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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 0, 1919 
PREER'S 1919 
GARPEN BOOK 
/^IVES you the informa- 
tion you must have if 
your garden is to be a success. 
Everything Worth Growing 
in Vegetables, Flowers, plants, 
bulbs, roses, vines, berries, 
aquatics, etc., is listed and 
truthfully described — novel¬ 
ties and standard varieties. 
224 big pages, four color plates, 
over a thousand photographic 
illustrations. 
Mailed free if you mention 
this publication 
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CLOVER SEED 
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Rape, Spring Vetches, Winter Vetches, Millets, 
Sudan Grass, Rye Grass, Permanent Pasturage, 
Seed Corn, Cow Peas, Soy Beans, Field Peas, 
Seed Grains, Milo Maize, Sorghums, Seed Po¬ 
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SEED POTATOES 
Second Crop, Irish Cobblers 
Grown on the IRON AGE farms at Grenloch, N. J 
Second croppers will plant almost double the 
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us always produced larger crops. Planted 
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Rye Straw for Humus 
Would it pay to draw out last year’s 
rye straw and spread it thick, then plow 
under for corn? Would it be as good as 
green rye plowed under for manure? The 
corn is to he well fertilized with 3-8-2 fer¬ 
tilizer. The rye, we know, will not take 
the place of manure from the yard, but 
we thought it would help out where there 
was to be no manure. A. R. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
A ton of rye straw contains about nine 
pounds of nitrogen, five of phosphoric 
acid and 16 of potash, but it is much less 
available than manure. The. rye straw 
is hard and tough; we have seen it lie in 
the ground several years without decay¬ 
ing. If some manure could be used with 
it the rye straw would decay much faster. 
The green rye will be more available than 
the rye straw. If lime is harrowed in 
after the rye straw is plowed under, de¬ 
cay will be more rapid. In our section 
the straw is sold or used for bedding be¬ 
fore it is put on the land. It will pay to 
use it, however, if you cannot put it 
through the manure pile. 
Strawberries on Old Sod 
Will turf ground, plowed about April 1, 
manured and thoroughly harrowed with a 
cutaway harrow, be a good place to set 
strawberry plants about the first of May? 
Shelton, Conn. R. o. C. 
No. You could hardly find a worse 
place in which to set strawberry plants. 
We have had so much trouble from that 
kind of planting that we can give em¬ 
phatic advice. In spite of all you can 
do, the grass and weeds or the old sods 
will work their way in amongst the 
strawberries and give you a life or death 
struggle to keep the ground clean. It 
may be possible to obtain a fair yield 
from some kind of crops when grass and 
weeds work in, but the strawberry crop 
must be kept clean, if you expect to har¬ 
vest any fruit. We would not think of 
planting strawberries, except on ground 
that has been thoroughly cultivated for 
several years, so as to make it as clean 
as possible. Keep the strawberry plants 
at least three years away from an old 
sod. 
Planting According to tho Moon 
Would you advise me to do my planting 
according to the moon? Some of my 
neighbors are believers in such a prac¬ 
tice, although their crops are no better 
than mine, as far as I can tell. C. R. 
No—not unless the signs of common 
sense art' the same as those of the moon. 
We do not see that the moon has any¬ 
thing to do with the start or growth of 
plants, though we know some excellent 
farmers who always plant by the moon 
signs. We have no quarrel with them, 
and make no effort to convert them. < Mu- 
experience is that if a man starts his 
crop in a way that suits him he will take 
better care of it all through the seasou. 
Therefore if the moon farmer believes in 
his theory we would advise him to follow 
it through. 
potash. .Some farmers collect bones and 
burn them either in the wood house fires 
or in brush piles. They lose the nitrogen 
by doing so, but burning is much less 
expensive than grinding. In “The Voyage 
of the Beagle,” Darwin tells of seeing the 
Indians in Patagonia kill a steer and boil 
the meat over a fire made from the bones. 
It could not have been what we call 
“well done.” 
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FERTILIZERS AND CROPS by Dr. L. L. Van 
Slyke, Price. $2.50. The best general 
farm book. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
A Lawn in Weedy Ground 
We are attempting to establish a lawn 
on what has been an abandoned dooryard. 
Last year we broke up the old sod, re¬ 
moving brush and rubbish, and grew a 
crop of beans for clean cultivation. The 
soil is full o£ weed seeds, mallows being 
very much in evidence. What would you 
advise us to sow next, and how soon 
should we attempt to seed it down? The 
soil is in good condition and very fertile. 
Alpine, N. Y. E. R. 11. 
We have tried two different plans on 
very much the same kind of soil. In one 
case the land was plowed early and plant¬ 
ed to early peas; these were cultivated 
and limed and kept clean of weeds. As 
soon the peas were picked the vines were 
plowed under and a thick seeding of Jap¬ 
anese millet was made. This made a 
heavy growth which was plowed under in 
early September. A heavy coat of lime 
was worked into tlie soil, after which it 
was graded, made fine and heavily seed¬ 
ed to lawn grass seed in late September. 
In the other case the lawn was planted to 
potatoes in hills and kept thoroughly clean 
all through the Summer. It was culti¬ 
vated at least six times and hoed four 
times, so that every weed was kept down. 
After digging in August the land was 
worked several times with a disk, limed, 
graded aud seeded to grass. The lawn 
following the potatoes is cleaner of weeds, 
but the soil of the other contains more or¬ 
ganic matter, and when well fertilized the 
grass keeps ahead of the weeds. The ob¬ 
ject is to force the weeds to start and then 
kill them with cultivation or to smother 
them with some thick crop like millet or 
buckwheat. With either of these plans 
you can seed this Fall, or work two years 
in order to make sure the soil is clean. 
Potatoes After Lime and Green Rye 
In 1917 I had one acre of land in field 
corn: on the last cultivation put in rye, 
and turned it under the following Spring. 
I set out Flat Dutch cabbage plants 
3 x 3% ft.; got a large yield. I put one 
ton of lime on land after turning under 
rve I wish to plant this acre in late 
potatoes. Will the lime put on to benefit 
the cabbage be detrimental to the pota¬ 
toes? That is. shall I get a yield of 
scabby potatoes? s - u * 
Canton, Mass. 
If you will treat the seed with formalin 
we think you will be safe in planting. 
The rye crop, turned under, probably 
offset much of the effect of the lime. 
Tenant’s Use of Lime 
What part of lime should tenant fur¬ 
nish when working farm for one-half on 
one year contract period? Lime costs $4 
per ton, and it costs $2 per ton to haul 
from car and sow on land. Tenant does 
all the hauling and sowing. a. w. 
Van Etten, N. Y. 
On a one-year lease we do not think 
the tenant should be expected to pay 
more than one-fourth the cost of the 
lime. The general rule is for him to pay 
half the cost of manure or fertilizer, but 
in that case much of the benefit will 
come in the first crop. With lime, the 
benefit extends over several years, and 
on a one-year lease the tenant could not 
expect to receive half the benefit from it. 
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2fld CROP SEED POTATOES 
Cobbler—Mills Pride—Giants and Superba and 
Red Skins. 
SEED CORN—Fellow and White. 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS— Stock and Eggs 
MINCH BROS., BRIDGETON, N. J. 
Fertility Value of Burned Bones 
Is there any fertilizing value in burned 
bones? I mean beef soup bones, which 
have been burned in a coal fire. c. B. 
An average sample of bone will con¬ 
tain about 3% per eeut of nitrogen aud 
25 per cent of phosphoric acid in addition 
to lime. Burning drives off the nitrogen, 
but leaves the lime aud phosphoric acid. 
Thus bone ash is useful for supplying 
lime aud phosphorus. Bones contain no 
Silage and Pomace for Fertilizer 
I have about eight tons of spoiled silage 
in the bottom of my silo. I have not. been 
keeping any animals this Winter, so will 
not be able to mix silage with manure. 
Please state what chemical I could nnx 
with the silage to best advantage, and 
what crops would derive the most ad¬ 
vantage from such spreading? I grow 
corn, grass and potatoes. I also have 
about four tons of apple pomace I would 
like to spread to advantage. u. H. R. 
Hudson, Mass. 
The following figures show the average 
analysis of apple pomace and silage. 
Pounds in one ton : 
Nitrogen. Phos. Acid. Potash. 
Silage .7 3*4 9 
Apple pomace. 5 1 o 
Both are inferior to stable manure and 
both lack phosphorus. Both are sour 
and if used without lime would be likely 
to do more harm than good. Of the crops 
mentioned, corn would he best suited to 
the silage aud pomace with lime. Our 
advice is to send a fair sample of each 
to the State Experiment Station at Am¬ 
herst. Ask the chemists there to test 
these samples for acidity. They can tell 
you about how much lime will be needed 
to sweeten this stuff so it will be fit for 
use. That is the safest way to operate. 
In addition to the lime phosphorus in 
some form should he used with both the 
silage aud the pomace. Bone or acid 
phosphate would answer. 
Silver Mine Seed Oats fffSftSS 
Mill: 76 bu. from measured acre in $1 50 per 
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AlsoWHITE KHERSON OAT. Yields 70 bu. 
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