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THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
The Heual New-Yorker, 
January 28, 1911. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Workmen, “Hack to the Land”. 90 
A -New York Oat Crop. 90 
Vetch in New Jersey.. ... 90 
• L. L. L>.,” Lime, Legumes and Drain¬ 
age . 90 
Farm Help for Kansas. 91 
A Short Potato Story. 91 
Try a Vetch Experiment. 91 
Farms in the Bashful State. 92 
Soy Beans in Pennsylvania. 92 
Field for Potatoes. 92 
Peas and Oats for Grain. 92 
A Talk on Corn Breeding.. 93 
Large and Small Potato Seed. 93 
A Crop for Mulch Material. 94 
Commissioner Pearson’s Report. 94 
Quality in Land Rollers. 95 
Flow of Irrigation. 95 
The Corn Harvester Necessary. 95 
Soiling Crops for Late Summer. 96 
“Reducing” Bones on the Farm. 96 
Cow Peas and Clover. 97 
Does Fertilizer Lose by Standing?. 98 
Potatoes Under Straw. 98 
Clover in the Silo. 98 
A Farm “Limed to Death”. 98 
Piling or Broadcasting Manure. 99 
Echoes of “Dry Land” Farming.101 
Hope Farm Notes.102 
Failure with I’rizetaker Onions.103 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Our Farmers’ Horse Company. 89 
Root, Hog, or Die !. 99 
Catching a Weasel Awake. 99 
Tumor .108 
Catarrh in Cow.108 
Trouble with the Cream....110 
Two Good Cows.110 
Raising Dairy Colts. Ill 
Heifers with Cough. Ill 
How to Feed Corn Fodder.112 
Spring Pasture for Pigs.112 
Hens vs. Cows.113 
Increasing Mila Flow.;.114 
Milk and Pork Rations.114 
Feeding Cow and Working Cattle.114 
A Percheron Mare as an Investment... 115 
The Henyard.116 
Fighting Hens.116 
An Open Front Henhouse.116 
Echoes from the Stock Show.108 
HORTICULTURE. 
Apples in a New England Cellar. 91 
Interplanting Apples. 92 
Protecting Trees from Rabbits. 92 
Pecans in New Jersey. 96 
Hen Manure Mixtures for Garden. 97 
The Bismarck Apple. 98 
Planting and Handling Apple Trees.... 98 
Apples for Wisconsin...100 
New York State Fruit Growers’ As¬ 
sociation, Part II.100 
Cool Greenhouse for Roses.103 
Celery Rust .103 
Rose Melody .t.103 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.106 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letter.106 
Cream Cookies—Raised Doughnuts.107 
Two Hard Questions.107 
The Rural Patterns.107 
Cleaning Flues with Zinc.107 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Making Cement Tile at Home. 90 
Green Film in Spring. 85 
Facts About Canning Factories. 97 
Strychnine for Killing Skunks. 97 
Petroleum Cement . 97 
Business in Ferns. 97 
Editorials .104 
New York State Agricultural Society.. 105 
Events of the Week.105 
Products, Prices and Trade.113 
Publisher’s Desk .118 
Warts on Heifer. 
How can I cure warts on the udder of 
a heifer, due to freshen in March ? The 
warts are not of the simple type to be re¬ 
moved with the thumb and linger, but large, 
some as large as the end of a man's 
finger and there have been one or two as 
large as a small English walnut. She is a 
very large Guernsey, and too promising to 
sell to the butcher. O. H. 
Massachusetts. 
Tie a line silken thread very tightly 
around the base of each wart that has a 
narrow base; or remove a wart at a time 
by cutting with scissors. If the cutting is 
done touch the bleeding base with lunar 
caustic pencil. Masses of warts may in 
time be removed by rubbing in best cold 
pressed castor oil twice daily. Not many 
warts may safely be removed by cutting 
at one time. Inflammation is apt to fol¬ 
low. A. S. A. 
Indigestion in Puppy. 
Will you tell me what is the trouble 
with a puppy which I have? Its urine 
turns whitish immediately. The dog is 
quite valuable, six weeks old. About two 
weeks ago its appetite grew poor and then 
this trouble showed. w. t. 
New York. 
Indigestion is a likely cause. Give a 
full dose of physic. After it has ceased 
to act make him take abundant exercise 
out of doors every day. Feed on new 
milk and add one ounce of limewater per 
pint. As the dog improves strengthen the 
ration with oatmeal porridge; but do not 
feed any sweets or cake. If he fails to 
thrive give emulsion of cod liver oil twice 
daily, commencing with teaspoonful doses 
and increasing gradually as dog can take 
the mixture. A. s. a. 
Lack of Appetite. 
I have a mare eight years old, weight 
P° UD °s, who refuses her feed; has been 
rnat way for about three weeks. She looks 
1 lg .„ does not act sick. Sometimes 
ovL w 1 ea * a Httle and again none at all. 
Mie seems to pick out the weeds in the 
nay and eat that. I feed her the best of 
Timothy and oats and sometimes bran 
mash. I had her teeth fixed about the first 
of November. She ate all right after that. 
Can you advise me what to do? H. H. k. 
Connecticut. 
Have the teeth examined again. As she 
ate all right after they were attended to 
before, it would seeem likely that there may 
be found the cause of trouble. It may be 
a sharp, long or diseased molar tooth which 
should come away. A suitable appetizer 
would be a mixture of one dram of dilute 
hydrochloric acid, four ounces of pure al¬ 
cohol and two ounces of fluid extract of 
gentian root, with water to make one pint. 
Does two ounces two or three times a day 
in half a pint of water. Make her take 
abundant exercise out of doors every day. 
a. s. A. 
Restless Cow. 
Will you tell we what is the matter 
with my cow? At certain times during 
the day she will stand back in her stall 
and swing her tail sideways back and 
forth, also when I put my hand on her 
back. She is due to calve March 1 next. 
Massachusetts. o. A. v. 
The cow is simply restless and uncom¬ 
fortable. She no doubt will be more con¬ 
tented if you let her out doors for exer¬ 
cise every day. Examine back for “warble” 
bunches, from each of which a live grub 
may be squeezed when mature. If such 
lumps are there, but not ripe, apply a 
little mercurial ointment to each one, and 
keep cow from licking parts treated. 
a. s. A. 
5 Two-year-old Grapevines 50 cts. 
S £P t £? st Paid. Best varieties—red, white, black. We also 
offer Fir® Three-Year-Old Yin*s for $1.00. Will bear year 
after planting. Valuable book how to plant, cultivate and 
prune, free with every order. Grapes are easily grown 
and should be in every garden. Mention this paper and 
we 11 add free, one new, large, red currant. 
I. S. Hubbard Co h Grapevine Specialists, 350 Centra* Aire., Fradonla, N.Y. 
Established U Years . 
HARDER SILOS 
The name “Harder” on a Silo is like “Sterling” 
on silver. It signifies honest worth, oldest 
firm, best materials, most skilled workmanship, 
largest variety of styles and sizes. A Silo to 
suit every purse. A hundred advantages, all 
described in our free Silo catalog. 
HARDER MFC. CO.. Box It, Cobleskill. N. Y. 
Try Them 30 Days Free 
Prove this the greatest Incubator and 
Brooder bargain of 1911 at our expense. 
We sell highest quality goods direct from 
factory at lowest prices — guarantee 
satisfaction or refund money. The Unito 
100-Egg Incubator $ ^ 
100-Chick Brooder 1 V 
gives surest results and biggest profits 
on smallest investment. Incubator 
alono @7.50; Brooder alone 13.50; 
both @10.00. Remember you take no 
risk when you order ou our try- 
before-you-buy plan. Send today 
for Free catalogue Illustrated and 
giving full particulars. 
The United Factories Co. 
Dept. X31 Cleveland. Ohio 
FOR MENDING HARNESS 
It takes » shoes, tents, awnings, pulley belts, car- 
?i WaX j Pots, saddles, suitcases, buggy tops, 
thread, dash hoards, or any heavy material, 
feeds , r wart's Automatic 
rromspool and Awl istheonly per- 
does the work of ^ ^Vrtli feet Sewing 
any harness maker \5gS3r Awl. 
machine. It is indis AJ~ 
pensable for farmers. 
Agents wanted. Sent prepaid ^lk 
for $1.25. Send at once for 
catalog. STEWART-SKINNER CO. fM 
35 Hermon Street. Worcester, Mass. 
“The DAMNING OF JONES.” 
The Implement Trust says-” Damn JONES and out of business 
with him” because he is the only man who dares to sell you a 
warraiited-take-it-home-and-try-it-before-buying-scale of any size 
or kind at the dealers price. Money talks and your money is as 
fjood as any dealers’ and your credit better. Send for my oner and 
their reason for “damning Jones.” 
“JONES He Pays the Freight.” 
_30 Kay St., BINGHAMTON, N. Y, 
Farmers and Poultrymen. 
, V? 1 ? not blame us if occasionally our end 
puDoies over when speaking of our custom hatch¬ 
ing department as carried by our experts in our 
mammoth hot water incubator. Results are show¬ 
ing people all oyer the country that we know our 
business by saving them time, worry and money, 
and giving them stronger chicks than the old hen 
or kerosene oil fume incubators ever did. You 
send us the eggs—we’ll do the rest—do it right and 
send you the chicks. Write for information and 
prices, anyway. 
MAPLE GLEN POULTRY FARM. Millerton, N.Y 
CHICKS Baby CHICKS 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS of Standard Quality. 
\\ e guarantee chicks to be hatched from eggs laid 
by our own breeders and shipped only when day-old. 
We Can Please You. We Will Please You. 
Mammoth Hot Water Incubator having a capa¬ 
city of 102,000 eggs. 
Have lour Orders Booked. Circular Free. 
SPRING WATER POULTRY FARM, Stockton, New Jersey. 
R. C. B. MINORCAS, Cockerels, SI.25 each. Indian 
Runner Ducks, $t> trio. Geo. Bowdish, Esperance, N.Y. 
Berkshire Pigs _ 
Guernsey Bulls 
Two-y^r-oid and yearling registered and tested 
Bulls for Sale, out of advanced registered parents. 
Now is the time to get a good herd header reason- 
able. HILXHITRS T FA KM, Orchard Park. N.Y, 
SHIP YOUR CONSIGNMENTS 
-TO- 
GEO. OLIVER & COMPANY 
Established 1SSO 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS 
WEST WASHINGTON MARKET. NEW YORK, N. Y. 
PROMPT RETURNS 
at Bargain Prices. A. M. 
DAVIS, Trooper, Pa. 
WHICH WAYAREYOU PAYING FOR 
AN IHC GASOLINE ENGINE? 
T HERE are two ways—a quick, easy way and a long, 
costly way. 
The first way is to go to the I H C local dealer, pick out 
frhe style and size suited to your needs—pay for it—take it home 
and set it to work. It will operate your cream separator, feed 
grinder, thresher, fanning mill, turn your grindstone, saw 
wood, etc. 
The other way is to get along as best you can without it, and 
pay for it over and over again in the time and money you lose 
by not having it. 
“Procrastination is the thief of time,” and time is money. An 
I H C Engine saves time—saves money. It’s an investment that 
pays big dividends, day after day, year in and year out, through its 
capacity for doing work at less cost than any other power. 
I H C Gasoline Engines 
are made in all styles and sizes, 1 to 45-H. P., vertical 
and horizontal—stationary, portable, and tractor. 
Their efficiency, economy, and dependability have 
been proved by years of service. Thousands of 
owners consider an I H C Gasoline Engine one of the 
best paying investments they ever made. 
If you want to know more about what an I H C 
Gasoline Engine will do for you, and why it is that 
I HC construction insures more power on less gaso¬ 
line consumption than any other engine, you should 
call at once on the IHC local dealer, or, 
write for a copy of the IHC Gasoline 
Engine catalogue. 
While you're delaying you are paying, 
so why not have what you’re paying 
for. 
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER 
COMPANY 
OF AMERICA 
^Incorporated) 
Chicago 
USA 
I H C 
Service Bureau 
What Is it? A clear¬ 
ing house of agricultur¬ 
al data. What does it 
dot Helps farmers to 
help themselves. How 
can it be used? By 
sending your farm 
problems and puzzling 
questions to the Bureau. 
We are co-operating 
■with the highest agri¬ 
cultural authoritiesund 
every source of infor¬ 
mation will be made 
available to solve your 
difficulties. We shall 
be pleased to have an 
opportunity to assist 
you. Write the I H O 
Service Bureau. 
SHIP YOUR 
To mcmillan fur & wool co, 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
Illustrated Circular Free to anyone interested ii 
T . RAW FURS.i 
Trappers' Guide Free to those who ship to us 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St,, 
Boston. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York, 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited. 
Dl.KASE semi a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
1 mission House in New York. list. 1338. Butter 
Eggs, Poultry. Pork, Calves, Hay. Grain. Beans, 
Apples, etc. E. it. WOODIVAKl), SO- <■ recti wish St., N. V 
Hothouse Lambs, Poultry, Calves, Fancy Eggs 
Ship to W. H. COHEN 8 CO., 229 Washington St., New York. 
WsntPf !- 100 organizers- 
llliy YV dllLtU ALBERT MANNING, Sec¬ 
retary, Dairymen’s League, Otisvillo. N. Y. 
C HAMPLAIN VALLEY FARM —On main highway be¬ 
tween New York and Montreal, 1!) miles south 
of Burlington, Vt. One mile north of' Kerrisburgh, 
where there are stores, churches, schools, railroad 
station, blacksmith and wheelright shops, cream¬ 
ery and milk station. Natural fruit land-plenty 
of apples, plums and grapes. Artesian well sup¬ 
plies abundance of best water. House, horse barn, 
hen house, granary, ice house, farm barn. Two 
hay barns; 11 cows; tools. 118 acres. All for $5,000, 
one-half cash, balance at if desired, Sold to 
close estate. C. A. CHAPMAN, Adnir., Ferrisburgh, Vt. 
SAT p — One Hundred Sixty Acres— 
x LJ-cXiv-L, fi n e nine-room house with 
two porches; three barns, 44 by 80 witii basement, 
30 by 50 and 24 by 30; granary; hog house. Ail 
buildings painted, very attractive and in fine con¬ 
dition. Fruit. One-half mile from village and two 
railroad stations. Price $5,500; terms, $2,500 cash, 
balance time at five per cent. HALL’S FARM 
AGENCY, Owego, Tioga County, New York. 
IRfl Farmc FOR SALE CHEAP, in fertile 
IwU I Ql 1110 Delaware Valley. New catalogue 
and map free. Horace G. Reeder, Newtown, Pa. 
Fflr QOIQ—-Fai-m 90 acres, with buildings and good 
I Ul UUiC water. A. Erickson, Andover, N. Y. 
I SELL FARMS IN OCEANA, the best Co. in the U.S. Fruit, grain 
I and stock. Write for list. J. D, S. HANSON, Hart, Mich. 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Cattle or Horse hide. Calf, Dog, Deer, 
or any kind of skin with hair or fur on. 
We make them soft, light, odorless, 
wind, moth and waterproof, and mako 
them into coats (for men or women) 
robes, rugs or gloves when so ordered. 
Your fur goods will cost you less than 
to buy them, and be worth more. Send 
three or more cow or horse hides in one 
shipment from anywhere east of Den¬ 
ver and we pay the freight both ways. 
Get our illustrated catalog which 
gives prices of tanning, taxidermv and 
head mounting. Also prices of ftir 
goods, and big mounted game heads 
we sell. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyeil Ave„ Rochester, N. Y. 
TRAPPERS AND HUNTERS^ 
Furs are high. A fact which you are all probably ac¬ 
quainted with. But the question is. Are you getting 
highest market value for yours ! Remember we do not 
charge any commission; pay all express charges; will 
hold your goods separate for approval of our valuation, 
when requested, and if not satisfactory will return ana 
pay all charges. Don’t you think we are entitled to a 
trial shipment on the strength of the foregoing i For 
further information write i‘or our free price list and 
1 rappers* Guide. Make us a trial shipment today. 
Abrahams Fur & Wool Co., Fur Merchaats. Seymour, Wis. 
Aristocrats! White Wyandottes! 
Cock¬ 
erels, 
Buff, Wh. Leghorns, Mottled Anconas, 8. C. H I. Red. 
Eggs. 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30. $2.75 per 00, $4 per 100. 
Catalogue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, p a . 
S. C. W. Leghorn Eggs 
per la, $8 per 100. Pafapsco Farm, R.0.2, Reisterstown.Md 
Wanted at Once—A Man 
To Mako $100 Per Month Above Expenses 
1500 MEN THROUGHOUT THE U. S 
ARE MAKING BIG MONEY 
with our large lino of over 80 different household neces¬ 
sities consisting of homo remedies, extracts, spices, soaps, 
perfumes, toilet articles, stock amt poultry preparations, 
polishes, etc. all guaranteed under the National Food 
and Drugs Act and conforming to the Puro Food require¬ 
ments of every state. Sold chiefly to eouutry people. 
Weimport, manufacture and sell in enormous quantities 
Capital and surplus over one million dollars. Factory 
floor space nearly 5 acres. 
We want one man in each unoccupied locality to tako 
fnll charge of everything pertaining to our business in 
Ills district. Must bo of good health and habits, honest 
and industrious, not under 21 nor over 50 years of age. 
able to furnish outfit similar to that illustrated als.ve' 
also several responsible men to vouch for his integrity! 
Such under our instructions can mako not loss than 
$100 Per Month Clear Profit 
above expenses first year, $1800 second year and $2400 
third year. Colored people or women not considered. 
Previous experience or more than ordinary education 
not needed as witii our thorough free course of instruc¬ 
tion in salesmanship the work is easily learned and a 
big, pleasant, healthful, honorable and permanent busi¬ 
ness quickly established. 
If you can’t meet requirements don't write: if you 
think you can you are the man wo are looking for and a 
postal will bring you full particulars by return mail. 
Lott of new men starting and territory filling rapidly, 
so if interested write at once else territory vacant in your 
locality will bo taken. 
W. T. RAWLEIGH CO. 30-40 Lib. St. Freeport, III. 
