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Oi« RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 9, 1918 
“FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR!” 
Every indication points to high prices for all farm crops 
the coming season. Consequently shrewd farmers will 
plan to increase their production per acre this year. 
You can grow big crops by using 
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to,use, write our Agricultural Service Bureau, conducted 
by Dr. H. J. Wheeler (for many years Director of the 
Rhode Island Experiment Station), whose crop bulle¬ 
tins, services and advice are free to all farmers. 
Place your orders for fertilizers early, to avoid 
delays. The railroads are already overtaxed. 
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Read What These 
Sheldon Owners Say 
1 and xas hirod man laid a feed> 
Bff floor for my boss. 24x24, la 
>oe day; also out w cow 
jam. HV nelabbor lik^ it ao well 
I am not able to keep it at borne-- 
kNDBBWX^BBISTBNSCfs BODOOCkg 
liiim.g Bt. 1. 
, We bsTd need the mixer dnriotf 
year for pattinc to oea^t 
Po^datlofia for a t^plete set of 
farm buildinaa.tocIpdiii^k>.aDd 
likeit yery mticn--I)AKAWBiaBT» 
lamestowDs M* D* 
Last year 1 boortt o.oeiMoi 
nixer from you with which 1 am 
•sell aatisfled. It did not to kelo ty 
for it to pay for Itself and 1 aoreto 
i»en recoaunefid It toaoTOoeDoea- 
ha a WfT miarr of o aasawiirios— 
Wu, PABEa* Marttotoo* PL ^ 
1 am moro than btiay with Bxy 
Bheldon Concreto 
more work than 1 eaa oo. / #•< f/d 
a dav token J tootle oaX-^nSB Im 
WiTTBB» Wellsrille* x» 
lie machine w<wlrs floe. Bavo 
alrei^y oot tkejob of mlTtos’ coo* 
Crete for the bnd«mtotolB town* 
ahip—3 obn BOSS* ^artanaborv* 
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Last fipHiur we porehaeea or 
yoo a eet of^easttose to mak e a 
concrete mlxer.UwaaeomrtnicI^ 
per the plaoa forolabed andlt 
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mixer at a small expense. Or, we will sell 
yon the complete machine, ready built. 
Maks BIsMoney atConcretIns 
If you buy a sheldonMxerfor your own 
If you buy a Sheldon'Mlxerf or yourown 
use. yoQ can oiake many timM Its cost In a sea* 
BOO by renting it to yoor neighbors. Or, If yon 
wsnt to go out srith tbs muer on COTtiseU. 
yon esn easily earn tS to t20 A ^y. Qor 
tomers sre dotoff itnffbt now. The Jobs so to 
the mao with s&beldoD Mixer every time. 
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irHEUBON MANUFACTURINQ COMPANY, Box 77B, Nohawka. Nob. 
General Farm Topics 
A Hired Man Talks 
Rogarding the scareity of farm labor 
I have worked on farnus for a number 
of years and have about decided to quit 
and go to work in the city nearby for the 
following reasons: I can get higher 
wages in town. I am sure to get my 
money and on time, which has not been 
my experience a number of times on 
farms. ^Yhen I buy anything I pay 
for it at the time I buy it and in order 
to do this I must have my \yage9 on time. 
I do not want my money until due, but 
I do want it then. I am perfectly 
aware that the farmers do not get their 
own money, so they cannot pay me, but 
that does not jiay my hills. 
I get shorter hours in town. IT.sually 
the farm is a long distance from school. 
I have had my employer agree to take 
my children to school with his. but it 
was never satisfactory. The farm was 
usually some distance from town. As 
most of my employers and their families 
held themselves aloof from me and my 
family, although we were in most oases 
more well-br('d, better read and educated, 
the only way to get any amusement wuis 
to go to town and while we have been 
told to take a horse at any time, we 
usually found that when Ave Avanti'd it 
some one else did too. 
A great many times the house you are 
supposed to live in is only a .shanty. We 
do not care for a large house with all 
improvements, but we do not like to live 
in a one or two-room leaky jilace wdth 
stovpiiiiio stuck out of the side of the 
house for a chimney. You are usually 
supposed to have fuel furnished, and 
there is almost always wood to cut, and 
you are supixised to cut it nights and 
Sundays. I do not care about the night 
work, though there is danger of getting 
cut, hut I do not like to cut wood on 
Sunday. 
We have found that one or more of 
these objections almost always holds 
true. I iim an American with wife and 
two children, and under 40. I use no 
liquor or tobacco, and am honest and in¬ 
dustrious and have references to that ef¬ 
fect. My ideal has alway.s been to have 
for my.self, or work for some one else 
until I can buy a small farm for grain 
with a iWation of corn, oats, wheat and 
grass or corn, wheat and grass. I un¬ 
derstand raising the.se crops, green 
manuring and fertilizing and liming them 
and have raised some fine crops, but I 
have never Avorked for anyone who be¬ 
lieved enough in green manuring and 
fertilizing to let me try even on a very 
small scale. 
The only reason I have continued to 
work on a farm is because I love it, the 
farm and horses and cows and chickens. 
I am happy AA'hen working in the field 
with the horses. T love to try to raise 
large crops and enjoy Avorking them, but 
until I can find a farm and farmer 
where. I can stay in justice to my Avife 
and children I believe I am much better 
off in toAvn. header. 
Some Questions from New Hampshire 
At the Eastern States Exposition I 
saAA' some pedigree seed corn. This looked 
like large Western corn, but Avas claimed 
to ripen in 90 days. If this does so, it 
Avill certainly mean a big thing for my 
farm. I have bought tAVo bushels of seed. 
What do you think the chances are of 
Penusylvania-groAvn seed ripening in 90 
days of Ncav Hainiishire Summer? We 
have a good hot July and August, but 
June i.s apt to be cool. I Avant to plant 
my whole cornfield to this, but prudence 
suggests trying a fcAV hills. AVhat do you 
think? B- s- 
Here is a case where Ave should folloAV 
prudence. There may be A’arieties of 
large Western corn that Avill mature in 
90 days, but we doubt it. The small 
strains of Canada flint do it sometimes, 
but not ahvays. We should try a little 
of that big corn, but stick to the smaller 
flints for the main crop. 
Will Pitkus Winter rye mature grain 
if planted in the Spring? I have plenty 
of seed but did not get time to jilant it 
this Fall. I am planning to burn a cut¬ 
over next Spring and use it for pasture. 
It used to be one 75 years ago till they 
got too shiftless and let it grow to Avoods, 
Would it be better to soav rye and grass 
on the a.shes, or aa’OuM' it make better sod 
with just the grass? 
The rye will mature a small crop when 
Spring seeded, but it Avonld be of very 
doubtful value. Parley Avould pay bet¬ 
ter, but Ave should seed the grass and 
clover alone after this burning. 
On my place is a AA’oodlot of about a 
hundred acres and in that woodlot is a 
Avell-bnilt cellar hole, while around 
through the Avoods are the eternal little 
stone piles that meant hard work and 
clear mowing. No one around here knoAvs 
how old it is. Wlicn I feel blue on a 
Sunday, I go up there and sit doAvn and 
smoke my pipe and Avondcr if the 35-cent 
dollar droA’C them out. 
We have seen many such abandoned 
home places. In Connecticut there arc 
said to be jilacos Avhere formerly villages 
of some size jirospored. Noaa'^ the foi’ost 
has come in, .so that large trees arc groAV- 
ing Avhere the village once stood, and 
celhir holes are filled. It is not likely 
that those old timers oA’cr knoAV the 
.‘55-f‘ent dollar. They t?a\v very foAA’ dol¬ 
lars. but got all of Avliat there Avere 
around. Many 'if the old locations AA'cre 
“misfits.” Peojile never AVOnld haA’C 
stoppetl there liad they knoAvn what lay 
beyond. M’lion the "West Avas oiiened up 
and the Civil War came the more adven¬ 
turous and the stronger moved aAvay, and 
the AA’oaker eonld not endure. 
Oats that Were “Mudded” In 
As to oat-sooding in muddy ground, it 
appear to me that some one in some Avay 
has been mixing things. Thirty years ago 
in the grain belt of northwe.stern Mis- 
.souri, practical farmers evolved the axiom, 
“Mud in your oiits and dust in your 
wheat.” At the same time no farmer 
sought those conditions for .seeding either 
crop. The one idi'a Avas to get the seed 
in the ground early. To make an early 
seeding of IVintor Avhi'at, giving it a 
chance to loot and make a green i»ro- 
tecting cover against the "Winter, it Avas 
a rule that the normal dryness of the 
proper seeding time should not interfere; 
dusted in, the seed Avould be there to 
germinate Avhen the rain did come. 
So, relatively, Avlth the oats “muddod 
in.” This crop folloAvcd corn, Avhich uni¬ 
versally Avas liusked in the field, after 
Avhich stock cattle and horses Avere pas¬ 
tured in the stalkfields. In that section 
it Avas discovered that oats, to make a 
))rofitable crop, had to be sown before 
March 1. Preparing for .seeding, a votary 
stalk-cutter Avas driven row by row 
through the old cornfield in order to re¬ 
duce the stalks. And it Avas a bitter 
job, riding a cutter Avhen often the un¬ 
settled soil Avonld freeze tAvo or three 
inches in a night. 
Throe pecks of seed Avere sown to the 
acre, as the early-soAvn oats would “stool” 
in rooting and one grain of seed AA'ould 
send up a surprising number of stalks. 
As nearly as possible the old-fashioned 
harroAV kept pace Avith the sowing, as it 
Avas the intent to cover lightly as much of 
the seed as Avas iiossiblc. In that lati¬ 
tude and in high, rolling ))rairic country 
liaviug no great snoAvfsill, the late Febru¬ 
ary soAvings found identy of subsoil fro.st, 
Avhile the light loamy surface, freezing 
over night and thaAving under the sun¬ 
light, made jilonty of mud. Put Avhon 
the groAving season did come, the oats had 
an even start Avith the Aveeds; and of oven 
greater consideration, the unturned sur¬ 
face soils Averc in condition to quicken 
groAvth, as often in preparing for the jire- 
ceding corn crop, deep ploAving Avas prac¬ 
ticed. 
The Avriter has every reason to believe 
that in CaldAvell County, Missouri, the 
practice of 30 years ago, folloAviiig corn 
Avith oats, has not been changed. And if not 
changed, he can assure readers of I'liE 
P. N.-Y. that ii 4()-acre cornfield Avhich 
in that section is “mudded” to oats some 
time in the present month probably Avould 
shoAV some Eastern farmers about as 
seemingly desperate prospects for a grain 
harvest as could be imagined. The mis¬ 
take Avould be to imagine that the seeder 
had found virtue in the mud and in the 
sloppy, half-coA’ered condition of tlie 
seed; on occasion a "Winter leaves the 
Februai’y fields fairly dry and light, and 
in such years the farmer merely con¬ 
gratulates himself upon finding a more 
satisfactory soAving season. n. AV. F. 
Connecticut. 
