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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 7 
A List of Apples. 
W. P.T., Curwensville, Pa. —On page 
552, W. W. H. wishes to know what 
apples would be desirable for winter, 
especially late keepers. I would suggest 
the following, as they will keep until 
spring, indeed until May, and are large, 
beautiful redapples, adapted for eating 
or cooking, and the best of market fruit: 
Paragon, Shackleford and Springdale. I 
can give him a longer list if he desires, 
all very early bearing sorts. 
Is it Necessary to Spray Apple Trees ? 
C. D. N., Owego, N. Y.—I have two 
apple trees (Rhode Island Greening and 
Gilliflower) standing in a five-acre field, 
well loaded with the finest specimens of 
apples I ever saw—not an inferior or 
wormy apple on either tree. These trees 
were never sprayed. Last year, 30 
sheep were pastured in this and an ad¬ 
joining five-acre field, changing from 
one to the other every two weeks ; they 
had no other fertilizing or care of any 
kind, except a slight pruning last April. 
Apples need potash. The sheep furnishes 
phosphate and nitrogen, but only a frac¬ 
tion of potash. The wormy, falling apples 
were all consumed as they fell last fall. 
Good Hay rake. 
F. Z., Moray, Kan. —As W. B. II. says, 
most hayrakes have some defects. The 
best one of which I know, is the Thomas 
Royal self-dump. As the name implies, 
it is a self-dump ; one tramps on a little 
chain, and up flies the rake clear and 
quick; it drops just past the windrow 
and the driver locks the rake down with 
the foot. This rake m raps around the 
axle a good deal. This is the best rake 
of a dozen or more that I have worked, 
or seen worked. 
How Much Land? 
11., Virginia.— I was glad to see the 
question, “What sized farm should a 
man have ?” It is a subject I have often 
mentioned to people and at gatherings 
for several years past, especially since 
farm produce and farm life have under¬ 
gone, and are still undergoing, such a 
change. I have often thought of writing 
up the subject for publication, and 
agitating it before the people, until 
eventually they would become schooled 
to see what was to their own and the 
Nation’s best interest. But since 1 have 
passed through the financial mill of 
‘ ‘ nose to the grindstone,” and know how 
slow the public is to take in new ideas, 
I have remained content to let others do 
as I have done—look out for myself—in¬ 
juring no one. My experience and 
observation are that we individually and 
nationally would be better off with less 
land to our credit. Forty acres of good 
land are enough for any one man, and 80 
acres ought to satisfy any one. However, 
the limit I would draw by a national 
law is that no one man could own a right 
and title to more than the homesteaders’ 
claim—1G0 acres. 
What to Charge the Crops. 
W. C. J., Norwich, Ont. —It occurs to 
me that there is a mistaken idea as to 
the amount to be charged for work, and 
also to be charged for feed and fodder 
fed to farm stock. No farmer should 
charge for plowing his own acre, as 
much as though he had to have it done 
by an outsider; for to the latter, he 
would have to pay actual cash or its 
equivalent, while in the former case the 
proper charge should be for only the 
actual cost. The hay and oats, etc., con¬ 
sumed by his horses, should be charged 
at only cost price, not at the selling 
price. Again, for example, if corn sells 
for 50 cents a bushel, a farmer has no 
right to charge his hogs 50 cents a bushel 
for the corn they consume, but only for 
the cost of producing such corn. If he 
sold his corn at 50 cents a bushel, he 
would consider that he had a profit on it, 
and he has no right to charge this profit 
against the animal consuming the grain. 
I am aware that it is difficult to arrive 
at the actual cost with farm products ; 
but an estimate as near as possible is far 
more correct than to charge the market 
or selling price against the stock, or the 
land with the working thereof by him¬ 
self and one team, the same day wages 
as for an outsider and his team. 
(Continued on next page.) 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
This Rural New-Yobkek. 
Vacation 
Benefits are more 
Than equaled by the 
Pure Blood, Life and 
Energy given by 
Hood’s 
Sarsapari I la 
nng nn phloxes. 
DULDu POLONIES. 
Superb Collections. Low Prices. Catalogue free. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY, 
Mount Hope Nurseries. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
THE BRANDYWINE 
STRAWBERRY 
has now produced afullcrop for the sixth consecutive 
season. Plants ready July 10, that with care will 
make a good matted row for next season's fruiting. 
For prices address the originator, 
EDWARD T. INGRAM, West Chester, Pa. 
POT-GBOWN. 
S. H. WARREN. 
Weston, Mass. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
Fine layer plants of Parker Earle, Holland, Mary, 
Lady Thompson. Rio, No Name, Tennessee Prolific, 
Belle, Bisel, Cyclone. Marshall; 125 planes of either 
or assorted by mail for $1. Greenville. Bubach. Day- 
ton. Van Deman, and 50 others at 60c. per 100 prepaid. 
WM. PERRY, Cool Spring, Del. 
A FULL 
CROP OF 
STRAWBERRIES 
next season nny ftDniUll 
FROM OUR r U I-UnUVTIl PLANTS. 
Plants and Vines of every description and variety. All grown under my own 
supervision. Send for handsome new descriptive summer list, now ready, 
mailed free. 
T. J. DWYER. CORNWALL N. Y. 
Have You Yet Heard of Cupid? 
The Floral Wonder of the Age! 
White as snow, it is an unique DWARF SWEET PEA, that grows only five Inches high. It car¬ 
pets the ground with a glistening mass of white for months, and can now be seen in full flower at Forbhook 
Farm. It is worth traveling hundreds of miles to see. BUT your address on a postal card, sent now, 
will bring you by January 1st, 1896, BURPEE’S FARM ANNUAL for 1 896—a handsome book show¬ 
ing CUPII) painted true to nature, and also illustrations from photographs. Next season you can then 
have this little wonder in your own garden or window box. W. Atlee Burpee «fc Co., Philada., Pa. 
Are Headquarters for the Choicest Fruit and Ornamental 
Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Itoses, Plants. Japan 
Holland and Other Bulbs. 
No finer assortment of Large or Small Fruits Shrubs or 
in America. With more acres of ORXA MKXTA IjS than any nursery 
can show. Nurserymen, Florists, Dealers and Planters are cordially in¬ 
vited to call and inspect our stock. Correspondence solicited. 
Fall Price List and Bulb Catalogue Free. 
42nd YEAR. 1000 ACRES. 29 GREENHOUSES. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Painesville, Ohio. 
HIGH CLASS SEEDS. 
A 
IMPORTERS OF 
Dutch 
AND 
French 
Bulbous Roots 
HYACINTHS, TULIPS, DAFFODILS, 
LILY OF THE VALLEY PIPS, AUItATUM and all other 
JAPAN LILIES, BERMUDA EASTER LILIES, TUBEROSES, &c. 
Descriptive Priced Catalogue Mailed Free on Application. 
J.M JHORBURN &Co.l5 JOHN ST.NewYork^ 
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Crimson Glover 
Beat for the cattle— i&sY for the soil. But you 
must have the best seed. This is one of the special¬ 
ties for which we are famous. Get prices at once. 
ARTHUR J.COLLINS,Moorestown,N.J. 
PEACH TREES. 
300,000 now ready for fall sales. Buds furnished 
at low prices. Twenty-page Catalogue free. 
SCARLET CLOVER SEED FOR SALE. 
J. G. HARRISON & SONS, - - BERLIN, MIL 
GRAPE™** 
® » » u u tSOH Small Fruits. 
All old and new varieties Extra quality. " nrrnnteJ 
true. Loirni rata. Descriptive Catalogue Free 
T.S. HUBBARD CO., FREDONIA, N. Y 
Plant the Best Currants 
WHITE IMPERIAL excels all others in quality 
for a fine table currant. 
PRESIDENT WILDER combines qualities that 
make it the most valuable market and table Red 
Currant that has been put upon the market. For 
prices apply to 
S. I). WILLARD, Geneva, N. X. 
CUMMER’S 
FOLDING GRATES 
Will SAVE THEIR COST in 
One Season. Fold to one 
inch thick. C li e a p and 
Durable. Freight P r e- 
paid. Write for Catalogue. 
CUMMER MFG. CO., Cadillac, Midi., U. S. 
DIBBLE SEED CO.’S 
Crimson Clover! 
HARDY. VIGOROUS. NORTHERN GROWN. 
Gold Coin Wheat. 
275 bushels 48 pounds from five acres, or 55 bush¬ 
els 9 3-5 pounds per acre. 
The best wheat ever offered. 
Mammoth Winter Rye. 
The strongest growing, tallest, stiffest-strawed 
heaviest yielding RYE in existence. 
Catalogue Free. 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE SEED COMPANY, 
HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
[RYES WHEAT 
50 bu. 
per A. 
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Such yields pay. You can have them. Salzer’s ^ 
Monster Winter Rye & Red CrossWheat > 
break all records I Crimson Clover 83.60 a l 
bushel I uargest growers of Grass Seeds for fall L 
sowing, Oats, Wheat, Rye, etc., in America. Fall r 
Catalogue and sample of Rye, Wheat and Clover M 
free it you mention Rural New-Yorker. } 
John A. Salzer !Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. % 
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WINTER TURF OATS. 
Sow in August or September, 114 bushel to the acre 
As hardy as wheat. Their turting and stooling quali¬ 
ties are remarkable. A very large yielder. The grain 
is of a dark-gray color, and heavier than ordinary 
oats, weighing from 35 to 40 pounds to the measured 
bushel. 1’er peck, 40e.; half bu., 70c.; Bushel 
(32 pounds), *1.25; 5 bu., *5.55, including sacks. 
VAUGHAN’S SEED STORE, 
NEW YORK : 26 Barclay Street. 
CHICAGO : 84 and 86 Randolph Street. 
□ WINTER OATS. 
□ We offer a limited quantity of Virginia Winter Oats 
for Seed at 60 cents per bushel. 
M. B. ROWE & CO., Fredericksburg, Va. 
WINTER OATS. 
Northern-grown Seed. Circular with directions. 
M. SAGER, Orangeville, Pa. 
NEW WHEATS. 
Jones' Wheats are giving the largest yields in all 
sections. It will pay you to sow them this fall. 
Send for descriptive price list to A. N. JONES, 
Newark, N. Y.. formerly of Le Roy, N Y. 
WHEAT 
JONES’ WINTER FIFE, strictly 
clean, $1.25 per bushel; seamless 
bags, 15 cents each. 
JOHN HERR SHENK, Lancaster, Pa. 
jSEED —• 
and £ 
Clover Grass Mixtures, a 
* iv , NOW is the time to sow our W 
P northern grown hardy seeds. Our booklet on A 
V “ Permanent Pastures and Meadows ” W 
? will interest and help you. IT’S FREE. } 
Ask for special prices on Timothy and Clover. 
m Farmer Seed Co., Faribault, Minn. 
Vf (Formerly Chicago. Ills.) 
CRIMSON CLOVER. 
Diamond Brand. Highest Grade. 
WINTER OATS. 
Genuine. True. Pure. 
Hardy as Winter Wheat, grown eight years from 
selected Seed, 80 cents per bushel, f. o. b. 
A. N. BROWN, WYOMING, DEL. 
PDIIICnkl PI ntfCD Western headquart- 
Unlmoun ULU WClIers. The largest 
stock. The best stock. Indiana-grown Seed. We 
have just printed an exhaustive treatise on the crop. 
Every farmer should read it. It will save him from 
disappointment. J. A. EVERITT, Seedsman. 
Indianapolis, lud. 
PDIUCPU PI Pile 1 The largest handler 
UltlnldUll ULUVCnof American- 
grown Crimson Clover Seed in the United States, 
Is JOSEPH E. HOLLAND. Grower and Jobber, Mil¬ 
ford, Del. Write for prices. 
PDlMCnU P| nUCD Grower and Shipper of 
unimoun uLUYLll Crimson Clover Seed and 
Winter Oats JOHN HEYD, Felton. Del 
C RIMSON CLOVER SEED—Buy of the grower 
to be sure of getting guaranteed home-grown. 
No. 1, recleaned, $3.50 per bu., sacked. Send check 
with order. WYNKOOP BROS., Milford, Del. 
Crimson Clover Seed has visited my 
farm and knows that my seed is pure and fresh. My 
clover is better than ever this year. WINTER OATS, 
best strain. E. H. BANCROFT, Camden, Del. 
ppi||cn|| THOMAS McELROY, European 
unimoun Seed Commission Merchant. Mercan- 
Pl nilCD the Exchange Building, Harrison St., 
uLUVEif I N.Y. The largest importer of Crimson 
Clover. Has received first shipment of crop 1895. 
Clover and Timothy Seed. 
CRIMSON CLOVER, Northern Home-grown; TIM¬ 
OTHY Seed. Early WHITE RUSSIAN Seed Wheat, 
WINTER OATS. Siberian Rye. Spinach, and all kinds 
of Seeds for Fall Sowing at Grower’s prices. New 
crop seeds. Write for Special Wholesale Prices. 
State quantity wanted. Bulb and Seed Catalogue free. 
FRANK H. BATTLES, Seed Grower, Rochester, N. Y 
