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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, OCT. 11, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
“That Retail Potato Deal”..... 1482 
"King Drag" for Fitting Wheat Land. 1482, 1513 
A Light Ladder for Farm Use... 1483 
Experience, Alfalfa and Crimson Clover.... 1483 
Agriculture at Columbia University. 1484 
Burning a Straw Stack. I486 
Controlling Canada Thistles. 1486 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 1488 
Destroying Canada Thistles. 1489 
National Organization of Farm Bureaus... 1490 
The New York Grange Statement. 1490 
Adjustment of Farm Labor. 1490 
Potatoes from Peelings. 1492 
Poultry Damage in Hayfield. 1493 
Making a Potato Soil... 1496 
Fertilizer Value of Tobacco Waste.. 1497 
This Land is Sour. 1497 
Measuring Hay in Mow. 1497 
Potato Scab . 1601 
Hope Farm Notes. 1502 
An Interesting Potato Crop. 1502 
Wheat Acreage in New York... 1502 
A Fight Coming for Co-operation. 1505 
Farmers and Cut Price Agitation. 1505 
Up-State Farm Notes. 1505 
How Tenants May Become Farm Owners... 1512 
Crops and Farm News. 1522 
Cold Storage for Vegetables. 1624 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Value of High-testing Milk. 1505 
Delayed Payment for Milk. 1605 
Shall It Be Milk or “Pop"?. 1505 
Amount of Butter in Milk. 1505 
Ration for Freshening Heifer. 1508 
Ration for Young Pigs. 1508 
Close Pasturing on Low Lunds.. 1508 
Damaged Wheat for Pigs. 1508 
Goat’s Milk Butter. 1508 
Skrink in Milk. 1608 
Cooked Feeds for Pigs. 1609 
Pig with Throat Trouble. 1609 
Forage Poisoning . 1610 
Selling Live and Dressed Hogs. 1511 
Coming Live 8tock Sales. 1511 
Cabbage in the Silo. 1514 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 1614 
Leaking Teats . 1514 
Lump on Udder. 1614 
Feeding Young Pigs. 1515 
Green Feed for Cow. 1515 
Se’ling Wheat and Buying Feed. 151 j 
Pigs with Skin Trouble. lolo 
Age of Ram. 1616 
Pig Feeding Problem. 1616 
Grease Heel .. 1520 
Fungus Hematoides . 1620 
Arthritis . 1520 
8b oe Boil . 1520 
Sick Dog . 1620 
Ailing Horse . 1^20 
Hygroma . 1520 
Sores on Hog. 1520 
THE HENYARD 
Selecting and Breeding White Leghonis 
14ol, Ho* 
Quarter Mile of Leghorns. J484 
Keen the Henyard Free From Parasites... 1510 
Do You Know that Poor Results from Poul¬ 
try Are Carried by Intestinal Worms?... 1516 
Nervous Fowls . 1518 
Ailing Tu'key ...... 1616 
Preventing Dogs from Eating Eggs. 1516 
Gapes and Leg Weakness... 1516 
An Active Hen Caught On the Fly. 1621 
Growing Ration for Chicks. 1521 
Mating Pullets and Cockerels. 1521 
Laying Ration .. 
Cheapening Poultry Work. 
The Egg-’aying Contest.;. 1623 
Use of Shrunken Wheat. 1523 
Ailing Geese . *623 
HORTICULTURE 
Planting Trees in Crowbar Holes. 1483 
White or Albino Blueberries. 1483 
What About Pear Culture?..... 1484 
Nomenclature of Cherry Stock....... . 1484 
Cleaning Up Curculio in Old Orchard. I486 
Diseased Hollyhocks; Thrips. 1485 
Garden Notes ... I486 
Failuro of American Beauty Rose. i486 
Try a Few Melons. I486 
Peach Questions . 
Roadside Trees ... J492 
Fruits for the New York Fruit Belt. 1496 
A Case of “Misfit” Trees. 1496 
Storing Auples in Pits. 1496 
Celery Blight . 1493 
Grafting on Root 8prouts. 1493 
Building a Greenhouse—Part I.. 1494 
Peaches from Seed. 1601 
Best Fruit Varieties .. 1501 
Salt Spray for Carnations. 1501 
Storing Canna Boots... 1624 
Apple Market Situation. 1625 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1506 
The Rural Patterns. 1606 
Wliat About the Fireless Cooker?. 1606 
Canning Mushrooms . 1606 
Old-fashioned Orange Dye. 1506 
Tennessee Notes .. 1607 
Embroidery Designs . 1507 
Bottling Elderberry Juice. 1607 
India Relish . 1507 
Dishwashers I Have Known. 150 < 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The Alcohol in Silo Juioe. 1482 
Chipmunks Eat Peas. I486 
Scholarship for Soldior’s Grandchild. 14®6 
Composition of Gelatine. I486 
Preparing Eels . I486 
Three Bits of Exnerience. I486 
Events of the Week. 1488 
Comments from Maryland. 1488 
Filters and Fleas. 1489 
Treatment of Rheumatism. 1489 
Age of Common Birds. 1493 
School Tax Notice. 1497 
A Wonderful Old Lady. 1498 
Household Economies . 1498 
Which Car Driver is Responsible?. 1498 
Countrywide Produce Situation. 1600 
Philadelphia Markets . 1500 
Editorials . 1604 
The Road Issue in Wayne Co., N. Y. 1506 
A New Map qi Europe. 1513 
Tanning Woo- 1 chuck Skins. 1513 
Support of (frown-up Children. 1513 
Inclination of Chimneys. 1518 
Well Water 'with Iron Flavor. 1518 
Manure Storage Pit. 1518 
Arrangement of Heating System. 1524 
Cheap Devi da for Lifting Water. 1624 
Another Rabbit Trap. 1524 
A Turtle that.“Rained Down”. 1624 
Care of Goldfish..... 1524 
Various Business Notes. 1525 
Publisher’s Desk . 1526 
Teacher (during natural history ex¬ 
amination) : “What animal is satisfied 
with the least amount of nourishment?” 
“The moth!” shouted Jimmy Jones. “It 
eats nothing but holes.”—Credit Lost. 
people who think they are the best blue¬ 
berries ever. None of the samples sent 
in have approached in size the best ber¬ 
ries we have located here in New Jersey, 
hut I think at least a quarter of the cor¬ 
respondents have offered ’me the rare 
white or pink blueberries. The facts arc 
that these berries are so rare in any sec¬ 
tion of the country that they excite the 
wonder and the interest of the pickers, 
hut they occur in all parts of the country 
where blueberries grow. Jn our trial 
fields in the second generation hybrid** of 
the low and high bushes we get a certain 
percentage of these albino berries. The 
plants bearing the lightest fruit have 
berries which are nearly pure white when 
growing in the shade, and have a pretty 
pink blush when growing in the sun. 
From these there are all degrees of color 
to the normal fruit. Those which are just 
off the normal show a pink around the 
stem. ELizAHicrn e. white. 
Agriculture at Columbia University 
It is not generally known that Colum¬ 
bia University, in New York City, has 
a good course in agriculture. It must 
be different from other courses, because 
it must serve city people. But what have 
city people to do with farming? More 
than you think. The librarian of the 
great New York Public Library once 
wrote asking for several extra copie*? of 
The R. N.-Y. He said that apparently 
more would-be poultry-keepers gathered 
at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty- 
second Street, New York, than at any 
other corner in the world. They wore 
out copies of The R. N.-Y. studying it 
for farm information. The fact is there 
are thousands in this big city who have 
dreams of ending their days upon a farm. 
Columbia University recognizes this feel¬ 
ing and, under Prof. O. S. Morgan, has 
developed a course in agriculture specially 
designed for these city people. The ob¬ 
ject is to hold back these baek-to-the- 
landers until they have some preparation 
at least for the flight to the hills. Many 
a man who had little more than a dream 
of farming has been made to understand 
the realities before risking all he had iu 
an unknown plunge. Others have had 
fair training at Columbia and then hired 
out on a farm for a season or two to get 
a good farm seasoning. In many ways 
this city course in agriculture has done 
good work and has handled its peculiar 
problem well during the past eight years. 
Not long ago a young man wrote that he 
wanted to attend a night school where 
farming is taught. Thus he thought he 
could keep his regular job and at the 
same time *?tudy the theory of agricul¬ 
ture—just as he can study any other 
business at a night school. This will 
give a little idea of the peculiar work 
which a university must do for city 
pe< >ple. 
Nomenclature of Cherry Stocks 
Professor Massey’s kindly criticism— 
page 1201—of my mistake in applying 
the name “Mahaleb” to native cherries 
at first appeared to me as certainly a 
mistake on his purt; for when writing 
the conti’ihutiou referred to, feeling a 
hazy as to the application of these 
names, I referred to the hand-book on 
growing and marketing fruit, distributed 
by one of the largest and most reliable 
nurseries in the country, and found Ma¬ 
haleb, or Mahalab as they spelled it, re¬ 
ferred to as native stock, with the inti- 
uiutiou that the Mazzard was an imported 
stock. On reading the correction I looked 
up other authority and found in a very 
comprehensive and ably written Pennsyl¬ 
vania bulletin, No. 152, 1901, “Fruits for 
Pennsylvania” by Dr. .T. H. Funk, this 
sentence: “In this country the sweet 
cherry is represented by a naturalized, 
hardy, vigorous-growing wild variety, 
common along our fences and roadsides, 
and known as the ‘Mazzard.’ ” 
Thus Professor Massey’s correction 
stands, and he has conferred a great 
favor. I regret the mistake, as correc¬ 
tions cannot possibly reach the attention 
of all the misinformed. 
Florida. ». l. hartman. 
Maloneys Fruit and 
Ornamental 
TREES 
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Quarter of Mile of Leghorns 
The first page picture was taken on the 
Skinner Poultry Farm in Chenango Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y. It represents a quarter of a 
mile of Leghorns spread along a cornfield 
between shocks of corn. Some grain was 
scattered here in order to call the birds 
in for their picture. They run all over 
the field and pick up a fair share of their 
living. The Skinners have developed a 
good variety of corn. 
What About Pear Culture? 
I am following orchard work at dif¬ 
ferent places, and in reading The R. N.-Y. 
sort out horticultural subjects to read 
first. 1 was interested in the discussion 
nf apple varieties as given by the several 
orchard men on page 1380. The infor¬ 
mation is valuable printed in such a way, 
and coming from such reliable sources. 
I would like to hear what the pear grow¬ 
ers recommend as a running mate for the 
Bartlett. Also if Winter pears are profit¬ 
able, and if so, is the Bose a suitable 
variety? Is it better top-worked on some 
other variety? What variety makes a 
good stock to work upon? Is the psylla 
.still to be dreaded? Fire blight has wiped 
most of the pear orchards out of existence 
in this State. There are a few orchards 
in this belt along the lake that have 
survived, however, and it would seem an 
opportune time to plant pears to stimu¬ 
late a declining industry. v. Q. 
Willoughby, O. 
Dropping of McIntosh Apple 
My McIntosh apples dropped badly. Is 
there anything to help that? s. o. 
Massachusetts. 
We have the same trouble. McIntosh 
seems to ripen unevenly. The tree* 
naturally sets a heavy crop, and the first, 
to ripen promptly fall. There is no 
“remedy” except to pick at intervals—not 
all at one picking. A little study will 
show when the first picking should be 
taken. Theu later pick again before the 
fruit drops. 
Virtues of the Airedale 
Referring to a letter about the Airedale 
as a watchdog for farm purposes. I wish 
to endorse this breed most heartily. I 
have a female myself, devoted to us alone 
and fearless of everything. I differ a bit 
from the Hope Farm man, who thinks 
the Airedale more given to roaming than 
some other breeds. My experience at 
home and in noting the Airedale in town 
has been that he sticks to his job at home 
as no other dog I know, unless it be some 
of the ladies’ parlor pets. The Airedale 
is all dog. a real dog, a one-man dog. No 
farmer who wants a guardian for fruit, 
crops or chickens will go wrong if he 
gets an Airedale as his helper. I’ll bet 
on the Airedale for wonderful alertness 
and courage. No mastiff, Newfoundland, 
St. Bernard or bulldog is in his class in 
my r opinion. N. u. A. 
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