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TH VC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
How Much Spray Materia! Made. 
Can you toll me how many pounds of 
lime and of sulphur it will take to spray 
100 trees, 50 apples and 50 peach trees? 
Is salt any benefit to the trees? If so 
how much will it take to spray the 100 
trees? w. w. r. 
Parsonsburg, Md. 
It will take about 50 gallons of lime- 
sulphur solution diluted one to nine to 
spray, for San .Tose scale, 50 apple trees 
10 or 12 years of age. Half that amount 
ought to cover 50 peach trees six or 
seven years old. Variation from this 
amount will depend upon the size of 
trees, the amount of pump pressure, kind 
of nozzle used, and very much upon how 
the man behind the gun handles the spray 
rod. To make 50 gallons of the above 
solution it will require: Fresh stone lime 
20 pounds; flowers or flour of sulphur 
15 pounds; water 50 gallons. Salt is not 
used nowadays for this mixture. For a 
small number of trees it is more con¬ 
venient to buy the concentrated solution, 
unless one is equipped for making the 
home boiled. Five gallons of the concen¬ 
trated solution will make 50 gallons of 
mixture ready to use and will cost about 
$2.25. w. k. it. 
Composting Muck With Lime. 
There is an article on page 527 under 
the head of “Commercial Humus.” In 
part you say: “We do not hesitate to 
say that farmers who own these pond 
holes and swamps can haul this muck 
up to a dry place, mix it thoroughly 
with slaked lime, work it thoroughly 
once in the Winter, and at the end of 
six months have as high a quality of 
humus as is offered for sale by most of 
the leading companies.” Would you let 
me know what proportion of lime to 
use? If I stacked it in the field, first 
a six-inch layer of muck, then one-half 
inch slaked lime, then six inches muck 
and more lime In alternate layers, to the 
depth of four or five feet, would that be 
lime.enough? That would bo one to 12. 
Should it be roofed over or covered with 
swamp bay? I presume that common 
lump lime, air-slaked, is what you mean. 
Would this do to raise field beans on 
gravel soil? L. F. p. 
Maine. 
The general rule is to use about 200 
pounds of air-slaked lime to each ton of 
the muck. That means about one part 
in 10. Some farmers use less than this, 
but for quick and active results this 
amount of lime will be found useful. The 
lime referred to is air-slaked lime, which 
should be lump lime left exposed until it 
crumbles to a powder. It would be ad¬ 
visable to cover the pile of muck over, 
although this is not necessary. You must 
remember that the muck is valuable 
chiefly for the amount of nitrogen which 
it contains. As a rule it is very defi¬ 
cient in both phosphoric acid and pot¬ 
ash. The bean crop is peculiarly in need 
of both phosphate and potash, and for a 
complete fertilizer, this -should be added 
to the muck. A good plan is to use a 
quantity of the fermented muck and har¬ 
row it in after plowing. Then drill in 
a combination of three parts acid phos¬ 
phate to one part muriate of potash, us¬ 
ing 400 or 500 pounds of this mixture 
per acre. In this way the muck can be 
used to supply the nitrogen, while the 
chemicals complete the balanced fertil¬ 
izer. If you have quantities of hen ma¬ 
nure or horse manure, which can be 
thrown into the pile from time to time 
as it is built up. you will quicken the 
ferments and hasten the preparation of 
the muck. 
THE OHIO CLOVER FAMILY. 
Many farmers in growing clover con¬ 
iine themselves to one or two varieties, 
while there is a whole family of these 
legumes that will grow on their farms, 
each with a special place where it will 
fit in better than any other. The two 
Ked clovers. Medium and Mammoth, are 
biennials under ordinary conditions. In 
Central Ohio the Medium lied is ready 
to harvest about tlie 20th of June and the 
Mammoth Red about the middle of July. 
The latter should always have a strong 
seeding of Timothy to make it fine and 
hold it uj), otherwise it grows too coarse j 
and is likely to fall down. When thus 
seeded it makes a very large crop of good 1 
mixed hay. Alsike, a perennial clover, j 
is valuable as a hay crop and should be 
sown with Medium Red, one part Alsike 
to two parts red. This combination will j 
make more hay per acre than either will j 
alone. Alsike is also the most valuable i 
of all clovers for pasture on account of j 
its perennial habit. The little White I 
clover, also a perennial, is valuable in 
pastures, as it is permanent and adds to 
the amount of feed that the permanent 
pasture will produce. It is also very 
useful as a lawn grass, and should be 
sown in every lawn whore a water supply 
is not at hand for use in dry weather. 
If not allowed to form blossoms and 
ripen seed it will remain green and fine 
in very dry weather. The only annual 
clover is the Crimson, the handsomest 
of all the family. Its value for hay or 
pasture is not equal to the other clovers. 
But where it grows well it is one of the 
very best cover crops. Sown in a late 
cultivation of the corn it grows later in 
the Fall and earlier in the Spring than 
any of the clovers. On good rich corn 
land a crop can be grown after corn and 
be in full bloom to plow for corn again 
the next Spring, thus helping to keep up 
the humus supply where corn is grown 
two years in succession. However, it is 
not a sure crop in Ohio, except on good 
rich dry soil. 
Sweet clover, formerly known as a 
weed and still so regarded in some places, 
is coming into prominence. Where it has J 
been tried there are two kinds, the white J 
and yellow blossoms, the white being the 
better variety. The great value of the 
Sweet clover is in its soil improving 
powers. It will grow on very thin 
worn land if lime is present in suf¬ 
ficient quantities. On eroded hill land 
it is very valuable as making the soil 
conditions possible for Blue grass to fol¬ 
low it. It pays to have some of it in 
permanent pasture or fields to be past¬ 
ured for a few years. Experiments prove 
that it has a value for hay when properly 
cared for. However its greatest use so 
far is as a soil restorer. It is also a 
biennial plant. 
Alfalfa, a perennial plant, is the great¬ 
est of all the clovers where it can be 
grown successfully. It is one of the most 
widely distributed of all forage plants, 
ami we are coming to believe that it can 
be grown on most farms if the conditions 
it demands are complied with. Its value 
is so great that it is well worth while 
going to both time and expense to es¬ 
tablish at least a few acres on every 
farm where it can be grown. With this 
splendid array of clover to choose from 
there are very few farmers who might ! 
not. instead of one variety, be success- | 
fully aud profitably growing at least four 
or five kinds of clover. When nature 
lias been so lavish of her gifts to us of 
these legumes let us make the fullest 
possible use of them. 
Ohio. IIOP.ATIO MARKLEY. 
The Tenant’s Share. —I notice on 
page 2!>8 some questions asked by (’. S. 
in regard to working a farm on shares, 
answered by W. M. K. If it is worked 
for one-third, and owner finds stock and 
tools, why should the tenant expect the 
owner to pay for thrashing the grain, any 
more than for husking the corn, or dig¬ 
ging the potatoes, or any other part of 
the regular work? As to baling hay, if 
tenant is allowed to sell hay, which very 
few dairy farmers permit, it seems to 
me it is “up to tin* tenant" how lie shall 
market it. Let us hear from others. 
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