e/te RURAL NEW-YORKER 
415 
Fertilizers Pay 
BetterThan Ever 
T oday a bushel of 
com or wheat buys 
more fertilizer 
(potash excepted, of 
course) than at any time 
during the past three 
years. 
Note how much cheaper 
you can buy a 2-10 fer¬ 
tilizer now than before 
the war. 
In 1914 
In terms of farm prod¬ 
ucts, fertilizers cost less 
today than in 1914, 
Fertilizers paid you 
then —they will pay 
you better now. 
Fertilizers are today 
more profitable and 
more necessary to ef¬ 
ficient production than 
before the war. Grow 
more per acre and in¬ 
crease your profits by 
using fertilizer. 
Help both the railroads 
and yourself by ordering 
Spring Fertilizers now. 
Send for literature to Dept. 19 
Soil Improvement Committee 
of the ^ 
National Fertilizer Association 
Potta) Telegraph Bldg. 
Chicago 
The M'jntey Bldg. 
Baltimore 
CRoWN 
S EED is high and 
scarce. Make every 
gaai n . 
DRIt-LS 
grain count. A Crown 
Drill sows the right depth 
and ihe right_ amount— 
its force feed b accurate. 
No seed is too small or too 
big—dent corn or kidney beansso wn without crack¬ 
ing. The fertilizer feed handles wet “goods” suc¬ 
cessfully. Send today for 1918 catalog. 
We also make Lime and Fertilizer Sowers, 
Traction Sprayers and 
Wheelbarrow Grass 
Seeders—allguaranteed. / /f? 
Crown Mfg. Co. 
112 Wayne Street 
PHELPS, N. Y, 
Soil and Fertility Notes 
Keeping Hen Manure 
pan yon toll ino what to mix with 
chicken nmiuirt* to keep it from heating? 
I put about 40 bushels in a shed with | 
tight roof and the manure is “burning 
up.” I expect to use manure in the 
1 Spring in my truck patch. o. n. c. 
, Wadswcirth, O. 
! Land phister or sulplmte of lime dusted 
over that manure as it was ttiken from 
'the house would have dried it and pre¬ 
vented heating. You can n.sc the jdaster 
now—worked into the pile, but the hand¬ 
ling over will hardly pay. Why not take 
it right out and sinead where it is to be 
used? 
Fertilizer in Corn Hills 
AVbat is the best way to apply eom- 
mercial fertilizer to corn when planted 
with liand planter, or by hand? I want 
the corn in I’ow.s both ways. I tried 
dropping fertilizer in the hills, then plant¬ 
ing down through it with hand planter, 
hut it did not germinate as well as where 
fertilizer was not used. Would the fer¬ 
tilizer injure the young corn plants if 
dropped on the hill.s jiist after corn came 
up before cultivating? e. y. f?. 
Salem, N. Y. 
We have had some trouble in using fer¬ 
tilizer right in the hill at ])lanting time. 
When a small quantity is drilled in. there 
is not usually much trouble, but a hapdful 
thrown into the hill will sometimes in¬ 
jure tlie seed. We have obtained best re¬ 
sults by scattering the fertilizer around 
the lull when tin' corn is nhout four 
inches high, working it in with hoe OX' 
<-ultivator. 
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WILL HELP will THE WAI 
Crops, manufactured products, dairy-stock, household 
effects and farm implements are far loo valurdsle to be 
left to the mercy of an unsafe roof. The nation depends 
upon its farmers and no farmer can afford to tun the 
risk an unsafe roof entails. 
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are a safe, serviceable, long-lived roohng material that 
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strip is divided into four shingles, quioldy laid. Only 
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Send today for 
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which shows the various kinds of roofing we carry and 
tells why we can save you money on a good roof. 
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82 Thompson Street Fitchburg, Mass. 
Dissolving Bones 
T have .«:omc hones which T would like 
to make use of as feitilizer. Would it 
bo profitable to Imrn tht'm. or could I dis¬ 
solve them in some other mtiimer? 
Bloomsbury, N. .T. w. yr. 
Tt depends somewhat on the quantity 
of hones you have. The etisiest way to 
Imndle them Ls to hunt them. Wlien you 
do this you lose a good shit re of the fer¬ 
tilizing value, as the nitrogen is driven 
away through this burning. Wliat you 
have left is the phosphorus in the form of 
hone ash. Wliere there are only a few 
hones, and wood is list'd fm- fuel, the 
hones can he burned in the .stove or 
heater, and all tin' ashes saved for use 
on the land. Wliere tlit're are many of 
them they can he burned in a bonfire 
made up with tree trimmings or trash of 
any sort, with the hone mixed through it. 
Some jieople who keep poultry roast the 
.soft hones in the ovt'ii and then feed them 
to the hens. The fertilizer maiuifacturers 
oriish the hones in powerful machinery 
and then treat them with sulphuric acid. 
This would pay only where you have a 
large (|iiantity. There are .a number of 
hone mills on the market which would 
smash the hones, hut we do not advise 
tlie use of sulphuric acid on the farm. 
One Avay of softening bones is to pack 
them in nnleaehed ashes in barrels or 
Ikixcs and keeji them moist. In about 
three months’ time the hones will he 
softened and can he smashed up fine with 
a hammer or heavy sjiade. 
Green Crop for Plowing Under 
What green crop would you consider 
the best for plowing under for beaus on 
a poor piece of ground that has had no ! 
manure for ti number of years, something : 
that could he sown in March or April? 
T>ast year T obtained good results with 
about 1.400 pounds of high-grade fer¬ 
tilizer to the acre. I intend to use about 
the same amount of fertilizer again this 
yeax*. Would you advise using, say, about 
oOO pounds of the 1.400 for the green 
crop? Are seed hean.s good the second 
year for planting? f. a. b. 
Long Island. 
Tlie best combination for such a pur¬ 
pose is oats iind Canada field iieas seeded 
together. Sow one bushel of peas on top 
of the groiiiul and jilow or disk them 
under. Then broadcast 2^/j bushels of 
oats and liarrow in. It will he good 
practice to use .500 poimds of the fer¬ 
tilizer with this crop. The oats and peas 
can be plowed under in late June or 
early .Inly. Test the seed beans by plant¬ 
ing a few in pots or boxes or wrapping' 
them in a warm, damp cloth. 
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