Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Fertilizers.

desire to know: FIrst--Wlll mixture /
of pure bone meal plaster and crude salts |
of potash make good fertilizer for red |
clay loan mountain land for wheat, to |
be followed by clover and orchard grass
sown same season together2 II so, what
proportion of each, and say the best
strength for potash, and at about what
price it can be bought"
John Henderson, Northport, Long
Islaud-Pure bone meal and plaster
(gypsum) ought to be sufficient without
the addition of crude salts of potash
"for red clay loan mountain land, +"
which suppose in this case means a
moderately fertile loan or virgin soil
resting on a red clay subsoil. Such
soils are generally deficient in vegetable
matter, and need an application of
putrescent or farmyard manure more
than mineral fertilizers. For a wheat
cropto be followed by clover and orchard
grass sown same season, the land should
receive either more or less of manure
spread over it and plowed under, and
then a mixture of bone meal and
gypsum sowed and narrowed in with
the seeds, say one-fourth bone and
three-fourths gypsum, at least five hun
bred pounds to the acre of this mixture.
Second-Will mixture of two-thirds
bone meal and one-third plaster, one
hundred pounds per acre, dropped along
with seed, be good fertilizer for corn,
same soil2
John Henderson-A mixture of two
thirds bone meal and one-third gypsum,
one hundred pounds per acre, well scat
tered around the seed, provided the land
has previously received dressing of
manure plowed under, or at least five
hundred pounds per acre of fertilizer
narrowed in, ought to give a fair crop Of
corn on same soil.
Third-Where can Alsyke clover seed
be bought, it's price, and quantity re-
quired per acre, when sown with red
clover and orchard grass for permanent
PASTURE
John Henderson-Alsyke clover be
purchased at any of the large seed stores
in New York city; price, forty cents per
pound two pounds of this seed per
acre, sown with the usual quantity of
red clover and orchard grass, will be
sufficient.
Fourth-What is the best mixture to
SOW for a permanent pasture on red clay
loan soil2
John Henderson-Orchard grass, tall
meadow oat grass, June grass, white.
red and Alsyke clovers in mixture, are
suitable for the above mentioned soil.
Ten Acres of Hops.
A correspondent of the Syracuse (N.Y.,,
Standard, says: cit may be interesting
as we'll as useful to know something Of
the expense of hop growing, and I will
endeavor to give the cost, very nearly
for have been in the habit of keeping
some account of these and other farming
items, and I think I can come very close
to the mark, which, of course, will vary
with different men and localities. The
labor is on the basis of $1.50 per day.
To six days laying out yard, 12s. ... 500
To forty bushels Citizen pounds per
busheD roots, say IS. per bushel,
we have paid IS. ....... ....... 1900
To eight days cutting same u.s.. IL o.
To fifteen days setting out loots. go. 22.5
Tohophouse coveredwith hemlock and
bottomed, spruce floor, sawed cedar
shingles. $500
To stove and pipe. 500
To kiln cloth, forty-one and one-haf
yards, 16c and making. ,.......... so
To hop press ......... .......... $50
To seventy-f five hop Sacks three yards
burlap, Is, making and thread,
seven and one-half cents each, 45c 49,
Eight boxes for thirty-two pickers,
12x25X27 inches. Observation-Disclosures. 400
To hop bars with springs for common
lumber wagon. -: .:............ $50
ening, &c 13c. ...'..........:... 1884
To carriage to yard l." ...'.....:,. 1000
40 Two hop boxes, twenty pounds
edcn, LOG. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. b.U
To two grubbing hoes, $1.50..... 80
To two self-sustaining ladders for
Tying Observation-Disclosures. ZU
Iobal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ID, 1901
To put it in round numbers, for te
acres, it will cost $3.50 per acre. In ad
dition to all this, house is needed, wit
beds, stove, cooking and tablewar
for family of twenty-five to forty, fo
use only from fifteen to twenty days
picking time.
The labor, cost of harvesting, use {
land, fifteen per cent. on cost of poles
make them good when worn out, ten pr
cent. on other capital, etc., for eac
year, with good, fair crops, will be abol
fifteen cents per pound.
Peas for Cattle.
A. W. Stokes, fernando, Miss, wro
the American farmers club 1 have fl
years kept fatter COWS and had mo-
milk and butter, and for less none,
than anybody I know of. First so
peas broadcast, three pecks to bush