1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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ILL-SMELLING WATER. 
W E have a well in front of our house 
that was always good until a 
month ago, when we noticed there 
was an odor to the water On opening it 
we found that some surface water had 
found its way into the well. We cleaned 
it all out and then cemented the wall 
down about four feet from top. The 
water is clean now, but still has the odor. 
New York. J. w. M. 
It may be that this well is being pol¬ 
luted by underground drainage from some 
cesspool, privy vault, or other source, or 
it may be that the surface water still 
finds its way down the well curbing to 
enter beneath the cemented portion of the 
curb. Without an examination of the 
premises it would be impossible for any¬ 
one to say definitely what the cause of 
the bad odor is, but, if the well is known 
to be clean, the source of the trouble 
should be looked for in possible entrance 
of surface water or in the proximity of 
some cesspool, privy vault, barnyard or 
other evident means of possible pollution. 
If the soil is of sandy or gravelly nature, 
it is probably for a cesspool 200 feet 
away to contaminate it, while if it is 
in a limestone formation, it may receive 
the contents of a cesspool or vault sit¬ 
uated many times that distance from it. 
M. B. D. 
DOUBLE CROPPING VEGETABLES. 
A S regards inter-cropping in Eastern 
Massachusetts, as the rule this is 
not practiced by the leading growers, as 
many of these believe the gain from the 
profit of the two crops will not make up 
for the loss the second crop will cause or 
take away from the first; in other words 
the crop grown alone needs all the bene¬ 
fit of the land and contents, and will re¬ 
spond to the same and use it so the re¬ 
sult will be a larger crop both in bulk 
and character and also a more satisfac¬ 
tory crop of size and quick growth w'hich 
insures tenderness, a very essential qual¬ 
ity in many market crops, in fact nearly 
all. Many who formerly grew two 
crops on one piece of land now grow 
only one, and get more cash returns from 
this per acre than when two crops w'ere 
grown, one perhaps at a loss, for many 
reasons. Condition of market at time 
crop was ready might be one, destruc¬ 
tion by frost another, and so on. Take 
the squash crop for example. Formerly 
this was grown between some other and 
started between some other, and is yet in 
a few cases, but it has been found by our 
best growers that even this crop does 
better, gives larger returns per acre in 
actual cash, by planting alone and not 
crowding the hills too close, giving it the 
whole benefit of land it occupies and the 
season we have properly to mature it. 
There are, of course, successful cases 
of growing two and even three crops on 
some of our farms. The Ilitenger fruit 
farm of Belmont is the best example I 
could give of this, where practically 
every inch of the ground is occupied by 
a growing crop, and a large number of 
hired help used all the year to care for 
and harvest these, and a large and 
profitable income is secured. Very 
heavy manuring must bo done in these 
cases, and a large supply a few miles 
away makes this possible. Were it not 
so handy this system would be impos¬ 
sible to carry out successfully and make 
it pay. 
Spinach is a very important crop to 
Boston market growers, and is about 
the leading one. It requires heavy 
manuring, grows very quickly, requires 
little attention when growing, and is 
easily got ready for market. The price 
is many times very low, sometimes only 
10 and 15 cents per bushel, at others 
perhaps 50 or 75 cents, and when the 
lucky grower gets this for a good share 
of his crop he is well satisfied, and 
ought to be. This crop is planted both 
in Spring and Fall, carried over Winter, 
and early in the Spring is ready to cut 
and sell in time to plow the land, get in 
another crop of almost any kind, and 
mature the same season and repeat the 
process over again. This crop is planted 
at all seasons of the year, but largely as 
I have stated, or early in the Spring, and 
in this case is soon ready to sell and 
another crop put on the ground. Let¬ 
tuce is another Spring crop which can 
be followed by the second crop the same 
season. 
Celery is the leading second crop, and 
is often set and started before the pre¬ 
ceding crop is off the field. This crop 
requires much attention, and must be 
kept growing all the time. It returns 
usually a very satisfactory profit per 
acre to the grower. 
Tomatoes are sometimes set between 
the rows of some early crop like peas or 
beans, and also a few other crops, but 
the practice is largely to grow them 
alone, as cultivation can be given easier, 
and really better results be obtained. It 
is possible to grow spinach, lettuce and 
celery on the same land in one season, 
and get good results, and this is done in 
a few cases. A few growers plant spin¬ 
ach, radish and lettuce between nearly all 
crops they grow, and get good results. 
The Cooledge farm on the edge of Cam¬ 
bridge does this to a large extent. Their 
location being only an hour’s haul from 
the market, and their manure supply be¬ 
ing about the same distance, is a large 
factor in their favor, as several loads per 
day can be placed on the market when 
necessity or demand requires it, and this 
is a great advantage; in fact, many 
times makes all the difference between a 
season’s success or loss. 
Formerly string and shell beans were 
largely grown between sweet corn. They 
are yet to some extent, but better results 
are obtained by separate planting. Nearly 
all crops need much sunlight, and if one 
shades the other more or less loss is the 
result. This may occur in many forms, 
growth, color or something else, and a 
spindling plant of any kind is not what 
we want. 
Turnips and cabbage can be grown 
after spinach, lettuce, peas, beans and 
other early crops. The question of fer¬ 
tility of land is looked after in this way 
by most growers. They dress the land 
heavily with manure at each cropping if 
possible, using manure that has been 
piled and seasoned for some weeks if 
available. Very little fresh manure is 
used except that from hogpens, which is 
applied direct on most crops, but not all. 
Fresh horse manure as it comes from the 
stables is largely straw, and not fit to 
use to obtain quick results, so it is piled 
in heaps and let heat and rot until in 
suitable shape to apply. Of course much 
nitrogen is lost in this process, but gain 
in other forms may perhaps balance this. 
To carry on the systems of inter-crop- 
ping successfully plenty of help must be 
had at just the right time; a day or two’s 
delay means to lose a crop in many cases, 
as many of these crops will only grow 
when conditions are just right, and in or¬ 
der to get two and three crops in one 
season, everything must be done on time, 
no matter what the cost. No crop can 
be allowed to lag any more than the teams 
or men can. Everything must be kept 
moving every minute to insure success. 
Massachusetts. a. e. p. 
CROP REPORTS. 
,Tlily 10. Old hay $14; buckwheat 
$1.80 per hundred; old potatoes 50 cents. 
Frosts injured peach crop, light produc¬ 
tion; wheat and oats good, apples fair. 
Southern Cayuga Co., N. Y. j. w. p. 
Hay quality fine and extra big crop. 
Corn, beans and potatoes late, but look¬ 
ing well, and growing fast, so have hope 
of an average crop. Old potatoes bring¬ 
ing $1.25 per bushel. Apples are look¬ 
ing well and prospects for an average 
crop. m. B. 
Maine. 
July 10. Hay $20 per ton (old hay) ; 
Holstein cows of good size that have 
dropped calf within one month, from $75 
to $100; butter 2S; eggs 30. Cream 30 
cents per quart; milk five cents per 
quart. Potatoes are selling for 45 cents 
per peck or 60 cents per half bushel 
(these are new potatoes). E. k. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
July 13. Our milk the past week 
brought from the cheese factory $1.21 
per 100 pounds for 13% cents cheese; 
the week before $1.28. I understand the 
milk stations are paying $1.10. Milch 
cows $50 to $100; bulls $5 per cwt.; 
yearling heifers $30 to $35; veal calves 
10 cents per pound. j. s. ir. 
Edwardsville, N. Y. 
July 20. Butterfat from 22 to 25: 
eggs 20: wheat, old, 85 (new will start 
at about 70) : oats 45; more oats are 
bought than raised here. Corn 70; rye 
75; hay $12 to $15. Cattle five cents to 
’i 1 r 2 : hogs, dressed, nine; milch cows, 
around $70 for good ones. Horses high, 
mostly shipped in; fairly good work 
horses at $150 to $500 per pair. Not 
nearly enough hay raised in this section 
to supply the need. More and more Al¬ 
falfa is being sown each year. It does 
better than other clover as our soil is 
open and naturally drained, the water 
table being down about 60 feet. We are 
too far from the lake for fruit to do its 
best, and orchards are small yet. Staples 
here are potatoes, beans, buckwheat, and 
corn. All these crops are looking excep¬ 
tionally good. R. H. U. 
Mancelona, Mich. 
July 17. Hay $22, in small lot; straw 
$15; oats 60. Butter 35; milk seven to 
10. certified 15; cream 50 per quart. 
Potatoes $1; eggs 30. Our place is not 
much of a farming district. We raise 
no fruit, only a very little corn. It is 
strictly a Summer resort. We have from 
2,000 to 2,500 city people with us from 
June 1 to October 1. about the same num¬ 
ber each year. No doubt this keeps 
prices rather high. W. E. X. 
Lake Placid, N. Y. 
July 15. There is not much dairying 
or gardening done here. The leading 
crops are corn, wheat, oats and some live 
stock, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. 
Nearly all grain (except wheat) and all 
hay is fed on our farms. Prices of 
horses $150 to $250; cows $50 to $80; 
fat steers seven to nine cents per pound; 
hogs eight to 8%; butter 25; potatoes 
$L25; cabbage 2% cents per pound re¬ 
tail, $1.75 per cwt. New wheat 76; oats 
50; corn 77. R. W. M. 
Fannettsburg, Pa. 
July 13. Hot and dry, corn and gar¬ 
dens needing rain badly. Wheat mostly 
hauled ; grass more than half cut. Plenty 
of fruit, early apples beginning to ripen. 
Oats about ready to harvest. Horses not 
selling quite so high as one year ago : all 
other live stock a little higher. Wool 
all sold at 25 and 28, mostly sacked and 
shipped. Early potatoes will be a short 
crop. Not much live stock selling this 
time of year. Corn 90; wheat 90; oats 
50; butter 20; eggs IS; chickens, young, 
20; old 12. w. B. H. 
Morgan Co., Ohio. 
July 20. The farmers are just begin¬ 
ning to cut their hay; the crop is light, 
for though near a lime center, hardly 
any use lime, even though it is on most 
fields, badly needed. Native strawberries 
have been in the market about two weeks, 
prices holding good, retailing for 15 cents. 
Blueberries ripening well and very plem 
tifill, selling now in the stores for 15 
cents a quart box. A little later they 
will be sold to the factory in larger lots, 
or shipped to Boston in crates. The gar¬ 
dens are doing well, for there has been 
no drought here this season, but hardly 
anyone has cow beets, for just as soon 
as they showed above the ground powder- 
bugs ate and killed them. Corn, and its 
products retail for $1.70 per cwt.; bran 
and most mill feeds. $1.60 per cwt. Oats 
are 58 a bushel; wheat $2 per cwt. Old 
hay $10 to $14 per ton. J. c. 3. 
South Thomaston, Me. 
Fruit prospects in Crawford County, 
Penna., are poor; few apples, part of a 
plum crop, and there will be no peaches. 
Hay will he 65 per cent, of crop with but 
little left over. Oats are short because of 
earlier need of rain. In many sections of 
the county wheat is c msidered better 
than any previous year in a score of 
years. No cows are being brought from 
the adjoining dairy section in Ohio owing 
to the necessity of testing cows brought 
into the State for tuberculosis. Former¬ 
ly two-thirds of the cattle purchased in 
the western part of Crawford county, 
came from Ohio dairy farms. The State 
law requires 3.7% test, and for this test 
during the Summer the Rick factory, 
near Conneautville, is paying $1.30 per 
hundred, and deducting three cents a hun¬ 
dred for each one-tenth per cent, below 
the legal test. During Winter months 
this factory paid $1.80 a hundred and in 
April $1.60. Many farmers from the 
county shipped milk to Pittsburg during 
the Winter and Spring. They received 
$2 a hundred for Winter milk and $1.50 
for Summer milk, net. Many of these 
shippers in the county and adjoining ter¬ 
ritory have been cut off owing to over¬ 
supply, and a shortage in demand owing 
to many people being unemployed and 
unable to buy milk. The amount of milk 
produced is the same as last year; and 
the Rick factory is installing a conden- 
sery plant to handle its surplus product. 
Good cows are selling from $75 to $125 
and poor cows from $30 to $60. There 
is a live demand for purebred stock in 
the county. Butter has been selling at 
20 and 22 cents at local store, and eggs 
17 cents. Poultry breeders state this is 
a poor season for hatching. n. j. 
Crawford Co., Pa. 
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