876 
July 2, 1921 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Value of Standing Hay 
(Continued from page S74) 
about 520 cubic feet in one ton. In the 
place you mention there will be 1.200 
cubic feet, and on this basis of measure¬ 
ment that will give about 21-3 tons. Of 
course, that is a guess and not by any 
means a true estimate, but generally 
speaking it is about as fair an estimate 
as can be made without actually weighing 
the hay. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
If the biologists of the Department of 
Agriculture know so little of the biology 
of the robin that they have to send a 
man at the expense of the department to 
see that robins really eat cherries, they 
should step down and let someone who 
knows more take their places. When a 
man gets into a Government department 
and is in charge of anything, he at once 
seems to become a victim to red' tape. Ho 
cannot take direct action, because some¬ 
one else to whom he must refer would 
not have anything to do. The head 1 of a 
bureau is simply the head referee, and 
everything passes down the red*-tape line 
till the final decision is of no manner of 
use. A competent bureau head would 
know that when the robins are eating a 
man’s cherries there is no time to “pass 
the buck,” and he should have brains 
enough to send word at once to go ahead 
and stop the robins. I hardly think there 
is a court in the United States that would 
fine a man for protecting his property 
from depredators, be they robins, rabbits 
or Raffles. Maryland has a silly law 
making a close season for rabbits for the 
sole benefit of the idle fellow with a gun 
in the Fall. We would as well have a 
close season for rats. 
east winds, but no rain, and are now in 
the midst of an intense drought. The 
Irish potatoes are simply drying up. 
Teas, of course, are dried up and over 
with. The part of the garden under irri¬ 
gation is doing finely : the remainder is a 
Sahara. The first little cantaloupes from 
the South are. on the fruit stands, and 
doubtless there are some who will pay the 
price of 25 cents each for the green things. 
Never buy a cantaloupe till it has a fra¬ 
grant odor. The great difficulty with our 
home growers of the cantaloupes is the 
effort to get them in ahead of their neigh¬ 
bors. There would be no harm in this if 
they were really ahead, but they are apt 
to try to rush in green melons. Now that 
the selling of cantaloupes is done here at 
auction at the railroad station, the men 
who pick green melons find out that it 
does not pay to • have a load of melons 
turned down and no buyer wanting to put 
older plants become weakened and sub¬ 
ject to disease, such as the one described. 
Oyster-shell Scale on Gooseberries 
We have four or five gooseberry bushes 
in our back yard which, although having 
quite a hard struggle with some kind of 
scale (oyster-shell, I think), do pretty 
well, having had a fine crop last year. 
But every year numerous parts of the 
bushes die suddenly; from the time the 
leaves start in Spring till late Summer 
and Autumn. It is not the scale. I think, 
because some of the parts that die are 
perhaps last year’s growth, almost, if not 
entirely, free of that. Previously we have 
had to fight the little green worms, but 
this year have had none so far, though 
our neighbor has had lots of them. What 
is the matter and remedy? L. j. B. 
Walton, N. T. 
We find oyster-shell scale in this sec¬ 
tion on apple, pear, dogwood, lilac and 
gooseberry, as mentioned. We control 
the scale readily by applying home-made 
Well, we have a change in the weather, 
though still cool, for instead of northeast¬ 
ern rain storms we have plenty of north- 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 2, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Value of Standing Hay. 874 
Stone Boat to Preserve Moisture. 875 
Corn Worms and Corn Smut. 875 
Secretary Wallace to Visit Jersey Farmers.. 880 
Hope Farm Notes. 882 
The Baity Tractor at 
a bid on them at any reasonable price. 
Gathering green cantaloupes will soon be 
a forgotten practice. 
The Irish potatoes from the Virginia 
counties have been going up the'road for 
a week. Trains of 30 or more cars pass 
several times a day, loaded all with po¬ 
tatoes. Shipped to towns all over the 
North and Canada, the selling agent has 
an advantage, and can get better returns 
than any individual grower who ships to 
Work. See Page 877 
concentrated lime-sulphur at the rate of 
one gallon to eight gallons of water. I 
have found that the scale becomes plenti¬ 
ful enough so that growth practically 
stops and little fruit sets. The lime-sul¬ 
phur solution covers the scales, loosening 
them, and the insect pest is killed. With 
the green worms which appear on the 
currant and gooseberry we dilute to Sum¬ 
mer strength, that is, one to 35, and add 
arsenate of isad. This .poison controls 
all the chewing insects such as the one de¬ 
scribed. T. H. T. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Should Sue These Milk Dealers. 885 
Investing: in Milk Company... 885 
Farmers and Their Milk. 885 
Various Feeding Questions.888 
Ration for Young Calves.. 888 
Silage Questions . 888 
Feeding Idle Horse. 888 
Sweet Clover and Silage. 888 
Candy for Hog Feeding. 890 
A Case of Cow Damage. 890 
Tuberculous Cattle in Public Pasture. 890 
A Tribute to a Good Horse. 890 
THE HENYARD 
city commission houses. In this way the 
exchange may save the growers from loss, 
while the individual grower will lose 
money on a low-price market. The early 
Irish potato crop cuts a small figure here 
this season, but the sweet potato crop 
will cover an increased area. The sweet 
potato has never been subject to the vio¬ 
lent. slumps that often ruin the season for 
some other vegetable crops. We have no 
competition of any importance north or 
Some Questions About Poultry. 875 
Egg-laying Contest . 892 
Home-grown Feeds . 892 
Feeding the Farm Flock... 892 
Counting a Rooster’s Rations. 892 
Chicks Die in Shell. 892 
Undeveloped Chicks . 893 
Chapter on Geese. 893 
Snapping Turtles and Ducks. 893 
Egg-eating Hens . 893 
Henhouse Construction . 893 
Fatal Disease . 894 
Tinted Eggs . 894 
Poultry Questions .'. 894 
Dry Mash for Chicks. 895 
Forage Crop for Sandy Chicken Run. 895 
HORTICULTURE 
The Marshall Strawberry for Family Sup- 
A Hand Garden Marker. 874 
Strawberry Planting Methods. 875 
Bees Injuring Sound Fruit. 880 
Bees and Perfect Fruit. 880 
Garden Notes from New England. 877 
Pruning Roses . 883 
Crossing of Melons and Cucumbers. 883 
Treatment of Forced Bulbs. 883 
Red Spider on Phlox... 883 
Care of Easter Lily After Blooming. 883 
Propagating Spiraeas . 883 
WOMAN AND HOME 
South Jersey, and with an annually in¬ 
creasing demand north there is room for 
us and Jersey, too. There is an increas¬ 
ing demand North for the yam varieties, 
and I have had inquiries for Nancy Hall 
sweet potatoes as far north as Massachu¬ 
setts. People who winter in the South 
are apt to get fond of the jelly-like yams 
and soon want them at home, while the 
people who boil sweet potatoes still de¬ 
mand the dry, choky Jersey sweets. Mv 
latest tomatoes, the Globe, will be just 
about large enough to transplant when 
the Irish potatoes are dug in a few days. 
These plants, now only two or three 
inches high, I hope to have well loaded 
with grown green tomatoes just as frost 
comes, and these will be wrapped in pa¬ 
per like the Florida skinny tomatoes, and 
brought into the kitchen a few at a time 
to color up for slicing, and often we have 
them till January. w. F. massey. 
From Day to Day. 886 
Hooked Rugs . 886 
Housecleaning Hints .. 886 
Preparing a Rose Jar. 886 
Texas Notes . 886 
Strawberry Preserves with Pineapple or 
Rhubarb . 886 
A Little Optimism.. 886 
Favorite Homemade Candies. 887 
Rush Chair Seats. 887 
The Rural Patterns...r 887 
Oil Burners . 887 
Two Useful Hints... 887 
Pear Conserve . 887 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Removing Stumps in New Jersey.... 
A Primer of Economics—Part XXXI 
Events of the Week. 
A Lightning Arrester. 
Perpetual Motion ... 
Cleaning Harness .._.. 
Repairing Earthen Demijohn. 
Smoke Balls .. 
Protection for Steel Roofed House. . 
Lubricant for Tractor Gearing. 
Sawing Quartered Oak. ... 
Waste Disposal from Kitchen Sink. . 
A Trip on a Houseboat. 
Editorial . 
Educational Committee Meets. 
Potato Growers Organize. 
Publisher’s Desk .. 
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Diseased Rhubarb 
What could be done with rhubarb when 
stalks become soft, with small defects on 
the stalks? e. f. p. 
Edmeston, N. Y. 
Rhubarb, along with some other plants, 
is subject to the damping-off fungus 
known as Rhizoctonia. The disease ap¬ 
pears among seedlings and weakened 
plants where the moisture is abundant 
and the warmth excessive, as these con¬ 
ditions favor its development. Lettuce, 
beets and carrots are also affected by the 
fungus. The best control measure is to 
correct the conditions favoring the dis¬ 
ease development. This can be done with 
rhubarb by removing the lower leaves, 
stirring up the soil and allowing as much 
sunlight as possible to get to the crown 
of the plant. Do not trim the stalks, al¬ 
lowing the old leaves to decay on the 
ground next the plants. Fertilize the 
rhubarb in the Fall or early Winter with 
manure in order to keep the plants grow¬ 
ing rapidly. The roots should be divided 
every five years for best results, as the 
He (thoughtfully) : • “Now the girl 
that I marry must be in direct contrast 
to me.” She: “Well, don’t get discour¬ 
aged ; there are still plenty of bright and 
intelligent girls around.” — New York 
Globe. 
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