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TShe RURAL N E W-Y O R K E R 
Wartime Building 
W HATEVER effect the war may 
have on building generally this 
season, there is no question but 
there will be a tremendous amount of 
new construction in the rural districts. 
Farmers must have new bams, cribs, 
granaries, silos, stock sheds — improved 
and enlarged facilities that increase pro¬ 
duction and high prices for farm products 
have been made necessary. 
In meeting this demand for new farm 
structures it is well for builders in farm and 
country to keep in mind the fact that there is 
available today, in all forms and in adequate 
quantities, perfectly manufactured 
Southern Pine 
**Thc Wood of Service*^ 
Southern Pine is the most plentiful 
building material now on the market. It is 
suited to a greater variety of uses in building 
than any other wood, and its moderate cost 
makes it most economicaL The quality of the 
Southern Pine you buy is guaranteed if it comes 
from any of the more than 200 giant sawmills' 
subscribing to the Southern Pine Association, 
Southern Pine Association 
126 D Interstate Bank Building, , 
New Orleans, La. ^ 
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DOUBLE THE CORN CROP 
Also All Other Crops 
Beeman Tractors do it and cost only $302.50 in New York City 
You need a Beeman tractor, no matter 
how you farm now. The Beeman will 
save you time, money and trouble. 
They go where you can’t go with a 
horse; they cultivate wide or narrow 
rows; THEY KILL the weeds; they 
open up the ground surface and let 
the moisture in. You can cultivate 
faster and better, no matter what kind 
of crop you are growing, the Beeman 
is a Money Saver. Catalog Free. 
R. Consolidated Gasoline Engine Co. 
202 Fulton Street New York City 
Aenorooiie ROOTS, HORSERADISH SETS. CABBAGE, 
Hsparasus beets, onion plants, lettuce, toma. 
TOeI egg plants, peppers and CAULIFLOWER PLANTS. 
Send for Fries List, J. C. Schmidt, Bristol, Pa. 
The Modem 
Gas 
Tractor 
Its construction, 
utility, opera, 
tion and repair. 
By Victor W. Page. 
61^x 7'/2. Cl. 475 pp. 24 III. 
3 folding plates. 
The 
latest 
and must 
complete 
work pub¬ 
lished o n 
farm tract¬ 
ors and tractor power plants, treating exhaustively 
on their design and construction, and giving eompleto 
instructions on their care, operation and repair. It 
describes all ignition systems, all types of vaporizers 
and carburetors, latest forms of power plants and 
installations, clutches, speed changing and reversing 
gears, all frame parts and their functions, and every 
recent improvement in tractor and auxiliary appli¬ 
ances. All types and sizes of gasoline, kerosene and 
oil tractors are fully described. Every iihase of 
traction engineering practice is fully covered. 
The above book will be sent postpaid for Two 
New Yearly Subscriptions or Four Yearly Re¬ 
newal Subscriptions or One New Yearly Sub¬ 
scription and Two Renewal Subscriptions. 
The Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., N. Y. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Pepper, Tomato, Brussels Sprouts, 
Beet, Celery, Egg, Kale, Onion, Parsley, Sweet Potato, 
Rhubarb, Asparagus, Horseradish plants. Also Aster, 
Geranium and other flowering plants. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
and runner plant.s that will bear fruit next summer. Also Rasp- 
berry. Blackberry, Gooseberry, Currant, Grape plants. 
Fruit Trees, Shrubs for fall planting. Catalogue free. 
HABBY L. SQUIBES, Good Ground, N. Y. 
C Uf C C T of all the leading varieties delivered by 
O It C k I parcel post. 20 plants, 20c ; 50|)lants, 35c ; 
nAfUTA 100 plajvts, 60c; 500 or more, 30c per 100. 
r U I A I ll By express, charges collect, 1,000 plants, 
Dl AIITC *''7S: 5,000 or more, $1.60 per 1,000. 
rLAIl I O H. AUSTIN, FELTON, DELAWARE 
Strawberry Plants For Sale 
50 varieties to select from, including the fall-bear¬ 
ing. 8end for free catalog. 
J. KEIFFOBD HALL, R. 2, Bhodesdale, Md. 
enDDAftr Aim 2 , 000,000 cabbage plants in 
vHDDHUk Hnif all varieties. $1.50 per 1,000 ; 6,000, 
DAIII ICI niAflTD 10,000, $12. REROOTED— 
DHULIrLVniin $i.7i per 1,000. 300,000 CAULI¬ 
FLOWER PLANTS (Henderson’s 
Snowball) $2.75 per 1,0()0. Kerooted, 
$4 per 1,000. Paul F. ItociiELLE, Box 422, Mobkisiown, N. J. 
PLANTS 
Olnr.!®—Two Milliou. Daiiish and Domestic. 
uaDDage rlants a s u m e a », wmiam«on, n. y. 
API rny nl a yxo OOLDEN, SELF blkaoiiing, white 
V kLi.ni r LHIl ID PI.UMEand GIANT PASOAL. SOOfor 
$1, Post paid. Catalogue free. W.s. FORD S SON, Harlly, Delaware 
Danish Ball Head Cabbage Plants dred, postpaid 
By Express, $2 per Thousand; 5,000 or more at $l..iO per 
Thousand. FRED E. RRADLEY, Union, N. Y. 
SAUE-Field Grown Tomato Plants and^etoifquam 
titles. Bouny Best, Greater Baltimore varieties at very 
lowest prices. WJLKI.NS Medford. Burlington Co., N. d. 
to blame for the high prices he has to 
pay. Let me give you an experience I 
once had. It happened several years ago, 
and I have forgotten the exact figures, 
but that doesn’t matter. I 'will supply 
the figures, wliich will illustrate the prin¬ 
ciple. I quite fi-equently sell hay in town. 
Now, there are in the city a number of 
wholesale dealers in hay, feed, etc., and 
at that time the price they we're paying 
the farmers for my grade of hay was 
$10 per ton, and they retailed it for $20. 
I went to a man who wanted hay and 
offered him mine for $18. He wanted 
to know w’hat So-and-So was paying, and 
I told him $10. Then he offered me $10 
and wouldn’t give more, but would go to 
the dealer and give him .$20. To all such 
I W’Oiild say lot them pay high prices 
and keep quiet about it. In former years 
I have sometimes sold hay for as high as 
$2.0 per ton. The' present price in town 
I think is somewhere around $20. For 
the past two years there has been a heavy 
crop in this section, and the price has 
been lower than it otherwise would have 
bo'en. The present indications are there 
will be a fair crop this year, but I think 
it will be quite weedy. F. L. S. 
Dutche.ss Co., N. Y. 
Geranium Questions 
1. What month should geraniums he 
slipped if you wish them to bloom iu De¬ 
cember? Should slips be t:ikcu from 
near the top^the lateral branches, or near 
the bottom of the plant ? Should the 
cutting be made just above or just below 
the leaf axil or half wuiy between? How 
long should the slip be cut? Is it better 
to root the cutting in water or to place 
directly iu soil? What sized pot should 
bo used for plants up to one year of age? 
What soil is best for geraniums? 2. I 
have a choice double pink ivy geranium 
over three feet high; it starts numerous 
bud clusters, but when they are half de¬ 
veloped they turn yellow and die. It is a 
thrifty plant, with many lateral branches. 
It has a sunny south window. What 
treatment can I give it to secure blooms? 
Oswego, N. Y. HRS. L. A. s. 
1. We infer that these geraniums are 
being grown under home condition.s, with¬ 
out a gi’eenliouse. Field-grown plants do 
not give as good cuttings as those grown 
in the greenhouse, hut still it is quite 
possible to sti-ike such “slips” with suc¬ 
cess. Cuttings of outdoor geraniums are 
best taken in .Inly and August; their time 
of blooming will depend <jn the favorable 
conditious given them afterwards. How¬ 
ever, July cuttings should give Winter 
flowers. Lateral branches are desirable, 
as they are usually well grown and in 
good condition to callous; those near the 
base are usually softer. Cut below the 
leaf axil; it is well to have about two 
eyes, and to make'^the cutting with a 
heel. Set cuttings in two-inch pots, in 
pure sand, or very sandy .soil; there is 
no advantage iu starting in Vater. Place 
the pots in full sunlight iu a window; 
do not let them shrivel for ivant of 
water, but keep rather on the dry side 
until calloused. If too wet the cutting 
may damp off. As soon as roots are 
formed ))ot the little plant in clay loam 
without any manure, and do not keep too 
wet. Strong plant food and too much 
moisture are responsible for many gera¬ 
nium ills, especially with young plants. 
The plants should be shifted into larger 
pots as they grow, but too large a shift 
is not desirable. They may be trans¬ 
ferred from the two-inch cutting pot to 
21/4-iBC'h and from this have successive 
oue-iuch shifts, until they reach an eight 
or nine-inch pot, which is a good size for 
fine specimens. Always pot very firmly; 
loose, over-rich soil and too much water 
result in lank, spindly plants. A good 
clay is desirable, and new unrotted ma¬ 
nures mu.st always be avoided. When 
the plants are large enough for a six-inch 
pot they may receive occasional manure 
water. 
2. Evidently the large ivy geranium is 
not in robu.st condition, and we suspect a 
sodden soil, but have uo data regarding 
the treatment given. Try watering care¬ 
fully, letting the soil dry out naturally, 
and be sure it does not have wet feet; 
that is, that the pot does not stand in 
a jardiniere containing drainage water. 
If the soil was not over rich to start, it 
has now reached a stage where some 
manure water could he given to advant¬ 
age. 
June 1.5, 1018 
Up-State Farm Notes 
Meadows and pastures are in fine con¬ 
dition and cows are quite generally turned 
out to graze now, nearly three weeks 
earlier than last year. Hay promises to 
be a heavy crop, as the heavy rains have 
helped here, though they are hindering 
planting operations somewhat. Corn is 
quite generally in now, and potatoes are 
being planted. Peas, oats and Spring 
wheat have come well, conditions having 
been favorable to good germination. Ap¬ 
ples are through blooming, even in the 
central and northern counties, while 
We.stern New York and the Hudson Val¬ 
ley is giving its second spi-ay to the 
fruit. Peach trees are quite generally 
dead from the cold Winter in Central 
New A"ork and even the western belt, 
and cherries and grapes have frozen hack 
more than has ever been known before. 
Very little produce is now moving, 
owing to extremely busy times with farm¬ 
ers. Potatoes are iu better demand in 
the up-State centers at somewhat better 
price.s. Eggs dropped two cents the 
latter part of the week, a tendency not 
expected at this season. Live hens ai’e 
bringing but 25 cents in the average small 
city markat, and farmers are.indignant at 
the offer, very few as yet being sent to 
mai’ket. County food administrators are 
urged to do something to bolster up the 
average local up-State market, that a 
little later shipments to the big centers 
do not become so general Jis to destroy 
prices there. Earmers will do well to 
petition their local administrators to this 
effect, akso Chas. E. Trenian of Ithaca, 
State chief of this kind of work. Mr. 
Hoover named .25 to .3() cents as a logical 
price for live fowls, and this has been 
paid in the big centers and up to 40 to 
42 cents, and there is no reason why the 
smalle.'^ markets should not keep in line. 
Hou»ew'ivos are disappointed to learn 
that they will he restricted to 25 pounds 
of sugar for canning purposes for the 
season, each one being required to sign a 
statement with grocers as to how many 
pounds are to be used for this work. Food 
administrators will check up these state¬ 
ments to see tliat none go over their al¬ 
lotment of sugar. It is not too late yet 
for country people to grow plenty of 
sugar beets for making syrup for cooking 
purposes to help out on the sugar prob¬ 
lem. 
Miss Georgia Laura White, dean of 
W’omen and liead of the home economics 
department of the Michigan Agricultural 
College, has been appointed adviser of 
women of Cornell University. Dr. Edith 
IT. Matzke has efficiently filled this posi¬ 
tion for the past two years on a tempor¬ 
ary aiipointment. Dr. White will assume 
her new duties at the State college next 
Fall. She has been for seven years an 
instructor at Smith College, and won the 
degree of bachelor of iihilosophy at Cor¬ 
nell in 189C, and of doctor of philosophy 
in 1901. 
The Onondaga County Guernsey Breed¬ 
ers’ Association will hold its annual field 
meeting on the T. 11. Muiiro farm, west 
of Camillus. They hope to make the 
event the biggest thing of the kind in the 
eoiinty and have invited all farmers in¬ 
terested in live stock to attend. Besides 
a basket picnic and field sports, there will 
be appropriate addresses and an exliibit 
of standard breeds of cattle, horses, sheep 
and swine. 
The enrollment of women for voting 
in the primaries was very light in up¬ 
state cities. Rural communities are to 
he canvas.sed very thoroughly to augment 
the enrollment of the women with some 
party, using individuals of their own 
numbers to do the woi-k. Women show 
much interest in the selection of candi¬ 
dates, hut have hesitated to affiliate them¬ 
selves with the old_ i)artios. The time 
seems to ho ripe with them for a new 
regime, and “50 fanners in the next Lef/is- 
lature” as a policy would meet with favor 
with the new voters in many rural seev 
tious. The new Federation of Agricul¬ 
ture and otlier builders of rural senti¬ 
ment have a golden opportunity here 
which if not met at once will be made the 
most of by the old party machines, or so 
far as will he tolerated by the thinking 
factoi-s in the new voting element. 
Chemung County will have a women’s 
camp at Big Flats, and one at South- 
port, consisting of 10 individuals each. 
The women are iu charge of a supervisor 
who acts as an agent between them and 
the farmers for whom they expect to 
work. Other camps are to he added as 
rapidly as possible. Mrs, Louise Rogei’s, 
farm labor specialist ,i.s organizing this 
work in this county, assisted by 10 col¬ 
lege girls from Elmira College who have 
enji.sted for farm work for the Summer. 
Miss Lillian Huffeutt is similarly organ¬ 
izing Broome County and i.s finding many 
women willing to sacrifice personal inter¬ 
ests for the sake of contributing their 
share towards food production, ir. o. f. 
Apple bloom is starting and the pros¬ 
pects look well. The cold weather liurt 
many old^ apple trees, iu some cases 
winter-killing them entirely, in other.s 
doing a lot of damage. Up here the snow 
came before the ground froze, there was 
little or no frost and a-lot of extremely 
cold weather. .lust what effect the com¬ 
bination of no frost, lots of snow and ex¬ 
treme cold will have on the apple ci-op is 
a matter of speculation, ii. m. e. 
Franklin Co., Mass. 
