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Harvesting Leap’s Prolific Seed Wheat on the Hoffman Homestead Farm 
Leap’s Prolific 
SEED WHEAT 
CLOSELY GRADED — SOUND — PRICED RIGHT 
A very reliable variety—smooth chaff — the most popular wheat ever 
offered in our 20 years of specializing in Seed Wheat. Yields of Leap’s 
Prolific this year are excelling those of other varieties under our observation. 
This has been true in every one of the past six years we have grown this 
variety. Local yields as high as 46 bu. per acre upon large fields have been 
made; 40-bu. per acre reports from customers have been numerous. 
Leap’s Prolific is a red wheat—long and plump in the berry— 
white, smooth chaff. Straw grows tall and very stiff—does not 
lodge. Heads are long, broad and compactly built up (see photo 
at left), filled with grain from base to tip. Does not shatter easily. 
Ripens early. Leap’s Prolific is a great stooler. Biggest crops 
we know of were from seedings of 1% bu. per acre. We recom¬ 
mend your sowing 1 Yz bu. per acre. You need not sow more. 
Leap’s Prolific wheat, produced here on our fertile Lancaster 
County soils, put through our thorough cleaning plants will stool 
out strongly, root deeply, and produce a good bunch of stalks 
from each grain. Leap‘s Prolific stands rough farming. Responds 
with big yields to careful culture and fertilization. Has succeeded 
on all sorts of soils—it has now been given fair trial for several 
seasons on highland, lowland, limestone, gravel, slate and clay 
soils, and seems equally at home on all of them. The undersigned 
has distributed hundreds of thousands of bushels of winter seed 
wheat—twenty or more varieties, all of merit—and believes Leap’s 
Prolific entitled to the first place as a hardy, vigorous and pro¬ 
lific variety. 
Seed we offer you was harvested in good condition. Is abso¬ 
lutely dry—sound in germination—cleaned clean. Tree from cockle, 
rye, cheat, garlic, smut, scab and disease. Was grown on the 
famous Lancaster County wheat soils with greatest care, especially 
for seed purposes. Is dqw packed in good bags, ready for ship¬ 
ment direct to farmers the day orders are received. 
When the Leap’s Prolific you order reaches you, examine it. If it 
does not suit you, send it back. We will refund your money and 
pay round-trip freight. We could not afTord to make this offer if 
our Leap’s Prolific was not first-class seed. This paper would not 
print this ad. if they did not know we can back it up. 
ORDER FROM THIS ADVERTISEMENT 
PRICES: (Bags free) Quantities up to 24 bu. @ $3.95 per bu 
25 to 74 bu. @ $3.90 bu. 75 bu. and over @ $3.85 bu. 
Note that bags are free, and we pay the freight on orders of 
5 'ou. or over to any railroad station in Pennsylvania, New York, 
New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, 
Connecticut and Massachusetts. Customers not in freight paid 
territory may deduct 18c per bushel from above prices of seed 
when they order 5 bu. or more—this to help pay their freight 
charges. Send cash with order; your check will be acceptable. 
Order today. This advertisement appears only once. 
Head of 
Leap’s Prolific 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc. 
Box 15, Landisville, Lancaster County, Pa. 
A. B. KATKAMIER 
MACEDON, N. Y. 
This well known cover crop 
will be much higher in price, we be¬ 
lieve. Ask for sample and quotations. 
Can supply all other seed for summer 
sowing, including Rosen Rye. 
O. M. SCOTT A SONS CO. 
704 Main Street - Marysville, Ohio I 
GLADDEN WHEAT 
Reeleaned ready to sow. $3 50 per bn. Poole $3 25. 
Rosen Rye $2.90, Mammoth White Rye $2.75. Bags 
extra at cost. Alfalfa. Timothy, Rape, Cata¬ 
log free. W. N. ScarfT& Sons, New Carlisle, O. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
For August and Fall planting Pot-grown plants 
ready now and runner plants ready about Sept. 1st. 
'"'ill hear fruit next summer. Also RASPBERRY, 
BLACKBERRY, DEWBERRY, GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT. GRAPE 
ASPARAGUS. RHUBARB plants, ROSES, PANSIES, SHRUBS 
for fall planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N.Y. 
American Nut Journal 
WHEAT For Sale 
J00 bushels of new winter wheat, a very slight spattering 
of chess weeds in it—at 82. 1 0 per bu., f. o. b. ray station. 
Orders for le,-* than 25 bu. or without enclosed cash not 
considered. (No samples.) C. thomans. La drangeylll', N.V. 
PAIII TCI AWED BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 
LAULlrLUWE.l\ CABBAGE. KALE, K0HL- 
RABI. PARSLEY plant.. 
Catalogue free. HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N.Y. 
Layer Strawberry Plants ”“4o A vV3etS r *? l i55Sb 
from, including the fall bearing. Ask for catalog. 
J. Keifford Hall, Route 2, Khodesdalk, Md 
RUSSIAN PITKUS grower. Enormous 
yielder. $2.<50 per bu. Subject to nd vane . Supply lim¬ 
ited. Order early. CLOVER HALE FARM, CbarlotU, N. Y. 
Fancy Crimson or Scarlet Clover Seed 
lie lb.; 5-busb. lots, $ 8 . High Grade—High Test. 
LAYTON & LAYTON, Inc., Seedsmen, Georgetown, Del. 
cheap here; it is good land, credit is 
extended to honest and forceful men, and 
many conditions are right for getting a 
start. Temporarily one can work for an¬ 
other and got more; all the same, there 
is much to recommend a farm job right 
now. It may not be a good time to go 
heavily in debt on a lot of (hings that one 
wants on the farm, especially if payments 
are to be made within a year or so. 
Machinery is high, and so is stock. A 
good way to buy is to select a farm with 
fair equipment, all ready for business, and 
if cash is not available for the entire pay¬ 
ment, allow sufficient time to get adjusted 
and started before too many payments are 
to be made. 
If one can get along without hiring very 
much help there is some money in the 
dairy now. A start in purebreds seems to 
me to be about the right line. Grow up 
a herd of them while carrying on the 
production of milk. A small beginning, 
unless one has money, is best. When 
readjustment comes, as it must some day, 
there may be pinching. The farm will 
be the best place for that if one has been 
careful about debts and is saving. Others 
besides farmers will pinch or he pinched 
some time. It may come suddenly, or it 
may be slowly, but. it will come. The 
surplus fellow in town will then wish he 
had a foothold somewhere else. The farm 
has much to commend it. H. H. LYON. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
This 
Killing Apple Borers 
plan for killing the apple-tree 
boi’er is given by the Pennsylvania Agri¬ 
cultural Department: 
“The round-headed apple-tree borer can 
be easily killed by the use of carbon bi¬ 
sulphide. Put it in a spring-bottom oil 
can for convenience, insert the spoilt of 
the can in the borer’s burrow, press the 
bottom of the can two or three times then 
seal the burrow with a little clay worked 
to the consistency of putty.” 
Danger in Wild Cucumber 
The wild cucumber is often advised 
where a quick-growing vine is desired for 
covering unsightly fences or buildings. It 
is very common in the Middle West. It 
is now announced that studies by the 
Wisconsin State Department of Agricul¬ 
ture prove that the white pickle or mosaic 
disease of cucumbers is largely carried 
over from year to year by the wild cu¬ 
cumbers. It is. therefore, urged that this 
host plant be destroyed, wherever possi¬ 
ble, as a means of controlling the disease. 
In view of these facts, it is evident 'that 
wild cucumbers should not be planted as 
an ornamental vine. We may, however, 
part with it with little regret, for while 
it makes, very rapidly, a mass of luxuri¬ 
ant green, it has a tendency to lose lower 
leaves and turn yellow in late Summer, 
and the brittle fruits drop about and 
break untidily, making much unsightly 
litter. 
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 Sweet Clover Grower 
I note what is said about Sweet clover, 
that the white is all right, but that the 
yellow is simply a pestiferous weed, to 
he shunned by truck farmers. Well, if I 
buy white blossom I am very apt to get 
vellow blossom, and vice versa. As far 
as I can judge there is no difference in 
them; both are rank growers; four to 
seven feet is not an unusual height. A 
piece near here was sown to white blos¬ 
som, and two-thirds cut for hay; the 
balance, seven or eight acres, has been left 
for seed, because the owner did not have 
time to cut for hay. This particular field 
is now five to seven feet high, full of blos¬ 
som and seed, and the remainder of field 
has quite a lot of second growth, which 
they are plowing under for wheat-sowing 
in September. 
Personally T prefer yellow blossom, but 
if I buy yellow I get white. We cut 
10 acres for hay, three to four feet high, 
thick and stout; 20 tons of hay there, 
which we feed to both horses and cattle, 
and hogs have plenty of green, which is 
full of blossom and seed now. Just, why 
one is good and the other a weed is be¬ 
yond me. Down near Lake Cayuga, east 
side, the clover comes up poorly, four to 
seven feet high, self-sown clover on 
wheel tracks in soil nearly as hard as 
rock, and underlaid with limestone and 
riiale rock. The roots of this legume, 
like all other legumes, is rich in fertilizer 
and of vast: improvement to the soil, and, 
like quack grass, is a soil renovator. 
Land will never get sour that has clover 
and quack grass growing on it. and a good 
farmer and cultivator of the soil is thank¬ 
ful for both. 
I can grow Alfalfa, but by the second 
year I must use a sharp spring-tooth har¬ 
row or sharp disk harrow or spiked roller 
and pulverize the soil thoroughly or the 
Alfalfa will grow yellow and die out. as 
the legume will bring in so much nitrogen 
in the soil that Blue and other grasses 
•tow so fast they crowd out and kill the 
Alfalfa. • f. m. p. 
Propagating Gooseberries 
Will yon tell me how to propagate 
"■ooseberries? I have a fine bush of an 
English variety. As T do not know name 
I would like to get some more plants by 
propagation. C. E. P. 
Lisbon, Ohio. 
No fruits are more easily propagated 
than currants and gooseberries, and sev¬ 
eral different methods of propagation are 
used. The hard-wood cutting method is 
the one used commercially, and proves 
succcessful for the amateur. For tois 
purpose straight cuttings of one-year 
August 21, 1920 
wood, about eight inches long, are taken 
any time after the leaves fall. The wood 
is cut in the desired lengths and made up 
into bundles, being careful to have the 
butts all one way. These bundles are 
then buried with the butts up, in a wll- 
drained spot, and are covered with two or 
three inches of soil. Here the butts of 
the cuttings form a callus and may even 
start roots. If the cuttings have been 
made early, in the Autumn, they will cal¬ 
lus in timg so that they may be taken up 
and planted out in rows before the ground 
freezes. If they are not to be set out 
that Autumn, they are commonly left 
buried over Winter, some additional pro¬ 
tection being given them in the shape of 
a mulch to prevent the tender roots from 
being damaged. Another common method 
is to make up the cuttings later in the 
season and store them in sand in a cellar 
where they will not freeze. They are 
then set out in rows early the following 
Spring. Spring planting of cuttings must 
be done very early, or the cuttings will 
have started too much, as they begin 
growth at a comparatively low tempera¬ 
ture. In setting, the cutting should be 
placed deep enough so that but two buds 
are left above the surface of the ground. 
If grown vigorously the plants should be 
as large by Fall as the one-year plants 
grown in commercial nurseries. T. ij. t. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUGUST 21, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Wheat in Central New York. 1342 
Ground Limestone for Soil Improvement.. . . 1343 
Encouraging: Future in Farming.1343, 1344 
Northern Ohio Notes. 1343 
Clam Shells or Ground Lime. 1349 
Pulverizing Hen Manure. 1349 
Treating Seed Wheat for Smut. 1349 
Hope Farm Notes. 1350 , 1354 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Salt Hay for Horses. 
Lump on Jaw. 
Cow Coughing . 
Puny Calf . 
Vomiting . 
Scours . 
Calculating Dairy Rations. 
Five Cows on Ten Acres. 
Forage Crops for Hogs... 
Grain with Pasture. 
1349 
1356 
1356 
1356 
1356 
1356 
1358 
1358 
1360 
1360 
THE HENYARD 
Facts About Artificial Lighting for Hens. 
1341, 1342 
HORTICULTURE 
Notes on Strawberry Culture. 1345 
Roses from Root Cuttings. 1345 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1347 
Aphis on Snowba’l. 1348 
Damage from Painting Trees. 1351 
Low-headed Apple Trees.. 1351 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1354, 
Summer and Autumn Savories... 1354 
The Rural Patterns. 1354 
Squash Mangoes . 1354 
The Maternity Hospital. 1354 
Tennessee Notes . 1354 
Rest Often . 1354 
Investing in Labor Savers. 1354 
For the Seamstress. 1354 
Turkey Red . 1354 
Old-time Recipes . 1355 
Molasses Buns; Curo for Chapped Hands... J355 
Two Rhubarb Recipes. 1355 
Homemade Soap . 1355 
Canning Sauerkraut . 1355 
Making Use of Broken Utensils. 1355 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Cement Runway to Garage. 1342 
Cam Lever Press. 1342 
Editorials . 1352 
Discussion of Two Political Platforms. 1353 
A Genuine Farmers’ Picnic. 1353 
Who Are the Gamo Trespassers?. 1353 
Markets . 1359 
Publisher’s Desk . 1362 
Your Choice for Governor of N. Y. State 
TIIE BALLOT 
□ Liberty Hyde Bailey, Tompkins 
□ Frank M. Bradley, Niagara 
□ Seth J. T. Bush, Monroe 
□ Israel T. Deyo, Broome 
□ Samuel Fraser, Livingston 
□ Elon II. Hooker, Monroe 
□ Wesley O. Howard, Rensselaer 
□ Francis M. Hugo, Jefferson 
□ Nathan L. Miller, Onondaga 
□ Ogden L. Mills, New York 
□ John Lord O’Brian, Erie 
□ William Church Osborne, Putnam 
□ Eugene II. Porter, Broome 
□ Henry M. Sage, Albany 
□ Alfred E. Smith, New York 
□ Silas L. Strivings, Wyoming 
□ Thaddeus C. Sweet, Oswego 
□ Win. Boyce Thompson, Westchester 
□ George F. Thompson, Orleans 
□ Eugene M. Travis, Kings 
□ George F. Warren, Tompkins 
□ — T -;-;—;- 
If your choice is not in the list write it on 
this line 
REFERENDUM 
Would you be in favor of calling a 
State meeting of farpiers to formulate 
farm needs and policies and to suggest 
candidates who would be acceptable to 
farmers? _ 
□ YES □ NO 
