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IV  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Big,  Strong,  Durable,  Efficient 
RANGES,  Famous  for  Long  Life 
and  Faithful  Service-Since  1832 
UNUSUALLY  WELL  BUILT, 
with  roomy  ovens,  spacious  cook¬ 
ing  top,  large  firebox  and  reservoir, 
STEWART  RANGES  are 
especially  fine  for  the  farm  home. 
In  Use  Since  1859 
Blue  Store, 
Columbia  Co.,  N.  Y. 
"The  date  on  our  STEWART 
stove  is  1859.^  It  was  originally 
the  property'of  my  wife’s  grand¬ 
mother.  She  had  it  from  the 
time  it  was  made. 
I  have  used  it  for  the  past  34 
years.  Condition  is  good  :  lids 
slightly  warped  now.  There 
have  been  no  repairs  required 
with  the  exception  of  about  20 
years  ago  I  purchased  some  coal 
fixings.  My  wife  says  it  is  a 
good. baker. 
Yours  truly, 
(Signed)  GEORGE  W  .[SMITH.” 
WHY  NOT  Put  one  of  these  fine  new  modem  Ranges  in 
YOUR  kitchen  NOW  ?  {  Prices  will  not  be  lower.  Think  of 
the  joy  and  happiness,  the  saving  of  work  and  of  fuel,  that 
will  be  yours  with  this  beautiful  new  range  in  your  home.  Visit  the 
nearest  STEWART  dealer  and  select  YOUR  range.  See  the  models  in 
Brown  and  Gray  Porcelain  Enamel  Finish  that  never  requires  blacking. 
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Berry  Plants 
Strawberry  Plants  for  August 
and  fall  planting.  Pot-grown  and 
runner  plants  that  will  bear  fruit 
0  next  summer.  Raspberry,  Black¬ 
berry,  Dewberry,  Loganberry,  CJoceeberry.  Currant,  Grape 
plants;  Asparagus,  Rhubarb,  Hop,  Horseradish  roots  for 
fall  planting. 
wii  pki  Delphinium,  Columbine,  Hoi- 
Flower  Plants  saw: 
Foxglove,  Gaillardia,  Hibis¬ 
cus.  Peony,  Phlox,  Hardy  Pink,  Hardv  Salvia,  Hardv  Car¬ 
nation.  Oriental  Poppy,  Sweet  William,  Wallflower,  and 
other  Hardy  Perennials,— the  kind  that  live  outdoors  all 
winter,  and  bloom  year  after  year ;  Roses,  Shrubs;  for 
summer  and  fall  planting. 
Catalog  free. 
HARRY  L  SQUIRES  -  Hampton  Bays,  N.  Y. 
5  000  flflfl  CABBAGE.  CAULIFLOWER 
J,UUV,UUU  BRUSSELS  SPROUTS.  CELERY  PUNTS 
Cabbage  (AH  Varieties!  $1.75  per  1,000  ;  5,000— $8.  Cauli¬ 
flower  (Snowball),  $4.50  per  1.000  ;  5.000— *20.  Brussels 
Sprouts.  *2.50  I>er  1,000  ;  5,000— *12.  Celery  (All  Varieties) 
*3  per  1,000  ;  5.000 — *12.  Cash  w  ith  order.  Send  for  List 
of  all  Pl'ints.  PAUL  F.  ROCHELLE,  Orawer  269.  Marristown.  N.J 
APPLE  BARRELS 
J.  H.  BEAVER 
All  wood  hoops 
Esopus,  New  York 
TREES  and  PLANTS  Privet  hedging,  etc.,  di¬ 
rect  to  you  at  lower  priees  Large  assortment.  List  free. 
WESTMINSTER  NURSERY.  Desk  1  29, Westminster, Md. 
STRAWBERRY  PLANTS 
I’ot  grown;  Howard  17,  S4  per  100.  Progressive 
Everbearing,  $5  GEO.  AIKEN.  Box  M,  Putney.  Vermont 
Junior  Six  Seed 
W HEAT,  extra, quality,  $3.25  per  bu. 
Freight  prepaid.  Daniel  J.  Carey.  Groton,  B.T. 
When  you  write  advertisers  mention 
The  Rural  New-Yorker  and  you’ll  get 
a  quick  reply  and  a  “square  deal.”  See 
guarantee  editorial  page.  :  :  : 
Sow  our  North¬ 
ern-grown  Amer- 
icanSeed.  Plump, 
clean  and  hardy. 
Guaranteed.  Write 
for  free  Samples, 
Prices  and  new  Cat¬ 
alog  of  Farm  Seeds. 
Mention  this  paper. 
R.  H.  Hoffman,  Inc.,  Landisville,  Lane.  Co.,  Pa. 
WATERPROOF  covers 
13  oz.  6x10  ft.,  waterproof,  *6.  Other 
sizes  pro  rata  priees.  Write  for  sam¬ 
ples.  State  size. 
W.  W.  STANLEY 
62  White  Str.et  -  New  York 
For  Sale-150-Acres  Farm  “  a  luolT 
Large  house  and  farm  buildings  Good  boarding 
section.  Price,  $12,000.  W.  M  PIERO,  Middletown.  N.  Y. 
PRINTING  !  Envelopes,  Letterheads,  Billheads,  Circulars. 
Write  needs.  Samples  free.  FRANKLIN,  PRESS,  B-22,  Milford,  N.H. 
/or  Seed 
from  crops 
of  as  high  as 
42  bu.  per  acre 
Sowing  such  vigorous,  healthy  seed  will  pay  you ! 
Cleaned  right— no  cockle,  rye,  garlic,  other  weeds. 
Low  cost  willsurprise  you.  Plain  guarantee— let  us 
explain.  Catalog  and  samples  free  'Write  today. 
A.  H.  HOFFMAN. lnc..Landisville,Lanc.Co.,  Pa. 
little  heat  under  them,  as  water  will 
freeze  at  the  lower  end,  forming’  a  min¬ 
iature  dam  and  back  up  under  them, 
causing  a  leak.  As  the  roof  boards  are 
spaced  for  shingling,  I  would  advise  re¬ 
shingling,  as  the  labor  cost  of  repairing 
roof  as  you  suggest,  together  with  un¬ 
avoidable  waste,  would  be  high.  The 
heavy  grades  of  paper  will  permit  appli¬ 
cation  directly  over  the  old  shingles,  and 
this  might  be  done  in  your  case  if  desired. 
K.  H.  S. 
Summer  Meeting  at  Geneva 
The  New  York  State  Horticultural  So¬ 
ciety  and  the  New  York  State  Vegetable 
Growers’  Association  held  their  Summer 
meeting  on  the  grounds  of  the  experiment 
station  at  Geneva,  August  1.  About  1,000 
growers  and  their  friends  were  in  at¬ 
tendance.  Speakers  of  note  spoke  in  the 
morning,  and  during  the  afternoon  tours 
of  inspection  were  made  of  the  station 
spraying  and  dusting  tests  and  the  fruit 
and  vegetable  variety  tests.  Director  R. 
W.  Thatcher  welcomed  the  growers  and 
spoke  of  the  recent  merger  of  the  Geneva 
station  with  the  College  of  Agricultural 
at  Ithaca.  C.  S.  Wilson  of  Ilall,  presi¬ 
dent  of  the  Horticultural  Society,  and 
Mr.  R.  W.  McClure  of  Sy  racuse,  president 
of  the  Vegetable  Growers’  Association 
responded  to  Dr.  Thatcher,  pledging  the 
support  of  their  two  organizations  to  the 
station.  Dean  A.  R.  Mann  of  the  col¬ 
lege  at  Ithaca,  spoke  at  some  length  on 
the  merger  of  the  two  institutions  and 
cited  the  advantages  of  the  change.  He 
said  that  the  college  intended  to  back  the 
program  for  the  development  of  the  sta¬ 
tion  as  outlined  by  Dr.  Thatcher  last 
Summer  before  numerous  farmer  gather¬ 
ings.  Teter  G.  Ten  Eyck  of  Albany, 
member  of  Congress  and  an  officer  and 
director  of  the  State  Farm  Bureau  Fed¬ 
eration,  made  a  strong  plea  for  organiza¬ 
tion  for  co-operation  among  farmers. 
Plans  for  the  apple  show  to  be  held  in 
New  York  City  in  November  were  de¬ 
scribed  by  T.  E.  Cross  of  Dagrangeville. 
Mr.  Cross  urged  each  grower  to  assume 
his  share  of  the  responsibility  for  making 
the  show  a  success  by  exhibiting  either 
as  an  individual  or  through  his  co-opera¬ 
tive.  More  than  50  growers  pledged  one 
or  more  barrels  of  apples  to  be  used  to 
give  each  boy  and  girl  who  attends  the 
apple  show  at  least  one  apple. 
Eastern  Meeting  of  the  New  York  State 
Horticultural  Society 
The  eastern  Summer  meeting  of  the 
New  York  State  Horticultural  Society 
at  Arlington,  August  4  was  one  of  the 
most  successful  in  the  history  of  the  so¬ 
ciety.  The  gathering  was  held  in  the  or¬ 
chard  of  Mr.  Hart  and  everything  was 
provided  for  the  convenience  and  pleas¬ 
ure  of  the  members  and  friends  of  the 
society.  Excellent  were  refreshments 
served  in  the  interests  of  the  Vassar  Col¬ 
lege  endowment  fund. 
The  center  of  interest  was  the  new 
cold  storage  plant,  in  operation  for  the 
first  time,  with  a  capacity  estimated  at 
15,000  bbls.  A  n  automatic  ammonia  sys¬ 
tem  keeps  the  temperature  of  storage  at 
31  degrees  Fahrenheit.  When  the  tem¬ 
perature  rises  to  31%  or  32  degrees  the 
machinery  is  automatically  started.  The 
electrically  driven  deep  well  pump  de¬ 
livering  30  gallons  of  water  a  minute  at  a 
temperature  of  54  degrees,  cools  the  am¬ 
monia  as  it  is  compressed.  Of  course, 
the  principle  of  gas  refrigeration  depends 
upon  the  fact  that  a  gas  becomes  heated 
when  compressed  and  cools  upon  expand¬ 
ing — common  knowledge  in  these  days 
of  pneumatic  tires !  When  the  com¬ 
pressed  or  liquefied  ammonia  is  permitted 
to  expand  into  the  storage  pipes  it  be¬ 
comes  quite  cold  and  the  low  tempera¬ 
ture  desired  is  realized.  When  the  tem¬ 
perature  reaches  30%  degrees  the  ma¬ 
chinery  is  stopped.  The  insulating  ma¬ 
terial  is  cork  beneath  the  concrete  floor 
and  redwood  shavings  in  the  walls. 
The  speakers  of  the  afternoon  re¬ 
frained  from  any  lengthy  discourse,  and 
so  after  a  few  remarks  had  been  made 
on  the  apple  show  and  the  new  experi¬ 
mental  work  in  the  Hudson  Valley,  the 
gathering  began  a  tour  of  the  orchards  of 
Hart  &  Hubbard.  There  were  many  in¬ 
teresting  things  to  see,  from  the  Jona¬ 
thans  top-worked  to  Cortland,  the  cleft 
grafts  from  one-eye  cuttings,  the  “top- 
budded”  trees,  and  the  young  McIntosh 
block,  to  the  packing  shed  and  the  ’block 
of  trees  planted  30x30  which  are  kept 
in  hand  by  judicious  heading  back.  All 
those  who  attended  agreed  that  it  was  a 
most  profitable  as  well  as  a  most  enjoy¬ 
able  outing.  H.  B.  T. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— J.  II.  Tre- 
goe,  secretary-treasurer  of  the  National 
Association  of  Credit  Men,  has  warned 
the  membership  that  the  tendency  in 
Europe  to  divide  large  estates  into  small 
farms  will  decrease  markets  for  Ameri¬ 
can  produce. 
Six  hundred  Danes,  Norwegians  and 
Swedes,  arrived  at  New  York.  June  6, 
by  the  Scandinavian-American  liner  Fred- 
erik  VIII,  bound  for  farming  lands  of 
the  middle  West.  Northwest  and  Canada, 
where  they  will  buy  farms. 
An  investigation  into  the  relation  of 
the  price  of  bread  and  flour  is  being  con¬ 
ducted  under  the  supervision  of  Mrs. 
Louis  Reed  Welzmiller,  Deputy  Commis- 
Angust  18,  1923 
sioner  of  the  New  York  City  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Markets.  Housewives  charge 
profiteering  by  bakers. 
OBITUARY.— Prof  Edward  J.  Wick- 
son,  editor  of  the  Pacific  Rural  Press, 
died  at  Berkeley,  Cal..  July  10.  He  was 
born  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  August  3, 
184S.  In  1878  Prof.  Wickson  joined'  the 
faculty  of  the  California  College  of  Agri¬ 
culture.  In  1905  he  became  dean  of  that 
college,  and  director  of  the  California 
Experiment  Station,  retiring  in  1913. 
He  leaves  a  wife  and  six  children. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Aug.  21-23.  —  Society  of  American 
1  lonsts  annual  convention,  Hartford, 
Conn. 
Aug.  27-Sept.  1.— Ohio  State  Fair,  Co¬ 
lumbus. 
Sept.  10-15. — New  York  State  Fair, 
SvrziPiKP  N  Y 
‘Sept.  17-20.— Vegetable  Growers’  As¬ 
sociation  of  America,  annual  convention, 
Statler  Hotel,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  C  II 
Nissler,  secretary,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 
Sept.  26-28. — Northern  Nut  Growers’ 
Association,  fourteenth  annual  conven¬ 
tion,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Oct.  5-13. — National  Dairy  Show  and 
World’s  Dairy  Congress,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Oct.  10-12.— International  Farm  Con¬ 
gress  of  America,  seventeenth  annual  ses¬ 
sion,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
.  Nov.  27-Dec.  1. — Poultry  Show,  Wash¬ 
ington,  D.  C.  Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr, 
Orr’s  Mills,  N.  Y. 
Dec.  13-15.  ■ — ■  North  Bergen  County 
Poultry  Association,  fifth  annual  show, 
Westwood,  N.  J. 
Jan.  23-27,  1924 — Poultry  Show,  Madi¬ 
son  Square  Garden,  New  York  City, 
Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr,  Orr’s  Mills, 
Burbank  Plums  Do  Not  Bear 
I  have  several  Burbank  plum  trees 
which  blossom  full  every  year  and  then 
blight.  Neighbors  have  told  me  several 
remedies,  such  as  throwing  wood  ashes 
on  when  in  bloom,  and  one  said  that  they 
were  bark-bound.  I  split  the  bark,  but 
could  get  no  beneficial  result.  One  tree 
agent  said  that  I  needed  another  variety, 
and  I  got  that,  hut  it  is  too  young  to  blos¬ 
som.  The  trees  are  perfectly  healthy, 
but  have  been  doing  this  for  seven  years. 
Gardiner,  Me.  mbs.  w.  w. 
It  is  not  likely  that  the  wood  ashes  or 
the  bark  splitting  would  help  the  condi¬ 
tion  of  your  trees.  The  trouble  seems  to 
be  one  of  improper  or  entire  lack  of  fer¬ 
tilization  of  the  flowers.  It  may  be  that 
frost  injury  prevents  the  setting  of  fruit 
by  injuring  the  tender  pistils  early  in  the 
season.  Rainy  weather  at  blooming  time 
will  wash  the  pollen  from  the  pistils  and 
result  in  unfertilized  blossoms.  Cross 
fertilization  is  an  important  considera¬ 
tion,  and  it  is  possible  that  you  are  near 
the  solution  of  your  difficulty,  since  you 
have  planted  another  variety.  H.  B.  T. 
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CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  AUGUST  18,  1923 
FARM  TOPICS 
Blasting  Big  Boulders  . 
Potash  in  Wood  Ashes  . . 
Ground  Oyster  Shells  and  Lime  . . 
Limestone  for  Alfalfa  . 
Hoisting  Hay  in  the  Bara  . 
The  Trouble  With  Wheat  . 
Shingles  or  Roofing  for  Bam  . 
Control  of  Wheat  Smut  . . 
Clover  Seeding;  Breeding  Fish  Bait 
Hope  Farm  Notes  . 
1063,  1064 
.  1065 
.  1065 
.  1065 
.  1065 
.  1065 
1065,  1066 
.  10b, 
.  1069 
.  1070 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
Should  Farmers  Limit  Production!  . 1064 
Are  Dairymen  Going  Crazy!  .  1073 
Obstructed  Teat  .  1076 
Hoof  Rot  .  1076 
Swelling  on  Breast  . •  1076 
THE  HENYARD 
The  Poultry  Business  in  Florida  . .  1065 
Egg-laying  Contest  . . . 1080 
Oats  for  Poultry  . . . .  1080 
HORTICULTURE 
Strawberries  and  Florida. . .  1063 
Fertilizer  for  Strawberries  ...............  1065 
A  Seed  Crop  and  Rats  .  1067 
Plums  Pitless  and  Worthless  .  1067 
Cover  Crop  for  Vineyard  .  1071 
Dead-arm  Disease  of  Grapes  . 1071 
Narcissus  Fly  . 1071 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day  .  1074 
Canning  Corn  and  String  Beans  . 1074,  1075 
The  Rural  Patterns  .  1074 
Tested  Pickles  and  Relishes  .  1075 
Texas  Notes  .  1075 
Artichokes  .  1075 
MISCELLANEOUS 
What  Protection  for  the  Widow  .  1065 
Discussing  a  Surveying  Problem  .  1069 
Editorials  . 1072 
President  Harding  .  1073 
The  South  and  a  Wet  Candidate  .  1073 
Limiting  Production  .  1078 
The  Meaning  of  Minnesota  .  1078 
A  Few  Good  Thoughts  .  1078 
Senator  Copeland  on  Immigration  .  1078 
Stammerers  Want  Help  . 1078 
Publisher’s  Desk  .  1082 
