‘Jhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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How Alex. McPherson Won a Gold Medal 
L AST year Alex. McPherson—champion potato grower of 
-j the United States, located in one of the greatest potato 
districts in the world (Presque Island, Maine) and winner 
of the Farm Journal Gold Medal, for the most perfect acre 
of potatoes—wrote us as follows : 
“for a perfect job in planting potatoes, I hare to use the 
Iron Ace Planter. My stand of potatoes in the field had to be 
perfect to win the Farm Journal National Prize Contest, as every 
Stale in the Union competed for the prize and medals. I he 
tubers grow more uniform in size by having no missed hills. 
“Alex. McPherson.” 
IRON AGE 
Potato 
Iron Age Potato Planters are regularly 
treated to this kind of commendation. 
Thousands of such letters crowd our 
hies. Thousands of satisfied hut silent 
users continue to plant successful crops 
year after year with these machines.- 
A potato crop requires constant care 
throughout the season. The soil must 
be properly prepared. Mann-? spreaders, 
plows, harrows, planters, feifi'lizer dis¬ 
co to your dealer for Iron 
cany the Iron Aye Line write 
etc. In any event send to 
Planters 
tributors, sprayers, weeders, cultivators 
and diggers must go over the same 
ground. 
As a matter of economy it is of the ut¬ 
most importance that one seed piece and 
only one be planted in every hill. Pota¬ 
toes are not the easiest crop in the 
world to raise, and no man appreciates 
good machinery more than the potato 
grower. 
A(/e Implements. If he doesn’t 
direct to its for Catalans, prices, 
ns for descriptive literature. 
January 22, 1921 
1 Budded Peach Seedlings: Apples for 
Delaware 
I would like to know whether budded 
peach seedlings are as good for propaga¬ 
tion as natural, and if not. where I can 
get. seedling*)? Can you tell me of some 
one having Stark's Golden Delicious in 
bearing? Would Niagara Pippin lie a 
good commercial apple here in Delaware, 
or would the Star be more profitable?. 
Wyoming, Del. C. F. F. 
One of the most successful peach or¬ 
chards ever grown in this State (’Mary¬ 
land) was budded on seedling stocks from 
named varieties of peaches. The late 
Kdward Wilkins of Kent County. Md, 
was the largest peach grower in the 
| State in the boom time of pencil orchards. 
| I Tr found that varieties often varied from 
j tlieir true season, and made trouble in the 
picking and interfered with others. He 
concluded that this variation might he 
caused by early peaches being budded on 
! seedlings from late peaches, and vice 
versa. lie determined to grow an or¬ 
chard from selected seed, using early 
varieties for budding early varieties <>n, 
and late and mid-season varieties like¬ 
wise. lie carried out the idea, using seed 
from his own budded trees. That orchard 
was a very successful one and a long- 
lived one. T have seen the Golden Deli¬ 
cious apple, but know of no one growing 
them. Since the Delicious thrives on the 
Peninsula, I know of no reason why the 
yellow sport should not thrive. 
T do not know the Pippin you name. 
Stayman, York Imperial and Rome Beauty 
are good apples for Delaware as Winter 
fruit. Delaware-grown Stayman apples 
are better than Staymans grown North 
or West. w. F. it ASSET. 
Double-cropping Peas and Corn 
The following method of growing corn 
is described by a Pennsylvania reader: 
“There was no field on my farm that I 
failed t<> get two crops from in 1020. us¬ 
ing garden peas followed by field corn be¬ 
tween the -Ml.-ft. rows when peas were 
bloomed. When peaviues were dead, corn 
knee high. [ went through entire acreage 
with one-horse plow, turning the vines in, 
and this mulching benefited the corn, 
which matured a fair stand late in Oc¬ 
tober.'' 
Must market gardeners sometimes plant 
peas in this way and plant squash in every 
third row, with sweet corn between rhe 
hills. Then they pick the peas and plow 
under the vines. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. JAN. 22, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Substituting Chemicals fw Cows.104, 105 
| Tomato Pomace as Fertilizer. 106 
| Sprouting Potatoes . 106 
Tractor Plowing . 107 
Blighted Potatoes for Seed. 108 
I Hope Farm Notes.114, 115 
Getting Rid of Watercress. 115 
The New York Agricultural Department.... 117 
“The Spirit of the West”. 117 
BATEMAN AND COMPANIES, Inc. 
347 Madison Avenue New York City 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Oleo in a Dairy District. 105 
A Case of Milk Inspection. 117 
Feeding Cows and Poultry. 120 
Feeding Twelve Cows. 120 
Too Much Fibre . 120 
Feeding Farm Stock. 120 
Feeding Holsteins . 120 
Grain with Silage. 120 
Ration with Beets. 121 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 124 
Carrots for Sheep. 124 
Lame Pig . 124 
Stringhalt . 126 
Catarrh: Worms . 126 
Resetting Shoes . 126 
THE HENYARD 
ELBERTA PEACH TREES 
1 TO 2 FEET 
100 GENUINE ELBERTA 
tion Guaranteed. Order at once and get our prices 
on n full line of other nursery stock. 
NEW HAVEN NURSERIES, Dept. B. New Haven, Missouri 
Make Home 
BEAUTIFUL 
AAAKE the eetting of your 
home attractive and 
add an ever-increasing value 
by planting northern-grown 
ever-greens, shade trees and 
shrubbery. To make your 
planting plan complete, 
consult our Service Depart¬ 
ment as to arrangement. 
Our 1921 Nun.ry Book given many 
helpful hints—lists everything need¬ 
ed for home end orchard planting. 
Write for It today. 
Come and see our 6tock. 
Grown in Naw England 
THE BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO. 
Box § Yale»ville, Conn. 
Grow Strawberries 
Nothing equals strawberries asacashcrop onthesmall place. 
One customer reports $1342 from less than % acre. Every 
farm and town garden should have a patch of Strawberries 
for the home table. 
Allen's Book of Berries for 1921 —tells just how to 
grow big, luscious strawberries for market and table. It de¬ 
scribes Everbearing Strawberries which will yield until frosts 
nip the green berries. Plant those this Spring and you can 
enjoy home-grown berries by August 1st. 
This Berry Book also describes and prices theleadingearly.mediumand 
late standard strawberry varieties. Wr i te f or i t today. 
The W. F. ALLEN CO. 
72 Market St. Salisbury, Md. 
ALLEN’S 
PLANTS 
Scoei PotatoOB -Jinn- Wonder 
Most hardy, blight i osisting variety known. Heavy yield- 
er. Write today. M»*nti*Gi this paper, (let our prices. 
Supply limited. P. R. NISSLEY & CO., Landisville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
ni**j:*J* D..ILa Best hades for cut flower 
bladlOla DUIDS W. II. TOm.\, M«rchantvi 
Strawberry PLANTS 
Catalogue Free. M S. I'KIOII, K. F. II., Salisbury, Md. 
500 NOTEHEADS AND ENVS. " i(li name and ad 
di e.s. delivered, for #5 Write for sam¬ 
ple. MILLER PRINT SHOP, P. 0 Box 2B54. Philo.. P, 
Acre Pkg., $1. 
6 -Acre Pkg.. $5. 
10-Acre Pkg., 
$7.50 
Prepaid 
For all legumes. State kind wanted. Nodules 
guaranteed. Start a nitrogen factory on your 
farm by using McQueen's Inoculator. Order 
now, or ask for free booklet. 
McQueen Bacteria Co., Box 303, Baltic, Ohio 
A Batch of Poultry Questions. 122 
Profit in Goose-raising. 128 
Renovating Old Poultry Run. 128 
Improving Poultry Ration... 128 
Feeding Horse Meat. 129 
HORTICULTURE 
Planting Florida Strawberries—Part II. 104 
Evergreen Wind-breaks in Ohio. 105 
Fertilizing Trees in Sod. 106 
Making the Most of Eight Acres. 107 
Good Hedge Plants. 108 
Soil Sterilization . 115 
Notes from a Maryland Garden... Ill 
WOMAN AND HOME 
• 
From Day to Day. 118 
Made-over Bed Coverings. 118 
The Rural Patterns. 118 
Experience in Home Churning. 118 
Discoveries . 118 
Repairing Electrical Devices. 119 
More Suggestions for Amusing the Little 
Ones . 
Experience in Rendering Lard. 119 
Dutch Roulit.ies . 119 
More About Scrapple. 119 
Mocha Cake . 119 
Ragout of Liver. 119 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Primer of Economics. 113 
Editorials ... 117 
Wholesale and Retail Prices. 117 
The Rural Educational Committee. 117 
Publisher’s Desk . 130 
