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7*t RURAL NEW-YORKER 
again. Seed to oats and Alfalfa in 
Spring of 1926. Would this be the best 
way to go at it? How much ground lime 
shall I use? How much oats and Alfalfa 
to the acre? What kind of Alfalfa? 
Where can I get the best seed? How in¬ 
oculate and where get the stuff? Th’s 
field has cut heavy crops of common 
clover and Timothy during 1922 and 
1923, not so good this season, too cold 
and dry. Will Sweet clover thrive in 
ordinary fields without inoculation? I 
have been told it would, and so prepare 
the way for Alfalfa. Is it true? 
Schoharie Co., N. Y. D. J. P. 
Your land appears to be somewhat 
adapted to Alfalfa, as is indicated by 
the appearance of a few plants in the 
clover seedings. Obtain representative 
samples of the surface soil of-the field 
in question. These may be procured by 
the use of a spade. It wbuld be well to ' 
have about six samples obtained at dif¬ 
ferent portions of the field (six inches 
deep). Number these so that you can 
readily identify them and mail them to 
Prof. E. L. Worthen, Agronomy Depart¬ 
ment, Cornell University, requesting that 
he .notify you how much lime you should 
use per acre for Alfalfa growing. Plow 
this Fall and work it heavily next 
Spring. Lime and manure this Winter, 
being careful that manure is free .of 
weeds. If the soil is of prood fertility it 
might be well not to manure at all, but 
apply lime in the Spring. Millets will 
hold weeds in subjection, and your plan 
of utilizing them is feasible. You could 
seed with oats and Alfalfa in the Spring 
of 1926. In that case, I would not lime 
when fitting the ground for millet, but 
would apply the lime to the ground in 
the Winter of 1926. Two bushels of 
oats and 15 to 20 lbs. of Alfalfa seed 
should be used. 
Grimm Alfalfa is the hardiest strain 
and lias given good results in your coun¬ 
ty. Ontario Variegated Alfalfa is also 
exceptionally good for your territory. If 
you do not procure either of these va¬ 
rieties, be positive that you have gen¬ 
uine northwestern Alfalfa seed. 
Don’t gamble on your seed by running 
any risk of unknowingly using foreign 
grown or southern grown seed. It. is 
well worth extra care to get genuine 
Grimm or Ontario Variegated Alfalfa 
seed. You mav procure inoculating ma¬ 
terial from Cornell University or from 
reliable manufacturers and distributors. 
By all means inoculate the seed as it 
may be the one factor that stands be¬ 
tween you and success. 
Seeding in 1925, unless you want to 
grow millet on this land, there is really 
no necessity of this procedure. You 
could plow the land this Fall, lime this 
Winter and work heavily next Spring. 
Harrow regularly about once per week 
or 10 days to keep the surface soil friable 
and free’ of weeds. Seeding can be made 
in July or early August without a nurse 
crop. The above plan is one of the 
safest and surest methods to follow. 
Most important features for Alfalfa 
success are: 1. Sweet soil (1 % to 2 tons 
ground limestone). 2. Well-prepared 
seed bed (firm below and loose on top). 
3. Genuine Grimm or Ontario Variegated 
Alfalfa seed of high purity and germina¬ 
tion. 4. Seed shallow. Many failures 
result from seeding too deep. Seed should 
be merely covered by moist earth. 
Sweet clover requires about the same 
conditions as Alfalfa except that it will 
stand more hardship. Sweet clover will 
inoculate the land for Alfalfa, but nowa¬ 
days it is so easy to procure the proper 
bacteria at a very low expense that it is 
cheaper and wiser to use the prepared 
culture. It is a good practice when 
growing either Sweet clover. Alfalfa or 
Soy beans for the first time to inoculate 
the seed with fresh culture. Once the 
land has grown these crops it is no long¬ 
er necessary to inoculate the seed. 
A. L. B. 
Farm and Garden Notes 
The New Hampshire Horticultural So¬ 
ciety will hold its annual meeting and ex¬ 
hibition at Rochester, N. H., Nov. 5-7. 
Exhibition at City Hall. Meetings in 
Methodist vestry. Banquet Wednesday 
evening, Nov. 5, Masonic Hall. Rochester 
Provision and Fruit Company, 7 Signal 
St., will store early fruits or vegetables 
for the exhibition, without charge to the 
exhibitors. Jas. A. Tufts, Jr., secretary, 
Exeter, N. H. 
The ninth annual convention of the In¬ 
ternational Baby Chick Association was 
held in Chicago during the week Aug. 
5-8. Prof. Harry R. Lewis, who has been 
president for three years, declined re- 
election. Gilbert R. Spitzer of Harrison¬ 
burg, Va., was elected to succeed Prof. 
Lewis. Victor G. Aubry. 126 Liberty St.., 
N. Y., elected managing director. The exec¬ 
utive committee is composed of Harry R. 
Lewis, Davisville, R. I. ; Geo. Cugly, 
Springfield, O., and Z. C. Drumm, Rose- 
mont, N. J. Saturday, Aug. 9, immedi¬ 
ately following the adjournment of the 
convention, a national poultry conference 
was conducted to consider the formation 
of a National Poultry Council. This 
meeting was attended by delegates and 
representatives from practically every 
poultry organization, and those of the al¬ 
lied industries in the United States. The 
poultry industry is one of America’s lead¬ 
ing agricutural pursuits; the products 
produced last year totaling more than 
$1,250,000,000. That this industry should 
have some central head through which the 
many big national poultry problems may 
receive consideration and prompt action 
was appreciated by all, and the confer¬ 
ence perfected the preliminary organiza¬ 
tion of a National Poultry Council. Tem¬ 
porary constitution was adopted, and the 
following: President, Harry R. Lewis, 
Davisville, R. I.; first vice-president, 
Dwight E. Hale, Glennellyn, Ill. ; second 
vice-president, George Cugley, Springfield, 
O. ; secretary, Dr. M. A. .Tull, senior poul¬ 
try husbandry, United States Department 
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and 
treasurer, Grand M. Curtis, Dayton, O. 
These temporary officers will endeavor to 
perfect a permanent organization within 
the next few months. 
Pastoral Parson and His 
Country Folks 
Actually a Rainy Day. —Here it is, a 
rainy day—the first since anyone can re¬ 
member. Yet we have had some good 
showers to help out; one on July 31, and 
another just a week later. The last one 
was good here, but only local, and did 
not touch many parts of the State. It 
was accompanied by such hail and wind 
in many places that it about finished up 
what the drought had begun with some 
crops. But really people are generally 
more scared than hurt at such a time. 
The early potato crop here is very poor, 
but the late potatoes ought to come on 
now. It has rained away steadily now 
for nearly four hours. Why the Parson’s 
potatoes do not seem to have dried up us 
badly as most potatoes around here he 
cannot account for, unless it is because 
he does not hill up like most folks. Our 
land passes for very dry, and we never 
hill up anything we raise on it, chiefly 
on account of this fact. This land never 
bakes down, or bakes up, whichever way 
you put it. Many claim that this baked 
low land is worse for a crop than soft 
and mellow land that is much drier. 
The R. F. D.—George has just arrived 
with the mail. He went with the big car 
today, as it is raining. For over a month 
he has never had but a half-hour shower 
while he has been on the road. Such lit¬ 
tle rain as came was in the afternoon. 
He likes the work and has one more week 
at it. The Parson went with him the 
other day. There are over 200 boxes on 
that route, and such a lot of mail. We 
have never had our name on our box, but 
the Parson is going to put it there. You 
cannot guess what a help it is to a sub¬ 
stitute. These men certainly earn their 
money, and do for the most part a thou¬ 
sand and one things for accommodation 
that they do not have to. Why should 
some people always try to make then- 
work harder? lake a parish, there is al¬ 
ways someone looking to kick up a fuss 
and a great stew about nothing. At first 
with such people one generally takes ex¬ 
tra pains, but they keep on so unreason¬ 
ably one gets into the attitude: “Well, I 
don’t care if that bundle from the mail 
order house has not shown up. They are 
always stewing about something here, 
anyway, and it might kill ’em if they did 
not have something to fuss over.” Mrs. 
Parson was a little upset the other day 
when a woman ’phoned and informed her 
flatly, with no “ifs” nor “ands,” that “her 
son had stolen $10 from a registered let¬ 
ter.” She raved and ranted and talked 
so fast that Mrs. Parson did not under¬ 
stand all she said, whic-h was probably 
just as well, and better. George only 
grinned when told about it, and found no 
trouble in showing that the delay in the 
receipt was absolutely this woman s 
fault. When the woman finds out that 
it is her fault, do you suppose she will 
come out to the mail box and tell him so? 
The Parson imagines a R. F. D. man 
could tell a minister an awful lot about 
human nature—in fact, an awful lot 
about his parishioners—if he had a mind 
to. ... 
City Children. —Here it is still rain¬ 
ing, and it now seems to come from the 
east; that is supposed to mean three days 
of it. There is quite a racket down on 
the front porch, and that is because there 
are three little children there, instead of 
just Ta. The Parson will not go into 
details, but a couple of city children were 
sort of wished on us, and Mrs. Parson’s 
heart would not turn them away. They 
are interesting in more ways than one. 
What kind of a product does servant 
bringing up produce? Well, you cannot 
lay down a rule from two cases, but. these 
children are just the sort that the Parson 
would expect from the way they have 
been brought up. Fussy over their food ! 
That is no name for it. Always want 
something they haven’t got; then stick 
out their lips and pout and pout. As 
for honesty, well, they may not be to 
blame; they do not know what. truth is, 
but they do know that a lie is a very 
present help in time of trouble. Into 
everything! How mad it makes Mrs. 
Parson to have someone around who is 
always rummaging. The girl—six—is de¬ 
termined to be into everything, and is all 
over everything. When with you it seems 
as though she must always be doing 
something that puts her right in the way, 
right under foot. Fortunately Ta does 
not seem to be given so far to copying 
these traits; possibly because he cannot 
help seeing that the way of the trans¬ 
gressor is hard. 
Credit or Cash. —The Parson had al¬ 
ways thought that when people came out 
from the city and got boarded in the 
country, or had their children boarded, 
that there was not any question about 
getting the money. Back on the Lonely 
Road there is a sort of innate feeling 
that all the city people have barrels of 
money and the country folks have little 
or none. But lately the Parson is get¬ 
ting shaky as to these city people paying 
so promptly. Only a little while ago the 
Parson heard of a case where a woman 
on a farm had hard work to get the 
money from city boarders due her. We 
are supposed to have pay for these two 
children here. The people have money 
enough (or gall enough) to hire a great 
automobile, with two colored men to run 
it, and come away up from New York to 
see the children when they want to, but it 
is the hardest work to get any money out 
of them, all sorts of stories and promises 
amounting to little. Twice silk stock¬ 
ings have come by mail for the children 
to wear on the farm—instead of money 
to pay for what they eat. Anyone will 
say nowadays that the rich are the slow¬ 
est to pay. A young fellow, a friend of 
the boys, has gone into the garage busi¬ 
ness for himself. How hard he works, 
and yet the way the people will not pay 
him for his honest work is terrible. This 
boy literally made over a great truck for 
a man, laying out himself over $200 for 
the new parts, and spent no end of time 
on it, and the fellow drove off with it, 
and all he has ever got was promises. It 
would appear that one reason why garage 
men just have to ask so much is that so 
many people do not pay them that they 
have got to get so much more from those 
that do pay. It is now talked that coun¬ 
try people must require pay in advance 
for all boarders, and it may come to that 
yet. It is now a few days since the 
above was written, and Mrs. Parson has 
written to these children’s folks to come 
and get them and bring the money due— 
over $50. It will be interesting to see 
what their next move will be. 
Earning It Twice. —That is just 
about what it amounts to in so many 
cases today. The Parson was staying 
with a family down country last night. 
This man worked hard and got out ties 
to meet a payment coming due in the 
Spring. He had 300 ties. The New 
Haven Railroad is so deadly slow in pay¬ 
ing that he sold to a man who would 
draw them from the roadside instead. 
But this man has proven even worse. He 
has had to chase after it, and chase after 
it, and then get a little at a time. It has 
been terribly hard for this man, and may 
be the straw that breaks the camel’s back 
and pushes him off the farm. If people 
would only pay their bills, especially 
those who are abundantly able, and these 
are generally the very ones who are the 
slowest about it. The Parson has had 
some wonderful ex-periences of his own 
along this line, but perhaps he would bet¬ 
ter not enter into details here. 
Away to School. —'George may break 
away from the family circle and go away 
to school this Fall. He has a wonderful 
chance to stay with relatives in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., and go to a technical high 
(Continued on Page 1141) 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUG. 30, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Renewing an Old Meadow.1126 
Statement of an Alfalfa Problem.. .1127, 1128 
Farm Labor and Immigration.1129 
Hope Farm Notes . 1130 
Cfop Notes . 1136 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The New England Milk Problem... 1133 
THE HENYARD 
Chickens Eat Feathers. 1140 
Trouble with Ducks.,. 1140 
Drugs for Poultry. 1140 
Blackhead in Turkeys....,. 1140 
Connecticut Egg-laying Contest. 1140 
HORTICULTURE 
Three Things Necessary to Gardening Sue- 
Summer Horticultural Gatherings in Penn¬ 
sylvania, New Jersey, New York, Con¬ 
necticut ... 1127 
MISCELLANEOUS 
That ‘‘Electric Conductor” Finding Water, 1126 
Wholesale Distribution ’of Mail. 1126 
Elevator in Farmhouse. 1126 
Boys and Girls.1134, 1135 
A Farm Woman’s Notes. 1136 
The Home Dressmaker . 1137 
Fair Deals for Florida Tourists. 1129 
The ”S. L. M, Club”. 1129 
Let Children be "Country Minded”..,. 1129 
Clean the Ears. 1131 
Cramps in the Water... 1131 
Septic Tank Disposal. 1131 
Notes on Blood Transfusion. 1131 
Editorials. 1132 
A Book About Old Times. 1133 
Fire and Robbery . 1133 
More About that Child Labor Amendment.. 1133 
Publisher’s Desk . 1142 
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