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MR. FARMER 
IT’S WORTH YOUR WHILE TO GET 
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT 
BARIUM- 
PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
Containing 
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7 °/o BARIUM SULPHIDE 
and 
SULPHUR IN A WATER SOLUBLE FORM 
Headquarters also for all 
FERTILIZER MATERIALS 
For “HOME MIXING” 
Nitrate of Soda. Potash Salts 
GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK 
Witherbee, ShermaaS Company 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
GRANGERS LIME 
“The Proven Soil Sweetener” 
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Grangers Lime Company 
SALES OFFICES: P. 0. Box 915, Hartford, Conn., Bridge- 
water, Mass. WORKS: West Stockbridge, Mass. 
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v coats, caps, gloves, muffs, rugs. - 
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655 WEST AVE. 
Ship’s Sweepings for Fertilizer 
More than a year ago I had occasion 
to got from a friend who is in the im¬ 
porting business about a ton of nitrate of 
soda in the form of sweepings from the 
liokl of the vessel in which the nitrate 
was shipped from Chile. This nitrate is 
in the form of crystals of various sizes, 
mixed with pieces of wood, spikes and the 
general refuse from a ship’s hold. I have 
put a little of this on my garden and 
about fruit trees, but the damage has 
been greater than any benefits, as far as 
I can see. I have a farm of 1G0 acres, 
and raise such crops as corn, oats, pota¬ 
toes, rye and hay. Can you tell me the 
best use I can make of these nitrate of 
soda sweepings? jj. w. T 
Hillsdale, N. Y. 
There would, of course, be no way of 
answering exactly without an analysis 
of this nitrate. It may contain a good 
quantity of common salt or some inor¬ 
ganic chemical. Hay and grass would 
probably be least likely to be injured 
We should mix it with twice its bulk of 
black soil or dead swamp muck and 
broadcast on l*ye or on the meadows. 
Storing Kieffer Pears 
^ M hat is the best method of preparing 
Kieffer pears for market? Can they bo 
wrapped and kept as a Winter pear, and 
at what stage of ripeness should they be 
gathered for this treatment? We have 
usually sold our crop as late Fall pears 
to family trade, but last year our KiofTors, 
though large and high colored in the fruit 
cellar, blackened when brought out, and 
looked very unattractive. We may have 
kept them too long. I should like to know 
how to keep them successfully for as late 
selling as possible. a. j. r. 
Connecticut. 
There are several fundamental prin¬ 
ciples to consider when storing pears and 
other fruits. In the first place, after 
picking the starch changes rapidly to 
sugar. When the fruit is picked and left 
for any length of time in warm atmos¬ 
phere this change goes on very rapidly. 
Cooling to a low temperature after this 
change occurs has no effect except to stop 
the process. With pears of the Winter 
variety. 33° to 3S° F. gives the best re¬ 
sults. This cooling stops the chemical 
change or ripening process and also keeps 
the disease germs inactive. Fruit will 
wilt in storage and this causes the leath¬ 
ery skin with pears, but this can be re¬ 
tarded by keeping the storage room moist. 
Wiwpping the fruit has the advantage of 
keeping the spores (seeds) of the disease 
germs that may appear on one-fruit from 
spreading to the other fruits. We always 
pick the pears green, about a week to 30 
days before they would ordinarily ripen, 
wrap them in newspapers and place them 
at once in a cool cellar where it is fairly 
(lamp. We have good success in so doing. 
Artificial refrigeration at the lower tem¬ 
peratures of course keeps the fruit longer. 
When brought from storage into a warm 
i place the fruit goes down rapidly, t. it. t. 
Handling Bee Tree 
Will you inform me how to get. the 
honey out of a bee tree? The tree in 
question is a large white birch. The 
bees enter through a small hole in side 
of tree. How shall I take care of honey 
after I get it out of the tree? When 
would be the best time to get the honey? 
The tree is on my land, not far from the 
house. w. B. N. 
Columbia Co.. N. Y. 
To get the maximum quantity of honey 
from this tree you should wait until the 
last honey flow of the season is over, and 
then cut the tree. If the honey chamber 
is near the ground you may be able to 
take a slab from the side of the trunk and 
get at the store of sweet without felling 
the tree, but it is more likely that you 
will have to sacrifice the tree to obtain 
its contents. You will need to protect 
your face and hands with veil and gloves 
while cutting the tree, though you may 
be able to stupefy the bees before doing 
this by blowing smoke into their entrance. 
The best means of doing this is through 
the use of a bee smoker, borrowed from 
one of your beekeeping friends. After 
the honey chamber has been broken into 
and the bees have gorged themselves with 
the wasting nectar they are not likely to 
give much trouble. Such bee trees are 
very likely to disappoint one in the 
amount of honey contained, and it is not 
always best to sacrifice a tree of some 
value on the chance of obtaining enough 
honey to recompense the loss. m. b. d. ■ 
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“Neither can I, but that is uo rca -o \ why 
we should be lonesome. We are auvuys 
meeting our creditors.” — Philadelphia 
Record. 
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