The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE MAILBAG 
Potatoes Above and Below Ground 
Three years ago I had one potato top 
that had been covered over in cultivating 
and then had grown three potatoes on the 
tips—potatoes at both ends of the vine. I 
saved the three potatoes and planted them 
the next Spring, and got 30 potatoes 
weighing seven pounds. These were plant¬ 
ed last Spring and now I have about four 
bushels. It was Rurals to begin with, 
and last year they had purple blossoms. 
In shape and look they are Rurals now, 
but I think they are better shaped, or 
more even than the others. J. ,t. e. 
Iron Mountain, Mich. 
Sulphate of Ammonia on Grass 
I graze my cow on an acre lot, and in 
order to get the largest yield of grass I 
am thinking of top-dressing with sulphate 
of ammonia, but hesitate because I have 
noticed that the cow does not eat the 
grass where the droppings and urine fell 
the year before, and I do not know that 
the ammonia in this fertilizer will not 
affect the grass in a way somewhat sim¬ 
ilar. H. c. B. 
Maryland. 
The use of 125 pounds of sulphate of 
ammonia to the acre will quicken up the 
grass and improve the pasture. The rea¬ 
son why the grass growing where the 
droppings fall is not readily eaten is be¬ 
cause the fertilzer is too concentrated. 
This is especially true of the liquid. 
Many of us as boys were sent out in 
Spring with clubs or hoes to break up 
and scatter the clumps of manure. This 
was the game of golf farm boys played in 
that age. If you scatter a handful of 
fine lime or acid phosphate over and 
around these clumps of grass the cattle I 
will finally come back and eat most of it, ! 
as the phosphorus will give better quality 1 
to it. Thus it will pay you to use 300 
pounds of some good phosphate in con¬ 
nection with the sulphate of ammonia. 
Rural Mail Carriers and Holidays 
The matter of rural mail delivery, re¬ 
ferred to on page 407, has lung interested 
me. A year or more ago I wrote to the 
Postmaster General on this subject, sug¬ 
gesting that the rural mail substitute car¬ 
riers be given the needed encouragement 
of work at least on all 'holidays, and. bet¬ 
ter yet, on Sundays also, in addition to 
the present only sure work during the reg¬ 
ular carriers’ vacations. This suggestion 
was not, of course, for the sole benefit of 
the sub-carriers, but primarily for the 
benefit of the rural mail service. 
It is practically impossible for many 
of the residents along the rural routes to 
get their mail on Sundays and holidays, as 
is now done by many city residents, and 
when a holiday comes on Saturday or 
Monday the rural routers often suffer very 
serious delays in their mails. 
Be it understood that though under the 
plan suggested the sub-carriers would 
work on all holidays and Sundays, they 
would have an ample number of days oft. 
and when appointed to regular service 
they would have all their Sundays and 
holidays. No overwork is suggested : only 
improvement in the service, and. inci¬ 
dentally. much needed encouragement to 
the sub-carriers, who. under the present 
system, often go months without a day’s 
work or pay. F. E. aspixwale. 
Kentucky. 
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Potash from Marl 
Regarding article on page 559 discuss¬ 
ing American potash, can say that it has 
gone beyond the experimental stage, as 
yesterday I called on a motor truck agen¬ 
cy here in reply to an advertisement, and 
found they have a contract for 18 months 
to haul green sand marl from Sewell, N. 
,T.. to Gloucester, X. J.. to a fertilizer 
manufacturer there, who will extract the 
potash from it. The contract calls for 
the delivery of five loads per day. seven 
tons per load, for an average of 26 days 
per month for a term of 18 months, at a 
price of 90c per tun fur hauling. This 
means that they want 550 tons of sand 
per day, and must have a process by 
which the potash can be extracted at a 
profit, or they would not contract for IS 
mouths. ' e. A. B. 
Chester, I*a. 
Treatment for Goitre 
A few weeks ago I read in The R. 
N.-Y. a letter from a reader who had a 
goitre. My mother and two sisters cured 
theirs with iodine, applied with a brush 
every two or three nights for a few times; 
then wait a few days or it will get very 
sore and begin" again. Usually this treat¬ 
ment will drive goitre away*. A physi¬ 
cian would tell just how to use it: it 
certainly is worth trying. f. b. 
Missouri. 
Applications of tincture of iodine are 
of recognized value in the treatment of 
goiterous enlargements of • the neck, par¬ 
ticularly in young people. These enlarge¬ 
ments frequently disappear of their own 
accord, however, and it is not always pos¬ 
sible to say how much the iodine had to 
do with it. Iodine used ns you suggest, 
and also internally, is an old remedy for 
curable goiterous tumors, and, usually, is 
about the first one to be tried. M. b.*d. 
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