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THE KURA.L, NEW-YORKER 
November 6, 1915. 
am, when sowing it for pasture, now mix¬ 
ing about equal parts of Tall Oat grass 
with the Sweet clover, and I think this is 
an improvement. The clover is a little 
bit too laxative, and I think a little of 
the other grasses tend to correct this 
trouble, and also doubtless make a more 
palatable and more balanced ration. If 
you have any question about stock eat¬ 
ing the Sweet clover as pasture, try 
turning them in on it moderately early 
in the Spring when they are crazy for 
green stuff, and it will take only from 
one to 24 hours’ time in most cases to 
teach them its value. During the Winter 
of 1914 I went over about 50 acres of 
wheat, sowing the Sweet clover on the 
snow right in mid-winter. The Spring 
was rather favorable for this operation, 
the ground being honeycombed quite ex¬ 
tensively and on this entire seeding, as 
well as on 20 acres of stubble land, I 
have quite a satisfactory stand of decid¬ 
edly thrifty Sweet clover now growing. 
On a 10-acre field seeded in the Spring 
of 1913 we harvested last Summer about 
00 bushels of seed as well as a little hay. 
The seed brought me $12 per bushel, $72 
per acre, that being a little more than the 
original cost of the land, CiiAS. B. WING. 
Ohio. 
Killing Out Carolina Poplars. 
What is the surest and best way to kill 
the Carolina poplar trees, that is the 
roots and tree, so they will not sprout 
again? I have some on my lawn and 
wish to get rid of them, and replace with 
maples. They have become a nuisance, 
have taken all the good out of the soil, so 
very little grass grows on it, and worst 
of all the roots have found their way 
into my cellar, which is an undesirable 
place for shade trees. F- J- B. 
Sherrill, N. Y- 
Under the circumstances stated would 
advise digging out poplars to plow’s 
depth or more. This, with tall top as a 
leverage, should not be very difficult, and 
the holes so made by digging will be al¬ 
ready dug to receive the maple it is in¬ 
tended to plant in their place. After the 
lateral anchor roots have been laid bare 
and severed a team of horses at the end 
of a block and tackle line—if the end is 
attached 30 feet from ground—should 
pull tree over. c - 
New England Crop Notes. 
A profit of $2,000 on an acre of toma¬ 
toes sounds like a big story to tell, yet 
such is the fact in this case, and I will 
explain a little how it was done. The 
land received two fair coats of manure 
spread over it and worked in, and also 
about $35 worth of high grade fertilizer 
which contained only 3 per cent, of nitro¬ 
gen, as too much of this is thought to 
cause the cracking so common in toma¬ 
toes, also there were plenty of nitrates in 
the stable manure used. About 16,009 
plants were crowded on to this acre, set 
in double rows about 15 inches apart, 
and about the same or perhaps a few 
inches more distance between plants in 
the row. About three feet of space for 
walks were left between the double rows. 
The plants were trimmed to one stalk 
and trimmed on stakes about five feet 
high. When the tomatoes began to ripen 
early in August about 25 bushels a day 
were picked and sold at $4 per bushel n 
a city in Massachusetts; not Boston. Of 
course, later prices were much lower, but 
that $100 a day the first of the season 
was what swelled the profit to the large 
figure of the total. 
Bonny Best, Comet and another va¬ 
riety were used. This system of course 
means a lot of work, but pays, and is 
more easily kept clean from weeds after 
the first start than the ordinary field cul¬ 
ture, and where land is very high-priced 
near large cities and naturally only a 
small acreage is to be had in these sec¬ 
tions, it is necessary to condense as much 
as possible. 
Generally speaking market gardening 
and general farming in Massachusetts did 
not yield much profit this season ; in fact, 
all parts of New England were hit hard, 
and in many sections crops were poor, 
and resulted in a dead loss to the grow¬ 
ers. The above case is a ray of light 
among the dark clouds of this season in 
New England. I was told that near the 
coast in the State of Maine both sweet 
corn and potato crops were a failure in 
some sections and many who had bought 
places there and were getting or about to 
get on their feet were very hard hit or 
entirely wiped out, and lost their all. 
In my section tomatoes were a failure 
in many gardens and my trade locally 
was much larger than usual for this rea¬ 
son, and only the last end of the crop 
went to Boston where they also brought 
good prices at this time. My onion crop 
is the poorest I ever had by far, and will 
not pay first cost of getting land ready 
and planting. Field corn rather light 
crop, but good quality. Apple crop not 
enough for home use, which never hap¬ 
pened before. Cranberry crop not much 
better. Cucumbers were a failure, also 
strawberry crop, but in most places were 
good and sold at good prices. A good 
second and third crop of rowen brought 
the hay crop up to a good average. 
A. E. P. 
New Men at Cornell. 
The following appointments have been 
made in the Cornell College of Agricul¬ 
ture for positions above grade of in¬ 
structor : 
A. A. Allen, economic ornithology, to 
work mainly through the extension office. 
Albert It. Bechtel, botany, from the 
Pennsylvania State College. 
J. Marshall Brannon, botany, from the 
University of Wisconsin. 
Wallace L. Chandler, parasitology in 
the Department of Entomology, from the 
University of California; employed by 
the public health service in special work 
on insect-borne diseases. 
W. T. M. Forbes, entomology specialist 
in lepidoptera. 
C. II. Guise, forestry, to carry on some 
of the courses which have been given by 
Prof. Frank Moody, a member of the 
Forest, Fish, and Game Commission of 
Wisconsin. 
Edward Ttiley King, bee culture, from 
Creola, Ohio, where he has been for two 
years deputy State inspector of apiaries, 
and secretary of the Ohio State Bee¬ 
keepers’ Association. 
J. C. McCurdy, farm engineering. He 
will specialize ;in sanitation work in 
rural districts. 
William E. Mordoff, farm mechanics 
in the department of rural engineering, 
from East High School, of Rochester 
where he has been teaching Physics. 
Gilbert W. Peck, department of pom¬ 
ology, comes from a fruit farm at Bir¬ 
mingham, Ohio, after having been in¬ 
structor in pomology at Cornell in 1913. 
J. R. Schramm, botany, from Wash¬ 
ington University, St. Louis; has also 
had training and experience at the Mis¬ 
souri Botanical Gardens, and at St. 
Louis. 
W. R. Wheeler, extension work in ani¬ 
mal husbandry, from the University of 
Arkansas; graduate of the Ohio State 
University and had in addition, farm ex¬ 
perience as a boy and young man, and 
several years’ experience at high school 
teaching. 
Roy Glenn Wiggans, department of 
farm crops, assistant in the department 
during the past year. Trained at the 
University of Missouri, and Cornell. 
B. Y. K. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
Fifth annual apple show, Indiana Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Indianapolis, Nov. 6- 
13. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
annual show, Cleveland. Ohio, Nov. 10- 
14. Special show, San Francisco, Cal. 
Paterson Poultry Association, annual 
show, Paterson, N. J., Nov. 16-20. 
Wisconsin State Potato Growers’ As¬ 
sociation, annual convention, Marinette, 
Wis., Nov. 17-18. 
Bergen Co., N. J.. Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Hackensack, N. J., 
Nov. 24-27. 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, Nov. 27-Dec. 4. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Winter meeting, Freehold, N. J., 
Nov. 30-Dec. 4. 
Auburn Poultry Show, Auburn, N. Y., 
Nov. 30-Dec. 4. 
New York Palace Show, New York, 
Dec. 7-11. 
Poultry Raisers’ Association of Ham- 
monton, *N. J., fifth annual show, Ilam- 
monton, N. .7., Dee. 7-9. 
Philadelphia Poultry Show, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., Dec. 14-18. 
University Horticultural Society of 
Ohio State University, fifth annual show, 
Columbus, O., second week in December. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Reading, Pa., Dec. 
6 - 11 . 
Pacific International Live Stock Ex¬ 
position, No. Portland, Ore., Dec. 6-11. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa. 
Dec. 24. 
New York Poultry Show, Madison 
Square Garden, Dec. 31-Jan. 5. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
Boston Poultry Show, Boston, Mass.. 
Jan. 11-15. 
Vermont State Poultry Association an¬ 
nual show r , St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 18-21, 
1916. 
National Western Stock Shows Den¬ 
ver, Colo., Jan. 17-22, 1916. 
Amherst Poultry Association, second 
annual shows Amherst, Mass., Jan. 18- 
19. 1916. 
National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, 
Fort AVorth, Tex., March 11-17, 1916. 
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