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Acid Phosphate with Manure 
Will it pay to use 16 per cent acid pros- 
phate costing 6c per lb. delivered, in a 
family garden and on three-year-old fruit 
trees, if I can get stable manure at $1 a 
load? How much acid phosphate would 
you advise as a liberal allowance per tree 
and how much per 1,000 square feet of 
ground? The soil is in good condition; 
was well fertilized with stable manure 
and limed last Spring. I propose to use 
stable manure and lime .qgain next year, 
besides the acid phosphate. About one- 
third of the ground I planted to asparagus 
last Spring, the remainder I use for va¬ 
rious other vegetables. Even if the finan¬ 
cial returns for the crop do not compare 
favorably with the investment for acid 
phosphate—the main thing I am after is 
that the crop I plant will grow, as gar¬ 
dening is more of a hobby with me than 
a commercial enterprise. c. E. 
Douglas, Ariz. 
Of course, no one could advise a farm 
er to pay $120 per ton for acid phosphate 
for commercial crop production. On a 
small scale where cost is not au object 
we should use the acid phosphate with 
manure. (Stable manure is lacking in 
phosphorus, and the use of a phosphate is 
needed particularly where seeds are pro¬ 
duced. The phosphate and manure make 
a good “balanced ration" 'for garden 
plants. We should use four pounds of 
acid phosphate for each young tree— 
spreading it out from the trunk as far as 
the branches extend. A good application 
for the garden is 600 pounds of acid phos¬ 
phate per acre. You have about one- 
fortieth of an acre in your garden. 
Use of Poultry Manure 
1 have about 200 chickens and keep the 
drop boards dusted with land plaster. 
Every pail of droppings is put in barrels 
under cover and covered with a generous 
supply of plaster. I have a small hand 
grain mill; do you think this w'ould be 
all right to grind the droppings, when 
hard? I use oat straw on the floors for 
litter, and when dirty spread on the gar- 
dyi. I understand oat straw is the best 
for fertilizer*. If I cannot obtain oat 
straw, what is the next best? Will you 
give me the very best formula for fertil¬ 
izer to combine with this? If I use 
nitrate of soda I prefer to use along drills 
after plants are up. I presume potash is 
hard to get, but if it is needed, don’t omit 
it, as these things pay in the long run. 
Port Jervis, N. Y. j. n. w. 
The land plaster will be good for saving 
the manure- Keep the boards clean and 
store the manure in a dry place. The 
chunks of hard manure formed in this 
way can be crushed in the mill and it 
will pay to sift the manure and grind the 
coarse parts the second time. We should 
mix one part, by weight, of nitrate of 
soda, five i^arts crushed manure and two 
parts fine ground bone. If potash were 
cheaper we should add one part of muri¬ 
ate, but it would hardly pay at present 
prices. This mixture will give good re¬ 
sults on the garden. The composition of 
various kinds of straw follows: 
Pounds in One Ton. 
Nitrogen Phog. Acid Potash 
Oat straw. 
15 
8 
20 
Rye straw. 
10 
6 
17 
Wheat straw... 
10 
S 
12 
Buckwheat straw 
20 
S 
11 
Thus oat and 
buckwheat 
straws 
con- 
tain most plant 
food, but 
any of 
them 
will make good litter. 
Snake in Animal's Stomach 
I know there are cases on record where 
a domesticated animal has swallowed a 
snake’s egg, which has hatched out in 
stomach, stayed there and caused consid¬ 
erable trouble. Are such cases common 
or rare? What are the evidences given 
by an animal in such a condition? What 
remedy is there? ll. P. p. 
Titusville, N. J. 
If there is auy evidence that snakes’ 
eggs have hatched out, and the young 
snakes lived inside the digestive tract of 
a domestic animal, I should be very glad 
to know it, but do not consider the oc¬ 
currence probable or possible. The di¬ 
gestive fluids would quickly dispose of 
egg or young snake in such case. The 
alleged cases on record I should attribute 
to the pi’oduction of fertile imaginations, 
with the possible foundation of the care¬ 
less observation of intestinal worms, 
which may have been mistaken for young 
snakes. w. c. Henderson, 
Acting Chief, Biological Survey. 
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