■Rural School Leaflet. 



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cultivation should be a little farther away from the plants and. as deep 

 as the cultivator can be made to go. If the first cultivation is close 

 and shallow the second should be deep. After this, cultivate shallow 

 every ten days or two weeks as long as the cultivator will go between 

 the rows. Do not plow or hill up the potatoes unless you were com- 

 pelled to plant in a shallow soil. In a good, mellow potato soil deep 

 planting with level, persistent tillage is better, though digging the 

 potatoes will be harder. 



Potato blight is now so general throughout the State that it is not 

 safe to omit spraying with Bordeaux mixture for its prevention. If 

 printed instructions regarding the making and using of Bordeaux mixture 

 and poisons for the potato beetle are desired, this College or the New 

 York State Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y., will supply them on 

 request. 



The potatoes may be dug any time after the vines are dead. Dig. 

 with a fork, hook plow, or machine. Do not forget to keep your records 

 so that you can write up in an intelligent way how you grew that prize- 

 winning crop of potatoes. A complete record should be kept on the 

 record blank sent out by the College of Agriculture to all the boys and 

 girls entering the Cornell Potato Contest. 



THE WOOD THRUSH 



Arthur A, Allen 



WHO has sat on the bank of a shaded glen 

 or at the edge of a cool wood just as 

 the shadows begin to lengthen and the 

 bright light of day begins to take on 

 the mellow tone of a May twilight? The 

 little brook gurgles just out of sight, and 

 water dripping from ^ the rocks strikes 

 the surface of a pool with a music that 

 cannot be described. The silence seems 

 broken only by these sounds and the 

 murmur of the wind among the new 

 born leaves. 



Suddenly you become aware that other music is filling the woods. 

 It has come to you so gradually, has been so much a part of the murmur- 

 ing stream and dripping water that you have not noticed its beginning. 



Fir,. 105. — The nest of a Wood 

 Thrush. The mother bird on 

 the nest 



