CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MAY 25, 1918 
FARM TOPICS 
Use of Limestone in Tennessee. 
Plain Tale of a Back-to-the-Lander. 
Tile-laying in Drainage Work. 
Garden from the Wilderness. 
Coming Grain Crop. 
Machine Transplanters . 
Potato Patch Under Straw. 
Value of Tannery Refuse. 
Making Alfalfa Hay. 
Storing Potatoes in the South. 
Growing Onion Seed. 
Planting Beans with Com. 
Crimson Clover in New Jersey. 
Alfalfa in New England. 
Seeding to Sudan Grass. 
Why Clover Dies Out. 
Raising Seedling Potatoes. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Hill or Level Cultivation. 
Late Sowing of Sweet Clover. 
Starting an Alfalfa Field. 
Barberry and Wheat Rust.... 
V^y Wheat Prices Were Not Raised. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Safe Family Horse. 
Milk Forum ... 
New England Milk Prices. 
Sheep on Rough Land. 
Dogs and Sheep. 
Milk and Farm News. 
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THE HENYARD 
Fertile Eggs for Preserving. 736 
Green Cut Bone. 736 
Improving Plumage of Show Birds. 736 
Gapes in Chickens. 736 
Influence ofVihration on Hatching Eggs..,, 736 
Red Dog Flour. 736 
The Wandering Hen. 737 
Prices of Chicken Feed. 737 
HORTICULTURE 
Bulletin on Tomatoes. 
Ortley Apple . 
Growing Gladiolus .. 
Summer Care of Easter Lily. 
Onions for Home Use. 
Use of Exhausted Hotbed. 
Earthworms in lAwn. 
Nbtes from a Maryland Garden. 
Tomato Plant .. 
Hints on War Gardens. 
Sure Method to Grow Melons. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
Corn Bread: Cleansing Old Cans.... 
The Rural Patterns. 
Peanut Butter; Linoleum; Pickles... 
Box Party . 
Seen in New York Shops. 
More About Scotch Oat Cake. 
Home Dyeing . 
Cinnamon and Other Buns. 
Embroidery Designs . 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Whitewashing Stone House. 
A Letter from Idaho. 
Editorial . 
Suggestions About “Daylight Saving” 
Publisher’s Desk . 
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Among the Up-State Farmers 
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was never so great in cow-testing w’ork as 
in the past year. At the close of 1917 
.33 co-operative dairy improvement or¬ 
ganizations were active and had in their 
employ 33 held agents testing monthly 
13,7(X) cows in 074 dairies. Fourteen as¬ 
sociations became inactive during the year, 
due to loss by draft or more remunera¬ 
tive employment of agents. The new 
organizations are paying .$2.50 per day 
for agents’ wage instead of $2 paid 
formerly, and hope to hnd agents more 
willing to engage in the work at that 
price. Wyoming and Delaware Counties 
have been pretty thoroughly organized for 
the new year’s work, and the work prom¬ 
ises to do even better this year than last 
in general. There can be no more pat¬ 
riotic work than that of cow-testing with 
present high prices of fee{^ and the need 
of best selection of cows for slaughter— 
that those that I’emain may make the best 
use of the increasingly scarce feeds. 
M. G. F. 
Crops and Farm News 
Replying to your inquiry of the 1st 
inst., would say we are having an excel¬ 
lent bloom on our apple orchards, includ¬ 
ing the Baldwins. Peaches are .showing 
a fair bloom ; Pears and plums and 
jtrunes good ; blososms are just beginning 
to open. We are using four tractors in 
cultivating our 400 acres of orchards. All 
have been thoroughly sprayed. 
Niagara Co., N, Y. willard hopkins. 
The bloom on apple trees is, I should 
say, 75 to 85 per cent at least of a normal 
crop. Baldwins are off some, very late 
coming out. Peaches wiped out. We do 
find a live peach bud here and there, but 
only two or three on a tree. Pears look 
very promising except Bartletts—short. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. J. a. hepworth. 
This section is a dairy country. Farm¬ 
ers sell their milk in Binghamton and 
New York city; price during Winter 8c 
per qt.; May prices .5%c, wholesale to 
farmer; retail, 11c. Dairy cows cost $100 
up. Potatoes loaded at Kirkwood, 55c 
bu.; stores pay .3.5 to .36e for eggs; re¬ 
tail, 40 to 45c; fowls, live, 30c; dressed, 
retail 38c. Hay selling for $15 ton to 
farmer.^. Very little buckwheat in farm¬ 
ers’ hands; as poor crop last year; season 
wet and late. Potatoes were late being 
dug. When fin.shed digging mai’ket was 
dull, then cold weather came on and many 
got frosted in cellar during Winter. Bran 
cost .$43 ton ; mixed feed, $46; cornmeal, 
$0.5; ground oats, $().3; oats, $1.0.5 bu.; 
cracked corn, .$.3.40 per 100. All s<'e Is 
fuid implements are high and helj) scarce. 
Farmers are putting in more crops, and 
if season is favorable look for good re¬ 
sults. About one-fourth number chicks 
raised this year. Hens are not coming 
in market the way the butchers expected. 
I’rospect is that eggs and poultry will be 
very scarce next Winter. w. R. C. 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
Beans, grain, hay, potatoes and cabbage 
constitute the main money crops in this 
section. There is a good deal of fruit 
here, but no crop last year. Beans 
brought from $11 to $13 per 100 lbs., with 
a very poor market at present. Wheat, 
$2.10; barley started around $1.25 and 
reached $2; a few received as high as 
$2.50 for good seed barley; oats. 90c. 
Most of the rye was sold at $1.75 to $1.80 
for 00 lbs. There is no market for po¬ 
tatoes’ at present. The last car was bought 
at 7.5c. The bulk of the crop was sold 
for $1 bu. There are a few oars of po¬ 
tatoes in farmers’ hands yet. There has 
been no market for cabbage for some time. 
Quite a few farmers were caught with the 
crop on their hands, due to cold weather 
:uid car shortage. Price 50c bu. Veal, 
70c. Eggs. .35c per doz. ; butterfat at 
creamery, 45%c. There will be a light 
acreage of beans this year; potatoes a 
little under normal. The wheat acreage 
is smaller than usual, and the stand is 
very thin and poor. A good many fields 
have been harrowed up and sown to oats. 
Rye a little larger than usual. There has 
been a heavy seeding of oats and barley. 
Corn is raised only for individual needs. 
The business end depends on the seasoji 
and on what the government doe.s. We 
cannot raise wheat under present condi¬ 
tions for .$2.10 per bu. unless we have 
unusual crops, as has been the case for 
three or four years. We will have to have 
good crops and big prices to make any 
profits. C. L. T. 
Ontario County, N. Y. 
Articles Lost in the Mail 
Every year the New York Post Office 
has an auction sale of articles which can¬ 
not be delivered to the owner because ;the 
label has got off in the mails. These 
goods are a.sorted into lots of the same 
character which are numbered and on ex¬ 
hibition two days before the sale. 
This year there were 540 different lots, 
compri.sing all sorts of goods. One lot of 
1,000 pounds of metal seemed to be largely 
parts of farm machinery or automobilef<, 
repre.senting a great amount of inconveni- 
enec to those who did not receive the 
goods by mail. 
No doubt rough handling by mail clerks 
is responsible for some of this loss, but it 
is probable that in many cases unsuitable 
tags or labels were used. This shows the 
need of being very careful that labels used 
on parcel post goods shall be put on so 
that they will stay. 
Among the articles other than hardware 
were: Groceries, toys, garden hose, poul¬ 
try supplies, clothing, wall paper, tobacco, 
umbrellas, druggists’ goods, cameras, 
printers’ rollers, ice skates, tennis rackets, 
bicycle and automobile tires, shaving uten¬ 
sils, gloves, hats, clocks, 1.400 cans of 
solid alcohol, about 500 pelts, muskrat.s, 
and others; large nuimber of books, pocket 
knives, jewelry, and false teeth. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
May 22—Ilolsteins. Carlisle, Pa., by 
Cumberland Co. Breeder.s. 
May 28—^.Ter.seys. Brattleboro, Yt., by 
Pure Bred I.ive Stock Sales Co., Brat¬ 
tleboro, Vt. 
May 28, 29, 30—Ilolsteins. Pine Grove 
Farms, Elma Center, N. Y. 
May 30 — Jerseys. Linden Grove, 
Coop<‘rsburg, Pa. 
May 30, 31—Ilolsteins. Hudson Val¬ 
ley Sales Co., Mechanicsville, N. Y. 
.Tune 1—Jerseys. Hood Farm, Lowell, 
Mass. 
June 4. 5—llol.steins. Brattleboro, Vt., 
by I’urebrcd Live Stock Sales Co., Brat¬ 
tleboro, Vt. 
.Tune 11, 12—Ayrshires. New England 
Ayrshire Club, Charter Oak Park, Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 
.lune 1.3. l-t—Ilolsteins. Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y., by J. B. Sisson’s Sons. 
June 27—Ilolsteins. Greenfield, O., by 
A. W. Green. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
.Tuly 24—N. .T. State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety Field Meeting, Glas.sboro, N. .T. 
Aug. 26-30—Ohio State Fair, Colum¬ 
bus, O. 
Oct. 10-19—National Dairy .Show’, Col¬ 
umbus, O. 
Doctor; ‘’You need to be treated for 
the whisky habit.” Casey: ‘‘Begorra, 
doctor, that’s how I got it.”—Boston 
Transcript. 
SELL FORMS, CONCIfETE I'OST, 
every post a wire stretcher. Rights 
Cost no More. ADJUSTO CO., Wiverly, Ohio 
If in Need of Farm or Garden Help 
of any description, write to Mr. G. M. He.ssels.Secre. 
tarry of the Agricultural and Industrial Labor Relief 
202 E.42nd St.,NewYork. All services rendered free’ 
DO YOU 
NEED 
FARM 
HELP? 
We have many .able-bodied young 
men, mostly without farming 
experience, who wish to work 
on farms. If you need a good, 
steady, sober man, write for an 
order blank.Ours is a philanthrop¬ 
ic organization and we make no 
charge to employer or employee. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOQETY 
176 Second Avenne N. Y. City 
SUBSCRIBERS* EXCHANGE 
Farm Help Wanted 
nOlTSRKEEPER —Country woman, for small 
family, small farm house; Jersey. ADVER¬ 
TISER 4110, care Rural New-Yorker. 
W.VNTED—Two married men for dairy; must 
he first-class milkers and up to date; house, 
wood, butter and milk furnished; good wages. 
Apply, with references, to IIAyilLTON, manager, 
The Hermitage Stock Farm, Centreville, Md. 
WANTED—Middle-aged woman for general 
housework, 3 in family; no laundry work; 
must be accustomed to live in country year 
around; no farm work; Orange Co., N. Y.; ref¬ 
erence; answer. ADVERTISER 4006, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
DAIRYMAN—Wanteef single man for small Jer¬ 
sey herd on private estate; must be first-class 
blitter maker; cleanline.ss most essential: good 
wages, with maintenance; write full particulars 
first letter and nationality; draft exempt. RttX 
243, Roslyn, Long Island. 
W.VNTED—Man and wife In the coimtry; wife 
to work In house, man to do light farming and 
run automobile; work the year round; no wash¬ 
ing; wages .¥70 per month and board; good home 
for right couple. Address FRED’K 1). ROGERT, 
So. I’aramus Road, Ridgewood, N. J. 
WANTED—Two married men to work on farm; 
must bo good workers, and understand the 
baiuning of mules; house, garden and wood fur¬ 
nished. Apply, with references, to HAMILTON, 
manager. The Hermitage Stock Farm, Centre¬ 
ville, Sid. 
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D.MRYM.VN—Single: on large farm in Massa¬ 
chusetts; no bottling or milking: uiuferstand 
caro' milk, cream, steam boiler, power clnirn, 
blitter maker combined, electric driven sepa¬ 
rator; butter made about 2 montlis in year; 
wages $.5.5 to $60; age, experience, references. 
-\DVERTI.SER 4134. care lUiral New-Y< 'ker. 
WANTED—Housekeeper for farmer; preferably 
woman of 30 with at least one small child. 
T. C. SMITH, Guilford, N. Y. 
WANTED—Caretaker, married, for owner’s Sum¬ 
mer liome up-State: permanent; must be ab¬ 
stainer, economical, willing, industrious, veg¬ 
etable gardener, and able to care and raise feed 
for a few horses and cows, sheep, pigs and poul¬ 
try enough for owner’s table, and to harvest ice 
and wood; good salary, with use of superior un¬ 
furnished cottage having bathroom. State par¬ 
ticulars fully, Including salary expected. AD¬ 
VERTISER 4135, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Reliable man for general farm work; 
mint understand care of fruit trees; attend 
two cows and three horses; men to help in busy 
season; all-year position. Address, stating 
wages expected, ADVERTISER 4130, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
W.VNTED—Clean, dry-hand milkers for certified 
dairy: 15 cows; no outside work; wages forty- 
five dollars and board; single farm hand and 
teamster; wages forty dollars and board. RARI¬ 
TAN VALLEY FARMS, Somerville, N. J. 
WANTED AT ONCE—A mother’s helper or a 
reliable girl or woman for general housework. 
MRS. FRANK WETMORE, Freeport, N. Y. 
WORKING FOREMAN, roarodP on farm; best 
references; state requirements, wages and 
hoard. ADVERTISER 4009, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
TWO YOUNG MEN, not subject to draft, want 
position on farm; no experience. ADVER¬ 
TISER 4124, care Rural New-Yorker. 
A YOUNG MAN desires a position on an up-to- 
date poultry farm. ADVERTISER 4132, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
ACTIVE YOUNG MAN, experineced in all 
branches of farming, with the best of refer¬ 
ences, wishes position as manager on farm or 
gentleman’s estate: will work on wages or per¬ 
centage. ADVERTISER 4129, caro Rural New- 
Yorker. 
POSITION wanted by working farm foreman; 
married man witli small family; ten years’ ex¬ 
perience; scientific training; can handle all kinds 
of farm machinery and fiirnisli one assistant: 
reference. ADVERTISER 4122, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
POULTRYMAN desires position; thoroughly ex¬ 
perienced and capable of taking charge of 
poultry plant and putting it on profitable basis; 
references and past record upon request. AD- 
VKRTLSER 4127. care Rural New-Yorker. 
PRIVATE ESTATE MANAGER of business and 
long practical expeilence Is available for posi¬ 
tion on gentleman’s estate, hunting lodge or 
plantation In United States or tile West Indies. 
ADVERTISER 4131. care Rural New-Yorker. 
UNM.VRRIED Man, age 2‘2, educated, employed 
as cowman, desires either advancement as 
cowman or opportunity to learn operation of 
large tractor; experience, 3(4 months as cow¬ 
man, 2 years as gardener J. R. O’GRADY, 
Broad Brook Farm, Bedford Hills, N. Y. 
WANTED IMMEDIATELY—Man to do milk- 
house work and milk; akso man to milk and 
work as herdsman’s helper; only single men with 
clean habits and good records need apply. Write 
fully to W. H. HAINES, Dover, N. J. 
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W.VNTED—Married man for general farm work; 
must know liow to milk; must furnish good 
reference: give wages expected in first letter. 
W. S. HINCHEY', P. O. Box 729, Rochester, 
N. V. 
W.VNTED—Married man or man with mother for 
chore work around house, such as care of lawn 
and driveway; year-around postlion; answer; 
reference. ADVERTISER 4995, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
W.VNTED—Teamster on dairy farm; single man 
preferred: $40 per month and board. GEO. 
I.. BIDWELL, Riegelsville, N. J. 
WANTED—Several intelligent American mar¬ 
ried men on large farm; good opportimity of¬ 
fered to willing men; good wages, house, garden, 
firewood and milk. Call or address BKOOK- 
F1EI.D FARMS, INC., R. D. No. 3, Box 151, 
Saugerties, N. Y. 
WANTED—Man and wife for South Jersey farm; 
man to milk two cows, feed hogs and assist 
In farm work; woman to do general housework, 
family of four. Write, giving qualifications 
to POWELL CREEK FARMS, Rural Route No. 
1, Mays Landing, N. J. 
Situations Wanted 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
WANTED—Young man under draft age for gen¬ 
eral farm work In southwestern New England; 
must understand care of horses, cows and poul¬ 
try; no cigarettes; give wages, age and refer¬ 
ences in first letter; good* home for good man; 
two other young men employed on the place. 
.Vddress ADVERTISER 4125, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—Herdsman for 28 head milk cows; 
Ilolsteins; marreid man preferred, to replace 
drafted man; $50 per month, house rent, etc. 
GEO. L. BIDWELL, Riegelsville, N. J, 
FOR SALE—A choice Lancaster County farm of 
12 acres, desirable as a residence, a few miles 
from Lancaster, Pa., on main highway and with 
electric car service at the door; railroad station 
one-half mile; now conducted as poultry farm 
witli finest utility stock aniT excellent business; 
11-room house, barn, housing for 3,000 hens, 
6,.500-egg incubator capacity, brooder and colony 
houses: everything modern, with running water 
in all buildings and on range; bearing fruit trees 
in abundance. Those desiring something worth 
while, write ADVERTISER 4123, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
FOR S.VLE—Poultry farm containing 15 acres, 
one-fourth mile from town of 3,500 population, 
with splendid schools and churches, situated on 
Du Pont Boulevard; farm equipped as follows: 
incubating capacity, 9,000 eggs; brooding ca¬ 
pacity, 12,000 chicks; laying hou.ses for 4,000 
hens; 500 apple trees; large bouse containing 
11 rooms; the owners are engaged in other busi- 
ness and cannot give this the proper attention. 
THE DELAWARE EGG FARM. Milford, Del. 
FOR SALE—Farm 28 acres, all tillable; one mile 
to station; 25 miles New York; 10-room house; 
all improvements; ideal location; sell or ex¬ 
change for large farm up State. BRANDT 
BROS., West Nyack, N. T. 
FOR .SALE—A big little farm. Central New 
Jersey, near large city and university; 27 
seres; chickens and cows; all kinds of fruit; 
income equal to many large farms; $6,000. AD¬ 
VERTISER 4126, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR S.VLE—Boarding houses and farm; 136 
acres, at Freehold, Greene Co., New York; 
‘The Oakwood,” 1,800 feet altitude; best moun¬ 
tain view of entire Catsklll range; accommo¬ 
dating 75 guests; large barn; lee house; garage; 
other outbuildings. For particulars, ad'dress 
owner, B. A. BROOKS, Freehold, Greene Co., 
FOR SALE—169 acres; buildings good condition; 
well watered: must sell to settle estate. AD¬ 
VERTISER 4130, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Fruit farm in the Hudson Valley; 
contains 65 acres, with 8,000 trees of all va¬ 
rieties; within walking distance of the city of 
Hudson. JESSIE R. MILLER, Executrix, R. F. 
D. No. 1, Hudson, N. Y. 
FARM BARGAIN—About 200 acres good, tillable 
land; 50 acres good pasture, watered by 
springs; fine, large house, good barns; a No. 1 
hay, grain and dairy farm; strong, level land; 
less than 100 miles from New York on State 
road; will sell all or part two thousand cash; eight 
thousand can remain on mortgage; reason for 
selling, I have other business. Write ADVER¬ 
TISER 4137, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM FOR SALE—175 acres, 2 barns 36x80; 
cost five thousand'; house 50x40, 2 stories high, 
all modern improvements, cost ten thousand. 
-VDVERTISER 4138, caro Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE, RENT OR EXCHANGE-60 acres; 
1 and 2 miles from railroads; close to goo<i 
markets. R. G. GIVEN, Elkton, Md. 
60-.VCRB river or village farm; 17-room house; 
steam heat, bath, laundry, fireplaces; finest 
water; all new buildings; fine for boarders; 0 
minutes railroad; 10 cows, team, farm tools; 
$7,500; partieulnrs, KEZIA F. WILLIAMS, 
Downsville, Del Co., N. Y. 
STRONG, capable young woman wanted June 
first as waitress in large private family; care 
of lower floor, with help of man for heavy work; 
no wa.shing, but ironing of table linen; own 
room, with bath and dining room shared by other 
maids; if methodical, neat and willing, no experi¬ 
ence is necessary; send full particulars to MRS. 
WILLIA.M CRANE, Richmond, Mass. 
WANTED—Single man to work on dairy farm; 
must be good milker and willing worker; im¬ 
mediate employment. .Vddress ADVERTISER 
4101, care Kiiral Now-Y’orker. 
Miscellaneous 
W.VNTED .VT ONCE—Work on New Jersey truck 
farm by two American men; ton years’ expe¬ 
rience: strictly temperate; also truck farm 
wanted for 1919: references given and expected. 
-VDVERTISER 4111, care Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUR •OPPOUTT’NITY—Obtain farm superin¬ 
tendent used tractors truck engines, dyna- 
nos; jiresent iiosition 250 head stock; 300 acres 
cultivated; beef, dairy cattle, bogs; references 
from present college farm; 3 others. ADVER¬ 
TISER 4133, care Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUNG COUPLE desire light work on farm. 
BOX 91. Cedarhurst, N. Y. 
MARRIED M.VN, 45, absolutely temperate, has 
two children, 5 and 7, wishes position as man¬ 
ager on farm or estate; tliorouglily understands 
all branches farm work, stock, garden; at liberty 
now. R. WISEMAN, Wading River, L. I. 
FOR SALE—Peerless steam traction engine, 15 
H. P., excellent working condition, water 
wagon, $1,000. WILLIAM PENROSE, Jr., 
Neshamlny, Pa. 
FOR SALE—Large, well-stocked xlrug and hard¬ 
ware business in the center of the finest farm¬ 
ing section of Delaware. Business showing won¬ 
derful increase each year. This is a flue oppor¬ 
tunity. Investigate. DR. J. R. SUDLER, 
Bridgeville, Delaware. 
FOR SALE—Dairy outfit: filler, cupper, aerator, 
electric motors, separator, ensilage cutter, gas¬ 
oline engine. FIELD ESTATE, Port RIchmoinl, 
Staten Island. 
WANTED—Board for mother and clilld (5 years) 
on large, busy farm, with refined family; no 
otiier boarders; will make no extra work; take 
care of own room; plain, wholesome foisl; $15 a 
week. .Vddress A; STEWART, 33 Montlcello 
Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 
$80 SHARPLESS suction feed cream separator. 
No. 2, salesman’s sample, fine condition, $50. 
HOPES HARDWARE STORE, Dover, Del. 
WANTED—2-bottom tractor plow; must be in 
perfect working order. Full iiarticiilars, W. 
11. DAY, North Lima, Ohio. 
TWEN'rY-FIVE DOLT-ARS buys eight-foot Me- 
Uormiok self-dump rake; never used; twenty- 
six teeth. H. B. BEST, Elverson, Pa. 
