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THE RUR-A-L. NEW-YORKER 
December 23,' 
THE PICTURES. 
A Young Gardener. —The little man 
pictured on the first page is a purebred 
gardener. We can see his tools and his 
crop. The little dog has helped, too. Xo 
doubt he has waited alongside the gar¬ 
den many a day while his master was 
toiling with rake and hoe—giving the 
encouragemenf of a good friend. There 
is no finer thing for a boy than to be 
interested in cultivating a piece of land. 
It is a great test of patience and char¬ 
acter to fight the weeds and insects and 
bring such potatoes and corn and cab¬ 
bage through to perfection. Such a bat¬ 
tle will give a boy a sense of mastery 
which will last all through his life. 
To illustrate the growing tendency of 
the “back to the farm” movement in West 
Virginia, and trusting that “Young Amer¬ 
ica,” and older America, too, may be en¬ 
couraged, I am sending you a picture of 
Jennings D. Sterling, aged six, who by his 
own efforts and industry, alone, produced 
the vegetables shown in photograph, lie 
carried off several prizes at an exposition 
of farm, orchard and garden products held 
at Kingwood, W. Va„ this month. 
P. E. PETEBSOX. 
A Family In Fur. —The basket of 
puppies shown at Fig. 496 will appeal to 
many a farm boy. The entire dog fam¬ 
ily is represented here. A well-bred and 
trained terrier is a help on any farm. 
He will catch rats better than a cat, act 
as burglar alarm and defend the chil¬ 
dren. Good dog stock is valuable prop¬ 
erty for those who know how to breed 
and train. 
An Ox Automobile. —Gur artist 
caught this picture in Northern Michi¬ 
gan. This farmer is taking his family 
to the Hart fair— and getting there, too, 
if a little slowly. There are some good 
points about the ox-automobile. He does 
the farm work, moves along slowly 
through life, and when he is done passes 
into beef. Not very rapid, of course; 
but we heard of a man who mortgaged 
his home for $5,000; out of this he 
paid $3,500 for an auto and $1,500 for 
a house to keep it in. Recently he re¬ 
newed the mortgage, while the car is 
offered at $750! 
Pecans and Babies. —On page 649 Mr. 
Sam H. James told us about the Owens 
pecan, one of the most promising varie¬ 
ties of that nut. Now we have at Fig. 
494 a picture of a heap of these nuts 
with a baby thrown in for good meas¬ 
ure. This nut will make millions for 
some one, but the child is worth more 
than all. A good combination for any 
farm._. 
NEW JERSEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting was held December 
13-14 at Freehold, the center of a farming 
section famous for potatoes, and with large 
fruit interests nearby. The meetings were 
held in the court room, and the fruit and 
machinery display was in the armory. 
There were 280 plates of fruit shown, com¬ 
prising 90 varieties of apples, all of the 
standard and most of the newer sorts that 
are at all promising for eastern culture. 
Several growers spoke highly of Rome 
Beauty as a commercial success, and the 
samples shown were fully equal to any we 
have seen from its native State, Ohio. 
York Imperial, Sutton, Stayman, Twenty 
Ounce, Spy and Baldwin showed specially 
good color. Perhaps the most striking of 
lesser known varieties is White Ohio Pip¬ 
pin, the handsomest white apple we have 
seen, of large size and excellent quality. 
Some have rejected it because of defects 
in texture, but the best growers say this is 
easily controlled by spraying. In the com¬ 
mercial package display 80 boxes were 
shown, put up in the various styles of 
pack used in the West. No doubt the box 
will be increasingly used in the near future, 
but we believe the barrel will continue to 
be the main commercial package for the 
East. At these meetings it would be a 
good plan to have several barrels of apples 
shown, and let some practical man give a 
demonstration of just how to put up a 
barrel of apples from start to finish so 
that thev will stand rough handling with¬ 
out going slack. Hundreds of barrels of 
apples are discounted in the market from 
30 cents to $1 or more because of this de¬ 
fect. It is nothing unusual for one-fourth 
of a barrel of otherwise good apples to 
show bruises by rattling in a slack packed 
barrel. 
State Entomologist Smith discussed the 
various bugs and insects which bother 
the New Jersey farmer; Prof. Blake re¬ 
viewed the peach situation; Prof. J. P. 
Stewart, of State College, Pa., told of some 
very interesting results in their efforts to 
combine fungicides and arsenicals so as to 
avoid injury from the arsenic; and several 
of the practical New Jersey growers spoke 
of the year’s experience in spraying, fer¬ 
tilizing, cover crops, and the various phases 
of fruit growing. In the early morning 
and between sessions informal group meet¬ 
ings were held at various places. Two 
men would start talking about something 
of mutual interest in fruit growing, an¬ 
other and another would stop to listen and 
take part in the discussion. In this way 
the year’s experiences wore thoroughly 
thrashed out, and this was perhaps one 
of the most valuable features of the gath¬ 
ering. 
Officers elected were; Joseph Barton, 
president; J. C. Henderson, vice-president; 
noward G. Taylor, of Riverton, secretary; 
George E. DeCamp, treasurer; executive 
committee, Horace Roberts, W. H. Reid, 
John H. Barclay, Elias S. Black and A. T. 
Repp. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
■Winter Short Courses. Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y„ November 28-February 23. 
N. Y. State Fruit Growers’ Ass'n, Ro¬ 
chester, N. Y.. January 3-5. 
Farmers’ Week, Kingston, R. I., Decem¬ 
ber 25-30. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Burlington, Vt., 
December 26-February 24. 
State Farmers' Institute, Manhattan, Kan¬ 
sas, December 20-30. 
Farmers’ Week, New Brunswick, N. J., 
December 25-January 1. 
Farmers’ Week, State College, Pa., De¬ 
cember 27-January 3. 
American Breeders’ Ass’n, Washington, 
D. C., December 28-30. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Ames, Iowa, Jan¬ 
uary 2-13. 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Meetings, New Y’ork, 
January 11. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Columbus, O., Jan¬ 
uary 2-February 23. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Amherst, Mass., 
January 2-March 8. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Durham, N. II., 
January 4-March 8. 
Farmers’ Week, Purdue University, La¬ 
fayette, Indiana, January 8-13. 
Vermont Dairymen’s Ass’n, Burlington, 
January 9-11. 
Farmers’ Week, College Park, Md., Janu¬ 
ary 8-15. 
Corn Growers’ and Stockmen's Conven¬ 
tion, Urbana. Ill., January 15-27. 
Live Stock Week, East Lansing, Mich., 
January 16-18. 
Connecticut Dairymen’s Ass’n, Unity Hall, 
Hartford, January 17-18. 
Conventions, Pennsylvania Live Stock and 
Horticultural Associations, Duquesne Gar¬ 
den. Pittsburgh. January 15-20. 
Livingston County, N. Y., Poultry Show, 
January 16-19. 
School for Housekeepers, Urbana, Ill., 
January 15-27. 
N. J. State Board of Agriculture, Janu¬ 
ary 17-19. 
Farmers’ Week, Canton. N. Y., School of 
Agriculture, January 22-27. 
Alabama Horticultural Society, Jasper, 
Ala., January 25-27. 
Ohio Apple Show, Marietta, O., January, 
23-26. 
Minnesota Short Course, Minneapolis, 
Minn., January 23-Februar.v 17. 
Farmers’ Week, Durham, N. H., January 
20-February 3. 
St. Lawrence Poultry Show, Ogdensburg, 
N \ r ., January 30-February 2. 
N. Y. State Grange, Auburn, N. Y., Feb¬ 
ruary 6-9. 
Ohio Dairymen’s Ass n, Columbus, Feb¬ 
ruary 8-9. 
Connecticut Pomological Society, Hart¬ 
ford, February 7. 
Farmers’ Special Course, Morgantown, W. 
Va., February 1-16. 
Poultry Week, East Lansing, Mich., Feb- 
ruary 12-17. . , 
Farmers’ Week. State School, Lyndon Ctr., 
Vt., February 12-17. . 
Farmers’ Week. Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y„ February 19-24. 
Farmers’ Week, Burlington, Vt., February 
19-24 
Poultry Convention, Amherst, Mass., 
March 5-8. . ,, . 
Farmers’ Week, Amherst, Mass., March 
11 - 15 . 
Farmers’ Short Course, Madison, Wis., 
January 30-February 9. 
A DAY IN A STEAM LAUNDRY. 
I thought it might interest some of the 
readers of The R. N.-Y. whom I judge 
are mostly farmers, to know something 
of the hard knocks of a boy trying to get 
along in town, as most of the stories told 
to >tho farmers’ boys about upwn arc 
brags. I will give you an account of my 
first day’s work in the steam laundry. 
I was 17 years old, lived with my parents, 
had no board to pay. 1 got a job at the 
steam laundry as driver, and as I thought 
a chance to learn the trade, but I found 
I had to get some of it on the sly. I went 
to the laundry barn at six o’clock and 
fed my horse, cleaned it and greased the 
wagon! reported at the laundry at seven 
o’clock. I was given a list of the calls 
I was to make, which was enough to 
keep me hustling all morning. I had to 
get out of the wagon and run around the 
house to the back door and got the pack¬ 
age of laundry, and then put name and 
address on the package, and hustle back 
to the wagon. When noon came I was 
glad enough to be through with collecting; 
fed the horse and went home for dinner. 
Back at one o’clock; helped marking. You 
open the package, take a list of the con¬ 
tents, put the prices on, see that every 
piece has the laundry mark. If no mark 
on anv of the goods give them one and 
take an account of the name with the 
mark, for future use. Here you handle all 
kinds of clothes from all kinds of people, 
and these clothes had to be washed in 
different wavs. I worked here about two 
hours and then I was sent to help on 
the mangle or fiat work ironer, which is 
heated by steam. I was shown what to 
do and h’ow to do it. and I went to work 
here. You often hear the remark. “Hot. 
it was 90 in the shade!” Well, this was 
hot. about 100 in the steam off the wet 
clothes, and the perspiration would run 
down my face and drop on the floor. What 
little air we would get seemed to come 
from a hotter place still. I was here about 
1% hours, and we finished the rush work, 
clothes that came in the morning and had 
to go back the same day. 
Then I was put over in the starch room 
to learn to starch clothes, that is shirts, 
collars and cuffs. Talk about mangling 
being hot—this was still hotter. I was 
shown how to gather a shirt up so that 
the bosom and wristbands would stick up 
over the top of my left hand and then T 
stuck the bosom and wristbands in a bowl 
of hot starch, and then taking my right 
hand, squeezed the starch through the 
bosom. I suppose you would laugh, too, 
if you could have seen how quick I 
dropped the first one and tried to get 
the hot starch off my hand. I worked 
here until near six o’clock, and started 
out to feed my horse. I met the boss 
and he said they were behind with the 
work and I would have to help after sup¬ 
per. My clothes wore wet from my neck 
to my socks. I went home, was too tired 
to eat much supper, laid down for a 
little while, went hack to work at seven 
o’clock and helped cround the mangle 
until 10 o’clock. I was hired by the week 
and this was a day’s work in the steam 
laundry. My wages were $4 per week. I 
have boon at ttie business 19 years and 
I never received more than $10 per week 
and never could save one cent until I 
started in for myself with the helping 
hand of a friend. If every man in town 
would tell the truth, if he is receiving 
less than $15 per week, and trying to 
bring up a family, there would be very 
few farmers’ boys want to go to town. 
New Jersey. d. d. w. 
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Feeding Millet. 
I would like to know why millet hay 
cannot be fed to horses. I have read sev¬ 
eral times in The R. N.-Y. that millet hay 
was not good for horses, but what bad 
effect it has, or whether it is millet cut in 
the bloom or in the seed that is bad, I 
have never seen stated. At S. D. Wood¬ 
ruff’s, In Orange, Conn., where I bought 
my seed, they said the horses would pick 
the hay over, but said nothing about it be¬ 
ing bad for them. I have about five tons 
of it. cut in the bloom, and I notice the 
horses are crazy for it. It is very sweet, 
so I suppose that is the reason. I have fed 
It to them green all Summer and they 
thrive on it; also the cows. We got the 
five tons from a little less than two acres, 
besides cutting green. I have quite a crop 
of second growth, which we are cutting 
green for the horses. This headed very 
short, but is quite thick. We shall cut, 
plow the stubble and sow rye in about two 
weeks. Please tell why I cannot feed this 
hay this Winter to my horses. I know it is 
very rich, because it heats so easily, but I 
believe it is a great crop. e. m. c. 
Connecticut. 
Millet cut and made into hay when the 
seed is ripe and then fed as a wellnlgh 
exclusive food causes a form of rheumatism 
especially affecting the hock joints of horses, 
and for that reason it cannot safely be 
fed. It also may cause mares in foal to 
abort. Green cut millet has not the effect 
stated, nor is the hay from immature mil- 
lot so apt to cause rheumatism ; but we 
would advise making such hay but a part 
ration, along with other hay, fodder, roots 
and grain. You can obtain a bulletin on 
the subject by asking the veterinarian of 
the North Dakota Experiment Station at 
Fargo, N. D. a. s. a. 
Cow Peas; Kudzu Vine. 
1. If you raise cow peas and pull them 
does it do the ground any good? Can any 
of your readers give any pointers about 
the Kudzu vine? Will it stand the Win¬ 
ters in the Ozarks, and is it good for 
sheep? I wish to try it on rocky hillside, 
virgin soil, if I can find out whether it 
will grow well and make good grazing for 
sheep. c. e. d. g. 
1. No, there would not be much remain¬ 
ing benefit. When the vines are cut for 
hay the stubble and roots leave consider¬ 
able plant food in the soil. Pulling the 
vines would remove over half of this value. 
2. We do not believe Kudzu will thrive In 
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