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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 26, 
DRAINING A TRUCK GARDEN. 
B. F. V., Elkins, IF. Va. —I send you 
diagram of a field that 1 want to drain tho 
coming Spring for truck garden. It con¬ 
tains about Sy 2 acres. I have tried to ex¬ 
plain the shape and condition of the plot I 
want to drain. Will you advise me? 
Ans. —If the soil is a very stiff clay 
it might be best to give the north and 
south laterals the diagonal bearing as 
in diagram, which on one side would 
read north 37° 30' east and on the other 
south 37° 30' east. This would place the 
drains 32 feet apart instead of 40 feet, 
besides adding about 35 feet in length to 
each drain. Hence it would be an econ¬ 
omy of drain to give them the north and 
south bearing provided the ground is 
open enough to warrant a distance of 40 
feet between drains. You should be in 
a position to judge in this regard by 
the degree of thoroughness of drainage 
given to the ground between the drains 
already installed. It would be a still 
greater economy to give the drains of 
the entire field the same east and west 
bearing as the three drains already in¬ 
stalled. It is desirable to run drains up 
the steepest incline, the philosophy of 
which being to make the line of satura¬ 
tion at a corresponding depth and width 
on each side of drain, but where the ele¬ 
vation is only one foot in 150 feet as 
shown in diagram this would only 
amount to .26 in 40 feet, a trifle over 
three inches to each drain. I would ad¬ 
vise the long parallel drains with a con¬ 
tinuation of the short main at the west 
end to receive them, provided there is 
no objectionable feature other than the 
slight side elevation given in diagram. 
In certain soils, as sand or slushy loam 
it is a good plan to blind the tile with 
foreign material, and the cinders would 
fill the bill, as would clay or gravel. 
J. F. VAN SCHOONHOVEN. 
BEARDLESS BARLEY. 
T. A. E., Ashby, Mass .—I have just read 
your answer to S. N. I)., page 291, advising 
him to grow beardless barley instead of 
wheat as a Spring grain. I intended putting 
two acres into Spring wheat. The piece 
was in potatoes last year, heavily fertilized; 
they did not die down until killed by a 
frost September 20. which was too late to 
sow Winter wheat after digging them. My 
wife keeps 150 hens, and would keep more, 
as she has good success with them, if we 
could grow more of the grain. I raise about 
all the corn she needs for them, and wish 
to grow wheat or some small grain other 
than rye. I had never thought of barley. 
Do you mean the white hulless barley, 
shown in the seed catalogues; and how does 
it compare with wheat in feeding value? Is 
there a variety of Winter wheat that will 
give a paying yield planted after potatoes 
are dug, usually about September 20 to 25 
here? We got a very fine crop one year, 
but it was sown September 8. Would you 
advise digging late potatoes while the vines 
arc green? We are trying to follow a rota¬ 
tion of corn on sod, then potatoes, then 
seeded down with some grain (do not like 
oats for such dry seasons as we have lately) 
and kept in grass and clover two years. 
Our fields are so rough and rocky it is hard 
to do what we wish. I am getting rid of 
the rocks and draining some fields also. 
Anr.— By beardless barley we mean a 
sort that grows without the sharp spines. 
It is grown quite largely in parts of the 
West. Few of the seedsmen seem to 
keep it. We doubt if wheat will amount 
to much in your locality seeded as late 
as October 1. Why not seed rye, sell the 
grain and straw and buy wheat? We 
are growing to the conviction that for 
the North some local variety of corn 
and oats and Canada peas will give the 
most grain on such a farm as yours. 
Large Corn Crop Wanted. 
A., Lake wood, X. J .—I have just spread 
a carload of manure—35 tons—on about 
three acres of sod. The soil varies, some 
of it being a gravelly loam, and some of it 
a sandy loam. Now I intend to broadcast 
about 400 pounds of bone dust to the acre 
just before planting time, and harrow it 
well. I have a great deal of poultry ma¬ 
nure, which I intend to apply during the 
growth of the corn, the crop I have selected. 
Can I get more corn and fodder by planting 
in drills as sweet corn is ordinarily grown, 
or by planting in hills four feet each way? 
Which method would you advise to get a 
maximum crop? 
Ans.— We can grow a larger crop in 
drills three to 3J4 feet apart with stalks 
15 inches in the drill. This requires 
more work, as you cannot work both 
ways with a horse as you can with Hills. 
In addition to the bone dust we should 
use 75 pounds muriate of notasli per acre. 
Sweet Clover with Nurse Crop. 
I have read several articles in The R. 
X.-Y. in regard to Sweet clover with much 
interest, as 1 have a seven-acre field that 
was Fall-plowed, that I expect to sow to 
Sweet clover in the Spring. I shall plow 
it under for fertilizer, and also to inoculate 
the soil for Alfalfa. Will Sweet clover 
grow if it is sowed with a nurse crop? I 
have 20 acres that I expect to sow to 
buckwheat next season, and I would like 
very much to seed the Sweet clover at the 
same time that the buckwheat is sown. 
Odessa, N. Y. s. k. 
It. N.-Y.—We have had no personal ex¬ 
perience, but those who ought to know say 
that buckwheat makes a good “nurse crop" 
and that the Sweet clover will do well. 
Sorghum for Roughage. 
Toll me about sorghum for feed on the 
farm, roughage. How much per acre do 
you sow, and what variety is best for fod¬ 
der in Monroe County. N. Y. ? d. a. a. 
New York. 
We use about three pecks of seed broad¬ 
cast. It is well to soak the seed 24 hours 
in warm water before sowing. Early Min¬ 
nesota or Early Amber cane are both good. 
We gave up growing sorghum, since we can 
grow more fodder with our native corn. 
“He lives on the fat of the land,” said a 
man to a friend, indicating a passer-by 
in the street. “What business is he in?” 
“He’s the proprietor of an anti-fat rem¬ 
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“How do you like my biscuit, hubby? 
I got the recipe out of a paper.” “Well, 
my dear, I found a button in one and a 
feather in another. Maybe you got the 
cooking recipe mixed with the fashion 
hints.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
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