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April lit. HU: 
Truth About Feeding Plants 
In your answer to E. C. J., New Jer¬ 
sey, page 569, regarding his inquiry as to 
the effect of wood ashes and land plaster 
•on corn crop, you state that the mixture 
will supply lime, potash and phosphoric 
acid in the best form for corn, but does 
not contain nitrogen, which must be other¬ 
wise provided through manure, plowed- 
under soiling crops or chemicals. How 
much longer must the farmer be fed on 
this sort of misinformation?_ Is it not 
about time for someone to bring forth an 
original investigator to inform the crop 
growers the truth about soil fertility and 
plant food, instead of parroting the old- 
school fertilizer and potash trust propa¬ 
ganda? The fact is the mixture of wood 
ashes and land plaster contains outside of 
a possible trace, no phosphoric acid what¬ 
ever. but contains sulphuric acid; also the 
nitrogen need not be otherwise provided 
for; it is already present and obtainable 
without cost from the mile-thick layer of 
atmosphere weighing down every acre of 
this earth, four-fifths of which is nitrogen, 
and this is extracted therefrom through 
the leaves of plants and ih,: via its roots. 
Yours for truth—eventually, why not 
now ? CHARLES II. HOLD. 
Erie Co.. N. Y. 
We certainly stand heartily in favor of 
that last sentence. An analysis of aver¬ 
age unleached wood ashes will show about 
600 lbs. of lime, 100 lbs. of potash, and 
from 35 to 40 lbs. of phosphoric acid. 
Our friend is wrong in saying that the 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, APRIL 19. 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
A Roadside Market in New England.. .677, 678 
Handling Rye as a Cover Crop . 678 
Agricultural Possibilities of New Jersey— 
Part II.678, 679 
Remedy for Onion Smut. 679 
Truth About Feeding Plants. 680 
From the Other Side. 681 
The One-horse Farm. 681 
Old Time Farm Accounts. 684 
Hope Farm Notes. 692 
New York Agricultural Department. 695 
Crops and Farm News. 709 
Oats and Peas for Hay. 
combination of wood ashes and land plas¬ 
ter will contain no phosphorus. We do 
not think the ashes contain phosphorus 
enough fully to supply the corn crop, but 
there is a small quantity of this substance 
in the unleached ash. Land plaster is a 
sulphate of lime. We do not quite under¬ 
stand how sulphuric acid will aid in sup¬ 
plying nitrogen, and we shall be very 
glad to have Mr. Dold come forward and 
tell us how the corn plant can obtain 
nitrogen through its leaves. Surely any¬ 
one who can demonstrate that proposition 
may rightly class himself as the original 
investigator so much desired by Mr. Dold. 
It is true that there is an abundance of 
nitrogen in the atmosphere, but so far as 
we know it has not yet been shown that 
this nitrogen is taken into the plant 
through its leaves. We think it would be as 
safe to say that Mr. Dold can supply his 
body with nitrogen by breathing in the 
air, and if he could do that there certainly 
would be no need of supplying protein in 
a balanced ration. 
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The Wild 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Best Rabbits for Meat. 
Butter and Cheese Prices in Milk Figuring. 
A Case of Cowpox.•••• 
Various Hog Questions.702, 
Business Record Cow. 
Buckwheat and Corn for Cows. 
Rape for Hogs. 
An Example of Milk Costs. 
Slaughter Waste for Swine. 
More About Shorthorns. 
Inbreeding Swine . 
Poor Milking Sow; Swine Breeding. 
A Case of Cowpox. 
Various H?g Questions. 
Spraying of Milk. 
Stock Raising in Cuba. 
Lame Cow and Horse. 
Breaking a .. 
Calf Dysentery . 
Stiffness .. 
Shrinkage of Pork. 
Packing Cured Meat in Salt. 
Distinguishing Bob Veal. 
HORTICULTURE 
Wild Cherry Industry. 680 
Smothering Out Chick weed and Witch-grass. 685 
Bagging Fruit to Repel Birds. .. . 6f5 
Salting Asparagus to Kill Quack Grass.... 6 5 
A Vermont Farm Orchard.••••••••■• 
Suggestions for Handling the ( Peach Orchard 693 
THE HENYARD 
Egg-laying Contest .714 
Ailing Bird . 714 ’ ’J® 
Death of Hen. 
Pip in Turkeys.ii? 
Buttermilk for Chicks. 715 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Pleasures and Perplexities of a Vermont 
Farm ...• v • •• • .. 
Washing the Letters from Grain Sacks. 
More Spring Thoughts of a Plain Farm 
Woman . . . 
Controlling an Unwelcome Guest. 
Dandelions—A Good Spring Tonic.. 
The Gulf Between City and Country... 696, 
The Child in the Home. 
The Credit of Soldiers. 
A New Scheme for a Farm. 
Homemade Labor-savers . 
A New Hold-up Game. 
Mending Rubber Boots. 
Farmers Wanted ... 
New Idea for College Commencemc.it. 
Feeding and Care of Canaries.. 
The Home Dressmaker.. •• • -760, 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks.701, 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Terribly Maimed Soldiers. 
Home Canning as a Business. 
Minimum Prices ... 
Controlling Borers in House Timbers. 
Removing Warts . 
Scratched Mirror . 
Electric Refrigeration . 
Restoring Varnish on Violin. 
A Kitchen Distillery.. .. 
Scorched Tallow .. - • ■ 
Soldering . 
Broody Hen as Meat. 
Aluminum for Kitchen Ware.. . • 
Power from Helium. bee ' 
Deodorizing Compounds . 
Using Up the Left-overs. 
F.ditorials . . • •;. 
Countrywide Produce Situation. 
Events of the Week. 
Up-State Farm Notes. 
Government Crop Report. 
The City Man vs. the Farmer.... 
Inside Toilets for Country Schools. 
Publisher’s Desk . ; ;. - ..*••*■•. 
Cherry Industry 
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In the “Hope Farm Notes’’ was a little 
account of the boys trying to peel wild 
cherry bark, and perhaps a little history 
of what has been done in Vermont may 
enable some farmer, his sou or even his 
wife and daughter, to put a few of Uncle 
Sam’s good, coins into the purse. Wild 
cherry bark has many uses, in cough and 
influenza remedies, blood purifiers, etc., 
and is bought by nearly if not all dealers 
in roots, herbs and bark. The medicinal 
wild cherry is the black cherry, not the 
red, pin or bird cherry. This W inter 
dealers paid 10 cents a pound for bark 
from trees with rough bark, calling this 
grade htavy bark; 16 and IT cents a 
pound for bark from young, smooth trees, 
and 20 to 22 cents for thin bark from 
small trees and branches two inches or 
less in diameter. These prices meant de¬ 
livered to the dealer. The buyers paid 
here six cents for heavy bark. 10, then 
nine for medium thin. They dared not 
buy the thin bark, as some people would 
put in bark that was too thick, and the 
dealers would only call it medium thin. 
The buyer in this town made arrange¬ 
ments with two neighboring farmers that 
he would cut and deliver the cherry tim¬ 
ber to their door that grew on their 
farms if he might have the bark. Ilis 
sons cut the wood into four-foot lengths, 
and when it was frozen it had to be piled 
cob-house fashion in a heated room to 
thaw before peeling with a draw-shave. 
The 1)Uver averaged to peel 300 pounds of 
bark a day. and sometimes peeled 400. 
It cost about a cent and a half a pound. 
I believe, for transportation of bark, but 
even then gave him rather good (?) day 
'' 'The drying of the bark was the hardest 
problem; a chamber floor over a heater 
room solved the problem for many. It 
bad to be dried till on trying to bend it 
it would snap, and required 48 hours in 
medium temperature. Some used old 
screen doors, or made a frame and cov¬ 
ered it with old sacking, either suspending 
these or placing them across chairs. In 
a warm room there it would dry in 24 
hours. , , . , 
Our experience in bark business began 
when a man who made a business of 
gathering different herbs and barks asked 
the 16-year-old boy why he didn’t try it. 
There was some black cherry in our wood- 
pile, so he sawed it. piled it around the 
kitchen stove, and in two evenings earned 
$1.40. Then husband began to take no¬ 
tice. lie and son had agreed to cut come 
pulpwood, so only had stormy days, eve- 
iiings and Saturday afternoons, but with 
the help of a 13-year-old boy after school 
and Saturdays in the first six weeks of 
this year they peeled and sold {flll.oS 
worth of bark. Most of this wood was 
sawed stove length and peeled with a 
large, strong jackknife. The last week 
prices had dropped, so the bark which 
would have brought over $35, only 
brought a trifle over $18. Prices went 
down the latter part of February, but 
have come back to four, seven and 11 
cents, delivered to the dealers. Buyers 
here pay four cents for medium thin, 
but even then it is good day pay. 
They tell us the supply of cherry 
in the Southern States is getting 
exhausted, so dealers are obliged to find 
it in new localities. Some firms used to 
have their own drying plants in the 
South. The bark is not good when the 
sap is running, while the trees are leafing, 
but farmers are usually busy enough then 
without peeling bark, but it gives them a 
chance to turn an otherwise undesirable 
tree into money and wood, and help get 
rid of the tent-caterpillars’ abiding place. 
If trees are cut in pastures during the 
Summer, remember wilted cherry leaves 
are very poisonous t<> cattle. Moral; 
Cut jiftci;. the leaves fall. MRS. w. 
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