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the RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Profits from Townsend’s ’ 
Choice High Grade Strawberry Plants 
WE Save You Money anrl start you right. By selling you a 
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Nearly all on new land which insures strong, healthy, vigorous 
aunts. All plants are carefully selected at time of digging 
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« r °w THE BIG CHOPS OF BIG RED BERRIES, which 
here is always a ready demand for. 
VE HAVE SELECTED A LIST OF FORTY VARIETIES 
"bieh is fully described in our beautiful illustrated catalog 
•olors, which is mailed FREE on request. 
Price List of Townsend’s Selected Varieties 
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Big Joe 
Dr. Burrill 
Early Ozark 
Fendall 
Gandy 
Gibson 
f iaverland 
Klondyke 
Missionary 
Parson’s Beauty 
Sample 
Sen. Dunlap 
25 plants. $.50 
50 plants. .75 
100 plants. 1.00 
200 plants. 1.60 
100 plants. 2.15 
500 plants. 3.50 
1000 plants. 6.00 
5000 plants. 25.00 
If plants 
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PREMIER 
Campbell’s Early 
FORD 
HOWARD 17 
Kellogg Prize 
Lupton 
Nic Ohmer 
Early Jersey 
Success 
Glen Mary 
Wm. Belt 
25 plants. 
50 plants. 
100 plants. 
200 plants. 
300 plants. 
500 plants. 
1000 plants. 
500C plants. 
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2.00 
2.75 
4.25 
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Pres. Harding 
Bushel Basket 
World’s Wonder 
Chesapeake 
Superb 
Progressive 
25 plants. $.75 
50 plants. 1.00 
100 plants. 2.00 
200 plants. 3.00 
300 plants. 4.00 
500 plants. 6.00 
1000 plants. 12.00 
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Culture of Cannas 
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They may be planted directly in the 
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strong buds on each piece. Cannas re¬ 
quire a warm, rich, well-worked soil, and 
an open, sunny situation. The same 
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injured by frost, hence should not be set 
out until there is no likelihood of further 
cold weather. When planted in a mass 
the roots may be set about a foot apart, 
but finer results are obtained where three 
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and torn and withered leaves should be 
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are blooming, will increase luxuriance. 
Miore About Side-hill Plows 
.Seeing a note about side-hill plows, I 
wish to say that I have used one for sev¬ 
eral years in Vermont and here in Maine; 
back-furrowed up hill, turned it down hill, 
and used on flat work with good success in 
all three ways, only on turning furrow 
up hill was plowed year before and not 
soil. There are many here who say that 
side-hill plows are not much good, but I 
have used two with fine success, and have 
one, weight 130 lbs., on which I used a 
pair of horses weighing about 2,800 lbs. 
I did my first plowing with a side-hill 
plow, no experience at all. and turned 
furrow up hill and handled team and 
plow alone; no driver. G. P. 
Maine. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, FEB. 5, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Reconsideration of the Fertilizer Problem— 
Part I.HI. 172 
Value of Good Roads. 172 
Influence of Prices on Income of the Farmer 172 
A Sensible Optimist on the Farmers’ Future 173 
Idaho Silo and Irrigating Ditch. 173 
Questions About the Soil. 176 
Sun-sprouted Seed Potatoes. 176 
Vertical Drainage of Land. 178 
The Trade in Agricultural Lime. 179 
Cabbage in the Cellar. 179 
The New York Agricultural Society. 181 
Value of a Farm Feed Mill. 187 
Failure of Grass Seeding. 189 
Hope Farm Notes. 190 
Northern Ohio Notes. 199 
An Island for Rye. 183 
Peas a Profitable Crop. 183 
Turning Under Green Crops. 183 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Indigestion .... 499 
The Discussion About Oleo. 202 
Shrink in Milk... 202 
An Early California Lamb. 202 
Feeding a Heifer. 203 
Lima Beans for Stock.203 
Milk Dealers Fight Producers in Syracuse. . 203 
Caked Udder.204 
Azoturia . 204 
Fits . 204 
Thin Horse . 204 
The Certified Milk Producers.206 
Various Horse Questions.206 
THE HENYARD 
Making Meat Scrap at Home........ 172 
A Little Poultry Maid. 186 
Poor Color in Eggs and Feathers.210 
Stoppage in Laying. 210 
Brown Leghorn and Wyandotte Cross. 211 
Ration for Pullets. 211 
Nest Eggs . 211 
Hens with Colds.211 
Bergen County, N. J.. Egg Contest. 212 
Success with Waterglass. 212 
Ventilation of Henhouse. 213 
Cooling the Incubator Eggs. 213 
HORTICULTURE 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 175 
Carbolic Acid on Fruit Trees. 177 
That “Freak” from Grafting. 177 
Horseradish Culture . 178 
New York Horticultural Society. 182 
Planting Strawberries . 185 
Management of Garden. 185 
Garden Notes from New England. 188 
Making a Cold Frame. 189 
The Fall Cankerworm. 191 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 194 
Dress in the Schoolroom... 194 
The Rural Patterns. 194 
Notes from Tennessee... 194 
Helps and Conveniences. 194 
Washing-day Notes . 194 
Using the Cheaper Cuts of Meat. 196 
Irish Moss .- • • • 196 
Covering Furniture; Filling Feather Puffs. 196 
The Nest in the Lilac Bush... 196 
Camisole in Daffodil Design. 197 
Bolivars . 197 
Bran Coffee . J97 
Candied Orange Peel. 197 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A Late Christmas. • 175 
Wants Restricted Immigration. 184 
Advertising the Rural Church. 184 
Poor Servi ce at Small Railroad Stations.. 184 
Sanitary Sewage System. 184 
Mailbox Trolley System. 185 
Rural School Problem.. 186 
Change of Time. 187 
A Contaminated Well. 191 
Editorials .. — : . 192 
Opportunity for State Administration. 193 
Cornell Plans for Farmers’ Week. 193 
Truth in Fabrics Bill. ■••• 193 
A Primer of Economics—Part IX.198, 199 
Publisher’s Desk . 214 
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