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Garden and Farm Notes 
Big Peaches 
Seeing the article about the J. H. Hale 
peach, by W. F. Allen, on page 1428, I 
put up a peck basket of J. H. Hale 
peaches for the Lawrence County, Ohio. 
Fair, with only 14. The largest weighed 
a pound, and none of them much less in 
weight. A neighbor said he saw one in 
Indiana that weighed a pound and a half. 
I had thought for a year or two that I 
would not set any more of the Hale, but 
they did so much better the past Summer 
that I have decided they are worth grow¬ 
ing. 
About two weeks after the J. H. Hale 
were g’one my wife asked me one night 
how much I could sell some big peaches 
for. and showed me some of them. She 
had gone out to a seedling tree near the 
chicken-house and picked about two bush¬ 
els without telling me, and was going to 
use them, but when she found they could 
be sold for two or three times as much as 
other good peaches were bringing, she de¬ 
cided to ldt me sell them if I would give 
her the money. She packed six pecks 
with 16 peaches each, one peck with 19 
and one with 21, all from the same tree, 
and a good many of them were picked too 
green. They are freestones and look just 
like the ,T. II. Hale, only later. They are 
not so sweet as the Hale, but they are 
worth taking care of and testing to see If 
the buds will stand the Winters, etc. I 
never saw so many big peaches come off 
the same tree. If they do as well for a 
year or two more they will be worth prop¬ 
agating. because a good peach is need¬ 
ed from one to three weeks after the Elj 
berta. I sold those peck baskets at $1.25 
each, or part' of them at 10 cents each, 
on the local Huntington, W. V., market, 
when there was a surplus of good peaches 
at $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel. 
Ohio. U. T. cox. 
Propagating California 
Privet 
How is hedging to be planted? A 
neighbor is willing to let me cut his hedg¬ 
ing which I can get from 2 to 8 ft. long, 
but I do not know how to plant it. I 
was told to clean the leaves off and then 
put them in the cellar and cover them 
with sand over the Winter. J. Y. 
Woodridge, N. Y. 
We infer that the “-hedging” meant is 
California privet. Cuttings of one-year 
wood may ne made in Fall or Winter, 
preferably Fall, when the leaves have 
fallen. Cut them 8 to 14 in. long, tie 
in bundles, and bury in the ground over 
Winter, or bury in a cold cellar as sug¬ 
gested. The cellar must not be warm. 
If the leaves have not fallen they may 
be stripped off. In .Spring, as soon as 
the ground can be worked, and before 
gr.owth starts, these cuttings are set in 
rows, and given clean cultivation. To 
make bushy plants, the tips of the shoots 
are pinched off when about 8 in. long, 
and this is repeated at intervals of about 
three weeks during the Summer. 
Pioneer Pleasures in 
Colorado 
Perhaps some of you who never have 
pioneered wonder what entertainment, 
if any, could be had in a country of bare 
prairie, small houses and almost no 
money. Before any schoolhouses were 
built we gathered at the homes of the 
more fortunate neighbors whose houses 
contained either one large room, or, if 
uncommonly affluent, two rooms. Sunday 
school w«as held every Sunday, and oc¬ 
casionally a preacher of some denomina¬ 
tion drifted in and favored us with a ser¬ 
mon. As is usually the case with a newly 
settled country, the settlers had come 
from many localities, and were of many 
avocations. We had a few fine singers, 
an actress, several teachers, one or two 
who had taken training for the priest¬ 
hood, and so on down through many lines. 
We held spelling schools, in which the 
fathers and mothers “stood up” with the 
little tads, and were sometimes “spelled 
down” by those same tads. “Literaries” 
were held, and the big folks as well as the 
little ones spoke their “pieces,” and many, 
a good-natured joke was sprung in the 
“paper” that furnished a big part of each 
program. 
Dancing, though, furnished the almost, 
universal pleasure, for as one wag ex-| 
pressed it, “you didn’t have to know, 
nothin’, to dance.” The dances were usu¬ 
ally held at some home boasting a board j 
floor, although more than one was held 
where the floor was just the hard earth, 
or sometimes covered with a “carpet” *>f; 
gunny sacks sewn together and nailed 
down with spikes. There were several 
fiddlers in the community, and if times 
were not too hard they charged $2 each 
for fiddling, sometimes till sun-up, but if 
times were pretty crimpy they donated 
theif services. 
Sometimes the women took cakes, and, 
if at a family home, the hostess furnished 
coffee, but often the dances were held at 
a bachelor’, o house; then we drank cold 
water with our cake, or had no refresh¬ 
ments at all. One time, though, three 
bachelor brothers chipped in and fur¬ 
nished oyster soup and coffee to go with 
the girls’ cakes, but that was considered 
too much of a spread; it established a 
bad precedent. At that time “jazz,” 
“bunny hug,” etc., had not been dreamed 
of, and we danced the Virginia reel, va¬ 
rious polkas, waltzes and schottishes; 
also a multitude pf square dances, to such 
tunes as “Pop Goes the Weasel,” “Old 
Dan Tucker.” “Arkansaw Traveler,” and 
“The Irish Washerwoman.” 
In our community most of the people 
wore pretty good clothes, having brought 
them from the old homes, but in a nearby 
settlement some of them were not so for¬ 
tunate, among them being two fiddlers we 
will call Jim and Charlie. They were to 
furnish the music for a certain dance, 
and neither one owned a pair of shoes. 
At that time there were lots of old buffalo 
bones scattered over the prairies, and Jim 
decided to gather up a load of them, take 
them to the nearest town—about 40 miles 
—sell, them and buy himself a pair of 
new shoes for the dance. In his hunt for 
bones he passed a deserted homestead 
shack, and in the open doorway sat a pair 
of almost worn-out shoes. Jim tried them 
on, found they were a fit. and the bone 
hunt was all off. Charlie was even 
lazier than Jim, so the night of the dance 
Charlie fiddled while Jim wore the shoes 
and danced; then Jim took off the shoes, 
fiddled, barefoot, while Charlie took his 
turn on the floor, mrs. pearl underwood. 
Farm Notes 
Dairy production in Canada increased 
in value more than $15,000,000 last year, 
compared with the previous year’s out¬ 
put. according to a bulletin issued by the 
Dominion Department of Agriculture. 
The total output of creameries, cheese 
factories and condenseries in 192,2 was 
valued at $120,110,562, the report shows. 
This included butter, cheese, condensed 
products, ice cream, cream, buttermilk, 
and casein. The quantity of creamery but¬ 
ter made in Canada last year was 164,- 
456.759 pounds. This was the largest 
production ever recorded in a single year, 
and had a value of $56,894,008, said the 
report. The average price a pound rea¬ 
lized by producers during the year was 
84 cents. Quebec was the leader with 
60.179.616 pounds. 
The Massachusetts Dairymen’s Associ¬ 
ation will hold its annual meeting in con¬ 
nection with the Union Agricultural 
Meeting on Tuesday, January 8, 1925 in 
the Massachusetts armory, Worcester, 
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CONTENTS 
THE .RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 29, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Changes in Farm Practice in a Lifetime 
1474, 1475 
The Farm Bureau in Ontario County. 1483 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Fewer Poor Cows—More Good Sheep. 1475 
The Dairy at Both Ends.. 1483 
Slimy Cream . 1491 
Value of Individual Silo Filler. 1491 
THE HENYARD 
Green Feed Menus of Jersey Poultry Farms 1474 
Soft-shelled Eggs .. 1493 
Mixing a Laying Ration. 1493 
Home-mixed Laying Mash ... 1493 
Newi York State Egg-laying Contest. 1493 
Comparison of Potatoes and Mangels. 1493 
Remodeling Henhouse . 1493 
HORTICULTURE 
Hydrated Lime in the Garden. 1475 
Fruit Notes from Southern Ohio. 1483 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Books for Growing Boys and Girls. 1473 
Rural Conditions Best for Children. 1476 
Thanksgiving Table Talk .1480, 1481 
The Pastoral Parson .1486, 1488 
The Home Dressmaker .1486, 1487 
The Old Practice of ’‘Spelling Down”..,. 1487 
Price for Boarding Hired Men. 1491 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Ninety Nights Around the Camp Fire. 1479 
Claning Furnace Pipes . 1479 
How Radio Works.-. 1481 
Chemistry of Dishwashing . —. 1481 
Iron in Water . 1481 
Oxidized Tar in Chimney .. 1481 
The Child Labor Amendment—and Children 1483 
Children Hunting for Jobs. 1483 
The Art of Advertising... 1483 
An Experience with Consolidation. 1483 
Whittier’s Schoolhouse . 1488 
Mail Carrier’s Road Rights . 1488 
Good Philosophy . 1488 
Beware the Shoddy Genteel Farmer. 1488 
Is Your Signature Distinct!. 1488 
Indian Summer . 1488 
Countrywide Produce Situation . 1491 
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