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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 3 
THAT HAY FEVER SUFFERER. 
I saw the letter from the man who de¬ 
sires to get away from hay fever. There Is 
no better place in this country than the 
northern part of New Hampshire, and one 
can get farms very cheaply there. Of course 
the life would be rather hard for a few 
years, but with a large Summer popula¬ 
tion an ambitious man could make a good 
living. w. w. 
Massachusetts. 
If the Providence, R. I., hay fever suf¬ 
ferer will gel formaldehyde, a disinfectant 
drug In liquid form and smell It, it will 
ward off any attack of bay fever. As the 
sneezing attacks you, smell the liquid, put 
on a handkerchief or rag and It will last 
all day. Close your eyes while smelling. 
Ito not wipe face with the handkerchief 
that has it on. You need not stop using 
any other remedy or change climate. 
Michigan. j. a. 
Your hay fever sufferer in Hope Farm 
Notes can find relief in this Grand Traverse 
region of Michigan and also a favorable 
location for fruit, and poultry raising. He 
might have come one month ago and started 
gathering free the Immense huckleberry 
crop and made a good living at It with 
his family. Poultry pays well here, and 
does even better with me than in western 
Pennsylvania formerly. j. b. 
Rondo, Mich. 
I have just read your appeal for facts 
which might lead to the relief of "W.”, 
who suffers from hay fever. 1 am a “Hope 
Farmer”—at least I hope to be u farmer 
before I die. There are a number of local¬ 
ities where hay fever sufferers are practic¬ 
ally Immune; but so far as I know they 
nre situated In the White Mountains, Adi¬ 
rondack Mountains, northern Minnesota 
and other places where It would seem that 
making a living by farming would be espe¬ 
cially difficult:. I wonder If “W.” has heard 
of the new medicine for the influenza dia¬ 
thesis—Plantoxine? I know of a consider¬ 
able number of cases who are getting really 
good results from it. and several cases that 
have been absolutely cured. 
New Jersey. okorgio b. rest, m. n. 
I have read the communication of “Hay 
Fever Sufferer” and am interested In the 
subject, having been aflllcted with catarrh 
and subject to hay fever for more than 40 
years. I sought the world over for re¬ 
lief until I landed on an abandoned farm 
on the While Mountains, where I have 
passed my Summers for many seasons and 
where I find complete exemption from hay 
fever, with very great alleviation of my 
catarrh. I passed two years in Europe in 
search of a “climate,” and on returning to 
this country went to Colorado. 1 searched 
the Catskills and the l’ocono Mountains 
with the same results in every Instance. 
At Inst I lit here and here I am obliged 
to stay until the first: heavy frost, when I 
venture down into the big city where I 
spend the balance of the year and earn my 
bread. Farms up here are cheap, and poor 
for the most part, but the air Is great and 
there Is plenty of it. The Winters are 
cold but bracing, and the State of New 
Hampshire is establishing its first, free 
tuberculosis hospital for open-air treatment 
only about 30 miles from where I write. 
This section swarms with health seekers in 
the Summer, and there is a great, demand 
for poultry, butter, eggs and vegetables 
from countless hotels and boarding houses 
all Summer long. J. e. j. 
Hit tie! on. N. H. 
The letter from the hay fever sufferer un¬ 
der Hope Farm Notes appealed to tne. I 
was born and spent the first 20 years 
of my life in Connecticut. I shall lie 06 
years old In September and cannot remem¬ 
ber when I have not been a hay fever 
sufferer, except only as 1 have gone to 
some section where one is immune from it. 
With me it comes on about August 15 to 
IK, and continues until about October 1 to 
10. I have been all through the north 
from Connecticut to Kansas, and at the 
right season the hay fever would surely 
make its appearance. IIow it is west of 
the Rocky Mountains 1 do not know, but 
northern Wisconsin, Michigan and Minne¬ 
sota are tolerably free from It. Any sec¬ 
tion north of the Great Lakes seems to be 
Immune. The third day of last September 
I left Chicago early in the evening to come 
to Florida, not to escape the hay fever but 
because business called me. I spent: some 
time In Florida the Winter previous pros¬ 
pecting for myself and others with the view 
of buying land for gardening purposes. 
While here 1 was told that they bad no bay 
fever here, but I was skeptical and did not 
know wliat to believe. Well, when I left 
Chicago the bay fever was on in alt its 
glory. The dust, and smoke of the train 
aggravated It very materially. That first 
night out, riding through Illinois and In¬ 
diana was certainly one of the most un¬ 
comfortable nights I ever enjoyed. I thought 
that by the time I reached m.v destina¬ 
tion in Florida I should he ready to turn 
up my toes. The next day through Ken¬ 
tucky and Tennessee I felt some relief, 
more for the reason that It was daytime 
and I was sitting up than any other reason 
I suppose. That night, soon after pulling 
out of Atlanta, I went to bed and consoled 
myself as best I could that I was in for 
another night of suffering. I soon went to 
sleep, to awake early the next morning 
and find myself very much relieved of the 
uncomfortable condition of the previous 
night. It: was the end of the hay fever. 
It required a day or two to heal the raw 
and Irritated condition of my throat, lungs, 
uusul passages, eyes, etc., after which, and 
up to the present time I have not felt the 
least Indication of hay fever. In a week 
or 10 days it will he time for it to return, 
nH was the custom in the North. I await 
that time with some interest, hut with the 
full expectation that no hay fever will 
show up. After coming here last Fall 1 
met a man from Pittsburg, Pa., who comes 
here every season to escape the hay fever, 
lie Is a great, sufferer at home, while here 
he Is entirely free from it. I have already 
made this letter longer than I Intended 
and will defer until another time any 
statements regarding prospects here for a 
man who wants to live In the finest climate 
on earth; who can raise something to sell 
every dny In the year, except Sunday, of 
course, and who can, If he knows how, 
make n good living at gardening. 
Orlando, Fla. d. b. h. 
Seeding a “Bee Pasture.” 
It. It. I<\, Concord, Mush. —I have a piece 
of land nbout one-quarter acre, that has 
been neglected. It lias a sod and is un¬ 
even ; the hens and chickens have the run 
of the place as it is fenced In. I would 
like to plow It up and put In a crop of 
something for bees, say White clover. Are 
there any two things I can sow on this 
land so I may have two crops of blossoms 
for honey? When and how should they 
be sown? If there Is nothing of the kind, 
when Is the best time to sow White clover, 
and the best way to prepare the land? 
Where may I be sure to get good White 
clover seed? 
Ans. —Do not think of seeding to 
any crop just for bee pasture. One- 
fourth of an acre would amount to noth¬ 
ing, as it would produce very little 
honey, even if your bees got it all, which 
they would not do if there were other 
bees within two miles. Let the bees 
forage for themselves and they will find 
every drop of nectar within their range. 
It has been tried, and proved, that it 
does not pay to raise any cro^ for the 
honey alone, but if you can raise Alsike 
clover, or buckwheat, or any honey- 
yielding plant that will pay as a crop, the 
bees will reap the benefit, and you have 
your crop to pay for the use of the 
land and labor. Any reliable seedsman 
should be able to furnish good White 
clover seed, and give you better direc¬ 
tions for sowing than I can. White 
clover comes and goes according to 
the season. If there is plenty of 
rainfall there will be plenty of clover, 
but a long-continued drought will kill 
it out. However, where it has had a 
foothold for some time, there will be 
seed in the ground, and it will come in 
again when conditions arc again favor¬ 
able. I would not try to seed White, Red 
or any other clover, or Alfalfa on sod 
ground until I had the last root of 
grass and, if possible, every grass seed, 
absolutely killed, as the old grass roots 
arc apt to sprout and take the moisture 
from the seedlings, and the seed in the 
soil is apt to be of a kind that we do 
not want, and in either case may soon 
run our new crop out. By sowing this 
piece to buckwheat next Summer, the 
bees will get the honey, and as soon as 
the grain begins to turn brown, if you 
do not wish to harvest it for the grain, 
turn those chickens in, and they will 
pay you the best price for buckwheat 
that you ever received for grain, and 
the land should be in the best of con¬ 
dition for anything you wished to put 
in next year. j. A. crane. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
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