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August 13, 1921 
Tre RURAL NEW-YORKER 
More Money For 
Berry Growers 
Buckbee is an immense ber¬ 
ry, excellent in flavor, color and 
shipping qualities. Berries are borne 
well off the ground. $4 per doz., 57.50 per 
25, 513.50 per 50. 525 per 100. 
Beni produces handsome, tasty berries, 
more than 2 inches long; Kevitt’s Jubilee has 
an attractive deep red color which brings 
many sales. Plants of either variety, 53 per 
25. 55.50 per 50, $10 per 100. 
Send for our catalog N—and get the de¬ 
tails of these three “profit berries”— it 
means money to you. 
William M. Hunt & Co., Inc. 
14$ Chambers Street 
New York City 
HAIRY VETCH 
Free from noxious weeds and of high 
germination 
Experiment Station Bulletin says: “Hairy Vetch 
hardly has 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 th s crop. Also 
quotations. Prices down to pre-war level. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 
84 Sixth Street Marysville, Ohio 
GRAPE VINES 
FOR FALL PLANTING 
CONCORD, CAIAWBA, 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 trne-to-name. WRITE 
FOR PRICES. Satisfaction GUARANTEED. 
BUNTING’S NURSERIES Box 1 Selbyville, Delaware 
CELERY AND CABBAGE PLANTS 
CELERY— White Plume, Winter Queen, Green WintPr, 
100, 50c; 300, SI 25 500, $1.50; 1,000. $2.75. CABBAGE— 
40e. 100 ; 500, SI ; 1,000, S2. Post Paid List Free. 
W. S FORI) & SON - Hart tv, Delaware 
SEED WHEAT 
10 BIG TIELDERS. Smooth and bearded- 
hardy—reliable. Cleaned clean. Priced right. 
Samples and catalog free. 
AH HOFFMAN Inc LANDISVILLE LANCASTER CO PA 
CELERY, CABBAGE 
KALE, BRUSSELS 
SPROUTS, PARSLEY 
MANGEL WURZEL 
HOP, MINT. SAGE. TURNIP. THYME plants. Catalogue 
free. HARRY h. SQVIKES, Good Ground, N'. Y. 
Now !» the Time to Order your pot-grown, Everbearing 
Strawberry Plum-, so you can pick berries next year. 
Edwin W. Townsend Spring Valley. N. V. 
HANDY CONTROL 
TRACTOR DOUBLE-ACTION 
DISK HARROW 
Best 
Tillage 
Implement 
for Farm 
_. - , , , .. or Orchard Work 
The Original Bissell 
See it at State Fail—Syracuse 
Manf’d only byT. E. BISSELL CO., Ltd., Elora, Ont., Can. 
CORN HARVESTER 
Best and fastest machine built. One Horse cuts 
two rows. Carries to shock. Big Labor saver. 
Pays for itself in one 
season. Worked by 1, 2 
or 3 men. No twine. No 
danger. Can't be beat 
for silage cutting. 
Free trial. We also 
make Tile Ditchers. 
Agents Wanted. 
Write for catalog. 
D. H. BENNETT & CO. Westerville, Ohio 
AND WE PAY POSTAGE 
IF YOU SEND MOtirr WITH 
A sturdy, rugged. Tan Chrome Work 
the man who works outdoors. Roomy, com¬ 
fortable last. Double thick soles. Dirt ex¬ 
cluding tongue. Leather treated to resist 
acids and water. Sizes 6 to XL No half 
sizes. Money back immediately*!! the shoes 
fail to please you. or, after you have worn 
them out, if you don’t consider you had your 
money’s worth, you get another pair abso¬ 
lutely free. Send $2.98 with order and we 
pay postage. Or. pay postman $2.98 plus post¬ 
age on arrival. Order by No. 301 and give size. 
MAIL BAG STORES 
32 Union Square New York City 
PEACH TREE BORERS 
Kill them with KRYSTAL-GAS 
Now is the time. See U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture, Bureau of Entomology, Bulletin No. 796. 
Write for Circular. 
HOME PRODUCTS INC. Rahway, N. J. 
STRAWBERRY Plants S^KesS 
that, will bear fruit next summer. RASPBERRY, BLACK¬ 
BERRY, GOOSEBERRY. CURRANT, GRAPE, ASPARA¬ 
GUS. RHUBARB, and PERENNIAL FLOWER PLANTS, 
ROSES and SHRUBS for fall planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES Good Ground, N.Y. 
StraX/V7"berry Plants 
Pot-grown, Funinier-bearinpr. S3. 50 per 100. Progressive 
and Howard 17, 84.50. GEORGE AIKEN, Box M, Putney, Vermont 
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You are invited to inspect the 80 acres of 
GREEN MOUNTAIN SEED POTATOES 
at THE DIMOCK ORCHARD, East Corinth, Vermont 
The State official inspectors found so little leaf roll and 
mosaic that 1 believe the actual count of cast s would fall 
below two dozen for the entire tour. Not a single aphid 
was seen. Our offenses were rhizoctonia. missing hills 
and two plants of mixture. 
SEED WHEAT-" Leaps Prolific” 
a beardless variety of the most productive wheat 
grown. Nice recleaned seed—grown on my own farm, 
for .25—5 bushel lots or more. Less quantity, 
IS‘2.50 per bu.. F. O. B. Sellersville. Free sample. 
No charge on bags. EDWIN A. SOUDER, Sellersville, Pa. 
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For Sale-TREES in Perfect Condition 
700 White Pines, 5 to 9 ft.; 200 Spruce, about 5 ft. 
Inquire Gardener, care L. Ulman, CHAPPAQUA. N. Y. 
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Wood Ashes 
W. H. LEIDY 
I'nleoched, packed in bags, >M !i 
per ton F. O. B. Swarthmore, I ’a. 
. Swarthmore, Pa. 
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Garden and Farm Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden Thrips Damage New York Onions 
I mentioned recently the cucumber 
patch across the road from my office. The 
crop is now over,, though there are still 
plenty of cukes on the ground. But the 
price has now dropped so low that only 
the nearby Jerseymen can afford to sell. 
The grower of this patch is a young man 
who came here from North Carolina and 
bought a little 27-acre farm on the river 
just outside the city limits. He has 
vastly improved this little farm and could 
sell it now for twice its first cost. He 
rented the two acres this year just across 
the road or street from my office. This 
is the last block next to the city limits, 
and the block of lots is being sold for 
homes as fast as demanded. The crop of 
cucumbers began to sell at $2 a hamper, 
and from $2 dropped gradually in the two 
weeks till finally 45 cents a hamper was 
the price, and the grower stopped picking 
after gathering a lot to salt down for 
pickles. lie has just shown me his ac¬ 
count of sales from the two acres, $804.14 
gross. They were all sold by the Farm¬ 
ers’ Association at public auction. The 
results show that the crop has been a 
fairly profitable one. But there is one 
fact of value in these returns, and this 
is that the grower, W. E. Oakley, graded 
his cukes with great care into first and 
second-class, and he threw away bushels 
that many others would have put into the 
second-class. The result has been that he 
has daily got the top of the market, while 
others who failed to grade properly got 
low prices. But the gross return of 
$864.14 is a very comfortable return for 
his labor and manure. The land owner 
paid for the manure and half the baskets 
and gets half the returns. The tenant 
furnished labor.and half the baskets. 
The cantaloupe crop is now going to 
market. They started at a fairly good 
price of $4 a crate of 45, and the pros¬ 
pect is that they may pay fairly well this 
season, but that will he determined later. 
Our farmers are not as badly off as the 
grain and cotton farmers. They had a 
very profitable strawberry crop, though 
shorter than usual because of frost. The 
cucumbers have paid well, and the pros¬ 
pect is for good returns from the canta¬ 
loupes and watermelons. Then the sea¬ 
son will wind up with the crop from the 
thousands of acres of sweet potatoes, the 
main reliance of the farmers of this 
county, where the sweet potato makes the 
heaviest yield of any section I am familiar 
The Cana-stota, Madison County, N. Y., 
onion crop is being greatly damaged by 
thrips, an insect that always prevails to 
I he greatest extent in hot, dry weather. 
There are few fields of onions on the local 
muck lands that are not seriously affected, 
and it is estimated that nearly' all plan¬ 
tations are damaged at least 50 per cent. 
This pest affects the onions grown from 
seed, the set onions which are being 
harvested now not being affected. The 
thrips secure their nourishment by suck¬ 
ing the juices of the plant they 'attac-k, 
and appear especially troublesome to 
plants that have received a check in their 
growth. The leaves are attacked, caus¬ 
ing them to take on a dirty appearance, 
which 1st ter turn yellow. There are no 
satisfactory methods of controlling the 
post, though kerosene emulsion. Black- 
leaf 40. and Bordeaux mixture have all 
been tried as sprays. The price on set 
onions is $1 a bushel at the field. The 
seed onions will undoubtedly bring a high¬ 
er price, due to the short crop. t. n. t. 
A very severe hailstorm struck this sec¬ 
tion July 31. Many hailstones were actu¬ 
ally the size of goose eggs. The first of 
them dropped with very little warning. 
r I lie sky looked like a small, light shower 
cloud; lasted about 15 minutes. Chick¬ 
ens were killed, fruit much damaged. I 
picked from the ground a Champion 
peach, split in half, hard and green, and 
even the pit was smashed. Glass in green¬ 
houses badly damaged; hailstones went 
right through Ford tops. One party tells 
me that they saw a large car on mountain 
road between TTavemoyers and YVanaque 
that had 37 holes in top. This is about 
two miles north of Ramsey, and north of 
us it was more severe. w. K. 
Ramsay, N. J. 
R. N.-Y.—On our own farm, some 10 
miles away, there were no hailstones. In 
the valley, six miles below us, the storm 
was severe. 
Mercury 04 degrees in the shade today 
at 3 p. in. ; ground dry as ashes, and 
prospects for corn, potatoes and beans 
very unfavorable; fruit practically an en¬ 
tire failure in this? part of Pennsylvania; 
no cherries or peaches, a few pears, very 
few grapes. The apple crop was de¬ 
stroyed by the freeze of March 27 and 28, 
and will not total 1 per cent of last year’s 
crop. Hay, about 75 per cent of normal; 
wheat, 00 per cent; oats. 75 per cent. 
Unless we get rain in a few days the corn 
crop will be an entire failure. Wheat is 
worth $1 per bu.. corn $1, oats 35c. buck¬ 
wheat $1 to $1.25. rye 00c, eggs 20c per 
dozen, butter 17 to 26c per lb., according 
to quality; old hens 24c per lb.; roosters, 
12c per lb.; young chickens, 28 to 20c. as 
to size; shoulder, 22 to 25c per lb.; ham, 
30 to 35c. Help scarce; wages, *$1 to 
$1.50 for common labor; harvest wages, 
$1.50 to $2 and board. We are having 
the driest season that we have had for 
years. W. s. 
Perry Go., Pa. 
with. The Virginia counties just south 
of us ship a great many sweet potatoes in 
late Summer .and early Fall. Our grow¬ 
ers prefer to make the mature crop, and 
seldom sell till late in Fall, and usually 
the larger part of the crop is stored in 
the large curing houses. Some growers 
have their own storage houses, while 
others near the railroad stations are 
owned by dealers ‘who store on toll or 
buy crops. Those storage houses are as 
large, some of them, as. a Pennsylvania 
German farmer’s barn, and heated by 
furnace or hot water. Then with the 
crop in safe storage the farmer can ship 
at any favorable time in the Winter and 
Spring, and in fact can keep the crop 
good till the new crop is on the market 
if necessary. The sweet potato crop is 
less subject to market fluctuations than 
other vegetable crops, as the only compe¬ 
tition our farmers have is from South 
Jersey, and there is room in the markets 
for both. 
I was supplied with sulphate of am¬ 
monia liberally fo‘r experiment in my gar¬ 
den. The result has been that some 
things hav'e got too much nitrogen and 
have made a tremendous growth at the 
expense of fruitage. I have eggplants of 
great size, 3 to 4 ft. across the top, and 
nary an egg on 50 plants here the last of 
.Tilly. Cantaloupes running all over the 
groun’d have on 50 hills, so far as dis¬ 
covered, three cantaloupes. The plants 
had such au abundance of food that they 
expended it in the easiest,way, in growth 
rather than fruit. Perhaps they may yet 
fruit. Tomatoes used, it, too, hut they 
have fruited heavily. I believe that in 
the use of sulphate of ammonia it is 
necessary that the soil does not lack in 
lime. I am sure that liming will help my 
garden. w. f. massey. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUGUST 13. 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Kudzu, the New Claimant for Favor..1009, 1010 
Corn and An Acid Soil... 1010 
How to Handle a Virginia Farm. 1010 
Steam Sterilizing to Kill Weeds.1011 
Soapsuds and OH Plastering. 1011 
Farming Possibilities in Alaska. 1013 
Making Potato Flour. 1013 
Hope Farm Notes . 1016 
Northern Ohio Notes. 1017 
The Cabbage Aphis . 1017 
Potato Selling Plans Outlined. 1019 
Huham Clover in Alabama. l n 19 
Wheat and Flour Prices in New York. 1019 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Poison Ivy and Live Stock. 
Woolen Goods from the Producers. 
Dairymen Must Stand Together for the 
League ... 
Feeding Young Cow. 
Com or Silage. 
Ration for Jersey Cows.... 
1010 
1013 
1019 
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1002 
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THE HENYARD 
The Poultry Industry in California— 
Part II... 
Henhouse on Hillside. 
Feeding Potatoes: Fattening Laying Fowls 
Undesirable Henyard . 
Loss of Chicks... 
Cockerel with Corns. 
Sour Crop . 
Gapeworms in Chickens. 
Stale B-ead for Ch : cks. 
Starting Poultry Business. 
Changing Hoghouse into Henhouse. 
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WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day.. 1020 
Conserves in Variety. 1020 
Sliced Cucumber Pickle. 1020 
One-two-three-four Cake . 1020 
The Tinkle of Ice. 1021 
Crocheted Rugs . 1021 
Favorite Pickles and Preserves. 1021 
Elderberries with Rhubarb. 1021 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A Primer of Economics... 
Interest of Husband and Wife in Property 
Will or Joint Deed. 
Building a Bee House. 
Editorial . 
Changes in Retail Prices of Food. 
A Horseback Ride in New England. 
Publisher’s Desk .. 
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