CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, April 14, 1917. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Land Plaster and Lime .541, 542 
Sudan Grass and Canada Thistles .543 
Peas and Oats for Hay .643 
A Wisconsin Farmer’s Experience .543 
New Sources of American Potash .544 
Harvesting Field Beans .544 
Insects in Beans .545 
Buckwheat as Weed Killer .546 
Sweet Clover in the South.546/ 
Hope Farm Notes .564 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .662 
Three Horse Hitches .569 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Vermont Milking Shorthorn .560 
Sheep Questions .560 
Producing High-class Heifers .660, 561 
Money in Angus-Holstein Steers .561 
A Homemade Halter .661 
Simple Treatment for Lice .661 
Making Sweet Butter .562 
Northern Ohio Dairymen Win .662 
Hard Churning .562 
Churning Whole Milk .662 
Cheapening Ration for Calves .563 
Calf With Bloat .563 
Ration for Freshening Heifer .563 
Improving Ration .563 
Fattening Pigs .564 
Crops and Feeding for Young Pigs.664 
Feeding Dry Cows .664 
Feeding to Avoid Garget .664 
Growing Mangels; Feeding Beet Pulp.664 
Poor Milk Flow .664 
Summer Itch .565 
Lameness Following Cut ..566 
Depraved Appetite .566 
Nervous Horse .666 
Bed Sore .666 
Cure for Cribbing .665 
THE HENYARD. 
Turkey and Duck Eggs in Incubator.666 
Hens With Liver Trouble .666 
Weak Chicks . 566 
Brooder Stove; Ready Mixed Chick Food.666 
Egg-laying Contest .567 
Water Glass Eggs .669 
Experience With Nests .569 
Golden Campines .669 
Feeding for Eggs .669 
HORTICULTURE. 
Bridge-grafting for Girdled Trees .642 
Tobacco Dust for Aphis .544 
Apple Figures from Nova Scotia .644 
An Orchard Brush Burner .644 
Summer Flowers .546 
Notes from Maryland Garden .647 
Ben Davis in Storage .647 
Starting a Pear Orchard .649 
Poultry in Sprayed Orchard .649 
Value of Fruit Trees .649 
Sweet Peas for Cut Flowers .651 
Onion Culture .553 
Pigs in Peach and Apple Orchard.563 
Hardiness of Persimmons .666 
Strawberry Short-cut .665 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .668 
The Rural Patterns .668 
Seen in New York Shops .558 
The Rural Patterns .668 
Embroidery Designs ..668 
A May-day Entertainment for the Children. .669 
Black Chocolate Cake .569 
Potato Doughnuts .669 
Drop Graham Cookies .559 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Borrowing I-^ney in Massachusetts .643 
Making and Canning Maple Syrup .646 
There Were Two Continents .648 
Notes from Department of Foods and Mar¬ 
kets .560 
Boston Produce Markets .650, 552 
Drainage of Road Across Farm .552 
Highway Repairs; Width of Road .552 
Execution Against Bank Account .552 
Working on Sunday .562 
Recording Deed .652 
Grade of Lots; Barb Wire Fence .662 
Editorials .666 
A Revised Wicks Bill at Albany .656 
Now for the Towner-Smith Bill .666 
Events of the Week . 662 
Weaning the Gasoline Engine .668 
Publisher’s Desk .670 
Killing Locust Stumps 
It might be of interest to know how 
tlie writer eradicated some locust 
stumps that grew on the line of his 
farm. The trees had been cut several years 
before we obtained the farm. Being very 
strong growers, there was a quantity of 
second growth growing from those stumps. 
We decided to get them out, but how to 
do it was a que.stion. Old-time neighbor 
farmers could not answer. I thought 
dynamite would do it, and decided to 
give it a trial. Holes were made direct¬ 
ly under the stumps in a slanting di¬ 
rection .so that the charge would be di¬ 
rectly under the middle of the stump, 
one hole under each stump. Several 
of the stumps had lateral roots of good 
size near the surface. A bore hole wa.9 
made into each one of them. Into the 
holes under the stumps were loaded two 
sticks of 40% dynamite, and half a stick 
in each hole in the lateral roots. These 
charges were connected with the battery 
and discharged. With one exception the 
.stumps came out with a big portion of 
thin roots. The one that did not was 
badly split. The second growth was 
l)iled around and fire set to it. This 
was done later, as the growth was very 
green. It took two fires to reduce the 
stump. Late that Fall .some of the roots 
made a feeble attempt to shoot sprouts. 
They never got large as the roots were 
badly racked by the blasting, and the 
severe Winter finished them. No sprouts 
appeared the next .Summer, nor ever 
since. fked a. kuhn. 
Erie Co., N. Y. 
Wholesale Slaughter of Moles 
My land was so infested with the 
common mole that I could scarcely raise 
any truck, strawberries or anything that 
I planted. These moles would make 
their runs in the centre of each row. and 
eat or raise out of the ground more than 
half of my sweet corn and peas. They 
had my strawberry patch honeycombed 
with their runs. I lost thousands of 
strawberry plants by these subterranean 
pests. 
I decided that I must get rid of the 
moles or give up my garden, so I de¬ 
cided against the mole, and started to 
poison them. I soaked .sweet corn in 
arsenic, also in l*aris green, and put it 
in their runs. I kept this up with vigor 
for several weeks, and to the best of my 
knowledge I did not kill one mole, and 
do not believe it can be done that way. I 
inay have killed some of the short-tailed 
field_ mice which use the mole's run.s. 
Having failed in my poisoning method I 
sent to Washington for a bulletin on 
moles, which gave me some -aluable in¬ 
formation. 
I learned that moles could be trapped, 
.so I bought four harpoon traps and .set 
them over the runs of the moles. In 
less than four months I had trapped and 
killed 40 moles; eight of this number 
were dug out by my bird dogs, Mike and 
Dan, and I think they would have killed 
very many more but in doing so would 
have dug up my whole strawberry patch. 
These 40 moles were killed on about 
three-quarters of an acre. I have about 
iy 2 acre in Alfalfa, and that field would 
remind one of the 1’. K. R. tracks at 
West Philadelphia. I have not noticed 
that the moles have done any damage to 
my Alfalfa, except that they keep the 
field soft with their hundreds of runs, 
^ow that I have them nearly all killed 
in my garden I shall start in the Spring 
to trap them in my Alfalfa field, and I 
expect this field will double the 46 killed 
in my garden. 
uuiuMiu wlii len 
do the 
.1- 11^ Ul IIIIH'III, 
that it is a question which will 
most damage, the moles or the worms 
which they eat. It is true that the.s( 
moles eat the Avorms that destroy somt 
of our plants. But tlnu'e is no question 
in my mind which will do the most dam¬ 
age. I will kill the moles, and take mj 
chances with the Avoniis. j, a. m 
Pleasautville, N. J, 
Cleaning Out Rats 
ilany of our readers have written us 
recently about cleaning the rats out of 
old buildings. In a number of c.'ises peo¬ 
ple have moved on farms which have 
been unoccupied for .some time, and they 
find the houses and barns filled with rats. 
There are usually holes under these 
buildings which make it impo.ssible to 
fumigate, and there are so many of the 
rats that the ordinary outfit of cats and 
dogs cannot keep them down. If it is 
pos-sible to get an outfit of boys or 
men, and one or two ferrets, a good job 
can be done by letting the ferret get un¬ 
der the barn. Perhaps two ferrets would 
be needed for a large job. The ferret 
does not appear to kill many of the rats, 
but they run out on his appearance, and 
will get away through the holes from 
under the barn. Men and boys with a 
good outfit of dogs, stationed at the 
holes, will get most of the rats as they 
come out, and in this way they will get 
rid of the pests. In many cases this 
plan is not feasible, and a number of 
farmers lun'e tried the rat virus or dis¬ 
ease germs for killing out the rats. This 
material is a culture of the germs of 
a disease which attacks rats, but does 
not seem to affect other farm animals. 
The virus is fed to the rats by putting 
it in a dish of cornmeal or other food 
which the rats enjoy. The disea.se wilT 
spread from one rat to another, and if 
it can be thoroughly spread the rats will 
disappear as though an Egyptian plague 
had passed over them. We have reports 
from-quite a number of farmers who 
tried this plan. These reports vary con¬ 
siderably. In .some cases the disease 
germs have certainly cleaned out the rats 
thoroughly. In other cases farmers re- 
jiort little success. In others they say 
that for a time the rats disappeared, only 
to come back again. In the latter ca.se 
it is possible that the di.sease did kill off 
most of the rats, but that later other 
rats came_ in from elsewhere to occupy 
the building. We think the plan is 
worth trying wherever these rats are very 
numerous, although of course no noe can 
absolutely guarantee great success from 
its use. 
Mrs, .Tekinson, a regular visitor in 
the doctor’s consulting room, sta'rted on 
the long story of her troubles. The doc¬ 
tor endured it patiently and gave her an¬ 
other bottle. At last she started to go, 
and the doctor was congratulating him¬ 
self, when .she stopped and exclaimed: 
“Why, doctor, you didn’t look to see if 
my tongue was coated.” “I know it 
i.sn’t,” wearily replied the medical man. 
“You don’t find grass on a race track.”— 
7'lie Epivorth Herald. 
DO YOU 
MEED 
FARM 
HELP? 
We have many able-bodied yonng 
men, mostly without farming 
experience, who wish to work 
on farms. If you need a good, 
steady sober man, write for an 
order blank. Ours is a philanthrop¬ 
ic, organizatioh and we make no 
charge to employer or employee. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
176 Second Avenue New York City 
ForSale-T«oWiiiilinillsnfi.’"5S!'?:“,{r£izS 
14-inch double glass, auantity wrought pipes, boil¬ 
ers. ventilating apparatus and sash, 4 complete 
greenhouses, 25x175. Sell very cheap. Remove at 
once. i. SUESSERMAN, 104 Ridoewood Ave., Newark, N. J. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Complying with several .siiggestions received recent¬ 
ly, wo open a doiiartment here to enable RURAL 
NEW-YORKER renders to supply each other’s wants. 
If you want to buy or sell or exchange, make it 
known here. This Rate will bo 5 Cents a word, pay¬ 
able in advance. The name and address mu.st bo 
counted as part of the advertisement. No display 
typo used, and only Farm I’roducts, Help and Po.si- 
tlons Wanted admitted. For subscribers only. Deal¬ 
ers, jobbers and general manufacturers’ annoum^e- 
ments not admitted here. Poultry. Eggs and other 
live stock advertisements will go tinder proper heail- 
Ings on other pages. Seed and Nursery advertisements 
will not bo accepted for this column. 
Copy must reach us not later than Friday morning 
to appear In the following week’s Issue. 
Farm Help Wanted 
WANTED—Men who can mlllc 1,’i cows no other 
experience neeessnry: certifled milk dairy, 27 
miles from New York; no booxors. Address NO. 
2035, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Young luau to aet as teamster and 
make himself generally useful on farm: come 
at once ready for ■mmediatc work. EUGENE 
B. BENNETT, Easton, Pa., Route 3. 
WANTED—Working foreman, about forty, mar¬ 
ried, to take charge of general farm near 
Buffalo, and to board one man. New bunga¬ 
low, running water and gas furnished; per¬ 
manent position the. year around. Plea.se write 
giving references to' C. S. CLARK, 08 Norwood 
Ave., Buffalo, N. Y, 
WANTED—Women as attendants in an institu¬ 
tion for the feeble-minded; salary .$25 a month 
and maintenance. Send references with applica¬ 
tion. Apply to SUPERINTENDENT, Letch- 
worth Village, Thiells, N. Y. 
WANTED—Men to work on institution farm 
with feeble-minded boys. Salary .$35 a month 
and maintenance. Send references wltli applica¬ 
tions. Apply to SUPERINTENDENT, Letch- 
worth Village, Thiells, N. Y. 
WANTED—Good A 1 cook for summer boarding 
homse of 50 at lake resort. Excellent wages lo 
right party. Start June 16. NO. 2129, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—At once, married man. dair.v farm; 
positively no drinking. W, II. MUNSON, 
Woodbury, Conn. 
WANTED—At once, a single man, between 25 
and 35 years; one that Is used to market gar¬ 
den farms and horses; must he soelahle; good 
wages; year round position. Address '1'., Box 
9, East Marion, L. I. 
WANTED—Good farm hand; must he able to 
plow and cultivate; steady work; wages $30 
and board. ROBERT L. CASE, Stamford, Conn. 
WANTED—Man and wife to work on small 
farm, man to assist farmer, wife to do gen¬ 
eral housework, cooking and lanndr.y; house has 
modern conveniences. Reply stating nationality, 
references amf wages wanted. NO. 2130, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Two farm hands eight months op 
year. EDWARD GONNER.MANN, Leeds, N. Y. 
WANTED—Man anil wife without children for 
fruit and dairy farm. House, fuel, garden, 
fruit, milk furnished: .$40 per month. M. C. 
WHITNEY, Su.siineliaiiim, Pa. 
WANTED—Experienced man for general farm 
work. No milking. State wages wanted. 
.T. 0. HESSE, '’mithtown, L. I., N. Y. 
WANTED—Single man to work In onr Swine 
Department of Registered Berkshires. Prefer 
one who has at least liad some experience in tlie 
care of hogs In general. State wages expected, 
and give references in first letter. Employment 
tlie year ’round. ,\d'dress SUPERTNTENDE.N’T 
SWINE DEPT., Branford Farms, Nlantic, Con¬ 
necticut, 
WANTED—Good farm hand' for general work. 
Wages $50 per month witli house and fuel. 
NO. 2132, care Rural New-Yorker. 
W.INTED—First-class dry hand milker in largo 
dairy. Must he able to milk 15 cows twice 
daily. State wages expected, with board. NO. 
2133, care Rural New-Yorker. 
GARDENER—Single, first-class man to work un¬ 
der outside superintendent, and take charge 
of 15-acro farm on estate near New York City. 
State age, experience, salary ifeslred, etc. Apply 
by letter to JAS. A. KELLY, Pleasautville, N. 
Y., care II. S. G. S. 
WANTED—Woman to take entire charge of 
small farm house and cook for owner and two 
men. State age, nationalit.y, and wages ex¬ 
pected. BOX 243, .St, Janies, L. I. 
WANTED—Two farm hands, wages $35, with 
hoard; no milking; must be solier, honest and 
reliable: references I’eiinired: farm in Connecti¬ 
cut. NO. 2138, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Good teamster who understands all 
kiiid.s' of farm machinery, also single hands, 
sober, single: wages .$30 and board, NO. 2130, 
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. 
SOME WOMAN, neat and cheerful, to do plain 
cooking and washing for a small family in a 
new country farm home with all conveniences 
to make the work easy and agreeable. NO. 
2134, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Situations Wanted 
POSITION WANTED by first-class practical gar¬ 
dener on gentleman’s private place; would pre¬ 
fer Long Island: niidcrstands inncbiiiery and all 
farm work, including fiowers, greenhouse, vege¬ 
tables, fruit, cows, poultry anef horses; clean 
and sober; no tobacco or drink; host references. 
Want steady position. Address NO. 2125, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as caretaker of gentleman’s 
estate by young married American, one cliild; 
have life experience on farms and estates; mi- 
d’orstand all crops, stock and gardens; nothing 
less than $75 a month accepted; Long Island 
preferred. NO. 2137, care Rural New-Yorker. 
CO.MMERCIAL POULTRY.MAN, intelligent and 
reliable, desires iiosition on ptant or build and 
manage cominereial plant. 'i’lioroughly under¬ 
stands inenhation, brooding and feeding for 
eggs. Married. No children. State full partic¬ 
ulars. Excellent references. NO. 2131, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
AMERICAN. 25 years, good character, conscien¬ 
tious worker, desires work on poultry farm 
where there might be an opportunity to go in 
partnership later; experience limited. NO. 2139, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
1\ ANTED—Positions as gardener and teamster 
by experieneed, married man and' son. JA.MES 
N. JONES, Oneoiita, N. Y. 
POSITION WANTED—Single man, 45, experi¬ 
enced farming, highest references; charge 
small country place or work on fruit farm. Ad¬ 
dress NO. 2128, care Rural New-Yorker. 
SINGLE MAN, capable taking full charge of 
gentloniaii’s farm and run it on a bnsine.ss 
basis; best of reference from last emiiloyor; 
state salary in first letter. NO. 2124, care Rural 
New-Yorker, 
I’OSITION WANTED as working farm or small 
estate manager; American, married man, age 
36; no liiinor or tolmceo; host reference; pro¬ 
duced certified milk; bred registered stock; 
good butter maker and poultryinan; modern 
metliods; practical experience; success guaran¬ 
teed; $75 to $100 per month. BOX 200. Ster- 
lington, N. Y. 
DAIRYMAN and herdsman open for position. 
Good butter maker; bred registered stock; 
American, married man, age 35; no liquor or 
tolmcco; reference; $75 per month. NO. 2135, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
lOR 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—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 
clos^ estate. C. H. WOOLSEY, New Paltz, 
FOR SaLe—E astern Massachusetts poultry 
farm or .summer home, 12 acres, 300 fruit 
trees, good buildings, rnniiing spring water, 
house and barn near lake; $1,500. NO. 2004, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
SIX FARMS FOR SALE, New York and New 
.Torsey fruit, dairy and truck. HARRY VAIL. 
Owner, Warwick, N. Y. 
Powltry. fruit farm. NO. 
2090, care Rural New-Yorker. 
130 ACRES on State road, 1 mile from Weeds- 
port, 50 acres Alfalfa, good buildings, stable 
for 22 cows, basement for young stock, 3 hay 
barns, large silo, lO-rooni house, furnace, city 
water in house and barns, plenty of choice fruit, 
22 heuif Holstelns, registered bull, 3 work teams 
and farm tools. M. H. FAATZ, Lock Box 94. 
Weedsport, N. Y. 
.$000 SECURES 200 acres, Montgomery County 
Dairy Farm, .$19.50 per acre, balance on long 
time, easy payments; possession at once; fine 
dwelling; good barns, amide buildings; good 
potato land and general farming. W. J. CROSS. 
Fnltonvllle, N. Y. 
D.ANDY FARM, 1.30 acres, within few miles 
largo thriving city; market excellent; nice 
colonial house, electric lights, bath, antomatle 
electric pump, water, steam heat, water In barn; 
auto trade at door; liberal discount for quick 
sale. Address RHODE ISLAND, No. 2126, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
DAIRY—Now barn and bungalow; all Improve¬ 
ments. Strictly sanitary. Grade A milk; 12c 
qt. Easy route. Barn built for 35 cows. Sell 
cheap for cash or easy terms; 17 miles to N. Y. 
City. FLORAL PARK DAIRY, Floral Park, L. 
1 • I ^ • JL • 
I'OR SALE—Six-room house on main road, I'i 
miles to town, fine brook running through; 
groat place for raising ducks. H. VAN 
HOUTKN, Spring Valley, N. Y. 
LONG ISLAND poultry farm, 6,000 capacity; 
cost .$20,000; will sell for ,$,5,500; photos and 
particulars. EMIL STEFFENS. Centro 
Moriches, N. Y. 
MOST up-to-date 10-acro chicken farm with 
stock and tools, 9-rooiu house, all modern Im¬ 
provements; onthnildlugs for live thousand 
fowls; near station; twenty miles down town for 
half of Its value; call only, CHARLES FREY, 
Demarest, N. J. 
inNAl^uJii DAIItY FAUM, flue buildings, near 
town; cause for selling accident to owner. 
G. W. VREELAND, Newark Valley, N. Y. 
FAR.M WANTED—For general farming from 160 
to 200 acres or better; don’t want to Imy 
eltlier sand or gravel or waste land; location 
preferred New York State, anywhere from ton 
to one hundred miles from Lake Ontario; give 
full particulars. Address HOMESEEKER, NO. 
2127, care Rural New-Yorker. 
HAVE well-equipped farm near splendid market 
and want an honest, efficient man with small 
capital, at once, to run It, and share the profits. 
References n.s to honor and' ability required. 
Address HALCYON FARM , Barrington, R. I. 
FOR SALE—For $1,800 cash, a truck and poul¬ 
try furni of 8 acres. House, barn, garage, in- 
cubator collar and food bouso, poultry housos 
with capacity for 600 layers; buildings alone 
worth .$2,000 : 2% miles from station. E. 
CLAUDE JONES, Craryvllle, N. Y. 
Miscellaneous 
FOR SALE—4 Cyphers Portable Hov’ers and 
Heaters In A No. 1 condition. F. M. DAVIS 
Chase Poultry F'arm. Clucinnatus, N. Y., R. D. 
No. 1. 
- cn ,uuaoi u r.,rie i raiior, 
all complete. BOX 57. Westbury, L. I 
SALE—3 390-egg Cyphers Incubators at 
r, ^ ISO **!?!? Cyphers incubator at $15; 
Colony Brooders, coal burning; capacity 
300-.)00. perfect condition, $20 each; 1 Hill 
“ ^^g cahiiiets. capa- 
city 800-1,200, at $6 and $9. PHILIP DAWSON. 
R. I'. D. No. 3, Alexandria, Va. 
II*\r.Ii PRK E—Mounted Olds 6 horse engine 
slightly used. New Eureka No. 2 corn 
planter, never uncrated. BOX 34, Mahopac 
Falls, New York. 
W.INTED—Drag saw with power feed attach¬ 
ment. ARTHT'R JOHNSON, Suffern, N. Y. 
FIFTY 360-egg Prairie State Lamp machines, 
ten to twelve dollars each. One 3,600 New¬ 
town; make offer. DENNIS G. HOMAN, River- 
head, L. I. 
WAMED—Team plow, furrowing sled, harrow, 
binder, <'<)rn planter, Holstein cows. MRS. 
STRONG, Millstone, New Jersey. 
FOR SALE—Simplex Brooder Stove, large size- 
used one sen.soii; good us new; fifteen dollars 
complete outfit. H. B. MORGAN, Araenla, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—1% horsepower gasoline 
brand new, .$22. R. HAMOND, 472 
Park West, New York City. 
engine. 
Central 
