1 
1912. 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, March 2, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
U. S. Government Seed Testing.259 
Onions from Seed. 262 
Legal Names for Farms. 262 
Growing Transplanted Onions. 265 
The Trade in Christmas Trees. 265 
Saving Squash Seed. 266 
Spring Work on the Truck Farm. 270 
Vegetable Growing in Texas. 274 
Hope Farm Notes. 2S0 
New Potato Varieties from Grafting.. 281 
Seed Potatoes in Pits. 302 
Potato Culture with Cheap Outfit. 303 
Potatoes with Big Tops. 303 
Drainage of the Land. 30 
Acetylene Refuse . 308 
Lime for Cftbbage Diseases. 308 
Killing Out Johnson Grass. 309 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
IIow to Tell a Jersey. 288 
A Talk About Sheep. 2S8 
Stock Feed in Texas. 288 
A Talk About Soiling. 2S9 
Frozen and Thawed Pork. 290 
Thick Cream . 290 
Turn the Pigs in the Orchard.....!.. 290 
Ration for Family Cow and Sows. 290 
Soy Bean Meal for Dairy Cows. 292 
Payment for Glandered Horses.292 
Cows Refuse to Drink. 292 
Fodder Crops .!! 292 
Rye for Horse Hay. 292 
More Home-laid Eggs. 295 
An Honest Poultry Man. 298 
Mice in the Henhouse. 298 
The Egg Laying Contest.!!! 298 
HORTICULTURE. 
Does It Pay to Mix Varieties in Plant¬ 
ing an Orchard?.257, 25S 
Lime and Weeds as a Fertilizer..’ 258 
A Cultivated Mulch Orchard.258, 259 
A Fine Climbing Rose.259 
A Florist in the Frozen North.260 
Lime-Sulphur for Grapes. 260 
A Three-cent Consumer’s Dollar...!!! 260 
How and When to Spray. 261 
A Prolific Banana. 261 
Planting for Shady Border......!!!! 262 
Peaches for Cumberland Co., N. J.! 262 
Trouble with Peach Trees. 262 
The Fruit-tree Leaf-Roller. 263 
Spraying of Grapes..!!! 264 
Varieties of Apples. 264 
Beautifying Church and School Grounds 268 
Army Worm Moth on Peaches. 269 
Some Freakish Fruits. 269 
Top-working Young Apple Trees. 272 
Low Headed Apple Trees. 273 
Wood Fuel for Greenhouse. 273 
New Jersey Fruits .!!! 275 
Lime-Sulphur Spraying Up-to-Date!!!! 276 
Hollyhock Rust; Moonflower. 277 
Crown Gall and Blackberries. 277 
Top-work the Seedling Fruit Trees_278 
Down on “Unit Orchards”. 278 
Cold Frame System of Melon Growing. 
Part II.. 279 
Greenhouse Soil from Old Sod.!!!!!!! 291 
Rough Planting an Orchard. 291 
Pruning Old Peach Trees. 291 
Maryland Garden Notes. 294 
Various Farm Recipes. 295 
Lime-Sulphur Mixture. 295 
Backyard Garden Game in 1911. Part 
.. 296 
Berry Pickers’ Ticket. 297 
Grape Spraying Experiment. 297 
Grafting Wax and Tools. 302 
Shaping the Sutton Apple.!!! 304 
Sapsucker Working on Apple Trees-.... 304 
Lime to Kill Peach Borers. 304 
Preparing a Vegetable Garden... 305 
An Attractive Country Road. 300 
Watermelon and Citron Mixing. 306 
Grapes for Long Island. 306 
A W’onderful New Corn. 306 
The Menagere Apple. 306 
Blood Peaches. 30 (j 
I he Wonder of the W’onderberry. 307 
Cultivating Low-headed Trees. 308 
Strawberries with Good Care. 308 
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Coloring Feathers . 284 
What One Woman Does. 285 
The Rural Patterns. 286 
Garden Notes from Ohio. 286 
A Group of Cannas. 286 
A Few Ilardy Chrysanthemums.286 
MI SCELLANEOUS. 
Editorial . 282 
Notes from Albany.'.*.!*.!!*. 283 
Cooperative Buying for Army and Navy 283 
Another Smoke-house. 292 
Senator Raynor and Free Seeds..!!!!! 293 
The Mole Nuisance. 293 
Publisher’s Desk . 3 pp 
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Salt and Cement Work.... 307 
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140-Egg 
Incubator 
