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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 7, 
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E. Frank Coe Fertilizers 
1QI-7 THE BUSINESS FARMERS’ STANDARD IQIO 
iOO/ FOR OVER FIFTY-FIVE YEARS _ 
Do You Raise 300 Bushels of Potatoes per Acre? 
HREE hundred bushels per acre is 
not an unusual yield by any means, 
but did you get it this year ? 
•JIf you were planning to raise 300 
bushels of potatoes to the acre how 
far apart would you space your rows? 
How iar apart would you drop the seed pieces in 
the row? 
CjHow much fertilizer would you use to grow 300 
bushels of potatoes per acre? How would you 
apply it? 
€|Are you sure that your seed potatoes are true to 
name and true to type? 
<][What are you doing to prevent “ scab ” and early 
and late blight ? 
CfDid you have a short crop of potatoes because of 
dry weather? Have you decided how you will 
overcome this trouble in the future? 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Four years ago I bought from a certain 
nursery some Elberta peach and Bald¬ 
win apple trees. The peach trees proved 
true to name, while the apples are of a 
sweet variety. There were full-grown 
trees of sweet apples on the piece of laud, 
for which I bought these trees, but as 
they were of no value to me except for 
pig or poultry food, I chopped them down 
to replant them with Baldwins; now 
after spending money, labor and time, I 
find that I have again sweet apples only 
of a different variety. The nursery to 
whom I send some of these apples pro¬ 
nounced them a Grimes Golden, while 
our agricultural college, to whom I also 
sent a package, name them as a Tolman 
Sweet. I have tried to dispose of the 
apples, but as I expected, could do noth¬ 
ing with them. These trees are on the 
best piece of land on my farm, as the 
ground is constantly heavily covered 
with poultry. It lias been my intention 
to dig out these trees and try .-Tain 
for Baldwins, but a friend has advised 
me to graft them to Baldwins instead. 
What would you advise me on the mat¬ 
ter? F. M. LIN’SLEK. 
Massachusetts. 
From our experience here I would 
have these trees grafted to Baldwin. 
Unless you know how to do this work 
well you would far better employ some 
expert grafter. lie will know how to 
shape these trees properly and he can 
make sure of his scions. This stock may 
not prove the best for Baldwin, but we 
should try it. You have a taste of the 
bitter pill which nurserymen hand out 
in a “misfit” tree. When you want 
standard apples like Baldwin the sweeter 
the fruit they do send you the worse the 
dose you must swallow. Personally we 
have had but few misfits. Many small 
orders that we have noticed turned out 
to be the most outrageous mixtures that 
the human mind could well consider. 
Do you think it advisable for a man 65 
years old to set out fruit trees next 
Spring, with the idea of getting any ben¬ 
efit for himself, say apples, peaches, 
plums, etc., where lie obliged to hire 
them set out? I work in the shop now, 
but bought a small piece of land with the 
intention of living on it in two or three 
years. L. F. H. 
Massachusetts. 
This is the problem which comes up 
to many a man in late middle life. Per¬ 
sonally I intend to keep on planting trees 
year after year—if I live to be 100. A 
man of 65 in reasonably good health may 
well expect to live to obtain fruit from 
peach and plum, and from such apples 
as Wealthy, McIntosh, Transparent or 
Black Ben. With such as Baldwin or 
Spy he might not live to see large crops, 
but there is another and better value for 
him than the sale of the fruit. If such a 
man can come to enjoy seeing the trees 
grow and to love them as the true fruit 
grower does he will find this the most 
beautiful part of life and his later years 
will pass gently on into a serene and 
hopeful old age. I have seen many old 
men who were never taught during their 
youth to love trees, and who had no time 
to learn during their busy life. When 
age took away the old forms of interest 
and enjoyment they had nothing to in¬ 
terest them. The care of a young or¬ 
chard might have made their declining 
years the golden age of life. I would by 
all means plant the trees and spend as 
much time as possible in their care. 
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I have a small farm and am buying 
tools. I would like to make one harrow 
do till purposes. Considering a peg-tooth 
with tilting teeth, a spring tooth, an or¬ 
dinary disk, a “cutaway” disk, which 
one of the above would you recommend, 
or should I need two kinds? F. E. w. 
I think every farm should if possible 
carry two distiuct types of harrow—oue 
to rip up or dig. the other to level and 
smooth. A digging or turning harrow 
following the plow will loosen the soil 
and help fit it. Then the smoothing har¬ 
row should follow and prepare the seed 
bed. The peg-tooth harrow is good for 
fitting the surface. I have seen land 
well fitted by plowing and then smooth¬ 
ing down with peg-tooth, but oven in such 
cases the soil would be better for a deep 
stirring before the smoothing harrow 
was used. For stony ground—especially 
where the stoues are round—the spring- 
tooth is best. This digs and jerks through 
the soil, ripping and tearing the furrows 
apart and dodging around the stones. For 
smoothing land we like the cutaway bet¬ 
ter. It digs deeper and throws or tosses 
up the soil better than the spring-tooth. 
If limited to one harrow I would take 
j the peg-tootli. 
I have just bought a Jersey cow and 
calf about five weeks old. I shall have 
to buy all my feed for both cow and calf. 
Will you advise what you would buy, how 
much to feed, when feed and how feed 
to both? t. D. s. 
Millington, N. J. 
We are feeding two cows and a yearl¬ 
ing heifer this Winter. For roughage 
they have dry cornstalks—a flint variety 
with slender stalks. They each have a 
peck or more of chopped mangels per day. 
For grain, we mix equal parts of wheat 
bran, middlings and cornmeal with a 
good handful of linseed or cottonseed 
meal. The general rule is to feed one 
pound of grain for each two pounds of 
milk. This is very cheap wintering, as 
the stalks are practically a waste product. 
If I were buying I should try to obtain 
some dry stalks of good quality and also 
bay containing as much clover or Alfalfa 
as possible. For best economy the stalks 
may be cut up and steamed by putting 
them in a barrel and pouring in hot 
water. For the grain of one cow I think 
our mixture would answer. For the calf 
I should buy one of the prepared milk 
substitutes and feed it according to direc¬ 
tions with skim-milk, and keep a little 
box of bran and oats before the calf. 
Mind you, this is for one calf only—not 
for a large herd. 
My land needs lime, potash and acid 
phosphate. Will it he all right if I mix 
all three together, spread on plowed 
ground and harrow it in? e. r. ii. 
Maine. 
No, do not mix the lime with potash 
and phosphate. Far better spread the 
lime after plowing and harrow in. and 
then use the potash and phosphate separ¬ 
ately. The action of the lime is much 
like a medicine for the soil, while the 
potash and phosphate represent food. 
There is no good reason for mixing them. 
Will you ask the Hope Farm man 
what he knows about the following clip¬ 
ping. especially the mouse story? 
“A mouse, as timid as the rest of his 
kind, went frisking around a cellar and 
came to a pool made by a leak from a 
whiskey barrel. lie drank a little from 
the pool and went away. Then he came 
back and drank a little more. He came 
back and forth a half dozen times. The 
last time he reared up on his haunches, 
and said: “Now show me that cat.”— 
Exchange.” g. A. M. 
Michigan. 
From actual experience I know noth¬ 
ing about the condition in which this 
mouse found himself. A whiskey exalta¬ 
tion may be a glorious thing while it 
lasts, but it is mighty humiliating when 
it passes and the victim realizes what it 
fool he has made of himself. I worked 
in a printing office once with a little 
sniff of a man who was jealous of a big 
fellow. One day this little man came to 
me in about the condition of this mouse. 
“Oh!” he said, “If I only had that big 
brute here I’d take him out and wipe 
the sidewalk with him!” There was a 
lot more to it, but the next day he came 
back and said, “Be careful not to let 
Frank know what I said—ho might think 
I was talking instead of the whiskey !” I 
find the world well filled with blowhards 
who are like this mouse. It is not al¬ 
ways whiskey, but often the gas of their 
own conceit which gets into their heads. 
While the spell is on they are going to 
do wonderful things. Sometimes it is 
a back-to-the-lander going to show “these 
old farmers” how to do it. Sometimes it 
is a fresh young hired man, or clerk or 
college graduate who has lapped at the 
spring of conceit and wants to see “that 
cat.” The cat is named experience, and 
after she lias put a few claws into the 
mouse—it is either a very much wiser 
and better mouse, or “there ain’t no 
mouse.” ii. w. c. 
Labels on Nursery Trees. 
In my comments on desirable nursery 
tree legislation on page 47, inadvertantly 
I said we want those identifying labels 
on every nursery tree sold in the State 
of New York. I meant that every tree 
should bear means of such identification, 
for which the labeling of each bundle 
would be quite sufficient. I hasten t<> 
correct this because the original bill did 
provide for a label on every tree—an un¬ 
necessary burden eliminated at the sug¬ 
gestion of the legislative committee of 
N. Y. S. F. A. DATU8 C. SMITH. 
The label on each bundle is enough. 
That should he accepted as identifying 
the variety. We should not ask or ex¬ 
pect impossible conditions. Yet the buyer 
and planter has certain rights, and there 
is no reason why he should suffer all the 
loss in case of a nurseryman's blunder. 
