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November 12, 1921 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Get Your New Range 
For Thanksgiving 
—and be sure you get this good make, 
for 89 Years famous for faithful service 
Attractive Styles 
Used For 57 Years 
Jamestown, N. Y. 
April 13, 1918. 
“I have a STEWART range 
that I am using every day and 
it looks as nicely as any up-to- 
date range would. It has been 
in our family for 57 years and 
was patented January 18, 1859 ; 
it has been in use every day all 
those years. 
If it ever wears out I shall buy 
a STEWART range.” 
(Signed) 
MRS. M. A. GIFFORD. 
PRICES ARE DOWN— and New 1922 
Models of the good old reliable STEW¬ 
ART Ranges are now on sale by over 800 dealers 
throughout the East. Why not brighten your 
kitchen and make cooking a pleasure by getting RIGHT 
NOW one of these fine new ranges? No matter what style 
you select, if it is a STEWART, you are certain of cooking and baking 
satisfaction. 
Every STEWART Range has 89 years of stove¬ 
making experience built into it—into its roomy firebox; 
its heavy grate ; its even-drawing flues; its perfect damp¬ 
ers; its spacious oven that bakes so beautifully, so evenly and surely. 
For Farm homes these ranges are especially fine, 
as they are EX I RA heavy, thoroughly well-built, with 
good, spacious cooking tops, large reservoir and big fire¬ 
box for wood or coal. They will last for many years, as Mrs. Gifford’s 
letter above indicates. 
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General Farm Topics 
Storing Seed Corn 
The best plan for handling seed corn 
is now up for discussion. Many of our 
Eastern farmers select the most suitable 
ears at husking, paying attention to the 
stalk as well as to the ear. Some of 
them make a good selection, but lose part 
of the seed by poor handling through the 
Winter. We usually save 500 or more 
ears of sweet corn of several favorite 
varieties. These ears are selected in the 
field. The husks are pulled back and tied 
and the ears are then strung on wires at 
the top of a dry shed. They usually keep 
well under these conditions, though we 
think a dry warm room with heat under 
control would be better. In the New 
Jersey Agriculturist, a magazine pub¬ 
lished at the New Jersey Agricultural 
College, the following method of a first- 
class farmer is described. The little pic¬ 
ture explains: 
The best way to arrange the ears de¬ 
pends upon a man’s condition. Wire 
racks, are very efficient in permitting free 
air circulation and preventing the ears 
from touching; they are a permanent in¬ 
vestment, and can be used for many 
years. One of the leading seed corn men 
in our State, E. W. Winsor of Farm- 
ingdale, is using the method shown in 
'.lie accompanying picture. Finishing 
Method of Drying Seed Com 
nails are driven in all four sides of 2x4s, 
or smaller pieces of wood, and the ears 
are thrust upon them. These sticks of 
wood with the ears upon them are then 
nailed in an upright position in the loft 
of a wagon shed. 
If the amount of seed corn is small, 
Mr. Winsor’s plan may be carried on in a 
little different way by driving finishing 
nails into rafters. Some growers thread 
the ears on light rope or strings, but a 
disadvantage of this method is that the 
ears cannot be removed easily during the 
storage period. The placing of seed corn 
on shelves does not permit of as rapid 
drying out as the above methods, and the 
plan frequently used of putting the ears 
in baskets or sacks is positively bad. 
“Fireworms” Injuring Apples 
I have some small apple trees which 
the fireworms have found. Can you name 
a preventive or remedy? I go through 
the trees systematically, destroy (or try) 
all worms and nests, then spray, hut next 
day find them back at their old duties. 
Mt. Vernon, N. Y. G. p. H. 
The so-called “fireworms” of which G. 
P. H. speaks is a fine illustration of our 
close relations with European countries, 
and of the very obvious fact that we are 
not as isolated and unentangled among 
the nations of the earth as some of our 
narrow politicians in Congress would 
have us believe. The insect causing the 
trouble is a recent importation through 
the channels of commerce from Europe, 
and has already become thoroughly estab¬ 
lished in Westchester and Rockland coun¬ 
ties in New York. It is known as the 
“apple and thorn skeletonizer” in com¬ 
mon parlance, but scientifically it bears 
the rather formidable name of Ilemero- 
phila pariana. The parent insect is a 
tiny dull grayish brown moth with a 
purplish cast, that when its wings are 
fully spread is not quite half an inch in 
width. The moth is found in England, 
France, Germany, the Balkan Peninsula 
and eastward into Western Asia. Just 
how and when it got across the Atlantic 
into New York is not known. Apparently 
it has not been here long, because it cov¬ 
ers only a comparatively small territory 
as yet in Southeastern New York ; and 
although it is considered a minor pest in 
Europe no one can tell what it is going 
to do here in the United States. Already 
it has shown itself capable of defoliating 
whole apple orchards. 
The small greenish-yellow, black-spot¬ 
ted caterpillars eat off the upper skin of 
each leaf, thereby skeletonizing the leaves 
and causing them to turn brown as 
though scorched by fire. Moreover, there 
are two and perhaps three generations of 
the insect during the Summer, so that the 
tiny caterpillars may be working in an 
orchard from June to early October, a 
long interval, in which much damage may 
be done. 
It is fortunate that the caterpillars 
work on the upper surfaces of the leaves, 
where they can he easily reached with 
poison sprays. I see no reason why thor¬ 
ough applications of paste arsenate of 
lead at the rate of 5 lbs. to 100 gallons 
of water, or of powdered arsenate of lead 
at the rate of 2 y 2 lbs. to 100 gallons of 
water would not control the pest. The 
spraying should be begun early in the sea¬ 
son as soon as the caterpillars appear, 
and if necessary two applications 10 days 
apart should be given. It is not yet too 
late to spray the trees with the poison 
for this Fall brood of caterpillars. All 
that are killed this Fall will be so much 
gained for the coming Spring. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
November 5-12—Pacific International 
Live Stock Exposition. Spokane, Wash. 
November 9-February 18, .1922—Short 
Course in Horticulture, Cornell Univer¬ 
sity. Ithaca, N. Y. 
November 9-1S—National Grange An¬ 
nual Meeting, Portland, Ore. 
November 10-12—Horticultural Festi¬ 
val. Ohio State University, Columbus. O. 
November 21-2.3—American Farm Bu¬ 
reau Federation, Atlanta, Ga. 
November 2-L26—-Third annual exhi¬ 
bition. North Bergen County Poultry As¬ 
sociation of New Jersey, Odd Fellows’ 
Hall, Westwood, N. J. John Mulcahey, 
secretary. 
November 26 - December 3 — Interna¬ 
tional Live Stock Exposition, Chicago, Ill. 
November 29-Deeember 3 — Newark 
Poultry Show, First Regiment Armory, 
Newark, N. J. 
December 6-8—New Jersey State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, forty-seventh annual 
meeting, Atlantic City, N. .T. 
December 6-9 — Springfield Poultry 
Club, annual exhibition, Municipal Audi¬ 
torium, Springfield, Mass. 
December 7-9—American Tomological 
Society, thirty-eighth annual convention, 
Toledo, O. 
January 10-12, 1922—Virginia State 
Horticultural Society, annual meeting, 
Murphy Hotel, Richmond, Va. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, N0Y. 12, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
New Possibilities in Potato Culture. 1324 
The Use of Green Cut Bone. 1324 
Fertility Lost from Dairy Farm. 1324 
The Farm Bureau and Farm Prices. 1331 
Hope Farm Notes. 1332 
Composting Leaves with Lime. 1333 
Inoculated Sulphur . 1333 
Do You Know How to Plow?. 1338 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Non-pooling Milk Producers.'... 1331 
The Milk Strike. 1331 
Ration with Buckwheat and Com. 1333 
Various Dairy Rations. 1336 
Fattening Bull . 1336 
Improving Ration . 1336 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1339 
Aherdeen-Angus News. 1339 
THE HENYARD 
Egg-laying Contest . 1341 
HORTICULTURE 
The Essentials of Mushroom Culture.. 1323, 1324 
What to Charge for Spraying. 1324 
A New Jersey Strawberry Patch. 1325 
Effect of Nitrate of Soda Used Alone. 1325 
Garden Notes from New England.1325, 1326 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1329 
Moving Large Grapevines. 1333 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1334 
Old-Time Methods of Preserving Fall Meats 1334 
The Rural Patterns. 1334 
The Bedtime Hour. 1335 
Higdom. 1335 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Making the Well Safe. 1324 
Concrete Dam for Ice Pond. 1325 
A Primer of Economics—Part XLIX..1327, 1329 
Editorials . 1330 
Some Suggestions for School Law Changes. 1330 
Cleaning a Musty Barrel . 1333 
Locating Water with a Forked Stick. 1341 
Publisher’s ’Desk . 1342 
Married Woman’s Property in Iowa. 1342 
