932 
lhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 7, 1919 
the tree and waved it around until I felt 
sure that enough spray had drifed back 
to cover the tree from that side. It took 
about an hour to spray those trees, and 
enough material was used to have sprayed 
a great many more if done properly with 
the wind. The horses and the rig were 
dripping wet. and I had not a garment 
which did not drip as I walked. The 
driver got off and watched while each tree 
was being sprayed. It would be very 
helpful for the advocates of spraying 
against the wind to stand on the .side 
lines for a few minutes and watch some¬ 
one else do it once. If this did not con¬ 
vince them they might well be set down 
as hopeless. Alfred c. weed. 
Wayne Co , N. Y. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
DEMAND GENERALLY GOOD—INCREASING 
SUPPLIES WELL TAKEN UP. 
The season thus far shows several 
features distinctly. First, the old stocks 
of fruits and vegetables, always excepting 
field beans, have been cleaned up remark¬ 
ably well . Second, native fruit has been 
scarce, high and in good demand. Third, 
demand has been good also for most lines 
of vegetables, with few gluts, even when 
shipments have been heavy. 
Carlot movement has jumped to well 
above 8,000 cars per week, as usually 
happens early in June. The Southern 
season, delayed by much rain, seems to 
have nearly caught up, but is still a little 
late, judging by tlie late starting of the 
peach and melon movement compared 
with last year which, however, was an 
early season. 
POTATOES IN DEMAND. 
The good market for potatoes has called 
out all sorts of old stock, which is doing 
its best to make up for the light new crop 
in the South. But the combined volume 
of old and new is not enough to overload 
the markets, and prices recover about as 
fast as they go down. The Virginia crop, 
starting early in June, will test the mar¬ 
kets further when movement gets under 
full headway, but that crop, like the 
others, is less than usual. South Caro¬ 
lina not only has a light crop, but about 
half seems to be No. 2 stock. The 
Noithern potato crop is still guesswork, 
except for reports that some important 
early section like New Jersey, which 
started to plant lightly, as in the South, 
have increased over early estimates for the 
very reason that news of the Southern 
shortage had spread Northward. Prices 
of No. 1 old potatoes in leading city mar¬ 
kets range $2.25 to $2.(»0 per 100 lbs. in 
the West and $2.50 to $2.90 in the East, 
for large lost. 
ONIONS AVERAGE MODERATE. 
Planting of onions in the North is re¬ 
ported less than last year, including the 
East and Middle West, also California, 
but the area will still be large, the total 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JUNE 7, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
A Case of Mismanagement...930, 931 
The Weeder in the Corn Belt. 931 
A Vermonter Uses His Head. 934 
English Grain Louse on Wheat. 935 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 936 
What Crops for Lime?. 937 
Fertilizer Value of Night Soil. 937 
Hope Farm Notes.938, 947 
The Otsego County Improvement Associa¬ 
tion .'. 941 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Making Meat vs. Making Milk.. ..929, 930 
Seasonal Variation in Milk Composition— 
Part II. 930 
Substitute for Ice in Milk Handling. 941 
Trouble Over Milk Prices. 941 
Is Your Creamery Bonded?. 941 
Milk Prices for June. 941 
Churning Troubles . 944 
Making Cottage Cheese. 944 
Keeping Calf on Cow. 944 
Guernsey Cattle Club. 944 
Feeding Grain with Pasture. 946 
Raising Calves without Milk. 946 
Cob Meal for Cows. 946 
Mixture for Swine Feeding. 946 
THE HENYARD 
City “Fresh” Eggs. 934 
Cannibal Chicks . 948 
Flashlight for Egg Testing. 948 
Questions About Minorcas. 948 
HORTICULTURE 
Spraying Against the Wind. 931 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 933 
Controlling Squash Bugs. 933 
Using Hen Manure for the Garden. 935 
Asparagus from the Seed. 939 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 942 
Notes from the Illinois Corn Belt. 942 
Teh Rural Patterns. 943 
The Fly Plague. 942 
Conserving Women’s Clothing—Part 11.... 943 
Embroidery Designs . 943 
Colors for Interior Decoration. 943 
Summer Asparagus . 943 
Cake that Will Keep. 943 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Countrywide Markets .. 932 
From a Rural Carrier. 934 
The Rule of Six. 934 
Economic Injustice . 934 
Events of the Week. 936 
Editorials . 940 
Delay in Freight Shipments. 941 
The Argument for “Daylight Saving”. 941 
Publisher’s Desk . 950 
not decrease in acreage being less than i 
five per cent. The last lots of old crop 
touched $10 per bag in a few markets, ' 
for fancy stock, but the range was ex¬ 
tremely wide during the last month or 
so. some sales of soft, sprouted .stock run¬ 
ning as low as $1. The new Texas crop 
is now well past the height, although 
small shipments will continue for a month 
or two longer. The Louisiana early crop 
is not likely to amount to much this year. 
California, which ships almost everything 
the year around had its new onion season 
in full swing while some of its old stock 
from cold storage was still being mar¬ 
keted in small quantities. Like the Texas 
Bermuda onions, they bring the growers 
$3.50 to $3.75 per crate of less than a 
bushel. 
CABBAGE A WEAK FEATURE. 
Southern cabbage is harder to sell than 
it was, and sections distant from large 
markets have found prices crumbling. 
Thus Southern California cabbage, which 
sold well above $100 per ton net to 
growers at one time, now nets them about 
$30. But California truck and fruit 
growers have made good returns this year, 
although their expenses and difficulties 
vere severe. 
STRAWBERRIES VERY HIGH. 
The whole country is feeling the effect 
of three seasons of light settings of straw¬ 
berry plants. Next season may not be 
much different, because good plants were 
in short supply this Spring and many 
growers had to limit their acreage. Prices 
of the fruit have gone upward steadily 
for the past four seasons. In 1916 good 
Southern berries sold in Northern whole¬ 
sale markets as low as 4 to 15c per qt. 
This year the range is mostly 15 to 40c. 
Even the canning and juice stock bring 
about 20c per qt. right in the producing 
sections from Virginia to California, and 
the Eastern manufacturers are actually 
competing with shippers of standard mar¬ 
ket stock as far West as Arkansas. 
G. B. F. 
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Controlling Rose Bugs; Destroying 
Sumac 
1. Will you inform me what to do to 
prevent “rose bugs” from destroying our 
roses and grapes? They come in June 
and remain for three or four weeks. 2. 
Is there any way of destroying sumac 
other than digging the roots? W. D. R. 
Essex Co., N. Y. 
1. Hand picking remains the only re¬ 
source for discouraging the rose bug or 
rose chafer in the flower garden. A spray 
that is effective in controlling this insect 
is five pounds arsenate of lead dissolved 
in 50 gallons of water, to which one gal¬ 
lon of molasses is added. It is. not ef¬ 
fective without the molasses. This spray 
is applied when the insects are due and 
again about a week later, and is said to 
be very useful in vineyards, where these 
beetles are very destructive to the grape 
blossoms. It is not pleasant to use. such 
a spray on blooming roses. This insect 
breeds in sandy ground grown up to sod 
and weeds; clean culture discourages it, 
and the breaking up of adjacent sod les¬ 
sens the plague. s It is often noticeable 
that the beetles congregate in greatest 
numbers upon white or light-colored roses 
and white flowers generally; according to 
some authorities, this is due to the fact 
that the insect has an extremely limited 
range of vision; it is able to see the 
light-colored flowers, but misses darker 
ones because of their low visibility. 
2. We cannot suggest any other way of 
getting rid of sumac. Perhaps readers 
can offer other advice. 
Woodchucks Girdling Trees 
I set a pear orchard this Spring and 
upon examination today find woodchucks 
have girdled three trees and have injured 
some others. Can you give me some rem¬ 
edy which will kill the woodchucks in 
their burrows? J. L. M. 
Indian Fields, N. Y. 
Are you sure the woodchucks did the 
damage? With us they seldom gnaw 
trees when they can get grass or clover. 
Bisulphide of carbon is used to kill them. 
This makes a poisonous gas. A stone is 
wrapped with rags or cotton waste, the 
bisulphide poured over it and then it is 
pushed down into the hole, taking care to 
plug up the entrance. Gasoline is also 
used, but the surest thing is for some good 
marksman to wait with a rifle until the 
woodchucks come out. and shoot them. 
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