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Dansville, N. Y. 
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RHUBARB roots ; Hardy Perennial flower plants for 
Septembei and October planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY E. SQUIRES Hampton Bays, N. Y. 
iris and Peonies 
W. H. TOPPIN 
Write for prices. 15 Iris, prepaid, $1. 
i Peonies, prepaid. $1 
McrchantvKIle, New Jersey 
SEED R Y E- Russian Pitkus 
Hank grower. Big yielder. Great cover crop. 2-5 bu., 
$1.80 per l>u. Larger lots. $1.20: bagged and shipped. 
Cash with order. Cloverdale Farm, Charlotte, N.Y. 
build- 
Fnr^aln Form con,a,nin 9 2,0 Acres, good 
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ALL WOOL YARN 
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FOR SALE. From manufacturer. 
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Sunbeam Pipeless Furnaces 
AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION CO. Toms River. N. J. 
Agents Wanted ifbl™!co k mm™ Feeding Molasses 
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Commercial Poultry Raising 
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Established 
in 1880 
$1.00 SPECIALS forSEPTEMBER 
Peonies. 2 for #1.00 
6 Canterbury Hells (white and blue) 1.00 
10 Sweet William—4 colors. . 1.00 
5 Oriental Poppies (Scarlet). 1.00 
5 Iris—All different. 1.00 
8 Forget-Me-Not. 1.00 
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H. R. BRATE - LAKEMOUT, N. Y. 
Strawberries 
Raspberries 
Grapes, etc. 
for 
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is frozen solid 
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Also GRAPE VINES and other small fruits, bred and 
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BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES. Box 266. Princess Anne, Md. 
CONCORD GRAPE Vines 
2-years-old, #9 per 100; one-year vines, #6 per 100; 
strictly first-class. 300 or more at special prices 
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57 W St., N. W. Washington, D. C. 
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FOR SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER PLANTING 
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Hardy Chrysanthemum, Gaillardia. Wallflower, Penste- 
mon, and many others. These plants are perfectly hardy, 
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mer. Catalogue free. HARRT L. SQUIRES. Himplon Bays, N. T. 
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Bliss, highest quality ; Beacon, best early; Boquet, 
greatest producer. Originated New York- Exp. Station. 
Plants, Fall setting Dozen, $1; 100. $5. Postpaid. Cir¬ 
cular free. CERTIFIED PLANT FARM. Macedon N Y 
the entire space, 3 x 4, is covered. I 
think the appearance would be improved 
had the distance between sill and plate 
been 6 ft. instead of only 4 ft. My win¬ 
dow is 5 ft. high. I have not seen any 
with sashes wider than window space, 
nor with both upper and lower sashes 
hinged, but think they should be made 
that way. ctiarles a. peck. 
New Jersey. 
The Robin and the Plum 
I am sending a sample of the robin’s 
work on my Climax plums. I raise 
these plums as large as any California 
ones, and much better flavored, as they 
are ripe when picked. I find a ready- 
sale for this fruit to the fruit stands at 
better than .$6 per bushel. This year.the 
contempible robins have destroyed SO 
per cent of them while plums of smaller 
varieties in the same row have been un¬ 
touched. My loss this year on cherry 
crop was the worst ever, and I needed 
the money more than ever before. We 
have had robins here by the millions 
since March, and they destroy all kinds 
of small fruit. We must have some re¬ 
lief from this robber. I am enclosing 
correspondence with the Federal and 
State departments. You will notice that 
it took one month for the Pennsylvania 
State Game Commission to reply. 
Pennsylvania. geo. H. Lincoln. 
R. N.-Y.—A fair picture of one of 
these plums is shown below. Such 
fruit is of course unsalable—a complete 
loss. If the robins would take a few 
Plum the Birds Pecked 
fruits and content themselves with eat¬ 
ing the entire pulp it would not be so 
bad, but they take a nip at one plum, 
ruin it and then go on to another. There 
can be no excuse or defense for such de¬ 
liberate robbers. The birds are protect¬ 
ed, and in spite of the plain evidence of 
his losses, Mr. Lincoln is denied the 
privilege of defending his property. When 
robin the robber disguises himself as 
“dear little robin redbreast,” what can 
you do about it? 
Setting Strawberry Plants 
In your article on starting a straw¬ 
berry bed, page 1066, you say “leave a 
small amount of dirt around the roots.” I 
have raised strawberries for 60 years; 
before the World War I raised them by 
the acre. For the past five years I have 
raised only enough for my owu use When 
it came to setting out a small bed of 200 
plants I thought I had an ideal way of 
transplanting them.. I had my own plants 
and the new bed was near by. I took a 
carrier—such as we use in picking the 
berries. With my trowel I took up the 
plants with a ball of dirt to each one. I 
set them in the new bed and watered 
them immediately. In each pail of water 
I put a handful of nitrate of soda, so that 
there would be some plant food available 
as soon as the plants needed it. Every 
one of the plants lived (for a time). I 
set the plants about May 1. We had dry 
weather in June and some of the plants 
began to look sick. On examining them 
I found that while the ground was moist 
beneath the surface, yet this ball of dirt 
around the plant was perfectly dry. The 
continuity of the soil had been broken up 
and the roots had not got outside of the 
old soil. I lost about half of the plants 
in this manner. 
Now as I take the plants up I shake 
the dirt off, trim off many of the leaves, 
spread the roots in a fan shape and press 
the earth firmly against the roots. I wa¬ 
ter them at once with nitrate of soda 
water. I set them out towards evening, 
and do not lose any plants. Within two 
or three days little white fibers have 
started. 
I have tried about all the different va¬ 
rieties of strawberries and find that the 
September 20, 1924 
Poeomoke is the best variety for a black 
prairie soil. It is also sold under the 
name of Gibson and Parsons Beauty, but 
Poeomoke is the true name. 
DR. J. B. BUTTS. 
Summer Lettuce 
On page 1113 “Getting Tyettuce to 
Head” questions are asked by G. S. Per¬ 
haps I have had more experience growing 
lettuce than II. B. T., who answered the 
above. Lettuce can be headed finely in 
Summer, but not always. My experience, 
briefly: It was 15 years before I found 
the spot where I could grow Summer let¬ 
tuce. Then I cleaned up and drained a 
swamp hole. The ground never lacks 
moisture. This is the first condition. 
The second, it must be planted where it 
is to grow, and thinned so the outer 
leaves will just touch when full grown. 
The ground must be kept well hoed, and 
free from weeds, for lettuce to head must 
have room, untouched by weeds or its 
own kind, if it is to head well, and it 
must not lack for all the food it needs. 
Under these conditions it will head quite 
as well in Summer as in Spring, except 
when there is an abundance of rain and 
hot weather, when the heads will not get 
hard, and it will go to seed easily. Plant¬ 
ings should follow two weeks apart, and 
most of the time if the above conditions 
are met there will be good headed lettuce. 
Rhode Island. f. t. jencks. 
Farm and Garden Notes 
The thirty-third annual national meet 
of the American Barred Plymouth Rock 
Club occurs with the Southern Fair and 
Gaspariila Carnival, at Tampa, Fla., 
February 3 to 14. The annual meeting 
occurs on “Barred Plymouth Rock Day” 
which is Friday, February 6. Premium 
list is now ready; P. T. Strieder, Tam¬ 
pa, Fla., fair secretary. The officers 
of the American Barred Plymouth Rock 
Club are, J. W. Huey, Union, Ky., presi¬ 
dent ; L. T. Robinson, Union City, Mich., 
secretary. 
Cotton has passed through the month 
of August with less deterioration than in 
August last year and less than the aver¬ 
age August of the last 10 years, result¬ 
ing in a forecast Sept 8 by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture of 12,787,000 equi¬ 
valent 500-lb. bales for this season’s crop. 
That is 169.000 bales less than forecast 
from the condition of the crop iu the 
middle of August and 2,658,000 bales 
more than produced last year. 
Addressing the sixth annual convention 
of the United States Fisheries Associa¬ 
tion at Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 5, Sec¬ 
retary of Commerce Herbert Hoover 
strongly urged concentrated action to 
stop^ what lie termed “blind and reck¬ 
less” destruction of fish and shell-fish in 
bays, estuaries and other coastal ahd in¬ 
land waters. The littoral fisheries, he 
said, should be one of the most precious 
of the nation’s primary food supplies, and 
will become increasingly valuable as the 
population doubles and agricultural pro¬ 
duction approaches its limits. But al¬ 
ready the great runs of salmon, shad, 
sturgeon and mullet have almost disap¬ 
peared from our coasts, and the huge 
stocks of lobsters, crabs, oysters and 
clams are seriously depleted. Pollution 
and overfishing, without regard for the 
propagation of useful species, are the 
two chief factors in the loss, he asserted. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, SEPT. 20, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
The Culture of Asparagus .„. 1208 
Sweet Clover as a Cover Crop . 1211 
Liming a Meadow . 1211 
Rye as a Late Cover Crop . 1211 
Hope Farm Notes . 1214 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings . 1215 
Life in the Upper Hudson Valley . 1217 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Committee of Fifteen Meets .1217 
Loss of Appetite . 1222 
Home Canning of Milk ... 1222 
THE HENYARD 
Improving a Henhouse ...1209, 1210 
Dimensions of Henhouse . 1225 
Egg-laying Contest . 1225 
HORTICULTURE 
A New Fruit Industry . 1207 
Forestry Planting in New York.„. 1209 
Blackberries and Blueberries . 1211 
Blister Mite on Pears . 1211 
Thinning Grape Foliage; Pruning Currants 1213 
Raspberry Cane-borer . 1213 
A High Wind and Apple Market . 1217 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day . 1218 
Honey Recipes . 1218 
The Rural Patterns . 1218 
The ‘‘Difficult” Vegetables in Ways That 
Are Good . 1219 
Sauerkraut; Keeping Vegetables . 1219 
Canning Meat . 1220 
Pickled Sweet Apples . 1220 
Duck Lace . 1220 
Tennessee Notes . 1220 
Training in Kindness . 1221 
Good Homemade Yeast . 1221 
More About Uninvited Company . 1221 
Sweet Milk Graham Gem . 1221 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Getting the Most Out of Radio .1207, 1208 
A Veteran Reader . 1208 
Vinegar from Preserved Cider . 1213 
Events of the Week . 1215 
Editorials . 1216 
Regents of the New York University.1215 
Publisher's Desk .. 1226 
