THE RURAL NEVV-VORKEK 
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Dipping Potatoes for Scab. bottom, underlying the clay may be a 
Here is a sketch of my outfit for dip- soil that affords drainage. For quick 
ping potatoes for scab or other disease, and prompt drainage results, stiff clays 
Set the post sufiiciently deep so it will should never be drained, or worked upon, 
,2 "X 6 " 
Bottomof Basket 
Wood 
Sides of Basket 
r—Wood 
stone or material of a similar and per¬ 
manent nature will many times increase 
the capacity, power and efficiency of a 
drain to capture and remove surplus 
water from a soil. Then, also with es¬ 
pecial care, in the back-filling of drain, 
never to throw even one shovelful of clay 
in ditch when wet. in order to avoid pack¬ 
ing or puddling; herein, perhaps, lies the 
secret and solution of the problem. 
T. E. MARTIN. 
Barrel 
S \Top Hoop 
\ made af 
I Iron 
CONVENIENT OUTFIT FOR DIPPING POTATOES. 
not pull over when lifting potatoes out 
of barrel with small tackle. Let the 
basket hang over the barrel long enough 
to drain thoroughly. Pull out removable 
pin and swing tackle to basket in other 
barrel. Three barrels may be used with- 
satisfaction. 
To make bottom of dipping basket, take 
inch boards and cut in a circle small 
enough to go into a barrel and leave l 1 /^ 
inch space all around. The sides are 
strips one inch by 114 nailed to bottom 
and riveted to the top, which is on iron 
hoop, three-eighths inch thick, with holes 
punched to receive the strip rivets. Gal¬ 
vanized netting is nailed over the staves 
and the basket is complete. Set the out¬ 
fit in a sunny place. H. E. KELLER. 
New Mexico. 
Onion Sets Under Hay. 
Did you ever know of anyone setting 
• .at onions sets in the Spring and cov¬ 
ering them with hay enough to check 
grass and hold the moisture? L. n. 
Newport, N. ,T. 
I should suppose that onions would be 
strangled by any mulch of hay thick 
enough to keep down grass and weeds, but 
the supposition is not based either upon 
experiment or observation. If the in¬ 
quirer would look around him in South¬ 
ern New Jersey at any time in the grow¬ 
ing season he would see upon the garden 
farms there gangs of Italians^ walking 
backward and hoeing crops where there 
is not a weed to be seen. The object is 
to stir the ground and bring new par¬ 
ticles of fertility in contact, and by chem¬ 
ical action produce plant food for vegeta¬ 
ble growth. At the same time the soil 
i' aerated and exposed to the sun’s 
warmth. A mulch would only serve to 
retain moisture and would otherwise re¬ 
tard growth. Perhaps in a very severe 
midsummer drought a mulch of fine sta¬ 
ble manure, such as is applied in very 
intensive upland celery culture, might 
save the crop, but the cost of applying 
would be considerable. It might pay with 
a small bed for family use. and would be 
an interesting experiment. 
L. B. PIERCE. 
Peculiarities of Drainage. 
Can your drainage expert tell me why 
s>»me of the red clay land in this Pied¬ 
mont section of Virginia apparently can¬ 
not be drained, as water cannot seem 
to get through it? A row of post holes 
within eight feet of a washed-out road 
five or six feet deep remained half full 
of water for months, though no water 
was running in the road. There is an 
unused icehouse pit eight feet deep, in 
which I have never seen water standing, 
yet the land all around it six or eight 
leet distant, obviously needs draining. I 
have put in about 500 feet of drain tile 
with good descent, but puddles of water 
remain on the surface till they evaporate 
everywhere except directly over the 
drain. What is the use of draining such 
land? The land yields very well, never¬ 
theless, especially in grass, clover and 
E. N. B. 
Amherst, Va. 
I know very little about the red clay 
lauds of Piedmont, Virginia. Cases very 
s milar have been frequently observed. 
1 he following is offered as a solution; 
Regarding the water in post holes the 
water table may be maintained by sub¬ 
terraneous, soil or subsoil, seepage or 
spring water. The icehouse pit may have 
an unknown artificial drain, or the pit 4 
particularly with horses, when wet. ns 
tramping of wet clay sets it together and 
packs it. nearly both air and water tight. 
After tile are laid a four to six-inch cov¬ 
ering of cinders, coarse gravel, crushed 
Cabbage on Low Ground. 
I have a piece of low ground, some 
muck, mostly dark loam, with here and 
there a gravel knoll that has not been 
cropped in 15 years and is much given 
over to goldenrod. wild carrot, wiregrass 
and other things generally found on such 
pieces. I am now opening up a ditch 
that has been allowed to fill up and there¬ 
by draining this lot. on which I would 
like to set cabbage. Would you advise 
me as to treatment, kind of cabbage, etc., 
also entire feasibility? g. it. p. 
Maeedou. N. Y. 
Such land when properly reclaimed usu¬ 
ally proves a valuable asset to a farm 
property, but the campaign should have 
begun last Fall. The first thing to do 
is to get rid of the sour soil water by 
drainage, and not by evaporation. I do 
not believe the one open ditch will drain 
the lot. The soil needs aeration; tile 
drainage will provide this. I have han¬ 
dled a good deal of this class of land, 
and speak from experience. I should give 
the lot a good coat of old barnyard ma¬ 
nure, horse manure preferred, then Fall- 
plow. top-dressing those knolls, then in 
late April or in May I should replow 
about one inch deeper, thoroughly incor¬ 
porating the manure with the soil. Give 
the land thorough preparation by fre¬ 
quent harrowing. About July 1 sow from 
‘200 to 500 pounds of fertilizer to the acre, 
using a grain drill with all tubes sowing, 
then harrow again and plant the cabbage. 
I prefer the Danish Ball-head. A good 
vegetable fertilizer should be used, a lit¬ 
tle nitrogen is good, but there need not be 
a high percentage of this, the phosphoric 
acid and potash are the essentials, espe¬ 
cially the first mentioned. As with beans 
the first cultivation may be fairly deep, 
but all after-cultivation should be shal¬ 
low. Beginning at this season of the 
year to prepare this land for a crop one 
cannot expect best results the first year. 
It pays to be liberal in reclaiming such 
land, for if the work is properly done, 
big dividends are sure to result. 
FI. E. COX. 
Mrs. Askcm : “So you took a trip 
abroad last Summer. Did you go up the 
Rhine?” Mrs. Newrich: “Right up to 
the very top. What a splendid view there 
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