American Agriculturist, November 24,1923 
367 
CATTLE BREEDERS 
DO YOU WANT 
to add some new HOLSTEIN blood to your registered 
herd, or do you want to introduce some into a good 
grade herd? 
The' Veterans’ Mountain Camp offers you this chance. 
We have on hand eight young bulls, from one to seven 
months of age, carrying the best blood of the Segis- 
Burke and Vale strains. All direct sons of De Kol Webb 
Pontiac. Sold with or without papers. 
No reasonable offers refused as this stock must be 
disposed of at once. Write or wire 
VETERANS’ MOUNTAIN CAMP, HORSESHOE, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN BULLS FOR SALE 
Sons of 
DUTCHLAND COLANTHA SIR INKA 
FISHKILL FARMS, Hopewell Junction, N. Y. 
HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr., Owner 
OWL-INTEREST JERSEYS 
At Shugah Valley Farm 
Two choice young Bulls sired by Temissa’s Owl Interest, 
whose three nearest dams hold an average B. M record of 
706 lbs. fat. Their dams R M daughters of the great bull 
Owls Oxford Interest, with good records. Prices low. 
Herd U. S. accredited, and bred for 25 years from best 
strains in country. 
RUSH CHELLIS & SON, Props., CLAREMONT, N. H. 
HOLSTEINS and GUERNSEYS 
Fresh cows and springers, 100 head of the finest 
quality to select from. Address 
A. F. SAUNDERS, CORTLAND, N. Y. 
Extra fine lot registered 
cows, fresh or soon due. 
10 registered heifers soon due. 20 registered heifers 
ready to breed. 4 high record service bulls. 
J. A. LEACH CORTLAND, N. Y. 
HIGH GRADE, TUBERCULIN TESTED GUERNSEY COWS; 
FRESH AND SPRINGERS. 
Sold subject sixty day retest guarantee. 
DR. J. WM. FINK, Ve erinarian, NEWBURGH, N. Y. 
SWINE BREEDERS 
PIGS FOR SALE 
Chestei White and Yorkshire Crossed and Chester 
and Berkshire Crossed Pigs, 6 to 7 weeks old, S4 
each, and 7 to 8 weeks old, 84.50. I have 20 Pure 
Black Berkshires, 7 to 8 weeks old, $5 each. Boars 
$7 each. Pure Chester White Pigs, 7 to 8 weeks old, 
$5 each. Boars $7 each. Will ship from 1 to 100 to 
your approval C. O.D. 
WALTER LUX, 388 Salem St., WOBURN, MASS. 
PUBLIC SALE 
Thursday, November 29 
of 65 Head Pure-Bred Big Type Poland China hogs. 
The very best blood lines obtainable. Your name and 
address will bring you a catalogue giving a more full 
description. Sale to be held at our farm three miles 
north of the York Fair ground, along State road. 
W. K. COXEN & SONS, R 4, YORK, PA. 
HAMPSHJRFS PIGS, all ages, not akin to boars. 
IlrilTli Ollllviju Many out of famous Wickware breeding. 
Some nice Gilts and Boars, Bred Sows and Gilts. Reg¬ 
istered Free. Special Prices. 
ROY J. FREET, R. F. D. 4, A. A., Shippensburg, Pa. 
PEDIGREED HAMPSHIRES 
$6 to $8 each. HUSH BRINTON, West Chester, Pa. 
Big Type Chester Whites Bi?od1?n?s ra pis C lireac 0 h n 
Prepaid. GEO. F. GRIFpiE, R. 8,* NEWVIIAE, PA. 
PEDIGREED BIG TYPE CHESTER WHITES 
75 young bred sows, $25 to $50; 35 service boars, $25 
to $35; 75 good fall pigs, priced low, out of my Big 
Grand Champion Wildwood Prince boar and big sows. 
C. E. CASSEL, HERSHEY, PA, 
QUALITY O. I. C*S. cheap foVcmick safe! 
PRENTICE W. HIBBARD, NEW ALBANY. PA. 
DCPICTFRFn ft I F AND CHESTER WHITE PIGS. 
IUAUOlEiltLiD U. 1. C. E. P. ROGERS, WAYVILLE, N. Y, 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOD 
Grand champion breeding. Largest herd in America. Free booklet, 
HARPENDING Box 10 DUNDEE, N.Y. 
FOR SAT F LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIRE PIGS. 
rv/IY. OrlLiE< 2 months old. Price 86.00. $10.00 a pair. 
Papers for registration furnished. KRAKTZ & SONS, Dover, Ohio 
BABY CHICKS 
1000 PULLETS FOTSALE 
Vigorous, well grown, trap-nested stock. 
Sold in quantities of 25 or over. Prices 
low. Order at once to get best selections. 
April and May hatched $1.85 to $2.50 each. 
QUEENSBURY FARMS 
765 N. Main Street Toms River, N. J. 
Bar Rock Pullets, handsome. Heavy Laying Stock. 
$1.50 each. Lots of 100 or more $1 35. Brown Leg¬ 
horn Pullets $1.25. White Leghorn Pullets $1.25 each. 
Inspection invited. Registered Airdale Pups $25. 
HUMMER’S POULTRY FARM 
FRENCHTOWN, N. J., R. 1 
FOUR BARRON PEDIGREE STRAIN S.C. £&*£ 
Exclusively. Fine healthy cockerels this month. 
$2 to $3 each. 
FEEK’S WHITE LEGHORN FARM, CLYDE, NEW YORK 
I AftfC QTACIT fine Poultry,Turkeys,Geese,Ducks,Guineas, 
LinnUL ulUl/IV Bantams, Collies, Pigeons, Chicks, Stock, 
Eggs, low: catalog. PIONEER FARMS, Telford, Pennsylvania. 
3 lk RED and BARRED ROCK PULLETS,40c. lb.; 4lb.48c 
* RAY BLODGETT, BRISTOL, VT. 
You May Find It Here 
Answers to Questions Received From A. A. Readers 
Is it practical to use sweet clover In the 
form of silage? What is the rate of seeding 
per acre for sweet clover and at <what stage 
of maturity is it cut? —J. D. B. Broome Co., 
N. Y. 
HAVE not heard of it being done. If 
practical, I would not consider the 
plan profitable. In Central Pennsylvania 
it is easy to have green Sweet Clover 
for cows April 15 to November 15, about 
two weeks’ less time in Central New 
York. On November 1 we cut sweet 
clover hay. It freezes dry and now in 
March the horses are leaving oats and 
com lay untouched until they have 
eaten a part of the sweet clover hay. 
The cows did the same thing when I 
had a dairy. The hay is green in color 
and not browned by sun. I doubt if 
silage could equal this hay. Moreover, 
cows, like men, crave variety. Grow 
the corn for silage on a sweet clover sod 
without manure or fertilizer and use 
both corn silage and sweet clover hay. 
How much seed do you sow per acre? 
A pound of hulled sweet clover contains 
290,000 seeds; eight pounds per acre 
will give 52 seeds per square foot. We 
usually get a stand of 15 to 30 plants 
per square foot, using eight pounds 
of scarified seed with a wheelbarrow 
sower. In the following spring the 
plants stood, each plant will send up 10 
to 30 stalks, and a growth results that 
smothers every other living thing. 
But you can’t sow clover seed uni¬ 
formly by hand, so don’t try it. If you 
have a sower of the “fiddler” kind, or 
the shoulder-wheel type, throw them 
away and buy a wheelbarrow sower. I 
have found a 95 per cent accuracy in 
the wheelbarrow sowers. Sweet clover 
in oats in fertile soil may be used as 
hay. I allow the oats to fully mature, 
and then mow it and cure as hay. This 
makes a wonderful feed. In this land 
the oats can be harvested in the usual 
manner. In the wheat stubbles I cut a 
very heavy crop of sweet clover hay 
November 1. In the spring the stalks 
are very coarse. I have tried to make 
hay in May and June and never suc¬ 
ceeded. It will not cure.—G. E. S. 
PROROGATING LOGANBERRIES 
In your August 4th issue, you have some 
recipes for Loganberries. Last spring I 
bought two .plants and they are growing splen¬ 
didly. I have never seen any grow before, and 
none of our neighbors know anything about 
them. I would like to know how they propa¬ 
gate and is it natural for them to trail on the 
ground like the dewberry? — Mrs. W. F. B., 
New York. 
In setting a new plantation, tip plants 
are desirable, although plants are some¬ 
times secured by “layering” or by root 
cuttings. The tip plants are sometimes 
grown for one season in the nursery 
before they are set in the field. 
Tip plants are obtained from planta¬ 
tions by burying tips of the young canes 
during the late summer or autumn. The 
canes trail along the surface of the 
ground. If the soil is mellow and a good 
supply of moisture is provided they will 
take root at the ends. Better plants, how¬ 
ever, usually will be secured if the tips 
are buried in a few inches of soil. By 
the following spring, plants suitable for 
setting in the field will have formed. 
If a larger number of plants are de¬ 
sired, the ends of the young canes may 
be pinched off wheft they are 4 to 6 feet 
long. Side branches or laterals will 
then grow from the nodes along the 
canes and will root in the autumn. If 
conditions are favorable, these laterals 
will make as strong plants as if only 
one new plant were produced by each 
cane, and such plants will be fully as 
productive as those formed by a cane 
which has not branched. 
Forced Laterals Do Not Bear Well 
First Year 
A cane which has been forced to send 
out laterals and to make many tip 
plants will not bear as well the follow¬ 
ing year as a cane which has been 
allowed to grow to its full length and 
to form only a single plant at the tip. 
The plant itself, however, will not be 
injured by this practice. Growers of 
the Logan blackberry can add ma¬ 
terially to their incomes by supplying 
tip plants to nurserymen and to those 
who plan to set new plantations, and, 
in practice, most of the nursery trade 
is supplied by those who grow this 
variety for its fruit, but who get an 
additional income from the sale of tip 
plants. 
Another method of propagating the 
Logan blackberry or Loganberry is to 
make cuttings of the roots about 3 or 4 
inches long and bury them in the 
winter in trenches at a depth of 3 or 4 
inches. Some of these pieces of root 
will develop into fair-sized plants by 
the end of a year. Roots will also be 
formed at the nodes if the canes are 
covered with soil in the autumn. The 
formation of' roots will be hastened, 
however, if slits are made on the under¬ 
side of the nodes. This method of pro¬ 
pagation is not often satisfactory and 
is rarely used. 
Seeds of the Logan blackberry will 
germinate readily, and plants can be 
grown from them. They will not be 
exactly like the Logan plant, however, 
and nearly all will bear fruit inferior 
to it. 
WHITE GRUBS DESTROY STRAW¬ 
BERRY PATCH 
I set out a strawberry patch this spring of 
about an acre and a half and the entire piece 
was completely destroyed by white grubs work¬ 
ing in the roots. I will be very thankful if 
you will give me a remedy for destroying them. 
Unless I can get something to destroy them it 
will be impossible to raise strawberries suc¬ 
cessfully in this section?—R. E. T., New York. 
The white grub to which you refer, 
is the larvae of the “May beetle” or 
“June, bug,” familiar to country folks 
as “night fliers” and particularly an¬ 
noying around lights. 
The adult beetle lays its eggs in the 
soil and about two years are required 
for the development of the larva or 
“white grub.” At the end of the second 
summer the larva makes a pupal cell 
about nine or ten inches down in the 
soil and transforms to a beetle which 
is at first soft-bodied. The following 
spring it emerges as a hard beetle. 
Grassland is the natural breeding 
place and infectation usually is experi¬ 
enced in fields that have been in sod 
for a number of years and have re¬ 
cently been broken up for other crops. 
Undoubtedly this is the situation in 
your case. 
There is no chemical that can be 
applied to the soil to kill white grubs. 
Careful planning of crop rotation is 
the best means of avoiding injury. Fall 
plowing will help to some extent. 
Chickens following the plow will de¬ 
stroy the grubs that are exposed. 
Hogs are fond of white grubs and will 
root up and eat large numbers of them. 
In your case it may pay you to fall 
plow the patch, putting in a cultivated 
crop next year following that with 
strawberries. It is also often the case 
that heavy applications of manure will 
infect a field with white grubs. 
ENGINE CYLINDER SCORED 
We have a six horsepower gas engine which 
leaks compressions very badly, I put in new 
piston rings, but it didn't help any, so I 
ordered another set of rings 25-1,000 over size 
which I expect to fit in. The cylinder of our 
engine is slightly scored. Do you think by 
using valve grinder on the new rings when 
put in and working the piston and rings 
forward and backward will wear off the 
scored part of the cylinder or do you think 
it best to simply fit the new rings on the 
piston? Would they have a tendency to 
wear the scored part of the cylinder off? Also 
please let me know if the thickness of a ten- 
cent piece would be too much play to allow 
for the rings when fitted on the piston?— 
G. B., New York. 
Once a cylinder has been badly scored 
it is rather difficult to bring back good 
compression except by repairing the 
cylinder by having it rebored and 
putting in oversize pistons. A tem¬ 
porary repair for scoring which some¬ 
times gives good results is to apply 
Smooth-on to the scores, using a piece 
of broken piston ring as a guide for 
scoring it down smoothly to bring it to 
the same curvature as that of the 
cylinder. New piston rings are not 
very likely to improve conditions even 
if they are slightly oversize they will 
wear more rapidly than will the cylin¬ 
der probably, and it is unreasonable to 
expect that they will cut the cylinder 
down so that the scoring is eliminated. 
In fitting piston rings the thickness of 
a ten-cent piece between the ends of the 
ring is just about proper clearance. 
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