1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
413 
GRINDING CORN FODDER. THE KEYNOTE IS ORGANIZATION. 
I have one horse and have considerable 
corn fodder which I cut for horse and mix 
with corn and oat chop. I find this makes 
a good, cheap feed. I have a good cutter, 
the best I ever used, but even then I can’t 
get it fine enough. The horse eats seven- 
eighths of it; hut leaves a portion in 
trough, the part that cannot bat pulver¬ 
ized fine enough. Do you know of any mill 
or machine that would do the work after 
it is cut, and make it finer? I find the 
fine part readily mixes with cor” and oat 
chop. If it was all fine the horse would 
eat all. s. 
We doubt if there is any hand machine 
that will grind the stalks. A few years 
ago we described a machine which cut 
dry stalks and then crushed them in 
fluted rollers. You could overcome the 
objection by soaking the cut stalks or 
steaming them with hot water. Most 
feeders expect that one-third of the 
hard stalks will be rejected. 
FERTILIZING AND FITTING POTATO 
LAND. 
F. W., Strathroy, Ont. — We arc getting 
last year’s potato field ready for potatoes 
again. It was manured last year, and now 
we have a lot of manure in the yard that 
cannot be hauled till the snow goes partly. 
We expect to put on 12 to 18 spreader 
loads per acre, and plow early about six 
inches deep one month before planting, and 
work it shallow for a while and then deep 
and well. The manure has quite a lot of 
straw mixed through. Please give us full 
information as to necessary fertilizers, 
phosphates and potash. Any information 
that will help us in getting a good crop 
will be appreciated greatly. We plant in 
rows 32 inches, and the pieces about a foot 
apart. We had 230 bushels per acre, but 
they were not large enough. It was too 
dry for a while. 
Ans.—A s a rule it is not a good practice 
to plant potatoes after potatoes on the 
same land. The crop is more likely to 
be diseased, and the yield not as good 
as if planted on a one or two-year clover 
sod, or after corn. The spores (or 
seeds) of fungus diseases, such as blight, 
scab, etc., will remain in the soil for 
a year, at least, after the potatoes are 
harvested; so if there is any disease in 
the first crop it is pretty sure to be worse 
the following year. Where other crops 
intervene these spores are killed out, 
leaving the soil clean again for potatoes. 
The following rotations are suitable for 
potato growing: First year, clover (or 
Timothy) sod manured and p’anted to 
corn; second year, potatoes (with or 
without Icommercial fertilizer) ; third 
year, grain seeded to clover and grasses; 
fourth year, clover. By cutting the grass 
a second year, or planting the second 
crop of grass, a five-year rotation can 
be followed. If you do not wish to 
grow corn in the rotation, you can plant 
potatoes on clover seed, sow grain the 
second year( seeded with clover), cut 
your clover one year, and the next year 
plant again to potatoes. By seeding 
with grasses in addition to clover, it is 
obvious that this could be extended into 
a four-year rotation by again cutting or 
pasturing the second year grass. Of 
course, these rotations may be modified 
to suit local conditions. 
If you are so situated that you must 
plant potatoes the second year on the 
same ground, I would advise you to use 
commercial fertilizers only. Put your 
manure on the corn or grass ground. It 
is always economy, in buying fertilizers, 
to purchase a high-grade brand. You 
get more plant food for your money in 
this way. A high-grade potato fer¬ 
tilizer should analyze from three to four 
per cent ammonia, five to six per cent 
available phosphoric acid, and eight to 
ten per cent potash. If your soil is in 
fairly good condition, which is likely 
from the fact that it was manured last 
year, a dressing of from 300 to 500 
pounds per acre ought to give you good 
results. It might be well to try a heavier 
application, say 1,000 pounds per acre, 
on a small part of the field and note 
results. Manure is relatively richer in 
nitrogen than in the other elements, and 
is also strongly alkaline; consequently 
if a heavy dressing of manure were 
again applied to your potato land, your 
potatoes would have more nitrogen than 
they could use, and at the same time 
this manure (by making the soil too 
alkaline for potatoes) would tend to pro¬ 
duce a scabby crop, for scab flourishes 
in an alkaline soil. c. s. m. 
More power to your good right arm in 
your righteous advocacy of a parcels post 
in this country. It would be laughable if 
it were not pitiable, that it should be neces¬ 
sary for papers like The It. N.-Y. to pound 
home week after week such truisms as those 
you have published with regard to the 
benefit of a parcels post, in order to arouse 
in this “enlightened and self-governing - ’ 
community sufficient appreciation of its own 
interests to force it into action. It must 
be apparent to everyone ia touch with the 
modern trend of affairs that what our 
farmers need, and all that they need, is 
organization. Unorganized, acting as units, 
they are a mob, just like every other un¬ 
organized body of men. Organized, each 
group in its own township or county 
affiliated with every other group, they would 
be an army, and the most powerful force 
for good in this great seething cauldron 
which we call our country, and which the 
farmers more than any other class should 
help to make “God’s country” in fact as well 
as in name. The forces with which the 
farmer has to contend are all organized. 
Let the farmers organize also, or cease 
to expect that they will prevail in an 
unequal contest. They no longer sell their 
milk or their cattle or their hogs to in¬ 
dividuals. They are dealing with organ¬ 
ized forces. In demanding a parcels post 
they have to overcome the silent and enor¬ 
mous resistance of organized capital in the 
shape of express companies. It is the 
same in every direction. It is often said 
that the farmers can never be organized. 
I do not believe it. They have not or¬ 
ganized before for the reason that they have 
never been up against the necessity! The 
time was not ripe. It is ripe now, and th 
farmers must organize, or expect to see 
their grandchildren existing as “lease-hold” 
or “copy-hold” tenants on the lauds their 
fathers owned. The farmers are prosperous 
to-day. comparatively, but let them make 
no mistake. The same corporate greed which 
is gradually concentrating the oilier indus¬ 
tries of this country in the hands of a few, 
will leave less and less of the consumer’s 
dollar to the farmer, down to the vanish¬ 
ing point, unless it is met by an equally 
powerful force in the shape of militant, co¬ 
operative, affiliated organizations of farm¬ 
ers. Co-operation is implied in organiza¬ 
tion. Let our farmers study the results 
of organization and co-operation among 
the farmers in such countries as Belgium. 
There they can see how their own identical 
problems have been met and solved. It is 
for leaders like The It. N.-Y. to throw the 
great weight of their influence into this 
movement. The country-life movement, and 
the movement for the conservation of nat¬ 
ural resources are doing great good in open¬ 
ing the eyes of all our people, but they do 
not strike the keynote for the farmer. The 
keynote is organization. Organization 
brings about co-operation, which in turn 
means better methods, better prices, the 
elimination of waste, and his fair share 
of the consumer’s dollar for the American 
farmer. j. a. h. 
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