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SEA ISLE CITY, N. 
J. 
Farmers an the Food Crisis 
Booming City Gardening 
I attended the .ngrieultural meeting on 
April 21, one of the meetings held all 
over the State hy Governor’s proclama¬ 
tion. I think it was a failure. Not 
many there; no enthu.siasm; no one 
talked except semi-farmers and oity peo¬ 
ple. The general speaker .said nothing 
except what all the newspapers are 
printing, and the talk developed into 
city gardening. They recommended 
spading up every square foot of soil I’e- 
gardles.s of its fertility and physical con¬ 
dition. I think I Avill look up some of 
those gardens next Summer and see 
whether they need a hoe or a scythe. 
The real farmer is not taking much in¬ 
terest in these frothy discussions, hut 
he is planning and working 12 to 16 
hours daily, and wondering if his horses 
will hold out, and where he is going to 
get the money for this increased pro¬ 
duction. c. R. M, 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 
Let City Workers Try It 
Tour newspaper clippings remarks on 
page 5S0 just about hit a city relation 
of mine. I received a letter from him 
this last week advising me to plant all 
I could, that there would be a large 
shortage of foodstulTs. He says I can 
raise a fair crop without fertilizer if I 
“plant seeds fit for the soil.’’ I wrote 
back to him th.-it there would not be 
much ill his line of business on account 
of the wai’, and advi.sed him to hire some 
land, and put in his .spare time culti¬ 
vating the laud. It looks as if the city 
people are getting scai-ed that there will 
not be enough food to go round next 
Fall, so they are all crying to the far¬ 
mer, “Raise more stuff so we can live.” 
In the meantime they want to keep on 
working a few hours in the day and 
putting in the rest of the time enjoying 
themselves. Rut the farmer must work 
longer hours in order to feed these idle 
people. There are rumors of what the 
government is going to do to the far¬ 
mers who will not cultivate all their 
I laud. 
I would suggest that the government 
send inspectors to the cities and impose 
fines on those who are throwing away 
time, time that they could just as well 
use in cultivating crops. Men who have 
made a failure in the city drift hack to 
the country to get along someliow; those 
who succeed iu the city could just as 
well get out and work ou a farm as 
the failures. They should realize it as 
.something they could do if they tried. 
Long Island. GKO. puosSEii. 
School Teachers as Farm Helpers 
“How can I do my bit for my coun¬ 
try?” is the burning question before the 
average man today. The farmer is also 
asking himself this question : How can 
I get my crops in the ground, and thou 
in the barn, this year, with labor almost 
unpurchasablc? There are a great many 
men teachers iu the public schools of 
the United States who were country 
boys. In what bettor way can they 
serve Uncle Sara, than ’by enlisting iu 
the army of farm laborers, during the 
Summer vacatiou, to help harvest the 
crops? By so doing they will help feed 
the world—and besides, it will do the 
teachers good. o, w. F. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
If the.se teachers who wore country 
boys were brought up on a farm and 
know the work, a few days should harden 
them up, so that they should be of value 
helping on a farm. The great question 
for these men is their board which at 
present prices would be nearly .$8 a 
week for a workingman, and the farmer 
has to take them iu his home and family, 
as very few farms today have boarding¬ 
houses for their men. But the proposed 
closing of the city liigli schools and send¬ 
ing the hoys out to help tlie farmers is, 
to put it mildly, a great mi.stake, for 
while there is a place ou every farm 
for a .smart boy, more than one boy is a 
nuisance. I have heard my father say, 
“One boy is a boy, two boys, half a boy, 
and three boys, no boy at all.” If they 
are so anxious to help the farmer let 
them send out .some tractors that can 
plow as much in one day as a farmer 
can in a week with ids team, and go from 
one farm to another plowing. The far¬ 
mer will gladly pay for this, and it will 
help him get in more crops with less ex- 
pen.se, and be of real value to the coun¬ 
try. There are lots of farms that are 
not woi’ked to their capacity for the rea¬ 
son tliat a farmer has not enough land to 
pay for a tractor, so all he can do is 
to do his liest with his team. And I 
want to caution everyone not to plant 
more than you can care for right, as it 
will be waste of seed and labor. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
Sweet Clover in Vernaont 
Why is it that people in Vermont 
consider Sweet clover a bad we<‘d? 
Massachusetts. w. ir. G. 
.\re you sure they do .so con.sider it? 
M’^e shall have to ask them to speak for 
themselves. M'e know of some places 
whore Sweet clover was considered a 
post until it was understood. Then it 
became a blessing. 
Homemade Disinfectant 
In loiiking over some old files of your 
papers I noticed an article wherein you 
stated that a chemical to be u.sed as a 
di.sinfectant for an indoor closet couKl 
be prejiared at home or by any druggist 
cheaply, ('ouid you give me the formula 
for same? ir. E. F. 
Spruce, Mich. 
I do not know to what chemical or 
combinatiiiu of chemicals the article of 
which you speak had roforeiice. If you 
will send me the clipping, I may be able 
to infiinn you. The chemicals used by 
the manufacturers of indoor closets are 
not named iu their advertisements, as 
they endeavor to keep their nature se¬ 
cret. There are numerous disinfectant 
solutions on the market and various 
chcinicaks tliat can be u.sed for the pur¬ 
pose you 'mention. A good grade of 
chloride of lime is an excidlout disin¬ 
fectant for closets, though that found in 
the market is frequently inert, or nearly 
so. Fresh, uuslaked, lump lime added to 
the contents of a closet when there is 
sufficient liiiuid in the contents to cause 
slaking of the lime is a good di.sinfect- 
aut. M. B. D. 
Alfalfa in Spring Seeding 
I note on page 2SS you advise mixing 
Alfalfa with .Spring seeding. You here 
state ([uantity ; later on you advise Alsike 
clover mixed with Red, but give no pro¬ 
portions. Will you advise? C. A. S, 
I’enusylvauia. 
Our suggestion is to use from one to 
two pounds of Alfalfa seed mixed in 
whenever seeding to clover. There will 
not be much Alfalfa to begin with, but 
after a while the Alfalfa will work in 
more and more, and the soil will become 
inoculated, so that the Alfalfa will do 
much bettei’. Regarding Alsike, ou our 
own farm, we u.«e half Alsike and half 
Rod clover when seeding. This is be¬ 
cause our own soil is inclined to be acid, 
and we find that the Alsike will do much 
better on the sour spots. On good clover 
land where the soil is alkaline we should 
use only one-third Alsike. In any event 
we think it pays to use some of this 
clover. Somewhat like sowing Red-top 
with Timothy seed; it thickens up the 
crop, grows ou patcho.s where the Red 
would uot thrive, and usually adds quite 
a little to the total crop. 
Cleani.yg Wheat. —The South 
Dakota News tells the following of a 
farmer who worked a fanning mill to 
good advantage: 
“Here’s one farmer’s experience in 
getting a bigger profit on his wheat: He 
took a sample to the elevators, lie was 
told it graded between No. 3 and No. 4, 
while another thought his grain might 
grade No. 3. He was uot satisfied, .so 
be cleaned up a load of 47 bushels and 
got seven bushels of weed seed and 
shrunken seed. The cleaned grain grad¬ 
ed No. 1 Northern and the price was 36 
cents per bushel more than he would 
have received for No. 4. He obtained 
.$0.40 for his labor and the extra seven 
bushels of line hog feed. It paid him 
as it will pay any farmer.” 
That beats paying the miller to do it 
for him. An organization of farmers 
could put in the machinery and do this 
cleaning co-operatively at a light ex¬ 
pense. 
