The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
GOMBAULT’S 
CAUSTIC BALSAM 
THE STANDARD REMEDY 
HUMAN and VETERINARY 
Ii is generally true that an external 
remedy that is good for the animal is 
also good for the human body, and 
Gombault’s Caustic Balsam is no ex¬ 
ception to this rule. The many 
testimonials received from physicians 
and veterinarians are convincing 
proof of its merits. Rheumatism, 
Backache, Neuralgia, Sprains, Strains, 
Lumbago? Sore Throat, Stiff Joints, 
fin fact any ailment requiring an 
external application can be treated 
l\vith absolute safety and the beneficial 
results produced are all that could be 
desired. 
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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 ai SONS CO. 
704 Main Street * Marysville, Ohio 
Soothing and Healing—A Perfect Antiseptic 
As a veterinary remedy its curative 
qualities have been acknowledged for 
many years in cases of Curb, Splint, 
Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strained Ten¬ 
dons, Spavin, Ringbone and other bony 
tumors. A trial will convince anyone 
that here is a remedy without an equal. 
.Write for any information desired. $1.75 per bottle at druggists 
or sent by parcel post on receipt of price. 
The Lawrence-Williams Co., • • Cleveland, Ohio 
Mr. Wheat Grower 
Plan early for fall seeding 
— carefully prepare seed¬ 
bed—arrange for fertilizer 
— sow good seed wheat 
of the right variety—sow 
“Hoffman’s 
Seed Wheat” 
Grown in the fertile Lan¬ 
caster Wheat Belt—known 
'in every section for its 
hardiness —vitality — pro¬ 
ductiveness. Is reliable — 
, means increased yields wher¬ 
ever taken to be sown. 
Eleven Varieties —smooth and 
bearded sorts—graded—sound 
■—cleaned clean— free of rye, 
garlic, smut, cheat, cockle. 
Shown here is the head of 
**. Leap’s Prolific” Variety — 
yielded 35 to 46 bushels per 
acre. 
Seed must please you—or may 
be returned and all money 
refunded. Prices are just. 
One bushel more wheat per 
acre will well repay you. 
, Many customers report 10- 
, bushel increase per acre. 
"Hoffman’sWheat Book” 
and samples free. Write for 
them today. Mention this 
paper. Hoffman’s Seed 
Wheat will please you and 
pay youl 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc. 
Landisville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Gr E3 TNT TJ 13XTIE3 
Montana-Grown Alfalfa 
Special lot guaranteed as to source, grown on 
non-irrigated soil.strictly high-grade seed. Have 
limited quantity available in excess of our re¬ 
quirements. Prompt shipment. Get our prices. 
FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE ASSN.. Trenton, N. J. 
GLADDEN WHEAT 
Recleaned ready to sow. $3.50 per bu. Poole $3.25, 
Roson Rye $2.90, Mammoth White Rye $2.75. Bags 
extra at cost. Alfalfa, Timothy, Rape, etc. Cata¬ 
log free. W. N. Scarff & Sons, New Carlisle, O. 
Fancy Crimson or Scarlet Clover Seed 
1 1 c lb.; 5-bnsh. lots, $6. High Grade—High Test. 
True Hairy Winter Vetch, $16.80 Bush. 
LAYTON & LAYTON, Inc., Seedsmen, Georgetown, Del. 
RUSSIAN PITKUS grower. Enormous 
yielder. $ 2.60 per bu. Subject to advance. Bupply lim¬ 
ited. Order early. ULOVERIHLE FARM, CliarlotU, N. ¥. 
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, DEWBERRY, GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT. GRAPE. 
ASPARAGUS. RHUBARB plants. ROSES, PANSIES. SHRUBS 
for fall planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. S(JUIBE8, Good Ground, N.Y. 
Layer Strawberry Plants mg! l « A vaHeties r ^ a " e ? e t c , t 
from, including the fall bearing. 
J. Keifford Hall, Route 2, 
Ask for catalog. 
Rhodksdale, Md. 
Strawberry, Blackberry, Raspberry Plants pSu 
Planting. Send for price list. MICHAEL N. BORGO,Vineland, M. J. 
f 1 4’4-j a T?d •• o ® and 11 acres, $3,300 to 
A aimo§5 )6 00. Bargains. LESLIE F. 
Sill i ll, Tels. *2916 aud 2917, 442 Atlantic 8t., Stamford, Conn. 
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, 
it will hr possible to show by the testi¬ 
mony of your neighbors, who, as practical 
farmers, will qualify as experts, the pro¬ 
portion of damage done by the oil, and 
the proportion of damage, if any, due to 
the six hours under water. As to the 
future of the land, he is unwilling to give 
an opinion, so many local factors enter 
into the matter, but he is not inclined to 
think it will be permanent, but there may 
be continuing injury for two or perhaps 
three years. His suggestion is that you 
at once consult the very best lawyer you 
know anything about. Have him draw 
up a just, clear-cut and moderate claim, 
and present it to the oil company. The 
claim should show every item of damage 
and expense to which you have been sub¬ 
jected, including the preparation of the 
claim, and no more. Include nothing 
that you cannot prove by fair, honest, 
local testimony, and base your claims to 
loss on the actual facts. Your lawyer 
will see that your claim is so worded that 
you do not include the damage to the 
future capacity of the land without an 
express understanding to that effect, al¬ 
though he may advise a settlement of that 
also if possible. But we do not see how 
that can be foretold. 
We think that if the claim is drawn 
and presented by an able lawyer you 
will get a settlement; if not, you will 
have to sue anyway, and on the facts as 
you present them, you will win. But see 
the best possible lawyer first. lie may 
advise a chemist, but it is not likely that 
you will need one. 
Garden Notes from New England 
Onions and Lemons.— If anybody 
doubts that farming is a gamble, let him 
ask the market gardeners in New Mug- 
land. who planted heavily to early onions. 
The crop came on the market at a time 
when onions and lemons were making a 
record for low prices. I don’t know much 
about the lemon game, but the difficulty 
with, onions arose from a very erratic op¬ 
eration of the so-called law of supply and 
demand. Texas, it seemed, had a tre¬ 
mendous crop of onions this Spring, and 
growers got an idea that they could un¬ 
load them on New England. Cars which 
might well have been used for shipping 
much more necessary articles were loaded 
with onions and trundled North. The 
result was a glut, and a consequent drop 
in prices so great that onions were sold 
in many eases for less than the cost of 
shipping them. At the same time, the 
over-supply made it impossible for North¬ 
ern growers to reap any profit either. It 
would seem as though some means might 
be provided for gauging the food situa¬ 
tion in different parts of the country aud 
preventing a happening of this sort. "Still, 
market gardeners have to meet such condi¬ 
tions repeatedly, and do not hesitate to 
plow under two or three acres of onions 
or any other crop when they find that 
they are not going to sell at enough to 
pay the cost of production. This is a 
lesson which some general farmers have 
yet to learn, hut it is founded on sound 
business principles. 
Harvesting the Onions. —Onions in 
the home garden should be* harvested as 
soon as the tops die down, and it is best 
to let them remain in the garden for a 
few days to cure, after which they can he 
stored in a cool, dry room. Usually there 
is little wet weather at this season, but if 
there should he a rainy spell it would be 
better to take the onions under cover than 
to leave them on the ground in the rain. 
It is strange to find many people still 
storing onions in the same cellar and un¬ 
der the same conditions as potatoes and 
other vegetables. < Of course they don’t 
keep well, for onions must have a good 
circulation of air. I think the best plan 
is to use small crates with slatted sides, 
and to place them on shelves a foot or 
two from the ground. It is well to re¬ 
member that the white onions will not 
keep so well as the red or yellow varieties, 
for which reason it is advisable to eat 
them first. 
Plenty of Pears.— Apparently there 
is going to be an excellent crop of pears 
in New Engalnd this season. Some peo¬ 
ple find pears a profitable crop. Others 
claim that they can make nothing from 
them. On the Hittinger place in Bel¬ 
mont they have been grown profitably 
for years, and the acreage is being ex¬ 
tended. A neighbor of mine has a dozen 
Beurre Bose pear trees in his backyard 
and sells $40 or $50 worth of fruit each 
season, shipping it in bushel boxes to a 
commission man in Boston. Beurre Bose 
always finds a good market, and is an ex¬ 
cellent pear to handle. The tree, how¬ 
ever, is not a strong grower, and some 
commercial orchardists prefer to set 
Beurre Bose grafts on the stronger grow¬ 
ing stocks. 
Farmers’ Markets. —A number of 
farmers’ markets have been opened re¬ 
cently under the patronage of the State. 
Just what success they will have remains 
to be seen. On the whole, the idea seems 
less popular than if was a few years ago, 
during the war. The markets in a num¬ 
ber of cities have beeu abandoned. On 
the other hand, there are certain places 
where they have become a permanent fea¬ 
ture. and are high in favor of the pur¬ 
chasing public. Probably the most con¬ 
spicuous success is the market at Quiucy, 
Mass. In spite of some opposition, a 
long, covered shelter was constructed this 
Summer, and the business so far has war¬ 
ranted the fostering care which the mar¬ 
ket has received. Many of the markets 
went down to failure because they were 
not properly conducted, or else awakened 
the opposition of local merchants. There 
seems to be no good reason why they 
August 28, 1920 
should not bo as successful in other places 
as they have been in Quincy. A new 
market at Lowell has been secured 
through the efforts of a group of farmers 
headed by Karl Perham of Chelmsford) 
the city having been induced to set aside 
a part of the street bordering the com¬ 
mon for the purpose. 
Roadside Selling. —Selling by the 
roadside is being carried on in a larger 
way than ever, but the plan has lost 
some of its picturesqueness because of the 
tendency to erect booths or stands which 
are little less than miniature stores. It 
looks, however, as though the farmers 
might kill the goose that laid the golden 
eggs. Some of them, not satisfied with 
prices a little lower than those of the re¬ 
tail markets and stores, are charging more 
than these markets. This* is a form of 
over-reaching which is sure to react upon 
the whole business. It is claimed that 
the owners of such stands gauge their 
Prices by the appearance of the machines 
which stop, having one price for Ford 
owners and another for those who ride in 
Pierce-Arrows and Packards. Further¬ 
more, I have been told that a certain 
woman, selling by the roadside, has been 
known to stock up with vegetables from 
the city market when her own supply has 
run low. 
Beating the Carrage Maggot. —A lot 
of important experimental work is being 
carried on at the market garden field sta¬ 
tion in Lexington. One experiment 
which lias proven of special interest this 
year is in the use of tar paper disks to 
prevent injury by the cabbage root mag¬ 
got. This pest has been very bad this 
year, particularly in some sections, so 
that anything which promised relief has 
been looked upon with favor. The disks 
are not an absolute preventive, but they 
do save a large part of the crop, and it 
costs considerable to apply them. Yet in 
a season like this they seem worth while. 
Another heavy loss to cabbage growers 
has come from the use of poor seed. Pro¬ 
fessor Thompson, at the experiment sta¬ 
tions, is advocating the buying of high 
grade cabbage seed in large quantities, 
feeling that this is a case where co-opera¬ 
tion will pay large dividends. 
Potato Spraying.— Much is being 
preached about the value of Bordeaux 
mixture iu saving the potato crop, but 
many amateur growers, after seeing their 
sprayed crops cut short in their growth 
by several weeks as a result of blight, are 
questioning the value of the work. In¬ 
vestigations show that in most cases the 
spraying has been done with some com¬ 
mercial combination of Bordeaux and ar¬ 
senate of lead. Experience shows that 
these mixtures are not nearly so effective 
as homemade Bordeaux mixture, and ex¬ 
perts have been going around the State 
giving demonstrations in different towns 
of methods by which the Bordeaux is pre¬ 
pared. When it is not feasible to do the 
work at home. I believe the best results 
are obtained by dusting the plants with 
the best grade of dry Bordeaux. This is 
a very effective plan when a good dusting 
gun is used, and one which I have been 
following for several years. 
Early Cabbage. —In harvesting my 
early cabbages, I find it a good plan sim¬ 
ply to cut out the centers of the heads, 
leaving two or three rows of outside 
leaves. A new growth then starts up 
which is very palatable, and even if this 
secondary crop were not needed for the 
table, it would be of value in feeding the 
poultry. I understand that some people 
go so far as to crush the partly formed 
heads of early cabbages so as to produce 
a growth of miniature heads that are con¬ 
sidered extra good. e. i. Farrington. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUGUST 28, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
August Reflections by a Farmer.1367, 1368 
Questions About Bacteria. 1368 
Sweet Clover in Florida. 1368 
Is the Soil Being Improved?. 1368 
Transplanting Roots of Alfalfa. 1368 
Points from a Pots to Meeting... 1369 
Damage from Oil Flooding..... 1369 
Hope Farm Notes. 1374 
How Farms Run Themselves. 1380 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Small Milk Flow. 1382 
Buckwheat for Hogs. 1382 
A Lesson from Rabbit Soup. 1386 
Tuberculosis . 1386 
Staggers . 1386 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1389 
THE HENYARD 
Egg-laying Contest . 1389 
Doctoring Fowls Through Drinking Water.. 1339 
Rye for Poultry . 1389 
HORTICULTURE 
A Virginia Berry Crop. 1369 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1373 
Late Strawberry Setting. 1375 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman. 1371, 1381 
Boys and Girls.1378, 1379 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks.... 1380 
The Home Dressmaker. 1381 
Various Notes . 1388 
“The Restless Ago”. 1388 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Danger to the New York Primary Law.... 
The New York Grango Exchange. 
A Sample Ballot at a Farm Picnic. 
Reading a Barometer. 
Chemistry of Shaving Lather.. 
Removing Skunk Odor. 
Exterminating Lilac; Cleaning Brass. 
Javrlie Water . 
Publisher's Desk ... 
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