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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 20, 1010 
lie is so particular about bis work that 
a record is kept from year to year show¬ 
ing tbe grand total of fleeces removed. 
Just to settle the question of how quickly 
he could remove one fleece. Mr. West did 
the job by the watch in 00 seconds. 
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Fruit on the Farm 
By a Woman Who Knows 
Part I. 
the age of G2 years, the present season 
lias been one of the most active of his 
career. He is known to sheepmen all over 
his section, and while not unfamiliar with 
t e power machines, his preference is for 
the old-fashioned sheep shears, which lie 
usee so adeptly as very seldom to draw 
A Starved Home. —Some time ago I 
accompanied my husband, who wanted to 
see a well-to-do farmer on business. While 
the men were talking I was entertained at 
the farmhouse; a building apparently de¬ 
voted exclusively to the business of feed¬ 
ing. lodging and laundering the farmer's 
family and the farm workers, with as lit¬ 
tle to detract from these main uses as it 
was possible to have it, and with no con¬ 
veniences to lessen the drudgery. The 
small daughter, about 30 years of age. try¬ 
ing to interest and surprise me by show¬ 
ing me something out of the ordinary, in¬ 
vited me into the yard, and leading me to 
the end of the house, pointed with pride to 
a neglected grapevine clinging to the 
walls, saying: “See what a lot of grapes 
we’re going to have. If you’ll come out 
when they’re ripe we’ll give you some.” 
They were very inferior, eprangling 
bunches of small, mildewed berries, and 
while I smiled upon the child and dis¬ 
played as much enthusiasm as I could, 
not to dampen hers, the sight of her pleas¬ 
ure and pride of possession, considering 
its source, was so pathetic that tears 
rather than smiles would better have ex¬ 
pressed my feelings. Why will grown peo¬ 
ple in their mad scramble for money, lose 
all sense of the value of the finer things 
CONTENTS 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, SEPT. 20, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Shall We Give Up Wheat? . 1370 
A Back-to-the-Lander’s Plan . 1370 
What Part of the Consumer’s Dollar . 1370 
How ta Kill Witch Grass . 1371 
Two Wheat Farmers . 1371 
Shrinkage in Weight of Hay . 1373 
Sweet or Alsike Clover for Soil Improve¬ 
ment . 1373 
Harvesting and Drying Sunflower Seed ... 1373 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings . 1376 
Hope Farm Notes . 1384 
Value of Silo Corn . 1384 
Lime With Manure . 1385 
New York Farmers Speak Through the 
Grange . 1387 
The Banner American Country . 1387 
Up-State Farm Notes . 1387 
Figures on Cost of Production . 1387 
Crop Prospects in France and England ... 1392 
One Trouble With Vetch . 1393 
Silo Corn Crop. 1393 
Experience With Rape Seed . 1393 
Government Crop Reports . 1397 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Sheep-Shearing Record . 
Coming Live Stock Sales . 
Value of Frightened Sheep ....... 
Mol r.ses for Pigs and Cows . 
Ration for Guernseys . 
Co-operative Cattle Buying . 
Thumps . 
Feeding Horses . 
Sale of Berkshire Swine .. 
Bloat ... 
Gare-et . 
Hygroma . 
Pink-eye . 
Worms . 
Warts ..... 
Hemorrhagic Septicemia . 
Carbolic Acid for Abortion . 
Purebred, Thoroughbred and Scrub . 
Beer and Ice Cream . 
Ailing Cow . 
Garget . 
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THE HENYARD 
Domesticating Wild Ducks . 1382 
Blind Hens . 1382 
Chemicals for Poultry . 1382 
Making Sure of Young Turkeys . 1396 
Cross-bred Chicks; Red Mites . 1396 
Liver Disease . 1396 
Those Precocious Cockerels . 1398 
Some Thoughts About Hatching Eggs ... 1398 
Construction of Henhouse . 1398 
The Egg-laying Contest . 1401 
Mash or Grain for Small Chicks . 1401 
HORTICULTURE 
The Scientific Search for a Jersey Peach 
1369, 1370 
Fruit on the Farm . 1372 
Mushroom Growing for an Old Man . 1379 
What Apples to Plant . . . 1380 
Canned Strawberries ; Old Paint . 1380 
Moving Large Fruit Trees . 1385 
Culture of Everbearing Strawberries . 1385 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day . 
The Rural Patterns . 
Dyeing Immortelles . 
Lemon Butter . 
Feeding the Child . 
Home Reading for the Young 
Embroidery Designs . 
Apple Dumplings . 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Tbe Middleman’s Share . 
Perious Situation for New York ... 
Co-operation . 
Eevents of the Week. 
Preventing Rope from Twisting ... 
Hearse as Rabbit House . 
Care of Sap Buckets . 
The Hired Mari .. 
Destroying Ants . 
The Story of the Vitamines, Part V 
The Florida Climate . 
Defective Cider .. 
Editorials . 
Courtry-wide Produce Situation ... 
Proposed Roosevelt Memorial. 
Damp Dwelling House . 
Improving Damp Root Cellar . 
Driving a Dug Well . 
Improving Cesspool .. 
Publisher’s Desk .. 
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that make life worth while? IIow can 
farmers who raise their boys and girls as 
this child was being raised, expect to have 
them love the farm and stay with it? 
Happy Children.— This incident made 
such an impression that it has lingered 
in my memory, and has been brought to 
mind by our own small people’s evident 
enjoyment of the fruit that has been 
within their reach this season. They 
have a swing hanging from the limb of a 
Maiden Blush apple tree, and grapes are 
growing near by. The two-year-old was 
taken quite ill, and we were all anxious, as 
he is such a sturdy little fellow, but the 
cause of his indisposition was soon re¬ 
vealed. He had filled himself with very 
green grapes. Now it is impressed upon 
them that they must always ask mother 
before they take any fruit. They will be 
busily playing here in tbe dooryard, and 
an extra fine Red June falls from the 
tree. Away they scamper to ask “Rud¬ 
der” if they can have an apple. IIow they 
do enjoy them ! and how many hours they 
spend picking up windfalls and hauling 
them about in their “ ’spress.” finally get¬ 
ting them to the cow or the “piggies.” 
How they did revel in berries in straw¬ 
berry season! I think they never quite 
knew when they could hold no more “craw- 
berries. 
A Farmer’s Vacation.— Recently we 
followed the Hope Farm man’s example 
and ran away from tbe weeds and the 
work for a few days’ vacation. We could 
not go to tbe sea. much as we should have 
liked that, but we got into the auto early 
one morning and drove across the country 
through Eastern Indiana on into Ohio to 
visit some friends. It had rained the day 
before, and the country looked very pleas¬ 
ant. At noon we rolled into the beautiful 
old town of Oxford, and stopped to rest 
and eat our lunch in the university cam¬ 
pus. This lunch saw little of the much- 
talked-about middleman. Aside from the 
sugar, salt, spice and flour that went into 
its making, it was strictly a home pro¬ 
duct. and sonsisted of fried chicken, cot¬ 
tage cheese sandwiches, bread, butter and 
apple sauce, washed down with butter¬ 
milk. which-we thought would be safer for 
us than drinking water on tbe trip. When 
we started we had put a half bushel of 
apples (Transparent and Red .Tune) into 
the car for our friends, although they live 
on a farm. You see, I remembered hear¬ 
ing the woman say once that her father 
took no interest in anything that could not 
come up to the fence and squeal to be fed. 
and. as we had surmised, tbe apples 
proved to*be a treat. 
Fruitless Farms. —We went one 
route, returning by another, so that we 
passed through about 2JO miles of coun¬ 
try. and I was struck by the absence of 
fruit and flowers about the farmhouses. I 
hope the recent articles in The R. N.-Y. 
on beautifying the home grounds will have 
influence, and now I want to urge the 
planting of fruit for home use. If we 
can only convince tbe farmer that flowers 
and fruit “pay” our cause will be won, 
and 1 truly think it does pay, both in sat¬ 
isfaction and financially. There is an old 
saying that nothing succeeds like success, 
and I think that every business man ad¬ 
mits that the appearance of success or af¬ 
fluence is a valuable asset. When we find 
a farm with the buildings well painted, 
the house grounds beautified and fruit 
growing, we feel that the owner of that 
farm has reached the stage of independ¬ 
ence, and if he has not. the surroundings 
certainly add to his credit. It pans. T 
have heard a farmer say he could not af¬ 
ford to fool with fruit. He could buy it 
cheaper than he could raise it. In a sense 
that may be true. But does he buy it or 
does his family go without it? 
MRS. LEWIS COWING. 
Liquid Manure on Strawberries 
Would you advise spreading liquid 
cow manure on my strawberry patch this 
Fall and Winter? Would you advise 
spreading this manure on my garden 
where I plan to grow tomatoes or on 
garden truck of any kind? v. w. B. 
Minden. Xeh. 
No. Keep the liquid cow manure until 
next season and use it during the growing 
season. It is useful chiefly for the avail- 
abb 1 nitrogen which it contains. If used 
now it would only force the strawberries 
into a big growth of vine—which you 
do not need now. If used in the Winter 
the nitrogen in the liquid manure will be 
lost. Keep until next year and after the 
garden crops are up pour the liquid 
around them. 
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Tough Passenger: “Aw, I’m travelin’ on 
me face.” Conductor: “Well, it’s im¬ 
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or a face.”—Philadelphia Record. 
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of the Day 
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