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Cfte  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
DIBBLE’S  FARM  SEED 
CATALOG  for  1016 
Fl<?l  C' 
Seed  Corn 
Alfalfajj 
Oats. 
SEEDS  THAT  GROW 
HARRI? 
SEEDS 
must  confess  that  I  don’t  know.  A  very, 
very  large  part  of  our  farmers  iron't  see 
that  only  by  helping  each  other  can  they 
Some  of  our  back-to-the-landers  who  help  themselves  in  the  large  sense, 
take  pride  in  their  garden  will  be  inter-  Maine.  c.  s.  page. 
ested  in  the  picture  at  Fig  22.  Mr.  S. 
£>.  StultS  of  Washington  sends  us  this 
as  a  sample  of  what  a  Western  sod  will 
do.  He  seems  to  have  taken  a  piece  of 
old  sod  on  a  sandy  loam.  Worked  it  up 
thoroughly,  and  made  it  into  a  garden, 
lie  says  he  raised  three  bushels  of  pota¬ 
toes  to  the  square  rod,  and  some  of  them 
with  such  a  tremendous  weight  that,  it 
would  hardly  do  to  give  his  exact  figures. 
Mr.  Stults  started  in  this  way,  and  has 
been  selecting  his  potato  seed  in  the  field 
from  the  most  promising  hills.  As  every¬ 
one  knows  who  has  looked  into  it,  some 
hills  in  a  large  field  never  produce  a 
good-sized  potato.  Their  sole  object  in 
Garden  from  Old  Sod 
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Little  Demand  for  Apple  Wood 
Some  years  ago  there  was  quite  a  de¬ 
mand  for  apple  wood  of  sound  quality. 
It  was  used  for  making  pipes  and  a  few 
other  small  articles.  The  wood  is  also 
used  to  considerable  extent  for  tool  han¬ 
dles.  The  demand  has  now  largely  died 
out,  as  gum  and  other  woods  are  used  for 
the  pipes,  with  large  corncobs  from  the 
Y\  ('.sf,  while  most  of  the  tool  manufac¬ 
turers  have  local  supplies  for  the  apple 
wood.  Many  people,  however,  still  read 
the  old  stories  about  high  prices  for  this 
wood.  It  appears  that  some  of  the  pub- 
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life  apparently  is  to  produce  a  number 
of  small  tubers.  That  is  the  way  they 
are  built  and  pedigreed.  Other  hills  in 
the  same  field  will  produce  a  good-sized 
bunch  of  tubers,  nil  of  them  large  and 
shapely,  with  no  small  ones.  That  again 
D  a  habit  of  the  hill,  and  one  theory  of 
selection  is  to  take  for  seed  only  those 
hills  which  have  a  habit  of  producing 
good-sized  tubers.  By  doing  this  for  a 
number  of  years  the  yield  and  quality 
of  the  crop  will  be  greatly  improved.  The 
picture  shows  plants  of  the  Himalaya 
blackberry:  also  a  group  of  sunflowers, 
some  of  them  16  feet  tall.  Of  course  the 
humid  climate  on  the  Pacific  Coast  has 
much  to  do  with  that,  bat  another  reason 
for  success  is  the  fact  that  this  soil  is 
never  left  idle,  (’over  crops  are  always 
put  in  so  that  the  ground  is  never  bare, 
and  these  cover  crops  spaded  under  again 
and  again  fatten  the  soil  so  that  it  fat¬ 
tens  the  crop. 
licatious  go  back  to  old  files  of  farm 
papers  and  rewrite  these  apple  wood  stor¬ 
ies.  The  result  is  that  many  people 
write  us  that  they  have  a  large  quan¬ 
tity  of  apple  wood  to  sell,  and  they  ex¬ 
pect  somehow  to  get  good  prices  for  it. 
We  are  obliged  to  disappoint  them,  fur 
the  fact  is  that  there  is  very  little  de¬ 
mand  for  this  wood  for  ordinary  pur¬ 
poses.  Now  and  then  an  apple  tree  will 
be  found  giving  wood  with  a  superior 
grain,  so  that  it  may  possibly  be  used  for 
cabinet  work,  but  such  trees  are  few.  and 
we  must  tell  our  readers  that  they  cannot 
expect  to  get  a  bonanza  from  the  wood  in 
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In  my  neighborhood  there  is  a  family 
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dren,  arc  afraid  to  go  by  the  bouse,  as 
the  dug  comes  running  at  them.  The 
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or  anything  else?  Could  you  give  me  the 
law  regarding  clogs  and  chickens  in  de¬ 
tail  or  can  it  be  bought  and  where 
and  at  wlmt  price?  If  I  were  to  lame 
the  dog  could  It**  take  legal  action  against 
me?  What  will  be  the  proper  course  for 
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New  Jersey. 
The  general  rule  as  laid  down  is  that 
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it  to  another,  is  not  liable  for  such  in¬ 
jury  if  the  animal  be  rightfully  in  the 
place  when  the  mischief  is  done,  unless 
it  is  affirmatively  shown  not  only  that 
the  animal  was  vicious,  but  that  the 
owner  or  keeper  had  knowledge  of  the 
fact.  When  sm-h  knowledge  exists,  the 
owner  or  keeper  is  accountable  for  all 
the  injury  which  such  animal  muy  do. 
without  proof  of  any  negligence  or  fault 
in  the  keeping,  and  regardless  of  his 
endeavors  so  to  keep  the  animal  as  to 
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it  is  provided  by  law  that  the  owner  or 
keeper  of  dogs  shall  be  liable  for  -in¬ 
juries  to  person  or  property,  without  re¬ 
gard  to  his  knowledge  of  the  animal’s 
mischievous  propensity. 
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pel  the  owner  to  keep  him  tied  because 
the  animal  is  vicious  and  has  bitten  some 
one  else,  hut  whoever  is  attacked  by  the 
dog  may  defend  himself  to  any  length,  and 
not  stand  on  ceremony  in  ir<  doing.  Hut 
where  a  dog  has  become  a  public  nuis¬ 
ance,  there  are  ways  of  getting  rid  of  him 
not  mentioned  in  the  books  nor  pro¬ 
claimed  from  tin'  housetops,  but  which 
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halfway  measures — curb  your  wrath  or 
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The  One  Great  Thing 
The  Christmas  issue  of  Tiie  It.  X.-Y. 
seems  to  me  just  a  little  better  tliau  the 
ordinary  issue  of  the  one  best  paper.  I 
have  just  read  “Publisher's  Desk”  and 
will  say  I  have  been  reading  The  It.  X.- 
Y.  nearly  ever  since  the  “Summer  day’’ 
mentioned.  I  read  every  issue  nearly 
from  cover  to  cover  and  never  have  I 
had  cause  to  fed  that  you  have  deviated 
from  the  three  rules  then  adopted.  I 
have  for  a  long  time  realized  something 
of  the  “powerful  influences"  at  work  to 
crowd  down  the  farmer,  and  have  tried  in 
my  meek  way  to  fight  them,  but  could 
never  see  that  I  made  much  progress.  It 
has  sometimes  seemed  as  though  they 
were  so  strong  that  it  was  no  use  to 
fight:  that  they  were  bound  to  win.  Hut 
you r  courage  and  determination  helps  me 
to  retain  some  faith. 
Our  county  demonstration  agent  of  the 
Extension  Department  of  the  College  of 
Agriculture  called  a  meeting  of  farmers 
from  till  over  the  county  I  Penobscot)  to 
discuss  the  needs  of  the  County.  On  Dee. 
1  nearly  10  men  responded  to  the  call  and 
met  at  the  College  of  Agriculture.  Every 
man  gave  his  idea  of  the  large  needs  of 
his  section  and  at  the  noon  hour  Dean 
Merrill  tabulated  them  on  the  blackboard, 
and  in  the  afternoon  there  was  a  general 
discussion  which  lasted  until  near  night; 
much  interest  was  manifested.  We  fin¬ 
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"community  spirit"  is  the  one  most  es¬ 
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