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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
gin operations with in the Spring, though 
it is an i ...d toil improver if seeded dur¬ 
ing August or early September. If the 
land is bare now, sow a crop of oats, 
working tLe lime into the soil before sow¬ 
ing. If there is any kind of crop on it, 
even a good heavy stand of weeds, let it 
go till the middle of May, then plow and 
get it in good condition, applying the lime, 
and sow with Soy beans. Plow these 
under toward the end of August and seed 
with either Sweet clover or Hairy vetch 
and rye. This should produce a heavy 
crop of humus to turn under the follow¬ 
ing Spring if plowing is postponed till 
May. A moderate application of fertil¬ 
izer containing principally phosphorus 
and potash, with very little nitrogen, 
should give fair crops the second season. 
If this land were planted to crops in 
which it would be an easy matter to start 
a cover crop during August or early Sep¬ 
tember for several seasons, it should soon 
be in a very productive state. Sweet 
clover looks like one of the best plants for 
this purpose, as it grows very rapidly in 
the Spring. As an illustration, one of our 
neighbors had Alfalfa and Sweet clover 
side by side last Spring. Shortly after 
growth started the Alfalfa was twice the 
height of the Sweet clover, and in seven 
days’ time, when the Sweet clover got on 
the job, it grew to double the height of the 
Alfalfa. Where large quantities of humus 
are plowed under each season, do not neg¬ 
lect an occasional application of lime. 
E. J. W. 
Notes From Missouri 
A Wet Fall. —The past Fall has been 
the wettest within my memory. If is the 
first instance of farmers being unable to 
find a day whereon to sow their wheat 
all through October and November. One 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JAN. 3, 1920. 
FARM TOPICS 
Improving Stiff Clay Soil... 
A Potato Cellar in Virginia. 
A Real Farmers’ Market. 
“The Eternal Round of Nature”. 
Ground Limestone on Grass Land. 
Improving “Worn-out” Land. 
SeUing Direct to Consumer. 
The High Cost of Farming. 
Lime on Potatoes. 
Hope Farm Notes . 
The Land Drainage Amendment. 
Federated Farm Bureau Meeting. 
The Opinion of a Farmer. 
Crops and Farm Notes. 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Figuring Butterfat in Milk. 19 
Rochester Dairymen Losing Money. 19 
The Tanvworth Hog. 22 
Fattening Young Pigs... 22 
Ration for Holstein Dairy.'22 
Fattening Pigs on Buckwheat. <2 
House for Brood Sows.. < 2 
Names of Holstein Cattle.23, 25 
Worms . 
Distemper . 
Swelling . 
Cough .;. 24 
Stray Stock in Connecticut.25 
Strange Case with a Bull. 25 
Close Inbreeding . 27 
Garbage for Hogs. 27 
Molasses Feed . 27 
Improved Ration . 27 
Boys’ and Girls’ Pig Clubs. 28 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 31 
How to Make Good Dairy Butter—Part V.... 32 
Home-mixed Ration . 32 
Storing Butter . 32 
Improving Dairy Ration . 32 
THE HENYARD 
The Flood of Eggs from China.3, 4 
Shipping Chicks . 16 
Ailing Pullets . 31 
Egg-laying Contest .33 
Gluten in Dry Mash.33 
HORTICULTURE 
Review of the Season's Work. 4 
My Experience in Dusting Fruit Trees. 4 
Garden Notes from New England . 10 
Missouri Horticultural Society . 12 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 15 
Small Oil Greenhouse Heater. 17 
The Bowerberry . 17 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
Post Toasties Macaroons. 
Corn Flake Cookies... 
More Homemade Dyes.. 
Armenian Needle Point. 
Home Sausage Making.. 
Notes in Vermont. 
Embroidery Designs . 
Holiday Candies . 
Social Interests on the Farm. 
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large farmer reports 35 acres sown out of 
350. The consequence is that only 50 per 
cent of the average acreage will be har¬ 
vested in 1920. A very similar condition 
prevailed in the Spring, with the result 
that the com crop wjis cut short and the 
ripening wheat damaged. In Summer be¬ 
tween these periods of rain, there was a 
drought which inflicted considerable loss. 
In the cities people take little account 
of these vagaries of the weather, and 
have no conception of the vicissitudes that 
make the business of farming one of un¬ 
certainty and risk. An unearned incre¬ 
ment has come to the farmer in the rise 
of the price of land, but he has been able 
to profit by the high prices of farm prod¬ 
ucts in a very uneven measure. 
Rasprerries yielded a fine crop last 
year. Among the blackcaps the new va¬ 
riety, Black Pearl, has proved itself of 
value and deserving a permanent place in 
the field. Berries rank among the largest 
in size, and growth of cane is as vigorous 
as could he desired. It comes in ahead 
of the Cumberland, and this earlier sea¬ 
son is its chief recommendation, for the 
Cumberland is so good of its season that 
with me it has no rivals. Its berries are 
distinguished from all other blackcaps by 
their conical shape, and in size it appears 
to be the largest of all. In all other re¬ 
spects it ranks with the best, and there 
seems no danger of its being ousted from 
its premiership unless some seedling is 
discovered that scored still higher. 
St. Regis. —Tire is the only one of 
the early reds that holds its own. Miller 
is never heard of any more, and King is 
not reliable here. Its canes die back in 
the Winter, and its berries drop off easily 
when ripe. The chief fault of the St. 
Regis or Ranere is in its weak growth, 
but this can he largely overcome by a 
stringent thinning out of sucker plants, 
which come in great abundance, and by 
fertilization. The St. Regis is hardy and 
productive. Its Fall-bearing proclivities 
are marked, but are of no commercial 
value here, and the same may be said of 
all the other Fall-bearing fruits, includ¬ 
ing the strawberry. They are merely 
novelties, producing enough one season to 
encourage hope of profit, and the next 
season, with unfavorable conditions, pro¬ 
ducing nothing. It may he that in some 
of the Atlantic States there is enough 
coolness and moisture in late Summer 
and early Fall to make Fall-bearing profit¬ 
able, but the same is certainly not true 
of the Central Valley States. 
Sttnbeam. —The red raspberry Sunbeam, 
of North Dakota ancestry, again justified 
my former favorable comments, aud for a 
mid-season variety, coming between St. 
Regis and Cuthbert. I know nothing as 
good. It is a great drought-resister, mak¬ 
ing strong canes even in such a dry Sum¬ 
mer as the last. Its berries are larger than 
those of the St. Regis, good color, good 
quality and equal to the best in produc¬ 
tiveness. Sucker plants set out last 
Spring outgrew all other kinds. I still 
adhere to my old opinion that for a 
strictly fancy berry the Doudon surpasses 
all other kinds, unless it be some one of 
the very late introductions, but it is one 
of the most susceptible to root-gall, and 
to make strong canes it must be highly 
fertilized. Last Summer its canes bore 
with their accustomed heaviness, and on 
account of the drought were unable to 
make good canes for next year. It is a 
grand variety for the specialist or for the 
garden of the amateur who is prepared to 
give it the particular conditions it de¬ 
mands for best results. I should not wish 
to throw doubt on any claims made for 
what such a garden may be made to pro¬ 
duce, since I witnessed the sensation on 
our market occasioned by the Eaton red 
raspberry as it was grown in his back¬ 
yard in the heart of town by a postal 
clerk. The Eaton is the largest of the 
reds, but as a field variety it is a failure. 
This Government employee, however, in 
his spare hours had so petted this way¬ 
ward berry that it threw off its usual 
weakness and produced such splendid 
specimens (that, too, after the season was 
considered over) that everyone who saw 
them in the grocer’s window pronounced 
them the finest red raspberries ever seen 
on this market. L. R. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
Geese in a Sprayed Orchard 
We have an orchard of about 20 acres, 
grown in different parts to Orchard grass, 
Timothy and Alfalfa. We would like to 
raise geese upon this tract, hut do. not 
know whether the amount of spray alight¬ 
ing on the grass when spraying the trees 
would be enough to harm the gee6e. We 
spray generally five times during the sea¬ 
son. Has anyone that you know of ever 
tried this out? I do not wish, to go to 
the expense of fitting and stocking up, if 
it won’t work. On the other hand, I 
would like to use the tract for a goose 
pasture if the amount of spray they will 
get from eating the grass will not affect 
them. B. L. B. 
Mount Morris, Ill. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Blanket from Rabbit Skins. 7 
Tanning Skunk Skins. 7 
A Resolution for the General Welfare. 8 
The Next United States Census. 8 
Cause of High Prices. 8 
A Baseball Miracle. 8 
Hearth Fires . 15 
Editorials . 18 
Occupations of New York Legislators. 19 
The Delaware School Law; the Grange Favors 
It . 19 
Markets . 29 
Piping Water for Two Farms. 30 
A Pumping Problem. 30 
Comparison of Pumping Power. 30 
Events of the Week . 31 
Publisher’s Desk . 34 
Spraying with lime-sulphur would not 
be likely to injure the geese. With a poi¬ 
son spray it would he necessary to use 
care. Theory will not help you much, 
and we feel sure that among our army of 
readers we shall find some who have 
tried this. Will they report? In such 
cases it is necessary to know the facts. 
We do not know because we have not 
tried it. Our geese ran in the orchard 
when we dusted the trees and seemed to 
have sense enough to reject harmful food. 
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