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1h* RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
August 6, 1921 
Free from noxious weeds and of high 
germination 
Experiment Station iiulletin gays: “Hairy Vetch 
hardly lias an equal asa 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. 
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FOR FALL PLANTING 
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CELERY AND CABBAGE PLANTS 
CELERY— White Plume, Winter Queen. Green Winter, 
100, 50c; 300, SI 25 500, SI .50; 1,000. S2.75. CABBAGE— 
40e. 100 ; aOO, $1 ; 1,000, $2. Post Paid List Free. 
W. S FORD a SON • If arlly. Delaware 
SEED WHEAT-* Leaps Prolific” 
a beardless variety of the most productive wheat 
grown. Nice recleaned seed—grown on my own farm, 
for SS!4.i}5—5 bushel lots or more. • Less quantity, 
S3.50 per bn.. P. O. B. Sellorsville. Free sample. 
No charge on bags. EDWIN A. S0U0ER, Sellcrsville, Pa. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
CELERY, CAULIFLOWER. BRUSSELS SPROUTS. CAB¬ 
BAGE. KALE, KOHL RABT. BEET, PEPPER. PARSLEY 
PLANTS. Catalogue free. HARRY l. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N.Y. 
For Sale ~X7V II TIT iL T 
Beardless, Leap’s Prolific, $1.75 per bushel; also Mon¬ 
mouth rye, 81 -50 per bushel, prices f. o. b. this point. 
FRANCIS C. DALE - Cold Spring. Putnam Co , N. Y. 
Hardy Perennial FlowerPlants 
GAILLARQIA, SHASTA DAISY. ANCHUSA. BEILIS DAISY, HOL¬ 
LYHOCK, CANTERBURY BELLS, 1UXGL0VE, COLUMBINE, 
SWEET WILLIAM, ALYSSUM, B0CC0NIA. CENTAUREA, CORE¬ 
OPSIS, DELPHINIUM or LARKSPUR HIBISCUS, GYPS0PHILA, 
ORIENTAL POPPY, ICE1 AND POPPY. 15c each; SI dozen: 
S5.50 hundred. HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground. N.Y. 
Now is t lie Time toOrder your pot-grown. Everbearing 
Strawberry Plants, so you can pick berries next year. 
Edwin W. Townsend Spring: Valley, N. V. 
STRAWBERRY Plants 
that "ill hear fruit next summer. RASPBERRY, BLACK¬ 
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GUS, RHUBARB, and PERENNIAL FLOWER PLANTS, 
ROSES and SHRUBS for fall planting. Catalogue free. 
H ARRY L. SQUIRMS Good Ground, N.Y. 
UB AM —New Annual While SweetjClover Seed. 1-oz., BOc 
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Garden Notes From New England 
Women Workers.— The labor situa¬ 
tion does not worry the vegetable gar¬ 
deners any now. Even the Italian women 
who went into the factories during the 
war, and hesitated at going back into the 
fields when the war was over, may now 
be seen in great numbers down on their 
hands and knees pulling weeds. Some of 
the market growers like this kind of labor 
very much, while others employ few, if 
any, women when they can get plenty of 
men. 
Scaring Birds. —The problem of keep¬ 
ing crows and blackbirds away from the 
corn seems to he a perennial one, but for 
some reason the barrel scheme seems to 
have become popular in Massachusetts 
this season. In a number of fields I have 
seen barrels with both ends removed, 
hanging by a rope from an inclined pole 
and moving about with every breeze that 
blows. I think the device might be im¬ 
proved by arranging some plan in order 
to have it make a noise while it moves 
around. 
Berries Ripen Early. —Berries have 
ripened unusually early this year, doubt¬ 
less because of the extraordinary season. 
In some sections of Massachusetts blue¬ 
berries were being picked soon after the 
middle of .Tune, and native raspberries ap¬ 
peared in the market at the same time. 
In my own garden the first raspberries to 
ripen were, as usual, St. Regis, and they 
A Barrel Bird Scorer 
have been giving a fairly good yield for 
some time. As I write this, Ontario has 
begun to ripen, but no color can be seen 
on Minnesota No. 4, or, as it is now 
called, Latham. Although the everbear¬ 
ing St. ltegis has been much criticized, 
and has been condemned as a commercial 
berry, I esteem it of no little value in the 
h’orne garden. It comes early and stays 
late, even though it never gets very large. 
If grown in hills it will be more satisfac¬ 
tory, though, than if Allowed to fill up the 
rows. 
Tiie Latham Raspberry. —In the La¬ 
tham raspberry, which was first intro¬ 
duced as Minnesota No. 4, I am con¬ 
vinced that I have the best variety for 
the New England climate that has yet 
been found. It seems ironclad as to har¬ 
diness, and apparently finds New Eng¬ 
land soil just as congenial as that of the 
Western State where it had its birth. 
The. berries come early, although not so 
early by a week or 10 days as those of 
St. Begis. The color is a good rich red, 
and in size the berries are not exceeded 
by any with which I am familiar, except 
those of I-a France, and La France is best 
regarded as strictly a Fall raspberry. I 
am not sure just how good a shipper this 
new berry will prove to be. but it hangs 
to the stems well, and during a week of 
rainy and cloudy weather showed fewer 
signs of deterioration than June or On¬ 
tario. Apparently it is not a soft berry 
by any means, and therefore should carry 
well. Perhaps I am over enthusiastic, 
but of all the seven or eight different va¬ 
rieties of raspberries in my garden. La¬ 
tham certainly tops the list. In devising 
a berry suitable to the rigorous climate 
of the Northwest the experts of Minne¬ 
sota have apparently produced a variety 
which is just as well suited to New Eng¬ 
land. 
Other Sorts Tested.— The much-ad¬ 
vertised Erskine Park still proves a dis¬ 
mal failure with me. The berries tire 
neither large nor well shaped, and the 
plants are not prolific. I must admit, 
though, that there is a certain acid flavor 
to the berry itself which is distinctive and 
rather pleasant. I have been rather dis¬ 
appointed in Ontario so far as produc¬ 
tiveness is concerned, and the fruit has 
not stood up well under adverse condi¬ 
tions. Still. I have not tried this variety 
long enough to vspeak with any assurance 
as to its value. My plants of La France 
are very vigorous and robust looking. For 
the most part I have kept the early blos¬ 
soms removed, because I am told that this 
is the best way in which to get a satis¬ 
factory Fall crop. I believe this is going 
to be an exceedingly valuable berry when 
handled in this way, but gardeners should 
be warned that it produces suckers very 
freely, so they must keep the cultivator 
going. Raspberries have been none too 
plentiful this year in New England, and 
have sold at high prices. The blackberry 
crop promises to do better. Housekeepers 
are hoping that they will be cheaper, be¬ 
cause they have had to pay too high a 
price for both raspberries and strawber¬ 
ries to indulge in much canning or jelly 
making. The demand for both raspber¬ 
ries and blackberries, but particularly 
for the former, seems to he increasing con¬ 
stantly. 1 know of no fruit which sells 
more readily at a roadside stand, and the 
man with an acre or two of good garden 
land bordering a popular thoroughfare 
can add greatly to his income by raising 
these berries to be handled in this way. 
It is a particularly good way for rasp¬ 
berries. too, as the shipping qualities do 
not have to be taken into consideration, 
so that berries of the best sort can be 
grown and held until at their best. 
Cultivated Blueberries. —Unless all 
signs fail, the blueberry will soon be a 
commercial fruit in New England. For 
many years great quantities of wild blue¬ 
berries have been shipped to market from 
certain sections of Maine, Massachusetts 
and Connecticut, and the farmers have de¬ 
rived no little profit as a result. It is 
only recently that small fruit growers 
have found out how to handle the blue¬ 
berry in order to make it thrive under 
cultivation, hut no little success has at¬ 
tended experiments made at the experi¬ 
ment station in Warebam, Mass., and ac¬ 
cording to Prof. Sidney B. Haskell. Mas¬ 
sachusetts is about ready to establish a 
commercial blueberry growing industry. 
The low sandy areas close to the cranber¬ 
ry bogs, as well as the upland pastures, 
seem to he ideal for this work, as much of 
this land is acid, which is just what the 
blueberries demand. It is because laud 
has been sweetened with lime and en¬ 
riched with commercial fertilizers that 
blueberries have so often proved a failure 
when attempts to tame them have been 
made. Some experiments with selection, 
with a view to increasing the size, have 
been most satisfactory. It has been found 
that there is an exceedingly wide varia¬ 
tion in different plants, both as to the 
s'ze of the fruit and the time of harvest. 
If plants are. chosen with these points in 
view the character of the crop can be 
greatly improved. 
E. I. FARRINGTON. 
CONTENTS 
i - — • — 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUGUST 6, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Killing; Out Alder Bushes. 990 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 994 
Sour Soil in New England. 995 
Hope Farm Notes.996, 997 
Cooling Off in Florida. 997 
Value of American Farm Property. 999 
Starting a Farmers’ Business Organization. 999 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Notes on Whitewashing the Barn. 990 
Feeding Young Pigs. 990 
The Dairy Business at the South. 991 
Free Milk a Good Investment. 991 
A New York Milk Expert Out West. 999 
Another Leg of Mutton. 999 
A Connecticut Milk Feeding Experiment... 999 
Feeding a Heifer Calf. 1002 
Summer Feed for Cows. 1002 
Rations for Swine. 1002 
Itching Skin . 1003 
Gadfly Grubs . 1003 
Bloody Milk . 1003 
Slobbering . 1003 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1003 
THE HENYARD 
The Poultry Industry in California.989, 990 
Egg-laying Contest . 1005 
Improving Eggs . 1005 
Tuberculosis of Skin. 1005 
Eggs with Tough Membrane. 1005 
Roup in Fowls. 1005 
HORTICULTURE 
The Value of Orchard Trees. 990 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 993 
Squash Borer . 995 
Raspberry Cane Blight... 995 
Propagating Grapes from Layers. 997 
Shrubs for the Seaside. 997 
Where Irrigation Paid. 997 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1000 
Uses for Blackberries. 1000 
The Rural Patterns. 1000 
Birds from the Kitchen Window. 1000 
The Invalid’s Room. 1000 
Three Delicious Conserves. 1000 
Brick Cheese . 1000 
A Sunday in a Garden. 1001 
Canning Beans, Peas and Corn. 1001 
Labor-saving in Care of Stoves. 1001 
Canning Cabbage and Pickling Beets. 1001 
Pear and Tomato Conserve. 1001 
Ripe Tomato Pickles. 1001 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A Primer of Economics—Part XXXVI. 994 
Editorials . 998 
A Letter from the Ox Express. 999 
Rural Schools—A Suggestion. 999 
Publisher’s Desk . 1006 
