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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 7, 1920 
for 1WO 
GARDEN S 
FLORAL 
GUIDE 
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Established in 1856 
15 ELM STREET, MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 
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ifi!!!GRAPE VINES 
69 varieties. Also 8mall Fruits, Trees, etc. Best rooted 
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criptive catalog free. LEWIS ROEBCH. Box L, Fredonla, N.Y. 
Clover Seed from Hay 
Will clover seed germinate and grow 
when taken out of the mow and cleaned, 
or does the seed have to come from the 
second growth ? a. j. C. 
Wayville, N. Y. 
Some varieties of clover make only one 
growth that amounts to anything each 
year. Others make two or more cuttings 
a season, and the later ones are used for 
seed for the reason that seed usually fill 
better later. To get more than one crop 
a year the first growth must be cut early, 
before the seed gets ripe, aud the bay 
woody and tough. When the seeds form 
and ripen the plant has performed its 
mission in life, and does not have much 
energy to begin again. No doubt this 
clover seed will grow, whatever kind it 
may be; testing a sample will soon tell. 
We often find a little Medium Red clover 
seed mixed with Alsike when thrashing 
Alsike. Both come from the first cutting 
and will grow. The only objection, in my 
mind, to such seed cleaned up from the 
feeding floor is that it is apt to contain 
weed seeds. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, FEB. 7, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
The Second Mortgage and Federal Farm 
Loan .223, 224 
A Machine for Loading Manure.224 
Qualifications of the Institute Lecturer..245, 247 
Hope Farm Notes .248 
The Sorghum Patch. 249 
The New York State Agricultural Society.. 251 
The State Agricultural Department.251 
Potatoes After Rye. 267 
Woods Dirt as Fertilizer. 267 
Seaweed as Manure. 267 
Hen Manure and Phosphorous...267 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Woman’s Sheep .224 
A Small Ohio Flock of Sheep. 224 
Corn and Cob Meal. 256 
Ration for Freshening Heifers. 256 
Various Feeding Questions.256 
Value of Manure . 256 
Feeding Brood Sow. 208 
Protection for Little Pigs. 258 
White and Brown Middlings.258 
Pork Tankage for Pigs.258 
Demand for Beef Breeding...260 
“Ox Team Money”. 260 
Wheezing Cow .. 260 
The Razorhack Hog. 262 
Worms in Cats.266 
Tetanus . 266 
Ailing Sow . 266 
Cure for Warts . 266 
Ear Corn for Cows. 268 
Too Much Millet and Rye.268 
Feeding Red Polled Cow.268 
Feeding Holstein Cow. 268 
Home Grinding of Feed.268 
Dairy Ration with Good Silage.268 
Using Home Grown Feeds. 272 
Keeping Ten Cows. 272 
Ration with Corn Fodder.272 
Ration with Brewers’ Grains.272 
Feeding Heifers .272 
Calves Sucking Cow.273 
Oilmeal and Gluten. 273 
Difficult Churning . 273 
How to Caro for a Cow.273 
Eczema .274 
Eye Disease . 274 
Enlarged Membranes .274 
Pruritis .274 
Depraved Appetite .274 
Outlook for Cattle and Hogs.275 
Apple Pomace for Cows. 275 
Colts in. New York. 276 
Harnessing a Skittish Horse.276 
New England Ayrshires .276 
THE HENYARD 
Winter Greens for Hens.278 
Damp Henhouse . 278 
Vineland Poultry Ration.278 
Weight of Eggs.279 
Effects of Light on Pullets.279 
Selecting An Incubator.289 
Dressing Poultry; Hen Manure.280 
Mixture for Scratch Feed. 280 
Colony Poultry House. 280 
Egg-laying Contest . 281 
Ailing Pullets . 281 
HORTICULTURE 
Double-worked Apple Grafting......224 
The Scientific Search for a Poach. 225 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 227 
Grafting and Growing “Pomatoes”. 227 
Garden Notes from New England. 230 
Flower Lovers and Housekeepers.232 
Delicious Apple in Maine.234 
New York State Horticultural Society- 
Part II.234 
Notes from Missouri.238 
Growing Grape Cuttings. 244 
Heating a Small Greenhouse.247 
Grafting Peony Roots .247 
Memorial Trees; Remember the Nut.249 
Possibilities in Pear Propagation.249 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 254 
Notos from Tennessee. 254 
The Rural Patterns .254 
Embroidery Designs .254 
The Farmer’s Mittens.254, 255 
Simple Desserts Without Sugar. 255 
A Sugar Suggestion .255 
Sweet Potato Recipes .255 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Cleaning Rusty Water Pipe; Concrete Pen¬ 
stock . 225 
Anti-freeze Mixtures . 236 
More Cider Questions .236 
Benzoate of Soda in Butter Substitute.236 
Barium Carbonate as Rat Poison. 236 
Raising Bread with Ammonia.236 
Cleaning Tarnished Silver .236 
Form of Frost Crystals. 236 I 
Vaccine Treatment for Catarrh.. 236 | 
Events of the Week. 240 j 
Pennsylvania News .240 
Spanking the Newspaper Mon.242 
Doer Nuisance in New Jersey.242 
Who Runs the Railroads?.242 
Hired Man Problem.242 
Meeting in Blizzard. 246 
Chapter on Chilblains.246 
Fighting Rat Pest.246 
Editorials . 250 
Herbert Hoover—Candidate for President... 251 
Joint Ownership of Property. 263 
Legal Responsibility of Wife. 263 
Administrator’s Power Over Estate.263 
Why the Kitchen Stove Wouldn’t Draw.... 264 
Poor Drafts in Chimneys. 264 
Improving Flue and Cellar Wall..,...264 
Handy Door Fastening...264 
Markets . 270 
Prof. Minkler at Columbia...276 
Meeting in a Blizzard.277 
Publisher’s Desk . 282* 
STOKES SEEDS 1920 
A remarkable garden and 
farm catalog—the culmination 
of 42 years experience in the 
seed business. 
Of interest and value to 
every planter because of its 
unique simplicity, frankness 
and completeness. 
It is a humanly written, plainly spo¬ 
ken, understandable book containing a 
rich fund of information. 
Write for your copy today. The edi¬ 
tion is necessarily limited. 
Stokes Seed Farms Co., Growers 
Windermoor Farm 
Moorestown, New Jersey 
For 82years DREER’S 
GARDEN BOOK has 
been a dependable 
guide to the successful 
growing of every 
worth-while VEGETABLE and 
FLOWER. Brimful of easy cultural 
directions and suggestions by famous 
experts which, if followed, will make 
yourgardenasure success this year. 
224 big pages, 6 color plates and hundreds 
of photographic reproductions of Dreer’s 
Specialties in VEGETABLES and 
FLOWERS. 
Every amateur and professional gardener and 
flower lover needs tins book. A copy will be 
mailed free if you mention this publication. 
HENRY A. DREER 
714-716 Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Pa. 
Weeds are alfalfa’s worst enemy the 
first year. The first thing to think 
lahout in buying alfalfa is purity. Our seed is 
Fespecially selected and cleaned to be free from 
weeds. We have the ordinary and several other 
varieties. Ask for Field Seed Hook giving special in¬ 
formation on alfalfa, and “Howto Kuow Good Seed.” 
0. M. SCOTT & SINS CO., 370 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
YOU MUST BE SATISFIED 
HAS BEENOUR CUSTOMERS GUARANTEE (or 24 YEARS 
Our free catalog describing the best new and stand¬ 
ard varieties of strawberry plants at reasonable 
prices tells how wo do it. Mr. J. O. Stump, Stark 
Co., Ohio, in sending his order Jan. 21st, savs: “ I 
was so disappointed in not being able to get 
your plants last year that I am not over it 
yet; I have used and recommended your 
plants for over 20 years.” Send for catalogue 
at onee as this adv. will not appear again. 
W. S. Todd - Greenwood, Delaware 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Large ytock at Lowest Prices. They are Profit mak¬ 
ers. Write today for free Oatalog and save tnonev on 
yourordor. C. S. Perdue Box 25, Showell, III d. 
for the Strawberry is 2000 Quarts 
per Acre. Multiply this bv Six 
wliat tile Howard 17 will do. ERSKIN 
PARK Everbearing Raspberry Is Three times as Productive 
as St. Regis. Send For Catalog, C. 8. PRATT, Athol, JU»s. 
The Average Yield 
and you will know 
Strawberry rLANTS everbearing variftifs 
Catalogue Free Basil Perry, Georgetown, I>el. 
Stowell's Evergreen o"'*" ro - und s«««c.rn. Few bushel. 
tipped l 
seed from selected ears that 
have been tipped and butted. *A half bush.; *7 bush 
Money returned If not satisfied. THOMAS R. HUNT, Limbeil«ille, H. J‘ 
I n A A Delicious apple trees, 4-yrs.-old, bearing size, 
.111111 81 each. 300 Montmorency cherry, 2-yr. No. 1, 
* © BOc each. 300 Montmorency cherry, ( vt., 
beanng size, @ 81 each. 300 Montmorency and Early 
Richmond, 6-yr., bearing size, © $2 each. 
Clrauihnrru Plauta. Campbell’s Early, Superior, Mver, 
Olldnuciiy Parson’s Beauty, Gaudy, at SO per j',000. 
itlillHiEYlI.LE HBR8EI1IK8, Myer & Sent, Ilridgeville, Deluwnre 
arerti 
nuts. 
Budded Nut Trees of largo thin shelled 
Best Hardy Northern varieties. Catalog free. 
INDIANA NUT NURSERY, Box 55 Rockport, Indiana 
M firailW °‘ A *. ®Y No ’ Outs 8!) per bush. 
Uldllla for 10bush, or less. O. A. O. No. 21 Barley, 
$8 per busll., 10 bush, or less. Order early. Send your 
own bugs. Parcel post. AUSABLE VALLEY FARM. KttstnUs. N Y. 
Imnarial Prnno (Epinonse). Write for price. 
imperial rrune Washington nursery co.. TeppenUh, w««h. 
American Nut Journal p. a a°itox^ 
S K I, E O T E 1> GOLD N UGGKT 8 E E » OOll N. 
Write for sample and prices. L. F. NICHOLAS, Ml. Beihef r> 
Wanted-BKAKiNo Berry Plants ,.,x! 2 
SWEET CLOVER. White unhulled, 9; scarified. 22; alfalfa, 
28; alsike. 38 ; Red. 35. A BLOOMINGDALF. Schenectady, New Ycrk 
