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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 18, 1920 
Horticultural Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Wev are still picking (September 4) 
the Nanticoke. blackberries, but they have 
not been so good this, rainy spell as usual. 
As soon as the crop is off will come again 
the question whether longer to encumber 
the garden with the giant briers. Last 
Fall I was sick, and could get no one to 
cut>out> the dead canes, and now there is 
a. mass of old and new, 10 feet tall, and 
the whole will have to be cut to the 
ground. We doubt that the berries, good 
as they are. fully pay for the nuisance 
of the giant briers all the rest of the 
year. It is very nice to have blackber¬ 
ries after -other people’s have all gone, 
bufc to contend with the giant growth and 
terrible thorns 11 months for the fruiting 
of one mouth is rather a big price to pay. 
A Northern man who has moved to Mis¬ 
sissippi and has planted the Everbearing 
strawberries finds that they gave a 
smaller Spring crop than others, and no 
Fall crop. He wishes to know the rea¬ 
son. “for they did finely for him in Wis¬ 
consin.” There are many things that do 
well in Mississippi and will not do any¬ 
thing in Wisconsin. We cannot over¬ 
come climatic influence. The Fall-bear¬ 
ing strawberries will always do better in 
the North than southward. Even this 
far South they are less valuable than the 
Spring' croppers. We can plant them in 
the Spring and keep the blossoms picked 
till June, and they will give some fruit 
till frost. Then if we let them make the 
Spring crop the next season they will 
make no Fall crop, so that we have to 
treat them as annuals to get the Fall 
crop. I have dropped them, and in 
Mississippi our correspondent would bet¬ 
ter plant varieties like P>ig Joe and 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, SEPT, 18, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
The Farmer on the Back Hill Farm..1467, 
Developing' Seed Potatoes. Part II. 
Getting Rid of Snakes--- 
The Green Pea Crop in Madison County.. 
Northern Ohio Notes.. 
Pennsylvania Farm and Fruit Notes 
Planting Alfalfa Roots.. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
An ex-Hired Man’s Wife. 
Can You Tell Him?... 
Redeeming the Rocky Hills. 
Bermuda Grass in Virginia.. 
Hope Farm Noites. 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Coming Live Stock Sales...... 
New Jersey Holstein Men Meet 
Drving Off Persistent Milker.. 
Cabbage for Live Stock. 
Rowen with Weed Mixture.... 
Rebuilding Silo... 
Cleaning Dairy Utensils. 
FHs .. 
Worms of Sheep. 
Pin Worms . 
Fleas on Dog. 
Cough . 
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THE HENYARD 
A Start in Poultry... 
Roun . 
Ration for Layers.... 
Plaster for Henhouse 
Egg-laying Contest.. 
Fat Laying Hens.... 
Pullets Fail to Lay.. 
Wall 
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HORTICULTURE 
A Monument to an Apple.. 
Dynamite for Tree Planting. .. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Propagating Dahlias . 
Flower Perfume . 
Sugar from Palm Trees. 
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WOMAN AND HOME 
Come Out of the Kitchen, Farm Woman... 
From Day to Day....... 
Farm Notes from Oklahoma. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Chow Chow . 
Notes from Vermont. 
Candy Fondant _. 
Two Apple Recipes.... 
Suggestions for Cleaning Days. 
More Hospital Experience. 
Knitting Infants’ Bootees...... 
How I Made My Fruit Closet. 
Canned Tomato Soup..... 
Embroidery Designs... 
Pee’ing Tomatoes and Peaches... 
Canning Pepoers.. 
Sliced Cucumber Pickles. 
Making a Rose Jar....... 
Economy Cake . 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Tread Power Compared with Engine. 1471 
A Venture in Custom Grinding; Repairing 
D am ...1*71 
Developing' Water Power from Spring- 1471 
Events of the Week. 
The Tired Child. 1480 
What is the ‘'Equinoctial Storm”?. 1480 
Dyeing Fur... 
Curve of Annie Barrel. 
Filter in Tank... 
Hoisting Device for Well-digging. 1492 
Mending Leaky Cistern. 1492 
Raising Water to House. 
Treatment for Epilepsy. low! 
Treatment for Skin Disease. 1500 
Beme-’y for Itch.... j£90 
■Publisher’s Desk. 1602 
Chesapeake. The Spring berries always 
bear longer in the South than in the 
North. I have eaten strawberries in 
Wilmington, N. C., in July that came 
from fields that shipped fruit North in 
April. But the everbearing sorts do 
nothing here. We have so much fruit 
in the Fall that, we can do without straw¬ 
berries. and the Spring varieties make 
far finer berries than any everbearing 
.sort. 
I fear that the late crop of Irish pota¬ 
toes here will not amount to much. The 
tops have run up erect and stand like 
rows of soldiers, all now blooming, evi- j 
dently drawn up in the dark, rainy 
weather of August like plants grown in 
the shade. I note that all I have seen 
are just like mine. Sweet potatoes, too. 
have suffered from the long wet spell, 
and while some of our growers are ship¬ 
ping the immature roots because of high I 
price, I am sure they would get more 
profit a month hence at half the present 
price. Sweet potatoes here are usually 
more certain to be profitable than the 
Irish potatoes. Our growers have little 
competition except from South Jersey, 
and all the populous North depends on 
us two. The yield is far heavier than 
Irish potatoes on the same land, so that 
it is not strange we leave the early Irish 
potato to the two Virginia counties just 
south of us. I have a plot of the Nancy 
Hall sweet potato in my garden, and 
have not dug a hill yet, and will not till 
they are evidently mature. There is a 
breath of Autumn in the air, and the 
mercury this morning stood at. 55, more j 
like early October weather. We need a | 
month of sunshine yet to mature the j 
sweet potato crop, and to help the Irish 
potatoes to produce some tubers. Some 
Colorado beetles have made their appear¬ 
ance, but the calcium arsenate soon set¬ 
tles them. We seldom have a late brood 
here. 
The first sowing of spinach is in the 
ground a month later than l usually sow. 
Another sowing will be made about the 
twentieth to Winter over for Spring cut¬ 
ting. The Department of Agriculture ad¬ 
vises the putting down of turnip tops in 
brine to make greens in Winter. These 
would come in handy when spinach is 
not fit to cut in Winter. String beans we 
know are excellent packed in brine in 
stone jars, and soaked over night when 
we need them in Winter. 
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