Masters Plant Setter 
Saves Labor— Saves Expense 
Pays for Itself Every 
Day Used 
Transplants Tobacco, To¬ 
matoes, Sweet Potatoes, 
Cabbage, Strawberries, 
Eggplant and ail similar plants. 
No Stooping-No Lame Back 
Each plant set, watered and covered 
one operation. A lull stand; no re¬ 
setting. an earlier crop. Most prac¬ 
tical planrer ever invented. Is guar¬ 
anteed to set three times as fast and 
easier and better than hand work. 
Money back if not satisfied. Write 
for Free illustrated literature. 
MASTERS PLANTER CO., Dept, jg Chicago, ill. 
NEEDHAM CROWN 
GRAIN DRILLS 
1 resses. Writo todny for catalog aud prices. 
CROWN MF(i, I’O.. Box Ilf, PHELPS, N. Y. 
THE 
HOPE 
FARM 
BOOK 
This attractive 234-page 
book has some of the 
best of the Hope Farm 
Man’s popular sketches— 
philosophy, humor, and 
sympathetic human touch. 
Price $1.50. For sale by 
Rural New-Yorker. 339 
W. 30th St., New York. 
Maryland Farm for Sale 
near Salisbury, Maryland, where farming pays. Fine cli- 
mate umlgoo.i nmrkels Furparticulara<ldnvs 
SAMUEL V WOODCOCK Salisbury, Md. 
oututa nr. made in 4.1 wt,l 0 » oi*r«u-,l 
by 1'Atui. Imctlon xml •* •- 
Hardie Cuts 
your Costs 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Treatment of Poinsettia and Asters 
1. What should be done with a T’oin- 
seftia plant which is a single stalk about 
3 ft. high? Can it be cut back after 
blossoming, and how are they prOpa- I 
Killed? 2. How are asters handled to get 
the largest blossoms? Should they be dis¬ 
budded like Chrysanthemums? 
Elba, N. Y. m. ii. p. 
1. Foinsettias can be cut back when 
the bracts lose their brilliant red color, 
and the plants given a long rest. Lay 
the pots on the side to dry them off pretty 
well in a cool house. Cuttings can be 
taken from old plants in the Spring and 
Summer. The plants make the best qual¬ 
ity of cuttings if the old stock is planted 
out iu the garden in rich soil. The cut¬ 
tings should be rooted in a frame that is 
tight, as far as draft will injure them, 
shaded from 1 the sun, and heated in such 
manner that the temperature never goes 
below G5 degrees. I’ot the old plants up 
in the Fall iu rich sail, to which some 
sand is added: keep a temperature of (50 
at night, away from draft, aud they 
should color up finely. 
2. Asters can be disbudded, though it 
is not customary to do it. The great 
trouble in our community is to get any 
flowers of any size iu recent years on ac¬ 
count of the yellow disease, which ruins 
the plants before they bloom, or possibly 
when the first flowers are forming the 
plants will start turning yellow, and the 
flowers will develop <o half size, and re¬ 
main green, or turn slightly yellow in 
color. 
Plant pathologists do not know any 
direct cause for this condition, nor do 
they know any cure. Our observation is 
that the trouble is worse during extremes 
of either wet or dry weather, followed by 
the reverse condition. E. j. w. 
Hardie Sprayers operate at low cost 
today. And they run dependably 
season after season at a minimum 
of cost for upkeep and repairs. 
The actual upkeep cost of Hardie hand pumps for the last 
twenty years was less than five cents per year on each pump. 
The upkeep cost on. power sprayers is somewhat larger, 
but records in thousands of orchards all over the country 
show that there is no sprayer made that costs so little to 
maintain as does the Hardie. 
These facts represent savings to you. They mean the re¬ 
duced cost of production and the improved crops that earn 
increased orchard profits. 
Hardie Sprayers are made in 20 sizes and 
styles, both power and hand, to fit every 
spraying need. Send for complete catalogue. 
HARDIE MANUFACTURING CO., HUDSON, MICH. 
Branches at: Portland, Ore., Los Angela, Calif., Kansas City. Mo., Hagerstown, Md.. 
Brockport, N. Y., Petrolia, Ont. 
the tree, due to the alternate freezing and ' 
ithawing. (See picture.) On bright, sun- j 
ny days the temperature goes above freez¬ 
ing. thus thawing out; the cells in the 
bark. At night the temperature drops 
rapidly to 10 or 20 degrees below zero 
and the cells freeze rapidly and are iu- 
jured. After this is repeated a number 
of times the cells die and the bark cracks 
open aud in itiuie the entire tree dies. For 
this reason I do nut think it advisable to 
plant even sour cherries iu the extremely 
cold sections. T. H. T. 
Cherries in Cold Country 
I would appreciate some advice in re¬ 
gard to planting a cherry orchard. Am 
located In the foothills of the Adiron- 
dacks (northern slope), where 20 to 25 
d «rees below zero is not uncommon. 
Would this be too cold for cherries? If 
not, what varieties would you suggest? 
I have a piece of well-drained sandy land 
which I would like to use for this pur¬ 
pose if you think it advisable. If I 
could raise the cherries there would be 
no question about a market for them. 
Franklin Co., X. Y. o. w. d. 
It would riot be advisable to plant 
sweet cherries in Franklin County, where 
the temperature goes to 25 degrees below 
zero. We find in this section that sour 
cherries live under normal conditions, hut 
when the temperature drops to 25 to 30 
degrees below zero they are injured. The 
injury is not direct freezing, but splitting 
of the bark on the south or west side of 
Frost Crock on Cherry 
Trimming Frozen Trees 
On page 5, under “Garden Notes from 
New England." the statement is made 
that no trimming of trees should take 
place while the limbs are frozen. At 
what temperature do limbs freeze, and 
what harm is done by pruning when 
'll? F. W. W. 
West Coxsaekic. 
The limbs begin to freeze as soon as 
the temperature reaches the freezing 
point, but the freezing proceeds rather 
slowly, aud does not amount to much if 
warm weather comes again promptly, even 
though the temperature may drop very 
low for a day or two. I.ong-eoutiuued 
cold weather will cause them to freeze 
through. The reason for not trimming 
them at this time is that they are then 
very brittle, and will brook or crack to a 
much greater extent than when not. frozen. 
So far as I know, that is the only injury 
that is done. E. I. V, 
Use a Complete Dormant Spray 
Do You Appreciate What the 
Means In Connection With a 
W HY use a different spray for each different pur¬ 
pose when you can save the labor wasted in this 
duplication of work by using a complete dormant spray? 
SCALECIDE is The Complete Dormant Spray —well-named and 
well-known as such—because it controls the various scale pests, 
such as San Jose Scale, Putnum Scale, Oyster Shell Scale, 
Scurfy Scale, Lacanium or Terrapin Scale, Gloomy Scale, 
Euonymus Scale, etc.; eggs of Leaf Roller, Tent Caterpillar and 
European Red Mit; larvae of Codling Moth and Bud Moth 
wintering on the trees; PearPsylla, Pear Thrips, Leaf Miner and 
Case Bearer; ALSO Aphis without the addition of nicotine, when 
applied as a delayed dormant spray; several forms of cankers 
—both fungous and bacterial—including Blight Cankers from 
which Fire Blight is spread. Collar Rot or Blight and Root Rot. 
In a word, SCALECIDE does more than any other dormant spray or com¬ 
bination of sprays—as proved by its record covering 18 years of benefit to 
both fruit and shade trees. Moreover, SCALECIDE has an invigorating 
effect upon trees which cannot be obtained from other sprays used either 
singly or combined. The importance of this cannot be over emphasized. 
The price of SCALECIDE is $38.00 per 50-gallon barrel or $25,50 per 30- 
gallon half-barrel, cash with order, f o b Hackensack, N. J. If you want 
SCALECIDE results use SCALECIDE. If anything less than SCALECIDE 
results is good enough for you, use CARBOLEINE. Read what we say 
about CARBOLEINE in the box to the right. And be sure to read our 
SCALECIDE Guarantee below—use a complete dormant spray I Show your 
dealer this advertisement or order direct from us. Address Dep’t 
Word "Complete” 
Dormant Spray? 
Here’s the Answer to the 
Question of Prices 
If you are satisfied to use any less effective dormant 
spray than SCALF.CIDE, use CARBOLEINE— 
carefully and scientifically made just asm 1907 when 
the Conn. Exp. iita. But. of Dec. 190S reported that 
of nine oils tested CARBOLEINE was the only one 
that killed too % of the scale at 1 to 20 dilution. We 
guarantee it to be the equal of any other oil spray on 
the market {except SCALECIDE). In fact, CAR¬ 
BOLEINE will kill acalejust as well ns SCALECIDE, 
but neither it nor any other spray will do all that 
SCALECIDE does. The price of CARBOLEINE 
is only #23. per 5o-gal. barrel or {S15. per 30-gal, 
half-barrel, cash with order, fob Hackensack, N. J. 
GUARANTEE that, if you •trill drvide an orchard, your n nrsl or best, 
' in tnvo parts equal in general condition, and for three years sp ray one part ’with 
SCALECIDE according to our directions and the other part with hme-sulfur. giving 
the same Summer treatment to both partt, the part sprayed •with SCALECIDE •w ill 
be better than the part sprayed vtth lime-sulfur —j« thejudgmentof three disinterested 
fruit growers—or we will refund the money you have paid for the SCALECIDE, 
B. G. PRATT CO. 
50 Church Street 
1 Lowest -priced OH Spray ! 
A Better Summer Spray 
Saves You Money 
Higher color, smoother skin and better fungus con¬ 
trol follow the use of SULFOCIDE A Better Summer 
Spray. As a combined fungicide and insecticide for 
apples, pears and potatoes, use with Cal-Arsenate. 
Tostop Brown Rot or LeafCurl on peaches, usealonc 
or with soap and to insure better carrying and keep- 
qualities during marketing, spray just before the 
peaches are picked—a practice that offers extra profit 
to peach growers. No trace of the spray is left on 
the fruit.^ Ask us about the results reported last 
fall bv shippers and commission men. Price#i5. per 
10 -gsI. delivered esst of the Mississippi — enough to 
make 2000 gallons of spray at a cost of yi cent per gal 1 
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THE COMPLETE DORMANT SPRAY 
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