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•Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 3, 1317. 
Your Hay Unloading Problem Solved 
How Are You Going to Unload Your Hay in 1917? 
Are you going to ask your wife or daughter or one of the smaller boys to- 
drive the horse at the hay fork? That is hard work and a man’s job at that. 
Now You have that Gasoline Engine or Motor why not make it help you? 
One of our hay unloaders and your engine will handle more hay and do it faster than you can 
with a horse or team. The hay unloader will save your time, temper, team and teamster. 
The man that sticks the hay fork handles the entire outfit from the load of hay. 
Use one of our hay distributors and put a boy in the hay mow; he will handle more hay with 
the distributor than three men with forks. 
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Garden Preparedness for Michigan 
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close up to the rows. This will gener¬ 
ally greatly help and sometimes stop the 
spread of the fungus. 
'J'nAXSPi-AXTiXG. —Plants of the cah- 
liage family should be transplanted about 
as soon as the first true leaves start, 
setting them in a box of soil similar to 
the seed bed, about I 14 inches apart, 
being very careful that the soil is tight 
around the root, not so much matter 
whether the stem is wedged in tight or 
not. I have had jilants .<et for me in 
■such a way that they died liy hundreds 
becau.se they hung in a little jiocket of 
earth by th(‘ neck. laft on your plants 
after setting and you can tell whether 
they will hold. Set in half-.shady place 
till growing again, generally two days 
is plenty, then give full sun. As .soon 
a.s possible after this get the boxes into 
the cold frame and harden them off grad¬ 
ually by lifting the sash more each day. 
Cabbage managed this way can go into 
open ground in late March and get onto 
a mighty profitable market later on. 
To.matoes axi) Peppkhs. —Now for to¬ 
matoes it is well to plant them pretty 
thick in the row. They come through 
better that way. It will take eight to 10 
days for them, and -about 12 more be- 
the same method of procedure will ap¬ 
ply for one who has cold frame or hot¬ 
beds. except that with cold frames only 
about three weeks can be gained over 
outside planting. For one who has none 
of these things I suggest that an old win¬ 
dow sash be taken for even a small cold 
frame. It is rare indeed that there is 
not an old window around every place 
that can be pressed into service, and it 
is wonderful how much can be started 
under even a space of six to 10 sqiiaie 
feet. r. L. warp. 
Hillsdale Co.. Mich. 
A Codling Moth Trap 
Some years ago there was a run on 
Codling-moth traps, and many were sold. 
'J'hese were based on the principle that 
the moth flies at night, and is attracted 
to a light. The original of this kind of 
tiap seemed to have been a lighted lan¬ 
tern set (m a brick in a milkpan. The 
pan itself was partly filled with water, 
with a little kerosene poured on top. 
Ilased on this proposition a number of 
traps were invented and put on the mar¬ 
ket. Many of them were sold, .since 
most pcoiile who tried them really found 
a large number of iu.sects in the pan. 
The entomologist.s, however, quickly 
showed that many of these insects were 
not injurious at all. in fact many (tf 
them were beneficial. This plan of kill¬ 
ing the moth or the Codling worm has 
been generally abandoned. Now the 
A Big Job Ahead 
fore they are ready to transplant.. In 
transplanting give them more room than 
for cabbage or put each into a small pot, 
there to stay and wax large till ready 
for open air planting. They .should be 
hai-dened in cold frame .same as cabbage 
and may go into ojien ground about May 
20th. Peppers may be started inside or 
in hotbed about April 1st, and follow 
tomatoes about 10 days. They germinate 
slowly, sometimes about 20 days. If you 
want eggplant, let that follow peppers 
about a week, for they are very .sen.sitive 
to cold. 
Bekts, Oxioxs axd Lettuce.—N ot 
many peoide transplant beets, onions 
and lettuce. If you haven't tried it, do 
so. Start the lettuce with cai)bage, 
transplant just as soon as you can han¬ 
dle it, and even give it a second tran.s- 
planting before putting to open ground. 
Then set it about a foot apart each way. 
Lettuce must liave rich ground and hus¬ 
tle from seed lo harve.st. Beets may be 
sown in the flat in rows, fairly thick 
and stand there till ready for the gar¬ 
den row. Beets are so cheap that it 
never pays to transplant into boxes. 
When ready for the garden simply take 
them out and having dug a furrow for 
them in the garden lay them down on 
one side of the furrow. This can be 
done almost without pan.se as you walk 
along with a handful of plants. You 
can then push the dirt up from the other 
side of the furrow with a hoe or your 
foot. Beets mu.st be handled quickly to 
make them profitable, owing to the com¬ 
parative low price, but by sowing inside 
you can get onto the market with bunch 
beets at a much better figure than for 
outside sown ones. The same is true 
with onions which are handled in the 
same way, except the tops of the onion 
plants would be cut back a half. About 
Kansas Experiment Station comes for¬ 
ward with a new form of trap. This is 
simple enough. They wind a stri|) of 
ordinary Inirlap around the trunk of the 
tree. Over this is tacked a strip of 12- 
mesh .s<-reen, that is, a wire cloth with 
12 meshes to the inch. This is made 
.six or eight inches wide, and encircles 
the tree over the burlap band. The up¬ 
per and lower edges of the screen are 
turned under and carefully tacked to 
the bark, which is scraped smooth. It 
is necessary to have a close union be¬ 
tween the edges of the screen and the 
hark. The old plan was to put the bur¬ 
lap band alone around the tree. This 
enticed the worms to shelter in it, where 
they might be destroyed. When the wire 
.screen is in place, the worms crawl 
down the tree, pass through the meshe.s 
of the wire and pupate or make their 
change beneath the band. Then when 
the moths emerge, they are too large to 
pa.ss out through the screen, and are 
held there. Of cour.se this trap cannot 
take the place of spraying, but it does 
destroy a large i.umber of the moths, and 
is also a great help in determining the 
second brood, for when the first moths 
appear in the trap it is time to n.se the 
•second .spray in order to take care of 
this brood. 
The Everbearing Strawberry 
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and sold every plant we did not use for 
our own setting. We could not begin fo 
supply the demand In 1915 we planted 
a still larger acreage with the same re¬ 
sult. i^old them all. 
CoxTixuED Demaxd For Peaxts.— 
Last Spring we again increased the acre¬ 
age but the demand continues stronger 
than ever .and we will again have none to 
fruit this coming Spring. I know of sev¬ 
eral other commercial growers who are 
having just the same experience. It is 
rather difficult to get complete figures for 
sale of fruit only under these circum¬ 
stances. Then, too, when growers speak 
of the commercial possibilities of the.se 
berries many are apt to discount their 
statements on the grounds that they are 
.selling plants. trucker, JR. 
(To be continued) 
