•Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
737 
THE HENYARD 
The Wandering Hen Nuisance 
Many of our readers who live on small 
places in the suburbs will appreciate this 
picture, engraved from the Evening Tele¬ 
gram of New York. There are many 
back-yarders who will take great pride in 
their “war garden” this year. They are 
out to help beat the Kaiser, if possible, 
but the neighbors’ hens make that a diffi¬ 
cult proposition. The ingenuity and per¬ 
sistence of the average hen makes her a 
nuisance to anyone wffio tries to help 
Hoover or get out on the western front of 
a war garden. The trouble is that the 
owner of the hen usually has no soul, or 
at least that’.s) what the owner of the 
garden thinks, and these backyard hens 
have scratched apart more friendships and 
laid bare more ba.sie elements of human 
nature than any other animal we know 
of. The man in the picture thinks he 
will get even by carrying a coop of chicken 
hawks on his land, but a hen will 
fight for her rights, and it is most likely 
that she would drive the hawks out of 
the yard rather than give up her salads 
profits are charged. Every dealer is to 
make a monthly statement of his cheese 
costs. The Canton and Watertown boards 
also sold at 21/4 cents. 
The New York State Fruit Growers’ 
publicity committee issues an elaborate 
statement of fruit conditions of the State. 
Apples will be a big crop, as will prac¬ 
tically all the fruits but peaches, the fore¬ 
cast being founded on the basis of no 
more killing frosts. The four leading 
apple counties report the crop as follows; 
Niagara, 90 per cent; Wayne, 85 per cent, 
and Orleans and Monroe, 80 per cent. 
The peach crop is better than was thought 
in some places in Western New York, 
though few .sections can show over 50 
per cent crop outlook. There will be none 
around Sodus, but conditions are better 
farther we.st. In Central New York, 
where peaches are confined mostly to home 
gardens, nearly all the trees are dead, 
due to extreme cold. Growers are inter¬ 
ested in peach competition, and learn that 
Georgia will grow a heavy crop. New 
England none. Jersey and Delaware 85 
per cent, and Michigan 30 per cent. Pears, 
plums and cherries are in heavy bloom, 
but the latter can be wiped out in a 
night by a heavy frost, even whem well 
'developed, or destroyed by a heavy rain, 
as happened last year. 
The announcement of the Biireau of 
Markets that all interstate .shipments of 
fruit and vegetables must be in uniform 
packages is welcomed by growers of the 
►State, even those whose produce is con- 
UojiroOnced from N. V 
ICvoning Telegram 
Thrashing Out ihc Hen Prohlein 
fresh from the garden. Seriously, thi-S 
wandering hen proposition is a great nui¬ 
sance, .too small to fight about, and yet 
too large to ignore. We have given many 
remedies suggested by our people, and 
here is another one which we know is 
sometimes used as a last resort. It is 
cruel and rough on the hen, but if the 
lien’s owner will not attend to business, 
after fair warning, he will have to stand 
for it. One of our readers says he gives 
his neighbors fair wmrning about what he 
will do and if this is rejected he takes 
a number of small fishhooks with stout 
threads attached and puts them through 
holes bored on kernels of corn. Then the 
ends of the threads are tied to a stake 
and the kernels of grain left on the 
ground. The result is' a number of hens 
caiight by this bait. The back-yarder wdio 
will let his hens wander deserves no .sym- 
jiathy for anything he may get. 
Among the Up-State Farmers 
Plans have been made for a farm boys’ 
camp at the .State Fair this year. De¬ 
tailed arrangements will be under the su¬ 
pervision of ('ommissioner of Agriculture 
Cha.s. S. -AViLson, at Albany. One repre¬ 
sentative from each county, between the 
ages iof 14 to 18, inclusive, will be chosen 
after a careful examination by a com¬ 
mittee composed of the Master of Po¬ 
mona Grange, the Manager of the Farm 
Bureau, and one other person*. At a date 
to be announced later the committee of 
each county will examine the boys as to 
their knowledge of live stock, farm crops 
and field work, and the contestants will 
submit a 500-word account of their ac¬ 
tivities through the Summer in food pro¬ 
duction and their participation in farm 
chores, field work, or work with some 
special project, the statements to be prop¬ 
erly verifiwl by parents, or some respon¬ 
sible adult. Every boy of the State 
should covet this opportunity to spend the 
week at the great fair, and the lucky 
ones will have to prove themselves win¬ 
ners at home before they stand a chance 
for a real educational treat. 
Cheese prices were a fraction higher at 
Gouverneur this week, the dairy board 
setting a price of 21A4c after long dis¬ 
cussion, E. J. Richardson, a i)rominent 
cold-storage man of Lowville, where is 
located the greatest storages of cheese in 
the world, spoke to the board at length 
of his attendance at Washington last week 
at the meeting of the National Food Com¬ 
mission, and their idans to give govern¬ 
mental control to both the cheese and 
butter trades. Men from the large butter 
and cheese centers were present. The 
Commission will try to fix profits, not 
prices, allowing assemblers 5 per cent 
Jjrofit before the product gets into cold 
storage. Wholesalers can make a limit of 
10 per cent i)rofit, and jobbers 10 per 
cent, while retaihu’s are not limited as to 
profits or manner of sales, unless undue 
sumed near home. Strict enforcement of 
the new law will give a square deal to 
consumers and growers. Grapes may 
hereafter be sold in two, four and twelve- 
quart sizes. The Vegetable Growers’ 
Association went oh record as favoring 
this law last Winter. 
Duly six cars of cabbage were sold last 
week, four of them from New York grow¬ 
ers. This practically closes out old cab¬ 
bage. Total shipments of cabbage for the 
year were (>,646 cars, as against 2,5.")4 
the year previous. New York led far in 
advance in cabbage shipments this year, 
with Wisconsin and Michigan next in 
line. 
Milk i)roduoers are glad to learn that 
milk restrictions have been removed from 
manufacturers of ice cream, and they will 
also have all the sugar needed to lise in 
ice cream. ►Sherbets and water ices are 
etill restricted, however. Up-State house¬ 
keepers are glad to learn that they -will 
be able to buy all sugar needed for can¬ 
ning and preserving, as never was .so much 
gardening being undertaken. About 1.500 
New York city high school boys will be 
at work on up-State farm.s by the end of 
this week. (’Inmango and (’ortland Coun¬ 
ties each having their quotas of boys 
already. 
The dairymen near Freeville, Tomp¬ 
kins County, have tired of the Borden 
sway and have plans under way for build¬ 
ing a co-operative milk plant. Tompkins 
County Farm Bureau committeemen in 
one week placed their j)aid-up membership 
at over 1,0(M), or half the farmers of the 
County. Cayuga County has had a sim¬ 
ilar campaign, and nearly the thousand 
mark was reached. 
W. P. Frost, State supervisor of dairy 
improvement work, reports that interest 
(Continued on page 7.39) 
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