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ihe sheep industry. By laws of 1020 it was provided 
that if a dog should attack any domestic animals 
having a commercial value, which is where it may 
lawfully he, and complaint thereof he made hy the 
owner of the animal or person in charge of the same 
or hy a duly designated representative of the Depart¬ 
ment of Farms and Markets, or any peace officer, to a 
justice of the peace of the town, such justice shall 
inquire into the complaint in the manner provided, 
and if from investigation he is satisfied of the truth 
of the complaint, he shall order the owner to kill the 
dog immediately, and if the owner fails to kill such 
dog within 48 hours after service on him of the 
order, lie shall he subject to a penalty of $25, and a 
further penalty of $2 for each 24 hours thereafter 
until the dog is killed. If the owner fails to kill 
such dog as required hy the order, a duly designated 
representative of the Department of Farms and 
Markets or any peace officer shall kill such dog, on 
or off the premises of the owner, and any person may 
kill such dog if running at large off the premises 
of the owner. 
The owner of a dog which shall attack, chase, 
worry, injure or kill domestic animals or fowls shall 
he liable double for the damages caused thereby to 
the owner of such domestic animals or fowls. 
In your letter you say you wish you were a “good, 
rugged man.” If you had been a “good, rugged 
man” the disgraceful affair you report would never 
have happened. One can readily see that none hut 
a sneaking coward would take so large an audience 
to see him heat a cripple. It is not wise to advise 
one to use a gun, hut a man’s home has for centuries 
been regarded as his castle, beyond which he is not 
obliged to retreat, and if ever a man he justified in 
arming himself it would he for the protection of him¬ 
self on his own doorstep-r.ndMu his own home. No 
doubt your tormentor brought the audience for the 
purpose of compurgators, but if you had immediately 
gone to your local justice of the peace and made 
information alleging assault and had exhibited your¬ 
self immediately, in your disheveled condition, to a 
neighbor, with nine juries out of ten a conviction could 
have been secured and a justice who would not hand 
out a jail sentence in a case like this instead of a 
fine, would be little better than the defendant him¬ 
self. assuming all the facts you have stated were 
true. n. t. 
Another Florida Strawberry Crop 
Part II. 
SULPHUR FOR RED SPIDER.—The previous 
crop of berries had been so satisfactory that I had 
contemplated copying culture and treatment as 
nearly as possible, including the sulphur treatment 
for red spider, whether that pest made its appear¬ 
ance or not. The area planted this season was di¬ 
vided hy a roadway and a ditch into three sections; 
for convenience let us call them Nos. I,-2 and 3. 
No. l was the area occupied hy berries the previous 
season, and was planted first. No. 2 and No. 3 were 
additional territory, and were planted after No. 1 
in the order named. As a precautionary measure 
the plants had been dusted with sulphur in the plant 
bed some time before transplanting. Being pressed 
for time while planting No. 2 and No. 3, I occa¬ 
sionally examined No. 1 for evidences of spider, and, 
finding none, thought dusting unimportant. 
After No. 3 was planted, some red spider was 
found in No. 2, and that area was thoroughly dusted, 
a second application being made later. Then the 
pest was found established in No. 3, and treated. 
Meanwhile there was practically none of the mites 
to be found in No. 1, mainly, I think, because the 
plants started vigorously in favorable weather, and 
vigorous growth of plants is not conducive to devel¬ 
opment of the mites. However, as a few scattered 
specimens were to be found, and having caught up 
with the most, pressing work, one evening I took 
the blow-gun and started the sulphur treatment 
on general principles. 
There was a brisk shower that night, which 
washed the sulphur off the foliage, probably defeat¬ 
ing the purpose as an insecticide. A showery period 
of about a week ensued, and as such weather is prac¬ 
tically a cure for an infestation of spider, the sul¬ 
phur treatment on that block was not completed, and 
what had been done was for the time forgotten. 
THE CHECK ROWS—As time passed 13 beds 
< n ihe east side of this block became very noticeably 
more thrifty and vigorous than the rest of the tract, 
and for quite a while I was much puzzled as to the 
cause. The improved area coincided almost, but not 
quite, with the area occupied by the other variety 
the year before, but it did not seem possible that 
any such difference could be due to that circum¬ 
stance. Finally I recalled the interrupted sulphur 
treatment ,and fortunately was able to recall the 
number of rows treated, and this coincided exactly 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
with ihe thrifty area. The most marked difference 
between the treated and untreated areas was that 
the plants on the treated areas, including No. 2 and 
No. 3, as well as the part of No. 1 referred to. main¬ 
tained a uniformly healthy green color, even where 
soil conditions were not conducive to the most vigor- 
our growth, while on the untreated area, though they 
made a good tart, due to early planting, and made 
a good crop of fruit, they soon showed symptoms of 
weakening by tinges of yellow in the foliage, begin¬ 
ning in spots where soil conditions were least favor¬ 
able, and spreading as the season advanced until 
there was more or less yellow foliage all over the 
untreated area, many plants dying outright on the 
least favorable spots as the season advanced. 
RESULTING BENEFIT—Not only was the ben¬ 
efit visible on the section of No. 1 where the sulphur 
was applied direct, but there was a small iriangle 
at the south etui of the untreated part so situated 
that surface drainage from the treated part crossed 
this small area. Here the benefit was just as pro¬ 
nounced as where the application was direct. The 
form used was flowers of sulphur, and was dusted 
on with a blow-gun at the rate of about 75 lbs. per 
acre per application. There was no indication in 
plots No. 2 and No. 3 that there was any response 
to second and third applications. There are some 
problems here that perhaps the chemists can explain. 
I am not sure, but I have an inkling that sulphur 
applied to the soil develops a degree of acidity. If 
so, that agrees with the accepted idea of the require¬ 
ments of strawberries, but would be utterly antago¬ 
nistic to the general idea of the requirements of 
Alfalfa, and I am sure it was in connection with 
trials with -Alfalfa that benefit from applications of 
sulphur has been reported. 
FORMS OF SULPHUR.—What becomes of the 
sulphur of sulphuric acid used in dissolving phos¬ 
phate rock? It would seem that where one ton per 
acre of acid phosphate is used, if the sulphur con¬ 
tent were available, the addition of a little more 
could have no marked effect. As is well known, 
there are two forms of sulphur on the market— 
flowers of sulphur and flour of sulphur. The first 
form, I understand, is prepared by burning and con¬ 
densation, a chemical process; the second by a me¬ 
chanical process, simply grinding. It is difficult, if 
not impossible, to distinguish betwen these two forms 
by inspection, though I think the “flowers” are a 
trifle more fluffy and bulky than the other form. 
There is little, if any, difference in price. I have 
always used (lie flowers. Who can tell us about the 
relative merits of these two forms of sulphur? It 
is certain that sulphur, intentionally used as an in¬ 
secticide on these two crops of strawberries, has 
increased the value of those crops by a good many 
thousands of dollars in some mysterious way, aside 
from its qualities as an insecticide. To me this 
quality appears to be more in the nature of a tonic 
than a fertilizer. On what other soils, and with 
what other crops, can sulphur be used to good ad¬ 
vantage? D. I,. HARTMAN. 
Florida. 
A Statement About Hatching! Fish Eggs 
I F American farmers are to engage in the cultiva¬ 
tion of fish a few words relative to hatching 
fish may be in order. Fish eggs hatch naturally in 
water under such condition as the fish themselves 
establish, but at great loss. It has been estimated 
that 10 eggs out of 10.(XX* produce fish by the 
natural means, but that 80 per cent of the eggs 
will produce mature fish if artificially hatched. The 
process of artificial hatching is simple, as is also 
the apparatus. Fish produce abundant eggs. A cod 
will lay a million eggs, a shad 100,000, herring 50.000, 
salmon 10,000. When deposited in the open enemies 
destroy almost all. Dirt smothers many; birds, rats, 
fish, snakes, and other enemies destroy them. When 
artificially hatched these enemies are avoided. The 
Chinese spread fagots in shallow water for the fish 
to spawn in. These fagots are shipped with the 
eggs adhering to them, as the best means of distri¬ 
buting fish. In no country are fish so plentiful as in 
China, under protection of wise government. 
Fish hatching is not a new art. In the fourteenth 
century, Dom Binchon, a monk, hatched fish artificial¬ 
ly. He spread the plan, and for centuries Spain, 
France, Scotland and other countries used his models. 
Most farmers will not build a simple hatchery, so 
1 will describe first, the manner of preparing pools 
for the fish to hatch their eggs. Make three or four 
pools, connect the pools by channels two feet wide 
and six inches deep. Cover the bottoms of these chan¬ 
nels with gravel or clean sand six inches deep. The 
first pool nearest to the spring may be six inches 
deep at one end and two feet deep at the other end. 
In this shallow pool place the youngest fish. After 
September 10. 1021 
a year they may be placed in a second pool, four feer 
deep, a gravel channel connecting the pools. Other 
pools not less than four feet deep may be connected 
to the latter pool, each having the shallow channel. 
Che fish will breed in the shallow channels. If the 
pools are about four feet wide it will be easy to dip 
the fish from one pool to another by a scoop net. 
made with a straight edge for the bottom, and the 
scoop made like a letter D. Fish of different sizes 
are thus kept apart; otherwise they eat each other. 
Now if you feel skilled enough to hatch the eggs 
by artificial means, you select a place for the hatchery 
through which you can run a clear stream of spring 
water, the more the better. But a stream one-half 
inch square will do for many thousand eggs. Make 
a box first to receive the water at one end; into the 
box fit. frames which can he dropped into grooves. 
These frames will he about four in number, and 
covered with flannel. They are to strain the water 
or filter it. Next let the water pass through clean 
sand in another box to filter it cleaner. Now allow 
the water so cleaned to pass into a long box which is 
set two inches higher at one end than it is at the 
other end. Into this box put several partitions with 
clean sand. These little nests may be six inches 
deep. After the water has passed over these nests 
it goes into pools where Ihe young fry will go when 
hatched. The eggs to be hatched are placed in the 
small nests mentioned, and the water turned in ovei*| 
them. That is all. It is so simple that some French 
people hatch them in their houses as a novelty. 
Now how are the eggs obtained for the hatch? 
They may he gathered from your own pools, they 
may he purchased for the hatch, or you may take 
the eggs from tlie fish which is ready to spawn, and 
press the eggf. from >"'• hy holding her over a pail, 
vertically, and carefully pressing her sides to express 
the eggs. The male fish is then held over the egg-, 
and the milt pressed from him over the eggs. Both 
fish at such times are easy to catch, as tney are very 
slow in their movements at this season. One drop of 
milt from the male fish, will fertilize a quart of eggs. 
If Ihe last box or pool into which the fish run when 
hatched, is so made that it has partitions extending 
from one side almost to the other side, starting from 
alternate sides, so as to make ripples, it is best. 
Little fish crowd into the still water or run info 
ripples, as they desire exercise. The flannel screens 
at the entrance of the water should be cleaned 
weekly. The manner of cleaning is to take one out. 
slip a new one in. let the old one dry, then brush it 
well. But never remove all at once, for then the 
water would not be filtered, and fungus would grow 
on Ihe eggs and destroy many. There should lie two 
sets of flannel screens ready for changing any time. 
America is flooded with silly books on a thousand 
subjects, yet a good hook on fish culture seems im¬ 
possible to get. JOHN GORMLY. 
Pennsylvania. 
Cutting and Separating Wheat and Vetch 
F ARMER'S who seeded wheat and vetch together 
last Fall have had some trouble in handling 
the crop for seed. This combination is a difficult 
one to harvest, as the vines of the vetch are apt to 
trail on the ground and clog the cutting knife of the 
mower or reaper. Probably a mowing machine with 
a short cutting bar will give fair results. The rye 
and vetch seem to cut to better advantage than vetch 
and wheat, as the rye stems are generally taller 
and stronger. Where the vines are partly green, 
it is usually necessary to have one follow rim 
mower and take the vetch vines away, as otherwise 
they may clog, and the farmer’s troubles are not 
over when this crop has been cut. It is difficult !<• 
separate the two kinds of seeds. We have printed 
the picture of a home-made device which will do 
this fairly well, but a perfect separation requires a 
rather expensive machine made especially for this 
purpose. Where one lias only a small amount of 
seed, there is no need of separating it. It can be 
used for seeding another piece of ground and usually 
sold in its mixed condition. We have heard from 
several people who have an original idea of separat¬ 
ing wheat and vetch. They do this by putting the 
mixed seed in a shallow box or pan where the liens 
can get at it. The hens will eat the wheat seed, 
but leave the vetch. The great objection to th it 
form of separation is that while you have the vetch 
seed left, the wheat seed has disappeared, possibly 
to turn up later in the form of white meat or egg-, 
but of no value for flour. 
We have a number of reports of growing two hay 
crops in one season. Oats and Canada peas.are seeded 
early and cut for hay in early .Tune. Soy beans are 
seeded and cut for hay just before a hard frost. This 
will give a heavy yield "f good hay from an acre. 
