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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 26, 
FARMERS’ CLUR 
[Every query must be accompanied by 
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sure attention. Before asking a question, 
please see whether it is not answered in 
our advertising columns. Ask only a few 
questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper.! 
KEEP THEM IN MIND. 
Do not forget that the following members 
of the New York Senate voted against Gov¬ 
ernor Hughes in his efforts to remove the 
Superintendent of Insurance. Let it be a 
part of your political duty to remember them 
and vote against them whenever you have the 
chance: 
JOTHAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. RANCHER_Salamanca, N. Y. 
S. P. FRA NCI I or_Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES.Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham. N. Y. 
WM. J. TULLY.Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE.Syracuse. N. Y. 
BBNJ. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD.Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE_East Schodack, N. Y. 
TWINE IN A CORN HARVESTER. 
I have not noticed that any of your writers 
have spoken of the trouble caused in running 
a corn binder by the twine pulling out an ex¬ 
tra strand, when the ball is nearly used up. 
I have frequently had to stop the machine 
and rethread the knot-tier because of the 
twine becoming tangled. Now, however, I 
save that trouble by simply laying the ball 
on the ground when there is 50 or 100 feet 
of twine left, in it. Leave the cover of twine 
box loose and drive off. The twine unrolls 
and the machine takes it up as required. 
San Antonio, Texas. w. s. 
SMALL CROPS—HIGH PRICES. 
I have never seen a more disastrous season 
than this, first a terribly -wet, cold season fol¬ 
lowed by a hot, dry spell; it looked as though 
everything wonld fail. We planted only to 
plow down and plant over again. Some plots 
I planted three times, and at last only got 
partial stands, but we kept at it, determined 
to put up as big a fight as possible to over¬ 
come total failure, and at least, in a way, 
master bad seasons and conditions, and am 
glad to say that we have been successful far 
beyond expectations Our net earnings on 
October 1 are $12.65 ahead of last year when 
the season closed, and we have lots of stuff 
to sell yet. While we handled much less 
stuff than last season, prices on an average 
were double those of last season. I have 
been selling lots of stuff, not only to town 
people, but to my neighbor farmers whose 
gardens failed. A number of them I supplied 
with potatoes up to now, as well as other 
stuff. I find it comparatively easy to farm 
when seasons and conditions are just right, 
but it pays to have crops when your neigh¬ 
bors fail. What good are high prices to you 
when you have nothing to sell? I now won¬ 
der just where I would come out if I worked 
equally hard and with the same determination 
in a fair season as I did this year? 
Ohio. J. H. BOLLINGER. 
Harvesting Sunflowers. 
How are sunflowers harvested, on stalks 
until used? Are they thrashed out? Must 
the seeds be ripe before cut? Are the stalks 
of food value, or but to be used for mulch¬ 
ing? G. o. B. 
Ans.—C ut them off below the head, leaving 
enough of the stalk to make a handle. Put 
them in a wagon or wheelbarrow and haul to 
a shed or other covered place. Let them 
dry and then thrash out with a flail or 
heavy stick. The seeds will ripen after cut¬ 
ting if well formed. The stalks can be cut 
up with cornstalks and fed. They make a 
fair mulch for strawberries. 
Destroying the Bean lVeev/7. 
Will you give me the remedy for killing 
Bean weevil by cyanide gas? a. c. b. 
Ans,—T he use of this gas was explained 
on page 436. It will kill the insects, but a 
simpler and cheaper way is to use bisulphide 
of carbon. This is a liquid which, exposed 
to the air, forms a poisonous gas, heavier 
than air. Put the beans in a tight box or 
barrel. Put a soap dish or bowl on top of 
the beans and pour the bisulphide into it, 
being careful not to breathe the fumes or to 
bring a light near it. Then cover the barrel 
with a heavy blanket. The gas will form and 
sink down through the beans, destroying the 
insects. 
Stay By the Clover. 
Would you advise turning under the 
Cow-horn turnips and Crimson clover 
this Fall and sow to rye, or let it 
lie until Spring and plow then? I ex¬ 
pect to plant field to potatoes next Spring. 
Both turnips and clover made good growth, 
hut I am afraid I do not get much benefit 
from turning under the young clover. It 
has been too wet to plow for nearly a month; 
some seeding is still to be done, and some that 
has been done could have been left undone 
to advantage. E. w. k. 
Pennsylvania. 
Axs.—No; we would not plow under the 
turnips and clover this Fall. Let them alone. 
They will keep growing until the ground 
freezes. One inch of growth on the clover 
will be worth three or four in the rye, and 
the latter would barely make a start this 
Fall if seeded now. Stay by the clover. It 
may kill out next Spring, but even if it does, 
you will have more than your money’s worth. 
Feeding Out Hay. 
We cut our oats green just after the “milk’’ 
stage was passed and the hardening just be¬ 
gun. Can it be used as food for horse? To 
what extent will it take the place of oats 
as grain in feeding to the horse? The horse 
has been on oats all Summer and pasture 
besides. K - Mt 
Ans.—I n our experience it pays to feed 
with the oat hay about one-third as much 
dry oats as when hay is fed. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Heavy Bobbowing. —During the nine 
months just past issues of new securities in 
the form of notes, stocks and bonds exceed 
$1,000,000,000. About two-thirds of these 
were railroad paper and the remainder “in¬ 
dustrials,” which include manufacture, min¬ 
ing and practically everything outside of 
railroad business. 
The Mabket for stocks has been dull for 
several months. People are hanging on to 
their money because of the uncertainty in 
financial affairs and the evident bad faith 
of those who make and break the prices of 
stocks. The writer has no sympathy with 
the scare-head talk about panics and a gen¬ 
eral upsetting of business said to be close 
at hand, as though Providence were about 
to punish us with misery in proportion to 
our prosperity. 
Results of Prosperity. —Some of the 
fruits of continued prosperity are extrava¬ 
gance, idleness and a decline of interest in 
civic affairs. Every one of these items has 
its adverse influence on the “good times ’ 
of which it is a result, and the last named 
is not a minor one. “Government by the 
people” must be by the people and not merely 
by a few of them, otherwise forms of tyranny 
pernicious and intolerable will result. In a 
commercial age, like the present, this op¬ 
pression consists in grabbing money and other 
seizables. If charter privileges worth mil¬ 
lions are given away and staple articles of 
food and wear “cornered,” and sold to the 
consumer at twice their actual value, it is 
because the people by absence from the polls 
and ignorance of the doings of legislative 
bodies have permitted it. “Criminal ’ trusts 
feed and fatten at first because of the crimi¬ 
nal neglect of those who should have known 
what was going on, but did not. Easy of 
regulation at the start, they grow into siz¬ 
able problems, thus far unsolved. 
Apple Questions. —“Perry County, Penn¬ 
sylvania, has a good crop of apples this year, 
though a great portion of the State has few 
or none. Buyers from Pittsburg are here 
paying 40, 45 and 50 cents per bushel, and 
shipping to that place. I have a young or¬ 
chard from which I expect 600 to 800 bush¬ 
els of Winter apples, which I wish to dis¬ 
pose of to the best advantage. I don't like 
to sell nice apples now at 40 to 50 cents per 
bushel when in Pittsburg they retail at 15 
cents per quarter peck. I can put them in 
cold storage for 10 cents per barrel per 
month. Barrels cost 41 cents here; one- 
half barrel baskets can be had for 10 and 
11 cents apiece by the hundred. Which 
would, do you think, be the better way to 
ship, in barrels or one-half-barrel baskets? 
Would thev bring better prices in baskets 
than if shipped in barrels? Would it be ad¬ 
visable to put in cold storage till better prices 
prevail ?” 
The prices vou name, 40 to 50 cents per 
bushel, seem low, but we judge that this in¬ 
cludes the fruit as it runs. It is the writer’s 
opinion that, taking one year with another 
a grower situated like the inquirer comes 
out best by shipping the apples on commis¬ 
sion, provided he is in touch with a selling 
agent who is honest and attends to business. 
This is contrary to the usual belief, as many 
people think that shipping on commission is 
the last resort. A man who buys apples in 
the orchard knows that he runs a heavy risk 
and will naturally make a close bargain. 
The apple crop throughout the country is 
short, and it would seem that much higher 
prices would prevail before Spring, yet this 
very supposition may induce an excessive 
number of growers to store and hold, the re¬ 
sult being that the big rise in Spring does 
not come because there are too many apples 
waiting for it. One plan that often works well 
in such a doubtful season is to store until 
midwinter and give your commission man au¬ 
thority to withdraw and sell at every favor¬ 
able turn of the market, which may last 
for only half a day or less. For shipping 
Winter apples barrels are preferable to bas¬ 
kets, as fruit is less damaged in transit 
when properly barrelled. Baskets are a lit¬ 
tle cheaper, however. The bushel box is a 
good package for apples that are fair and 
high-colored, but the poorest package for 
any other grade, as the box comes into mar¬ 
ket competition with the western, fancy fruit, 
free from blemishes. The baskets referred 
to are not open to this objection, as they 
are used for all kinds of apples from wind¬ 
falls to No. 1. w. w. H. 
It adds 
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