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Using Hen Manure for the Garden > 
On examining the hen manure in the 
barrels I find that it is moist and sticky, 
so cannot pulverize ns you have suggest¬ 
ed. Has it lost most of its strength, and 
should it be used differently? With my 
peas I have always put the stable manure 
in trenches, covering with about three 
inches of dirt, placing the seed on top and 
then covering. For an experiment I have 
done the same with hen manure, and so 
far the peas seem to be coming along 
about as well as those with stable dress¬ 
ing. Would it be at all advisable to mix 
this with water and then pour around | 
plants, and, if so, wlmt kind can this be ! 
safely done with? Soon I shall plant po- 1 
tatoes. Can it be put in trenches safely 
and with good results? I used to see The 
R. N.-Y., but did not appreciate its value 
until I had a “war garden’’ and a “back¬ 
yard flock.” All three are a great com¬ 
bination and it makes us city fellows won- i 
der where the farmer gets off. Eliminat¬ 
ing the pleasure, it would be expensive 
for some of us. 6. A. J. 
Massachusetts. 
In using any kind of manure in the 
garden it is advisable to make il as fine 
as possible. That gives it a better dis¬ 
tribution all through the soil. Many gar¬ 
deners put the manure in the furrow, 
cover it with soil and then sow the seed. 
They usually get good crops, but. in a dry 
season the manure is likely to “burn” or 
dry out. Wherever possible in garden cul¬ 
ture we think it better to make the ma- ( 
nure or fertilizer as fine as possible. The 
moist hen manure has lost some of its 
ammonia. You can probably smell it if 
you get close to the barrel. By dumping 
it out of the barrel and scattering road 
dust or sifted coal ashes over it you can 
dry out. the manure into hard chunks. 
Then by crushing them you will have a 
fine fertilizer. Or, you can fill a barrel 
about two-thirds full of water and then 
fill up with the moist manure. Stir it 
up well and pour the liquid along the 
rows. Either this liquid or the fine 
crushed manure will be good for the gar¬ 
den, but acid phosphate or fine ground 
bone used with it will be a great improve¬ 
ment. 
English Grain Louse on Wheat 
I had a fine field of wheat which stood 
about 2i/ 2 ft. high by May S, which is un¬ 
usual around here, but in spaces or spots 
it is turning yellow. On close inspection 
I find little green bugs, and once in a 
while a little long fly. Is this the Hes¬ 
sian fly. and what is the bug? Do you 
think it is harming the wheat? I cannot 
see any injury done in the way of a sting 
or otherwise. If not the insects, what 
makes it yellow, and is there anything I 
can do for either or both? The wheat 
was seeded about September 15, 191S, on 
a potato field; good ground, limed two 
years ago. A. D. 
Jamesburg, N. J. 
The insect is the English, grain louse 
(Macrosiphum granaria). Dr. T. J. 
Headlee. New Jersey State Entomologist, 
has sent the following letter to the Farm 
Bureau agent of Monmouth Co., N. J. 
About the only thing that can be done is 
to use nitrate of soda or some other fer¬ 
tilizer which will push the growth of the 
grain: 
“A study of the plant lice collected 
yesterday in the fields of Monmouth 
County show them to be apparently rep¬ 
resentatives of a single species, which is 
commonly known as the English grain 
louse, Macrosiphum granaria Buckton. 
Most of the damage done by this species 
is effected through sucking the ripening 
heads and in preventing their filling with 
a proper quality of grain. 
“It is recorded that the first individuals 
are found on young wheat in April in our 
part of the country, but that during open 
Winters they may be found on the plants; 
while in the South they continue to re¬ 
produce during most of the Winter in 
open seasons. The lice feed on the leaves 
until the grain commences to head, when 
they assemble on the heads among the 
ripening kernels. In the Spring they mul¬ 
tiply with such rapidity that where a few 
are present at the time of examination 
in a few weeks they will be found swarm¬ 
ing. When the grains ripen they migrate 
to various grasses and later appear on 
volunteer oats and wheat, upon which 
they subsist until Fall wheat is available. 
So far as known they hibernate over 
Winter among the leaves of the growing 
plants, enough surviving both snow and 
cold to infest the crop the next Spring. 
“Like other lice affecting small grains, 
this species is held in check by parasite 
insects, aided by predaceous insects and 
fungous diseases. Cold weather in the 
Spring greatly retards the development of 
the parasites, and gives the aphides a 
chance to multiply rapidly. With the on¬ 
coming of warm weather the parasites be¬ 
come active. With continued cool weath¬ 
er you will have reason to anticipate a 
good deal of complaint from wheat grow¬ 
ers in your county. 
“The only thing that can be done to 
miuimize'the injury which will be done to 
the wheat is to use some type of fertilizer, 
such as nitrate of soda.” 
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