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March 20, 
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O.W. Ingersoll, 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
Cold Frame for Starting Tomatoes. 
I am setting out a cold frame to grow 
tomato plants. What temperature must 
I have in the cold frame to keep the 
plants growing after I have set the seed 
out? I am going to sink the frame in 
the ground and after I get the glass all 
on, I am going to put an oil lamp in 
the frame to take the frost out of the 
ground, also to dry the dirt. L. M. 
Hopewell, N. J. 
A temperature of G5 to 70 deg. is about 
right for growing tomato plants. When 
seeds are sown it should be about 90 deg. 
Sometimes on bright sunny days the 
temperature will go higher than 70 deg., 
but no harm will be done provided it is 
not maintained at a high point day after 
day. I would never undertake to grow 
tomato plants, at this season of the year, 
in a cold frame with no heat other than 
that from an oil lamp. Unless quite 
large it will be hard to get enough heat, 
and the lamp may get to smoking and 
ruin the plants. A small manure-heated 
hotbed would suit me better. It could 
be made quickly by placing about six 
inches of hot horse manure in the cold 
frame. Over this place about four inches 
of good soil and sow the seed. After this 
it is a question of water and ventilation. 
If done properly good plants will result. 
It is not safe to sow tomato seed in cold 
frames here (Gloucester Co., N. J.) with¬ 
out heat until April 1 to 10. 
TBUCKEB, JH. 
Renewing a Meadow. 
Wc have a field on which the grass is 
“run out,” leaving little but “five-finger” 
or “strawberry vine.” We plowed this 
lot up last Fall, and wish to get it back 
in shape to produce good Timothy. Sup¬ 
pose we harrow this field once over in the 
Spring, and apply a ton of burned lime 
to the acre (can purchase burned lime 
for half what raw ground lime would 
cost us, and we can get it nearer by) and 
harrow it in. Then apply 300 pounds of 
a 2-10-2 commercial fertilizer to the acre, 
and harrow thoroughly. Sow a mixture 
of Hairy vetch and oats and cut when 
the oats are in milk, letting it lie and 
form a mulch for the vetch to sprout up 
through and make a growth during the 
Fall and Spring of 1916. Plow it all 
under in Spring of 1916, and sow for our 
regular oat crop, seeding to grass at the 
same time. What do you think of the 
above plan? What do you think of the 
use of raw ground rock phosphate as a 
fertilizer for general use in eastern New 
York? Our soil is an ordinary brown 
loam. h. M. G. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
This plan is good as far as it goes. It 
doesn’t go far enough to suit us. We 
should use Canada peas in place of the 
Hairy vetch with the oats. The peas will 
make a surer crop for your locality, and 
give you a good amount of organic mat¬ 
ter to be plowed under. Do not stop with 
the oats and peas. Instead of cutting 
them and leaving them on top of the 
ground, plow them under and then use 
a combination of buckwheat, Cow-horn 
turnips, or Hairy vetch and rye. Then 
let them alone. The buckwheat and the 
turnips will be killed by the frost and 
Winter, but the rye will come on and 
grow, making a nice growth to be plowed 
under in the Spring. We see no reason 
why this land should stand idle after 
the oats and peas have matured. Keep 
it working by producing other crops to 
be plowed in. As for the use of raw 
phosphate rock, wc would not advise you 
to depend upon this source of phosphoric 
acid entirely. We should use a quantity 
of acid phosphate for the immediate uses 
of the crop. The raw phosphate in con¬ 
nection with plowing under some such 
crop as the oats and peas will put the 
soil slowly into better productive condi¬ 
tion, but for immediate results we advise 
the use of some acid phosphate, and 
would not depend entirely upon the raw 
phosphate. 
Will This Kill Quack Grass?—I 
have about 10 acres of easily worked soil; 
got a good bit of “couch” grass in it, 
and propose to disk-harrow it several 
times as soon as it gets dry in Spring, 
also use spring-tooth to bring to surface 
the cut roots. I do not like to use only 
spring harrow as then I would have to 
haul off many loads of roots which would 
bo lost as fertilizer if cut up and killed. 
Then sow to barley for a grain crop as 
it has a quick growth, and when har¬ 
vested sow the piece with buckwheat sim¬ 
ply to smother the remainder of the couch 
which might be left in it. Criticism in¬ 
vited. B. B. P. 
Quebec. 
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It has done wonders for hundreds of others, and if 
used properly and liberally will produce a big crop 
of Corn with great full headed ears. 
We have prepared a very interesting little booklet, 
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in the production of big money-making crops of 
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Also let us send you “Hubbard’s 1915 Bone-Base Almanac.” It contains 
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variety of farm subjects. Sent free for the asking. 
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