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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, FEB. 22, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Telling the Farmer's Story.301, 302 
Farm Work for the Coming Year. 302 
Pulling Capacity of Farm Tractors. 302 
Growing Soy Beans in Indiana. 303 
Soil Treatment After Plowing. 303 
Plowing Wet Land. 305 
Crops and Farm News. 306 
Agricultural Reconstruction Work. 315 
A Bunch of Farm Notes. 317 
.Hope Farm Notes. 318 
The Present Fertilizer Situation.. 321 
What the New Jersey Farmer Needs. 321 
Up-State Farm Notes..... 321 
Showing Up Phos-Plio-Germ. 333 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Dogs and Sheep. 
The Farmer’s Wool. 
My Calf . 
Homemade Calf Meal. 
Soy Beans, Corn and Oats. 
Succulent Feeds in Silo. 
Feeding Brood Sows. 
Questions in Hog Raising.. 
Rations for Pigs. 
Stocked Legs . 
Oil on Brood Sow... 
Physic Ball for Horse. 
Diabetes . 
Shipping Cows in Calf. 
Cowpox . 
Cottage Cheese . 
Cost cf Keeping Cow. 
Strong Butter . 
Proper Time for Milking. 
More Protein Needed. 
New York State Breeders' Association Meet¬ 
ing at Buffalo—Part I. 
Stiff Sow ...... 
Lame Hog . 
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342 
THE HENYARD 
Economical Hen Feeders. 338 
Brooding Young Chicks. 338 
Egg-laying Contest . 334 
Lights in the Henhouse.344, 345 
Droppings Boards . 345 
Brief Story of Duck Raising. 345 
HORTICULTURE 
Destroying Ants; Fertilizer for Garden. 304 
The Bird House Man. 305 
Training Vines for Fruitfulness. 305 
Has Any “Bud Sport’’ Made Good?.307 
Treatment of McIntosh Apples. 319 
Rot of Black Walnuts. 319 
Home-grown Onion Seed. 319 
Plugging a Maple Tree.319 
Experience with Celery Blight. 333 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Flags on the Scythe Tree.304 
Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman... ..300 
Looking Ahead in Cooking. 310 
Victory Desserts . 310 
A Defense of Rural School Lunches. 311 
Carbon Remover .- 312 
Cleanser for Removing Tar. 312 
Filtering Oil . 312 
Chloride of Calcium and Chloride of Lime. . 312 
Canned Pineapple in Corroded Tins. 312 
Greasing the Griddle. 312 
Formu'a for Stove Polish.312. 314 
Sediment in Water 8upply. 314 
Purifying Lard .. 314 
An Old-time Butter Strike. 322 
The Other Side of Dogs and Children.. .322, 337 
The Happy Hills... 323 
Friends in Gray. 323 
Be of Good Cheer. 323 
The Memory of a Grave in France. 323 
Barbara’s Problem . 324 
The Home Dressmaker. 305 
The Pastoral Parson.326, 327 
The Story of a Housekeeper's Day. 327 
The Plain Country Home. 327 
Household Hints’ . 327 
Average Prices for Meat. 335 
Keeping Meat without Smoking. 335 
Bone Sour in Pork.335, 336 
Notes on Recent Issues. 336 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A Cement Cistern. 364 
Change of Motor Oil Necessary for Cold 
Weather Use . 315 
Editorials .-. 320 
Buffalo Markets . 337 
The New York State Poliee. 342 
Publisher’s Desk . 346 
Water for the Henhouse 
What do you think is the best water 
I>an or vessel for water in a henhouse 
where it freezes ami where one cannot 
have running water. Is there any solu¬ 
tion to put in the water or any way to 
keep ice away. It keeps one busy keep¬ 
ing ice out. H. W. 
King Ferry, N. Y. 
I know of no way to avoid ice when 
the temperature goes below rhe freezing 
point of water unions you wish to install 
some form of heater. There are devices 
for keeping the water in poultry foun¬ 
tains from freezing, these consisting 
usually of a lamp in a metal container 
below the water receptacle. Not much 
heat is required to keep water from freez¬ 
ing. but lamps need attention. The most 
satisfactory water container that I know 
of is an ordinary galvanized water pail 
set into an orange crate, or two pails if 
the Hock is large enough. These freeze, 
of course, but they are easily emptied and 
refilled and easily carried. It has to be 
pretty cold weather when they need at¬ 
tention more than once daily. h. b. d. 
Lameness; Lice 
I have several hens that are lame. I 
feed them oats in the morning and bran 
mash for the noon meal. I intend to go 
in the chicken business heavily in tin* 
Spring. What kind of an incubator do 
you advise—hot water or a coal burner? 
T also would like to know what I should 
use to clear the henhouse of lice. 
Minnesota. D. F. 
T cannot toll you the cause of this lame¬ 
ness in your chickens, as I know nothing 
of their age, general condition, or care. 
Without some detailed knowledge of the 
Hock, if. would be as impossible to tell why 
some of its members were lame as it would 
be to answer the question “Why does a 
horse become lamer* 
Either hot water or hot air is depend¬ 
able as a means of heating an incubator; 
the choice, therefore, is largely one of 
personal preference. Any standard make 
of incubator should give you entire satis¬ 
faction ; no one make can be said to be 
the best. In the larger sizes, at least, the 
hot air machines are probably the most 
used I do not know of any “coal burn¬ 
ing” incubator, except the large sectional 
ones using coal to heat the water iu their 
circulating systems If you refer to the 
eoal burning brooder stoves for brooding 
chicks, these are entirely successful and 
are to he commended where large Hocks 
are to he reared. 
Any kind of oil, painted or sprayed 
upon the. perches, walls, etc., of a hen¬ 
house .will kill the lice with which it 
comes iu contact. Coal oil is much used 
and a strong solution of the coal tar 
“dips” used iu treating cattle is much 
used for this purpose. Where a building 
is to be treated, these coal tar dips are 
cheap and efficient. n. b. d. 
Scours 
I have a gray mare eight years old to 
which I cannot feed any ground feed as it 
physics her. Now whole oats are acting 
the same. Can you recommend a treat¬ 
ment? w. c. 
New York. 
Have her teeth put in order by a vet 
ermariau and then feed a mixture of 
whole oats and oue-sixth part of dry bran 
from a very large feed box. The bran 
causes the horse to masticate thp oats and 
the large feed box prevents bolting of 
feed. J)o not allow water just before the 
horse is worked. If scouring continues, 
mix browned wheat flour with the oat- 
and omit the bran. a s a 
Shrink in Milk 
I have a Jersey cow that freshened iu 
the latter part of December. She gave 
o? 17 quarts of milk a day for about 
•’.2 weeks; then the udder commenced to 
swell. I rubbed it with sweet butter and 
sweet oil. The udder is now getting soft, 
but I get no more than seven quarts of 
milk. I feed four quarts of mixed feed, 
three quarts of middlings, three quarts of 
oilmeal, three bushels of turnips a day, 
with cornstalks. e. d. 
New Jersey. 
Add wheat bran and ground oats and 
barley to.the ration and lessen the quan¬ 
tity of oilmeal. Feed clover or Alfalfa 
hay. Oonstalks will not keep up the milk 
flow. She should improve gradually and 
f ive a good flow of milk on Spring grass. 
f the udder remains swollen, rub in twice 
daily a mixture of one pint each of tur¬ 
pentine and fluid extract of poke root and 
six parts of melted lard or sweet oil. 
Milk three times a day and massage the 
udder well each time. a. s. a. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Omaha Tnter-State Land Show, Muni¬ 
cipal Auditorium, Omaha, Neb., Feb. 
] o.oo 
Hudson River Meeting, New York 
State Horticultural Society, Poughkeep¬ 
sie,.Feb. 19-21. 
New England Berkshire Club, second 
annual business meeting and bred sow 
sale, Brattleboro, Vt., March 11-12. 
For Sale:—2 MANKATO INCUBATORS 
}40-ih mi».W iKh Ono ISO-tg* Himwaad, 
• 6. On. 150-egg Cypher,. *tO. Good condition. Guorontced 
HUBERT O. PATTERSON. CLAYTON, N. Y. 
White Rnrk Cneknm « ?;* rlv $« and 9». 
nm u not* uocKereis Eggs. $2 «wr is ; $9 per 100 
( looks. $20 (>er 100. A. 4J. SCOFIEI.l),lireen lU.Jn. \.Y. 
J* l 5 h s in £ , an 1 d 5 - |b - Cockerels XXX 
•train S. C. TV bite Lowborn*. Trap-ncatod mother* averaged 25 
egtfs during coldest months. Finest hird». $5 FT***. Feb $6.50. 
March. $5.50 per hundred. EVERYTHING GUARANTEED. 
NELSON DEWEY, .'. Mlddleport, N. Y. 
S. C. Black Minorcas iK**™? 
.. .. andVigorousStock. 
*2.00 per 15. *6.00 per 45. Parcel Post. Delivered. 
H. W. REHMEYER - . TURNPIKE. PA. 
For Sale— Rplcriart Ham doe*, bred, 88.50 each. Hue 
rui Odltj oeigian nare Stock. Frink 8ilci.Mc0inough.N.ir. 
1 i<rht Rrahmau flnlv 1Mh v ' nr Cockerels. 32 so »nd 
LigniDraninasuniy » 3 selected Eggs. is-*?. .•.« * s . 
192 9® IKTSTtCK MOl'NTAlX FARM, NORFOLK, LOSS 
Pure Sugar Cane Syrup 
The real juice of the cane 
with the sugar unextracted. 
Free from adulterants of any 
kind. Sweet, wholesome, 
nutritious. 
5-gal. keg, f.o.b., New York *iOO 
Send check or money order Jt 
Pure Cane Molasses Corp., 
89-D Heaver St„ N. Y. 
Rose Comb 
Rhode Island Red Cockerels 
Fine colored, vigorous birds. Also hatching egg*. 
$12 per hundred. 
EDGAR HAMMOND, - Burnt Hills, N. Y. 
Sorehead or Chickenpox 
My chickens have some disease; their 
bonds get sore, and apparently the trouble 
gets in their throats. Can you tell me 
anything to do for them? i. m 
Tennessee. 
If, as I suspect, this disease is sore¬ 
head, or chicken pox, pains should be 
taken to see that the fowls have clean, 
sanitary quarters and are kept under gen¬ 
erally healthful conditions. The affected 
ones should be removed from the flock 
until they have recovered. The sore*? may 
he painted with tincture of iodine and 
that application may be repeated if neces¬ 
sary. You give no description of the 
trouble other than to mention the sores 
of the head and throat, and this advice 
is based, of course, only upon the possi¬ 
bility of the abo^i mentioned disease be¬ 
ing present. m. b. d. 
BARNS, SILOS and 
FIELD DRAIN TILE 
Write for Winter Price» 
ENTERPRISE LIMBER & SILO CO. 
North Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Bob White, Hungarian Partridges 
Wild Turkeys, Pheasants, Quail, Rabbit*, Deer, etc. 
for stocking purposes. 
Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks. Swans. 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, Bears, Foxes, Rac- 
coon. Squirrels, ami all kinds of birds and animals. 
WM. J. MACKENSEN. Naturalist, Dept. 10, Yardley, Pa 
Bronze Tu.rl5.eys 
Several well grown young Giant Bronze Turl ey 
tom*, bred from a 45-lb. gobbler, imported from 
England. Grand opportunity to get real unrelate.: 
stock, from $10 to $15 each. We will sell a limited 
number of eggs for hatching after April 1st. from a 
strong, healthy flock headed by the 2nd prize Madi¬ 
son Square Garden, N. Y. gobbler. Eggs, $il each 
WILLINKZ FARM. . . HOLMDEL, N. J. 
ilk Record Sheets Free 
Year's supply with $1 order or over. Also Free Book 
on Cow and Calf Diseases. 
CUBA-BOS GUARANTEED REMEDIES 
A SIMPLE METHOD 
SHOWING POSITIVELY 
WHICH COWS ARE 
PAYING OR LOSING 
Bag A Igor. r.Ov A- $1 
For mjuredACaked Bag,Spider,e*c. 
Breeding Powder.#1 
Garget Treat ment.*1.25 
Abortion Treatment.. .*1,50, li Boxes.... 7.00 
Afterbirth Treatment. *1.25, 6 Boxes... 6.50 
Breeding I’owder. 1.00 
M edl-Tonei For sii-k or run down cows) 50e(l. 00 
Scour and Cholera Remedy (.Savenew-born 
calves. Cure, and prevent White Soon re) *1 J *1 
Perfection Fly Killer, 1 gnllon.A 1.25 
Douehe Outfit .(Freewith *5 order) 
Expert Veterinary advice and information on all ani¬ 
mal aliments freely given. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO., 324 State St., Binghamton. N. Y. 
Mfra.nf SAVE-THC- ORSE andoth.-i airurnsVi-t.-rinary Remedies 
Baby Chicks 
S. C. REDS. R. C. 
WHITE ROCKS 
B. P. ROCKS 
W. WYANDOTTES 
and Hatching Eggs 
Healthy, vigorons, free range stock 
Best laying strains only. Mod¬ 
erate price. Circular froc. 
CHICK FARM. R. W. WAGNER, Prop. 
Eamt Northport, New York 
Butt Roc 
DAVID BRANYAN 
k] 
R. 
Eggs f? r 2 i 5 
F. D. 3, Grant, Mich. 
Baby 
Chicks 
Barron S. C.W. Leghorns 
R. & S. C. R. i. Reds 
Park B. Rocks 
PUREBRED, 
Strong, Livable. 
From heavy-laying 
healthy, free range 
stock. Safe arrival 
guaranteed. 
Wesley Grinnell 
Sodus, N. Y. 
Subscribers’Exchange 
If you want to buy or sell or exchange, make it known here. 
This Kate will be 6 Cents a word, payable in advance. Thu 
name and address must be counted as part of the advertise- 
d,spl »X type used, and only Farm Products, Help 
and Positions Wanted admitted. For subscribers only 
not and general manufacturers’ announcements 
not admitted here. Poultry, Eggs and other live stock adver¬ 
tisements will go under proper headings on other pages. 
Sisco1amn ,UrSery ttdvertfsement3 will not be accepted for 
U U} ot later .than Friday morning 
to appear in the following week's issue. 
Miscellaneous 
FOR SALK—Two-furrow riding plow, $50; three- 
furroxv walking orchard plow, $15; one horse 
tread,. $20; 10 large fireless brooders. $5 each: 
240 Cyphers incubator, $15. F. B. GARNSEY 
Clayton, N. Y. 
WAN TED—Second-ha ml ice cream equipment. 
FHEDWOOD, Danielson, Conn. 
FOR SALE—Three Prairie State 300-egg- incu¬ 
bators, 1017 model. $25 each; one Cyphers 
200-chick brooder, 1017 model, $10; one Prairie 
State portable hover, $5; all of these in first- 
class condition. A. E. ADAMS, Stony Creek, 
„ _ __ WHITE LEGHORN POULTRY 
5 r ?*S n * Stock * Baby Chick Capacity 
Hatching Eggs XOOO Waakty 
THE HOMESTEAD FARM 
Knapp Bros, or G. O. & R. O. Knapp, Props. 
LITTLE BRITAIN, N. Y. 
DAY OLD CHICKS 
Severe culling during 1918 ha* produced superior 
breeding stock. Sturdy Chicks from free range 
•took offered at the folio wing prices: 
March Chicks, 2So. evch 
April Chirk*, 2 0 c. each 
May Chicks I Sc. each 
Order from this "»d.”—our business Is to sell Breed¬ 
ing Stock, Hatching Egg* and Chick* rather than 
expensive catalogue* and literature. 
1DR SALE—100 tons hay; part No. 2 and part 
good cows’ hay; price $30 f. o. b. Ciueinnatus. 
Conrtland County, N. Y„ W. R. AITKIN. 
< dry sweet popcorn; white rice; 50 or more lbs., 
prepaid, parcel post, or express, first zone 17.- 
shelled. W. HALBERT, Oxford, N. Y. 
| PEANUTS—Roast them yonrself; 5 lbs. or over 
1 15c lb., delivered'. E. SPHISLER, Emporia. 
Va. 
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lOR SALE—Five-ton Kelly tandem steam- 
driven roller, $1,000. W. W. WALLACE 
Homewood Farm, Pleasantville, N. Y. 
FOR SAT.E—3,000 ft. 1C)-inch black iron pipe 
with couplings; good as new; 12c per foof 
Thateher boiler No. 207, maximum radiation. 
3.000, ft.: price $275: only two tons coal run 
through it; bargains. JPSTA POULTRY FARM 
Southampton, N. Y. 
S. C. White Leghorn Cockerels 
from Individual hens having trap-nest records of 
2*0-260 in pullet year. These cockerels were 
Bire<l by a Barron cock whose dam produced rtOOegga 
in 3 years. They are priced from $8 to $10 each. 
We hive only ten of this kind and this ad. will not appaar 
again ao If Interaated write at once. 
UNDERHILL BROS. 
STRAWBERRY HILL FARM POUCHKEEPSII, N. V. 
WANTED—]}V17 ‘'Blue Hen” coal-burning brooder 
^stoves, larger size. D. A. LOGAN, Mattituck. 
FOR SALE QUICK 
600 S.C. White Leghorn Pullets 
•4 to full Barron stock. Hatched April. 1918 In 
perfect health and now laving 50 per .-ent Price 
$1.60 each. THE DELAWARE EGG FARM, Milford. Delaware 
Vancrest Poultry Farm 
SINGLECOMB WHITE LEGHORNS. Heavy layer*.Good type 
and size. Onn pen of 175 pullet* avaragc«i$8 eggs per 
day during November and December. Gel our prices 
on baby chick* and hatching egg*. Satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Frank Van Wagner, Prop . Hyde Pirk N T. 
ForSale 
Cocke i 
le-YoungStrainS.C. White Leghorns 
els, $2 50 each. EMORY A LEWIS. Gilboa. N. Y. 
Rhode Island WHITES 
Single Comb Strong, vigorous cockerels, $5 each. 
All from pen of heavy winter layer*. 
O. G. L LE W IS, - Paoli, Penna. 
Sunswick Strain Bull Orpington Eggs 
•2 p«r 15 and *3.50 per 30. 01111 HU FAR*, Stanley, VY. 
S. C. Black Minorcan EGGS 
SB—100 Excellent stock. G. C. Miller, R. No. 1. Oxford. N. J. 
SILVER CAMPINES 
Eggs, *2 for 15. THE MePHKHSON F4RM, Millington, N. J. 
P RIZEWINNERS. Three pens Anconas for sale. 
E. P. SHELMIDINE, - Lorraine. New Yokk 
A||| Alf A s - c - Leghorns, Bar. Rocks. Pare* 
VlllVnO Post Service. Pir. Free. Guarantee s.-ris 
faction. JACOB NEIMONO, Bill ?. McAlistcnille, Pi 
COTTAGE CHEESE—Freshly made; parc.-l post 
prepaid second zone; pound package for quar 
ter dollar. BROADMEADOW FARM, Rahway 
FOR SALK—A-l condition, Prairie State 890-egg 
capacity; Beny’s Biddy. 240-egg; $40 for both. 
BOX 26, Morristown, N. J. 
WANTED—Second-hand Van Gleckland acety¬ 
lene gas machine. ADVERTISER 5213. care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Twenty Cyphers incubators. 390-egg 
capacity. $20 dacli. JOSEPH KENNEDY 
Tenafly, N. J. Telephone, Englewood 998J. 
FOR SALE—Two Cornell gasoline brooder heal¬ 
ers. never nnoratecP; $9 each; immediate ship¬ 
ment: one 360-egg Buffalo Incubator, used two 
seasons; good as new; $15: one 110-egg Buffalo, 
fine batcher, $8. DOOOETT, Cuuimington, Mass. 
WANTED—Sprayer, fully equipped; either en¬ 
gine or band power: state maker's name, con 
dition and price delivered Pottstown, Pa II 
LEONARD POTTS. Pottstown, Pa. 
WANTED—At once. Dederick Columbian hay 
press, No. <>. in gixnl condition, with capstan 
and sweep; state price. LEWIS D. HUDON. 
Lisbon. Me. 
FOR SALE—Fine quality Jersey dairy butter in 
•>-]b. boxes; price 50c per lb.; postage paid to 
any place in New England. New York or New 
Jersey. 1>. A. KNKKLAND, Mountain Home 
Farm, Waitsfleld, Vt. 
FOR SALE—Red River Special Grain Separator 
with wind stacker, or will exchange for power 
hay baler or small separator. ROLT.1N 
HULETT. St. Marys, Pa. 
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