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Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
When Something 
Is Wrong 
With Your Comfort 
—when nervousness, indiges¬ 
tion, billiousness or some other 
upset makes you think you are 
not eating or drinking the right 
thing 
—if you’re a coffee drinker, cut 
out coffee ten days and use 
Postum Cereal 
This delicious drink with its coffee¬ 
like flavor, suits coffee drinkers. Its 
value to health soon shows, and its 
economy is so apparent under use 
that one quickly realizes. 
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Made by Postum Cereal Co., Inc. 
Battle Creek, Michigan 
CORN HARVESTER 
That boats them all. One horse cuts two rows. Car¬ 
ries to the shock. Worked by 1, 2 or 3 men. N<> dan¬ 
cer No twine. Free trial. We also make STUMP 
PULLERS ami TILE DITCHERS. Catalog free. Agents 
Wanted. H. D. BENNETT & CO..Westerville, O. 
This well known cover crop 
will be much higher in price, we be¬ 
lieve. Ask for sample and quotations, 
('an supply all other seed for summer 
sowing, including Rosen Rye. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 
704 Main Street * Marysville, Ohio 1 
GRAND COUNTRY HOME For Sale 
17 acres level truck soil. Fine residence; all modern con¬ 
veniences : also large barn, greenhouse, ice house, gar¬ 
age, hen house, grange hall. Electricity In all buildings. 
This property is situate on state road in small village, and 
is offered for less than one-half its value. Write for com¬ 
plete description. Ask for list of New York State farms 
for sale. MANOEVILLE REAL ESTATE AGEHCT, Inc., Dept. I, Olcan, N.Y. 
GRADE A. DAIRY FARM 
141 acres, elegant valley land, good buildings, piped 
spring water, concrete highway. Close to fort land City 
In Central New York’s best dairy and produce section, 
CRANDALL’S AGENCY, HOMEK, N. V. 
Member N. Y. State Farm Brokers Ass’n 
CAD C A I C ■ 477 acre dairy farm A, mile from cream- 
rUH OHLL . ery nearly level. Will include 21 cows, 
2 horses, 8 hogs, 40 hens, farm machinery and tools. 
Price 87 , 000 , Cash #2,000 
CAMPBELL BROS. - ONE O NT A, N. V. 
Eastern Pennsylvania FARMS "Iv 
best of soil at owner’s prices, for "ale at all times. Ask for 
latest lists. D. A. ANDRES, National Bank Building, Quakerlown, Pa. 
For Sale-.Fruif and Dairy FARMS 
Free list. HARRY VAIL. New Milford. Oranoe Co.. N. Y. 
Own 20,000 Acres Fine Improved Farms,Hgceebs 0 ,'.' 
Agents wa nted. JOHN B. FRIED LAND COMPANY, J:m;slown, H. 0 . 
50 A. Farm, Crops & Equipment, $4,050 
Nearly ievel Ifertile land, excellent house, ample barns 
filled'with hay. Sugar grove. 100 fruit trees. 0 cows, 
farm team, 75 fowls, big growing crops. Also long list 
farm tools all included foi $4,950.00. Immediate possession. 
CRANDALL’S AGENCY, Homer. Cortland County, N.Y. 
Member N. Y. State Farm Brokers Ask'd. 
SAVE BARRELS 
Apple growers—to increase price of all apples, use 
Allis’ Pasteurizer and give consumers “A Royal 
Drink” the year around. Pasteurized (at low tem¬ 
perature, not boiled.) Cider and canned apples are 
fruit growers only profitable outlook. Our machines 
do it. To raise calves free from tuberculosis usethe 
Allis Machine. The only “In the Bottle” machine 
for milk, our machines with low temperatures do not 
destroy the vitamines. Capacity from household 
size to largest cider mills and dairies. 
CLARK ALLIS MEDINA, N. Y. 
I AGENTS WANTED 
I tions for Bubal Nrw-Yobkkk in Ohio. Prefer 
men who have horse or auto. Address 
I J. C. MULHOLLAND,'General Delivery. Columbus.Ohio 
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[THE RURAL NEW-YORKER .333 W. 30th St. NewYork City 
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 ASPARAGUS, RHUBARB plants. ROSES, 
PANSIES and SHRUBS for fall planting. CATALOG FREE. 
Harry L. Squires - Good Ground, N. Y. 
GLADDEN WHEAT 
Recleaned read? to sow. $3 5') per bn. Poole $3 25. 
Rosen Rye $2.90, Mammoth White Rye $2.75. Bags 
extra at cost. Alfalfa. Timothy, Rape. <te. Cata¬ 
log free. W. N. ScarfT& Sons, New Carlisle, O. 
Vegetable and Flowering Plants 
CAULIFLOWER, CAB2AGE, BRUSSELS SPROUTS. KALE, KOHL- 
RABI, PARSLEY, ASPAiiAGUS. PANSY, ASTER, SALVIA plants. 
Catalogue froc HARRY L. SfyUiRES. Good Ground, N. Y. 
Cabbage Plants 
all leading varieties, #1.2.> per 1,000; 10,000 for #10.00. 
Celery iTunls, leading varieties, #1.25 per 1.000. 
J. C. SCHMIDT, BRISTOL, PA 
QDEPI Al 1 -et me help you secure the best ci 
Ol IIU114 L the new Strawberry, Raspberry and 
Asparagus Plant. Interesting illustrated circular free. 
A. B Katkamier - - Macedon, N. Y. 
Layer Strawberry Plants 
from, including the fall bearing. Ask for catalog. 
.1. Kkikforp Hall, Route 2, Rhodebpalk, Mt>. 
Fancy Crimson or Scarlet Clover Seed 
1 1 C 11).; 5-bush. lots, $6. High Grade—High Test. 
LAYTON & LAYTON, Inc., Seedsmen, Georgetown. Del. 
American Nut Journal P. o. Box 124. Rochester, N.Y. 
A GENTS—Mason sold 18 Sprayers and Autownshers one 
Saturday; Profits, $2 50 each; Square Deal; Particu¬ 
lars Five. RllSl.KR COMPANY, Jolruntwoii.Olilo 
Send for 
FARM WAGONS 
High or low wheels— 
steel or wood—wide 
or narrow tires. 
Wagon parts of all 
kinds. Wheels to fit 
any running gear. 
Catalog illustrated in colors free. 
Wheel Co., 48Elni SI.. Quincy, IIL 
I 
Seed Wheat 
Grow More Wheat per Acre! Sow the Right Variety! 
••Hoffman’s Seed Wheat ”—11 kinds—hardy, prolific, reliable— yields well under 
trying weather conditions wherever sown. Is clean—free of cockle, garlic, 
chess, rye, smut. Write today for samples and free copy of ‘‘Hoffman’s Wheat Book”—read 
descriptions of varieties—get the facts on wheat culture. Mention RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc., LANDISVILLE, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. 
what darker. These two kinds aTe often 
hard to distinguish, but it is easy to tell 
either of them from a Bartlett. On the 
other hand, Bartlett and Sheldon are so 
near alike that they could not be sepa¬ 
rated without some risks in many cases. 
The Japanese kinds of plums, such as 
Burbank and Abundance, are not. easily 
mistaken, and there is no trouble at all 
in getting them separated from the Euro¬ 
pean sorts. Shropshire Damson is easy 
to tell. German Prune has its character¬ 
istics, so has Lombard. Varieties of 
peaches are the hardest kind of all to 
pick out. There is no easy way of sepa¬ 
rating them once a mixture has been 
made. It may be possible with a very 
few kinds, but it could be rarely done 
with certainty. Here, then, is another 
strong argument in favor of patronizing 
the most honest and reliable nurseryman, 
and we should be willing to pay for such 
honesty. sylvanus van aken. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—But what test shall we use 
to determine the “honest and reliable nur¬ 
seryman?” That is what most fruit¬ 
growers want to know. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
One who tries to grow flowering plants 
that may be better than those already 
listed must expect to draw a great many 
blanks. 1 grow a good many seedling 
Cannas and Dahlias. I get quite a 
lot of fairly good flowers, but not as good 
as some already in the catalogues, and 
only now and then a plant that shows 
qualities equally as good as the best. I 
find that I get more fine flowers in the 
Dahlias than in the Cannas, but it is 
rare fun to grow the seedlings and watch 
them bloom. But when people want me 
to sell them seedling Cannas in the Spring 
because they have seen the plants from 
which the seed were produced I have to 
tell them they would better buy the cata¬ 
logued varieties and know what they are 
to get. It seems hard for people to under¬ 
stand that a man can grow flowers purely 
for the love of the work, and not want to 
sell them. 
I have just done what I never did be¬ 
fore. and would not have done now. could 
it have been helped. I had just dug a 
well-matured crop of early Irish potatoes, 
and wanted to plant a good supply of the 
late ones, and had not ground enough 
without using the early potato plot as 
well as the other plots. So the laud has 
been at once replanted, and as I have 
some also in other spots after other early 
crops I shall be much interested in noting 
the results. A crop of the seed from the 
early plot is yet to be planted, as I wish 
to grow these for the early planting next 
Spring. 
We are at last getting an abundance of 
tomatoes, smooth, solid ones, while the 
market here has only Earlianas. but mine 
are nearly a month later than usual. The 
second crop plants are just in full bloom¬ 
ing. and then I have more plants that are 
eight or 10 inches high. These I expect 
to be in full bearing when frost comes, 
and will give a lot of well-grown green 
tomatoes to wrap in paper and store in 
the cellar, and bring out from time to 
time to ripen in the kitchen. I have had 
these last for slicing till January. 
A full planting of string beans will be 
for canning or salting down. Packed in 
brine and stone jars, they can be taken 
out and soaked over night, and will be 
nearly as good as fresh beans for dinner. 
Owing to the difficulties in railroad 
transportation the two Virginia counties, 
Accomac and Nortfiampton. have not mar¬ 
keted half of their great crop of early 
Irish potatoes by the middle of July. 
Therefore the price has been well main¬ 
tained. and .$10 a barrel has been about 
the average lately. In one day it is re¬ 
ported that the Produce Exchange tit 
Onley shipped $000,000 worth of potatoes, 
and could have shipped a million dollars’ 
worth but for lack of cars. They ship in 
carload orders all over the North and 
Canada. These counties have a more 
permanent and contented population of 
negro farm hands than most sections. The 
negroes are making good wages, or are 
making money growing potatoes on shares. 
The negro prefers, when able to own team 
and tools, to work on shares rather than 
for cash wages. 
One farmer has drained 5,000 acres of 
wonderfully rich soil in the Dismal 
August 7, 1020 
Swamp of Virginia. He plants about 
2.0gw acres annually in corn grown by 
negroes on shares. The owner furnishes 
the team and seed, and the negroes do all 
the work under his direction, and get half 
the crop; and then after their cropping 
season is over he gives all of the tenants 
work at day wages during the remainder 
of the year in order to maintain a satis¬ 
fied force. 
There is really less emigration North 
from the trucking sections than from 
others. Here there has been an immense 
area planted in sweet potatoes, and the 
area now being planted in late Irish pota¬ 
toes is larger than usual. Cucumber 
crop has been a profitable one, and the 
cantaloupes will soon be on hand. An 
auction system has been inaugurated for 
selling truck crops at the stations. The 
market has been hurt annually by grow¬ 
ers being too anxious to get their melons 
into market, and the shipping of green 
ones has had a bad effect. The auctions 
are intended to stop this and to turn 
down unripe melons. The sales of the 
cucumber crop showed that the auction 
plan is a success. It has long been in 
practice with the strawberry crop. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Sulphur and Arsenic Dust 
The Hope Farm man has several times 
spoken of a combination of sulphur and 
dried arsenate of lead which he uses as a 
dust. This dust is blown on the trees in 
the place of ordinary liquid spray to kill 
the worms. As a dust it has given very 
good satisfaction, and has also been used 
on potatoes, eggplants, squash and cab¬ 
bage. So far there has been no injury to 
the plants from the application of this 
dust. It has killed off the insects, and 
so far as is seen has held off diseases. We 
have been careful to advise our friends 
that this is largely a matter of experiment 
thus far and if they want to be perfectly 
sure in handling the potato crop, they 
should use a standard remedy, and not 
experiment with a dust of this sort. Now 
we have letters from people who think 
that we have advised them to mix this 
dust with cold water and apply it as a 
spray. Nothing has ever been said that 
would indicate any such a thing. We 
use the sulphur and lead as a dry dust 
entirely. It would he of little or no value 
as a liquid. While the arsenate of lead 
would dissolve, the sulphur would not, 
and we would under no circumstances 
advise using this combination in water. 
As a dust it suits us well, hut we have 
never given any advice about using it as 
a liquid. This is an example of the way 
some of our readers read advice of this 
sort. Unfortunately, they jump at con¬ 
clusions and put us in a position of giving 
direct advice when we clearly mean noth¬ 
ing more than suggestion. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUGUST 7, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Cultivation of Rye and Turnips. 1286 
Potato Crop Insurance. 1287 
Growing- Spinach on Muck Land.. . 1287 
Trapping Cotton Worms with Corn. 1287 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 1290 
Hope Farm Notes.1296, 1297 
Farmers and the Referendum Vote. 1299 
Crops and Farm Notes. 1308 
A Rural Reader in Germany. 1308 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Explanation of the Warren Formula. 1299 
Feeding Family Cow. 1302 
The Truth About Clogs, or Bog Shoes. 1302 
Soy Beans for Breeding Stock. 1304 
Feeding and Care of Brood Sow. 1304 
Estimating Weight of Heifer. 1304 
Thriftless Calf . 1304 
Leaking of Milk. 1306 
Blood in Milk . 1306 
Scours . 1306 
Lump on Jaw . 1306 
THE HENYARD 
Drooping Wings . 
Rooster with Injured Feet 
Egg-laying Contest . 
Poultry-keeping for Eggs 
1305 
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1309 
1309 
HORTICULTURE 
A Record Strawberry Crop in Florida.. 1285. 1286 
Melon Growing in the Hudson Valley. 1286 
What Results from Bridge Grafting. 1286 
Short Talks About Nursery Trees. J2o< 
Garden Notes from New England. 1289 
Farm and Fruit Notes.... •••• 
Leading Fruit Varieties in Pennsylvania.. 1298 
Misfit Tomato Seed; Who Is Responsible 1 .1295 
Propagating Rambler Roses. 
Planting Lilies . 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day... 
Further Hospital Experience. 
Watermelon Recipes . 
The Rural Patterns. 
A Timely Suggestion . 
Soap Jelly . 
Women and Farm Work. 
Refooting Stockings . 
Tatting Stem for Hair Switch. 
Salting Fish . ; .. • • 
Poultry Fat for Cooking. 
Cleaning a White Hat. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
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Events of the Week. 
Farmer’s Ballot . 
Editorials .. 
Smashing Mail and Express Packages 
Publisher’s Desk . 
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