The RURAL NEW-YORKEK 
808 
May 10, 1910 
towns before severe weather makes it 
necessary to pot them into permanent 
storage. . - 
Peamt Culture.— it is entirely pos¬ 
sible and practical to grow peanuts any¬ 
where on J»irg Island. They are a 
legume like clover and peas and require 
a soil that is at once sandy and yet well 
tilled with organic matter. Green manures 
seem to make the soil most favorable for 
their growth, while lime is necessary, as 
is plenty of acid phosphate. The peanuts 
should be shelled, but the- red skins must 
not In 1 removed. They, are then planted 
in rows four to six inches apart in the 
row and cultivated like any garden crop. 
The ground must, he kept mellow under 
the vines, for the peanuts are the seeds 
hud are formed by the unopened blossom 
forcing its way into the ground, when it 
pollinates itself and develops seed. The 
peanuts are generally so shallow that 
they may he pulled from the ground with¬ 
out much digging. Peanut vines are rich 
hay. They arc dried in stacks like beans 
and either picked off by hand or with a 
special thrasher. The question for you 
to decide is not whether you can grow 
these two crops, as it is whether it -will 
pay you as well as the other crops gen¬ 
erally raised in your vicinity. This is a 
question which you must settle for your¬ 
self. H. F. BUTTON. 
The “Dust Spray” for Apple Scab 
1 have just been reading 1 lope Farm 
Notes on page (51)2, and was especially in¬ 
terested in what was said about the dust 
spray. Nothing was said about scab. 
Were you able to control it with the dust, 
or don’t you have it at Hope Farm? I 
have one ‘very early Summer variety that 
scabs very badly; not a blotchy scab, but 
one that goes right into the apple; very 
often a triangular mark like a cut. as if a 
particularly big hailstone had cut right 
down into it. I have tried almost every¬ 
thing except dust and made applications 
at different periods of development ol the 
blossom and fruit, but with very indifferent 
success. This year our State Experiment 
Station is taking a block of the trees to 
see what they can do with it. But 1 
would like to know what your experience 
is with the dust as regards scab. s. T. L. 
Sturgeon Bay. Wis. 
We have very little scab in our orchard, 
iug to control this disease. Our observa- 
CONTENTS 
THE BTTBAI NEW-YORKER, MAY 10. 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
The Confession of a “Profiteer”.805. 806 
Sweet Potatoes and Peanuts on Long 
Island . 
Potato with Seed Inside.. 808 
Cover Crop for Spring Seeding. 808 
Red-top and Potatoes in West Virginia- 809 
Up-State Farm Notes. 8i0 
How About the Farmers?. 812 
Farm Wages in Idaho... 812 
An Agricultural History Society. 812 
Hope Farm Notes. .. 818 
Fertilizer Value of Leather Dust. 818 
Curing Hay with Canvas Covers. 819 
Federation Meeting at Amsterdam. 821 
Improving Poor Pasture. 830 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The May Price for Milk. 821 
Discussion of the Dairy Plan.. . . 821 
Dangers of Co-operative Association. 824 
Lighting and Ventilation of Stables. 824 
Raising Calves without Milk. 824 
Preventing Onion Flavor in Milk.. .. 824 
Importance of Milk-testing Association.... 
Hard Churning . 827 
Cough . 829 
Milklesr Quarter . 829 
Eczema . 829 
Buck Knees .. 829 
White Scours ,. 829 
Garget: Worms . 829 
Cows Eat Boards. 829 
Nodular Disease . 829 
The Cost of a Quart of Milk. 830 
THE HENYARD 
Location of Incubator Rooms.828. 83? 
Egg-laying Contest . 833 
Beef Scrap and Sunflower Seed. 833 
Scratch Feed: Sprouted Oats. 833 
Chicks Picking One Another. 833 
HORTICULTURE 
New Red Raspberry 80 « 
Fie-hting the Squash Stink hug.806. 807 
The Dust Spray for Apple Scab. 808 
Curculio on Cherry .. ... 8)9 
Grape Growers and Prohibition. 812 
Bill Baldwin’s Soliloquy. . 81° 
The Cold Wave in the Lake Erie Section 814 
The Effect of the “Blizzard”. 814 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 815 
Garden Notes from Next England. 816 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 822 
Notes from Vermont. 822 
The Rural Patterns. 822 
A Homemade Medicine Cabinet. 89° 
Dyeing Rag Carpet. 822 
Cheap, but Invaluable.822. 823 
Embroidery Design . 823 
Women's Work in Oklahoma. 823 
Homemade Yeast . 823 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Quick Process of Vinegar Making. 806 
Fooling with the Rural Routes. 812 
Editorials . 820 
Countrywide Markets . 827 
Events of the Week.... 827 
Publisher’s Desk .. 834 
tion would be that the dust is not quite 
equal to the liquid spray in controlling 
the scab, aud we judge from the records 
made at the experiment stations that this 
will hold true in most parts of the coun¬ 
try. Yon should get the bulletin from 
the Cornell Experiment Station at Ithaca. 
N. Y.. and also bulletins from the Ne w 
Jersey Station at New Brunswick. The 
dust seems to have given excellent results 
when used to control brown rot, but we 
judge that it is not on the whole as ef¬ 
fective as the liquid spray for controlling 
the scab. We use it in lighting the cod¬ 
ling worm, and have found it fully as ef¬ 
fective as the liquid spray for that pur¬ 
pose. 
Potato with Seed Inside 
One of our readers, Mr. Alex. I.aug, 
“brought us the piece of potato, shown in 
accompanying picture. Its peculiarity 
was a hard foreign object inside the tuber 
and not discovered until struck by the 
knife when cuffing the potato in two. 
The object looked like a seed of some 
.1 Tuber Wilhin <i Tuber 
kind. It w.-ie submitted to tin 1 Bureau of 
Blunt Industry at Washington, and the 
following reply was received from l’rof. 
W. A. Taylor, chief of the bureau: 
Replying to your letter, with which was 
enclosed a sample of what was regarded 
as a seed of some sort found inside the 
potato, I am advised by our Seed Lab¬ 
oratory. where the specimen was exam¬ 
ined. that the object referred to has been 
examined and appears to be a thickened 
root, stock of a species of Fyperus. It is 
similar to the tuber of the nut grass, also 
of the ehufa. 
Pieces of quack grass are.often found 
grown through potatoes. This appears to 
be somewhat similar, except that a thick¬ 
ened root stock was formed, making a 
tuber within a tuber. 
Cover Crop for Spring Seeding 
1 have a garden of about two acres; 
one-half I wish to seed for green manure 
this May. What shall I sow to get the 
best results for a general home garden? 
The cost of manure in this vicinity is very 
high. I intend to let half of my garden 
remain idle until next year. j. ,t. M. 
Riverdale. N. Y. 
There are a number of plans and vari¬ 
ous cover crops. < )ne method is to seed 
oafs and Fan ad a peas as early as you can. 
We use one bushel of peas and three bush¬ 
els of oats.l.n the acre. Plow this growth 
under in early July and use lime—one 
ton to the acre. Then seed -*/> bushels of 
buckwheat, half bushel of rye and four 
pounds Alsike clover seed. Let this all 
grow together. The buckwheat will be 
killed by frost, after which the rye and 
clover will come on and occupy the land 
for Fall and Winter. < >r. after plowing 
under the peas and oats you can drill cow 
peas three feet apart and at last cultiva¬ 
tion sow rye and clover. 
With the mercury at IS degrees April 
20. (antral Maine got the shakes, for the 
fruit buds on all early apple, pear, plum 
and peach trees were getting well opened, 
and such a freeze is not conducive to big 
crops. Until today the promise of a. boun¬ 
tiful harvest of fruit has been great, and 
while we had unseasonable weather all 
through March we did hope we might be 
favored with a comfortable April and 
May. There are some things besides the 
Kaiser to disturb the rural inhabitant who 
is being pushed to do more, that what lie 
grows may sell for less. In Maine we 
shall see restricted operations this year, 
and the feeling in general is to Iook out 
for one’s self, regardless of the final con¬ 
sumer. Acreage in potatoes will he re¬ 
duced. that of sweet corn increased. More 
dairy cows will be kept, and here is the 
one bright spot, if the producers hang to- 
g< flier and complete purchase of the big 
creamery plant. Turner Center, for their 
own good. g. m. t. 
Maine. 
When and How to Spray 
Put your spraying problems up to our Service Department. Experts 
in the largest chemical company in America will advise and direct 
you without charge. The materials you use are all-important. Don’t waste 
time and money on ineffectual spraying, and don’t run chances of injuring trees. 
Orchard Brand Bordeaux Mixture, Bordeaux-Lead and Zinc-Bordeaux, each in 
either powder or paste form, are standardized. Let us tell you why you will 
find Orchard Brand Arsenite of Zinc more satisfactory than Paris Green for 
spraying pofatoes. For dusting potatoes use Lazal. Orchard Brand spray 
materials cover a complete line of insecticides and fungicides. Address 
General Qtemicalr" 
Insecticide Dept., 25 Broad Sfc.New York V2* 
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Contractors to the Government 
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TOMATO and CABBAGE PLANTS 
All varieties, open field prawn. 500'postpaid, SI.50; 
by express 1,000. $2.00; 10,000 lots, SI.50 thousand. 
Sweet Potato Plants, all varieties—1.000, $2.60; 10,000, 
S20.00. All plants free from disease aud packed in 
damp moss. 
Jefferson Farms 
Albany, Ga. 
Tomato and Cabbage Plants 
Hardy Held grown, ready for transplanting. Varieties: 
i arliana. |St, me and Globe tomatoes and Flatdutch and 
Sorehead Cabbage, price by parcel post, prepaid. lOO for 
40 cent*; 500, l.OOO, iMi.OO. Hy exprets col¬ 
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W. L. BEARDIN PLANT FARM 
TIFTON, GA. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
We have ten of tiie best kinds selected out of a hun¬ 
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Send for onr 1919 price list. Caleb ISogjrH & Son. 
ROMANCE SEED AND PLANT FARM. Cheswold, Delaware 
LARGE 
For quick results. 
6-yr. roots. SI dozen; S4 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
dred< $12 thousand. 3-yr. roots, $1.50 hundred; $8 
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Strawberry and Vegetable Plants 
Best .Iahic fruiting varieties. Also rail bearing Vegetable 
plants of all kinds, grown from selected seed. Get our 
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price on large orders. C. E. FIE L 1>, Sewell, N. J. 
Strawberry Plants 
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Howard No. 17 Strawberry “OT 
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SOY BEANS and ALFALFA 
MUST BE INOCULATED TO SUCCEED 
Inoculate beans, peas, clovers, vetch and 
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SWEET CLOVER 
White blossom variety. Northern grown SOY BEANS. 
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S WEET CLOVER. Best white Scarified. S18 Bu. Kxp. 
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Choice WHITE KIDNEY SEED BEANS yieldcre. 
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T obacco stems and tobacco oust, tobacco 
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