May 22, i>j2o 
980 
The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
If your neighbor 
with a can or two 
can make his “old bus” 
look like new—so can you 
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You can do it in a jiffy with 
Lowe Brothers’ Automobile 
Varnish Colors. 
You can do it in one day, 
and use it the next—if you 
need to. No particular trick 
in doing it. 
Just see that your car is 
clean and dry, and as little 
dust, flying as possible; and 
then take a brush and start in. 
You will be surprised how it 
goes on like melted butter, and 
the way it smooths up itself, 
to a beautiful mirror gloss. 
Don’t let anybody palm off 
any other auto finish on you. 
None other, does what this 
one will do. 
It is sold by the one best 
dealer in each town. Buy a 
can or two. Make “the old 
bus” look new. 
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Tht B. B. Shoe Co., 47-49-51 Centre Street, Brocton, Ma»i, 
Ulster County Farm For Sate 
20 acre fruit farm: 6 acres in grapes; 180 pears; 
40 apples; 20 peach; M acre of strawberries; 
1 acre of raspberries; modern house of 8 rooms 
and bath, hard wood floors, electric lights, 
phone; barn, chicken house, tenant house and 
other buildings. Residence stands well back 
from State Road, commanding a 20-mile view 
of the Hudson River. Illness of owner cause 
of sale. This is a bear at $12,000. 
DAVID N. WILBER, Real Esiate, 19 Market St;. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
Fancy Crimson or Scarlet Clover Seed 
$■7.50 Bushel, high grade—high Test. 
LAYTON & LAYTON. Inc., Seedsmen, Georgetown, Del. 
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Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard book by Henry & Mor¬ 
rison has been advanced to $2.75, at 
which price we can supply it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street 
New York 
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The Rural Education Committee Meet 
The first meeting of the committee on 
rural education, held at Syracuse. May 7, 
was not characterized by anything very 
startling. The committee organized and 
laid only tentative plans, which will be 
subject to many changes, in all proba¬ 
bility. The members of the committee, 
one and all. felt that there was a great 
responsibility involved and that only the 
best thought of which they were capable 
and the highest purpose that they could 
form was going to be adequate to the 
task. 
Everyone present had comments and 
suggestions to offer, but no one wished to 
rush into print with undigested theories 
and ideas, and it will only be after a 
careful and thorough study of rural con¬ 
ditions and a genuine reference to the 
farmers of New York that the committee 
will recommend action. It will be first 
of all what farmers want and approve of. 
No member of the committee has any 
educational hobby or fad to crowd to the 
front or any untested theory of organiza¬ 
tion to experiment with. The committee 
are out to study and learn, and then they 
will lay the whole matter before the 
farmers of the State to consider. After 
that will come the time for action, which 
insofar as the farmers and their repre¬ 
sentatives are concerned will be deliber¬ 
ate, reasonable, just and profitable to all 
the great interests of farmers’ children. 
It is the children the committee arc work¬ 
ing for, and they must have the educa¬ 
tional advantages to which they are en¬ 
titled. IIow to bring this about is the 
problem. 
The committee consists of representa¬ 
tives of the following organizations: 
New York State Grange. Dairymen’s 
League. State Federation of Farm Bu¬ 
reaus, Home Bureau Federation, State 
Department of Education, New 
State Teachers’ Association, the 
College of Agriculture at Cornell, 
were represented at the first meeti 
follows: 
New York State Grange: George AY. 
Dunn. Webster: G. C. MeNineli, Coue- 
sus; Mrs. Floyd Gates, Jamesvillc. 
Federation of Farm Bureaus: IT. C. 
McKenzie, Walton; C. S. Post, Auburn; 
H. G. Reed, Bergen. 
Home Bureau Federation : Mrs. A. E. 
Brigden, 121 Westminster Boad, Roches¬ 
ter: Mrs. Edward Young. Milton. 
Dairymen’s League: Albert Manning, 
Otisville; E. R. Eastman, 303 Fifth 
Avenue, New York City (the office of the 
Dairymen’s League ). 
New York State Teachers’ Association : 
W. E. Pierce, East Aurora.. 
State Department. of Education: 
George M. Wylie and Ray B. Snyder, 
Albany. 
State College of Agriculture: .T. E. 
Butterworth and Prof. George A. Works, 
head of the Department of Rural Educa¬ 
tion. 
The committee elected Prof. .Works 
chairman. E. R. Eastman, secretary, and 
H. C. McKenzie, vice-chairman. 
It was voted to prepare a question¬ 
naire on rural school conditions. The 
information obtained from this as well as 
from the routine reports compiled from 
the trustees’, commissioners’ and teachers’ 
reports will be duly summarized and 
studied by* the committee. After study, 
discussion and receiving all information 
possible from farmers’ meetings, farmers’ 
organizations and individual farmers tho 
committee will refer its findings back to 
the farm organizations for consideration. 
II. ti. lv. 
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State 
These 
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Destroying Wild Onions and Morning 
Glory 
How can I get rid of wild onions? I 
have a lot of them on my farm. I also 
have a very good garden spot that grows 
a lot of morning-glory. At each working 
many thousands of young plants come 
up. C. tv. D. 
Amherst, Va. 
Wild onion or field garlic is an abom¬ 
inable weed, which spreads by means of 
aerial bulblets and secondary bulbs under 
ground. It is a serious pest in grain 
fields, the aerial bulblets being about the 
same size and weight as a grain of wheat, 
so that it is impossible to clean them 
out at harvest time. There is heavy loss 
from this weed in the wheatfields of 
Virginia. Maryland and Tennessee, and 
rye growers in the Eastern States are 
also affected by it. The garlic “kernels” 
not only taint the flour, but also cause a 
sticky coating on the rollers, and in stone¬ 
grinding taint the buhr-stoncs themselves. 
In a garden plot hand-pulling at flower¬ 
ing time may be practiced, but the ground 
must be soft and care taken to leave no 
“cloves” to start a new plant. The-most 
effective method is to squirt a few drops 
of crude carbolic acid on each tuft, using 
a machine oil-can to apply it. This is 
the best way to eradicate the plant in 
lawns. Late Fall plowing, that will 
bring the bulbs to the surface, followed 
by early Spring cultivation and a hoed 
crop, is very helpful, but one cannot ex¬ 
terminate the weed in a single season. 
In infected pastures, salting the < lumps 
will induce sheep to eat them ofi. but 
either milk or meat is tainted by garlic. 
If carbolic acid is used in pastures, stock 
must be kept from the fields until rain 
has washed the poison into tho soil. 
‘Morning-glory” may mean either the 
small-flowered field bindweed or the 
showier hedge bindweed. Both are highly 
obnoxious, and both spread by roots as 
well as seeds; each bit. of root loft acts 
as a root cutting to start new growth 
Deep plowing and frequent cultivation 
are needed, while frequent cutting of the 
tops smothers the plant and prevents 
seeding. When the ground is broken up 
all the roots possible should be raked out. 
If the soil is plowed up rooting hogs will 
destroy many roots, while sheep will keep 
the tops down. Most weeds can bo cou- 
trolled in time by persistent cutting of 
the tops during the active growing sea¬ 
son. which smothers the roots. Alfalfa 
helps to control bindweed as a result of 
its close growth and repeated clippings 
given it. 
Measuring Density of Tanning Solution 
On page 3S3 was an article on tanning 
hides at home. It refers to the hydro¬ 
meter reading of 0.1, with directions to 
increase the density one degree each 
month during the process. My hydro¬ 
meter is the Baume scale, which has no 
decimals. Will you inform me how the 
scale referred to by the writer of the 
article compares with the Baume scale? 
North Sebago, Me. w. ii. m. 
The article in question had reference 
to the Manchester barometer. If you use 
a Baume instead just erase the integer 
and the decimal, and you will come nearly 
enough to the correct density. But bear 
in mind that, there will always be a wide 
variation from any set standard, and the 
experienced tanner trusts more to his 
taste than to any instrument. It. is a 
good deal like the recipe which calls for 
a certain amount of sugar when making 
an apple pie. A good deal depends upon 
whether the apples arc sweet, moderately 
sour or extremely sour. c. o. ormsbee. 
Culture of Horseradish 
Will you tell me something about horse¬ 
radish? Does it take more than one sea¬ 
son to got the big roots? Some of mine 
seem to have been eaten off, and a number 
of little roots sent out. A friend of mine 
says I am too good to it, and to try plant¬ 
ing it upside down. I have planted in a 
rich, rather damp locality, and pressed 
beau cans, .with top and bottom melted 
off, around each plant to keep off rodents, 
but seem to have big tops but small roots. 
Newtown Square, Pa. i. r. c. 
The large market gardeners usually 
grow horseradish as a second crop, and it 
is almost always planted in the early 
cabbage, cauliflower and beet ground, im¬ 
mediately after these plants have been set 
out. The ground is usually lined out with 
a marker 12 or 15 inches apart, and the 
early vegetable plants are set in every 
alternate row. After the planting of these 
has been completed the horseradish is then 
planted between the rows of cabbage, and 
at about the same distance apart in the 
row as the cabbage, which should be about 
13 inches apart. The horseradish sets are 
always made from roots from one-fourth 
to one-half inch in diameter, and are out 
in lengths of five to six inches. The top 
end should be cut square across and the 
bottom end diagonal or slanting, so that 
when planting it will be easy to avoid set¬ 
ting the roots upside down. While it will 
grow if planted bottom end up, it will 
not make a good root. The root sets are 
made during the Winter when preparing 
the large roots for market, and arc usual¬ 
ly tied in bundles of 50 and stored in 
boxes of damp sand, which may be stored 
in a cool cellar, or, better still, in the 
open ground, if weather will allow of 
them "being so stored. 
The planting is usually done in the fol¬ 
lowing manner: With a long stick or light 
crowbar about the size of a broom handle, 
sharpened so as to be easily pushed into 
the ground, a hole about 10 inches deep is 
made, into which the set. is dropped, top 
end up, so that the top will he three to 
four inches under the surface. The soil 
s’ mid be pressed alongside of the set 
with the foot so as to close up the hole, as 
in other planting. The principal reason 
for planting the set so deep under the sur¬ 
face is to retard its coming up until the 
crop of early vegetables has been cleared 
off. As the horseradish makes practically 
all its growth during the Autumn months, 
it, will not be injured if kept from growing 
until .Tilly. If it should come up during 
the cultivating period of the'cabbage crop 
it should be cut off with the hoe. so the 
growth of that crop will not be interfered 
with. 
After the other crop has been cleared 
off the horseradish i*s then allowed to grow 
at will. If planted in good ground the 
tops will soon spread out over the surface 
and smother out. weeds. Usually^ about 
one good cultivation will be sufficient to 
make the crop. Horseradish is very hardy 
and is seldom taken up until December, or 
iust before the ground freezes. The roots 
if grown in good ground should be a foot 
or more in length by December, and 
weigh close to three-fourths of a pound 
when trimmed of top and rootlets. After 
being trimmed they should be stored m 
thi> root cellar or pit like other root crops 
until wanted for use. Horseradish roots 
are at their best at one year old; if 
lowed to become two years old or older 
they become rusty or otherwise deterior¬ 
ated. 
