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Tt* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 30, 1921 
There 's More Than Flavor 
Many foods,while pleasing to taste, 
contain but little nourishment. 
Grape=Nuts 
Combines with its rich, sweet flavor the 
full nutriment of wheat and malted barley 
which makes it an ideal food. 
It has been the favorite ready-to-eat 
cereal for a Quarter of a century 
* There's a Reason" 
“Father Gives Way to the Son*’ 
(Golden Bantam) (Golden Giant) 
It is no longer a question of what is the best sweet corn, but 
•where you are going to buy it. If you want the genuine article 
why not buy it from the man who strove to attain such an ideal 
and who is endeavoring to keep it up to the standard. 
Rural New-Yorker July 26, 1919 
“Golden Giant sweet corn is a vast improvement on 
the popular Golden Bantam.” 
Corn and Strawberry circulars sent with order. 
Prices: 2-oz. 25c.: 4-oz. 40 c.; 8-oz. 65c.; 1-lb. $1.00; 5-lbs. $4.00; 
10-lbs. $7.00; 25-lbs. $15.00 ; 50-lbs. $25.00. 
Send Check or Money-ordet —JVo Stamps 
The De Lue Experimental Farm, Dept. G, Needham, Mass. 
PROGRESSIVE 
EVERBEARING 
STRAWBERRY 
PLANTS 
I grow nothing but Progres¬ 
sive, and have 20 acres of 
them at present and can sup¬ 
ply any amount of plants re¬ 
quired, and guarantee that 
you can get no better any¬ 
where. We dig our plants In 
the Spring and they will be 
fresh when they reach you, 
and will grow if properly 
planted. Progressive starts 
bearing right away, instead 
of waiting until next year, 
and bear all Summer until 
the ground freezes in the 
Fall. I will guarantee them 
to do this or refund your 
money. 
PRICES. 
25 plants.$1.00 
50 “ 1.50 
100 “ 2.75 
200 “ 5-00 
300 “ 7.00 
500 “ .10.00 
Write for special prices on 
large amounts. 
My plants have been passed 
on by the State Inspector as 
free from any disease and In 
tine condition. 
I give you as a reference 
the Indiana Harbor National 
Bank, Indiana Harbor, Indi¬ 
ana. 
(Order from this add as it will not appear again.) 
Send all orders to J. R. BRANT. Box No. 11. Hessvllle. Indiana 
CABBAGE PLANTS 
Our Held grown cabbage plants hardened through freez¬ 
ing weather will produce heads six weeks earlier than 
home grown plants. Well rooted. All varieties ready 
now. Postpaid, 500-$1.60; 1.MXM2.60. By express, 1,00(1- 
$2.00; fi,000-17.50. Karliana, Greater Baltimore and Stone 
tomato plants, same price. Portorican Yam sweet 
potato plants, heavy yielder, I,000-$2.00; 4,000-$7.0U. 
Damp moss packed. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
JEFFERSON FARMS Albany, Ga. 
STRAWBERRY DEPLANTS For Sale 
CHESAPEAKE, $6.60; KELLOGG’S PREMIER, $6: GAN¬ 
DY, $4; PROGRESSIVE, $7; BIG JOE, $5.60; LUPTON, 
$6.50; AROMA, $4; KLONDYKE and MISSIONARY, $3.75 
40 other varieties. Also Raspberry and Dewberry plants 
and Asparagus roots. Descriptive catalog Free. 
J. KEIFFORD HALL, Rhodosdale, Md. R. No. 2 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Ten of the best varieties selected out of a hundred. 
Get our catalogue today of Garden seed and plants. 
ROMANCE SEED S PLANT FARM, C. Boggs 1 Son. Cheswoltl, Del. 
Mi l ■ _ Finest kinds. Big croppers, linr- 
Strawbemes rtll > Uu, ) la P. early;Big Joe. Magic 
w * ■ Gem. midseason; f ord, Kellogg s 
Prize, late. Strong plants, $1.25—100. postpaid; $<!—l.o 0, 
express extra. AMIIKKST NURSERY, Box C78, Amherst, Jlinu. 
EVERBEARING Progressive 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS *ri5#?wi,«8o! 
HARRY Id, SQUIRES, Good Ground. N. Y. 
ProirreAftlve Everbearing Strawberry Plant*, 
per 100, postpaid. Charles E. Congdcii. Optimistic Farm, Camden,N.V. 
The 
Ontario Red Raspberry 
is the greatest fruit ever evolved by the 
skill of man in the science of plant breed¬ 
ing. Developed by the N. Y. State Ag. 
Exp. Station, it is destined to lead all 
other red raspberries as a money-maker 
and yielder of fruit of superior qualities. 
Vigorou# Ontario plants fifty cents 
each, postage paid. 
Berry plant circular free 
A. B. KATKAMIER MACED0N, N. Y. 
BERRY PLANTS 
Vegetable Plants 
_ _ __ Flower Plants 
NER AND POT-GROWN STRAWBERRY PLANTS, 
eat, latest, largest, most productive and eyer-bear- 
varleties: RASPBERRY. BLACKBERRY, DEW- 
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ABACUS, RHUBARB. HORSERADISH ROOTS; 
K THYME. MINT. HOP PLANTS; ONION SETS; 
T’ BRUSSELS SPROUTS, CAULIFLOWER, CAR. 
E CELERY, BROCCOLI, EGG. PEPPER. TOMATO 
;kt potatA, kohl-rabi, kale, leek, let 
E. ONION, PARSLEY PLANTS; PANSY A8TER- 
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Perennial Flower Plants; ROSES and SHRUBS. Cat- 
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Buy STURDY, Well-Rooted Trees! 
Fruit-growers everywhere know KELLY BROS. 38-year 
old reputation for supplying the finest and most perfect 
trees, guaranteed to satisfy and adapted to particular 
conditions ofclimate or soil. 
Send for 1921 Catalog 
Look over the splendid assortment of trees we can 
supply, all varieties included, and at very reasonable 
prices. Kelly's Trees always ipfease. The catalog is 
free. Send for your copy. 
KELLY BROS. NURSERIES, 1160 Main St., Dansville, N. Y. 
phosphate” quite effective for thi« pur¬ 
pose. A small quantity of it dusted over 
the fresh manure daily seems to destroy 
many of the eggs. The thing to remember 
is that, the flies are bred in the horse 
manure. If they can be kept away from 
it their number will be greatly reduced. 
The Farm Servant Girl Question 
You have helped so many people in 
different ways I am writing to ask you if 
you can be of assistance to me in getting 
an immigrant girl to help me with house¬ 
work. I do not know the best way to go 
about getting such a girl and if you can 
help me l shall appreciate it very much, 
and will gladly pay you for the service. 
I would like to get a strong, clean, 
intelligent girl who is willing to work 
at general housework on a farm. We 
are about two miles from a good-sized vil¬ 
lage. Our family consists of from three 
to four adults and four children. I will 
pay whatever is the customary wage for 
a “green” girl, and she will have good 
treatment, a good room and good food. 
Her wages will be paid at the end of each 
week. I am not particular as to nation¬ 
ality, but would be glad if possible to get 
a girl knowing at least a little English. 
New York. MRS. H. A. s. 
That is a fair sample of many similar 
letters, and we must confess our inability 
to be of much help. Immigrant girls now 
coming over do not like to go to the 
country. Their friends are here, where 
their own language is spoken, and where 
they feel somewhat at home. They are 
afraid to go far into the country where 
they would be among strangers, unable to 
understand the language, and surrounded 
by new conditions. No doubt they are 
told hard stories about what may happen 
to them in lonely country places. All 
this will seem strange to farm people 
who want to treat such girls fairly, and 
who know the safety of country life. We 
must, however, put ourselves in the places 
of these girls. They naturally prefer to 
remain with their friends, and there are 
industrial opportunities for them here. 
They can quickly get jobs at housework or 
in restaurants at good wages. We fre¬ 
quently see calls for dishwashers or scrub 
women at .$00 and more per month and 
board ! Wages for such service are high 
here, and organizations are at work to 
bring about an eight-hour day for such 
women. Of course, no farmer can com¬ 
pete in such a labor market. This easy 
money and the excitement of city life ap¬ 
peals to most of these girls. No doubt 
many of them would be far better off in 
some quiet country place, where they 
could save most of their wages, but with 
their slight knowledge of English and 
their terror at the thought of leaving their 
friends, it is next to impossible to get 
them into the country. Those who argue 
that a great increase in immigration 
would solve the farm labor problem are 
wrong. It would have been solved long 
ago if it were possible to settle it that 
way. We cannot, therefore, give our 
friends much hope along this line. Pos¬ 
sibly some community might combine and 
arrange for a group of workers and send 
a man down here to select them. He 
blight induce a dozen or more to go to¬ 
gether, if they could be located near 
enough to give companionship. It is not 
likely that girls would be sent out singly. 
Possibly such an organization as the 
Slavonian Immigration Society here in 
New York might occasionally find a suit¬ 
able woman for farm help, but the present 
outlook is not good. 
The City “Home Assistant” 
The latest scheme for women’s work 
in New York City is “the Bureau of 
Household Occupations.” This proposes 
to solve the city servant girl problem by 
providing “home assistants” who are to 
put in an eight-hour-day. Here is what 
they call a five-point contract which the 
association is to sign with the house¬ 
keeper : 
1. The home assistant shall give eight 
hours a day, six days a week. 
2. The home assistant eats and sleeps 
away from place of employment; 
Eats at home; 
Eats at restaurant, or 
Brings meal to eat in employer’s 
home. 
8. Specialization is never permissible. 
4. The home assistant shall give extra 
service in emergency at any time re¬ 
quired, for which she shall receive 
extra salary. 
5. The home assistant is wholly respons¬ 
ible for: 
a Promptness in arriving, 
b Regularity in coming, 
c Completion of duties. 
The “home assistant”—no longer a 
servant girl—goes to her work like a 
clerk or stenographer, puts in eight hours 
and then goes home or about her own 
business. She is to be paid enough to 
permit all this. The majority of New 
York families are small and they live in 
small apartments or flats where space 
counts. There are many of them who 
are willing to pay extra for a “home as¬ 
sistant” who will do the housework aud 
then go away ! The eight-hour day and 
all this freedom will seem strange enough 
to a farm woman who must put in 12 to 
10 hours and then leave part of her 
work undone. The injustice of modern 
conditions makes it possible for a city 
family (perhaps not adding in any way 
to the world’s productive labor) to pay 
for a “home assistant” while the over¬ 
worked farm woman cannot get within 
sight of any house helper! We see from 
all these things why it is impossible to 
induce the average girl to leave the city 
for a country job. 
Housekeepers Wanted 
Hardly a week passes without our re¬ 
ceiving a letter from some farmer who 
desires a housekeeper. Most of them are 
single men—bachelers or widowers—who 
are trying to Conduct a fair-sized farm 
alone. They need a woman to do the 
housework. Some of them suggest that 
possibly marriage might result from such 
a connection—others frankly say that 
they want a wife—there being no suitable 
women in the neighborhood. In these 
days it is next to impossible to find 
women who would accept such a position. 
A strong woman, capable of doing house¬ 
work properly, can command $60 or more 
per month, with short hours, in the city. 
Most of them prefer to stay in town 
where their friends are located and where 
there are amusements and excitement. 
Such a situation as most of these men 
offer would not appeal to a really efficient 
woman, yet we often have difficulty in 
convincing our friends that their home 
and their society will not prove a great 
attraction to the sort of woman they 
desire. It is unfortunate, yet true, that 
the working woman of these days has 
ideas far beyond the capacity of most of 
us to satisfy. 
“For the land’s sake” use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.— Adv. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, APRIL 30, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Manurial Loss in Burned Grass. 642 
Marker for Onion Rows. 643 
House-fly and Stable Manure.643, 644 
Seeding- Clover with Peas and Oats. 645 
Potatoes in Pits.647 
Hope Farm Notes. 648 
He Took No Chances on Farm Prices. 651 
A Western Paper Booms the East. 651 
Brushing a Meadow. 654 
Notes on the Roadside Market... 658 
Farmers Adjacent to New York City Or¬ 
ganize . 938 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Salvation of the Sheep Industry. 642 
The Affairs of a Milk Company. 651 
Wool Troubles in Canada. 651 
Among the Devon Cattle Breeders. 658 
A Tribute to the Vermont Morgan. 658 
Feeding Problems in New Mexico. 660 
Certified Milk Production; Feeds. 660 
Ration for Guernsey Cows.660 
THE HENYARD 
Shipping Eggs by Parcel Post. 651 
Egg-laying Contest . 664 
Medicine in Drinking Water. 664 
Feeding Baby Chicks... 664 
Angleworms Cause Gapes in Chickens. 664 
Holding Eggs in Water Glass. 666 
HORTICULTURE 
Dusting peaches in Mercer County, N. J.... 643 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 645 
Convenient Grafting Wax. 647 
Proper Packing of New York Apples. 651 
Frost Calamity in Southern Ohio. 651 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Servant Girl Question. 
City Home Assistant. 
Housekeeper Wanted . 
Boys and Girls. 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
The Haunted Chimney. 
A Diet of Milk. 
The Stethoscope pnd Its Use. 
Digestibility of Mashed Potato. 
Spring Weather . 
Shall He Stay on the Farm!. 
Peanut Oil Soap. 
The Home Dressmaker. 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
The Strength of Glazed Pipes. 
A Primer of Economics—Part XXII 
Stoppage in Water Pipe. 
Vinegar Fails to Form. 
Cooling in Porous Jars. 
Poison in Parsnips. 
Home-mixed Paint; Tarred Corn.... 
Purifying a Well. 
Making Vinegar . 
Houseeleaning Questions . 
Developing Photographs . 
Fireproofing Fabrics . 
Patching Rubber Boots. 
Editorials ... 
Extracting Honey with Heat. 
White Robin . 
Rabbit Whips Dog. 
Rabbit Whips Cat.. 
Rabbit Fights Weasel. 
Crow as a Pet.. 
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