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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 15, 1919 
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Get Your Farm Home from 
the Canadian Pacific 
T HE Canadian Pacific Railway offers a won¬ 
derful opportunity to own a farm, achieve 
independence and grow rich in Western Can¬ 
ada. It offers you farm lands on the rich 
prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al¬ 
berta for eleven to thirty dollars an acre, 
or irrigated land up to fifty dollars an acre. 
Twenty Years to Pay 
You pay down 10$. Then you have no payment on the 
principal until the end of the fourth year; then fifteen 
annual payments. Interest is 6%. 
$2,000LoantotheFarmer 
Loans are made to approved set¬ 
tlers on irrigated farms—with no 
security except the land itself— 
up to $2,000 in improvements. 
You have twenty years to pay 
back this loan at 6% interest. 
Why This Offer Is Made 
The Canadian Pacific is not a real 
estate dealer, in the ordinary 
meaning of the term. Its pros¬ 
perity depends upon the prosper¬ 
ity of the settlers along its lines 
of railway. To get good settlers 
and to make them keep prosper¬ 
ous, it offers terms and assistance 
which would otherwise be impos¬ 
sible. And this offer applies to 
the wonderful prairie lands of 
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Man¬ 
itoba—the richest grain and stock 
land in North America. 45 bush¬ 
els of wheat, 100 bushels of oats 
per acre, are frequently produced 
on this land. Average crops ex. 
ceed any average elsewhere in 
America. 
Lands Under Irrigation 
In Southern Alberta the Canadian 
Pacific Railway has developed the 
largest individual irrigation un¬ 
dertaking on the American conti¬ 
nent. The irrigated lands are sold 
on the same easy payment terms— 
prices range up to $50 an acre. 
The Canadian Pacific Rail¬ 
way w ill not sell you a farm 
until you have inspected it. 
To make this easy, special 
railway rates have been ar¬ 
ranged. Write for particu¬ 
lars and free illustrated 
booklet. 
M. E. THORNTON 
Supt. of Colonization 
Canadian Pacific Railway 
914 Fir»t St. E. Calgary, Alberta 
M. E. THORNTON, Supt. of Colonization 
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY 
914 First St. E., Calgary, Alberta 
I would bo interested in learning more 
about: 
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Q Farm opportunities in Alberta, Sas¬ 
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□ Special railway rates for home 
seekers. 
□ Business and industrial opportuni¬ 
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Chicken Manure for Peas 
I am desirous of growing a lot of green 
peas this Spring; that is, about 2,000 feet 
of rows. My ground is heavy clay soil in 
pretty fair condition, such as would grow 
a good crop of corn. I have saved, dry, 
from my poultry, considerable manure 
and would like to know if this is good for 
peas, and if it would In' all right to put it 
in a furrow, mix it with the soil some¬ 
what, cover slightly, and then sow the 
peas on top of this, or would it be too 
strong a fertilizer used that way? As a 
top-dressing I fear I would lose consider¬ 
able of the ammonia in the air, as it 
could not all be very well mixed under 
the soil that way. Stable manure here is 
$3.50 it team load, and too expensive to 
pay for a crop like peas. What would 
you advise? j. v. c. 
Spark ill, N. Y. 
Our experience with poultry manure on 
peas is that it produces a heavy growth 
of vine but a late and rather poor de¬ 
velopment of seed. This would be expect¬ 
ed, since the chicken manure is rich in 
nitrogen and low’ in phosphoric acid. The 
nitrogen promotes growth, while phos¬ 
phorus hastens maturity and develops 
seed. You will get better results by using 
at the rate of 400 pounds per acre of acid 
phosphate with the manure. Your plan 
of using it is not the best. It would be 
better to scatter it over a wider space and 
cultivate it into the soil. The best way 
to use chicken manure is to make it as 
fine as possible and mix with chemicals 
like acid phosphate and plaster on dry 
soil, and then use it as you would a fer¬ 
tilizer. This method will give good re¬ 
sults, hut requires more work than some 
farmers feel that they can afford. At aiiy 
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Seeding Oats with Spring Wheat 
I have been having trouble raising oats 
on my farm. They grow too tall and fall 
down, so I lose my crop of oats and 
smother the seeding out. I had thought 
that next Spring I would mix one-half 
Spring wheat and one-half oats, thinking 
the wheat would hold the oats up. What 
do you know about the ripening of the 
two crops? Will they ripen together? 
A. T. B. 
We would not do it. The Spring wheat 
and the oats will not ripen together, and 
you will lose part of one of these grain 
crops. Nor do we think the Spring wheat 
will prove satisfactory in holding up the 
oats, though the wheat has a stiff straw. 
The soil is evidently too rich in nitrogen 
and this drives the oats into a quick and 
Soft growth. If you will use 400 lbs. per 
acre of acid phosphate the oat straw will 
he stiffer and stand up better. 
Beans as a Fertilizer 
T have a lot of cull beans on hand. 
Can I grind them in my mill and use 
them as a fertilizer? IIow would they 
analyze, and what would he the best way 
to use them ? H. E. 
New York. 
These cull beaus will vary somewhat in 
composition, hut in a general way a ton 
will contain something over 70 lbs. of 
nitrogen, about 17 lbs. of phosphoric 
acid and 20 lbs. of potash. This means 
about 2i,£ per cent of nitrogen, one of 
potash and less than one of phosphoric 
acid. It would he quite possible to grind 
them, as you speak of, and scatter them in 
the bill or drill just about as you would 
any other fertilizer. We would do this 
grinding shortly before the beans are to be 
used, as they might heat and ferment, 
and thus lose a little of the ammonia. In 
using them it would pay you to mix some 
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you can see that they are lacking in phos¬ 
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would pay to add, say 30 lbs. of acid phos¬ 
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would make a very fair fertilizer for such 
crops as corn or potatoes. If you had 
plenty of stock on hand, you would prob¬ 
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them to bogs or to cows. If these beans 
could he cooked with potatoes or other 
roots, you would have a very good feed, 
or they may he fed raw to sheep. That 
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hut if you have no stock to feed out, there 
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as a fertilizezr, especially when mixed 
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