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THE RURAL NEW-VORICER 
May 2, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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True Value of Beardless Barley. 
Is beardless barley as good for general 
crop as two-rowed barley? I can raise 
as much barley per acre as I can oats, 
and can use it to feed all kinds of stock, 
but object to barley with whiskers. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. u. A. c. 
Beardless barley yields from 15 to 45 
bushels per acre, with us here in Central 
Ohio. On the same ground, we would 
expect 30 to 50 bush Is of oats, and 
probably 20 to 50 bushels of bearded 
barley. A good many farmers are now 
growing beardless barley in preference to 
oats, because while the yield is a little 
less, the price is usually higher, and they 
figure that it pays them better. The 
real benefit though, from beardless bar¬ 
ley is found in its qualities as a nurse 
crop. We began growing it about 15 
years ago; up to that time we had been 
using oats, usually cutting them for hay. 
After one year’s experience with the bar¬ 
ley we discontinued the oats entirely and 
we have never yet found the equal of 
beardless barley for a nurse crop. Beard¬ 
ed barley, in our opinion, would go be¬ 
tween the beardless and oats in its value 
as a nurse crop. We have no other 
grain that has shown itself anywhere 
near the equal of the beardless barley in 
this respect. It does not stool out as 
vigorously as oats, neither is it as leafy, 
consequently it shades the ground less. 
Its straw is stiffer than that of either 
oats or bearded barley, and it requires 
decidedly fertile ground in order to make 
it lodge. It does not grow as tall as 
bearded barley and therefore shades the 
ground less. It matures with us about 
July 12, thus enabling the grower to har¬ 
vest it for grain if desired, and still get 
the crop off before the young clover or 
Alfalfa was suffering any. It also makes 
good hay. About half the time we cut 
ours for hay instead of grain, and all 
kinds of live stock eat the hay and relish 
it. CHAS. B. WING. 
Ohio. 
Water Cress. 
Will you give me information about 
how to raise water cress? I have a brook 
on my farm. W. A. B. 
Now York. 
The method most commonly employed 
for tin; establishment of this well-known 
aquatic plant is the sowing of seed at 
or near the source of the stream, which 
is carried by the current and deposited 
along the margins of the brook, where 
more or less of it will find lodgement in 
favorable places, the results bring scat¬ 
tering patches of the plant extending 
over a long reach of the stream. This 
makes the gathering of it sometimes quite 
tedious, if not difficult. The better plan 
is to sow the seeds in beds along the 
brook, as the crop is then brought with¬ 
in the confines of a limited territory that 
is at all times under control and easy of 
access for the gathering of the crop. 
When the stream runs through land that 
is comparatively level, the beds arc easy 
of management, and are made by exca¬ 
vating the earth in strips four or five 
feet wide and about the same distance 
in length, when the water is, we will say, 
14 inches deep. The bed should be ex¬ 
cavated to a depth of 10 inches. Water 
cress is always found growing best natur¬ 
ally in rather shallow and clear water 
that has but little current and that has 
a gravelly or sandy bottom, so that in 
the preparation of the seed bed it is 
well to provide an environment that is as 
near nature as possible. 
After this bed has been dug out to the 
required depth stakes should be driven 
down at each side of the excavation along 
the margin of the brook, and a piece of 
plank fitted across the entrance to keep 
the water from flooding the bed and pos¬ 
sibly washing away the seed. Just enough 
water should be allowed on the beds to 
keep them moist until the seed germin¬ 
ates, which it will do quite freely in a 
few days. When the tops of the beds 
are fairly grown with young plants, more 
water should be let on; this is to be 
done in regular graduation as the plants 
develop, until they reach maturity, when 
the planks may be removed from the in¬ 
let to the beds as the cress will now 
be able to take care of itself. When a 
number of beds are formed an alley-way 
three or four feet wide should be left 
between them. Sow the seed about 
April 15. 
Along streams where cress is growing 
wild, plantations may be very easily es¬ 
tablished by setting the plants eight to 
12 inches apart each way. When plants 
are available it will be an easy matter 
to form new beds, as the plants trans¬ 
plant quite easily and grow readily and 
very rapidly under proper conditions. 
K. 
Stocking a Fish Pond. 
What kind of fish is best to put in a 
pond fed by a spring brook? It has 
some small minnows, was once a trout 
brook, but is minus trout now. I have 
dammed the brook and it covers an acre 
or more, is from four to eight feet deep. 
I was thinking of stocking it with Wall¬ 
eyed pike, or would crappies or bullheads 
be better suited to a place of this kind? 
North End, Pa. a. l. e. 
This pond is scarcely in shape to use 
for fish. Before stocking any water with 
fish provision must be made for feeding, 
otherwise the fish will not propagate, 
and while a limited number might live 
under such conditions they would remain 
immature and gradually disappear. This 
pond could no doubt be made suitable for 
bullheads, Yellow perch or even Black 
bass by propagating minnows in the 
brook above the pond and planting 
such vegetation as will provide plant food 
for the fry. Y'our pond probably has a 
mud bottom, which is suitable to bull¬ 
heads and perch, and while bass can 
live in such a pond they prefer gravelly 
bottom with rocky spots for protection 
from water snakes and other enemies. 
Any of the following plants, which can 
be procured from seed houses at small 
cost, will grow and spread readily in 
such a pond and provide food and shelter 
for the young fish: Potamogeton. Lud- 
wigia, Sagittaria natans and Vallisneria 
—all of which are oxygenerators. and j 
should be planted in the shallows along j 
the edges of pond. With a proper bal- j 
ance maintained and water temperature 
running from about 50 to 05 degrees in ! 
Summer it would be suitable for perch i 
and bullheads, and probably bass. Such j 
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