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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 2 
“ ANYTHING YOU WANT” 
Why not buy your books of the Rural 
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able to furnish any book that is published 
anywhere. Why not send to us direct 
and let us fill your order ? While our 
own publications treat of purely agricul¬ 
tural topics, we do not propose to confine 
our book business entirely to that line. 
Every rural family buys half a dozen or 
more good books every year—fiction, 
poetry, history, biography as well as 
scientific and religious publications. Why 
not get these books through us ? We 
will guarantee prompt service and terms 
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where. We shall be glad at any time to 
quote prices or to give advice as to the 
selection of books for family reading and 
study. We want your book order. Why 
can we not have it ? 
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It is not generally known that there 
has been issued a new edition of Mr. Car¬ 
man’s “ New Potato Culture.” This 
edition contains much new matter and 
discusses several important subjects that 
potato growers inquire about. We doubt 
if any agricultural publication has ever 
been more widely copied from than this 
one. Station bulletins, papers and books 
have made copious extracts from it. No 
agricultural library is complete without 
it. Price, 40 cents in paper and 75 cents in 
cloth - i i i 
Thebe is hardly an agricultural paper 
in the country that has not used “The 
Business Hen ” as the title for a poultry 
article. That shows how the title of our 
little poultry book strikes the people. 
That book does not pretend to be of 
service to those who keep hens for play, 
but all those who keep hens to manu¬ 
facture food into money ought to have 
it. Price the same as that of “ New 
Potato Culture.” ^ ^ ^ 
The articles now being printed on 
“ Certified Milk ” call to mind the fact 
that last year The R. N.-Y. printed a 
little pamphlet called “Milk Making and 
Marketing,” which gave in detail the 
methods employed by Mr. Francisco, as 
well as much other matter on making 
and selling milk, sterilizing, etc. This 
little book is now for sale; price 20 cents. 
« 8 $ 
A “ money stbingency ” always works 
to the advantage of buyers who have cash 
to buy with. When money is “ tied up,” 
those who have goods to sell will pay a 
premium to set it free. Don’t you want 
to earn that premium with a little ready 
cash ? If so we can help you. Take 
watches, for example. We are now in a 
position to secure first-class, guaranteed 
watches on terms that would surprise 
you. These are time-pieces, not turnips, 
and we are prepared to make you a pres¬ 
ent of the middleman’s share if you see 
fit to deal through us. We can make ar¬ 
rangements to fit you out with almost 
anything, but watches just now are in 
the lead. Can’t you get out and pick up 
a few new subscribers, and thus earn a 
watch ? 
WB WANT TO KNOW, TOO KNOW ! 
If you don’t see what you want , ask for it. 
Farmers’ Creamery Co.—What is the address of 
the Fanners’ Creamery Association of Philadel¬ 
phia? C. I. B. 
Axs.—Address Eleventh and Wood Sts., Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 
Rye Straw.—Is the baled rye straw quoted in 
The K. N.-Y. thrashed with a machine or flail, and 
about what price does thrashed rye straw bring ? 
wm a. s. 
AN'S.—It makes no difference how it is thrashed, 
provided It Is all straightened out nicely. Good, 
nice ttraw brings about the prices quoted in The 
I t. N.-Y., though they vary from week to week. We 
will soon give an article on straw In this market, 
which will be helpful to those contemplating shipping 
Strawberry-Leaf Eaters.— 1. What can be put 
on an old strawberry bed to stop the Insects from 
eating the new growth? When my bed got to looking 
fine some kind of Insect began to eat the leaves ; 
now some parts of It are nearly ruined. 2 What 
kind of fertilizer had I better put on an old bed to 
start It up? b. w. o. 
0 Massachusetts. 
Axs.—1. It Is Impossible to say from your descrip¬ 
tion what the Insect is. We should know the time of 
Its appearance, the method of Its work, and, where 
so much damage Is done, It should be easy to catch 
some of the depredators so that either they or a de¬ 
scription of them may be sent. The Injury may be 
caused by the Strawberry Crown-borer, in which 
case spraying the Held with Paris-green would prob¬ 
ably be beneficial. It Is best, however, to plant new 
beds, Isolated from the old ones, and with plants 
from beds not affected. To destroy the Crown-borer 
by plowing under the beds, the work should be done 
about the time the laBt of the fruit is picked. The 
pest may be the strawberry slug, and If so, this may 
be overcome by spraying or dusting with Paris- 
green. The latter should always be done when the 
Insects are at work on the foliage. 2. Finely ground 
bone and unleached wood ashes are as good as any. 
Muriate of potash In place of the wood ashes Is 
cheaper In many cases as a source of potash supply. 
Shipping Clover Hay.— I have between 40 and 
60 tons of clover hay which I wish to sell. 1. What 
Is the best way to sell It to realize the greatest pro¬ 
fit? 2. How much per ton will It cost to ship It to 
New York city? 3. Is It advisable to ship It’’ 4. 
Where Is the best market? It was secured without a 
bit of rain on it. I. D. 
Tekonsha, Mich. 
AN’S.—1. Sell It In the market from which you can 
realize the greatest net price. This must be learned 
by subtracting from the gross price, freight, com¬ 
mission, expense of baling, etc. When these are 
taken from the selling price, and account Is made of 
the risk involved In shipping to distant points, It may 
appear best to sell It loose near home. 2. Ask your 
freight agent at your shipping station; that’s what 
we’d have to do, and you are nearer him than we 
are. 3. Not now, nor for the next two months. As 
to what the prospects will be then, we can’t say. 
Bead the article on hay on the first page of The U. 
N.-Y. for August 11), and the editorials in same issue. 
The hay market Is duller than when those were 
written, and prices are tending downward. 4. The 
best market varies so that It Is hard to say. There 
Is much risk in shipping hay long distances, and 
freight rates are high for hay on account of Its bulk, 
so that a comparatively nearby market will probably 
be best. Many of the large live stock breeders are 
buying clover hay, and several of them at a conven¬ 
tion last winter said that they couldn’t find enough 
to supply their needs. It is worth more to them than 
Timothy. It might be a good Idea to advertise for 
bids on It, the highest responsible bidder to take the 
hay. We will warrant that several enterprising 
breeders will be alter It. 
Prospect for Onions.— The onion crop in this 
county Is over three quarters gone. How Is it In 
other localities, and how Is the crop compared with 
last year’s ? J. N. B. 
Dunkirk, N. Y. 
ANS.—There Is a wide divergence In the reports 
from different parts of the country, and It is yet 
early to get accurate returns as to the probable 
yield. From what we can gather from all reports, It 
seems likely that the yield will be extremely short, 
as compared with average years, though It Is difficult 
to say just what percentage of a crop will be har¬ 
vested. A correspondent of the Orange County 
Farmer rece;.tly visited a large number of the onion 
growers In that county, which Is one of the leaders 
In onion production. While some fields promised 
well, others were poor; on the whole, a Bhort crop 
was probable. The same may be said of other onion 
growing localities. A friend In Wayne County, N. Y., 
which produces large quantities of onions, sends us 
the following: 
Hereabouts there Is a good onion crop of 50 or 60 
acres, but, as far as I can learn, In other parts of the 
county the crop is very short. About the usual 
acreage was attempted, but many failed to put In 
the crop on account of the cold, wet spring. I should 
put the yield for the county at one-half to two-thirds 
of an average. C. L. o. 
What Is the matter with my cream ? I cannot 
make butter; the cream just loams, though the cow 
Is healthy ? w. M. 
ANS.—The trouble might be any one of a hundred 
different things. A farrow cow’s cream Is frequently 
harder to churn than others. Some cows' cream also 
seems more difficult to churn, or takes longer than 
others. Probably one of the most common troubles 
Is that the temperature of the cream is too low. 
While many butter m- kers are churning at a lower 
temperature than ever before, the old dash churn 
which many if not most farmers use, requires a 
higher temperature than some of the newer kinds 
of churns. If the cream Is properly ripened, and 
churned at a temperature of 63 to 65 degrees F., 
there should be no trouble. A point as to tempera¬ 
ture: many of the cheap thermometers are unre¬ 
liable and are likely to mislead. Be sure of the cor¬ 
rectness of the thermometer. 
Club-Boot in Cabbage.— I have a small garden 
with about 50 cabbage plants In It. The roots of 
some have grown very large and look somewhat like 
turnips. The center Is hollow, and sometimes there 
Is a worm in It. Is it club-Toot, and what causes it, 
and what Is the cure ? Would cutting the club-foot 
off do any good, and will the plants head after doing 
so ? Will salt put around the roots prevent It ? 
Crawford County, Pa. h. p. 
ANS.—It Is club-root, and Is caused by an Insect, 
some say the cabbage maggot, others say not. There 
Is no cure, and cutting off the excrescence would 
probably result only In killing the plants. We don’t 
think that salt would do any good, but many cabbage 
growers prevent the disease to a large extent by 
heavy dressings, spring and fall, of lime. Some grow¬ 
ers kill the maggots by pouring small quantities of 
kerosene around the roots of the plants. Early plant¬ 
ing is helpful, but, of course, this Is out of the ques¬ 
tion for late cabbages. The best way is to plant the 
crop at some distance from former plantings. Never 
grow them on the same land twice In succession If 
It can be avoided. Burn all the old cabbage roots 
In the fall, and thus destroy many of the Insects. 
Best way to Farm. —What would be the best way 
to farm 12 or 13 acres of good land about three miles 
from a city of 20,000 population ? T. H. 
Jamestown, N. Y. 
Ans.—C ircumstances must govern. You must first 
ascertain what the land is best fitted to produce. 
On a small farm, It Is usually desirable to grow such 
crops as will give the largest returns from the avail¬ 
able area One naturally turns to gaiden truck, 
fruits, poultry, or some specialties, if the land is 
low. such crops as celery, onions cabbages, cauli¬ 
flowers, turnips, carrots, and the like, and perhaps 
sweet corn and potatoes, would best be chosen in the 
vegetable line. If high and dry, early peas, beans, 
corn, and other early truck will likely do well and 
bring good prices. In fruits, those which succeed 
best in the locality, and these may be learned of 
those In the business. Poultry works In well with 
both fruit and truck growing. Another consideration 
Is the market. Learn what that demands, and for 
what It pays best prices. Don’t trv too many things 
at first. Begin on the most promising for whlcn tne 
land seems best adapted, and experiment with the 
others as you go on. As we know nothing of the 
present condition or past history of the land, we 
can’t undertake to give any advice about the man¬ 
ner of working It. Read the accounts of the working 
of such farms as those of vv. F. Taber, A. Johrson, 
and others described in The R. N.-Y. from time to 
time. A study of the methods on such farms is 
worth far more than a whole bookful of theories. 
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