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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Good 
COMMON-SENSE 
REASl NS 
Why 
nBARIUMV 
PHOSPHATE 
SHOULD BE USED 
IN SEEDING DOWN 
A farmer customer who called at our 
office recently remarked: 
“You don’t need to buy clover seed, 
Barium-Phosphate is full of it” 
Of course his theory was all wrong, but 
that farmer had applied Barium-Phos¬ 
phate in an orchard last season and this 
June the field was a mass of Alsike Clover. 
He had planted the clover seed so long 
ago that he had forgotten all about it, 
but the soil was so acid the seed had 
simply lain there and not germinated 
until the Barium-Phosphate was applied 
and changed the soil conditions. 
CLOVER CANNOT GROW ON AN ACID SOIL 
A moderate application of our Alkaline 
Fertilizer, 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
Analysing 
28.00% PHOSPHORIC ACID 
7.00% BARIUM SULPHIDE 
Will Sweeten the Soil and Supply Phosphorus 
in an Ideal Form 
thereby insuring vigorous stands of clover, 
grass and grain, at a very moderate cost. 
It will pay you to send for our little books, 
“PHOSPHORUS AND MANURE” 
"B-P FOR FALL SEEDING” 
•which contain some “worth while” information 
on the subject of fertilization. 
Witherbee, Sherman & Co. 
2 Rector St., New York City 
Layer Strawberry Plants 
from, including the fall bearing. Ask for catalog, 
j. Kkifford Hall, Route 2, Uhodxsdalk, Mb. 
Cabbage Plants 
all leading varieties, $1.2« per 1,000:10,000 for#I<1.00. 
Celery riant a, leading varieties, $I.!S5 per 1.000. 
J. C. SCHMIDT, BRISTOL, PA 
Cabbage and Celery, G. S. lUeaeli- 
lniC, White Plume and Winter 
Queen. 25e per doz : 50c per 100; 500— 
$2: $3 per l.(KK). Cabbage $2.50. per 
1,000. Post Paid. List Free. W. S. FORD & SON, Hardy.Delaware 
Fancy Crimson or Scarlet Clover Seed 
1 lclb.; 5-bush, lots, $6. High Grade—High Test. 
LAYTON & LAYTON, Inc.. Seedsmen, Georgetown, Del. 
Own 20,000 Acres Fine Improved FarmSbTg r ffleifst r 
Agents -wanted. JOHN B. FRIED LAND COMPANY Jamestown. N. D. 
CDEPIAI Let me help you secure the beat of 
kUlHL the new Strawberry, Raspberry and 
Asparagus Plans. Interesting illustrated circular free. 
A. B. Katkamier - - Macedon, N. Y. 
Strawberry Plants 
For August and Fall planting. Pot-grown and run¬ 
ner plants that will hear 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 
Tlic Joynt Brand. 
Pure Unleached Hardwood Ashes 
The best Potash Fertilizer for top dressing, worn out 
grass anil meadow lands, wheat, growing or seeding 
down they have no equal. Correspondence Invited. 
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said Mrs. A. J. McDonald of East Peppered, Mass., when she 1 
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S CVSffjKIEK 
If yqur Alfalfa does not winter-kill, the hay 
crop is produced at a comparatively low cost, 
. even though the price of the seed is higher 
I th in that of ordinary Strains. 
I I. ist year was an unusually severe one on 
I Alfalfa, but we had no complaint of our 
' GENUINE GRIMM killing. 
We should like to send quotations and 
Scott’s Field Seed Book 
0. M. SCOTT & SONS CO., 384 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
5,000,000 CABBAGE and 
CAULIFLOWER PLANTS 
(All varieties ready now.) 
CABBK3K plants, $2 per 1.000 ; $1.25 per 500. C.U'M- 
F 1,0 WE It plants. Header oil's Snowball. $4.50 per 
1.1100 : >2.50 per 50(1: $1 per 100. ( K I. E It V PLAN T S 
(Ready July 1st, $3.50 per 1,000: $1.75 per 500. 
PAUL F. ROCHELLE, Drawer 269, Morristown, N. J. 
This well known cover crop 
will be much higher in price, we be- 
Ask for sample and quotations. 
Can supply all other seed for summer 
sowing, including Rosen Rye. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 
704 Main Street - Marysville, Ohio t 
LA A ID V \#ETf*U Gver 2.000 bushels ready to har- 
Fi Mill I V L I Uil \est. Get i ur prices, also book 
on bacteria for all legumes. JH 014 UrQlTEEA, lialllr, Ohio 
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CAULIELOWER. CABBAGE. BRUSSELS SPROUTS. TOMATO. 
SWEET POTATO. BEET. EGG, PEPPER. LETTUCE, ONION. 
KALE. KOHL RABI. PARSLEY. A S P A R A G U S. RHUBARB. 
PANSY, ASTER. SALVIA, ROSE plants. Catalogue free. 
Harry 1 >. Squires, Good Ground, N. Y. 
GRAND COUNTRY HOME For Sale 
17 acres level truck soil. Fine residence; all modern con¬ 
veniences ; also large barn, greenhouse, ice house, gar¬ 
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This property is situate on state road in small village, and 
Is offered for less than one-half its value. Write for com¬ 
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for sale. MDNDEVILLE REAL ESTATE AGENCT, lie.. Oepl. I. Olein. N.T. 
Eastern Pennsylvania FARMS Tm® 
best of soil at owner’s prices, for sale at all time"*. Ask for 
latest lists. 0. A. ANDRES, National Bank Building, Quakartown, Pa. 
For Sale-Fruif and Dairy FARMS 
Free list. HARRY VAIL. New Milford. Oranae Co., N. Y. 
Productive Eastern Shore 
price to suit the buyer. 
Maryland ami Delaware 
Furn»*» for sale. Size and 
HANOT & MORRIS, Federalsburg, Md. 
Strawberries in the Box 
P^^mean that picking is easier and quicker, because it takes 
just as long to pick a small berry as a large 
one. If you want to make profits, grow 
Buckbee Beal 
Kevitt’s Jubilee 
These berries are plainly ahead of the standard var¬ 
ieties. Color, flavor, size, ease of picking—all these 
features make bigger profits. Send for descriptive 
catalogue C. Now is the best time for planting. 
William M. Hunt & Company 
148 Chamber* Street New York City 
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have horse or auto. 
Rural New-Yorker, 333 W.30th St., New York City 
where a farmer bought what he supposed 
was white Sweet clover to be used for 
hay or pasture. Now he claims that the 
field is well spotted with the yellow Sweet 
clover, which the neighbors regard as a 
pest. They insist that he must plow the 
whole thing right under before it seeds. 
The growth is so heavy that it would re¬ 
quire a tractor to put it aH under, and 
this farmer thinks the seedsman should 
pay for doing this work, because the seed 
was mixed. In our own orchard this 
mixture would make no difference, but iu 
a trucking section, where new weeds mean 
hiring high-priced labor, it would make a 
great difference. 
Use of Trucks in Haying 
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the field, either where they stop loading 
or hauled to some central point. The 
Southern haymakers have a regular sys¬ 
tem of loading these trucks, and do it very 
rapidly. A two-man crew can generally 
load about 14 trucks iu 10 hours. Even 
though the rain may come, the hay is pro¬ 
tected under these canvas covers, and in 
reasonable weather about throe days is 
required to cure the hay on these trucks 
ready for baling. If the hay is quite 
green, or the weather is unfavorable, it 
may take a week, or even more, but, given 
time enough, the hay sweats out under 
these covers and gives a good quality 
when cured. In some cases two canvases 
are put on each truck in order to give bet¬ 
ter protection. The cost of a truck runs 
to about $20. and there are farmers who 
cut over 1.500 tons of Alfalfa each sea¬ 
son with an outfit of these trucks large 
enough to take care of that amount. The 
baling is done direct from the trucks, so 
that this system saves all the expense of 
unloading into the mow or stack. 
Further Advantages. —The baled hay 
is protected by putting it under canvas, 
although the safest plan is put it iuto the 
barn as soon as possible after haling. 
The trucks can also be used to advantage 
in handling bound grain, or in hauling 
corn to the silo. The life of a truck de¬ 
li mis, of course, upon the care it receives. 
When well made it ought to last 10 years, 
at least, and a good canvas properly cared 
for will last about 10 years. In the 
South Alfalfa and Johnson grass hay are 
largely cut. and there are three to five 
crops in that damp climate. It is figured 
that each truck under the Southern sys¬ 
tem will be used about 12 times a year, 
and this continuous use, of course, brings 
down the cost, of handling one ton of hay. 
It is not claimed that hay made after this 
manner is always to be ranked as choice. 
r Flie truck belongs to a method devised 
to hasten hay-making and permit the 
farmer to handle his hay fairly well in 
a wot season. Yet. if the hay is cut and 
properly handled, without rain, this sys¬ 
tem of curing in trucks will give a high- 
class quality, for after the hay has bee*' 
put tin the trucks and well covered with 
canvas it will not spoil or go wrong, r 
it would be left out in the field to soak 
again and again by the rain. We can see 
how this system might be used'to advan¬ 
tage in many Northern hay fie’ds. If 
often happens that a rush of work 
comes just at haying, and much time is 
lost in hauling each load to the barn as 
it is loaded. With a dozen of these trucks 
in use. the hay could he saved, kept dry 
and unloaded when time was more con¬ 
venient. 
Oneida County Holstein Sale 
Thirty Oneida County breeders held 
their first annual sale in Troon G Ar¬ 
mory, Utica, N. Y„ June 30. 1020. They 
had a uniformly good lot of cattle, and a 
fairly good crowd present. Fifty-nine 
head brought $17,775. an average of 
$301.27 per head. 
Eighteen head were sold to out-of-the 
State buyers. C. S. Mulks of White- 
water. Wis.. got four for $1,100; F. II. 
Green, Evansville. Wis.. took the show 
heifer, Glen Alen Millspring Lass, out of 
Millspring Pontiac by Spring Farm King, 
at the record price for females of $705. 
Peter C. Peterson of Mt. lloreb. Wis., 
topped the sale when he paid $750 for a 
yearling bull bred by Francis M. Jones, 
Clinton. N. Y., out of S. F. Iv. King Pon¬ 
tiac Maid, by Spring Farm King 13th. 
this making him a double grandson of 
Spring Farm King, who was full brother 
to Iv. P. Pontiac Lass, who formerly held 
all world’s butter records from one to 100 
days. 
J. II. Pester of Whitewater. Wis., took 
one at $250; C. .T. Pester <ff Whitewater, 
Wis., two for $030; Harold Itecde. Ed¬ 
mond. Wis.. one at $270; F. IL MeKel- 
vey. Hollidaysburg, Pa., two at $880; 
D. M. Kensinger. Roaring Springs, Pa., 
one for $250; S. F. Zook, Curryville, I’a., 
five for $1,065. 
Besides these outside buyers, several 
Oneida County breeders stocked up fairly 
well, H. B. Sweet. Utica. N. Y., taking 
six for $1,800. The Estate of Quentin 
McAdam. Deansboro. N. Y.. five for 
$1,340; C. E. Skinner, Vernon Center, 
N. Y.. a beginner in purebred cattle, four 
at $1,515. 
In Favor of Force in Education 
I read your editorial in the May 22 
issue about new laws for district schools, 
and wish to say that if farmers felt as 
we do the State Education Department 
would not force reforms on us, because 
we would have been reformed long ago, 
but many farmers will not pay money on 
schools, and so must be obliged to. I 
July 31, 1020 
attended district school as a child ; after¬ 
wards I taught in the country 10 years, 
and now am a farmer’s wife, and my 
children go to district school, and until 
the country school is made as clean, as 
sanitary, as attractive as the village and 
city schools there is need that the depart¬ 
ment force methods of reform on us. 
It is unfair to every country child that 
the conditions in two-thirds of the country 
schools are not decent. If every farmer 
would only require this of his school: 
1. That the schoolroom where his chil¬ 
dren spend half their time from seven to 
16 years be cleaned and cared for as his 
wife cares for her living room. 
2. That the seats be as near comfort¬ 
able as his own at home. 
3. That in Winter the school be warmly 
heated and properly ventilated. 
4. That some one beside the teacher 
has the cleaning and janitor work to do. 
5. That a good well is dug on every 
school ground or water piped from some 
spring. 
I know of many district schools that 
are cleaned hut once each year; where 
when there were outdoor toilets they 
would not be cleaned oftener than once 
in two years; where the district will not 
vote to buy a new stove when they know 
cold Winter mornings the children will 
be obliged to sit with their wraps on until 
noon because the present stove will not 
heat the room ; where only green wood is 
furnished; where the fires are not started 
until after eight o’clock mornings; where 
the children have colds all Winter from 
these conditions. 
The people who live in the country w r ill 
never vote money to make the school what 
it should be unless they are forced to by 
some one who has the comfort and wel¬ 
fare of the child at heart. I wish other 
readers of your paper would discuss this 
question that vitally affects our children’s 
health and happiness. mbs. l. h. s. 
New Pension Law 
Several of our readers have written 
us about the new pension law, asking 
about its terms. It seems that Congress 
passed a law known as the Fuller bill. 
This was approved by President Wilson 
on May 1, 1320. This bill increases the 
pension to a large number of persons. 
For instance, to the widows of those who 
served in the War of 1812 the increase 
is $30. To one who .served in the war 
with Mexico and was honorably dis¬ 
charged, the increase is from $50 to $72, 
and the widow of such a soldier gets an 
increase of $30. To soldiers who served 
in the Civil War, or their widows there 
are 13 classes of pension increase. These 
run all the way from $30 to widows of 
private soldiers or army nurses up to $90 
to a soldier who has lost one arm and one 
foot. All old soldiers who are interested 
in this matter should correspond with the 
Commissioner of Pensions, Hon. Gaylord 
M. Saltzgaber. Commissioner of Pensions. 
Department of the Interior, Washington, 
D. O. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 31, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Use of Trucks in Haying.12C2, 1263 
That Annual White Sweet Clover.... 1263, 1264 
The Farm Superintendent’s Wife Talks.... 1280 
Barn Floor: Spelt for Hay; Pruning Apple 
Trees .*.. 1282 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Dairy Herd on a New England Farm.. 1261, 1262 
Fnture of the Aberdeen-Angus in the East 
Part II. 1262 
Help for Wool Owners. 1271 
The Use of Milk from Tubercular Cows.... 1276 
Teaching a Boy to Milk .1276. 1278 
Silage Left in Silo. 1280 
Dysentery of Calves. 1280 
Skin Disease . 1280 
Indigestion . 1278 
Rupture . 1278 
Obstructed Teat ..:. 1278 
Catarrh . 1278 
Heaves . 1278 
Canker; Thrush . 1278 
Bullnose .. 1278 
HORTICULTURE 
New Fruit Growers’ Organization for 
Western New York. 1203 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman.... 
Canning Fowls Under Steam Pressure. 
Figuring the Woman’s Work.... t ...... ••• 
Boys and Girls.1272, 
Tho Pastoral Parson. 
Conveniences in the Home. 
Penalty for “Changing Mir.d”. 
Light and Heat for Farm Homos. 
Treatment of the Hired M’n. 
A Woman with “Bloomers”. 
The Home Dressmaker. 
A Man on Overalls. ; . 
The Robin with the Broken Wing.. 
City and Country Folks..... 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Earthenware with Cracked Glaze. 
Cleaning Water Pipes. 
Curing Squeaky Shoes... 
Sulpliur-hleached Molasses .. 
Nickel-plating .. 
Removing Indelible Ink... 
Cleaning Limestone on Porch. 
Saccharin for Preserving. 
Root Beer Extract. 
Protection Against Lightning. 
Coal Ashes for Packing.... 
Country-wide Produce Situation.. 
Events of the Week. 
Editorials ... 
More Game and Fewer Game Laws... 
The Coal Situation and Export Trade..... 
How They Make “Hydrolized Sawdust, 
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Publisher’s Desk ._.. 
A Canadian Rain-water Cistern.. 
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