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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 27, 191fl 
Tractors in New York 
QUICK SHIPMENT 
The Beeman Garden Tractor 
285 
DOES THE WORK OF A $ 
HORSE AND SELLS FOR 
The Turner is a three-plow TRACTOR. 
Sells for $1,350. 
Both in New York 
for prompt shipment. 
You cannot afford 
to farm without a 
tractor. Full infor¬ 
mation on request. 
Do not delay. 
R. CONSOLIDATED 
CAS ENGINE CO. 
202 Fulton St., New York City 
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All 
Sowing Alfalfa with Oats 
Can I sow Alflafa and oats together in 
the Spring the oats to be cut for hay, or 
would yon advise sowing Alsike or other 
grasses with the Alfalfa instead? Would 
I have time to plow and seed to Alfalfa 
after cutting oats for hay? w. ii, T. 
We would not advise yon to sow the 
Alfalfa with the oats in Connecticut. 
You will do better to fit the land as well 
as you can and seed the Alfalfa in late 
Summer. That seems to he the best time 
of seeding for New England. If you are 
willing to use manure or fertilizer enough, 
we would advise you to seed oats and 
Canada peas as soon as you can get the 
ground ready. Cut this crop for hay in 
July, and then work up the gi-ound as 
thoroughly as possible and seed to Alfalfa 
alone. Of course, you will understand 
that you cannot expect to grow a good 
crop of Alfalfa in New England unless 
you have a well-drained soil. Use lime 
enough to make it sweet, make the ground 
fairly rich, use phosphorous in some form, 
and also use inoculation on the seed. All 
these things are necessary in order to 
make Alfalfa grow and there will not be 
much use in sowing it unless you are 
ready to carry out this plan. 
Culture of Asparagus 
I have an acre of asparagus to take 
care of. One neighbor advises me to 
plow it up deep, just as soon as the 
ground is dry enough. Another advised 
shallow plowing, ^^^ieh is the more ad¬ 
visable to do, or would it be well to use 
a double-action cutaway harrow only? 
I have manured it this Spring with ma¬ 
nure taken for the most part directly 
from the stables. w. w. M. 
If bleached sprouts are to he pro¬ 
duced, as early in Spring of each year 
as the round is in condition to work, 
the middles between the rows should be 
plowed, being careful not to go deep 
enough to disturb the roots of the plants. 
When the middles have been broken up, 
run over the rows with a spring-tooth 
harrow or cultivator to loosen and pul¬ 
verize the soil, and at the same time culti¬ 
vate the middles down level. It is now 
ready for ridging, which .should he done 
before the sprouts appear, and is to he re- 
peateil every 10 days or so during the cut¬ 
ting season. At the close of the cutting 
season, and before top growth, the ridges 
should be plowed dowm and the ground 
harrowed in both directions. If the 
ground is badly infested with weeds, some 
cultivation will he necessary to keep the 
weeds in check until the tops are large 
enough to shade the ground, when culti¬ 
vation will be no longer necessary. K. 
That Apple Packing Case 
Some time ago I wrote and you pub¬ 
lished an article about the'Ballstou Re¬ 
frigerating Storage Co. and their methods 
of packing the apples of E. AY. Coombs 
»& Son of this town. The article was 
based on statements made to me by Mr. 
Coombs and others, and on what I myself 
saw as I watched the packing one day. 
The Ballston people have taken violent 
exception to some statements in the ar¬ 
ticle, and have asked to have them'coi-- 
ercted. They quote from a contract they 
have, signetl by Me.ssrs. Coombs, which 
seems to put a different face on the mat¬ 
ter in some respects. 
In the first place, the aiqdes wore all 
marked ungraded and not “A” grade. 
This makes a great difference, as under 
the Alassachnsetts law, about anything, 
so far as quality goes, can go into the 
barrel. The first car that was shipped 
out wa.s marked 2i/^-iuch minimum, 
though they were not 2l^-iuch apples. 
This may have been a mistake. At any 
rate, Mr. Coombs was instructed to mark 
the rest 2^^-incll minimum, and did so. 
Mr. Coombs told me that it was his de¬ 
sire to have the apples marked hail 
struck. He now' says he made no specific 
request or demand of the Ballston people. 
That, of course, relieves them from any 
onus of unfair treatment in that respect. 
My statement that about anything 
w'cnt into the barrel referred to quality, 
not quantity. As a matter of fact, about 
tw'o hundred and fifty bushels of apples 
were throw'ii out in the packing. 
The w'ords “extra selected packing” 
w'ere not put on the Coombs ajiples at 
Sorts 
all. but on the apples in other lots. I 
made no st.atement that any apples so 
marked w'ent to market, as I know that 
hundreds of b.arrels so labeled had the 
W'ords scratched out at the request or de¬ 
mand of the inspector. In fact, Mr. 
Losee had so much trouble with the in¬ 
spector that, as I said, he stopped using 
the Massachusetts stencil and claimed to 
he packing under a Federal statute. 
The contract that the Ballston people 
h.ad called for fruit 2%-iuch minimum, 
fruit with the skin broken to be thrown 
out. I am now informed that there were 
only a few russet, Baldwins and Black 
Twigs. They went in with the Baldwins, 
as I .said. 
It was not m.v intention or desire to do 
this company any injustice. They 
bought a lot of apples here, and so far 
as I know* fulfilled their contracts to the 
letter. Several men who .sold to them 
h,ave told me that their apples were 
liacked carefully and in compliance with 
the law. I am glad to correct any mis¬ 
statements in the article and regret that 
they should have been made. I am as 
anxious that the apple buyers should have 
a square deal from the farmer as I am 
that the farmer and the public should 
have a .square deal from the buyer. 
Colrain, Mas.s. harvey m. east.wan. 
Winter Wheat in Maine 
I have 450 pullets and hens two years 
old. I intended to ship the slackers. I 
trap-nest all and am line-hveediug, but 
the law as to live poultry makes me keep 
the boarders, as well as the paying ones, 
and the high cost of grain takes every 
dollar I can get, and then some. I am 
enclosing tw'o heads of Spring wheat. I 
raised .50 bushels on two acres last year, 
but instead of having it to eat in our 
familj’, w’c had a blocking .snowstorm and 
could not get any grain here, so the hens 
had it, in.stead of the family. F. w. B. 
Monmonth, Me. 
B. N.-Y.—These heads showed plump, 
well-developed grain. There have been a 
number of favorable reports from Alaine 
and good Spring wheat seems to thrive 
there. There have been two favorable re¬ 
ports from points south of Albany, N. Y., 
but as a rule in that latitude oats and 
barley seem to pay better. 
The Best Head Lettuce 
AA’ill you advise as to the best kind of 
head lettuce, and how to head it? 
Gansevoort, N. Y. A. M. S. 
There is no best variety of head lettuce, 
any more than there is a best brood of 
chickens, cows, etc. It all depends upon 
the local conditions, and the purpose for 
which the product is desired. The stand¬ 
ard variety of head lettuce for many 
years has been Big Boston. It is quite 
hardy, produces large, heavy heads, which 
hold up well in transit to market. There¬ 
fore, this variety is ilsed extensively from 
Florida to New England as an excellent 
variety for general use. However, there 
are other splendid varieties and some 
growers set out three varieties in early 
Spring: AV^ayahead, May King and Sala¬ 
mander. The first develops a small, com¬ 
pact head very quickly, and is soon fol¬ 
lowed by May King, which is just as 
.solid, but a trifle larger. Salamander pro¬ 
duces a beautiful head, and it can stand 
the heat of early Summer fairly well. 
One of the very largest heading varieties 
is the AA^onderful. It has splendid qual¬ 
ity, and is gaining in popularity very 
rapidly. Alay King and Belmont Forcing 
are used extensively in the greenhouses. 
Head lettuce is produced most succe.ss- 
fully during the Spring and Fall, because 
it cannot stand the excessive heat, except 
in cooler climates, and on the cool, moist 
soils. For the development of good heads 
the soil should be rich and sweet, and 
each plant should have at least one square 
foot in which to develop, R. w. d. 
Killing Moles. — Calcium carbide 
(crystals preferably the size of hay salt) 
carefully dropped in the runways of moles 
will, coming in contact with the moisture 
in the ground, create enough gas to kill 
the animal. L. K. 
Connecticut. 
