obey the strongest liand. They are ruled 
lw foar. You rarely see one stand up and 
Tight for the unpopular side. What I 
mean is that “we” have got to make this 
issue of food distribution so big and so 
true and so popular and so just that our 
leaders will have to get in and put it over. 
It must be a crusade for a fair distribu¬ 
tion of the essentials of life—no more, 
no less. These public men work on the 
theory that their delegated power au¬ 
thorizes them to do about as they please, 
after election. Twenty men averaging 
$5,000,000 each and very insistent will 
have more power over a public man than 
10.000 ordinary citizens who find fault 
304 days and “vote straight” one day! 
It would be just so with you or anyone 
else. It will ever be so until you and I 
and the rest of the 10,000 can change our 
“human nature” and make our public 
men understand that we mean business. 
A big contract, that! How would you 
do it? Where begin? 
The contract is no larger than several 
which the American people have neg¬ 
lected. We shall have to get together and 
do it in the primary elections. Begin 
early. Select and train our candidates 
and'then put them over. As for begin¬ 
ning. no better start can be made than on 
September 14 in the New York primary. 
I well remember how 30 years ago the 
boys on a New York farm bought a new 
haV-loader. At first they could not make 
it work, and father lost his temper and 
ordered them to take it out of the field 
and go back to pitchforks. The boys 
knew it would work, and they stayed by 
it until it tossed the hay on the wagon 
as fast as the team could walk. Then 
father had to admit that it was a labor- 
saver, and he bought another. In much 
the same way some farmers may think the 
primary will not work.- That is because 
they have not adjusted it properly. It 
would be a criminal mistake to let the 
politicians kill this primary law. The 
way td save it is to use it. I wish every 
rural voter in New York could get out to 
the primary and vote for once at least 
just as they honestly feel. A big vote in 
the primary is the only way you have 
this year to put up an effective protest. 
Do not get discouraged or feel that it’s 
no use to try. Get right out and use that 
nrimarv. We have got to do it ourselves. 
h. w. c. 
Planting Apple Seed 
Will you tell me how to treat apple 
seed for planting? Should they be soaked 
in warm water, and for how long? 
Mousey, N. Y. mrs. g. a. r. 
With many hard-coated seeds, such as 
plum, peach, grape, strawberry, etc., the 
seed must be treated to break the covering 
before germination will occur. The ap¬ 
ple, pear and quince do not have this 
hard covering, so they may be planted 
directly in the nursery row as early as 
possible in Spring. Light stratification 
is said to improve germination, and is 
sometimes practiced. This is simply the 
operation of mixing seed with sand and 
exposing to moisture and frost, lhe 
seeds are kept frozen in the Spring until 
they are planted. T. h. t. 
Propagating Raspberries 
1. Will you give information as to how 
to bury tips of raspberry vines to raise 
plants? I ,planted yloung ifiants this 
year, and am keeping main stalks tipped 
according to your instruction, some time 
in the past. IIow does one know when 
to bury the tips of the laterals, and should 
tip be entirely covered with dirt? 
Collins, N. Y. L. j. c. 
2. In Farmers’ Bulletin No. 8S7, 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
on raspberry culture, under propagation, 
it says that to propagate the black and 
purple varieties the tips of the canes 
should be buried in moist soil in the Fall. 
I got a few plants of Ontario. I sup¬ 
posed that they were a purple berry. The 
plants were evidently suckers. They 
grew well, but show no evidence that I 
can layer them this Fall, the same as 
black. IIow can they be propagated? 
Rome, Ohio. J. A. 
1. Raspberries are propagated in two 
ways, the red raspberries by suckers and 
the black raspberries by tip-layering. 
The tips of the black raspberries are 
ready to be covered when they become 
thick and leafless, or “snake-like.” This 
is usually by the middle of August in 
this section. In sod laud the stems Toot 
readily, but in loose soil, where the wind 
may tear the stems loose, it is well to 
weight them down with a small sod or 
stone. Some growers pin the tips down 
with a small wire arch. Many of the 
tips will root without any assistance if 
the soil conditions are good, but the per¬ 
centage can be greatly increased by either 
burying the tip or holding it in place by 
a weight. 
2. Some purple varieties of raspberries 
are propagated by tip layering and others 
by suckers from the roots. Columbian, 
•me of the chief varieties, originated in 
this section, and is propagated by tip 
layering. According to my notes, On¬ 
tario is a black raspberry, introduced bv 
E E. Lord of Fail-port, N. Y., in 1S72. 
11ns variety can be tip-layered as de¬ 
scribed above. T. u. x. 
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