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WHIPPLES  EARLY  SWEET  CORN -As 
rarlv  as  the  old  small  eared  kinds  but  has  ears  that 
look  like  Evergreen  8  in.  long  and  14  to  18  rows 
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BUTTERCUP  CORN— A  yellow  corn  that  looks 
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and  matures  just  as  early. 
HARRIS’  EARLIEST  PEPPER— The  earliest 
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TESTED  AND  MARKED — There  is  a  label  on  every  lot  of 
seeds  telling  just  how  many  seeds  out  of  1 00  germinated  to  our 
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all  of  the  very  highest  quality. 
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Box  23  -  -  COLDWATER.  N.  Y. 
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February  3,  1923 
General  Farm  Topics 
A  Good  Trap  Nest 
There  have  been  many  calls  for  a  pic¬ 
ture  of  a  good  trap  nest,  so  we  give  this 
week  a  picture  of  the  nest  used  at  the  two 
egg-laying  contests  in  New  Jersey.  It  is 
a  sensible  nest,  and  has  given  good  re¬ 
sults.  As  will  be  seen,  the  door  swings 
up  and  down  at  the  front  of  the  nest.  It 
i.s  left  half  open  for  the  hen  to  enter.  As 
she  crawls  in  she  lifts  the  door  a  little 
and  the  trigger,  shown  at  the  left  of  each 
nest,  falls  down.  The  trigger  is  a  small 
piece  nf  hoard  with  a  notch  at  the  end.  in 
highway  laws  present  the  most  difficult 
problem.  It  says  that  the  present  con¬ 
flict  is  between  the  automobile  and  the 
pedestrian,  “and  the  automobile  will  win 
the  fight  in  the  roads.  Pedestrians  will 
have  to  keep  off  the  highways,  crossing 
them  at  certain  protected  places,  and  in 
cities  eventually  will  go  over  or  under 
the  streets,  leaving  all  streets  in  posses¬ 
sion  of  the  motor  cars.  In  regard  to 
strike  duty,  the  report  says  that  while  the 
constabulary  has  been  summoned  to  keep 
order  in  many  places,  no  innocent  by¬ 
stander  has  been  shot  and  killed,  firearms 
have  not  been  used,  and  there  have  been 
no  casualties  worth  mentioning.. 
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which  the  corner  of  the  door  rests.  As 
the  hens  crawls  in  the  door  is  lifted  out 
of  this  notch.  The  trigger  falls  down 
and  the  door  swings  down  of  its  own 
weight,  imprisoning  the  hen.  There  she 
must  remain  with  her  egg  until  the  hen 
man  comes  and  releases  her.  In  a  recent 
bulletin  from  the  New  Jersey  College  the 
following  is  given  : 
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nest : 
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FARM  AND  GARDEN— W.  II.  Dick 
of  Memphis,  lumberman  and  cotton 
planter,  who  was  in  New  York  recently, 
asserted  that  the  rapid  exodus  of  negro 
labor  from  the  South  is  a  more  serious 
menace  to  the  cotton  crop  than  the  boll 
weevil,  for  the  weevil  could  be  fought 
with  plenty  of  labor.  He  declared  :  “Our 
situation  is  of  vital  concern  to  the  North 
as  well  as  the  South.  Our  crop  has  been 
short  for  two  years,  and  there  is  no  rea¬ 
son  to  believe  it  will  be  any  larger  this 
tear.  And  this  despite  the  fact  that  every 
acre  that  could  be  picked  with  available 
labor  was  planted.  A  continuance  of  the 
shortage  means  that  the  world  consumers 
will  seek  to  grow  cotton  elsewhere,  and 
the  United  States  will  lose  a  market  for 
one  of  its  biggest  money  crops.”  Mr.  Dick 
said  Southern  planters  are  turning  to 
Europe  for  immigrants  who  will  be  inter¬ 
ested  in  buying  farms  and  not  merely 
working  on  a  tenant  basis.  He  told  of 
thirty  million  acres  of  uncultivated  land 
in  the  alluvial  belt  near  Memphis  open  to 
settlers  who  want  land  without  initial 
payments. 
The  State  of  New  York  has  been  cleared 
of  tramps,  once  so  numerous,  since  the 
Department  of  State  Police  was  organized 
five  years  ago,  Major  George  F.  Chandler, 
superintendent  of  the  department,  stated 
in  his  annual  report  submitted  to  Gov¬ 
ernor  Smith  January  19.  “We  have  the 
authority  of  the  fire  insurance  com¬ 
panies.”  the  report  said,  “that  at  least 
$500,000  a  year  is  being  saved  as  a  result 
of  their  diminution  in  fires  that  were  for¬ 
merly  caused  by  the  presence  of  tramps 
in  barns.  Organized  chicken  stealing  has 
been  broken  up.  and  likewise  the  organ¬ 
ized  robbing  of  truck  gardens.”  The  re¬ 
port  states  that  the  enforcement  of  the 
CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  FEE.  3,  1923 
FARM  TOPICS 
Making  the  Boarders  Pay .  146 
Fertilizing  Value  of  Buckwheat  Hulls .  149 
Disposing  of  Quack  and  Dock .  160 
Chemicals  With  Manure;  Green  Manure  for 
Sweet  Corn  .  151 
Green  Rye  and  Manure  for  Potatoes .  155 
Conditions  in  Southern  Virginia .  155 
Hope  Farm  Notes . 150,  161 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
The  Black-faced  Highland  Sheep .  143 
Milk  Injunction  Case .  163 
Learning  Dairy  Rations . 166,  168 
Poor  Producer  .  168 
Feeding  Calf  .  JH 
Feeding  Two  Cows .  171 
Renting  Puiebred  Cattle .  171 
THE  HENYARD 
A  Woman  and  Her  Chickens . 143,  144 
Ipecac  for  Turkeys .  171 
Poultry  Feeding  Questions .  171 
The  Black  Jersey  Giant  Poultry .  174 
Egg-laying  Contest  . 176 
Opportunities  in  Duck  Raising .  176 
Carbolic  Acid  for  Roup .  178 
Winter  Molt  .  178 
Killing  Poultry  .  178 
House  for  Three  Hundred  Hens . 178 
Laying  Ration  .  178 
Protection  Against  Chicken  Thieves .  180 
Damp  Henhouse  .  180 
Soft-shelled  Eggs  .  180 
HORTICULTURE 
Massachusetts  Roadside  Market .  146 
A  Study  of  the  Fruit  Exhibit . . . 147,  149 
Fertilizer  for  Strawberries .  149 
Lime  for  Hotbed  Heat .  151 
Physalis  Franchetii  .  151 
Wintering  a  Lemon  Plant .  151 
The  Flavor  of  Apples . . .  152 
The  New  York  Grape  District .  152 
New  York  State  Horticultural  Society  Meet¬ 
ing — Part  1 .  154 
Vegetable-growing  Questions  .  155 
Growing  Watermelons  and  Cantaloupes .  161 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day .  164 
Cold  Pack  Canning . 164,  165 
The  Rural  Patterns .  164 
After  a  Mid-Winter  Storm .  165 
Tennessee  Notes  .  165 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Building  Fireplace  of  Concrete . 
Applying  Power  to  Hand  Grindstone . 
A  Cobblestone  House . 
Touring  Florida  in  a  Boat . 
Be  Careful  of  Electric  Wires . 
Building  a  Concrete  Ship . 
Sentic  Tank  and  Kitchen  Wastes;  Poor 
144 
144 
145 
145 
145 
146 
Heating  .  146 
Thawing  an  Underground  Pipe .  .  ..  150 
Daddy-long-legs  Takes  to  Eeating  Fruits...  150 
Dog  and  'Possum.  Meat . .  150 
Dam  for  Ice  Pond .  150 
Sumac  for  Firewood .  152 
Honey  in  Auto  Radiators .  152 
Meeting  the  Fuel  Shortage .  156 
Feeding  Pheasants  in  Winter .  156 
Poisoned  Pie  Insurance .  156 
Clearing  Water  .  156 
Wife’s  Separate  Estate .  157 
Wife’s  Claim  to  Support ..  .^ .  157 
Seourity  for  Unpaid  Wages .  167 
Duration  of  Gas  Lease  .  157 
Waterproof  Cel’s r  Wall .  158 
Pumping  from  Deep  Well .  158 
Editorials  .  *62 
To  Florida  by  Auto .  *63 
Trick  of  Tax  Dodgers  .  *63 
Wireless  at  Schoolhouse .  *"3 
Extension  High  School .  *63 
Making  Deer-proof  Fence . 
Digging  New  Well .  *‘6 
Publisher’s  Desk  . 
