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V/>e RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 16, 1918 
CORN 
for ensilage 
Don’t take for granted your corn will grow this season. 
Only about one out of every five cribs is now showing a 
germination of over 25 per cent. 
Stokes Ensilage Corn shows a germination around 85 
per cent and over. 
Until our present supply is exhausted (the supply grown 
in eastern Pennsylvania and in the northern corn belt of New 
Jersey) we offer any of the following varieties at $5 per 
bushel^ net cash with order, f.o.b. shipping point: 
IMPROVED LEAMING 
REID’S YELLOW DENT 
EUREKA ENSILAGE 
Full legal bushel, weight of bag included, but no extra charge 
for bags. The Government has lifted all embargoes on seeds. 
All varieties will make good silage sorts forNew York, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and southern Michigan. 
Orders will be accepted in rotation received. We advise 
immediate action, as our supply is limited. 
Write for free leaflet which fully describes the above Varieties. 
Let us also send you our Garden Seed Catalog, free on request 
Stokes Seed Farms Company 
Seed Farms: 
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Retail Store: 
219 Market St., Philadelphia 
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51 South Water St. Rochester, N. Y. 
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Growing Tomato Plants 
I wish to raise about one acre of toma¬ 
toes this year. Will yon inform me how 
much seed it recpiires ))er acre? Can I 
raise my plants in hon.se, without hot¬ 
beds or cold frames, and do plants have 
to he transnlanted in Individual pots or 
boxes? 1 have raised a few plants for 
garden jnirposes, hnt never planted for 
cjinninir factory before. s. 
F'airport, N. Y. 
It will not he iiossihle to raise enough 
tomato jilantSv in the dwelling-house to 
lilant an acre. .\t 4x4 feet apart approx- 
imati'l.v 2,725 iilants will be required, and 
at 2x4 feet ajiart, the distance some grow¬ 
ers plant them, .‘l.(5.‘>0 jilants will he re¬ 
quired. There are about 1,,50() seeds in 
one ounce, hnt to he sure of having 
enough plants not less than three ounces 
of good seed should he lilaiited, which 
will reiinire the space of one .Sx(i foot sash 
at least. In order to get good stocky 
plants, they must be transplanted either 
into a frame direct or into flats, which 
must have the proteet;on of the frame. 
Seed should be sown about ID weidvs be¬ 
fore it is intended to jilaiit them in the 
field, and if it is desired to get them out 
early in oifler to get a.^ large retnrii.s as 
possible, it will he necessary to sow the 
seed early and bring the plants along in 
the hotbed. Each 2x0-foot sash wlil jiro- 
vide transplanting room for about 205 
plants at .3x4 inches aiiart; then'fore, to 
raise 2,722 jdants, 14 .sashes at lea.st will 
be required, or a frame 42 feet long; and 
if .3,0.30 plants are raised 3<S sashes will 
be reiiuired, or a frame 54 feet long. So 
it will he readily seen how utterly im¬ 
possible it would he jirojierly to raise so 
many planls in the dwelllng-honse. In 
these days of high prices for all kinds of 
building material the eonstrnetlon of a 
frame of new material large enough to 
raise siiflieient plants for an acre will in¬ 
volve .an ontla.v of somewhere between 
fifty and a hundred dollars, and as this 
proposition of growing tomatoes for the 
eanner.y will be largely an experjnient this 
year, it vvonld seem to he a eheaiier and 
safer plan to buy the jjlauts ffir.this year’s 
crop and see what the returns will he. 
You can then judge whether it will he a 
good future jiroposition, and whether ytm 
will he justified in going to the exjiense 
of providing means for the growing of 
3 ’onr own )ilants for another year. K. 
year for the Southern farmer and for 
the Eastern one with early ripening corn. 
Ohio. A7. W. RKYXOLDS. 
Bean Weevil ; Use of Coal Ashes 
1. Is -earhoii bisulphide the proper 
thing to use for destroying the weevil 
which is liable to appear in field beans, 
etc.? Does it in any way aflFeet the qual¬ 
ity, taste or cooking properties of the 
beans? 2. What good and what bad ef¬ 
fects do finely sifted coal ashes havi' on 
the land? Are they good to mix with lien 
manure so that the latter may he handhal 
hett(>r and kiqit in a dry eoiidition? 
Do.vlesrowii, I’a. ii. n. .x. 
1. The bisuliihide of carbon is what 
you want for destro>*iiig the bean weevil. 
The proper way to use it is to put the 
dry beans into a tight barrel or box. I’lit 
a deep dish at the top of the beans, and 
pour the liquid into it in the proportion 
of about one onpfnl to a bushel of the 
beans. Then cover the whole thing over 
with a blanket or sack, or any tight 
cover, and let it alone for several hours. 
3’he liipiid evaporates and forms a heavy, 
poisonous gas, which works down through 
the beans, destroying all forms of life, 
'riie gas i.s inflammable, so that a flame 
of any kind must be kept axvay from it. 
The gas does not afifect the qn.ality of the 
■beans or their taste, nor does it hurt 
their germinating quality, hnt it does kill 
the weevil. Other methods of fighting 
them are to mix air-slaked lime in with 
the beans, or subject them to dry heat 
ni) to about 130 degrees. 3'he bisulphide 
treatment is most effective. 
2. Sifted coal ashes usually have a 
good effect n))on (he soil. 3'he coal con¬ 
tains no plant food to speak of, but in 
most eases some wood is burnt with 
the coal, and this of course adds a small 
amount of potash. The chief action of 
the ashes upon the soil is mechanical. 
On a light, ojien soil the fine ashes pack 
in and make the soil more solid and com¬ 
pact, so that it holds moisture to better 
advantage. On the heavier clay soils 
ashe.s have an opposite effect, as they 
open or separate such soils and make 
them more porous so that air and water 
can work through them to better ad¬ 
vantage. 1 lie )(nr<‘ coal ashes, well sifted, 
are suitable for drying out the hen ma¬ 
nure. and arc f-equently used for this 
jnirpose. 
The Problem of Seed Corn 
Thi.s year is one in a hundred with 
corn. We were credited with far more 
than was grown, and now from reports 
the situation <*ould not be bluer. No 
matter how good and sound corn was at 
husking, it was not dry enough to crib, 
; and then the cold came and froze it. 
Where a crib is more than four feet wide 
there is a foot or more in she middle that 
was frozen in a solid chunk, and unless 
that corn is moved and ventilated it will 
mold and rot. (lur cribs are 5i/4 ft. 
wide, and have been changed and filled 
with boxes, crates, boards and tile, fixed 
to let air all throngli the corn. 'Fhe West 
is in a fix, and as thej' can get ears, are 
shelling and shipping and it is kiln-dried. 
About all the crooks have got into the 
seed corn business, and this is the time 
to look up the seed corn advertiser be¬ 
fore foi’warding money, or worse, planting 
the sei'd. I have looki'd iqi some who 
claim they are “old. reliable, established 
seed houses,” and find they <‘auiiot be 
older than a few months and are un¬ 
reliable. 
There are more than two full months, 
and farmers are tlie most resonreefnl 
folks in the world, are used to climbing 
over obstrnetions, and they will climb 
over this one. Study, plan, time and test 
of corn will change the blue viewpoint. 
’Fhe best can he sorted from the seed laid 
up, aiul matured ears taken from the sides 
of cribs, especially the south side, where 
the sun dried it, and it can be tested, 
(lermination will be low, but planting 
can be heavier, followed bj’’ thinning and 
rejilauting. It will be a hardship, but 
that is a lu'iei' we often jiay for success. 
It will take a lot of work, but yon can’t 
hold the American farmer down. There 
will be some failures, and men will be 
taken in hj' bogus seedsmen, hnt we shall 
have as near our (jiiota of a crop as the 
ImLoi- fdT'ce I'q jil'P' to get it. ’riiis is the 
Climbers on Grape Arbor 
I have garden about 75x2(K) feet, and 
in the center have a grape arbor eight 
feet wide and 00 feet long, 10 posts either 
side. Between the posts in the center I 
have gi-apevines, the same being young 
vines and only about four feet high, and 
not thick gi-owth. As the arbor is high 
and looks bare, I would like to plant at 
each post a climbing variety of cucumber, 
melon or something of the sort. Would 
this he advisalde, or could any harm come 
from it? J 
Peek skill, N. Y. ’ ' 
It is not advisable to plant anythiA-,? 
near your grapevines that would in tin* 
slightest degree interfere with their 
growth and jiroper d<‘vf*lopineut. If yon 
will fertilize the grapes well and keep the 
ground around them well cultivated they 
will soon make growth .snfiieieut to make 
considerable showing on the arbor. It 
•would he much better to jdant a tom.ato 
plant in between the gi'apevines and train 
them up to the .arbor. Y'’oa will be sur¬ 
prised at the quantity of extra fine fruits 
they will produce. k. 
Sowing Norway Spruce in Rocky Soil 
Would yon think it worth the effort to 
plant seeds of Norway spruce in soil that 
is rocky and mostly sandy loam that it 
would be too expensive for other general 
products? I have noticed it is much over¬ 
grown with other evergreens, birch and 
brush, and thought the Norway spruce 
would be a good one to raise tinder the 
conditions. w. B. 
New Britain, Conn. 
The Norway spruce is propagated from 
dry seed sown in Spring in frames or pro¬ 
tected border. The soil in this piece of 
wild land would seem to he well adapted 
to evergreens, and the general surround¬ 
ings ideal for the pnrpo.se. Plant the si'cd 
about an inch deep. Norway spruce seed 
may be procured from uuy dealer in tree 
seeds. K. 
