1909. 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
219 
CONTENTS 
The Rural. New-Yorker, February 27, 
1909. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Facts About Floats. 190 
A Groat Corn Story. 191 
The Truth About Florida. 191 
\n Experience in Renting Land. 191 
Questions of Corn Culture. 192 
Starting Grass on Hill Land. 194 
Fertilizing Tobacco in Maryland. 194 
American Onions for Europe. 194 
Starting Early Potatoes . 194 
The Farmer’s Share . 195 
Home-Mixing Fertilizers . 195 
Kaffir Corn in New York State. 195 
Lava Fertilizer . 197 
Soy Beans After Strawberries. 197 
Investments in Eastern Farms. 197 
Growing Lima Beans in California. . . . 198 
More About “Alaska Wheat”. 198 
Damage from Cement Dust. 199 
Corn to Kill Quack Grass. 199 
Salt as a Fertilizer. 199 
Failure of Potatoes. 199 
(trowing Potatoes With Fertilizer... . 201 
Testing an Acid Soil . 201 
A Practical Fertilizer Distributor. 201 
Hope Farm Notes . 203 
The Deer Nuisance in That Bashful 
State . 213 
Drawing Up Farm Plans. 214 
Recognition of Farmers. 215 
Alsike Clover vs. Grain. 215 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Experience With Brood Sows. 208 
Trap Nests and Barren liens. 208 
Sheep Notes . 208 
Copperas for Worms of Hogs. 208 
Rations for Growing Pigs. 208 
Scaring the Crows . 208 
The Value of Dairy Feeds. 209 
Hogs on Alfalfa and Beets. 209 
Fresh Blood for Hens. 209 
A Bunch of Fodder Problems. 209 
Substitutes for Horse Hay. 210 
Big Corn for the Silo. 210 
Fatal Disease of Swine. 210 
Indigestion in Mare . 210 
Some Breeding Pointers . 212 
Butter From One Cow. 212 
Water Glass Solution for Eggs. 210 
Lice and Chicks . 210 
New Cases of Foot and Mouth Disease 214 
Sheep Eating Wool . 216 
Grubs on the Backs of Cattle. 216 
A Few Horse Terms. 216 
Goat Breeders Meet . 216 
Glandered Horses . 216 
Profitable Cows . 216 
A Live Poultry Association. 217 
HORTICULTURE. 
Spraving With Compressed Air. ..189, 190 
Apples for New York—Buying Trees.. 190 
Even Those Fine Pacific Apples Go to 
the Middleman . 190 
Plan for a Spraying Plant. 190 
Japan Plums for Poultry Yards. 192 
How to Bag Grapes. 192 
Planting an Orchard . 192 
Apples and Pears in Canada. 193 
Planting Crops Close Together. 193 
Floral Notes from California. 194 
Experience With Japan Plums. 196 
Vegetable Notes .■• .. 196 
Barreled Strawberries . 198 
Western N. Y. Horticultural Society. 
Part II . 200 
Rural isms . 202 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 206 
A Woman Farmer’s Skirt . 206 
Winter Vegetables . 206 
Dow a Farm Family Camps Out. 207 
The Rural Patterns . 207 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A New Traction Ditcher. 193 
How to Make Appleade . 193 
Carton’s Regenerated Oats . 196 
Damage From Russian Thistle. 196 
A Copper Cable Lightning Rod. 201 
Editorials . 204 
A Job of Soldering. 211 
Conveying Right of Way. 213 
Division of Wife’s Property. 213 
Ownership of Manure . 213 
Eviction of Tenant . 213 
Trespass on Ice Pond. 213 
Accidental Poisoning of Cattle. 213 
Posts Set in Cement. 213 
Concrete Water Pipe—No Rust. 214 
Publisher’s Desk . 218 
HUMOROUS 
Father: “What is that noise in the 
parlor. Tommy?” Tommy: “That’s sis 
dropping- a hint. She wants that young 
man to go home.”—Chicago Daily 
News. 
“Tommy,” said the visiting uncle, 
“seems to me that baby sister of yours is 
pretty slow. She hasn’t any teeth yet, 
has she?” “She’s got plenty of teeth,” 
replied the indignant Tommy. “She’s 
got a whole mouthful of teeth, only they 
ain’t hatched yet.”—Woman’s Home 
Companion. 
Householder: “See here! You’ve 
charged me 60 cents for 12 candles. 
Here are the candle ends. Take them, 
and credit me with them on my bill.” 
Plumber: “Yes, sir—all right, sir; but 
it will cost you two dollars for my as¬ 
sistant to come and fetch them away.”— 
Harper’s Bazar. 
A certain father who is fond of put¬ 
ting his boys through natural history 
examinations is often surprised by their 
mental agility. He recently asked them 
to tell him “what animal is satisfied with 
the least nourishment.” “The moth!” 
one of them shouted confidently. “It 
eats nothing but holes.”—Youth’s Com¬ 
panion. 
Here is the 
Difference— 
Manured and 
Not Manured 
If you and every farmer would figure up how many dollars you waste every year on 
your places by not spreading your manure properly, you’d get Spreaders quickly. 
You’d no more leave those piles of manure standing back of your barns than 
you’d throw your crops in the road to rot. 
High authorities state that enough manure goes to waste annually to more than 
pay off every farm mortgage and every farmer’s debts. 
Government Bulletin No. 192 says tile farmers lose over 8784,000.000 in manure each year 
because it's not handled right. You, yourself, can easily make your farm pay yoa a quarter to a 
third more in crops by getting a Galloway Spreader just the same as these men below say they are 
. doing and I’ve got thousands of farmers’ letters as good as these or better. Just read my catalog 
and see a lot of them. 
I’ll Give You 12 Months to Prove the Big Money for You With a 
Galloway 
Wagon 
Box 
Manure Spreader 
Freight Prepaid,30 Days Free Trial,12 Months Test or Money Back if not a Paying Investment 
Price same as if you bought 25,000, MyYear’s Output, on which my direct-to-you price is based. 
Here’s my bran new proposition. Here’s what I’ll 'do. I’ll agree that If it is not a 
. paying Investment at the end of 12 months yon give me back my spreader and I'll 
' refund your money. Yes sir! You send us your name for my Special Proposition 
. and my Big Free Spreader Catalog. You try a Galloway. It would pay you 100 per 
cent dividends on the price to even borrow the money—do a little flnanceering to 
get a Galloway if necessary. ... 
I save you from 825.00 to 850.00 or more on price and positively give you a 
a better spreader. And my new, exclusive. Bull Metal Malleable Roller Food is 
worth at least $25 extra but costs you nothing. Seven distinct patents on my 
spreader and repairs seldom necessary. Not ono-tenth of one per cent or 1 in every 
1,000 need repairs, is our record, and 20,000 Farmers have stamped their “O. K.” on 
the Galloway. Made In 6 sizes Includingcompletesteel , 
truck spreaders. Write me today personally for my wila Manure IB Irenes 
Special Proposition and Big Free bpreader Book. "'on or more above the 
Calloway box— bn® win 
WM. CALLOWAY, Prealdent handlo It eaally. 
Wm. Galloway Company, 
6S9 Galloway Station 
Waterloo, la. ^ 
W. H. Cross,Spaulding, 
Iowa, says—“Best in¬ 
vestment in farm machinery 1 ever 
made.” 
M. B.Sparlln,Seneca, Mo., says—“Would 
not sell it for 10 times what it cost—if I 
couldn’t get another” 
J.A.Hush, MeCune, Kans., says—“Hauled 100 
loads last winter. My hay made doable.” 
3 . W. Carter, Amite, La., says—“On my 140 loads saved 8140 
in labor and increased value over hand spreading.” 
S. J. Woodring, Chester, Okla., says—“Have 81,000 worth of 
machinery. Your spreader is best tool on place.” 
I Am Telli 
day for my New 
ng a Million Fanners About This name^ to- 
w Proposition and my Big Free Spreader Book—Sure. 
WANTED-RELIABLE MEN 
To sell our TEAS, COFFEE, SPICES. BAKING 
POWDER and EXTRACTS to the consumer. 
LIBERAL COMMISSIONS—EASY WORK.’ 
Any industrious man can make from $15.00 to 
$25.00 per week from the start. No experience 
necessary. Send for booklet. 
“Want to go In Buslnoaa for Yourself ” 
Address, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., 
P. O. Box 290, New York City. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Make big money for breeders- Easy 
to care for, too. Fanners prefer them 
to all others. ** Eggs to Hatch ” 10 
cents each, $8 per ioo. My new 
book, sent for 20 cents, tells how to^ 
raise the Reds and make ’em pay. 
Real color pictures show them true 
to life. With each copy goes coupon 
good for 20 c. on your first egg order 
WALTER SHERMAN 
25 Boulevard Newport R. f. 
C fj D C A | E — S. C. White Leghorn Pullets, Mch. 
I Un OHLLand Apr. hatch. Heavy laying strain. 
Bred to standard, $1.50. Eggs for hatching $5.00 per 
100. Ridgewood Poultry Farm, Ridgewood, N. J. 
W ILD and BRONZE TURKEYS I or Sale. 
Eggs for Hatching. Pure bred chickens and 
eggs. Prices low. Handsome catalog free. Satis¬ 
faction. Valley View Poultry Fai nt, It. 1, IlelicUlie, Pu. 
A Good Madison County Farm of 
OX ACRES 
Two Miles From Depot, Etc., $1,800. 
Also a few young sons of Fern’s Jubilee, 
No. 73852, A. J. C. C . at $50.00 Each. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, X. Y. 
H AMPSHIRE SWINE—Green River Herd. Ohas. 
Stewart Davison, 60 Wall St., N. Y. City. 
DLEASE send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Butter, 
Eggs, Poultry, Pork, Calves, Hay, Grain. Beans, 
Apples, etc. E. II. WOOUWAUli, SI)2 (ireenwiek St., >. V. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND. F.ST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY PBOnilCE, Apples, Peaches, Ber 
ries Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot-house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
solicited. 34 & 36 Little 12tli St.. New York- 
EGGS EGGS EGGS 
Ship your eggs to us and get the highest 
w 
ANTE©—Retail customer for clean, fresh, white eggs, 
cases per week now. W. W. WISER, Catatonic, N. Y. 
Position as manager of farm, have had 20 years 
experience. Understand farming In all Its 
branches, care and handling of all kinds of stock. 
Married, no children. 
John B. Tiger.40Third St., Elizabeth, N. J. 
FARM WANTFR —^ ear and free, stock and im- 
Inilm If nil I LU plements in exchange for N. 
Y. City property. Address, M. Adler, 27 E. 104th st. 
FflR C AI C—One hundred forty acres, eleven 
rvll vHLC room house, three barns, base¬ 
ment stables, nearly level land, orchard. Three 
miles from station. Price, $1,800, $500 cash,balance 
a long time. Hall’s Farm Agency, Owego, N. Y. 
W HENEVER IN NEED OF GOOD FARM 
HELP, single men and of good character ahd 
habits, apply to H. W. GELLER, Supt., Baron De 
Hirsch Agricultural School, Woodbine, N. J. 
E xcellent farm for sale cheap; 
over 300 acres convenient to Washington; 75 
acres in timber. Fine large brick house and brick 
barn; all necessary outbuildings; well fenced. 
Fertile soil. Commands magnificent view of Poto¬ 
mac river. Attractive. CLAUDE G. STEPHENSON. 
Virginia Properties, Herndon, Va. 
rf|Q 0 A I C— Two fruit farms in Florida in the 
lUn wMLL hill and lake country. Join each 
other. Three-fourths mile from town and station. 
100 orange trees and 500 peach trees. For full in¬ 
formation, address GEO. H. MAYO, 1104 East 
Douglas Avenue, Wichita, Kansas. 
PRICE FOR SAME 
Check Mailed Upon Receipt of Goods. 
Prod.ucers Oo. 
1 240 BEDFORD AVE., BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
“ Strout’s Farm Buyers’ Guide 
Is the title of a big circular, illustrated, and de¬ 
scribing an amazing assortment of low priced, 
profit-paying properties, with stock, tools and 
crops included; thrown on the market at startling 
sacrifices to insure immediate settlement of es¬ 
tates. Copy mailed free from our nearest office. 
K. A. ST ROUT CO., 294 Washington St., Boston; 
150 Nassau St., New York; Land Title Building, 
Philadelphia; Scottsville, Va.; Kent’s Hill, Me.; 
University Building, Syracuse, N. Y. 
“OAKLAND FARM” FOR SALE 
Very desirable. Strictly high class. For 
illustrated Descriptive Circular, address, 
T. A. MITCHELL, Weedsport, N. T. 
Choice Virginia Farms 
Along Chesapeake & Ohio Ry., as low as $5 per acre. 
Rich Soil, Mild Winters, Good Markets. For Handsome 
Booklet and Low Excursion Rates, address G. B. WALL, 
Real Estate Agent, C. & O. Railway, Box I, Richmond, Va 
Profit Paying—near New York—Farm. 
Only 30 miles from New York City, 73 acre hay 
ami stock farm; with 15 head cattle, 4 horses, 300 
fowls, farm machinery, carriages, tools, harness**;, 
etc.; this is a real bargain; aged owner eannot 
longer manage this farm, which has 2-story house 
and all necessary out-bnildings. and includes every¬ 
thing; only $5,500; liberal terms, see picture and full 
description, page 63, STROUT’S MONEY-MAKING 
FARMS OF AMERICA NO. 21, copy free. 
E. A. STROUT CO., 150 Nassau St., New York City. 
IIH Acres, miles from Englishtown, N. J., 80 tillable, 500 
III/ l’ear and Apple trees, 4 acres berries, 4 acres Asparagus— 
Asparfus alone nets over $500 every year at wholesale. Good 
buildings, healthy location. Wm. Diecks, Jr., Chatham, N. J. 
LAY. WHITE WYAN1MITTKS—Guarantee satis¬ 
faction and eggs 75 per cent fertile. 15 $1.00, 100 $5.00. 
W. E. SHOEMAKER, Laceyville, Pa. 
Galloway Addresses the 
Commercial Club 
Mr. Galloway said: 
“Gentlemen—I was raised on an Iowa farm. 
Twelve years ago I was milking cows and teach¬ 
ing calves to drink skim milk. I know farming— 
and the conditions that exist on the average 
farm throughout the United States. I’ve been 
there and know the business. 
"From a very modest beginning our business 
of manufacturing special farm implements and 
selling them direct to farmers has grown until 
we now operate the three largest factories in the 
world, manufacturing Manure Spreaders, Gaso¬ 
line Engines and Cream Separators. 
“My boyhood friends seem to marvel at the 
success we have had in our business in such a 
short time, and I have been asked innumerable 
times as to just what I attributed this success. 
Boil the whole proposition down—run it through 
the simplification table, and, as they say, “get 
down to brass tacks”—and I’ll tell you just what 
I think has made our wonderful growth and 
success possible. It’s this; 
“In every transaction that’s carried on be¬ 
tween us and our customers, we actually make 
the farmer, in his own home, on his own farm, 
a wholesale factory buyer of every machine we 
manufacture and sell. He’s actually “in on the 
ground floor”—and in on the ground floor on 
prices made possible only by the immense vol¬ 
ume of business we do in each of our separate 
lines. 
“I feel that I know the farmer. I know him to 
be a careful, thinking business man. He’s a 
shrewd buyer and knows a bargain when he 
sees it. When he understands that he can sit 
down and write to our factory and get whole¬ 
sale factory prices on one single machine that 
are really lower than a big wholesaler can buy 
them for from any other factory in carload lots 
—he immediately sees the advantages in buying 
from us on our plan. 
“Our business, in a sense. Is a big co-operative 
proposition. We don’t make much on anyone 
implement or any one machine. It’s the volume 
idea that makes our business a success. An¬ 
other thing that I have found to contribute 
largely to our success is the fact that we know 
the farmer to be a square business man and 
that if he is treated square he will treat us 
square In return. For that reason we’ve always 
been perfectly willing to ship our implements 
or machines anywhere on a liberal free trial 
plan. We’ve said, ‘Here you are, Mr. Farmer. 
Take any one of our machines on your farm— 
use It as your own—in your own way, and try it 
out thoroughly. If you are not satisfied in every 
particular return it to us—we’ll pay the freight 
both ways, and the test you’ve made hasn’t cost 
you a penny.’ 
“We go still further than that, as, for Instance, 
on our Manure Spreader. We say to the farmer 
—'Take one of our machines and nse it for a 
full year —and then—if you are not satisfied that 
it is a money-making proposition for you to 
keep on using, you can still send it back to us, 
and we’ll refund every dollar you’ve paid us. 
“We have no secrets in our business. We’d 
just as soon that every customer of ours would 
get up a big excursion and come out to our fac¬ 
tories’ and go through and see jnst how our 
machines are manufactured—what the actual 
first cost Is to us—just how our little profits are 
added—so that they may KNOW just exactly 
how they become a wholesale buyer in dealing 
with us. Our books are open at all times to 
every one of our customers—and our factories 
are open to their Inspection. 
“Everybody knows the low price we make 
on our factories’ output, but let me explain just 
whj^some of these low prices are made possible. 
“Take, for instance, our manure spreader. 
We, just the same as all other factories, have to 
figure a certain overhead charge on the volume 
of our business. If we only manufacture 10,000 
machines, in order to continue our business we 
would have to have a certain overhead charge 
which would make it Impossible for us to sell 
our machines for less than ten dollars apiece 
more than we now sell them for, on account of 
the volume of 25,000 machines which is our out¬ 
put this year. 
“This same argument holds with onr gasoline 
engines and cream separators. 
“Waterloo is a good place to conduct a 
business such as ours. It’s really the center of 
the United States. We not only do business in 
Iowa, Illinois and the surrounding states, but 
we have an immense business in Maine, Florida, 
Oregon and outlying territory. The highest 
class labor Is comparably cheap in Waterloo. 
This permits us to manufacture at the minimum 
of cost. We are never troubled with “strikes,” 
never have difficulty in procuring raw material, 
and, all in all, the conditions for manufacturing 
our particular line in onr present location are 
ideal.” 
Mr. Galloway is an enthusiastic, keen, active 
business man. He knows that his method of 
doing business is correct. He knows the people 
to whom he sells his goods—and his motto is— 
THE HIGHEST QUALITY IN EVERY 
MACHINE AT THE LOWEST PRICE AND 
A PRICE THAT UNDERSELLS ALL COM¬ 
PETITORS. 
Mr. Galloway further said that the man who 
strove to give the biggest value for a dollar in 
any line was bound to succeed. His entire 
address was followed with keen interest and at 
the close he was applauded to the echo. 
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70 Greenwich St., New York City. 
Delaware Fruit Farm, $2,600. 
Near Bridgeville, world’s largest strawberry 
market; 46 acres level fields; 16 timber; 500 peach 
trees; 95 apple, pear and cherry trees; 2L acres 
strawberries; good buildings; for quick sale owner 
includes farming tools, cow,mule, complete orchard 
outfit: only $2,600, part cash, easy terms; see page 1, 
Strout’s Farm Buyers’ Guide, copy free. E. A. 
STROUT CO., 150 Nassau St., New York City, 
Land Title Building, Philadelphia. 
THE LEVIN PRUNER 
The best primer. Cuts J^-inch dry- 
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s 
new yearly subscriptions at $1 each, 
or for club of 7 ten weeks trials at 10 
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The Rural New-Yorker, New York 
