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January 12, 1924 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Have your own Grape Arbor 
M OSTeverybody wantsa grapearbor. Have you 
one? To “have your own” and pick delicious, 
fully ripened fresh fruit from cool vines is to know 
how good grapes can be. Especially when you 
have an unusually good variety. We recommend 
Green’s Caco Grapes 
Not an ordinary grape. One with wonderful, fine qualities, 
specially developed from Catawba-Concord parentage. Big, 
juicy red wine, sweet as sugar. Flavor is excellent two 
weeks before fully ripe. Vine is strong, hardy, vigorous 
grower and prolific. Bunch of good size and form. Ripens 
earlier than Concord. Beautiful, luscious Caco grapes — 
called by experienced growers,“The best of them all. The 
sooner you start, the longer you’ll enjoy them. 
Green’s Dwarf McIntosh Apple 
Most beautiful, delicious red early winter apple. Flesh is crisp, 
tender, very juicy aromatic and of luscious, rich flavor. Should 
be in every garden. Generally bears fruit second year. 
Green’s Bartlett Dwarf Pear 
Most popular for home use. Buttery, melting, rich flavor. 
Bright yellow with red cheek. Strong, hardy, northern grown, 
fits in any garden. Generally bears fruit second year. 
Green’s Growing Things 
Green’s Trees: Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, Cherry, Quince; 
shade and ornamental. Dwarfs and standards in choice 
varieties. Currants, Strawberries, Gooseberries, Raspberries, 
Blackberries, Shrubs, Roses, Vines, Asparagus, etc. 
Anything you get from Green’s Nursery will be vigorous, 
healthy, hardy, northern grown with full, perfect whole roots. 
Grown, dug, graded and packed according to C. A. Green’s 
methods. Nearly 50 years of fair dealing direct with 
hundreds of thousands of customers assures you perfect 
stock true-to-name. 
GREEN’S 1924 CATALOG 
Send for Green’s Valuable, illustrated catalog—a text 
book full of helpful Information on growing things 
in garden and orchard, and how to make homes 
sightly. With it we send C. A. Green’s booklet 
“How I Made the Old Farm Pay.” Write today. 
GREEN’S NURSERY CO. r“£«.',”n*y. 
from NURSERY toYOU -At Money Saving Prices 
7 he Secret of Garden Success 
Plant Maule’s tested Seeds and follow the Maule 
Seed Book as your guide. Our 47 years as seeds¬ 
men have equipped us to offer you the best varieties 
of seeds for both vegetable and flower gardens. 
Maule’s Seeds are used by thousands of gardeners all over the 
world, because of their higher quality and certainty of growth. 
An all Maule vegetable garden will give you a banner yield. Be 
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Maule’s 1924 Seed Book FREE 
This is the greatest seed catalog we’ve everissued. It’s chock- 
full of up-to-date information regarding seeds, planting and 
cultivation. Don’t order your seeds before you read the 
Maule Seed Book. We suggest especially that you try this 
year Maule’s Blood Turnip Beet (shown on the catalog cover). 
Prices postpaid, Packet 10c; Oz. 25c; 1A lb. 75c; 1 lb. $2.50; 
6 lbs. $11.25. 
WM. HENRY MAULE, Inc. 
814 Maule Building Dept. K Philadelphia, Pa. 
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MAULES SEEDS 
ONCE GROWN- 
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A Connecticut Girl and Her Pony 
There are not so many ponies left in 
the world as there should be. Of course 
a pony cannot compete with a tractor in 
pulling things away from the farm but it 
has great strength in pulling boys and 
girls back home. First the bicycle and 
then the car came to interfere with the 
pony’s job but after* all children love a 
living pet and they make better men and 
women for such loving. The picture on 
page 40 shows Alto O’Neil of Connec¬ 
ticut and her pony. They make a pair of 
farm hands that it would be hard to beat. 
West Branch 
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I Direct from growers. 
| All our members get 
their seeds from plot 
grown under super¬ 
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WEST BRANCH CO-OPERATIVE SEED 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION, Inc. 
Boxd Williamsport, Pa. 
CARFF’S 
Early Green Fodder; Sudan Grass 
What is the earliest crop that can be 
cut as green feed for cattle? I intended 
to use oats, but if anything earlier I 
would use such. What can I use after 
that? Oats rust pretty badly when sown 
late. The last green feed for Fall I 
would use sowed corn, but between I 
could use rape or millet or Sudan grass. 
I sowed a few pounds of Sudan grass 
last season, which was an extremely 
dry one through here. The seed was not 
covered very deeply, and yet it made a 
good growth, while millet sown on the 
same farm grew very short, or in fact did 
not grow at all. I sowed the Sudan grass 
by hand, and as I have not had occasion 
to do any sowing by hand for a number 
of years, I do not think I gave the 
grass a fair trial. It looks very favor¬ 
able to me; however I thought that I 
would ask what others think on the sub¬ 
ject. n - 
Probably oats and Canada peas seeded 
together will be as good as anything, 
though they will not make very early 
feed. Wheat or rye seeded in the Fall is 
the usual dependence for early green 
feed. Rye makes a rank growth early 
in the Spring, and may often he out in 
i late April or early May for green fod¬ 
der. It will pay to give the Sudan grass 
another trial. We find this crop super¬ 
ior to millet. It grows a heavier crop, 
will do better on dry soil, and makes a 
better feed. We think New York farm¬ 
ers should give it a fair trial. 
CONTENTS 
60 
60 
Seed Cora 
5000 bushels extra 
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Also Seed Oats. Barley, Alfalfa. 
Timothy. Clover, Rape. 25 years’ 
experience. 1400 Acre farm. Send 
for samples and free catalogue. 
W.N. SCARFF & SONS 
NEW CARLISLE, OHIO 
STRAWBERRY Plants 
We guarantee to please. Write for priees. 
HOUGHTON STRAWBERRY FARM - Dalton, Ohio 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JAN. 12, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
What Varieties of Soy Beans? .. 40 
A Simple Story of Inoculation . 41 
A Bonus for the Hired Man ., 41 
Machine for Bunching Asparagus .. 40 
Killing Weeds With Gear Case Oil ••••••• J® 
Hope Farm Notes . 
Curing Sunflower Heads ..... ot> 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Value of Cow . 
Skim-milk for Cows . 
Ration With Good Silage . 
Cream Will Not Churn . 02 
Cheap Food for Abundant Milk . 02 
Useful Feed Mixture . 02 
Drying Off Heifers . 04 
Feeding Family Cow . “4 
Wintering Guernsey Heifers . 04 
Making a Horse Back ... 00 
Silage Without Ears ••••••••• . 55 
Feeding Buckwheat and Alfalfa . oo 
Ration With Silage . °o 
Ration for Milk Cows . oo 
Feeding Old Horse . 0b 
An Equine What-is-it? . 0o 
THE HENYARD 
Which is the Business Hen? . ^0 
Warm Water for Hens . oa 
Pullets Fail to Roost ... 0» 
Dried Buttermilk; Storrs Ration . 03 
Lights for Fattening Fowls . oa 
Crippled Pullets .• • •; .. 
Can We Feed for Spring Molt . ™ 
Medicine for Hens . 15 
Egg-laying Contest . •••••• • • • • • • ■ V 
Diagnosis and Treatment of Poultry Di- 
seases in New York, Part 1. *2 
Poor Laying .. 
HORTICULTURE 
Orcharding of the Future ...••• 40 
Grafting on the Southern Fox Grape ....41, 42 
Insects Boring Through Quinces .. 4d 
Care of an Old Orchard . *5 
New England Notes . ••••••• . fr 
Hollow Celery; the Frost-proof Garden- 49 
Starting Apple Trees in China . 5b 
Lime-sulphur to Repel Rabbits . b8 
WOMAN AND HOME 
ROHRER'S 
SEEDS 
58 
58 
58 
59 
From Day to Day .■ 
Texas Notes . 
The Rural Patterns . 
Glorified Nightgowns . 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Two Views on the School Bill .39, 40 
Making Much of the Little Red School- 
house 
Wax for Ivy Poisoning . 
Value of Bees 
UflTIPC FARM BUYERS—Write for catalogue. 
PiU I lilt SELLERS—Write for listing blanks, 
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Increasing Colonies of Bees . 43 
Pump for Irrigation ...................... 49 
Steam Boiler Tank; Nail Keg Cement 
Forms . *r 
Acid That Will Eat Brass . 50 
Cider Cooked in Syrup Boiler . 50 
Driftwood Crystals . 50 
Vinegar from Brown Sugar .. 50 
Vinegar Filled With “Mother” .......... 50 
Comparative Heat Production of Coal and 
Wood . 50 
Kerosene or Gasoline for Tractor . 51 
Cleaning an Iron Pipe . 51 
Filter in Cistern 
41 
43 
51 
Taxes on Property Sold by Sheriff; Duties 
of School Clerk . 
Increased School Tax . 
Tax on Rented Farm . "" 
Owner’s Liability . 50 
Widow’s Share in Estate . 50 
Daylight Robbers 
65 
The Old Sewing Machine . 50 
Washing With a Ford .. bs 
Notes from the Ox-team Express ... 
Ownership of Bee Tree .............. 
Sawing Wood With Automobile Power 
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333 West 30th Street, New York City 
