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Street Scrapings as Fertilizer 
The paved streets here were cleaned 
this Spring. How is this dirt for fertil¬ 
izing the land? It looks good to me for 
enriching the soil. J. K. 
Now that horses are disappearing from 
the streets, such sweepings 1 have but 
little fertilizing value. Formerly the ma¬ 
nure made them useful. Such sweepings 
often contain oil dropped from ears and 
trucks, and this injures them for fertiliz¬ 
ing purposes. They are not worth much. 
Hardiness of Fruits 
This has been a very peculiar Spring. 
The freeze got most of our peaches, but 
fortunately we had about 800 trees of 
.1 H. Hale, and they have a full crop. 
This is a surprise to me. as I formerly 
considered the Hale a little tender, but 
out of about HO varieties it. comes out 
first this time. Our Campbell’s Early 
strawberries were about two-thirds lost, 
but Howard 17 and Lupton are making 
full crops. w. B. K. 
Gloucester Co., N. J. 
Ivy Poison Once More 
There are so many requests every year 
for remedies for ivy poisoning I aui sure 
vou will like to have this simple rule: 
Wash the affected parts with very hot 
water and strong brown soap. This is 
said to be recommended by Ur. Woods 
Hutchinson, and his reason for its ef- 
fectivenes is that the rash of poison ivy 
exudes a greasy, fine substance, which 
spreads and soon causes the rash to ap¬ 
pear on other parts of the skin. The 
very hot water and strong soap cut this 
grease and so stops the spread of the 
poisoning. E. M. C. 
Seymour, Conn. 
Turpentine as Crow Repellent 
I note the same old story—tar corn. 
Get all stuck up planting corn, as I have; 
hoe handle, hands, clothes and all. and 
when a fly or insect wants brushing off 
one's nose, even one’s nose all tar. too. 
If one uses one good tablespoonful of tur¬ 
pentine to one-quarter bushel of corn, or 
even a little more, no crow, blackbird or 
pheasant will pull over one or two hills 
in any part of the field, and ants will not 
carry lice to turpentined corn. Try it; 
15 cents worth of turpentine will fix corn 
for 40 acres. It is a vegetable, not a 
mineral, and will not hurt corn. _ 
New York. F. M. r. 
Coal Tar and Crows 
I was much interested in the article. 
“Tarring Corn,” appearing on page 750, 
and would like to relate my experience. 
Five years ago I began trying my (green) 
hand at gardening. Blackbirds—-not 
crows—pulled up all of my 100 hills of 
corn. On the advice of a farmer. I mixed 
corn with coal tar and replanted, with 
the result that the corn remained 1 un¬ 
touched' by the birds. This I have done 
each succeeding year in safety, until last 
year. when, despite the coal tar, the birds 
cleared the ground again of the young 
corn. As the farmer told me nothing 
about the quantity of coal tar to use, 1 
mixed in enough to cover each kernel of 
corn completely, drying off with fine 
ashes. This did not interfere with the 
growth of the corn. a. m. b. 
Binghamton. N. Y. 
Japanese Walnut 
Regarding the Japanese walnut, there 
is one tree that I know (some of the nuts 
are on my table now) that grows nicely 
in this latitude, and on a 1.000-ft. eleva¬ 
tion, producing crops of delicious nuts. 
The Winter of 1919-20 was very cold. 27 
degrees below zero, for two days and 
nights (48 hours) at one time, yet (he 
tree the Fall of 1920 produced an im¬ 
mense crop. The origin of the tree is 
unknown, but the chances are that it was 
purchased from a nursery. I. R. F. 
Bennington, Vt. 
Hiving Wild Bees 
How can I remove a swarm of bees 
from a telegraph pole to hive? There is 
an opening about four inches in diameter. 
They have been there three years. I 
would like the name of a monthly publica¬ 
tion devoted to bee culture. A. M. 
Scotch Plains, N. J. 
I know of no method of attracting bees 
from their home in a hollow tree or pole 
to a hive. Except for new swarms which 
voluntarily leave their old home, bees 
remain with their queen and cannot he 
induced to take up a new home unless 
bodily removed to it. They would not 
then stay in the new home, unless the 
queen were with them. Any swarm found 
in so small a cavity as a telegraph pole 
would contain would probably be of little 
value if removed. 
Gleanings in Bee Culture is a well- 
known monthly publication for beekeepers 
that would very likely "meet your needs. 
jr. b. d. 
“Don’t you just love this view?” ex¬ 
claimed the visitor from the city. “I hate 
to look at it,” replied the suburbanite. 
“The agent who sold me this place got me 
so interested in that view that I never 
noticed the mosquito swamp on the other 
side of the house until after I had signed 
on the dotted line.”—New York Herald. 
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