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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 21, 1920 
'ROWN 
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%. M selected, pedigree stock seed on soils 
especially adapted to the di'fere; t 
H varieties and stored in our own frost procf 
warehouses are 
& The Highest Grade Obtainable 
We offer for your selection fourteen varieties, the 
'W best by test for early, intermediate and main crop, 
r including Dibble's Russet, pronounced by thousands 
of our customers the best potato they ever grew, in any 
quantity from barrels to car loads. 
° ar arToJe? alea 100,000 Bushels 
and in this year of scarcity our stock is larger and better than ever; every 
bushel having been saved from fields that were free from blight. 
Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalogue and Special Price List Free. Address 
Edward F. Dibble Seedgrower, 
HEADQUARTERS FOR FARM SEEDS 
From Our Farmsto Yours. BUYDIRECT. SAVEMONEY 
WOOD’S 
Famous 
Southern 
Ensilage 
Corns 
Wood’s Famous Southern Grown 
Ensilage Corns enable farmers to 
grow more silage on every acre. 
For years these corns have enjoyed 
a splendid reputation for ensilage 
purposes, particularly in the North 
and- West—making larger and bet¬ 
ter crops than corns grown in other 
parts of the country. 
The past year was very favor¬ 
able for curing and maturing. We 
offer corns cured under natural 
conditions—unsurpassed in vigo¬ 
rous germination. 
“As a Silo Filler It 
Has No Equal” 
—that’s what one farmer says about 
it. An Ohio farmer writes: “It is 
the best silage corn I ever raised.” 
Another writes: “Some of the 
strongest land made 100 bn-Po’s to 
the acre.” 
Write for prices of these corns 
that produce the most silage from 
the least land and labor. 
T.W.WOOD & SONS 
Richmond Seedsmen Virginia 
It Pays to 
Plant theBest 
It is easy to plan tasty meals when you have an 
abundance of crisp fresh vegetables right at hand. 
Give mother and the girls the benefit of an extra 
good garden this year. Plant it with “Gregory’s Honest Seeds; ’ 
they can be relied upon to grow and come true to type. All 
Gregory Seeds are tested for vitality. Many are special strains 
perfected on our own seed farms. 
Send for FREE Seed Book 
You’ll enjoy looking over our 1920 Seed Book; it’s so straightforward and de¬ 
pendable. Each of its 80 pages contains information of value to gardeners and flower 
lovers. The Planting Table (p. 59) will help you to order 
just the right amount of each variety. The chapter on Select¬ 
ed Field Seeds will be of special interest to any farmer. 
Send a Postal Today for Your Copy 
J. J. H. GREGORY & SON 
Established in 18S6 
15 ELM STREET, MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, FEB. 21, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Every Step qn Maple Sugar Making.343, 344 
Cleaning Brush with Shoep. 344 
Plow Less and Pasture More. 345 
Divinding Crops with a Boy. 352 
A Homemade Tractor. 354 
The Check-row Corn Planter. 354 
Improving New- England Pastures. 354 
Wanted—An Ideal Farm. 356 
A Bnck-to-the-lar.d Story. 356 
Tobacco as a Fertiliser. 357 
Seeding Wheat to Alfalfa. 360 
A Handy Manure Cutter. 365 
Horseradish Cultivation and Cleaning Up. . . . 367 
Hope Farm Notes.370, 371 
First Figures on the Farm Referendum.... 373 
Shall We Educate the City Consumer?.373 
Mr. Hoover and the Farmers. 373 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Sunflowers for Silage. 366 
A Little Competition in Milk Prices.373 
The Right to Dishorn.379 
Value of Young Stock.379 
'Tew England Ayrshire Breeders.379 
deeding Garbage .379 
"os—ng Horse .379 
’ r oe ,, ’ng Ton Cows.380 
Feeding Work Horse.380 
Rat’on for Cow and Heifers. 380 
Feed for Guernsey.380 
Comoaring Rations .-.- 382 
deeding Cows and Pigs. 382 
deeding Calves and Cows.882 
Knuckling . 384 
Otitis . 384 
Laurel Poisoning .384 
Black Teeth .384 
Death of Cat.384 
Leaki-g Tc n *s . 386 
Destroying Lice .386 
Indigestion . 386 
Sore Mouth . «J86 
Ve-til'>tion for Cow Barn. 387 
Cold Countrv Tie-un. 387 
Improving Dairy Ration. 388 
Ration for Good Grpde Stock.388 
Increasing Protein Feed.. 388 
Mold in Si’o Feeding.388, 389 
Ration for Freshening Cow. 389 
Dairy Ration . 389 
Utilising Moldy Butter. 389 
Strong 389 
Silage and Stover. 385 
Food Value of Corncobs. 385 
Fie’d and Sugar Corn. 385 
Garget . 397 
Self-sucking Cow . 397 
Tumor . 397 
Blind O.uarter . 397 
Pink-eye . 397 
THE HENYARD 
Feeding Sprouted Oats... 347 
Henhouse Bui’ding . 394 
Ru’l’ing B'-ooder House. 394 
m -T-Vey Talk by a Tunkey Woman. 396 
■^ul’ding Cement Henhouse. 396 
■^-tion for Laying. 396 
Egg Contest . 399 
HORTICULTURE 
Gnclamen: Saxifrage; California Fuchsia... 347 
Pruning the Grape. 348 
Garden Gang P’ow. 352 
Sure! Have Berries. 356 
Dahlias Fail to Bloom. 357 
’“iping a Greenhouse. 358 
S+eam or Hot Water for Greenhouse. 358 
Formaldehyde in G-eenhouse. 358 
Case of Spavined Science.360 
Fertilizing Gladioli . 361 
New Yo-k Hn-t;nnitu- a i Society. 362 
Propagation of Roses.367 
Pruning of Wistaria.371 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 374 
Tempting Ways with Sweet Potatoes.374 
Lace Edge for Table Scarf. 374 
A Home D-d^-try—HuDed Corn.374 
Stiffening Window Sh"des. 374 
From a Vj-gi- 5 a F<>-»der. 376 
Other D’ vi ’'s for Luncheon........376 
’Lasses Cake . 376 
The Rural Patterns.376 
Old-fashioned Buckwheat Cakes. 376 
After Christmas . 377 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Reader in Frozen North. .... 344 
Insanity on the Farm.•.*••••.. 344 
Keeping the M-’n Roads Open in Winter.... 345 
Contract Breaking Man. 352 
The Lonely Daughter. 352 
No Oil in. New Jersey.._. 352 
Selling Farm on Co“t , " , c't. 352 
Emollient for Charmed Hands.356 
Snowshoe Rabbit in New York State.357 
Our FriencPv Mud-dauhers. 361 
Old Auto Engine for Power. 364 
Power from Small Stream.364 
■Using Water Power. 364 
Cinders in Cone-ete Blocks. 364 
Break in Tile Pine Line. 364 
The Pea Weevil. 366 
Whitewashing with a Sprayer. 365 
Concrete Cellar Wall. 365 
More About the Rireless Cooker...365 
Tnk from Poke Berries. 371 
Editorials . 372 
Tanning Hides for Leather. 383 
■"fell Near Cesspool. 387 
Publisher’s Desk. 409 
He Believes in Bees. 392 
State Grange Session. 392 
Centenary of Canning. 392 
Breaking’Out Roads. 392 
Corn Varieties 
T noticed your inouiry in The Tt. N.-Y.. 
page 1742, regarding best “breed” of 
field corn. T would recommend the im¬ 
proved Golden Eureka Yellow Dent, as I 
consider it one of the greatest, if not the 
greatest, yielders we have. From a field 
of 12 acres this year I had 2.410 baskets 
of ears. This is my third consecutive 
crop from this field I also raise Lon’s 
Champion Yellow Dent. I have raised 
Funk’s Yellow Dent, but it does not 
nearly yield the corn that the Golden 
Eureka or the Champion will yield. My 
Golden Eureka matured last year in 100 
days; 110 days should be allowed. I al¬ 
ways plant early as possible, weather con¬ 
sidered. I get best yields planting hills, 
one grain to hill. 10 to IS inches apart, 
rows 3 ft. 0 in. wide, though this year 
I scored 4 ft., dropping 18 to. 20 in. by 
(reason of it being the third crop. This 
I corn over-shells. I expect 110 bn. shelled 
corn per acre. R* s. clakk. 
York Co., Pa. 
50% Higher 
Prices Paid 
by the buyers of big hotels 
for quality vegetables, which 
cost the same to grow as 
poorer kinds. You cannot 
afford to waste expensive 
land and costly labor on any 
but the best seed of varieties 
knownforthehighestquality. 
Vaughan’s Seeds 
are used by market gardeners in 
Chicago and New York who sup¬ 
ply the big hotels. You can have 
vegetables of equal quality for 
your table and for canning. Our 
1920 book, "GARDENING 
ILLUSTRATED.” tells the whole 
story, mailed FREE on request. 
Send 25 Cents 
for a largo package of seed of 
our new cucumber; ghows 18 
Inches long — (catalog included.) 
Vaughan’s Seed Store 
31-33 W.|Randolph Street 
(Dept.N) CHICAGO 
41-43 Barclay Street (Dept.N) 
NEW YORK 
Earlier than you 
ever had before 
Hundreds of Market Gardum-is 
are more than doubling then- 
profits by using my wonde Ini 
Plant Forcing devices. Pon t, 
he satisfied with a garden like 
the other fellow — beat him 
to it. 
No matter liow backward t he 
spring, it’s easy w ith 
The Ball Seed & Plant Forcer 
cheap enough to use them by the thousands. Send foriny 
Beautiful Free ROOK. HOW to GROW RIGGER. 
BETTER and EAl.IF.K CROPS than you ever had 
hefoi-t*. It gives you gardening informal on found in no 
other publication. It tells you how you ran have a garden 
with flowers in full bloom and vegetables lor your table 
amontli earlier than you ever had before. Just drop me 
apost-eard and I’ll send you your copy by return mail. 
THE BALL MFG. CO., Dept. K, Olensidc, Pa. 
GOOD AS CAN BE GROWN 
Prices Below All Others 
I will give a lot of new 
sorts free with every order 
I fill. Buy and test. Return 
If not O. K.— money refunded. 
Big Catalog FREE 
Over 700 illustrations of vege¬ 
tables and flowers. Send yours 
and your neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHUMWAY, Rockford,III. 
-CLOVER SEED- 
We specialize in the best seed obtainable. Good 
Seeds ntean satisfied customers. When you buy our 
seeds you have tlie best that grows. 
FREIGHT PAID BAGS FREE 
Our clover, Alsike, Timothy. Alfalfa and oth- >• Farm 
Seeds are the most earefuHy selected, quality is 
guaranteed. Rohrer’s seeti book and samples free if 
jou mention this paper. 
P. L. ROHRER 
Smoketown, Lancaster, Co., Pa. 
Try These Selected Seeds 
AT REASONABLE PRICES 
SCARLET GLOBE RADISH, SCARLET WHITE TIP RAD¬ 
ISH. DETROIT DARK RED BEET, CHANTENAY CARROT, 
DOUBLE CURLED PARSLEY, 80UP CELERY. All the 
above seeds at (I per lb. LEEK AMERICAN FLAG, LEEK 
MU88ELBURG, KOHL RABI WHITE VIENNA, i t *2 per 
lb. WHITE PORTUGAL ONION at #8.50 per lb 8PIN 
ACH VICTORIA and SPINACH BLOOMSDALE at tic per 
lb. GLADIOLUS BULBS, my finest stocks at per hun¬ 
dred. three-quarter inch size; half-inch size. $8.50 per 
hundred. Any quantity seeds and bulbs at the above 
prices in U. S. only, prepaid. Cash with order. 
WILLIAM ERB. Betts Ave.. Maspeth, L. I.. N. Y. 
Weeds are alfalfa's worst enemy the 
first year. The first thing to think 
I about in buying alfalfa is purity. Our cod i- 
(especially selected and cleaned to be free from 
weeds.We have the ordinary and several other 
| varieties. Aik for Field Seed Book giving special in- 
[ formation on alfalfa, and “How to Know Good Seed.” 
O.M. SCOTT & SINS CO., 370 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
Protect Early Cabbage 
Don’t let the cabbage maggot get your crop. 
For 10 years growers have been rais'ng larger, 
firmer heads and insuring practically 100% crops 
by using A. B. C. PLANT PROTECTORS. 
Special far felt Hines which any boy can slip 
on the stem directly after planting to prevent 
the maggot fly from laying its eggs. 
Ritr growers say they can’t grow cubbago 
without them. Write for copiraof their letters. 
Full information and wholesale price. 
PLANT PROTECTOR COMPANY 
62 South Water Bt. Rochester, N. Y. 
2™ CROP SEED POTATOES 
Cobbler—Mills Pride—Giants (I ate) 
SUPERBA (White) and Red Skins 
SEED CORN —Yellow and White 
#9 Circular Free s# 
MINCH BROS., Bridgeton, N.J. 
The Best Potash Fertilizer SS 
TM B E RAND NT Pu r e Unleached Hardwood Ashes t bytest t 
A complete and sure fertilizer for all growing cropa, and for top 
dressing, seeding down and truck growing they have uo equal. 
Agents wanted. Correspondence Invited 
Address JOHN JOYNT• L. B 297 Lucknow, Ont. Canada 
) Refer cnc— BradstreeU agency or Bank of Hamilton Lucknow,Ont, 
