RURAL NEW-YORKER 
937 
General Farm Topics 
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A Group of Fighting Jersymen 
The picture shown will be of special 
interest to our New Jersey readers, for 
here w'e have a group of Jerseymen. The 
figure in the center holding the straw hat 
is Senator J. S. Frelinghuysen, who in 
the United States Senate is holding up 
the full traditions of the good old State. 
The young men grouped around him rep¬ 
resent New Jersey soldiers at Fort Mycr, 
Virginia. Three branches of the service 
are shown—cavalry, infantry and artil¬ 
lery—and the Senator went down to look 
them over, and see what the fighting Jer¬ 
seymen were getting ready to do. They 
will give a good account of themselves 
later when the time comes. The young 
man at the right of the Senator is an 
old employee of The II. N.-Y., for the 
paper seems to be represented in every 
worthy enterprise which has yet been 
started by the Government. Senator 
Frelinghuysen is a farmer, and aLso Pres¬ 
ident of the New Jersey Agricultural So¬ 
ciety. He is interested in farming, and 
all that goes with it. As for these young 
men, they will make good soldiers, and 
we hope they will all come marching 
home again when i)eace is declared, to 
the regular pasture grasses have not 
made a good start without a fair dressing 
of lime after idowing the field. Our own 
plan would be to rip up the soil as well 
as possible, and grub out the worst of 
the bushes. Then if possible give the 
laud a fair dressing of lime, and such 
phosphate as you can afford. Then seed 
to rye, and also use about four pounds 
per acre of Alsiko clover. The Alsike 
will grow along with the rye, and add 
considerably to the pasture value in the 
Spring. Then early in the Spring seed 
the pasture grasses. Keep the cattle off 
until the latter part of May, and then 
turn a few of them in to take care of the 
rye and clover. This will give them good 
feed, and they will not trample down 
the new seeding too much. Handled in 
this way, if the season is moist, you 
ought to get a good start on the new 
seedings. 
Preventing Corn from Mixing; Bean 
Weevil 
1. How near can popcorn be put to 
Golden I’antam sweet corn if planted in 
same fields? 2. My black wax string bean 
seed is full of a brown bug or fly. Some 
beans are full of holes. A mouth ago 
A Group of New Jersey Soldiers. Fig. 409 
settle down once more where they can 
practice the arts of peace. Not the least 
important person in this group is the 
little girl on the platform holding the 
American flag. 
Clover Seeded With Buckwheat 
I turned under a crop of rye in an 
ai)ple and peach orchard. I wish to 
sow to buckwheat for the grain. Shall I 
buy Crimson clover to seed with it, or use 
Medium and Alsike, of which I have 
l)lenty? I calculate to plow the clover 
under next June. s. 
Jvake Co., O. 
Under these conditions we .should sow 
a mixture of Medium and Alsike clover 
with the buckwheat. While the Crimson 
will give a good Fall crop, it is not as 
likely to live over and give a Spring 
growth as with Alsike, and with us the 
Alsike cover has given the best results of 
any variety when seeded in connection 
with buckwheat. Farther south the 
Crimson would prove superior, but you 
are a little far north for that variety to 
do its best. 
Reseeding an Old Field 
I have a nine-acre pasture field that 
has become (juite badly grown up to 
bushes, and is also quite rocky, but can 
be plowed after a fashion. The grass is 
nearly run out. How would it do to 
plow this Fall and seed to rye, using 
some phosphate, and in Si)ring seed to 
some pasture mixture in the rye; about 
the middle of May turn three or four 
cows in to pasture down the rye? My 
idea is to get rid of the bushes by iilow- 
ing and get it seeded at one time or plow¬ 
ing and not to lose the use of the pasture 
for a season. C. ii B 
(’olumbia Co., N. Y. 
We have had some experience in try¬ 
ing to reseed these old fields but have 
never worked in the improved grass j)er- 
nianently without the use of lime. We 
think that lime in some form is a neces¬ 
sity for such work. Rye will make a 
fair growth wdthout lime. A fair quan¬ 
tity of fertilizer will certainly give the 
rye a good start, but in our own work 
this seed seemed perfect E. G. R. 
Hudson, Ohio. 
1. It is a question of weather condi¬ 
tions at the time the corn is shedding 
the ripened pollen as to just how far 
the pollen may be carried. If weather 
is dry and high winds prevail the pol¬ 
len will carry much farther than when 
the weather is somewhat moist and little 
or no wind. I should not plant the two 
varieties closer than a thousand feet of 
each other if corn of either was intend¬ 
ed for next year’s .seed, and if a strip 
of woodland or orchard could separate 
them there would be much less likelihood 
of mixture. 
2. The small bug is the bean weevil. 
Risulphide of carbon is the remedy u.sed 
to keep bean, pea and other seed sub¬ 
ject fto attack of weevil free from thtun. 
I’ut the seed in a tight container Avith a 
tight lid, pour a teaspoonful or two into 
a saucer, set the saucer on top of the 
beans, and close container. Allow it 
to remain undisturbed for 10 or 12 
hours; the heavy gas from the bisulphide 
will pass downward through the seed 
and kill every weevil. When using the 
bisulphide keep away from fire, as it 
is highly explosiA'e, and to bring it near 
fire may result in a serious accident. 
The writer has never had trouble with 
bean or pea weevil if the seed were al¬ 
lowed to remain uiishelled until wanted 
for use. 
Storing Tomatoes 
What is a good v/ay to kee;) tomatoes 
as long as possible without canning them ? 
I expect to can a large amount also. 
I'ennsylvvania. ir. j. s. 
You can pull up the entire vine—fruit 
and all—just lu'fore frost and hang it in 
some dry. sludtered place, safe from the 
frost. The fruits on the vine will slowly 
color or ripen and keep up a supply until 
Thanksgiving or latei\ Or the green to¬ 
matoes may be picked just before frost 
and kept in the hotbeds or in some sunny 
window out of the reach of frost. 
A Bigger Yield 
From the Same Field.= 
From any field that you have been manuring by the 
hand method you can get a bigger yield if you use the 
spreader method—and save much time and labor. 
A good spreader tears up the manure into small particles 
and spreads it evenly. The manure goes farther. It can 
be worked well into the seed bed so that the plant roots 
get all of its valuable plant food. Wasting manure is like 
wasting money—a good spreader makes every particle of ma¬ 
nure count, A Newton County, Ind., farmer testing the 
spreader and hand methods of applying manure on two 
ten-acre tracts found that the spreader method gave 120 more bushels 
of corn, 11^0 more bushels of oats and 9 more tons of clover. 
The John Deere Spreader 
The Spreader with the Beater On the Axle 
30% of the Corn Crop’s Feeding Value 
Is in the Stalk ■ 
You save money by cutting your corn and putting it in 
the silo or feeding it to stock in the feed lot—because thirty 
per cent of the entire feeding value of the corn crop is in the stalk. 
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