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9ft* RURAL NEW.YORKER 
his nose was snow white. He staggered 
to the water bucket and drank dipper 
after dipper of the cool water. 
“ 'Ah !' he said, ‘I never did know water 
tastes so good!' 
“And. strangest thing of all, as he 
drank the color slowly came back into his 
nose until it flamed as before. When the 
women awoke in the morning the boss in¬ 
troduced his old friend, 'Captain Ryan, 
late of the United States Navy,’ and the 
veteran told them to make themselves at 
home—as polite as if he were a'Spaniard 
offering all the keys of his hon.se to his 
guests. lie went out and dug up a ham 
and found four eggs for breakfast. Then 
he showed the girls how to make a new 
kind of flapjack by putting cornmeal with 
the flour. Oh, a fine man, Cap Ryan, 
when you got him away from whisky!” 
* * * * * 
Andy’s idea was that the alcohol settled 
in that big red nose like heat in a radi¬ 
ator. In time of frost it spread its 
warmth over the body and then came 
back. Such reasoning and study of anat¬ 
omy is too much for me. Alcohol may be 
all right, for a car, but. it is all wrong for 
the human body. There may be a few 
tough specimens like Cap Ryan who can 
come back to life after absorbing it, but 
it looks as if the home brewers and boot¬ 
leggers are thinning their rauks at 
for bigger crops 
T here isn’t anything 1 bet¬ 
ter for breakfast or lunch 
liian a dish of Grape-Nuts, 
with cream or milk, and 
stewed prunes or peaches. 
This delicious combination 
gives you the elements of a 
well-balanced food. For it con¬ 
tains not only the material 
needed to build tissue and fur¬ 
nish energy, but it also supplies 
fruit acids, that help keep the 
system in good order. 
Kills bugs; prevents 
blights and many rots; in* 
vigorates stems and foliage 
so that plants live longer 
and produce more; gives 
extra crop-insurance at no 
extra labor cost. Fine for 
potatoes, tomatoes, cucum¬ 
bers, cantaloupes, cabbages 
and small fruits. 
Read Pyrox Book for 
facts from users 
Smooth, creamy Pyrox com¬ 
bines a powerful fungicide with 
a deadly poison. It mixes 
thoroughly with water; stays long 
an suspension; sprays in fog-liko 
mist at high pressure; sticks 
like paint on the foliage. The 
present formula is an outgrowth 
of 23 years experience. Makes 
Pyrox better than ever. 
If not art your dealer’s, write 
our nearest office. Send now 
for the Pyrox Book. 
Bowker Insecticide Company- 
49 Chambers St., New York City 
Baltimore, Md. Chicago, III. 
great 
speed. There is one thing sure, however; 
after Andy’s story I shall never believe 
that a man is dead, mentally, morally, or 
physically, until I have to admit it. Hand 
out a blanket and a glass of cold water 
to the wayfarer. ir. w. c. 
Shavings in Manure 
I can have the manure of 20 horses 
very cheap. They are using shavings for 
bedding, and other farmers tell me that 
I will not be able to raise anything where 
I put this manure, as the shavings in the 
manure will spoil the soil. Others tell 
me that if the shavings do not come in 
bales specially put up for bedding I am 
safe in using the manure. In this case 
the shavings are brought from a carpenter 
shop in the city arid are put up in bags. 
Is this manure fit for the farm? The 
stable is only a half mile away from the 
farm. y. B< 
Fresh shavings contain an acid. If 
used in large quantities they will have 
an injurious effect upon the soil. This 
effect will show chiefly in those crops 
which are most affected by the use of 
Grape=Nuts for Health 
the powerful 
triple-duty spray 
TOWER'S FISH BRAND 
REFLEX SLICKERS 
knocks rally d?y gloom - 
, —irdo a cocked bat— 
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The OSPRAYMO LINE 
. „.T, 0U t0 Bct u “ e fruils - vegetables, shrub- 
ne.j. Hovers. Let our catalog tell ymi about the 
famous Hioh-voura Orchard It (at. Itrd Jacket and Yel- 
lou) Jacket 1 ruction Putato Sprout tr, Bucket, Barrel 
and Knapsack Sfvuy-T., Ha nd Pumps, etc. 
An OSPlt AYMO 
sprayer means ono 
that will make your 
tvurk effective. Suc¬ 
tion strainer brushes, 
mechanical agitators. 
ltLgh ptesjure guac- 
anteeil, Sen! today 
for late catalog. Don't 
buy any sprayer till 
it comes. Loral deal¬ 
ers at many points. 
Address 
rO O M Made for all cars. Write now 
Varoffthatleaky; for circular. Give make and 
< Tbp ondAtrad*? > ear of car. Ford top cover 
One of Ott»s I and back curtain as ^7 Pf» 
~ shown here.... yl.OU 
COMFORT CUSHION CO., Depl. J, 1621 Germantown Are., Phila., Pa 
Onion Bulbs and Sets 
How should I handle ouion sets to 
get the best big onions? I just read ad¬ 
vice to plant 2 in. under soil, but have 
never seen this done. IIow can I raise 
my own onion sets, plant early and pull 
when the size wanted, or plant late and 
harvest with mature onions? Do you 
think a pinch of oil cake or linseed meal 
mixed with bone dust would stimulate 
onion growth ? jr. m. s. 
Francois Lake, British Columbia. 
Onion sets are produced by crowding 
the plants together in the row. which 
means using a very large quantity of seed 
per acre. In New Jersey 25-lbs.'per acre 
are used in growing sets, while near Chi¬ 
cago ns high as 59 lbs. per acre are used. 
From 90 to TOO days are required for 
growing a crop of sets. In harvesting 
the sets are loosened by means of a cutter 
attached to a wheel hoe. They are then 
pulled by hand and topped, ’ Commer¬ 
cially bulb onions are grov^n from seed, 
not from sets. Many growers are now 
transplanting onions after starting seed¬ 
lings in a greenhouse or frame. This 
method is described at length in Farmers’ 
Bulletin No. “54. and the growing of sets 
in Fanners’ Bulletin No. 434. Both of 
these can be secured by addressing the 
Division of Publications. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington. D. C. T. H. T. 
A.J.TOWERCOl 
BOSTHM 
SENIOR \ 
LEADER I 
Power Orchard 
Sprayer 
Elmira. N. Y. 
FERTILIZERS 
A WELL-FED plant 
. resists disease. 
Potatoes, Truck Crops, 
Tobacco, and Sugar Beets 
are often attacked by 
diseases that thrive on 
ill-fed plants. 
The effects produced on these 
crops by Potash hunger have 
often been mistaken for a 
new disease. 
Fertilizers for these crops 
should be well balanced and 
should contain from 7 to 10 
per cent, of Potash. 
You can get plenty of Potash 
if you insist on having it. 
SOIL & CROP SERVICE. POTASH SYNDICATE 
H. A. Huston, Manager 
42 Broadway New York 
We Recommend for 
Potatoes, General Trucking:, Gardening 
Croxtoti Brand 
4-3-5 
We also sell Raw Materials, carloads • 
less than carloads, as follows: 
NITRATE OF SODA 
SULPHATE OF AMMONIA AND 
PHOSPHATE 
BLOOD AND TANKAGE 
BONE MEAL 
MURIATE OF POTASH 
SULPHATE OF POTASH 
Address Dept. F 
N. J. FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL CO 
Factory Croxton, Jersey City, N. J. 
Office, 46 William Street. New York 
The wife of a Western Congressman 
is sensitive on the subject of her deficient 
orthography, and her demands for infor¬ 
mation as to correct spelling .sometimes 
place her peace-loving husband in a deli¬ 
cate position. One day, ns she was writ¬ 
ing a letter at her desk, she glanced up to 
ask: “Henry, do you spell graphic with 
one 4” or two?” “My dear.” was the 
diplomatic reply, “if you’re goiug to use 
POTASH 
PAYS 
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