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fPte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
What Do \ ou Know 
About Tamarack ? 
Have you ever tried Tam¬ 
arack for any purpose what¬ 
soever? Do you know that 
it will serve you as a timber 
of general utility. Do you 
know that its straight, 
strong growth makes it an 
ideal fence post? 
We have information from 
reliable sources regarding the 
durability of Tamarack posts. 
We can give you information 
derived from personal obser¬ 
vation and experiences. 
Wc visited the immense Tam¬ 
arack forests and inspected 
fences built from Tamarack 
posts on which we have affi¬ 
davits as to their serviceability, 
and we want you to know what 
we found out. This you can 
learn in our book. “Collected In¬ 
formation On Durability of 
Tamarack.” This book is free. 
Wc have tried to reach every 
dealer to supply him with this 
book. Ask your dealer for one. 
If he cannot furnish it. write 
to us; we will send it prepaid by 
mail. Address. 
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Burning Wheat Stubble 
Last Fall I had a piece of land with a 
heavy crop of wheat. I burnt the stub¬ 
ble. Did it injure the land to burn the 
stubble for the next crop of wheat, or 
would it be better to plow the stubble un¬ 
der? My neighbor says I injured the 
land by burning the stubble. j. o. 
Peterson, Utah. 
On most land it is far better to plow 
the stubble under and into the soil.' This 
adds organic matter which is badly needed 
in most soils. Burning the stubble on the 
ground destroys this organic matter, and 
also drives away the nitrogen. In old j 
English farming on heavy clay lands 
there used to be a practice called “paring j 
and burning.” In this the soil was spad- ! 
ed up into chunks which were dried and 
burned until they would break up fine. 
This was thought to improve certain hard 
soils, but in general the plan of burning 
the stubble is a mistake. 
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Cover Crop for Hand Cultivation 
In using rye sis a cover crop and plow¬ 
ing it under in the Spring, I find time in 
my garden of a half acre whatever is 
gained by this crop is no offset to the in¬ 
convenience of cultivating the ground with 
a wheel hoe. Is there any crop that will 
hold the top soil from blowing away in 
the Winter, and yet leave the land in 
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tools? w. s. II. 
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Crimson clover and turnips will give a 
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through the Winter. Bye alone or with 
clover is best for your purpose, but any 
long crop plowed under will interfere 
somewhat with the wheel hoe. We have 
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the rye, let it wilt a couple of days and 
then plow under deeply, raking the rye 
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Disinfectant; Analysis of Wood Ashes 
1. Would you give a formula for mak¬ 
ing a disinfectant and lice and mite killer 
for use in poultry buildings? 2. Also 
give the chemical analysis of wood ashes. 
E. R. 
1. Probably a strong solution of lime- 
sulphur, thoroughly sprayed all over the 
inside of the house, will take care of the 
hen lice. We should repeat this several 
times. In order to handle the red mites 
we would paint the undersides of the roosts 
and the connection of the roosts with the 
house, with some thick and heavy fat, 
like tallow, or a combination of beeswax, 
fallow and lard. Melt this and paint the 
inside of the roosts as you would apply 
any other paint. This will keep the 
mites from working. 2. An average sam¬ 
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about 100 ltis. potash. 40 lbs. phosphoric 
acid and 000 lbs. of lime to the ton. 
Lime on Strawberries 
I find that authorities differ in agricul¬ 
ture.. as in all other matters. For in¬ 
stance. The R. N.-Y. has time and again 
advised that on no account should straw¬ 
berries be planted upon limed ground, and 
if flit* ground lias been limed, that a cover 
crop should he first sown and plowed uu- 
der. The Horticultural Department here 
advises just the reverse. An article ap¬ 
peared in The It. X.-Y. last Summer 
along these lines, and 1 at once cut it out 
and forwarded it to the department, at 
tin' same time drawing their attention to 
their pamphlet on strawberries, which 
advocates tin use of lime. The answer 
that 1 received was that “It is quite true 
that some authorities do not approve of 
the use of lime, but we still hold that it 
is necessary and beneficial.” So you see 
when doctors disagree the patient dies 1 
British Columbia. f. ii. d. 
Xot always! Sometimes he asserts him¬ 
self. uses his common sense, takes the ad¬ 
vice which seems sensible—and gets well! 
The R. N.-Y. never lays down any dog¬ 
matic rules about treating the soil. We 
have raised strawberries for 2.5 years, 
and tried all sorts of methods and all 
kinds of fertilizers. Whenever we used 
lime or planted in an alkaline soil we in¬ 
variably found that the crop was injured. 
The plants did not respond, but were in¬ 
ferior in size and in product. Many ex¬ 
periments have been made to learn the 
lime* requirements of various crops. The 
great majority of them show that the 
strawberry prefers an acid soil. We 
think the varieties differ somewhat in this 
respect—like varieties of apples or of corn 
hut in general the strawberry is not a 
lime-loving plant. We have often called 
for reports on this, and 00 per cent of 
them have agreed that lime and wood 
ashes should not be used directly on the 
berries. It is evident that “great minds 
differ” and sometimes small minds have 
the same liabit. Lime is wonderful for 
most soils and crops, but we would not 
use it on strawberries. 
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