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the RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2, 
AN ORCHARD FOR A MEADOW. 
J. II., Stamford, Conn .—I have in mind 
this coining Spring to plow and reseed an 
old orchard, but, as the soil is inclined to 
be sour and is overrun with obnoxious 
weeds, poison ivy, etc., it appears to me 
that 1 should first try to remedy the acidity 
of the soil and exterminate the weeds be¬ 
fore attempting reseeding. Do you think 
the following plan is feasible: First, apply 
lime, plow shallow, harrow continuously 
up to June 1; then sow buckwheat, plow 
same under as soiling crop and sow rye 
and grass? I have also been advised to 
sow Crimson clover in place of buckwheat, 
but I am afraid that it will be Winter- 
killed, as the orchard is on a high ridge 
with a slight northern exposure. The 
chances are also that the clover will not 
thrive without inoculation. By liming, plow¬ 
ing, harrowing, sowing and soiling buck¬ 
wheat the land will be clean of weeds and 
in fine tilth for reseeding in Fall. But I 
presume I ought to use some commercial 
fertilizers with the buckwheat which would 
also benefit the apple trees. If so, about 
how much of each raw material per acre 
should I use, doing the mixing myself, and 
about what quantity for reseeding in Fall? 
Ans.— Do not plow the lime under. 
Plow first, then spread the lime and 
harrow it in. This is the best way to 
handle lime. Crimson clover is not a 
sure crop with you and buckwheat will 
he better especially if you wish to seed 
down in the Fall. We assume that you 
intend to keep the orchard in sod and 
cut hay. In that case we should leave 
out the rye and seed to grass alone, using 
a mixture of Timothy and Red-top with 
clover added in Spring. We should use 
a mixture of 100 pounds nitrate of soda, 
100 fine ground bone, 200 acid phosphate 
and 100 muriate of potash. You can use 
300 pounds per acre of this mixture 
when seeding to buckwheat and 400 
pounds more when seeding grass. 
A WESTERN CABBAGE VARIETY. 
W. T., Iowa .—I hear great stories of the 
“Scotch Cross” cabbage said to give tre¬ 
mendous yields in Colorado. Is there really 
any such cabbage or is it a fake? 
Ans.—T his cabbage has been grown 
for something over 10 years in the 
Greeley, Colorado, district, and, so 
far as I know, the seed has never 
been disseminated through the coun¬ 
try. The cabbage is a medium early, 
globe-shaped head of very fine, crisp 
texture. It is an accidental cross 
between the Flat Dutch and Win- 
nigstadt. This cross was made or dis¬ 
covered by Mr. Leavy, of Greeley. The 
cabbage is a great yielder and very pop¬ 
ular throughout the district. A.year ago 
it yielded 50,000 pounds per acre on a 
12-acre tract in the bottoms just below 
the town of Greeley. Some growers 
claim to have done even better than this. 
This was named by Mr. Leavy the Ne 
Plus Ultra, but has been more commonly 
known as Scotch Cross. The fact that 
the seed has been retailing in Greeley at 
$10 a pound where other cabbage seed 
was selling for from $2 to $3 a pound, 
shows that it has been a popular variety 
here. Greeley has shipped from 400 to 
800 cars of cabbage a year for several 
years, and some of the lands near 
Greeley have become worth from $250 
to $500 an acre where this crop is being 
grown. The price of seed has induced 
many growers to go into the seed grow¬ 
ing business, and this year there was 
quite a large quantity of seed grown. 
E. P. BENNETT, 
Col. Experiment Station 
Using an Icehouse. 
T. C. IF., Lewes, Del .—What is the’best 
way to utilize our icehouse, as we can buy 
our ice for much less than the cost of har¬ 
vesting the ice? It is 12x12 feet, six feet 
below ground and two feet above ground, 
all double wall; also roof; filled with 
powdered charcoal. Could we use it as a 
storeroom for apples and potatoes, both 
sweet and white? 
Ans.— Your ice house will make an 
ideal place for keeping sweet potatoes 
if you will put in a cast-iron stove and 
long pipe so that you can raise a high 
temperature when the potatoes are first 
put in, so as to rapidly dry them off 
from the sweat they always pass through 
after storing. There are a number of 
sweet potato houses in use here and in 
the South constructed according to plans 
I sent the owners. One man in South 
Carolina was so pleased with his house 
that he sent me a barrel of potatoes 
several seasons. Another man in the 
same State met me the following August 
at Clemson College, and said that his 
house had been so great success that he 
was then feeding sweet potatoes to his 
hogs to get them out of the way of 
the new crop. The house should have a 
ventilator at the top, and the potatoes 
should be dug as soon as the frost nips 
the vines. Handle them carefully after 
letting them lie along the rows in the 
sun, and after all are in start the fire 
and run the temperature up to as near 
90 as possible, with the ventilator open 
till they have dried off. Then close up 
and you will seldom need any fire in 
a house constructed as yours is, for the 
best temperature is about 45. At 50 
degrees or above there will be danger of 
sprouting. Keep a thermometer in the 
house and in severe weather if it should 
go below 45, which it will rarely do if 
kept close, you can start a very little 
fire. Of course if you do not want to 
devote it to the sweet potatoes it will 
make a fine place for Irish potatoes 
without any fire heat, or you can store 
apples in it too, as both need total dark¬ 
ness and low temperature. 
w. F. MASSEY. 
Improving Old Sod. 
F. IF. II., Cambridge, Mass .—I have some 
land 20 miles west of Boston that has been 
in sod for many years, and part of which 
I wish to improve by a succession of ma- 
nurial crops. I was interested in your 
answers to correspondents on pages 198 and 
£17. 1 plowed last Fall, and sowed Winter 
rye, but with poor results. Would you 
advise Canada peas, buckwheat and rye in 
this location, and how much of each per 
acre? 
Ans.— We do not know what is meant 
by “poor results” with rye. The stand 
may look thin now, but the chances are 
that it will come up and make a fair 
growth for turning under. You do not 
say what you intend doing with this 
soil after you have it improved. You 
will probably do as well to let the rye 
grow and plow it under in early June. 
See that the soil is packed hard with a 
roller or drag. You can then either drill 
field beans or broadcast buckwheat and 
harrow. The beans will add some nit¬ 
rogen to the 'soil and can be plowed 
under in late August to be followed by 
rye. The buckwheat will give a good lot 
of vegetable matter to plow under and 
rye can follow it. 
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32 Inches of Alfalfa 
In 60 days from seeding, at Ghent, N.Y., by the 
Farmogerm Method 
George T. Powell President of the Agricul¬ 
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“I put in a piece of alfalfa at Orchard Farm the 
past summer that has made a most remarkable 
growth. The seed was inoculated with the alfalfa 
bacteria you sent and sown on the20tli of July. In 47 
days the plants reached 27 inches in height, and in 
60 days, when cut, they measured 32 inches. This is 
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