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January 29, 1921 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
ground is usually worked more, including 
cultivation and digging, and there is 
usually a heavier crop of weeds and grass 
to be plowed under following the potatoes. 
FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL TREES 
The finest that skill and science can produce direct from 
our upland nurseries to you at wholesale prices. 
C\Qrf of our business comes from old customers; we give 
• U /0 them satisfactory stock and service—that’s the answer. 
After a man has once had our trees—he knows he will get what he wants 
if he orders from us and he knows Maloney sells at cost of production plus one 
profit so the price will be right. 
Now is the time to get started in the fruit business—a ere for acre—an orchard pays much 
better than any other crop. But start right. Get absolutely healthy true to name stock. 
We know the varieties sent you are just what you order, because they are raised, packed 
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44 West St.. Dansville, New York 
Dansville’» Pioneer Nurterxet 
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1 160 Main Street, Dansville, N. Y. 
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cherries. Especially 
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Springof oneandtwo. 
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879 Garson Ave. Rochester, N. Y. 
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PETER BOHLENDER & SONS 
Spring Hill Ntrserie*. Box 33 
Tippccanos Gty, (Miami County) Ohio. 
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Grow Strawberries 
T HEY are Delicious and 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS For Sale 
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40 other varieties. Also Raspberry and Dewberry plants 
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BIG PROFITS 
YOU CAN MAKE 
$500 to $700 Per A. 
GROWING 
STRAWBERRIES 
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Some of our varieties brought growers over *700 
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KEITH BROS. NURSERY, 
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The Wife’s Share Once More 
I have been much interested in the 
various comments on M. F. S.’s question, 
page 1442, concerning the wife’s rights, 
and I consider F. W., page 86, by far the 
best on the subject printed yet. That 
deals with facts, not ideals. I have been 
surprised that in all the comments none 
has said anything about the property 
laws. I wonder how many realize that 
they only get a small piece of the prop¬ 
erty should their husbands be the first 
to die. In my own case I have seven 
children. I have made over old clothing 
until I consider it a treat to cut into a 
new piece of cloth. I have stayed at 
home and worked so steadily that there 
have been five months at a time that I 
have not been off the farm. There have 
been several Winters that I haven’t had 
a sleigh ride. There have been Summers 
that I haven’t been in a wagon more than 
four times. Why have I done it? Be¬ 
cause I am of Puritan stock that trace 
ancestry to a Revolutionary captain on 
one side and to 1680 settlers on the 
other, and there was no other way for 
my children to have proper care but for 
me to stay and do it, and I did it. The 
same spirit that has compelled me to do 
what I considered my duty has made it 
very hard for me to have to say, “Can I 
have some money?” And it has put a re¬ 
bellion into my heart toward an other¬ 
wise kind husband that can never be 
erased. What is the remedy? I don’t 
know. 
There is an article on the same page 
concerning co-operation of farmers. I 
wish it could be done, and every one of 
those 10 men (multiplied by thousands) 
have to work and save and have it all 
owned and all the income held by a 
woman, and every man have to come and 
ask: “Can I have some money?” Per¬ 
haps if they could all have such a lesson 
they could more readily understand how 
women and children feel under such a 
system, which the whole farmer mankind 
seems utterly to fail to understand. 
I would like to see a discussion of 
property laws, and see how many women 
know what they are, and how many are 
satisfied to feel that they may work all 
their days to see property in some one’s 
else hands. One thing I do hope, and 
that is now they have the vote that they 
will wake up and smash the present laws 
finer than Moses smashed the tablets of 
stone. And. most of all. they must he 
made, to see "we must do it ourselves." 
The men never will. G. B. a. 
CONTENTS 
Raspberries, 
or Fields. 
Box 609, Sawyer, Mich. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JAN. 29, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Across the Country with an Ox Team. 135 
“Inoculated” Lime and Others.135, 136 
Loss in Milling Buckwheat. 136 
Soil Fertility Association. 136 
The Fertilizer Bag Chases the Cows Away.. 137 
Plant Food in Farm Crops.137, 138 
Raising Popcorn . 143 
Hope Farm Notes.144, 145 
Agricultural Week in New-Jersey. 147 
Meeting of the G. L. F. Exchange. 147 
A Farm Owner Talks Back. 156 
A Despondent Hill Farmer. 156 
Autumn on a New Jersey Farm. 158 
Crops and Farm News. 159 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 161 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Worth of Shoddy. 147 
The New President of the Dairymen’s League. 147 
THE HENYARD 
Amount to Feed Hens. 160 
Blood Meal for Hens. 164 
Worms in Poultry. 164 
“The Favorite Hens” and Their Record. 165 
Bergen Co., N. J., Egg Contest. 165 
HORTICULTURE 
Hudson River Violet House. . 136 
Notes from a Maryland Garden... 139 
Walnuts, Plums and Cherries in Ontario..,. 141 
Killing a Big Tree. 141 
Old Grapevine Fails to Bear. 143 
Cultivation Around Grapevines. 143 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Apple Marmalade . 145 
Boys and Girls.148, 149 
Pastoral Parson . 150 
Trouble Between Neighbors... 150 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman. 152 
Christmas Day in California. 152 
A Man on “The Wife's Share”. 152 
The Home Dressmaker.... 153 
Economical Cooking Recipes. 158 
Fried Chicken “Different”. 158 
Vegetarian Dishes . 158 
The January Thaw . 161 
MISCELLANEOUS 
“White Woman of the Genesee”. 145 
How to Bum Corn Economically. 145 
Editorials. 146 
Rural and Urban Population. 147 
Santa Claus in an Engine. 158 
Breeding Canary Birds. 158 
Events of the Week. 159 
A Primer of Economics—Part VIII. 160 
Boiling Cider in Galvanized Iron. 162 
Fireproofing Fabrics . 162 
Water in Undisturbed Well. 162 
F'aring Lantern .. 162 
Resting a Razor: Salt and Thirst. 162 
Cleaning Paint Brushes. 162 
Case-hardening Iron . 162 
A Unique Ice Formation. 162 
Preserving Cider with Benzoate of Soda..., 162 
Improving Musty Cider. 162 
Publisher’s Desk ... 166 
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