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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
December 27, 1919 
For San Jose Scale 
Let our experts guide and direct you in controlling this and 
other scale pests. Our 20 years’ experience will keep you from 
going wrong—will make your spraying effective. It is a free 
service we are giving fruit growers. Don’thesitate to write us. 
Scale insects can only be controlled by dormant period spraying. 
Now’s the time—on mild days. Spray your trees with 
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for San Jose Scale 
Peach Leaf Curl 
B. T. S. 
—a scale remedy that gets results. All the efficiency of Lime 
Sulphur Solution, but more satisfactory because more easily 
handled. B. T. S. is a dry product—a 100-lb. keg is the equiva¬ 
lent in all spraying operations of a 50-gallon barrel of Lime 
Sulphur Solution weighing about 600 lbs. Freight charges are 
less. There is no leakage. You simply add the water in the 
orchard. We make Orchard Brand Lime Sulphur Solution for 
those who want it. 
The Orchard Brand “ a a y “ 
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We are cooperating with fruit growers everywhere. 
Put your problems up to us. Write us direct. Get 
your name on our mailing list to receive seasonable 
spraying information. Address as below. 
General Chemical 
insecticide Dept., 25 Broad St., NewYork^, 
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Northern Ohio Notes 
Farmers’ Markets. —Much interest 
is taken in Tiie It. N.-Y. contribu¬ 
tions about farmers’ markets in the cities 
to bring tbe producer and consumer face 
to face. Out here the consumers in the 
city give the farmer no chance to go 
into the market, as they come out from 
the city and buy up everything the far¬ 
mer has to spare at going city prices. 
This lias been a great school to the city 
residents. They found that produce 
prices in the country were scarcely half 
of the retail prices of the city, and the 
result has been that every paved road 
out of the city has been covered by fleets 
of trucks of all sizes, buying direct from 
the farmers; quickly discovering that a 
farmer’s bushel of potatoes sold for the 
price of two pecks in the city, and other 
things in proportion, and that two pints 
of milk sold in tho city at IS cents, and 
the farmer received eight cents a quart. 
Never was a country “gone over” so com¬ 
pletely and stripped of everything eat¬ 
able as this Fall, and at Cleveland whole¬ 
sale prices. It was not trucks alone, hut 
actually hundreds of automobiles 
streamed homewards from the country 
loaded to capacity with bags of produce 
even strapped to the running boards. 
They have discovered that the farmer 
was a pretty generous fellow, not an ex¬ 
tortioner or hoarder, and that it was the 
man in the city, not the farmer, who was 
the booster of the high cost of living. 
So eager are these men to buy, that they 
have actually advanced prices themselves 
and the farmer has found no slump in 
late Fall prices. 
Fine Cattle. —The recent paragraph 
in The R. N.-Y. about the “farmer’s 
cow,” which was intended to apply to 
the very northeast corner of Ohio, 
with its almost universal herds of 
Holsteins, purebred, and grades, brought 
out another farmer’s cow of another 
breed—the Jersey—in counties in South¬ 
east Ohio, notably Columbiana, Jefferson 
and Belmont, the “Quaker counties,” to¬ 
gether with scores of fine herds in Ma¬ 
honing and possibly Carroll counties. In 
these mentioned counties, there are over 
250 breeders of purebreds, totaling 
something over 6,000 head, and grade 
Jerseys “about as good” by the thou¬ 
sands. This section challenges any other 
similar area on the high average produc¬ 
tion of these herds, and their general 
merit. In sires, there seems to he much 
cause for satisfaction, as in this district 
there are about a dozen sires that have 
700 lb. ancesti-y, a much larger list with 
500 to 600 lb. dams. Of the 1,000 of¬ 
ficially tested cows in Ohio last year of 
all breeds, full 700 of them were Jerseys 
who won on the high cream line. While 
cows are still being sought in the Islands, 
it is no boasting to say that in this dis¬ 
trict there are individual cows and herds 
that in every way outclass the best on the 
Islands, and better fill the ideals for 
American conditions. Of course prices 
run high, and the demand is great and 
Jersey pilgrims are quick to locate the 
two capitals of this cow kingdom, Winona 
and Barnesville, with its two renowned 
Jersey prophets, Dilwyn Stratton and 
Lynn Bailey, and a trip through this sec¬ 
tion is long to be remembered; it is a 
great pleasure to meet these “Friends” 
who promote and breed these herds, and 
who so loyally proclaim their faith in 
their homes and their herds, in this real 
Mecca of the kingdom of the Jersey cow. 
Restless “Back-to-the-landers.”— 
If any class in this country, if we 
may take Northern Ohio as an exam¬ 
ple, exhibits any greater degree of un¬ 
rest than do our new baek-to-the-landers, 
one does not know where to look for them. 
In this immediate locality they are in 
constant transit, buying, selling out, and 
exchanging farms, and many of them re¬ 
turning to the city, actually abandoning 
farm operations to do so. Lured on by 
active land agents who paint in glowing 
colors the great allurements and extra¬ 
ordinary profits in farm operations, these 
adventurers pay large sums for farms 
with all live stock and machinery “thrown 
in,” paying in all their ready property, 
and a mortgage back for the balance; or 
exchange city property, only to find very 
soon that they have no knowledge of farm 
conditions and management, and their ex¬ 
penses far exceeding t'heir incomes. As 
remedies they sell out to one another, sell 
to “new suckers” in the net, and the big 
truck that brings the household goods 
from town, goes back loaded with the con¬ 
tents of the vacating house. Sometimes 
the farm is actually abandoned and put 
into the hands of an agent, either to sell 
or rent. These city renters with no ac¬ 
tual knowledge of farm activities, make 
a woeful spectacle in trying to farm 
without knowing how. These baek-to- 
the-landers are nearly all from the city, 
of foreign nationality and without know¬ 
ledge of country and farm life. Most of 
them become homesick from the start, so 
different do they find their environment, 
and any change to them is welcome. The 
land agent finds a new buyer, gets an¬ 
other commission, there is a disruption 
of farm operations, dairies are auctioned 
off, a family moves back to the city, to 
tell of discouragements of farming, and 
a new buyer moves in to learn the same 
lesson. All this is actually putting these 
farms into spoilers’ hands and throws 
great discredit upon farming interests and 
prospects. 
Cheese Prices. —Recently in a “gen¬ 
eral store” in the country, a man had 
just purchased a pound of Wisconsin 
cheese, paying 41c for it. Why was he 
buying this faraway cheese, when only a 
few years ago, this man was himself 
running 26 Northern Ohio cheese fac¬ 
tories? Just across from this store 50 
yards away, is the railroad station, from 
which this man, and other factory men 
and jobbers had in past years shipped as 
much as three million pounds of near-by 
made cheese, in a single yeax\ This was 
only one of a half dozen other lai’ge ex¬ 
port towns on the Western Reserve. 
Now in all this territory, there are but 
two cheese factories left, and very small 
at that. Time, all over this same sec¬ 
tion once could have been found from 
two to four large well-equipped factories, 
but in the change of market demands, 
they have all disappeared and the fast¬ 
growing cities of Cleveland, Pittsburg, 
Youngstown and Akron have absorbed the 
milk produced, and more besides. Now, 
instead of seeing long lines of ehcose- 
laden wagons headed to some shipping 
point, one meets huge auto tucks—three 
deckel's—loaded with milk rapidly driven 
to the city. It is the factory that has 
vanished, not the dairy industry. The 
whole industry has been changed. The 
brindle-spotted, no-breed cow has disap¬ 
peared and her place is taken by cows of 
some particular breed, some breeds almost 
entirely covering a county, black and 
white one section and Jersey and their 
like other localities. Special dairy 
barns dot the landscape in every direc¬ 
tion. The once $25 cow has disappeared, 
and a $100 to $150 cow taken her place. 
The surplus cows find ready sale at long 
prices and are shipped to faraway points 
and there eagerly purchased because of 
their excellence. This is the story of 
the disappearance of the once numerous 
country cheese factories. A feature of 
the great dairy industry once, but never 
more to return. j. g. 
Fertilizer for Sweet Corn 
Will you give me information regarding 
the fertilization of ground for sweet 
corn? What available land I have for 
that purpose is about 200x400 ft. As I 
keep neither horse, cow nor pig, the ouly 
manure I have is furnished by poultry, of 
which I usually have plenty. I usually 
apply a large double handful around each 
hill right after the first cultivation. I have 
a wonderful stalk growth, which I as¬ 
sume is the result of au excess of nitrogen. 
But there is uot a corresponding showing 
for the ears. What I wish to know is 
how much acid phosphate I should use 
around the hills, in connection with the 
poultry manure, in order to get larger and 
fuller ear growth. g. h. u. 
Fairfield, Conn. 
One of the surest things in all plans of 
fertilizing is that all manures are deficient 
in phosphoric acid. Chicken manure is 
especially so, because in this case the 
liquids and solids are voided together, 
thus making the manure strong in nitro¬ 
gen. Acid phosphate “balances” this ma¬ 
nure and is particularly needed for corn 
or other seed crops. We should use about 
500 lbs. of acid phosphate per acre. 
“Are you sure, dear, that you are econ¬ 
omizing as much on the table as pos¬ 
sible?” “Dear me, yes! Why, it is ouly 
costing us twice as much as it did before 
the war.”—Life. 
