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‘Ibt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November lo, l'Jli) 
General Farm Topics 
Sugar Beets for Long Island 
Do you think it would be practicable 
for an association of farmers, the Grange, 
for instance, to establish a factory at 
some central point on Long Island, or any 
other farming section, for manufacturing 
beet sugar? Almost any farmer could 
raise a few tons of beets, which would 
give him enough sugar so he could twiddle 
his fingers at the sugar trust and profit¬ 
eers. There ought to be a profit in rais¬ 
ing sugar beets, with sugar at 10c or more 
wholesale; no doubt such a plant could 
be used, in part, for other purposes, when 
not engaged in sugar making. 
LONG ISLAND. 
We doubt it. In theory the plan 
sounds well, but some years ago several 
attempts were made to locate beet sugar 
factories in the Eastern States. New 
York at one time offered a bounty in 
order to encourage beet sugar production. 
The result was failure and more or less 
scandal. The factories were abandoned. 
True, the price of sugar is higher now, 
but so are all the costs of poduction. The 
culture of sugar beets on anything like a 
paying scale involves gangs of laborers 
which could hardly be obtained on the 
island. The sugar beet seems to be a 
crop requiring intensive culture and an 
expensive outfit for successful operation. 
We do not think it suitable, save as a 
side line—each farmer providing a few 
acres. Sugar could be made in that way, 
but it would probably cost more in the 
end than even the high prices now de¬ 
manded. Why not organize to keep more 
bees and thus produce sweets? 
The Grain Drill 
Nothing proves a greater asset on the 
farm than well-preserved and well-cared- 
for farm implements and machinery 
through proper housing when not in use. 
Especially is this true of the grain drill, 
the implement which figures as an im- 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 16, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Top-Dressing Wheat Land in Ohio 
Fertilizer and Cover Crop Questions. .. 
How to Handle Potato “Seed”. ...... 
The United Farmers of Ontario Win.. 
A Canadian Farmer Speaks. 
The Grain Drill. 
Sugar Beets on Long Island. 
Manure Piles in Front Yard. 
Crops and Farm News. 
Hope Farm N otes. 
Farms and Farm Hands. 
This Farmer Says “Over-Production”. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Deliver in Larger Cans. 
How Milk Prices are Figured. 
New Way to Deliver Milk. 
Milk Wagon Drivers Strike. 
Protection of Purebred Live Stock. 
Low Protein F eeds. 
A Family of Kids. 
Feeding a Calf.. 
Tuberculosis Infection . 
What to Do with Stray Stock. 
Corn Grain in the Silo... 
Feeding from a Large Silo. 
Worms in Dog. 
Obstructed Teats.> • • • 
Spavin ... 
Lump Jaw. 
Lien for Service Fee. 
Damage by Sheep. 
N. Y. State Dairymen’s Association... 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 
Construction of Dairy Barn. 
Raising Heifer’s First Calf. 
Shrink in Milk. 
Ration f or Ayrshires...... 
Com and Cob Meal. 
Ration for Milch Cows. 
Duroc Jersey Swine. 
Ration with Silage and Alfalfa. 
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THE HENYARD 
World’s Egg Record Painted in Red Letters 
. 1673, 1674 
If Hens Could Talk. 1700 
Hens Going Light. 1700 
Cross-bred Geese. 1700 
Egg Laying Contest. 1706 
Coop for Shipping Poultry. 1706 
A Good Massachusetts Ration. 1707 
HORTICULTURE 
Grafting on Root Sprouts. 1677 
Prolific Strawberry Plants. 1677 
Opalescent Apple in Hudson Valley. 1677 
Northwestern Greening Apple. 1678 
Trees from Distant Nurseries. 1678 
Asparagus, Raspberries. 1678 
Field Mice in Orchards. 1678 
Opalescent and Paragon Apples. 1678 
Cover Crop for Berries. 1678 
Notes From a Maryland Garden. 1683 
Fruit Notes from Missouri. 1689 
Begonias from Seed. 1689 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1692 
“What About Children’s Wages”. 1692 
The Rural Patterns. 1692 
Embroidery Designs. 1692 
A Thanksgiving Dinner... 1692 
Gift Suggestions. 1692 
MISCELLANEOUS 
“Political and Industrial Democracy”. 1680 
“Jersey” and Other Justice. 1680 
Country-Wide Produce. 1682 
Up-State Farm News. 1684 
The Power of the State Education Depart¬ 
ment . 1685 
Farmers and Recent Industrial Conference. 1691 
State Farm Bureaus in Labor Policies. 1691 
Publisher’s Desk. 1706 
portant factor iu making a successful 
cereal crop. During progress of grain 
seeding the grain drill should be drawn 
to cover after each day’s work and never 
allowed to suffer from the elements of the 
weather which not only make the gearing 
work badly, but may cause a serious break 
down, loss of valuable time and result in 
a poor job of seeding. 
After the season’s seeding has been 
completed the grain drill should be care¬ 
fully gone over and all needed repairs 
ordered at once and put in position. This 
will eliminate lost motion when the rush 
comes next season. Before housing, all 
dust, fertilizer and old oil which has cor¬ 
roded bearings and metal parts should be 
removed and the metal parts treated to a 
thorough saturation with kerosene oil to 
remove rust and leave bearings in good 
working order. The kerosene can best be 
applied with a hand cloth. As a further 
preservative and renovator, apply a little 
machine oil to both wood and metal, rub¬ 
bing briskly with hand cloth. This will 
make drill look like new, preserve bear¬ 
ings, add to life of implement and insure 
satisfactory service when called in to use 
next season. wm. a. good. 
Virginia. 
Manure on Strawberries 
In a recent issue you printed an in¬ 
quiry from O. W., Wantagh, X. Y., about 
using chicken manure on strawberries. I 
used some once, but never again. The 
result was a splendid growth of foliage, 
but no berries, and I did not apply the 
manure heavily, either. a. n. s. 
Massachusetts. 
That is the general report, and it is 
easy to understand the result. The 
chicken manure is strong in nitrogen. 
This is the element which forces a heavy 
growth of leaf and vine, but does not 
form the vital element in seed or fruit 
bud. The element needed there is phos¬ 
phorus, and unless this is added to the 
manure there^ cannot be a full develop¬ 
ment of bud and fruit. 
Steaming Manure Piles in Front Yards 
With reference to the above, which I 
saw on page 1342, and which I have also 
seen in other agricultural papers, I would 
like to say the following: In years gone 
by. when most of the European nations 
were almost continuously involved in -wars 
of shorter or longer duration (think of 
the Seven Years’ War and the Thirty 
Years’ War), marauders roved over the 
country in search of plunder, and the 
only means the small farmers had of pro¬ 
tecting their families and defending their 
property was by putting their farm build¬ 
ings in the shape of a fortress, and by 
closing the entrance to the yard by a 
strong wooden door, which was closed 
every night. The doors and windows iu 
the barns and stables opened into the 
yard, and the only way the farmers had 
of cleaning out the stables was by putting 
the horse, cattle and hog manure mixed, 
in a pile in the yard. 
It may interest our farmers to learn 
that those farmers, who have to take 
better care of their soils than our farmers 
of theirs, apply the manure in a state of 
decomposition best suited to improve the 
physical conditions of their soils; long 
strawy manure to clay soils, partly de¬ 
composed manure to loam soils, and -well- 
rotted manure to sandy soils. Those farm¬ 
ers are also compelled to grow on their 
soils, robbed of virgin fertility, a greater 
variety of crops, each crop making dif¬ 
ferent demands on the fertility of the 
soil. To those farmers every forkful of 
manure and every gallon of liquid manure 
is of the greatest importance. Their in¬ 
come depends upon the quantity and qual¬ 
ity of the produced manure, so that they 
don’t mind a little steam escaping from 
the manure pile. The decomposition of 
the manure is often necessary to get it 
in the state best suited to their soils. 
a. w. 
“I RECENTLY heard two scientists 
wrangling over the age of the earth.” “I 
envy those fellows.” “Why?” “Imagine 
anybody sufficiently detached from the 
problems of the day to wrangle over an 
unimportant question like the age of the 
earth when nearly everybody else is sit¬ 
ting up late at night trying to find out 
what’s the matter with it!”—Credit Lost. 
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