Juno 25, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Humus in a Canadian Soil. 
II. M. It., Ontario, Canada .—I have a 10- 
acre field that has been growing nursery 
stock with clean cultivation for several 
years, and no manure having been applied, 
the soil has been depleted of humus. i*'ist 
Spring I seeded to clover and have secured 
a fine catch. In June I intend plowing 
down the clover and wish to sow something 
on the ground to again lx* plowed under in 
Fall. What would you recommend as being 
the best? I wish to get something that will 
produce a great amount of bulk, so as to 
add as much humus to the soil this season 
as possible. 
Ans. —With a fine crop of clover to 
plow under in June, you will certainly 
have a good start toward stocking that 
soil with humus, and will have secured 
an abundance of nitrogen from the air. 
This clover sod can be sown to buck¬ 
wheat the last of June or first of July, 
and this in turn be plowed down in Sep¬ 
tember, sowing Winter rye as a cover 
crop. Vetch, millet, rape, and other crops 
might be sown on the clover sod. but we 
are inclined to think that buckwheat will 
be most satisfactory, since it makes such 
a quick luxuriant growth and shades the 
ground so completely. c. s. M. 
Propagating Tulips. 
E. A. A., West Medway, Mass. —1. What 
is the best time of year and way to trans¬ 
plant and manage the small tulip bulbs 
ranging from the size of a cranberry up¬ 
wards, to get them to blooming size? 2 . 
1 had a very promising lot of tulips a few 
weeks ago, but now a blight or fungus 
has spread over both leaves and flowers 
and nearly ruined them. IIow can the 
blight be prevented? 
Ans. —1. Grow these little roots in the 
same manner as flowering bulbs, taking 
them up when ripe, and replanting in the 
Autumn. After taking up. let them dry 
for several days, then store away in pa¬ 
per bags until time for replanting. Plant 
them in rows in the vegetable garden, 
or any place where they will receive 
good cultivation. If they are seedlings, 
you will have to wait from one to five 
years after their first blooming, to see 
whether these breeder or mother tulips 
will break into new markings. 
2. It is probable that the trouble is 
tulip mould, an annoying fungus disease. 
Affected plants should be removed and 
burned as soon as the disease shows it¬ 
self, and tulips should not be planted in 
the same place the next season. Arn- 
moniacal carbonate of copper, diluted to 
half strength, may be of use in such a 
case, but personally we would rather de¬ 
stroy the affected plants, and practice 
rotation of crops. 
Killing Out Wild Onions. 
W. E. T., New Paltz, N. I’.—I have a 
knoll, the south side of which is given over 
to wild onions. I have gone over it with a 
disk harrow but would like to kill them 
entirely and get something else in their 
place. The ground is composed of gravel 
and loam. Can you tell me anything to do 
with it? Ground is steep and rather dry. 
Would Sweet clover be any help, or would 
it not catch on such soil? 
Ans. —Wild onions are very hard to 
eradicate. The land has to be kept in 
a cultivated crop at least two years, 
and kept very clean and frequently 
stirred. They root from the bottom, 
and cannot be smothered, hence the 
Sweet clover would be of no benefit, al¬ 
though it would doubtless grow on such 
land. Unless it is desired to pasture 
the field, if it is made reasonably clean, 
the onions will do no particular harm, 
except it be in a grain crop. When 
the sheaves are set on the ground, many 
onions get in the hollow straw, and at 
thrashing time go with the grain. I 
have seen rye made unmerchantable by 
them, the millstones becoming so slimed 
that they would not grind, and the flour 
was “rank and smelled to heaven.” I 
suggest you thoroughly fit the land, and 
plant it with corn, and keep it extra 
clean. Doubtless the land lacks humus, 
therefore, as a cheap way of supplying 
THE HUHAL 
it, I would sow a bushel of rye to the 
acre at the last cultivation. Next 
Spring as it begins to head, turn it 
under, fit until the last of June, and then 
seed it with buckwheat. Of course, if 
you can give the land a liberal dressing 
of manure at any time in the above 
process it will be of great value. Un¬ 
questionably an application of three or 
four hundred pounds per acre of a 12-5 
fertilizer would be a benefit. 1 am doubt¬ 
ful as to the economy of applying nitro¬ 
gen on such light land, except in an 
organic form. With the buckwheat, sow 
your grass seed, and put plenty of till¬ 
age on the land between the turning 
under the rye and the sowing of the 
buckwheat. In recommending the above 
I have had in mind economy in attain¬ 
ing the result sought. 
edw’d van alstyne. 
Trout In a Michigan Brook. 
O. C. 'N., Lament, Mich. — 1 live on a 
farm that lias been owned by my ancestors 
for the last 70 years, which is now owned 
by my husband and myself. Through this 
runs a brook which rises in a spring; in this 
creek about nine years ago my husband 
planted speckled trout. The people around 
here contend that we do not own the trout, 
cannot catch them out of season, but that 
in catching season anyone has a right to 
fish for them. The creek rises on our land 
flowing through it to Grand River. We 
wish your candid opinion as to who owns 
the fish. 
The Michigan law makes it unlawful 
to catch or take speckled trout from any 
water from September 1 to May 1, fol¬ 
lowing, or to catch such fish for sale or 
shipment or to obstruct the free passage 
of fish up or down any stream. When a 
lake or stream is so situated with rela¬ 
tion to a navigable lake or river that the 
fish from a river migrate to and from it 
at different periods of the year, the fact 
that such lake or stream is wholly lo¬ 
cated on the defendant's land does not 
deprive the public of its right to take 
fish therefrom. In that case, however, 
a person so fishing would be obliged to 
go up the stream either by boat or other¬ 
wise, because the law would not allcfw 
him to trespass on land of another. The 
only water in which an individual could 
raise fish for his very own use or for 
sale would be in such a spring, pond or 
lake as had no natural- connection with 
a navigable stream or lake. In such case 
the law provides that the owner may 
apply to the State Board of Fish Com¬ 
missioners for a license whereby he may, 
under certain restrictions, propagate, 
raise and sell fish. Therefore, unless you 
obtain a license, you could not sell fish 
or catch them out of season and if the 
stream is connected with the Grand 
River any person, in season, may wade 
up and catch fish for their own use. They 
could not, however, trespass upon your 
lands. _ 
Mint Mark on Coins. 
What Is the meaning of the letters that 
are on some quarters and (limes, and what 
is the value above and beyond the cur¬ 
rency or face value of such coins if any? 
Rochester, N. Y. m. t. 
These letters are called “mint marks” 
and show where the coins were made. The 
mint' at Philadelphia has no mark. C is 
for Charlotte, N. C. ; ('. C„ Carson City, 
Nev. ; D., for Dahlonega, Ga., and for 
Denver, Colo., since 1000; O., for New 
Orleans, La., and S, for San Francisco. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
Water-tight Cement.—C an you give me 
the best plan to fix a cellar to keep the 
water from coming through? It was dug 
in hardpan ground, and has no way for 
outside drain. This house cellar was built 
of 12 -inch concrete and last season the 
earth was moved and the side of walls 
next to bank was well plastered with as¬ 
phalt. The bottom of cellar is four inches 
of concrete on six inches of gravel, and yet 
the water comes through. Will not some 
of your readers who have had experience 
tell me what to do. and about the cost for 
cellar about 30 feet square? c. O. 
New Jersey. 
I read an article in The R. N.-Y. on the 
use of swamp muck, telling of Prof. S. W. 
Johnson’s (of Connecticut) "Essays on 
Peat and Muck,” published in 1859. 'Where 
may Prof. Johnson’s book be obtained? 
New York. j. s. 
This is a very rare old book. There are 
only a few copies left. We do not know 
of any for sale. Dr. E. II. Jenkins, of the 
Connecticut Experiment Station, is con¬ 
sidering the plan of issuing a new edition. 
We hope he will do so. 
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