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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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The Price of Hen Manure. 
O X page 13 I note a short article about 
poultry farms making up a commer¬ 
cial fertilizer by mixing chemicals 
with hen manure. We produce quite a 
lot of manure in a month, and have a 
special shed with concrete floor to store 
it in. The farmers in this section all 
produce asparagus, and we find a ready 
demand for hen manure at 50 cents a 
barrel. If. however, there is any way 
to make a fertilizer which would sell for 
more money and be worth more as a 
dressing I would very much like to know 
about it. I think the price we are get¬ 
ting is a fair one for the straight ma¬ 
nure, but if a commercial fertilizer could 
be made which had real merit it might be 
profitable. Before coming here the writer 
ran a poultry farm in New Hampshire, 
and from experience knows that in cer¬ 
tain sections hen manure is not looked 
on as valuable. All kinds of prices are 
paid, from 15 cents a bushel to free for 
the hauling. Therefore it might be 
bought and sold again after being mixed 
with chemicals. c. c. 
Concord, Mass. 
If you can get 50 cents a barrel for 
straight manure from under the perches, 
take it and do not try to mix the fertil¬ 
izer. Our advice was to those who find it 
hard to dispose of the manure at a fair 
price. On many chicken farms few crops 
are grown and the manure cannot be used 
to advantage. Most of the nearby farm¬ 
ers will not pay much for the manure. 
C. C. is in a locality where asparagus is 
largely grown, and farmers know the 
true value of most manures. In case he 
could not sell the manure locally it prob¬ 
ably would not pay to ship it, but if it 
were mixed with nitrate of soda, bone, 
phosphate or potash the buyer could af¬ 
ford to pay freight on it. 
The Hired Man’s Side. 
I HAVE been both hired man and man¬ 
ager, so I think I have seen the help 
question from both sides. I think there 
is enough farm help in this State now, if 
the farmers would try to keep what help 
they now have. Young men and boys are 
leaving the farm every day for the city. 
Why? Well, I know one farmer who 
had a boy about 20 years old. This boy 
could milk, bring in wood and do such 
work, but his father never would let him 
drive the horses because he didn’t know 
how. This boy was fond of horses, so 
one day lie went to work for a man in 
town who would let him drive his team, 
so his father had to hire a man. An¬ 
other reason why men leave the farm is 
lack of something to take up their spare 
time. In the city there are theatres, 
moving pictures and other things. On 
most farms a hired man is like a ma¬ 
chine; he is worked all day and not 
thought of again till time for the next 
day’s work. If folks would be more 
thoughtful and try to make spare time 
more pleasant I think we would have 
more and better help for the farm. A 
kind employer will do more than dollars 
to help the hired man question. Lots of 
the hired help is just as smart as the 
boss, but not so fortunate. 
HIRED MAN. 
College-trained Hired Men. 
NOTICE that you invite discussion on 
the question of short courses for farm 
laborers in the agricultural college. I 
do not think this would appeal to any 
practical man with a knowledge of the 
work our agricultural colleges are sup¬ 
posed to do. I can understand that a 
short course might be of benefit to an 
experienced farm laborer ambitious to 
qualify for a position as manager or fore¬ 
man. To think that an inexperienced 
city man could qualify as a useful farm 
laborer by attending a short course might 
appear quite reasonable to the city man, 
but would not be much of a recommenda¬ 
tion to any farmer in search of compe¬ 
tent help. 
The function of an agricultural college 
is not to teach how to perform the va¬ 
rious manual operations connected with 
farming, which can only be learned by 
continued practice. The college teaches 
the theory of farming, the why rather 
than the how; and a student from the 
city with no practical experience to start 
with might complete the four year course 
and graduate with honors and be of no ! 
more use to the ordinary farmer as a ! 
“hired man” than if he had never seen i 
the inside of college walls. 
If any agricultural college did attempt I 
to conduct a course with the object in ! 
question in view, I fear the chief thing 
the would-be farm laborer would acquire 
would be “the government gait,” which 
he would have to forget before he would 
be of much value on a real farm. This 
is not in any sense a criticism of the 
agricultural college. It is an effort to 
show that the college is no place to 
train “hired men.” 
Ontario. g. b. mc calla, b. s. a. 
Wire Fences and Trees. 
I N helping with the town map survey 
last Fall I saw so much injury to 
trees by fastening wire to them years 
ago, that I think the enclosed, from the 
Weekly News Letter, of much value. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. j. b. w. 
“In running wire fences it may be 
necessary to attach the wires to trees. 
In many regions old fence rows have 
grown up naturally to trees; in others, 
windbreaks have been planted between 
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Wire Grown Into Tree. 
fields, making tree lines to which wire 
fencing may be attached without the la¬ 
bor and expense of setting posts. In at¬ 
taching wires to trees, however, it is bad 
practice to fasten them directly to the 
trees, for when this is done the wire will 
be grown over and embedded within the 
tree itself. Not only do the wounds mar 
the appearance of the tree, but they af¬ 
ford entrance for diseases which cause 
decay. If .the tree is ever cut for lumber 
either the best part of the trunk has to 
be thrown out and wasted, or else, if the 
wires and staples are deeply embedded, 
the tree may be sawed into without any 
knowledge on the part of the sawmill men 
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that the wires are there. Further, it 
is impossible after the wire is grown over 
to move the fence without cutting the 
wire or chopping deep into the tree. A 
better way, and one that protects both the 
tree and the fence, is to nail to the tree 
a strip of wood from four to six inches 
wide and an inch or more thick and of a 
length to suit the height of the fence. 
The wires can then be stapled to this 
strip. As the tree grows the strip is 
forced out and the tree is not injured.” 
Carter Century 
Power Sprayer 
just the combination many 
fruit growers have been 
looking for—it is an 
\ ideal rig for the small 
^ fruit grower and in 
many eases will take 
h the place of an ex¬ 
pensive outfit. 
The largo or- 
chardist needs 
_ it to help out 
< v»-48ts.. when spraying 
—must be done 
in a hurry. 
This is an inexpensive rig—good for 
150 lbs. pressure—semi your address 
and we will tell you all about it. 
RALPH B. CARTER CO., 150 Chambers St., NEW YORK 
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UAltEY, OHIO 
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1 pC7 THE BUSINESS FARMERS’ STANDARD 1Q1 C 
lODi FOR OVER FIFTY-FIVE YEARS 1 V 1D 
YOUR OPPORTUNITY 
The editor of one of our leading agricultural papers writes us under date of January 
12th, 1915, as follows 
“I am doing all I can to induce farmers to plant grain crops this year. 
“Grain is very high and it is going higher. Wheat is going to $2.00 per bushel and 
other grains will share in the advance. Wheat costs $2.50 per 100 pounds now, and 
pound for pound oats cost as much. 
“It seems to me that the eastern farmer’s salvation is to buy plant food and grow Corn, 
Wheat, Oats, Barley and Buckwheat. 
“Last fall 1 doubled my acreage of winter wheat and this spring I shall triple the acreage 
of oats. I managed to produce 40 bushels of wheat to the acre, and sold the straw at 
$17.00 per ton in the barn.” 
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NEW YORK, JANUARY 15, 1915 
WHEAT AT NEW 
HIGHEST $1,44 3-8 
Records Fall in Chicago— 
9 Cent Jump in Liverpool. 
Chicago, Jan. 15.—May wheat opened at 
$1.43?4 per bushel in the local pit to-day. This 
is Yt, cent a bushel above the high price of 
yesterday and establishes a new high record. 
Liverpool, Jan. 15.— Following further sharp 
advances in America, wheat jumped 9 cents 
here to-day and flour advanced 24 cents a sack. 
THE OPPORTUNITY IS YOURS! WILL YOU MAKE THE MOST OF IT ? 
Be sure that you buy 
E. Frank Coe Fertilizers 
They more than meet the most exacting requirements, giving plump, sound, full heads 
of grain and vigorous, healthy straw. 
Eastern users of E. Frank Coe Fertilizers are raising 40 bushels of wheat to the acre. 
The average for the United States for three years is 14 r V bushels to the acre. 
THE OPPORTUNITY IS YOURS! WILL YOU MAKE THE MOST OF IT ? 
Write us and mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
^THE COE-MORTIMER COMPANY, 51 Chambers St., N. Y.^ 
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Brings Results with the First Planting 
When a farmer limes his soil he doesn’t 
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His lime must be ground finely so that it 
will work down. If it is pulverized too finely, 
however, it will be lost through leaching 
that is washed away by the drain water. 
LIMESTONL 
is the happy in-between. It is purest lime¬ 
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first planting, yet not so fine as to be lost 
through leaching. 
Solvay is pure. Solvay is economical. 
Easy and agreeable to store and handle. 
Solvay brings highest percentage of results. 
Prices to consumer, car lots, $1.50 per net 
ton in bulk; $2.50 per net ton in 100-lb. paper 
bags. F. O. B. our plant, Jamesville, N. Y. 
Solvay is described in our valuable book 
“Getting More Crops’’ which contains much 
information of use to the farmer. Send 
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THE SOLVAY PROCESS CO. 
501 Milton Ave. Syracuse, N. Y. 
Rock Phosphate 
Paid 
$5.85 increased crops from $1.05 
invested. 12 years test at Penn. Ag. 
College. 
8.4 bu. corn, 4.7 bu. wheat. .49 ton hay from 
$1.15 worth of phosphate Ohio Exp. Station. 
$22.11 worth of corn, wheat and hay from $1.90 
worth of phosphate at Md. Exp. Station. 
$8.1)0 worth of crops for each dollar invested 
in 50 tests at Ill. Exp. Stations. 
These reports are the experience of some of 
our best farmers and are given in our booklet 
“ Profitable Production.” Send for this booklet 
today and get our prices on Hock Phosphate. 
FEDERAL CHEMICAL CO. 
Ground Rock Dept. 
30 W. Main St. COLUMBIA. TENN. 
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Dept. 22 Mansfield, Ohio 
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The U.S. will export potatoes this 
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PRORAIIUY THE REST CHEAPEST FARM 
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Hall’s Farm Agency, Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. 
