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501 Milton Ave. Syracuse, N. Y. 
The Farmer His 
Own Builder 
By H. Armslrong Roberts- 
A practical and 
handy book of all 
kin.is of building 
information from 
concrete to carpen¬ 
try. Price $1-50 
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m W 30th St..M. V, 
NOTES 
Therehave been many 
requests for Hope 
Farm Notes in book 
form. Here it is—.134 
pages of the best of the 
Hope Farm Man’s phil¬ 
osophy, humor, pathos 
and sympathetic in¬ 
sight into every-day 
life. Well printed and 
neatly bound in cloth 
Peony Blight 
Each season ants attack the buds on 
my peonies, causing them to wither and 
dry up. How can I control this trou¬ 
ble ? E. L. u. 
Pennsylvania. 
The trouble described is caused by 
Botrytis blight, and the only injury Hie 
ants may do is to carry the spores of the 
disease from the base of diseased stalks 
to the buds of healthy plants. The ants 
are attracted by a sugary liquid exuded 
by unopened peony buds, and this forms 
a medium in which the disease spores 
germinate rapidly. The disease affects 
stems, buds and leaves, its first appear¬ 
ance being in the form of stem rot, liais¬ 
ing wilt when shoots are 4 to <S in. high. 
Next injury is shown on the buds. When 
very small young buds are attacked they 
turn black and dry up, this injury being 
called bud blast. Larger buds turn brown 
and fail to open, the interior being de¬ 
cayed, and this is known as bud rot. 
Opening flowers are attacked in the same 
way. Later the leaves show large irreg¬ 
ular brown spots which spread rapidly, 
the tissue becoming dry aud brown. 
Many plants show these injured leaves 
late in the Summer, and the trouble is 
always at its worst in a wet season. In 
a dry Summer the blight is hardly 
noticeable. 
Control Is difficult, especially in a wet 
season, hut neatness in clearing up the 
garden in the Fall is a very great help. 
Old stubble should he carefully removed 
and burned in the Autumn, the stalks 
being cut close to the crown. Never use 
Fresh manure on the bed; always select 
old well-rotted compost. A scattering of 
clean sand over the crowns is advised by 
some authorities. Some advise that as 
soon ns the young stalks appear in 
Spring they should be sprayed with Bor¬ 
deaux mixture; others think this of little 
benefit. The surest means of control is 
through daily inspection and immediate 
removal of all affected parts. If any 
young shoot shows wilt, cut and burn it. 
As soon as the buds form, examine them, 
aud remove any that turn brown or 
black. Remove all decaying flowers. 
Watch the foliage, and if the disease 
shows, cut and burn the leaf. While a 
large grower cannot carry out this plan 
profitably, it is eutirely practical in the 
home garden. Leaf blotch, anthracnose, 
and stem rot, which are also fairly fre¬ 
quent peony troubles, may be controlled 
by the same treatment. 
ror sale by 
Rural 
New-Yorker 
333YV. 30th Street. 
NEW YORK CITY 
ORDER DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
We will send you as many gallons as you 
want of good quality red or brown 
BARN PAINT 
upon receipt of remittance. We are paint *pecl«l- 
istsuudenn supply you with paint for any pur¬ 
pose. Tell us your wants and let ns quote you 
low prices, We cau stive you money hy shipping 
direct from our factory. S«tlsfactlonHuarautee(i, 
On order* for thlrtr aellonsor over we will prepay the 
freight within » radlut of three hundred mile*. 
AMALGAMATED PAINT CO. 
Factory: 372 WAYNE ST.. JERSEY CITY. N. J. 
The Hazard of Fruit Growing 
One of the fascinations of the busi¬ 
ness was illustrated by the April freeze, 
which caught the micI-Southern apple 
or peach belt, in bloom or just set¬ 
ting its fruit. One day a bumper crop 
was in prospect, aud the next morning 
the grower awoke to find his trees coated 
with frost, sometimes with ice Or snow. 
The same section was hard hit last year, 
and the loss of two crops in succession 
would bankrupt some oreba relists. Ex¬ 
penses on a fruit farm go right along, re¬ 
gardless of returns. This time the grow¬ 
ers of the Virginia-Maryluud section and 
westward seem to have been more soared 
than hurt. The stand was thinned out 
by the fneeze, and the full strength of 
damage cannot he told until later. Some 
fruit which looks sound may drop off. 
but growers now expect a good set. de¬ 
spite the severe thinning out. The crop 
further north, it seems, was too backward 
to suffer much injury. There was some 
damage as far west as California. The 
Middle West, which loses its fruit crop 
very often, seems to be in lock this season 
with an unusually heavy set of tree fruits, 
but is not out of danger yet. Early pros¬ 
pects indicated a big year for fruit, and 
the general outlook is still good. The 
Eastern market season has opened 
with the first installments of a crop of 
about 6,000 cars of Georgia peaches, fol¬ 
lowed by 1.000 ears from North Carolina. 
Small fruits promise well, aud the acre¬ 
age of berries has been generally in¬ 
creased. 
A Maryland business man inquires 
whether it will be safe for him to buy 
an orchard, in view of the increasing com¬ 
petition. The fruit business is never safe, 
hut the chief risks arc from weather and 
from pests and from the grower’s own 
mistakes. This talk of overplautiug is 
as old as the oldest nrchardist. A fann¬ 
ers’ book, once well known, published 
about ISfiO, discussed seriously the risk of 
planting apple trees because of the large 
new' orchards in Western New York. The 
great new Fruit regions of the Central and 
Northwestern States had never been heard 
of then, but there was no cold storage, 
no great export trade, and nothing like 
the present population of apple-eaters. 
“Ovorplanting” has continued ever since, 
hut apples are three to live times higher. 
Fruit from well-managed orchards with 
that fancy finish that, comes from vigorous 
trees and thorough spraying, always finds 
a good market if the grower understands 
the selling end of his business. However, 
it is easy to nay too much for a bearing 
orchards. Such a property is not so much 
an investment as it is a business oppor¬ 
tunity for the right man. The writer 
of the inquiry just mentioned intends to 
put his young son iu charge of the or¬ 
chard. and there is some prospect that 
the hoy’s business education will prove 
expensive. ti . B . r. , 
Hay Handling 
Tests a Rope’s Durability 
H AY handling is the best test of a rope’s durability. 
The constant strain back and forth over the blocks, 
the heavy pull of starting the fork, the continuous drag¬ 
ging over the ground all tend to wear a rope out in 
short order. Columbian Tape-Marked Pure Manila 
Rope is built to withstand just this kind of hard service. 
For all other jobs around the farm—loading and un¬ 
loading heavy machines and implements, stump pull¬ 
ing, swinging a scaffold for painting and repairing, for 
fence building, lashing loads on trucks, “snaking” logs 
out of the woods, filling the ice house, raising and low¬ 
ering materials for building silos, cisterns or wells, you’ll 
find Columbian—the guaranteed rope—the most dur¬ 
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Columbian Tape-Marked Pure Manila Rope is made 
from carefully-spun yarns of selected , wear-resisting 
Manila fiber—the world’s best rope material. All yarn 
is tested for weight, twist and breaking strength. Every 
completed rope has a breaking strength beyond the 
exacting standards of the U. S. Government. 
If your dealer cannot promptly supply Columbian Tape-Marked 
Pure Manila Rope, please send us his name and address and u)e will 
see that you are taken care of. 
Write for our folder showing practically every knot you will ever need 
to make and some interesting information on rope making . 
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MEMBER OF 
NEW YORK. U.S.A. 
COLUMBIAN ROPE COMPANY 
Manufacturers of Rope and Commercial Twines 
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The Columbian Guarantee 
The Columbian Rope Company will replace 
any rope proved defective which contains the 
red, white and blue Columbian Tape-Marker 
Columbian Standard Binder Twine ia 
insect-proof and of uniform size and 
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Engine Prices Lower 
2 H-P. Pulls 2.75— Now $ 39.95 
4 H-P. Pulls 6.S —Now 79.50 
12 H-P. Pulls 14.5 —Now 229.50 
30 H-P. Pulls 35.0 —Now 625.00 
Price* f. o. b. &, C. From Pittsburgh carload tgt. added. 
All other skies—3. 6. 3,16 and 22. cut in pro¬ 
portion—Stationary, Portable and Saw-Rig 
styles. WITTE Log Saws $50 less than others 
ask for outfits aa good. 1 sell on Ufatime 
Guarantee against defect—90-Day Test- 
Cash or Terms. Catalog Free. 
WITTE ENGINE WORKS, 
1S92 Oakland Are.. KANSAS CITY. MO. 
1892 Empire Bldg., PITTSBURGH, PA, 
