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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 19, 1924 
set in open ground in April. Plow un¬ 
der a heavy coating of well-rotted ma¬ 
nure, then broadcast at the rate of one 
ton to the acre a fertilizer running about 
5-10-8; harrow in and set plants a foot 
apart each way. This season I believe 
good head lettuce could have been grown 
by sowing the seed in rows the first of 
April and thinning out a foot apart, as 
the Spring has been wet and cool, ideal 
lettuce weather, but you are not always 
sure of a good crop by this method, while 
I have never had a failure with wintered- 
over plants. I have just finished cutting 
a plot of lettuce 15 ft. wide by 150 ft. 
long. The amount sold was $98 worth, 
besides a lot was given away. The high¬ 
est price was $1.20 per dozen, and the 
lowest 72 cents. 
2. Full directions for mushroom culture 
were given in The R. N.-Y. March 1, 
1924, beginning on page 364. 
WM. PERKINS. 
Will the “Everbearers” 
Come Back? 
I have a large patch of Progressive 
strawberries—one of the best of the “ever¬ 
bearers.” This variety gave a tremen¬ 
dous crop this year in June—heavier 
than any other variety, but with a good 
many small berries. Now, what? We 
are told that Progressive will “come 
back” and give another large crop in Au¬ 
gust, but it does not seem possible that 
these plants can give another crop this 
Summer after producing as they did dur¬ 
ing June. I notice quite a number of 
blooms on these plants. I recently talked 
with a man who lives near a group of 
Summer hotels. He tells me there is 
good profit in growing these August-bear¬ 
ing varieties to supply the hotel trade in 
August and September. But can these 
plants produce another crop after this big 
June output? N. c. H. 
This variety is indeed a tremendous 
cropper at the regular June fruiting, 
fruiting all at once like the common sorts, 
and of course needs a rest to recuperate 
after such fruiting. Give them thorough 
cultivation after the June crop, when, un¬ 
like the common sorts, in about a month 
they should be bearing again—about Aug. 
1—and so continue throughout the Sum¬ 
mer and Fall. 
With continued thorough cultivation 
Progressives have produced for us one 
season at the rate of $1,000 per acre 
following the first June fruiting, while 
greater results have been secured by 
others who grow this variety in strict 
hill culture, keeping off all runners from 
the beginning. This way gives opportu¬ 
nity for good, deep, thorough cultivation 
around each plant, impossible to do so 
well in matted rows. I do not know how 
long it might pay to grow these ever¬ 
bearers if kept well cultivated. We used 
to plow them under along with the June 
varieties after the first June fruiting, un¬ 
til we discovered their greater value, 
especially the Progressive, by leaving 
some of the mother plants to fruit sev¬ 
eral seasons as an experiment. Now we 
plan to grow this variety at least two 
years, the first year for plants and fruit, 
and after that for fruit alone. 
Michigan. c. N. flansburgh. 
Grasses for a Sour Soil 
Some time ago there appeared an ar¬ 
ticle entitled “Sulphate of Ammonia on 
Lawns.” It was a report from the Rhode 
Island College at Kingston. In it was 
claimed that by using a mixture of sul¬ 
phate of ammonia, acid phosphate and 
muriate of potash, and sowing Rhode Is¬ 
land bent grass, or other bent grass, a 
weedless lawn can be produced. Can I 
use the same in my case? Last Fall I 
filled up my yard about 18 in. with rath¬ 
er stony ground and put about 6 in. of 
good soil on top this Spring. Manure is 
out of the question; it cannot be had. 
Can I make a good lawn, practically free 
from weeds, by following the above 
course? I find that people here who have 
sown lawns lately have more weeds than 
grass in them. I very much desire to get 
my lawn as free from weeds as possible, 
aiid at the same time do not wish to ex¬ 
periment altogether with a practically 
new thing. A. c. S. 
St. Marys, Pa. 
We have seen several lawns in Rhode 
Island where this plan was carried out 
successfully. The theory of it is that 
most of the common weeds found in a 
lawn will not thrive in a sour soil. Most 
of the common lawn grasses require lime, 
and if the soil is made right for them the 
weeds will come in thickly. On the other 
hand, the bent grasses, like Red-top, will 
do well in a soil so sour that the weeds 
will be discouraged. Thus by seeding 
chiefly to R. I. Bent and using a mixture 
of acid chemicals you will get a thick 
growth of these acid-loving grasses, and 
kill out most of the weeds. There is no 
question about the fact that this has been 
done in Rhode Island and elsewhere. 
Most people seem to prefer some Blue 
grass, Timothy and clover in the lawn, 
so they use lime to encourage these grass¬ 
es, and by seeding them thickly and keep¬ 
ing the lawn closely clipped they secure a 
good turf. Lhere seems no good reason 
why you cannot follow this acid plan if 
you care to, but you may not be satisfied 
with that sort of a lawn. 
Farm and Garden Notes 
Population has outstripped the live 
stock supply in the United States, and 
this country has lost its premier position 
as an exporter of beef, although it re¬ 
mains the leading shipper or pork pro¬ 
ducts. These facts are set forth in a sur¬ 
vey of the live stock industry by the Na¬ 
tional Bank of Commerce. “The United 
States is one of the largest producers of 
live stock,” says the survey, “but most of 
the product is consumed within the coun¬ 
try. It is estimated that on Jan. 1, 1924, 
there were in the United States 68,500,- 
000 cattle, 6S,200,000 hogs and 38.800,000 
sheep. In number of cattle the country is 
surpassed only by British India, and in 
the number of hogs by China. Argentina 
and Australia both carry more sheep than 
the United States. The outstanding fea¬ 
ture of the industry in this country is 
the fact that population has overtaken 
the supply of meat animals. Since the ’90s 
the estimated total number of cattle in 
the country has not increased and the 
number of hogs only slightly, while the 
number of sheep has declined. Mean¬ 
while population has grown steadily. In 
the period since that time exports of 
meat have decreased and per capita con¬ 
sumption has grown smaller. 
The proposal to construct a $10,000,- 
000 terminal market on the site of the 
present Gansevoort Market and West 
Washington Market, New York City, was 
approved June 8 by the Board of Aider- 
men, 42 to two, Alderman John Wirth, 
Republican floor leader, and Bruce M. 
Falconer, Republican of the 15th Dis¬ 
trict, voting against it, on the ground that 
the matter should not be approved with¬ 
out a public hearing. 
Countrywide Situation 
CROP LATENESS AND THE FEED MARKETS— 
DODGING BIG GRAIN BILLS-CABBAGE 
FOR FEEDING AND MARKET-CROP WITH 
UPS AND DOWNS. 
Lateness of the crops means dollars 
made or lost in all kinds of ways. At 
first thought the dairy farmer does not 
worry. But how about the feed question? 
Lateness in the corn belt brings the crop 
to the danger line. Early frost upon a 
green corn crop cuts down yield and qual¬ 
ity and raises the price of meal and gluten 
feed needed by Eastern feeders. The 
danger has already caused the price of 
corn to jump to levels unusual at this 
season. Wheat has been going up, too. 
Cotton is late and poor in some States 
and may not supply a full quota of cot¬ 
tonseed meal. Linseed meal may con¬ 
tinue one of the best buys, because of the 
large acreage planted to flax. 
AGAINST HIGH FEED COSTS 
The crop season may not turn out so 
bad as the market thinks, but prudent 
dairy farmers will plan somewhat against 
a Winter of high-cost grain feed. Late- 
sown fodder corn, a patch of barley, some 
Winter grain for Spring feeding, and 
some stock cabbage—all these are good 
insurance. Prices of dairy products do 
not warrant big grain bills. 
Cabbage will make a lot of feed if set 
up to Aug. 1, but not later in the lati¬ 
tude of New York, if pushed along with 
nitrate and the hoe. Some of it will do 
for market. There is a new bulletin on 
“Marketing Cabbage” just about to be 
published by the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. It tells how the 
crop is handled for profit in the big cab¬ 
bage States. Cabbage is next to the po¬ 
tato and the tomato in the size of the 
market crop. Cabbage profits are highly 
uncertain. Some years the growers find 
the crop hardly worth handling except for 
feed, and the next season the price may 
touch $50 or more per ton, which would 
mean much with a normal crop of eight 
tons per acre. Study of the prices indi¬ 
cate that these bulging markets come usu¬ 
ally in the Spring and apply only to the 
storage stock of the long-keeping vari¬ 
eties. Storage men, rather than average 
growers, get most of the benefit. 
CABBAGE MARKET 
If cabbage growers would put up a few 
community storages for cabbage they 
might catch more of the cabbage market 
booms. The kraut factories take the edge 
of the risk in the big Northern cabbage 
States, especially in New York, Wiscon¬ 
sin and Michigan. They take a great deal 
of cabbage on contract at low, barely 
profitable prices and buy surplus cabbage 
outright if the price is low enough. Some¬ 
times they use nearly half the crop in 
Western New York. Almost any va¬ 
riety will serve for kraut making, cattle 
feeding, and for the early Fall or Winter 
market, but the hard, solid kinds, like the 
Ballhead ,must be raised when the grow r - 
er wishes to take a chance in the markets 
of late Winter and early Spring. This 
chance depends much on what happens to 
the early Southern Winter crop in Flor¬ 
ida, Texas and South Carolina. G. B. F. 
Seed Growing in Montana 
It is true that some Eastern seed 
houses are getting their garden seed peas 
raised in Carbon Co., Mont. One seed 
firm started it last year as an experi¬ 
ment, and was so successful that this 
year they have greatly increased the acre¬ 
age. The result has spread out, for an¬ 
other firm has contracted for nearly 5,000 
acres of peas, and they have unloaded 
five carloads of weed peas to be distributed 
among the farmers. I am told that there 
were two carloads seven miles above this 
place, Roberts, and more further up. I 
am not a farmer, but by conversation 
with the farmers I am told that the cli¬ 
mate and high altitude, 4,700 ft., are the 
reasons for having seeds raised here; 
also the soil has something to do with it. 
I do not exactly know the number of 
farmers who have contracted, but there 
must be quite a number, for they have 
contracted from 20 to 100 acres each, 
and are all very enthusiastic about it. 
The high altitude is a great hardener of 
any kind of products; warm days and 
cool nights. It does not matter how 
warm it is in daytime, it is very seldom 
that we cannot sleep very comfortably 
with woolen blankets as covers. 
As for the quality of the peas, I will 
let you judge for yourself, as I am send¬ 
ing you two cans of peas raised and 
canned near Bozeman, Mont., about 100 
miles from Roberts, at about the same 
altitude. Although these are not the very 
best, you will notice their flavor and ten¬ 
derness. J. A. BERTRAND. 
Montana. 
R. N.-Y.—The peas were excellent. 
Here is a new business for the West. 
CONTENTS 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 19, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Tall Rye from Connecticut. 1002 
A Quarter-acre Cape Cod Farm.. 1003 
Raw Leather as Fertilizer. 1003 
Farm Produce Sold by State Institutions... 1005 
Future Hay and Straw Markets. 1011 
South African Imports of Flour. 1011 
No More Free Farms. 1011 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Stay By the Ship... 1011 
Purchasing Power of Milk. 1011 
Cows and First Free School. 1014 ; 
Thin Ram . 1014 
New York State Jersey Breeders. 1014 
THE HENYARD 
Ulcers on Hen. 1017 
Ailing Goslings . 1017 
Money in Eggs. 1017 
Construction of Henhouse. 1017 
HORTICULTURE 
Peach Leaf-curl . 1002 
Lettuce Culture; Mushrooms..1003, 1004 
Grape Rot . 1007 
Business of Growing Pansy Plants.. 1007 
Cherry Tree Bears Small Fruit... 1007 
Fertilizer for Asters. 1007 
Culture of Lilac . 1009 
Propagating Catalpa and Blue Spruce. 1009 
Chance for Late Vegetables. 1009 
Dormant Nut Tree Grafts.1009 
Why Grapes Fall Off. 1009 
Cost of Greenhouses. 1009 
Repelling Striped Beetle and Flea Beetle.. 1009 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Canning Mushrooms . 1009 
From Day to Day. 1012 
Beautifying the Home Grounds. 1012 
Tennessee Notes . 1012 
Mixed Pickles . 1012 
Sewing Helps Which I Use. 1013 
The Rural Patterns . 1013 
Best-ever Salad Dressing and Sauces. 1013 
Two Discoveries . 1013 
Rice Dessert . 1013 
MISCELLANEOUS 
School Children and Labor. 1003 
Starting in the Bee Business. 1002 
Woodchuck for a Company Dinner. 1002 
Editorials . 1010 
The Sapiro Plan. 1011 
Sun Heat for Power and Cooking. 1016 
Waterproofing Cement Cellar. 1016 
Danger from Lead Pipe. 1016 
Cleaning Cistern . 1016 
Publisher’s Desk . 1018 
A Clean Fire 
A Hot Fire Pot 
With these two 
essentials you are 
burning coal effi¬ 
ciently. 
Hood Furnaces 
The Hood Straight-Sided 
Fire Pot—Always Clean 
—Always Hot. 
Always have a clean fire and a hot fire pot. The 
straight-sided fire pot makes this certain. In 
addition, the Hood fire pot with its integral 
finish has 17 u 2 sq. ft. of hot heating surface to 
the ordinaiy sloping fire pot’s 7 sq. ft. There 
are many other reasons why the 
Hood Furnace will answer your re¬ 
quirements better thanany others. 
W rite us for complete information, 
name of Hood oealer near you, 
Hood Furnace & Supply Co. . 
Dept. A Corning, N. v A 
WANTED! 
Resident in Pennsylvania and New 
Jersey Fruit Section to handle well 
advertised insecticides and spreaders. 
Apply with complete information anil 
references. , 
ANDORRA NURSERIES, INC. 
Chestnut Hill, Pa. 
CORN HARVESTER 
uilt. One and two row 
models. One Horse. Carries 
to shock. Big labor saver. 
Pays for itself in one sea¬ 
son. Worked by 1, 2 or 3 
men. No twine. Nodanger. 
Great for silage cutting. 
Free trial. Agents Wanted. 
Write for free catalog. 
BENNETT MFG. CO„ Box 204, Westerville, Ohio 
The “E-Z” SHOCK ABSORBING SEAT SPRING 
will make the farm machines, TRACTORS, etc., ride EASY. Why shake 
your daylights out when you can 
ride comfortably ? Quickly changed 
from one machine to another. Will 
last a lifetime. Sent by Parcel 
Post. Write for circular. 
GEO. J. KRUM, Old Chatham, N. Y. 
Berry, Vegetable and Flower Plants 
Pot-grown Strawberry plants for August and fall plant¬ 
ing ; runner Strawberry plants. Hasp Perry, Black berry. 
Gooseberry, Currant, Grape plants for September and 
October planting iCauliflower.Cabbage, Brussels Surouts 
Celery, Kale plants for summer planting; Delphinium’ 
Foxglove, Columbine, Canterbury Bells, Poppy, Phlox 
anil other hardy perennial flower plants for summer 
and fall planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Hampton Bays, N. Y. 
PI A IVITG SENT BY EXPRESS 
rLMIs I O OR PARCEL POST 
" ' Per 100 
CABBAGE. $0 30 
CAULIFLOWER.65 
TOMATO AND B SPROUTS... .40 
Catalog Free. 
BOO 1,000 5.000 
$0 80 SI 25 $5 00 
1.75 3 25 15.00 
1 00 1 50 6.25 
E. FIELD, Sewell, N. J. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Pot-grown plants of HOWARD 17, SAMPLE. SUCCESS and 
DUNLAP, *4 per 100; PROGRESSIVE EVERBEARING, »5 
per 100. Ready for August planting. Order early 
as supply at this price is limited. 
GEO. D. AIKEN Box M Putney, Vermont 
3 Peonies, 3lris > 
” der. pa 
all different,delivered Sept, or 
, Oct., 3rd zone, for $3 with or¬ 
der. PAKKERS PEONY FARM, F ayettevllle, N.Y 
IRIS Fifteen of the best varieties for SI, prepaid. 
W. H. TOPPIN 
Merchantvillo, N. J. 
L'lplprv Plante Thousands of Celery Plants © $3 per 
V>iClClj Xldlllb 1,000. Also Cabbage l'lants © *1 .BO. 
Caleb Boggs & Son - Chestvoid, Delaware 
BINDER TWINE 
Get our low price. Farmer 
agents wanted. Sample free. 
THEO. BURT & SONS Melrose,Ohio 
Useful and Interesting 
Intensive strawberry Culture, by 
Louis Graton . $1,00 
Poultry Account Book, by D. J. 
Edmonds . LOO 
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 
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Fine Big Berries This Fall! 
We promise you a fair crop this fall, if you act 
promptly ! And the berries should be as big as the one 
alongside, if you plant Lovett’s All Season Everbearing 
Strawberry To make this possible you should set out 
Lovett’s Pot-Groum Plants. 
We Also Offer Other 
Everbearing Varieties 
as well as standard June bearing sorts 
for next year’s crop. 
As the pioneers in this field we offer 
a heavily-rooted, well-balanced plant 
product that will take hold at once. 
Write today for Catalog No, 111, 
our ‘‘Midseason Hints” that tells all 
about the midsummer making of the 
Strawberry bed. It is free. 
LOVETT’S NURSERY 
Box 162 Little Silver, New Jersey 
