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XShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 3, 1918 
year is clue to favorable growing condi¬ 
tions and to thin seeding, rather than to 
tlie fact that they have been transferred 
from very rich to thin soil. Experiments 
have shown that oats sown at the rate 
of two bushels to the acre w’ill produce 
more .straw and about as large a yield of 
grain as oats .sown at the i-ato of three 
bushels. The thinly sown oats grow' 
j'anker and stool moi'e and ju'oduce larger 
heads than the thiclou' st'eding. 
When grown und<‘r very favorable con¬ 
ditions. such as those in the St. Law- 
I'cnce Valley, oats of all varieties are 
high in weight per bushel. ’’I'lie side oats 
commonly grown there are of the Storm 
King and Tartar King varieties, which 
have short, jdiimp kernels. These ker¬ 
nels j)ack closely together, and a bushel 
of them will sometimes weigh more than 
a bushel of Welcome or similar oats of 
the branching type. Side oats like Storm 
King and Tartar King have very thick 
hulls, and when gi'own under .slightly un- 
favoi'able conditions often produce only 
one kej-nel to the .spikelet, this kernel 
being enclosed in two hulls. Side oats 
of this type are much more likely to i)ro- 
duce these so-called double kernels than 
WelcouH* or other branching tyi)es. and 
when conditions are not of the best they 
ai-e usually light in weight. The light 
weight of the oats grown on the rich soil 
of the Schley e.state were j)robably due 
to the fact that these oats lodged before 
maturity and therefore did not fill w’ell. 
C. W'. W'AKBUKTO.N. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
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as 
The canvas, 
is sometimes 
Hay Caps; Their Make and Use 
The Department of Agriculture at 
Washington has issiuxl Farmers’ liulletin 
077 on “llay Caps.” This pamphlet 
gives a very good story of the caps used 
^ many localities for protecting clover 
and Alfalfa hay. i\Iany of our I’eadei's 
probably never saw a hay cap. but the 
picture at Fig. 4()1 w'ill give a good idea 
of it. This represents a piece of Innivy 
duck or canvas .‘{fi inches square. At each 
corner is attached a .small ball of 
ment properly fa.stened with cloth s( 
to give weight enough to hold the cover 
down firmly. In .some cases a handful 
of sand is .sewed into each corner of the 
cover, or half a horseshoe or a heavy nut. 
'J'he object of the weight is to pi-t>vent 
the cap from being blown away. There 
are commercial caps of wood pulp which 
do not seem to be satisfactory on the 
whole as the cloth cap. 
duck or unbleached muslin 
made wateri)roof by painting it with oil, 
l)arafhn, gelatin or soap and iron sul¬ 
phate. This eual)le.s it to .shed water, 
but in general the watei-proof caps do not 
seem to have much advantage ov(‘r the 
plain cloth. The object of the cap, of 
(■ourse, is to .shed rain and previ'ut an 
ordinary shower fi'oni soaking into the 
haycock. In some ))arts of the country 
where the weather is naturally dry the 
hay caps are little used. In fact, they 
are not necessary, but in many rainy sec¬ 
tions it is impossible to make high-class 
clover hay without tlnun. As is well 
known the best way to cure clovei- or 
Alfalfa is to keei) it in the cock or swath 
. so that it may fully sweat out, and the 
hay cap makes it possible to carry out 
this plan fully. There seems to be no 
question about the improved quality of 
the hay made under one of these caps. 
It has better color, is not so likely to 
ferment or decay, and has a higher flavor 
and taste, so that it is eaten better by 
the stock. This bulletin tells all about 
hay caps and how to make them, and 
while it is late in the season now for full 
use. it would pa.v any farmer in a rainy 
section to study thi.s proposition. 
Notes From a Mcuyland Garden 
Dne does not have to go far north to 
find a very dilTerent climate. Hence the 
difficulty in advising people about garden 
matters in a different climate. A week 
ago I Avas on Long Island, N. Y. (Jul.y 
(5-10). My garden peas, starting May 
10, had Avound up with the latest ones 
June 17. But here, not more than 225 
miles north of us, I saAV fresh-looking 
peas just filling and Avitb blooms still 
showing. Lettuce, which had long run 
to seed here, was just finely headed and 
showed no signs of bolting to bloom. The 
earliest tomato plants wei'o just beginning ] 
to .set little green tomatoes, while down 
here Ave had been eating them .since June 
20, and on my return found that a great 
surplus of Bonn.v Best had been sold to 
the grocers. And even in Jul.v when 
north I AA'ore a suit of clothing Avhich I 
had not had on here since last Winter. 
A cou])le of hundred miles north make a 
great difference in conditions. 'Pherefore, 
in rc'ading dates for planting in one .sec¬ 
tion, alloAvance mu.st be made for the dif¬ 
ference in climate. If the man on Long 
Island reads that I h.ave jdanted early 
toniiitoes April 1.5 he Avould probably 
have a hard time to save them if |)lanted 
at that date on Long Island. In fact. 
Ave often haA'O to put i)rotectors over them 
here. 
The rain last week tei-minated a long 
period of dry and cool weather, and in 
riding some miles yesterday. 1 noticed 
A’ery great differences in the tomato fields 
passed. Some Avere in fine shape and 
looked as though they Avould be ready for 
the canners earl.v in August. Other 
fields are so .small and late that they can 
hardl.A’ giA'e much crop before last of 
August. !Much. of course, depends on 
the character of the weather, but it looks 
as though a large i)art of the area planted 
in tomatoes will be very late giving a 
crop. This Avill make it difficult for the 
canners to start early and have a good 
long run. But with faA'orable weather 
through Sei)tember and our normal first 
frost late in October there may be a fair 
crop made. Last year there was frost 
in many tomato Sections in September, 
and the crop Avas very short. The im¬ 
mense incrtuise in acreage Avill have a 
great effect in increa.sing the general 
amount packed, even if the season is as 
short as last year. 
The acreage here in SAA’eet potatoes has 
also been greatly increased, and I notice 
that many are pi-eparing for planting 
cuttings of the vines to grow bedding 
stock for next Spring. Sometime.s the 
cuttings set in early August grow larger 
than Avanted for bedding, and many of 
them go into the shijjping crop. Po¬ 
tatoes grown from these Summer outtings 
are more easily kept in Winter than 
those groAvn from the Spring-set plants. 
’Phe same difference in earliness is shoAvn 
in the sweet potato fields as in the tomato 
fiehl.s. In some fields the vines have 
I)retty Avell covered the ground, while in 
many others they are sim()ly bunched on 
the ridge and have hardly .started to run. 
This is-from the drawings of first si)rout*- 
ing and the biter sproutings, and makes 
the difference betAveeu those ready to shij) 
in August and September and those that 
will be stoia'd for Winter. For the 
Northern .shii)ping, of course, the chief 
A'arieties of sweet potatoes groAvn are the 
dry Jersey type. But for home use there 
is an increa.se in the production of the 
yam sorts, like Nancy Hall and Hyman, 
or Southern Queen. The Nancy Hall is 
one of the finest, soft, pumiikin color and 
very sweet. The Hyman is light yelloAV 
in flesh, and of rather poor quality in 
early Winter, but gets very good in Feb¬ 
ruary and March later. It is flu 
easif'st to keep of all the SAveet potato 
ti-ibe. I liave kept them in bulk in an 
ordinary cellar. 
The (lolden ('ream sugar corn is a cross 
of the Golden Bantam and Country Gen¬ 
tleman. It has the same scattered char¬ 
acter of the grains on the cid). like tin* 
Country Gentleman, and the color of the 
Golden Bantam. It is a Aveek later than 
the Golden Bantam and has longer ears. 
In quality it is fully equal to the Ban¬ 
tam. Both these varieties are now past, 
and StowelPs Evergreen is coming in. 
I have plots of the Stowell from Northern 
seed and also from home-groAvn .seed. The 
home-grown seed has attained a larg(*r 
growth of stalk, and comes in as a good 
.succession and better ear.s than that from 
Northern seed. In fact, for the main 
crop, the home-grOAvn seed is far superior, 
being acclimated, an important matter 
with corn of any sort. AV. p. MASSEY. 
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