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75he  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
July  1,  1916. 
maloney's  TREES 
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up  with  it.  A  wide  yoke  at  the  base  of 
the  cutter  bar  should  be  looked  for.  This 
acts  as  a  hinge  upon  which  the  cutter  bar 
turns  in  raising  and  lowering  and  it  is 
easy  to  see  that  the  wider  it  is — the  far¬ 
ther  its  bearings  are  apart — the  better  it 
will  hold  the  cutter  bar  in  alignment.  A 
means  of  adjustment,  such  as  an  eccen¬ 
tric  bushing,  is  an  advantage  here :  by 
turning  it  the  outer  end  of  the  bar  can 
be  forced  ahead  and  thus  kept  in  the 
proper  position. 
A  Rigid  Frame. — The  frame  itself 
should  come  in  for  its  share  of  inspec¬ 
tion.  It  should  be  rigid  and  the  mis¬ 
take  of  selecting  too  light  a  one  in  the 
effort  to  reduce  draft  should  not  Oe 
made.  The  force  required  to  pull  a  few 
pounds  more  about  on  well  oiled  bear¬ 
ings.  which,  because  of  the  rigidity  of 
the  frame  arc  held  in  perfect  alignment 
with  each  other,  is  much  less  than  would 
be  required  to  draw  a  lighter  machine 
whose  frame  was  constantly  twisting  un¬ 
der  the  stress  and  causing  the  bearings  to 
bind. 
Roller  bearings,  if  well  made,  are  au 
advantage  on  the  main  axle  and  at  the 
upper  end  of  the  crank  shaft.  Some¬ 
times  a  ball  thrust  bearing  is  introduced 
at  this  point  to  carry  the  thrust  from  the 
bevel  gears.  The  hearings  at  the  crank 
end  of  this  shaft  though,  should  be  a  sim¬ 
ple  brass  or  bronze  hushing  of  ample 
length,  the  thrust,  coming  as  it  does  here, 
first  on  one  side  and  then  on  the  other, 
soon  wears  out  a  roller  bearing,  of  the 
type  put  in  mowers. 
Controlling  Levers. — The  accessi¬ 
bility  of  the  controlling  levers  is  another 
feature  that  should  receive  some  atten¬ 
tion,  particularly  the  foot  lift.  This,  if 
correctly  placed,  at  the  hack  of  the  ma¬ 
chine,  is  a  great  convenience  and  is  a 
real  help  to  the  horses  in  turning  cor¬ 
ners.  A  foot  lift,  if  properly  used  in  this 
respect,  will  do  much  to  prevent  sore 
necks.  If  there  is  much  rough  land  to  he 
mowed  a  foot  lift  that  will  raise  the  bar 
high  is  desirable,  but  it  must  be  remem¬ 
bered  that  usually  the  higher  the  lift  is 
the  harder  the  arrangement  will  work- 
Part  of  the  weight  of  the  cutter  bar  is 
carried  by  a  spring,  but  there  is  a  limit 
to  the  weight  that  can  be  carried  in  this 
way,  for  if  made  to  support  too  much  of 
it  the  bar  will  not  drop  sufficiently  to 
enable  the  operator  to  mow  out  a  ditch. 
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hrndlnr  *a»-l<>llr«  OAIUIAIJK,  C’Kt.P.flV.  rOMVI  O,  I'.U'I 
i  u,.sui  i  r  potato.  Aspiium  s,  i.i  m  i  e,  purr,  i 
K(H1  1*1,4  NTS.  lairirc  ot*  xmall  luU  at  rriixminhlf* 
Mlit  elui*  plant*  and  nufn  delivery  g-utt  niu(<H>it, 
Fur  Ai'truxt  and  Fall  jifunttiir,  Ihinner  mid  I’ot-ftTowu  plants 
llmt  will  liwnr  fruit,  next  minmirr.  4l«o  K  4SPIIFRUV,  BI*A0K> 
JtKHItY  Ha.HS.  I’  in. 1 1  Iriir.N,  niHvuiFN  j  aI*  7  ki.F3, 
fciiiu  ijs.  Catalogue  free . 
Harry  L.  Squires,  Rem  sen  burg,  N.  Y. 
f  an  I  hi!  n  hollow  apple  tree  with 
sand,  so  ns  to  preserve  it?  It  is  a  good 
shade  tree  in  a  city  yard ;  gives  large 
sweet  apples,  but  they  don’t  keep.  The 
tree  lias  been  hollow  for  over  10  years. 
Perhaps  some  one  can  give  me  some  good 
advice,  for  which  I  shall  be  very  thank¬ 
ful.  s.  w. 
Schenectady,  N,  Y. 
This  proposition  of  filling  the  cavity 
in  a  tree  is  worked  on  the  same  theory 
that  the  dentist  employs  in  filling  a  de¬ 
cayed  tooth.  You  must  get  out  all  the  de¬ 
cayed  wood,  sterilize  the  germs,  then  fill 
the  cavity  with  some  hard  material 
which  will  keep  out  air  and  moisture. 
That  is  the  theory,  but  good  judgment 
is  required  I,,  do  the  work  properly.  The 
way  to  do  it  is  to  take  a  sharp  chisel 
or  similar  tool  and  cut  out  all  the  wood 
around  (he  cavity.  Chip  it  all  out  until 
you  get  down  to  sound  wood.  Then  wash 
out  the  cavity  with  curbyliueum  or  some 
preparation  which  will  destroy  the  germs 
of  decay.  Then  fill  the  cavity  with  a 
soft  concrete,  packing  it  down  solidly  so 
that  every  corner  will  be  filled.  Differ¬ 
ent,  mixtures  are  used;  in  some  large 
cavities  good-sized  stones  are  used  in  the 
center  of  the  filling,  sawdust  and  asphal- 
tuin  arc  sometimes  mixed  with  the  con¬ 
crete,  hut  the  point  is  to  fill  the  cavity 
solidly  with  some  material  which  will 
close  up  every  crack  and  corner  and  keep 
out  the  air.  thus  preventing  decay.  Ir 
seems  easy  to  talk  about  it,  but  good 
judgment  is  required  to  do  it  right. 
Cabbage,  Beets,  Celery  Plants  ??s.5o 
per  10.000.  To  run  to  Plants— $1. 50  per  1,000.  Sweet 
Potato  ami  Pepper  Plants— $1.50  per  1.000.  Cauli¬ 
flower  Plants— $2.50  per  1.000.  J.  C  SCHMI0l.Bristol.Pa. 
Cabbage  Plants  express  prepaid 
100.  Irie.  1,000.  $1  .Ml ;  5,000.  $5.73;  10,0011.  *10.  Plant 
catalogue.  (Hick  riant  Farm,  Siuoketown,  Pa, 
“Do  you  know,  .Tones  does  some  un¬ 
commonly  queer  things — anything  to  be 
different  from  other  people.”  “Like  what, 
for  instance?”  “Wh.v  lie's  just,  put  a 
mortgage  on  his  limousine  to  have  repairs 
made  on  his  house.” — Baltimore  Ameri¬ 
can. 
S  W  E  ET  Builds  Worn  Out  Soil 
zz  _w  w  ■  higher  proU'in  content  than 
I  \#  ET  D  writ**  for  rimI  information 
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Danish  llallhenil  p_i 
and  Drumhead  Udl 
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• - $1. 50  per  1,0110.  I'atibsiiu).  Tomato—  $1  per 
1,000.  Catalogue  free.  W.  S.  FORD  S  SON,  Hartly,  Delaware 
Recleaned  Buckwheat  Seed  f^fivKhte.' «sil 
KILL  FARMS.Henry  Morflenthau,  Jr..  Hopewell  Junclinn.  N  Y 
rrmt  and  Urnamentol  trc*s,  vine*,  ahrub.H,  ut c„,  true  to  name  in 
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the  largest  Nursery  In  New  York.  Writ*  for  bi«  fr<?0  catalug. 
MALONEY  BROS.  &  WELLS  COMPANY.  BOX  27,  OANSYILLE,  N.  Y. 
Homo  Grown,  99.75  PURE.  All  other  Field  Seeds  and 
Bnetariti.  0  M  Scull  SSons  Co . ,  430  Main  St . .  Marysville,  0. 
Lima  Beans  in  Michigan 
The  problem  of  the  35-cent  dollar  is 
not  so  hard  for  the  farmers  about  Benton 
Harbor,  Mich.,  us  in  other  parts  of  the 
country.  We  arc  only  (50  miles  from  Chi¬ 
cago  by  water,  which  affords  cheap  and 
generally  satisfactory  transportation.  It 
is  interesting  to  note  the  increasing  acre¬ 
age  of  those  crops  that  return  more  than 
35  cents  of  the  dollar,  Lima  beans  is  one 
crop  that  has  made  steady  progress. 
There  was  no  flourish  of  advertising  to 
herald  their  coming;  they  are  here;  we 
grow  them  and  plant  more. 
It  would  be  bal'd  to  compute  the  num¬ 
ber  of  acres  grown  in  Berrien  County. 
Some  idea  may  he  had  from  the  fact  that 
one  village  grocer  sold  100  bushels  of  seed 
and  nearly  every  grocer  handles  them. 
Here  some  one  might,  ask,  why  do  the 
farmers  not  grow  their  own  seed  if 
they  grow  so  many  beans?  We  have  tried 
it  and  found  that  seed  of  our  own  growing 
was  not  so  good  as  that,  which  comes  from 
California.  With  the  best  of  seed  it  is 
luck  if  we  get  a  good  stand  of  beans. 
The  middle  of  May  is  about  the  begin¬ 
ning  of  planting  time.  The  ground  should 
be  worked  at  least  a  month  before;  pre¬ 
ferably  a  field  that  had  a  cultivated  crop, 
with  manure,  the  year  previous.  Lima 
beaus  should  be.  planted  very  shallow, 
early,  and  a  little  deeper  later  on  when 
the  ground  is  warmer.  A  cold  rainy  spell 
is  sure  to  rot  most  of  the  beans  if  they 
are  just  planted,  and  if  up  the  little 
plants  turn  yellow  and  a  stunted  vine  is 
the  result. 
The  habit  here  is  to  plant  in  hills  about 
3x314  feet  apart,  and  if  10  days  later  the 
rows  are  not  plainly  seen,  disk,  barrow, 
mark,  and  plant  again.  But  one-third  of 
a  stand  is  worth  saving;  it  is  common  to 
have  to  replant  three  times,  finally  get¬ 
ting  a  good  stand.  The  more  cultivation 
the  better  till  the  vines  interfere.  Here 
we  come  to  the  problem  of  poling.  We 
have  settled  it.  No  poles  whatever.  More 
than  5)0  per  cent,  of  the  beans  planted 
here  are  pole  beans,  so  called.  The  writer 
has  not  seen  Limas  grown  on  poles  in  the 
past  five  years;  without  poles  beaus  are 
grown  as  easily  us  corn. 
The  picking  begins  about  September  1. 
The  plump  pods  are  put  in  bags  and 
carted  to  the  building  or  shed  where  they 
are  shelled  by  hand  into  pint  boxes,  which, 
go  24  in  a  crate  to  market.  Before  ship¬ 
ping  the  beans  must  be  kept  cool,  dry  and 
clean.  It  is  true  they  would  keep  better 
in  the  pods,  but  the  women  of  the  city, 
I  nis  tzar  was 
protected  with 
“ Corcna  Dry ’ 
Sterilizing  Garden  Soil 
Is  there  n  sterilizer  on  the  market  that 
Uses  steam  to  destroy  bacteria  in  upper 
layers  of  earth  or  soil  in  garden  patch 
previous  to  planting  seed?  I  am  familiar 
with  the  different  chemicals.  C.  J.  M. 
New  York. 
Greenhouse  men  use  steam  steriliza¬ 
tion  to  sterilize  the  soil  in  their  houses 
very  effectively  to  destroy  all  disease  bac¬ 
teria,  such  as  dumping  off  and  wilt.  At 
the  same  time  all  insects  such  as  grubs, 
snails,  nematodes  and  worms  are  de¬ 
stroyed,  and  the  cooking  seems  to  make 
the  plant  food  mote  quickly  available  for 
the  crops.  In  cold  frames  the  market 
gardeners  are  finding  that  steam  steriliz¬ 
ation  is  rather  expensive,  yet.  very  bene¬ 
ficial.  As  a  field  or  garden  proposition 
I  am  sure  that  the  operation  would  be 
very  expensive  and  would  pay  only  when 
very  intensive  methods  are  to  be  used. 
Manure,  etc.,  is  always  applied  before 
the  soil  is  sterilized.  The  sterilizing  is 
done  by  having  u  large  inverted  pan 
about  10  feet  long  and  six  feet  wide,  one 
foot  deep.  This  is  pushed  down  into  the 
loosened  soil  and  live  steam  is  run  under 
it  for  about  an  hour.  Frequently  little 
pointed  pipes  with  boles  are  inserted  into 
the  soil,  so  that  the  steam  may  be  bet¬ 
ter  distributed  through  the  soil.  It  is 
very  gratifying  to  note  the  interest  that 
is  being  taken  in  better  preparation  of 
the  soil,  especially  for  seed  beds.  For¬ 
malin  and  cyanide  are  being  used  more 
than  ever  where  steam  sterilization  is 
not  possible. 
This  Ear 
was  Not 
Either  You  Get  the  Sweet  Com  or 
the  Worms  do — which  shall  it  be? 
CORONA  DRY 
The  Universal  Insecticide 
gets  the  hugs  and  worms  and  gives  you 
the  sweet  corn. 
You  can  keep  insect  pests  out  of  your 
garden  and  fruit  trees  now  just  as  the 
commercial  grower  does.  For  “Corona 
Dry,”  used  in  ton  lots  by  the  most  suc¬ 
cessful  orchardists  and  market  garden¬ 
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meet  the  urgent  need  of  the  in  on  with  u 
small  garden  or  a  Jew  fruit  trees. 
You  need  no  expensive  spraying  out¬ 
fit  or  sloppy  spraying  mixture.  “Corona 
Dry”  is  applied  dry — in  dust  form - 
quickly,  efficiently  and  conveniently.  It 
is  a  sure  bug-killer  and  a  sure  preven¬ 
tive. 
Use  “Corona  Dry”  first — before  the 
bugs  start  to  eat  your  growing  things. 
Get  it  where  you  buy  your  seeds.  If  your 
garden  is  small,  dust  on  “ 
through  a  cheesecloth  bag 
lows.  For  larger  plots  we 
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Vermin  in  Hotbeds 
"Rats,  mice  and  young  squirrels  practi¬ 
cally  destroyed  my  hotbeds ;  have  had 
many  calls  for  plants  but  did  not  have 
enough  for  my  own  use-  Many  hotbeds 
here  failed.  It  seems  the  weather  was 
too  raw  and  cold,  and  the  beds  wot  hot 
enough.  So  good  plants  are  in  great  de¬ 
mand.  Perhaps  you  would  like  to  know 
how  I  finally  saved  n  remnant  of  the 
plants.  I  trapped,  but  this  was  inade¬ 
quate.  Stopping  holes  was  of  little  avail, 
35®ilW 
CORONA  CHEMICAL  CO.,  Dept.  52,  MILWAUKEE,  WIS 
