1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
933 
SHORT STORIES. 
Liquid Chemical Fertilizer. 
How much nitiate of soda, pure, should 
be used to 50 gallons water to be applied to 
vines, bushes and shrubbery and some on 
vegetables? IIow much potash to 50 gal¬ 
lons of water to be used on peach trees, 
grapes and other fruit trees? p. H. 
Warwick, N. Y. 
Fifty gallons of fresh liquid manure would 
weigh about 400 pounds, and contain not 
far from 20 ounces of nitrogen and 12 
ounces of potash. Nitrate of soda con¬ 
tains 16 per cent of nitrogen or 2% ounces 
to the pound. We need therefore eight 
pounds nitrate of soda, while two pounds 
of either sulphate or muriate of potash will 
be enough. 
Soil from a Chicken Yard. 
This Spring I took about eight loads of 
loam out of my henyard, and put in gravel. 
My hens have been running on this loam 
about eight years. 1 used some of this 
loam on a lawn that I was making, and the 
grass seed does not seem to come up. On 
another part of my lawn I used loam from 
the garden and the grass seed Is doing 
well. What do you suppose is the matter 
with that loam? Do you think the loam 
would be good next Spring to put around 
some apple trees? My soil is gravel. 
Massachusetts. o. s. a. 
Our own experience with such soil has 
been satisfactory. It gives nearly as good 
results as stable manure. We have found 
such soil excellent in any place where ni¬ 
trogen is needed. It would be first rate for 
the trees. We think the injury to the 
lawn is due to other causes. 
Valne of Peat. 
Will it pay me to dig out the peat in a 
swamp for three-fourths of the peat? It is 
about four to six feet deep, and I have 
about 1% mile to cart it. I can dig it 
now and let it lie till next Winter. 
New York. J. E. W. 
We assume that you want this peat or 
muck for fertilizer. It will pay to haul it 
if it is black and full of vegetable matter. 
Dig it while dry. Put in long narrow piles, 
and if possible put lime or wood ashes 
with it. This will help start fermentation. 
If well fermented you can use such peat 
next Spring. 
Shavings for Bedding. 
On account of health laws we plan to 
use shavings for bedding if we have to buy 
any; leaves, etc., help at times on place. 
Is lime all right to give sweetness to floors 
of stall? 1 understand shavings do not 
give best results for manure. w. s. 
Watertown, Mass. 
The planer shavings make good bedding 
except that they are expensive and will sour 
the land unless they are soaked in the li¬ 
quids or fermented in manure. Slaked lime 
should not be used on the stable floors. It 
will set free ammonia. Use plaster or 
gypsum for this purpose. 
Cedar Rust on Apples. 
Will the fungi harmful to apple trees that 
winter in the common cedar live in the Red 
cedar or juniper? t. c. k. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
This question comes up every year. The 
cedar rust is a disease which must have 
two different “-host plants” to complete its 
life. During Spring and Summer the spoi’es 
develop on the leaves and fruit of apples, 
but the spores themselves do not form 
there. The well known “cedar apples” form 
on cedar and juniper and In the Spring 
these produce a soft yellow growth on which 
the spores are formed. Thus the disease 
requires both cedar and apple for its pro¬ 
duction. 
Destroying Chestnut Weevil. 
What do chestnut growers do to fight 
the chestnut weevil? i. l. 
A large grower in Pennsylvania keeps 
it in check quite well by cleaning up all 
rubbish, burs, leaves, etc., in the orchard 
after the chestnuts have been picked, and 
burning this refuse. The chestnuts are 
then put into a tight wooden box and 
fumigated with carbon bisulphide at the 
rate of about one ounce to a bushel of 
nuts, keeping them closed from 12 to 24 
hours. This same farmer also puts up 
bird boxes at various places in this or¬ 
chard and encourages the nesting of birds, 
as he says that certain species are great 
destroyers of this pest. 
The Powder-Post Beetle. 
Can you tell me what to do to kill the 
borers that are slowly eating up the floor 
joints and drilling holes through the floor¬ 
ing of our house? It is the first floor; 
cellar is uncemented, cool and a little damp. 
Connecticut. j. p. k. 
This is the Powder-post beetle, and the 
Inquirer may have considerable trouble in 
getting rid of It. About the only thing 
that can be done is to spray the infested 
timbers with pure kerosene or gasoline. 
These materials may be applied with a rag 
or mop, but they should be applied thor¬ 
oughly and in abundance. Even then it 
may become necessary in the end actually 
to remove and burn the Infested timbers. 
G. w. H. 
Rabbits for Poultry Food. 
How would it do to raise tame rabbits 
or Belgian hares in the country to feed 
chickens instead of dear beef scraps? They 
could be raised cheaply during Summer, as 
they live on vegetables, grass, etc. All the 
cost there would be is labor and 'cost of 
starting on small scale. G. h. s. 
That is a new one to us. In our country, 
the rabbits would sell for cash and bring 
more, than their weight of beef scraps. 
There may be places where it would pay. 
Hay Baled from Swath. 
A few years ago some one asked if it 
would be practical to bale hay direct from 
the swath—without letting it “sweat” in 
the stack or mow. The general opinion 
of our readers was that such a plan would 
fail, as the hay would not be dry enough. 
One correspondent in Kentucky told how 
he followed this plan with Timothy hay— 
first letting the grass stand until it was 
very ripe. We now learn of a new form 
of bales used in the far West to put up 
Alfalfa. This makes a round bale about 
five feet long. There is a hole through the 
center and the hay is crushed together with 
great power. We are told that Alfalfa cut 
in the morning and baled with this ma¬ 
chine 30 hours later came out of the bale 
in good condition. The machine is claimed 
to save the expense and time required to 
stack or put the hay under cover. 
Refuse Peavines for Manure. 
On page 771 you refer to canning fac¬ 
tory refuse pea vines as being put into a 
silo, etc. Here, those vines are thrown 
away by a canning factory ; put in piles or 
thrown out back. I would like to know 
if those old vines or refuse, after more or 
less rot and fermentation, are worth any 
more than any straw refuse, to apply to 
land for plowing under for manure. They 
are given away for the hauling; trip for 
me would be about two miles. I have won¬ 
dered about what they would be worth. 
Maple City, O. s. 
Yes, the rotted green vines will contain 
a little more nitrogen and a little less phos¬ 
phoric acid and •''itash than dry straw. 
They are much more available as plant 
food than the straw, and are well worth 
hauling to mix in the manure pile or spread 
for plowing under. 
Insuring a Water Supply. 
I see our friend the Hope Farm man is in 
trouble with his water system. He is not 
the only one this Summer. I can give 
him a few hints that may be of service to 
him. A neighbor of mine was just in the 
same fix this Summer. His windmill would 
not run. He has a new suburban outfit 
with tank in the tower, but when there was 
no wind there was no water. I proposed a 
gasoline engine and we fitted up a small 
vertical engine beside the windmill tower. 
I sent for a new style pump. It is a 
geared pump (has three strokes, six, eight 
and 10>. It can be changed from engine 
to windmill or haqd pumping in about two 
or three seconds. It works finely and saved 
his lawns, flower beds, vegetables and fruit 
gardens, ran a large fountain in front of 
the house and furnished abundance of water 
for all purposes. It is not an expensive 
pump, and can be fitted on the Hope Farm 
well at little expense, as it is more adapted 
for tubular and tile wells than dug or open 
wells. His idea of building a concrete tank 
is all right if the elevation is sufficient to 
give a good pressure to the water system. 
There are several of them in use, and they 
keep the water in a more even temperature 
than elevated tanks, and can be used Summer 
and Winter. He should have a septic tank 
on his sewage pipes; they work very well 
when properly made. I use a concrete cis¬ 
tern arched over with brick for mine, and 
pump it over the garden occasionally, and 
we never have any trouble with it. 
Long Island. J. elliott. 
Look To 
Your Milking Cows 
A FEW years ago we told the American farmer to 
look to his milking cows. Told him his cows 
could not produce the maximum milk-yield 
unless he gave them a ration that was succulent, palat¬ 
able, bulky and easily digested. The farmer listened 
to us—wrote to us and asked us to explain. This we 
did by advising the constant use of 
We showed thousands of farmers how to get more milk out 
of every cow on their farms. We increased their profits and 
put their cattle in finer condition. We strengthened their cows 
and gave them the constitution to milk for a longer period of 
years. We can do the same for you. If you’ve never fed a 
ration of Dried Beet Pulp, you’re losing at least io per cent on 
your present dairy investment. 
Read What the Highest Agricultural 
Authority In the Country Says 
Department of Agriculture 
Office of the Secretary 
Washington, D. C. 
The Larrowe Milling Co., 
Gentlemen;—I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of November 7th, 
relative to the value of Dried Beet Pulp. I would rather have a pound of 
Dried Beet Pulp to feed to a dairy cow than a pound of corn; and I would 
rather have it in many other cases where the object is the making of fat 
solely. Very truly yours, 
JAMES WILSON, Secretary. 
Your cows will eat Dried Beet Pulp as eagerly as they 
gobble up the tender June grasses, for it’s just as pleasing to 
their taste. All the tender, nutritious tissues of the beet are 
retained. It keeps the cattle’s bowels in a normal working 
condition, completely toning the whole system. Ease off on 
the heavy heating feed and dry forage—add succulent Dried 
Beet Pulp to your ration and see the difference. Dried Beet 
Pulp loosens up the ration so that it is easily digested. It all 
comes back to you in the milk pail. It is not a medicine—not 
a patent food or cure-all, but a straight natural vegetable so 
necessary to keep cows in first-class condition. 
Add it to your regular ration. It’s not a question of what 
you are feeding now. Add Dried Beet Pulp to whatever you 
are feeding now and the milk supply from every cow on your 
farm will increase. 
Dried Beet Pulp is for sale by all the leading feed and grain 
dealers. Find the dealer in your town and ask him about it. 
To Our Dealers 
Last year you did such a tremendous business we were 
forced to double our output for 1911. Even now the orders 
are coming in so rapidly we will be sold out much earlier than 
we anticipated. Have you sent your order in? Are you pre¬ 
pared for the big demand the farmers of your locality are going 
to make on you? 
If you have not ordered don’t let another day slip by. Write 
to us without delay and you will be sure of getting all the 
Dried Beet Pulp you order. Don’t take the chance of getting 
left. Get in line for a big year. Our advertising for 1911 has 
been greatly enlarged. This in itself will bring you a steady 
stream of daily requests for Dried Beet Pulp. 
Shipments commence in October. All orders filled in rota¬ 
tion as received. 
Order early. Don’t put off. Write us today and send your 
first order. Let us know just how much you can use for a 
start and when you want it shipped. 
We’ll look for all your orders just as soon as possible. The 
sooner the better. 
The Larrowe Milling Company 
601 Ford Building Detroit, Michigan 
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