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Potash  for  Swamp  Land 
DOES  the  corn  grown  on  your 
swamp  or  muck  land  look  like 
the  large  ear  or  like  the  small  one? 
The  small  one  shows  the  kind  of  corn 
produced  on  potash  hungry  muck 
land.  When  100  to  200  lbs.  per  acre 
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full  yields  of  sound  corn  are  produced. 
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normally  and  keep  well. 
With  potatoes  and  truck  crops,  like 
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General  Farm  Topics 
A  New  Celery  Center 
Chula  Vista  is  the  last  town  in  the 
southwest  corner  of  the  United  States, 
being  one  mile  from  the  Pacific  and  eight 
miles  from  Mexico.  It  is  only  about  three 
miles  square,  but  enjoys  the  distinction  of 
being  the  center  of  the  lemon  industry  of 
the  United  .States,  and  in  addition  is  now 
taking  up  the  culture  of  celery.  There  is 
no  cold  weather  to  contend  with,  the  only 
enemy  being  the  blight,  which  is  controlled 
by  spraying. 
Most  of  the  bleaching  is  done  by  tie- 
ing  newspapers  around  the  plants,  al- 
worked  some  wild  trees,  so  that  now  I 
have  about  75  trees.  The  nut  is  thin- 
shelled,  with  large  meats  that  come  out 
nicely  when  cracked1,  giving  10  lbs.  of 
meats  to  the  bushel.  I  sold  last  season’s 
crop  at  $4  per  bu.  The  larger  part,  how¬ 
ever,  we  cracked  and  sold  to  dealers  at 
$1  per  lb.,  they  selling  at  $1.25  to  $1.35 
per  lb.  These  were  so  good  that  the  de¬ 
mand  was  so  great  that  we  could  not 
crack  fast  enough  to  fill  demand,  and 
all  were  sold  by  the  holidays. 
You  may  remember  that  I  am  also 
growing  improved  chestnuts,  which  are 
doing  and  selling  well,  as  you  may  see 
by  inclosed  account  sales.  These  nuts 
are  grown  mostly  on  land  that  cannot  be 
cultivated.  They  need  little  pruning  and 
Celery  Grouting  at 
though  some  boards  are  used,  as  showu 
at  the  left  of  the  picture. 
The  price  here  is  about  5  cents  a 
hunch,  hut  it  is  a  safe  bet  that  when  the 
New  York  consumer  pays  out  $1  for 
Chula  Vista  celery  not  over  35  cents  gets 
hack  to  the  farmer.  p.  b.  c. 
California. 
Threo  Ideas  of  Farming — Prosperity, 
Contentment,  Discontent 
(Continued  from  Page  506) 
price  out  of  reason,  and  the  grocer  acts 
accordingly.  He  offers  that  poor,  liard-up 
grower  50c  a  bushel  for  his  potatoes  when 
the  spuds  are  retailing  at  $1.25,  say,  and 
there  is  such  a  conspiracy  among  the 
grocers  to  grind  down  all  farmers  that 
he  can  take  it  or  nothing.  Just  so  with  any 
other  line.  The  farmer  can  peddle  his 
stuff  from  door  to  door,  but  there  are 
still  a  good  many  of  us  who'  refuse  to 
become  hucksters  in  addition  to  our  other 
indignities,  and  such  men  will  not  take 
the  time  nor  the  talk  to  get  a  few  cents 
above  the  grocer’s  price  for  his  wagon¬ 
load  of  truck. 
Suppose  the  farmer  advertises  in  the 
paper  that  he  has  food  to  offer  at  his 
farm.  It  is  popularly  supposed  that  the 
city  consumer  rushes  up  there  by  the 
first  Ford  to  help  himself  and  incident¬ 
ally  the  farmer,  but,  in  fact,  she  is  apt 
to  do  nothing  of  the  kind.  The  farmer 
will  probably  end  by  selling  liis  adver¬ 
tised  stuff,  but  he  won’t  do  it  for  the 
first  asking  price,  and  the  hundreds 
whom  he  supposed  would  be  glad  to  take 
advantage  of  his  offer  are  serenely  joy¬ 
riding  past  his  farm,  commenting  on  his 
sign,  and  giving  their  order  to  the  grocer 
for  his  $1.25  potatoes,  or  what  not,  which 
he  bought  from,  some  hill  grower  for  50 
cents.  Such  is  life ! 
The  stores  in  our  vicinity  have  been 
in  the  depths  this  past  year,  owing  to 
the  total  inability  of  the  surrounding 
agricultural  population  to  buy.  But  it 
seemingly  never  occurs  to  them  that'  by 
patronizing  the-  fanner  direct,  and  pay¬ 
ing  him  fair  prices  for  his  produce,  much 
more  would  come  back  into  their  own 
personal  hands  to  keep  on  spending. 
I  can  see  no  happy  future  ahead  for 
agriculture.  If  nature  takes  a  hand  and 
demolishes  half  the  crops  we  will  have  no 
surplus  to  sell  at  big  prices,  and  the  rest 
of  the  time  there  are  apparently  far  too 
many  farmers  to  sell  at  any  price  so 
long  as  they  have  the  strength  to  grow 
and  give  away.  But  our  ranks  are  being 
depleted.  If  the  time  comes  when  farm¬ 
ing  is  on  its  feet  again  it  will  be  at  the 
expense  of  the  thousands  who  were  forced 
off  their  land  from  sheer  want,  people 
who  had  every  right  to  expect  and  re¬ 
ceive  a  decent  living  therefrom.  lhe 
only  course  seems  to  be  to  go  slow,  pay 
as  you  go.  and  expect  the  worst.  \\  ell, 
there  are  plenty  to  keep  patting  us  on 
the  back  and  to  cheer  us  up.  I  he 
occasional  voice  in  the  wilderness  may  do 
no  harm.  HELEN  s.  K.  WILLCOX. 
Nut-growing  in  the  Central  West 
The  Thomas  walnut  was  originated  in 
Chester  County,  Pa.  I  procured  a  grafted 
tree  some  20  years  ago.  Finding  it  was 
an  exceptionally  goou  nut,  I  propagated 
and  planted  some  in  waste  land,  also  top- 
<  hula  Vista,  Cal. 
no  spraying.  The  ground  is  kept,  dean 
by  pasturing  with  sheep.  I  find  nut¬ 
growing  far  more  profitable  than  fruit, 
and  far  more  certain  as  to  crop  and  mar- 
l\  et. 
It  is  strange  that  while  you  have  had 
such  a  severe  Winter,  and  also  such  se¬ 
vere  weather  on  the  Pacific  Coast  (three 
to  four  feet  of  snow),  here  we  have  had 
the  mildest  Winter  that  I  can  remember, 
lhe  thermometer  only  going  down  to  zero 
twice.  Notwithstanding  the  mild  Winter 
it  never  got  warm  enough  to  start  buds, 
so  that  the  prospects  for  all  kinds  of  fruit 
is  excellent  e.  a.  riehl. 
Illinois. 
H.  N.-Y. — The  sales  account,  which 
Mr.  Riehl  mentions  reads  as  follows: 
Three  sacks  chestnuts — 
222  lbs.  at  -10c . $  88.80 
60  lbs.  at  STi^c .  22.50 
Total  . $111.30 
Freight  . $  4.29 
Commission  .  11.13 — ■  15.42 
Total  . . .  $95.88 
I11  sections  where  the  chestnut  blight 
does  not  trouble  there  ought  to  be  good 
money  in  growing  the  nuts.  But  woe  to 
them  if  the  blight  works  in. 
CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  MARCH  31.  1923 
FARM  TOPICS 
Three  Ideas  of  Farming: . 505,  506.  508 
A  Salesman  Born . 507 
Alfalfa  in  Western.  New  York . 507 
Use  of  Wood  Ashes .  509 
Hope  Farmi  Notes .  516 
The  Agricultural  Population  of  New  York..  519 
Why  Am  I  a  Farmer? . 519 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
Facts  and  Figures  About  Milk .  519 
Cross-breedirg  Holstein  and  Ayrshire .  624 
Feeding  a  Family  Cow .  524 
Wants  Real  Japanese  Buckwheat . .  528 
Wall  Plaster  on  Land .  52S 
THE  HENYARD 
Egg-laying  Contest  .  528 
Cooling  Eggs  . 528 
Black  Polish  Fowls .  530 
Moisture  During  Incubation . 530 
Cannibal  Hens  . ,  531 
Rupture  of  Oviduct .  531 
Fowls  With  Colds .  531 
Arrangement  of  Henhouse;  Management  of 
Cockerels  . 532 
Drop  in  Laying .  532 
HORTICULTURE 
Start  the  Flower  Garden  Early — Part  II .  .  .  .  509 
The  Wealthy  Apple .  512 
Shadbush;  American  Yew: . 516 
Preventing  Trees  from  Bearing .  52S 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
Maple  Products  in  Cookery .  510 
Women  for  Farm  Housework...., . 511 
Woman’s  Farm  Notes .  512 
In  the  Hospital;  Suggestions  for  the  Home, 
The  Pastoral  Parson .  522 
A  Few  New  Games .  522 
A  Fairy  Tale  in  Real  Life .  522 
The  Home  Dressmaker .  523 
MISCELLANEOUS 
More  News  from  the  Ox-team  Express.....  511 
The  Confessions  of  a  Tobacco  User .  517 
Editorials  .  518 
Publisher’s  Desk  .  534 
