The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
407 
Stop, Look and Listen 
Natural Yarn Cotton Socks. Not dye<i or 
bleached. Just as they come from the 
machines. Ileal comfort for 
tender, swollen or blistered jiTT^? 
feet. Give twice the wear of 
dyed stockings. Send 2(1 cents 
for single pair; 95 cents for hfctf '• 4 
dozen; or $1.80 per dozen. Sizes j. !w 
it’/S-lHS- Prices west of the Mis- > ! (| 
sissippi River. $1.00 for half | , J 
dozen nr $1.90 per dozen. State i i’ 
size of shoe. Ttyia 
Natural Yam 
Hosierv Mills 
Fleetwood Penna U.S.A. 
T SI.25 
PER 
Gallon 
ORDER DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
We will send you as many gallons as V° u 
want of good quality red or brown 
BURN PAINT 
upon ixvelpt of remittance*. Wenn? paint special¬ 
ist* hid! o:ui supply you with paint for any pur* 
pose. Tell ns your wants aim lot mh you 
low prices, Wf ran tcivoyou rnoiu.v by shipping 
direct from om factory. £*&Clsf*cfioiiQoantMtetHl. 
On order* fur thirty fftllont or nvar will prepay iho 
freight within a raciiu* of thres hundred mlU« 
AMALGAMATED PAINT CO. 
Factory: 372 WAYNE ST.. JERSEY CITY. N. J. 
More Potatoes’' 
' From ground planted secured 
by use of The KEYSTONE 
POTATO PLANTER than 
by any other method of 
planting. Work perfectly ac¬ 
curate. A simple, strong, 
durable machine. W r I to 
for CATALOG, price, eto. 
A. J. PLATT. Bfll it. 
BOX 23 STERLING. ILL. 
"IHO T BED SASH 
~~lsi 90 WHIU r "“- "• ll ">*ile 
with eras. liar, tctmtis 
i j seouroly fnstonod 
por >>ox. 50 «ipiun- font. 
M C. N. ROBINSON 8, BRO. 
—■oept. 14 Baltimore, Md. 
W<? shall try to print this boy and dog 
picture before the sm>w goes, after the 
long, hard Winter which we have experi¬ 
enced in New York. This picture was 
taken in Williamstown. Mass. That is 
up among the hills where the snow 
usually comes early and lingers late. The 
boy is evidently trying to givo the dog a 
ride on his sled. Certainly they will g<> 
down together and perhaps have a spill 
at the bottom. 
Budding Walnuts 
Will you tell me whether the English 
walnut can be successfully grafted or 
budded onto the black walnut? Can it 
be grafted or budded onto either the but¬ 
ternut or the Japanese walnut? I take it 
that the object in doing this would be to 
obtain a tree which would bear English 
walnuts and yet be hardier than the Eng¬ 
lish walnut tree, which does not seem to 
withstand our 'climate very successfully. 
Smith By Ton, N. Y. Mrs. c. a. o. 
Budding a tender variety onto a hardy 
variety will not help the tender sort In 
the least. We have a fine example of 
that in our cherry orchard, where we had 
sweet and sour varieties of cherries grow¬ 
ing on similar stocks. I»ue to our odd 
weather, the sweet cherries died to the 
ground, but the stock, which is hardy, has 
grown rapidly, and stands ready to be 
grafted to a good sour sort. Mrs. C. A. 
O. will be unable to find an English wal¬ 
nut that will fruit satisfactorily, though 
the tree can be made to grow in Central 
New York. For commercial propagation 
in California, the English walnut is usu¬ 
ally grafted onto the black walnut root 
during the early Spring, using a whip- 
graft. The English walnuts can also be 
budded on the black walnut, the operation 
being done in August. T. H. T. 
Harvesting Spinach 
What implement or machine do truck- 
growers use for the harvesting of spinach? 
The soil in my part of the country con¬ 
tains considerable small stones, which, I 
suppose, would be a hindrance. 
Allendale. N. J. w. c. H. 
Spinach is harvested by cutting the 
stalks by means of blades on hand culti¬ 
vators. The blades arc arranged so that 
two rows can be cut at once. Csuallv one 
man can out as much as four men can 
pack in the hampers or crates. I have 
seen those tools used on fairly stony 
ground with success. T, H. T 
Dutch Boy White-Lead 
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Of all the ways in which civilization makes use of 
lead and its products, the most important is the use 
of white-lead as the principal factor in good paint. 
Thousands of tons of pure metallic lead are cor¬ 
roded into white-lead every month, all over the civil¬ 
ized world, to make the paint that decorates and 
preserves buildings and manufactured articles. A 
painted surface is a protected surface—and when 
you “save the surface” you “save all.” 
Some paint manufacturers use more white-lead, 
some less, in the paint they make. Most painters 
use the white-lead straight, thinning with pure lin¬ 
seed oil. The quality of the paint depends on the 
quantity of the white-lead it contains. White-lead 
furnishes the durability and the working qualities. 
National Lead Company makes white-lead of the 
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with Musterole 
Keep the little white jar 
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The moment you hear 
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Musterole does its good work 
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BETTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTER 
I Horticultural Short Cuts 
Pruning Quince and Pear 
I have two quince trees (5 ft. apart. 
They never bore any fruit; are six years 
old. The trees seen’ 1 to look nil right. I 
thought pevllki/rf they were too close to¬ 
gether. What should they be sprayed 
with, and when should they be trimmed? 
When should pear trees be trimmed? 
Ossining. N. Y. j. F. 
The quince should yield some fruit the 
second year from plan ting, and a good 
crop the fourth >ear. If J. F.*s trees are 
but 0 ft. apart, they are certainly 
crowded. Commercial growers recom¬ 
mend from 15 to 120 ft. between the trees 
for best results, ami they prune slightly 
to allow the sunlight, to get into the trees. 
Pruning is done in tbp Winter, and it 
is customary to remove only enough wood 
s<« that light can penetrate into the tree. 
It is a pretty good principle to follow that 
no limb should be removed without a 
good and sufficient reason. The same is 
true with the pear trees. If overpruned, 
sappy or soft wood forms, and the chances 
are more favorable for the dread fire 
blight to enter. Pruning tends to put off 
rather than advance the age of bearing. 
We prune very little until a tree begins 
to bear, simply starting the scaffold limbs 
and keeping them in the right direction. 
Overpruning makes too much wood 
growth at the expense of the fruit. 
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SMYTH-DESPARD CO. 
801 Broad St. Utica, N. Y 
B Do you ever see 
a came 
'VT’OU do, if you ever look at a beautiful 
church window—for its pieces of stained 
glass are held together by little strips of 
lead called cames. 
Just so you see lead, or some product 
into which lead enters, a dozen times a day, 
and you do not know it. 
Get up in the morning, and look out of 
your window to see what sort of day it is. 
Putty holds the panes—and there’s lead in 
good putty. Sash-weights are often made 
of lead. There’s lead in the paint on the 
window frames. 
*1? H n 
Your bath—with water coming through 
lead pipes into a tub whose porcelain sur¬ 
face contains lead. Is there a rubber stopper in your 
tub? There’s lead in that stopper, and in the glazed 
tile walls, too. 
Breakfast—and coffee out of a cup whose surface 
contains lead. When you travel on electric street¬ 
cars, you get where you’re going because there’s lead 
for the bearing metals, which prevent destructive 
friction in the running of powerhouse machinery, 
and of the cars themselves. 
If you jump into your own car, you start it by 
means of a storage battery made with lead, and you 
ride on tires that contain lead. The tubes of your 
radiator are held together with a lead-and-tin solder. 
You wear rubber boots sometimes. Rubber con¬ 
tains lead, 
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