CONTENTS 
the rural NEW-YORKER, May 6, 1917. 
FARM TOPICS. 
College Boys as Hired Men.638 
Hill vs. Drill Corn .638 
ciiirar Beet Growers and the Grange.638 
Seed Beans Should Be Tested .638 
Bean Fraud in Maine .642 
Mixing of Sweet and Field Com. 643 
Farmers and the Food Crisis . 644 
Sweet Clover in Vermont .644 
Alfalfa in Spring Seeding .641 
Cleaning Wheat .. 644 
Crops and Farm Notes .645 
A Trial of Cossack Alfalfa .646 
Hope Farm Notes .648. 649 
The Farm Labor Needs .651 
Seed Treatment of Potatoes .651 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .654 
Planting Ends of Potatoes .647 
Wood Ashes on Potatoes .647 
Soot as an Absorbent .647 
Utilizing Coal Ashes .647 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Hampshire Breed of Swine.654 
Coming Live Stock Sales .654 
Live Stock Notes .655 
A Well-balanced Ration .656 
Horse Meat for Hogs ..656 
Improving a Limited Ration .656 
Balancing a Ration .656 
Ration for Run-down Cows .656 
THE HENYARD. 
The Egg Contest . 
Loss of Ducklings . 
Water-glass Eggs . 
HORTICULTURE. 
660, 661 
.661 
.661 
Wliere Tree Roots Go .639, 640 
Wild Pear Seedlings .642 
Storage of Apples .642 
Black Ben Davis .642 
The Farmer's Home Garden .643 
Dewberry Culture .643 
Notes from a Maryland Garden .658 
An Interesting Old Description of a Well- 
known Apple .649 
Red Raspberries; Bush Beans .649 
Replacing Boston Ivy After Removal .648 
New Plant Immigrants .649 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .652 
Seen in New York Shops .652 
The Rural Patterns .652 
Another Chocolate Cake .652 
Another Way With Checker Cake.652, 653 
Making Garments at Home .663 
Embroidery Designs .663 
Pancakes .653 
Graham Crackers .653 
Graham and Spice Cookies .653 
Homemade Disinfectant .644 
Boston Produce Markets .646 
Editorials .660 
Legislative Happenings at Albany .651 
College Education and Freedom .651 
Notes from Dept, of Foods and Markets.651,'657 
Events of the Week .658 
Publisher’s Desk .662 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Facts About the Vinegar Business .638 
A Cow Pasture Fortune .639 
Cement for Leaky Cistern .640 
AILING ANIMALS 
Ringworm 
I liavo .T (l.'iiry of seven cows, five of 
which are heifers. They have bare si»ots 
on the top of their tails reacIiiiiR hack 
for at least 10 inches; also spots on their 
hips and neck, shoulders and legs. 'I’ln* 
hair seems scurfy and easily falls out, 
an<l the cattle rub these parts until they 
are raw and sore, and it is rapidly 
spreiiding. 'I'wo of these heifers seem 
partially itaralyzed at times and cannot 
^'et on their feet or stand, ('an yon tell 
me what is the trouble and what to do? 
rennsyU ania. A. B. 
Scrub the spots perfectly clean and 
then wet them at intervals of five days 
with a solution of two pounds of sul¬ 
phate of copper and one gallon of water. 
Pure tin(;ture of iodine applied twice 
daily is als-o effective, (.'leanse, disin¬ 
fect and whitewash the stable. Allow 
the lame heifers a box stall. If the 
trouble is not caused by tuberculosis of 
the bones they may then recover. 
A. S. A. 
Garget; Warts 
1. Heifer's udder is quite large and 
lumpy. I rub it every day, but do not 
seem to do an.v good. I have applied no 
ointment or grease. 2. Would you ad¬ 
vise a remedy for warts on cattle. 
Ma.ssachusetts. J. B. E. 
1. Twice daily rub in a mixture of one 
part each of turpentine and fluid ex¬ 
tracts of poke root and belladonna leaves 
and five parts of lanolin, lard or sweet 
oil. 
2. Twi.st f)ff large warts that have nar¬ 
row neek.s’. 'J'o nias.ses of small warts ap¬ 
ply daily by rubbing best castor oil fresh 
goose grease or axle grease. Pine tar 
also is useful. A. s. a. 
Worms 
I have a mare which has been affected 
with worms for some weeks past; the.v 
are the color and size of earthworms. I 
have u.sed the remedy so often prescribed 
by you but it seems to have no effect. 
This horse is young and has little to do 
beyond a three-mile drive morning and 
evening, but she never displays any life 
as a young horse should; she also 
stumbles, seems to have a weakness in 
the joint above the hoof in front feet. 
.\fter trying different combinations I am 
feeding .Alfalfa feed, bmight ready-mixed; 
it contains corn, and I do not know what 
elst*-; she also gets clean mixetl hay for 
roughage. S. C. w. 
I’eunsylvania. 
If she has “blood worms” (schleros- 
toma equimim) medicine often has little 
eff*Hd, and such worms often kill colts. 
Allow free access to rock salt. Feed whole 
oats, wheat bran, ear corn and mixed 
clover hay. Allow green grass in season, 
Niglit and morning for two weeks mix 
in the feed as a tonic a tahlespooiiful of 
a mixture of equal <piautitie.s by weight 
Ilf powdered copperas, saltpeter, mix 
vomica, gentian root and fenugreek. Rc- 
lieat if necessary after an interval of 
two weeks. A. B. A. 
Itching Skin 
Some time .ago I bought a collie puppy. 
He is now about Hi weeks old and ap¬ 
pears healthy, but he bites and claws 
himself sore. lie is washed with dog soap 
and is clean. He is healthy and grows, 
and does not yet any meat to eat at all; 
some thin bi'otli and a little l)re.,d. 
New .lersey. w. L. P. 
Feed the dog moat. That is the ;iat- 
nral feed for a dog, and it is a mistake 
to feed a lot of bread and iiotatiM's and 
tithoi* starchy feel. T.ct him live an out¬ 
door life. AVash him with a coal lar diji 
solution made according to directions 
given on the label of the container. Fleas 
may be causing the irritation. A. s. A. 
Trouble with Calf 
I am feeding my .lersey calf, four 
niiiutlis old, equal parts cornmeal. ground 
oats and bran, cooked, two quarts, half 
morning and night, hay and oats and pea 
hay. It docs not grow, getting thinner, 
large stomach. AA'hat is the trouble? 
New A’ork. i>. U- A. 
The calf needs sweet skim-milk or use 
a commercial calf meal, made according 
to directions given by the manufacturer. 
1 >o not cook the food. Feed a little often 
at first and increase the quantity gradu- 
all.v. Add lime water freely to the milk 
if it does not agree with the calf, as indi¬ 
cated by an abnormal condition of the 
manure. S- 
Indigestion 
AVill yon .advdse me Avliat to give .a 
burse to' correct hi.s urine and bowels? 
The urine is a brownish color and there 
is a chalky substance on the tloor left 
after the urine runs off. AV’hile standing in 
the barn his bowels are apparently all 
right, but after being worked a short time 
they become quite loose. The horse is 
only six years old and this condition lias 
existed for some time. I have tried a con¬ 
dition powder which only corrects for a 
time. G. It. G. 
Indigestion is the entire cause of the 
symptoms described. There is nothing 
wrong with the kidneys or bladder. In 
all prohahilit.v the trouble has come from 
overfeeding and lack of exercise. Allow 
the horse a roomy box stall in the stable 
and never let him stand for .a single day 
without work or exercise. Have his teeth 
attended to by .a veterinarian and then 
feed whole oats, wheat bran, oar corn and 
mixed clover and timothy hay. Feed 
about half ordinary rations at first and 
increase the amount as he improves. Alix 
powdered wood charcoal freely with tlic 
feed, A. s. A. 
Lice 
I am frequently troubled with li«‘C on 
cattle. I have tried kerosene and lard, hut 
it does not seem to get rid of them. 1 low 
would oil of larkspur do? If it would he 
all right, how much should I use for one 
application on a drove of eight cows and 
Low often need it be applied? M. M. 
New Jersey. 
We have not used oil of larkspur but 
commonly jirescribe a tea of stavesacre or 
larkspur seeds made by pouring a quart 
of boiling water upon each ounce of the 
seeds and allowing it to stand covered for 
12 hours, then strain and apply to in¬ 
fected parts of the body as often as seen 
to be necessary. a. s. a. 
Father (presiding at the Sunday din¬ 
ner) : “When I was a boy I was glad 
enough to get dry bread for my dinner.” 
Little Son: “AVell, daddy, you’re having 
a much better time now that you’re liv¬ 
ing with us, eh?”—Melbourne Austral¬ 
asian. 
DOYOl 
NEEI 
FARR 
HELP 
1 We have many able-bodied young 
I men, mostly without farming 
experie nee, who wish to work 
1 on farms. If you need a good, 
F steady sober man, write for an 
_ order blank.Ours is aphilanthrop- 
1 ic organization and we make no 
■ charge to employer or employee. 
7 THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOOETY 
■ 176 Second Avenue New York Gty 
Farm Help Wanted 
wanted—M en 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—A farmer’s son of character and pur¬ 
pose for farm work: must milk five cows. 
.7. <). HALE, HyUeld, .Mass. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Complying with scyeral suggestions received recent¬ 
ly. we open a department here to enable BUBAL 
NEW-TOBKEB readers to supply each other's wants. 
If you want to buy or sell or exchange, make It 
known here. This Rate will be 5 Ceuta a word, pay¬ 
able In advance. The name and address must bo 
counted as part of the advertisement. No display 
type used, and only Farm Products. Help and Posl- 
ttons Wanted admitted. For subscribers only. Deal¬ 
ers, jobbers and general manufacturers’ announce¬ 
ments not admitted here. Poultry, Eggs and other 
live stock advertisements will go under proper head¬ 
ings on other pages. Seed and-Nursery advertisoments 
will not be 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—Agricultural College graduate to act 
as assistant farm manager and agricultural 
instructor In boys’ farm scliool, before May IStti. 
I’rnotical experience essential. Charge of dormi¬ 
tory and occasional atlilotlos; $50 with board 
and lodging; advance if satisfactory. Apply 
RIGGS, Lakeville, Conn. 
SIN(iLR M.AN WANTED, first class, good habits 
and good worker, to drive team and do gen¬ 
eral work on poultry farm; good wages to tlm 
riglit man. Address IROQUOIS POULTRY 
FARM, Cooperstown, N. Y. 
W.ANTED—.V farmer’s (ianghter of ebaractor for 
housework; modern improvements. MBS. 
.A. .M. 1’. HALE, Byfleld, .Mass. 
W.ANTED—Man about .35 years old to work on 
l.oiig Island farm, imist milk and care for 
farm horses and ehiekeiis, ns well as nnder- 
.standlng raising vegetables; wages $30 a montlt 
and board and lodging. Call before 9:30 A. .M. 
or after 6. 8(U3 Park Ave., N. Y., City. MRS. 
C. S. GUTHKIE. 
W.A.NTED—A'onng single man for general farm 
work; must lie strong and healtliy; willing 
and obliging and furnish references ns to cliar- 
acter, etc.; wages $40 ni)d hoard'; no user of 
liiiuor need appl.v. Address OK.ANGE COUNTY, 
No. 2167, care Itural New-Yorker. 
SINGI.E MEN WANTED for general farm 
work; tio boozers; wages, .$35 and board for 
good competent men. NO. 2184, care Uurnl 
New-Yorker. 
W.ANTED—A married man to work on a farm 
about 50 miles from New Y'ork City, particn- 
larly to drive and work with horses; also to 
boarif several single men working on the same 
farm. I'lill particulars will be given on Inquiry. 
Address P. O. BOX "0,” Monroe, N. Y. 
GENEBAL HOUSF.WORKER—Very easy posi¬ 
tion. Family of two. Comfortable country 
homo near New York; must bo good plain cooU; 
.$25 monthly. NO. 2171, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—.-A. good cow man, single, .$45 and 
board, on a geutleman's idace, with room and 
bath; must be a clean-cut young man and 
speak English. NO. 2177, care Itural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—On private estate In Essex Co., N. .7., 
man without family, who has some experience 
in vegetable growing and general work: $55 jier 
month and 4-room cottage. Apply Sl’I’EltlN- 
TENDENT, No. 2175, care Rural New-Yorker. 
W.ANTED—At once, handy married man for 
farm work; good teamster and able to milk; 
steady Job to riglit man witli liou.se, wood, milk 
and garden; references required. L. B. P-AI.,- 
MER, I’omfret Center, Conn. 
W.A.NTKD—Competent woman for general house¬ 
work; no washing, no cooking; bouse quar¬ 
ter mile from station: has all oouvenicuces. 
Address WIL.SON 8. HOAVELL, Pleasautville, 
N. T. 
WANTED—Single man to take eliarge of vege¬ 
table aiiif llowcr garden with hot bed frames. 
Private jilai'c. AVngos $40 and board. Good 
place for right man. NO. 2183, care Rural 
New-Y'orker. 
Situations Wanted 
POT.'LTRY’M.VN wants position or as partner; 
no college theories; actual experience; has 
proved a success. Address MELTjENVILI.E, N. 
Y., Box 74. 
AGRICUr.,TUUAL college stuifcnt desires work 
immediately on poullr.v farm near New York 
City. Address M. ADLER, 140 College -Ave., 
Ithaca, N. Y'. 
EXPERIENCED American carpenter and general 
repair man wishes to make change; gentle¬ 
man’s estate; references. NO. 2165, care Itural 
New-Yorker. 
WHAT POSITION and wages will Jersey peach 
grower offer sober, industrious married man 
who has charge of orchard now? NO. 2H'i4, earo 
Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED as farm manager or car¬ 
penter on gentleman’s estate, understand ag¬ 
riculture and implements, horses, poultry, lacu- 
bators, brooders, building and repair work; 
marrleif; 30; no tobacco or liquor; refereueci, 
BOX 417, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
HERDSMAN open for position May 1st: single; 
aged 28; good buttermaker and calf raiser; 
Cornell graduate: private herd preferred; refer¬ 
ences; wages $50 per month and hoard. 
HERDSMAN, No. 2168, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Change of position on farm ns work¬ 
ing foreman It small place, or superintendent 
if large; generally qualified and experienced; 
married: ageif 38. Could bring some excellent 
help. NO. 2166, care Rural New-Yorker. 
MARRIED MAN wishes position on dairy or 
poultry farm; experienced; have 3 ehlldrcu. 
JOHN SEA.MAN, 124i,i McConigly St., Johns¬ 
town, Pa. 
WANTED—May fifteenth, another Job as farm 
manager, reason, owner of present proposition 
selling out. Am lifetime farmer, Cornell (agri¬ 
cultural) preiiaratlon; five years’ experience farm 
manager, former farm bureau assistant, operate 
gas and steam machinery; handle all kinds help 
by working directly with iny men In field and 
barns; absolutely temperate; references of 
character and ability. Address NO. 2170, care 
RuraL New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN, 25, single, clean cut, Intelligent, 
desires position on farm or country estate; 
interested in agrienlture; cun drive car or act 
as second man. NO. 2169, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
ELDERLY MAN, respectable, responsible, sober, 
best references, wishes llsht cmploynicnt on 
farm or country place; can care for garden, 
horse, cow or poultry; moderate pay and com¬ 
fortable home. NO. 2179, care Rural New* 
A'orker. 
WORKINO FARM MANAGER, with 20 years’ 
practical experience, wishea to engage; fitted 
to hamile large proposition. NO. 2174, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position on up-to-date farm by two 
high school boys, 17 years old; will start at 
once. H. A. DU BOIS, 60 Liberty St., Ridge¬ 
wood, N. .T. 
A YOUNG honest man wants position on poul¬ 
try farm, GOLDW.VBSER, 120 So. First St., 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
RUEEDER of purebred hogs on general farm 
by single young man; heavy breeds preferred. 
NO. 217(1, care Rural New-Y'orker. 
FARM BUl'ERINTENDEN’P open for engage- 
inent IS.")), small family; life experience wiili 
purebred stock; thoroughly understands all up- 
to-date farm machinery, fjirin crops. ami 
handling help to ad’vantage; can fnrnlsh liigliest 
references. .Vddress NO. 2178, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
FAR.M SUPERTN'l’ENDENT open for engage¬ 
ment with private estate or commereial proii- 
osition, college training; life experience In all 
brnuclies of farming. NO. 2173, care Rural New- 
Y'orker. 
Y'OUNG M.\N desires position on a commercial 
poultry farm; Iiave charge of poultry farm 
now; state salary paid. NO. 2180, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
YOT’Nc; M.\N desires jiosltion to assist super- 
intendent on dairy farm or take care of dairy 
farm for an appreciative elderly couple; tlirec 
summers’ experience on farms and a 1!. S. grail- 
iiato ('omieeticut .Agricultural College; estate 
preferred'; state salary paid. NO. 2181, care 
Rural New-Y'orker. 
F.VRMER and gardener wislu's a position as 
■ foreman working on estate, life experience 
with cattle, liorses, poultry, etc.; A No. I veg- 
ctabli' grower, orcliards, soils, crops, Americans; 
age 47; no cliildren; good credentials; full par¬ 
ticulars. NO. 2182, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
FttR RENT—In desirable location, Frederick 
(’ounty, Maryland, near State road, 4 miles 
from town of .'i.OOIt intinbitants; convenient to 
cliurchcs and scliools, twenty acres of fertile 
land, 14 suitable for garden trucking: t! in tine, 
young orchard, 37 bearing aiiple, 11 bearing 
pears, 23 bearing pouch trees, 4-ro()m stone 
iuniso, water at door, largo barn, poultry lionses 
and pig pens, etc., $20 per month; immediate 
liosscssUm. references exchanged. NO. 2159, 
earo Rural New-Y'orker. 
FOR SALE—117 acres, three miles northeast of 
Round r,ake, .Minn.; lake shore front; a 
money maker. NO. 2153, care Itural New- 
Yorker. 
I'OUR F.VR.MS for sale, chicken, fruit and truck. 
HARRY V.VIL, owner. Now Milford, Orange 
Co., N. Y. 
FOR S.ALE—Upstate farm 110 acres, machinery 
included, 135 miles from New Y'ork; very fer¬ 
tile; only $600 cash rc(|iilrcd: balance mortgage. 
Address ROX 454, Sayvilic, N. Y. 
VNEXCEI.LEI), Hubiirban. 65-acre fruit-truck- 
poultry farm; good buildings; railroad sidiiig 
witli factory sites; cold storage, schools, 
churches, libraries, tlieaters and niilcadam 
roads. Also 255-aerc, well watered, blue grass 
dairy, or grain and stock farm; good buildings, 
macadam road; 3 inllos to railroad; 50 to Wash¬ 
ington. Add'ress “OWNER,” 401 S. Hraddock 
St., AVlnchestor, Va. 
D.VIRY FARM FOR SALE—211 actres, carry 40 
cows, team, good buildings, nicely situated, 
concrete tloors, 12-roomed house; modern con¬ 
veniences, never failing springs, 45°F. Crand 
situation for lake; six miles to railroad; on R. 
F. D.; with or without stock. .A. L. TUORLNG- 
TON, Roscoe, N. Y., R. F. D. No. 1. 
F.VIfM FOR S.AI.E of lOO acres at Monroe, 
Orange Co., N. Y.; splendid barn to accom¬ 
modate 40 head of cattle; running water; 10 
mimites’ walk from Monroe depot, 5 minutes 
from driving park, situated on state road; tin* 
very place for one interested iii trotting horses, 
.Moiins! Is on the main lino of tlie Erie R. It.; 
55 miles from New York. For particulars appl.v 
to W.M. J. GORRIE, Monroe, Orange Co.. N. Y. 
AVANTED—To rent, with buying option, farm 
suited to poultry, near Morehead City, Nortli 
Cnrollmi; would occupy Sept. 1st. NO. 2172, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR RENT—Seventy-four-acre farm four miles 
from Danbury, Comi., 35,0(X) pop.; 18 miles 
liridgeport, 180,()0I) population; 1'4 mile to sta¬ 
tion, cspeeially adapted to iioultry and' hogs: 
will keep ten cows and team. Apply to A. K. 
HEATH, Owner,- Creamery, I’a, 
AV.AN'TEI)—Farm for rent option of buying, 
New Jersey or Connecticut preBcrred; witliiu 
25 miles of New York. .MORRIS TRAN, 792 
E. 176th .St., New York. 
F.AR.M sixty acres, Erie County potato belt; 
liouse. barn, berries. ED. SHELDON, Low- 
Vllle, N. T. 
Miscellaneous 
FOR SALE—Empire Grain Drill, ton hoed steel 
frame; nearly new. F. A. WILTSIE, Soiitli 
Bethlehem, N. Y. 
FOR S.ALE—Three bottom John Deere, No. 2 en¬ 
gine plow; power lift, new last year, $166. 
0. M. GIBBS, Syracuse, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—4-unit Sharpies Mechanical Milker, 
in good condition, gives satlsfaetion, selling It 
heeauso have sold most of my dairy; German 
silver buckets. I'riee $275. NO. 2152, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR S.ATiE—Good second-band bee hives. 
GEORGE BOLSTER, Uoruell, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—lutcrnatiuual Ensilage Cutter, Ken¬ 
tucky drill, new. R. SOUTH, Ballston, N. Y. 
NO. 12 SEl’ARATOR, 1 hundred gal. capacity, 
Vermont Farm Machine Co., zinc milk tank; 
no fair offer refused. W. F. HAMILTON, 293 
West Housatonic St., nttsfield. Mass. 
TWO NEWTOWN RrooUer Stoves, 1917, one 
large size, $20; one $25 size, $15; been used 
once this year, RAUL KUHL, Copper Hill, 
^ • Jt 
WANTED—Locust lumber In logs or sawed in 
planks. 11. G. PAYNE, Sulfern, N. Y. 
VERMONT Maple Sugar amf Syrup, direct from 
the best camps to customers, choicest new 
A'ermoiit maple syrup iu 1 gal. cans. $1.35; 
gal. cans, 75e; maple sugar, 2, 6, 7, 10, 13-. . 
palls at 18c per lb., 2, 4, 7, 8 and 16-oz. cakes, 
23c per lb., F. O. B.; remit with order. JAY T. 
S.Mri’H, RuiHwt, Vermout. 
FOR SALE—Candee Incubator (3,066), good 
comlitiou. WHITE OAK ROULTRY FAR.M. 
Spotswood, New Jersey. 
