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August  11,  1923 
Potash  pays — on  “  dollar  wheat!” 
NEW  York  State  raised 
8,678,000  bushels  of 
winter  wheat  last  season,  an 
average  of  19  bushels  per 
acre.  Were  you  above  or 
below  the  average  ? 
With  “dollar  wheat,”  you  must 
increase  the  yicld-per-acre  if  you 
are  to  make  a  profit.  Don’t 
worry  about  the  wheat  market — 
it  is  not  the  price  but  the  yield  that 
counts;  it  costs  just  as  much  to 
raise  a  small  crop  as  it  does  a 
large  one.  A  few  bushels  more 
from  each  acre  mean  the  differ¬ 
ence  between  profit  and  loss. 
Wheat  is  one  of  the  most  profit¬ 
able  crops  to  fertilize,  because 
a  small  increased  yield  not  only 
pays  for  the  fertilizer  but  leaves 
a  real  profit. 
A  fertilizer  containing  a  high 
unit  of  potash 
will  pay  even 
with  wheat  at 
a  dollar.  A 
common  win¬ 
ter  wheat  for¬ 
mula  is3-10-2>^. 
A  recent  series 
of  experiments 
proved  that  it 
was  very  profit¬ 
able  to  increase 
the  potash  in 
this  formula. 
The  results  were  : 
300  lbs.  of  3-10-21/2  to  the 
acre  produced  24  bushels. 
300  lbs.  of  3-10-5  to  the  acre 
produced  31  bushels. 
This  shows  a  positive  increased 
yield  of  7  bushels  to  the  acre. 
Even  at  80c  these  7  bushels  are 
worth  $5.60,  but  the  2 K  additional 
units  of  potash  cost  only  6 oc,  mak¬ 
ing  a  net  profit  created  by  the  ad¬ 
ditional  potash  of  $5. 00  per  acre. 
Buy  mixed  fertilizer,  but  be 
sure  the  potash  unit  is  high.  Pot¬ 
ash  Pays.  It  not  only  lengthens 
the  head  and  makesplump,  hard 
grain  that  does  not  shrink  in  dry¬ 
ing,  but  it  will  help  you  get  a 
good  stand  of  clover  or  grass. 
German  Potash  is  plentiful 
now.  You  can  get  it  if  you  want  it. 
Your  dealer  has  Genuine  Ger¬ 
man  potash  in  stock,  either  in  the 
form  of  mixed  fertilizer  or  in  200 
pound  sacks.  Should  he  be  tem¬ 
porarily  out  of  it,  write  us  and 
we  will  tell  you  how  and  where 
to  get  it  in  the  grade  you  wish. 
Since  May  1, 1923,  the  distribu¬ 
tion  of  German  Potash,  formerly 
managed  in  this  country  by  the 
German  Kali  Works  and  the 
Potash  Syndicate,  has  been  con¬ 
trolled  by  the 
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Garden  and  Farm  Notes 
Care  of  Everbearing  Strawberry  Plants 
Will  you  inform  me  if  it  is  all  right  to 
set  out  Everbearing  strawberry  plants  in 
August?  I  have  a  bed  set  out  last  year 
in  the  Spring,  but  would  like  to  start  a 
new  one  from  those  plants.  j.  s.  P. 
New  York. 
While  we  do  not  recommend  setting 
strawberry  plants  in  the  Fall,  it  can  be 
done  at  any  time  as  soon  as  the  new 
young  plants  are  big  enough,  well  rooted, 
if  there  is  plenty  of  rain,  or  they  can  be 
irrigated,  whether  they  are  June  or  Ever- 
bearing.  The  Everbearers  are  like  the 
June  varieties  in  all  ways  except  having 
the  everbearing  feature  in  addition,  fruit¬ 
ing  as  abundantly  in  the  Spring,  and  alT 
at  once  like  ordinary  sorts;  then  a  short 
interval  to  recuperate,  with  a  thorough 
going  over,  cultivating,  hoeing,  etc.,  about 
a  month,  when  they  begin  to  bear  again 
in  August,  blossoming  and  fruiting  con¬ 
tinuously  until  the  ground  is  frozen  in 
the  Fall,  as  long  as  anything  can  grow. 
We  set  them  out  in  the  Spring,  the  earlier 
the  better,  at  the  same  time  we  set  the 
June  varieties,  giving  them  the  same 
treatment  throughout  that  we  do  the 
June  varieties,  except  that  after  keeping 
the  blossoms  picked  (pinching  off  the 
fruiting  stems  'as  they  appear)  from 
both  kinds  until  after  the  blossoming  pe¬ 
riod  for  the  June  varieties,  or  until  the 
plants  are  well  rooted,  growing  well, 
about  July  10,  when  the  June  sorts  do 
not  blossom  after  that.  Allow  the  Ever¬ 
bearers  to  keep  on  blossoming  and  fruit¬ 
ing  to  their  hearts’  content,  making  their 
first  crop  before  snow  flies,  about  seven 
months  from  the  setting  out,  while  the 
common  sorts  are  getting  ready  for  their 
first  crop  the  next  June,  15  months  fro:i 
the  setting  out. 
This  first  crop  of  the  Everbearers,  'be¬ 
ginning  to  fruit  about  three  to  four 
months  from  the  setting  out,  does  not 
seem  to  hurt  them  in  the  least  from 
fruiting  as  abundantly  the  next  June, 
going  to  show  that  when  allowed  to  fruit 
at  will  moderately  but  continuously  there 
is  little  or  no  strain  or  pull  on  their 
vitality  and  fruiting  vigor  by  making  a 
good  crop  in  this  way  throughout  the 
longer  fruiting  season,  or  that  they  are 
hardier  than  the  June  varieties,  as  well 
as  doubly  productive,  counting  the  four 
crops  from  the  Everbearers  to  two  crops 
of  the  June  varieties  in  a  like  period  of 
time ;  about  26  to  27  months  from  the  set¬ 
ting  out  of  both  kinds. 
We  have  been  growing  these  varieties 
from  the  start,  having  tried  out  many  so- 
called  everbearers  before  the  advent  of 
the  Pan-American  (all-American)  fore¬ 
runner  of  the  improved  varieties  today, 
among  which  we  regard'  Progressive  as 
our  main  dependence  on  the  market,  the 
most  important  of  all  well-tried  varieties 
today,  whether  June  or  Everbearing. 
We  set  out  all  varieties  regularly  each 
Spring,  plowing  under  nearly  all  of  them 
after  each  June  fruiting,  except  Pro¬ 
gressive  that  we  aim  to  save  in  large 
amount  as  possible  to  fruit  throughout 
the  Summer  and  Fall  for  the  nearby 
city  market.  Whenever  dug  for  plants  in 
Spring  we  aim  to  save  the  mother  plants 
of  this  variety,  giving  them  thorough  cul¬ 
tivation  throughout.  If  growing  entirely 
for  fruit  we  should  grow  hill  culture 
from  the  start  in  2-ft.  checkrows,  to  cul¬ 
tivate  both  ways,  or  in  3-ft.  rows,  with 
plants  about  14  in.  apart  in  the  row.  Hill 
culture  is  the  ideal  way  to  grow  straw¬ 
berries.  and  these  Everbearers  are  ideal 
hill  culture  varieties. 
Michigan.  C.  N.  flansburgii. 
Dahlias  from  Cuttings 
Can  you  give  me  information  on  the 
propagation  of  Dahlias?  I  have  some 
good  ones  which  I  want  to  increase  as 
rapidly  as  possible  for  sale,  and  I  under¬ 
stand  that  cuttings  can  be  rooted,  but  I 
have  not  succeeded,  and  have  tried  bot¬ 
tom  heat,  too.  I  have  had  cuttings  re¬ 
main  in  good  condition  for  six  weeks, 
but  they  do  not  send  out  roots.  Cuttings 
are  made  with  joint  at  bottom  and  were 
taken  from  growing  plants.  How  late 
may  cuttings  of  Dahlias  be  rooted  and 
have  them  form  a  tuber  which  will  keep 
over  Winter?  L.  E.  w. 
New  York. 
To  propagate  Dahlias  from  cuttings, 
the  roots  are  planted  closely  in  green¬ 
house  benches  early  in  January.  Cut¬ 
tings  are  made  from  the  young  shoots  as 
fast  as  they  form  the  third  or  fourth  set 
of  leaves.  The  cuttings  are  carefully 
trimmed  and  placed  in  pure  sand  in  the 
propagating  bed,  being  set  with  a  dibble, 
in  rows  3  in.  apart,  cuttings  %  in.  or  1 
in.  in  the  rows.  A  sand  heat  of  65  de¬ 
grees,  with  the  temperature  of  the  house 
5  to  10  degrees  less,  gives  good  results. 
The  cuttings  root  in  about  two  weeks.  As 
soon  as  rooted  the  cuttings  are  potted  in 
small  pots,  and  grown  in  a  cool  green¬ 
house  till  danger  of  frost  is  over,  when 
they  are  planted  out  in  the  open  ground. 
Cuttings  made  to#  late  in  the  season  or 
too  far  below  a  joint,  will  make  a  flower¬ 
ing  plant,  but  will  not  produce  tubers.  If 
you  have  greenhouse  facilities  you  can 
readily  propagate  as  described  above,  but 
we  do  not  advise  Summer  cuttings  from 
growing  plants. 
Fruiting  Old  Strawberry  Beds 
Does  it  pay  to  fruit  strawberries  more 
than  one  year?  It  depends  on  the  ground 
and  the  variety.  Some  sorts  are  like 
some  hens.  They  come  back  and  yield 
well  in  their  second  year,  while  others 
seem  to  lay  themselves  out  as  pullets.  If 
the  soil  is  very  weedy,  it  generally  costs 
more  than  the  crop  is  worth  to  keep  it 
clean.  To  those  wTho  care  to  fruit  the 
crop  year  after  year,  the  New  York  Ex¬ 
periment  Station  gives  the  following  ad¬ 
vice  : 
If  it  is  decided  to  retain  the  old  straw¬ 
berry  bed,  it  will  be  necessary  to  culti¬ 
vate  thoroughly  between  the  rows,  and 
to  thin  out  the  old  plants  sufficiently  to 
encourage  the  production  of  runners,  and 
to  furnish  a  suitable  place  for  them  to 
take  root,  it  is  stated.  In  small  beds  the 
thinning  may  be  done  with  a  hoe  or 
spade,  leaving  one  plant  every  6  to  9  in., 
and  working  up  the  ground  around  the 
plant  so  that  the  runners  may  take  root 
readily. 
In  large  'plantings  some  growers  cut 
out  the  old  leaves  with  a  mowing  machine 
as  soon  as  the  crop  is  harvested.  When 
the  material  is  sufficiently  dry,  and  when 
the  wind  is  blowing  in  the  direction  of 
the  rows,  the  field  is  burned  over,  al¬ 
though  there  is  always  danger  of  injuring 
the  crowns  of  the  plants  by  this  practice. 
The  rows  are  then  narrowed  down  to  6 
to  12  in.  with  a  plow,  disk  harrow  or 
cultivator,  and  the  soil  between  the  row's 
thoroughly  stirred.  In  both  large  and 
small  planting  a  heavy  application  of 
plant  food,  preferably  well-rotted  stable 
manure,  should  be  broadcast  directly  over 
the  rows. 
CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  AUGUST  11,  1923 
FARM  TOPICS 
Life  in  the  Hill  Country  .  1038 
Buckwheat  for  Hay  .  1042 
Coming-  Farmers  Meetings  . .  1042 
Hope  Farm  Notes  . 1046 
A  Farm  Woman’s  Notes  . 1047 
The  Slump  in  Wheat  Prices  .  1049 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
Milk  Prices  .  1049 
Chronic  Indigestion  in  Cow  .  1052 
Diseased  Quarter  .  1052 
Milkless  Quarters  . 1052 
THE  HENYARD 
A  Good  Red  Hen  .  1046 
Henhouse  Construction;  Feeding  Formulas.  1054 
Egg-laying  Contest  .  1056 
Ailing  Turkeys  .  1056 
HORTICULTURE 
Wild  Seedlings  Poor  Stock  .  1038 
Grading  and  Boxing  Apples  .  1039 
A  Brief  Story  of  Mushroom  Growing  .....  1041 
Carbon  Dioxide  for  Plants  .  1041 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day  .  1050 
Popular  Pickles  .  1050 
The  Rural  Patterns  .  1050 
Notes  from  Vermont  .  1050 
Notes  from  Oklahoma  .  1050 
Crochet  Lace  with  Novelty  Braid  ....1050,  1051 
Pacific  Coast  Clams  .  1051 
Letters  of  an  Indiana  Farmer  . 1051 
Two  Cherry  Recipes  .  1051 
Tested  Mincemeat  . 1051 
Some  Helpful  Discoveries  .  1051 
Keeping  Lemons;  Ants  .  1051 
Sour  Cream  Filling  for  Cakes  . 1051 
Kalsomine  Suggestions  .  1051 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Principles  of  Business  Co-operation. .  ..1037,  1038 
Construction  of  Concrete  Steps  .  1038 
A  Rejected  Federal  Land  Bank  Loan  .  1039 
Events  of  the  Week  .  1042 
Catching  Turtles  . 1043 
An  Unusual  Bird  .  1043 
An  Essay  on  Cats  .  1043 
Destroying  Woodchucks  .  1043 
Trying  to  Sell  Butterflies  .  1043 
The  Bootlegger  and  "Moonshine”  . .  1045 
‘‘A  Boycott  on  Gasoline”  . . .  1045 
Unmannerly  Tourists  .  1045 
Light  Punishment  for  Auto  Hogs  .  1045 
Old-time  Journalism  . 1046 
Warning  to  Auto  Hogs  . . .  1046 
A  Profitable  Mud  Hole  .  1046 
Editorials  . .  •  1048 
The  School  Bill  and  Its  Discussion,  Part  IX  1049 
Population  of  New  York  Area  .  1049 
Installing  Motor  for  Separator  .  1054 
Siphoning  a  Water  Supply  .  1054 
Publisher’s  Desk  . 1058 
