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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 21, 
OHIO GARDEN NOTES . 
The Hope Farm man remarks that his 
potatoes started in boxes and transplant¬ 
ed were large enough to eat by July 4. 
We were toasting our toes last February 
1 when we planted ours, and they were 
ripe June 1. We gain at least from four 
to five weeks. We did not do so well 
with our tomatoes. We always tie to 
stakes. It pays to prune the plants, too, 
but 1 must have them earlier next year, 
for the last of June they sold here at 15 
cents per pound. This July 9 our okra 
looks fine. This is new to us; I do not 
know how we will like it. June here was 
unusually dry, but our tomatoes hardly 
knew it, for I had planted a tin can per¬ 
forated at bottom, beside each plant; by 
that means we could water them at any 
time during the day. They are full of 
nice large fruit. The late frosts injured 
much of the grape bloom; those that come 
on all right we have sacked, did it the 
last of June. It pays every time. The 
bees cannot get to them, and the flavor is 
much improved. When our vines were 
coming out in leaf I discovered that four 
vines were nearly dead, only a few scat¬ 
tering leaves. I felt convinced they would 
not do much, so 1 did a wise thing to cut 
off all the old vines close to ground, not 
too close. New shoots soon came out and 
made vigorous growths. As these branched 
I pruned, leaving about one-third on. The 
arbor will be covered by Fall with grape¬ 
vines. I prune all the season. Those of 
us who want the finest kind of rhubarb 
for pies next Christmas must prepare for 
them now; old hills should be taken up 
and divided and get a good start. Then in 
the early Winter before a freeze spade up 
and throw out on top of ground. When 
frozen hard, they are ready to plant. In 
the Fall one must get plenty of dry, rich 
soil in out of the weather. Last Winter 
I planted our rhubarb in kegs. The keg 
we had behind the stove sent up large 
stalks in an incredibly/■short time. Water 
often. Paris-green mixed with dust or 
flour does the business for the bugs on po¬ 
tatoes and worms on gooseberries, cur¬ 
rants and rose bushes. Fine, dry table salt 
for the cabbage worm. 
With our poultry we have done fairly 
well. Eggs hatched well. Of course had 
to be fresh. Too much grease on young 
chicks will kill them. Chicks weighing a 
pound, if not well feathered, are easily 
drowned by a hard rain. Too many roost¬ 
ing in a coop after the hen has weaned 
them, if the coop is not cleaned out every 
day will cause disease. Two had the gapes, 
then we put a tcaspoonful of spirits of 
camphor in a quart of their drinking 
water; no more had it. L. H. e. 
Wilmington, Ohio 
TREATMENT OF HIRED MEN . 
We have taken The R. N.-Y. in our 
family for many years, and hardly feel 
that we could keep house without it. I 
think I never saw quite so severe an at¬ 
tack on farmers who keep hired help as 
the letter from “A Hired Man on a Farm,” 
page 534. Perhaps it would do no harm 
to tell the other side of the story. I have 
lived on the farm we now occupy most of 
my life of three score years and ten and 
we have always kept hired help indoors 
and out. Our hired help (we try to get 
the best) are always made members of 
our family and welcomed to a home with 
us; and that means sleep in as good beds 
as the family do, with mattress, springs, 
etc., eat at the same table with the family 
and of the same food, and are welcome to 
a seat around our center-table in the 
evening with the family, where daily 
papers, magazines and books are always 
plenty. We pay from $26 to $30 per 
month for man’s help, and we are not rich 
people either, but believe in live and let 
live, and also think the Golden Rule is 
a good one to live up to. Do unto others 
as you would like them to do to you. I 
think there are many farmers on these old 
Oneida County hills who treat their help 
as well as we do, and do not know one 
who treats a hired man as A. S. was 
treated. I think it would be well enough 
for him to look about more before mak¬ 
ing such sweeping assertions. F. s. 
Central New York. 
A GROUP OF JERSEY REDS. 
Fig. 230, page 566, shows a group of 
Jersey Red pigs on the farm of Arthur J. 
Collins, Moorestown, N. J. This breed 
has many merits, being well adapted to 
the needs of the general purpose farmer. 
They are of good form, strong constitu¬ 
tion, hearty feeders, do well on pasture, 
and they make carcasses which cut up 
profitably. The sows are prolific breeders 
and good mothers. 
Influence of the Moon. 
W. J. M. Durant, Miss. —Has the moon 
anything to do with planting? My neighbor 
says it has. I cannot see it that way. I 
ain going to find out before I stop whether 
it has or not. 
Ans. —You will have a good job try¬ 
ing to convince your neighbor if he 
really believes in “planting in the moon.” 
The theory is that the condition of the 
moon affects vegetation. We have heard 
people say that potatoes would not rot 
if planted while the moon is “full.” When 
we remember that “rot” is a disease, 
spread by a germ and augmented by damp 
or “muggy” weather, it is very hard to 
see what the moon can have to do with it. 
We have no faith in the theory, but have 
given up trying to argue with believers. 
Some of the experiment stations have 
tested the theory and found nothing in 
it. 
Muslin Windows; Beef Scrap. 
Reader (No Address). —How heavy muslin 
do the hen men, who advocate cloth windows 
for henhouses, use, and what kind of oil 
do they put on to shed water and still 
retain their whiteness so as to give sufficient 
light? Will a bag of beef-scrap keep for a 
reasonable length of time in warm weather, 
or in the time a flock of 100 hens would use 
it up? llow long would it keep mixed in 
dry mash? 
Ans. —Common unbleached cotton cost¬ 
ing about seven or eight cents a yard is 
what is now used for windows, and some¬ 
times for the entire front of henhouses. 
At first cloth dressed with linseed oil 
was used, but that prevents the free 
movement of fresh air, the sole purpose 
for which the cloth is used; so now com¬ 
mon cotton cloth or muslin without any 
dressing of any kind is the only thing 
used by up-to-date poultrymen. Beef- 
scraps will keep indefinitely; I have often 
had them on hand for a month with no 
signs of spoiling. They should be kept 
in a dry and airy place. I keep mine in 
my corn house. I have never mixed 
them with dry feed, but should think 
they would keep longer in that way. ■ 
G. A. COSGROVE. 
Pressure of Gas Well. 
D. A. M., Franklin, Pa. —I have just com¬ 
pleted a gas well which is 1,809 feet deep; 
of this depth 770 feet is five-inch hole, 
1,039 feet 614-inch, this well, shut in 48 
hours, raises a pressure of 485 pounds to 
the square inch. How many feet of gas 
would that size hole and that pressure 
metre out at one-half pound pressure, and 
what would be the output of the well in 
feet at one-half pound pressure in 24 hours. 
Ans. —Barlow’s formula for the flow 
gas in pipes is cubic feet per hour equals 
1350 x d, squared, times the square root 
of h d divided by s 1, where d is the diam¬ 
eter of pipe in inches; h is the pressure in 
inches of water; s is the specific gravity 
of the gas when air is 1; and 1 is the 
length of the pipe in yards. A pressure of 
one-half a pound per square inch is equal 
to nearly 14 inches of water pressure. 
Taking this pressure and the length of the 
well tubing at 600 yards, with a specific 
gravity of gas at .45 the flow per hour 
from a five-inch and from a six-inch pipe 
would be 
(1) cubic feet per hour equals 1350 x 
5x5 times the square root of 14 x 5 
divided by .45 x 600 equals 17,190. 
(2) cubic feet per hour equals 1350 x 
6x6 times the square root of 14 x 6 
divided by .45 x 600 equals 27,110. 
From these amounts the flow per 24 
hours would be 412,400 and 678,100 cubic 
feet of gas. f, h. king. 
BASIC SLAG PHOSPHATE. 
(THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER.) 
The Best Phosphate for Seeding Down to Grass, 
Wheat, and All Fall Sown Grains. 
Unequalled for Fruit Trees, Clover, Alfalfa, and 
Pasture Lands. 
BASIC SLAG PHOSPHATE does not revert or go back to insoluble forms. 
BASIC SLAG PHOSPHATE is not washed out of the soil by heavy rains. 
It sweetens sour soils and makes them productive. 
It is very available. The plants can use it all. 
It makes plump Wheat, and an abundance of Straw. 
It permanently enriches the Land. It produces delicious Fruits. 
THE PRICE IS LOW. 
Says Bulletin 68 of the Maryland Experiment Station, (pages 28 and 29); 
“SLAG PHOSPHATE produced A GREATER YIELD and at LESS COST 
than the average of the soluble phosphoric acid plots and bone meal plots.” 
This test included THREE CORN CROPS, ONE WHEAT CROP, and ONE 
GRASS CROP. 
MR. LUTHER BURBANK (probably the most expert horticulturist in 
the world) writes : “After testing a great variety of fertilizers on my orchard 
and experiment grounds, I find that the Nitrate of Soda and THOMAS SLAG 
PHOSPHATE (BASIC SLAG) have given me the BEST RESULTS AT THE 
LEAST EXPENSE, and I shall not look further at present. The above 
named fertilizers have MORE THAN DOUBLED the product of mv soil at a 
very small outlay per acre.” 
MR. H. W. COLLING WOOD (Editor The Rural New-Yorker) says: 
“All that I put on in the way of fertilizer is IRON-SLAG ( BASIC SLAG) 
crushed up into a powder. And if you could see how those TREES HAVE 
IMPROVED, YOU WOULD BE ASTONISHED.” (Address before The 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Association; “ The Care of Apple Orchards,” 
March 9, 1905.) 
Special Importers of Basic Slag, Nitrate of Soda and Potash Salts. 
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10(10. JOSlil’H E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
orrn DVC somethingspkcialfor 
ArrM || T n. hog FEEDING. Stamp for 
sample and prices. Orders booked 
now for fall pigs and sows bred to imported stock. 
PENNA. BERKSHIRE OO., Fannettsburg, Pa. 
A LFALFA SEED—Kansas grown, best known. 
Prices and samples on application. 
KANSAS SEED DOUSE, Lawrence, Ivans. 
60 Bus. Winter Wheat Per Acre 
That s the yield of Salzor's Red Cross Hybrid Winter 
Wheat. Send 2c. in stamps for free sample of same, 
as also catalogue of Winter Wheats, Rye, Barley, 
Clovers, Timothy, Grasses, Bulbs, Trees, etc., for fall 
planting. John A. Salzek Seed Co., LaCrosse, Wis 
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Hardy, field grown W. Plume, G. S. Blanching, 
E. iriumph and W. Queen. 25 cents per 100, $1 25 
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S awn 
r Plants 
Will produce a full crop of berries 
next June, if planted thia Summer. 
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