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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 9, 1921 
WORK DAYS 
AND REST NIGHTS 
Can you do it now? If you cant, 
there’s something wrong. 
Many find coffee a disturbing 
element, so wisely leave it off 
and use 
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\bu 11 find Postum 
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WESTERN BOXES next season 
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B UY your fruit trees from pioneer 
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trouble in cold or moderate weather, so 
we would advise its use any time except 
when the weather is quite warm. 
The Dp.y Mash. —For dry mash we 
purchase a good chick mash with dried 
buttermilk, and keep this before the chicks 
in small troughs or hoppers until they are 
three to four weeks old. when the mash is 
gradually changed to the following mix¬ 
ture: 300 lbs. wheat bran. 100 lbs. white- 
wheat middlings. 100 lbs. cornmeal. 100 
lbs. ground oats with hulls sifted out. 100 
lbs. fine ground or sifted beef scrap. If 
no milk is available for drinking, only 
half of the beef scrap should be used. and 
50 lbs. of dried buttermilk should he sub¬ 
stituted. This will make a suitable masli 
for the chicks until they are 12 or 14 
weeks old. and ready to take nearly the 
same rations as the laying stock. 
Scratch Feed. —We start feeding 
scratch feed about the end of the thi”d 
day. and no definite rule is followed for 
this except to feed just enough to keep 
the chicks fairly busy most of the time 
during the day, while the heaviest feed 
is given at night, about an hour before 
dark. This scratch feed is the common 
commercial mixture of finely cracked 
grains. Where large quantities are to he 
used it is sometimes desirable to make a 
homemade mixture of equal parts of 
cracked wheat, pinhead or steel-cut oat¬ 
meal and finely cracked corn, or the mix¬ 
ture can be made of half corn, one-fourth 
oats and one-fourth wheat. This mixture 
is fed until the chicks are large enough to 
eat whole wheat and larger cracked corn, 
when they are changed very gradually to 
an intermediate scratch feed, and later to 
the regular scratch for layers. We are 
very careful to keep either water or milk 
or both before the chicks all the time in 
a sufficient number of fountains, so that 
they will have plenty of room for drinking 
without crowding. If it is not convenient 
to give milk as soon as the chicks can see 
to drink in the morning, water is placed 
in the fountains the night before, so the 
chicks can drink water until the milk is 
ready. We do not leave milk in the foun¬ 
tains over night. Fine grit, charcoal, 
crushed oyster shells and green feed 
should be supplied regularly. Nothing is 
better than a clover or Alfalfa range in 
Summer, but in cold weather we have 
found sprouted oats most satisfactory. 
White Leghorn chicks raised by this 
system should be ready for broilers at 
about nine weeks of age. and average 3 
lbs. per pair alive. Last Spring we sold 
squab broilers alive at five weeks old for 
$1.75 to $2 per pair about April 1. These 
broilers were raised and sold at Lake- 
wood. N. J„ hut just as good success can 
be secured in other places, c. s. Greene. 
DREERS 
1921 GARDEN BOOK 
Everything viorth growing will 
be found offered within its pages, 
together with cultural information 
written by experts. 
A large book, illustrated in colors and 
photo-engravings showing the varieties in 
their true form and offering the best in 
Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Lawn Grass 
and Agricultural Seeds, Plants of all kinds 
including the newest Roses, Dahlias, Hardj 
Perennials, etc. 
You should have a copy of this book 
which will be mailed free if you 
mention this publication. 
HENRY A. DREER 
714-716 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa 
We specialize in Soy 
Beans. 
|U Soy Bean Hay is richer in 
LI protein than Alfalfa Hay. 
When planted with corn for 
silage. Soy Beans greatly 
~ increase the feeding value. 
Soy Beans, when inoculated 
will store up as much as 125 
pounds of Nitrogen per acre. 
Other important fac' s about this 
valuable crop are to be found in 
Scott’s Field Seed Book and 
Scott’s Soy Bean Catechism. 
Write at once for this free 
information 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 
84 Sixth St. Marysville, O. 
- - - 
“For the land’s ealte” use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it .—A dr. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, APRIL 9, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Some Notes on Sweet Clover. 556 
The Early Carrot Crop. 556 
Hope Farm Notes.566, 567 
Where Keep the "Old Junk”. 577 
An Optimist on Farming;. 577 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Analysis of the New Mi’k Pill at Albany.... 569 
The Wool Situation in Michigan. 569 
They Are Doing It Themselves. 569 
Twin Calves . 572 
Fee ing Dry Cows.-. 572 
Improving Ration . 572 
Feeding Ewes Before Lambing. 572 
Feedig Pies for O-owth. 572 
Speaking Up for Jerseys. 574 
Milking a Cow; Horn Ri-'es. 574 
Feeding for High-grade Milk. 574 
Starting a Hog Ranch. 576 
Fattening Pigs . 576 
Stands for the Jersey. 576 
THE HENYARD 
Brooding and Feeding Little Chicks.557, 558 
Keeping Hen Records. 562 
The Egg-laying Contest.... 578 
Potatoes for Baby Chicks. 578 
HORTICULTURE 
How We Sold Our Apples.555, 556 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 559 
Gradus and Laxtonian Peas. 563 
Budding and Grafting Walnut and Peach... 563 
Farm-grown Apple Seedlings. 563 
Cut Flowers for Roadside. 564 
Dust for Plant Lice....._. 564 
Transplanting a Grapevine. 565 
Grapes Fail to Ripen. 565 
Greenhouse Grapes . 565 
Why Not Cut Out the Trash?. 567 
Nut Trees in New York. 667 
H u b a m 
This new Annual White Sweet Clover 
has been acclaimed by authorities as the 
greatest of all annual legumes. Grows 
5 to 8 feet same season sown. 
The Supply Is Very Short 
and now is your chance to get in on the 
ground floor. 1 to 1 1-2 pounds only re¬ 
quired per acre for seed production. 
We have a limited amount to offer, cleaned, 
scarified and certified by the Michigan Crop 
Improvement Ass’n. To be released only for 
demonstration purposes in lots of 1 pound or less. 
$7 per pound. $4 per l /z- $2.25 per X U. 
Also Soy Beans and all kinds of field and 
grass seed. 
SEED DEPARTMENT 
Michigan State Farm Bureau 
Lk:7 N. Cedar Street (5) Lansing. Michigan 
Dependable SEED CORN 
BUY HIGH QUALITY LUCE’ FAVORITE 
SEED CORN AND NINETY DAY SEED CORN 
Grown oil my farms, #3.35 and S3 per bu. Re¬ 
spectively. fash F. O. If, Peconic. 
S. H. SMITH, l’eeonic, L. I., N. Y. 
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by planting the Famous TWITT Df A VfTPC 
CABBAGE, ONION, TOMATO 1 Ir 1 rLAlNla 
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Satisfaction guaranteed. 
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D A I-I I I A C The finest of all flowers, 
* * *-“* * ^direct from grow er. 
Strong tubers, guaranteed to grow and bloom. 
Full cultural directions with every order. No order 
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EVERBEARING S, r £? res8i L® 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS fcoSo^i^Sl 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N. Y. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 570 
Tennessee Notes .. 570 
The Rural Patterns. 570 
Household Discoveries ...570, 571 
A Woman’s Hardy Garden. 571 
Embroidery Designs . 571 
More About Feather Mattresses. 571 
Blue Hydrangeas . 571 
STRAWBERRY, Blackberry and Raspberry Plants 
Fruit trees, Rhubarb and Asparagus roots. Sweet 
potato seed. Catalogue free. MICHAEL N. B0RG0, Vinelind. N. J. 
For Sale-BLACK RASPBERRY TIPS 
100 Thousand. Strong plants, $15 per M. E.F. Kean,Geneva,N.T_ 
P8IPPI F RASPBERRY PLANTS 
■ Will !■ k Write J M. READ, WATERYLIET, N.Y. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
City Schools in the Country. 555 
An Old Subscriber.556 
Events of the Week. 560 
A Primer of Economics—Part XIX. 562 
A One-armed Bear Hunter. 562 
Editorials . 568 
An Accounting for Co-operative Associations 569 
A New Vegetable Milk. 577 
Henry Ford’s Opinion. 577 
Publisher’s Desk ... 562 
For Sale-Two Varieties of Good Seed Corn 
the Yellow Dent and the Lancaster County Sure 
Crop. Price $3 per bushel, F. O. B. Pomeroy. 
JAMES SCULLY - Pomeroy, Pa. 
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