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Vie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 1920 
GREGORY’S 
“Honest Seeds” 
for home and market gardens 
HAVING been large seed growers for many 
years, we know what care must be taken to secure 
good seeds in spite of unfavorable weather condi¬ 
tions. “Gregory’s Honest Seeds” are all tested 
for vitality, and their purity is guarded at every 
step with the utmost watchfulness. 
The supply of good seeds is limited and the 
demand promises to be unusually large. We urge 
that you place your order early, before the va¬ 
rieties best adapted to your needs are exhausted. 
Market gardeners are invited to submit their 
planting lists for our very best prices. Write 
“personal” on the envelope and the matter will 
have Mr. Gregory’s personal attention. 
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Our 80-page 1920 catalog' lists 
hundreds of trustworthy varieties of 
vegetables and. flowers at prices that 
are very low, quality considered. It 
presents a fine lot of promising 
novelties and many special Gregory 
strains that cannot be obtained 
elsewhere. Send a postal today. 
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15 Elm St., Marblehead, Mats. 
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EVERGREENS—in 70 varieties 
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DEC1DUOUSTREES—Maples, 
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others. Dwarf and standard 
fruit treesin varieties of known 
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ROSES — Our stock of roses 
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All are field grown, heavy 
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SHRUBS !and VINES-in great 
variety including extra sizes 
for immediate effect. 
Douglas Fir 
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V ROSEDALE NURSERIES, Tarrytown, N. Y. 
Strawberries 
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by growing strawberries. Succeed wherever other crops 
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Immense demand for this fruit at good prices. “15,000 quarts 
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72 Market St., Salisbury, Md. 
ALLEN’S 
PLANTS 
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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 
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805 Main St., Dansvilie,N.Y. 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MARCH 6, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Cover Crop to Protect Wheat.459 
Uses for Marsh Hay. 459 
Treatment of a Run-down Meadow.463 
Coal Ashes on Manure. 470 
Selection and Preparation of Seed Potatoes 
for Planting . 474 
Northern Ohio Notes.478 
Hope Farm Notes.482, 483 
Farmers’ Week at Ithaca.485 
Crops and Farm News. 498 
Asparagus Tops for Bedding. 505 
Com for the Silo. 505 
Cleaning Ditch with Tractor.509 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Case Tinder the Dog Law.485 
Too Much Protein. 490 
Ration with Sheaf Oats.490 
Milk-making Ration . 490 
Crops for "Hogging Down”. 490 
Ration with Clover Hay.490 
Feeding Guernsey Calves... 490 
Ration for Calves. 490 
Linseed Oilmeal Compared with Tankage... 492 
Ration with Ground Oats. 496 
Soy Beans in Silage. 496 
Grain and Turnips with Silage. 503 
Useful Soiling Crops.503 
Hog Cholera .506 
Vomiting . 506 
Dysentery . 506 
Pigs Dying . 506 
Mixed Feed for Cows. 508 
Feeding for Production. 508 
Death of Cows. 508 
Boils on Udder. 508 
Improving Milk Flow... 512 
Feeding Fresh Cows...512 
THE HENYARD 
Suggestions for Planting the Place.455, 456 
Ohio Apple Orchard Fertilization.456 
Spraying the Apple Orchard this Spring.456, 457 
A Venture in Market Chickens. 492 
Raising Chicks with Hens.494, 495 
Controlling Diarrhoea in Fowls.495 
Lame Pullet .495 
Poor Color in Leghorns.495 
HORTICULTURE 
Bordeaux Mixture . 459 
Fertilizer for Strawberries.459 
Dusting vs. Spraying Fruit Trees.462, 463 
Fruit Notes from Missouri; Culture of Poin- 
settia .468 
Orchard Heating in Missouri.478 
The Family Grape Vineyard.472 
Advice About Pruning.477 
Wintering Cannas as House Plants.477 
Protection Against Deer and Rabbits.477 
Varieties of Small Fruits.480 
F nit from Old Trees.480 
Treatment of Cane Fruits; Seed Sweet Corn. 481 
Grapevines Fail to Bear.483 
Cull Fruit and a State’s Renutation.485 
The Effect of Syndicate Orcharding.485 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day.486 
The Rural Patterns.486 
Garden Notes .486 
Doughnuts .486 
MISCELLANEOUS 
California Wine Growers’ Troubles. 464 
The Honey Beats the Sugar Trust—Part I.. 466 
Great Future for Pasteurized Cider.470 
Editorials .484 
Liberty Bonds at Low Prices. 485 
Sawing Out the Snow Banks. 485 
How to Tan Woodchuck Hides. 509 
Publisher’s Desk . 514 
Caring for Hen Manure 
On page 204 you state screenocl hen 
manure will mix with acid phosphate and 
run in a grain drill. Is the hen manure 
dried and powdered in the sun before 
screening, or how? How fine is the 
screen? I was expecting to use acid 
phosphate and hen manure on my pota¬ 
toes by placing it. in the hill by hand. 
Do you think it better to drill it in before 
marking out to plant potatoes, or is it 
better to put it in the hill by hand? 
About how many pounds of the mixture 
noted do you recommend per acre, and 
do you recommend the same proportion 
for potatoes? Is the mixture noted in¬ 
tended for use in sowing oats and grass 
seed? Also is it good for silage, corn 
and millet ? H. c. 
Worcester, N. Y. 
Manure should be kept dry through 
the Winter, or there will be some loss 
through chemical action. The best way 
we know of is to keep the droppings 
board, a space under the perches, well 
dusted with some drying matereial—like 
land plaster, fine road dust or sifted 
coal ashes. When this drying material 
is put on freely, and the manure re¬ 
moved every few days, it should be 
kept under shelter in boxes or barrels. 
Thus kept it will be found in the Spring 
in dry, hard chunks which may be 
crushed or ground at once. Moist manure 
must of course he dried thoroughly be¬ 
fore it can be crushed for drilling. This 
is often done by spreading it out I bin in 
a sunny place and spreading land plas¬ 
ter over it. Far better, dry it as taken 
from the henhouse. We use a screen 
about twice as fine as the usual coal ash 
sifter, finer if desired for even drilling. 
We should scatter it freely in the hill, 
or drill—first planting potatoes and cov¬ 
ering lightly with soil. For an acre of 
potatoes on ordinary soil one ton of the 
mixture is none too much, but we should 
add 150 lbs. of nitrate of soda to 1850 
lbs. of the acid phosphate and hen ma¬ 
nure for a potato crop. The mixture 
mentioned on page 204 (that, is 400 lbs. 
acid phosphate to 1.000 lbs manure) was 
intended chiefly for corn and is a good 
mixture for most farm crops on good 
soil. The addition of nitrate of soda 
would make it more efficient for all quick¬ 
growing crops. 
Srtfj 
Catalog Free 
Clovers, Oats, Corn 
Alfalfa, Soy Beans 
Field Peas, Seed Potatoes 
Grains, Grasses 
Write today for Hoffman’s 
1920 Catalog—it is free. 
Differs from all other cat¬ 
alogs. Offers seed for farm _ 
crops only—no flower or garden seeds. Offers 
only varieties of proven merit—first class quali¬ 
ties. Describes fully best methods for culture. 
Every Bag of Seed Guaranteed to Please 
You. Should it not, return it—we’ll refund 
your money and pay all freights. 
This catalog will interest the business farmer 
who wants best results from his Work. Strains 
of seed offered have been selected by practical 
farmers, knowing exactly the needs of other 
farmers in the seed line. Write for this book at 
once—select your seed from it—crop results 
will please you and pay you well. Seed samples 
free. Please mention this paper when writing. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, INC. 
Landisville. Lancaster County, Penna. 
PREER’S 
GARDEN BOOK 1920 
Everything that interests the grower 
of Vegetables and Flowers for horn* 
use or for sale is fully covered in 
Dreer’s Garden Book.” 
Full directions are given for grow¬ 
ing practically every worth-while 
vegetable, plant or flower. 
All the promising novelties and 
dependable varieties are listed and 
conscientiously described. 
224 pages, 6 color plates and 
hundreds of photographic reproduc¬ 
tions of Vegetablesjand 
Flowers. 
Mailed tree if you mention 
this publication 
HENRY A. DREERf 
714-716 Chestnut Street 
Philadelphia. Pa. 
7?oes JtPayTo 
Fertilize Com? 
A fifty-acre com field on one of our farms gave us $24 
Increased yield for $4 invested In fertilizer this year. Wo 
offer American Basic Phosphate, a carrier of Phosphorus, 
containing 45% Lime filler instead of worthless filler or 
free acidity. The Phosphorus Immediately available. 
Tested on our farms for twenty years and found to bo 
the very best for Alfalfa, Legumes, small grains or Corn 
of any fertilizer we have ever used. The best of all when 
figured on a unit basis. Cheaper Than Acid Phos¬ 
phate. Ask for delivered prices on car lots In territory 
north of Ohio Klver only. 
WING SEED CO., Box 223 Mcchanicsburg, Ot 
10QD 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 yours 
and your neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHU M WAY, Rockford, IIL 
—CLOVER SEED— 
We specialize in the best seed obtainable. Good 
Seeds mean satisfied customers. When you buy dur 
seeds you have tho best that grows. 
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Our Clover, Alsike, Timothy. Alfalfa and other Farm 
Seeds are the most c&refuHy selected. Quality in 
guaranteed. Rohrer’a seed book and samples free if 
you mention this paper. 
;p. L. ROHRER 
Smoketown, Lancaster. Co., Pa. 
Larger quantities than ever before 
are being imported. This sued is uiifit to 
l 80 w. Most home-grown seed is of poor quality, 
Iso it is very necessary io use care in having. 
' Our Field Seed Hook tells "How to Know Good 
Seed” and why imported seed is poor stuff. It, 
as web as samples, are free. We have all other field 
seeds that are practically Wcedless. 
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