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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 1920 
FOOD FORTIFIES 
against exhaustion and 
illness—if it's the right 
kind of food. 
GrapeNuts 
is easily digested and, witFi 
cream or good milk is a well 
balanced ration that builds 
tissue and increases strength 
pf body and mind. 
"There's a Reason" 
MANURE IS DEFICIENT IN 
PHOSPHORUS 
DOUBLE ITS VALUE BY REINFORCING IT WITH 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
PHOSPHORIC ACID 
BARIUM SULPHIDE 
ANALYSING 
Grade A 28.00% 
7.00% 
MANURE IS NO MORE A COMPLETE RATION 
FOR CROPS THAN HA Y IS FOR A COW 
The addition of Phosphorus to manure will pay as well as feeding grain with hay. 
A few pounds of B-P scarttered each day in the gutters of your barn will 
DOUBLE THE VALUE OF YOUR MANURE 
absorb all liquids, prevent the loss of ammonia and keep tbe stable sanitary. 
This is a sensible and logical thing to do. 
WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT? 
Our Book. "Phosphorus and Manure.” will give you valuable information along these 
lines, and “Cover Crofts, Manure and Phosphorus" will show you how to keep a large 
part of your annual fertilizer bill in your pocket. They are free for the asking. 
We can also quote attractive prices on carload lots of 
GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK 
AND 
NITRATE OF SODA 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Inc. 
2 Rector St., New York City 393 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 
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Successive Spurs on Grapevines 
I have grapevines grown with horizon¬ 
tal arms with spurs for fruit, this being 
the first year for bearing. Where *lo 
spurs for uext year come from, continua¬ 
tion of present spurs or do dormant buds 
break out on the arms? av. l. 
Woodhaven, N. Y. 
This questioner has correctly answered 
his own query. With the horizontal arm 
spur method of training, the cane that 
lias grown from the lower hud of the spur 
is again spurred back to two buds, and 
both bear fruit canes the current year. 
After this system lias been followed a 
few years the spurs will of necessity liaA’e 
greatly lengthened. A year before one 
wishes to renew entirely these old spurs, 
canes that arise directly from the arms 
are spurred back to two buds, and thus 
an entire new set of spurs is the result. 
This renewal can even be carried still 
further and the whole arm renewed, and 
this is often desirable. Of course, in or¬ 
der to do this the vine should be made 
ready in a previous season through the re¬ 
tention of canes that arise from the head. 
It is.not usually difficult to obtain such 
that are well placed. These are tied 
down along the lower wire alongside the 
old arms, and at the next pruning they 
may entirely replace; them. While this is 
being done it is often necessary to prune 
the vine more closely. f. e. gladavix. 
CONTENTS 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, APRIL 10, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Top-dressing: Alfalfa with Lime. 
A New Rag Doll for Testing Seed Corn.... 
California as a Cotton State.721. 
The "Scenery” Farmer Talks. 
A Happy Back-to-the-Lander. 
Buying Farms on Contract. 
A Comfortable Seat on Farm Implements... 
Potatoes Grown Under Straw. 
Plowing Diamond Shape. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Spreading Manure in Winter. 
Feeding Brood Sows; Hampshire Sheep. 
Improving Dairy Ration. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
Farm Machinery Course at Columbia. 
Notes by a Holland Farmer. 
The Three R’s—Rats, Rabbits. Robins... 
New England Farmers Need Help. 
Crops and News. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Meat Production for New England. 
Pasturing Alfalfa . 
Sheep Ranching in New York. . 
Woman Sheep Breeder’s Troubles....!!!!! 
The Dog Law. 
Making Sheep-tight Fence. .!!.!!!!!!!! 
Bitter Cream .j 
Feeding for Milk; Undersized Pigs. 
Dairy Ration without Silage; Feeding 
Young Pigs . 744 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 
Dairy Ration . 
Restaurant Waste for Hens and Pigs!.!!!! 
Feeding Brood Sow. 
Ear-shy Filly . !.!!!! !! 
Itching Skin ..!! * 
Thin Mare . ."!!!!!!!!!!!"' 
Lame Pigs . .!!.!!.!!!!! 
Pasture and Bam Notes.....!.!!!!'.!!!!’' 
Johne’s Disease . . 
Depraved Appetite . !!!!!!!!!!!”’!’ 
Ringworm . 
Warts .. 
Thin Cow . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
About Using a Shearing Machine... 
Improving Dairy Ration. 
Feeding for Milk. !!!.!!! 
Ration for Heifer. 
Buying Registered Stock.. 
Changes in Dairy Ration.\,. ] 
THE HENYARD 
Feeding Young Chicks. 752 
Cannibal Hens . 752 
Mating Guinea Fowls. .'762 
Trouble with White Leghorns.! 752 
Trouble with Incubator. . 757 
Egg-laying Contest . 753 
Starting a Family Flock...'.’!.'! 753 
Ration for Yarded Fowls. 753 
Ventilating Henhouse . 753 
Fighting Hens . " 753 
HORTICULTURE 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.722, 723 
Propagating Dogwood, Magnolia and Jap¬ 
anese Quince . 723 
Pushing a Backyard Garden. !!!!. 726 
Trimming Maple Trees.. 727 
Asparagus in Orchards. ..!..!..".' 727 
The Tree-eating Rabbit.! ! .!! 728 
Notes on Peach Varieties in Southern New 
Jersey . . 730 
Storage for Apples and Vegetables. 7.90 
Possible Injury to Trees and Land. 731 
Fruit Growers Unite in Massachusetts. 731 
Dust or Spray? Let’s Settle It. 730 
Remember Them for Tlieir Works. 739 
Making a Lawn. 733 
Garden Notes from New England..... 734 
Sour Cherries in Sandy Soil; Ill-flavored 
Cistern Water . 791 , 
Apple Seedling Stocks..'. !!.!!! 737 
Lawn Grass for Shadv Place. ’ 737 
Shipping Young Plants by Mail. 737 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 740 
Experience with Clematis Coccinea. 740 
A Rag Carpet..,... 740 
Embroidery Design .. !.!!. 740 
Rues and Mittens.” 740 
A Note About Hooked Rn«*s. 741 
Spring Housecleaning . Hints. !....!!! 741 
Tested Recipes .,”! 744 
Sausage Making Improved. !.!!.!! 741 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Vitamines in Our Green Victuals. 720 
A Motorist on Winter Roa^s. 726 
Is a Senator Supreme ?. !..!!!! 727 
The Varying Hare or Snowslioo Rabbit..!! 727 
Lumber in a Cord of Wood. 727 
Putty Fails to Stick..!! 735 
Expelling the Socialist Legislators. 739 
An American Soviet. 739 
Fight Against Daylight Saving. 739 
Events of the Week.... . 745 
Filtering Rain Water. 749 
Gasoline Engine in Well-digging.! 749 
Farm Co'd 8 torage for Meat. 749 
Publisher's Desk . 758 
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