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Field Corn 
Field corn is harvested in this section 
in a manner which .seems to me to be 
very wa.steful as regards time and labor. 
I should be glad if you would tell me if 
.so much “waste motion” is necessary. 
First, the corn is cut and stacked up, 
ears all on. This, of course, is done be¬ 
fore h’ost comes. Then, after a lapse of 
from a month to six weeks, sometimes 
longer, depending on how much other 
work the man has ahead of him, the 
stacks are laboriously taken down again, 
spread out on the ground, and the corn 
■ usked and gathered in, leaving the husks 
on the stalk, after which the stalks are 
made into sheaves and again stacked up, 
to await carting away. I am a “back- 
to-the-lander,” and as I do nearly all the 
farm work myself this seems to me a very 
wasteful manner to harvest the corn. A 
man from Delaware told me their method, 
which appeals to me very much, if the re¬ 
sult to the corn is the same. They go 
through the field and strip the ears off 
w’hiie the corn is still growing. These 
are thrown down in some convenient .spot 
to dry and are husk(*d on stormy or wet 
days. The stalks are then cut and carted 
away at the same time. P. M. A. 
Long Island. 
This opens a good chance for discus¬ 
sion of methods. What is the best way 
of handling corn in trdinary fields of the 
North? The usual .system is slow and 
cumbersome. In the West, whore the 
fields are large and the crop heavy, much 
of the work is done by machinery. Corn 
harvesters cut and tie the stalks into 
bundles. These are put in shocks for 
curing. Later the busker and shredder 
takes care of the entire stalk, pulling the 
husks from the cars and cutting or chop¬ 
ping the stalks into shreds for feeding. 
Then, of course, the corn can he hauled 
by machinery. 
Our own plan is to cut the corn in the 
ordinary way before frost and tie it up 
into large shocks. When the.se shocks 
are made of good size and the tops well 
protected the fodder keeps well in the 
field, although the mice and rats often 
destroy some of the grain. We haul tlii.s 
fodder in late in the Fall, after the 
stalks are well dried, and do much of the 
husking in the barn on stormy days when 
there is little to do outside. Of course 
there must be plenty of barn room in 
order to permit this, but the system saves 
one or two handlings, and the barn hu.sk- 
ing is very much more comfortable than 
working out in the open field. The 
Southern plan of picking off the ears 
and cari’ying them out of the field seems 
to work well when there is an abundance 
of cheap labor. It is doubtful if the plan 
would pay in the North, with our pres¬ 
ent high prices for farm labor. We 
would like to have comparative figures 
on this method. It is a good subject for 
discussion right now, and we would like 
to hear from jieople who have tried the 
various method.s. In many parts of the 
West the crop is left to ripen in the field. 
Then faiuners drive a wagon through, 
snapping off the ears and throwing them 
into the wagon body. Then cattle and 
hogs are tnimed in to eat what they will 
of the stalks and the ears that are left. 
Who Owns the Private Cars 
Do men own their private cars on the 
railroad, or do they pay a price per 
year to the Pullman Co. for the use of 
the cai’, or in other words, charter one 
or more cars for one or more years same 
as houses are owned by one man and 
rented to others? I have been told that 
the late Mrs. Frank Ijeslie owned a spe¬ 
cial train to go wherever she wi.shed. 
Trumbull Co., Ohio. K. x. c. 
There are some individual private 
cars, but not many, as few people of 
moans are desirous of traveling constant¬ 
ly. When not traveling constantly it is 
more convenient and more economical to 
pay rental for a car by the trip, day, 
week, mouth or year. Only about half 
the cars called Pullman cars are owned 
by the Pullman Company. There are 
about 250,000 miles of railroads in the 
United States and approximately half 
of this mileage is used by the I’ullman 
people. Over the other half the rail¬ 
roads owning the lines operate their own 
“private” car equipment. 
The Pullman Company owns upwards 
of 7,000 cars, parlor, sleeper and diners. 
It owns no railroad, but leases the right 
to “operate” over half the mileage of 
the couuti’y, on long-term leases for per¬ 
iods of 10 to 20 years, the railroads 
hauling the Pullman cars and paying 
the Pullman Company on a mileage 
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ishings, foods, and supplies. (Jn lines 
that operate their own so-called “pri¬ 
vate” cars this same .service is accorded 
the public. The President of the United 
States travels in his “private” car but 
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occasion and the price. f. x. v. 
Fertilizer on Rye 
I sowed 6^4 acres rye last Fall on a 
neighbor’s land. The deal is that I give 
him one-third of the grain, and that I 
furnish the grass .seed for seeding the 
land, and have all the straw. The land, 
which is about level and a little sandy, 
was about all covei-ed with horse gram, 
which I had to mow before plowing, 
-^fter plowing this tough hor.se grass sod 
it was well eut up with a disk harrow, 
and without applying any manure of any 
kind was sown to rye about September 
15. Will it pay me any profit, besides 
eost and labor, to apply fertilizer of some 
kind in the early Spring? If so, what 
kind would be best to sow’ and how much 
to the acre? ii. w. 
We.stehester Co., N. Y. 
About the only thing that would pay 
yell in this ca.se would be to use, .say. KKJ 
lbs. of nitrate of soda per acre. This 
nitrate with it.s .soluble nitrogen would 
drive the rye to an extra growth. You 
would get c'oiisiderable increa.se in straw 
and some increase in grain. It would 
hardly pay you to put on manure or 
jdiosphate, as a large share of the benefit 
from the.se would come later—in the 
gras.s. ’I'he nitrate would show itself 
thi.s year and w<mld probably give you 
enough extra straw and grain to pay for 
its use. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, February 3. 1917. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Chemical Fertilizer for Kansas.I40 
Tannery Waste as Fertilizer . 140 
Corn In Hills or Drills . . 141 
Legume With Oats . 142 
Killing War Grass .i. (42 
Eradicating Bad Weed . 142 
Sweet Corn Growing In Maine. 145 
N. Y, State Vegetable Growers’ Association.... 145 
Figure Out this Farm Problem. 150 
A Mechanic on Farm Help . |50 
Cow Peas and Sweet Clover In Jersey. 151 
Beans on Light Land . 151 
New Jersey Farmers’ Institutes . 154 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings . (54 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Unwarranted Fear of Milk .140 
The Fat in Holstein Milk .164 
Strong-flavored Butter .164 
Pictures on a Calf .I64 
Bells on the Sheep .|65 
Strong-flavored Cream .165 
Strong Butter .|65 
Raising Calves .165 
Ration for Butter Cows .166 
Poor Milk Flow .I 66 
Dairy Ration Without Silage .(66 
Ration tor Dry Cows .166 
Ration tor Milch Cows .166 
Vermont Dairy Ration . 166 
Ration for Jersey Cows .166 
Ration for Guernseys .(66 
A Wisconsin Ration .166 
Figuring Creamery Statement .168 
Remedy tor Cattle Lice .I 68 
Gasoline on a Hog .168 
Skim-mllk and Green Veal .168 
Cost of Milk Production .I 68 
New York State Breeders’ Association, Part li..l69 
Feeding a Colt .169 
Feeding Pigs on Slaughterhouse Waste .170 
Cattle Relish Sweet Clover .170 
Stable Ventilation Problem .174 
The Northern Ohio Milk Embargo.174 
Cow Raising in North Carolina .174 
Slobbering . 175 
Handling the Airedale, Part III.(79 
An Alreda(e’s Feat .(79 
THE HENYARD. 
The Making of an Egg .139, 140 
Quarter of a Mile of Pullets .140 
Construction of Henhouse .176 
Frosty Henhouse .176 
A Massachusetts Henhouse .176 
Eggs Contests ...177, 178 
Lame Fowls .178 
Large or Small Flocks .178 
Sick Turkey .(80 
Hen Cholera .180 
Double-yolked Eggs . 180 
Equipment tor Handling Chickens .180 
Feeding Dry Mash .180 
Hens Eat Droppings .180 
HDRTICULTURE. 
Spraying tor Grape Rot ..142 
Sun-painted Apples . 142 
Hen Manure tor Peppers .142 
Plant Food tor Vegetables .143 
Apples for Western New York .143 
Udo; Catalpa Speciosa .146 
Catalpa Near Well .!.146 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Association, 
Part III.149 
The True History of the Wolf River Apple.... 159 
Trimming Kieffer Pears ..159 
Trouble With Radishes .159 
The J. H. Hale Peach .159 
Rusty Kieffer Pears . 159 
Early Bearing Apples .159 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .162 
The Rural Patterns .162 
Seen in New York Shops.162 
Three Favorite Recipes .162 
A Combination Table .163 
Making Friends . 163 
Embroidery Designs . 163 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Partridge and the Conservation Law.140 
Observations on the Growth of Timber .141 
The Baby In Summer ..143 
A Country Sale . 150 
Opposed to Hunters’ League .150 
Outlaw of Notes . 152 
Foreclosure of Mortgage .152 
Lien of judgment .152 
Collection of Judgment .152 
Payment of Taxes in Dlffercnr Tax Districts.... 152 
Frost-proof Storage Houses .155 
Trouble With Iron Roofing .155 
Amount of Cement for Wall .156 
Farm Sanitation .156 
Experiences With Chimneys .156 
Loss in Condemned Food .161 
The Fight Is Dn .161 
A Review of Co-operative Work, Part 1.161 
A Wise Kid and a Schemer .172 
Water for Ocean Vessels .172 
Publisher’s Desk .182 
