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•The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
August 14, lf>2(r 
to the identity of the variety; but I am 
certain the acclimated stock yielded 30 
per cent more and superior fruit. Had 
we a separate record of the portion of 
the field we could add a still more inter¬ 
esting entry in the tabulation of results. 
Need I say all my plants for next season 
are being grown from that stock? 
Climatic Effects. —It may be inter¬ 
esting at this point to note that in every 
newly settled district there is a tendency 
toward unfounded prejudices becoming 
established that may require years to 
eradicate. One of these in this State is 
that the climate of Florida has a devital¬ 
izing influence; consequently the straw- 
bery plants grown in this State are 
pretty generally grown from stock plants 
secured annually from the North; but no 
more for me. I have dwelt at length on 
variety adaption, adaption to locality and 
even adaption to a particular field, be¬ 
cause here for the average grower lies 
unsuspected opportunity, and nothing but. 
individual and persistent trial and experi¬ 
ment can reveal it, or how golden it 
may be. 
Strawberry Questions. —Earlier in 
the season a representative of another 
agricultural journal secured an interview 
regarding my berry crop. This was pub¬ 
lished, and then came letter after letter, 
most of them practically asking me in one 
form or another to help the writers to 
get started in the strawberry business. 
One writer from a central State actually 
asked me to write and tell all I knew 
about strawberries. An elderly woman 
from the Southwest (she frankly admitted 
she was past middle age) wanted my 
opinion as to her prospects of success¬ 
fully breaking into the game, naively say¬ 
ing "she could see no reason why a woman 
could not raise strawberries as well as a 
man, provided she could get good help. 
Ah. there is the rub! Help of that sort 
is not hanging around to be hired. Had 
she seen me last Fall, day after day, per¬ 
sonally set 1.200 to 1,500 plants per hour, 
because help to do the “leading stunt” 
was not to be had ! Eater, when favor¬ 
able weather conditions ripened the fruit 
faster than the labor obtainable could 
pick it. morning after morning I jumped 
into the breach myself at dawn, picked 
upwards of a hundred quarts, and then 
about three or four o’clock p. m., as late 
as would be safe for the prospects of 
selling them, rushed to the city with 300 
to 400 quarts of berries, making a whirl¬ 
wind campaign selling and delivering 
them, mostly in small lots, getting home 
perhaps by eight or nine o’clock, and one 
luckless night it was one a. m.! Mean¬ 
time my wife persistently worked beyond 
CONTENTS 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUGUST 14, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Handling- a Cover Crop. 1315 
Field Beans in Silage. 1315 
Mixing Lime in Fertilizer. 1315 
Rye in Cabbage._.... 1315 
Soluble Chemicals in the Soil. 1315 
Nitrogen in Manure... 1315 
Vertical or Well Drainage. 1316 
Fertilizer Prescriptions . 1316 
Fitting an Old Sod. 1316 
Improving Poor Soil with Commercial Fer¬ 
tilizers . 1316 
Wheat Growing and Fertilizers. 1316 
Notes on the Clover Crop; Rye to Fallow- 
Potatoes . 1316 
A Dynamite Ditch in Maryland. 1317 
Pennsylvania Farm Notes. 1320 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 1320 
North Carolina Farmers’ Convention. 1320 
Hope Farm Notes.1324, 1325 
"Agriculture” in New York Party Conven¬ 
tions . 1327 
Giving More Profitable Than Receiving.... 1327 
Farmers and the Legislature. 1333 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Butter and Cheese Values and Milk Prices. 1327 
Feeding Show Steer. 1330 
Horse with Skin Disease.......1330 
Buckwheat for Swine. 1330 
Feeding Young Pigs. 1330 
Peanut Meal as Feed. 1330 
Injured Hock .. 1331 
Ringworm . 1331 
Feeding Registered Jerseys. 1332 
Feeding Duroc-Jersey Pigs... 1332 
Green Rve for Cows.1332, 1334 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1333 
Unproductive Cows . 1334 
Blindness . 1336 
Worms of Cat. 1336 
Weak Back . 1336 
Constipation . 1336 
Lame Collie . 1336 
HORTICULTURE 
When to Mulch an Orchard. 1315 
When to Fertilize Trees.1315, 1316 
Cover Crop in Raspberries. 1316 
Pecans for Virginia... 1316 
A Record Strawberry Crop in Florida— 
Clay as an Insecticide. 1319 
Fruit Seedlings in Michigan. 1319 
Rose Fails to Bloom; Planting Damp, 
Shady Place . 1325 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1330 
Keeping a Time Budget. 1330 
The Rural Patterns. 1330 
Seen in New York Shops. 1330 
Homemade Yeast . 1331 
Investing in Labor Savers. 1331 
Controlling Household Insects... 1331 
Training for Nursing. 1331 
A Help in Ironing. 1331 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Commitment and Release of the Insane.... 1316 
Poor Men’s Patents. 1319 
Events of the Week...... 1320 
The American Crow. 1325 
Editorials . 1326 
The Names on the Ballot. 1327 
Non-Partisanism in North Dakota. 1327 
Publisher’s Desk .. 1338 
her strength packing and superintending 
operations in the packing shed. Had this 
old lady seen this phase of the enterprise 
she might have learned late in life the 
lesson that, according to fable, the young 
larks learned iu the cornfield. 
No Easy Hoad. — I throw in this 
sketch; perhaps it may set. some of the 
thoughtless to thinking. Here as else¬ 
where there is no lack of those willing to 
acquire easy money, and rumor has it 
that many will seek it this coming season 
via the strawberry route, but judging by 
average results that have been achieved 
most of them are doomed to disappoint¬ 
ment. To the would-be inquirer I will 
say conditions here, agriculturally, are so 
very different from those with which most 
readers are acquainted that written ex¬ 
planations can do little good. Personal 
inspection is the only logical course, and 
even that by no means insures successful 
choice. Florida is a fine place to live, 
but as to opportunity, like gold, it is 
“where you find it.” D. L. HARTMAN. 
Florida. 
A Recipe for Working Hides 
I was born and raised in the country, 
and for a long time was compelled to see 
prime hides ruined by not knowing just 
how to prevent it, until one day an old 
and experienced hunter who had paid .$50 
for it gave me the following Hudson’s 
Bay trapper’s recipe. I have followed 
the directions and turned out some of the 
finest skins I ever saw—not even barring 
those tanned by the Indians. It. takes 
some labor, but the finished product war¬ 
rants it. I have a pair of Indian moc¬ 
casins with squirrel-fur tops as soft as the 
day they were made (many years ago) 
and they have not shed any of the hair. 
If this recipe will save any country lad 
the furs of which he is justly proud, I 
shall be glad to have helped him. 
1. Remove legs and other useless parts, 
soak the skin (if dry) in soft (rain) 
water until soft; then remove any fleshy 
substances and soak in soft (rain) water 
for an hour. Now take borax, saltpetre 
and Glauber’s salts, of each one-half 
ounce. Wet these with sufficient soft 
water to make a thin paste, and paint it 
thickly on the flesh side with a brush (I 
used a putty-knife), being careful to 
cover the entire flesh side. Now double 
the skin together, flesh side in. and place 
in a cool place for 24 hours, but do not 
allow it to freeze. 
2. Wash skin clean and apply with a 
brush, as before, the following: Sal soda 
(washing soda), one ounce; borax, one- 
half ounce; soap (white castile or ivory), 
two ounces. Melt these together slowly, 
but do not allow them to boil. After 
applying this to the flesh side, roll up 
again (flesh side in) and keep in a warm 
place for 24 hours. 
3. Wash skin clean, as before, and al¬ 
low to soak one-half hour in a solution of 
two ounces of saleratus (baking soda, or 
bicarbonate of soda), with water enough 
to cover the skin nicely ; then take alum, 
four ounces; salt, eight ounces, and dis¬ 
solve in hot rain or soft water, enough 
to nicely cover the skin, and when suf¬ 
ficiently cool to allow the hands to be 
immersed without discomfort, put in the 
skin and allow it to soak for 12 hours, 
after which wring out the water and hang 
up the skin to dry for 12 hours more. 
Repeat this soaking and drying from two 
to four times, depending upon the soft¬ 
ness of the skin desired when finished. 
Four soakings makes a very soft product. 
East, finish by pulling, working and 
rubbing, and finally going over the flesh 
side with fine sandpaper and pumice 
stone. The more painstaking care used the 
better the skins. This recipe works 
equally well on all fur skins—sheep, deer, 
wolf, fox, dog, rabbit, cat. coon, squirrel, 
etc. Tt also makes a durable leather, 
capable of standing washing. It is also 
fine for making fur for mittens, caps, etc. 
New York. george w. beatty. 
Strawberries 
Must Be Big 
Little strawberries are worth¬ 
less to the commercial grower, 
nor are they desirable for the 
home garden. 
Big, deep red, luscious berries 
of remarkable Jflavor, just tart 
enough, are best for all purposes. 
Buckbee Beal 
Kevitt’s Jubilee 
are three large new berries which 
you should grow. Full descrip¬ 
tions are given in our catalog D; 
send for it and learn full par¬ 
ticulars. 
William M. Hunt & Company 
148 Chambers Street New York City 
aw 
11 Hardy 
Varieties 
Closely Graded 
Priced Right 
Y OU SHOULD SOW Hoffman’s Seed Wheat this fall — IT 
WILL PAY! COSTS LITTLE to change. If you get only 
Yz bushel to 1 bushel more wheat per acre, your investment 
pays for itself! But you will likely get 5 bushels more. Many 
customers reported 10-bushel increases—some still higher. 
Better Wheat and More of it — results from Hoffman’s Seed. 
Only reliable sorts are sold. Varieties that yield more per acre and 
require less iced. Hardiest and most prolific types known. Produced 
on the fertile wheat soils of Lancaster County, Pa., where winter 
wheat does its best. Cleaned to perfection—closely graded—sound. 
—Free from cockle, rye, garlic, smut, cheat, disease. 
TERMS—SEED WHEAT MUST BE SATISFACTORY. 
IF IT DOES NOT PLEASE YOU, RETURN IT —WE’LL 
REFUND YOUR MONEY AND PAY ALL FREIGHT. 
“Leap’s Prolific” “■leading variety (head shown at rijrht) yielded 35 to 42 
bushels per acre. Grows tall, stiff straw—lone, w-hite, smooth heads. Kills out well, docs 
not shatter. Long berry, hard, mills well. Very dependable kind to sow. 
Alfalfa Seed—’ ‘Northwest” brand — Idaho-grown seed— 99.80% pure—highest 
germination. Hardiest strain of seed you can buy — means successful stands. "Extra” 
brand—Kansas-grown seed—also of high test. Alfalfa Seed Samples and special booklet 
"How to Grow Alfalfa.” FREE. Order early as our stock of Alfalfa Seed is limited. 
Timothy Seed —Hoffman’s "Farmer’s Choice” brand Timothy Seed isthecleanest 
and soundest seed you can buy—tests to 9934 % pure. Germination almost perfect. 
Make your own tests if you wish—return seed if not satisfied. Samples Free. 
Seed Wheat Catalog and Samples Sent Free 
You will profit by investigating Hoffman’s Seed Wheat. Learn about these 11 
wheats — some are bearded, others beardless — all profitable kinds to sow. Scud for this 
catalog today—it is free. Tell us you saw this ad in the Rural New-Yorker. 
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A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc., LANDISVILLE, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. 
T HIS pile of Strawberries (photo greatly reduced ) was picked on 
June 22, 1920, from One Bushel Basket Strawberry Plant set 
out Oct. 15, 1919. Let me send you my illustrated price lists 
explaining my methods and success with fall set berry plants. 
A. B. KATKAMIER MACEDON, N. Y. 
THE ST. MARTIN STRAWBERRY 
With a New Record 
Awarded 3 cash prizes and silver medal in 
1920, making 2 silver medals and 7 consecu¬ 
tive years of prize winning. 
Potted plants through August and September. 
Write for Circular 
LOUIS GRAT0N, Originator and Introducer, WHITMAN, MASS. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
For August and Fall planting. Pot-grown plants 
ready now and runner plants ready .about Sept. 1st. 
Will bear fruit next summer. Also RASPBERRY. 
BLACKBERRY. DEWBFRRY. GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT. GRAPE, 
ASPARAGUS, RHUBARB plants. ROSES. PANSIES. SHRUBS 
for fall planting. Catalogue free. 
11 Alt It Y L. SQUJKKS, Good Ground, N.Y. 
CAULIFLOWER =« 
VflUlJU ft RABI, PARSLEY plants. 
Catalogue free. HARRY L. SQUIRES. Hood Ground. N.Y. 
This well known cover crop 
will be much higher in price, we be¬ 
lieve. Ask for sample and quotations. 
(Ian supply all other seed for summer 
sowing, including Rosen Rye. 
O. M. SCOTT A SONS CO. 
704 Main Street - Marysville, Ohio 
Cabbage Plants 
all leading varieties, »M.25 per 1,000; 10,000 for$IO.OO. 
t'elerv I’luiit*. leading varieties. *1.25 per 1.000. 
J. C.' SCHMIDT, BRISTOL, PA 
Danish Ball 
Head, Flat 
Dutch and 
GLADDEN WHEAT 
Recleaned ready to sow. $3 50 per bu. Poole $3 25. 
Rosen Rye 12.90, Mammoth White Rye 12.75. Bags 
extra at cost. Alfalfa, Timothy, Rape. etc. Cata¬ 
log free. IV. N. ScarfT& Sons, New Carlisle, O. 
RUSSIAN PITKUS 
vielder. $2.80 per bu. Subject to advance. Supply lim¬ 
ited. Order early. CLOVKRDALE HUM, CburJotU, X Y. 
Fancy Crimson or Scarlet Clover Seed 
lie lb.; 5-busli. lots. $6. High Grade—High Test. 
LAYTON & LAYTON, Inc., Seedsmen, Georgetown, Del. 
Layer Strawberry Plants ™“>o A v«Hetic8 r to " *i.Vy 
from, including: the fall beating. Aak for catalog. 
J. Kkikford Hall, Route 2, Uhodksdale. Md 
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