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‘She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 17, 1920 
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Notes from the Adirondacks 
Our Adirondack Winters are usually 
severe, but the last seem to possess qual¬ 
ities heretofore unknown. Just one bliz¬ 
zard chases another up and down the 
rocky slopes, and plays tag with the snow¬ 
drifts, piling them to depths of many 
feet, some without depth or end. Hardly 
a warm day since December 1. and now, 
March (i. seems the climax must be 
reached, for we find the doors blocked 
on every side this morning, as the wind 
howls outside, and the thermometer hov¬ 
ers around zero. 
We must climb down a ladder from the 
front porch to get to the ground, and 
shovel away the snow before we can get 
in again. Some might think that to be 
shut in from the outside world, three 
miles from a neighbor, and usually alone 
through the entire Winter, would be next 
to the Avails of jail, but I don’t find it 
this wav; there is always something good 
to look forward to. There’s a story after 
every storm; a sunbeam shoots through 
| into the front window: the vapor from 
the seed boxes, in which early tomatoes 
struggle for a peep, rises and floats away ; 
birds flock to the feed stands in the front 
porch—there is a host of them—jays, 
grosbeaks, woodpeckers, crossbills, snow¬ 
birds and yellow birds. 
The flock of wild Canada geese. avIio 
| have been long content to rest among the 
; sheep in the big sheds through the past 
three months, are no lunger the same 
quiet inmates of the barnyard, for they 
know from instinct, long handed down for 
hundreds of years, that, it will soon be 
mating time, and already some have picked 
their mates, and now choose to settle 
themselves in the deep snow, and with feet 
drawn close to their warm, thick-feath¬ 
ered bodies, seem to defy the elements as 
they Scan the horizon for those long- 
drawn-out specks which form on the far- 
off waste of blue, a V-shaped line, as they 
Avend their noisy way tOAvard Hudson’s 
Bay. If perchance they spy a flock there 
is much confusion and excitement as they 
Da page 427 our friend Mr. Tuttle asks 
who can tell us what the animal was that 
gave him a. visit on that dark night a 
short time since. It was Avithout doubt a 
flying squirrel; these little animals are 
always nocturnal in their habits, seldom 
coining forth by day unless disturbed 
from their day repose. Our woods are 
full of them. They are harmless little 
creatures, which possess a great knowledge 
in wooderaft. Their large bushy nest 
Avill often he observed hanging from a 
hemlock limb far from the ground. The 
young are born in May. and usually num¬ 
bers two or three. They make interesting 
pets, and tame very readily. Since they 
do not interfere in any way with farm 
life, they should he encouraged to con¬ 
tinue their visits. The wide-spreading 
membrane which extends from fore to 
hind limb enables them to make long, 
rapid flights from tree to tree, but unless 
they begin their descent from the highest 
trees, they cannot fly upward, as many 
suppose, though they run very rapidly 
from one tree to another, and thus travel 
great distances in a short time. 
AVJI.I.ET BAND ALL. 
A Home Garden on Long Island 
I have some land alongside my Sum¬ 
mer home upon which I want to grow 
assorted vegetables. It is situated on the 
south shore of Long Island, and land is 
very loose and sandy. At the present 
time it is covered with what I think is 
wild rose and the ground is full of roots 
from these same plants. Roots are vcr\ 
thick and run lengthwise under ground, 
shooting up these wild roses all over tin- 
place. If any part of root is left in 
ground it Avill grow up again as if noth 
ing happened to it. Is this ground suit¬ 
able for planting vegetables, and if so 
what kind and the quantity of each should 
I plant? I only want enough for table 
use, so intend to plant 100x100 feet, al¬ 
though I have more room if necessary. 
How would you advise me to prepare the 
land, what fertilizer and how much of it 
Can a tin Wilt! (Irene Heal in {t in the Adirondack Fnoiv 
roll in the snow, in a A T aiu effort to rise 
and join their comrades on the north¬ 
bound voyage. After the flight is over, 
and the snow is gone, each pair retires 
to some selected corner in the pond below 
the barn, ami there, in the same old nest, 
used for years before, they begin to re¬ 
model it, and soon the nest contains six 
or seven large Avbite oval chalky eggs. 
The wild Canada geese are a Avonderful 
study, and afford me much pleasure. They 
are a little “information bureau’’ all Avitli- 
iu themselves; they teach you things you 
lower dreamed of, and so Avitli all of 
Nature’s Avonderful creatures up in the 
great Avastes of the Adirondack forests at 
any and all seasons. 
Two things I read in late issues of TlIE 
It. N.-Y. which I might mention: One 
was “Goats vs. Cows.” page 408. Our 
friend will have solved the milk problem 
in his territory if he gets a good goat at 
the start. You are right in selecting the 
Nubian, hut he aviII rut find it easy to get 
a purebred. In fact, he should first get a 
grade. I’urehreds are beyond the reach 
of most men, and again they are less 
hardy than grades, and many of the lat¬ 
ter are ju.st as good milkers. I advise 
him to get two bred females, one ti> kkl 
in the Fall and the other in Spring. This 
will give an uninterrupted milk Aoav 
throughout the entire year. Not many 
Americans have heretofore realized the 
wonderful possibilities of milch goats, hut 
live years hence Aviil have shown us what 
can he accomplished with a farm asset 
loug neglected. Small space, inexpensive 
feed, hardiness, a striking quality of the 
richest milk, and lots of it for the size of 
the little animal, are all points of excel¬ 
lence in the favor of the milch goat. 
Thou again on page 300, I read the 
“Turkey Talks by a Turkey Woman”; 
surely she has presented ns with the trials 
and tribulations of the turkey grower, but 
she failed to tell ns her remedies for a 
perfect balance. I had just completed a 
short article for Tin-: It. N.-Y. on turkey 
raising Avlien I read her letter, so I Con¬ 
cluded after re-reading mine again, that I 
should re-write it, and this avc’11 leave 
for u future issue. 
should 1 use? On some of my other land 
I Avish to plant about 12 assorted fruit 
trees, also some strawberry and other 
berry plants. .7. J. B. 
New York. 
Your sandy land on the south shore of 
Long Island is a good place for a garden 
if the free water of the subsoil is not 
over two or three feet down. If deeper 
you should install a system of sprinkling 
irrigation. Plow the land early and har¬ 
row the roots of the wild roses out. A 
spring-tooth harrow will drag them to 
the surface, but a disk harrow only cuts 
them into more pieces. Fight or 30 tons 
of manure must be avcII harrowed into 
the soil after the roots are out. Then 
apply 500 pounds of hydrated lime, or 
1,000 pounds of ground limestone. I 
think your area of approximately a quar¬ 
ter acre is large enough to supply a fam¬ 
ily, except as to potatoes. You will find 
that root crops; tomatoes and peppers 
Avill do well, and both very early and late 
cabbage should succeed. Plant your 
sweet corn in a solid block, not a long, 
thin row, to get pollenizatiou. If you 
like “greens” raise Saauss chard and New 
Zealand spinach. Buy your plants of 
tomato, cabbage, pepper, eggplant, etc., 
fertilize the crops while growing with 
a 5-.S-5 fertilizer hoed in about the 
plants. You can buy plants and fer¬ 
tilizer locally. As your land is poor end 
leachy, I doubt your success with 
“assorted fruit trees"; you Avill waste 
time and room iu apples, pears, plums 
or sour cherries. Peaches and grapes 
Avill succeed if you feed them liberally. 
Strawberries, rod raspberries and dew¬ 
berries can all he made to hear if the 
best of attention is given. ir. l'. B. 
A LITTLE argument was being held by 
two ladies iu a Whitechapel thoroughfare. 
“There is one thing no one can say about 
me,” said one of the ladies : “no one can 
ever call me two-faced.” "No. they can t 
neither,” snapped the other. "If you had 
Iavo faces you would never be seen out, 
Avith the one you are wearing uoav.” — Mel¬ 
bourne Leader. 
