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Fall Painting 
costs less than spring 
There is at least one big 
reason why Fall painting will 
cost you less. Putting it off 
until next Spring, after jx>ur 
buildings have gone through 
another Winter’s wear means 
they will take more paint to 
paint them. That’s just the 
plainest kind of plain horse 
sense. 
Then another thing: next 
Spring you will be so rushed 
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with Spring work that 
will put painting off until Fall 
—and so it goes on from bad 
to worse. 
Any way you figure it, you 
can save money by painting 
this Fall. And speaking of 
saving — send for circular 
called — “Figure Your Paint 
Costs with a Brush—Not a 
Pencil.” Remember that Lowe 
Brothers’ Paint is sold by the 
one best dealer in each town. 
^Lowq Brothers Company 
510 EAST THIRD STREET, DAYTON, OHIO 
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| THE RURAL NEW-YORKER | 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
For October and Fall planting. Pot-grown plants 
ready now and runner plants ready about Sept. 1st. 
Will bear fruit next summer. Also RASPBFRRY. 
BLACKBERRY. DEWBERRY, GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT. GRAPE, 
ASPARAGUS. RHUBARB plants. ROSES, PANSIES. SHRUBS 
tor fall planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N.Y. 
piFTY early, fifty midseason, and fifty late 
1 Strawberry plants, postage paid, for Two 
Dollars. October planting circular free. 
| A. B. KATKAMIER, MACEDON, N. Y. 
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Layer Strawberry Plants ^g! l « A ^?ieties r to"ei e ^t 
from, including the fall bearing. Ask for catalog. 
J. Kiukporb Hall, Route 2, Khodesdai.k, Md. 
Strawberry Plants 
for full setting. SI per 100. Post paid. 
David Rodway, Hauti.v, Delaware 
Strawberry, Blackberry, Raspberry Plants Fan 
Planting. Send for price list. MICHAEL N. BORGO.Vi.iebnd, N. J 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
For fall plant¬ 
ing. 3-ye r. $2 
per 100 ; $1 0.75 
per 1.000 Rhubarb roots. Si .60 per 12 : $6 SO per loo. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N. Y. 
GRAPEVINES SSM 
Niagara, Worden. 3Sr. paeli ; 
IIA UK Y L. SQUIRES, 
$3.75 |hm* 13 ; $25 per 100. 
Good Ground, N. Y. 
AGENTS WANTED 
Active, reliable, on salary, to take sub- 
scripitons for 77ie Rural New- Yorker 
in New York State. Prefer men who 
have horse or auto. Address 
The RURAL NEW YORKER 
333 W 30th St. , New York City 
G-rape Vines 
beading commercial varieties. Fresh dug, direct 
from Nursery to planter. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
Price list free. BUNTING'S NURSERIES. Bo> 1, Sclbyville. Delaware 
$135.00 FOR BEST NUTS 
BEECHNUTS, BLACK WALNUTS, BUTTERNUTS, 
CHESTNUTS, ENGLISH WALNUTS HAZEL NUTS. 
HICKORY NUTS, JAPAN WALNUTS, PECANS 
Full information from WILLARD U. BIXJTY, Treasurer 
NORTHERN NUT GROWERS' ASSN.. Baldwin, Na«»au Co.. \. V. 
MALONEY Guaranteed TREES 
An Advertisement to Live Fruit Men 
Maloney trees are guaranteed true to name 
and free from disease by the largest, /rowers 
in New York State. There is going to be a 
shortage of fruit trees this fall, because all 
fruit tree seedlings come from France, and 
owing to conditions there the number coming 
to the United States has been way below 
the usual shipment. Be sure and get jour 
order in early so as not to be disappoint,ed. 
We recognize our responsibility to the fruit growers au<l- we have 
this year issued a novel Descriptive Catalog that tells the tilings 
you ought to know about our business. Write for your copy today 
—it’s V ee. No order is too big or none too small for us to bundle 
personally. . . ... 
Fall planting is ree-mnnended by the largest and best fruit growers. 
We prepay transportation charges on all orders far aver $7.50 
MALONEY BROS. & WELLS CO., 51 West Street, DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
General Farm Topics 
Plowing Under Cow Peas 
T have a rectangular piece of cow peas 
seeded in June. Later I plowed the whole 
field and seeded Crimson clover in August. 
I cannot very well plow the cow peas un¬ 
der now. as the patch is surrounded by 
the clover and I do not need to cut it. 
Can I profitably let the cow peas die 
down and plow under with the clover in 
the Spring? What do you recommend? 
Maryland. j. b. k. 
sou all through -for the bean grower, and 
although in some sections root rot has 
been rather prevalent, I believe that the 
crop, even at present prices, will prove 
a.s profitable as other crops, and leave the 
land in excellent condition for wheat. 
New York. henry e. cox. 
Use of Hay Slings; Size of Thrashing 
Machine 
We should let the cow peas alone. The 
vines will die at frost and fall to the 
ground. Some of the leaves will be blown 
away, but the dead vines, plowed under 
in the Spring, will help the soil. In some 
cases we have scattered rye right among 
the cow pea vines while the ground was 
wet. A fair proportion of the rye started 
and made a fair growth up through the 
pea vines. This gave a considerable quan¬ 
tity for plowing under tlic following 
Spring. 
Tobacco in Delaware County, N. Y. 
Why can wo not raise good tobacco in 
Delaware Co., N. Y.? It is grown to 
groat advantage in some nearby counties. 
Why not here? It would give us a new 
cash crop. ,t. k. 
I am not sure that tobacco could not 
be raised on some of our Delaware County 
farms, but farmers are not used to its 
culture, and radically different methods 
of farming are necessary. There is very 
little land that is not needed for pro¬ 
ducing hay for stock that is kept at the 
present time. If part of this land is 
taken for tobacco it would limit the num¬ 
ber of cows kept. The rough land which 
is used for pasture would not he good for 
raising crops and would probably he idle. 
Since I have been in the county I have 
seen only a few tobacco plants, and these 
have been very good, but I am rather 
sceptical about this being a very good 
section for tobacco growing. 
E. G. BROUGHAM, 
Farm Bureau Manager. 
Some Experiments in Bean Culture 
Although bean growing in this neigh¬ 
borhood lias been very unpopular of late 
years. I have kept on with a few varieties 
in an experimental way. and results have 
been entirely satisfactory. A bean grower 
in Otsego County wrote me that lie had 
a variety of pea beans that he procured 
from Wisconsin that were quite wonder¬ 
ful as to yield. So prolific were they that 
they should be planted one bean in a 
place, with quite a distance between the 
plants. My ground for this seasonV seed 
potatoes is a sandy loam that grew beans 
last year, when it received a light, dress¬ 
ing of manure from the yard, but litis been 
under cultivation for a number of years. 
This year no manure or fertilizer was 
used. The plots were each 50 ft. long 
and four rows wide. 30 in. apart. The 
beans were planted in hills about a foot 
apart, and three beans in a hill. The 
cultivation was all done by hand with the 
garden cultivator, and no weeds allowed 
to grow. The planting was done May 22. 
and I pulled the crop to cure Septem¬ 
ber 4. They were thrashed out Septem¬ 
ber 17. the Wisconsin peas showing 24 
lbs. from the 500 sq. ft., and the Robust 
20 lbs. from the same area, the acre yield 
being a fraction over 34 bu. for the former 
and 42*4 bu. for the latter. While both 
lots were a very nice sample of pea beans 
and about the same in size, the Wisconsin 
beans were badly affected with mosaic, 
while the Robust seemed still resistant to 
this disease, even where the ends of the 
rows came together, and the end plants 
lay against each other. 
I have tested these beans out now for 
a number of years with the same result, 
and have loaned seed to others, so that 
there will soon be plenty of seed of this 
variety for those who are brave enough 
to go on planting beans. All these bud 
years in bean-growing, my selected seed 
plots have shown remarkable yields and 
little disease, and the Robust lias re¬ 
mained immune from disease. Michigan 
deserves full credit for developing and in¬ 
troducing this variety. 
T also grow a more extensive area of 
a larger variety that has originated with 
me that proves a heavy yielder and an 
excellent baking bean. Very little of the 
mosaic appeared in this vicinity. The 
only drawback is its tendency to throw 
out strong stringers that, with the heavy 
growth, tangled them up somewhat. In 
all my varieties the ground was so com¬ 
pletely covered that one could hardly 
distinguish the rows. 
I am still preaching what 1 have al¬ 
ways advocated and practiced: that it 
is much better, all around to plant only 
as large an acreage of any crop as can 
bo properly fertilized and cultivated, 
rather than an acreage so large that it is 
not properly started and cared for. Again. 
I am pretty well convinced that the fore¬ 
part of June is full late enough for beun- 
planting. This has been a favorable sea- 
1. Would you tell me the conditions 
when slings should be used in unloading 
hay, and when a fork should be used? 
2. When a thrashing machine is said to 
be a 20x28, what does the 28 refer in? 
College I'dint, N. Y. t. a. b. 
1. 81ings can be used under almost 
any condition where a fork can be used. 
They are especially adapted for use in 
loose material that a fork will not clean 
up readily.’ their chief advantages being 
the ability to hold this loose material 
and to dean out the bottom of the r-ck 
thoroughly. In my mind, however, these 
advantages are outweighed by the bother 
of carrying the slings to the field and 
the time required for placing them in the 
load as the load is built up, tlmir general 
unhandiness in a mow that is filled nearly 
to the top. and the fact that with some 
rigs they are destructive to the hoisting 
rope used with them because of the great 
number of small sheaves that the hoist¬ 
ing rope is required to run over. Unless 
particularly loose material is to be 
handled the use of a fork is advised. 
2. In regard to the thrashing machine,* 
the first figure given refers to the width 
of the cylinder opening, while the s«onud 
has reference to the width of the separat¬ 
ing parts behind the cylinder. R. ir. s. 
Government Whitewash 
Would you publish the recipe of the 
whitewash the Government uses for light¬ 
houses? c. E. p. 
Slake half a barrel of lump lime with 
hot water. Strain and add a peck of salt 
dissolved in warm water; ’> lbs. of ground 
rice put in boiling water and boiled to a 
thin paste, half a pound of Spanish whit¬ 
ing and a pound of glue dissolved in 
water. Mix and let stand for several 
days. Apply hot. 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, OCT. 9, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
An Alfalfa Seed Crop in New York. 1568 
Can We Clip Alsike Clover?. 1568 
Why Potato Seed Is Slaw to Sprout. 1568 
Notes On Selecting Seed Potatoes. 1569 
Annual Sweet Clover in Rho e Island. 1569 
Ship’s Sweepings for Fertilizer. 1571 
A New Potato from New Zealand. 1574 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 1576 
Crops and Farm Notes. 1578 
Hope Farm Notes.1580, 1581 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1576 
Statement by Dairymen's League. 1583 
Western Farmers and Wool. 1583 
Merits of Ayrshires. 1586 
Red Dog Flour as Feed. 1568 
Pasturing Hogs . 1588 
Oatmeal for Chicks; Feeding Cow. 1568 
Lymphangitis . 1592 
Lame Cow . 1592 
Lump Jaw . 1592 
Paralysis . 1592 
How Founder Is Caused. 1593 
Lice; Bloat . 1.5°3 
A New Wrinkle in Dairy Barns. 1596 
THE HENYARD 
Egg-laving Contest . 1597 
Controlling Red Mites. 1597 
HORTICULTURE 
Novel Examnle of Grafting. 
The Old Story of the Peach Borer 
Storing Kieffer Pears. 
Garden Notes from New England 
Fruit Notes from Missouri. 
Notes from a Maryland Ga-den... 
Growing Strawberries in Hills... 
Plum T-ees from Seed. 
Winter Protection for Ros^s. 
Fa’l Planting for Grapevines.... 
Apple Prices in New York. 
Selling Small Orchard. 
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WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Maternity Hospitals . 
Embroidery Designs . 
Some High School Disadvantages. 
For Damp Cellars. 
Woman's Work at Home... 
Some Small Conveniences. 
Loving the Children. 
Tomato Relish . 
Some Frozen Desserts. 
Saving the Last Bites from the Garden.... 
Tomato Mincemeat: Domestic Fruit Cake.. 
Corner Brush . 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Powers of the Federal Reserve Boar’. 
When a Private Road Becomes Public.... 
Some Remarks About Hay Fever.• • • • • 
Developing Water from Spring.1567, 
Handling Bee Tree. 
Events of the Week. 
Editorials . 
How Retailers Manage. 
New Housing Legislation.. 
Raising Water from Spring. 
Twist Dri'l Sizes... 
Cleaning Water Pines....... 
Suggestions in Electric Wiring. 
Publisher’s Desk . 
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