The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 28, 1921 
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Bleacher because of the reduction in labor cost. 
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I done to prevent. I know also that three 
rimes as many potato plants can be grown 
per rod in connection with staking as is 
possible in the sprawling way. Further¬ 
more, I find a large measure of immunity 
from blight where the vines are kept 
growing upright and vigorous. In one 
bed I have grown the plants 12 in. apart 
each way with entire success as to yield 
and freedom from defect. In many in¬ 
stances the yield from a plant will 1)e 
limited to a single ruber, our largest in 
1920 being an Irish Cobbler of 42 ounces. 
The plants generally gave about four 
tubers, aggregating ?> lbs. At 12 in. apart 
in the row this would mean a yield of 
over TOO bushels per acre. Now let the 
doctors laugh. I am not advocating, but 
just reporting facts. It may seem worth 
while for you to try a few plants staked 
up. In good soil you will need stakes 
about 4 ft. high. When in bluom a bed 
of upstanding plants is a sight of beauty. 
JOHN T. ROBERTS. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
Bumble Bees in House 
May 1 we found a large number of 
humble bees in our living room, and for 
more than a week they continued to ap¬ 
pear, apparently coming from a crack 
between floor boards under a radiator. 
The house is stone, but we found a crack 
under the window-sill where mortar had 
fallen out. Could the bees enter at this 
place to hibernate over Winter? They were 
extremely large and handsome, and we 
put them outside carefully, the only one 
killed being eaten by the eat. We re¬ 
leased 28 the first day. and many more 
during the following week. R. 
Bergen Co., N. ,1. 
I think it is rather unusual for bumble 
bees to get into dwelling houses. In your 
ease, however. I think the phenomenon is 
readily explainable. Each nest or colony 
of bumble bees is always broken up and 
deserted in the Fall—the males, or drones, 
and all of the workers dying, only the 
half dozen or so of large, beautiful queens 
being left. Each one of these seeks out 
a nook or crevice in which to pass the 
Winter in hibernation, and in the Spring 
each one that survives goes her own way 
and finds a deserted mouse’s nest in which 
she starts a new colony. If she cannot 
find the nest of a mouse, then she seeks 
for a depression in the soil and builds her 
own nest. Some humble bees live in the 
ground. 
I suppose, in the ease which you men¬ 
tion. the fine queens had found a suitable 
place in the walls of your stoue house. 
Apparently several queens have hiber¬ 
nated in the same piace, which, so far as 
I know, is somewhat unusual. I am very 
glad indeed that you allowed each of 
these queens to escape into the open air 
to build their nests and rear their young, 
because bumble bees are absolutely neces- 
sary to the production of Red clover seed 
in this country. glenn w. HERRICK. 
Dr. Mann Not Available as Commissioner 
Last week announcement was made 
that Dean A. R. Mann of the Cornell 
Agricultural College had accepted the ap¬ 
pointment as Commissioner of Farms and 
Markets. It appears that at the time of 
his election Dr. Mann was in the est. 
Immediately on his return to Ithaca he 
was notified of his election by the presi¬ 
dent of the Council, but immediately 
stated his inability to accept the appoint¬ 
ment. lie feels that his duties at Cornell 
are such that he should not leave his 
present work, which he regards as of 
great importance. It will be necessary 
therefore for the council to elect another 
commissioner. 
Seeding Old Pasture 
My way of sowing grass seed on pas¬ 
tures and renewing old meadows is to 
put a good level load of manure ou the 
spreader, and then spread over the top 
the seed I want to sow.' I set the spreader 
to five loads per acre. This will give a 
line on the amount of seed to put ou such 
load. For renewing old pastures I use 
Timothy, Red-top, Red clover, Medium, 
Alsike, white Sweet clover and Orchard 
grass. I get good results by this method, 
no matter what time of year. The seed 
will come up put on this way; try it. 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MAY 28, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Notes on Clover and Alfalfa Hay Making... 754 
Tarring Corn . 759 
Hope Farm Notes .760, 761 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Milk Prices Under the Pooling Plan.763 
Canada’s Wool Market. 763 
Underfed Cow . 768 
Feeding Six Cows. 768 
Trouble with Pig. 768 
Raising Heifer Calf. 768 
Poor Milkers . 768 
Ration with Oats. 768 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 768 
Milk for Exhibition. 770 
THE HENYARD 
Express Companies and Egg Shipments. 763 
•Jersey Poultrvmen to Pool Their Eggs. 763 
Egg-laying Contest . 772 
Turkeys and Gape Worms. 772 
Preventing White Diarrhoea in Chicks.773 
Questions of Egg Production. 773 
HORTICULTURE 
Orchard Heaters’ Experience. 754 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From an Up-State Farmer. 757 
Finding a Little Child. 757 
Treatmerj for the Grippe. 761 
The Value of a Community Center. 761 
Boys and Girls.764, 765 
The Pastoral Parson. 766 
A Farm Woman and Rural Schools. 766 
The Home Dressmaker. 767 
The Mission Play of California. 767 
A Sunday in May. 770 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A Primer of Economics—Part XXVI. 759 
Editorial .. .. 762 
Let "Industry” Get Down to Business. 763 
We Must Do It Ourselves. 763 
Markets . 771 
Publisher’s Desk .. 774 
