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Our Home Orchards 
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on for several reasons, probably the chief 
reason being the hard work in earing for 
the present trees and the discouragements 
encountered. Another big reason is the 
high cost of nursery stock for the past 
five years. A nursery tree requires a 
great deal of hand labor to perfect and 
the stock must be imported, both of which 
are good excuses for high prices. But 
the labor situation is approaching nor¬ 
mal ; in fact, I know a number of prom¬ 
ising young fellows who would like noth¬ 
ing better than to work on a fruit farm 
or nursery this season, and the importing 
problem is slowly righting itself, so I see 
no reason why we should nut expect 
cheaper trees. 
“Should you plant a home orchard 
now?'* has been asked repeatedly during 
the past month or so. 
Most assuredly! Money is short with 
a farmer, labor is long. Therefore grow 
What a difference^ 
Delco'Lighf has made 
Stubs Left When Pruning 
what you can and save the cash. First 
select varieties you know will grow ; then 
care for the trees by pruning and spray¬ 
ing. Remember, a tree needs food ; don’t 
give it all to the bay or garden crop. 
Purchase a'barrel and force pump sprayer, 
or better yet, a high power sprayer, rf 
you can afford one. Then, besides the 
fruit, use it on the potatoes, cabbage and 
cleaning the stables, instead of the low- 
pressure knapsack sprayer. It will pay 
you. not only in fruit, but in satisfaction 
also, for unless there is an about-face 
soon the price of good New York State 
barrel apples will go up—the home or¬ 
chard is on the wane. t. h. townsend. 
Morrisville Agricultural School. 
There are 25 styles and sizes 
of Delco-Light from $250 to 
$1625 f. o, b. Dayton, Ohio. 
If you haven’t had a recent estimate 
on Delco-Light for your home, you 
will be surprised how little Delco- 
Light will cost at the new low prices 
and how easily it can be bought on 
our new ti r nt plan. 
Distributors 
Domestic Electric Co., Inc. Suburban Electric Development Co 
43 Warren Street 666 Main Street 
New York, N. Y. Buffalo, N. Y. 
Best Time to Cut Hay 
"Would not it bo well to take up the 
relative feeding values of early cut. Tim¬ 
othy ns well as first and later cuttings of 
Alfalfa? I find that farmers are echoing 
or repeating the talk they hear hay buy¬ 
ers use Concerning overripe Timothy and 
second and third-cutting Alfalfa. It is 
true that the city buyer demands the 
poorest hay we can make for him. That 
part is all right. Let him have the ripe, 
woody hay if he wants it, but when a 
farmer buys hay he makes the mistake 
of thinking he wants this same hay. 
I find that the farm buyer demands the 
second and third cutting Alfalfa on the 
plea that cattle eat it better. What he 
means is that they eat more of it. It 
takes more of the second and third cutting 
to satisfy them, just as it does with 
clovers. The first cutting is the best 
feed, lie demands Infer cuttings because 
this is the most in demand. It is true 
that if there are any weeds or Bluegrass 
it shows up in the first cutting, and. be¬ 
sides. the first cutting is often left too 
long after time to cut it, making it 
coarser: but there is no question that the 
first cutting is t.lie best feed, and it takes 
smaller feeds to satisfy the animal. 
What I have said here applies to the 
farmer, but it would not be amiss to call 
attention of the city buyer to the fact 
that be passes up the best feed and de¬ 
mands the poorest. NATL. KowE. 
R. N.-Y.—This is a good subject for 
discussion, and we shall be glad to have 
our readers give their experience. We 
shall also have reports from scientific 
men who have worked it out by analysis 
and experiment. We have found early cut 
hay, harvested while the grass is in bloom, 
much better than older grass left standing 
until it becomes hard. There is quite a 
difference of opinion about Alfalfa in this 
respect. 
Delco-Light Company, Dayton, Ohio: 
Flease send me, without obligation, 
the Delco-Light catalog, new prices 
and aetails of easy payment plan, 
Name _ 
Street (or R.F.D.) 
Town 
County 
DILTO-Uil 
State. 
ifHOPE FARM NOTES* 
This bool* has had a remarkable reception. We have had 
orders for it from China, South Africa. New Zealand. Hawaii, 
Austria and Brazil, It has gone to every -State in the Union. 
Among many appreciative letters comes the following from “the 
heart of the Blue Grass”: 
I have ever been a reader of your notes in The Rural New- 
Yorker, but it is not recalled that in a long life any book was 
read with so much pleasure and profit as your recent compilation. 
The mellow and wholesome philosophy that pervades every page 
bears tribute to both head and heart 
With the hope that the lengthening shadows of a declining sun 
may long yet cast their evening glory on your full and fruitful 
life, believe me, Sincerely yours. 
Kentucky. H. F. 1IILLENMEYER. 
Our people say they buy this book because it presents in read¬ 
able form bright pictures of the finest side of farm life this coun¬ 
try lias over known. It is a period of life nmv fast disappearing 
in history, and it should he preserved in the minds of all our peo¬ 
ple. That is why the hook should be in every home, and particu¬ 
lar!!/ in cverp school libraraJ Is it in your library? 
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