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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
SPRAYING NOTES. 
Our season for dormant spraying is just 
at hand, and if weather permits can be 
done this week (April 21). We have had 
lots of rain, and the ground has been 
too soft to drive over, so we have been 
doing the pruning, and now are ready to 
spray. At this writing the weather is very- 
cold, with high winds, yet if we can get 
three good days we can do a great deal 
and then be ready for the pink buds as 
they come along in May. Our Baldwin and 
Spy trees seldom are at full bloom before 
May 28 to May 30, so you see we have 
quite a little time yet. Other orchardists 
are in the same position as we are, but 
given a few days of good weather and a 
lot of spraying will be done. Many will 
only spray twice, when blossoms show pink 
and when blossoms fall. We mean to give 
the trees a good dormant spray and the 
above two sprays. That, with the other 
farm work, will keep us busy as bees. We 
shall only set a small number of trees 
this Spring, but give what we have as 
good cai - e as possible. The Jerseys arc 
doing well, and the hens are laying as 
though they meant to make up for low 
prices. F. a. b. 
Turner, Me. 
In regard to spraying I have seen no 
large fruit grower who was through spray- 
ing around April 10. A good many were 
going to spray and some did that week on 
peach trees with a good many blossoms 
open, knowing that they would lose those 
buds. I do not fcnow of anyone who 
has made up his mind what they are going 
to do to combat the scale this Summer. 
There has been less spraying done with 
the farmer and fruit grower than for some 
years. Yesterday morning and this morn¬ 
ing the ground was frozen hard, and all 
vessels with water in them and small ponds 
covered with ice. But as there was a high 
wind which has prevailed for the last 30 
days or longer I do not know what effect 
it will have on the open flowers of the 
pear, peach and plum, which are white with 
bloom. The early cherries are practically 
all frozen, the late ones are in full bloom. 
Halifax, Pa. c. r. s. 
We are among the hills of Worcester 
County, and the wind does blow fiercely at 
short notice. We could not have sprayed 
the peach orchard if we had to use the 
hand pump this Spring. April 1 and April 
2 there was a high west wind all day 
long; then two quiet days comparatively, 
and the sprayer was busy all day on both 
dates. Next day the high west wind was 
on again, and no let-up until Thursday, 
April 10, so if we have to depend on the 
hand pump the work cannot be done. 
Massachusetts. Horace b. barker. 
The farmers here have got the spraying 
done between the rain and wind and Rev. 
Billy Sunday’s campaign. Billy was at 
Wilkesbarre seven weeks. Preached twice 
a day and on Sunday three times and the 
longer he stayed the larger the crowd got. 
He increased the churches’ membership from 
one to over 500 members in some cases. 
The last Sunday he was here they took up 
a free will offering for him and it amounted 
to $24,000. He had over 18,000 converts. 
Wilkesbarre is our main market and it is a 
good one. During the Summer and Fall 
they have a curb market. We pay 25 
cents a day to sell there. The teams line 
up on both sides of the street. Wilkesbarre 
is surrounded by a lot of little mining 
towns where you can sell a load of pro¬ 
duce at retail any time. w. s. H. 
I am very glad to say that in this sec¬ 
tion about nine out of every 10 growers 
are about through spraying for scale. We 
have had nine days of the very finest kind 
of weather, and just wind enough to make 
a good job. Everyone who has fruit trees 
is spraying this Spring for scale, and in 
any case in South Haven Township, Mich., 
where it is neglected the inspectors will go 
ahead and spray all the neglected orchards 
and charge it to the property, so the care¬ 
less owner pays for it when his taxes are 
paid. Those who could not get the spray 
on in time will use one-half gallon of lime- 
sulphur to 50 gallons of water and try to 
get the young scale while they are running. 
Prospects for fruit were never better. 
South Haven, Mich. j. l. k. 
To control blight on potatoes we find it 
necessary to commence spraying very early 
when they are not more than four to six 
inches high. We use sulfocide, 1-150, for 
our first spraying. This controls the flea- 
beetle, for the blight enters the potato 
usually in the punctures made by the flea- 
beetles. For the later spraying we use the 
prepared Bordeaux mixtures. 
New Jersey. Horace Roberts. 
Chemicals for AVeeds. —J. G. M., Mont¬ 
gomery, asks about a spray for weeds. 
Last year I sprayed my lawn, a poor one, 
but evidently better than his, with copperas, 
eight pounds to five gallons water, and 
it is greatly improved. The spray should 
be used in bright hot weather, the grass 
mown beforehand, to allow the spray to 
reach the crowns I suppose, and it should 
be repeated several times to keep control. 
The experiment station recommending this 
advises seeding a little grass every year 
if this practice is continued. The spray 
is supposed to kill plantain, mustard and 
several other weeds, but of course he must 
not let any of them seed. If he is trou¬ 
bled with dandelion a sure death is salt¬ 
ing the crowns in hot dry weather. Two 
or three days end their lives as a rule. 
Put it on at sight of the first flower—ithey 
will never seed. My land is salted now 
and looks as though a snow storm had 
struck it. That salt will also kill Canada 
thistle-—it killed mine last year. 
Pennsylvania. f. k. 
STORY OF A DAY’S WORK. 
A Spring Day in New York. 
Started at five o'clock in the morning 
with the thermometer 25 degrees, and 
looked after colony house brooders with 
900 little chicks; then cared for 1,400 
eggs in the incubators before breakfast. 
After breakfast I spent half an hour at 
my desk answering letters and on books; 
then started cooking 100 gallons lime-sul¬ 
phur for spraying on the orchards. Fed 
and watered 900 little chicks and took 200 
more babies out of incubator and placed 
them in brooder which was all ready for 
them. Cleaned incubator and started warm¬ 
ing it up at once, as I had eggs waiting 
for it. By this time the 900 were howling 
for lunch, and the 200 babies needed at¬ 
tention, and the big bell called me to din¬ 
ner before I was ready. After dinner I 
took time to glance over my mail and just 
read the headings in the daily paper. I 
then went in the orchard and helped with 
the spraying for an hour, stopping only to 
fire up the boiler afresh and see that the 
cooking was going on all right for the lime- 
sulphur solution. I went back to my feed¬ 
ing and care of the newly hatched chicks. 
From them I went to the incubator cellar 
and found the empty one nearly ready for 
the eggs, and by the time I could get 
around to it it was ready and I placed 
in it 360 eggs and started it on its 
three weeks course. Then I had to feed 
and look after the chicks for the night 
as the supper bell rang. After supper one 
of the men helped me test 1400 eggs that 
had been in the incubators for five days, 
and I finished my day at 9.15 p. m. This 
is not an unusual day for this season of 
the year, and I am thankful it does not 
last long at this pace. fi.oyd q. white. 
New York. 
An April Day in Ohio. 
Feeding the stock is the first thing. The 
cattle, 19 in number, are given a small 
ration of corn and cob meal and they are 
fed bundled fodder -out on the hillsides 
of an old pasture. The two-year-old steers 
get eight pounds of corn and cob meal 
each per day in two feeds, while the 
younger cattle get four to six pounds, and 
in addition all get all the fodder and hay 
they will clean up well. The hay is fed 
at night under cover in mangers. Besides 
the dry feed there is some pasture to be 
had during much of the Winter. When 
the horses are through eating they are 
harnessed to the sled and corn fodder 
hauled in from the field and ricked in a pen 
near the feeding places. This fodder is 
bundled and tied up well in large shocks, 
so is keeping well, and is relished by both 
cattle and horses. I have fed the fodder 
out on the pasture fields because the hill¬ 
sides needed a covering of litter and ma¬ 
nure, and this plan would save labor later 
when thes beds were to be cleared of their 
Winter’s accumulation of manure. 
After noon I gridn feed, which at pres¬ 
ent is ear corn, and I grind it as fine as 
possible. After December corncobs are 
really too dry and hard to be fed to stock, 
and I much prefer to shell the corn before 
grinding. I intend to arrange for shelling 
the corn in the near future. I grind sev¬ 
eral days' supply ahead, and when through 
I feed the stock their evening feed. Next 
I go over to town to keep an appoint¬ 
ment with a stock dealer who has four 
calves for sale. After looking at the calves 
I finally buy them for $107 delivered. 
There is a sameness of work from month 
to month on a farm where stock is kept, 
but the work varies, outside the chores, 
from day to day. There are fences to 
build, wood to haul, manure to haul out 
and spread and plowing, depending largely 
upon weather conditions during March and 
April. The cattle will be fed until early 
in May, but from now on the chores will 
not interfere with the field work, which 
must be pushed rapidly. 
Ohio. W. E. DUCK WALL. 
OHIO NOTES. 
Ohio farmers lost $16,000,000 from wind 
and water in the recent March floods. The 
damage to buildings, fences, roads and stock 
is estimated at $7,000,000; soil washing 
$3,300,000. Wheat in places suffered no 
loss but the average loss for the State is 
estimated at seven per cent, based on the 
acreage sown in 1912. 
Dr. R. F. Griggs of the Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity, has left for Seattle, Washington, 
where the government has chartered a boat 
to examine the kelp groves in the Kodiak 
region of Alaska and report upon the feas¬ 
ibility of utilizing them as a source of 
potassium. Estimates place the value of 
the potassium recoverable from the annual 
crop of kelps along the Pacific at $240,000,- 
000 or 20 times our importations. 
Following is some of new State legisla¬ 
tion : The agricultural commission will 
systematize and make more efficient the 
State’s agricultural activities. Special com¬ 
missioners will investigate farm credits in 
Europe. The State will rigidly inspect fer¬ 
tilizer. Forest lands are exempted from 
taxation and waste land may be taken 
over by the State forester and planted to 
seedlings. Counties may pay pensions to 
needy mothers. Needy blind persons can 
get not less than $150 or more than $240 
a year from money raised by a State tax. 
Workmen and their dependents will be com¬ 
pensated for injuries by industrial acci¬ 
dents. The new State industrial commis¬ 
sion will give five hours of employed women 
and children. The State board of health 
will investigate occupational diseases. A 
half-mill State levy will raise about $3,- 
000.000 a year for main market and inter- 
countv roads. Township trustees must use 
a split-log drag on the roads. The State 
board of health is given $20,000 to use in 
a campaign for the prevention of tuber¬ 
culosis. Counties must send tuberculors to 
tuberculosis hospitals. A State licensing 
commission with deputies in wet counties 
will administer liquor license. Appropria¬ 
tions for the College of Agriculture and Ex¬ 
periment Station slightly exceed .those of 
former years. o. b. c. 
May 10, 
‘ Ceremonies” of the Grange. 
The question ou “Grange Discussion’’ on 
page 11 incites me to add a thought, being 
a P. of H. of some years standing. 1 
have been amazed at the rebukes offered 
against our various ceremonies, that of 
curtailing the initiatory work being severely 
recommended. I have" observed that those 
chafing under this impressive ceremony, 
are’of the type who want to hurry every¬ 
thing along, seemingly having missed that 
discipline themselves in childhood, which 
calls out patience, thought and knowledge 
of development in slow growth, which is 
one of the paramont lessons taught by 
Mother Nature. I would not know at what 
particular stage of initiatory work the 
pruning shears could be applied, without 
mutilating the whole to a dangerous de¬ 
gree. Those who go into this order need 
the vital facts thoroughly impressed on 
the mind, and although some may call it 
tedious and even silly, take stock of their 
judgment generally and draw conclusions 
from experience. Tastes differ, but this 
matter is not a point of view. It is the 
sacred work of that dear Brother Oliver 
Kelley, who has now crossed the “Great 
Divide,” but left a heritage through his 
keen foresight, actuated by the dire condi¬ 
tions prevailing at close of the Rebellion 
and his deliberations on the causes at 
hand culminated in the organization of the 
Grange in 1867. Blessed be his memory 
and that of his companion, who saw the 
eternal fitness of making the terms of 
equality in our order, regardless of sox. I 
have heard harsh criticisms on the “foolish¬ 
ness of the lecture hour!" What can we 
draw from this? Simply that lack of 
culture which the unfortunate brother or 
sister missed in early training. Sad to 
say, you will find this type of critic on the 
back row, and never participating in the 
literary work, and though not conscious 
of the real motive, it is a product of loss 
in earlier years, manifesting in a sort of 
unconsciousness that they feel against 
those more favored by parents who saw to 
it that the young girl and boy did their 
allotted part in the good old district school 
literary work. We are told in the Declara¬ 
tion of Principles what this lecture hour 
means to the members. Its influence is 
the paramount issue in educational work 
of the Order, and gives those a chance for 
development who missed the golden oppor¬ 
tunities in early life. I have heard those 
older members who participate in all the 
literary work, criticized and denounced for 
doing so because they are—old ! People 
of 50 or less whose whole soul responds to 
the call, and just naturally keep up the 
spirit of literary work, began in early 
childhood. It is not often you hear this, 
but it has happened and may happen again. 
I just mention the incidents to show how 
the whole thing could be cut to pieces once 
we begin to alter the work as given us in 
1867. 
Brother T. M. Ellis voices the sentiments 
of a majority, I should say, who want the 
work left intact. “The survival of the fit¬ 
test” is demonstrated in every Grange, 
Those who cannot grasp it naturally fall 
out, though it is a matter of splitting of 
opinion in families to some extent, when 
Its members are not on the same plane of 
development. 
I have absorbed “The Child”— a book 
of sterling worth—-which handles the mid¬ 
dleman question in a manner well worth 
making a study of by our State Grange. 
Wisconsin Seed Distribution. 
As soon as the ice clears out of Sturgeon 
Bay, Wisconsin, a very interesting proceed¬ 
ing is to take place along the shores of 
the bay, calculated greatly to interest the 
farmers of Door County. Last Summer 
a disastrous storm broke over Liberty 
Township and destroyed the crops to such 
an extent that some of thg farmers were 
all but left in want. In this incident the 
county board of Door County substantially 
has shown its magnanimity. It has bought 
and will distribute among these farmers 
1,250 bushels of seed, 38 bushels of barley, 
914 bushels of oats, 44 bushels of corn, 
50 bushels of wheat, 192 bushels of field, 
marrowfat and Scotch peas, two bushels 
of beans ,and 10 bushels of Timothy seed. 
This distribution will be made by means 
of a steamboat which will run up and 
down the shores, leaving each man his por¬ 
tion. Some of the sufferers got four and 
five different kinds of seed, the distribution 
being made with the greatest care and with 
equal justice to all. 
Here is an instance in which the milk 
of human kindness is found to be flowing 
in the land. Door County is one of the 
most interesting counties of the Badger 
domain. It is a narrow strip of laud 
lying between Lake Michigan and Green 
Bay, destined in the near future to be¬ 
come one of the most prolific fruit sec¬ 
tions In the country. It is reached by 
a line of the Chicago & Northwestern 
Railway. j. l. oraff. 
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