« 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
643 
WmMijBh 
PISTON RING! 
t’ostoftiee 
State 
FARMSin Oswego and Jefferson Co.’s 0 R ru!« 
best dairy ami fruit farms m State. Small payment 
down giveeymt possession of any si/.e rarm you r ant. For 
pnrtiiUlUrs write L J. WILU*Mt. Sind, Creek. Oiw.go Ce.. H T. 
Seme Very Oesirable Dairy, Poultry & General Farms 
at reasonable prices. Write your wants. 
INTERSTATE FARM AGENCY, 302 Broad St., Waverly, N. Y. 
railway rates, etc., write 
O. G. RUTLEDGE 
301 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Authorized Agent, Dept, of Immigration a 
and Colonization, Dominion of Canada 7 i 
land of Prosperity 
offers to home seekers opportunities that cannot 
be secured elsewhere. The thousands of farmers 
from the United States who have accepted Can¬ 
ada's generous offer to settle on FREE homesteads 
or buy farm land in her provinces have been well 
repaid by bountiful crops. There is still avail¬ 
able on easy terms 
Fertile Land at SI5 to $30 an Acre 
—land similar to that which through many years 
has yielded from 20 to 45 bushels of wheat 
to the acre—oats, barley and flax also in great 
abundance, while raising horses, cattle, sheep 
and hogs is equally profitable. Hundreds of farm¬ 
ers in western Canada have raised crops in a 
single season worth more than the whole cost of 
their land. With such success comes prosperity, 
independence, good homes and all the comforts 
and conveniences which make life worth living. 
Farm Gardens, Poultry, Dairying 
are sources of income second only to grain 
growing and stock raising. Attractive cli¬ 
mate, good neighbors, churches’, schools. 
good markets, railroad facitities, rural tele- | 
phone, etc. 
For illustrated literature, maps, description of farm 
opportunities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, 
Poultry and Potato Bugs 
Is there any bird or domestic fowl that 
will eat (oil the plants) potato bugs? 
c. \v. B. 
We have never seen any domestic fowls 
that would eat any large number of potato 
beetles. We have kept chickens, turkeys, 
ducks and geese. Now and then they 
seem to pick up an occasional potato bug, 
but they will not eat them as they do 
grasshoppers, earthworms, caterpillars, 
and similar insects. It is said that guinea 
hens will eat considerable numbers of 
them, and we have had a number of re¬ 
ports from duck raisers who claimed 
positively that Pekin ducks will clean up 
small patches of potatoes and destroy all 
the bugs. We have never been able to 
induce our own ducks to engage in any 
such excellent operations, and we doubt 
very much if any domestic fowl can be 
depended on to keep the vines clean. 
ml. 
mi 
How to Use Nitrate of Soda 
I have been told that if nitrate of soda 
is applied to a grass field, and it should 
rain immediately after, that it will burn 
up the grass roots so that there would 
be no crop worth cutting. Is that so? 
What amount of nitrate of soda and acid 
phosphate can I apply safely as a top¬ 
dressing for grass fields, also for corn? 
IT. G. G. 
Nitrate of soda will not injure the 
grass if you use it properly. Of course, 
if you go along dropping handfuls of it 
in damps, the grass may be killed where 
it falls, but if evenly spread there will 
be no damage. About 125 lbs. to the acre 
will be the limit. You can mix this 
amount with 300 lbs. or more of plaster 
or good dry soil, and then broadcast the 
mixture. You will get. an even distribu¬ 
tion in that way. We have known 
farmers who dissolved the nitrate in 
water and then sprinkled it over sifted coal 
ashes. These absorbed (lie liquid, so that 
when dried the nitrate was distributed 
all through the ashes. When this was 
broadcast there was an even distribution. 
A top-dressing for grass can be made by 
mixing 100 lbs. nitrate of soda with 300 
lbs. acid phosphate. We should prefer 
to add 100 lbs. muriate of potash. As a 
corn fertilizer we want another form of 
nitrogen, not so available as the nitrate, 
since the corn makes its best growth later 
in the season. Thus for a corn fertilizer 
we would add to the last mixture men¬ 
tioned 100 lbs. of tankage. 
Street or It. F. P 
Trouble with Gloxinias and Dahlias 
('an you give me any information I 
about two ‘‘bugs” that are troubling my 
plants? I had a nourishing lot of young 
Gloxinias until there appeared on the 
scene a number of small black flies—not 
aphis—not more than an eighth of an 
inch long, very slender and small. They 
stay on the earth a good deal, but are on 
llie plants considerably. The leaves de¬ 
velop brown spots, some of them crinkle 
up. and some whole plants have withered 
and died. Then there is the quick-step¬ 
ping fellow who spoils the buds of the 
Am hern is, Dahlias and Chrysanthemums, 
lie seems to lie made of the same male- 
rial as the grasshopper, though not the 
same shape; has a rather flat body about 
a quarter of an iueh long, and a little 
more than half as wide, with a pair of 
gauzy wings, tinged with brown, neatly 
folded on his back. Mrs. g. h. c. 
Antrim, N, H. 
It is doubtful if the black flies of which 
Mrs. G. II. C. speaks were responsible 
for the trouble with the Gloxinias, The 
writer believes that the Hies mentioned 
were a species that lives in decaying 
vegetable material, like manure, and were 
not actually injuring the plants. How¬ 
ever. if they appear again next Summer 
and the inquirer will take the trouble to 
send some of them to me T will be very 
glad to examine them, and will then be 
able to tell whether they are injurious 
or not. We suspect the Gloxinias were 
attacked by some disease for which we 
are tumble to prescribe. 
The Dahlias and Anthemis were un¬ 
doubtedly troubled by the tarnished plant 
bug. This is a well-known and widely 
distributed brownish-green bug with a 
long beak that attacks- many flowering 
plants, and is a very serious pest. It 
punctures the buds and leaves with its 
beak and sucks out the juices, There is 
no very effective way of destroying this 
insect, but frequent sprayings of the 
plants with nicotine sulphate, a teaspoon¬ 
ful in a gallon of water, with a piece of 
soap as large as a lien's egg dissolved in 
the mixture, will help much. The mix¬ 
ture of water, soap and tobacco should 
not be sprayed on the blossoms after they 
are open, because it will probably stain 
the petals. GLENN w. iierrick. 
Is there a single book in the public 
library in your town which gives an ac¬ 
curate picture of farm life or an interest¬ 
ing story of real farm people? 
Many city people form their opinion of 
farmers and farm life from the books they 
read. Therefore, there ought to be at 
least one good book picturing real farm 
life, with its mixture of bright and dark 
sides, in every town or grange library. 
‘‘Hope Farm Notes” is a well-printed 
224-page book, containing 25 interesting 
Stories of farm, life and country people. 
Many consider it the best book of country 
life which has ever been published. 
Ask for this book at your library, and 
if it isn’t there tell them they ought to 
have it. You will enjoy the book your¬ 
self. and it will give those not familiar 
with farm life a better understanding of 
real country people. 
Many people are making a present of 
this hook to city friends or to their town, 
grange or school library, and it is always 
considered a welcome gift. 
The price is only ?1 50, postpaid. Just 
fill out the coupon below and mail with 
a check or money order. 
Name 
RURAL NEW YORKER. 
333 West 30th St.. New York. 
Gentlemen.—Enclosed find $1.50, for which 
mail me a eloth-boand copy of Hope Farm Notes. 
Electric Supplies 
WHOLESALE 
PRICES 
Write foroorSpeoia 
Wholes'll e price 
sheet on K1 e o tr i c 
Supplies, si«*o C»n- 
logue on fixtures, 
Automobile Butter¬ 
ies, Storage Buttery 
I’arta and House 
Lighting Blunts. 
In writiujr, give items in which you arc interested. 
AGENTS WANTED for our Lincoln Automobile Bitleritl end 
Bouse Lfehtine 1‘luntu to cover sections still open. 
HINSDILL ELECTRIC CO., Troy, N. Y. 
Established WO? 
FARMS ,n n«Tw ern 
Send for our free, illustrated cafcilojrtir. man and photos de* 
S&K /round BEAUTIFUL VINELAND 
counties, aUo r.eor Oput; clos* to Atlantic City, the play- 
the world s be*t nruiHcst; *p«OMJtzinir »n fruit ind poultry 
farms, also grain, dairy* truck urn! furma, ml owners* 
lowest urlccv. Not connected with any City farm agencies. 
Wc personally fii%p#cC exch and every larm w* offer. Prices 
range from SIJHJQ «p. Many wfth only |$0Q cash, stocked 
and equipped. Tell us what you want. Wot* toiiay. 
VINELAND FARM ACENCV, 549-K Undit Ave.. Vineland. N. J. 
Increase Power—Save Gas and Oil 
Piston rings wear, just as tires do. Worn McQuay-Norris Wainwright Pistons and 
and leaky rings waste motor power and Piston Pins to the McQuay-Norris Pis- 
money. They should be re- _ ton Ring line, you can now se- 
placed with McQuay-Norris 
equipment. It will increase 
power, save gas and oil, and de¬ 
crease carbon troubles in any 
make or model of passenger car, 
truck, tractor or stationary en¬ 
gine. The McQuay-Norris line 
is complete for every need. 
Through the addition of 
— aa exclusive Supwcgf — Keep 
two-piecc design, preventing ting oil out of 
loss of gas and compression. chamber. Collec 
Gives equal pressure at all on each down st 
points on cylinder walls. For ton and empties 
all piston grooves except top, stroke, which 
which should have SupwrctjC. grooved rings 
MeQUAY-NORRIS 
WAINWRIGHT 
PISTONS & PINS 
Each ring packed in a 
parchment container. Price 
per ring— 
$ \2§ 
In Canada, $1.50 
Supargi — Keeps lubrica¬ 
ting oil out of combustion 
chamber. Collects excess oil 
on each down stroke of pis¬ 
ton and empties on each np 
stroke, which ordinary 
grooved rings cannot do. 
Each ring packed in a 
parchment container. Price 
per ring— 
$1 OO 
In Canada, $1.25 
ton Ring line, you can now se¬ 
cure for your gas engines com¬ 
plete McQuay-Norris-made Pis¬ 
tons, Piston Pins and Piston 
Ring equipment. 
Send for Free Booklet— a valuable explanation 
of the relation of piston rings to gas engine 
operation. Address Dept. AR. 
McQuay-Norris Manufacturing Co. 
St. Louis, U. S. A. 
Canadian Factory: McQuay-Norris Mf*. Co. of Canada, Ltd., 
Toronto. 
JIFFY-GRJP —a one-ptece Snap Rings —ofthehigh- 
ring. Non-butting joint est grade. Raised above the 
which can be fitted closer average by McQuay-Norris 
than ordinary step cut— manufacturing methods, 
velvet finish—quick seating. Their use insures all the 
Seats in a jiffy.'’ To ksep satisfaction possible for you 
them clean and free from to get from a plain snap ring, 
rust, each ring is packed in They are packed twelve rings 
an individual glassine en- to the carton and rolled in 
velope. Price per ring— waxed paper. 
50c And Snap Rings of 
in Canada, 50c the highest grade 
MeQUAY-NORRIS 
PISTON RINGS 
MeQUAY-NORRIS 
Sup>erotf£ 
RINGS 
£-“* ^2 li—s7Hf wr r) 
'iBBpnBf l, iHniiiinniiiB^ 
Made of 
1 iiiiiimiinffli^ 
Iron 
