1910. 
THIS RURAL/ NEW-YORKER 
043 
WHAT KILLED THE WEEDS? 
I planted a strip of corn in the lot 
where my growing chicks run, for shel¬ 
ter and shade for the chicks. What 
seems to me a singular fact is that there 
have been no weeds in that corn this 
year, and it has not been hoed at all; not 
once. I cultivated it twice to loosen the 
soil and sent my boy over to hoe it, but 
he returned in a little while and said: 
“There is no use in hoeing it; there isn't 
a weed there;” and there hasn't been all 
Summer. This is the fourth year of corn 
on that lot, and it is a perfectly beautiful 
piece. Several people have told me that 
it was the nicest looking corn they had 
seen this year. It is a flint corn, but 
stands seven to eight feet high. Great 
is hen manure when mixed with earth, 
like mine, and applied to corn. This 
year, though, I put a little phosphoric 
acid and potash around each hill. 
Connecticut. geo. a. cosgrove. 
R. N. Y.—We know from watching 
our own poultry that the birds will de¬ 
stroy many weed seeds. Turkeys are 
particularly fond of them, and we think 
they would in a few years clean out the 
weeds if confined in a fair-sized place. 
Cultivating Alfalfa; Spring-Tooth Harrow 
Teeth. 
Since writing “A Larger Alfalfa Ser¬ 
mon,” page 869, I have had a photograph 
of two harrow teeth taken, and send one, 
that readers may know how the teeth 
DENTISTRY FOR A SPRING TOOTH. 
should be made over, to do successful 
work in an Alfalfa field. With the week 
ending September 10 the work of culti¬ 
vating the Alfalfa fields, and sowing 200 
pounds of bone meal .per acre was fin¬ 
ished. The fertilizer was sown with a 
hoe drill, the hoes down. One field was 
harrowed once, which with the working, 
makes five times for the season. The 
second field, besides the drill work, had 
for the whole field six harrowings, and 
parts of the field where the crab grass 
was thickest had two to four times 
more for the season. The object in this 
is to kill all this grass possible this Fall, 
for I may not be able to get it harrowed 
next season before the Alfalfa starts. 
The teeth shown in picture are from 
different makes of harrows (as I could 
not get two of same make), one new 
and one made over. The broad point 
shows the shape of most of the makes 
when they leave the factory—too broad 
and blunt to work in hard soil. The 
narrow point works all right in hard 
ground in Alfalfa fields. Since the last 
time sharpened my harrow has worked 
ov‘er 35 acres of land, but should be 
sharpened again before doing any more 
Alfalfa cultivating, john m. jamison. 
Ross Co., Ohio. 
Odd Experience with Alfalfa. 
Last August I seeded half an acre of 
poor freestone land near Chillicothe, O., 
to Alfalfa as a test in that locality. I 
got a fine stand, but it only got about six 
inches high. I told tenant to cover it 
evenly with manure in late Fall, and last 
Spring I went to look at my Alfalfa, to 
find that the man had only manured 
about one-half and that only in lumps. 
After a good “lecturing” the man did the 
job nicely, but the exposed half had been 
raised about two inches by freezes. I 
left patch till June, but it seemed to do 
no good, so had the man plow it up and 
drill to cow peas. In a few days after 
cow peas were drilled in the Alfalfa be¬ 
gan to appear, until now I have the very 
finest and thriftiest patch of Alfalfa I 
have ever seen. In digging down I 
found one to four sprouts coming from 
one Alfalfa root in the soil. Is this 
usual or not? I have never heard of it. 
I did not use lime, fertilizer or inocula¬ 
tion, only the once manuring. 
So. Solon, O. J- W. b. 
R. X.-Y.—We think this is unusual; 
we have seen nothing like it. The plow¬ 
ing and harrowing seem to have fitted 
the soil so that Alfalfa seed left in the 
ground sprouted and grew. Who has 
had a similar experience? 
Marl for Lime. 
F. K. M., Hatcher, IE. Va .—Our soil is 
sand and clay; subsoil white clay. Will 
the lime in marl have a tendency to burn 
the humus out of soil like burned lime? 
If i ot, would it be advisable to use marl 
for the purpose of getting lime into our 
soil ? Can the Thomas phosphate or slag 
be used to advantage on stable manure to 
increase its fertilizing properties like the 
Tennessee phosphate rock, say 40 pounds to 
the ton of manure? If so why not use the 
slag instead of the rock phosphate, because 
of the large percentage of lime? 
Ans. —No—the lime in the marl is 
probably much the same as that in 
ground limestone. This is the carbonate. 
It s mild in its action and does not act 
to burn or decay the humus as rapidly 
• as burned lime does. It will depend on 
the composition of the marl. How much 
lime does it contain? You should have 
an analysis made if you expect to use 
any large quantity. Then you can know 
just what you are doing and how much 
marl to use'in order to get enough lime. 
Do not use the Thomas or slag phos¬ 
phate on stable manure. The lime in 
this slag is in much the same form as 
burned lime. While the marl or ground 
limestone would be safe the burned lime 
would go through a chemical action 
which drives off the ammonia. The 
lime in the raw phosphate rock is more 
in the form of a sulphate and in this 
form no loss of ammonia would be felt. 
The slag may be used on crops wherever 
lime is needed, but neither this nor 
burned lime should be mixed with 
manure. 
Ground Oyster Shells and Potatoes. 
.1. X. ('., Olympia, Wash .—I am prepar¬ 
ing oat and vetch stubble for potatoes next 
year. I am giving a liberal top-dressing of 
stable manure, and expect a good second 
crop of vetch to turn under. The land 
needs lime, and I wish to put about 1,000 
pounds ground oyster shell per acre. This 
analyzes 96 per cent carbonate of lime. 
Will there be loss in any way if I apply 
the oyster shell soon after or about same 
time-as the manure? 
Ans. —No; the ground oyster shells 
will not seriously affect the manure, but 
we would not use lime in any form on 
land just before planting potatoes. That 
is one of the first rules in farming, for 
lime will be almost sure to increase the 
amount of scab on the potatoes. 
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