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April 8, 1922 
The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
S 
DICKINSON 
TREE BRAND 
SEEDS 
Four main factors affect the 
growing of a crop—weather, 
soil, labor and seed. Nature 
provides weather and soil, but 
you must supply labor and seed 
—and you must start right with 
good seed. 
You and Nature are partners 
sharing responsibility for the 
coming harvest. Be fair with 
your partner. Buy good seed. 
ASK YOUR DEALER FOR 
PINE TREE BRAND 
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SEEDS 
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Seed Merchants 
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DELICIOUS COFFEE W 
Best South American blends direct from importer 
to consumer by parcel post, prepaid v, ithin 300 miles. 
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within 3 days or return balance. Grades 30, 30, 40, 
and 4..r lb. State whether bean or ground. 
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MARSHALL 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
We offer about 30,000 very fine Marshall Straw¬ 
berry Plants. Strictly pure and fine large plants. 
Special pi ice, per 1,000 or 5,000 foi <830, For 
other varieties nslt for catalog- 
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to improve Dreer’s Garden Book and 
this year it is better than ever. Every¬ 
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cultural information written by experts. 
The Eighty-fourth edition of Drier's 
Garden Book contains 224 pages, eight 
color plates, besides numerous photo¬ 
graphic reproductions. It offers the best 
Vegetable and F’ower Seeds; Lawn 
Grass and Agricultural Seeds; Garden 
Requisites; Plants of all kinds, in¬ 
cluding the newest Roses, Dahlias, 
Hardy Perennials, etc. 
A copy mailed free il you mention 
tins publication. 
HENRY A. DREER 
714-716 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, P a _ 
WHY FEED the CROWS ? 
Treat your seed with CORBIN und protect 
it against Crows, other birds. Mice, Wire- 
worms. Weevils, etc. COKHIN prevents 
Stinking Smut. Easily applied. Treated 
seed can be used in a planter. WILL NOT 
HURT THE SEED Costs about 15c. per 
acre of corn. Endorsed by Farmers. Ex peri 
meut Stations and Agricultural Colleges. 
SOLD on a GUARANTEE 
If CORBIN does not do what we claim.return 
the empty can und we will return your 
money. Send for a can today -enough to 
treat 300 lbs. of seed. PKICB <81.60. 
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AMERICAN CORBIN CO., Plainfield, N. J. 
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paid; 10.000, $1». MAPlf CW0VE FARMS, Frai»Miii, Vi. 
agents toSeii Peck's Soft Metal RIVETS 
for mending any kind pots or pan*. Every housewife a 
prospect. 100 p. e. profit. Trial box. 10c : regular size, 
8r.c. E. E. PECK CO.. Dept D, Medina, New York 
Pan-American Seed Potatoes 
76et.otI.60 Hu. Diini»h Ball Cabbage Heed. 68.50 lb. 
Pi tie Tree Timothy, tl Bu K. E. PIKIISO.V. (iroton. N. V. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New- Yorker and you 'll get 
a quick reply and a "square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
Binder Twine 8Sr. r ,!f:,?5ffis 
lots our special i y. 
Farmer agents wanted. Samples and eir'-ular free. 
THE0. BL’RT & SONS - Melrose, Ohio 
ported. Much skill and patience are re¬ 
quired to grow strawberries indoors, but, 
as one market gardener expressed it, it 
is almost sufficient reward just to enjoy 
the perfume of the ripening berries. The 
common method is to use a house having 
a solid wall at the back. Boxes are 
arranged in a series along this wall, and 
the berries grown in these boxes. Care¬ 
ful attention must he given to water¬ 
ing, and in some houses a little truck, 
running along wooden rails, makes it pos¬ 
sible for the operator to travel the length 
of the house with a minimum of exertion. 
The greatest amount of labor comes from 
the fact, that the blossoms have 1 to be fer¬ 
tilized by hand on every pleasant morning, 
the work being done with a cainel’s-hair 
brush. Experiments have been made with 
bees, as in cucumber houses, but the bees 
never fertilized the blossoms properly, the 
result being that the berries are almost 
invariably lopsided. 
Substitute for Glass, —T have writ¬ 
ten about my use of a glass substitute, 
made of prepared cloth, on my cold 
frames. I think I have never told about 
another use for this cloth which may 
prove interesting. My poultry houses are 
of the fresh-air type, the doors being 
covered only with wire netting. When a 
southeast storm comes lip, however, the 
rain and snow have often been driven 
into the house m such an extent as in 
make the litter damp. Now I have con¬ 
structed light frames covered with the 
prepared cloth. Those frames can be set 
Sails in Celery Stalks 
in the doors whenever a storm comes up. 
and held in place by thumb buttons. It 
is only a moment’s work to adjust them, 
and while they keep out the rain and the 
snow-, they let in plenty of light. When 
not in use they were kept outside of the 
house, so that they will not become cov¬ 
ered with dost. At one time I used mus¬ 
lin curtains nn the windows and doors, 
but found that they invariably became 
clogged with dirt and dust in a short time, 
thus defeating their purpose of allowing 
air and sunlight to enter. On occasion 
the frames are placed over the coops <>f 
little chickens to protect them from sud¬ 
den Spring showers. 
Farm f,bs’ 11 kapquarters. — F artners 
from any part of New England desiring 
to have a meeting place in Boston are 
welcome to make use of the new head¬ 
quarters which the Massachusetts Farm 
Bureau Federation has just established at 
22 School street, which is about half-way 
between the North and South stations. 
Air. Howard S. Russell, a well-known 
market gardener, is secretary the State 
organization and will have charge of the 
new office. The Farm Bureau has become 
very active in Massachusetts, and while 
there are some farmers who do not sym¬ 
pathize with its methods or its aims, it 
seems to be receiving pretty generous 
support. 
Saving the Trees. —Work should no 
longer be delayed in repairing the injury 
done the trees by the great storm which 
swept over New England last Winter. 
Many of these trees will have to lie cut 
down. Vint others cau be saved, and this is 
perhaps the best time to do the work. If 
a tree has a sound trunk and some of the 
top is left, it probably will make enough 
new growth to warrant devoting a little 
time and expense to its redemption. In 
the case of many orchard trees, nature 
has swept in and carried out the dis¬ 
horning process that is recommended by 
orchardists for trees that have grown too 
tall. It is shindy a question whether the 
trees are worth the time and labor re¬ 
quired to save them. When removing 
limbs that have been partly broken off. 
be sure that a smooth cut is made all 
the way across and that no split crotches 
are left. If stumps remain, it is best to 
cut them back as near the trunk as pos¬ 
sible. It hard 1 ” seems necessary to give 
sneh advice, and yet one constantly sees 
trees, especially in suburban gardens, with 
long stubs, and others with ragged 
wounds remaining, doubtless due to the 
lack of a sharp saw on the part of the 
operator. 
The New Market Boxes. —The act 
establishing a Massachusetts standard for 
boxes for farm produce sold at wholesale 
went into effect March 1. The old- 
fashioned bushel boxes which were com¬ 
mon in the Boston market for many years 
have largely disappeared. When the new 
boxes are used for marketing produce 
they should he labeled on the outside, 
using capital letters at least an inch high. 
Thcv should say “STANDARD BOX 
FARM PRODUCE." Half-boxes are be¬ 
ing used to some extent., and should 
be labeled “STANDARD HALF-BOX 
PRODUCE." 
Home Garden Celery.— Amateur gar¬ 
den-makers who are planning <to raise 
their own celery plants will do well to 
substitute Easy Blanching for Paris 
Golden or Golden Self-Blanching. The 
latter celery has developed many faults 
and has been given up to a largo extent 
by commercial growers, who are turning 
to Easy Blanching as being much more 
satisfactory, The amateur gardener will 
do well to follow suit. In fact, there is 
no better celery for the home garden, as 
it can be had very early, and. on the other 
hand, will keep well if used as a late 
celery. Probably it won’t keep as long 
as Giant Pascal in pits outside, but no 
Celery will keep very long in the average 
cellar. And there is no reason why the 
small grower should bother with more 
than one kind. Celery has given much 
more trouble to market gardeners the past 
season than usual on account.of the Might, 
and yet it is one of the most profitable 
crops to grow. A few market gardeners 
who are very expert in keeping il are still 
puffing it on the market the first of 
March. 
The Des Motnf.s Squash. —In looking 
over a catalogue put out by one of the 
New Jersey seedsmen a few days ago. I 
was interested to find a squash under the 
name of Deg Moines, which I believe is 
exactly the same squash that I have writ¬ 
ten about several times, calling it Table 
Queen. The name itself indMates that it 
b the same squash, because Table Queen 
is known to have come from Town, where 
if has hpen grown for several veius. Tf is 
too bad that the same vcxptcMe goeq info 
flic catalogues tinder so many different 
names, resulting, as it always does, in 
confusion on the part of the buyer. How¬ 
ever, this little squash seldom grows more 
than six Inches long, and is just as satis¬ 
factory as a garden squash under what¬ 
ever name it may he sold. 
Two Vu.uarle Bulletins.—T wo bul¬ 
letins from the Experiment Station at 
Amherst are not to he overlooked by 
farmers and garden-makers. (>ne of them 
is entitled "Homo Mixing of Fertilizers." 
It goes into details as to the best, method 
of combining the various ingredients 
which go to make a balanced fertilizer. 
The other bulletin is a plan for making 
an ideal vegetable and fruit garden, and 
is meant to meet the needs of suburban¬ 
ites who do not claim to be farmers, and 
yet are interested in producing food for 
their own families. 
English Vegetable Marrow.— While 
speaking of squashes. I want to mention 
the English vegetable marrow, which, to 
my taste, is a better vegetable than the 
ordinary Summer squash, which has about 
the same habit. These vegetable marrows 
come in several different shapes, some be¬ 
ing oval, while others are larger at one 
end than the other: algo there are run¬ 
ning and bush varieties. They have been 
very popular in England for many years 
and seem to thrive just as well here. 
Several of the American seedsmen are 
now cataloguing them, although they list 
but a few varieties. The vegetable mar¬ 
row must be used before it is fully grown, 
although mature specimens make very 
good pies, while the rind makes delicious 
sweet pickle. 
Nails in Celery. —Complaints are 
often heard about the use of nails in pre¬ 
paring celery for market. It is the com¬ 
mon plan among market-gardeners to 
select three hunches of uniform size and 
drive nails through them to hold them to¬ 
gether. < Now there’s no fault to be found 
with this practice if the celery is cut with 
good-sized pieces of root stock remaining, 
so that the nails may bo forced through 
them without touching any part of the 
celery which would be used on the table. 
It is when the work is done carelessly or 
ignorantlv and the appearance of the cel¬ 
ery itself is marred flint there is legiti¬ 
mate cause for protest on the part of cus¬ 
tomers. It is a matter to which farmers 
selling eelorv in a small way should give 
attention. There has been more or less 
agitation for the tying of celery, and tape 
has been experimented with to some ex¬ 
tent. Most growers, however, prefer the 
use of nails, arid the commission people 
are satisfied with this plan. The lintels 
and other large users often buy celery 
loose, no bunches of any kind being at¬ 
tempted. E. I. FARRINGTON. 
Sale of Mortgaged Land 
I have a 100-acre farm with a $1,500 
mortgage. I sold seven acres with three 
dwelling-houses of this farm to another 
party for $1.K00. subject to a $1,500 mort¬ 
gage. which I hold. Now this buyer claims 
that he need not pay either interest on 
mortgage or taxes on property. He claims 
that he did pot know there was a mort¬ 
gage on it, although I had told him when 
he bought, and lie was* satisfied. Would 
you advise what to do in this case? j. w. 
The proper procedure for you is to ob¬ 
tain from the holder of the $1,500 mort¬ 
gage a release from the mortgage of that 
part of the mortgaged premises sold by 
von. That will clear the title to the lots 
sold. N. T. 
