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IShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 16, 1918 
1917 ANALYSES 
MARES POTATO 
Phos. 
Acid 
Ammonia 
Available 
Total 
Potash 
Average of six State Station Analy.ses.. 4.95 
7.74 
9.0S 
1.09 
Guarantee... 4.50 
8. 
8. 
1. 
GENERAL SPECIAL 
Average of four State Station Analyses. 7.20 
6.22 
9.04 
1.64 
Guarantee. 7. 
6. 
8. 
1. 
TOBACGO STARTER, IMPROVED 
Average of four State Station Analyses. 5.23 
6.14 
8.33 
1.12 
6. 
8. 
1. 
GORN MANURE 
Average of four State Station Analyses. 3.24 
7.67 
10.74 
1.07 
Guarantee.3. 
8. 
10. 
1. 
. TOP DRESSER. FULL STRENGTH 
Average of three State Station Analyses. 12.12 
6.27 
S..36 
2.25 
Guarantee..12- 
5. 
8. 
1. 
TOBACCO MANURE 
Average of two State Station Aualj’ses. .10.24 
6.34 
8.45 
1.82 
Guarantee.19. 
.... 
S. 
1. 
AGAIN 
The Farmer’s Opportunity 
Farmers Obtained Record I’rices for Produce last year. Should 
do so Again this year. 
Farms should be run to Capacity and Proper Fertilizers Liberally 
used. 
Use MAPES MANURES 
Their Standard Absolutely Maintained in Field and State Experi¬ 
ment Stations. 
All during the war the Mapes Manures wei'e made and are being 
made iirecisely as in the past, under pledge to supply the Phosphoric ' 
Acid from Animal Bone and Ouano, made available without acidity, no 
Rock or Acid Phosphate used. While they do not contain as much 
Potash as formerly, they do hold enough to greatly aid the present crop 
to more perfect growth and development, and thus insure the balance 
of its necessary Potash l)eing taken from latent soil supplies. 
Our s]jlendid record with the State Experiment Stations of 1916 
again maintained. 
We give below the average of all the Station Analyses which we 
have I'cceived of our prominent brands for 1917. 
We are equally proud of the results in the field. They have been 
most excellent, fuliy substantiating our theory as to the advisability of 
supplying at least limited Potash to aid the crop to make a start, and 
so enable it to avail itself to the utmost of the latent supplies of Potash 
in the soil. 
Order at once. Under this year’s conditions it is the only way to 
be sure of having your Fertilizer when you want it. 
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Address. 
The Home Acre 
Laying Out Small Grounds 
1. I have a piece of land 165 by 264, 
and wish to plant out this Spring to 
fruit trees for my own use. I want 
apple, pear, cherry, plum and peach. 
There will be reseiwed from this piece of 
land, a piece .36 by 56 for a house and 
lawn. Will you give me best viirieties 
of trees to plant, time of planting, and 
distance apart to set? I also wish to 
plant a couple of grafted walnuts. Can 
you tell me anything about them? Would 
they do well here? I also wish some 
blackberries, raspberries and strawber¬ 
ries. I do not want to plant all the fruit 
trees; wish to have enough to grow suf¬ 
ficient of all kinds of vegetables for home 
use. 2. Also will you give me size of 
box to hold five tons of coal? Box may 
be either square or oblong. Above piece 
of land has a very heavy sod of natural 
grasses and clover, which I had plowed 
under this Winter. I can get plenty of 
manure, but it is all cow. Would I need 
any fertilizer to go with it, what kind 
and how much? G. W. J. 
Massachusetts. 
1. The inquiry made it necessary to 
work out some sort of a plan as a sug¬ 
gestive guidance for the aiTangeinent and 
planting, so that an understanding of 
what is desired may be arrived at. As 
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24- 24— 
25- 2,5_ 
1 
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1 
2 
o 
2 
2 
26- 26-26— 3 
27- 27-27— 3 
28— 34 
29— 34 
30— 68 
.31— 15 
32— 8 
.33— 8 
34— 5 
35— 2.50 
30— 250 
37—244 
Cherry, Royal Duke. 
Chen-y, Black Tartarian. 
Plums. Red June. 
Plum, Damson. 
Plums. Abundance. 
Peaches. Greensboro. 
Peaches, Champion. 
Peaches, Oldmixon Free. 
Peaches, Niagara. 
Peaches. Elberta. 
Raspberries. Cumberland 
(blackcap). 
Raspberries, Cuthbert 
(red). 
Blackberries, Blowers. 
Currants, Perfection. 
(I’uiTants. White Grape. 
Gooseberries, Downing. 
Gooseberries, Josselyn 
(Red .Jacket). 
Strawberries, Success 
(early). 
Strawberries, McKinley 
(mid-season). 
Strawberries, Pearl .Jlate). 
2. A bin 0.x6x5 feet will hold a frac- 
2.0{K) pounds to the ton. A cubic foot 
of hard coal, broken, weighs about 56 
pounds, and soft coal about 50 pouWIs. 
To find the capacity of a bin of any size, 
multiply the length by the width, and the 
there is no infonnation as to whether 
this land is level, rolling or hillside, the 
plan cannot possibly be anything more 
than suggestive, and can easily be altered 
by the owner to conform with the contour 
of the land, if he finds such a course 
necessary. The plan in its arrangement 
provides for economy of ground, and at 
the same time embraces enough or more 
fruit of the various kinds to supply a 
large family’s needs. The trees and 
plants may be set out iu the Spring as 
early as the ground is iu good working 
condition. 
If cow manure is available in suf¬ 
ficient quantity, nothing more iu the way 
of fertilizer will be needed, as the de¬ 
caying clover sod will supply an abund- 
, anee of nitrogen and all the humus neces¬ 
sary to put it in good condition. 
It is not stated what kind of walnuts 
you desire to plant. If English walnuts 
is meant, it is doubtful if the hardiest of 
them will succeed in your latitude; at 
■ least I do not know of any sort I could 
i recommend to withstand the Massachu¬ 
setts Winters. The .Tapanese walnuts 
i are entirely hardy and would no doubt 
I do well in your latitude. There are two 
j species, Sieboldiana and Gordiformis. 
I Both are of good quality, being very 
similar in flavor lo the native white wal¬ 
nut or butternut. 
INDEX TO FLAX. 
Siniuiicr. 
Plan No.— 
Apple. Yellow Transiiar- 
1 — 
1 
ent. 
o_ 
1 
Apple. Red June. 
.3— 
1 
Apple, Duchess of Oldeu- 
burg. 
Fall. 
4— 
1 
Apple, Wealthy. 
rj_ 
1 
Apple, Fall Pippin. 
(1- 
1 
Apple, Maiden Blush. 
7— 
1 
Apple, Transcendent Grab. 
Winter. 
S-S— 
2 
Apples, Grimes Golden. 
9-9— 
2 
Apples, Mcluto.'^h. 
10-10— 
•> 
Apples, Rome Beauty. 
11-11— 
2 
Apples, Delicious. 
12— 
1 
I’ear, Snyder. 
13-13— 
2 
Pears, Bartlett. 
14-14— 
•) 
Pears, Seckel. 
15-15— 
•> 
Pears, Anjou. 
2 Cherries, Montmorency 
16-16— 
< 
(sour). 
17-17— 
2 
Cherries, Napoleon. 
result by the height; this gives the num¬ 
ber of cubic feet the bin will hold. Now 
multiply the number of cubic feet by 56 
and divide by 2,900; the answer will be 
the number of tons the bin will hold, or 
for soft coal multiply cubic feet by 50 
and divide by 2,000. K. 
Rabbits and Mice 
I notice that a good deal is said about 
rabbits injuriug fruit trees. They used to 
injure mine, but 1 have not seen a single 
injured tree for .some years since adopting 
the following measures: 
Rabbits woii*t gnaw the bark of trees 
if they they get plenty of food that they 
like better. They like almost anything 
better, but especially the buds of fruit 
trees and berry bushes. I leave plenty 
of low branches on the young apple trees, 
and the rabbits eat all the buds off these 
as high as they can reach. How high de- 
Iiends on the depth of the snow. So far 
as I can .see, it doesn’t do a bit of harm. 
Every orchardist must have noticed how 
the signs of rabbit congregation abound 
where freshly pruned apple tree branches 
have been left on the snow. I try to see 
that from the first snowfall there are 
lilenty of jirunings to feed the rabbits. 
The plant food stored up in the buds for 
the leaves and blossoms is rabbit food as 
well, and bark will never be touched when 
there are plenty of sweet buds. A good 
big blackberry or raspberry patch fur¬ 
nishes plenty of low buds for bunny that 
one will uevf’r miss. 
I have no doubt that if the field mice 
could get buds they wouldn’t chew bark. 
But as it is, the best preventive of mice 
injury that I have found is to mound up 
the trees. I have not seen trees so 
mounded that were injured by mice. I 
fancy that rabbits sometimes get the blame 
for the field mouse's work. To my think¬ 
ing the mouse is much the worse of the 
two. W. C. DEMIXG. 
Gonneccicut. 
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