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Moving Red Cedar Trees 
There is an article on page $9 regard¬ 
ing the moving of red cedar trees. In 
January. 1914. I went with a tree-moving 
concern over the mountain in the Passaic 
^ alley and picked out in a big wood lot 
three red cedar trees to be moved to my 
place in Montclair. It was very cold at 
this time, but in a few days these trees 
arrived on several trucks. They aver¬ 
aged 30 feet in height, and each tree 
weighed, with its frozen earth around the 
roots, from one to two tons. However, 
it was a comparatively easy matter to 
reset them on my place with their ap¬ 
paratus. That Summer we kept them 
well watered, and by Fall they were 
Transplanted Cedars in Place 
finely established and have flourished ever 
since, and bid fair to have a long life. 
Of course this was expensive, but I did 
not feel like waiting for young trees to 
grow up. The two photographs were 
taken at the time the trees arrived and 
after they were set up. 
FRANK IX. PRESRREY. 
Back Yard Garden Yield 
I think R. S. D., who writes (page 215) 
to know if he can duplicate the per¬ 
formance of I. H. Williams reported on 
page 1397 last year, should read that 
report again, and do some figuring. Will¬ 
iams put 34 two-horse loads of stable 
manure and 10 barrels of hen manure on 
that 31x60 garden in three years—that 
is at the rate of 796 big loads of stable 
manure and 26.'/ barrels of hen manure 
per acre! Now if R. S. D. will go back to 
1917. and apply 205 good loads of stable 
manure and 7S barrels of hen manure 
to his acre patch every year for three 
fears , and will till that acre and learn 
how to plant and cultivate the same, and 
how to fight bugs and blights, mildews 
and scabs, rusts and smuts, etc., ad in¬ 
finitum. that pester a gardener, and if 
Moving Large Cedar Trees 
he will install a good irrigation system 
and learn how to use that, he may pos¬ 
sibly in 1919 be able to approach the 
yield per acre obtained by Mr. Williams. 
Rut then he will learn that raising a fine 
crop is one proposition, while marketing 
it is another! lie must not dream of 
obtaining such prices as Mr. Williams 
did. and whether he can dispose of his 
crop at all with a profit over expenses 
will depend on his market and his skill. 
Keep hammering it into the minds of the 
back-to-the-lauder that until he learns the 
trade and becomes expert he can never 
make money tilling the soil. 
New Jersey. Frederick gates. 
Increasing Size of Corncob 
In considering the kind of field corn 
which is the most desirable to propagate, 
there seems to be an inclination among 
most farmers towards corn of large ear- 
diameter. In this, however, they seem 
to overlook the fact that in doubling the 
diameter of the ear and thereby doubling 
the amount of shelled corn, they produce 
four times the amount of cob. Would it 
not be better, therefore, to retain the ear 
of smaller diameter and double their num¬ 
ber on a stalk, thereby producing double 
the shelled corn as before, but onlv twice 
the amunt of cob? A farmer. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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