1901. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
493 
SULLIVAN COUNTY, N. Y„ NOTES. 
Sullivan County, New York, is getting to 
be the Summer home of New York City peo¬ 
ple. Every year brings more and more of 
the city population to its rugged hills to 
breathe pure air and drink fresh water. 
Large hotels and boarding houses have been 
erected for their accommodation, farmhouses 
have been remodeled and enlarged for their 
convenience, and cottages have been built, and 
in many cases furnished for those who pre¬ 
fer a quiet and independent Summer, while 
the number of city people who buy farms and 
cottages is constantly increasing. These in¬ 
fluences have almost completely changed the 
whole aspect of the country during the past 
10 or 12 years. 
White Lake is perhaps the most delightful 
of such, indeed, the most popular section of 
this favorite Summer resort, and this vicin¬ 
ity is also experiencing many improvements 
in farm methods. Notable among the new 
farm enterprises is the Sloan Erothers’ place 
just south of White Lake. They have built 
one of the finest barns in the State and 
stocked up with a large dairy of cows. They 
also have a large modern poultry plant, and 
propose to give the Summer guests a sup¬ 
ply of fregh eggs and broilers. Chas. II. 
ltoyce, the former manager of “Ellerslie,” 
and a popular institute worker, has also re¬ 
turned to his native soil. 
The Farmers Co-operative Creamery, at 
Mongaup Valley, has been conducted suc¬ 
cessfully now for several years; and while 
nothing phenomenal has been done it has 
exerted a good influence on the dairy com¬ 
munity. They are now receiving something 
over 7,000 pounds of milk daily, and the 
butter is bringing the highest market price, 
sometimes a little above. With a little 
larger receipt of milk, the average of ex¬ 
pense would be reduced and net results 
would be still better. At all events, the 
producers have demonstrated that they 
can conduct a co-operative enterprise and 
make it more satisfactory than selling to in¬ 
dependent creameries or shipping to New 
York. The management has just put in a 
new under-feed Sharpies separator capable 
of separating 3,000 pounds an hour. It 
does not leave even a trace of cream in the 
milk, and requires no more than one-half 
the power required by the old tubuler sep¬ 
arator. Several of the patrons have also put 
in Sharpies hand separators, and separate 
their milk at -home, where the skim-milk is 
reserved for calves and pigs. The cream is 
cooled, and delivered two or three times a 
week, thus saving the daily trip to the 
creamery, and also saving the carting of 
the sklm-milk back to the farm, as is done 
by those who deliver the milk daily. 
The Ruby Queen roses sent out two years 
ago to K. N.-Y. readers are doing well in this 
neighborhood. Some plants winter-killed 
when not suilicienlly protected, but a ma- 
ority of them have withstood the last Winter, 
which was the coldest in many years, and are 
now beginning to bloom profusely. These 
had been protected during the Winter with a 
thick shield of straw. Crimson Rambler also 
stood the cold well, and the tender varieties 
have all perished. The Philadelphia rose dis¬ 
tributed this year is making a nice start in 
several yards. 
For the most part the seed corn reserved 
here from last year's crop failed to grow, 
and much o f this year’s planting had to be 
done over again with imported seed. The 
later first plantings will in many cases be 
sown to buckwheat. The hay crop promises 
to he much above the average. d. 
TRUCKING NOTES FOR JUNE. 
The Soil Mulch. —This is the grow¬ 
ing month; the month that most crops 
show their greatest development, and the 
most important point for us to consider 
at this time is the best method of fur¬ 
thering this growth. Of course we all 
recognize that the one most essential fea¬ 
ture in this connection is regular and 
thorough cultivation. In all kinds of 
truck crops we must aim to keep the 
ground loose and porous all the time. 
Regular use of the cultivators, beginning 
as soon after each rain as the ground will 
admit of stirring, and repeated about once 
every week, will keep things in growing 
condition. We believe in one good, deep 
Stirring early in the year, followed by 
shallow cultivation throughout the re¬ 
mainder of the season, this gives a fine 
loose soil amounting to a mulch, thereby 
preserving the greatest amount of mois¬ 
ture possible. 
Level Cultivation. —We are using 
level cultivation in most cases during the 
early part of the season. One important 
consideration favoring this method is that 
it more easily admits of the use of ma¬ 
chinery. A level field is usually practical 
to use a weeder in, thereby avoiding much 
expensive hoeing, whereas in a ridged 
field the weeder drags too heavily on the 
top of the row. Further, the riding cul¬ 
tivators can do a much more accurate 
job in a level row than on a ridged one. 
Much depends upon the ground in this 
matter of level culture. In wet lands 
the majority of crops will do better to be 
elevated somewhat, but in our light sandy 
truck ground I think the level culture 
gives equally good results with consider¬ 
ably less expense. 
Applying Fertilizer. —In cultivating 
most crops we find that mid-season appli¬ 
cations of fertilizers preceding the culti¬ 
vators give surprising results. For in¬ 
stance, cantaloupes, watermelons and, in 
fact, all cucurbs respond heartily to ap¬ 
plications of ammonia. We mix nitrate 
of soda and fish scrap, about one part of 
nitrate to three of fish, and apply by hand 
on watermelons directly to the hill, using 
from 300 to 500 pounds per acre. We us¬ 
ually do this about the time the runners 
start. The effect is easily conjectured. 
The nitrate of soda gets in its work im¬ 
mediately, starting the plants in a strong, 
vigorous manner, and the slower am¬ 
monia of the fish scrap carries them 
through the entire season. The combi¬ 
nation usually gives most satisfying re¬ 
sults. Our method with cantaloupes is 
practically the same in theory, but we 
apply it along the side of the row, the 
hills being so much closer together, using 
a side drill for the purpose. Immedi¬ 
ately following this come the cultivators, 
and then the hoes, working the fertilizer 
thoroughly in around the plant. In the 
case of tomatoes we have had gratifying 
results from one or more applications of 
a practically balanced goods during the 
season. Our experience in this line has 
convinced us that the same money in fer¬ 
tilizers applied at various stages of the 
development of the plant will give results 
sufficiently superior to that obtained by 
applying the same amount all before 
planting to more than cover the in¬ 
creased cost of the extra labor. Further, 
it will give you the opportunity of apply¬ 
ing just what your plant apparently needs 
under the existing weather conditions, 
which frequently is an important consid¬ 
eration. It will require the use of fer¬ 
tilizers in a quicker acting form, and 
moreover it requires a more accurate 
knowledge of agricultural chemistry and 
botany than it does to use simply Spring 
applications, but the economy of the 
method recommends it. 
Crimson Clover in Truck Crops.— 
When cultivating cantaloupes, melons, to¬ 
matoes or any other truck crops for the 
last time it is our custom to sow Crimson 
clover among them. This method of ap¬ 
plying the seed costs practically nothing 
but the simple sowing of it. The truck 
vines shade the ground and consequently 
the seed will take well under any ordi¬ 
nary weather conditions. We let this clo¬ 
ver stand over Winter and plow in the 
Spring, thereby gaining the advantage ot 
a cover crop as well as the good obtained 
in soil improvement. The advantage 
gained from our clovers is a topic of 
such frequent discussion that it seems like 
useless repetition to speak of it here, and 
I will simply say that we cannot too 
highly recommend the use of clover and 
leguminous crops wherever and whenever 
possible. It is our most economical meth¬ 
od of preserving and increasing soil fer¬ 
tility. 
Fish Scrap and Melon Bugs. —In a 
May issue of this paper I made reference 
to the use of dried ground fish scrap in 
fighting the Striped melon bugs, which 
has called forth so much inquiry that 1 
repeat. We have used fish scrap again 
during the past month with entire suc¬ 
cess, having suffered very little damage 
on account of the bugs. The fish is effec¬ 
tive because of its offensive smell, and 
the strong point in its favor is that the 
wetter it gets the more offensive it be¬ 
comes, consequently it is long lasting in 
its effects, and does not have to be often 
replenished, one application frequently 
serving the purpose. Another minor 
point must not be overlooked. It is an 
exceedingly timely stimulant to the young 
plants. Thus it serves a dual purpose— 
an insect exterminator and a very substan¬ 
tial aid in the way of a fertilizer. This 
scrap is a commercial article here in the 
East, although sometimes hard to obtain. 
I would warn my readers against _ any 
form of acidulated scrap, because it is 
unsafe to throw on the plant. Use only 
plain ground and dried fish scrap testing 
from eight to 10 per cent of ammonia. 
Any higher grade of goods I would be 
afraid of. 
Melon Lice. —The season of the year is 
rapidly approaching when we will be sub¬ 
ject to our annual attack of melon and 
cantaloupe lice. We have been able suc¬ 
cessfully to control this pest by fumigat¬ 
ing with carbon bisulphide. This process 
is expensive, and not practical unless 
taken in time. An experienced eye can 
detect an affected hill at first glance. Thus 
our method is simply this; Walk over 
the patch regularly, and whenever we dis¬ 
cover a single plant with even an affectec 
leaf we treat it and a dozen or more hills 
immediately surrounding it, about an 
ounce of carbon bisulphide to a cubic foot 
of air space. We use old tin pans—plac¬ 
ing the pan over the plant and putting the 
carbon bisulphide on a clam shell. Care 
must be exercised not to spill any of the 
liquid around the plant, as it will surely 
kill it. Now, this operation must be done 
in time, as soon as the lice appear. It 
is not practical to undertake to treat a 
whole patch that is generally affected; 
or plants that are fully developed, but it 
is practical to hold them in check when 
they first appear on the small plants, anc 
thereby probably avoid a general out¬ 
break. The pans must be left on from one 
to two hours. JOSEPH barton. 
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WARNING TO DAIRYMEN 
Do you send your milk to a creamery to be separated, and bring 
borne skimmilk that is a mixture of that from the different herds? 
If so, are you not aware that you are endangering the lives of your 
cattle, for if any of the patrons have sick cows, there is 
great'danger of carrying the disease home in the skim¬ 
milk. A recent report stated that one party lost 29 out of 
30 head, another 17 out of 22, and that 
the patrons of one creamery alone lost 
about 400 head from some disease that 
was very contagious. 
PROTECT YOUR COWS BY 
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With a U. S. Farm Separator you 
have your own skimmilk, pure and 
sweet, to feed. If these patrons had 
used U. S. Farm Separators and sent 
their cream to the creamery this disease 
could not have spread this way. 
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