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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 14, 1922 
Consider Seeds first—then 
garden tools, fertilizers, etc . 
Seeds are no more uniform than dogs, 
rugs or cigars. Give to the selection of gar¬ 
den seeds one-tenth of the time spent in 
choosing garden tools, and you will find 
new joys in your garden—more highly 
flavored and tender vegetables, and more 
of them. 
Reason points to planting Ferry’s Seeds. 
You will like the “pure-bred” ideal. It 
means that Ferry’s Seeds are from plants 
whose parents met rigid garden tests for 
sturdiness, size, color, flavor and ability 
to reproduce abundantly and true to name. 
It means that hundreds of thousands of 
Don’t Forget 
The home garden 
can supply you the 
tendel est, best 
flavored fruits and 
vegetables which 
because of their 
fineness will not 
stand transporta¬ 
tion. 
plants were discarded in the search for 
these most perfect parent plants. 
Size or color is not enough; the home 
gardener wants delicious flavor, crispness, 
melting tenderness. Fie gets them when 
he selects Ferry’s pure-bred Seeds. Price, 
10 cents per paper—the least expensive 
item on your garden list. 
Ferry’s Seeds are sold “at the store 
around the corner.’’ Write direct 
to us for Ferry’s Seed Annual. Tells 
what to plant; also how to cook and 
can the best fruits of the garden. 
Send early, that you may plan your 
garden early. 
D. M. FERRY & CO., Detroit, Mich. 
(and Windsor, Ontario) 
The best is the cheapest. Ferry’s 
Seeds cannot be had at half price. 
strict culling among the layers should 
prevail the year around. In the Fall 
those birds held to become b-oeders the 
following Spring should he placed on the 
range unite early and given an abundance 
of grain. Every means should then be 
used to discourage laying until the be¬ 
ginning of the hatching season. The 
previous confinement does not hurt these 
birds for breeders, provided they are 
handled properly. Any hen that can 
stand up under heavy laying conditions 
has the stuff you want in your breeding 
pens. 
System. Regularity and Cleanli¬ 
ness. —Those are the watchwords of the 
successful poultrymnn. To make good 
with hens, or any farm work, for that 
matter, one must be built to stand 
monotony and strict application,.to busi¬ 
ness. In all this world there is no sys¬ 
tem or method with hens that will make 
a man rich without labor. Due has to be 
patient, painstaking and energetic. Study 
carefully the workings of the business, 
and then evolve a plan to fit your con¬ 
ditions, and stick to it until it either 
works out or reason teaches you to 
change. chart.es ii. weipner. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
The Burbank Tomato 
Will Prof. Massey tell us about the 
Burbank tomato which he mentioned he 
was going to try last Spring? I have 
he is not permitted to go on his neigh¬ 
bor’s land and pick the fruit. That 
would constitute trespass. He can get 
into the tree and reach over and thus get 
the fruit, but he is outside of his rights 
when he goes on the other man's property. 
His neighbor would have a legal right to 
cut the branches which grow out over his 
land when ho can show that they cause 
injury to his property, such as shading it 
too much. In rutting hack the tree he 
must use reasonable care and not perma¬ 
nently injure that tree or disfigure it too 
much. In the case here mentioned, 
neither party can claim an exclusive 
right of that tree. It apparently grows 
on the boundary line and legally belongs 
to both parties. The law would hardly 
recognize any such nice dimension as 
one-eighth and seven-eighths ownership. 
Legally, this tree would he said to belong 
half and half to these parties, and the 
fairest way would he for each party to be 
content with that portion of the fruit 
overhanging his own property, and then 
to let the rest of the tree alone. In all 
such cases it is very foolish for men to 
quarrel and attempt to make a legal dis¬ 
tinction in such joint ownership. Neither 
one can claim absolute right to the tree. 
It would be far better to out the tree 
down and save trouble in that, way, or to 
agree quietly that each will take that 
part of the fruit which hangs over his 
This picture shows a field of Ifuham clover (iroicn in loira. This shows the 
growth about DO dugs from Spring seeding. It will male excellent hag, or may 
be plowed under for green manuring. 
seen nothing concerning said tomato. I 
think the seed was handled through a Bos¬ 
ton or Eastern seed house and did not 
come direct from Burbank himself. 
Duumore, Pa. r. t. 
The Burbank tomato was such a failure 
in the drought of last Summer that I can¬ 
not give an opinion of its merits. 1 can 
say that I did not find it early. The seed 
came from a New England seed house of 
poor reputation, and I do not know that 
Mr. Burbank ever had anything to do 
with it. Last Winter the Florida grow¬ 
ers seem to have unanimously taken to 
.Tune Pink. This is early, but no better 
than Earliana. I know of no tomato 
earlier than Earliana. and some of the 
best seed growers have strains that come 
smooth. The Earliana is a good tomato 
for the market gardener, as it. throws its 
whole crop early, and with Bonny Best 
sown at same time in larger bulk, to come 
in only a few days later, you get a much 
better tomato, and one that will fruit 
later. A vnritey called Red Head, origi¬ 
nated by a Western firm, is good, and 
about as early as Chalk’s Jewel and Baer. 
w. F. MASSEY. 
A Tree on the Border Line 
A pear tree stands on the boundary 
line of m.v property. It is about seven- 
eighths I'ti my land. My neighbor arts as 
if he believed that the one-eighth of the 
tree on his property gave him the right 
to overrun the tree and to gather or shake 
down fruit from any part of it. on the 
principle “first enjnr, first served.” I> he 
acting within lii.s rights, or is he infring¬ 
ing upon mine? n. b. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The rule is that a tree near a boundary 
line belongs to the owner of the land out 
of which the tree grows. If the trunk of 
the tree is an inch or more over the boun¬ 
dary line, the tree belongs to the owner 
of that property. Legally, he is entitled 
to the fruit which grows on the tree, but 
own property, and leave the rest for his 
neighbor. 
Propagating Mulberries 
When and how are cuttings of mul¬ 
berries made, and how rooted? Can mul¬ 
berries bo successfully grafted, same as 
apple and pear, and what is the best 
method and time to do this grafting suc¬ 
cessfully? I have o(> Russian mulberry 
stocks, size W. in., and wish to graft them 
to a Russian seedling that has extra large 
berries of as good quality as any of the 
named sorts. p. o.c. 
New Madison, O. 
Varieties of mulberries arc now mostly 
worked on seedlings of the Russian vari¬ 
ety. The grafting is performed in Spring, 
when the hark will peel, using scious 
which have been kept perfectly dormant. 
This means the scions from the past sea¬ 
son’s growth must b< taken in the Spring 
before growth starts and kept in a cool 
place until the bark on the stock will 
peel. 
A “T” cut is made on the stock the 
same as if one were budding. The scion 
is out diagonally at the base and slipped 
into the cut made, so the cambium layers 
or living parts are together. Two buds 
are general} - left on the scion, which is 
tied in place with raffia and covered with 
grafting wax. A number of trials will 
probably be necessary to attain success. 
T. H. T. 
‘‘Casine” for Spreading Spray 
Have you any information regarding 
•‘casino”? I have read in a number of 
journals that it is being used quite ex¬ 
tensively throughout the Northwest as a 
spreader to be applied to spray material, 
causing the material to cover more of the 
limbs and foliage. I have seen it spelled 
both “casein ’ and "casine.” a. c. b. 
Hardin, III. 
We have seen reports of this Casine, 
tint have no definite information about it. 
It appeai-s that both whov and some form 
of milk casein have been used as “spread¬ 
ers’ in spray materials, but we have no 
accurate* reports about it. 
