1913. 
S96 
THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
TUBERCULOSIS TALKS BY WHEEL. 
The picture of Fig. 330 shows an out¬ 
fit used by the Wisconsin Anti-Tubercu¬ 
losis Association, in its campaign against 
consumption. Most of the work in fight¬ 
ing this disease has been done in the 
large towns and cities. In Wisconsin 
one-half the population is rural. There¬ 
fore it was thought necessary to conduct 
the battle out in the open. One way of 
doing this is through an educational cam¬ 
paign. Two men, a lecturer and his as¬ 
sistant, travel on a motorcycle through 
the country, taking a complete camping 
outfit along with them. They give 
free talks and demonstrations wherever 
they can assemble a crowd. The evening 
lectures are generally given in a small 
village or community center, but during 
the day the motorcycle speeds through 
the country neighborhood with the two 
men putting up signs, distributing litera¬ 
ture, and talking to farmers wherever 
they may be found. A stereopticon ma¬ 
chine and a tent, with light bedclothes 
and cooking utensils can all be carried 
on the motorcycle along with the men, 
profit. At the time Trucker, Sr., was 
getting started, ordinary truck crops 
were selling low, and he had little capi¬ 
tal to secure the fertilizer and extra help 
which truck requires; rye was one of 
the most profitable crops that he could 
grow. But it has outrun its usefulness; 
we with our few acres and antiquated 
methods of handling it cannot compete 
with Western machine-grown and har¬ 
vested grain. 
Thursday morning Trucker, Jr., with 
Teddy hitched to the cultivator started 
in the asparagus bods, which we stopped 
cutting June 27. Teddy took him over 
six acres during the day, going twice to 
the middle. Asparagus is about the only 
crop that such a fast walker as Teddy 
can be used to advantage in, as he goes 
too fast for crops like poppers and egg¬ 
plants where the cultivator is worked 
in and out between the hills. Tony, Joe 
and Arnold used the scalpers in the 
newly-set berry bed in the morning. 
George got the double crop of onions and 
tomatoes hoed and started with the 
scalper for the berries. Trucker, Sr., 
the 
MOTORCYCLE IN A TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN. 
Fig. 330. 
and every effort is made to get down 
close to the country people and talk tu¬ 
berculosis in their own language. 
FARM DRAMA. 
Part II. 
Wednesday morning Trucker, Sr., and 
Jr., finished planting that potato patch; 
but not until they had bought a basket 
of potatoes and two bags of fertilizer 
from the neighbors. Trucker, Sr., in 
calculating, had forgotten that the Ital¬ 
ians might make a slip now and then 
and leave two eyes on one seed piece, 
and that fertilizer drills sometimes allow 
a few ounces more of fertilizer to rim 
out than they are set for. They used 
4,300 pounds of a 3.3-7-10 fertilizer 
on the six-acre plot. Joe, Tony and 
Arnold picked the peppers, for the first 
time, while the Scribe crated and bas¬ 
keted them. Wednesday was about the 
hottest day on record, and Arnold, as he 
eaine up with the baskets of peppers with 
the sweat dripping from the end of his 
nose, said that he must have sprung a 
leak, and took a long draught to fill up 
from a bucket of cool water which we 
kept handy. We got 25 crates and two 
baskets. These, together with 25 baskets 
of string beans, 15 baskets of squashes 
and six baskets of cabbage, made a fair 
marketing, even though this is about the 
slackest time, in the marketing of pro¬ 
duce, which the trucker passes through 
from the time asparagus shoots through 
the ground in the Spring until the last 
hill of sweet potatoes is dug in the Fall. 
It is well that we crated the bulk of the 
peppers, for in New York they netted 
about 90 cents per crate, while the bas¬ 
kets sold in Chester netted 51 cents. A 
crate hold l]/ 3 baskets. In the afternoon 
Arnold, with Joe and Teddy, hitched to 
the hay shelvings and Tony and Joe, 
equipped with forks, started for the rye 
field and hauled the rye, which had been 
cut and shocked the week previous, to 
the barn where, with Trucker, Sr., driv¬ 
ing the team, they unloaded it with the 
hay fork in quick time. 
This is a crop that we have clung to 
like an old horse that has lost its use- 
Lilness; it is a crop that must go from 
the Eastern truck farm; it robs the 
ground of more fertility than several 
crops of tomatoes and returns much leas 
went into town in the morning and 
brought home a new mowing machine so 
as to be ready for that grass. Arnold, 
with Tony and Joe, hauled in the rest 
of the rye in the afternoon. There were 
seven loads in all. The Scribe finished 
cultivating the tomatoes, going but 
once to the middle and opening or clos¬ 
ing the harrow according to how nearly 
the vines closed the middles. lie then 
cultivated the cucumbers and strawber¬ 
ries, both those newly set and a one- 
year-old bed which Nicholas and Lucy 
are cleaning up at 50 cents per row. 
Nicholas had made a poor bargain, and 
he said to the Scribe as he went up and 
down each middle four time with the 
cultivator: “Tell de boss, I worke hard 
—no run for water, no do nothing but 
pull grass—to make dollar day.” At 
night to make sure that the boss heard 
it he told Trucker, Sr., himself and had 
the satisfaction of hearing him say that 
he would make it all right with him. 
Friday—July the Fourth—Mrs. Truck¬ 
er, Sr., was the hardest worker of the 
day. She had invited relatives, includ¬ 
ing Trucker, Jr., and wife to take dinner 
with her. In the morning George made 
two cans of ice cream and Tony, who 
didn’t care to go away, chopped weeds 
out of the asparagus. Trucker, Jr., and 
the Scribe worked up an appetite among 
the bees. There were Italian queens to 
substitute for the poor hybrid queens, 
and they had to be given more room for 
the button-bush honey flow, which is now 
on. As it was Friday, Nicholas and 
Lucy picked the tomatoes, getting 19 
baskets which Trucker, Sr., took to the 
Chester boat in the afternoon. 
Saturday: Too much Fourth for 
Joe and Arnold. They did not report 
for work. Tony says: “Joe no good, 
come home sick, money none, no noth¬ 
ings.” Trucker, Sr., with Tony and 
George to turn the vines or open up the 
middles “laid by” or gave the water¬ 
melons the last cultivation. As the mid¬ 
dles were opened he went five times with 
the cultivator to each one, then the vines 
were turned back into the middles, which 
were harrowed first and the alternating 
middles were cultivated. George and Tony 
scalped the grass from about the hills as 
they turned the vines. The Scribe cul¬ 
tivated the eggplants again, going the 
opposite way to that which he went on 
Monday. There are some eggplants 
nearly large enough to pick and several 
as large as eggs. After cultivating the 
eggplants, he cultivated the new bed of 
asparagus after setting the harrow to 
run deeper than it did in the eggplants, 
for asparagus is a deep-rooted plant. 
Trucker, Jr., with Prince and Mike 
hitched to the new mowing machine, 
mowed four acres in four hours during 
the morning. He told Trucker, Sr., that 
there would be 10 loads on the four 
acres. We will see how near right he is 
when we haul it on Monday. In the 
afternoon he took Trucker, Sr.’s, place 
laying by the melons, and the latter pre¬ 
pared a Sunday dinner of arsenate of 
lead for the young potato bugs which 
•were helping themselves to the eggplants; 
but I fear a shower which came up just 
as he had finished spraying them will 
save many of the bugs the trouble of 
dying. But even if they do have to be 
sprayed over again we have the work, 
with the exception of a half day’s culti¬ 
vating and a little hoeing, pretty well 
squared up so as to be ready for the hay 
next week. the scribe. 
Experience in Home Canning. —We 
are considering a home canning outfit 
costing about $200, and would like to 
hear from those who would advise us not 
to invest. What troubles might we ex¬ 
pect? Main crop is apples, with some 
peaches, pears and vegetables, c. e. l. 
Mesilla, N. M. 
Securing Box Trap. —Apropos of the 
box trap illustrated in the R. N.-Y. some¬ 
time ago, I would say that unless suffi¬ 
ciently large, some animals will raise 
the lid and escape. The writer, when 
a boy, used to prevent this by a figure- 
four spring made out of old hoop iron 
and nailed to the side of the trap at 
the bottom, near the front end, and it 
always worked well. w. a. b. 
Iron Roofing. —In reply to D. W. H. 
of Pennsylvania I will give some infor¬ 
mation on the lasting qualities of a 
metal roof. Twenty years ago a relative 
of mine bought a house in this city 
that has a roof of corrugated sheet iron. 
Up to date it did not require any repairs, 
but it has been painted a number of 
times, and it is now still in a fair con¬ 
dition. I would advise a coat of paint 
on a metal roof at least every two years, 
otherwise the metal soon corrodes. 
Newark, N. J. i. e. l. 
Moth-Balls in the Garden. —Last 
Summer I wrote you about a friend who 
had Pekin ducks, that ran away daily 
to her neighbor who had a large plot 
of cucumbers, and they kept that plot 
-free from beetles. Two years ago I tried 
napthaline flakes to keep flea beetles in 
check and with good success; this was 
original with me. This year I used 
the same material chemically only in 
the form of moth-balls, because the flakes 
evaporate too rapidly, and I carried my 
trials still farther, using the moth-balls 
to keep in check the cucumber beetle and 
squash bug as well as flea beetles. Suc¬ 
cess? Wonderful! Not a beetle, bug 
and moth has been seen in my garden. 
My neighbor’s vines are devoured with 
all of the above and they are using all 
the old remedies. I keep half a dozen 
moth-balls around each plant and re¬ 
new as they dissolve. You can smell 
them a long way off. h. d. d. 
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