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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Raise a SAFE CROP — 
There is a Steady Demand For Corn 
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Hungry Europe will buy all the food we can ship this year. 
Large amounts of stock feeds are required to save the rem¬ 
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Meats of all kind* will be scarce and high-priced. You can profit¬ 
ably raise more stock on your own farm using corn and roughage. 
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“People will suddenly wake up and realize that all these years they have been 
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properly handled and with cover crops, they will be able to get the same results 
with less labor, with more profit and with far greater satisfaction.” 
Herbert W. Collingwood, Editor, The Rural New-Yorker 
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Cost of Farm Crops 
I believe one of the things which should 
be brought forcibly before the public is a 
concise, accurate cost account of farm 
crops. It will help materially to increase 
the very necessary keeping of accounts by 
the individual farmer, and will tend more 
than most anything else to educate the 
city man to the real fact that, at the pres¬ 
ent high cost of production, the farmer 
does not receive the enormous profits he 
is supposed to get on all the produce he 
raises. earle dilatusii. 
New Jersey. 
January 11, 1919 
between the tile and the oui6ide form. 
This must be tamped in well. This filling 
can be done best by putting in one or two 
joints of the tile, then fill to the top of 
these with concrete. Then put on one or 
two more joints of tile, filling this in as 
the ones first put in. Continue this to the 
top; this concrete should be somewhat 
lower than the bottom of the quicksand. 
C are should be taken not to shut off the 
source of the water supply. Gravel or 
sand or small broken stone can be used to 
lill in around the outside of the tile up to 
within about a foot below the quicksand, 
lour concrete should extend a foot lower 
than the quicksand. If this work is done 
properly the quicksand will never bother 
you. j h 
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Selling Caraway Seed 
There is a patch near our house that 
,always grows up to caraway seed. Last 
Summer I went out one evening and cut 
a little of it. When I came to shell it I 
found that I had about 15 lbs. of it. 
People tell me that it is worth from 50c 
to $1 a pound. The trouble seems to be 
to find a buyer. Can you tell me where 
I might sell it? If that price is right, 
that little patch is worth considerable 
money every year. p. r. 
Ilorseheads, N. Y. 
Seed of African caraway is quoted at 
ONc a pound. The native seed is not in 
great demand and brings much less than 
the foreign. It is used as a medicine and 
in cooking. The best way to find the 
value of your seed would be to send sam¬ 
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Spring or Fall Applications for Lime 
Let me know the best way to apply lime 
in the Spring or Fall. Is -it a good idea 
to spread lime on top and plow it under? 
Some claim it is best that way. Is it 
preferable to spread on top of plowed 
soil and work it in? j. r. 
Maryland. 
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A Remedy for Bloat 
I read in Tiie R. N.-Y. about fa rmers 
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with water, and the milk of the lime run 
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definitely. A dose consisting of about a 
quart poured down the throat of the 
animal will relieve the trouble in less time 
tban you can. go to the telephone and call 
the veterinarian. I suggest that you re¬ 
print this simple remedy from time to 
tune. I have used it with success over 
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Westwood, N. J. 
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rows and harrow in thoroughly. This is 
oil the theory that lime is heavy and will 
naturally sink down through the soil, and 
that it is needed in the upper soil where 
the plant roots do most feeding. In some 
oases, for deep-rooted plants, farmers 
argue that the subsoil is sour and that 
lime is needed there. So, now and then, 
in the rotation, they put the lime on the 
surface and plow it under. In general, 
liming after plowing is best practice. 
Spraying Lawn with Poison 
If a man has a nice lawn around his 
house, and it is eaten by insects or worms 
so that it looks brown, can he spray it 
with a poison to kill them, after notify¬ 
ing his neighbors of this spraying? If'a 
cow should eat this grass and it poisoned 
her, would the man who owned the lawn 
be responsible for damage? w. a. s. 
Rhode Island. 
It is not likely that the spraying would 
do any good. The lawn has probably been 
destroyed by white grubs. These insects 
work underground and the spray would 
not reach them. If the lawn is very bad 
it will most likely be necessary to dig or 
plow it, and clean out the grubs by hand¬ 
picking or by letting poultry do ‘it. As 
for the.spraying, your neighbor’s cow has 
no business on your lawn if you do not 
want here there. To avoid responsibility, 
put up a notice that you have used the 
spray, and also notify your neighbor by 
letter that you have done so. 
Salting Ham and Bacon 
• P a F e 3322 K. J. S. recommends us¬ 
ing 10 pounds of salt for every 100 pounds 
of meat in curing bams and bacon, be¬ 
sides rubbing the meat thoroughly with 
sa t over night before packing. Meat 
salted like that will have to be freshened 
before cooking, and freshening takes the 
best palatableness away from the meat 
Our recipe for curing bams, shoulders and 
bacon calls for five pounds of salt to the 
hundred pounds of meat, two ounces of 
saltpetre, two pounds of brown sugar or 
one quart of molasses, and water to cover 
the meat. Our recipe also calls for the 
meat to be overhauled in three days, and 
after that every five days, in order to 
have tho meat pickle through evenly. AYe 
usually have an extra barrel to repack in ; 
the meat that is on top goes in the bot¬ 
tom of the empty barrel. After repacking 
the meat, stir up the brine thoroughly and 
pour it over the meat, put on follower 
and weight with a stone just heavy 
enough to keep the meat under the brine. 
\\e usually begin using the bacon after 
it has been in the pickle two weeks; it is 
the same as Scotch bacon, except there 
are no spices in the pickle. We often cut 
a ham in half so it will pickle quicker 
and when it has been in two weeks it is 
very nice boiled or fried. 
'W hen the meat is to be smoked we usu¬ 
ally pickle the bacon four to five weeks 
according to thickness; hams and shoul- 
<lei\si live to six weeks, according to size. 
W e have used our recipe for many years 
and cured and smoked thousands of 
pounds of hams, shoulders and bacon for 
our neighbors, as well as for ourselves 
and never had a complaint. 
Bristol Co., Mass, milton a. brown. 
Bread from Home-Grown Winter Wheat 
I have read from time to time articles 
on Winter wheat bread, and will give my 
experience with flour made from our home- 
grown wheat ground at a nearby mill. I 
could not make bread fit to eat with it 
alone, but mixed with Winter wheat flour 
that I bought, it made fine bread. I use 
no Spring wheat flour. The reason which 
I have considered to blame for my failure 
is that the flour is not old enough. If 
one could keep the flour for a year or 
two anyone ought to be able to make as 
good bread from Winter wheat as from 
Spring wheat flour. The mills that make 
flour by the wholesale store their flour for 
a time before putting on the market, so 
I have been told. Mrs. h. s. d. 
Sinking Well Through Quicksand 
This can be done successfully as fol¬ 
lows: Make a form something on the 
plan of a silo, long enough to reach 
through the quicksand, and somewhat 
larger than you want the well. Set it in 
position, work the quicksand out from 
underneath this form, lowering the form 
as you take the quicksand out at the 
bottom, until you get well through the 
quicksand ; then continue to dig the well 
as much deeper as you wish. When you 
have dug the well as. deep as you waut it, 
lower the vitrified pipe, a joint at a time, 
until you get to the top of the quicksand ; 
then make a good concrete mixture of ce¬ 
ment, good clean round sand and gravel, 
about four parts gravel, two of sand and 
one of cement. Shovel this concrete in 
Vinegar from Peach Parings 
Answering the inquiry of II. M. rela¬ 
tive to “Vinegar From Fruit Parings” on 
page 1337, I saved peach parings, poured 
cold water over them and boiled till soft 
enough to mash through a strainer, poured 
juice into bottles, tied gauze over tops, 
let stand and ferment, and after complete 
fermentation, poured off again very care¬ 
fully through a strainer into other bot¬ 
tles, avoiding stirring the sediment in 
bottom of bottles, and it was ready for 
use. I should think almost any other 
fruit parings that were not too hard to 
boil out the juice could be made into 
vinegar. I used some very excellent 
grape vinegar sent me this Summer to 
put up my spiced peaches, but I do not 
know how it was made, but probably by 
extracting the juice and letting it fer¬ 
ment. CARRIE M. LASH. 
Virginia. 
Father: “You have been running 
ahead of your allowance. Richard.” Sou : 
“I know it, dad. I’ve been hoping for a 
long time that the allowance would 
strengthen up enough to overtake me.”— 
Boston Transcript. 
