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C7>c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 23, 1918 
Things to Think About 
The HackensackTrainingSchool for Nurses 
connected witli a general hospital of one Imndred and 
thirty beds and situated fifteen miles from New York 
City offers a two-year and six months course to young 
women who can present a gi-aininar school diploma and 
certificate of at least one year high-school work; high 
school graduates jireferred. New modern nurses’ home: 
resident instructor. For information address Superiu- 
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WULe ilL UllVC tU -'XI. 
M. Hessels, Secretary of the Agricultural & InduS’ 
trial Labor Relief, 1123 Broadway, New York City. 
This organization has over thousand applicants 
on its lists: Superintendents, Working Managers, 
Couples, Gardeners, etc. All services rendered free. 
The Wood Fuel Situation 
All over the Eastern states farmer.? are 
cutting wood to help out the fuel propo- 
.sitiou. In many cases' the towns co-op¬ 
erate with the farmers, and start what 
they call community wood yards. The 
FaiTii llureau Agent and the Fuel Admin¬ 
istrator work to bring the consumer and 
the farmer together. The wood is either 
brought direct to some central yard, 
where it is distributed, or the farmer de- 
livf’i-s it direct to the customer at a price 
agreed upon. 
It is stated that the town of Oxford, 
Chenango County, N. Y., has bought a 
community wood lot, which means a 
piece of timber reasonably close to town, 
where the surplus trees may be cut and 
distributed at town expense. The forest 
authonties seem to think that this may 
be the beginning of municiiial forests. 
This would mean the planting <>f large 
tracks of cheap wa.^ste land in forest tim¬ 
ber. The future growth would be regu¬ 
lated and the surplus cut and distributed 
as fuel. Not only would this supply a 
fjuantity of fuel fit a fair price, but the 
forests would protect the watersheds and 
conserve moisture. The terrible exper- 
varies from six to eight cents a pound 
paid the grower to 15 cents an ounce 
charged by the seedsman and 80 cents an 
ounce .sometimes charged by the retail 
druggist. We import, annually, about 
18,000 pounds of caraway oil, for which 
we pay about $21,000, exclusive of a 20 
per cent duty. So much of this as the 
druggist dispenses costs the consumer at 
the rate of $1.G0 per pound. We also 
import about 3,000.000 pounds of cara¬ 
way seed. It would .seem as though, 
uiidm- normal conditions, the growing of 
carawfiy seed might prove a profitable 
business, if not greatly over-done. 
But I want to make a criticism of the 
article, on the same page, tlnit relates to 
rhnbfirb. One spocie.s, Rlieiim palmatiim. 
originated in Siberia, and was brought to 
England, by the way of Russia, and cul¬ 
tivated extensively in the time of Queen 
Elizabeth, through whose inlluence it was 
introduced. Rut it was cultivated ex- 
clnsivoly as a pnt-herh no account being 
made of the stalks. Eater, Rheum rha- 
jionticnm was introduced from Russia, 
where it originated, and still later Rheum 
nndnlatum was brought, also, from Rus¬ 
sia, but by the way of France, the two 
This field of corn was grown at Molino, Mo., and the above 
photograph was taken seven weeks after planting. On the left 100 
pounds of A. A. C. Fertilizer was used to the acre, and on the right 
none. This illustrates what good fertilizers will do in the Mississippi 
Valley, even when used in small quantities. : 
The U. S. Dept, of Agriculture Says: 
“The farmer who \^*isely and systematically 
applies commercial fertilizer to his fields will 
raise larger and better crops. This statement 
applies with the same force to the rich soils of the 
Mississippi Valley as to soils of the Eastern States 
or of New England. ” 
A A C- FERTILIZERS 
are made for different soils and different crops. 
If you \\ ill tell us the nature of 3’our soil, what 
crops it has produced, w hat treatment it has had, 
and wdiat you w^ant to grow on it this season, 
we will give you our opinion as to W'hich one 
of our fertilizers and how^ much per acre y^ou 
should use, and tell you w here it may be ob¬ 
tained. It will pay you well to WTite us. 
If we have no agent in your town, we want one. Write us for 
our nearest agent’s address or ask for an agency yourself. 
The Company maintains an Agricultural Service Bureau 
conducted by Dr. H. J. Wheeler, for many years Director 
of the Rhode Island State Experiment Station, whose 
Crop Bulletins, services and advice are free to all farmers. 
T*'® American Agricultural Chemical Co. 
2 Rector Street, New York, N. Y. 
We serve our trade from 60 points. 
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The farmer can help by growing more 
badly-needed food. Make all “sour 
fields” sweet and productive—better 
their mechanical condition—release 
“tied up’’ fertility by applying 
ReicKard’s 
IveKi^H Hydrated 
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This superior grade of Agricultural Lime is made from 
unusually fine limestone. It is nearly pure white in color, 
in excellent drilling condition and is put up in 50-lb. paper 
bags. There is none better. 
Special Prices on Early Shipments 
Buy Now to Avoid the Spring Rush 
ROBERT A. REICHARD 
15 W. Lawrence St. Allentown, F*a, 
ManufactuTers of Animal Bone IFcTtilizers 
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yy 
EH LAND Lime 
Immeciiate results for War Crops 
Order Now on Account of Car Shortage 
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'lew York, 101 Park Ave. Rockland, Me. Boston, 45 Milk St. 
Cord Wood in Southern New Jersey. Fig. 126 
ieuce of this Winter has frightened most 
of us into the understanding that we can¬ 
not safely depend upon coal. W''e must 
plan to organize and conserve the wood 
supply. 
The fuel situation has been worse in 
New England, and great quantities of 
wood are being cut to keep the fires burn¬ 
ing. The Fuel Administrator was asked 
to set a definite price on wood, but he de¬ 
clined to do so. Prices for hai'd wood 
fuel in Now England run about $0 a cord 
at the railroad station and about $10 at 
retail in the city. 
The picture at Fig. 120 shows what is 
being done in ‘Southern New .Tersey among 
the scrub oaks and small trees. This tim¬ 
ber has been of very little value in the 
past, but now it takes good rank as fuel, 
and is providing W’iuter work for many 
couutrj’ people. 
A Few Critical Notes 
The article on the cultivation of cara¬ 
way, on page 108, was fine, as far as it 
went. But the writer neglected to state, 
that, if not permitted to ripen its seed, 
caraway becomes a noxious perennial 
weed, whose only redeeming feature is 
that it is very slow to spread. Caraway 
leaves are much used as a flavoring for 
soups, stews and most kinds of “greens. ’ 
They are used alone as a pot-herb by 
many of the emigrants frem the south of 
Europe, but the flavor is a little too 
strong to make them popular with other 
people, though if blanched, ,siinilarly as 
ceh’ry is blanched, they make a fine salad. 
The seedling roots, though small, make a 
very fair dish when cooked like jiarsnips, 
and it is probable, that, by selection and 
cultivation, a valuable garden vegetable 
might be developed. Carawaj’’ is grown 
exclusively for its seed, the price of whicb 
latter being grown for their stalks. These 
varieties were inter-crossed with each 
other, and it is from the resulting hybrid 
that oiir garden varieties originated. So 
that, whether the leaves are poisonous or 
not, depends upon whether the plant 
turns to Bheum palmatiim, or to one of 
its other parents for its characteristics. 
The roots of all species of Rheum have 
valuable medicinal properties, but it is 
only in the Rheum officinale that they 
are found in sufficient quantity and of 
sufficient purity to make the I’oots of 
much, value in medicine. This variety is 
native to the mountains of India and 
China. Attempts have been made, and 
are still being made to grow in in both 
England and in the United States, but, 
when grown elsewhere than in its native 
climate, or on its native soil, it .s*eems to 
lose a great part of its medical value. 
On page 110 is an iuqiiii’y in regard to 
the best method for fighting the striped 
and the stinking squash bug. I have not 
liad nuich experience with the latter, but 
if the gardener will pour half a pint of 
strong tobacco water upon each hill just 
as the plants begin to disturb the surface, 
and repeat the do.se once a week for three 
weeks, he will not be troubled with the 
striped bugs. The same remedy will also 
fix slugs, cutworms, onion maggots, cab¬ 
bage maggots, and, in fact, nearly all soft 
skinned worms and bugs. C. O. 0. 
. “For the Laud’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
Market for Horseflesh 
I had a large hor.se killed and dressed 
and would like to di.spose of it. “ Do you 
know of any fox farms or anyone that 
could use it? It is all cut up, put in 
sacks and frozen. Would put it on cars 
for 134 cents a pound. F, M. 
Some of the skunk farms buy these 
horses, but it seems to be a local trade 
entirely. It would not probably pay to 
shii) the meat any distance. It would be 
more profitable to boil the meat with 
small potatoes and other vegetables and 
feed the soup to pigs. 
