19T1. 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
The Regal New-Yorkeb, April 22, 1011. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Lime in a Manure Spreader.515, 514 
Building Up Maryland Soil.i.514 
Lime from Acetylene Gas Plants.514 
Was Soil or Fertilizer at Fault?.314 
A Problem in Drainage.514 
Treatment of Kaffir Corn.51(1 
Turnips and Clover.510 
Planting Potatoes by Hand.518 
Heading Off Cutworms and Other Pests.520 
Questions About Hairy Vetch...521 
Hope Farm Notes....'.522 
Crop Notes .525 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
An Ox Trotter.517 
Mr. Taylor's Side of Guernsey Cow 
Case. Part II.528 
Ailing Cow; Rickets in Pig.528 
Indigestion .528 
That Celebrated Guernsey Case.529 
That Hen Contest.529 
Those Hen Figures.529 
Spray Mixture and Cattle.529 
A Chenango Co. Horse Deal.550 
How to Feed Sbotes.550 
Summer Silage Without Silo.530 
Mlk .531 
Tax on Mlk.531 
Imported Cream and Butter.531 
Rbeumate and Yawning Hen.532 
Clover Hay at 830 per Ton.o32 
Poor Laying Hens.532 
Eggs Kept in Water Glass.532 
Clipping Hen's Wings.532 
Weasels and Wire Mesh.532 
HORTICULTURE. 
How to Prune Fruit Trees.513 
Repairing Old Apple Trees.515 
Grapes or Apples—Which?.515 
Crops for a Garden.510 
Fruit Trees in Sod.510 
Some Apple Notes.510 
Use of Lime-Sulphur.518 
Fruit Prospects .51S 
New Plan of Tomato Growing.519 
Apples for Northern Ohio Markets.519 
Facts Wanted About Lime-Sulphur.... 521 
A Talk About Grapes.523 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.520 
Freckles . 520 
Mutton Timbales ...520 
Kidney and Tomatoes.520 
Grape Juice in Quantity.527 
Steamed Spice Pudding.527 
The Rural Patterns.527 
Inexpensive Floor Covering.527 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Notes on the Bermuda islands.517 
Old Friends aud New. ...520 
Editorials .524 
Other People's Money.525 
Events of the Week.525 
Concrete Posts .530 
Markets .533 
Publisher's Desk. .534 
Humorous . 536 
CARE OF INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS. 
1 bought five high-bred Indian Runner 
ducks and put them In the back yard with 
eight or 10 chickens. The space they hare 
to run in is 75x75 feet. The water for 
them is kept in gallon jars, and one pool 
four by six feet and six inches deep. The 
pool is filled from the hydrant aud cleaned 
and fresh water every three days. I have 
a lot of sand which has been used for mak¬ 
ing sandpaper loose on the ground. One 
side of the yard hickory wood has been 
piled for several years, and some of it 
allowed to rot. Part of the fence consists 
of privet hedge just now coming out, and 
along the fence a great many Cannas, 
which grow something like a lily or a flag, 
with roots on the same order, and these 
are now coining through the ground, and 
the ducks eat them off as fast as they 
come up. One of these ducks died about 
a week ago, and another died last even¬ 
ing. They hare never had anything to eat 
except as follows: Cracked corn, whole 
wheat, a mixture of bran, shorts aud corn- 
meal, whole corn, old eggshells, and once 
or twice a week scraps from the table, in¬ 
cluding oatmeal cooked the day before. 
Arkansas. T. r. k. 
The Canna has no bad reputation, and 
the roots contain much starch. Ducks are 
large meat eaters in a state of nature, and 
your ducks may not have had enough of 
this. But I judge that their chief lacks 
are grit and green stuff. Where ducks 
are kept in confinement every effort must 
he made to furnish them an abundance of 
green stuff of one kind and another. Cut 
clover and clover meal are a Winter stand¬ 
by. Though not "green” in the sense of 
fresh and juicy, they have the composition 
of a nutritious vegetable, in good propor¬ 
tion for a living ration, and much better 
than some for eggs. Cabbage is a handy 
feed, nearly all water. We use beet pulp 
to quite an extent also. In Summer lawn 
clippings, weeds, clovers and short-cut sweet 
corn stalks as well as waste vegetables 
will help them out. If you feed an over¬ 
proportion of starchy feeds, you simply 
kill your birds gradually. All your heavy 
feeds need to be balanced roughly with 
those having water or roughage in'goodly 
proportion. Perhaps I should rather say 
water aud roughage. Where flocks are 
smalt, hens and ducks run together, at 
times, without harm. In the breeding sea¬ 
son. there is likely to be trouble, especially 
if birds are confined. On the farm, running 
free, they may be found together all over 
the country. c. s. valentine. 
Surplus Stuck of Choice Strawberry Plants 
$2.50per 1,000. H. H. RUNNING, Clyde, N. Y. 
LED CORN—Reid's Yellow Dent, Imp.Learning, 
vvoluen Surprise,. Ame rican Pride, White Cap and 
seed oats. Catal og tree THE0.QURI & SONS.Melrose.Ohia 
—Eureka PotatoPlanter,little used,with 
fertilizer attachment; two-horse, one-row machine 
!n,.- no< condition. Two 360-egg Cyphers Incubators, 
190/ model, cheap. Mareus M. Browne, Marlboro, Mass. 
MELON'S, Lima Beans, Sweet Corn aud Squashes 
i to 4 weeks earlier if started in Paper Pots. 
Recommended by Hope Farm man and Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. Shipped flat: tow rates; 3-in., $1 25 per 1000. 
4-m.,tl.7o per 1000. P. B. CROSBY 8 SOB, Catonsvilte.Md. 
with 
WANTED—AT ONCE ;r 
Must be good milkers, experienced with cattle and 
at dairy farm work. W, F. SHR UM, Jeaimette, Pa. 
UlARTEB.—Position as Farm Manager or Super- 
lnteudeni by a competent, well educated young 
single, Ag. College graduate. Experienced 
n large farms in general, stock and dairy farming. 
<*ood references. C. D. L. eare of R. N.-Y. 
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JOHN C. QUICK CO. 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 34 JAY STREET, NEW YORK 
POULTRY FARM EGGSoUR SPECIALTY. 
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Commission Merchants, 
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93-95 South Market St., 
Boston. 
ten FflrmQ FOR SAI;E CHEAP - in fertile 
IvJU I Q11110 Delaware Valley. New catalogue 
and map free. Horace G. Rebder, Newtown, Pa. 
MILCH GOATS SALE 
Pour pairs High Grade Toggenburgs. $15 and $20 a 
pair. INDUSTRIAL HOME, Tappau, S, Y. 
NEWTON’S HEAVE 
COUCH, DISTEMPER IIQP 
AND INDIGESTION l/Ul\L 
The firstor second $1.00 can cures Heaves. The third 
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Makes the Horse Strong and Willing to Work. 
CURES HEAVES BY CORRECTING THE CAUSE 
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A GRAN0 CONDITIONER AND WORM EXPELLER 
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THE NEWTON KEMEDY CO., Toledo, Ohio 
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Boll Evil, Qnitor, Fistula or any 
unhealthy sore quickly: pleasant 
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bandage or remove the hair, and 
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ABSOKBINE.JB., liniment for 
mankind. Reduces Painful, Swol¬ 
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Bruises, stops Pain and Inflamma¬ 
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Positively Cured 
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Also the only known remedy for 
WHITE DIARRHOEA in poultry. 
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EXCELSIOR SWING STANCHION 
Warranted The Best. 30 Days’ Trial 
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The Wasson Stanchion Co., 
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Mixtures of Potash, Phosphate Rock and Lime of 
different proportions 
LAND PLASTER 
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AGRICULTURAL SALT, Etc. 
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AGENTS WANTED 
Caledonia Chemical Co., Caledonia, /V. V. 
rnD Oil Of 209 acres, stock and 
r II it A 3 I U tools. $8.00 per day income, 
fonrteen room, white house 
with green blinds, three large barns, silo, granary, 
sheds, hen house, fruit, 25 Holstein cows ami 
heifers, five hogs, wagons, buggy, mower, reaper, 
rake, harrows, sulky cultivator, plows, drill, roller, 
root cutter, eorn shelter, etc. Groat money maker, 
must go. Price, $7,500; $4,500 cash. 
HALL’S FARM AGENCY, Owega, Tioga Coonty, New York. 
FOR SALE—Small Virginia Farm. 
128 acres of productive, money making land. 
Nearly new eight room frame house, very pretty 
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II. M. HTTBBEL/Li, Warrenton, Va. 
E WELL FARM LANB-SOO ACRES of the Famous Ewell 
Farm for sale. Heavy elay loam soil, very fertile, 
200 acres in virgin timber or pasture laud, excellent 
bluegrass, 125 acres in wheat and clover, 100 acres 
in orchard grass. Well watered, two springs, a well, 
Address, PERCY BROWN, Spring Hill, Tenn. 
UOR SALE—A rare chanee to secure a most de- 
1 sirable Stock and (up-to-date) Poultry Farm, 
about 117 acres, completely equipped, for less than 
cost of buildings and recent improvements. Loca¬ 
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delphia. Situation ideal. No further expenditure 
needed. For full particulars address: JOHN V. 
SAUTTER, Manager, Chester Springs, Peuna. 
636' 
\55 b uys Best 
140-Egg Incubator 
Dou ble cases all over -.best copper 
tank; nursery, self-regutatlng. 
Best 140-chlck hot-water brooder, 
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How easy they are to take care of. How fine 
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PppO-MAMMOra BRONZE TURKEYS, 
L U Uu L ear l Guineas, Indian Runner Ducks and 
www Barred Plymouth Rocks. Write for Free 
Price List. POPLAR LAWN FARM S, West Falls, N. Y 
WHITE ORPINGTONS, Cook strain: Eggs for hatching, 
" $2'per 15: Cockerels, $3 each: Mammoth Pekin 
Duck Eggs, $1 per 12. WAVERLEY FARMS. Haymarket, Va. 
BABY CHICKS—Singlo Comb White Leghorns, 
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, 10c and 12c each. 
Strong and livable. From vigorous free range stock, 
bred for utility and standard qualities. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. WESLEY GRIN NELL, Sod us, N. Y. 
Rrprf tn I RU Dustin Strain W. Wyandottes and 
LllGU IU LQj Purks Strain Barred Rocks. Eggs, 
$1.00 per 15. H. R. STARNER, Corning, N.Y. 
IRDS OF QUALITY, Bred to lay; S. C W. Leghorn 
Hatching Eggs, $6 per 100; Chicks, $12 per 100. 
S. C. R. I. Red Eggs, $8 per 100; Chicks, $15 per 100. 
THE WINONA FARMS ■ Drawer 272 . LANSDALE, PA. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY 
Free range, extra good winter laying strain, $1 00 per 
15 eggs; $5.00 per 100. F. CYRUS TWINING, Pineville, Pa. 
CRfiQ —INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS, $150 
CUUO PER 13. $3.00 FOR 30; WHITE EGGS. 
FRANK F. TERRY . . . Assonet, Mass. 
S. C. W. LEGHORN EGGS FOR HATCHING 
15 for $1.50, $7.00 per 100. Baby Chicks, 15c. each 
Pens headed by choice cockerels direct from D. W. 
Young. E. M. YOUNG. Edenville, N. Y. 
EGGS 
from high record W. P. Rock Hens, $2 
for 15, $5 for 45. Incubator eggs $tiper 
100. A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
PRIZE WINNING STRAINS! 
dottes, Rhode Island Reds, both combs. Single 
Comb White and Brown Leghorns, eggs $1.60, 15; 
$7.00, 100. Light and Dark Brahmas, $2.00, 15. Cat¬ 
alog gratis. F. M. PRESCOTT, Riverdale, N. J. 
YX7YCKOFF-BLANCHARD strains Single-Comb 
vy White I/eghorns, $1.25 setting Heavy laying 
Rose-Comb Black Minorcas, $1,50 setting, t ircular. 
HIGH RIDGE POULTRY FARM, Lauhel. Mrr. 
R C. B. MINORCAS ; great layers; eggs. $1.00 
• for 15. GEO. BOWDISH, Esperanco, N. Y. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING from heavy laying ntility 
™ _ - strains. S. C.W. Leghorns and R. C. R. I. 
Reds, $1 per 15, $5 per 100. ARTHUR RICE, Houier, N. Y. 
nrilll JHY-3S Best Breeds—Bred for 
fUUL I VII Laying—Choice eggs for hatch¬ 
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a few fine O. I. C. Figs for sale. Address 
JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Harrisonburg, Virginia. 
The Big White Egg Makers 
Rose Comb Black Minorcas, Indian Runner Ducks. 
The Big White Birds 
Crystal White Orpingtons—Utilities, Beauties. 
Year round layers. Eggs for hatching. Circular 
free. F. N. ADAMS, Route 1, Orwell, Ohio. 
I. RTJKnNTEPl DUCKS 
Public record, 200 t eggs. 'My book, all about it, 50c. 
C. 8. Valentine, Box 3, Ridgewood, N. J. 
BUFF ORPINGTON DOCKS sShTlSr s ns 
B. O. Ducks, the world greatest layers; have twice 
won Australian laying contests. My ducks have 
three years unbeaten show record. List furnished 
DUNROBXN FARM, Chatham, New Jersey 
Both Tree and Fruit Need Potash 
Apple trees take more Potash from the soil 
than they do Nitrogen and Phosphorus, 
Especially does the development of the 
fruit depend on the available 
Increased yields of larger, firmer apples, 
well flavored and rich in color follow appli¬ 
cations of Soluble Potash Salts. 
Orchardists everywhere are proving that 
Potash pays. 
See that your fruit tree fertilizer contains 
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