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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 1 
NOTES FROM “LUAVA.” 
Last spring, Charles P. Augur, of Con¬ 
necticut, sent us two ears of the Dwarf 
Adams corn. Mr. Augur has grown this 
corn for 31 years, the original ear being 
brought from Michigan, and was known 
as “Squaw corn.” He praised it as a 
strong, thrifty grower, a heavy yielder, 
good enough, in its green state, to eat as 
sweet corn, yet making an excellent feed 
corn when mature. A part of the seed 
was planted in the garden on May 1, and 
the rest planted later, on the farm, to 
test its value for field culture. The first 
picking of green ears was made July 19— 
79 days from planting. The stalks, with 
us, are thrifty and strong, and average 
over five feet high. Crosby, planted 10 
days later than the Adams, was just be¬ 
ginning to tassel when the first ears of 
Adams were picked. As to quality—the 
Adams is not a sugar corn at all; yet, to 
our taste, some of the best ears were 
fully as sweet as Crosby. It would sell 
without difficulty as sweet corn. The 
plants do not sucker, may be planted 
close together, and we would judge that 
a heavy crop could be grown on an acre. 
When the field crop is harvested, we 
shall have more to say about the yield 
and quality of the grain. 
X X X 
Our early cabbage, this year, has been 
grown between the rows of asparagus. 
The asparagus roots were set out in the 
early spring, in trenches four feet apart. 
The cabbage seed was drilled in mid¬ 
way between the asparagus rows, and 
the plants were thinned out as they 
grew large enough. Both asparagus 
and cabbage were highly fertilized, and 
the cabbages are large and fine. As 
they are cut out for use, plants of later 
varieties are put in their places. 
X X X 
Last year, on September 3, we set out 
1,200 potted plants of Parker Earle straw¬ 
berries. On part of the land, we had 
already grown a crop of Crosby sweet 
corn, and on the remainder a crop each 
of lettuce and early cabbage. The 
weather was dry, and the ground, a 
tough old sod, was full of White Grubs, 
so that some of the plants were killed. 
This spring, we measured off a space 
18x30 feet—a fair average of the entire 
bed—in order to ascertain the yield from 
potted plants eight months from setting. 
The first ripe berries were picked on 
Decoration Day, and the last ones June 
29. The total yield was 47 quarts—seven 
of which were used for making jam, and 
the rest were eaten fresh. The plants 
were set 30x15 inches apart. Counting 
out the misses, there were about 140 
plants on this plot. At this rate, • an 
acre of such plants would yield about 
3,800 quarts. Even with this low yield, 
the crop would pay us, for the plants 
were set on ground that had already pro¬ 
duced one and two crops. 
X X X 
We shall not use any more potted 
plants, however—except, possibly, for 
newer varieties. The Richards’s trans¬ 
planter enables us to get better plants, 
and re-set them with a surer chance of 
success. This spring, we set out a 
dozen plants each of some 25 varieties. 
Now we wish to set, say, 200 good plants 
each of Brandywine, Ideal, Oriole, Mary, 
Atlantic and Eureka. By fastening the 
runners down with a hairpin, we are 
able to root plants wherever they are 
wanted, and with the transplanter, they 
are quickly taken up with a ball of earth 
larger than one’s fist, and put out 
in a new place without the sign of a 
wilt. We call our little experiment plot 
the “ breeding pen,” and by properly 
handling the runners, we can obtain 
thousands of plants, better in all re¬ 
spects, than those in pots. 
Early in June, Mr. L. J. Farmer sent 
us a dozen strawberry plants kept after 
his “ new method”—that is, heeled into 
the 'ground* close_together. These plants 
were set out at once, and are now fully 
as large as the plants set in April. We 
are taking plants from them with the 
transplanter, the same as from those 
set out earlier. The convenience of this 
transplanter on places where space is 
valuable, is quite evident. For example, 
we have a patch of early corn that will 
be off by August 1. The stalks can be 
cut off, the soil worked up and fertilized, 
and in a day, plants from the breeding 
pen can be taken up with the trans¬ 
planter and set out in their new places. 
They will never stop growing, and will 
outyield potted plants next spring. Of 
course, where one has acres of berries, 
the transplanter might not pay except 
for newer varieties ; but for intensive 
culture, on soil free from stones, it will 
prove a very valuable help. h. 
Live Stock Matters 
FEEDING FARM POULTRY. 
The question of feeding poultry on the 
farm has many advocates of as many 
methods. Some methods are purely 
theoretical, others are contrary to the 
nature and habits of the fowls, while 
others, again, are impractical, as they 
involve too much extra labor; the routine 
being the same for a small flock as for a 
large one, demands more time and labor 
than the average farmer can, or is neces¬ 
sary that he should, devote to it, where 
he is not making this his principal busi¬ 
ness. When the Creator placed fowls 
on the earth, he placed food within their 
reach, not in patent hoppers and 
troughs, but required them to search 
for it; the efforts put forth in the search 
being absolutely necessary to their well 
being. Man has transplanted them to 
climates where nature withholds her 
supply during a portion of the year; 
therefore, he must supply their needs 
by as nearly as possible duplicating the 
natural supply. 
The presumption is that you are rais¬ 
ing chickens for profit and not for or¬ 
namental purposes. The greatest source 
of profit is in the eggs they produce. 
Broilers are profitable, but to make 
them so, one must be equipped to raise 
them artificially; this requires much 
time, labor and very close attention. 
The slightest deviation from certain 
lines, accidentally or otherwise, will re¬ 
sult in severe losses, so great that fancy 
prices must be obtained for the early 
birds to offset even the average losses and 
the low prices that follow later. Beyond 
all question, eggs are the most profitable 
branch of poultry raising under ordinary 
conditions. There are two important 
points, the foundation upon which suc¬ 
cess is based ; the first is the 
Stock That Is to Produce the Eggs. 
Suppose that you wish to raise a crop 
of early potatoes to mature in June, 
would you go to market and buy any¬ 
thing that looked like a potato, plant 
it, and then, after discovering that it 
was a mixture of all kinds—early and 
late—save the seed and continue plant¬ 
ing it from year to year ? How about 
the hens ? You call them common 
stock, which means that they mature at 
various ages, and have the character¬ 
istics and qualities of the blood that 
predominates in each fowl, and they all 
descend from some of the standard 
breeds. You hatch the chicks as early 
as possible in the spring, so as to have 
early winter layers, and then can’t 
understand why they don’t lay, and are 
surprised when you find some May and 
June hatched chicks laying in November 
when egg prices begin to climb upward, 
and when you should reap your egg 
harvest. Or, suppose that you have one 
variety of purebred stock, whatever it 
may be ! Unless you hatch the chicks 
at the right time, you need expect no 
eggs when you should have them in 
abundance, but of course will have 
plenty when everybody else has, and 
prices are down. Some one has re¬ 
marked that it doesn’t pay to peddle ice 
in winter. Neither does it pay to 
peddle eggs in summer. How can you 
avoid it ? Remember the following 
rules and be governed by them and you 
have taken the first and important step : 
First, get rid of your mongrel stock ; 
you can’t figure ahead on it with any 
certainty, while with purebred, you can. 
If you wish eggs in November, set the 
hens so that they will hatch as follows : 
Brown Leghorns, 4% months previous 
to laying ; Black Spanish or Minorcas, 
5 months ; Wyandottes or Langshans, 
5Ji months ; Plymouth Rocks, 6 months ; 
Brahmas or Cochins, 6% months. If 
you hatch them earlier than this, they 
will moult into premature hens, and then 
you need expect no eggs until spring. A 
hen can’t grow feathers and eggs at the 
same time. No system of feeding will 
alter this fact, and to this alone, much 
of the scarcity of eggs in winter is due. 
I long ago found the Brown Leghorn 
the best layer. I hatch my chicks in 
May and June, and in October and 
November, I can depend on my hens 
shelling out eggs in abundance. The 
next important point is 
Feed. 
I am not a believer in all sorts of 
mashes, slops and soups, advised by 
many to be concocted for poultry. Hens 
dislike wet food ; they can gradually be 
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