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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 12, 
STARTING ON AN OHIO FARM. 
8. IF., Geneva, O .—I have purchased 
an Sl-acre farm, 30 acres woods, remainder 
Dunkirk loam and 15 acres of clay. The 
farm was at one time the best in the 
county, but has been neglected. I know 
nothing of farming in general. I bought 
the farm to raise special crops, but that 
will only require two or three acres and I 
wish to bring the farm up to a good stand¬ 
ard. Can you furnish me with a list of 
books that will let me start at the be¬ 
ginning and work up? I can and have read 
scientific works enough on the soil, but I 
want something that will give me a practical 
idea of what to do and how to do it. It 
is the same trouble 1 find in feeding my 
cows. The “hired man” talks corn, oats, 
gluten, cotton-seed meal and hay. Were I 
to talk of carbohydrates, fats, and proteids 
he would think it: Sanskrit. What I need 
is 10 years’ work as a farm hand first, and 
then my medical course would have worked 
in, but as I did not have the farm work 
I would be glad to have what books I can 
fill in with. Where do 1 send samples of 
soil for analysis? 
A ns. —You will gain much and have 
an opportunity to give much if you iden¬ 
tify yourself with agriculture by joining 
some of the various State agricultural 
associations, dairy association, breeders’ 
associations, horticultural society, etc. 
On the 84-acre farm the first thing is 
to determine definitely the line of farm¬ 
ing to be followed. From the reference 
to the cows I assume that dairying has 
already been chosen. Common dairying, 
wholesaling milk, does not at present 
promise anything great. Better lay the 
foundation for a herd of purcbreds. The 
net returns from the dairy product will 
be larger, and the increase of the herd 
will be many times more valuable. 
A little more in detail as to manage¬ 
ment. Counting out the 30 acres wood¬ 
land and land for special crops leaves 
only 50 acres for the dairy. If Summer 
pasturing is to be followed, 25 acres must 
be devoted to pasture; this leaves 25 
acres for farming. If this is wet, if it 
hokls water, if a hole dug in a wet time 
stands full or nearly so of water even 
for a short time, drainage is the first 
thing to consider. Undraincd land is the 
cause of countless failures. Lack of 
drainage will defeat any amount of 
otherwise good farming. If drainage is 
necessary it will pay to do thorough 
work. 
It is likely on this old farm that an 
application of lime will be needed to 
sweeten the soil and make it friendly to 
clover. If clover is a sure and satisfac¬ 
tory crop, do not bother with lime. If 
tie practical value. It will be far better 
to begin a series of fertilizer experi¬ 
ments, using nitrogen, phosphoric acid 
and potash alone and in combination on 
small plots, and watching very carefully 
the results. You will gain a knowledge 
of your soil and its requirements faster 
in this way than in any other. You will 
soon become a fertilizer expert, and will 
have entered a field of intensely inter¬ 
esting and exceedingly profitable investi¬ 
gation. 
I would take a small piece of ground 
and make Alfalfa grow upon it. It will 
require thorough drainage, plenty of 
lime, a good supply of plant food, a soil 
free from weeds, and inoculation with 
soil from an old Alfalfa field, but if 
you can succeed, and you can, it will be 
worth many times Its cost. Alfalfa hay 
and corn silage make a great combina¬ 
tion in the dairy. 
Send to the State Experiment Station 
and get one of the station staff to visit 
you and give you expert advice as to 
the handling of the woodlot. It may be 
one of the most valuable assets of the 
farm. f. l. allen. 
Visitor —“Can you read the past?” 
Fortune Teller—“Certainly—That’s my 
business.” “Then I wish you’d tell me 
what it was my wife told me to get for 
her !”—Modern Society. 
PYPI pUC Ornamental Fences and Gates 
V I ULUIIE. are adapted to steel or wood 
post construction. Got a 1910 Catalogue show¬ 
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it is uncertain and weak apply one ton 
of caustic lime or two tons ground lime¬ 
stone to the acre. Now you are ready to 
grow crops. Let me suggest a three-year 
notation—corn, wheat and clover, corn 
to be siloed. Eight acres of silage corn 
and eight acres of clover ought to fur¬ 
nish all the roughage needed to winter 
12 head of cows and the other necessary 
farm stock, and have enough silage left 
to supplement the Summer pasture. 
Wheat is not especially valuable in the 
dairy, but you will need the straw, and 
if wheat is sown immediately after the 
corn is removed, and clover sown in the 
wheat, the land is kept full of living 
roots—a consideration to be desired 
from the fertility side of the question. 
And again, with this rotation, one plow¬ 
ing is all that is necessary in the rota¬ 
tion. Of course you will understand that 
corn silage and clover hay do not make 
a milk ration—only a foundation for one. 
These feeds must be balanced up and 
supplemented with purchased protein, oil 
meal, cotton-seed meal, gluten meal, etc. 
Buy a manure spreader and apply all 
stable waste to the clover field. In the 
writer's experience it has always given 
best results applied fresh to the new 
seeded clover, beginning as soon as the 
nurse crop was out of the way, and ap¬ 
plying it fresh at the rate of 6-8 loads 
per acre as fast as available until the 
field is covered. 
Better give up the idea of soil analy¬ 
sis. The chemist can tell approximately 
the amount of plant food the soil con¬ 
tains, but he oannot tell its availability, 
therefore his information will he of lit- 
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Dibble’s Moneymaker 
the best long white potato ever introduced, out- 
yielding such old standard sorts as Burbank, White 
Star, etc., 2-1. 
Dibble’s Moneymaker 
holds the world’s record as the heaviest yielding 
long potato on earth, producing for S. Nelson, of 
Rensselaer County, N. Y., the largest yield ever 
grown from one peck of seed. 
Paris Andrews, of Wyoming County, N. Y., grow 
the largost yield of potatoes overproduced from a 
bushol of potatoes, with common field culture, and 
on our own fields we have had an entire crop aver¬ 
age 137 bushels from each barrel planted. Scores 
of our customers from New York, New England, 
New Jersey and Pennsylvania have reported that 
our Moneymakers have given them the host crops 
ever grown on their farms, outyielding other old 
standard sorts 2-1. 
The Moneymaker is long to oblong in shape, 
slightly flattened, pure white, and of splendid qual¬ 
ity either baked or boiled. It is a quick grower, 
with strong, healthy foliage, and has never blightod 
with us. This is the first season since we intro¬ 
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to go round, but now we have a good stock on hand; 
and to introduce them into now sections, offer 
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plant an acre, which should grow with ordinary 
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Full description of the Moneymaker and tho other 
three varieties of our introduction that have been 
pronounced the “BEST IN THE WORLD” 
by over 200 of our customers who have grown them, 
will be found in our 1910 Catalogue, the lending 
Farm Seed Book of the year. It is 1' HIiE. Send 
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ED W All I) F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower, 
Honeoye Falls, N.Y. Box B. 
Repaint Before 
Decay Begins 
HE time to repaint is before the old coat 
has worn off. To delay is to invite dam¬ 
age by the weather. Then the money 
apparently saved by not painting may 
have to be spent for repairs. After that 
the painting has to be done in addition. 
This can hardly he called economy. 
<5 But to keep buildings always well painted 
with good paint is true economy, for good paint both beautifies 
and protects. 
<| The only way to get quality in paint is to use pure white 
lead (“Dutch Boy Painter” trade mark) mixed with pure 
linseed oil. These two materials form a perfect union, and 
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€J Paint made of substitutes for pure white lead soon cracks, 
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wood. Then the poor paint must be scraped off before a new 
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