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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE ATLANTIC STRAWBERRY. 
The Atlantic is certainly a fine shipper. 
The fruit is- very firm, of high color, good 
shape and of excellent quality. But it seems 
to succe.ed only under, certain conditions, 
which most localities are unable to furnish. 
It is at its best in Oswego 1 County, N. Y., 
where it Is a great money maker. It requires 
moist soil, high culture and very heavy fer¬ 
tilizing. I have fruited it several years in 
Yates County, but it does not yield quarts 
enough to pay. e. c. Gillette. 
The Atlantic strawberry originated in At¬ 
lantic County, N. .1. It has been grown here 
for the past 10 or 12 years with varying suc¬ 
cess. For some reason or other it has suc¬ 
ceeded best in a rather restricted territory 
near Oswego, and has been discarded by good 
berry growers only a few miles away. It re¬ 
quires a rich gravelly loam; one that has 
been heavily fertilized with barn manure the 
year before the plants are set is best. The 
land should have two generous applications 
of commercial fertilizer the year the plants 
are set, and another application very early 
in the following Spring. The fertilizer should 
contain a large per cent of phosphoric acid; 
some growers u*e acid phosphate only with 
excellent results. Generally, it does not run¬ 
ner very freely, yet sometimes we have seen 
it in wide matted rows. It is one of our 
latest berries, and is considered a fickle crop¬ 
per, for many times when all the conditions 
and surroundings seem to be perfect the crop 
is a disappointment. The yield per acre is 
not as large as that of other kinds, but when 
we consider the saving in crates, baskets, 
pickers' wages and the high prices they com¬ 
mand the profit is greater if the grower can 
get a crop of really fine berries. A,few have 
the temerity to set this berry for the entire 
crtfp. Most of the growers depend on some 
other kind for toe main crop. It is conceded 
by alb that year in and year out Bubach or 
sonte other good berry will net the grower 
more mone.v. The berry is of high quality 
and very stands handling and shipping 
best of all. Tlireh*-years ago a carrier, four 
baskets, was; d evident ally left in our field two 
full days,, standing ip a hot sun, and when 
found fdss than a dozen-lierries were spoiled. 
Alb the buyers who come '-to our market here 
are always hot for AtlanticS. “Have you 
any Atlantic®?" .is' generally the first ques¬ 
tion asked, and' if the market is, dull a few 
ertftes of A.tlantics ^wiH' help to sell the 
whole load. The season 'of 1902 was very 
severe on newly set beds, making the 190.1 
crop. ,shoft, yet one grower received between 
$1,TO© and- $1.-800 from a scant two acres of- 
Atiantics, the price ranging around $7 per 
crate. Last year another man received $8 
per crate for his entire crop. .Once in a 
w-hile, not often, the price has climbed to $9^ 
per crate. The crate used here holds 36 
quarts. If W. A. B., page 171, will visit 
Oswego any week day, excepting Fridays, dur-. 
Ing the strawberry season, be will s^e Atlan- 
tics and other kinds in plenty. d. d. s. 
Oswego, N. Y. 
HOW TO GET RID OF RATS. 
If E. D. G., of Massachusetts, wants to 
kill the rats and not poison, them, let him 
feed them several days with flour mixed with 
sugar, about one-quarter sugar. Then if they, 
feed vt-ell on it, use floilr three parts,’ plaster $5 to $10 per month when I am milking onlv 
of Paris one part, and sweeten as before, about one-half my cows. I am satisfied that 
and they would have no more difficulty In 
that direction. They had occasion to try 
it later, and he said it was a perfect success. 
He also said they now use it for keeping 
down lice in their poultry buildings and brood 
coops. They slake it with water, just as in 
making whitewash, and apply with a spray¬ 
er. I have had no personal experience with 
this remedy and give the Information that 
E. D. G. and others may try it for themselves. 
Macon Co., III. j. c . N. 
USE OF HAND SEPARATORS , 
The main reason for my using a cream 
separator is that it takes considerable of the 
farmer's valuable time to carry milk to- and 
from the factory, especially when help Is 
scarce, as it is through these parts, saying 
nothing about the wear and tear of horse, 
horse shoeing, wagon and harness. Another 
reason is that I have better milk for my 
calves and hogs. When it is carried over the 
road and run through one of those sepa¬ 
rators nine times out of ten it is sour by the 
time it gets home, and not any good for the 
calves. I have heard some complaints from 
those who carried their milk to the factory 
of their milk being watered. I believe water 
to be very essential, but don't purpose to 
carry it over the roads unless it is necessary. 
Again, I can test and weigh my cream at 
home and know just what I am doing. The 
last year I milked 12 cows, six of them 
heifers; have two coolers where the water 
and ice goes around and through the milk. 
From the first of June until the last of Octo¬ 
ber, five months, I sold 10,489 pounds of 
cream, test 21 ; the rest of the year made 
butter at- home. c. B. h. 
Valley Falls, N. Y. 
We have had a hand cream separator since 
May, and before we had the separator we 
used the cooler system, but find the separator 
superior to anything we have ever used. In 
regard to raising cream, our cream test does 
not vary over two per cent every month. We 
are making one-tenth more cream, and there 
are no drawbacks. The reason why we pre¬ 
fer to separate at home is because we know 
within a few dollars what our cream check 
will be every month. We have only been 
here a year the first of December; we own 
a place of 240 acres. Our farm is capable 
of keeping 30 to 35 head of stock. We in¬ 
tend to keep about that number, and expect 
to keep them in the creamery. In regard to 
crops and prices, would say anything could 
be raised in this section. The land is rough, 
but the soil is good. Brices are pretty fair; 
we are perfectly contented with our lot. This 
is the place for anyone who has any push 
in him to make a good living. There are tel¬ 
ephones here and we expect free delivery 
the first of January. 1 c. c. 
West Hartland, Conn. 
I have kept a small herd of cows for the 
last 20 years, from 10 to 15. I sold my milk 
at one time. For the last 15 years I have 
sold my cream. I have found it more profit¬ 
able than selling the milk. I receive more 
money for my cream than I did for the milk 
from the same number of cows when I sold 
my milk, and I have the skim-milk left for 
home use. For the past few months I have 
been using a separator. I have 15 cows, but 
am only milking eight at the present time. 
The separator has made a difference of from 
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St. Mary's, Pa, a. c. s. 
it would not be a large estimate to say that 
from a herd of 15 cows from $10 to $15 In¬ 
crease Is obtained a month by using a separa¬ 
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the young stock. „ My wife will tell you that 
_ x > " she would rather wash the separator than the 
ret. We were bothered with rats: Trans and . , . . . . , 
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for good. It is pleasure for the boys to kill 
the rats while the ferrets are- chasing them 
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Sofne folks are afraid of ferrets. They will 
Simbury, Conn. 
SCOURS IN HORSE. 
I have a young horse six years old in June. 
For eight months he has been scouring. His 
food does not seem to digest properly. I feed 
nof harm you ; they are as playful as a kit- him nine quarts whole oats, three quarts bran 
ten, but are ; ppison to-rats. « h. s. 0 r cut straw and hay at night; have seen 
Canarsie, N. Y. veterinary and he gave me 12 powders, but 
I saw in The R. N.-Y. the complaint of a di(l £ ood - rine work is three trl I )S t0 cit - v 
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Freshen this Spring. vU 
of them was by catching a rat alive and 
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Patchogue, N. Y. 
Removing Rats. —E. D. G. says his place 
is overrun with rats and wishes to know how 
to get rid of them. It so hanpened that just 
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