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ft* RURAL NEW.YORKER 
July 30, 1921 
Lackawaxen—in fact the whole of Pike farmer, they are never idle. As soon as 
County, Pa.—has as its big, staple crop, 
Summer boarders. Not raising any of 
them myself, I am not in a position to 
quote the present prices, but they should 
• he high, for Summer boarders are scarce 
the fishing season is over the crab season 
begins; when the crab season is over the 
oyster is ready, and, believe me, oyster 
dredging in the Winter is a man’s size 
job. Have you ever eaten a real fresh 
this year.^ There really is no big, care; oyster out of the Chesapeake Bay? If 
- - - 1 J i- you have not you have missed something. 
Kent Co., Md. w. s. hoover. 
fully tilled general farm within miles of 
this section. We are in the mountains. 
What little produce there is is sold to the 
boarding houses and hotels. There is no 
market system. If Bill Jones drives up 
to the hotel nearest his place with a load 
of vegetables he always finds that the 
hotel is stocked up with the very things 
he has on his wagon, but will take his 
load at a very low price. lie sells it. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Because he and his 
crew made their way through a sea of 
Then the following day the hotel runs burning oil to save the crew of the Brit¬ 
ish tanker Mirlo after that vessel had 
been torpedoed by a German submarine, 
August 16, 1918, Capt. Allen Midgett of 
Coast Guard Station 179 is to receive a 
gold medal from the King of England. 
Coast Guard Station 179 is located near 
Wimble Shoals, N. C. 
One fireman may die, two others are in 
a. serious condition in St. Vincent’s Hos¬ 
pital, and more than 50 others were over¬ 
come as a result of inhaling fumes from 
a fire in a five-story building at 345 
Greenwich St., New York, occupied by 
the Phoenix Cheese Company. The fumes 
from the burning cheese affected the fire¬ 
men seriously. Damage is put at $50,000. 
The main building of the Western Peni¬ 
tentiary, Pittsburgh, Pa., was wrecked, 
__a dozen smaller buildings connected with 
10c a quart, delivered. Eggs are selling the institution were destroyed by fire, and 
now for 50c a dozen. Several of us are 14 persons, nine of them convicts, were 
short of something and sends down to Bill 
Jones for it; he names a price way above 
the market, and the hotel pays it because 
of the emergency. So goes the see-saw. 
The only produce shipped from this sta¬ 
tion is eggs. I have never seen a crate 
of poultry shipped. The Summer vis¬ 
itors eat all the culls from the local 
flocks and all of the broilers. The eggs 
go to.retail customers, most of them, with 
occasionally a case to a commission house 
when the supply exceeds the retail de¬ 
mand. It is impossible to check these re¬ 
tail sales.. The casual sales to commission 
houses bring poor returns, as no care is 
given to selection or grading. Milk and 
eggs come nearer to holding a staple price 
than any other produce. Milk from the 
small herds—two to five cows—sells at 
cups to be known as “The Ayrshire Cat¬ 
tle Breeders’ Association of New Eng¬ 
land cups,” to all fairs in New England 
offering $1,000 or more in premiums for 
Ayrshires, to be awarded to the exhibitor 
winning most money in the Ayrshire 
classes on animals bred by himself. 
The annual Field Day of the Connecti¬ 
cut Agricultural Station will be held at 
the Mt. Carmel Field on Wednesday, Au¬ 
gust 31. The growing of seed corn and 
the general subject of corn production 
and the comparative yield of different va¬ 
rieties will be the main topics of discus¬ 
sion, and will be illustrated by the experi¬ 
mental work with corn now being grown 
on this field. 
The New York State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety will hold its Eastern Summer meet¬ 
ing at the home of W. S. Teator, Upper 
Red Ilook, on Wednesday, August 17. 
This will be a one-day meeting, with bas¬ 
ket picnic on the lawn. A program is be¬ 
ing arranged. 
The annual field day of Massachusetts 
vegetable growers will be held at the 
Market Garden Field Station on August 
3. The Massachusetts State Vegetable 
Growers’ Association will hold its annxial 
Summer meeting. 
What About $12 Hay 
Buyers have been among the farmers 
offering $12 for hay, and a dealer from 
New York was also around, but didn’t 
make any offer. He talked very discour- 
agingly as to the hay market. Now in 
regard to hay there is but very little left 
in Jefferson County, N. Y., as the 1920 
crop was very light. A good many fann- 
ers were compelled to buy for their own 
needs, and I believe there is but little 
left in the country, take it as a whole 
One 
year with another, there is only 
trying to start flocks of White Leghorns, injured July 18 when the 1,135 prisoners t ^, e . demand> ! )Ut 
but it is difficult to arouse any interest in stated a riot and attempted to over- mC^L rs to ^et it at their own price 
Co-onerafive fowl hlivins» find tur<r moAnf. Tlmver Hie and ocogno T'Kn nlnn _ n °y uOn C consider tne 03 
co-operative feed buying and egg market¬ 
ing, so it is a hard, up-hill road. T. A. p. 
power the guards and escape. The nine 
convicts injured were shot by city police, 
county detectives and prison guards while 
attempting to fight their way to liberty. 
July 18 two big tanks of asphalt ex¬ 
ploded at the plant of the Warner-Quin- 
The Maryland Fish Farmers 
Probably some of the inland farmers, ____ __ 
readers of The R. N.Y., would like to lan Asphalt Company, Linden, N*. J. ^The 
know where so many fish, fresh and salt, resulting fire burned for more than 24 
come from, that they see m the markets hours, and the loss is estimated at $3,- 
and country stores. I am a farmer on 000,000. This estimate includes the de¬ 
expense the 
farmer goes to for seed, labor of himself 
and family, fire insurance, taxes, wear 
and equipment and a 16-hour day of hard 
labor, and then he is not sure of a crop. 
It is a chance whether he gets one or not. 
Does the buyer consider that the farmer 
is the backbone of the country? If the 
farmers stopped their business a yea" the 
whole country would have to stop. If he 
cannot make any improvements or buy 
machinery, what can the rest of the world 
do? Why not get together and organize 
and make our prices, like all other busi¬ 
ness, and then we will get somewhere? 
As it is now they have our nose on the 
grindstone and make us do the turning, 
too. g. A. KNOX. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
Free from noxious weeds and of high 
germination 
Experiment Station Bulletin says: "Hairy Vetch 
hardly lias an equal as a land improver. If seeded 
early it will provide considerable grazing and 
help out the winter forage question.” 
Write for more information on this crop. Also 
quotations. Prices down to pre-war level. 
©„ M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 
84 Sixth Street Marysville, Ohio 
GRAPE VINES 
FOR FALL PLANTING 
CONCORD. CATAWBA, MOORES EARLY, NIAGARA and WOR¬ 
DEN. Selected 1-year-old vines, the best size for 
vineyard planting. We grow Grape Vines in large 
numbers, and can fill your order, large or small. 
Our vines are first-class and t.rue-to-name. WRITE 
FOR PRICES. Satisfaction GUARANTEED. 
BUNTING’S NURSERIES Box 1 Selbyville, Delaware 
SEED WHEAT 
10 BIG YIELDERS. Smooth and bearded- 
hardy—reliable. Cleaned clean. Priced right. 
Samples and catalog free. 
A H HOFFMAN Inc LANDISVILLE LANCASTER CO PA 
SEED WHEAT-"Leaps Prolific” 
a beardless variety of the most productive wheat 
grown. Nice recleaned seed—grown on my own farm, 
for $2.25—5 bushel lots or more. Loss quantity, 
$3.50 po" 1)U.. I 1 ’, j. B. Sellorsvilie. Free sample. 
No ciir.roe on bags. EDWIN A. SGUOER, Sellersviile, Pa. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
CELERY, CAULIFLOWER, BRUSSELS SPROUTS. C\l!- 
BAGE, KALE, KOIIL RABI, BEET, PEPI-VR, PARSLEY 
PLANTS. Catalogue free. HARRY l. SQBIRES, Good Ground, N T. 
Per 100 800 
Cabbage.. .... .80 .80 
Cauliflower... .<15 ¥2.00 
Celery.60 1,60 
Leading Varieties. Catalog free. 
SENT BY EXPRESS 
OR PARCEL POST 
1,000 6,000 or more 
#1.26 #1.10 
8.60 8.00 
2.60 2.00 
0. E. FIELD, Sewell, K. 1 . 
ALFALFA SEED 
“ NORTHWEST ” brand—hardiest strain—vigorous 
growers. 2 other hinds. Samples free. Ask for free 
booklet on Alfalfa Culture. 
A B: HOFFMAN Xno LANDISVILLE LANCASTER CO PA 
Hardly PererunnaS FlowerPlants 
GAILLARDfA, SHASTA DAISY, ANCHUSA, BEILIS DAISY HOL¬ 
LYHOCK, CANTERBURY BELLS. FOXGLOVE. COLUMBINE 
SWEET WILLIAM, Al.YSSUM, BOCCONIA, CENTAUREA. CORE¬ 
OPSIS, DELPHINIUM or LARKSPUR, HIBISCUS, GYPSOPIIILA 
ORIENTAL POPPY, ICEI ANO POPPY, 15c each; $1 dozen- 
$5.50 hundred, HARRY L. SQUIRES. Good Ground, N.Y. 
Vegetableiand Flower gt^^ousfcS 
Chesapeake Bay Fishermen and Their Catch 
the shore of Chesapeake Bay, aiul have struction of 18 asphalt tanks, 16 crude 
opportunities to see the big fishing that is oil stills. 33 oil tanks and 12 gasoline 
carried on in the bay. The shores are 
rented to the fishermen by the owners of 
the farms, and there is one fishing camp 
after another along the water front. 
tanks. The brick structures swept and 
destroyed by the burning oil include a 
two story office building and administra¬ 
tion building, the chemical and physical 
Quite a lot of people from the city research laboratory of the plant, the pow- 
visit t the camps in Spring and Summer, er house, drum shop aud tool shop. The 
wooden dock was burned to the water’s 
edge and six tank cars on the railroad 
siding were destroyed. 
Charging that the directions of the Sec- 
. , . . retard of the Treasury issued to customs 
eat, and what a jolly crew they are. By collectors aud agents on July 8, 1921 
daylight they are in their big power boat, relative to seizure and retention of aleo- 
headed for the nets. On arrival at the bolic liquors billed for trans-shipment at 
nets (which are known as pound nets), American ports contemplates a violation 
which is a trip of a lifetime to anyone 
who has never seen anything of this kind. 
After spending the night at the camp the 
captain will call his crew at 4 o’clock in 
the morning. What a breakfast they will 
the work begins. The nets are a large 
heart-shaped affair, with a funnel ■which 
acts as a trap, and when the fish go in 
they cannot get out. Also there is a wing 
of treaties between Great Britain and 
the United States, and especially the 
Trade Treaty of 1871, the Anchor Line, 
Henderson Brothers,_ Limited, a British 
of netting stretched through the water steamship company, July 19 filed in Unit- 
from the mouth of the funnel for about 
200 yards that leads the fish up to the 
mouth of the funnel. 
To get the fish out of the net, the net 
is let down at one corner and several 
men will go inside the net in a small boat, 
such as you see in the picture, and will 
ed States Court a bill in equity. The 
steamship company asks for an order re¬ 
straining George W. Aldrich, Collector of 
Customs, from putting the ruling into 
effect at New York. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The New 
York State Horticultural Society will 
begin to haul the net up ou the boat to hold its Summer meeting at the New York 
drive the fish to one side of the net so Agricultural Experiment Station at Gen- 
that the crew in the power boat can dip eva on Wednesday, August 3. A short 
them out with a large hoop net, holding program has been arranged to include ad- 
shipped to the city, where they are iced the station grounds and nearby orchards 
by the commission men who handle them, 
and are reshipped all over the country. 
The surplus herring are taken ashore, 
where the fishermen have a packing house 
where they are cut and cleaned and cured 
_ The Ayrshire Cattle Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion of New England have selected the 
first Wednesday of November in each 
year, beginning in 1922, to hold an an¬ 
nual sale of high-class Ayrshire cattle. 
in big vats of salt brine, then packed in This association offers four premiums of 
barrels. Thousands of barrels are packed $50 each, to be awarded to the best roll of 
every year and sold to city wholesale honor record made in the two-year-old 
houses that sell them to the retail mer- three-year-old, four-year-old and mature 
chants, so you see the fisherman has a 35- 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
July 27-29—Farmers’ Week and Poul¬ 
try Convention, Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College, Amherst, Mass. 
August 2—“Every Farmer and His 
Family” Picnic, Sandusky, O. 
August 2-5—International Baby Chick 
Association. Philadelphia, Pa. 
August 3—New York State Horticul¬ 
tural Society, Summer meeting, Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 
August 9-13—American Poultry Asso¬ 
ciation, Seattle, Wash. 
August 17—New York State Horticul¬ 
tural Society, Eastern Summer meeting, 
at home of W. S. Teator, Upper Red 
Hook, N. Y. 
August 17—Ohio Horticultural Sum¬ 
mer meeting, Orchard Heights Farm, 
Ashland, O. 
August 16-19—Annual Farmers’ and 
Homemakers’ Week, New Hampshire Col¬ 
lege, Durham, N. H. 
August 29-September 3—Ohio State 
Fair, Columbus. 
August 31—Aumial Field Day, Con¬ 
necticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Mt. Carmel Field, New Haven, Conn. 
September 5-19—West Virginia State 
Fair, Wheeling, W. Va. 
September 5-11—Indiana State Fair, 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
September 11-17—Kentucky State Fair, 
Lousiville. Ky. 
September 12-17—New York State 
Fair, Syracuse. N. Y. 
October 8-15—National Dairy Show, 
Hamline, Minn. 
November 1-5—Vegetable Growers’ As¬ 
sociation of America, Albany, N. Y. 
November 23-25—American Farm Bu¬ 
reau Federation, annual convention, At¬ 
lanta, Ga. 
Beware of This Thief 
I desire to caution my brother farmers 
to look out for a tramp who pretends to 
be in search of work. He secured a place 
on a State road job near here, and came 
to our home, desiring us to board him, at 
least until pay day, and we took him in 
until he could find another place to board. 
He was with us for five days, and during 
pocketbook with about 
pocketbook, con- 
suit of clothes, 
much more he 
took, do not yet know, as we find the 
house was ransacked from top to bottom. 
He also stole my watch, worth $25. lie 
is quite a youngish-looking fellow, combs 
his hair straight back, and has lost one 
upper tooth on the right side next to the 
eye tooth. j. a. s. 
Gowanda, N. Y. 
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I Hams Planting. Pot grown 
and runner plants 
that will bear fruit next summer. RASPBERRY, BLACK¬ 
BERRY, GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT, GRAPE, ASPARA¬ 
GUS. RHUBARB, and PERENNIAL FLOWER PLANTS, 
ROSES and SHRUBS for fall i lnntlng. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES Good Ground, N.Y. 
Str awlberry riaixts 
Pot-grov/n, summer-bearing, 83.60 per 100. Progressive 
and Howard 17, 84 60. GEORGE AIKEN, Bos M. Putney, Vermont 
Tobacco Dust * Fertilizer 
Nicotine wit) Kill oil Aphle and Insects 
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PEACH TREE BORERS 
Kill them with KRYSTAL-GAS 
How ie the time. See U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture, Bureau of Entomology, Bulletin No. 796. 
Write for Circular. 
HOME PRODUCTS INC. - Rahway, N. J. 
Wood Ashes ^ 1 ' cd o’.rs^S,Va 8 
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H. BENNETT &. CO, Westerville, Ohio 
Member of the touring company : “My 
- , . as 5 classes finishing production between July good lady, the last place I stayed at the 
c £ nt , as W v ! as farmer. Some 1, 19-1, and Juiy 1, 1922, owned by a landlady wept when I left.” Landlady: 
of the fishermen have as much as $20,000 resident of New England, who must be “Well, I ain’t going to. I wants iny 
invested in nets and boats, and, like the the breeder of the animal. It also offers money in advance.”—Tit-Bits. 
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