The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
779' 
Smothering Crops of Oats and Buckwheat 
A number of readers have written about 
land thoroughly covered with witch grass 
or weeds. They want some crop that will 
smother out this pest. It is not possible 
to kill out such a growth entirely in this 
way, but it is a good plan to keep the 
ground covered with a thick growing crop 
if it cannot be fully cultivated. A heavy 
seeding of oats and peas up to the latitude 
of New York City will keep the weeds 
down. This crop can be cut for green 
fodder or hay, and then the land can be 
promptly plowed or chopped up with a 
disk or cutaway. Then it should be seed¬ 
ed thickly with buckwheat. We have 
found .this crop one of the best for smoth¬ 
ering out weeds and grass that we have 
ever tried, yet strange to say, clover will 
often make a fine stand when seeded with 
buckwheat. 
Our own plan is to seed thickly to 
buckwheat after cutting the oats and peas, 
and also throw in about half a bushel of 
rye to the acre, with three or four pounds 
of Ahsike clover seed. The buckwheat 
makes a quick rank growth, and holds 
everything back. When the buckwheat is 
cut. either for grain or for mulching the 
ground, the rye slowly makes its way 
through and holds the laud during the 
Winter, and the Alsike clover, as a rule, 
makes a fair stand and a quick growth in 
the Spring. As a preparation for po¬ 
tatoes or corn this plan has worked well 
with us, and while the witch grass is not 
entirely killed out it is so reduced that a 
thorough cultivation the next year will 
clean it up. 
The Cider and Vinegar Question 
On page 522 is an article on the future 
of apple cider under the prohibition law. 
I have operated a small custom cider mill 
for the past 35 years. The cider is gen¬ 
erally taken away the day it is made. I 
have usually made my own apples into 
cider, and in a year or two sold it to 
neighbors as vinegar for culinary pur¬ 
poses. But. as the Hope Farm man says, 
between sweet cider and vinegar the devil 
holds forth. I have never had any of this 
kind for sale, although I have plenty of 
calls for it. I certainly would like to see 
a system worked out that would keep 
sweet cider sweet without changing its 
flavor. I have never seen it yet. Of 
course people would like a market for 
their cull or waste apples. There is very 
little feeding value in apple pomace. I 
have fed it to my cattle, but do not con¬ 
sider it of much value. There may be 
some process with the aid of a generator 
to make vinegar in 24 hours from sweet 
cider. I have never seen one. It may 
pass the State and Federal test, but I 
doubt if first-class vinegar can be made 
from sweet cider in the time stated. 
I know that there is a great deal of 
complaint from people who buy vinegar 
from the corner grocery for culinary pur¬ 
poses. We live in a dry town: it has 
been dry for over 40 years, and no one is 
allowed to sell or keep hard cider for a 
beverage. The Hope Farm man says that 
a cider drunk is one of the worst exhi¬ 
bitions of booze work. That is right. I 
know of another, and that is Jamaica 
ginger, which the corner grocery and mer¬ 
chants are selling in quantities. 50 to 00 
per cent alcohol. Go around in the 
church sheds and you can pick up plenty 
of empty bottles. No one tries to stop 
them. They claim they have a right to 
sell it. Only last week a man was ar¬ 
rested for stealing a horse; drunk on Ja¬ 
maica ginger; in jail now. A few days 
ago. in an adjoining dry town, a man 
dropped dead in front of a hotel: alco¬ 
holism. A number of bottles of Jamaica 
ginger were found in his pockets, and a 
quantity in his room. Why are the people 
allowed to sell that kind of stuff? Either 
the law is wrong or it is not enforced. 
Franklin Co.. X. Y. F. B. 
R. N.-Y.—We know of cases where 
men have been able to get drunk on patent 
medicines. We understand that part of 
the money now being spent to fight the 
enactment of a strong law for enforcing 
the prohibition amendment is furnished 
by the patent medicine people. 
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Moles 
With my index finger I make a small 
opening in the runs; I pour in each hole 
about a tablespoonful of gasoline. As 
the moles are quick to throw back dirt 
and there may be many in the run. a sec¬ 
ond trial may be necessary. I have never 
failed to get the desired results. K. A. T. 
“YESSIR.” said the marketman briskly, 
“that’s five pounds of sirloin, two pounds 
of bacon, ten pounds of potatoes, and cel¬ 
ery, tomatoes and peaches—is that all?” 
Smith (thinking of his flaccid pay envel¬ 
ope) : ‘‘No—er—not quite all—I’m re¬ 
serving a little for tobacco.”—Melbourne 
Australasian. 
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