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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Juue 20, 
LATE-PLANTED TELEPHONE PEAS. 
ECENTLY a reader in Maine related 
his plan of planting Telephone peas 
late in the season, so as to obtain 
a succession of peas through the Summer 
and Fall. Usually late-planted peas fail, 
and this statement about Telephone has 
aroused much interest. Here are a few 
comments: 
If anyone in this climate has said any¬ 
thing of the sort about the Telephone or 
any other English pea I would have said 
at once that he was mistaken. But what 
may be done in the Maine climate is an¬ 
other thing, and I cannot undertake to 
contradict it. I can plant peas here in 
August and have them bear till frost, but 
it is not a continuous bearing, for the 
one crop will just about bring them to 
frost. Just now is about as late as we 
can get any pea to make a single crop 
here, that is planted the middle of April. 
But by planting in deep open furrows 
in August and working the soil to them, 
we can make a Fall crop. Planted in 
July I do not think that here we could 
make any crop at all. We must wait till 
the nights get longer and cooler. I plant 
Premium Gem and other wrinkled peas 
in August, and seldom fail to make a 
crop, but only the same one picking that 
we get from planting in February. 
Maryland. w. F. massey. 
We never plant wrinkled peas as early 
in the season as we do the round peas, 
because we find the wrinkled pea much 
more likely to decay in cold wet soil than 
the round sorts. We have never tried the 
Telephone pea planted in July three or 
four inches deep, as is the practice of 
your Maine reader, but I have seen the 
Gradus planted under much the same 
conditions, and it failed to stand the in¬ 
tense heat which almost always comes in 
August. Perhaps the Telephone could 
stand more heat, hut I rather doubt the 
practicability of such late planting for 
our part of the State. trugker, jr. 
New Jersey. 
While I have not personal knowledge 
of the fact, yet I should not doubt the 
statement of your correspondent as to his 
success in late planting of garden peas 
of the Telephone type. While the peas 
would mildew here, yet in cooler climates 
like England, and I think also in Maine, 
they would continue to produce pods 
throughout the season until killed by 
frost. w. atlee BURPEE. 
It has not been our experience that 
late planting of Telephone peas will give 
a continuous crop or result as described 
in your letter. We suspect that your cor¬ 
respondent in Maine has drawn a general 
conclusion from a specific incident. 
U. M. FERRY & CO. 
The Telephone is one of several va¬ 
rieties of tall growing, wrinkled peas, and 
usually should be planted slightly later 
in the Spring than is the case with such 
varieties as Alaska. Under New York 
conditions, however, the plants do not 
succeed when planted late, becoming 
stunted and subject to mildew and are 
under such conditions unproductive. It 
is very unusual to have this variety suc¬ 
ceed well when planted late. 
Geneva, N. Y. o. m. taylor. 
Harrowing to Beat the Crows. 
I HAVE noticed the discussion in your 
paper of the various ways of prevent¬ 
ing crows from digging up seeded 
corn. For the past three years I have 
harrowed the field, with a spike-tooth 
harrow, with the teeth set well back, im¬ 
mediately after planting. This does not 
displace any of the corn, contrary to the 
predictions of my neighbors. I do not 
believe the crows have found a single 
hill after the harrowing until the corn 
plants have shown up above the ground. 
I plant the corn from four to five inches 
deep, and keep the harrows going over it 
about twice a week, or oftener if there 
are showers. This keeps about a three- 
inch mulch on the surface, makes it easy 
for the corn to come up and practically 
eliminates all the weeds. This deep 
planting makes the corn three to four 
days later in coming up; but by that time 
it is so firmly rooted and the substance 
of the kernel so fully consumed by the 
growing plant, that the crows do not ap¬ 
parently find it worth while to pull more 
than a very few hills. East year, as near 
as I can estimate, there were 40 hills 
missing in 11 acres, or less than one in 
a thousand. The labor of early harrow¬ 
ing is many times repaid by the saving of 
cultivation and hand hoeing later in the 
season, not to mention the conservation 
of the moisture. w. A. w. 
Hurley, N. Y. 
“Sewage Disposal for Country Homes." 
A BULLETIN of special interest to those 
confronted with the problem of 
sewage disposal in rural homes has 
just been issued as No. 5!) of the Cornell 
Reading Course for farmers. This bulle¬ 
tin describes in detail the construction 
of modern septic tanks and also gives 
plans for building earth closets, sanitary 
privies, and chemical tanks. It is es¬ 
pecially complete in its description of 
septic tanks, giving considerable space 
the principles of their construction and 
rules for locating and laying the neces¬ 
sary system of purifying tile. This bul¬ 
letin may be obtained by any resident of 
New Y'ork State by addressing the Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture, Department of Rural 
Engineering, Ithaca, N. Y. M. b. d. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.— The tornado which 
swept across northwestern Iowa, 
June 6, killed seven persons and in¬ 
jured a dozen, some seriously. Property 
damage in Sanborn is estimated at $150,- 
000. Two elevators, the city tower, the 
electric light plant and a lumber yard 
were swept away. 
Snow fell at Boise, Idaho, June 0, the 
first ever recorded by the Weather Bu¬ 
reau for June in its 50 years of opera¬ 
tion there. In addition to this phenom¬ 
enon the day was the coldest on record 
for June, and the mean temperature was 
the same as was recorded on January 5. 
Fire in the North Burns Block, in 
North Street, Pittsfield, Mass.. June 7, 
spread to several other buildings and 
caused a loss estimated at $150,000. 
Fire trapped 100 persons in the tene¬ 
ment at 90 Essex Street, New York, 
June 10. Eight are dead and seven in 
Gouverneur Hospital were recovering. 
Others were hurt less seriously. The 
blaze started in rubbish in a closet under 
the Moor stairs. 
During a gale which swept Chaleurs 
Bay, between New Brunswick and the 
Gaspe coast of Quebec, June 4-5. it is 
believed that between 100 and 125 lives 
were lost during the two days. The 
victims were fishermen, and a particu¬ 
larly sad feature of the tragedy is that 
in most cases more than one member of a 
family was taken. The Chaleurs Bay 
fishermen ply their craft in families, the 
father owning the boat and his sons 
sailing with him as assistants. The 250 
fishing boats sheltered in the Gaspe har¬ 
bor were destroyed, being torn from their 
anchors and dashed to pieces on the 
rocks. The loss to the fishing boats and 
to buildings wrecked along the shore will 
exceed $500,000. The boats were nearly 
all equipped with motors and these with 
all the fishing tackle were destroyed. 
This means a terrible loss to the Gaspe 
population, which largely subsists by 
fishing. The steamship Canada of the 
Gaspe line nearly foundered in the bay 
and was so badly damaged that she will 
have to be dry docked. There was a 
heavy snowfall all along the Gaspe coast. 
Ice an inch thick formed in ponds and 
snow had to be shovelled from the line 
of the Gaspe railway at several places. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The annual 
meeting and show of the American Peony 
Society was held at the Art Institute, 
Chicago, June 9-10. 
The twelfth annual convention of the 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen 
was held at Vancouver, B. C., June 16- 
18. 1914. 
The Summer Meeting of the Virginia 
State Horticultural Society will be held 
at the University of Virginia, Charlottes¬ 
ville. Va., on Wednesday, July 15, in 
connection with the Rural Life Confer¬ 
ence of the University Summer School. 
The Adams Express Company has 
opened a food products bureau in Phila¬ 
delphia to bring producer and consumer 
together. The company will become a 
clearing house for excess production, dis¬ 
posing of fruits, berries, butter, eggs, 
poultry, fish, meats and other food arti¬ 
cles at a minimum of expense to seller 
and buyer. The company is responsible 
to both, delivering the commodities to the 
buyer’s door and the money to the seller 
without any intervening agency. The 
rate on the class of merchandise for 
which the bureau has been designed is 
25 per cent, below the commercial rate 
fixed by the Interstate Commerce Com-' 
mission and is no higher than parcel post 
charges. 
Shower baths for hogs and other live 
stock in transit is one of the Summer 
innovations announced by the Baltimore 
and Ohio Railroad to add to the comfort 
of Summer travel. The baths will be 
provided at terminals and at resting sta¬ 
tions when the animals are fed and 
watered. One of the purposes of the 
baths is to increase the road’s dining car 
business by mitigating the odors wafted 
into passenger cars from cattle trains. 
A party of 52 farmers, under the lead¬ 
ership of Johannes Adriaan Noser, mem¬ 
ber for Potehefstroom in the parliament 
of the Union of South Africa, left Cape 
Town. June 6. for England on their way 
to America, where they are to make a 
tour of investigation of agricultural 
methods. 
In connection with the Summer school 
of agriculture at the Massachusetts. Agri¬ 
cultural College. Amherst, June 20 to 
.July 28. is a school for rural social ser¬ 
vice starting July 15. 
The School for Leadership in Rural 
Life will be held at Cornell University, 
Ithaca. N. Y., June 22-July 3. Within 
the scope of the School are included 
courses in principles of rural sociology, 
social function of rural institutions, ru¬ 
ral social engineering, the rural mind, 
rural personal ideals, applied rural psy¬ 
chology, principles of leadership, study 
of the individual, social organization, 
principles of rural economy, survey of 
rural economic conditions, cooperation, 
rural health and hygiene, rural recrea¬ 
tion. psychology of the country girl, 
group organization for girls’ work, rural 
social survey, extension teaching in agri¬ 
culture—eighteen distinct courses in all, 
covering the whole general field of rural 
social science. The regular class work 
will occupy all of the morning periods. 
The afternoons will be given over to 
demonstrations, conferences, and pas¬ 
times. and the evenings to programs that 
combine educational and entertainment 
features. The lectures and demonstra¬ 
tions will be supplemented by a carefully 
selected and arranged country-life exhibit. 
Complete program of the school, includ¬ 
ing detailed descriptions of the courses, 
may be had on application to the secre¬ 
tary. A. R. Mann, College of Agriculture, 
Ithaca, New York. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Massachusetts State Board of Agri¬ 
culture. Annual Summer Field Meeting, 
Hood Farm, Lowell, Mass., June 24. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland. Ohio. June 24-26. 
Certified Milk Producers’ Association 
of America seventh annual convention, 
Copley-Plaza Hotel, Boston, Mass., 
June 25-26. 
School for Leadership in Country Life, 
New York State College of Agriculture, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 
June 22 to July 3, 1914. 
Summer meeting, Virginia State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Charlottesville, Va., 
July 15. 
Summer school of agriculture and 
country life. Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, Amherst. June 30-July 28. 
Annual Poultrymen’s convention, 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, Am¬ 
herst, July 22-24. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
Summer meeting, Griffin. Ga., August 
5-6. 
International Apple Shippers’ Associa¬ 
tion, twentieth annual convention and 
apple exhibit, Copley-Plaza Hotel, Bos¬ 
ton. Mass., August 5. 6. 7. 
39th Annual Convention of the Ameri¬ 
can Poultry Association to bo held at 
Chicago, Ill., August 8th to 15th. 1914, 
inclusive. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, HI., 
October 22-21. The following meetings 
and conventions will be held in connec¬ 
tion with the show: American Associa¬ 
tion Creamery Butter Manufacturers. 
Oct. 26. Ilolstein-Friesian Association 
of America. Oct. 26. International Milk 
Dealers’ Association. Oct. 26 and 27. 
Conference, Secretaries of State Dairy¬ 
men’s Associations. Oct. 27. Official 
Dairy Instructors’ Association, Oct. 27. 
National Dairy Union, Oct. 28. Ameri¬ 
can Dairy Farmers’ Association. Oct. 28. 
Council of the National Dairy Show, Oct. 
28. National Association of Creamery 
Managers and Owners. Oct. 28. Ameri¬ 
can Jersey Cattle Club, Oct. 28. Na¬ 
tional Association of Ice Cream Manufac¬ 
turers, Oct. 28, 29 and 30. International 
Association of Dairy and Milk Inspec¬ 
tors, Oct. 29. American Guernsey Cat¬ 
tle Club. Oct. 29. Congress of Market¬ 
ing, Oct. 29. Milk Producers’ Associa¬ 
tion, Oct. 30. 
Annual show of the Paterson. N. ,T., 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion. November 18-21. 
Indiana Apple Show. Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, Ind., November 18-24. 
Government Whitewash. 
S LAKE one-half bushel of lime with 
boiling water, keeping it covered dur¬ 
ing the process. Strain it. Add a 
peck of salt, dissolved in warm water; 
three pounds of ground rice, put in boil¬ 
ing water and boiled to a soft paste; one- 
lmlf pound of Spanish whiting; and one 
pound clear glue dissolved in warm 
water. Mix well and let star. ‘ several 
days. When used put on as hot as pos¬ 
sible. 
Soy Beans in Silage Corn. 
O N page 698 (Hope Farm Notes) you 
advise against the use of Soy beans 
in corn. I live in the center of Dutch¬ 
ess County, and wish you had been at my 
place last"Fall to see them grow, and the 
past Winter to see the silage fed to cows, 
and then the cows milked; you would 
have said by all means plant Soy beans 
in silage corn. I have planted Medium 
Green Soy beans three years, and where 
woodchucks and rabbits can be controlled 
have had good crops. They ripen here 
for seed. Neighbors have planted Soy 
beans, and are successful. One man 
planted them six or eight years. Every¬ 
body votes them a success, not only in 
growing, but in a big reduction of feed 
bills. I plant Early Mastodon corn 
(Delaware grown) and mix two quarts 
corn and one Soy beans and plant with 
planter. If thoroughly mixed I get a 
fairly good stand of both, corn growing 
10 to 14 feet, and beans 2% to three feet, 
and I don’t think that is the end, for the 
next year’s crop is very much better. 
G. D. B. 
MONROE COUNTY NOTES. 
HE bark word Spring has been suc¬ 
ceeded by three weeks of beautiful 
weather during which the oats and 
most of the corn have been put in the 
ground. The spraying following the fall of 
the blossoms has also been done. But dur¬ 
ing all this time there has been practically 
no rain, and it is getting dry. Both 
grass and grain are showing this lack of 
water. In spite of a good start grass 
will be short unless there are good rains 
at once. Farmers who did not get their 
bean ground plowed early are now pay¬ 
ing for it and will probably continue to 
do so throughout the season. Tin* peach 
crop in Western New York is apparently 
doomed this year. As if the shortage of 
blossoms were not enough peach trees 
everywhere in the region have been 
visited by a terrible epidemic of leaf- 
curl. Practically every orchard sprayed 
as well as unsprayed has a 75 to 90 per 
cent, infection. Growers are giving two 
reasons for failure of the spray to pro¬ 
tect against leaf-curl this year, the late¬ 
ness of the application and lack of thor¬ 
oughness. Instances are cited of very 
thorough and early spraying which kept 
the infection down to 10 or 15 per cent. 
For some reason apples have not sot as 
they blossomed. Where there was a 
promise of an overload there will be only 
a fair setting. Plums have not set even 
as well as apples. This crop and pears 
will both be light. M. c. b. 
Wheat $1.10 per cwt.; barley $1.10; 
rye $1 per cwt.; oats $1.25 per cwt.; 
flour $2.50 per cwt. Cows $45 per head, 
dairy cows $55 to $75; butter 20; cheese 
18 to 20. Potatoes one cent per pound; 
apples one cent per pound; strawberries 
$1 per gallon. Eggs 20; chickens $4 to 
$6 per dozen. E. w. 0. 
Adin. Cal. 
June 8. I am today working the corn 
with a 14-tooth cultivator. The weather 
is too dry and hot here, hut we shall 
have perhaps more than an average crop 
of wheat, corn was never more promis¬ 
ing. while oats and grass will yet re¬ 
spond to timely rains. Last week two 
light showers broke a three weeks’ dry 
spell, and we are conserving moisture 
and wishing for more rain. w. E. D. 
Hillsboro, O. 
Corn 62; oats 24; wheat 80; Timothy 
seed $1.50 to $1.80; clover seed $6 to $8. 
Eggs 16; butterfat 20. Poultry, roasters, 
six ; hens 12 ; broilers 13 : turkeys 15 ; 
geese nine; ducks 10. Wool 14 to 18. 
Hides 10 to 11. Fat cattle $7.35 to 
$7.50; hogs $7.50 to $7.80. Hay $9 to 
$12. baled. Potatoes 81 to $1.10. No 
market for garden truck, too much 
shipped in from the South. These are 
the prices that the farmer gets. Very 
dry here now. ,T. s. s. 
Cromwell, Iowa. 
.Tune 6. Asparagus 15 cents per 
bunch retail, wholesale 8% to 12% ; po¬ 
tatoes $1 retail, wholesale 71. Cows, 
fresh, $75 to $90 ’for good ones, others 
$50. Beef cows $45 to $60; 10 to 12 
cents a pound dressed. Butter 30; milk, 
retail six cents, wholesale three cents, 
six months, four cents six months. Calves 
nine cents live; fowls 18 to 22 live; 
eggs 20. Young pigs $8 per pair. Rhu¬ 
barb two cents per bunch. Hay $11 to 
$12 in barn. $18 to $20 in market. 
Strawberries 12 to 15 retail. A. E. s. 
Factoryville, Pa. 
June 6. This has been an unusually 
wet Spring and a good many of the farm¬ 
ers who are short of help and teams are 
somewhat backward in finishing their 
seeding and it has also held back the 
work on the highways. However, our 
town has a new 20 horsepower road rol¬ 
ler and a heavy grader and we have turn- 
piked around 30 miles already in about 
16 days, so if we are not shut off too 
quickly by the State now, will fix the 
roads fairly well yet. Grass looks fine 
and also grain that is up. Some of the 
farmers are busy planting corn and po¬ 
tatoes. Cows are high and scarce. 
Farmersville, N. Y. r. s. ii. 
May 26. Harvesting and marketing 
what "is thought will be the biggest straw¬ 
berry crop ever grown on the Delaware 
and Maryland Peninsular has just com¬ 
menced. Buyers from the North have ar¬ 
rived and paid as high as $6 per 32-quart 
crate for choice berries on the start. The 
Crimson clover crop which is also one of 
the largest on record, is being harvested. 
The weather is very favorable saving 
this crop. The weather is very dry, 
which is delaying tomato growers from 
setting their plants; the majority of 
growers have their ground prepared. 
An unusually large crop of cantaloupes 
has been planted. A large acreage of 
peas has been planted for the canneries; 
peas are beginning to suffer for rain. The 
outlook for the wheat crop is very good. 
Dover, Del. c. H. 
May 22. Price of beef has been about 
8% to nine cents for old cows well fat¬ 
tened, and good steers 10 cents per pound. 
Hides 13 to 15 according to condition 
and manner of dressing; TO to 12 cents 
if sold in local market. Nearly all calves 
are fattened and shipped alive to New 
York. During the last year the price for 
prime live calves or veals has ranged 
from seven to nine cents; mutton nine to 
10. Most lambs in tliis section are 
dressed, and sold in Ticonderoga (which 
is our nearest market). At the com¬ 
mencement of the season in August. 1913, 
dressed lambs sold for 14 cents per 
pound, but later and as the supply be¬ 
came more plentiful the price dropped to 
12. I have never learned there was any 
drop in price to the consumer. Dressed 
fowls 20; chickens 25. In December, 
1913, eggs sold for 40 cents per dozen to 
the markets and 45 to the consumer. 
Now they are 18 to 20 to the grocers and 
22 to 25 to the consumer. The best price 
for prime butter to the producer was 
about 36; it is now about 30. Butterfat 
has ranged from 28 to 34 ; cows from $35 
to $65. Hardly any fruit in this vicinity 
last year and not much market gardening 
done. s. w. c. 
Wright. N. Y. 
