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Questions  and  Answers 
Iron  as  Fertilizer 
Have  cast-iron  chips  or  dust  any  effect 
on  fruit  trees,  grapes,  flowers,  or  any 
vegetables  in  regard  to  getting  size  or  bet- 
er  color  ?  I  have  been  told  that  they 
would.  If  so,  how  large  a  quantity 
would  be  advisable  to  put  around  the 
trees  or  grapes?  These  chips  are  real  fine 
and  quite  a  bit  of  the  iron  is  in  dust 
form.  I  can  get  any  amount  of  it. 
Cleveland,  O.  j.  e.  n. 
We  have  never  been  able  to  see  any 
great  advantage  in  using  iron  around 
trees  and  shrubs.  Many  good  fruit 
growers,  however,  fully  believe  that  the 
practice  is  worth  while,  and  they  fre¬ 
quently  put  pieces  of  wire,  nails  or  other 
rusty  iron,  in  the  hole  where  the  tree  or 
vine  is  planted.  Certainly  no  harm  can 
come  from  the  practice,  and  there  may  be 
soils  and  conditions  where  the  iron  will 
give  good  results.  Generally  speaking, 
we  think  that  most  soils  contain  about 
all  the  iron  that  is  necessary  to  promote 
growth  fully.  Among  other  beliefs  in  this 
matter  is  the  one  that  iron  contributes  to 
the  color  of  fruit,  especially  to  apples,  but 
so  far  as  we  can  learn  this  has  never  been 
demonstrated  by  any  really  scientific  ex¬ 
periment.  Two  good-sized  handfuls  to 
the  tree  ought  to  be  enough. 
Seeding  to  Grass  in  Spring 
I  have  a  piece  of  meadow  (10  or  12 
acres)  which  has  run  out  of  grass.  I 
have  just  had  it  plowed  and  will  leave  it 
in  the  furrow  until  Spring.  I  wish  to 
get  it  into  grass  just  as  soon  as  possible 
—if  possible,  without  cropping.  Could 
it  be  thoroughly  cut  up  with  a  wheel  har¬ 
row  next  Spring  and  seeded  to  oats  and 
grass?  I  have  no  barnyard  manure. 
New  York.  j.  v.  w. 
This  can  be  done  without  great  trouble. 
Let  the  furrows  stand  as  they  are  this 
Winter  and  in  the  Spring  chop  up  this 
sod,  as  fine  as  possible,  with  a  disk  or 
spring-tooth  harrowr,  or  a  combination  of 
the  two.  Give  the  field  a  fair  coating  of 
lime,  well  worked  in.  Then  seed  to  about 
five  pecks  of  oats  and  the  usual  amount 
of  grass  seed.  We  should  prefer  a  com¬ 
bination  of  Timothy  and  Red-top,  with  a 
small  amount  of  clover  added.  If  this  is 
well  harrowed  in  with  a  fair  amount  of 
fertilizer  there  would  be  quick  growth  of 
both  oats  and  grass.  The  oats  may  be 
cut  in  the  milk  stage,  or  while  the  heads 
are  soft,  and  used  for  hay.  Then  the 
grass  will  come  on  rapidly  and  make  a 
good  permanent  stand. 
Growth  from  Stump 
Reference  is  made  to  the  article  on 
page  1256  entitled  “Where  Did  They 
Come  From?”  Your  reader  inquires  as 
to  the  origin  of  certain  chinquapin  and 
hickory  growths  on  the  central  prairies. 
What  I  suggest  as  to  origin  is  only  a 
theory,  as  you  call  for.  Hickories,  chest¬ 
nuts  and  oaks  grow  readily  from  old 
stumps  and  crowns,  either  from  above  or 
just  below  ground.  From  the  description 
of  the  clumps  of  growth  and  the  fact  that 
the  species  are  not  intermixed  in  individ¬ 
ual  clumps  seems  to  indicate  that  what 
he  refers  to  are  suckers  coming  up  from 
old  crowns  and  roots.  These  old  crowns 
and  roots  could  have  been  in  the  soil 
for  years  and  kept  under  subjugation  by 
fires  and  dose  grazing,  or  shading  by 
thick  grass.  Given  favorable  conditions 
they  would  readily  send  up  shoots,  and 
these  shoots,  if  not  too  crowded,  would 
form  fair-sized  trees.  This  leaves  out  the 
idea  of  spontaneous  or  mysterious  origin 
• — both  of  which  still  have  adherents. 
New  York.  e.  kostal. 
Propagating  Spruce 
Will  you  give  me  information  in  re¬ 
gard  to  grafting  and  slipping  blue  spruce? 
New  Milford,  Conn.  g.  l.  b. 
When  spruces  are  propagated  by  means 
of  cuttings,  the  cuttings  are  taken  from 
mature  wood  in  Autumn  and  set  under 
cover  in  sand.  They  are  kept  quiet  un¬ 
til  the  cut  ends  begin  -to  callus,  when 
they  are  given  bottom  heat  and  they  then 
strike  root.  Grafting  is  done  between 
November  and  March — the  last  of  Jan¬ 
uary  is  preferred  by  many  nurserymen 
because  at  this  time  the  roots  of  the 
stocks  have  just  nicely  started.  The  ve¬ 
neer-graft  is  employed  almost  exclusively. 
In  this  form  of  grafting  a  thin  layer  of 
bark  is  removed  from  the  stock  about 
an  inch  long,  and  this  is  matched  to  a 
similarly  exposed  portion  of  the  scion 
and  the  two  bound  firmly  together.  Thus 
only  the  new  wood  is  cut  and  a  large 
area  of  active  tissue  is  provided  for  a 
good  union.  H.  B.  T, 
Nitrate 
of 
Soda 
Michigan  Agricultural  Experiment 
Station  reports  a  gain  of  7.47  bush¬ 
els  of  wheat  per  acre  from  top- 
dressing  in  the  spring  with  100  lbs. 
of  Nitrate  of  Soda.  Virginia  Sta¬ 
tion  Bulletin 
number  221 
says,  “On 
wheat  crops  needing  nitrogen  an 
increased  yield  of  5  bushels  per 
acre  can  be  expected  from  each  100 
lbs.  of  Nitrate  of  Soda  applied  per 
acre.”  Demonstrations  in  Penn¬ 
sylvania  have  shown  an  average 
gain  of  7}4  bushels  of  wheat  per 
acre  and  37%  increase  in  the  straw. 
toes 
New  Jersey 
Experiment 
Station  shows  that  the 
largest  yields  of  potatoes  are 
obtained  when  Nitrate  of  Soda  is 
used  as  the  sole  source  of  Nitro¬ 
gen.  What  is  true  of  potatoes  is 
true  of  other  vegetables. 
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Vegetables 
and  more  prolific  when  Nitrate  of 
Soda  is  used.  This  is  why  Market 
Gardeners  use  such  large  quantities. 
Ohio  and 
Virginia  Ex¬ 
periment  Sta¬ 
tions  report 
wonderfully  profitable  gains  from 
the  use  of  Nitrate  of  Soda  on  to¬ 
bacco.  My  own  demonstrations  in 
Pennsylvania  prove  that  200  lbs. 
of  Nitrate  of  Soda  used  at  planting 
time  will  add  100  lbs.  or  more  to¬ 
bacco  to  the  acre. 
Apples^  a.ftS£ 
*  *  ment  Stations 
in  the  apple  districts  now  recom¬ 
mend  Nitrate  of  Soda  as  necessary 
and  are  recommending  its  use  in 
the  spring  before  blossom  time. 
This  applies  equally  well  to  Peach¬ 
es,  Pears,  Cherries  and  other  fruits. 
Why  not  try  it 
on  your  crops? 
My  Free  BULLETIN  SERVICE, 
covering  the  use  of  Nitrate  of  Soda  on 
all  kinds  of  crops,  is  issued  for  your  In¬ 
formation  and  explains  how  to  use  it, 
where  to  use  it,  when  to  use  it.  If  you 
want  it  send  me  your  address,  name  the 
crops  you  grow  and  to  identify  this  ad¬ 
vertisement  add  the  numbsr  2032. 
Dr.  William  S.  Myers,  Director 
Chilean  Nitrate  Committee 
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