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Tnc RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 2, 1920 
Wherever you arjej* 
there is a Newfv 
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All through this territory there are “New-Idea” dealers. There’s one 
in your neighborhood. That means quick delivery and good service. 
Send for the “New-Idea” catalog today and we’ll tell you the name 
of the nearest dealer. Ask him to show you the New-Idea written 
guarantee—the binding money-back assurance that the New-Idea will 
do all we claim for it. It is absolute insurance of satisfactory heating 
for a life time and an old reliable company stands back of it. 
The New-Idea frameless hot-blast feed door, found on no other fur¬ 
nace; the cup-jointed construction; the patented non-clinker grate 
that burns any fuel; the big dust and gas-tight register—all these and 
many other advantages make the New-Idea the furnace you will 
select when you know about them and make comparisons. Expert 
advice on heating free. 
UTICA HEATER COMPANY 
Bo* 50, UTICA, N. Y. 
Also manufacturers of " Superior” Warm Air Furnaces 
and "Imperial“ Steam and Hot ll'ater Boilers. 
NEW-IDEA 
Pipeless Furnace 
The One You’ve Heard So Much About” 
Excellent proposition for the right kind of Hard - 
ware dealers , implement men , etc. New 
Idea dealers everywhere are 20-7 
*•making good”. 
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MR. FARMER 
IT’S WORTH YOUR WHILE TO GET 
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT 
BARIUM- 
PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
Containing 
28% PHOSPHORIC ACID 
7% BARIUM SULPHIDE 
and 
SULPHUR IN A MATER SO LUBLE FORM 
Headquarters also for all 
FERTILIZER MATERIALS 
For “HOME MIXING” 
Nitrate of Soda, Potash Salts 
GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
For August and Fall planting. Pot-grown plants 
ready now and runner plants ready about Sepr.. 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 1>. SQUIRES, Uood Ground, N.Y. 
C D C OI fi (j Let nie help you secure the best of 
wl LUIHL the new Strawberry, Raspberry and 
Asparagus Plans. Interesting illustrated circular free. 
A. B. Katkamier - - Macedon, N. Y. 
Layer Strawberry Plants ™ J 40 A varieties r t f o al LTec , t 
from, including tlie fall bearing. 
J. Keifford Hall, Route S, 
Ask for catalog. 
ltHOPKSDALK, MD. 
tir j Raspberry r.nd blackberry P t>,i,t s and 
Wantftn AM'AIUGFS root*. State price, 
i •• Nvrseb'Y Box 175, Good Ground, X. Y. 
Strawberry, Blackberry, Raspberry Plants Fan 
Planting. Send for pricelist. MICHAEL It. BORGO, Vineland, N. J 
Wrawhprru Plant? for f:,1! effing. ?l nerlOO. Po<t Paid. 
cudft Derry rianis juvjd rodway, hartly, Delaware 
AGENTS WANTED WOOD ASHES-Unleached 
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Active, reliable, on salary, to take 
subscriptions for Rural Neiv-Yorker 
in New York State. Prefer men 
who have horse or auto. Address : 
*Tf?e Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th Street, New York City 
parked in bne=. $13 per ton, F. O. B. Swarth more Ta. 
B. II. LEIDY • bnarthraore, l*a. 
Orape Vines 
Lending commercial varieties. Fresh dug. direct 
from Nursery to planter. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
Pi ke list free. BUNTING S NURSERIES. Boi I. Sbelhyville. Odiware 
FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL TREES 
VINES, BERRIES, SHRUBS AND ROSES 
de good for over 3G years. Wlien buying of us you enjoy the benefit of our 
ierience. This fall is the time to plant, for Nursery Seedlings come from 
re been since the war, almost impossible to get at any price, ns they are 
Rave made good for over .% year 
many years experi 
France and liav 
not grow ing many seedlings, the land being used for farming purposes as they are’very much in'neeil 
of grain, therefore stock is very scarce and will be for years to come. There will l,o a record-breaking 
demand for fruit for years to come, so an orchard planted now will add more to the value of vonr farm 
than ever before. Maloney hardy upland trees of known merit will establish themselves quickly, make 
a rapid growth and fruit early. Write lor our Big, Free Descriptive Catalog— We guarantee ubsolute 
satisfaction or refund your money. 
IVe Prepay Transportation Charges, on all Orders for Over $7.50 
MALONEY BROS. & WELLS CO., 50 West Street. DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
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When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Work of the Women's Land Army 
An Abiding Influence.— The Wo¬ 
man's Land Army 1 as ceased to function 
as a State organization, but the effect, of 
its having once been a patriotic power 
in inducing young women and college girls 
of the cities to give a hand in helping the 
farmer during harvest time still lives. 
The army gave the ennobling incentive to 
work of this kind for the fair sex at a 
time when the young men of the land 
were drawn into war and the nation’s 
food supply was in jeopardy. It was just 
this touch by the city girls, many of them 
from the cultured homes of aristocratic 
families, that galvanized new life into 
the farm labor supply during the period 
when so many additional hands are need¬ 
ed for < a few weeks. Thanks to the 
Woman’s Land Army* it is no longer im¬ 
possible to recruit feminine labor for 
light harvesting work. TLe situation 
really underwent a radical change for the 
town girl and the farm girl, many of 
whom formerly were only too anxious to 
leave the farm as soon as possible, often* 
to accept the grinding and monotonous 
factory work of the cities. 
Ennobling Hard Work.— Before the 
advent of the lass from the Woman’s 
Land Army on the farm but few of the 
American high school girls would don 
overalls and enter the zest of harvesting 
work in field or orchard. This was menial 
work, fit for foreigners and those who 
‘‘had to work.” But the noble work of 
the Woman’s Land' Army camps during 
the feverish days of the war opened a 
new chapter in the life of Miss America. 
The city girl found something real and 
altogether fascinating in the open life 
of the camp, where part of each day was 
made a holiday. The country girl found 
that the city population is not always on 
dress parade, and that even city folks 
could buckle down and execute a good 
day's work on the farm, even taking an 
enthusiastic frame of mind at the pros¬ 
pect of sharing in the toils of the day. 
that every employee is deserving of hu¬ 
mane treatment. No one is ever a nvi- 
ohine in his sight, to be used until broken 
and cast aside. The hours of work are 
so arranged that the harvesters put. in 
their best licks when freshest, and that 
a break-up of the day’s grind may come 
in, all hands take an hour and a half for 
the midday meal and rest period. Town 
harvesters and those outside the units are 
an exception to this rule, regular hours 
being observed by them. These workers 
also were assigned to orchards separate 
from those in which the farmerettes an- 
erated, so that no mingling was necessary 
The Farmerette’s Day. —Meals, work- 
rest hours and even recreation periods 
were managed by clockwork, so that 
order followed the day completely through 
All meals were arranged under the care 
of a skilled dietitian, so that throughout 
the week each girl received a perfectly 
balanced ration, many of them for the 
first time in their lives, thus coming un¬ 
der skilled attention of this kind. The 
results were so salutary that some of the 
girls put on from 5 to 12 pounds during 
their stay on the farm. Each farmerette 
signed for eight hours’ service per day, 
with an additional pay for overtime work 
put in when sent out. as was done a few 
times when the canneries were suffering 
a shortage of help. At 5:30 the day’s 
work was done, supper during pleasant 
weather being served on the lawn. At 7 
o'clock the substitute for old Dobbin, one 
of the big farm tractors, started with a 
merry crew in tow, bound for the barracks 
near Lake Ontario, where another merry 
hour was spent in the daily duck in the 
lake. At 5) I*. M. came “lights out.” and 
the camp quieted down for the day. A 
thousand and one little attentions came 
about through the hand of Manager Mac- 
Dill which of themselves speak for his 
marvelous hol<j on his help. It might be 
the offer of the big truck for a ride to 
town on band concert night, or on a sight¬ 
seeing whirl, a marshmallow roast at the 
Commercial Fruit Culture 
Farmerette Fruit Pickers at Lunch 
Cherry-Picking. — Perhaps the most 
striking example of the wonderful success 
with this kind of labor in New York is 
that of the Sod us Fruit. Farm. Inc., a 
farm of <>00 acres, having over 15,000 
cherry trees in its orchards, the largest 
acreage of its kind in the State. It was 
on this farm three years- ago that an ex¬ 
periment was tried with the Woman’s 
Land Army. It was only known that the 
young women enlisted from patriotic im¬ 
pulses, and beyond this no one knew how 
successful the venture would prove. The 
girls proved a revelation. With a do-or- 
die spirit they plunged into the work with 
such vim that their success was instan¬ 
taneous. Boy help "'as strictly taboo, 
and a rigid discipline, tempered with 
many programmed frolics, brought such 
regularity in the working out of the har¬ 
vest that at no time was any of the crop 
in jeopardy of being lost. Last season, 
with a decidedly curtailed crop, a much 
smaller band of girls was recruited to 
handle the work, many of them being ones 
who had served on the farm the year be¬ 
fore. 
Handling a Big Crop. —This season 
the farm produced the largest cherry crop 
ever taken from a single farm in this 
State—over 400 tons—and again a call 
went out for the girls, but this time an 
unusual number, well over 200. were need¬ 
ed. and no difficulty attended the securing 
of this large number from the Rochester 
schools, even though the Land Army was 
out of existence. Manager MacDill states 
that the time will come when the orchards 
of the Sodus Fruit Farm will throw a 
crop of over 500 tons of cherries, and lie 
professes no concern or worry over the 
matter of harvesting help so long as lie 
lias the good will of the girls in the mat¬ 
ter. 
Handling the Help. —Mr. MacDill 
makes an open secret of his method of 
obtaining all the help he needs during that 
critical part of the year when orchard hits 
are most concerned about an ample sup¬ 
ply of help. He believes whole-heartedly 
lake, or a pavement dance in the village— 
Mr. MacDill was always ready to help 
carry out plans so far as they contributed 
to the proper enjoyment of the occasion. 
Long before the season ended the man¬ 
ager was playing daddy to the whole bunch 
by his kindly acts. The method employed 
on this farm could he emulated with most 
flattering success on hundreds of big 
farms in tin* East where the right spirit 
was fostered by the management. Courte¬ 
sies from day to day were extended to the 
girls with an implied reciprocal courtesy 
that the trees were to be picked clean, 
without limb damage and other destruc¬ 
tion. and that time spent in the orchards 
was- for a purpose. 
The Pickers’ Pay. — This year the 
girls were paid two cents per pound for 
picking, and clumsy were the fingers that 
could not gather 200 lbs. in a day, many 
of them being able to go better than this. 
At a modest charge per week the workers 
were hoarded on the farm, cooks being 
provided from the schools of Rochester, 
some of them having been in supervision 
of the work during all three years of the 
experiment. The harvesting work this 
season extended over a long period, be¬ 
cause of the increased yield of the Eng¬ 
lish Morellos, the latest-maturing variety 
of sour cherry grown in this section. At 
the wind-up it was found necessary to 
extend the finishing date a few days be^ 
yond the time when “goin"-home day” 
had been promised the girls. After din¬ 
ner the pickers were assembled and the 
situation explained. The girls could go, 
as promised, leaving the town help to 
finish, but the need for them was felt, and 
rather than impress them back into ser¬ 
vice a vote was taken, making it optional 
with the girls on staying. With a “hip, 
hip, hooray” practically every hand shot 
into tin* air. The writer happened to he 
standing by when this vote was taken, 
and the effect was really electrifying. 
Here was developed a “bunch of enthusi¬ 
asm” that would do anything the manage¬ 
ment reasonably wanted. A. ix. r. 
