Ikt RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 28, 192U 
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Remove a stump as quickly 
as you’d milk a cow 
To remove and break up a big, tough 
stump in such a short time would seem 
almost impossible. Yet Dean Johnson, 
of Netherlands, Mo., did it the first time 
he tried Atlas Farm Powder. 
“Within ten minutes from the time I 
Etarted work on the first stump I had it 
it out in pieces that I could handle easily, 
although I had never done any blasting 
before.” 
Pur book, “Better Farming with Atlas Farm 
jPowder,” gave Mr. Johnson all the information 
that he needed. After reading it you should be 
able to take out stumps as fast as he did. Write 
[and get your copy of this book, which also tells 
bow to use Atlas Farm Powder for breaking 
boulders, planting trees, making ditches, etc. 
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43 years’ experience in originating, testing and 
crowing vegetable and flower seeds is behind 
Maule’s Four-Leaf Clover Guarantee. All 
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means big crops and beautiful flowers. 
THE MAULE SEED BOOK 
comprises 176 pages of illustrated in¬ 
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—everything you need to know. 
A lot of new, unusual features. 
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2153 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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Harris’ Seeds From the Grower 
We are large growers of vegetable, farm and flower seeds 
and sell direct to gardeners and farmers at wholesale 
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The percent that the seed germinates is marked on the label. The pur¬ 
chaser can therefore tell at once how thick to sow. 
HARRIS SEED arc bred as careful as thoroughbred live stock 
and produce very much better results than seed commonly 
sold. We raise some very choice flower seeds and plams. 
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for market, ask for Ma 1 ‘ ’ 
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Although we have our usual fine assortment of high grade 
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You will never regret planting Kelly trees. Our trees are 
all perfect specimens and our guarantee is your protection. 
We offer you a big money saving and reliable stock. 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, FEB. 28, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
A Daily Paper Tells the Truth.407, 408 
Barn Cellars ... 408 
Locating a Barn. 408 
Every Step in Maple Sugar Making—Part 
II.409 
The Check-row Planter. 415 
Sweet Clover on Old Sod. 415 
Farm That Has Paid. 416 
Hope Farm Notes.422, 423 
A Kansas Alfalfa Grower Talks. 423 
Farm Legislation at Albany. 425 
The Farm Referendum. 425 
What the New York State Grange Exchange 
Has Done . 425 
Northern Ohio Notes. 440 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 443 
Seeding for Oats and Hay. 444 
A Spring Manorial Crop; Wood Ashes.444 
Improving a Sandy Soil. 444 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Will Goats Take Place of Cows?. 408 
Dairy Prices and Labor.408 
Famous Sheep Case and Political Agricul¬ 
ture . 425 
Feeding Cows in Florida...... 432 
Mangels for Cows. 432 
Horse Breeding Questions.433 
Corn and Buckwheat for Cows..... 433 
Feeding Young Calves. 434 
Buckwheat in Cow Feed.434 
Feeding Guernsey Herd.434 
Grain and Green Feed. 435 
Value of Oats and Rye.435 
Feed for Dry Cow and Milk. 435 
Cost of Wintering Cow and Calf. 435 
Feeding Fresh Cow. 435 
Sheep Breeders’ Meeting. 435 
Drying Off Cow. 436 
Feeding Cows and Colt. 436 
Test of Cream. 437 
Testing Cream . 437 
Bitter Milk . 437 
Rifening Cream .437 
Foaming Cream . 437 
Hematuria . 440 
Cough . 440 
Dysertery . 443 
Lame Pig . 443 
Itching Skin; Growth on Calf.443 
Itching Skin . 443 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 444 
Rye as a Milk Substitute for Pigs.444 
Weak Cow . 445 
Linseed Oil Compared with Tankage. 449 
Feeding Silage to Steers. 449 
Mammitis. 449 
THE HENYARD 
A. H. Hoffman, Inc., Landisville, Lane. Co., Pa. 
“Shadeland Climax” 
variety. Seed Oats of 
unusual high quality. 
White—sound—plump 
— heavy — weighs 42 
to 46 lbs. per measured 
bushel—as pretty Seed 
as you ever saw. An 
early Oats — “branch¬ 
ing" type ■— heavy 
yielder. Thin hull— 
large, meaty kernel of 
highest feeding value. 
Grows tall, stiff straw 
—does not lodge. We 
know you’ll like 
“Shadeland Climax. ' 
Read full description 
in Catalog. 
Six other distinct kinds of 
Seed Oats are offered. 
“Side” and “tree" type— 
every one of them proven a 
reliable yielder and depend¬ 
able kind to sow. Samples 
free. 
Hoffman’s 1920 
Catalog Free 
Write for this book today. 
It is a valuable help to every 
farmer needing Farm Seeds 
of any kind. Offers Alfalfa 
—Clovers—Corn— Grains 
— Pasture Grasses— Soy 
Beans — Potatoes, etc. 
Gives pointers on their suc¬ 
cessful culture. Send today. Mention this paper. 
— Hoffman’s — 
Seed Oats 
Stokes Sunshine Gardens 
Electric Incubators . 439 
Breed for Table Fowls...,. 441 
Laying Ration . 441 
Wheezing Pullets ..*..441 
An Experience with Turkeys. 442 
Increase of Pou’try. 442 
Ration for Breeding Pen. 442 
Worms in Fowls. 442 
Concrete Floors for Henhouses.446 
Poor Laying . 447 
HORTICULTURE 
Scientific Search for a Peach—Part IV.411 
Success with Orchard Heaters. 417 
Vines for Porch Lattice. 417 
The Blue Hydrangea. 417 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.419, 420 
These seed assortments of 
beautiful flowers will bring 
you many pleasant hours. 
The prices quoted include 
postage. 
The Sunshine Spencer* 
25 Lovely Varieties of 
Sweet Peas for $1.00 
The Sunshine Border 
15 Gorgeous Nasturti¬ 
ums for $1.00 
The Sunshine Flowers 
20 Old-fashion Favor¬ 
ites for $1.00 
The Sunbeam Spencers 
6 Fragrant Spencers 
for 25 cents 
The Sunbeam Border 
6 Superb Nasturtiums 
for 25 cents 
The Sunbeam Flowers 
6 Beautiful old-fashion 
Anuuals for 25 cents. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Women. 412 
Boys and Girls.426, 427 
Hot School Lunches. 427 
Good Neighbors . 427 
The Home Dressmaker. 429 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks.430, 431 
A Kansas Woman on the Situation. 431 
Chilblain Remedies . 431 
From an Indiana Hill Farm. 448 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The Farmer’s Discontent. 414 
“Recreation” in the Country. 414 
Wants to Deal Direct. 414 
A Community Buying Organization. 414 
The Shoemaker’s Side. 414 
The Shop Man's Wages... 414 
Hard to Decide This Case. 414 
Gasoline for Cleaning. 415 
Cleaning Brushes After Use of Shellac. 415 
Poke Berries for Ink. 415 
Rural Education . 416 
Warm Dinner for tlio Man. 416 
Galvanized Roofing Exposed to Woathor.... 420 
Ice on Storm Windows. 420 
Orange Extract; Vanilla; Licorice Candy... 426 
Indications of Oil. 420 
How Ice Forms. 420 
Feeding Winter Birds. 423 
What About the Census Man?. 428 
The Song Poem Publishers. 428 
Mending a Leaky Cistern. 439 
Cinders in Concrete; Lime for Rundown Soil 439 
Snike-tooth Harrow; Weed Killer. 439 
Reports Wanted . 441 
Events of the Week. 443 
Refusal of Telephone Number. 448 
One of Uncle Sam’s Veterans. 449 
Publisher’s Desk . 450 
Homemade Liquor 
ran anyone make liquor in his own 
house for own use, provided he does not 
sell same or give any away? Can you 
have a still? Some say you ran have a 
still if you >ret a permit from the revenue 
collector and pay revenue tax on what 
you make. Some say you Cannot have a 
still, lmt you can make wine or any liquor 
b.v fermentation, infusion, maceration, 
etc. f. N. C. 
New Jersey. 
We went to the Prohibition Enforce¬ 
ment Department at Washington and 
found that under the law no one can make 
any liquor any greater per cent of alcohol 
than one-half of one per cent, for bev¬ 
erage purposes. This prohibits the mak¬ 
ing of hard cider even. One can make 
vinegar, of course, but nothing that will 
intoxicate. No permit for a still can he 
had. Alcohol for medicine can only be 
secured by getting a physician’s prescrip¬ 
tion. We might as well understand that 
John Barleycorn is gone. 
For the Land’s Sake—TTse Bowker’s 
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and 
those who till it.— Adv. 
Seeds, flowers, plants, trees, garden furni¬ 
ture, tools and equipment, pure-bred ani¬ 
mals and a great many other things are 
listed in our catalog. WRITE Today Fok A 
COPY. The edition is necessarily limited. 
Stokes Seed Farms Co., Growers 
Windermoor Farms 
Moorestown, New Jersey 
SEEDS 
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 youra 
and your neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHUMWAY, Rockford,IU. 
RFFSi 
I 5000 bushels. Touted 
jam! sure to grow. 
' Finest quality. 20 
'■ leading varieties. 
Also seed oats, hurley, 
rrass seed, etc. 
Samples on applica¬ 
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Write today. W. N. Ncurff A l*ons, 
New I'urU.ic, Ohio. 
Seed to he worth planting at all must 
not only grow, but mtwt trrow a profit¬ 
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seed practically free from weed seeds und detd 
grains* the only kind that will shown profit. 
Samples and our Field Seed Rook, which tells 
exactly “How to Know Good Seed,” are free. To save 
losses from weeds,you need this information. 
Write Today. 
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2™ CROP SEED POTATOES 
Cobbler—Mills Pride Giants (Late) 
SUPF.RBA (White) and Red Skins 
SEED CORN— Yellow and White 
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