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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 24, 1920 
-The Net Results 
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i . if you use 
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THE MAILBAG 
Plant Lice 
Could you give me a remedy for plant 
tee or aphis, which seem to be destroying 
pwr house plants since I have taken them 
tflsfde for Winter? r. L. H. 
Holland, N. Y. 
Tobacco water or tobacco extract, di- 
uted in accordance with directions, con¬ 
trols green fly or aphis. This is the 
florist’s remedy. Kerosene emulsion, to¬ 
bacco fumigation, dry snuff or Persian 
insect powder are other remedies. The 
common decoction of tobacco is prepared 
by boiling stems or dust thoroughly; then 
strain, and dilute until the decoction con¬ 
tains two gallons water to one pound 
tobacco. All seedsmen sell commercial 
tobacco extracts. 
A Good Yielding Variety of Oats 
In March, 191S, I received one pound 
of O. A. C. No. 72 oats from Dr. C. A. 
Zavitz of the Ontario College of Agri¬ 
culture. These were soon broadcast on 
a narrow strip in the garden between a 
row of grapevines on the one side .and a 
row of young peach trees with raspberry 
letween the trees on the other, making 
a hedge on either side of the oats; The 
ground was loosened up with a cultivator 
before sowing and run over again with 
the cultivator after sowing. The oats 
nade an unusually heavy growth, even 
i p to the hedges on either side. A heavy 
hailstorm occurred on July 3, ruining the 
apple crop and tearing the corn crop into 
shreds. While some damage was aone 
to the oats, being somewhat protected, 
they stood up like good soldiers, so that 
1 harvested and thrashed 45 lbs. of plump 
heavy oats. April 22 last this 45 lbs., 
was drilled in along one side of the field 
crop. It will be remembered that this 
past season was very bad for the oat 
crop. That these oats were more thrifty 
and taller than the rest of the field was 
very noticeable all through the season. 
When the crop was cut with the binder 
I w r as very careful to avoid getting them 
nixed with the others. In so doing I 
threw out the bundles on' the ends, and 
some others, enough to count one bushel 
of grain. There were 26 bushels thrashed 
oats, which with the other bushel men¬ 
tioned, would total 27 bushels of plump 
heavy oats from the one pound of seed 
sown in 1918. The straw is stiff and 
bright, and, believe me, I have a pretty 
good new variety of oats, which if the 
season had been as favorable as it was 
iu 1918, would have yielded easily double 
this number of bushels. I believe infor¬ 
mation as to where seed of this variety 
of oats can be procured can be ohatined 
at the Office of Farm Crops, College of 
Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. H. E. cox. 
How Worms “Rain Down” 
I see on page 1524 more discussion on 
angleworms. I may be able to explain 
in some instances how they come in ves¬ 
sels and on pavements. They rain down, 
but how do they get up in the clouds? 
By suction. Thirty-eight years ago, when 
I was living iu Nebraska, we had a 
shower of toads which literally covered 
the ground. That occurred once before 
I went there, old settlers told me. They 
were not only on the ground, but in boxes 
four feet from the ground, and they were 
no bigger than the nail of one’s little 
finger, so could not jump that high. We 
had a hard rainstorm and wind during 
the night, a cloudburst, they call it here. 
We figured it out this way: There were 
a good many lagoons or holes where water 
stood stagnant, a good breeding place. 
The suction of the storm took them up 
and dropped them with us. Those storms 
would suck up a house if in their path. 
If one ever saw a genuine cyclone he 
would not wonder at anything raining 
down, even mud turtles, worms, fish and 
toads, all are taken up into the air and 
let down. I do not think they live in 
the air. m. l. cook. 
Ohio. 
Leaning Chimneys 
Replying to W. S., page 1518, as to 
chimneys leaning towards the east, I have 
noticed this apparent freak of chimneys 
for many years, and often wondered (like 
W. S.) as to the cause. I have heard 
several explanations, but the best of all 
came from an old and practical brick 
mason, who said that more or less mois¬ 
ture was deposited during the night, and 
chimneys with their broad side to the oast 
received the warm rays from the rising 
sun and dried out much quicker than the 
north or south ends or western side, and 
this, continued, had a tendency to draw 
the chimney and lean toward the east. I 
once saw a wagon builder make use of 
this principle by alternately wetting and 
drying a board to bend it to a desired 
shaps. It is the best explanation that I 
know of, and have accepted it as the cor¬ 
rect one. Let us hear from others. 
New York. W. W. L. 
The annual meeting of the Rural Sav¬ 
ings and Loan Association will be held 
January 19, at quarter to twelve, iu the 
office of the association, 333 West 30th 
street. M. o. KEYES, secy. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street New York 
