W* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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■fl-ill take cold when you pull it off?" 
What can I do but lean on my hoe and 
remark: "My dear girl, have you not 
learned that the best way to cure a fool¬ 
ish adult of his folly is to let him persist 
in it; and then take the consequences?’’ 
And after that remark, what can I do 
but pull the sweater off? 
There goes ray daughter across the lawn 
to look at the incubator.| She has a few 
Black Giant chicks out and more coming. 
The little fellows are surprisingly lively, 
and how they do grow! We think more 
and more of this breed as we study the 
big black birds. No, we have no eggs or 
chicks for sale. There may be some young 
stock in the Fall if it can be handled 
without interfering with regular adver¬ 
tisers and chicken men. It must be after 
12 o’clock, as the boys are out on the 
lawn' plaving ball. Here comes the little 
girl to call me in. I have no idea what 
we are to have, but come along in and 
we shall find something, I know. 
It is my conviction that next Winter 
will find this country shorter of food than 
at most times during the war. We should 
all be practicing war economies right now, 
for most of us will be -put to it later. So 
today I find some sliced cold ham. the 
remains of a beef stew, boiled rice, spin¬ 
ach and egg. two kinds of bread, butter, 
milk and fruit preserves. You might 
call it a "picked-up" dinner for cleajnng 
dav. and it will all be picked up before 
we are done with it. A week later there 
would be a great dish of rhubarb sauce. 
I will grant that, the slices of ham are 
small and thin, but meat bills are large 
and fat, and the spinach and rice will give 
vitamines and starch. But potatoes £ 
Well, I must admit that in our part of 
the country potatoes are more of a luxury 
than oranges. Our own supply was used 
up some weeks ago, and during the strike 
it has been practically impossible to get 
good potatoes. During the strike, at one 
time potatoes retailed at $30 a barrel in 
New York. We bought a bushel for $5 
the other day—of poor quality at that. 
As for seed, we have been completely 
stumped this year, and I have been forced 
to go to friends here and there and ask 
them to mail by parcel post half a bushel 
or a bushel of seed. That is the only way 
we have been able to get a small quantity 
of good seed. It is a remarkable thing 
when we must depend on the mails in or¬ 
der to plant potatoes. Of course, we 
cannot attempt any commercial crop this 
year. We are selecting the richest spots 
of soil on the farm, and planting potatoes 
in garden culture in the hope of getting 
enough for our own use. We eat them not 
over twice a week, and most people here 
have been obliged to cut them out entire¬ 
ly. People are trying to substitute corn- 
meal and rice for potatoes, but the fact 
is that with our American habits of eat¬ 
ing there is no real substitute. 
But clean up the last of that rice and 
milk and let us get back to our job. We 
stop work early on Saturday, and that 
quack grass is growing like a rubber 
plant. Cherry-top is out on the lawn 
practicing with his baseball. He seems 
to be pitcher for the •school nine, and I 
must stop and throw a few of my old- 
fashioned curves. They are out of date 
now, though they still spin around in the 
air. But this will not make a base hit 
with that dock. We must use the hoe for 
that or be docked by nature. u. w. c. 
Fertilizer in the Orchard 
In the articles on "Ohio Apple Orchard 
Fertilization,” by F. II. Ballou, pages 
456 and 520, he states: "With the 
usual formula of 5 lbs. of nitrate of soda 
and acid phosphate per year used in con¬ 
nection,” etc. 1. Are the nitrate and 
acid phosphate put on the field in com¬ 
bination, or spread separately at different 
dates? On tillage is the fertilizer plowed 
in or spread on surface, as in grass mulch 
plan of culture? j. a. b. 
New Jersey. 
1. We usually mix the nitrate and acid 
phosphate in equal proportions by weight. 
Gr the acid phosphate may be applied 
alone in Autumn and the nitrate in early 
.Sjuang with very satisfactory results. 
‘-. The fertilizer either may be spread 
on the surface and plowed in. or applied 
immediately after plowing and disked in. 
tn many cases, where the ground is in 
good order for disking, we do uot break 
the. orchard land with a t low every 
>- urine, but use the disk alone for break¬ 
ing the soil. In the lntt< r case we spread 
the fertilizer before disking. 
»• the nitrate of soda either alone or 
n combination with the acid phosphate, 
manahly is applied in early Spring, or 
•i st about the time the leaf buds are 
7 *7 K ' u 'd beginning to expose the fruit- 
licni.m.i'fw 8 ' upplicutioji will be 
, 1 *° 'be following season’s fruit 
oi LufT’T e of its favorable influence 
JJ l,en,.S U f bid will not be 
lie 'J. ,tl . application would enable it to 
lat'eas J' ,m ‘ apfi'b’d the fertilizers as 
after th•! petals'‘ TT* “l, May ’ or > st 
fallen „.sf. eta , °f Ibe blossoms have 
neve Vear\ ?.°°^ ■ n>Nlllts s0 tar as the 
xn i' l 2°ee ls concerned: but the 
UUl fertilization is done, the 
next 
later 
weather <la infn r ^ h ? r V is , of <]ry Periods oi 
which the fcrHr ltey b'ib'wing. durinj 
solved and ..J.Jl'*" W1 1 remain undis 
ground. Where Hi, 1 ,’" tl -° surfa <‘° " f th < 
would not he f' agfl . ls Practiced this 
surface 'foi-HH^ J n,p0rtaut a !«>»* as ir 
•■hank wherl ^i- 0 ",- «rass-iuuleh or 
dissolve I],,, fertile** ' S /"‘ < ' ossai ' y tc 
"’’''Motion. !u 'duers and start them 
r. u. hai.i.ou. 
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