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■She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 23, 1913 
Easy to Handle 
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Seed is scarce and high. Make every grain count. 
The Crown Drill sows the right depth and the right 
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small or too big; it will ^_w dent corn and kidney 
beans without cracking. The fertilizer feed handles 
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Barley Growing in New Jersey 
Ever since I can remember, farmers iu 
Northern New .Jersey have said-that bar¬ 
ley could not be successfully grown here. 
About 30 years ago, a neighbor, thinking 
that possibly the above assertion was not 
true, sowed two acres to barley as an ex- 
lieriment, but the crop was exceedingly 
jioor—so poor that he did not gather it, 
hut turned ’his .stock into the field to eat 
what little there Avas. His experience 
siM-med to confirm the prevailing impres¬ 
sion that barley would not thrive on our 
soils. 
While in California in 1910-11, I saAv 
thousands of acres of fine barley groAving 
on laud not as good as ours, and yielding 
LI to 25 bushels per acre. As I pondered 
over the matter, I concluded that the 
farmer.s 'here were mistaken, and that har- 
]<?y would groAA' here, and pay, so I sent to 
Wisconsin and got samples of three va¬ 
rieties, planted them in roAVS and culti¬ 
vated them as corn. They all greAV Avell, 
filled Avell with fine, plumj) grains, hut 
the Oderbrucker variety did much the 
best. The next Spring I sowed an acre to 
this A^ariety. One-half of the acre I 
plowed five inches deep, the other half I 
disked thoroughly, as I read about this 
time of advice of an expert (’0 not to 
plow for barley or oats, Avhich I did not 
believe Avas good ad\ice, so thought I 
would prove it. I harrowed the whole 
steame<l for .30 minutes, when the pan is 
moved to a new spot. The work is done 
either in Fall or Spring. Fall seems to 
•be the most favored Time. It is said that 
some groAvers sterilize to kill AV'eeds alone. 
It might pay to steam the entire sur¬ 
face of small gai’dens to prevent AA-eeding. 
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pleasant liome Avifli bath, fiiriiaee, acetylene gas; 
extensive up-to-date barns for all^ purposes. 
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F.E.MYERS&BRO.'S^’AVa^^ 
Appliance for Steanung Soil 
piece the same, and fertilized the same. 
The half acre that I pIoavcmI yielded 36 
bushels per acre, the half that I disked 
yielded 13i/^ bn.shels per .acre. liy follow¬ 
ing the “exiiert’s” advice I lo.st II 14 bush¬ 
els, Avorth .$16.87. So much for eriieri- 
en<;e. My motto is, and has been for 
years, “I’rove all things and hold fast to 
that Avhh-h is good.” I^ast Spring I 
sowed an acre and a quarter to barley, 
jilowing the Avhole piece to the depth of 
eight inches, fertilized the piece Avell, and 
soAved 2% bushels to the acre. The result 
was the finest piece of barley that I ever 
saAV in any State. It Avas so hea\’y that 
it lodged quite badly; had to mow it Avith 
moAviug niachine, rake it AA’ith horse-rake, 
so lost considerable; yet it yielded 48 
bushels per acre. I Avas offered .$2.25 per 
bushel for it, or $108 jier acre, beside the 
straAV, Avorth $10 per acre. Barley Avill 
grow, and pay well in New .Jersey if sown 
Avith brains. ja^. o. cooper. 
New .Ter.sey. 
Sterilizing Seed Beds 
The Massachusetts Experiment Station' 
at Amherst has issued a little hulletiu 
“Sterilization of Tobacco Seed 
ABETTER CULTrVATlO 
LOWER COST 
O^KRAUS 
CuTUvftt«d 
©acTi row oloser, cleAnef 
at half the labor cost. Maked 
©harp turns, geta into, corners, lot* 
; crooked rows* 
Cultivates Hillsides ks Easily 
as Level Ground* 
Made m lugh and low wheel, al-so KKAL’S 
PIVOT GANG. Ai^y boy can operate it. A 
touch of the foot steers the n]iovcIs and W'hcel» 
to right or left. I*u.sts three times as long 
as any other Cultivator. 
Coqd fanners everywhere say 
KRAUS PIVOT AXLE 
CULTIVATORS 
:f>ut dollars in their pockets every 
year. These days gjxKl farming 
tnelliods pay quick 
rewards. 
YOU CAN'T AFFORD TH^ 
1^ OLD WAV 
The Wirwt Feitiliiei hllachmeni applies comnicraal 
fertilizer while cultivating. 
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on 
Beds.” As most gardeners knoAV, it is 
desirable to start plants of tobacco, cab¬ 
bage or tomatoes in clean soil. This 
gives plants free from many diseases, 
and also makes cleaner culture in the 
seed bed. Many farmers have learned 
to soAv cabbage seed in the place Avhere 
a brush pile Avas burned. This “steril¬ 
ized” the soil by heating it to a high 
heat, though the farmoi-s did not call it 
by that name 
is to destroy germs of iilaut diseases anc 
kill Aveed seeds. 
There are tAvo methods. Due is to 
use a chemical iu solution, tlie other to 
steam or cook the soil. In the former 
case formalin is used, one gallon to 50 
gallons of Avater. This solution is put 
iu Avith a Avatering pot—tAVo to three 
quarts to the square foot. Then the bed 
is covered Avith 'boai-ds or old sacks for 
24 hours, so that the gas may work all 
through the soil. 33ie bed should not 
be planted for at least 12 days after this 
treatment. For steaming au outfit like 
the one shoAVU iu cut above is used. A 
])an of AA-ood or gah-anized iron contain- 
Weedy Strawberrie* and Asparagus 
1. Recently I moved to a large farm 
that has a strawber/y bed Avhich is over¬ 
sown and has some sod on it. Last year 
it had a fine crop of very fine berries. I 
would like to know Avhat I could do to it 
to get the best results the coming year. 
I have stable manure. 2. I have also a 
half acre of asparagus that is grown over 
with sod, and last year’s gi’owth is about 
four feet tall, Avith grass a.s tall. I haA^e 
all kinds of tools and would like to get it 
under cultivation. _ J. C. 
Springdale, Conn. 
If this patch of strawberries is as foul 
as your letter seems to indicate, it will 
not pay to undertake to clean it out. In 
fact, it Avould scarcely be possible ever to 
put it in satisfactory condition. If yon 
Avish to continue growing straAvberrios. 
your b(;st and cheapest plan Avould he to 
sot out a neAV patch this Spring, and 
when the crop on the old patch has boon 
gathered, jilow it under at once, harroAV 
it occasionally to keep weeds under con¬ 
trol, and in September soav to rye as a 
M’intor cover crop, to he turned under the 
following Spring. This Avill be two grooii 
crojis turned under within a year and 
should put the soil in excellent condition 
for the production of almost anything 
you care to plant it to. 
2. It is hard to put an asparagus patch 
iu good condition after it has become 
badly infested with grass. IIoAvever. in 
many eases it can he done if proper and 
persistent methods are employed. If the 
roAvs are three to four feet apart, as is 
usually the case in field culture, and the 
location of the rows can he defined, ploAv 
the space, between the rows Avith a turn¬ 
ing ploAv as early in Spring as the ground 
is dry enough to work, throAving the fur¬ 
rows toward the center, and not over 
tliiee or four inches deep next to the 
jilauts, after Avhich run over the roAVS 
AA'ith a small-shoveled one-horse culti¬ 
vator and rip out the grass, being careful 
not to go deep enough to injure the 
crowns of the plants. In the coiirse of 
10 days or tAV'o Avoeks .after ploAA’iug the 
ground may he gone oA'cr with the har¬ 
row and leveled. By timely and careful 
cultivation thereafter the jiatch may lie 
brought under fairly good cultural condi¬ 
tion. If the rows are too close for horse 
culture, as in garden planting, your best 
plan AAonld he to spade the grass under 
and keep it under control with the garden 
hoe. I would Jiot advise the application 
of any fertilizer Avhatsocver until the 
grass has liccn subdued, as it Avonld 
stimulate and encourage grass groAVth, out 
of projiortion to the benefit the plants 
Avonld receive, and make the subjection of 
the grass more difficult. The principal 
object this year is to subdue the grass and 
bring the patch back to a condition 
of good culture. Necessary manures and 
fertilizers can he applied after that im¬ 
portant work is accomplished. K. 
SoAving Winter Rye in Spring 
I have a five-acre hill lot that greAV corn 
.and beans, which I wanted to soav to rye, 
but snoAV came before I could get it sOAvn. 
I thought I could sow it in April to Win- 
'I'lie object of sterilizing rye, or would I better sow it to oats? 
The ground is dry and the oats would be 
short. ^ n. J. T. 
OsAvego Co., N. T. 
We should sow oats or barley. The 
Winter rye seeded in Spring will not sat¬ 
isfy you. There is a German Spring rye 
Avhich gives a fair yield, hut oats or barley 
will give you more grain. 
Canned Cabbage 
Last year I canned cabbage just for 
i trial. This year I shall put up more. 
Cut cabbage in pieces. Blanch for half 
an hour, then fill cans. (I use glass), 
put the caps on with the spring or set 
the cover on for Mason jars, put iu boiler 
ing 112 square feet is put over the bed Avith slats under jars, fill Avith w.ater to 
and steam turned on at a pressure of neck of jars, boil three hours from start 
.CIO to 12.T I'omifL. Tho .soil is thus of boiling. MBS. w. M. 
