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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 24 
What Money In Sweet Corn ? 
J. W. B., Eden, N. Y.—I was much 
interested in Mr. Baker’s article cn the 
growinjf of sweet corn for the factory. 
If one can get but $25 per acre for sweet 
corn, how much field corn would he get 
from the same ground ? Besides, the 
tweet corn fcdder is worth muqji more 
for fuel. We get $9 per ton for our 
sweet corn just as it comes from the 
field, and it yields from three to five 
tons per acre. We receive one-half of 
our pay when the crop is delivered and 
the remairder the first of January fol¬ 
lowing. 
Boll Artlcbokes Before Planting I 
E. L. G., Loudon, Tenn. —In a recent 
R. N.-Y., a reader asked about planting 
artichokes for hogs, and you advised him 
to feed them before planting. This was 
good advice, but I would add: “Boil 
them well before planting to avoid all 
danger of after growth. Many years ago, 
in the New York Tribune, a writer ad¬ 
vised planting these pests, and I followed 
his advice. They have proved to be the 
most abominable nuisance I ever saw, 
and are worse than any other weed of my 
acquaintance. I have since read the 
writings of the man whose advice I too*k, 
and I find that he writes at random and 
simply to fill up space. In many instances 
he knows no more about the matters of 
which he writes than a hog does of Sun¬ 
day. 
A Sweet-Corn Yield. 
F. E. M., Newburgh, N. Y.—I have 
read what Mr. Baker has to say about his 
sweet-corn crop on page 55 of The R. 
N.-Y. I am a market gardener, and con¬ 
sider 8,000 ears an average crop, which 
fell on the Newburgh market for $1 per 
100 ears wholesale. I never have grown 
corn for canning. 
Bolletln Boards and Hen Lice. 
F. E. V. E., Stanley, N. Y.—I think 
that the bulletin board on page 67 of 
The R. N.-Y. is a very good thing; but 
I have one of my own which I think is 
more convenient. It is just a plain 
blackboard which I have used for a year 
or more. I keep it up in place, and 
whenever I have anything for sale, 
whether a horse, cow or a lot of pigs, 
garden plants, seed potatoes, berries, 
etc., I use a bit of chalk for marking the 
board, and can easily erase one thing 
and put on another. I have learned a 
remedy for hen lice that I think I never 
saw in The Rural ; make the hens’ 
nests of tobacco; the waste stems and 
coarse stuff will do. It lasts a long time 
and no lice will stay where it is. 
Celery by Irrl£:atlcn. 
W. G. E., West Chester, Pa. —The past 
season was so 5ry that many could 
scarcely get the plants started. The 
growth of all in this neighborhood is 
small. The irrigated plants started off 
at once. Celery by the “new culture’’ 
fell far short of expectation, that by the 
old method the largest I have seen this 
year. I think the failure by the “new 
culture ” was owing to so much water 
packing the ground, and the plants were 
too thick to be readily cultivated. Where 
there was room to keep the soil mellow, 
Irrigation was all that could be desired, 
except that the celery (in both cases) 
rusted badly. An old trucker said the 
rust was caused by keeping the ground 
too wet. What is the remedy for rust ? 
I shall give the “new culture” another 
trial, finding some way to keep the sur¬ 
face mellow. Irrigating strawberries 
worked like a charm; even Parker Earle 
perfected the last berry, hot and dry as it 
was. Besides, the crop was later and 
brought a better price. The water from 
a spring that would fill a 15i-inch pipe 
without head, running between alter¬ 
nate rows, was barely sufficient for an 
eighth of an acre. 
A Friend of Bees. 
D. B, W., Paris, Me.—I vote for the 
bees. I have kept them in a small way, 
and have been originating for 20 years. 
I produced the Woodbury squash and 
keep it pure. There is no flower the bees 
like better than those of the squash and 
cucumber. They are partial to the 
pansy, gladiolus and bean and clover 
blooms. The bumble and honey bees 
are a great help to me. My hired help 
are cautioned not to hurt them in any 
way. Without them I could grow but 
little seed. No doubt too many of them, 
which we do not own, would be a nuis¬ 
ance. 
The “ Redaction” of Bones. 
n. S., Macon County, N. C. —“The 
potash method is very slow.” Thus says 
The R. N.-Y., page 72. But it reed not 
be if some unleached wood ashes can be 
procured and some quicklime. Then by 
making a pit four feet deep and arrang¬ 
ing the ashes with the lime and the 
bones between the layers, until the pit is 
filled and somewhat heaped above the 
surface, wetting the heap well so as to 
slake the lime, which takes the carbonic 
acid from the ashes, making caustic pot¬ 
ash, and covering the heap (to keep in 
the heat) with soil, in two months there 
will be left a valuable fertilizer contain¬ 
ing lime, potash, and phosphoric acid, 
with a considerable quantity of nitrogen 
from the gelatine of the bones. This may 
be done very easily at this season, when 
the time is to be spared without entrench¬ 
ing upon other necessary work. The heap 
will be in the form of a dry powder, the 
bones being so soft that they may be 
crumbled with the back of a shovel, and 
easily sowed over the land or applied in 
the hill for corn or potatoes. I would 
not advise this method of application, 
however, because I have reason to know 
that it is not a desirable way. The 
growth of the roots is to be encouraged 
to spread far and wide, and if the food 
for the plants is to be confined to the 
space of a mere hill, the roots will make 
a bunch there, and will not spread as 
they should do. So that I approve always 
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The Marked Success 
of Scott’s Emulsion in consump¬ 
tion, scrofula and other forms of 
hereditary disease is due to its 
powerful food properties. 
Scott’s Emulsion 
rapidly creates healthy flesh— 
proper weight. Hereditary 
taints develop only when the 
system becomes weakened. 
Nothing in the world 
of medicine has been 
so successful in dis¬ 
eases that are most 
menacing to life. Phy¬ 
sicians everywhere 
prescribe it. 
j Pri‘;iarB(1 by Soott A Bowne. N. Y. AII dniggista. 
ATTENTION! 
kSK FOR THIS AXE. 
USE NO OTHER. 
Wood<hoppers, try the 
KellgPertectoxe 
It ’Will ent mor« wood 
th&n any other axe. 
The scoop in the blade 
keeps it from sticking in 
the wood, and makes it 
cut deeper than any other 
axe. Ask your dealer for 
it. Send us his name if 
he don’t keep it. It is the 
Anti-Trust Axe. 
Kelly Axe Mfg.Co. 
LOUlSVIItliE, KY. 
CYCLONE YISABLE 
CABLE WIRE FENCE. 
There Is money In It for 
you. WANTED 1000 
ARerts to handle this fence 
Also slat fence machines 
LANE BROS., Box S. 
Holly. Mich. 
Hudaon 
Jicycle’ Potato Cultivator. 
T:;i.sy. Fast Fine. No mure of horse 
Huatcliin)-, cart steeriiif:, and tnim 
«-pling down crops. No more hold- 
> iiiK plows with arms and leps all 
day. Half the labor. Any boy can 
‘boo’ potatoes, com, cotton, tmok, 
fkst as team can walk. T. B. Terry 
^lys ‘ Perfect.' Dr. Colyer’s report 
Pis "Nearest Ideal Cultivation." 
Order Early. R. H. Agl. Works, RiverHead, N.Y 
New Potato Cutters. Harrows, Diggers, cFertlllzer 
Drills, etc. 
In writing to adyertlseri please always mention 
Thi Bubal. 
Salt Rheum 5 Years 
Xk tbe form of a numlng 
•ore on my ankle, four 
physicians failed to cure. 
I then oommenced taking 
Hood** Barsaparllla, and 
using Hood’s Olive Oint¬ 
ment, and at the end of 
two years I was oom- 
pletely oured, and 
have had no trouble 
with It Blnoe.** Simeon 
Staplxb, East Taunton, 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla CURire 
Hood’s Pills cure ttver ills, lanu(UM.Mt 
IsasBMs. sick headache and eenstlpattMk IMw’ 
YOU CAN SELL 
Q.OO FOR A 
MACHINE 
to weave your fence at 
25 Cts. per Rod. 
10 No. 11 Gal. wires.Cross 
wires No. 12, in. to 2ft. 
apart. Weaves 30 rods a 
day. Asrents wanted. 
Catalogue free, address 
Carter WlreFenceM eh .Co, 
Box SO, Derby, Ohio. 
The best Roller and Pulverizer In the market. Send 
for circular to the PETERSON MFG. CO., Kent, O. 
BECKERFS SEED ANNUAL 
1884:, 
Is a usefnl book for these who are Interested In 
gardening. Treats of most all that Is worthy In 
Vegetables and Flower Seeds, Spring Bnibs, Seed 
Potatoes, etc. Write for it and mention Thb R. N.-Y 
WM. O. HECKKRT, Seedsman, AResheny, Pa. 
A COMPLETE GARDEN 
for 60 cents. 12 pkt of seed of 12 distinct varieties 
of hardy flowers, with instructions how to grew All 
for 60 cents postpaid. SIEBBECUT & WADLEY. 
No. 409 Fifth Avenue, New York. 
GRAPE VINES ifi. 
Old and New Varieties. Warranted extra strong. 
NONE CHEAPER. Send for Catalogue. 
IfiUGJENE WILLETT, North Co lins, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRY 
Plants a specialty. 
Immense stock of 
all good varieties. 
Send postal for 
elegant Price List. SLAYM AKER * SON, Dover, Del 
PARKER EARLE. 
BEST AND MOST PRODUCTIVE LATE STRAW¬ 
BERRY EVER OFFERED. 200,000 choice plants 
grown on new land. All small and tip plants thrown 
out. Best possible packing with plenty of live moss. 
Lightest, safe orate. More than 100 letters of blgn- 
est praise received from sales of plants made last 
year through the medium of Tub Rural Nbw- 
Yokkeb. Price. 15.00 per thousand. 
U. MORRILL, Benton Harbor, Mich. 
NEW PEACH 
JERSEY PRIDE. 
Largest, handsomest and 
finest flavored Peach In 
cultivation. Originated and for sale only by The 
Newark Nursery, Newark, N. J. Send for particulars. 
Highest Columbian Awards 
for "Purity, vitality and Perfection of Grain: Both 
CLOVER and timothy seed.” 
The Whltney-Noyes Seed Co., Binghamton, N. Y. 
CLOSEST PRICKS. SAMPLES FREE. 
0©RNi$KlNQ 
W^;HAVE THE KINGS OF ALL: • 
Dun^an’$pite Prolifici 
Riley’s IIDlroved Favorite Yellow 
npht PER jSU.'r THOUSANDS 
UCIili MADE MONEY LAST YEAR 
GRO.WINQ THEM. WHY NOT YOU? 
IT WILL PAY YOU TO TRY THKM. OUR 
OARDKN SRBD8 BEAT ALL. SIND FOR 
RATAI nfillp makr uf your ororr 
UfllilLUOULl ai4o SIND AT ONCS to 
WHITE SCHONEN OATS. 
The White Schonen have been tested with 40 varie¬ 
ties at the Wis. Experiment Station. Prof. W. A. 
Henry says of them: (For productiveness, stiff straw 
and thin hull, the White Schonen stand at the head 
of the list). Also Thoroughbred Seed Corn, 
Albert’s Improved Yellow IJent, Vander- 
hooPs White Ivory Deut, Califoruia Yellow 
l>ent and others. Prices very reasonable, write for 
circulars. Address J. L. ALUX.KT, Freedom, ill. 
POTATOES. 
Northern - grown Potatoes best to 
plant, Get your Seed of G. B. PICKER¬ 
ING & CO., Growers and Dealers in 
Potatoes for Seed, Flehers, Ontario 
County. N. Y. 
PLANT 
Dibble’s Seed Potatoes 
AND THK MONEY COMES. 
They arc the Best because north¬ 
ern grown, pure, vigorous. Free¬ 
mans, Polaris, Puritans, Sunrise, 
Rose, Victor Rose, Brown- 
Prizetakers, Rusk, 
R.N.Y. No. 2 , Am.Wonder, Cham¬ 
pions, Clay Rose, Troy Seedlings, 
and all standard kinds at hard- 
times prices. Illustrated Farm 
Seed Catalogue free. 
EDAVAKD F. DIBBLE, 
Honeoye 
IVEKKY-HOX MACH INK.- For putting up auy 
J Jklnd or size of berry box or basket material, haves 
money tokiowers who use tnem. Price ncm nal Don't 
fall lu seno f.,r cur lilubtiated clrculsr. Address 
CIN. SPECIAL'IY MFG. CO.. Cincinnati, Ohio. 
SAP PAIL COVERS. 
We make a metal one cheap. 
Curtis Steel Roofing Co., 
67 SIGLER STREET, NILES, O. 
C7~ Also all kinds of Metal Rooflng and Paint, sn 
WIFE 
CANNOT SEE HOW YOU DO 
IT AND PAY FREIGHT. 
ingMsobiae, with s complets Mt of st- 
tsobments and guaranteed for 10 year% Shipped any¬ 
where on 30 dayf' trial. Ifo money raquir^ in ad" 
tance. 76,000 now In use. World’s Fair MMal awarded. 
But from factory, save dealers’ and acents* profit. 
Write to-day for our LARGE FREE CATALOGUE. 
Oxford Mfg. Co., 342 Wabash Are., Chicago, 111 
AGENTS $75 A 
using or selling PRACTICAL 
PLATING DYNAMO .Themod- 
eru method, used in all factories 
to plate new goods. Plates gold, 
silver, niokel, etc., on watches, 
, table-ware, bicycles and 
all metal goods ; flue outfits for 
agents; different sizes; always 
DO battery; no toy; no 
; no limit to plating 
needed; a great money maker. 
W. P. HARRISON & CO., Cl«;rk No. 15, Columbus. Ohio. 
Harrow, Butterworker, 
or Churn, wholesale price 
Best. lUustr’d Cat’lg free. 
Send now. O. H. Pounder. 
No. U, FL Atkinson, 'Wls. 
Six new Strawberry Plants, and our 1894 
Illustrated Catalogue, by addressing 
NURSERY CO. Elizabeth, N J. 
'ACME” Pulverizing Harro'w, Clod Crusher «#'Leveler 
Variety 
of sizes 
suitable 
all work 
TS adapted to all soils and all work for which a 
Harrow is needed. 
Flat crushing spurs pulverize lumps, level and 
smooth the ground, while at the same time curved 
coulters cultivate, lift and turn the entire surface 
of the soil. The backward slant of the coulters 
prevents tearing up rubbish and reduces the draft. 
Made entirely of cast steel and wrought iron 
and therefore practically indestructible. 
CHEAPEST RIDING HARROW ON 
EARTH—sells for about the same as an ordinary 
drag— eight dollars and upwards. 
N. B.—I deliver free on board at dUtiibnting polntiL 
SPNT ON TRIiT Torespomiblc farmer*, to be returned 
Uliill vil lill/iiJ at my expen&e if not satisfactory. 
DDANE H. NASH, Sole Mfr., 
MENTION THIS PAPSR. 
Many Old, 
Worn-Out 
FARMS 
that farms and gardens Won’t Produce a Profit. 
The rich, loamy soil of Michigan Farms produces a flne crop 
. -, — expense. The near markets, general healthfulness 
of climate and freedom from cyclones, blizzards, together with good socieiy, churches etc make Michu 
world. WHte to me and 1 will tell you how to get the best farms on lono 
nmc. Xow ToXc of i/ntCTCit* O. YI. BA K N JE8, JLand Uommis.loner, X.aaslng', Mich. 
