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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Aprii 2(i, 1919 
simply would like to have others take the 
places of those who cannot longer work 
the land. It is not a case of trying par¬ 
ticularly to increase production. 
The Seller's View. —The other side 
yet, is that of the man who wishes to 
sell. . Is he wise in leaving the farm? 
It is more of a question than at first 
appears. In the case of the farm that I 
mentioned first, the owner died and the 
property had to be sol* there is no 
argument there. In the other it is simply 
a case of being unable to do the work 
that is needed to be done. If good help 
were obtainable this man would keep the 
farm, for he desires to stay on it. Such 
help is impossible to get now. and really 
there seems to be little good prospect 
later, at least for a few years. Help is 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, APRIL 29, 1919 
FARM TOPIC£. 
The Dirt Road to the Hill Fa^'.721, 722 
A Roadside Market in New England. 722 
Feeding and Fertilizing Vahwt>«f Weeds... 722 
A Coal Miner Talks... ^22 
Rhubarb as Summer and Winter Crop. 723 
Those Cheap Eastern Farms.723, 724 
Fertilizer for Beans. 126 
Potash Above and Below Ground. 731 
Sulphate of Ammonia on Grass. 731 
Potash from Marl. 731 
Destroying White Grubs. ^34 
Crawling 500 Miles... 734 
Iron Sulphate to Destroy Weeds in Celery.. ^35 
Overcoming Potato Lice and “Wilt”. 735 
Up-State Farm Notes......... 738 
Country-wide Produce Situation...... ^38 
Seeding Grain with Millet. “>8 
Smothering Out Weeds. <38 
“Planting in the Moon”. 73° 
Hope Farm Notes. 740 
The Onion Maggot. 
Tobacco Following Com.. 755 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Sediment in Pipe: Cowpox: Dishorning. 739 
Prize Plans for Dairymen’s League.743, 757 
A New Mexico Jersey. 746 
Silo Construction . 7*6 
Feeding Brood Sow...... 746 
Fattening Shotes; Feeding Calf. 748 
Developing Holstein Heifer. 748 
Trouble with Sows...748, 749 
Fence for Hog Pasture. 749 
Buckwheat for Swine and Cows. 749 
Lengthening the Pasture Season. 750 
Minnesota Sheep Questions. 750 
Holstein Steers for Beef. 750 
Saratoga County, N. Y., Guernsey Breeders’ 
Association . 750 
Feed for Grade Holsteins. 752 
Dry or Wet Feed for Pigs. 752 
A Pig-feeding Schedule. 752 
Eczematous Sore . 754 
Sores on Cow. 754 
Abscess . 754 
Cowpox; Ringworm . 754 
Urinary Trouble; Enlarged Knee. 754 
Death of Pig. y .754 
Lameness .. 754 
Obstructed Teat . 754 
Fencing Against Hogs. 755 
A Pit Silo in Michigan..'. 755 
Poor Roughage . 756 
Cribbing Horses ..._. 756 
Storing Silage in Small Quantities. 756 
Wheat and Rape for Silage. 756 
Shoe Eoil on a Horse.. 756 
Curing a Shoe Boil. 756 
Plan for Small Barn. 756 
Oats and Bran for Horses. 756 
THE HENYARD 
Electric Egg Tester. 
The “Oregon” Poultry. 
Death of Hens. 
Is This the Egg Limit?. 
Ailing Fowls . 
Chicks Feeds . 
A Case of Adoption. 
Cannibal Chicks . 
My Experience Preserving Eggs in Water- 
glass . 
How Turkeys Carry Eggs. 
Egg-laying Contest . 
Rye for Poultry; Inducing Sitting. 
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HORTICULTURE 
Garden in Chicken Yard. 724 
The Loganberry—a Pacific Coast Fruit.... 725 
Lime-Sulphur and Apples Scab... 725 
A Bunch of Notes. 726 
Is It a Dwarf?. 729 
Reports on the Peach Crop. 729 
Hedge Plants for Pennsylvania. 730 
Scaring Birds from Cherries. 734 
War Risk Insurance. 736 
Trouble Over Dog License. 736 
Some Enforced Daylight-savers. 736 
Borrowing from Federal Land Banks. 736 
Hollow Tile for Dwelling. 736 
Pruning and Heading Apple Trees. 739 
Memorial Trees . 741 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Some New England Notes. 732 
From Day to Day. 744 
Tennessee Notes . 744 
The Rural Patterns. 744 
Economies in Home Decoration.744, 745 
Hardy Plants in the Green Mountains— 
Part II. 745 
Embroidery Designs . 745 
Simple Little Dishes. 745 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Fire Extinguishers . 
Milk Chocolate and Almond Bars.... 
Harness Dressing . 
Prepared Gelatine . 
Discolored Water Supply. 
Hard Rainwater . 
Removing Quicksilver from Gold. 
Facts About Earthworms. . .. ; . 
Rural Mail Carriers and Holidays. . . 
Treatment for Goitre. 
Music Without a Teacher. 
Tying on the the Rubber. 
Events of the Week. 
Painting Dwelling and Farmstead.... 
Licensing Cats . 
Creosote Drip from Chimney. 
More About Water Wheels. 
Prices for Power Ditching. 
Filtering Discolored Well Water. 
Preventing Seepage from Ice Pond... 
Power from Brook. 
Barn Plan . . . 
Water Supply from Springs. 
Power from Small Stream.... 
Reservoir for Water Supply. 
Publisher’s Desk . 
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likely to be more abundant, hut the qual¬ 
ity is not assured. Personally, I dislike 
to see these old homesteads go into the 
hands of strangers, but what can be done? 
As I see it, it is necessary in a good many 
cases to sell the property. To continue 
with the sort of help that can be had 
usually is impossible. I saw an owner 
yesterday who has hired a man with his 
wife and son to work for him. paying 
pretty good wages and agreeing to give 
a small share of any profits that may 
remain after expenses are paid. If one 
can get a really good man on such terms 
and has the extra house, as in the case 
of the man used as my second example, 
that might he the best way. After all. 
there is another difficulty, and that is 
the fact that the head of the house may 
be taken away while the farm remains, 
and the women cannot dispose of the 
property as well. I am going to do as 1 
would recommend town folks to do about 
advising farmers—don't do it. The 
farmer knows best, whether it is man¬ 
agement of his farm or the disposal of 
it. Many would better sell when unable 
to work the farm longer. H. n. LYON. 
Garden in a Chicken Yard 
On my farm I have a chicken yard 
which has been the principal meeting 
place for from 100 to 200 hens for the 
past six years. I intend to move the hens 
to a new location and to put up a farmer’s 
cottage near the former henyard. The 
space occupied by the chicken yard is from 
75 to 100 feet square, and I thought that 
it would make a good garden spot, if 
properly treated, but my farmer fears 
that it would be too rich. Will you ad¬ 
vise me how to treat this land so as to get 
the good out of it? It seems to me that 
there must he an enormous amount of fer¬ 
tility in this soil if it is handled in the 
right way. as it was naturally good soil 
to start with. N. C. H. 
New York. 
From our experience we judge that this 
soil, as it is, would produce great growth 
of vine and stalk, but late and poor seed 
or tuber. Sweet corn or beans would run 
to vine and not form good seed. Potatoes 
would be “all vine.” We knew a back- 
to-the-lander who planted potatoes in such 
a chicken-yard soil. The vines were very 
rank and the enthusiastic farmer offered 
to bet his neighbor that the crop would 
be double the average. The neighbor, an 
old farmer, accepted. As lie knew, these 
big vines did not produce a tuber as large 
as a hen’s egg. They might have done so 
could they have grown until Christmas, 
hut irost ended their ambitious career. 
The trouble was that the chicken manure 
had supplied much nitrogen and little 
phosphorus. Nitrogen without phosphorus 
is like a rich and inexperienced young 
man running through his property without 
a safe guardian. We should use that soil 
as a garden, but apply 200 lbs. of acid 
phosphate or ground hone. If it is pos¬ 
sible to obtain muriate of potash, use 40 
lbs. of that. too. These chemicals will 
“balance” the nitrogen and give a solid 
growth and a production of seed. Do not 
use lime on such soil. That would make 
the matter worse by setting too much 
nitrogen free. 
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Feeding Value of Buckwheat 
For the benefit of buckwheat growers I 
would like to see a discussion in The It. 
N.-Y. of the different ways that buck¬ 
wheat can be used whole, with and with¬ 
out other grains, for feeding dairy and 
other cattle, swine, horses and other stock 
to advantage. Buckwheat is a catch crop. 
The war, stopping unexpectedly, has left 
farmers with a lot of it on their hands, 
250 bu. in my case. If it can be shown 
how it can be used effectively it will en¬ 
courage farmers to sow this Spring; 
otherwise they will not. I am using 100 
lbs. ground oats. 100 lbs. bran. 100 lbs. 
gluten, 100 lbs. whole ground buckwheat. 
Can it be improved? P. M. 
Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
We have had many questions about 
feeding buckwheat. The chances are that 
with a heavy wheat crop it will he harder 
to dispose of buckwheat and rye, and 
these grains will he used for feeding. 
What is the best way to feed them in com¬ 
bination with other grain? What stock 
will make best use of them? Some of our 
readers in the buckwheat sections can tell 
us about this. 
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