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Tht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Avoid Mistakes In 
FARMING 
A fanner raised fit) bushels of corn per acre; 
his neighbor across the road got only !$. The 
difference in yield was due to different methods 
of seeding, of preparing the soil, of harvesting. 
One man adopted the newest successful discov¬ 
eries of farming authorities—the unsuccessful 
farmer depended entirely on his own experience. 
Right and Wrong Farming Methods 
A Farmer’s Apple Nursery 
(Continued from page 372) 
same time clear away any trash that 
might have collected. As before stated, 
the natural fruit does not attract grubs 
and mice, but in looking them over about 
every twentieth tree will be infested with 
grubs, and invariably every year this same 
tree will have its grist of grubs. By this 
method the tree can be headed at any de¬ 
sirable height by simply cutting off the 
top at setting. About 4 ft. seems right. 
Trimming is hardly necessary the first 
four years. kiler richards. 
Luzerne Co., Pa. 
You yourself know that to get the 
most out of his farm a man cannot 
sit on his porch and “let nature do its 
work.” lie must keep abreast of tliingB. 
watch others, and apply to his own 
farm the best of all he aces, hears and 
reads. Make one little mistake and 
you may impoverish your soil. Another 
mistake may waste weeks of your time 
and cost you hundreds in lost profits. 
Another may impair the breeding pos¬ 
sibilities of your live stock. And. al¬ 
though you may think you are getting 
all possible profit out of your farm, it's 
the little mistakes unknowingly made 
that force so many farmers to do much 
of their work for nothing and to get out 
of their farms only about two-thirds of 
the profits that lie hidden there. Then 
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some new method that has proved 
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another farmer—one that would 
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you time and labor. 
Pooling Worthwhile Plans 
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terfat production has been brought up 
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ITANDARI 
The Tump of a Hundred Uses 
N OT only is it heavy artillery 
for the battle against bugs, 
germs and infection of all 
kinds, but it will wash vehicles, ex¬ 
tinguish fires, apply whitewash, spray 
live stock, and serve as syringe in 
veterinary work. So many are its 
uses that every farmer needs it no 
matter what the equipment he may 
have now. 
This pump is already used success¬ 
fully by over a hundred thousand farmers. It is a proven success. 
Built throughout of brass which is not affected by ordinary chem¬ 
icals It is guaranteed for five years and will last a lifetime. Standard 
Spray Pumps are sold by hardware and seed stores. Sold direct where 
we have no dealer. 
Price, $5.50. ($6.00 west of Denver, and in the extreme South). 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
The remainder 
put upon three 
from Cleveland, 
DOMESTIC—February 17 mail pouches 
containing money and securities amount¬ 
ing to over $1,000,000 were stolen at To¬ 
ledo, Ohio. (>f this between $300,000 and 
$400,000 was in currency, contained in 
registered pouchee from the Federal Re¬ 
serve Bank at Cleveland, 
represents the valuation 
first-class mail pouches 
Detroit and northern Michigan. Every 
circumstance of the robbery justified the 
police belief that the gang had planned 
the holdup thoroughly, and perhaps had 
rehearsed it. It was suspected that the 
men are members of the same gang which 
I held up express guards and obtained $15,- 
000 just after Christmas. 
Work was begun at Wilmington, Del., 
February 18 on salvaging the metal cases 
of a million three-inch shells, loaded with 
black powder and trinitrotoluol, made for 
the Russian Government in the early 
days of the war hv the Bridgeport Iron 
and Metal Company of Connecticut. The 
explosive is being emptied from the shells 
and burned on the ground at Pigeon’s 
Point, on the Delaware River, below 
Wilmington. 
Throe cases of typhus fever were dis¬ 
covered at Cortland. X. Y., February 1.8. 
Congress will be asked immediately to ap¬ 
propriate $200,000 to enlarge the quaran¬ 
tine station at the port of New York. 
The up-State victims were three children 
of an Italian family who were admitted 
January 5. The fact that, they were given 
a clean bill of health at Quarantine sup¬ 
ported the charge of Health Commissioner 
I Copeland, of this city, that the Federal 
authorities have been lax in the enforce¬ 
ment of sanitary precautions at this port. 
| Special Deputy Police Commissioner 
jCarleton Simon, in charge of the narcotic 
division; Detective Sergeant Mooney and 
Detectives Moog and Boylan made an im¬ 
portant arrest in New York February 18 
when they took into custody Ernest 
Aracko, of 441 East 12th Street. Co¬ 
caine and heroin worth $50,000 were 
seized by the officers, just ns frantic ef¬ 
forts were being made to force the stuff 
down a drain. Admission was obtained 
later, Dr. Simon said, that $10,000 worth 
of drugs had already been disposed of by 
that route. 
A spectacular two-hour fire, which 
caused damage estimated at $500,000, 
practically wiped out the big car barns of 
the Boston Elevated Railway Company at 
the Quincy-Boston line at Boston, Mass.. 
February 20. At least 40 new passenger 
ears, with large quantities of stores and 
other equipment, were destroyed. 
Vessels flying the American flag led all 
others in setting a new record of Panama 
|Canal traffic in 1020. This is shown by 
figures given out by the canal authorities. 
Of the 2,814 commercial ships using the 
big ditch last year 1.281 were American. 
Great Britain came next with 867, and 
Japan third with 122. 
What is believed by aerial officers here 
to be a world’s altitude record for a 
parachute jump was established at Fort 
Sill. Ark., February 22, when Sergeant 
Eusel Chambers, 155th Aero Squadron, 
jumped from an airship piloted by Lieu¬ 
tenant Wagner at a height of 22.000 feet 
during an aerial circus at Post Field. 
The previous record is said to he 20.000 
feet. Chambers landed six miles from his 
take-off. 
Eight persons were burned to death and 
35 seriously injured when two trolley oars 
crashed head-on and burst into flames at 
Shelton, Conn., February 22. The motor- 
man of one car was one of those burned 
to death. The collision is believed to have 
resulted from a misunderstanding of a tel¬ 
ephone conversation between the crews of 
the cars. The cars crashed together on a 
single-track stretch of road, where 20 
years ago more than 30 persons lost their 
lives in a trolley accident. 
WA SHINGTON. — Ordinary expendi¬ 
tures by the Government during January 
decreased by more than $16,000,000. as 
compared with December, while public 
debt payments fell off by more than $1,- 
000,000,000, according to the monthly 
statement issued February 17 by the 
Treasury. During January ordinary ex¬ 
penditures amounted to $388,179,272, as 
against $404,575,091 in December. Pay¬ 
ments on the public debt for January to¬ 
taled $590,100,657. compared with $1,- 
000,418,856 during the previous month. 
A total of $83,081,570 charged to the War 
Department was the largest ordinary ex¬ 
penditure for January, while $545,859,o00 
spent in the redemption of Treasury cer¬ 
tificates of indebtedness was the largest 
Marcn o, lu-l 
item of public debt payments for the 
month. 
An appropriation of $500,000 to cover 
the expenses of carrying to China grain 
given by American farmers for the relief 
of famine sufferers in that country is pro¬ 
posed in a resolution introduced February 
17 by Senator Kenyon (Iowa), Repub¬ 
lican. It. is the plan to use Shipping 
Board vessels to carry the grain and to 
man them with volunteers from the Na¬ 
val Reserve, whose expenses would be 
paid out of the appropriation. The rail 
road employes have agreed to carry the 
grain to the Pacific free of cost and ele¬ 
vator interests also have offered to assist 
in the movement without cost, Senator 
Kenyon said. 
House provisions in the agricultural ap¬ 
propriations bill allowing $367,000 for the 
annual Congressional distribution of free 
seeds were struck out February 22 in the 
Senate. . Senator Harrison, Democrat 
(Mississippi) led a fight, for retention of 
the appropriation, but did not force a 
roll call. 
The Senate bill restricting foreign im- 
migration to the United States from April 
T*2l, t° June 30, 1922, to 3 per cent 
of aliens from various countries now in 
America, as determined by the 1910 eon- 
sus, was agreed to in conference February 
12. the House conferees accepting the 
complete terms of the Senate measure. 
J lie maximum number that can be ad¬ 
mitted from abroad in any one year un- 
this provision is 355,461, of which 
-0—cl 2 could come in from the United 
Kingdom and northwest Europe and 153.- 
-49 from other portions of Europe. 
1 he army appropriation bill, carrying 
total increase in appropriations over the 
House bill of about $35,000,000, has been 
completed by the sub-committee of the 
Senate Military Affairs Committee As 
passed the House it carried 
$.Ml,208,112 and provided pay for an 
army of 1.>0.000 men. The Senate com¬ 
mittee provided for 175,000 men and 
added other increases, the total of which 
has not been tabulated, but which Sena 
tor Wadsworth (N. Y.), chairman of the 
committee, said would make the appro¬ 
priation about $366,500,000. 
FARM AND CARDEN.—Porter Co.. 
Indiana, will be the first in the United 
States to ship a carload of corn to fam¬ 
ine-stricken districts in Europe, John G. 
Brown, president of the Indiana Federa¬ 
tion of Farmers’ Associations, announced 
at Valparaiso February 21. Mr. Brown 
said that Illinois would contribute the 
second car. 
Oranges were shipped to Denver from 
San Bernardino, Cal., February 22 in 
bushel baskets instead of boxes, and brok¬ 
ers predicted ihe orange industry of Cali¬ 
fornia would lie revolutionized as a result. 
The Canadian Minister of Agriculture 
jn the farmer government of Ontario has 
introduced into the provincial legislature 
three hills designed to provide for both 
short-term and long-term rural credits. In 
general, these proposed measures follow 
closely the texts of the Manitoba rural 
credits act, 1917; Manitoba farm loans 
act, 1917, and the provincial savings act 
(Manitoba), 1920, but they depart from 
the legislation of the sister province in 
important provisions. They are now re¬ 
ceiving close attention in government and 
financial circles, and conferences are be¬ 
ing arranged. The Ontario farm loans 
bill would authorize provincial incorpora¬ 
tion of farm loan associations in any part 
of Ontario, with one-half the capital in 
every case subscribed by 30 or more in¬ 
dividual farmers, each of whom must have 
subscribed to one share ($100) of stock ; 
one-quarter the capital subscribed by the 
local municipality, and the remaining one- 
quarter of the capital subscribed by the 
government of Ontario. The bill contem¬ 
plates that such associations should re¬ 
ceive' applications for loans from individ¬ 
ual members and that as loans be ap¬ 
proved by the local associations the 
money should bo borrowed on the collect¬ 
ive liability of all the members. The rate 
of interest payable by the borrower must 
not exceed 7 per cent and one-seventh of 
such interest must be paid to the local 
association to help defray expenses, pay 
dividends of not more than G per cent on 
the paid-up capital, and build up a re¬ 
serve. The association is to have a lien 
on all property purchased in part or 
whole with the proceeds of any such loan 
and by filing a certificate may thereby 
obtain a lien on all the personal property 
of the borrower. The bill empowers the 
provincial government to lend money to 
any farm loan association and to enter 
into agreements and guaranties with 
hanks, loan companies or other corpora¬ 
tions to secure funds for financing such 
associations. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
January 3-February 25—Short courses 
in Agriculture, Home Economics, Ice 
Cream Making, New York State School 
of Agriculture, f’obleskill, N. Y. 
March 3-10—Poultry Week, Pennsyl¬ 
vania State College of Agriculture, State 
College, Pa. 
March 28-April 2—Farmers’ Week, 
College of Agriculture, University of 
Maine, Orono, Me 
March 29—Annual meeting Maine Fed¬ 
eration of Agricultural Associations, 
Orono, Me. 
March 29—Annual meeting Maine Fed¬ 
eration of Farm Bureaus, Orono, Me. 
March 30—Maine Beekeepers, Orono. 
Me. 
March 31—Maine Livestock Breeders’ 
Association, Orono, Me. 
