of which 
fruited fairly well. In the Spring of 1907 
I plowed and prepared the ground six feet 
above and below six vines in the lower row 
of the Campbell’s Early, and planted straw¬ 
berries and gave a heavy coat of pigeon 
manure extending under the vines. The re¬ 
sults in 1908 were an increase of growth 
and some fruit; in 1909, a good crop of 
grapes, many bunches fit for exhibition, a 
growth of vines from 12 to 18 feet, ripe 
to the tips; also lots of strawberries. All 
vines were planted from same lot and are 
true to name. Visitors like them in quality 
better thau the Concord. They are some¬ 
what earlier, good shippers and good keep¬ 
ers. I intend to plant a few more this 
Spring. The remaining vines did not make 
sufficient growth to carry a crop. 
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