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February 21, 1920 
‘Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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frequently the cost is returned several times over 
in increased yield and better quality. They also 
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invested capital. 
"How to Get the Most Out ot Fertilizers” is a valuable little 
book of 60 pages. Every farmer should have it tor refer¬ 
ence. We will gladly send it if you will tell us the number 
of acres of each crop you expect to grow. 
See the local A. A. C. Agent in regard to your require¬ 
ments. If there is no agent in your town, write for the 
name of our nearest agent, or ask for the agency yourself. 
We have factories and warehouses conveniently located 
throughout the United States east of the Mississippi, also 
at Los Angeles, California. 
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Boston Cincinnati 
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Cut Your Labor Cost with A A C- Fertilizer 
T O PLANT MORE acres requires more 
labor; it is expensive to increace produc¬ 
tion by this method. Make the acres 
that you work grow more bushels of grain or 
vegetables, or more tons of hay or silage. Fer¬ 
tilized acres are the most profitable,—they make 
the biggest return per man and per team;—and 
because they produce more , the cost per bushel 
or per ton is less. 
Fertilizer is highly concentrated. It is many times 
richer than manure. It must be applied properly. 
When planting by hand, the fertilizer should be 
well covered by the soil or thoroughly mixed with 
it, before the seed is dropped. 
If applied by machine select one that mixes the 
fertilizer with the soil thoroughly. Some corn 
planters have a special attachment for mixing the 
fertilizer with the soil. If you have one, be sure 
to attach it. 
If fertilizer is applied broadcast, sow it evenly._ 
Fertilizer should not be applied to grass or grain 
that is moist Apply around, and not on, other 
plants. 
Where Does the Pea “Bug” Lay Its Eggs 
I saw some time ago a statement about 
the habits of the pea bug. It was said 
these insects laid their eggs outside of the 
pods and ate ther way into the peas. This 
is an error; they pierce the pods and also 
the pea and lay their eggs inside the pea. 
Middletown, N. Y. H. B. 
The contradictory statements regarding 
the egglaying o^the pea “bug” have prob¬ 
ably arisen from a confusion of the par¬ 
ticular insect concerning which the state¬ 
ments were made. The situation is sim¬ 
ilar to that of a man who owns, let us 
say, a dozen horses, each of which has or 
ought to have it own name—Pomp, Major, 
Jennie, etc. The owner, however, comes 
into the house some morning and says to 
his son: “The horse threw himself in 
the stall last night and bruised his shoul¬ 
der.” Very naturally the son wonders 
what horse was injured, and a decided 
misunderstanding might follow if no fur¬ 
ther explanation were made. If, on the 
other hand, the owner had used the in¬ 
dividual name of the horse and had said, 
for example, “Old I’omp threw himself,” 
the matter would be clear at once, and no 
confusion could arise regarding the par¬ 
ticular horse that was meant. To avoid 
confusion and misunderstanding when 
speaking or writing of insects, so many 
of which are so nearly alike, the entomol¬ 
ogist insists upon giving each one a dis¬ 
tinctive, scientific name. 
There are in this country at least five 
different small beetles that are known as 
pea and bean weevils, no two of which 
have exactly the same habits. One of 
them, the so-called bean weevil (Rruchus 
obteetus) which attacks beans and cow 
peas and may also live on peas in stor¬ 
age, does gnaw a tiny slit in the pod and 
by means of her long egg-depositor does 
lay her eggs inside of the pod. Here the 
egg hatches, and the very small grub 
bores into the bean and lives inside of tin 
seed. This hole that it makes in entering 
the bean is so small, only Vm of an inch 
in diameter, that it can scarcely be seen 
with the naked eye. In fact, most people 
would miss it entirely. The common pea 
weevil (Bruchus pisorum), however, glues 
it email yellow eggs to the outside of the 
newly formed pods. Here they hatch 
and each tiny grub bores a minute bole 
through the pod, usually directly over a 
pea, so that it strikes a pea at once when 
it has worked through the wall of the pod. 
The tiny hole which it makes in the pod 
soon heals over and the only sign of it left 
is a very small brownish dot, which one 
would never suspect of having once been 
a hole through which the grub of the pea 
weevil entered the pod. It would be un¬ 
safe to say that these common bean and 
pea weevils would never deposit their eggs 
in any other situations than the ones in¬ 
dicated, but no one has ever seen them do 
so. Of course, an insect may under cer¬ 
tain unusual conditions act differently 
than it ordinarily does, but generally an 
insect has i(s egg-laying habits pretty well 
established, and will deposit its eggs in 
practically the same way every tune. 
GLENN W. HEHRICK:. 
Sunflowers for Silage 
We had over 30 tests in Clinton Co., N. 
Y. In each instance the total tonnage 
was considerably more than corn when 
grown under similar conditions. Person¬ 
ally I do not feel that the sunflower has 
any great future for silage purposes in 
sections where corn does very well, or say 
where it would make a tonnage of green 
weight of 20 tons or better per acre. In 
Clinton County we had many sections that 
did not produce over 10 or 20 tons of 
green matter per acre. In these sections 
the sunflower was far superior to the 
corn. I think I am safe in stating that in 
many instances the sunflower outyielded 
t ho corn 30 to 35 per cent. The more ad¬ 
verse conditions for corn the greater dif¬ 
ference between the weight of the sun¬ 
flower and the weight of the corn. In 
other counties the sunflower seems to be 
greatly used on farms unsuited to the 
growth of silage corn. 
As to the quality of silage that they 
will make, where they have been grown 
for a number of years and made into 
silage, the farmers speak in the highest 
terms of the plant for silage purposes. 
Some of the farmers in Clinton County 
who grew them this year started to feed 
almost immediately after cutting, and 
were very well satisfied with the quality 
of the silage. Of eour.sj^these men did 
not compar^^^-lXh^q w^^ bige,^ fqr.Jjjey 
did not have an opportiumV to'do so at 
the time. C. H. TILLSON. 
County Agricultural Agent. 
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J33 West 30th Street New York 
