JShe R U R AL N E W-YO R K E R 
General Farm Topics 
Rye on Long Island 
Mr. Wm. II. Gartoliiiaun. who sends 
the picture shown at Fig. C>. wants it 
called “Everybody doing his bit on a 
Long Island farm.” The gang has just 
about finished thrashing 330 bushels of 
rye. The straw is bound and mowed 
away in the barn, and the grain is in the 
granai’y. This was done in one day and 
a half on the farm of P. II. Gartelmann, 
who occupies a front seat on the stack. 
,So Long Island is helping out in the bread 
problem, besides growing potatoes and 
cabbage. 
Home-ground Flour 
On page 1379 is an inquiry relative to 
the home grist mill and the making of 
bread* from this process. The topic in the 
inquirer’s mind is one that probably has 
appealed to many houskeepers in these 
times of inflated prices and excessive liv¬ 
ing costs. M. S. P. will find a suitable 
home flour mill listed by the big catalogue 
houses of Chicago and New York, one that 
will offer a full solution to the high cost 
of flour and at the same time furnish a 
ground product making for better diges¬ 
tion. The mill resembles the ordinary 
little hand coffee mill, and can be‘had 
with one handle or two. for easier grind¬ 
ing. It will grind anything grindable— 
coffee, wheat, corn, rye, oats, crumbs of 
dry bread, etc. 
To make the work easier for your arms 
in grinding wheat, should you select one 
of the smaller models, first set the mill 
coarse and grind, then set it fine, pour 
l)ack, and this second grinding gives you 
the desired fine, brown whole wheat 
bread flour. The coai'se flour yon obtain 
from the first grinding can be used for 
breakfast cereal flour and for cookies. 
The second grinding is for bread flour. 
T^se only white flour for your sponge. 
Th(' additional and most important advan¬ 
tage is that all that comes out of the mill 
is not only the most nutritious, but is ab¬ 
solutely juire and unadulterated. In its 
comi)osition there is no plaster of paris, 
no sawdust, no marble dust, no china clay, 
and we don’t know what all. That is 
more than sonu' bakers and millers would 
or could say of their products. The mill 
should make a welcome entrance into 
thousands of homes whose members would 
be in better health by its use. 
Here are tw'o good recipes; For two 
large or four small loaves take two quarts 
of flour, two teaspooufuls of salt, four 
teaspoonfuls of sugar, one-half cake of 
compressed yeast dissolved in tepid water ; 
stir into the flour sufficient milk or water 
to make a soft dough. (This makes a 
rich bread with water alone.) Knead 
to a soft dotigh. cover and raise over 
night. In the morning mold into loaves, 
]uit into pans and raise again. Bake slow¬ 
ly and for a little longer time than you 
have been accustomed to bake white 
bread. 
Second recipe: Scald one-half pint 
milk, add one-half pint water and one- 
half teaspooiiful of salt; when lukewarm 
add one compressed yeast cake to warm 
or cool water. Add three half-pint cui)s 
of sifted whole wheat flour and beat for 
five minutes. Cover and stand aside in 
warm place, 75 degrees, for two hours. 
Then add slowly three more half pints of 
flour and knead until soft and elastic, 
about 10 minutes. Divide into loaves, 
mold, put into square greased pans, cover, 
and, when light (about one hour), bake 
in a moderately quick oven for 45 min¬ 
utes. 
As to the size of mill for home use. I 
think it is better to pay a little more and 
get one with two handles, as this kind 
enables quicker work with more comfort 
in operation. However, the small, one- 
handled machines will do the work satis¬ 
factorily in a longer time. 
New York. aiaaii ti. pitta^ek. 
Ground Phosphate and Acid Soils 
I have been reading Dr. Jacob G. Lip- 
man’s answers to J. B. K., on page 1.343. 
Would Dr. Lipman advise using untreated 
phosphate rock on acid soil, provided lime 
could not be applied, being prohibitive in 
price? lie states that in the action of 
the soil acid upon the rock, a relatively 
slight amount of acid would remain un¬ 
combined. so that there would be slight i 
danger of increased soil acidity. Could 
the acidity under any condition be dimin¬ 
ished without the use of lime in this 
process? What are the acids usually 
found in acid soils, and from whence de¬ 
rived? S. II.O. 
Elmira, Ore. 
Our experience with acid cranberry 
bog soil shows that ground phosphate 
rock is a vei-y satisfactory source of phos¬ 
phoric acid. The same material fails to 
give satisfactory returns on upland soil. 
It should be remembered, however, that, 
while ground i)liospIiate rock may be 
utilized to advantage on at least .some 
strongly acid .soils, it would be contrary 
to good farm practiee to maintain any 
cultivated soil so acid as to allow the 
rapid tran.sformation of unavailable into 
available phosphates. The gain from the 
l)hosphate standpoint would be more than 
offset by tin* loss .from the nitrogen stand¬ 
point. since such strongly acid soils would 
practically inhibit the growth of nitrogen 
gathering legume crops. It is only under 
special conditions, as, for instance, in the 
case of cranberry soils, that ground phos¬ 
phate rock may supply readily and most 
economically an adequate quantity of 
available phosphoric acid. 
If lime is not to be had at any rea.son- 
able price, .soil activity may be corrected 
by wood ashes or by the use of animal 
manure. Whore the soil is poorly drained, 
the u.se of animal manure would tend to 
increase, rather than decrea.se. the amount 
of soil acidity. On the other hand, where 
the soils are well aerated and well 
drained, the use of animal manures would 
counteract, to some extent, the increase of 
.soil acidity. Soil acidity may bo due to 
vegetable acids, or it may be due to min¬ 
eral substances of an acid character. 
t DR.] JACOB 0. LIPMAX. 
Eggs, 50c; butter, 50c; corn, shelled, 
.$1.50; ear, 70 lbs.. .$1.30; wheat, .$2; 
hay. good grade, slightly mixed, $24; 
No. 3 Timothy. .$21; milk, Baltimore 
market, here, $.3.07, 4 jier cent, 2c unit 
off below, on above; stock cattle, 8 to 12c 
per lb.; turkeys, live. -30c; chickens, 20c; 
potatoes. $1.05 per (iO lbs. j. b. s. 
York Co., I’a. 
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