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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
August 2, 1910 
General Farm Topics 
The New Jersey Potato Meeting 
The two pictures ou page 1151 were 
taken at the big potato meeting recently 
held at llolmdel. X. .T. Fig. 339 shows 
the big gathering, in the orchard, with 
Mr. MeCampboll starting off the speak¬ 
ing. It was it big gathering, as may 
be seen from the picture, and the plan 
for handling it was admirable. A shady 
place in the orchard was selected, and a 
little stand built under a spreading apple 
tree. A big load of camp chairs was 
hired, and a big truck brought them out 
from town. Each man helped himself to 
a chair, and sat where he wanted to in 
order to listen to the speaking. Then 
after the meeting was over the chairs 
were collected, put on the truck, and 
taken back to town. 
' Fig. 33S shows a few of the long lines 
of cars in which the people came to this 
meeting. There were something more 
than 500 in this group, besides others 
scattered about the farm. These cars 
were parked in an Alfalfa field. The 
second crop had been cut and raked 
away, so that it made a good place for 
parking. In the front may be seen sev¬ 
eral of the signs describing part of the 
spraying experiment. With the introduc¬ 
tion of the car and the truck, all methods 
of handling these farm gatherings have 
been revolutionized, and it. requires good 
judgment and considerable skill to put 
them through properly. 
Sorrel and Wheat 
1 read your article on lime, sorrel and 
- iur soils on page 107(5, and in regard to 
wheat growing where sorrel has grown 
rank, will say it is possible. I have a 
field that has a knoll on one side that 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUG. 2, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
An Ex-bired Man States His Case.... 1149, 1150 
Boost the Farm Profession. 1150 
The ‘’Profiteer” Gives His Figures. 1150 
Alsike Clover Coming In. 1151 
Barley in Silage. 1152 
New Jersey Potato Meeting. 1162 
Sorrel and Wheat. 1162 
Value cf Winter Barley. 1152 
Smut Disease in Wheat. 1153 
Dusting for Potato Bugs. 1153 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 1154 
Up-State Farm Notes... 1154 
New York Fairs. 1164 
Soldiers on Farms. 1156 
The Hired Man’s Food. 1156 
Good Work in Education. 1156 
Experience with the Federal Land Bank... 1156 
Price of Farm Labor. 1156 
Crops and Farm News.1155. 1168 
Comparison of Coal and Wood Ashes. 1157 
Meat Scraps for Fertilizer. 1157 
Soot as a Fertilizer. 1157 
A Fertilizer Puzzle. 1157 
Hope Farm Notes. 1158 
Save the Wheat Prices... 1161 
Life on a Remote Missouri Farm. 1166 
Farming in Florida. 1167 
In Eastern Colorado. 1167 
Pulling Out Lumber. 1167 
Suggestions on the Carrot Crop. 1167 
Failure of Alfalfa. 1167 
A Fertilizer Man at the Cornell College of 
Agriculture . 1168 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Sheep Meeting at Cooperstown, N. Y. 1161 
Co-operative Sheep Associations. 1161 
Why I Choose Poland Chinas. 1164 
Preventing Hogs from Rooting. 1164 
Pig Feeding Questions. 1164 
Feeding Calves . 1164 
Handling Farrowing Sow. 1164 
Record Price for Bull. 1164 
Marketing the Wayne Co., N. Y., Wool 
Clip . 11 64 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1164 
Dogs Eating Their Young. 1166 
THE HENYARD 
Henhouse Watering Trough. 1161 
Ailing Poults ... 1166 
HORTICULTURE 
The Sod Method for Orange Groves. 1151 
The Rome Beauty Apple. 1161 
Sod Hillside Orchard. 1152 
Fa ’. 1 Set Strawberries. 1152 
An Insect with a Handle. 1153 
Grape Aphis: Shortening Vine Shoots. 1163 
Controlling the Striped Cucumber Beetle.. 1153 
Controlling Aspargus Beetle. 1153 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1159 
Treatment of Hydrangea Hortensis. 1159 
The New Jersey Horticultural "Run”. 1168 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
Notes from Vermont... 
The Rural Patterns. 
From the Farm Woman’s Viewpoint. 
Rural Cemeteries and Neighborhood Parks. 
Canning Greens . 
Saving Work in Hot Weather. 
Renovating Window Shades. 
Chop Suey . 
Embroidery Designs . 
Catering for Hired Men. 
Canning Strawberries . 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Events of the Week... 1154 
The Local Lightning Rod Agent. 1156 
Editorials . 1160 
Farm Voter and Primary. 1161 
Daylight Saving . 1161 
Buffalo Markets . 1166 
Robins in Florida . 1167 
Cutting a Bee Tree. 1167 
Trapping Woodchucks . 1167 
Publisher's Desk . 1170 
is all sorrel when lot is in bay, but has 
the best wheat of any spot in field this 
year, as it is in wheat. The wheat in 
the flat or on the best land is very poor, 
but on the knoll is good. k. .t. r. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
A good many farmers can report the 
same thing, and it has proved much of 
a puzzle in the past. It is hard to 
realize that sour plants like sorrel may 
take lime from sour soil and change it 
over into forms which help sweeten that 
soil. Yet both the analysis of the plant 
and personal obesrvation of the crop will 
prove that it can be done. 
Bearded Barley in Silage 
We have put pens and oats in silos 
for two years with good success. This 
year we mixed in a little barley with the 
peas and . oats, which has proven satis¬ 
factory thus far. We are a little wor¬ 
ried about putting barley beards in the 
silage. Do you think they will injure 
the cows in any way? c. u. 
Cooperstown, N. Y. 
We have fed barley and rye hay with 
stiff, hard beards without trouble. The 
barley beards will come out of the silo 
soft and tender, and the barley with the 
oats will increase the value of the silage. 
A Sod Hillside Orchard 
I have a hillside orchard which has 
been cultivated and cropped between the 
trees for years. Now the trees are so 
big that I think it best to put the land 
into permanent sod. then mow the grass 
and mulch it around the trees. What 
is the best kind of grass to sow, and when 
is the best time? On one piece of ground 
1 have a good stand of Alfalfa, which is 
just going to seed. Should I cut it and 
shake the seed out on some other piece 
of ground, or let it stand as it is. and 
seed in thicker where it is? I do not 
wish to take anything off the land, only 
do what is best, for the trees. L. c. E. 
Massachusetts. 
We should give a liberal seeding of the 
grasses generally used for meadows— 
Timothy, Red-top and Red Alsike clover. 
Seed in late August or early September. 
If you are to keep the trees in sod plan 
to leave everything that grows on the 
ground. Take nothing but the apples 
out. We should not let the Alfalfa go 
to seed, but cut as for hay and leave 
right on the ground. 
Value of Winter Barley 
Will you advise me as to Winter bar¬ 
ley, as to yield, etc., compared to the 
Spring Varieties? Also the same in re¬ 
gard to Winter oats, if there are such 
grains. What time is best to sow in 
this section, and how much per acre? 
Is there more risk in getting a good 
crop of Winter grain than of the Spring 
grain? If these crops would give good 
results it would reduce the rush of Spring 
work quite a lot, as there usually is 
plenty of time to put them in in the 
Fall. R. E. o. 
Fulton Co., N. Y. 
The Winter oats will not answer for 
your latitude. We have grown them in 
Northern New Jersey, where they make 
a heavy Fall growth, but rarely live 
through the Winter. In the South—as 
far north as Philadelphia—these Winter 
or turf oats are quite popular, but they 
are not suited to your locality. As for 
Winter barley, we have varying reports 
about it—thus far most farmers seem to 
prefer Spring barley. Wo would like to 
help settle it by hearing from those who 
have seeded the Winter variety. 
Fall-set Strawberry Plants 
I was prevented from setting my new 
strawberry patch last Spring. I have 
heard of berries being set in the Fall, but 
never saw any set at that time. Should 
I get a crop next year if I set plants in 
late Summer or early Fall? Should they 
be planted same as in Spring? E. s. I). 
North East, I*a. 
You may get a small crop from these 
late-planted berries, but not by any means 
a full supply. We have tried planting 
strawberries all the way from March to 
December. When planted after June we 
can usually get a few big berries the 
next season, but for a full crop they 
always go in earlier. Potted plants or 
strong layers will give one good spray 
of fruit if well handled. In some cases 
the Spring-dug layers an* “heeled in” or 
kept close together until late June or 
July, and then planted. Such plants do 
well and will give a good crop next year, 
but this year’s layers cannot la* expected 
to do it. We shall plant a few in 
August, handling them the same as 
Spring-«et plants, but we cannot expect 
more than a few berries on each plant. 
Fruit Prospects 
Prof. W. J. Green of the Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station says that the price for small 
fruits is likely to continue high for the 
next few years. There will be an unusual 
demand, and the high cost of labor will 
keep many people out of the business. 
Immense quantities of such fruit are now 
demanded by the ice-cream makers. There 
seems to be no doubt that the coming <>f 
prohibition will mean extra demand for 
ice cream, milk and fruit. Small fruit 
planting, therefore, in a reasonable way, 
looks like a good proposition. It is not 
a time to plunge into the business and put 
in a large acreage without knowing just 
where the labor is to come from, but a 
reasonable acreage in fruit will pay. 
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Destroying Burdock 
On page 100S W. II. W. makes a mis¬ 
taken statement regarding bis experience 
in destroying burdock, and the author of 
the reply, accepting those .statements as j 
correct, gives theoretical advice that, is i 
misleading. The burdock is a biennial, 
and it will die .*r natural death and stay 
dead after having produced one crop of 
seeds, and there is no treatment by which 
its life can be prolonged for another year. 
If. however, it is prevented from sending 
ui> its seed stalk it may assume something 
the nature of a perennial. In controlling 
it. all that is necessary is to allow the 
plant to develop its seed stalk, which it. 
will do the second year, and allow it 
closely to approach the blossoming period, 
and then cut it close to the ground. That 
will end the life of that plant, forever, 
though there may be seeds remaining in 
the ground which will germinate and pro¬ 
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in the same manner. 
But why not make a virtue of the ne¬ 
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