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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
plus. Milk is worth about 30 cents a 
quart here, wholesale, and 17 to 18 cents 
retail. Some of our neighbors formerly 
kept a small, choice herd of cows anil 
made considerable milk. Now they can 
buy milk by the can or pick up the small 
surplus from neighbors, and probably 
make more real profit than they did as 
producers. Milk is shipped down from 
Orange County, New York, on the Erie 
Railroad. Our roads are good and a light 
truck makes a quick job of hauling. Prob¬ 
ably the time will come when most of the 
farmers in this country will carry a few 
c-ows. the milk being handled in bulk by 
one man in each community. Years ago 
each farm had the cows and the women 
made butter. That went out of date, but 
now I think the milk trade will come back. 
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Very much of the feed for these cows 
will he produced in cover or catch crops. 
It will represent the difference between 
leaving the soil bare through the Fall and 
Winter and having it covered with rye. 
barley, vetch or clover. The cover crops 
are working in. and there can he no ques¬ 
tion about their value. It seems to me 
that this new annual Sweet clover will 
prove a wonderful help in our farming 
provided it comes up to its promise. I 
have, some of it growing in the garden, 
and it is outgrowing ragweed—which is a 
strange thing to say of any plant. In 
one of the hill orchards I have the old- 
fashioned Sweet clover over seven feet 
high by July 30. We cut this after seed¬ 
ing and scatter the seed about, so that 
the stand is thickening up, and will cover 
the entire orchard. In other orchards 
we have Alsilce clover handled in much 
the same way. That is. we let it make 
seed and then cut with the mower. Fork¬ 
ing it ti|> around the trees scatters the 
seed so that the thick stand is kept tin 
year after year, and people who see it 
are astonished at the size Alsike will 
make under such conditions. Of course, 
this cannot be done so well in a dry sea¬ 
son. and the trees would suffer if we let 
the clover stand so long. This season ha^ 
been so wet that the ground is continu¬ 
ally soaked, and I think the grass, clover 
and weeds have been a good thing in pre¬ 
venting the soil from becoming too wet. 
While such varieties as Spy and It. I. 
< Ireening do not seem to need to change 
their stockings when they get their feet 
wet. Baldwin and McIntosh cannot stand 
such treatment. I have one case where 
Baldwin and Spy stand close together in 
a soil where there are underground 
springs. The Spy is bright and dark 
green, while Baldwin is light colored and 
evidently in trouble. I have heard of 
cases where some years ago Baldwin was 
planted on wet. undraiued land. The trees 
were such evident failures that the owner 
sold the orchard in disgust. The uew 
owner put in a full system of tile drains, 
lowered the water level, and the Bald¬ 
wins came hack to great profit. lie gave 
these new and dry stockings. In a 
season like this one. on some of our wet 
land I am sure that the big growth of 
weeds and clover does more good than 
cultivation. ir. w. c. 
Slugs Damage Potatoes 
Last Fall, in digging my potatoes, I 
found hill after hill with the best tubers 
eaten : just the hollowed-out skin remain¬ 
ing. The damage must have been caused 
by field mice, as my neighbor found a 
typical mouse nest in a hill in his patch. 
A hole in the ground would show where 
the mice entered, hut they tunneled clear 
down the row without emerging. I hist 
many Lima bean hills last year from the 
same cause. There was no indication on 
the surface that the beans were being 
disturbed, but a neat tunnel extended 
clear around the bean pole. I suppose 
poisoning is the remedy. How is it best 
opplied? w. r. s. 
Ridgefield. Conn. 
The damage was probably caused by 
slugs, a close neighbor to the snail. They 
destroy corn and tobacco seedlings, eat 
holes in potatoes aud in the roots of rad¬ 
ishes and carrots, aud are extremely par¬ 
tial to Lima beaus. Already this season 
the writer lost a row of bush Limas 
through slugs, though the surrouudiug 
rows of kidney beaus were untouched. 
The commonest species is the gray field 
slug, and they are found in cool.' moist 
situations. During the day they are hid¬ 
den away under stones and boards, aud 
come out to feed only at night, or on 
damp, cloudy days. Their bodies are kept 
moist by a slimy secretion, a trail of 
which is left behind wherever they go. 
The slugs reproduce through eggs deposit¬ 
ed in cliisrws in moist ground, under 
stones or other shelter. They are most 
troublesome in seasons of abundant mois¬ 
ture, and ou heavy soil that does not dry 
out quickly. A poison bait made up as 
follows is recommended to control this 
common pest of the garden : Bran. 10 lbs.: 
Paris green. % lb.; molasses, 1 qt.: 
water. 2 gals. The dry bran and Paris 
greeu are thoroughly mixed in a tub or 
other receptacle. The molasses is dis¬ 
solved iu the water and the bran and 
poison wet with it, the mixture being 
constantly stirred so as to dampen the 
mash thoroughly. Only enough wat&r 
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oughly. aud not enough to make it sloppy. 
An orange or lemon peel is sometimes 
chopped finely and stirred into the mass. 
The bait is scattered broadcast over the 
infested area at uiglitfall. The above 
quantity will treat a little over an acre. 
Cutworms and grasshoppers are also 
readily controlled by use of this poisoned 
bait. T. H. TOWNSEND. 
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