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"Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 25, 1918 
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GenereJ Farm Topics 
Fertilizer Value of Tannery Refuse 
In thi.s town there is .t tannery, and 
they throw away a lot of lime. Could you 
tell me if it is of any value? F. W. 
Blackinton, Mass. 
Yes. It certainly has fertilizing value. 
On an average the "waste is about half 
lime by weight. This lime is about equ.al 
to ground limestone in value. The wa.ste 
usually contains some nitrogen, about as 
much as is found in ordinary stable 
manure. It is better to let this waste be 
exposed to the air for some time before 
using it. 
Making Alfalfa Hay 
To .save all of the leaves of the Alfalfa 
plant and for it to make the highest qual¬ 
ity of hay, it must be cut at the right 
time, properly cured before mowing and 
handled in the right condition. We cut 
Alfalfa when it is one-third in full bloom, 
or when the new shoots begin to appear 
at the base of the stem. If cut before 
this time the hay is impaired both as to 
weight and quality. If cut later than 
this some of the bottom leaves of the plant 
will fall off and the young shoots will be 
broken off and damaged by the mowing, 
thus damaging the next crop of hay. 
In good, bright weather, if the hay is 
rather thin, we cut it in the morning, rake 
it the evening of the same day, and shock 
it the evening of the following day. But 
if the hay is rather thick and the weather 
not so bright, we do not rake it until the 
evening of the following day. In all 
cases, the hay should only he shocked or 
raked in the evenings or mornings when 
it is damp and not so likely to shatter. 
The .size and type of shock made to 
give the best results depends on the 
weather and moisture content of hay and 
ground. If the ground is wet we make 
the shocks small and tall, with a good 
sloping top, but if the weather is bright 
and the ground dry we make the shocks 
larger and not so tall. After the shocks 
have stood for several days and are cured 
out sufficiently for mowing purposes, we 
turn them over in the morning and haul 
in the following afternoon. This allows 
the dampness at the bottom of the shock 
to dry out. In doing this the one precau¬ 
tion to take is not to turn more over than 
can be easily hauled in the same day. 
Ohio. E. J. GRENER. 
Storing Potatoes in the South 
How can we store the Irish potato so as 
to insure its keeping? G. D. C. 
Alabama. 
Low temperature and total darkness are 
the conditions for keeping Irish potatoes. 
A temjierature hut little above the freez¬ 
ing point and darkness^ Of course, this 
can only he had in Summer in the regular 
cold storage. Your early crop caiiuot he 
kept in any other way. In a totally dark 
cellar, and the day air shut out while 
night air is freely admitted the latter 
part of the niglit the potatoes will keep 
for a time, but not for Winter use. The 
best way is to r>lant a late crop in inicl- 
.Tuly. Last year’s seed potatoes that have 
been kept from sprouting in cold storage 
make the best seed for this crop. These 
will grow till cut down by frost, and will 
keep ea.sily in heaps covered with earth 
enough to keep frost out or in a cold, 
dark cellar. Id your climate put the po¬ 
tatoes in a tight outhouse lacking a cellar. 
I’lace on a thick bed of pine leaves or 
straw on which a layer of old newspapers 
is placed thickly. Then cover with sev¬ 
eral thicknesses of the old newspapers and 
then with pine straw. w. F. MASSEY. 
Whitewashing Stone House 
I own a stone farmhouse with walls 
plastered on the outside; the plaster is 
staiued, and I am anxious to brighten it 
up somewhat, and wish your opinion of 
practicability of spraying the walls with 
either a whitewash mixture or water 
paint, using the machine used for spray¬ 
ing fruit trees. If you thiuk thist might 
be done with success I will appreciate it if 
you will advise me what, in your opinion, 
is the best material—whether whitewash, 
kalsomine or water paint—and the ap¬ 
proximate quantity to cover the side and 
end walls, 45xlS, with 18 feet to the 
eaves. F. w. ii. 
For outside work it is necessary to 
make a whitewash that will stick. On a 
house wall outside the kalsomine and 
water paint will not be la.vting. Bettor 
use a wash made after the often-quoted 
recipe calleil the government wash, though 
I will quote it from an old English hook 
of garden recipes: 
Slake half a bushel of fresh lump lime 
with boiling water, keeping the cask cov¬ 
ered while slaking. Strain it and add one 
peck of salt, dissolved in warm "water, 
three pounds of rice flour, put in boiling 
water and boil to a thin paste; one-half 
pound whiting, one pound of glue, dis¬ 
solved in hot water. Mix well and let 
stand several days. When ii.sing keep the 
wash as warm as practicable. This will 
last on the wall nearly as well as the or¬ 
dinary canned paint. "v\^ F. MASSEY. 
Use of Exhausted Hotbed 
Will yon advise me how to utilize the 
hotbed after taking out all the plants, 
transplanting some of them into cold 
frames and some into the garden? l. B. 
Gladstone, N. .1. 
As a rule, by the time the seedlings 
are large enough to transplant, the tem¬ 
perature in the hotbed is rapidly on the 
decline. In many cases the heat is almost 
exhausted. Therefore, the hotbed frame 
may be used in the same manner as the 
cold frames, as it is now but little better 
as far as heat is concerned than a cold 
frame. Some gardeners utilize the ex¬ 
hausted hotbed for sowing late tomatoes, 
cabbage, etc. It may also he used for 
early lettuce, beans, radishes, beets, etc. 
K. 
Earthworms in Lawn 
Can you advise what to use to keep 
angleworms from coming np in our lawn? 
In the past few weeks as never before 
there seems to be thousands of them com¬ 
ing up, leaving little “borings” of dirt 
over the entire surface, de.stroying all the 
beauty of it. What means m.ay be em¬ 
ployed to eradicate them, or reduce the 
“crop” without injury to the grass? 
Schenectady, N. Y. c. M. 
There is a preparation sold by seeds¬ 
men called “Yermine,” which destroys or 
drives away worms—it is applied by 
sprinkling. Lime water is also used for 
this purpo.se. While the worm casts are 
annoying, the trouble usually ceases after 
the Spring season. 
Planting Beans with Corn 
In The R. N.-Y, for March .30, 1918, 
on page 484, under the head of “Pump¬ 
kins and Beans in Corn,” there is men¬ 
tion of “Bergers Green Pod Stringless” 
bean as suitable to plant with the field 
corn. I have these beans and intend to 
plant them with field corn. When do I 
plant these beaus, at the time I plant the 
corn or later? I am afraid if planted 
with the eorn, at the .same time of plant¬ 
ing tlie corn, the beans might choke the 
young coni. L. ir. R. 
Connecticut, 
The Berger Green Pod Stringless bean 
is a selection and improvement on the 
old Dutch Casekuife bean. It is not a 
rank grower like lama beans and some 
others of the pole beans, and if planted 
with the corn it would hardly smother it. 
But the best plan is to plant the beans 
by the corn when the corn is five or six 
inches tall. The presence of a legume 
does not seem to injure the corn. In 
fact it has been found that corn with cow 
peas sown among it after the cultivation 
stops will make more corn than corn 
without the peas. "w. f. massey. 
Growing Onion Seed 
Large selected onions from which seed 
are to be grown are set early in 3-foot 
rows, 6 to 8 inches apart, from 2 to 4 
inches below the surface of the soil. Early 
in the Summer, seed stalks will ileveloj) 
and produce large seed heads. WhCn the 
seed is about ripe and before it shatters, 
the seed balls are gathered by cutting the 
stalks a few inches below each seed ball. 
By spreading them in paper-lined trays or 
on tight, dry floors, the seed will ripen 
splendidly. An amateur grower should 
be warned to avoid placing these seed 
heads in baskets or bulk, because unless 
the material has free access to air it will 
quickly warm up and spoil. When thor¬ 
oughly dried it is thrashed, and the coarse 
material is raked out. The line chaff is 
cleared from the seed by fanning or by 
winnowing. The cleaned onion seed mu.st 
not be stored in bulk or tight coutainer.s, 
because it contains large ciuantities of oil, 
which readily becomes rancid, thus caus¬ 
ing rapid deterioration in the seed. 
