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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 24, 1919 
phosphate be broadcast over the entire 
width of the rows some time before plow¬ 
ing. Then when the shoots are out about 
eight or 10 inches, broadcast in a like 
manner 150 lbs. of nitrate of soda and 
harrow in. In about two weeks follow 
with 100 lbs. of the nitrate. Then about 
the middle of July seed with either rye 
or rye and vetch, after the plowing back 
has been done. The exact time of seed¬ 
ing is dependent upon the rains at that, 
season of the year. This should be done 
directly after a good rainfall, rather than 
before. f. e. gladwin. 
Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman 
Clean-up Months. —April and May 
have been clean-up months at our house, 
and we have tried to make hay while the 
sun shone, although it was hard work be¬ 
tween showers. Out back of the house 
was an ancient lumber pile which the 
oldest inhabitant assured me had been 
there as long as he could remember. This 
pile of odds and ends of discarded boards 
and the URe ha‘s been an eyesore to me 
for several years, but it had been an ac¬ 
cepted institution for so long that one 
hardly had the courage to make a start at 
removing it. But it is not my u ay to 
“put off” forever, so one day I dared the 
familv to tackle it all together. All of 
us, big and little, went for the formidable 
oid pile, and after two days of very heavy 
and unpleasant work we had vanquished 
it. This discarded mess was thoughtfully 
situated in a clump of berry bushes, and 
th(* workers looked bs if they bfld been 
through a barbed-wire entanglement, for 
several weeks, b e all think the big y aid 
looks enough better for the trouble, how¬ 
ever. and it is always very satisfactory to 
do one of the jobs which “can’t be done.” 
The front yard is a sight to behold as I 
write. The men have just finished cutting 
down three big locust trees and the roots 
were dug out first. We look actually as 
if an earthquake had struck our happy 
home, but in due time, if I can have pa¬ 
tience. the ungainly trunks and limbs will 
become useful posts, the branches fuel for 
the ever-hungry maw of the fireplace, and 
the yard will resume its normal ways. 
But how hard it is for a woman to com¬ 
pose her soul in patience while the men 
take their valuable time in accomplishing 
these things! 
The New Garden.—A new garden spot 
has been plowed and planted on the site 
of the ancient pile of wood, and what was 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MAY 24, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Experience with Moon Theories” 
Crops and Farm Notes. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Buying Farms on Contract....... 
Material for Hay Caps. 
874 
881 
882 
885 
897 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Lighting and Ventilating of Stables—Part 
II.. 
Dairv Prospects ... 
The Future of the Dairyman's League. 
New York as 2 . Milk State.. 
The Milk Plan. 
Tramping or Water for Silage. 
Buffalo Livestock Show. 
Coming Livestock Sales. 
Prospects for Farm Horses. 
Production and Reproduction—Part I. 
Feeding Value of Barley. 
Grain with Alfalfa. 
Trouble with Milk Test. 
Silo in Barn... 
Controlling Warbles in Cattle. 
The Wool-eating Habits. 
Sulphur Ointment for Cowpox... 
874 
874 
885 
885 
885 
892 
892 
892 
893 
894 
896 
896 
896 
896 
896 
898 
902 
THE HENYARD 
Egg-laying Contests . 
Arrangement of Roosts.... 
Poor Hatching .. 
Boiled Potatoes for Chicks 
Spraying in Henyard. 
Duck Eggs in Incubator.. 
900 
900 
901 
901 
901 
901 
HORTICULTURE 
Cultivating and Fertilizing Vineyards. 875 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 879 
Making a Lawn. 883 
Destroying Ants . 883 
Growing Sage for Market. 891 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Home Making in the Country.873, 874 
Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman. 876 
Ways with Strawberries. 877 
Out of a Can of Tomatoes. 877 
A Farm Mother’s Notes. 880 
A Woman’s Garden.886, 898 
Have Something; Have an Apple. 887 
An Orphan Girl Wanted. 887 
The Bag Wash. 887 
Treatment of Pyorrhea. 887 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks.... 888 
Living Prices for Butter. 888 
Beet Sugar for Canning. 889 
Cocoa and Cocoa Shells. 889 
Liquid from Septic Tank. 889 
Dried Paint; Poor Dye. 889 
Construction of Cesspool.... 889 
The Home Dressmaker. 890 
A Problem in Child Feeding.891, 893 
An Iceless Refrigerator. 893 
Women and Conservation. 893 
MISCELLANEOUS 
What is "Pure” Maple Sugar?. 875 
Utilizing the Spring. 875 
Story of the Profiteer. 878 
Give the Poor Farmers a Chance. 878 
An Improper Fraction...,. 878 
Swarming Bees . 879 
Products, Prices and Trade. 897 
The Story of a Day. 899 
Publisher's Desk . 902 
an eyesore and of no use promises to feed 
a large family this year. I feel very 
complacent, therefore, and consider that a 
perfectly good half acre of ground has 
been added to our possessions. But I im¬ 
agine that murmurs of grave disapproval 
would have gone up from still thriftier 
souls if they could have seen what dis¬ 
posal we made of the old wood. We 
burned it “at the stake,” to be brief, and I 
had guilty qualms of conscience while 
the deed was being done. But the truth* 
is we are wood-poor here at our farm, 
and the labor necessary to put that old 
lumber into burnable shape would have 
made it very expensive fuel in the end. 
However, before we decided that the only 
way to be rid of such an accumulation 
was to burn it, I told the natives of our 
nearby village to come and help them¬ 
selves—for the drawing away. But no 
one evidently wanted free wood, although 
hard maple is $4 a cord to buy—so 
around 80 or 40 cords of “just” wood 
went up in smoke. In the fruit districts, 
excellent peaches,, grapes, apples and 
many other varieties rot on the ground, 
oftentimes becouse it does not pay the 
growers to ship away. It was a similar 
case with our lumber pile, which would 
have richly rewarded a man with time 
heavy on his hands who must buy fuel at 
any cost. Another case of producer and 
consumer failing to get together, to the ■ 
detriment especially of the latter. 
Porch Extension. —In April we had 
a big new porch added to our old house, j 
the one thing I have longed for most for 
lo. these many years. I wish every wom¬ 
an reader of The R. N.-Y. could join me 
for a hot afterfloon out there, and we 
would have a jolly “talk-fest” together. 
But. unfortunately. I do not expect to 
spend every hot afternoon on the porch, 
whether its shade calls me or not. Hot 
afternoons are the ones when the po¬ 
tatoes cry loudest to be dug. and who am 
I to be deaf to their pleas when the 
potato money is destined to replenish the 
family till, emptied by the II. C. of P.’s? 
Which, if anyone has had occasion to 
buy lumber thiis season, it will be easily 
understood that I refer to the high cost 
of porches. Those potatoes will surely 
not cry their eyes out in vain along the 
first of August! 
Home Improvements. — Our porch 
floor is of nice white pine, and I have 
tried the experiment of waxing it. Most 
of the surface is covered with a large rag 
rug, and I hope that wax in place of paint 
will prove successful. The house is also 
being treated to a coat or two of paint— 
the first. I am ashamed to say, in over 15 
years. It does not pay to let old houses 
go so long, as we find to our cost, but the 
dollars had to go for other more vital 
improvements, so it is now doubly ex¬ 
pensive in the end. Take it all together, 
you can imagine that we have had a busy 
month at our farm in addition to the | 
planting season. It is the first time that 
the “Things of the House,” as Mary 
Heaton Yorse puts it. have intruded the 
least bit on the "Crops of the Farm.” but 
even houses once in a while call for a 
reckoning, and ours had reached just that 
pitch. (>ne-hundred-aml-fifty-y ear-old 
houses are rarely pampered, and ours cer¬ 
tainly has never been. But how good it 
must seem to it to have a clean yard 
some day, a fresh, clean face to show the 
passers-by. and the general appearance 
of being loved and held in only decent es¬ 
teem. At least that is the way I should ! 
feel if I were an ancient and honorable ! 
building which had hospitably sheltered 
several generations of careless and busy 
Americans. 
Potato Planting. —We began plant¬ 
ing Early Michigan potatoes on April 24, 
which was the earliest date in our locality 
for this job. I cut up a good many bush¬ 
els, and the men scattered the seed. We 
have quite a big acreage of this important 
adjunct to a meal, and never fail to make 
good, year in and year out. This Spring 
potatoes are a drug on the market, and 
planting in our county will probably be 
much lighter than usual. So we are put¬ 
ting in the usual quantity of seed, and 
look to see fair prices at digging time, or 
around the first of August. We usually 
have pretty good potatoes, as my husband 
believes in very thoroughly preparing the 
ground in advance of the crop. Then we 
spray and cultivate regularly, and while 
it all means a lot of work, it. pays where 
fancy stock is raised for roadside trade. 
Farmers’ Markets. —They are talking 
of a curb market in our nearby city for 
this Summer, but I doubt the idea going 
through. The retail merchants are not 
especially in favor of farmers bringing 
their produce to town for direct disposal, 
although the grocers and provisionists ad¬ 
mit that much perishable stuff spoils on 
their hands during the warm months. 
Then. too. freight and express are so un¬ 
certain these days, and growing worse 
instead of better, that it would seem an 
opportune time to try out the plan for 
the season, if nothin^ more. Farmers who 
would bring in their fruits, vegetables, 
eggs and butter, etc*., would nine times 
out of 10 go to the city stores to spend a 
good share of the money received from 
the consumer. The meehants would not 
suffer as much as they fear, for perish¬ 
able goods to a great extent would not be 
carried, and other commodities could be 
increased. I know very little of the ad¬ 
vantages and disadvantages connected 
with a curb market, but it would seem 
that the consumer and producer both 
should benefit. I hope our county will 
give the matter a trial this Summer and 
let results tell the story. 
HELEN S. K. WILCOX. 
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