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THE MAIL BAG. 
Rock Phosphate on Strawberries. 
I am going to set out two acres of 
strawberries this Spring, and would like 
to know if it would be advisable to use 
some rock phosphate. If so how much 
would you advise using to the acre, and 
what is the best way to apply it? I 
have a good rich loam soil. E. R. 
Herrin, Ill. 
No, we do not believe the rock phos¬ 
phate would have any effect upon the 
strawberries. We should as soon expect 
a trotting horse to make a good record on 
a diet of rye straw. The strawberry de¬ 
mands available plant food if you are to 
expect this crop to do well. If your soil 
needs phosphoric acid and strawberries 
are wanted use acid phosphate. The 
rock phosphate may have value in per¬ 
manently enriching the soil but for gar¬ 
den and fruit crops you need active plant 
food. 
Cover Crop tor Light Soil. 
What is the best cover crop to improve 
light soil—to be sown now and turned 
under in August? u. r. 
For a light soil, the object being to put 
all the humus possible into it, we should 
sow the ground this Spring with Canada 
peas and oats as often described. Plow 
this crop under in late June, and give 
a fair dressing of lime. Then work up 
the soil at once and sow buckwheat and 
Cow-horn turnips. Plow this crop under 
in August, and you will be ready for 
seeding the Winter grain or grass. 
Marketing Celery and Lettuce. 
Could you give me any information in 
regard to marketing celery and lettuce? 
New York. E. E. H. 
Lettuce is marketed in baskets, barrels 
and crates. Perhaps the most popular 
package is the basket shaped like an 
inverted bell, holding about one bushel. 
Celery shipped here mainly in the 
rough, set up endwise in crates about 
three feet square, and later washed and 
bunched in warehouses here. When 
washed and trimmed on the farm it is 
packed in a variety of shallow boxes, 
sometimes tied in bunches of three stalks 
and sometimes singly. 
Charging Effervescent Beverages. 
When sweet cider, or for that matter 
any other non-alcoholic drink, is being 
bottled, what substance is added, and how, 
to make it sparkle or effervesce? 
What makes the so-called soda water or 
“soda pop” effervesce and how is the 
soda water made? g. n. 
Meadow, Va. 
The substance added in each case is 
carbonic acid gas forced in under high 
pressure, usually more than one hundred 
pounds per square inch. Soda water is 
merely common water to which this same 
carbonic acid gas has been added, so 
carbonated ginger ale. carbonated drinks 
of all kinds, are the drinks to which this 
gas has been added. 
Leather Waste as Fertilizer. 
Would the leather dust waste from a 
shoe factory have value as a fertilizer 
to use on lawn or garden? F. n. c. 
Penn Yan, N. Y. 
Very little if any. Leather contains 
considerable nitrogen, but is so unavail¬ 
able that it will lie in the soil for years 
practically unchanged. It is doubtful if 
you would see any benefit from it for 
three years or more. It would not pay 
to spend money for this leather. 
Fertilizer for Silage Corn. 
I have three acres of land from which 
I cut rye last season, which I intend to 
plant to silo corn. Having lost my seed¬ 
ing and with no manure to turn under 
what kind of fertilizer would you advise 
using, and how much necessary to pro¬ 
duce a good crop? How should the corn 
be planted to produce the most feed re- j 
gardlcss of grain? c. J. r. 
On such a field we should use one of 
the commercial corn mixtures, or two 
parts by weight of tankage, three parts 
acid phosphate and one part muriate of 
potash. Fse at least 600 pounds per 
acre. From choice we should drill this 
corn so the stalks will stand about nine 
inches apart in three-foot drills. 
Sawdust for Orchard Mulch 
We have set out an orchard which we 
intend to manage after mulch method. 
We are cutting a timber lot, and there is 
quite a demand for the sawdust at 50 
cents per load. We think we might 
better hold it for mulching the trees. Do 
you see anything against using it as a 
mulch? m. c. 
New Jersey. 
Our experience with raw sawdust has 
not been satisfactory for mulching trees. 
It is too sour, does not decay rapidly, and | 
thus docs not furnish a food form of 
humus. After the sawdust has been 
rotted thoroughly it will prove satisfac¬ 
tory. If the sawdust can be used as bed¬ 
ding, and thoroughly soaked with the 
liquids, or kept for a few months with 
the horse manure, it will then make a 
fair mulch for the trees, although we 
should use lime in connection with it. 
THIS RURAL NEW-VOKKER 
Raw sawdust, however, is not good to 
put around trees, and in our own case we 
should let the sawdust go at 50 cents a 
load. 
Canada Peas and Oats on Poor Land. 
Are Canada peas and oats the best 
crop to grow on poor moist land for hay? 
This hay is for dairy cows. Will liipe 
help this crop? L. F. c. 
tional amount of rock phosphate increase 
the yield? If so how much should be 
applied? c. j. r. 
No. You will not be likely to benefit 
in this year’s potato crop by using raw 
rock phosphate. The potato is a quick¬ 
growing crop and needs available plant 
food. The rock phosphate, used with 
manure, might help clover or grass next 
year, or in following years, but for a crop 
like potatoes use available plant food. 
It is a mistake to suppose that oats 
and peas will give a good crop on poor 
land. This crop requires good soil, either 
naturally strong, or made so through the 
addition of fertilizers or manures. The 
lime will help on such land, but you can 
hardly expect a profitable crop unless 
you feed it well. 
Preparing Sod for Potatoes. 
I am thinking of planting seven acres 
of sod ground to potatoes, which I am 
Taking Kinks Out of Rope. 
Some time ago I saw a question ask¬ 
ing how to avoid kinks in a hay-carrier 
rope. I experienced this annoyance my¬ 
self, and the following is the only suc¬ 
cessful remedy I could find: I procured 
a swivel the proper size for the rope, and 
spliced it in the end of the rope with 
a long splice, so it would run through the 
carrier block. Then instead of tying a 
knot in the end of the rope, I removed 
the pulley wheel and replaced the axle, 
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going to cover with manure, and apply putting it through the eye in the swivel. 
300 pounds of phosphate analyzing 10 Now, when I pull down the fork, I can 
per cent, phosphoric acid and eight per take all the twist out of the rope with 
cent, potash, applying the latter after ease. The sketch explains it. 
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