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Th< RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 10, 1019 
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The 
DISKS 
This harrow ciiFs deeper, pulls easier, pul' 
verizes the soil more thoroughly and 
wears longer because the disks are made 
of cutlery steel, forged sharp. They 
make the 
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CUTAWAY’ 
Double Action 
DISK HARROW 
the most efficient harrow obtainable. You will save days and dollars preparing 
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682 Main Street Higganum, Connecticut 
Maker of the Original CLARK Disk Harrows and Plows. 
DOUBLE 
CYLINDER 
OWENS 
Bean and Pea Threshers 
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Caod Pntatn&G grown from seed th.it wrns 
IjCc it I U Id ItltS^ certified in 1917. 300 bus. 
Northern grown Green Mountains, $1.50 per bu.. F. O. B. 
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Sweet Potato Plants mv per 
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them in any respect unsatisfactory can 
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‘BARIUM-PHOSPIIATE FOR GENERAL FARM CROPS. 
Witherhee, Sherman & Company, Inc. 
- 2 Rector Street, New York City_ 
Curculio 
Last year I lost my sweet cherry crop, 
which I believe was the work of the curcu¬ 
lio. These trees were sprayed three times 
with lime-sulphur, first in dormant stage, 
second, before buds opened, with arsenate 
of lead paste, 2 lbs. to 50 gals.; third 
when shucks fell off, 2 lbs. arsenate to 50 
gals. These sprayings did not do the trick, 
as each cherry had from .six to eight stings. 
Another .small fruit grower has advised 
me to use crude carbolic acid along with 
the lead after bloom. lie claims that 
the curculio does uot like this and will 
keep away. My cherry crop looks promis¬ 
ing and I would like to save it if possible. 
I have this year so far made two spray¬ 
ings and would like your advice. I. A. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is obvious that the curculio did its 
work before or after, or both before and 
after, your third spraying. There was a 
period of time during which the curculio 
was able to find the fruit uncovered by 
the poison. I am assuming that I. A/II. 
does thorough spraying. If he does uot, 
the curculio might easily find uncovered^ 
spots ou the fruit and do its work while 
the spray wife still ou the trees. The in¬ 
sect seems to search over the fruit for un¬ 
covered spots and to avoid cutting through 
the surface where it is covered with a for¬ 
eign substance. 
Considering the time when the cherry 
blooms, it seems to me likely that the 
curculio will be iu the orchard and in a 
position to do more or less damage foi* a 
period of one month after the blossoms 
fall, and that immunity from its attacks 
cannot be had without keeping the fruit 
coated during that period. This would 
represent, I imagine, three sprayings, be¬ 
ginning with the blossom fall and spacing 
them just far enough apart to keep the 
fruit well coated. I would suggest that 
^elf-boiled lime-sulplnir, plus* 1% lbs. of 
arsenate of lead to each 50 gals, be used 
for these sprays, only where the curculio 
is particularly virulent. 
Clean cultivation followed by proper 
cover crops tends to rob the .curculio of 
its Winter quarters and to lessen its num¬ 
bers. Fields of Timothy and native grass¬ 
es with the bunching habit of growth, and 
overgrown hedge-rows standing adjacent 
to the orchard form good wintering quar¬ 
ters from which the curculio will emerge 
and attack the fruit crops. 
THOM AS .T. 1IEAULEB. 
New Jersey Experiment Station. 
Up -State Farm Notes 
Keep Working for Good Roads. —Be- 
for the war it was estimated that this 
country paid a cash penalty of $504,000,- 
000 for transporting crops from farm to 
market. Of the 2.300.000 miles of high¬ 
way possibly 12 per cent are paved. New 
York farmers have not failed to do their 
share iu feeding the world, hut in order 
to put their time on the raising of food 
efficiently they must have good roads for 
the transportation of supplies and farm 
products. The Federal, State and county 
agencies are planning to invest 30 per 
cent more in 1910 than lias ever been 
spout before, or nearly twice as much as 
in 1917. The enactment of the Federal 
aid road law, with elaborate machinery 
behind it, is one evidence of the Govern¬ 
ment's willingness. It is the duty of 
every citizens to support every movement 
of this sort, to keep his representatives at 
Albany and Washington constantly in 
mind of his wishes, and to “talk up” the 
subject at every opportunity. 
State Grange Helps Boys Enter 
Cornell. —Madison County Pomona 
Grange, with others of the State, au- 
uounces competitive examinations in .Tune 
for Cornell scholarships for the short 
course in agriculture. The scholarships 
are valued at $50 each, and there are 12 
of them awarded in the State. Last year 
but one scholarship was used, and it is 
hoped this year that farm hoys and girls 
will use this privilege to the utmost. In 
Madison County there is considerable in¬ 
terest in the examination, and several 
young farmers from It* to 25 years of age 
are expected to compete. 
Practical Plan for Orphans. —The 
Woman’s Auxiliary of the Onondaga 
County Orphans’ Home’ will add much 
needed facilities and room to the home by 
buying a farm pear the city and creeping 
about 10 cottages at a cost of $20,000 
each, having a capacity of about 25 chil¬ 
dren each. The farm will furnish work 
for boys and girls old enough, and will 
grow needed supplies. 
State’s Game Resources.— The Con¬ 
servation Commission is arriving at the 
point where it can begin to estimate the 
State’s resources in game animals and 
birds by means of the new ruling requir¬ 
ing the 200,000 hunters of the State to 
state their last year’s kill, as well as the 
present year’s kill. This will be used as 
a basis in forming new and better game 
laws. The commission finds that, the raw 
furs of the State this year will exceed 
$2,000,000 in value; that 10.000 wild deer 
are killed each year, with a value of $500,- 
000 for the venison; that, the skunk is the 
leading game animal, its fur this year re¬ 
turning to farm bovs and other trappers 
over $1,000,000; that rabbits may out¬ 
number skunks; that foxes run about 
third in number, and that considerable 
rivalry between counties, towns and game 
clubs of the State has developed as the 
figures of the various kills become avail¬ 
able. _ 
Boys and Girls’ Clubs in Cayuga 
County. —The Farm Bureau and the 
Home Bureau agents of this county are 
establishing quite a number of boys’ and 
girl's clubs for growing potatoes and 
swine, and promoting canning and sewing 
activities, with rural organizations co-op¬ 
erating. Several contests are to be staged, 
and the more successful ones will be en¬ 
couraged to exhibit at the State Fair. 
Cheese Figures High. —The Govern¬ 
ment Dairy Board has sold 1,51.8 boxes of 
cheese at 30%c, with %c- less for the pre¬ 
vious week’s sales. This week saw a drop 
to 30c. due to irregular market conditions. 
The 30 factories resigstered sold 1.772 
boxes this week, as compared to 1.036 
boxes for the same period in 1918, when 
20 1 / 4c was the price. 
School Moneys — Parents of the State 
are much interested in the Fearon school 
moneys bill which has passed both houses 
of the Legislature. The bill carried an 
appropriation of $5,300,000 for an in¬ 
crease in teachers’ salaries'. Each city, 
village and school district now receives 
$100 from the State for each teacher em¬ 
ployed. The Fearon bill increases this by 
$100. Iu Cortland County, an average 
school county, the increase iu State school 
moneys will amount to $28,000. Besides 
increasing teachers’ salaries, the bill adds 
to the apportionment, of schools having 
academic departments, and gives districts 
with small assessed valuations more help 
proportionately from the State. High 
schools will be given $200 a year for four 
years of academic work. The State has 
been paying the tuition of non-resident 
students in high schools at the rate of $20 
a year, which is below cost in most in- 
tances. This is now made $40 a year. 
The new hill has a sliding scale for public 
money in small districts. Beginning with 
au assessed valuation of $10,000, a dis¬ 
trict will get $400, decreasing $5 for each 
increase of $1,000 valuation. Under the 
old law a district of $20,(109 or less drew 
$200; under $40,000, $175: under $00,000. 
$1.*0. and beyond that, $125. This section 
of the law is designed to help weaker dis¬ 
tricts more than stronger ones, but with 
no abrupt changes. No district will uow 
get less than $209. The law becomes ef¬ 
fective August 1, 1919. iu rural districts. 
In cities, where minimum salaries for 
grade teachers, assistants, special teachers 
and ■ principals are fixed by the law, the 
law becomes operative January 1, 1920. 
This increase of salary was sadly needed 
to place teaching on a fairer basis with 
other professions. Considering education¬ 
al requirements, it is too low uow, but is 
a step in the right, direction. There never 
was a time when teachers were so scarce, 
or when so few were preparing for the 
work, while the young men who are pre¬ 
paring for the w<*rk are very rare. 
Burleson and Rural Routes. —New 
York patrons of rural mail delivery routes 
are indignant over Burleson’s latest plan, 
as announced, to reorganize the rural mail 
routes and make then 35 miles in length, 
based on his experiments in the South., 
where he finds that carriers with Ford 
ears can cover that distance. Conditions 
are so different here that such a change 
would meau the utter destruction of the 
service. No carriers could be found to 
do the work: no horses could endure the 
trips. The latter would have to be de¬ 
pended upon for probably nine months of 
the year. Farmers’ organizations to the 
last one should protest against any such 
changes, ami should emphasize the fact 
that service i- the chief thing to be con¬ 
sidered in this work—not economy alone. 
Rural routes are most of them too long 
already, and need attention along the line 
of road improvement, instead of further 
hampering of the already burdened ser¬ 
vice. 
Small Items of Interest. —Grain 
sowing has begun in many sections, 
though some find too much moisture a 
great handicap, hindering plowing on 
heavy clay soil. There has been a rush 
of freight over the Lackawanna siuee the 
end of the strike of roundhouse men. 
Farmers near Newfane refuse to set their 
clocks ahead, as they say during fruit 
picking time, which is their main harvest, 
the trees are tort wet with dew to pick- 
in early morning, and that peaches picked 
when wet soon rot. The executive com¬ 
mittee of the State Conservation Commis¬ 
sion is to eonduof a membership campaign 
in each county. A paid field agent will 
he scut through the State to urge farmers 
to build iisli ponds and raise pheasants to 
aid in-furthering tin 1 food supply. The 
former plan will receive approval, but it 
is a question with many farmers whether 
pheasants are an aid. when it is considered 
how milch they injure crops. The largest 
tree in Essex County was recently cut. a 
huge maple, measuring 47 inches across, 
and numbering 240 rings, representing 
the years of its life. One homestead near 
Stamford has one of the largest sugar 
camps in the State. This year it pro¬ 
duced 8.500 lbs. of maple sugar. This 
week five wagonloads of maple syrup in 
metal barrels were delivered by Freetown 
farmers to the station at Marathon. De¬ 
spite a short season it was the best year 
for maple sugar milking ever known, as 
better prices: were, secured very generally. 
M. G. F. 
