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August 9, 1924 
KELLYS' 
CzAtigiaas 
True to Name Fruit Trees 
Reliable for 44 Years 
Kellys’ Trees are all sturdy, healthy, 
perfect specimens, well-rooted. We 
guarantee that every tree will satisfy 
you perfectly. Varieties for every 
locality and condition of soil. 
Send for Catalog 
Put your name on our mailing list. Our 
fall catalog lists apples, and other fruits 
as well as shrubs, roses, grapevines 
and ornamental trees. 
Kelly Bros. Nurseries 
1160 Main Street 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Established 
in 1880 
Wtifiaf 
¥ f Hoffmans Seeds pav\ 
“Leap’s Prolific’’— heavy- 
yielding beardless variety. 
Large dark berry, hard- 
millers like it. Many customers 
report yields from 40 to 45 bu. 
per acre. Tall, stiff straw—will 
not lodge. Great stooler—you 
need sow only \A bu. per acre— 
a big saving. 
Our Fall Catalog describes this and six other 
good varieties. Also “Northwest” brand Alfalfa- 
genuine American northern grown. Write for 
Catalog and Samples—both free. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc., Box 15, Landisville, Lane.Co., Pa. 
Bye 
Timothy 
Alfalfa. 
FRUIT TREES 
Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum and Cherry Trees 
Also GRAPE VINES ami other small fruits, bred and 
grown from true-to-name orchard bearing trees, and 
sold to the planter at lowest possible prices. Write 
for Illustrated descriptive catalogue and price list. 
BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES, Box 166, Princess Anne, Md. 
TREES & PLANTS 
Thousands of Fruit Trees, 
Evergreens, Shrubbery, 
Barberry, Privet, etc. Highest quality direct to you at 
materially reduced prices. Large assortment- 
WESTMINSTER NURSERY,Desk 1 29, Westminster, Md. 
PLANTS F0R sALE G cE s LE « Y ^ TE c R « B Q B u fl E^: 
*. WHITE PLUME. PINK PLUME. 100— 
50c; 500—#58 ; 1 . 000 —@3. CABBAGE. 100 —40e; 
500—Wl; 1.000-S2. Post Paid. 
W. S. FOltL) & SON Hartly, Delaware 
BERRY&FLOWER PLANTS 
Pofrgrown Strawberry plants for August and Fall plant¬ 
ing ; runner Strawberry plants. Raspberry, Blackberry, 
Gooseberry, Loganberry, Currant, Grapo plants for Sep¬ 
tember and October planting ; Delphinium, Hollyhock, 
Foxglove, Columbine, Canterbury Bells, Oriental Pop¬ 
py, Phlox and many other hardy perennial flower plants 
for Summer and Fall planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Hampton Bays, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRY 17, Sample, Dunlap 
Pot-grown, Howard 
PLANTS 
GKO. AIKEN Box M 
and Success, $1.25 per 25 ; 
$4 per 100 ; $55 per 1,000. 
Putney, Vermont 
timothy seed 
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Few dealei . s can 
equal Metcalf’s Recleaned Timothy 90.70JS pure. S4.50 
per bushel of 45 lbs. Metcalf’s T i m o t h y and Alsike 
Mixed, at SS OO per bu. of 45 lbs. Cotton bags free and 
freight paid ill fi bu. lots. Ask for seed catalogue. 
B. F. METCALF & SON, Inc. 
202-204 W. Genesee St. Syracuse, N. Y. 
3 Peonies, 3,0 L st IS eyes 
5 Iris, 5 Sweet William Plants 
(perennials). All above different colors. 
Sept.-Oct. delivery, with culture direct¬ 
ions. $3.00 delivered. 
H. R. Brate Lakcmont, N. Y. 
3 Peonies, 3 ,!?! 
all different, delivered Sept, or 
v Oct., 3rd zone, lor $3 with or¬ 
der. PARKER’S PEONY FARM, Fayetteville, N.Y 
This is a good time to seed Alfalfa. It pays to get 
the best seed to be had—onr “Northwest” brand. 
Genuine American Northern Seed, grown where only 
hardy plants can live. Surest to catch 
and hold. Sold on a Money-back 
Guarantee. Good Alfalfa Seed is 
scarce this Fall—better make sure of 
yours now. 
Also double cleaned Seed Wheat, pure 
and true to name-6 varieties. Timothy and 
Rosen Rye. Write today for Catalog and 
Samplcs—both free. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, INC. 
Box is, Landisville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
^STmtn FRUIT PACKAGES 
^f®pf AND BASKETS 
Peach, Grape, Berry Baskets, 
Apple Boxes, Raskets and Hampers. Corrugated 
Apple Barrel Caps and Cushions. 
Writs for free catalog 
COLES & COMPANY 
229-230 West Street New York City 
tical operations in the most practical and 
business-like manner possible. In no 
other way can the college fully meet the 
problems set before it. Nevertheless it is 
quite clear that no institution under State 
control can ever have this freedom. There 
are always so many restrictions, rules, 
regulations, law« and indirect interfer¬ 
ences that no department of any such 
college can ever produce and market its 
products to practical advantage. Of 
course, this operates as a serious handi¬ 
cap upon the work of the colleges; but, 
curiously enough, those persons who most 
frequently criticize the colleges as im¬ 
practical are the very ones who wish to 
impose new regulations upon them. On 
the whole, it seems that everybody will 
have to be satisfied with qualified results. 
FRANK A. WAUGH. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
It. N.-Y.—It seems from the item on 
page 1010 that the question did get into 
the Minnesota courts, where it was de¬ 
cided that a public institution could not 
interfere with private trade. 
Farmers’ Week at Durham, 
N. H. 
Sessions will be held at the University 
of New Hampshire Aug. 12-15. The meet¬ 
ings are free to the public and the uni¬ 
versity is throwing open its dormitories 
without any room-rent charge to those 
who bring their own bedding. The pro¬ 
gram is as follows: 
Tuesday, Aug. 12—Meetings of New 
Hampshire Poultry Growers’ Association, 
State Parent-Teachers’ Association (even¬ 
ing), State Law Enforcement Associa¬ 
tion. 
Wednesday, Aug. 13—Meetings of New 
Hampshire Horticultural Society, State 
Federation of Women’s Clubs, State Seed 
Producers’ Association. Evening enter¬ 
tainment. 
Thursday, Aug. 14—Meetings of Gran¬ 
ite State Dairymen’s Association, State 
Beekeepers’ Association, conferences on 
efficient crop production and forestry. 
Health day. Evening discussion of dairy 
marketing. 
Friday, Aug. 15—Meeting of New 
Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation. 
Homemakers’ morning session. General 
afternoon program—Original farmers’ 
show, “The Fall and Rise of New Hamp¬ 
shire Agriculture”; addresses by Presi¬ 
dent Iletzel. Governor Brown, President 
O. E. Bradfute of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation, and National Grange 
Master L. J. Taber. 
Throughout the week the boys’ and 
girls’ clubs of the State will hold their 
annual Junior Camp and Short Course, 
with two delegates from each standard 
club. Visiting boys and girls are wel¬ 
come to attend these sessions. 
Countrywide Situation 
MONTH OF LOW PRICES ; GOOD MARKET 
OUTLOOK FOR STAPLE CROPS. 
July was a month of low prices for 
vegetables and fruits. In leading ship¬ 
ping sections, potatoes were selling at 
$2 a barrel, peaches $1 a bushel, canta¬ 
loupes 75c a crate, large melons averaged 
about 10c each by the carload. Most 
prices in the city markets were not high. 
Apples ranged there from $1 to $2 per 
bushel, cabbage 50e to $1.50 per barrel, 
lettuce 50c to $1.50 per crate, onions $1 
to $2 per bushel. A few distant or out 
of season products made better quota¬ 
tions, like Jersey tomatoes, $4 to $5 per 
% crate; California lettuce, $4 to $8 per 
crate, Virginia Newtown Pippins $5 to$6 
per barrel. The great bulk of the truck 
crops have been selling low because the 
late season bunched together shipments 
from many regions and overloaded the 
markets. 
BUTTER—WHEAT OUTLOOK 
With the world’s wheat crop so far 
known 10 per cent less than in 1928, 
and the probable demand about the same, 
it looks as though the present higher level 
of wheat prices might be sustained. 
Among the questions still to be answered 
is whether higher foreign prices will re¬ 
duce the demand mpeh, whether the cold 
dry weather in Canada will cut the drop 
further of this most important competi¬ 
tor, and whether Australia and Argentina 
will have much of a wheat crop. Then, 
there is the Russian wheat mystery; 
starving on.e year and flooding Europe’s 
markets with grain a year or two later. 
There are stories of Russian Govern¬ 
ment graft and mismanagement in the 
grain export business that make our oil 
scandals look mild in comparison, but 
with or without Russian surplus wheat, 
there will be less wheat and rye to be 
sold according to the world’s present crop 
outlook. 
Russian butter anyhow will cut more 
of a figure in the world’s market than for 
some years past. Exports are expected 
to reach 48 million pounds, four times 
last year’s exports, hut still only one- 
quarter of the pre-war figures. It is re¬ 
ported the thrifty Danes are buying 
cheap Russian butter to use at home, so 
as to be able to sell more of their own 
fancy product. Their plan is like that 
of the Yankee dairyman who eats oleo 
and sells butter, if that story is more 
than a rumor. Farmers who do not use 
plenty of their own best products are 
missing half the fun, and the easiest half 
for them to get, 
COTTON DOUBTFUL 
The cotton outlook is uncertain, as 
suggested by the jumpy actions of the 
cotton market. Acreage was large, but 
the wet cold weather in the South held 
back the crop and encouraged weeds. 
A long season will be needed to make a 
good cotton crop in the northern part 
of the belt. Probably a medium crop will 
result. Great shortage and high prices 
are very undesirable 'in the long run. 
The rest of the world would develop 
great competition with half a dozen years 
of encouraging high prices. The old 
period of 5 to 10c cotton almost starved 
the South, but it gave American cotton 
the markets of the world and prepared 
the way for the best times the South 
ever had. G. B. F. 
The Rockhill “Everbearing” 
Strawberry 
This variety or rather its curious be¬ 
havior will go down into horticultural 
history as the great mystery. Last year 
it was heralded as the great Fall or ever- 
bearing variety and widely distributed. 
There was no reasonable question about 
the way it acted on the originator’s 
grounds, yet when widely distributed in 
various parts of the country it failed 
utterly as a Fall variety. In most cases 
it gave no fruit at all last season when 
those who bought it expected a full crop 
from August to October. This Spring 
these plants bloomed like any other June 
variety and gave a heavy crop. As 
usually reported to us the berries were 
not high class—in fact quite inferior. We 
have obtained opinions and reports from 
many horticultural experts and practical 
growers but no one seems able to explain 
the mystery. That it is a mysterious dis¬ 
appearance of a definite trait or habit 
seems quite clear from the following let¬ 
ter from Mr. Rockhill dated July 19 and 
he offers proof on his own grounds. We 
sent Mr. Rockhill several reports from 
our readers—all to the effect that the 
variety proved worthless: 
Such reports are certainly discouraging. 
I am very sorry for everyone concerned 
in those Michigan grown plants. As long 
as the variety stands by me and makes 
good both as a Spring and a Fall bearer 
I am going to stand by the variety. Its 
behavior here makes it impossible for me 
to back down an inch or retract a single 
word that I have ever said in its favor. 
Three rows ten rods long have fruited 
and are still fruiting berries for the table 
(July 19). For a combination of size, 
form, color, quality and productiveness 
I have seen nothing to surpass the Rock¬ 
hill. In an adjoining row was Howard 
17, Ben Special, Early Jersey Giant, Joe, 
and Progressive. These varieties all gave 
good crops of fancy fruit. Can’t you 
come or send a representative between 
August 15 and October 20 to inspect my 
place. I will be glad to show you. Not 
a plant of Rockhill has been found here 
going wrong. Runners of fruiting plants 
are full of bloom. First crop pinched off 
Spring set plants, more next week. 
Iowa. HARLOW ROCKHILL. 
How Not to Ask Questions 
I am planning on buying a 200-acre 
farm. Would you kindly advise me as to 
where you think the best place is to lo¬ 
cate for farming. I would like to know 
of some place in the United States where 
there is not much danger of hailstorms, 
winds, etc., which tend to make farm- 
life hateful. I am thinking of raising 
pigs, chickens, goats, and to have a dairy, 
so you see one has to be particular where 
he settles. J. s. 
California. 
There is no reason why we should 
print such a question except to show 
what some of our readers ask for. Of 
course uo sane person would attempt to 
give an opinion. The United States is 
too large and its soil and farm conditions 
are too varied for us to select any 200- 
acres for a stranger about whom we know 
nothing. We agree fully with the state¬ 
ment made in inquirer’s last sentence and 
we hardly care to be made the last named 
animal lie thinks of keeping. We are al¬ 
ways glad to help our readers whenever 
we can. That is what we are here for— 
but people must put their questions into 
definite shape before we can answer them. 
There could be no answer to such a ques¬ 
tion as the above that could possibly get 
us anywhere. 
Burn Out Stumps 
I saw on page 983 L. O. H. wishes 
to know how to remove some stumps in 
his front yard. If they are solid bore a 
hole with a 2-in. auger about 12 in. deep; 
fill the hole with saltpeter. Then pour 
kerosene on the saltpeter to fill to the 
top and drive a plug in the hole so no 
water will leak in and leave until next 
Spring. By that time the saltpeter will 
penetrate ail the roots. Next Spring take 
the plug out, fill the hole with kerosene, 
touch a match to it, and it will burn 
until all the roots burn out. Have the 
hole in the heart of the stump. 
CHAS. LORCH. 
R. N.-Y.—No doubt Mr. Lorch speaks 
from experience. We have never been 
able to burn a stump rapidly in this way. 
Kudzu in the Hudson Valley 
I have a pasture growing up to hushes 
and running out fast. I am thinking of 
setting out kudzu. What is your advice? 
This pasture is across the highway and 
separate from my working land. Will 
kudzu cross the highway, and also will 
it go through stone walls and run for 
half a mile? Is there any way of keep¬ 
ing it under control and what is its feed¬ 
ing value? F. w. s. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
As far north as you are kudzu plant¬ 
ing will be a gamble. We have reports 
of success with this plant as an orna¬ 
mental vine as far north as Albany but 
so far as we know it has not been grown 
as a farm or fodder crop in that section. 
Crops have been reported from Connecti¬ 
cut. We have a few plants still growing 
in Northern New Jersey. The chief 
difficulty is to get the live roots from the 
South and keep them safely until plant¬ 
ing time in the North. 
It is not likely that kudzu could estab¬ 
lish itself in such a pasture as you de¬ 
scribe. We find that the ground must be 
fitted for it and cultivated the first sea¬ 
son, otherwise the little roots which come 
out at the joints—somewhat like those 
on squash vines—can hardly take hold of 
the land. When once well-established it 
will hold the land. 
We have had little difficulty in killing 
out the crop by ordinary plowing and 
cultivating. It will not work through a 
stone wall or cross a road if ordinary 
care is taken. It is quite equal to Al¬ 
falfa in feeding value. We think it will 
prove more useful for pasture than for 
hay, as it is not easy to cut the vines 
with a mower. There is no sure thing 
about cultivating kudzu north of Phila¬ 
delphia but we think it will pay any stock 
farmer to experiment with a few roots. 
Hot Water for Plant Lice 
I note .several inquiries in regard to 
green lice on rose bushes. We have used 
a very simple remedy which has proved 
a complete success, for the time being at 
least. We have poured water at 120 de¬ 
grees temperature on them and washed 
them off, and see no ill effects yet on the 
rose bushes. It will take lots of water if 
you have many bushes to do a good job. 
Would advise others to try it on a few 
bushes. c. c. F. 
New York. 
R. N.-Y.—This treatment is found sat¬ 
isfactory with many plants, but do not 
guess at the temperature and cook them. 
First Sportsman : “ ’Ow much did 
that bass weigh you caught on Wednes¬ 
day ” Second Sportsman (guardedly) : 
“Same as it weighed when I told yer be¬ 
fore. It ain’t shrunk.”—London Punch. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUG. 9, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Keeping- Up Fertility. 1065 
Talk About Cover Crops. 1067 
Hope Farm Notes.. 1072 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Milk Situation. 1075 
Ration with Brewery Grains. 1078 
Feeding Holstein Herd. 1078 
Heavy Shrink in Milk. 1078 
THE HENYARD 
Stale Bread for Hens. 1081 
Limberneck ... 1081 
Wyandotte Pullet . 1081 
Sod Poultry-house ... 1081 
Egg-laying Contest . 1081 
HORTICULTURE 
Starting Strawberry Bed. 1066 
Home Berry Supply . 1067 
Galls on Grapes . 1069 
Gum on Cherry Trees. 1069 
Pollination of Sweet Cherries. 1069 
Foliage Injury to Pear and Apple. 1069 
Grapes Fail to Grow. 1069 
Apricots Fail to Bear. 1069 
Beetles Injure Strawberries. 1073 
European Elm Scale . 1073 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1076 
Patterns for Children’s Clothes. 1076 
Notes from Vermont . 1076 
Letter from Indiana Farmer. 1076 
The Rural Patterns . 1076 
Irish Bread . 1076 
Com Custard . 1076 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Japanese Exclusion Act. 1066 
Selling Goods by Public Institutions. 1067 
Where Farm Advertising Failed. 1071 
Value of Interesting Letter. 1071 
Insects in Telephone Poles...,. 1073 
Editorials . 1074 
School Consolidation . 1075 
Child Labor Law . 1075 
Rounding Up Auto Hogs. 1075 
Successful Co-operation . 1075 
Lightning Protection . 1080 
Stucco Over Weatherboards . 1080 
Pumping from Well . 1080 
Ce-mparison of Field Stone and Concrete... 1080 
Questions About Water Main. 1080 
Publisher’s Desk . 1082 
