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THE RURAL 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, March 25, 1911. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Barn of Terra Cotta.385, 386 
A Dumper Corn Crop in Kentucky... 386 
Co-operative Marketing, No. 1. 386 
Inheritance in Corn Ears. 387 
Crass on Commercial Fertilizer Alone 387 
Exterminating Wild Carrot. 388 
Tomato Peelings for Fertilizer. 392 
“Renovating Land” . 393 
Some Alfalfa Questions. 393 
An Experiment with Land. 393 
Farming a Small Farm. 394 
Potato Crowing in Michigan. 397 
Wood Ashes and the Potato Scab.... 39S 
Handling Seed Potatoes. 400 
Hope Farm Notes . 402 
The Canadian Wheat Crop...-.. 405 
Vermont or Maryland. 405 
Late Seeded Rye; Timothy in Spring. 413 
Manuring Stubble... 421 
Nitrate; Millet; Cow Peas. 421 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
That West Virginia Poultry Plant. . . . 399 
How Creamery Promoters Work. 410 
Still Another Horse Company. 411 
State Milk Commission. 411 
Cull Potatoes for Stock Feeding. 412 
Hi me Pigs . 412 
The Dairymen's League. 412 
Chorea . 412 
Horse Feeding Advice. 413 
Expensive Ration ... 413 
Black Teeth in Pigs. 413 
Horse With Tender Feet. 413 
Scours . 413 
Tetanus . 413 
A Ration for Calves. 414 
Improving the Ration. 414 
Feeding for Yellow Milk..'. 414 
Peavine Silage with Grain. 414 
Hog Ration ; Fattening a Cow. 414 
Homemade Brooder. 415 
All Sides of the Chicken Business.... 415 
Fried Oats .. 415 
Nest Making . 415 
A “Frost-Proof” Hen. 416 
Clover Silage . 416 
Dipping Eggs to Prevent White Diar¬ 
rhoea.417 
The Ilcnyard . 417 
The “Coming Back" of Missy. 418 
Rickets . 418 
Molasses for Horse. 418 
Heaves ... 418 
Lameness . 418 
Milk . 420 
The Foley Milk Bill. 420 
Feeding Apple Pomace to Cow. 420 
Clover Silage . 421 
Sandy Roots and Cow's Teeth. 421 
Lameness . 421 
Storing Wet Grains. 421 
HORTICULTURE. 
Cherries for Northern New York. 388 
Young Orchard on Rocky Ground.... 388 
Barren Quince . 388 
Sediment in Lime-Sulphur. 388 
Methods of Setting Strawberries. 388 
Lime for Sweet Peas and AsteKS. 388 
Sawdust Mulch for Raspberries. 388 
A Way to Beat the Cutworm. 389 
Apple Culture in New York. 389 
Strawberries in the Cold Country.... 390 
Facts About Japan Plums. 390 
Some Apples for Ohio. 390 
Change the Bearing Habit. 390 
Those Big Walnut Trees. 392 
Ants in Mushroom Bed. 392 
Substitute for Manure in Hotbeds. . . . 392 
A Guarantee for Trees. 393 
Who “Produced" Abundance Plum? 394 
Fool Talk About Sulphur and Potash.. 395 
Questions About Spraying. 395 
Apples for Western New England.... 396 
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. 396 
Orchard Fruits for Pennsylvania.... 397 
Seedling Apple and Pear. 398 
The Concentrated Lime-Sulphur Mix¬ 
ture . 400 
A Nearly Year-A round Vegetable Gar¬ 
den . 401 
An Arkansas Lawn . 401 
Laying Out Home Grounds. 403 
A Mulched Peach Orchard. 403 
Hudson Valley Apple Growers. 405 
Apple Trade With Germany. 405 
Apples for Southwest Iowa. 405 
Prizes for Orchards. 405 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 406 
A Group of Young Gardeners. 406 
More About Popovers.406 
Keeping Goose Grease. 407 
Those Shoe Numbers. 407 
To Keep Ham for Summer Use. 407 
Liwn Furniture and City Boarders.. 407 
Some Annuals for Cut Flowers. 408 
The Rural Patterns . 408 
Removing Stsiins . 408 
Homemade Wneatlet .;. 408 
Achimenes and Primulas . 409 
Puddings in Variety. 409 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Home Canning Outfit. 389 
House Drainage . 390 
Non-Twisting Fence Post. 392 
The King Drag. 395 
Power of a Water Wheel. 395 
Water Company and Wells. 395 
Cook the Pork! Cook It Well!. 395 
Destroying Willow . 395 
Products, Prices and Trade. 390 
A Well in Sandy Soil. 400 
A Cheap Brown Paint. 400 
Editorials . 404 
Events of the Week. 405 
Cement for a Barn Wall. 410 
Figuring Cement and Sand. 411 
Publisher’s Desk .422 
Lymphangitis. 
I have a mare that got hurt in her 
hind leg last Fall. It swelled up right up 
under her body, but I got the soreness and 
lameness out by applications of hot water. 
It has left her with a large leg. What can 
I do to reduce this? It does not affect her 
trotting, but it spoils a sale. j. j. b. 
Delaware. 
The swelling cannot be wholly removed, 
but improvement will follow if you allow 
a large box stall in stable and band- 
the leg from foot to hock each time 
comes in from work or exercise. Do 
allow her to stand for a single day 
in the barn. a. s. a. 
her 
age 
she 
not 
idle 
Trembles, 
along iu 
well till 
begin to 
terribly, 
what shall 
F. E. 
I have a horse that is getting 
year,s and has always been very 
within a short time. When I 
use her she shakes and trembles 
What is the cause of it and 
I do for it? 
Rhode Island. 
We cannot give a confident opinion in 
this case. If the symptoms came on sud¬ 
denly tetanus (lockjaw) would be a pos¬ 
sible cause. One might also suspect St. 
Vitus’ dance (chorea ), or forage poisoning. 
Better have an examination made by an 
expert. a. S. a. 
Rickets. 
I have a Fall pig that is weak in his 
hind quarters; seems to bo perfectly 
healthy in other ways, eats well and seems 
to take plenty of exercise, but does not 
seem to have strength enough in his hind 
quarters to hold himself up. I have given 
him one teaspoonful castor oil, 10 grains 
phosphate of lime, and four drops nux 
vomica in feed twice a day for some time 
but can see no material change for the 
better. Now I am giving him a small 
quantity of turpentine in feed. c. a. p. 
Michigan. 
teed the pig on milk, middlings and lime 
water, and make it live an outdoor life so 
tar as possible. Phosphate of lime in tea- 
spoonful doses twice daily might do good, 
soon as pig improves add cornmeal, 
ran and ground, screened oats to the 
As 
ration. 
A. S. A. 
Alfalfa and Apples. —In our New Mex¬ 
ico irrigation district Alfalfa and apples 
are leading crops. The Alfalfa goes largely 
into Texas in bales of about 65 pounds 
each. Small bales sell best, as it retails 
largely to, draymen. It brings about .$10 
per ton. We also harvest Alfalfa seed. 
We have harvested as high as 800 pounds 
of seed to the acre, but 250 pounds is a 
fair, acreage. The straw is worth $7 to 
$8 per ton baled. We have no rain at 
harvest time, so that Alfalfa is perfectly 
and easily cured. The long tap roots go 
down into the soil and keep the plant 
alive; but to produce growth, you must 
depend on the fertility and roots at surface. 
We irrigate about three inches deep for 
best results. 
Here the Ben Davis is a good apple. 
It goes under the name of Victoria. The 
Arkansas Black is another good apple, 
and black as mahogany. Other popular 
apples with us are Grimes Golden, Mam¬ 
moth Black Twig, and Jonathan. The 
best seller this year was Stark’s Delicious. 
It is a Fall apple . with us, but so is 
Jonathan and many of the Eastern and 
Northern Winter varieties.. d 
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CYPHERS MODEL OUTDOOR COLONY BROODERS ii 
good condition $9.00 each; cost $15.00. 
F. B. DILTS, Flemington, N. J. 
FDR SAI.E-6RADE GUERNSEYS P-g ; T?: 
EGGS 
from high record W. P. Rock 
Hens, $2 for 15, $5 for 45. 
A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
PULLETS 
;S. C. W. LEGHORNS—Booking orders 
future delivery. Hatching eggs from 
vigorous birds for prompt shipment. Limited 
number choice breeders. Lakewood and Youngs 
strains. J. L. ELLIOTT, Flemington, N. J 
O rpingtons, it. ('. Huffs, S. C. White's Kgics for hatching 13 
$1.50. Fertility guar't’il. Allen F. Smith. Griswoldville,Ms 
for 
Maaa. 
"Bred to Lay, Sure to Pay” 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
WYCKOFFS STRAIN 
TURKEY EGGS, 
Eggs from vigorons ma¬ 
ture birds, result of seven 
years breeding on the 
uirtu r.nu c . _ , 360 „ A. free range. LAKE- 
VIEW FARM, Ebbs and Stock, R. F. 0. 2, Peekskill, N. Y. 
M. B. Narra, and White 
id o „ t>. r - Holland, $3.00 for 12. B. 
P Rox, 8. C. Black Minorcas, S. C. R. I. Reds, 
8ilver, Goluen and White Wyandottes, 8. C. 
White Leghorns. All Eggs $1.00 for 17. Pekin 
Duck Eggs, $1,00 for 13. Tool. Goose Eggs, $3.00 
for 12. W . K . CARLE, 
R. F. D. No. 1, Jaeobsburg, Ohio. 
[HITE HOLLAND TURKEYS from prize 
winners at bargain prices. White Wyandotte 
eggs for hatching. H. W. Anderson, Stewartstown, Pa. 
RIANT RRHN7F turkey eggs, $ 3.00 Per 
UIHIll DnUliLL 10; Rose Comb R. I. Red 
Eggs, $1.00 per 15: Indian Runner Duck Eggs. $1.00 
per 10. SHROPSHIRE SHEEP. 
H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
W' 
EGGS 
i Price List 
-MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS, 
Pearl Guineas, Indian Runner Ducks and 
Barred Plymouth Ifocks. Write forFroe 
_ C. ADELL KAYNER, West F alls, N. V. 
BRONZE GOBBI FRS~ No ,,ens for sale. if you 
, t . n a choice breedingtom. 
address L. B. Ouioley, Box 26G, Goshen, Branoe Co., N. Y, 
DUFF . ORPINGTON,. DUCKH. twice won the Australian 
if laying contests. Three years unbeaten show record. 
List furnished. Dunrobin Farm. Chatham. New Jersey. 
C — Prize -Winning Breeding 
^ Stock-Black Orpingtons 
and Minorcas. QUOQUETAUG FARMS, Old Mystic, Cotm. 
NEW-YORKER 
EASY MONEY 
We want a responsible agent in t our com¬ 
munity to handle local sales for us, direct 
from factory to home. This is an opportunity 
for you to save yourself or friends the dealer’s 
large profits on a High Grade Piano. 
Straight from the maker to the home on 
thirty days’ free trial. Send stamp at once 
for Beautiful Illustrated Catalogue and 
special agents’ proposition. 
F. J. HAGGERTY CO. 
Manufacturers—Distributers 
High-Grade Pianos 
WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA 
423 
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pi-KASE send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
1 mission Mouse in New York. Est. 1838. Butter, 
Eggs, Poultry, Pork, Calves, Hay, Grain. Beans, 
Appies.etc. K. It. WOODWARD, 80U Oreennieli 81 ., N.Y. 
JELUFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St„ New York, 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited. 
Boston Produce Go. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., - Boston. 
JOHN C. QUICK CO. 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 34 JAY STREET, NEW YORK 
POULTRY FARM EGGSoUR SPECIALTY. 
QUICK Returns Our Motto. Established 1855 
HICKORY DALE FARM 
Berkshires and Wyandottes. Berkshires are from 
prize-winning stock; in pairs not related. Stock of 
all ages. Columbian Silver Laced and Huston’s 
White Wyandotte Eggs from selected stock, $2.00 
for 15: $3.50 for 30. My stock pleases the buyers. 
J. ALONZO HULSE, Wading Itiver, N. Y. 
Rplawarp Fannc _ Now is the timeto-buy them. 
UCiandlB rdllllS Gen. du Pont, President of 
the du Pont Powder Co., presented Delaware with a 
Macadam Road through entire state When completed 
farms will be worth twice the money asked now. Send 
for our catalogue, free. FOH I> A KKIS, Ine., Dept. 
II., Wllmfncrlon, J>cl. 
FOR SALF - ^™, 1 in , Freetown, New York, near 
IU II UHLL. Cortland; 132 acres, well watered; 
bne dairy farm with good buildings; adjoins the 
, r: ,V,V, a . rf . 1 ,^ ar , m ’ P rice ’ *3,000 net. Address HARRY 
D. IRAI-P, R. D. No. 17, Feekvillk, N. Y, 
A 60 ACRE FARM FOR 
no buildings, no stork. Apply to owner ’ 
MINT&ENK FARM, North Water Gap, Pa. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Eggs from heavy laying utility birds, $1.00 per 15 
BRUSH & SONS.Milton, Vt. 
IRfl SALE CHEAP, ill fertile 
IUU 1 Ul 1110 Delaware Valley. New catalogue 
and map free. Horace G. Reeder, Newtown, Pa. 
HONE'S “BRED TO LAY” R. C. REDS and MAMMOTH 
II BRONZE TURKEYS win at Schenectady, 1911, 1st and 
3rd hen; 2nd and 3rd pnllot ; 2nd and 3rd cock¬ 
erel; 1st Bronze Tom, and 3rd pullet. A prize for 
every bird exhibited. Eggs from choice matings 
at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. I). U. 
HONE, Crescent llill Farm, Sharon Springs, N. Y. 
WANTFO 9 n Poultry Fanil, single man who un¬ 
it nn i i_u derstands general farm work: no rnm. 
State wages expected by year and inclose references 
m first letter. G. W. HULL, Guilford, Conn. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
from good vigorons S. C. W. Leghorns that have 
given me not less than 33 l n per cent, egg yield 
since Dec. 1. $1 per 15, $3 per 50, $5 per 100. 
B. B. CHASE, Wyoming, Del. 
FARM Q F 9 r SME— Have large list of good dairy 
.properties, Write for list. 
OGDEN S AGENCY, Walton, Delaware Co., N. Y. 
FOR SALEaTO SETTLE AN ESTATE 
300 acre farm in town of Springfield, Vt., l'-j miles 
v station, at Bartonsville, two story 
stone house, 5 hams, sugar and apple on-hards, 
plenty wood and lnmher. Price $.1,800. Address 
F. C. ADAMS, Chester Depot, Vt. 
Eloveaa. First Frizes 
At leading Poultry Shows, Indian Runner Ducks and 
ltoueu Ducks. Madison Square Garden Winners our Rose- 
comb Black Minorcas won Silver Cup at Paterson, and 
Barred Plymouth Rocks. All eggs *2.00 per 15, $::.50 pei-30. 
Pci' 100. Also pure bred Angora Goats and Collie Dogs, 
$10 and up. CLARK FARIVI, BOONTON, N. J. 
VIRGINIA FARIVI FOR SALE 
\ ory fertile farm of 150 acres. New seven room 
house. Barns and out buildings in good repair. 
Orchard of 100 full bearing apple trees. Only one 
mile trom ehnrches and school. Many other farms 
m beautiful Fauquier County for sale. Write for 
prices and descriptions. Address 
HARRY M. HP FiBELL, Warrentown, Virginia. 
PfifJQ Guaranteed fertile; from range - grown 
u.D, r nour’i.o.'M P lofits at the egg basket 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY FARM . . R, D. 24, Athens, Pa. 
UTILITY RRFFn^-^ Ioun tain air> open-front 
• t>i ,, LU 0 honse stock eggs for hatch- 
«?,?• Bl ac k Orpington or R. I. Reds, *2 DO per 15 
White Wyandottes or B.P, Rocks, Si.00 per 15 R I 
P.Qj ! _ Cock ere Is, Angora Goats and Kids for sale. 
SH0H0LA FRUIT AND POULTRY FARM . . Sliohola, Pa. 
GENTLEMAN’S FARM, STOCK AND TOOLS 
1'OR SALE — Eighty-tliree acres, fourteen room 
honse, basement barn, 30x42, twenty cow stalls 
wagon house, 30x42, com house, hen house, fifteen 
cows and heifer, two horses, hinder, mower, sulky 
plow, cultivator, rake, two seated carriage, sleighs, 
sleds, gasolene engine, saw, ensilage cutter, twenty 
tons of hay, 400 bushels of oats, ten tons of straw. 
Everything ready. Milk bringing nearly $100 a 
mouth Allfor $6,300, part cash. HALL'S FARM 
\A/RIGHT'S WHITE WYANDOnE WINNERS— Eggs, $4.00 
" for 100. Baby Chix, $12.50 for 100; $7 00 for 50 
GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
EGGS—$1 pci- 15, $2 per -lo of Tlior. Brahmas. Rocks, Wyan- 
iloties, Red", Minorcas, Hnndana, Leghorns, Hamburg"; lfl v»r 
28 years’ experience. Catalogue. S. K. Mohr, Cooperating, Pa. 
AGEiSLY, Owego, Tioga County, New York. 
BURR’S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
By 12 years’ breeding and careful selection have developed 
winning quality and great egg production. Farm raised, 
free range. Eggs, $5.00 per hundred ; $1 per setting 85* 
fertility. WILLIAM O. BURR. Fairfield. Conn. 
FflR ^Al F- |MPR0VED ENGLISH YORKSHIRE SWINE. 
1 Ull OnLL Young bred sous and young boars 
ready for service, also young pigs. Address 
C. H. FARNHAM, Drocton, New York. 
Pfllli TRY -35 Breeds. Bred for Laying. 
1 UULI 11 1 Large circular illustrated in colors 
Free. JOHN E. FlEATWOLE, Harrisonburg, Va. 
C 0 IA I LEGHORN EGGS for hatching. Good laying 
Oi UiVfi strain, *1 per 15, $5 per 100. Also Baby 
•Chicks. GEO. LUNDGREEN, Wyoming, Del. 
India Runner Ducks, S. C. White Leghorns 
Eggs for Hatching. Send for Circular. 
F. J. FULLER, Waterport, Orleans County, New York 
R. C. Black Minorca Cockerels and Eggs. 
Prices right. ALBERT PUTNAM, Sprakers, N. Y. 
T) C. B. MINORCAS; great layers; eggs, $1.00 
1V ‘ for 15. GEO. BOWDI8H, Esperauce, N. Y. 
BUFF WYANDOTTES _ ®Ltting of 
15. LAWRENCE ES8ELSTYN, Claverack, N. Y. 
FfiCQ FROM WINNERS— Anconas, $1.50 per 15; Wyc- 
LUUO koff’s White Leghorns. $1.00 per 15. Satisfac¬ 
tion guaranteed. OAKDALE FARM, R-2, Chester, N. J. 
Thirty Years Breeder 
and Dealer Purebred Poultry. 
R. T. PAXTKItSON, Newtown, Conn. 
WILD AND BRONZE TDRKEY EGGS-Chicken E 0 «s. Hand- 
**— ■ - some Catalog 2 ct. 
stamp, showing pure wild gobbler from the moun¬ 
tain. VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM, Belleville, Pa. 
For BIGGER crops and BETTER use 
Shipped in 100-lb. bags, handy to handle, in powder form ready for use. No 
waste in slaking and screening — every bit available for distribution by hand or 
spreader. Delivered in carloads of 20 tons to New Enghuid points for $8.00 to $9.00 
per ton, price varying witli freight rates, or write to us for name of nearest dealer from 
whom you can buy any amount. 
Lime feeds run-down land. Lime sweetens land soured by fertilizers. Lime 
shakes up clogged soil and holds together soil that is too loose. The cost is only a 
fraction of the extra profit you will get by using it. 
Our free booklet, “Liming the Land,” tells about the when, where and liow of liming. 
ROCKLAND-ROCKPORT LIME CO. 
Boston, 34 Milk St. Rockland, Me. New York, Fifth Ave. Bldg. 
The harder you work the Louden nay Carrier and the 
heavier you load it, the better it shows up. You can’t 
break it down—years of hard service won’t send the 
LOUDEN HAY CARRIER 
to the repair shop. It lasts a lifetime. Itslockhas a 
square catch and cannot possibly wedge or fail to work. 
The powerful wheel arms will never spread. All twist 
and kink are let out of tho rope by oar simple patented 
ropcBwivel, the only successful swivel on the market. Won’t bind 
on the track, has adjustable stops. 
The Louden Balance Grapple Fork is the best fork ever built. Will 
handle dry clover, alfalfa or thrashed straw where all others fail. 
The Louden Hay Carrier and Louden Grapple Fork will work 
in any barn and handle all kinds of bay with more satisfaction 
than any others. See them at your dealer’s—If he does not have 
them, write us. 
Send for catalog of complete barn and cow stable fixtures- 
Hay Carriers, Door Hangers, Lifter and Feed Carriers. Cot 
Stalls, Cow Stanchions etc.—also our FREE BOOK on the 
value of manure and how to care for it. 
LOUDEN MACHINERY CO., 
601 Broadway, Fairfield, Iowa. 
