1450 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Sheep Lined Coats 
ONLY * 12— 
unusual 
VALUE 
The all-service garment for fall and winter 
direct f-om maker at a big saving. Full thirty-six 
inches length. Finest selected quality bark-tanned 
sheepskin bodv lining. Outside flne tough- 
wearing drab buckskin. Heavy Beaverized collar: 
blanket sleeve linings; warm wool-knitted wristlets. 
Four roomy reinforced pockets, 
boys Sizes 59.7s 
Sheep Lined Vest 
Best sheepskin lin¬ 
ing; heavy cordu¬ 
roy outside. - 
Fine finish; *Jk‘&7 
snap hook /I- 
fasteners. — 
only 
By Parcel Post 
PREPAID 
Your money cheer¬ 
fully refunded if 
you are in the least 
disappointed. He 
sure to give cheat 
measure over coat. 
Dublwear Factorv 
BOX 169R 
Burlington, Vt. 
woman's 
Rare^lue 
$079 
(omfort Shoqi 
Extra quality glove 
kid uppers, flexible 
long-wearing soles. 
All leather black 
shoe, medium 
broad toe. 
Sizes: 3% to 8. 
Wide 
■widths. 
Order 
No. C-20. 
! RUBBER 
i HEEl 
I Money Back If 
| Not Delighted 
Send No Money. Simply rush size and 
width or all numbers in shoe you notv 
wear. Pay postman on delivery, or send 
| $2.79, plus 12c for postage,* with order. 
| STEELE'S 1180 Broadway, New York 
III?. 
MAKE MONEY SAWING 
WOOD THIS WINTER 
In spare time. Cut^Ocoidi 
» day. For own use or to 
tell. Any size logs. Cheaper 
and better than them all. 
*Lumbcr-Jack’ 
DOMEX Log Saw 
Comes complete; ready to bolt your own 
email engine on. Orwe can supply engine 
at very low prices. Only outfit wi th ad¬ 
justable stroke, 18 in. to 24 in. Other im¬ 
provements. Booklet FREE. Write today. 
DOMEX Co DEPT B3 BUFFALO 
Guaranteed Power Engines 
If you need a powerful-- 
long-lived — guaranteed-- 
long-lived -- cruarai.._ 
trouble-proof— 6 to 8 h. p. 
• li Associated Engine, 
99 priced right, WRITS 
or Wirk today. 
Associated Manufacturers Company 
125 So. Franklin St®, Syracuse, N. Y. 
WANTED 
Salesmen, Agents, Dealers 
with faith in their own ability 
to sell HIGH CLASS SILOS 
at a LOW PRICE 
QUALITY MANUFACTURING CO. - Hagerstown, Md. 
1 ^ r* PLOWS Plows #18.70 up. 
iCb Tnm G JVM. II. PRAY, MFC. 
" * v* w L, a l.aGrangcville, New York 
Henley’s Twentieth Century 
Book of Recipes and Formulas 
This 800-page 
book gives 
thousands of 
RECIPES 
covering all 
branches of 
The USEFUL 
ARTS 
PAINTS, GLUES, CEMENTS, TANNING, 
DYEING, SOAP MAKING, ELECTRICAL 
AND CHEMICAL WORK, ETC. 
Valuable for reference. Price postpaid $4 
For Sale by RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 WEST 30th STREET. NEW YORK CITY 
White Grubs and Strawberries 
I have a piece of Rrournl which I intend 
to plant strawberries on next Spring. 
There are white and some black grubs 
in the soil. Would you advise to put 
land salt on it this Fall? Would it be all 
right, to plant to strawberries next 
Spring? e. B. w. 
Germantown, N. Y. 
From our own experience this year we 
would not advise putting strawberries on 
soil where we knew white grubs abound. 
We did that this Spring, and spent a good 
share of the Summer trying to kill the 
grubs. We lost many plants. It is pos¬ 
sible to destroy the grubs on a small 
Patch by digging them out. We do not 
know of any other satisfactory way. Pos¬ 
sibly the new chemical used for killing 
peach borers might be used on small 
patches. In large culture we have never 
been able to handle the grubs successfully 
when the soil was well filled. The insect 
lives underground and cannot be reached 
by ordinary means. It lives at least three 
years in the soil. The use of salt and 
other chemicals would not pay. If you 
used enough of the salt to destroy the 
grubs, the soil would be spoiled for at 
least two years’ cropping. You will, 
therefore, take a great chance if you plant 
berries where you know the grubs are 
thick. 
that domestic animals and people who can 
vomit are supposed to vomit and not be 
killed by it. whereas mice, rats and 
ground squirrels succumb promptly. It is 
the standard poison in United State gov¬ 
ernment. rat-killing crusades, and the gov¬ 
ernment literature on it is available for 
the asking. thomas j. tudor, m.d. 
Virginia. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
Lime on Hen Manure 
On a suburban plot about 75x200 ft. 
I have, in my backyard, a vegetable gar¬ 
den and a chicken run. On the droppings 
board in my henhouse I have of late been 
using air-slaked lime, which so far as the 
situation of the henhouse is concerned 
seems to work very well. The scrapings 
of the droppings board, i. c., the mixture 
of hen manure and air-slaked lime, I 
place in barrels, keep it dry and use it 
as fertilizer in my garden. Ts there any¬ 
thing which would be better? How would 
gypsum work? I have heard it said that 
the air-slaked lime lessened the fertil¬ 
izing properties of the hen manure. 
White Plains, N. Y. j. h. m. 
You are making the common mistake of 
using the air-slaked lime on the chicken 
manure. This will keep the house sweet 
and clean, but it is the worst thing you 
can do for the fertilizing value of the 
manure. This air-slaked lime is in the 
form of a carbonate. Its chemical action 
with the manure is to set free the am¬ 
monia in the form of a gas. This escapes 
into the air and is lost, and it is the most 
valuable part of the manure. You would 
do better to use gypsum or land plaster in 
place of the air-slaked lime. This gyp¬ 
sum is in the form of a sulphate. Its 
action upon the manure is to retain the 
ammonia in the form of a solid and not 
send it away in the form of a gas. The 
gypsum will also keep the house sweet 
and clean, and is far more desirable than 
the air-slaked lime if you value the fer¬ 
tilizing properties of the manure. 
Government Report on Retail Prices 
The United States Department of 
Labor. through the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics, reports that from October 15 
to November 35, 1921, there was a de¬ 
crease in the retail price of food in six 
of the 13 principal cities surveyed, and 
an increase in five. In no case, however, 
did the variation exceed 3 per cent. 
For the year from November 15, 1920, 
to November 35. 1921. the decrease was 
general. It varied from 24 per cent in 
Southern cities to 19 per cent in New 
York, and 21 per cent in Philadelphia, 
Rochester and Washington. As com¬ 
pared with the average cost in the year 
1913. the retail cost of food on November 
15, 1921, showed an increase of 59 per 
cent in New York and Washington, 57 
per cent in Manchester, 54 per cent in 
Baltimore, 52 per cent in Philadelphia, 
40 per cent in Atlanta, 42 per cent in 
Little Rock, 41 per cent in Denver and 
40 per cent in Louisville. 
Poison for Mice 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New- Yorker and you ’ll get 
a quick reply and a "square deal. ” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
Regarding article by S. P. Hollister on 
protecting fruit trees from mice, page 
3399. I used strychnia substantially as he 
directs, and it is effective, but lately have 
directed farmers roundabout to nse barium 
carbonate, which is cheaper and practically 
tasteless, whereas strychnia is very bit¬ 
ter. and it is possible that some refrain 
from taking it. Any bait that will tempt 
the mice, and the white powder is worked 
together, and it looks like meal, and the 
great advantage of barium carbonate is 
DOMESTIC.—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
A. Roskuski and their daughter, five, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard K. Laver and their 
daughter, four, were drowned December 4 
when the sedan in which they were riding 
slipped off the River Road ‘into 8 ft. of 
water in the Miami Erie Canal at Water- 
ville, O. The accident was discovered by 
Will Isham, a farmer, who secured help 
and hauled the car from the water. The 
bodies were inside. Apparently it had 
been impossible to open either door of the 
closed car. 
The first four men ever sent to prison 
for violation of the Sherman anti-trust 
act surrendered December 5 to United 
States Marshall Ilecht for incarceration 
in the Essex County, N. .T., jail. The 
four, Frank II. Nobbe. Arthur Shilstone, 
Albert Schaile and Herman Petri, were 
sentenced by Federal Judge Van ‘Fleet, 
after they had entered pleas of guilty to 
conspiracy to prevent competition in’ the 
tile, grate and mantel branch of the build¬ 
ing industry. Nobbe. Shilstone and Schaile 
wore sentenced to four months each and 
fined $4,000. while Petri was given three 
months and fined $3,500. Counsel ap¬ 
peared before Judge Van Fleet December 
5 and urged that he extend until after 
Christmas the stays of execution he had 
granted when he sentenced them. The 
Judge refused. The four men were mem¬ 
bers of the Tile. Grate and Mantel Manu¬ 
facturers’ and Dealers’ Association, 70 of 
whose members—individuals and corpor¬ 
ations—were named in the indictment. 
All pleaded guilty. The others were let 
off with fines aggregating about $125,000. 
W ASHINGTON. — The Sixty-seventh 
Congress opened December 5. "The na¬ 
tional budget prepared by Gen. Charles 
G. Dawes, Director of the Budget, calls 
for appropriations aggregating $3,505.- 
754,727. a reduction of $462,167,639. as 
compared with the estimated expenditure 
for 1922, and $2,032,285,962 less than 
the sum expended by the government in 
1921. In Ids letter submitting the budget, 
the President recommended legislation in 
connection with the 1925 naval appro¬ 
priation hill with a view to “the even¬ 
tual automatic release of $100,900,000 
now held in the navy supply account ” 
The budget shows that $185,000,000 has 
been asked by the Navy Department for 
increases in tonnage, which will be wiped 
off the slate in the event the arms con¬ 
ference adopts the Hughes program for 
the scrapping of capital ships. The Pres¬ 
ident. in his message gave most of his at¬ 
tention to domestic questions, going 
through a long scries of subjects which 
he wished to bring to the attention of 
Congress. The session just ended was 
an extra session, called for three distinct 
purposes, revision of the taxes, revision 
of the tariff and the passage of a resolu¬ 
tion declaring peace with the Central 
Powers. ’This message, therefore, is Pres¬ 
ident Harding’s first formal detailed mes¬ 
sage. The big surprise in his message 
was with regard to labor. Without going 
into details, he outlined a p'an for the 
regulation of labor which he compared 
to that now exercised by the government 
for the . regulation of corporations, and 
for precisely the same purpose—the pro¬ 
tection of the general public. “Just as it 
is not desirable that a corporation shall 
be allowed to impose undue exactions 
upon the public,” he declared, “so it is 
not desirable that a labor organization 
shall be permitted to exact unfair terms 
of employment or subject the public to 
actual distresses in order to enforce its 
terms.” National legislation was recom¬ 
mended to authorize co-operative market¬ 
ing by farmers. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Nineteen 
lives lost and 52 persons wounded repre¬ 
sented the toll of the 3921 hunting season 
in New York State. Reports received by 
the State Conservation Commission show 
that 32 hunters were killed by the dis¬ 
charge of their own rifles and seven by 
weapons in the hands of others. Game 
was unusually plentiful this year and an 
exceptionally large number of hunters 
were afield. The larger part of the 71 ac¬ 
cidents occurred in the pursuit of birds, 
rabbits, squirrels and other small game. 
Seventeen hunters were shot as the result 
of being mistaken for game, five were 
wounded when they walked ’ between a 
hunter and the game, 45 casualties result¬ 
ed from the accidental discharge of fire¬ 
arms, and two accidents were attributed 
to spent balls, the injured men hearing 
no report of a gun at the time they were 
hit. In a total of 31 eases reported, 
seven fatal accidents resulted from pull¬ 
ing loaded guns by the muzzle over walls, 
through brush or across the seats of boats. 
The dropping of guns caused 16 accidents, 
of which six were fatal. 
Large quantities of corn will be burned 
in the West for fuel this Winter unless 
there is a material advance in the price of 
December 17, 1921 
the grain. While no accurate statistics 
have been compiled as to the amount of 
corn burned, Chicago grain men say that 
even under normal conditions there is 
more or less of this done, and estimate 
that already 1.000.000 bu. have been used 
ns a substitute for coal. Should the Win¬ 
ter prove severe in the territory west of 
the Mississippi River, especially in Iowa, 
Nebraska and South and North Dakota, 
it is estimated conservatively that possi¬ 
bly 25.000.000 bu. or more will be 
burned. So far the burning of corn has 
been done almost entirely in sections 
where the grain is selling at a low price, 
around 20 to "250 a bushel net to the pro¬ 
ducer, while coal is anywhere from $9 to 
$12 a ton for bituminous. Anthracite is 
almost beyond-the reach of many of the 
Western farmers, selling at more than 
•8— a ton in parts of Nebraska, when it 
can be obtained. The O’Neill Electric 
Light and Power Company of O’Neill, 
» eb., started to use corn for fuel at the 
end. of November, and another public 
utility concern in that State is doing 
likewise, while Pocahontas County, Iowa, 
has officially ordered the use of‘corn in 
place of coal in all county buildings. 
A bee has a right to roam at will. Judge 
Nelson E. .Johnson ruled December 2 in 
the Circuit Court at Kansas City. Mo. 
Judge Johnson was hearing an appeal in 
the ease of Lee Cooley, fined $50 in the 
police court because lie “harbored vicious 
bees. ’ The complaining witness assorted 
that one of Cooley’s bees had stung a 
child five times. Judge Johnson, after 
hearing bee experts, said he was con¬ 
vinced that a bee could sting only onee. 
lie held that a city ordinance restricting 
the wanderings of bees was unconstitu¬ 
tional and ordered Cooley’s fine remitted. 
The greatest need in education in the 
l nited 'State today is “a square deal for 
the country child.” John .T. Tigert Com¬ 
missioner of Education, declared Deoem- 
ber 5 in a statement issued in connection 
xxr i m “American Education 
Heck. Mhile no child is denied an edu¬ 
cation in America, he said, “the opportu¬ 
nity is by no means equal.” Asserting 
that two-thirds of the nation’s 300.000 
schools are one-room buildings Mr. Tigert 
said the average expenditure each year for 
the city child was $40.59. against $°3 91 
for his rural brother. Urban schools, ho 
added, were open 182 days a rear, on an 
average, against 142 days for those in the 
country, and the average city teacher re¬ 
ceived a salary of $854. against $479 for 
the rural teacher Educational advan¬ 
tages are the chief reasons for the drift 
from Larm to city, he continued, adding 
that “the same financial support, consoli- 
, ( V.£ ohoo,s and g° 0f l roads” would solve 
the difficulty. 
The meetings of the New York Horti¬ 
cultural Society, January 11-13. will he 
m the Assembly Hall at Exposition Park. 
Rochester, while buildings Nos. 4 and 5 
will he devoted entirely to exhibits. \I1 
exhibit space will be on the ground floor 
of these two well-lighted connecting build- 
ings Nursery stock, insecticides and 
small exhibits will he in booths along the 
walls, while tractors, trucks, sprayers, 
machinery and other large exhibits ’ will’ 
be in the center spaces. Arrangements 
are being made for an exceptionally good 
display of tractors and commercial auto¬ 
mobiles^ These lines will not be shown 
at the Rochester automobile show the fol¬ 
lowing week. 
The next annual meeting of the Mary- 
land Agricultural Society will be held in 
Baltimore. January 10. 11 and 12. and 
preparations are now being made for 
what is expected to he the biggest fn>-m 
conference ever held in the State. It w ;il 
he the first meeting of the sociotv to he 
held in Baltimore since 1918. Two 
United States Senators, Senator Irvine L. 
Lenroot of Wisconsin and Senator T. IT. 
Caraway of Arkansas, will appear on the 
piogram, the former to speak on some 
Phase of the agricultural problem, and 
the latter to discuss the Capper-Volstead 
hill. A. S. Goldsborough of the Balti¬ 
more Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ As¬ 
sociation. and Gray Silver. Mbishington 
representative of the American Farm Bu¬ 
reau 1 ederation. have also been secured 
for addresses during the conference. In¬ 
teresting programs have been arranged by 
the following State organizations, which 
will meet in Baltimore in connection with 
the Maryland Agricultural Society: Hor¬ 
ticultural Society. Vegetable Growers’ 
Association. Tobacco Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion. Crop Improvement Association. 
Sheep Growers’.Association, State Dairy¬ 
men s. Association and the Beekeepers’ 
Association. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
January 4-7—Ridgewood. N. ,T.. poul¬ 
try. Show. North Jersey Poultry Breed¬ 
ers’ Club. S. .T. ITammerstein, secretary 
Hillsdale. N. .T. 
January. 10—New York Holstein-Frie- 
sian Association, second annual meeting. 
Syracuse. N. Y. 
. January 10-12—Maryland Agricultural 
Society and allied societies, Baltimore, 
Md. 
January 10-12—Virginia State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, annual meeting. Murphy 
Hotel. Richmond, Va. 
January 10-13—Vermont State Poultry 
Association, twenfy-fifth annual exhibi¬ 
tion, City Hall. 'St. Albans, Vt. B. P. 
Greene, secretary. 
January 11-13-—New York State Horti¬ 
cultural Society. Rochester. N. Y. 
January 30-February 3 — Farmers’ 
Week. Ohio State College. Columbus. O. 
_ February 22-24—Eastern meeting, New 
York State Horticultural Societv. Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y. 
