1052 
September 8, 1917 
selecting and planting the best of this 
stock. In 1915 a little anthrucnose was 
wafted out onto this strip from another 
part of the field, where other beans were 
planted. This seed wa<? carefully select¬ 
ed for the 1016 plot. The season was 
unfaA'orable for the disease to develop 
and the beans came to maturity per¬ 
fectly immune as to that season. I care¬ 
fully hand-picked during last Winter 
enough seed to jdant the acre referred to, 
selecting only the most perfect indivi¬ 
duals. These were planted June Gth this 
season, and to-day, Aug. 20, are fully 
podded and showing signs of healthy rip¬ 
ening. When fully ripened I shall select 
enough of the plants showing the most 
pods and even ripening to continue the 
breeding up of the seed. 
For a long time I have been convinced 
that we would have better results if we 
would take this coursr* with our seed 
beans, than by dei)ending on seed shipped 
in from other localities, for often mis¬ 
takes occcur, and we do not get just 
what we pay for. I -know of just such 
instances; as a general thing we have 
practice<l this method of seed selection 
with our corn, wheat, oats and potatoes, 
and results haVe proved the wisdom of 
such selection. On this farm the seed 
corn has been selected from the stand¬ 
ing crop for many years. This is 
braided and hung in the corn house, left 
so that it is thoroughly dry before, 
freezing weather. The past two seasons 
many fields of corn have failed to .show 
a good stand, the Aveather conditions be¬ 
ing unfavorable, but the crops from this 
seed prove the profitableness of such seed 
selection. With beans, generally speak¬ 
ing, we have been taking the seed from 
the commercial bin; uneven ripening dis¬ 
eased stock, and consequent decreased 
yield has been the result. In brief, im¬ 
proving seed stock by plant selection is 
both practical and profitable in bean 
growing. ir. k. cox. 
A Pennsylvania Farm Tractor at Work 
The picture at Fig. 474 shows a tractor 
at work on the farm of F. M. Sensenich 
of Lancaster Co., Pa. He is using this 
tractor on the binder, and writes us that 
it gives good satisfaction at that kind of 
Avork. lie also uses it for ploAving, har- 
roAA'iug, disking and rolling. It can be 
used for binding the grain, and then 
hitched up to the thrasher and operated 
there. It can also be attached to the 
farm Avagon, the manure spreader and 
other farm machinery. Of course, this 
must be on a reasonably level farm, 
Avhere the tractor will not have to climb 
hills that are too steep. There are, how¬ 
ever, many farms in the Eastern States 
AA^here a tractor can be operated to good 
adAmntage. The Xcav York Food Com¬ 
mission has nearly 50 of such tractors at 
Avork in that State. They have been op¬ 
erating in different counties and on all 
kinds of soil and grades, and the general 
opinion is that they have more than 
proved their Avorth. IMr. Sensenich says 
that ho uses kerosene for fuel. It works 
AA-ell, and in binding his wheat Avith the 
tractor he found a fuel cost of only l.^c. 
per acre, lie said he could have draAvn 
tAA'o grain binders at once, thus doubling 
the 6i)oed of the Avoidc and costing less 
per acre. There is some complaint that 
there must be a skilled mechanic on the 
farm in order to operate a tractor proper¬ 
ly. Mr. Sensenich says that he finds it a 
simple operation, and that any smart farm 
boy can run one in a satisfactory manner. 
The chances are, too, that such a hoy 
Avould be more likely to hang to the job 
if he had a chance to Avork .such poAverful 
machinery, and thus feel that he Avas 
controlling a mighty force at farm AA-ork. 
The Minister’s Garden 
For a good many years I have been 
reading The R. N.-Y., till noAV I feel that 
I am one of the family. I am writing to 
give you my report on my potatoes and 
celei’y. I am a Methodist preacher, and 
as my family Avei-e all in the country for 
the Summer, I put all of my little gar¬ 
den (about 75x2,5 feet) in Irish potatoes, 
except one roAv through the middle Avhich 
I left for tomatoes. In the Fall I had 
two wagonloads of manure hauled and 
spread on the garden and ploAved under 
Avith a heavy, big plow. In the Spring I 
broke clods, smoothed the top and 
scratched it over Avith my fork-hoe about 
tAA’O inches deep; did net distuidi the ma- 
©■Ac R U RAI. N EW-YO R K E R 
mire underneath. Lined off my rows 
three feet apart, dug little hills about 15 
inches apart in the rows for the hills; 
cut my potatoes to one eye, Irish Cob¬ 
bler, and placed one piece in the hill, cov¬ 
ered them about three inches deep. They 
all came up but two or three. They were 
slow to come up, but finally came up and 
grcAV off Avell. I kept the Aveeds out and 
the top of the ground fine. I planted 
one peck of potatoes. I dug them the 
first week in August, and had 10^^ bush¬ 
els of fine, large, smooth potatoes. No 
scab. Not more than a half gallon AA-ere 
too .small for table use; usually three 
big ones in a hill. 
My plan was to follow the potatoes 
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value in a ton of stalks, and in these 
times it seems a Avaste to merely chop 
them up for manure. They could be cut, 
moistened A\dth water, and mixed with a 
little cheap molasses to make a very good 
substitute for silage in feeding cattle, or 
they may be used for bedding or absorbent 
in the stable. For actual plant food value, 
however, you can figure on a value of a 
trifle more plant food than you Avould buy 
in a ton of good manure. 
Lime on Clover 
I have six acres of cloA’er seeding on a 
hill farm; the soil is quite gravelly. I 
top-dressed last Spring, Avith barnvard 
manure, when I sowed the oats. Would 
lime, put on noAv, be of any great benefit 
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Hoist for Getting out Muck. Fig. 477. See Page 1050 
with celery. When the potato A’ines be¬ 
gan to die, I began at one side, and Avalk- 
ing between the rows, turned the vines 
back, so that the space betAA'eeu the first 
tAvo roAvs was left open. A space about 
a foot and a half wide in the middle of 
the roAV I dug up with my fork-hoe, dig¬ 
ging six or eight inches deep. I made 
this fine and good for my celery plants. 
Then I stretched twm lines for a double 
row of celery, making the roAA's about 
eight inches apart, and putting the plants 
about nine inches apart in the roAA^; made 
no trench for plants. After setting the 
plant.s, I poured about a pint of Avater 
on each. Then I turned the potato vines 
back over the plants. After thus setting 
the first double row, thei-e Avas no rain 
for 10 days, and I did not water them 
any more, and yet I did not lo.se a 
plant. When it rained I turned the 
vines off the plants. The other tAAm 
double rows AA'ere set the same AV’ay, and 
without losing a plant. In an experience 
of 25 years with celery I have never had 
such good success in getting plants to 
groAA\ I attribute this to throe things: 
(1) The potato vines for a coA’^ering; (2) 
the ground was rich and in good condi¬ 
tion; (3) I had good stocky plants of 
uniform size. I have 500 plants set and 
growing nicely. The first double row is 
now’ about a foot high, and I shall begin 
to hill it up soon. JOHN c, obb. 
Tennessee. 
Reseeding Clover 
I haA’e a very poor stand of clover on 
my oat ground, and would like to knoAv 
Avhether clover would amount to much if 
I so\ved it over this Fall? Which kind 
would be best? h. e. f. 
Morris County, N. Y. 
We .should wait until next Spring, and 
tlaen .seed a mixture of half and half Red 
and Alsike clover. Seed it early and 
scratch the gi'ound over Avith a weeder 
or light harrow’. It is hard to thicken 
up a stand of clover in this Avay, but it 
has been done. 
Fertilizing Value of Cornstalks 
Wbat is the fertilizer A’alue of one acre 
of cornstalks, cut up by silage cutter, and 
mixed W’ith other decaying matter and a 
little lime? My corn is LongfelloAV, heaA'y 
crop, averaging 9^ feet tall. There is no 
sale, or small one, for the stalks, and I 
can see no way to use them except in the 
above w’ay. Are they worth eA’en cutting 
up for the manure A’alue? .T. o. T. 
Massachusetts. 
It is hard to ansAver such a question, 
because it depends on the Aveight of a 
crop from an acre. Our oAvn flint corn 
will make about tAvo tons of dried fodder 
to the acre, and that i.s, Ave think, some- 
Avhat above the average. The average of 
many analyses of flint corn fodder show 
about six pounds of nitrogen, two of pho.s- 
phoric acid, and perhaps seven of potash 
to the ton. A ton of good stable manure 
Avill’contain about 10 pounds of nitrogen. 
5 of phosphoric acid and 12 of potash, 
so that the stalks on the acre Avill contain 
a trifle more of plant food than a ton of 
manure. There is considerable feeding 
to the clover? If not. could you suggest 
.some commercial fertilizer that AV’ould? 
Broome Co., N. Y. o. a. .s. 
In our experience, lime put on top of 
the ground in this AA’ay, has not shown 
very good re.sult.s. You could help it by 
Avorking with a light harrow after lim¬ 
ing, but in most cases there will not be 
much .satisfaction -uule.ss you can woi’k 
the lime thoroughly into the soil. It 
Avoiild pay to u.se 400 pounds of acid phos¬ 
phate or fine bone per acre. 
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