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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 7, 1920 
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inoculant as active for years after it 
is made as on the day it was packed. 
There are records of Farmogerm ten years 
# old in which the bacteria were fresh and 
vigorous. No other inoculant has the ability 
to keep ACTIVE IN SPITE OF AGE. 
The patented glass and rubber stopper, used only 
by Farmogerm, keeps the bacteria alive and active. This 
stopper enable* the bacteria to breathe purified air, with¬ 
out which they lose their nitrogen-fixing powers. Remember, 
that bacteria in all seed inoculants live on air, but ordinary, 
unsterilized air kills them. The filtered, purified air that 
reaches Farmogerm bacteria, gives them life and vigor for 
years. Legumes rebuild soil in Nature’s own way. They are 
the cheapest fertilizer in the world. Inoculation of legume 
seed with Farmogerm eliminates the danger of transferring 
plant disease, weeds and undesirable bacteria from one field to another. In¬ 
oculation of legumes with vigorous, high-bred bacteria like Farmogerm, in¬ 
creases their value 100% to 300% besides furnishing them with enough nit¬ 
rogen to enable them to make good stands on soil that otherwise would not 
grow legumes. Farmogerm has been made since 1908. It furnishes high¬ 
bred bacteria as carefully selected as good seed. Inoculants vary as much 
as seed ; some good, some impure and some with'weak strain*. 
is prepared for alfalfa, clover, 
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“Quite remarkable results” —Rhode Island Experiment Station. 
“Great promise for farm industry” — N. Y. College of Agriculture. 
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AGRICULTURAL GYPSUM 
Gypsum has great value as a soil builder. > Its application to I 
■ clover, alfalfa and other legumes causes an enormous increase I 
in the size of the root systems and tops of these crops. It produces many [ 
more nitrogen fixing nodules on the roots. This, in some cases, means ten or 
twelve times as much nitrogen fixed per acre, thus furnishing much more 
nitrogen for the farm and for later crops. That’s why 
A Gypsum Test Strip on Your Fields 
will Prove Its Worth in Greater Yields 
In early Spring, just as growth starts, sow a strip across your 
alfalfa or clover field or across your white clover blue grass 
lawn and let it tell its own story. Rate of application 200 to 400 pounds per 
acre. Get a supply of Agricultural Gypsum from your nearest building 
supply dealer. Write us for free information on various uses of Agricultural 
Gypsum as an efficient and economical soil builder. 
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Crops and Farm News 
There is a good movement of potatoes 
to market here at $2 per bu. About half 
of the potatoes raised in this section, and 
the crop as a whole was a good one, still 
in the hands of the growers. Ilay rang¬ 
ing in price from .$is to .$24. according 
to kind and quality; buckwheat, $1.65 
per cwt. On an early plowed (May) 
piece of land of two acres I raised last 
year 84 bu. of buckwheat. This was just 
ordinary land; was harrowed about every 
10 days; sowed 1 bu. per acre first week 
in July. An application of 250 lbs. acid 
phosphate per acre. b. e. f. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
This immediate neighborhood is not a 
regular farming district—chiefly lumber¬ 
ing. Potatoes, $2 per bu.; ‘milk. 10c qt.; 
butter, 80c lb.; light pork. 20c per lb.; 
05c perMb. for live chickens ; buckwheat 
flour, $7 per cwt. We are paying $0.30 
per cwt. for wheat middlings, $3 per cwt. 
for horse feed ; cornmeal, $3.75; hominy, 
$3.30; wheat flour, $16 per bbl; hay, $30 
per ton in barn; onions, per bu., $4; 
sugar, 22c per lb., and we are compelled 
to beg for it at that price; cabbage, 10c 
per head :_cheese, 42e per lb.; beans, 15c 
per lb. Very little farming is done, ow¬ 
ing to the great scarcity of help and the 
high prices others are paying, which the 
average farmer cannot afford. Therefore, 
the farmer raises about what he needs for 
home use, works part of the time, and lets 
the rest go. These prices include the 
southern section of Sullivan County. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. h. m. 
The principal crops are apples, hay, 
pork, butter, eggs and poultry. In this 
immediate vicinity farming is more of a 
side line than anything, as the farms are 
rather poor; that is, they are too rough 
for great production. Eggs; 75c; butter, 
60c; chickens, dressed, 42c per lb.; loose 
hay $18 or $20 per ton. East Fall dressed 
pork brought the gratifying price (to the 
producer) of 25c per lb. Ordinary ap¬ 
ples were sold for, $5 and $6 a.barrel. 
Buckwheat flour $5.25 per cwt. The po¬ 
tato crop was almost a failure, of course, 
on account of the rot, and some farmers 
will have to buy for home consumption. 
With present prices prevailing the general 
outlook for the season' of ; 1920 looks 
bright and promising. w. C. K. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
December was a' cold' month; making 
the iceman smile, as we had a shortage 
last year. Farmers who have been rais¬ 
ing crops for the canneries are talking 
very strongly of consolidating as regards 
the price paid for raising the crops. Sev¬ 
eral counties have done so. It seems to 
be the way to make your wants known, 
and is the point on which we farmers fail. 
Help is very scarce and high-priced. The 
indications are for many changes in the 
Spring. We are at tile limit for sugar; 
too bad that Congress does not. get busy 
and put a stop to this profiteering in this 
staple. We had the bumper corn crop 
last year; in fact.' it was the best farm 
crop of 1919, many fields going over'100 
bushels per acre. Wheat. 82.25: oats, 
90c; barley. $1.50; rye, $1.50: corn, $1 
per crate; hay, loose. $12 to $20: buck¬ 
wheat. $2.60 per cwt.; beans, red mar¬ 
rows. $10 per cwt; kidneys. $-12; pea. $6; 
butter. 70e; eggs. 75c; pork, live, 13c: 
veal, 13c; lambs. 17c: sheep, old, 8c; 
chickens, 25c; fowls. 20c. e. t. b. 
Ontario Co., New York. 
This. Winter here the earth has been 
frozen solid and covered with snow since 
December 6. Not much doing lmti coal 
hauling and stock feeding in this neigh¬ 
borhood. We pay $2.35 at one mine, $3 
at another per ton for coal. Wheat. 
$2.20 bu. Following by the 100 lbs.: 
Flour, $6.60; bran. $2.60; middlings, 
$3.20; cow feeds, $3.25; oilmeal. $4; beef 
scraps, $6; tankage. $0; oyster shells. 
$1.30; corn, $1.20 bu.; oats, 70c bu.; 
buckwheat flour, 8c Hi.; hay, $20 per ton ; 
straw, $10 per ton ; butter, 65c lb.; eggs, 
65c doz.; horses, any price you can get. 
from $50 to $200; cows, not: many, selling 
other than for bologna : hogs, to butchers, 
16c lb.; veal, 14 to 16c lb. Last season 
corn fine, wheat good, oats good and 
poor, according to the fertility of the soil; 
potatoes, variable, some extra good, me¬ 
dium and poor: the early ones reached 
$3.20 per bu.; price now. $1.25 bu.; fruit 
and berries, good, fair price ; truck quite 
plentiful and good price. C. E. s. 
Central Columbiana Co., Ohio. 
We are located between two mountains, 
shaped like an elongated horseshoe, with 
the bend on the east. Our valley lias no 
town or city, hence we have to’haul our 
produce by wagon Or truck over one or 
two mountains from.' 11 to 25 miles, de¬ 
pending to what place we sell; no railroad 
in our valley. We take -goods to Sfia- 
mokin. Alt. Carmel, Northumberland 
County ; Ashland. Girardville. Shenandoah 
and Mahano.v City, Schuylkill County, 
all hard-coal mining centers. Good mar¬ 
kets for all produce, except potatoes,' last 
three seasons; some of the ‘foreign ele.- 
ment are trying to boycott farmers on 
potatoes. Some .of. our towns are 50 per 
cent foreigners. As. a result .farmers are 
beginning to ship their potatoes by the 
car to greater centers of population. This 
causes a scarcity toward the Spring, and 
town folks pay more for potatoes than at 
other places for a month or so. Our main 
crops commercially are potatoes, apples, 
wheat, some corn, few sell oats, hogs, very 
few cattle ; butter and eggs are common 
on small scale. Labor scarce; town labor 
more attractive to young people, both in 
money returns and in imagination. Po- 
tatoes, $1.65 to $1.85; apples (scarce), 
$2 to $3 bu.; wheat, $2.20; oats, 90c.; 
rye, $1.60; eggs, 75e per doz.; butter, 75c; 
butchered hogs, 20 to 22c per cwt. 
Schools not yet centralized. Roads in 
poor condition. Some farmers’ organiza¬ 
tions, such as Grange and Farmers’ 
Equity Societies. H. F. D. 
Schuylkill Co., Pa. 
Notes from Missouri 
Second Mortgage Loans. —In a neigh¬ 
boring county the Federal farm loan act 
is being carried out in a most liberal man¬ 
ner, the land-owners co-operating with the 
county agent in assisting men of good 
character but without capital to sceure 
land of their own. This is done by the 
Land Bank advancing a 50 per cent loan 
and the land-owner then taking a second 
mortgage on the remainder. This plan 
has been discussed and recommended as a 
proper and legitimate method, but in a 
general way the land-owner seems to have 
balked at accepting a second mortgage. 
The most serious criticism of the farm 
loan act has been its inability to aid the 
strong and ambitious young farmer with¬ 
out capital to become a freeholder, and it 
is gratifying to know that this is being 
overcome by the enlightened policy of 
landlords whose extensive holdings, ac¬ 
quired when the land was worth but a 
fraction of its present value, include three- 
fourths of all the land in this alluvial 
district. 
Fruit Notes. —Rain that froze as it 
fell worked havoc with fruit trees in this 
section. Apple trees, by reason of their 
tough and elastic wood, seem to have 
stood up under their crushing burden 
better than most species, while old peach j 
trees suffered the most. This is"cij(Jy one 
of the perils to which the fruit grower is 
exposed. A friend in Texas has lost 
heavily for three successive years from 
hailstorms, while alternate drought and : 
floods have in recent years been more 
pronounced in their damage. Surely the 4 
man whose products are at the mercy of >j 
the elements needs to be a philosopher 
of the stoic school. 
Raspberries and Graffs. —My ex¬ 
periments in setting raspberries in the 
grape renys is still fairly successful, 
though further trial may condemn it. 
Last season the Cuthbert arrived at full 
growth, and plainly proved itself to be 
unfit for such a combination by reason of 
its extremely tall canes. The shading : 
of the grapes acted as a stimulant to its 
beanstalk tendency, and some of its canes 
would show their heads well above the 
six-foot top wire. It is apparent that 
such rampant growers cannot bo made to 
divide space with other fruits. The Sun¬ 
beam. with its shorter canes, lias been 
co-operating very well with grapes, but I 
am inclined to believe that the reds .are 
not nearly as suitable for this combina¬ 
tion as the blackcaps. 
Prohibition and Grapes. —From the 
experience of last season, coupled with 
what’ I hear, I think it probable that pro¬ 
hibition will greatly increase the demand 
for grapes. Several customers have inti¬ 
mated that they expect to be large pur¬ 
chasers of wine grapes next Summer, and 
grape growers should give renewed atten¬ 
tion to their vineyards as the source of 
perhaps a greatly increased income, and 
should be prepared to add to their num¬ 
ber of their vines. Although a quantity 
of red and white grapes can always be 
disposed of. the black grape is pre-emi¬ 
nently the grape for market, and should 
always be planted in large majority. 
Varieties. —King Philip is a failure; 
fails to pollenize, otherwise it would" have 
value because of its size, color and earli¬ 
ness. Eclipse does not even bear regu¬ 
larly of late. Though having an abun¬ 
dance of new wood last Spring, its crop 
was a failure. "Woodruff bears so ex¬ 
cessively that no one who loaves over 20 
buds should attempt to raise it. I have 
tried three grapes with very large berries. 
MePike, Eaton and King, and each of 
them is so poor in quality, watery and 
insipid, that they are worthless here, al¬ 
though of fine appearance. Diamond is 
another immoderate bearer that* calls for 
very short pruning. An overcrop of this 
or any other variety will fail to ripen 
properly and make poor eating. Cham¬ 
pion is always, on hand with a good crop 
of the first grapes to color and be fit for 
market, hut the quality is inferior. Pern 
and Muench are the best two late black 
grapes, though the Fern is not strictly a 
black. L. P. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
“John, I hear you are ingenious in a 
mechanical way. Can’t you fix Tommy’s 
horn?” “What’s the matter with it?” 
“Nothing. • I want you to fix it so it 
.won’t blow.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
