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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May ti, 
The Home Acre. 
Spray to Destroy Dandelions. 
1. Can you tell me what I can use to 
spray a lawn with, which is very badly 
infested with dandelions? It is impossi¬ 
ble to plow it, and I would like to get 
something that would kill the dandelion 
and not the grass. Digging them would 
be impossible, as they are too many. 
2. Where could I get English hawthorn 
and Spiraeas? ii. s. h. b. 
1. The spray used to eradicate dande¬ 
lions in lawn is iron sulphate, 1% to two 
pounds to a gallon of water. Spray two 
or three days after mowing, and do not 
mow again for two or three days after¬ 
wards. The spraying should be done on a 
bright sunshiny day. A heavy wetting 
within two days after spraying destroys 
the weed-killing power. Spray at inter¬ 
vals of four to six weeks. 2. Any of the 
nurseries advertising ornamental stock 
will supply hawthorn and Spiraeas. 
Composting Pine Shavings. 
We use pine shavings mixed with 
straw in our henhouse for litter. As the 
shavings are not good to put on the land 
in their present condition, can you tell 
me how to cause them to rot after mak¬ 
ing piles outdoors with other material, 
such as manure from horses and waste 
vegetables? How long should they lie 
before using? G. A. c. 
Long Island. 
This litter might be put right into the 
ordinary manure pile, or mixed into a 
compost with horse manure and other 
vegetable matter. After three months of 
heating in such a pile it ought to be in 
proper condition for use. The trouble 
with the pine shavings is that they con¬ 
tain an acid which may be injurious to 
the soil. Soaking the shavings with 
liquid manure, or thoroughly fermenting 
the shavings in the manure pile will 
get rid of this acid. 
Wood Ashes and Bone Meal for Garden. 
What is the value of wood ashes mixed 
with bone meal as a fertilizer for vege¬ 
table garden? What are the proportions 
of the two ingredients and what quantity 
of the mixture should be used? M. k. 
Three parts of wood ashes mixed with 
one part of fine bone meal give a fair 
combination of lime, phosphoric acid and 
potash with a small quantity of nitrogen. 
This combination would not be the best 
one for garden or truck growing, as the 
nitrogen is not available enough. By 
adding one part more of nitrate of soda 
you would have a very fair mixture for 
your garden. We should not try to mix 
the ashes and bone, as the ashes are too 
fine. They may be spread by themselves, 
and harrowed in, and the bone and ni¬ 
trate mixed and applied separately. 
Cover Crop With Small Fruit. 
I intend planting, in a few days time, 
a field in berries seven feet by three feet 
(rows). Will it be practical to sow la¬ 
ter on this year Canada peas between the 
rows, the object being two-fold—nitrogen 
and humus gathering—and the peas to feed 
pigeons? I suppose the vines could rot 
on the ground till next Spring and then 
be turned by plow. This would not. I 
presume, hurt the berry plants. I also 
propose to plant Kafir corn in another 
portion of the field. l). E. s. 
Centre Moriches, X. Y. 
We would not advise you to sow oats 
and peas, or peas alone, between the 
rows of small fruit. If it should be a 
dry season both crops would suffer. You 
would get a very unsatisfactory crop from 
the oats and peas, while the berries 
would make a poor growth, and they 
would not recover this season. You 
could put a row of early potatoes mid¬ 
way between the rows of fruits, and if 
you gave them thorough cultivation both 
crops might get through, but it would 
be a mistake to sow a crop like peas or 
oats under these conditions. In a very 
wet season you might possibly get a fair 
crop, but under ordinary conditions there 
would be a failure. The fruit ought 
to be cultivated with great care all 
through the early part of the season, 
and this would pay much better than at¬ 
tempting to grow a double crop when 
there is not moisture enough even for 
one. 
Whitewashing Orchard Trees. 
Can you give me any information about 
whitewashing the trunks of orchard 
trees? I do so principally on account of 
the neat effect it gives. Would it be 
advisable to put carbolic acid or some¬ 
thing of that nature in the whitewash, 
and would that discourage insects crawl¬ 
ing upward from the ground? Is there 
anything better? What can I put in it 
to make it stick? I was told last year 
that a handful of salt to each pail would 
fasten it on. but it did not seem to 
work. f. P. F. 
Bound Brook, X. J. 
We should use a lime and sulphur mix¬ 
ture, about as it would go on the dormant 
tree, with enough milk of lime added to 
make a whitewash. This would not be 
perhaps as neat as the pure lime wash, 
but it would make a more useful applica¬ 
tion. A small quantity of salt stirred 
into the wash, or a little liquid glue 
thoroughly stirred up, will make this 
material stick. 
Heating Frame With Lantern. 
In a recent issue of your paper a cor¬ 
respondent told of heating a hotbed with 
a lantern. Can you give me more defin¬ 
ite directions for using same, as I am 
unable to get good heating material? I 
wish to plant two 8x6 frames to toma¬ 
toes. Does not this seed require bottom 
heat? Wouldn’t I have to keep sash 
raised all the time to allow for air? 
Norfolk, Conn. c. c. 
Those who have tried out this method 
of heating frames, claim it is all right. 
If the temperature overhead is kept high 
enough, bottom heat is not absolutely 
necessary, but without bottom heat the 
plants will be much longer in coming up 
and be somewhat slower in reaching 
planting-out size, but will in most in¬ 
stances be a little hardier than those 
raised with bottom heat. When lanterns 
or any other like method of heating is 
employed it will be necessary to admit 
more or less fresh air at all times, the 
fresh air inlet being regulated accord¬ 
ing to the outside temperature and the 
amount of breeze stirring. The cooler 
the air outside, the less the sash will 
need to be raised. This also applies 
when much breeze is stirring. It does 
not require a great amount of fresh 
air entering the frames to keep up a sup¬ 
ply of oxygen for an ordinary lantern, 
and the operator will soon learn how to 
regulate the supply, minimizing the sup¬ 
ply to just within the line of safety. 
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Oregon Pioneer has used his 
Studebaker ever since 1874 
O REGON territory was largely settled by sturdy pioneers who, with 
their household effects packed in equally sturdy Studebaker wagons, 
made possible the great state of Oregon. 
An interesting letter from Mrs. Sarah A. Haughton, of Norway, Oregon, 
tells of the wonderful record of a Studebaker wagon bought in 1874. In 
part Mrs. Haughton states: 
**My late husband bought our Studebaker wagon in May, 1874. We loaded 
all our household goods and 6 months 7 provisions, tied the chairs outside and 
started for Oregon. The roads were so muddy in places we could not see the 
hubs of the wheels. There was only one other wagon in our neighborhood 
and that lias gone to pieces long ago* while our wagon is still in good work¬ 
ing order. My son recently hauled 41 boxes of butter* each box weighing 
between 65 and 66 pounds, and the roads were pretty bad. 7 * 
IT PAYS TO BUY 
Thirty-nine years of hard work—and a good 
wagon yet. A marvelous record, but nothing 
unusual for a Studebaker. Other wagons 
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A STUDEBAKER 
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If you want a wagon that will last, run 
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Studebaker Buggies and Harness are just 
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