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American Agriculturist, February^24,1923 
Do Your Seedings 
Winterkill ? 
Millions of dollars are lost by 
farmers because of winterkilling. 
The U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, 
several Agricultural Colleges, 
and numerous farmers have 
provdd that much of the winter- 
killing of Clover and Alfalfa is 
due to the use of unadapted seed. 
Hi^ Ouality-Knmvn Origin 
are produced by various Pure 
Seed Associations and leading 
individual growers located in 
America’s best and hardiest seed 
producing sections. 
G. L. F. Alfalfa Seed 
comes from the fields that have 
successfully withstood the se¬ 
verest of winter and spring con¬ 
ditions for 25 to 42 years, and 
are still yielding profitable crops 
of excellent hay. 
G. L. F. Clover Seed 
is carefully grown and harvested 
to prevent damage, and cleaned 
by the best equipment operated 
under our supervision. v 
We have a full line of field seeds. 
A real honafide guarantee with 
every hag. 
New York Fanners Praise G. L. F. Seed 
"We have distributed G. L. F. Seeds to more than 
101) farmers the last two years, and have heard noth¬ 
ing but praise for them.” 
Thomas L. Ilegan, Camden, N. Y. 
"I have sown G. L. F. Seed for two years and tlie 
Clover comes thru the winter the best I have ever had.” 
D. J. Hollis, Lacona, N. Y. 
"Formerly while using seed purchased locally, I 
was troubled by the Clover winterkilling. Since using 
G. L. F. Seeds I have had no such trouble.” 
W. .1. Suits, Camden, N. Y. 
"Have used G. L. F. Seed for two years and can¬ 
not praise it too much. It is the best seed to be had 
and I would not use any other. Seven acres averaged 
over five tons per acre of Choice Clover Hay.” 
E. L. Squires, JIassena, N. Y. 
Write today for fall information 
COOPERATIVE GRANGE LEAGUE 
FEDERATION EXCHANGE, INC. 
Seed Dept. .No. 10 Byrne Building, Syracuse, N. Y. 
We pay the freight—sacks free 
Peaches Make Profits 
This fruit of most uses is always in 
big demand. Even a few trees will 
prove remarkably profitable—for the 
big baskets of juicy fruit they give 
you will be far more than sufficient 
for home use, either fresh or pre¬ 
served. Eager buyers take your sur¬ 
plus, at good profit to you. 
Collins’ 1923 PlanHng Guide 
lists all the standard varieties of peach trees 
at attractive prices, together with apple, pear, 
plum and cherry trees, berry plants, orna¬ 
mental nursery stock, evergreens, privet, etc. 
If you favor fruit or are interested in all 
growing plants of utility and beauty, have us 
send a copy to you, FREE. A postal brings it. 
ARTHUR J. COLLINS & SON 
Box 40 Moorestown, New Jersey 
seed: 
Grown From Select Stock 
•^None Better— 53 years 
selling good seeds to satisfied 
customers. Prices below all 
others. Extra lot free in all 
orders I fill. Big free cata* 
logue has over 700 pictures of 
veget ables and flowers. Send 
your and neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHUMWAY, Rockfordr III- 
CHOICE STRAWBERRY PLANTS All standard varie¬ 
ties. $3.7.3. Guaranteed first-class or money refunded 
Catalog. MRS. FILENA WOOLF. Allkgan, Mich 
Yankees, Cows and Maple Sugar 
{Continued from page 159) 
most universally builds town halls, a 
custom uncommon in other parts of 
the State. 
It is fashion to say that Vermont is 
decadent. A very famous woman au¬ 
thor with perhaps more sentiment than 
sense has made the phrase, “Beautiful, 
dying Vermont.” It is true that along 
with two other commonwealths, Nevada 
and Mississippi, she shares the distinc¬ 
tion of being one of the three states 
that lost population in the decade 1910- 
1920. But this means nothing more 
than that she is chiefly an agricultural 
community with 
no large and 
growing cities. 
As a matter of 
fact, nearly all 
exclusively agri¬ 
cultural regions 
tend to decline in 
population. Dur¬ 
ing those same 
years 33 of our 
New York State 
countie's lost pop¬ 
ulation and one 
of them was little 
old New York 
County, because 
more and more 
lower Manhattan 
Island is becom¬ 
ing a place to 
work but surely 
not to live. Its 
decline in'popula¬ 
tion necessarily 
means decadence, 
thus the situation 
is bad enough for 
during that de¬ 
cade Ulster Coun¬ 
ty in our State 
lost 18.4 per cent 
and my own good 
County of Scho¬ 
harie has barely 
60 per cent of the 
people she count¬ 
ed in 1860, the 
census date that 
represents the 
high water mark 
in most rural New 
York counties. 
If I were a Ver¬ 
monter, I would 
not let a little 
loss in members 
worry me. There are only a third of a 
million of them all told any way but 
among them there is a very large pro¬ 
portion of the finest racial stock the 
world ever knew—the Puritan. 
Coming Back to Maple Sugar 
Well I started to say something 
about maple sugar and instead I have 
been dreaming of the “Bashful State.” 
Just a little concerning maple trees 
and sap buckets for March is almost 
here. The Maple Products Association 
put on a wonderful exhibit of their 
wares—“Maple honey” and confection¬ 
ery in great variety and syrup that 
was transparent and sugar that was 
white almost beyond belief. They told 
me there was at least a thousand dol- 
ars, worth shown in these exhibits. The 
prize winning booth carried the very 
appropriate quotation “The Trees of 
the Lord are full of sap.” 
When I hear a technical discussion 
of modern syrup making, I realize that 
we have “gone some” since the days 
when we boiled sap in a potash kettle 
with a hunk of fat pork hung above it 
at a point that would be reached by the 
mess before it frothed over; then 
finished up on the kitchen stove and 
sugared off when it “bubbled like sup- 
pawn” and would “hair in the wind.” 
Listen to the directions how to finish 
syrup as annunciated by a professor of 
the college. “High class maple syrup 
should weigh eleven pounds to the gal¬ 
lon of 231 cubic inches. This 'corre¬ 
sponds to a specific gravity of 1.32 or to 
36 on the so called Baume scale. The 
best way to determine when it is boiled 
enough is by the use of an accurate and 
tested thermometer and when finished 
it should boil at a temperature just 7 
degrees Fahrenheit above the boiling 
point of pure water in that locality, 
remembering that while water boils at 
212 degrees at sea level. It may boil 
at 210 degrees or 211 degrees at the 
high elevation of some sugar camps.” 
I listened to one noteworthy address 
—the results of a most exhaustive 
study of the cost factors in the industry, 
the survey being made by the Farm 
Management Department of the Col¬ 
lege. The survey covered two years 
and the researches included about 60 
different producers with orchards of 
various sizes. I cannot report this 
address but only set down a few of the 
outstanding figures and conclusions. 
Taking the average of all these pro¬ 
ducers and expressing it in terms 
thousand buckets 
hung” the figures 
are these: The 
average value of 
the trees for one 
thousand was 
$1,400. This was 
of course, the 
owner’s own ap¬ 
praisal. The aver- 
a g e production 
per 1,000 buckets 
hung was 201 
gallons and the 
average sum re¬ 
ceived from its 
sale was $368.00. 
The average 
consumption of 
fuel to boil this 
syrup was 18 
cords of low 
grade wood. The 
average value of 
equipment for 
1,000 buckets was 
$882.00 surpris¬ 
ingly large it 
seemed to me. 
The average 
cost of man labor 
per hour was/ es¬ 
timated at 21.4 
cents—sur«ly low 
enough. The 
average cost of 
horse labor per 
hour was given as 
19.4 cents — per¬ 
haps more than it 
was really worth 
this time of year. 
Based on these 
factors, the aver¬ 
age cost of syrup 
was $1.68 per 
gallon and the av¬ 
erage selling price 
or a net profit of 
15 cents per gallon. Surely, making 
maple syrup is not a get-rich-quick 
proposition. The margin is much small¬ 
er than I would have expected. Indeed 
it is so small that if you have any 
really profitable job you better forget 
the sap bush. On the other hand, you 
will be considerably better off to “tap” 
than you will be if you let the horses 
stand idle in the barn while you sit by 
the fire. Or you may think of it in this 
way. That the main advantage in hav¬ 
ing a sugar bush is that it gives a 
man a profitable opportunity to labor 
at a time of year when perhaps he 
would not be otherwise employed. 
In any case, Vermont believes in the 
maple tree. She leads every other 
state, some years tapping very nearly 
six million trees, while New York comes 
next with nearly five million. 
No Worry for the Future 
Surveys indicate that Vermont has 
enough young trees coming on to main¬ 
tain production in future years. The 
average estimate was that trees ought 
to be ten inches in diameter before 
tapping and that this size ought to be 
reached in about 30 years. The state 
has one orchard of ten thousand trees, 
the largest in the world. 
In any case, in the minds of most 
people, really high class maple products 
will stand forth as about the most 
absolutely delicious of all the fruits 
of the earth. 
The man who goes around in the 
spring of the year with a brush and 
bucket of paint in his hands may not 
present the best appearance all the 
while, but he is certainly saving money 
by painting whatever needs it about 
the place, whether it be building, farm 
machinery or the front fence and the 
gates. 
A WRITER FOR COUNTRY FOLKS 
C OMMENTING upon community 
meetings, one of our county cor¬ 
respondents in the “North Country” 
writes as follows: 
“Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., the well- 
liked Schoharie farmer, with his whim¬ 
sical style of address that cannot be 
imitated, has been speaking at com¬ 
munity meetings held under the direc¬ 
tion of the local Farm and Home 
Bureau and Grange committees. At 
two places men drove long distances to 
see if he looks like his picture in Amer¬ 
ican Agriculturist and whether he talks 
as good as he writes.” 
The thousands of farmers who have 
had the privilege of listening to Mr. 
Van Wagenen, know that he can talk 
just as good as he can write. No farm 
writer that we know can approach Mr. 
Van Wagenen in his ability to express 
the joys and sorrows, the hopes and 
disappointments and the ideals and as¬ 
pirations of farm people. He has the 
ability of a great writer to take his 
readers or his audience back with him 
across the years to live again the joys 
and sorrows of other days. He can re¬ 
call in his humorous and kindly style 
men and women who were beloved 
leaders among country people when our 
fathers and mothers were young. And 
best of all, Mr. Van Wagenen can leave 
us with a feeling that the new days as 
well as the old are good; and that the 
country and the country home with all 
its problems is still the best place in 
the world in which to live.—T he 
Editors. 
of units of “per 
received was $1.83 
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For description see our advertisement February 17th 
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Bids fair to be most popular sort in New York and 
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HUBAM SWEET CLOVER, Scarified, high ger¬ 
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Investigation through Farm Bureau or Agricul¬ 
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