Seeding Millet with Buckwheat 
Can millet be planted with buckwheat, 
to ripen about the same time, to be 
thrashed out in chicken house by chickens 
in tiie Winter? If not. is there any 
chicken food that can be planted with 
buckwheat to be used in this way? 
New York. u. ir. s. 
We doubt if any grain would have a 
fair chance seeded with buckwheat. With 
11 s the buckwheat makes such a quick and 
rank growth that other crops have a poor 
chance with it. A crop that will smother 
out quack grass will not leave muph of 
the millet. We have seeded rye and 
buckwheat together. The buckwheat got 
in ahead, and little was seen of the rye 
until the buckwheat was cut. Then the 
rye came in. We do not think millet 
could hold its own. 
Cold bed rooms 
good-bye! 
three biids 
with one stone 
Uo you go to bed in a cold room? 
Do you get up in a freezing temperature? Is 
your house cold in spots and too hot in others ? 
Set ARCOLA in the kitchen; connect it by small 
pipes to an American Radiator in each room, and 
you can say “good-bye” to spotty warmth. The in¬ 
stallation can be made now, before removing your 
present furnace or stoves. 
An Arcola installment costs surprisingly little at 
the start, and the cost comes back to you, for thou¬ 
sands of owners testify that it pays for itself in the 
fuel it saves. 
Your Heating Expert will tell you about ARCOLA 
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Wood Ashes as Medicine 
• Possibly the attached clipping will con¬ 
vey something new to you as to the users 
of wood ashes. How about a dusting on 
the potato for blight, a dose for the 
aborting cow, a liniment for the lame 
horse, or an ointment for the rotipy hen? 
* D. 8. 
Here is an extract from the clipping: 
To the ashes of the yule-log were as¬ 
cribed certain efficacious properties, and 
they were gathered from the fireplace 
with care. For one thing, they were 
mixed with cattle feed to preserve the 
animals from disease and also to cure 
them of any disease,. Scattered on the 
land, the ashes of the yule-log protected 
crops against blight. 
It is an old-time practice to feed wood 
ashes to pigs or to cattle. In parts of 
the South you would formerly see a “lick” 
in most pastures. This was a great lump 
of clay, salt and wood ashes, kneaded 
together and left to harden. The cattle 
would like it for the salt and lime it 
contained. It is still a common practice 
.to feed charcoal and ashes to pigs. Cows 
that gnaw bones or chew pieces of wood 
usually need lime and phosphates, and 
they will eat wood ashes freely. Practi¬ 
cally every known 'substance may be 
found in a tree. The minerals are re¬ 
covered in the ashes, and practically all 
things are obtained from trees. 
i oil can see bugs, but 
blight comes like a thief in 
the night. Be ready for it, 
always. Spray with Pyrox* 
It combines a powerful 
fungus-preventer with a 
deadly poison. It kills bugs, 
prevents blight; invigorates 
the plants so they can pro¬ 
duce more. 
The free Pyrox Book 
gives users’ own words 
Pyrox is the old reliable stand¬ 
by of thousands who grow 
tomatoes, cucumbers, canta¬ 
loupes, potatoes and small fruits. 
It mixes quickly, stays long in 
suspension, so fine it sprays in 
a misty fog at high pressure; 
and sticks like paint. The 23- 
year-old formula ia better now 
than it ever was. 
Try Pyrox in your hom* garden. 
If not at your dealer’s, write to 
our nearest office. Send now 
for the Pyrox Book of Facts. 
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49 Chambers St., New York City 
Baltimore, Md. Chicago, III. 
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Turning Under Cornstalks 
I shall have two acres planted to sweet 
corn, and I do not intend to use the same 
field next year, as it is pretty well worn 
out. I am puzzled what to do about corn¬ 
stalks. It is my idea to lay stalks in the 
furrows and cover them with plow, sow¬ 
ing rye on the plowed ridges, and next 
Spring sow to clover and turn it under in 
the Fall. It is my idea that in that way 
I can utilize cornstalks better than feed¬ 
ing to live stock, as there is not much 
food value, and it is far the best mainte¬ 
nance of soil fertility. J. K. 
Yonkers, X. Y. 
We have seen this plan followed with 
fair results. Of course you lose the feed¬ 
ing value of the cornstalks in this way, 
but if it is desired to put organic matter 
into the soil, this plan will do it. It 
would be a better plan if the stalks could 
be rotted down in manure first, or run 
through a fodder cutter so as to chop 
them up fine. That would give a much 
better distribution. The plan suggested, 
however, will save labor, and in the end 
cornstalks will rot and benefit the soil. 
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The Armstrong Mfg. Co. 
177 Uln St. Huntington, W. Vi. 
Douglas County (Oregon) Prunes 
Iu an article on “A Douglas County 
(Oregon) Farm,” the statement -was 
made that if you cat a “Mistland prune” 
the chances are that it came from Douglas 
County. The facts of the matter are that 
the chance would he less than one in 
three. I quote from a letter received 
from the assistant sales manager of 
the Oregon (.rowers’ Co-operative Asso¬ 
ciation, which handles the Mistland pro¬ 
ducts, who says: "We are nor in a posi¬ 
tion to give you the tonnage of prunes 
produced in each county, as we have 
these figures only in connection with our 
various plants, but each one of our plants 
is likely to receive prunes from two or 
three different counties, so that we are 
unable to give you the segregation by 
counties. However, the plants we have 
in the Umpqua Valley are all in Douglas 
County, and we are iu a position to give 
you the figures for the Umpqua Valley as 
distinguished from tile Willamette Val¬ 
iev. For the crop of 1021 Douglas Coun¬ 
ty delivered to us 2.029,437 lbs., while 
the V ilbuiiette Valley delivered 4.000,598 
lbs. of Italian prunes. This ratio' will 
not hold true every year, but that is the 
ratio between tin* crops of the < wo valleys 
for the 1921 crop.” My understanding is 
that the southern counties in Umpqua 
Valley had a full crop last year, while the 
Willamette Valley had a very short crop. 
Under these adverse conditions the person 
who eats a “Mistland” prune stands oue 
Chance in three of getting a Douglas 
prune. Oregon is a large State, and one 
needs to remember that one place is not 
the whole of it. s. T, walitbb. 
OWHERE is the need for reducing the 
-LN cost of production more urgent than in the 
case of the great staple crops Corn, Grain, Hay. 
These have always been low value per acre 
crops. Their labor cost factor is high. A 
double yield per acre involves but little ad¬ 
ditional labor. 
Fertilizers are the direct means to increase yield. 
For the best results, fertilizers must be properly 
balanced. 
One-sided fertilization spells soil exhaustion. 
Balance the fertilizer with 5 to 10 per cent, of Potash. 
There is plenty of it now. 
SOIL & CROP SERVICE. POTASH SYNDICATE 
H. A. HUSTON, Manager 
42 Broadway - New York 
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The Rural New- Yorker and you'll get 
a Quick reply and a "sQuare deal. " See 
guarantee editorial page. 
POTASH PAYS 
