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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
C-Ae RURAL NEW-YORKER 
m.v Avritten permis.sion to hunt here. To 
those indifferent to our rights and too 
careless to obtain the Avritten permit 
I promise quick peril, and have so adver¬ 
tised in a local daily. The farm is not 
posted. The farm is not going to be 
posted. Neither do we contemplate fur¬ 
nishing a map of its boundaries. 
Connecticut. g. warren davis. 
Notes From a Maryland Garden 
A farm paper advises the selection of 
sweet potatoes for seed at digging time 
for the main crop in the Fall. Of course, 
this is better than overhauling the lot in 
the Spring to find small potatoes for 
bedding, and thereby getting the runts 
of the crop. Small potatoes from prolific 
hills may do fairly Avell, but the best bed¬ 
ding potatoes are the small ones groAvn 
espeoially for the purpose. Cuttings of 
the vines from the most promising hills in 
August Avhen planted Avill make a crop of 
moderate-sized potatoes which Avill keep 
more easily in the Winter than the po¬ 
tatoes groAA'u from the early plants, and 
will make more and better plants from 
a given area of b(Hl than the small pota¬ 
toes selected from the early crop. In 
fact, in some seasons these cuttings will 
make marketable potatoes, though not 
intended therefor. Two years ago one 
groAver lici'c made 3,000 bushels of good 
potatoes from the Rummer cuttings. 
Ro far as I haA'e observed, the crop of 
late potatoes is a very good one. It was 
fortunate for many that the killing frost 
hold back till October 30, for many fields 
Avere planted too late, and had the tops 
been killed earlier these Avould not haA-e 
made much of a crop. In a backyard 
garden which I pass daily, the tenant had 
quite a garden, and Avas Avise enough to 
maintain a succession of crops. He had 
a plot of late potatoes hardly as large as 
my dining-room floor, and this is a mod¬ 
erate-sized room. I passed there a feAV 
days ago, Avhen he had just dug the crop, 
and he had a bushel of good marketable 
potatoes. The vacant-lot gai-deners have 
their crops still to dig. Rome of these 
have done Avell, while others have not 
been looking Avell because of lack of good 
cultivation and fertilization. A half-acre 
plot groAVU by tAvo women and cultivated 
Avith hoes is the most promising of the 
vacant lot gardens in my route. I am 
curious to knoAV their yield. Rweet po¬ 
tatoes on the A'acant lots near me have 
been A'ery poor. In fact, the sAveet pota¬ 
to has not had its best Avoather this Rum¬ 
mer, Avhile the Irish potatoes have had 
the best of Aveather for their increase. 
My outdoor crop of Fall lettuce is com¬ 
posed of Hanson and Wonderful, and 
while still unhurt I fear that it Avill soon 
get scorched. Lettuce in an unhoaded 
state Avill stand a good deal of freezing, 
but after heading it is easily spoiled by a 
bard freeze. Rut Ave seldom have Aveatlier 
to hurt lettuce till after November. In 
the meantime, the lettuce in the frames is 
groAving rapidly, and aauII be ready soon 
after that outside may be spoiled for use. 
Writing this November 5, we are having 
frosts as Avhite as suoav, but very little 
actual freezing. 
Reveral readers of The R. N.-Y. have 
Avritten to me for information about this 
Eastern Rhorc of Miu-yland country. 
Many in the cold Nortluvest AAmuld like 
to get into a milder climate. We have 
plenty of cold weather here, but our 
Winters are very mild as comiiared Avith 
the Winters they have in Michigan and 
other States of the West. This loAA'er 
end of the Peninsula has a milder climate 
than the upper end, but farming here is a 
very different thing from that in the up¬ 
per counties. Our people depend on 
strawberries, tomatoes and other truck 
crops, and their general farming is none 
of the best. The upper counties, Avith 
naturally better soil, are better suited for 
general farming, grain groAAung and stock. 
Therefore, anyone seeking a noAv location 
for farming should knoAV that the kind 
of farming he Avishes to do Avill to a great 
e.vtent govern his selection of a ucav home. 
No one should ever buy land Avithout a 
personal examination, not only of the 
land itself, but all the advantages and 
disadvantages surrounding it. Farming 
in any part of the country involves hard 
AA’-ork and wdse management, and a farmer 
moving far from his accustomed section 
Avill find that 'he has many things to learn 
and some things to unlearn when starting 
in a neAv climate. While the bitter cold 
weather that they have in the North¬ 
west is disagreeable, if a man is Avell 
there financially and socially, he should 
think a long time before pulling up stakes 
and learning to farm under new con¬ 
ditions, and to get acquainted and like 
new people. w. f. massey. 
Birds Injuring Fruit 
A neighbor tells me their pears were 
badly injured by the blackbirds, Rhe 
liv^es near their roosting place and early 
one morning the bird.s came on her tree 
and injured very many of the peai-s in 
a few minutes. The blackbirds seem to 
haA’e increased Avonderfully in the last 
fcAv years. I also see large numbers of 
starlings. JOHN RICK. 
Pennsylvania. 
On page 1289 I read “Birds Are In¬ 
juring Apples.” Early this Fall I not¬ 
iced croAvs alighting on my apple trees, 
and on investigating found they were 
doing much damage, there being a bushel 
or two of fresh pecked fruit on the 
ground ; the largest and best of the fruit 
from Baldwin, King, Snow, and McIntosh 
trees, I took a couple of balls of ordin¬ 
ary Avhite .store tAvine and ran the string 
from outer branches of the trees around 
the orchard, and some cross lines.. After 
doing this I found no more apples Avith 
fresh marks of the croAv’s sharp bill upon 
them. In the Spring it was necessary 
to surround my cornfield with tAvine on 
sticks to keep crows from pulling the 
sprouting corn, Garden and field peas 
and grain unprotected suffered. 
Maine. james e. flagg. 
The starlings are the birds that eat 
or destroy ajAples on trees, and I have 
seen them eating apples that have fallen 
on the ground. t’roAVs Avill eat apples 
if there happens to be noAV and then one 
left on the trees in Winter, or Avhen 
snoAV is on the ground. 
Ncav York. Horace t. broavn, 
I notice on page 1280 a communication 
from W. C. Doming, Connecticut, in ref¬ 
erence to dnjury to apples by birds. 
From my experience of the past two 
seasons, I have 'but little doubt that the 
injury Avas done by the English starling. 
My Clapji’s FaA'orite pears Avere badly 
injured both this year and last, before 
the pears wore fit to pick, by this pest of 
the bird kingdom. I have seen them at 
the Avoi'k and know positively that they 
were responsible. The cut in the fruit 
is of peculiar shape, and if Dr. Deming 
Avill kill some of these birds and fit their 
bills to the cuts in the fruit, he can soon 
satisfy 'himself as to who the culprit is. 
Y^our comment accusing the croAV is I 
think incorrect, for Avhile I am not much 
of a fi'iend of the black scalaAvag, I be- 
lioA^e in “giving the devil his due.” This 
English starling is going to prove a very 
serious pest to this country, and a AA^ar of 
extermination should be declared against 
them. I am taking particular pains to 
kill every one I see around the place, but 
unless this is follloAved up by all the 
farmers it cannot amount to A’ery much, 
as they are increasing at a tremendous 
rate. franklyn A. taber. 
Duchess Co., N. Y. 
Chinking Log Cabin 
You had an inquiry some time back, 
asking Avhat mixture to use in chinking 
a log cabin. The Bucks County Histor¬ 
ical Rociety at Doylestown, Pa., recently 
moAB'd the last remaining log cabin in 
in that toAvn to the Historical Rociety 
grounds. I Avrote the librarian about it, 
and he replies as follows: 
“Dr. Mercer says the chinking in the 
old log house Avas made Avith about one 
piirt cement to three parts sand and 
about 30 per cent of lime—air-slaked pre¬ 
ferred, mixed into the sand and cement 
before Avetting. He claims the lime makes 
a dryer, more compact mass Avhere such 
small quantity is used in the layer.” 
II. E. D. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
National Farmers’ Exposition, Toledo, 
O., Dec. 5-15. 
Missouri Rtate Horticultural Rociety, 
annual meeting, Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 
11-13. 
Wisconsin Rtate Horticultural Rociety, 
annual meeting, Madison, Wis., Dec. 
11-13. 
Derry Poultry Association, annual 
shoAA% Dei’ry, N. II., Dec. 11-14. 
Ncav Yoi-k Rtate Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting, the Armorv, Rvra- 
cuse. N. Y.. Dec. 11-34. 
Palace Poultry RIioav, Ncav Y"ork City, 
Dec. 11-15. 
Ncav Jersey Rtate Horticultural Ro¬ 
ciety, anmuil meeting, NeAvark, N. J., 
Dec. 10-11. 
T^niversity Horticultural Rociety, Ohio 
Rtate University, seventh annual shoAV, 
Columbus, O., Dec. 13-15. 
Rpringfield, Mass., Poultry Club, luc., 
annual show. ^Municipal Auditorium, 
Rpringfield, Mass.. Dee. 18-21. 
Granite Rtate Dairymen’s Association, 
milk, cream, butter and cheese shoAv, La¬ 
conia. N. H., Dec. 19-21. 
Madison Square Garden Poultry Show, 
Noav York City, Dec. 28 to Jan. 2. 
Rocklaud County Poultry Association, 
first annual shoAA^, Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 
9-12. 1918. 
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333 West 30th Street, New York 
