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November 27 , 1920 
W* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Grape=Nuts j 
The Cereal j 
That Needs No Sugar | 
Healthful, substantial and | 
full of sturdy nourishment. | 
A food of delightful flavor,, I 
eatable to the last atom. i 
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Sold by grocers everywhere! | 
THE JURY AGREES 
(Experience is the Guide) 
That certain weeds and signs indicate a sour soil 
and Grangers Lime is the cure. • 
GRANGERS MANUFACTURING CO., Sacce.wr. 
GRANGERS LIME CO., fiSSftfc. 
Works: West Stoekbridge , .Vass. 
LARGE ASPARAGUS, WITLOOF 
CHICORY AND RHUBARB ROOTS 
For fall and winter forcing in cellar or greenhouse 
Easily and quickly grown, ~ ' 
tions free. Harry L. 
Catalogue and cultural direc- 
£qulren, Good Ground, M. V. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you'll get 
a Quick reply and a "square deal. 99 Soe 
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SHALL YOUR BOY KNOW 
MODERN FARMING ? 
The Riggft Agricultural High School for 
boys 14 to 17 years oiii, prepares for Agricultural 
colleges. Tlie best development of the youth. The 
farm of 175 acres is fully equipped. Every facility 
for outdoor sports and healthful recreation is af¬ 
forded. Seii a for booklet. 
F. D. RIGGS, Headmaster 
LAKEVILLE, COHN. 
Annual White Sweet Clover 
Garden grown, from Prof. Hughes’original stock. Guar, 
anteed genuine. Price. SOc per ounce or $5 per lb. Post 
paid. HENRY FIELD, Shenandoah, Iowa 
^H/eeininvor Unhulled White, *7 Hu. Exp. paid; Hulled, 
OnCCIUtUTBI flfi. Sow now. A. 81OOMINGDALF, SchentcIsSy, M.V. 
Potash arriving at ar» American factory 
Plenty 
of Potash 
A FTER five years of Potash 
. famine there is now plenty of 
Potash to be had at prices that 
will permit it to be used at [a 
good profit. 
When Potash in mixed fertil¬ 
izers was sold at five dollars per 
unit, everybody exclaimed that 
the price was “prohibitive.” 
This was a state of mind. As a 
matter of fact, when the records 
of long continued experiments, 
east, south, and west, were care¬ 
fully gone over it was found that 
there were plenty of cases where 
the crop increase from the use of 
Potash on corn, wheat, oats, 
cotton, tobacco, potatoes, vege¬ 
tables and fruit returned over five 
dollars per unit, even valuing the 
crops at pri ces curren t bef ore 1914. 
Now prices of Potash are less 
than one-half of these “prohibi¬ 
tive prices,” and prices of farm 
products are still high enough to 
make the purchase of the five to 
ten per cent Potash fertilizers a 
very profitable investment when 
yields alone are considered. 
But this is not all. The shipping 
and keeping quality of many of 
our truck, fruit and special crops 
has suffered from lack of Potash. 
Plant diseases have increased 
for the same reason. 
Our best lands have been over¬ 
worked to the limit and need 
restoration. 
The fertilizer manufacturer 
who really has the foresight to 
understand that he serves his 
own and his customers’ interest 
best by furnishing what his com¬ 
munity really needs will return 
to the formulas that were found 
most profitable for his commun¬ 
ity before the Potash famine 
upset things. Indeed this is put¬ 
ting the ease mildly, for provision 
should be made not only to re¬ 
store the old high Potash formu¬ 
las, but to use additional Potash 
to restore the drain on the soil 
during the past five years. 
We never advised the use of 
Potash on soils where we had 
reason to believe it would not 
prove profitable, and never shall 
do so. 
There is not a single crop on 
which Potash has not been found 
profitable on many types of soil. 
In the readjustment period 
when farmers must use every 
means to assure success it is of 
utmost importance that they 
should not be turned aside in 
their efforts to buy fertilizers 
with a reasonable (five to ten) 
per cent, of Potash. 
Potash Pays 
and after five years of Potash fam¬ 
ine it will pay better than ever. 
It takes time to produce and 
ship Potash and large stocks are 
not carried at Potash works. 
Therefore it is imperative that 
you notify your dealer at once 
what brands of fertilizer you will 
require and that you should not 
be induced to change your order 
on any claim that the right kind 
of goods cannot be secured. 
Stick to it and you can get what 
you know you want. 
SOIL AND CROP SERVICE 
POTASH SYNDICATE 
H. A. HUSTON, Manager 
42 Broadway New York 
.system. In the dose of one pound to 100 
fowls it is a useful purge where a purge 
is needed; but. why give the other stun 
with it? Magnesium carbonate has some 
value as a corrective of aeidity in eases 
of sour stomach, C’opperas, or sulphate 
of iron, is an astringent, the action of 
which directly opposes that of the salts. 
Sulphur formerly had some reputation in 
cases of chronic bronchial troubles, but 
is not now so used. It is an ingredient, 
of most animal remedies, however, prob¬ 
ably because an established reputation is 
a hard thing to get rid of. Ground gin¬ 
ger finds a most useful place at this sea¬ 
son of the year in the make-up of pump¬ 
kin pies : I have only praise for its bene¬ 
ficent action upon the system when so 
administered. Such -value as this cold 
remedy has lies in the cathartic action 
of the salts, but, when salts are needed, 
they should be given as salts, not in a 
mixture with a half dozen other drugs iu 
the vain hope that each of the others will 
find some useful job to do when it gets 
into the stomach, and go promptly to it. 
It would be a fine thing if we could only 
cure colds by giving some “simple reme¬ 
dy,” but that simple remedy is yet to be 
found. The most valuable, as well as the 
most devilish, drug in the pharmacopoeia 
is opium. It. is the only one in which I 
have any confidence in the breaking up 
of incipient colds. Tt is not. adapted to 
flock use, however, and cannot be safely 
used by humans except under the direc¬ 
tion of a physician. Most 'fortunately, 
State and national laws now restrict its 
sale and .distribution. Permanganate- of 
potash, in sufficient amount to color the 
drinking water a wine red, is an old and 
tried remedy for Fall colds in chickens. 
It is recommended by all the authorities, 
and the beautiful purple color that it im¬ 
parts to water makes it a remedy of 
greatest aesthetic value. 
Personally, 1 think that your pullets 
have had about, all the medicating that 
they need. T should uow try giving them 
good care, feeding them lightly until their 
appetites return, giving them good venti¬ 
lation in their quarters without exposing 
them to direct drafts, and waiting pa¬ 
tiently until the natural recuperative 
powers of their bodies had overcome both 
the colds and the drugs given. This 
natural recuperative power will have to 
do the business, anyway, and you may as 
well wait patiently for it as to fret over 
the egg yield. As to the purple combs, 
they may be seen normally at times in 
laying hens, and they are found as indi¬ 
cation of circulatory disturbance in dis¬ 
eases of the liver, of the respiratory ap¬ 
paratus and other organs. M. H. D. 
Propagating Dutchman’s 
Will you tell me how to 
plants from the Dutchman’s 
Earlville, N. Y. 
Pipe 
start new 
pipe vine? 
h. a. w. 
The Dutchman’s pipe, Aristolochia 
Sipho, may be propagated by layers, root 
cuttings or green cuttings under glass 
It is an easy matter to root layers. Bend 
down a shoot of ripe wood, shave a little 
“heel” of bark where it is laid down, but 
do not cut deeply into the shoot. Peg the 
shoot down at this point, and cover with 
earth, leaving the tip exposed like a 
cutting. If this is done in Spring there 
is usually a good cluster of roots the fol¬ 
lowing Soring, when the rooted tip may 
be cut oft’, and set as a separate plant. 
The layer may he made iu the Fall if 
desired, though the tip may not he suffi¬ 
ciently rooted for separating until the 
second Spring following. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 27, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
The ‘‘Line of Least Resistance”.1791, 1792 
Value of a Good Ox Team... 1792 
Hope Farm Notes.1798, 1799 
The Farmer Is “Somebody” in Idaho. 1801 
Making Most of a Farm Paper. 1801 
The Hired Man’s Wife. 1801 
Farmers in the Legislature; Primary Laws. 1801 
Experience in a Public Market. 1801 
Trespassing on Farm Property. 1801 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Tomatoes for Stock. 1808 
Old Doll Takes Tea With the Boss. 1808 
Milk and Crop Notes...:. 1808 
Dairymen ana Oleo. 1812 
THE HENYARD 
A New England Poultry Problem. 1792 
Poultry Inbreeding on Utility Linos. 1793 
Drugs for the Poultry.' 1793 
The “Favorite Hons” at Work. 1813 
HORTICULTURE 
Training Negleoted Fruits. 1796 
Evergreen Figs ... 1796 
Blueberries and Dewberries; Peach Seed... 1795 
Missouri Fruit Notes. 1797 
Winter Storage of Cannas and Dahlias. 1797 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman..,, 1796 
A Thanksgiving Dinner Down on the Farm, 
179B, 1809 
The Lost Art of Neighboring. 1799 
'Boys and Girls.1802, 1803 
The Wife’s Share. 1804 
The Home Dressmaker. 1806 
Quilting in Embroidery Hoop. 1805 
Cleaning Corduroy in Baby Carriage. 1805 
The Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 1810 
From Connecticut to California—Part I.... 1810 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Editorials . 1800 
Investments in Land Bank Bonds. 1801 
The Rural School Situation. 1801 
Publisher’s Desk .. 1814 
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