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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 11, 1920 
Coffee Drinkers 
are often annoyed by 
headaches, nervousness 
or other ills traceable to 
coffee drinking. 
"When coffee disagrees, the 
thing to do is to quit coffee 
and drink 
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or two thoy wore about the puniest', 
sickly-looking bit of vegetation that ever 
tried to grow, but they hung on. The 
bed was kept carefully cultivated and all 
weeds and other plants than the clover 
pulled out. Finally they started to grow 
in dead earnest. From August 1 to 
August 7 the best plant grew exactly 15 
inches, as shown in record, and as they 
turned out the plants were just about 
right for the 48 square feet of land they 
occupied. Whereas they were planted a 
trifle more than two seeds to the square 
foot, they responded by coming one plant 
to each two square feet, and this is thick 
enough. 
Next year I shall plant in rows two 
feet apart, about three or four seeds to 
the foot, and if germination is good 1^ will 
thin to one foot apart in the row. These 
will be carefully cultivated and good re¬ 
sults will be hoped for. One plant every 
two square feet makes about 22.000 plants 
per acre, and at 4% pounds per plant 
would make over 52 tons. The linal 
record follows: 
Height 
May 20, 1920, seed planted— of plant 
June 1,1920. 1 in. 
June 22, 1920. 12 m. 
Aug. 1, 1920. 69 in. 
Aug. 7, 1920. 84 in. 
Sept. 7, 1920. 108 in. 
Oct. 6, 1920. 109 in. 
Plant dug up October 6. Root 24 
inches below ground line, making, total 
length over all of 138 inches. Circum¬ 
ference at base, 3^4 inches. Weight of 
plant, 4% pounds. S- ROWLAND. 
Albany Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—The plant came, and mea¬ 
sured, as Mr. Row laud says, 109 inches, 
or nine feet one inch high. This seems 
that every piece planted shall have a 
tough, s f rong sprout. 
Northern Potatoes and Appx.es.— 
Our one grocer who has the capital 
and storage to buy by the carload when 
he wants to, recently advertised two car¬ 
loads of Northern potatoes and one of 
No. 1 New York Baldwin apples—pota¬ 
toes at $1.00 per bushel and apples at 
$1.75. This was rather startling. There 
are still many potatoes in farmers’ hands, 
hut they will not sell them as cheaply as 
did these Northern. It is also undeni¬ 
able that, on the average, the Northern 
stock is better in all respects than the 
home-grown, in size, quality and smooth¬ 
ness. This grocer is largely dependent 
upon the rural trade. IIow far should 
he favor them at the expense of the cus¬ 
tomer? There is a nice question for de¬ 
bate by farm clubs and organizations. 
In September I talked with a fruit 
grower and farmer from Arkansas. lie 
was full of life and energy and generosity 
over wliat he considered a sure prospect 
for 1.000 bu. of late potatoes and a large 
crop of cotton. He was talking with 
confidence of improvements he would make 
with the money from those potatoes at $3 
a bushel and that cotton at 25 cents. 
Since that time the price of these crops 
has dropped more than 50 per cent. I 
fear that air of courage and hope which 
happily distinguished my friend no longer 
vitalizes him, and makes the horizon se- 
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Desirable Types of Native Persimmons 
to be the record thus far, and it. is easy 
tr> realize what an acre of such plants 
would mean as green manure. 
rone and clear. Alas for our human pro 
posals! L. B. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
Fruit Notes from Missouri 
Native Persimmons. — One of the 
numerous varieties of native persimmons 
that, have been accepted by the Agricul¬ 
tural Department as worthy of propaga¬ 
tion bore a half-dozen fruits this Fall. 
They showed no signs of ripening till 
after several days of freezing weather, 
when they began to soften. Though not 
entirely ripe yet, I am abli to determine 
that, while resembling the fruit of the 
native tree that I described in my last 
notes, they are plainly inferior in quality 
and their seeds, although not more numer¬ 
ous, are much larger. Some years ago I 
sent specimens from this native to the 
department for examination. They praised 
them, but objected to quantity of seeds. 
As I remember the specimens sent were 
inferior in size and flavor to those of this 
season, and an examination of a greater 
quantity now demonstrates that the aver¬ 
age number of seeds in the very large 
fruits on this tree was only four, in some 
cases six, and in some only one. The 
seeds themselves were uncommonly small. 
I am convinced that this variety deserves 
a place on the department’s list, and I 
shall again urge it upon their attention. 
Two specimens are shown in the picture, 
and will be recognized by their conical 
form; the flattisb one is the type of 
numerous natives, including the Jose¬ 
phine, which was perhaps the first, of all 
to be propagated widely, but although it 
is called of “honey-sweet” quality, I do 
not find it equal to our local kind. 
Date Potatoes. —-The late potato crop 
outyieldcd the early one, not only in 
quantity, but in size and quality of tubers. 
My estimation of a late potato crop has 
been rising as I gain more experience of 
its possibilities. It can be planted up to 
the first of August in this latitude of 
Southern Missouri, and thus can he made 
a second crop to follow an earlier one. 
The chief secret of success is to have the 
soil deep and fine from cultivation of an 
earlier crop, or from plowing in Spring 
and subsequent stirrings. In this way it 
is rendered nearest independent of 
drought, which is the great enemy here 
of late-planted crops. Second to soil 
preparation should be sprouting of the 
seed by previous exposure to the light, so 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, DEC. 11, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
The Way Business Looks at the Farms 
...lf>4'i , 1£4S 
C-rowing: Potatoes i.i Cribs.. 1848 
Suggestions for the Roadside Public Market 1848 
The New Uses for Fertilizer Sulphur. 1849 
Annual Sweet Clover in New Jersey.. .1840, 1850 
Primer of Economics. ; 1S52 
Meeting of the New York Federation of 
Agriculture . 1861 
Tho Wonders of the “Rural Family”. 1861 
The Great Cotton Injustice. 1861 
What the Public Market Does for a Farmer 1861 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
State Breeders’ Meeting..... 1861 
Feeding Nite Cows...... . 1866 
Foodi-g Small Herl..*... 1866 
Feeding Freshening Cows. 1866 
Tnprov’ng Milk F ow. 1866 
New York State Dairymen. 1870 
Farmers and Oleo. 1871 
Inspecting Home-killed Meat. 1873 
Slaughtering Meat at Homo. 1873 
Worms in Cats. 1873 
A-id Phosphate and Live Stock. 1874 
V7 hite Snooks in Butter. l c 74 
C-o-»m Sw-'ls in Churn. 1874 
Cabbage for Cows. 1874 
THE HENYARD 
A Champion Hen from the West. 1872 
Rupture of Oviduct. 1872 
Condensed Buttormilk; Diarrhoea. 1872 
Breeding Stock . 1872 
Sulphur for Molting Hens. 1872 
Poor Laying . 1877 
Rye for Poultry. 1877 
Buttermilk and Green Feed. 1877 
HORTICULTURE 
Storing Apples in Pits... 1848 
Fruit Notes from Missouri. 1850 
Sprouted vs. Unsprouted Seed Potatoes... 1854 
Culture of Tulips. 1IE4 
Uti izing a Second-hand Greenhouso. 1851 
Everbearing Strawberry . 1851 
Notes from Marylan Garden... 1853 
Tomato Plants from Leaf Sprouts. 1853 
Location for Growing Pears,. 1886 
Failure of Carnations. 1855 
Sad News from Apple Orchards. 1861 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1864 
Christmas and the Shut-in. 1864 
Reading for Children. 1864 
The Rural Patterns. 1864 
Co.-n in New York Shops. 1864 
Baked Apples. 1864 
Cranberries for Holidays. 1865 
Filling Up Unsightly Places... 1865 
Scrapple .'. 1865 
Embroidery Desigiis. 1865 
Kuitt’ng Xnstru'’tions Wanted. 1865 
Tennessee Notes . 1865 
To S-'ve Frozen Pumpkin. 1865 
New Year’s Cake. 1865 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Clearing Out Watercress. 1855 
Some More Natural H-storv Notes. 1859 
A Discussion of the School Law. 1861 
The Price of Money. 1869 
P-due’ng S’ZG of Pipe. 1876 
Barrel System for Raising Water. 1876 
S phoning Water Out o‘ Old Mine........ 1876 
F'ircd Tile for Wate- vine.. 1876 
Removing Air from Siphon. 1876 
