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Food For 
A July 
Morning 
— and every morning when the thought 
of health enters into the meal time 
preparation — 
Orape=Nuts 
This easily digested food needs no 
sugar, yet it has a most pleasing sweet 
flavor, and is full of the sound good¬ 
ness of wheat and malted barley. 
Theres a Reason 
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With U.S.GoVernment Battleship Gray 
At Factory Prices 
Protect your barns from spring rains 
and hot summer sun with Arlington 
Battleship Gray—the paint the Gov¬ 
ernment uses on its fighting ships and 
warehouses. This paint covers Well 
and is easily applied. 
You can buy this tested quality-grade paint 
and our special red barn paint at factory prices 
now. Freight prepaid. There isan Arlington 
paint for every use—silos, interior and exterior 
house paints, implement enamels and MORE- 
LYTE,' the interior sanitary white enamel 
for dairies. Arlington ha* stood for quality 
paint for 1 7 years. All paint sold on money- 
back guarantee. Try some and return what's 
left if not exactly as represented. Reference 
any Canton hank. Write at once for color 
card, prices and directions for ordering. Get 
a quality, guaranteed paint at factory prices. 
The Arlington Mamjfcicturmq Co. 
■30 MARS*.SOM -ivCNOe CA M-TOM. -'om*o 
fACTOfllC5 AT f£lCOO AMO CANTON 
Capacity One MtJ/ion Ga//o.it Per Year 
These New 
Strawberries 
will bring higher prices than 
the fruit you grow now. They 
are bigger; they look better 
and taste better. 
Beal 
Buckbee 
Kevitt’s Jubilee 
are genuinely new—you’ve 
never grown anything like 
them. Their firmness not 
only makes them bettertoeat, 
but permits them to be ship¬ 
ped long distances. Write 
for our catalog B which gives 
full descriptions and prices. 
William M. Hunt & Company 
148 Chambers Street New York City 
REFRIGERATOR 
CUTS THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. Needs 
no ice, chemicals or electricity. Keeps all 
food fresh, pure, sweet. Stop climbing cel¬ 
lar steps. The "POLAR" fits anyplace. 
An arm's reach from your kitchen table. 
The "POLAR” method of icelcss refrigera¬ 
tion as used in France now yours at very little 
cost. 
Write fer Fries 
TODAY 
Get all facts. Special 
offer to those willing to 
show the "POLAR" in 
their own homes. Get 
your own refrigerator at 
agent's price. Be first to 
write from your neigh¬ 
borhood 
POLAR ICELESS 
REFRIGERATOR CO. 
327 Main St. 
WASHINGTON, IOWA 
5,000,000 CABBAGE and 
CAULIFLOWER PLANTS 
(All varictiwa ready now.) 
0ABB.10E plants, $2 per 1,000; $1.25 per 500. < ACLI- 
FLOWER plants, Henderson’s Snowball. $1.50 per 
1,000 ; $2.50 per 500 ; $1 per 100. tl E I. E It Y PLANTS 
(Heady July 1st) $5.50 per 1,000; $1.75 per 500. 
PAUL F. ROCHELLE, Drawer 269, Morristown, N. J. 
Strawberry Plants 
For August and Fall planting. Pot-grown and run¬ 
ner plants that will bear fruit next. summer. Also 
RASPBERRY. BLACKBERRY. DEWBERRY, GOOSEBERRY, 
CURRANT, GRAPE plants, ROSES and SHRUBS for fall 
planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, New York 
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 
ASTER and PANSY PLANTS 
Late Branching Aster and Largo Flowering Pansy 
plants, SI .60 hundred ; $7.76 thousand. 
HARRY L. SQUlliKS, Good Ground, N. Y. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
We grow leading varieties. CABBAGE—Price, per 100— 
30r.; per 500—00c.; per 1.000—$1.50. Lots of 5.000 or more 
—$1.25 per 1,000. CAULIKLOW KH—per 100—65c.; per 500— 
$2.50; per 1,000—$4. TOMATO—per 100—40c. ; per 500—$1; 
per 1.000—$1.75. Lots of 5,000 or more—$1.50. Send for 
prepaid Parcel Post prices ou all kinds*of plants. 
C. E. FIELD - SEWELL, N. J. 
Cabbage Plants 
all leading varieties, $1.25 per 1,000; 10,000 for@10.00. 
Celery Plan!*, leading varieties. $1.25 per 1.000. 
J. C. SCHMIDT, IJRISTOL, FA. 
L a , For quirk re- 
arge Asparagus Roots yj* d * v d « 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N.Y. 
For Sale-500,000 Cabbage, 
1’ LA NTS. Catalogue free. MICHAEL N. B0RG0, Vineland, M. J. 
Own 20,000 Acres Fine Improved Farmsidgl^eiisL 
Agents wanted. JOHN B. FRIED LAND COMPANY, Jamestown, N. 0. 
American Nut Journal 
National Record. Sample 20c. 
P. O. liox 124, ROCHESTER, N.Y. 
fiahhatrp AND Tnmaln PLANTS for Lute IMantliicr 
UdUUdgtJ ANU I OmalO 1,000,$2.25;6,000, $10; 10,000, $18. 
Guarantee stocky plants and satisfactory delivery, (,’a.sli. 
Prepaid. COMMERCIAL PLANT GROWERS, New Bohemia, Virginia 
CAULIFLOWER end BRUSSELS SPROUTS PLANTS 
#1.10 hundred; 8*5 thousand. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground. New York 
PLANTS 
1,000, Post Paid. 
Cubbugc and Celery, G, 8. Blench¬ 
ing, While Plume and Winter 
4|ueen. 25c per do/. : 50c per 100; 500— 
$ 2 : $2 per 1.000. Cabbage. $2.50. per 
List Free. W. S. FORD S SON, Hartly. Delaware 
QDPPI Al bri me help you secure the best of 
OrCUIHL. the new Strawberry, Raspberry and 
Asparagus Plans. Interesting illustrated circular free. 
A. B. Katkamier - - Macedon, N. Y. 
VEGETABLE and FLOWERING PLANTS 
CAULIFLOWER, CABBAGE, BRUSSELS SPROUTS TOMATO. 
SWEET PI1TAT0 BEFT. EGG, PEPPEIt. LFTTUCE. ONION, 
KALE, KOHL RABI. PARSLEY. A S P A R A G U S, RHUBARB, 
PANSY, ASTER, SALVIA, ROSE plants. Catalogue free. 
Harry L. squires. Good Ground, N. Y. 
50,000 L. Cabbage Plante 
at *1.50 per 1,000. 
DAVIO R0DWAY. Hertly. Delaware 
furrow will not satisfy you. We have 
tried that, with poor success. _ The seed 
pieces go right down into a mat. Of 
course rye when loosely turned over fer¬ 
ments and then dies; dries out unless the 
weather is wet. Such a condition makes 
a very poor seed-bed for the potato. A 
much better way is to chop up the rye 
with a disk and then turn it under. 
Then pack it down with a roller or heavy 
drag. Then make the surface as fine as 
possible, open furrows and drop the potato 
“seed.” Of course it is less labor to 
place the potatoes in, but this is a case 
where labor-saving will lose on the crop. 
And you canuot hope to raise a full crop 
of potatoes simply by plowing under 
buckwheat and rye on an old meadow. 
You should use at least 800 pounds of 
fertilizer per acre. Objection may he 
made to the use of limestone for the buck¬ 
wheat. Lime might affect the potato 
crop, but wc do not think the limestone 
will do so. 
A Yoke of Oxen 
The oxen shown this week are owned 
by W. J. Higby of Glean, N. Y. They 
are shown hitched to the mowing machine 
and also used as a substitute for the fam¬ 
ily horse or trotter. This is a good team, 
heavy and strong and intelligent. Many 
farmers who never drove an ox team will 
laugh at the idea of working cattle in 
this age of gasoline and of cars and trac¬ 
tors. Yet the ox has good and enduring 
qualities, which still make him useful on 
many a rough and rocky farm. It re¬ 
quires greater skill to drive an ox team 
properly than to manage a team of 
horses, as many an old-timer will tes¬ 
tify. There are many ox teams left in 
New England and rough sections of the 
East; in fact, in spite of all that is said 
about putting speed into farming, we 
think there are more oxen than ever be¬ 
fore at farm work. 
Fighting the Wood Borers 
During the last few weeks we have had 
a number of questions about wood borers. 
These insects work their way in the loose 
timbers or in the rafters. They eat into 
the beams, so that heaps of the yellow 
wood powder drop to the floor. The work 
of these insects will eventually weaken 
the timbers, and many of our readers are 
troubled and do not know wlmt to do. 
Where the room can ho thoroughly closed, 
fumigation is possible. This can be done 
by burning sulphur or by burning a can¬ 
dle of formaldehyde in an airtight room. 
If thoroughly carried out this would kill 
most of the iusects or beetles, but some¬ 
times they are in such a position that this 
plan is not always practical. Dr. E. P. 
Felt, New York State Entomologist, sug¬ 
gests painting the timber with a thin 
mixture of turpentine and asphalt or coal 
tar. Where possible it can be applied to 
the pests by boring small holes downward 
and then filling them with the mixture. 
Where there are only a few of the borers 
their holes are more easily seen, and it is 
sometimes possible to kill them by inject¬ 
ing bisulphide of carbon into these holes 
and then closing them with putty or soap. 
A small oilcan may be used for squirting 
the chemical into the holes, hut it is not 
often found where such a remedy would 
be possible. 
Poisoning Earth or “Angle” Worms 
We have had many questions about kill¬ 
ing angleworms. We see no reason why 
they should be killed. They do no dam¬ 
age, and certainly benefit the soil by mix¬ 
ing it up and working it over. Still, the 
questions about killing them come. The 
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture 
gives the following advice about this: 
The worms can be poisoned with bi¬ 
chloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate 
poison). Make a stock solution by dis¬ 
solving one ounce in two gallons of water. 
To use, dilute four pints of the stock solu¬ 
tion in 50 gallons of water and sprinkle 
this over about 1,000 sq. ft. of lawn. The 
ground should be moist when this is done. 
Apply in the evening. The worms will 
come out during the night and will never 
go back. Bichloride of mercury (corros¬ 
ive sublimate) is a deadly poison and 
therefore must be used carefully. 
Those who intend to use this must re¬ 
member that a diet of poisoned worms 
may kill chickens or other birds. Every 
morning wc find the little chickens run¬ 
ning over the lawns, hunting for worms. 
They eat quite enough to kill them if the 
worms get enough of the poison to end 
their life It is likely that songbirds 
would also be killed in the same way. 
But why kill the worms? 
A High Quality Ayrshire 
The picture on our cover this week 
shows the Ayrshire cow Soapstone 
Ilowie’s Queen, at Delehester Farms. 
This cow is in the Ayrshire Breeders’ 
Association Boll of Honor class. Her 
1010 record was 13,007 pounds of milk 
and 021 pounds of butterfat. 
Poison for Field Mice 
A great deal has been said about mice 
injury and control in recent issues of The 
R. N.-Y. Our youug orchard of 5,500 
young apple trees, six and seven years 
old, was attacked by the short-tailed 
mouse three years ago, resulting in the 
loss of several trees. The Department of 
Agriculture sent it man to hold a demon¬ 
stration in our orchard, which resulted in 
almost complete extermination. Last 
Winter, just befoi’e the heavy snowfall, 
we noted evidence of an abundant reinfes¬ 
tation of mice all over the orchard, and 
at once applied the remedy, and while 
neighbors lost hundreds of trees, we did 
not have a tree damaged. 
The method is simple and surely effec¬ 
tive. Take one-eighth ounce sulphate of 
strychnia and one-eighth ounce bicar¬ 
bonate of soda (ordinary cooking soda). 
Mix together in an old salt-shaker. Cut 
three quarts of sweet potatoes info dice 
or pieces one-half inch square. Sift the 
strychnia and soda over the cut sweet po¬ 
tatoes, stirring them around with a stick. 
Follow the tree rows and drop one or two 
pieces of poisoned potato into every air 
hole and cover with a small clod of dirt 
or stone. If you wish t > be more thor¬ 
ough, take a sharp-pointed stick or small 
dibble one inch in diameter and feel 
around the tree about two or three inches 
from the trunk; you can easily locate the 
runways; drop in one or more pieces of 
poisoned potato and cover with clod or 
stone as before. Three quarts of potatoes 
will be sufficient for an orchard of 2,000 
to 3.000 trees. Be careful to bury any 
that is left over, and thoroughly wash 
vessels used, for you are handling a 
deadly poison. B. G. PRATT. 
New York. 
Farmers’ Field Day at Cornell 
There was great attendance at the 
Farmers’ Field Day at Cornell University 
last week. Nearly 7.000 people attended, 
with over S00 cars. Several County Farm 
Bureaus made auto runs to the meeting. 
The visitors swarmed over the college 
ground and were well entertained. Speeches 
were made by S. L. Strivings, Dr. Jacob 
<J()” 1 d Schurman and Prof. Samuel P. 
Orth. These speeches were along the 
lines of the importance of agriculture to 
American society, and all rejoiced in the 
fact that farmers are organizing to assert 
their rights. There was community sing¬ 
ing, inspection of the college, a demon¬ 
stration of tractors, inspection of fine 
stock and practically everything that 
would interest a farmer. 
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CONTENTS 
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FARM TOPICS 
How We Make Sorghum.1207, 1208 
Bordeaux Mixture and Late Potato Blight. 1208 
The Soy Bean in Manchuria. 1208 
The Business Side of the Early Potato Crop 1209 
Buckwheat and Rye for Potatoes..1209. 1210 
Hope Farm Notes.1216, 1217 
My Method of Growing Asparagus. 1217 
Agriculture in Political Reforms. 1219 
Kudzu Vine in Connecticut. 1224 
Rape as a Pasture Crop; How It Is Handled 
in Canada . 1224 
How Shall Wo Fight the Wirewonnl. 1228 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Inspection of Dairy Cows.... 
Summer Butter-making . 
Feeding for Butter. 
Trouble with Whipped Cream 
Oats and Peas in Silo. 
Pumpkins for Live Stock.... 
Thin Mare . 
Summer Sore . 
Stocked Leg . 
Milk ar.d Farm News. 
1219 
1222 
1222 
1222 
1222 
1222 
1222 
1222 
1222 
1226 
THE HENYARD 
Growing Ranges for Poultry. 
Poultry Ration; Brahmas as Layers 
Ailing Chicks. 
Intestinal Inflammation. 
1208 
1228 
HORTICULTURE 
The Tenant and tho Strawberry Crop. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 
New Suggestions for Cultivation.. 
Rapid Propagation of Strawberries. 
Dying Plum Trees.. 
Storage of Onions. 
Garden Notes from New England. 
Black Rot on Grapes. 
Hollyhocks from Seed. 
Black Currants Fail to Bear. 
Desirable Peonies... 
1208 
1961 
1212 
1212 
1212 
1212 
1214 
1244 
1214 
1214 
1217 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. •••••••• • • •: .Jffn 
Advantages of the Maternity Hospital. 
The Rural Patterns.. • • • • • ..; 
Cucumbers in Brine; Canned Beets ana 
Canned Sauerkraut .Igon 
Embroidery Designs . ; . .non 
More About Soap-malting. 
A Mending Hint. loop 
Imitation Antiques. .ngo 
Tennessee Notes . yrfon 
Maple Flake Cookies. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Suggested Changes for N. Y. Game Laws.. 1207 
Editorials . i<,iq 
Who Is Your Candidate for Governor?.... «« 
Another Victory for tho Non - Partisan 
League .•.. ,019 
Going After a Sugar Supply. .905 
Northern Ohio Notes... jggj 
Tanning a Hide.. 1225 
Killing Rats and Burning Weeds. ,030 
Publisher’s Desk. 
