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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 26, 1924 
TOWNSEND’S NURSERIES 
Offers the Largest Stock of 
STRAWBERRY, DEWBERRY, RASPBERRY, GRAPE VINES, 
Currants, Asparagus and etc., in the Country 
Everything shipped direct to growers at lowest wholesale prices. 
We not only save you money on your order but we sell you the 
highest grade plants that it is possible to grow on our more 
than 700 acres of new ground soil. 
Millions of these high grade plants await your order. Prompt shipment 
when you are ready to plant. Big Money-saving Catalog on request. 
(See R. N.-Y. March 1st, Center Page) 
E. W. TOWNSEND & SONS 
25 Vine Street, Salisbury, Maryland 
RASPBERRY PLANTS 
AT REDUCED PRICES 
We are over stocked. You get the benefit. St. Regis 
Everbearing, 25- *1.26 ; 100 — 2.76; 300—96.00. 
Delivered Free. 1.000 (3) 912.00, F. O. B. here. 
Austin Dewberry Plants at earae price. Strawberry, 
Asparagus, Other Plants that please. Catalogue Free. 
V. R. ALLEN SEAFORD, DEL. 
QUAKER HILL FARMS 
CERTIFIED RUSSETS 
and EARLY COBBLERS 
A few left. Write today for description and closing 
out prices. Special prices on B grado stock. 
K .V. LIVERMORE. Box 6, Honcoye Falls, N.Y. 
POTATOES 
Having a Quality of 
AM. GOOD STOCK (O n„ 
98 PER CENT FREE FROM DISEASE Price, W DU. 
World’s Fair, Gold Coin, Beauty, Hebron. Rural New- 
Yorker, Maggie Murphy. Rochester, Rose.Stateof Maine, 
Green Mts.,Big Rose andNo 9. JAS. 0, AUSTIN, Eagle Bridge, N Y 
Certified Seed Potatoes 
N. Y. COOP SEED POTATO ASSN Syracuse, N. Y. 
DHUBUD TWINP Get our low price. Farmer 
Ulitl/Ln I m Ill Li agents wanted. Sample free. 
THEO. BURT & SONS 
Melrose, Ohio 
THERE’S BIG MONEY IN 
The biggest profit crop you 
can raise. We have some of 
the finest strains of Telephone 
£nbe erman : ONLY $7.75 
Bags free and freight prepaid to your station 
on 3 bushels or over. Don’t buy cheap seed. 
We have the best stocks grown. Order now before 
stocks ore exhausted. Also write for low prices on 
best grass seeds. Ask for seed catalog. 
B F. METCALF & SON, Inc. 
202-204 W. Goneaoe Street - Syracuse, N, V- 
THE BEAUTIFUL GLAUIOLUS 
Send a dollar for 30 bulbs (will 
bloom this summer), including 
pink, white, scarlet, yellow, crimson, 
orange, rare purple, etc., with easy 
planting directions, postpaid. 
Send for free 20-page illustrated 
catalog of 125 magnificent varieties 
HOWARD M. GILLET. Gladiolus Specialist 
Box 263, New Lebanon, N y 
(iladinli Ms Delias 91? 50 Gladioli, mixed, 91. 
OIUUIUU j 5 m ixed Iris, best varieties, $ 1 , postpaid. 
Write for prices. W. H. Toppin, Merchantsvllle, N. J. 
Bargain-70 Gladioli Bulbs 
list of other bargains. OAKHltRST, 380 Msy St., Worcester, Moss. 
Beautiful n n n a m ed varieties. 
per 100 . prepaid, all blooming size 
E. N. Tilton Ashtabula, Ohio 
n Blooming Gladiolus, *1. No two alike. Dahlias, 
W Cosmos. Circular. A.'SIIEUMAN, Chicopee Falls, Muss. 
-k m * a r< Write for our high merit list 
| B H I B L\ of the best cut flower varie- 
m. •—* tj es a t, popular prices. 
0IIARI.ES «. BAllOOCIt, Dahlia Spocialiat, Box 41B, Westport, Mass. 
•nr-t M. Y w A f 12 choice named varieties, $ 2 . 
R w ZS f-1 I .1 f\ ^ Where labels were lost, 12 foi $t. 
TA-— H q BENEDICT,Meadow Brook,N.Y. 
TOMATO PLANTS 
TEN MILLION Now Ready. Open field 
grown, large, hardy, stocky plants. Varieties: New 
Stone, Greater Baltimore and Livingston Globe. 
Prices by parcel post, 100— 50c: 500— $1.50; 1,000 
— $2 50, postpaid. By express, collect, 1.000 to 4.000 
—$2 per 1,000: 5,000 to 9,000— $1.75 per 1,000; 10,000 
and over— $1.50 per 1,000. Roots wrapped in damp 
moss. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. 
P. D. FULLWOOD Tilton, Georgia 
TIMOTHY SEED 
Few dealers can equal Metcalf’s Recleaned Timothy 
99.70% pure. 94.70 per bushel of 45 lbs. Metcalfe Tim¬ 
othy aud Alsike Mixed, at 95.26 per bu. of 45 lbs. Cot¬ 
ton bags free and freight paid in 5 bu. lots 
B. F. METCALF & SON, Inc. 
202-204 W. Genesee St- - Syracuse, N. Y. 
Useful and Interesting 
Intensive Strawberry Culture, by 
Louis Graton .$1.00 
Poultry Account Book, by D. J. 
Edmonds . 100 
Home Painter, by Kelly. 1.25 
Farmer His Own Builder, by H. A. 
Roberts . 1-50 
Feeds and Feeding, by Henry and 
Morrison, complete .4.50 
Soils, by E. W. Hilgard. 5.00 
Organized Co-operation, by John J. 
Dillon . 1-00 
Commercial Poultry Culture, by 
Roberts .. 3.00 
Adventures in Silence, by H. W. 
Collingwood . 1.00 
For sale by 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St., New York City 
Straw 
berry 
PI 
lants 
The Kind That Pays Big Profits 
JOHNSON’S PLANTS are backed by our 43 years’ 
experience in the plant and berry business and a 
reputation for fair dealing with thousands of satisfied 
customers. Our experience protects you. 
100 1,000 
5,000 
Amanda (Per.) .... 
$ .90 
$6.00 
$28.75 
Aroma (Per.) . 
.80 
5.00 
23,75 
Big Joe (Per.) .... 
.80 
5.00 
23.75 
Big Late (Imp.) ... 
.80 
5.00 
23.75 
Chesapeake (Per.) .. 
.90 
6.00 
28.75 
Cooper (Per.) . 
1.50 
10,00 
47.50 
Dr. Burrell (Per.).. 
.70 
4.00 
18.75 
Ford (Per.) . 
.80 
5.00 
23.75 
Gandy (Per.) . 
.70 
*.00 
18.75 
Gibson (Per.) . 
.80 
5.00 
23.75 
Horsey (Per.) . 
.80 
5.00 
23.75 
Klondyke (Per.) ... 
.70 
4.00 
18.75 
Lupton (Per.) . 
.80 
5.00 
23.75 
Missionary (Per.) .. 
.70 
4.00 
18.75 
Nie Ohrner (Per.)... 
.90 
6.00 
28.75 
Premier (Per.) .... 
.80 
5.00 
23.75 
Sen. Dunlap (Per.). 
.70 
4.00 
18.75 
Wm. Belt (Per.)... 
.80 
5.00 
23.75 
Progressive (E.B.).. 
1.25 
8.00 
37.50 
Minnesota 1017 (E.B) 
1.50 
10.00 
47.50 
Champion (E.B.) ..., 
1.50 
10.00 
47.50 
On Ten Thousand Plants 
or more 
Wholesale Price 
Write for free catalog or order direct. 
E. W. JOHNSON CO. - Salisbury, Md 
GRAPES, RASPBERRIES, CURRANTS 
Headquarters for— 
S Ever-Bearing 
trawberries 
Get New England 
grown plants al¬ 
ready acclimated 
to the cold. 
C. S. KEMPTON & CO CATALOG 
“ Longmeadow ” Springfield, Mass. 
Berry, Vegetable and Flower Plants 
Leading varieties Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry* 
Gooseberry, Currant, Grape plants ; Asparagus, Rhubarb* 
Horseradish roots;Cabbage,Cauliflower,Celery,Tomato* 
Egg Plant, Beet, Onion, Pepper, Sweet Potato and other 
vegetable plants; Delphinium, Foxglove, Hollyhock, 
Canterbury Bells, Phlox, Pansy, Salvia, Aster, Zinnia, 
Snapdragon and other Perennial and Annual flower 
plants; Dahlia, Gladioli, Canua bulbs; Roses, Shrubs, 
Hedge Plants. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Hampton Bays, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 0R R °EXPRESS 
Charges prepaid by us. Large, healthy plants, TRUE 
TO NAME, NO ROOT APHIS, NO DISEASE. Fresh dug, 
expertly packed. FREE Catalog of Berry, Vegetable 
and Flower Plants. 
A few of the best: 
Early : Howard 17, Premier. 31.10 
Medium : S. Dunlap, Dr. Burrell... 
Late ; Gandy . 
Late : McAlpin, Lupton. 1.10 
Progressive Everbearing... 1.50 
500 at 1,000 rate. 
NICOL NOOK GARDENS, 
100 
200 
1000 
... * 1.10 
*1.90 
*5.90 
.90 
1.60 
4.91) 
.90 
1 60 
4.90 
... 1.10 
1.90 
5.90 
... 1.50 
2.60 
9.00 
Order NOW. 
, Milford. 
Delaware 
THE BOYS STRAWBERRIES— NONE BETTER 
Senator Dunlap, Dr. Birrell, $2.5(1. Gandy, Klondyke, 
Missionary, $8.50. Big Joe, Big Late, Premier. Howard 
17, 94. Ford, Lupton, 94.50. Bubach.Colbornes Early, 
95. Chesapeake, Progressive Everbearer, $6 per 1,000. 
Plants of a new variety given free with each order. 
The Uayner Hoys Idle wild Farms Salisbury, Md. 
Everbearing Strawberry Plants 
S2 per 100: $15 per 1,000, postpaid. Plants set out this 
Spring will bear quantities of Delicious Berries this 
Summer and Fall. BASIL PERRY, R. R. 5, Georgetown, Del- 
H ©WARD I 73F» REMIER 
Successful grower otters you these great Money makers. 
Freshly dug, well rooted Strawberry plants. Trial orders 
$1.25 hundred. Free cultural information circulars. 
J. Hltl'l'TON : Chepachet. Rhode Island 
Champion Ever Bearing 
$1.50 per 100 ; 250—$3.23; 1,000—$10 ; 5,000—$47.50. 
M. S. PliYOK R. F. D. Salisbury, Maryland 
f- /\ STRAWBERRY PLANTS $0 Post 
II Premier or Howard 17 Paid 
“ 'p Basil Perry, R. R. 5, Georgetown, Delaware 
300 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS post 
New Ground Senator Dunlap. * PAID 
HAMPTON & SON R. 7 Bangor, Mich. 
will mail you 8 lbs. Daren Wd for Kc 
Thos. Foster Stuart, Oklahoma ItdriU JctU 101 I Jl 
Barrels of Slightly Damaged Crockery ware. c coo£ 
ingware, Glassware, etc., shipped direct from factory to 
consumer. Write.usforpartic. E. SWASEV SCO.,Portland,Maine 
mire on the droppings board with some 
substance like land plaster, sifted coal 
ashes or dry dirt. When dried in this way 
the manure should be held in a dry place 
where rain cannot reach it. After a time 
when handled in this way it will be 
found in the form of hard chunks. These 
should be broken up by pounding them 
with a heavy spade or stick or running 
them through a grinder. As is the case 
with every other form of manure, the 
liner this product is made the better it 
will act as a fertilizer. Chicken manure 
is quite strong in nitrogen, and has a fair 
amount of potash. It lacks phosphorus, 
and in order to balance it a quantity of 
line ground bone or acid phosphate should 
be mixed with it. For a simple mixture 
for grain or fruit a proportion of 7 lbs. 
of the dried chicken manure to 3 lbs. of 
acid phosphate will give good results. 
For a garden fertilizer a mixture of 
seven parts of dried chicken manure, 
three parts of acid phosphate, one part 
of muriate of potash and one part of 
nitrate of soda thoroughly mixed to¬ 
gether will prove very satisfactory. 
Many of our people ask us what they 
can afford to pay for chicken manure, 
or what they should charge when it is 
sold. It is impossible to give any defi¬ 
nite figure, as of course the value de¬ 
pends on the amount of litter combined 
with the actual manure. We buy large 
quantities of this manure every year, 
and we are paying $7.50 a ton for the 
pure droppings without any litter what¬ 
ever. That is a very satisfactory price. 
Where manure is sold by the barrel in 
our neighborhood it generally brings 
from 60 to 75 cents a barrel for good 
quality without any large proportions of 
the litter. 
Sterilizing Soil 
Will you tell us how soil is sterilized 
by steam in preparing it for growing 
seedlings? F. L. b. 
Two plans are followed. Under one 
system, steam pipes are buried in the 
ground about 12 in. below the surface 
and a foot apart. The ground is then 
covered with very heavy canvas cloth. 
Steam at a pressure of 150 lbs. is driven 
through the pipes which are perforated 
so that the steam reaches all parts of the 
soil. This method costs from 2% cents 
to 5 cents a square foot. 
The other system uses what is called 
the pan method. Pans 3x6 ft. and 8 in. 
deep are turned upside down under the 
soil. Pipes force the steam under the 
pans at a pressure of 100 to 150 lbs. The 
pipes in this case are about 8 in. deep. 
The cost is a little less than where the 
first method is used and the pans can be 
made by any local tinsmith. The whole 
system is pretty expensive and is not 
likely to be followed except where a 
piece of ground is being used for the 
same crops year after year. E. I. f. 
Talks with a Trained Nurse 
THE INVALID’S ROOM 
Dear Home Nurse: When we are en¬ 
joying good health we do not, as a rule, 
give thought to the possibility of illness 
except (the more provident of us) to 
lay aside a portion of our income to 
meet the emergency, but surely there is 
no harm in preparing ourselves other¬ 
wise. At one time or another, especially 
in a large family, illness does come. How 
often is a trained nurse called to a home 
that is nearly disrupted by such an un¬ 
foreseen event! She struggles against 
the most unnecessary disadvantages, hut 
not more than does the home nurse who, 
however, is less conscious of it. Con¬ 
cretely, I mean, a sickroom inconvenient¬ 
ly situated, poorly heated or ventilated, 
unsuitably furnished, closets and bureau 
drawers filled with clothing, frequently 
last Winter’s heavy underwear or the 
children’s outgrown things. You fortu¬ 
nate people who live in the country 
usually have a guest room or even two 
guest rooms. Why not arrange one for 
the emergency of illness? It will still 
be available for the extra guest. Furn¬ 
ished and bedecked after the manner 
which I shall describe, it will he so 
charming and so comfortable that your 
most fastidious guest will love it. and 
how it. will lighten your labors if illness 
comes! 
Of course, it must have sunshine — 
this room for the shut-in, and at least 
two big windows that open easily both 
top and bottom, and I would choose that 
through those windows my shut-in should 
see the trees and rolling hills and drifting 
clouds and maybe a bit of silver water. 
I would have a lilac bush or a climbing 
rose and an apple tree that the birds 
loved. 
A fireplace? If I could—for rainy, 
chilly days. I would paint or calcimine 
the walls a soft neutral tint, or. if I had 
to use paper, select a small indistinct 
pattern. Haven’t most of us had the 
maddening experience of tracing hour 
after hour, fanciful figures on the wall¬ 
paper—monkeys that never stopped 
climbing, faces that grinned eternally, 
birds whose wings were never at rest? 
Then, of course, I would paint the wood¬ 
work a nice clean white. Dark wood¬ 
work in a sick room is intolerable. A 
number of things can be done with the 
floor, but let’s take up the carpet first. 
Small rugs on a hardwood, painted or 
linoleum covered floor are pre-eminently 
desirable. 
A new bed? Then why not a regular 
hospital bed? They are just the right 
height and extremely comfortable. If 
we must economize, we can cut off all 
superfluous, gingerbready head and foot 
pieces and enamel. The handy man 
around the house can make it high 
enough to work over without giving us 
a crick in the back. At the right side 
of the bed we will place a small table on 
which will be nothing but an immaculate 
cloth, a bottle or pitcher of water, the 
patient’s book or work basket, a bell 
and a bunch of posies. Now we want a 
couch and a big easy chair with pretty 
washable covers, a dresser and a small 
straight chair. One or two interesting 
pictures on the wall, dainty window 
draperies, a splash of color like a scar¬ 
let geranium or a rose-colored lamp 
shade. A screen is a great convenience. 
Avoid dust-eollecting ornaments, plush or 
tapestry upholstery, throws that cannot 
be washed. Choose your color scheme 
with care. Colors have a decided effect 
upon the emotions. Red is exciting— 
blue often depressing. 
Keep nothing in the dresser drawers 
or the closet, but things which pertain 
to the occupant of the room. Clean a 
little every day, so that the invalid is 
never conscious of how it is done, and 
always do it if possible at the same 
hour. Sick people like routine. 
Much more could be said about things 
to avoid but “a word to the wise is suffi¬ 
cient.” A '(beautifully clean, harmon¬ 
iously colored, comfortably arranged sick¬ 
room will have its influence on a dis¬ 
turbed physical and mental balance. 
TEN RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE 
1. Keep bottles and pill boxes out of 
sight of patient. 
2. Write, or have the doctor write 
down all orders. 
3. Don’t trust your memory, make a 
note every time you give a dose of medi¬ 
cine. 
4. Don’t consult the patient. He is 
under orders. 
5. All medicines should be given with 
water. Ask the doctor how much. 
6. All medicines must be given with 
optimism—frequently it’s the optimism 
that cures. 
7. Never wake a patient out of a heav¬ 
en-given sleep for medicine unless espec¬ 
ially directed to do so by the doctor. 
8. Teach your child to 1 take his medi¬ 
cine like a man—do not bribe him with 
cake or candy. 
9. Don’t give patent medicines or any 
other home remedies without consulting 
the doctor. 
10. Don’t think pills and powders more 
efficacious than fresh air, sunshine, pure 
water and cleanliness. 
HOW TO MAKE CASTOR OIL PALATABLE 
It can be done. Squeeze a lemon or 
sour orange into a glass, add a little 
sugar and a piece of iee. Carefully pour 
the castor oil (one-half to one ounce) 
into the middle of the lemon juice—add a 
pinch of baking soda and stir vigorously. 
Let the patient drink it while it is ef¬ 
fervescing. 
ELSIE M’lNTYRE SAFFORD, R.N. 
CONTENTS 
..— 4. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, APRIL 2G, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
A Retired Jerseyman on Farming .. 690 
Soy Beans—A Sure Hay Crop . 891 
Simple Facts About Hen Manure .891, 892 
Up in the Cold Country ... 699 
Hope Farm Notes .700, 701 
Farm Tax Matters ... 703 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
New England Milk .703 
Supplementing Mixed Feed . 708 
Prevention of Milk Fever .708 
THE HENYARD 
Egg-laying Contest . 712 
Drop in Laying . 712 
HORTICULTURE 
Transplanting Evergreens . 891 
Trailing Arbutus in the Garden .693 
Aster Culture . 693 
The Record Strawberry Yield ... 693 
Perennials Among Poplar Roots . 699 
WOMAN AND HOME 
A Community “Bake” . 695 
A Rhode Island Clambake ...695, 697 
Notes from a Sagebrush Schoolma’am. .701, 707 
Boys and Girls .704, 705, 710, 711 
The Home Dressmaker . 706 
A Farm Woman’s Notes . 707 
More About “Mother’s Day” .. 707 
MISCELLANEOUS 
An Improved School; They Did It Them¬ 
selves .689, 690 
The Pastoral Parson . 694 
Editorial . 702 
Expenses of Poostal Employes . 703 
School Battle and Its Lessons . 703 
Co-operation .703 
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