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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Sometimes the children play with, them, 
or the cans are left out of sight and 
partly filled by rain. They all make 
breeding places for mosquitoes, and half 
a dozen old tin cans exposed in this way 
will provide enough of these pests to 
torture three families. "We believe many 
a man has done large work at draining 
ponds and puddles and still suffered be¬ 
cause he left the tin cans and buckets 
partly filled with water. 
Alfalfa Sown in Standing Corn 
I have a field in corn which I desire 
to sow to Alfalfa. This is a clay soil 
and in the Spring of 191S was limed, 
manured, acid phosphate applied and 
planted to corn. This Spring, 1919, it 
was manured and again slanted to corn. 
Would I be likely to get a stand by sow¬ 
ing in the standing corn? If so, when 
and how? J. 
Washington Co., O. 
One’s success in seeding Alfalfa in 
corn at the last cultivation depends 
largely upon the seasonal conditions and 
character of the soil, In a very droughty 
July and August one is quite likely to 
fail. A soil well supplied with organic 
matter will be much more likely to give 
success than one deficien in organic mat¬ 
ter. The Ohio Experiment Station 
makes such seedings every year, and suc¬ 
ceeds in getting a good stand about three 
years out of five. The earlier in July 
the seeding can be made the better. 
Broadcast the seed just ahead of the 
cultivator. Cultivate shallow. 
C. G. WILLIAMS. 
Ohio Experiment Station. 
In my opinion it would be unwise to 
try seeding Alfalfa in the corn. The 
seeding would have to be done after the 
last cultivation of the corn, when here 
in the Middle West dry weather is the 
rule. The corn shades too much and 
takes up the moisture, and the Alfalfa 
would not root deep enough to withstand 
the freezing and thawing of the Winter, 
and a poor stand of anything is poor 
business. It would be better to prepare 
the ground in the Spring, getting a good 
seed bed ; then let it lie until the weeds 
sprouted. Harrow and destroy the 
CONTENTS 
THE F.UKAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 26, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
The Great Need of Phosphates. 1123 
How to Kill Witch Grass. 1123 
Alfalfa Sown in Standing Corn. 1124 
Seeding Alfalfa in Com. 1124 
An Effective Grasshopper Poison. 1124 
Fighting Against Odds. 1126 
Farmers’ Wages . 1126 
Farmers and the City Press. 1126 
The Hired Man Question Again. 1126 
The Farmers’ Union of Maine... 1126 
Trim it Up. 1126 
Hope Farm Notes. 1130 
A Great Potato Demonstration. 1133 
Up-State Farm News.1141, 1143 
Products, Prices and Trade. 1143 
Crops and Farm Notes. 1144 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Facing the American Meat Situation. .1121, 1122 
Scientific Food Values. 1126 
New Plan for Buying Bulls. 1126 
Trouble Over Milk Tests. 1133 
Prompt Payment for Milk. 1133 
Milk Prices Figured. 1133 
Improving a Dairy Ration. 1138 
Ration for Young Pigs. 1138 
Trouble with Cream. 1138 
Disposal of Afterbirth. 1138 
Value of Gluten Feed. 1138 
Keeping Off the Flies. 1138 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1138 
Milking Shorthorns Sold. 1138 
That Cost of Producing Milk. 1140 
Tresnassing Cattle . 1140 
Death of Pigs. 1141 
Heaves . 1141 
Pasturing a Brood Mare. 1141 
Gaunted Mare . 1141 
Feeding a Young Foal. 1141 
THE HENYARD 
Could Not Produce Normal Eggs. 1142 
Care of Chicks. 1142 
Loss of Goslings. 1142 
HORTICULTURE 
Beautifying the Home Surroundings—Part 
II. 1122 
Ridding Fruit of Pests. 1124 
New England Fruit and Garden Notes.... 1128 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1131 
Mildew on Roses. 1131 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Feedine the Hired Man—Part II. 1127 
From Day to Day. 1136 
Raspberry Recipes. 1136 
The Rural Patterns. 1136 
Tomato Paste .1136, 1137 
Notes from the Illinois Corn Belt. 1137 
Embroidery Designs . 1137 
Notes from Central Vermont. 1137 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The Mosquito Pest. 1123 
Three-horse Equalizer . 1125 
Size of Pulley. 1125 
Raising Water to House. 1125 
Centrifugal Force and Wheels. 1125 
Misleading Advertisements . 1126 
Editorials . 1132 
Dominating the Food Situation.... 1133 
School Districts i* New York. 1133 
Daylight Saving” and Sleep Loss. 1133 
Country-wide Produce Situation. 1144 
Publisher’s Desk . 1146 
weeds, then sow the Alfalfa, giving it a 
chance to start free of weeds. 
Indiana. lewis g. cowing. 
This method succeeds about once out of 
three times, and we therefore do not rec¬ 
ommend it. There are two very serious 
drawbacks to it: First, our country here 
is usually subject to drought at the time 
when you would naturally sow the Al¬ 
falfa in this corn. Second, the corn 
shades the young Alfalfa so much that it 
allows it to make entirely too little 
growth before Winter comes. I advise 
you to Wait until next Spring and then 
sow it, using beardless barley as a nurse 
crop. CIIAS. b. wing. 
Ohio. 
It is doubtful whether it is worth while 
to attempt seeding Alfalfa in Ohio or 
elsewhere in the East between rows of 
corn. The conditions which the Ohio 
farmer has provided are all that could be 
expected to produce a good stand, if such 
could be secured. There are possible cir¬ 
cumstances. very favorable season. Fall 
and Winter, and with well-drained soil, 
inocula ed and well supplied with ele¬ 
ments ol fertility, which would make crop 
at this time of seeding successful. How¬ 
ever. 'ersonally. I would not recommend 
the p actice unless it has succeeded in 
this inquirer's neighborhood under equally 
or less favorable circumstances. Perhaps 
the writer would follow this plan: Sow 
rye or rye and Hairy vetch between the 
rows of corn. Plow when the cover crop 
has attained some growth, perhaps in 
early May. Work the soil down well and 
harrow once or twice each week until 
early July, and seed. It is essential that 
the soil be well packed, and perhaps a 
“culti-packer” or corrugated roller is an 
ideal tool to be put on the field before 
and after seeding. It is generally advis¬ 
able to cut up the green crop by using 
the disk before plowing under. j. 
Ohio. 
An Effective Grasshopper Poison 
In a recent issue of The B. N.-Y. 
appeared the formula for the poison bran 
mash, flavored with lemons and oranges, 
which did such good work in exterminat¬ 
ing the grasshopper from Kansas. This 
mixture is undoubtedly effective, but is 
much more expensive than the bait given 
below, and which is now doing for North¬ 
ern Michigan what the bran bait did for 
Kansas. 
Into a bushel of screened sawdust mix 
dry one pound of dry arsenic. Paris green 
or London purple. Into a pail of water 
mix one pound of salt and one cup of 
molasses or other sweetening. Mix the 
two mixtures together and add enough 
additional water to make a wet mash. 
Spread this thinly, using about a bushel 
to the acre in the grasshopper infested 
area. Sow as if scattering grain. The 
hoppers are attracted by the salt and 
molasses and will eat the sawdust with 
these attractions, and the poison on it. 
After the first day or so dead hoppers 
will be found all over the area sowed. 
Sow in the evening, so that the bait will 
he fresh in the morning when the hop¬ 
pers begin to feed. 
This mixture is much cheaper than to 
use bran, oranges and lemons, as the 
sawdust can be had free. In several 
counties of Michigan a campaign is now 
being waged against the hoppers with 
this bait., under the direction of the Farm 
Bureaus and County Agents. The 
County Boards of Supervisors are help¬ 
ing to fight the scourge, and appropria¬ 
tions of more than $1,000 have been 
made in several counties for the pur¬ 
chase of white arsenic for this purpose. 
Farmers who have not previously been 
interested in the Farm Bureau work are 
being drawn in on this grasshopper cam¬ 
paign, and what is more to the point, 
are saving their oats, beans and seed¬ 
ings. where last year they were lost, due 
to the depredations of the hoppers. 
When the sceptics become the boosters 
there must be something to this sawdust 
poison bait method of^ combating the 
grasshoppers, and that is what is now 
taking place. We know in Northern 
Michigan that the hoppers can be con¬ 
trolled by this method. So we will never 
lose another crop when we can buy poi¬ 
son to protect it. J. L. K. 
Beulah, Mich. 
Ridding Fruit of Pests 
On page 11)38 I note inquiry, “How 
can one prevent robins from eating straw¬ 
berries” ; also comments on same. Around 
here they are bad on cherries and rasp¬ 
berries. T have noticed this fact for last 
number of years. Cherries are apt to 
get wormy. They use sprays to prevent 
it. Soon after spraying the birds emi¬ 
grate. probably because there are no 
worms for them. When cherries were 
half grown there were hundreds of robins 
other birds on my premises. I have 
seen a robin, bluejay or catbird on 
premises in last two weeks. I did 
spray mv cherries—and have none, 
except what I purchased from a man that 
did spray, a mile and a half away. The 
striped gopher was bad on my strawber¬ 
ries. I used sweet corn soaked in strych¬ 
nine. It was very effective. I planted 
2 lbs. pie pumpkin seed in my corn. They 
came nicely. In two weeks there was 
scarcely a hill left. I have laid it to 
woodchucks. They were gone, root and 
branch, but worms and bugs were not 
the robbers. Another small patch, 50 or 
GO hills, near the house was not molested. 
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ALFALFA 
AMERICAN NORTHERN GROWN 
For fifteen years our advice concerning the seeding 
and care of Alfalfa meadows, and our seed for sowing 
them, have been standard—the best that was to bo 
had. The catalog tells how, and prices the seed, 
not Turkestan, ‘‘Dwarf Alfalfa,” which we refuse to 
handle, but the best of American grown seed, in¬ 
cluding usually Montana, Idaho, and the great 
“Dakota 30," which rivals the Grimm Itself. 
pOliiil HI CHI PH Next to Hansen’s Siberian, 
UlfllHM MLiHLrH the greatest variety grown 
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amounts of the Siberian. 
Sample and prices on request. 
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Also Nitrate of Soda, Potash 
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