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Tobacco  Stems  as  Fertilizer 
Will  you  advise  the  comparative  value 
of  tobacco  stems  as  a  fertilizer  for  gen¬ 
eral  truck  crops  and  orchard  as  compared 
with  commercial  fertilizers  at  present 
market  prices,  tobacco  stems  at  $20  per 
ton?  u.  g.  T. 
North  Carolina. 
Tobacco  stems  vary  quite  a  little  in 
composition,  depending  on  the  way  they 
have  been  kept  or  stored.  There  will  be 
about  2%  per  cent  of  nitrogen,  about  7 
per  cent  of  potash  and  a  little  phosphoric 
acid.  The  stems  would  be  a  good  bar¬ 
gain  at  $20  per  ton.  If  they  are  used, 
and  a  complete  fertilizer  is  required,  we 
should  use  1,400  lbs.  of  the  stems  and 
600  lbs.  of  acid  phosphate  to  make  a 
ton.  This  would  he  good  for  orchard 
crops.  For  truck  we  should  use  150  lbs. 
of  nitrate  of  soda  added  to  the  ton  of 
stems  and  phosphate. 
50 
100 
250 
500 
1,000 
PREMIER  . 
$1.25 
$2.20 
$3.00 
$6.00 
HOWARD  17 . 
1.25 
2.20 
3.00 
6.00 
FORD . 
. .  .70 
1.25 
2.20 
3.50 
6.00 
RIG-LATE  . 
1.25 
2.20 
3.50 
6.00 
Dr.  Burrill . 
.00 
1.55 
2.50 
4.00 
Dunlap  . 
.90 
1.55 
2.50 
4.00 
Haverland  . 
1.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.00 
Glen  Mary . 
1.25 
2.20 
3.50 
6.00 
Collins  . . 
1.25 
2.20 
3.50 
6.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.50 
10.00 
William  Belt . 
1 .25 
2.20 
3.50 
(5.00 
Big  Wonder . 
1.50 
2.40 
4.50 
8.00 
World's  Wonder . 
1.50 
2.40 
4.50 
8.00 
Eaton  . 
.  1.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.50 
1  0.00 
Chesapeake  . 
.  .85 
1.50 
2.40 
4.50 
8.00 
Marvel  . 
1.50 
3.00 
5.50 
10.00 
Lupton  . 
.  .70 
1 .25 
2.20 
3.50 
6.00 
Sample  . 
.  .00 
1.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.00 
AROMA  . 
.  .00 
1.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.00 
BIG  JOE . 
.  .00 
1.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.00' 
PROGRESSIVE,  E.  B . 
.1.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.50 
10.00 
CHAMPION,  E.  B . 
.2.00 
3.50 
6.00 
11.00 
20.00 
Perfection,  E.  B . 
.  2.00 
3.50 
6.00 
1 1 .00 
20.00 
Never  Fail,  E.  B . 
.  1.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.50 
1  0.00 
Luckv  Boy,  E.  B . 
.  2.00 
3.50 
6.00 
11.00 
20.00 
Superb,  E.  B . . . . 
.1.00 
1.75 
3.00 
5.50 
10.00 
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FARM  AND  GARDEN.— The  Chicago 
Board  of  Trade  January  11  purchased 
outright  the  big  radio  broadcasting  sta¬ 
tion  WDP,  located  on  top  of  the  Drake 
Hotel,  and  began  sending  the  grain  quo¬ 
tations  every  30  minutes  during  trading 
hours  on  market  days. 
Senator  Fernald  of  Maine  led  a  fight 
in  the  Senate  January  11  to  strike  from 
the  agricultural  appropriation  bill  the 
sum  of  $410,500,  which  is  provided  in 
that  bill  to  enforce  the  Packers’  and 
Stockyards’  act  of  1021.  This  is  the  act 
usually  called  the  packers’  control  law. 
He  declared  the  act  had  not  been  of  any 
benefit  to  1  lie  farmers.  Senator  Fer- 
nald’s  attack  stirred  up  other  Senators, 
who  came  to  the  defense  of  the  law,  and 
nothing  was  done  toward  eliminating  the 
proposed  appropriation.  The  controversy 
lasted  for  nearly  three  hours. 
For  the  first  time  in  20  years  the  item 
in  the  agricultural  supply  bill  appropriat¬ 
ing  $360,000  for  the  distribution  of  free 
seeds  by  members  of  Congress  to  their 
constituents  has  been  eliminated  by  Con¬ 
gress.  The  death  knell  to  the  plan,  char¬ 
acterized  in  and  out  of  Congress  as  a 
cheap  way  to  obtain  votes,  was  sounded 
January  12  when  the  Senate  blocked  a 
determined  effort  on  the  part  of  several 
Senators  to  have  the  item  restored  to 
the  budget.  Congress  lias  appropriated 
about  $5,000,000  for  free  seeds,  accord¬ 
ing  to  Senator  Capper  (Kan.),  chairman 
of  the  farm  bloc.  During  the  last  ihree 
years  the  appropriation  lias  been  $360,- 
000  each  year,  but  previous  to  that  time 
it  was  about  $200,000  a  year. 
The  Ohio  State  Horticultural  Society 
will  meet  January  3-February  1  at  the 
Ohio  State  University,  Columbus. 
CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  JAN.  27, 
FARM  TOPICS 
1923 
Fertilizing  Value  of  Grain .  108 
A  Big  Potato  Crop .  108 
Give  the  Weight  of  Hubam  Clover .  108 
Inoculation  for  Legumes .  108 
What  All  Farmers  Need .  108 
Notes  from  North  Carolina . 113 
Rabbits;  Old  Market  Days .  117 
Crossing  Com  and  Onions .  117 
Hope  Farm  Notes .  118 
Those  Twelve  Great  Agriculturists .  119 
The  Problem  of  the  Renter .  121 
New  York  State  Notes . 121 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
What  About  Raising  Puppies? .  116 
Two  Views  of  the  Milk  Problem .  121 
Feeding  Family  Cow .  126 
Feeding  Freshening  Heifer .  126 
Feeding  Silage  and  Timothy .  126 
Poor  Producer  .  128 
Feeding  Heifer  Calves .  128 
Grain  With  Good  Roughage .  128 
Grain  With  Legume  Hay .  130 
Horse-feeding  Questions  .  130 
Shrinkage  of  Milk .  130 
THE  HENYARD 
A  Small  Flock  of  Turkeys .  108 
Dimensions  of  Henhouse .  132 
Epsom  Salts  for  Fowls . 132 
Mixing  Mash  for  Sale .  132 
Chickenpox  or  Roup .  132 
Egg-laying  Contest  . 134 
Daily  Ration  for  One  Hundred  Birds .  134 
Death  of  Fowls . 134 
Line  Breeding  . 136 
Buckwheat  in  Poultry  Ration .  136 
Red  Pepper  for  Fowls .  136 
HORTICULTURE 
Fruit  Notes  from  Missouri .  Ill 
A  Gardener  Makes  Good .  117 
Hotels  and  the  Apple  Trade .  121 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
Steamed  Puddings  in  Pressure  Cooker  and 
Otherwise  . .  H4 
Wind  and  Snowflakes .  116 
The  Lives  of  the  Poor .  119 
Boys  and  Girls . 122.  123 
The  Pastoral  Parson . . . 124.  131 
The  Home  Dressmaker .  125 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A  Soci-1  Revolution  Now  Going  On........  107 
Lightning  and  a  Redded  Bam . 107,  108 
What  Radiophone  Means  to  a  Farmer .  109 
That  Cana'ian  Electric  Service . .  109 
The  Ox-team  Express . 110 
Winters  i"  Sonth  Jersey . .  113 
Treatment  for  Lumbago .  117 
Ed!torials  . . •••  J20 
Half  a  B'l’ion  for  “South  Water  Street”...  121 
English  Railroads  Help  Marketing .  121 
Bobsleds  and  Wagons . 121 
Publisher’s  Desk . 138 
January  27,  19‘_'0 
.  Certified  . 
7  Blue  Tag  * 
Seed  Potatoes 
You  should  use  them  because — 
They  have  passed  three  inspections 
by  specialists  from  Cornell. 
They  are  guaranteed  to  be  healthy, 
vigorous  and  free  of  varietal  mixture. 
The  average  of  all  diseases  found  on 
both  field  inspections  was  less  than 
lVz  percent. 
Actual  use  of  the  seed  has  shown  a 
large  increase  in  yield  over  local  seed. 
Machine  graded  and  hand  sorted  to 
contain  only  sound  tubers  weight  2 
to  12  ounces. 
Packed  in  even  weight  sacks,  hold¬ 
ing  8,  10.  11  pecks  as  ordered. 
We  have  an  established  reputation 
for  fair  dealing  based  on  S  years  of 
business  practice. 
The  Blue  Tag  on  every  Bag  is  your 
protection  against  inferior  seed. 
Write  for  attractive  prices  on  the 
10  Standard  Varieties.  Tell  us  the 
quantity  you  need  and  the  variety  you 
prefer. 
N.  Y.  Coop.  Seed  Potato  Ass’n.  Inc. 
100  Byrne  Bldg.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y 
NEcrOWN 
GRAIN  DRILLS 
With  Finger  Fertilizer  Feed 
Prices  f.  o.  b.  Phelps,  N.  Y. 
9-Hoe  Drill . f 105.00 
II- Hoe  Drill .  120.00 
Other  size*  same  proportion. 
Buy  a  NEEDHAM  CROWN  and  hank  the  difference  Toe 
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CROWN  MFC.  CO.,  Box  1 12,  PHELPS, N.Y. 
FERTILIZERS 
Croxton  Brand 
Commercial  Fertilizers 
Also  Raw  Materials 
Carload  or  lets  Carload  lots 
NITRATE  OF  SODA  TANKAGE 
SULPHATE  OF  AMMONIA  BONE  MEAL 
ACID  PHOSPHATE  MURIATE  OF  POTASH 
BLOOD  SULPHATE  OF  POTASH 
N.  J.FERTILIZER  &CHEMICAL  CO. 
Factory:  Croxton,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 
Office:  40  Rector  Street,  New  York 
OOD  SEEDS 
Grown  From  Select 
Stock— None  Better— 53 
years  selling  good  seeds  to  sat¬ 
isfied  customers.  Prices  below 
all  others.  Extra  lot  free  in 
all  orders  I  fill.  Big  free  cata¬ 
logue  has  over  700  pictures  of 
vegetables  and  flowers.  Send 
yourandneighbors’  addresses. 
R.  H.  SHUMWAY,  Rockford,  III. 
The  Host  Wonderful  Tomato 
Ever  Grown” 
customers  says  of  Beebe’s 
j  Early  Prolific.  It  is  a  wonderfu 
i  bearer,  beginning  to  bloom  whet 
only  6  or  8  inches  high.  Fruit  is 
'as  large  as  any  of  the  early  varie- 
uvzr-  ties,  almost  perfectly  smooth  anc 
_  . .  — — or  superb  quality.  Very  few  seeds, 
mSn&laT1  excellent  for  •tiring.  Splendid  keepers  and 
—a™ Beer  from  10  days  to  2  weeks  before  any 
.  b“r  un01  &»•*•  Stand  hot,  dry  weathe. 
i  ****  other  sorts.  You  will  make  oo  mistake  bv 
planting  eomeot  tbeoo.  Price,  20c  per  packet.  Send  for  »ny 
free  book,/}Trees  and  Seeds  *ri>at  Grow*/’  (•£>) 
Sonderegger  Nurseries  &  Seed  House 
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StrawhprrvPIonte  *hat  grow,  at  reasonable  prices.  Also 
Oil  anuol  I J  r  I  a  II 1 5  Dewberry  plants.  Catalogue  gn  sue 
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ChoiceStowbeiry  Plants 
at  $3.i  5.  Gun  ran  teed  first-class  or  money  refund. 
ed.  Catalog.  Mrs.  Fileua  Woolf,  Alleoan.  Micbioan 
Martha  Washington  Asparagus  Seed 
$0  per  lb.  Washington  seed,  $8.  LESTER  W.  BENNETT,  Victor,  fc  , 
Latham  and  Redpath  Red  Raspberries 
(new)  and  a.  full  line  of  Nursery  Stock  of  our  well  know  n 
high  standard  of  excellence.  Price  list  Free. 
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Gladioli  America  SSH&Kf 
above  and  other  varieties  to  Tv  \  fTlPTON,  AifcUbula.  oni* 
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