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lht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 26, 1924 
comes the sea moss of commerce. For 
years a considerable business has been 
carried on at Scituate, Mass., where this 
moss grows very abundantly. The men 
who gather it pull it off the rocks in the 
water and bring it to the shore, where it 
is spread in great patches on the sandy 
beach. It has to be turned as carefully 
as hay that is being cured, and when dry 
turns a creamy white. It is then re¬ 
moved to sheds and packed. The sea moss 
is filled with a gelatinous substance, and 
is surprisingly slippery if it becomes wet. 
Sometimes the crop is ruined by an unex¬ 
pected and long-continued rain. The sea 
moss is used for food, and in the manu¬ 
facture of various products. 
Liquid Manure. —Garden-makers are 
again turning to liquid manure as a 
stimulant for their crops. Nitrate of 
soda has not proved very satisfactory in 
the small garden. Its results are too un¬ 
certain, and too much danger attends its 
use. Liquid manure, however, is a very 
active fertilizer, and yet can be used 
without danger if diluted to the color of 
weak tea. There is a decided advantage, 
however, in putting it on the ground after 
a rain, or when the earth has been soaked 
with water. It is readily made by im¬ 
mersing a bag of poultry manure, stable 
manure, or pulverized sheep manure in a 
barrel of water. It is very valuable when 
growing tomatoes and other vegetables, 
but should not be used for lettuce or other 
leaf crops which are soon to be eaten. It 
is very helpful in the growth of roses, and 
can be used freely in the .perennial gar¬ 
den. Altogether it is one of the most 
satisfactory as well as one of the most 
economical forms of fertilizer of which 
the amateur can take advantage. 
The picture on page 1020 shows a con¬ 
venient portable ban-el for liquid manure. 
E. I. FARRINGTON. 
Pastoral Parson and His 
Country Folks 
A Fine Shower. —Here it is Sunday 
afternoon of July 13. The Parson would 
be on his way to a down-country meeting 
and Sunday school if it were not for this 
fine shower we are having. We needed it 
so much, though the crops have not really 
suffered, unless it was potatoes. They 
looked quite wilty yesterday, and as they 
are just past the blossom stage they ought 
to have rain. This shower will help them 
out. How all crops have grown this last 
week. Corn has fairly jumped. On the 
lower side of the Parson’s piece he put a 
5-10-5 fertilizer, and on the upper side he 
ran the same amount of phosphoric acid. 
It all had a fair coat of stable manure, 
and it all had a pinch of 5-10-5 on top of 
the hill before it came up. So far the part 
had the phosphorus looks fully as good as 
the other. It will be interesting to see 
how it. comes out. It looks like a poor 
corn crop out West, and high pricee for 
corn next year. A few spots on the upper 
side of George’s piece of corn are a little 
backward, and if we clean out the hen¬ 
houses tomorrow will scatter the load 
along in the corn where most needed. 
Haying Ael Done. —It has been a 
wonderful year to get the haying done in 
fine shape. No real need of getting any 
hay wet so far this year. We finished up 
what we had last night—all but mowing 
the swamp. We certainly hope to get 
this blown out this year. Of course it is 
the best land on the farm, if we could 
only drain it. Those who know say it 
would be a wonderful place for celery. 
We may get the geese down in there after 
we mow it. But really geese need good 
grass as well as anything. They will not 
eat much of that swamp grass. We have 
16 young ones. We lost one little one 
that got wet and cold one day in the rain. 
We give them no milk, and cornmeal 
mixed up thick in water has certainly 
been the best thing we have ever found. 
A Big Flock. —There is a man right 
up above here who wintered IS old geese, 
lie must have got nearly 300 eggs this 
Spring. But he lost a great many of 
these trying to hatch in an incubator. 
Out of 150 he only got three or four gos¬ 
lings. They seemed to be all ready to 
hatch and then just couldn’t get out of 
the shell. However the Parson saw 98 
goslings around the place at one time. 
Soon afterwards he advertised them in 
the local paper and he got from 00 cents 
to $1 each, according to the size. He 
told the Parson he could have sold three 
times as many, so great was the demand. 
The buyers seemed to be mostly Polish 
people from a nearby town. This man 
claimed he did very well indeed on these 
goslings, and the day-old gosling trade 
bids fair to take a big jump around here. 
Turkeys. —A woman down country got 
the Pareon to get her some turkey eggs. 
She got five nice young turkeys and they 
grew and got along good till about three 
weeks old ; then everyone of them died. A 
neighbor also hatched quite a number, 
but every single one died. In fact, every 
egg hatched and every young turk died. 
But there is a family away up on the hill 
above us that has 150 young turkeys, and 
another family still further out that has 
nearly 200, and they seem to be doing 
well. Will the old big flocks of turkeys 
come back to New England? The Par¬ 
son has cut out and saved all the articles 
he has seen in The R. N.-Y. about rais¬ 
ing turkeys, and he sent them to the 
woman who had five, but she seemed to 
have lost them all just the same. She did 
not try the ipecac treatment. 
To Columbus.— The Parson hopes to 
go out to Columbus, O., this Fall, to the 
Country Life Association meeting, just as 
he talked himself out and back to St. Louis 
last Fall. He will promise to tell The 
R. N.-Y. readers all about the meeting 
and his trip if they will help to arrange 
some speaking on the way. He talks for 
the collection, and never for a charged 
admission fee. He will probably go 
through New Jersey to Philadelphia, and 
then by way of the Pennsylvania Rail¬ 
way through Harrisburg and Pittsburgh 
to Columbus. He will give the dates 
more definitely in the next letter. Just 
write to the office of The R. N.-Y. He 
speaks next time in New Jersey on Sept. 
23, and could probably get in several 
nights more down there at that time if 
desired. He has also been asked to come 
to Vermont and speak, and if he had one 
or two more places he would take a trip 
up that way the latter part of August. 
New Jersey. —He has just been down 
in New Jersey again—in fact, he has 
been down there twice lately. He spoke 
at two ministers’ meetings in Y. M. C. 
A. camps, and also at the Assembly of 
the Baptist Young People of the State. 
This was at Hightstown, and we had 
about 250 young people there. We cer¬ 
tainly had a gx-eat time that night. The 
minister down in Jersey that got up and 
stalked out that night the Parson spoKe 
in his parish house is now said to be 
looking for another place. lie might as 
well. You cannot run churches along 
the old lines in these days, not unless 
you want to kill them off. The Parson 
had a wondei-ful supper hour in the 
home of one R. N.-Y. family down 
there. Seven children at the table, and 
one away. Such a fine family, and how 
hard they work. But they are paying off 
the mortgage now, and things are look¬ 
ing better. The lovely church life in this 
place where these people lived in a bene¬ 
diction. Their minister recently had a 
most flattering opportunity to go to a 
big city parish, but he chose to stay with 
his flock in the country that love him and 
that need him so much. A community- 
minded man in a community-minded 
church is a wonderful benediction. It 
adds to the value of everything, from liv¬ 
ing to land. As President Butterfield 
says, “There is a spiritual evaluation ot 
land,” and the question is being asked 
moi-e and more, “What kind of a village 
or neighborhood is this in which to bring 
up children?” as well as what crops can 
you raise and what can you get for them. 
Tying the First Brick. —While down 
that way the Parson heard about the old 
colored man who used to farm it. all week 
and then go to church and preach on Sun¬ 
day. The old mule used to work all the 
week, too, and sometimes got tired of 
standing outside the church during the 
old ministex-’s long sei-mon. The mule was 
very expert with his heels, as the old 
minister knew full well. One hot day 
when the mule was tired and the sermon 
long, a terrible braying took place right 
near the church window. The preacher 
waited, but it never seemed to stop. At 
last he looked over the pulpit and asked 
if there was anyone thei-e who knew how 
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Farm and Garden Notes 
The annual poultry show of the Cort- 
andt Fanciers’ Club will be held at 
Peek skill. N. Y., Nov. 26-29, Judges 
Davey, Anderson and Otle passing on the 
jxhibits. The secretary is E. N. Jewell, 
Et. F. D. 3. Peekskill, N. Y. 
The annual meeting of the New Jer- 
;ey State Horticultural Society will be 
ield in the Vernon Room of Haddon Hall, 
Vtlantic City, on Nov. 12, 13 and 14. 
File exhibit will be staged on the Steel 
Pier in connection with the State exhibit 
index- the direction of the State Grange, 
die meetings will be held during the 
veek that the National Grange is hold- 
ng its annual meeting in Atlantic City. 
Secretary II. II. Albertson, Burlington, 
V. ,T. 
Annual field day of the Connecticut 
Agricultural Experiment Station at the 
Vlt. Carinel Farm will be held Monday, 
August 11. Following the usual custom 
xf featuring one phase of agriculture, 
special emphasis this year will be laid on 
he fruit industry. The Station is join- 
ng with the American romological So- 
“iety, whose trip is scheduled to reach the 
'arm at noon. Basket lunch will be fol- 
owed by a joint program of unusual in- 
;erest. 
Tuesday, August 5, has been set for the 
xnnual field day at the Connecticut To- 
xacco Station at Windsor. In addition 
:o the usual inspection of the experi- 
nents in progress, a program has been 
ii-ranged, including addresses by Dr. 
lohnson of Wisconsin and Dr. P. J. 
Anderson of Massachusetts. All inter- 
■sted in tobacco are cordially invited to 
ittend. 
Fruit Growers Meeting 
The Loeuet Hill Fruit Farm, of 
Charles Wilson and Bruce Jones, at Hall, 
N. Y., has been selected as the scene of 
the Summer meeting of the New York 
State Horticultural Society, on Wednes¬ 
day, July 30. Mr. Wilson, president of 
the society, has announced tentative plans 
for the event, and urges all fruit growers 
interested in the program to come. Judg¬ 
ing from the attendance at fox-mer Sum¬ 
mer meetings, some 1,500 growers are ex¬ 
pected. 
In addition to a business session of the 
society, and talks by noted personages in 
the State, the plans include such educa¬ 
tional features as demonstrations of prac¬ 
tical spraying and dusting with several 
types of appax-atus, explanations of spray¬ 
ing and dusting experiments in progress 
in the Wilson and Jones orchard under 
the direction of specialists at the Experi¬ 
ment Station at Geneva, pruning dem¬ 
onstrations by representatives of the col¬ 
lege at Ithaca, an inspection of a modern 
packing plant, and other items of interest 
to fruit gi-owers. 
The day will not be devoted entirely to 
study, however, as elaborate plans are be¬ 
ing outlined for the entertainment of the 
fruit men and their families In the after¬ 
noon with a baseball game and other 
sports. The ladies of one of the local 
churches will serve the visitors with a 
hot dinner. 
Michigan Pickles 
If you wish some easily made pickles 
that are extra nice, out of the ordinary, 
and good keepers, tx-y the following: 
Peel one peck onions and slice in one- 
half inch thick slices, wash and slice an 
equal amount of green tomatoes about 
the same thickness, putting alternate lay¬ 
ers of each in any large jar, sprinkling 
each layer with salt, using one teacup to 
this amount. Cover jar with a plate 
and let stand over night, invert the jar in 
the morning and allow the brine to run 
off. When well drained cover with cold 
vinegar, sweetened and spiced to taste, 
weight down the plate and use as needed. 
These pickles will keep for months and 
make delicious sandwiches. I use' more 
onions than tomatoes, as we like the 
onions better. mrs. m. Kennedy. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 26, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
The Easiest Cover Crop.1021, 1022 
Estimating Cost of Farm Buildings. 1022 
Talk About a Hay Loader. 1023 
Calcium Cyanide, the New Poison. 1023 
Hope Farm Notes. 1026 
Markets and Prices Demoralized. 1029 
Where Can He Get Credit?. 1033 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Meeting of the Milk Committee. 1029 
Oxen and Other Power. 1034 
Feeding Under Summer Conditions. 1034 
Grain with Poor Pasture. 1034 
Ration Lacks Protein. 1034 
THE HENYARD 
New Jersey Egg Contest.1036 
Stands By Runner Ducks. 1036 
Testing Hens for Bacillary White Diarrhoea 1037 
Lame Ducklings . 1037 
Salt and Hens.1037 
HORTICULTURE 
Grafting Cherries and Grapes on Wild 
Stock; Rust on Raspberry.1022 
Apple Prospects in the Hudson Valley. 1029 
The Fruit Exhibit at Rochester. 1029 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Pastoral Parson .1024, 1026 
Reflections of an Old School Teacher.. 1025 
More Desirable than Money. 1025 
Picnic in the Woods. 1025 
Paying Board for a Boy. 1025 
Removing Lime from Teakettle....1025 
A Farm Woman’s Notes. 1033 
Boys and Girls.1030, 1031, 1036 
The Home Dressmaker. 1032 
Bread Making and Boys. 1032 
Mincemeat . 1032 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A Rural Schoolhouse in New York State... 1021 
Editorials . 1028 
The Migrating Negroes.. . 1029 
Publisher’s Desk . 1038 
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