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April 12, 1921 
Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Pedigreed Potatoes 
Certified Rural Russet and Irish Cobblers—yields 
ot 300 to 562 bushel per acre for 11 years. First 
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ALPHA SEED BARLEY yielding barley, ripens 
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Yellow Dent Corn, crop 1922. 70 lbs., shells 57bs lbs,, 
yields 130 to 160 crates to acre, medium stalk, very 
early, 9F% germination test. Price, $3 bu.; bags 
ek trill CHAS. E. HASLETT _ Hall, N.Y. 
Plant Cherokee Clover 
For bay and pasture. Yields as much as sweet clo¬ 
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Live stock eat it greedily. Can be planted to June 
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ELLIS KEYSTONE AGRICULTURAL WORKS 
Pottstown - Pennsylvania 
over the land until all growth was killed. 
Days were spent in carting off the stones 
and making the ground level by filling in 
every little depression. In those days 
labor was cheaper; now all this detail 
work would not pay. Early in Septem¬ 
ber. when the weather was right. Clark 
seeded, using 15 lbs. each of Timothy and 
Red-top seed to the acre. lie went to 
great detail and labor to "make an even 
seeding. He used a very high grade 
chemical fertilizer made by a well-known 
manufacturer, or a home mixture of 
equal parts nitrate of soda, fine lime and 
muriate of potash—800 lbs. to the acre. 
This meant strong and expensive stuff. 
In the Spring Red clover was added, and 
annual dressings of fertilizer were made. 
As a result of all this work there were 
yields of six tons and more per acre, and 
meadows remaining in sod for eight or 
10 years. It would not be profitable to 
follow such a plan fully now, with the 
high cost of labor and the rather low sell¬ 
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might answer. You can raise the early 
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oats, then break up the oat stubble and 
work the ground as fine as you can af¬ 
ford to do, with cutaway or disk, and 
fit it for seeding. We should seed as 
heavily as Clark did, and figure how 
much fertilizer you can afford to pay 
for. The first year’s crop after this 
heavy seeding will not be heavy. The 
grass will be short and fine, but will not 
grow high. The following year it will 
grow to full size and make a good crop. 
Of course you cannot expect to get a first- 
class seeding or a heavy yield on a rough, 
stony field. 
dependence on Him, but with this a 
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Something to Think About 
The time is fast approaching when we 
will want to be putting seed into the 
ground for another harvest. As years 
pass and I seek closer contact with the 
soil, there is forced upon me the convic¬ 
tion that we are taking too much for 
granted, and fail to catch the vision we 
should, one which lies very close to the 
heart of all growth. To some extent we 
have learned that we cannot force nature, 
but is our invitation intelligently 
phrased? We prepare the land and put 
in the seed, following well-known rules, 
but do we hark back to the lesson behind 
and beyond all this? Are we certain that 
what we would grow is what our fields 
are best adapted to, either in general 
classification or in variety? Are we sure 
that we know just what our fields are 
hungry for, that we may feed intelligent¬ 
ly? Here are big propositions facing 
every thinking man, and success is not 
possible until we have solved them, and 
then it will be in proportion to the big¬ 
ness of our grasp on each. Then there 
is another greater field for us to enter if 
we are to reap the most from our labors. 
We know that plants and trees breathe, 
perspire, rest and sleep. This much may 
be generally accepted, hut it suggests 
something deeper, yet very close to the 
interests of the grower. All life, whether 
animal, human, tree or plant, is built 
from a single cell, this cell attracting 
other cells, and as they progress differ¬ 
entiating to complete the structure. Does 
this suggest uniformity of law governing 
life and growth? If so, what may we do 
to aid in perfecting cell structure? With 
the discovery of Mendel’s theory of hered¬ 
ity we are forced to look at all life from 
a‘different standpoint, and the transmis¬ 
sion of desirable qualities in animals or 
plants or trees becomes an attractive and 
to me a necessary study, that we may the 
better conform to these laws. All the 
way along men have stumbled on great 
facts and obtained results, not knowing 
how or why, and so failed to fix charac¬ 
teristics. Men have been able, with deli¬ 
cate instruments, to reach layer after 
layer of the tree from the surface inward 
and show that, the individual cells expand 
and contract in regular order, and so es¬ 
tablish a circulation of the sap, which 
moves at the rate of 100 ft. an hour. 
These cells, small but correlated fulfill in 
their harmonious action the function of 
the heart in an animal. 
If you have read that remarkable little 
book. “I Believe in God and I Believe in 
Evolution,” by Dr. King, a book which 
should he read by everyone, you must 
have obtained a broader concept of the 
unity of life everywhere. Prof. Farr of 
Indiana University says: “Mental pro¬ 
cesses work in a similar manner in dif¬ 
ferent persons, and therefore I conclude 
that your physic is like mine. My con¬ 
tention is that I can demonstrate just as 
well that a plant has a mind as that you 
have.” He then proceeds to describe the 
sense organs of equilibrium in a plant by 
which it keeps the organism properly bal¬ 
anced. “Plants have a sense of touch 
from which impulses are transmitted to 
motor organs, resulting in movement.'’ 
We have an illustration of this sense in 
the sensitive plant, which shrinks when 
man approaches. A well-known illustra¬ 
tion of the intelligence of plants is found 
in the case of the blossoms on the canyon 
walls, not to be seen at any distance un¬ 
til ready to drop their pollen, when the 
color changes to white to attract the bees 
and secure fertilization and so save the 
species. Perhaps someone will say. “Well, 
what has all this to do with the farmer?” 
I firmly believe the day is coming when 
a knowledge of these laws will not only 
strengthen faith in the wisdom and pow¬ 
er of God, and deeper recognition of our 
Bees Make an Early Start 
Sunday, March 23, 1924, will have a 
record with me as a beekeeper. The day 
was cloudless and the temperature was 
high, a wonderful day for the month of 
March. We have had about three days 
during the month warm enough for the 
bees to have a cleansing flight, hut this 
day filled the bees with joy. 
About 10:30 one colony commenced to 
get busy, and before noon all seven were 
“busy as bees.” I watched closely to see 
if they had found any pollen of any kind, 
as neither willows nor red maples are 
advanced enough to produce it yet. I was 
so anxious to find out if they were really 
bringing in something that I opened up 
.some of the hives and found sections of 
combs as large as my hand full of new 
liquid, and came to the conclusion that it 
was maple sap gathered from nearby 
trees where the twigs of the trees _ had 
been broken by the ice storms. This is 
very unusual in this section, as far as I 
know. 
My bees wintered well, and appear to 
be spread all across the top combs, with 
one exception, where the outward pas¬ 
sage became clogged up, but which I dis¬ 
covered in time to prevent a total loss. 
Monday, the 25th, bees brought in pollen 
from the willows, and they were happy. 
Massachusetts. c. h. t. 
A letter from Palm Beach: “New 
York is full of restaurants advertising 
Southern cooking. In the Florida re¬ 
sorts I see restaurants advertising North¬ 
ern cooking. Is there no part of the 
country that dares to brag about its cook¬ 
ing at home, where they know it?”—New 
York Times. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, APRIL 12, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Wheat Bran for Fertilizer .622 
What to Use for Cultivating .. 622 
A Handy Device for Harnessing . 622 
Old Sod to New Meadow . 622 
The Automobile Problem . 623 
"‘Intensive Grass Culture” . 623 
Hope Farm Notes .636, 637 
Grades for Selling Farm Produce . 639 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Organizing a Pet Stock Farm ... 622 
Farm Hand Dies Rich .... • 639 
Fewer Cows in New York State—More in 
the Com Belt . 639 
Ration for Guernsey Herd ... 642 
Supplementing Homie-grown Feeds . 642 
Feeding Wheat Products . 644 
Improving Ration for Test . 644 
Poor Silage .... • - - 646 
Vealing Calves ...646, 644 
Ration Lacks Needful Minerals . G4S 
THE HENYARD 
New York Egg Contest . 650 
A Maryland Henhouse . 651 
Cement Foundation for Henhouse . 651 
Everted Oviduct .651 
Heating Brooders . 651 
Bergen Co., N. J., Egg Contest . 652 
Temperature of Brooder House . 652 
HORTICULTURE 
The Curious ‘‘Sweet and Sour” Apple 621, 622 
Thimbleberry as an Ornamental Plant .... 625 
Crickets Injuring Strawberries ... 625 
Celery Culture . 625 
Everbearing Strawberries in Colorado . 626 
Pruning Scotch Heather . 627 
Onions from Sets; Lettuce .. 627 
Starting Seed in Oat Sprouter . 627 
Concerning Onion Sets . 632 
Future Fruit Market . 634 
Apple Maggot dr Railroad Worm . 635 
Training Evergreens . 635 
Everblooming Roses . 637 
Planting With Plant Setter . 637 
When to Sow Kale . 637 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day ... 64* 
Left-over Gingham for Kitchen Curtains. 64» 
Improving Old Floors .640, 641 
The Rural Patterns . 641 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Buying ‘‘School Land” in Vermont . 62* 
The Eight-hour Day Pays . 62* 
Shelling Beans in a Clothes Wringer .624 
School Methods and Early Training . 625 
Putting Teeth Into It . 624 
Drainage of Agricultural Lands . 631 
Leaving Land Open . 631 
Questions About a Farm Lease . 631 
Countrywide Produce Situation .. 63* 
Reflections Following a West Indian Trip.. 63* 
Improving Flow of Water . 635 
Overheated Engine; Estimating Wood in 
Cords . 63* 
Events of the Week . 634 
Editorials ,. 63* 
Strong-arm School Bill Methods . 63* 
Self-opening Gate . 647 
Gate With Bevel Gear . 647 
Self-closing Gate . 647 
Contaminated Well . 647 
Cement Floor in Granary . 65* 
Difficulty in Pumping from Two Wells .... 66* 
Publisher’s Desk .654 
