THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, April 7, 1917. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Treatment for Wet Land .513 
Michigan Sugar Beet Growers Active .513, 514 
Alfalfa V/ith Clover Seed .514 
Quack Grass .5[4 
Imitations of Sweet Clover .517 
Value of Street Sweepings .5 7 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .5 ° 
The Misfit Farm Engine .519 
A Canadian Farm Problem .5^0 
Hilled Corn for Use .. 
Handling the Corn Crops .'.521 
Fodder in the Silo .521 
Corn and Pumpkins .52 
Squash or Pumpkin In the Cornfield .521 
Planting Pumpkins With Corn .521 
Hope Farm Notes .522 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Penalty for Stealing Sheep ...f'3 
Mixed Hay With Corn and Cornmeal ....521 
Now for the Towner-Smith Milk Bill. ■ioo 
Draft Horses In New York .528 
Barney the Big Hog .V "’i''’.r 
Windsor Co., Vt., “The Jersey Isle of America ..528 
Controlling a Bull .528 
Raising Pigs by Hand .529 
Northern Ohio Milk Notes .••■••530 
New. England Milk Notes .530, 532 
Dried Beet Pulp and Mangels .53 
Feeds Low In Protein .531 
Improving a Ration .531 
Ration for Freshening Cow .531 
Negligence In Pasturing Cattte .532 
Bitter Milk .. 
THE HENYARD. 
A Venture In Goose Farming ..511, 512 
Drop In Laying .534 
Young Breeding Stock .534 
Marking for Identification ......534 
Egg* lay! HQ Cont6*t$.535, 536 
Indian Runner Ducks for Laying .536 
Best Breeds for Capons .536 
Damp Henhouse .536 
Chicks on Board Floors .536 
HORTICULTURE. 
Transplanting Large Trees .512 
A Peach Carrier Press .513 
Damage to Fruit Trees from Mice .514 
The Poor Man’s Orchid .515 
Sawdust for Orchard Mulch .517 
Orchard Topics ..520 
Cleaning Carrot Seed .523 
Transplanting Wild Hemlocks .523 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .526 
Seen In New York Shops .526 
The Rural Patterns .526 
Bloomers as a Garden Dress .526 
Maple Sugar Roll ..526 
Recollections from a Self-supporting Farm.527 
Marshmallows and Marshmallow Filling .527 
Embroidery Designs .527 
Dustless Dusters .527 
Cocoanut Jumbles .'.527 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Leonard G. Robinson, Federal Land Bank Presi¬ 
dent .512 
Politicians and Farmers .512 
Birds and Butterflies .515 
Buffalo Markets..516 
Boston Markets .516 
Killing Locust Stumps .519 
Events of the Week .518 
Editorials .524 
As to the Wicks Bill .525 
The Waste of Health Inspectors .525 
“Get Your Graft’’ .525 
Notes from Department of Foods and Markets.... 525 
Pulisher’s Desk .538 
Indigestion 
I have a five-year-old mare that had 
been nursing a colt the past Summer and 
•was thin. I fed her on whole oats and 
wheat middlings and worked her quite 
heavily for about a month, when some¬ 
thing went wrong. She* came home very 
tired and weak, and has continued so for 
the last six or eight weeks. She is very 
hearty to eat, will even eat what bed¬ 
ding she can reach. She starts out with 
a load quite brisk in the morning, but 
fags out and is weak and logy before 
night. I have suspected kidney trouble 
as she makes water too often and for 
some time after iirst taken she sweated 
nights in the flanks. • I have just had her 
teeth fixed up. Is there any remedy you 
would advise? A. ir. b. 
New York. 
Have the mare clipped and then blan¬ 
ket her when standing out of doors, and 
in the stable also if it is cold. Feed 
whole oats, bran and good hay as advised 
in other an.swers on indigestion. If pos¬ 
sible, let her occupy a box stall in the 
stable. All food should be sound. Pro¬ 
fuse or too frequent urination commonly 
is caiLsed by moldy hay or musty oats. 
No medicine should be necessary if you 
work her lightly and have her take active 
outdoor exerci.se when there is no work 
for her to do, A. S. A, 
Want to Know 
Would it be po.^ible to remove the 
small spurs from cockerels when young 
on .something the same principle as the 
button horns are killed on calves? a. f. 
New York. ••; • - . 
Farm Help Wanted 
W-ANTED—Married farnfer; house and' privi- 
loftes; $50 per nK)Uth. . HOHM-ANN BKOS., 
Princeton, New Jersey. 
A GENEHAE IIOSPITAE of 100 beds, fifteen 
miles from New York City, offers a two-year 
and six months’ course to young women who 
can present a grammar school diploma and a 
certificate of at least one year of high school 
^york. High school graduates preferred. A new 
fireproof nurses’ home was opened March 1st. 
Address SUPERINTENDENT, Hackensack Hos¬ 
pital, Hackensack, N.’J. 
WANTED—Herdsman, single, 25 to 35 years, 20 
cows, B. E. K. milker; Grade A raw milk; 
Westchester: Co. NO. 2089, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—Men who can milk 15 cows no other 
experience necessary; certified milk dairy, 27 
miles from New York; no boozers. Address NO. 
2035, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Clean, reliable man to care for a 
few cows on estate and some farm work. All 
year work, good pay and cottage for right man. 
Also want first-class useful man for heater, 
floors, lawns, etc.: married or single; references 
required. MEADOW FARM, Hartsdale, N. Y. 
HOOKS MADE 
TO STAY O N 
LONGER 
PATENTED IN U..«5 
DEC.I, 191.4 
PATENTED IN CANADA 
APRIL 6,1915 
W i 
Mmf/M. 
Our new patented staple and felt re¬ 
inforcing device gives a larger, firmer 
hold than is possible by any other form of at¬ 
tachment—hence hooks do not pull off easily .This 
adds to life of pad. This form of attachment is 
Found Only on Pads Made by Us 
Ask your dealer for free Tapatco booklet. Shows 
pads in colors and contains valuable horse reme¬ 
dies. If ho hasn't it, ask him to write us direct. 
The American Pad & Textile Co.fGreenfield, 0. 
Canadian Branch: Chatham, Ontario 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
tions Wanted admitted. For subscribers only. Deal¬ 
ers, jobbers and general manufacturers’ announce- 
wlll not be accepted for this column. 
Copy must reach us not later than Frlds 
to appear In the following week’s Issue. 
Farm Help Wanted 
tial to be good calf raiser and buttermaker. 
Must offer unqualified references as to charac¬ 
ter and ability. Write fully giving age and na¬ 
tionality. NO. 2084, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Young man to act a.s teamster and 
make himself generally useful on farm; come 
at once ready for :mmediate work. EUGENE 
B. BENNETT, Easton, Pa., Route 3. 
WANTPID—Working farm manager, married, no 
children; sober; strictly honest, trustworthy; 
qualified take charge small farm Connecticut, 
experienced in crops, garden, stock, handy with 
tools; good home for right man. Reply In de¬ 
tail; references absolutely necessary. NO. 2099, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—A good farm hand for general work. 
Must be sober and well recpmmeiided; good 
board; wages thirty dollars a month. EDWARD 
HOWEN, Princeton, N. J. i r ; 
F’.ARM KEEPER, experienced in vegetables or 
fruit on farm within 40 miles of New York 
City, adjoining railroad station, trolley and 
town of 2000 people; opportunity to learn com¬ 
mercial farming and marketing. Man needed at 
once and several In May and June. Write fully 
wages wanted, etc. , NO. 2122, care Rural 
New-Yorker. ' ' 
WANTED—Single man as milker in certified 
milk stable. Also good man for farm work. 
Good wages for steady men. NO. 2114, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
HEEP WANTED—Neat, energetic, young or 
middle aged man who desires good home 
with young couple on small farm. Must be able 
to milk two cows, drive horse, care for chick¬ 
ens and garden. ^ Good future for a bustler. 
State wages and 'experience. NO. 2111, care 
Rural New-Yorker. . 
WANTED—Young married , man as greenhouse 
helper; no experience necessary; must be 
strong, willing, sober, honest; steady work, $45 
per month, free rent. KRETSCHMAR BROS., 
West Nyack, N. Y. 
WANTED—Strong bo^’, .$15 and board to start; 
preferably vyith 'some market garden exper¬ 
ience. Apply F. H. CARTER, 922 Clove Road', 
West'Brightori, S. I. ' 
MAN AND WIFE WANTED on small farm in 
Eitchfleld, Connecticut, to farm and care for 
property in owner’s absence. Wife must be 
able to cook, preserve, and do general house¬ 
work. Farm experience not essential for man, 
but references for sobriety and honesty abso¬ 
lutely indispensable. Good opportunity for capa¬ 
ble couple who want to break away from city 
life. NO. 2107, care Rural New-Yorker. 
W.ANTED—Working foreman, about forty, mar- 
charge of general farm near 
Buffalo, and to board one man. New bunga¬ 
low, running water and gas furnislied; per¬ 
manent position the year around. Please write 
giving references to C. S. CEARK, 08 Norwood 
Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 
YOUNG MAN WANTED on small general. 
poultry farm a.s assistant to owner. Good 
borne, food and treatment for good-natured 
faithful fellow who likes country life. Write 
fully in first letter. State wages expected. If 
possible enclo.se photo. No hot-headed grouch 
need apply. BURR HOEEISTER, Washington, 
Conn. 
iT.v.ii—.-v uiisuiess proposi- 
tion. A homo with modern conveniences 
Four miles on trolley and macadam to Ithaca 
and Cornell University. Exceptional educa¬ 
tional op|)ortunities. Beautiful location, over¬ 
looking Cayuga Lake. Write for complete de- 
scription. K ENMORE FARM, Ithaca, N. Y. 
WANTED—To lease, with option of buying, 
farm of seven to thirty-five acres of well 
drained soil, suitable for potato growing with 
buildings; must be strongly constructed, on 
Long Island or Southern New Jersey preferred 
one within commutli\g distance to New York! 
NO. 2112, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—A poultry and fruit farm, fine 
buildings, good land, one half mile from sta¬ 
tion, stocked with two thousand hens, horses, 
cows, all kinds of implements, household furni¬ 
ture. Will sell on easy terms at a bargain, 
FITZPATRICK, Owner, Groton, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—KiO. acre dairy farm, level, good 
buildings; team and 11 Holstein cows in¬ 
cluded for $5,000. R. H. SMITH, R. 4, 
Bainbridge, N, Y. 
FARM TO RENT—40 acre farm to rent by 
honest, reliable, sober man, single preferred. 
Address P. O., BOX 53, Medford, L. I. 
FOR S.4EE or exchange, 40 acres apples and 
prunes, new bungalow and barn. 35 miles 
from Portland, Oregon. Price, $15,000. P. F. 
STANDISH, Estacada, Ore. 
ALFALFA and grain farm, 142 acres 1’/. miles 
from creamery, canning factory, stores, high' 
school, churches, i/t mile to State road; good 
buildings, complete set farming tools, spring 
water in -iiouse and t)arn; 20 iiead cattle 4 
hor.ses, 100 hems. Price $12,000.. Immediate 
possession. MRS. MARY O’CO.NNOR, Kno.x- 
boro, N. Y, 
FOR RENT—27-acre farm, E. I., on good road 
with buildings, rent .$250. Address MR. 
BLANKE, 32 Hooker Street, Glendale, E. I. 
FOR SALE—Farm 197 acres, good buildings, 
running water, new house, modern furnished; 
hor.ses, stock, farm implements, seed timber; 
near lake, 2»/4 miles station. GUSTAV 
RUETZEER, Hamilton, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—30 acre farm at Calverton, E. I.; 
best farming section on island. 20 acres till¬ 
able, 500 fruit trees. Sacrifice to quick buyer. 
No. 2118, care Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN W.\NTED to help around green¬ 
houses; steady work year round: wages to 
start $12 per week. ALF’RED BURTON, Chest¬ 
nut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 
WANTED—Married working farmer, wages $40 
per month, with good house and fuel; also 
fine garden good place for the right sob+'r man; 
no milking. Address with references, NO. 2109, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Man on farm about April 1st.; ex¬ 
perienced gard'ener. C. FRANK COLBY, 
Portland, Me., R. 4. 
1 WANTED—Young man, willing worker, sober, 
! moderate pay; good home on small farm; 
1 chance of advancement. PHILIP B. PEACFl, 
1 Birchrunville, Pa. 
1 CARPENTER WANTED for summer to build' 
1 henhouse and alter barn; a.ssistance given; 
1 state experience and wages wanted in first letter. 
1 WILLIAM M. CRANE, Richmond, Mass. 
1 WANTED—Superintendent for Charlton Indus- 
1 trial F’arm Scliooi, 300 acres land, 30 boys to 
1 manage. A Christian business man wanted. 
1 Wife as matron, if possible. Apply to W. I. 
1 CAVERT, Ballston Spa, N. Y., R. 2. 
1 WANTED—Man wlio can run tractor, automo- 
1 bile and to be generally useful. .$30 per month 
1 and board. CRYST^VL SPRING FARMS, Mil- 
1 lington, N. J. 
1 WANTED—Single man on milk farm; good 
1 milker; handy with team; state age, wages 
expected; give references. S. D. NEWELL. 
1 Bristol Conn. 
1 WANTED—Boy, 13 or 10 years; must be ambi- 
1 tlous and strong and of good habits, to work 
■ on up-to-date truck and vegetable farm; wages 
to start $10 per month and board. NO. 2100, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—General man for small farm, single, 
temperate; permanent position with advance¬ 
ment for energetic man handy wltli tools. Full 
I)articulnrs and references in .first letter. 
WILLIAM M. CRANE, Richmond, Mass. 
WANTED at once, sober, reliable, married 
man for up-to-date dairy farm. Must be 
clean, dry hand milker; $55, house,.fuel, milk; 
raise to $00 if satisfactory, Addresa, SPRING 
F'ARM DAIRY, Moncssen, Pa. 
OFPEIl kitchen, bedroom, bath, return care 
office and telephone* Also two rooms at 
farm, use land*, tools, supplies, return doing 
chores and care garden. Part time employ- 
. ment man or woman or both, DR. DFIMING, 
Georgetown, Conn. 
1 Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
FOR SALF!—TJp-to-date 420-acre stock and dairy 
farm fully equipped and stocked, 340 r.cres 
tinder cultivation, 28 miles from Washington, 
D. C., (4 mile from railroad station: fine train 
service to Washington; splendid neighborhod and 
fine location. NO. 2022, care Rtiral New-Yorker. 
14-ACRB FARM, 10-room house wltli running 
water; basement barn, new; outbuildings; all 
in good shape; plenty fruit of all kind; also 
berries, grapes, asparagus; on State road’ near 
town; good schools and neighbors; healthy loca¬ 
tion. Address NO. 2094. care Rural New- 
Yorker, 
230 ACRES in Delaware fruit belt, five tliou- 
sand bearing trees, good land, near railroad 
and market; a money maker, fine buildings, de¬ 
lightful country; particulars given; no agents. 
NO. 2075, care Rural New-Yorker. 
SALE—New Paltz, N. Y., fine residence, 
12 rooms, village Improvements, 8 acres, fine 
building sites, fruit, barn, poultry house, near 
normal school, post office, station; sell cheap to 
close estate. C. H. WOOLSEY, New Paltz, 
N. Y. 
FOR SALE—F,astern Massachusetts poultry 
farm or summer liome, 12 acres, 300 fruit 
trees, good buildings, running spring water, 
bou.se and barn near lake; $1,500, NO. 2054 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
NEAR-BY New Jersey Farm For Sale, near 
trolley and large town; 28 acres, good soil 
and buildings. H. R. LUDWIG, K. F’. D. No. 2 
Rahway, New Jersey. ’ 
SIX FARMS FOR SALE, New York and New 
Jersey fruit, dairy and truck. HARRY VAIL 
Owner, Warwick, N. Y. - 
poultry, fruit farm. NO. 
2090, care Rural New-Yorker. 
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FOR SALE—Hardwood cut-over land, silt loam, 
clay subsoil, not sandy, nor gravelly. Gent¬ 
ly rolling; dairy proposition; land located In 
Langlade and Marathon Counties, Wisconsin. 
Write for prices and terms. NO. 2110, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—80 acre farm, level and rolling, 
200 fruit trees, good potato and garden soil. 
Price $3,500. BOX 21, Athens, N. Y. 
Situations Wanted 
WANTED—Position on Pennsylvania farm, ex¬ 
perienced in caring for poultr.v and private 
estate. NO. 2082, care Rural New-Yorker. 
COMMERCIAL I’OUETRYMAN. intelligent and 
reliable, desires position on plant or build and 
manage commercial plant; thorouglily under¬ 
stands incubation, brooding and feeding for eggs; 
married; no children; state full particulars; ex¬ 
cellent references. NO. 2085, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
FARM SUPERINTENDENT or horticultural ex¬ 
pert open for engagement with private es¬ 
tate or commercial proposition; graduate of 
New York State School of Agriculture; life ex¬ 
perience In general farming, expert with sheep, 
dairy and general stock. NO. 2121, care Rural 
.New-Yorker. 
FARM MANAGER with experience, energy and 
ability open for engagement; thoroughly ex¬ 
perienced in all branches of modern farming, in¬ 
cluding all stock, crops and orchard work; qual¬ 
ified to handle any farming proposition. XO. 
2113 care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM MANAGER with 20 years’ practical ex¬ 
perience, wishes to correspond with parties 
wanting a man who can get results. Address 
NO. 2108, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED by Cornell graduate (sin¬ 
gle) with some practical experience; prefer¬ 
ably on poultry and general farm. NO. 2105, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN, 18, American good habits, will¬ 
ing, wishes farm position; good home d'esired. 
ABB SLOM, 1.538 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn N. Y. 
YOUNG MAN 19, good dry hand milker, wants 
all-year work on dairy or truck farm; best 
reference. CHARLES HANSEN, 439 Broadhead 
PI., Perth Amboy, New Jersey. 
POULTRYMAN—Expert, full practical, knowl¬ 
edge, desires po.sltion as manager. A-1 Ref- 
-4. AV A Ut'l'lltfn iJUMLlOU 113 
manager or assistant on poultry farm. E. 
MAYNARD CONDON, Linio Rock, Conn, 
^ Y —Avxriiuuiw ocuicu larm lorenian, 
forty; exi)ert sheep man, thoroughly familiar 
A. TV AXiv A. uiaii ou com- 
mercial poultry farm in Massachusetts, with 
TV AA.XX X a;aa-»- Ujf lie ^UUIlg IIJUII, 
twenty-six years, of good antecedents, gencr- 
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private position; consider shares. NO. 211G, 
A.AAAxx, XA.*/, ui. ^uuii eiiuiueifi, 
American, energetic, desires work on up-to- 
Miscellaneous 
producer and get the best. ALBER'r FISHER, 
Rupert, Vt. 
A.AAAx A-#Ax o X XX , o u ipiiif iiiw I’cuuy; price, 
one gallon, $1.75; case, (5 gallons, $10; un- 
v/iv —c^uuugaieu oany cnix Doxes, new; 
feed hoppers, drinking fountains, etc.; second- 
AAxv Ajx AA.AXXAJ1W ut It i^eiiiirig ii 11, 
P. tank, 150 gallons; horse drawn; cost $2(!5, 
I'OR SALE—4 Cyphers Portable Hovers and 
Heaters in A No. 1 condition. F. M. DAVIS 
Cha.se Poultry F'arm. Cincinnatus, N. Y., R. d! 
F(Hl SYRUP and sugar write to 
C. J. YODER, Grantsvllle, Md. 
FOR SALE—New one-ton Model D Erie Trailer 
all complete. BOX 57, Westbury, L. I. 
FOR SALFl—3 390-egg Cyphers incubators at 
o ^ Cyphers incubator at $15; 
orvn Colony Brooders, coal burning; capacity 
300-500’ perfect condition, $20 each;' 1 Hill 
2 egg cabinets, capa- 
PillEIP DAWSON, 
R. F. D. No. 3, Alexandria, Va. 
Mounted Olds 6 horse engine, 
slightly u.sed. New Flureka No. 2 corn 
planter, never uncrated. BOX 34, Mahopac 
Falls, New York. 
IWO SEATED Cutunder carriage, one and two 
horse delivery wagons, for sale clieap. Am 
using automoldles. Flxcliange for .Tersey Red 
or lierl^shire swine. H. A. CROASDALE, Dela¬ 
ware Water Gap, Penna. 
WANTED—Quantity of one and’ two inch 
poultry netting. .State width. SLOAN, 
Cornwall, N. Y. 
H.\ND MADE F''ibor Brooms, will excliange for 
day-old chicks or iiu incubator, (IHc, stamps, 
posH)aul. W. C. WILLIAMS, North Lawrence! 
FOR SALE—Seven Prairie State portal)Ie liovers 
used once, $5 each; KMJ-egg Old Trusty, $5; 
240-egg Sure llatch’ $10; all good condition. 
W. K. MARIIN, Now Paris, O. 
F'OR SALE—A Domestic 2(4 H. P. 150 gal. tank 
power sprayer. Practically as good* as now- 
cost .$203 will take $135.'^ Also 1000 S 
Simplex brooder stove. Price $8. B B 
CHASE, Wyoming, Del. 
FOR S.'VLE—Standard Cyphers incubator, capa- 
MT*condition, $15. WALTER 
McLF.OD, Rowland, N. C. 
N'<> 3 Ol.IVER TYPEWRITER for sale. Price 
$18. S. J. MILLER, Grantsville, Md. 
WANTED—Drag saw with power feed attach- 
ment. ARTHUR JOHNSON, Suffern, N. Y. 
