7M RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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General Farm Topics 
Using a Hay Press 
Why are there no hay presses in New 
Jersey within 50 miles of the Hudson 
River? An immense tonnage of hay and 
straw is harvested every season in this 
territory which could be marketed with 
ease and profit if it were baled, but as 
loose hay or straw it is next to impossible 
to sell and deliver it except at a positive 
loss. Tons of baled hay and straw can be 
stored in small city and rural stables, and 
used economically, where loose hay or 
straw cannot be handled. This is so man¬ 
ifest that it is unnecessary to say more. 
Is there not some way to get a good hay 
and straw press into action in this large 
hay-raising community? t. d. r. 
Bergen Co., N. J. 
For many years the hay and straw in 
this territory have been sold loose or in 
bundles. Outside hay has come in bales, 
but local hay is nearly always sold by the 
load. It is chiefly a matter of habit. The 
hay crop is likely to be smaller in this 
territory, since land owners are working 
into fruit, market garden crops and poul¬ 
try. Of course, the way to start a new 
plan is to start it. Let someone get a 
good hay press and demonstrate its value. 
That is the most practical way of showing 
the profit of such a system. 
The Objections to Hubam Clover 
Most of the experiment stations have 
been strangely silent about the new Hu¬ 
bam clover, kudzu and some other new 
plants recently suggested for farm use. 
No doubt this is due to the fact that 
these stations feel that they must be very 
conservative and, if anything, fall over 
backwards in their efforts to walk en¬ 
tirely straight. As usual, most farmers 
will know all about these new plants and 
their possibilities long before the experi¬ 
ment stations get ready to talk about 
them. A circular from the Missouri Sta¬ 
tion has this about the new Hubam 
clover: 
No place has been found for this crop 
in Missouri in competition with other 
legumes. As a permanent hay crop it 
cannot compete with biennial white Sweet 
clover, Red clover or Alfalfa. As an an¬ 
nual legume for green manure or hay Soy 
beans and cow peas have established their 
value, and no advantage is likely to be 
gained by substituting the annual Sweet 
dowr. 
That the plant has its limitations must 
be recognized, and unless this is done 
many disappointments will occur and a 
reaction against the plant will be the re¬ 
sult. While the high prices of seed con¬ 
tinue, increasing quantities will be pro¬ 
duced as rapidly as the available supply 
of seed will permit, but the production of 
annual white Sweet clover seed, if it is to 
survive, must be based upon the value of 
the crop for forage and green manure 
production, and unless the crop finds a 
place for these purposes the demand for 
the seed will disappear and its production 
will cpase. 
We do not believe our Missouri readers 
will agree with all that. In our own case 
we have not argued that this clover will 
be of great value as a hay crop on the 
upper Atlantic slope. We think its chief 
value will be as a manorial or green crop. 
We now have it growing after early pota¬ 
toes. and it will evidently give more 
growth than any other crop we have tried. 
As bee pasture and green manure we 
think this Hubam will prove superior to 
any other plant we have yet tried. It is 
well to be conservative, but we must all 
remember that the ideal “conservative” 
is a dead man. 
Fertilizer for Asparagus and 
Strawberries 
On page 901 I read an article written 
by Prof. Massey in regard to the treat¬ 
ment an asparagus bed should receive 
after the cutting season is over. He rec¬ 
ommends sulphate of ammonia, but does 
not say how much to use per acre. I 
have only a bed in my garden, one year 
old, and would be glad to learn how to 
care for it to get the best returns. I 
would also like to know formulas for fer¬ 
tilizer for strawberry plants. H. s. 
Aberdeen, Md. 
It makes very little difference as to the 
amount of sulphate of ammonia used, so 
that the plants get enough to affect their 
growth favorably. I would suggest at the 
rate of 150 lbs. an acre. Knowing the 
number of square feet in your bed you 
can figure it out. My asparagus tops are 
now dense all over the bed, and about 
6 ft. high. This is an old bed. When 
cold weather arrives, cut off the tops of 
the asparagus and cover the bed thickly 
with stable manure to lie and he dug in 
in the Spring. Heavy feeding makes big 
stalks, no matter what the variety. To 
make a ton of fertilizer for strawberries 
I would suggest 1,000 lbs. of 10 per cent 
acid phosphate, S00 lbs. of fish scrap or 
cottonseed meal, and 200 lbs. of sulphate 
of potash. Use this at rate of 000 lbs. 
an acre after the crop has been picked, 
and keep the rows cultivated and clean 
of weeds and grass. This, like fertilizing 
of asparagus, will make stronger crowns 
for next Spring’s crop. I find it best to 
plant a new bed every Fall, get a partial 
crop in Soring and then cultivate well 
and train the runners in for a matted row 
and get a full crop the next Spring, and 
at once turn them under for a late crop 
of some sort. It is cheaper to plant a 
new bed every year than to try to keep 
an old bed. By this method you have one 
bed in partial crop and one in full crop 
every year. We plant here in November. 
w. F. MASSEY. 
Farm and Garden Notes 
At the thirty-seventh annual conven¬ 
tion of the Society of American Florists 
and Ornamental Horticulturists at Wash¬ 
ington. D. C., August 16-19, the follow¬ 
ing officers were elected for the coming 
year: President, Samuel S. Peunock, 
Philadelphia; vice-president. Samuel Mur¬ 
ray, Kansas City; secretary, John Young, 
New York; treasurer, J. ,T. Hess, Omaha, 
Neb. The 1922 convention is to be held 
at Kansas City, Mo. 
_Within the past few months more than 
85 enrollments from 41 Ohio counties 
have been made in the better live stock 
campaign. Some months ago the United 
States Department of Agriculture co¬ 
operated with the Ohio College of Agri¬ 
culture in inaugurating a campaign to 
secure the enrollment of as many farmers 
and breeders as possible who agreed to 
use nothing but purebred sires of good 
quality on all their live stock, with a 
view toward the eventual elimination of 
all grade and scrub sires. To comply 
with the conditions of this campaign the 
applicant for enrollment agrees to use 
none but purebred sires, and signs an 
application blank on which his stock is 
listed. This application is then signed by 
the county agent or two other persons in 
the county. The applications are col¬ 
lected by the State College and sent to 
the department at Washington, where an 
appropriate certificate is issued to the 
applicant. 
Urgent requests from subscribers has 
caused the Live Stock, Meats and Wool 
Division of the Bureau of Markets and 
Crop Estimates, United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, to resume the gen¬ 
eral distribution of the Daily Live Stock 
and Meat Trade Conditions Reports from 
its branch offices at Philadelphia, New 
York and Boston beginning July 1. 
Earlier in the year, when funds were run¬ 
ning low and there was need for reducing 
expenses, the circulation was curtailed to 
the extent of limiting daily reports only 
to subscribers within these three cities. 
Subscribers residing outside of these 
cities, however, continued to receive the 
weekly reviews. Discontinuance of the 
daily reports was promptly met by 
numerous protests from the subscribers, 
who claimed the reports were essential in 
their business. The arrangement by 
which the general distribution is resumed 
is said to be merely tentative, depending 
in large measure upon the money that 
will be available, for the work and will 
be permanent only if funds permit. 
Reading Mrs. Unger’s article on page 
979, “New York Potato Crop and Its 
Prospects,” prompts me to give you the 
condition of the Michigan crop. The 
conversation between the wholesale buyer 
and the young potato grower, as given by 
Mrs. Unger, describes the Michigan crop 
almost exactly. The early crop in our 
State is almost an entire failure because 
of lack of rain and the fierce heat. The 
late crop was planted in June, and the 
stand is very poor, running from one-half 
down to nothing. Some growers waited 
for rain and never planted at all. Ground 
will lie fallow and be put in to Fall crops. 
Some fields never came up at all and were 
replanted, but the second planting will 
never amount to anything. The Michi¬ 
gan crop will be the poorest since potatoes 
were grown in a commercial way. The 
government estimate on final yield is 377,- 
000,000 bu. Mine is 250,000,000 bu„ and 
I think mine is too high. Unless weather 
conditions change pretty soon, if the 
whole United States has a crop of 200,- 
000,000 bu. we will be going some. Michi¬ 
gan. has a Potato Growers’ Association 
which is doing business successfully in 
selling our crop. Tin hire an expert 
salesman who sells tin crop and who is 
in communication wi> . all the “locals,” 
and directs them as to where to route the 
loaded car. The association does not 
handle all the crop as yet, but will in a 
year or two more. A. A. l. 
Sand Lake, Mich. 
The Folly of Cheating Nature 
Many people get the 
idea that they can keep 
their nerves on edge and 
their digestion upset year 
after year, and “get away 
with it.” They sleep only 
half as much as they 
should — and never get 
properly and thoroughly 
rested. 
If you tire out easily, 
if you are getting pale and 
anemic, if your food 
doesn’t digest as it should, 
would it not be well to 
stop and consider whether 
coffee or tea is having its 
effect on you? 
The caffeine and thein 
found in coffee and tea 
are drugs, as any doctor 
can tell you. Is it any 
wonder that the steady use 
of these drugs sometimes 
causes serious damage? 
If you really want to 
be fair with yourself, and 
give yourself the oppor¬ 
tunity you deserve in 
order to do your best 
work, make up your mind 
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