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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August A. 1022 
Plumbinq-Pipe-Fittinqs 
Wholesale Prices 
years afro. The scheme is worse, because 
the foxes cost more and are more likely 
to die than the hogs. If you think you 
can run a fox farm, go at it right. Buy 
the breeding stock outright and take care 
of them yourself. Personally, we would 
not touch the proposition with a dollar. 
When you pay .$2,000 for two foxes and 
a hole in the ground it looks to us like a 
good chance to find nothing but the hole 
before you are done. 
success. If the work is to bo done right, 
the soil must contain just about as much 
moisture as is desirable at. planting time. 
One and one-half inch pipes are used for 
carrying the steam, and have holes drilled 
a foot apart right through the pipe, so 
that the steam will float freely into the 
soil. In carnation houses galvanized iron 
pans 12 ft. long are used; in cucumber 
houses large canvas covers are employed. 
The steam should register 5 lbs. on the 
gauge. Less than (3 lbs. gives too much 
moisture, it is considered, while more 
is liable to bake the soil. From half an 
hour to an hour is needed to send the 
steam through the earth; and after the 
soil is steamed it should be worked up as 
soon as possible to let. in the air. At the 
best sterilized soil is not. considered as 
good as new soil, but sterilizing is cheaper 
than renewing the soil, and gives very 
good results for several years. E. I. F. 
A valuable invention that protects against bruising 
by hoops, staples and clinched ends of wire handles. 
1 shows the Liner flat; 2 shows ends interlocked; 
3 shows how it fits in basket, making a smooth, 
perfect lining. Does not change capacity of basket. 
Inexpensive; easy to install ; makes more attrac¬ 
tive pack. Especially fine for peaches, early 
apples and apples for storage. 
WRITE FOR Hundreds 01 thousands will be 
_ used this year. Write now for 
5 A fVl PLfc sample and price in quantities. 
PACKAGE SALES CORPORATION South Bend .nd. 
The Rhubarb Curculio 
Our rhubarb is so badly stung I can 
scarcely find any that is usable. I have 
a fine lot of it; would it be best to break 
it down now? What can be done to pre¬ 
vent or destroy the insect that works 
on it? MBS. A. w. 
Ilartstown, Pa. 
Rhubarb is remarkably free from in¬ 
sect pests, there being but the one insect 
known as the rhubarb curculio that, so 
far as I know, is noticeably troublesome 
to this plant. And, interestingly enough, 
this curculio. although it will lay its eggs 
in the loaf stems and seed stalks of rhn- 
bard, does not develop in this plant, for 
the eggs do not hatch. They are killed 
apparently by the sap that exudes from 
the stems. Thus the only damage the 
insect does to rhubarb is due to it* feed¬ 
ing punctures and to the egg-laying 
punctures that it makes in the stems. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
August Kl-—Shropshire sheep. Craw- 
fordsville District. Shropshire Associa¬ 
tion. (’rawfnrdsville, Ind. 
September ;. — Shorthorns. Augusta 
County, Va.. Shorthorn Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation. Staunton, Va. 
September 21—Shorthorns. M. V. 
Bnnkout, I.osantville. Ind. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
For August rind Fall planting. Pot-grown and runner 
plants that will hear fruit next Summer. RASPBERRY, 
BE AC K HK It RY. DEWBERRY, GOOSEBERRY, Ct'K 
KANT. GRAPE plant* , ASPARAGUS. It H1 T It Alt B 
roots : ROSES. SHRUBS for Fall planting. 
HARDY PERENNIAL FLOWER PLANTS 
for Summer and Fall planting ; DELPHINIUM, HOI.I.V- 
UOCK. COLUMBINE, FOXtil.OVF.. OAI1U, AKIM A 
nud many othcii ('dCiloyiie/rr*. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N. Y. 
CONTENTS 
can have, FREE, a copy of my cir¬ 
cular, “ The Value and Care of 
hotted Strawberry Plants.’* 
A. 11. Katkamikk, .Macedon, N. Y. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUGUST 5, 1922 
FARM TOPICS 
Buckwheat and Rye Seeded Tog-ether. 960 
Late Cultivation of Corn. 961 
The Best Juno and 
Everbearing varieties. 
, Georgetown, Del, 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
catalog Free. KA8I 
A great cover cron. Builds up poor soils. 
Our seed is free from cockle and other 
noxious weeds. 
Write fur price and Scoff's Seed Hook 
It tell* about this valuable crap 
o. M. sco rr & sons co. OXSWISL 
SEED POTATOES 
Immatured, Hill selected. Come, see and in¬ 
spect my potato fields before you buy. They 
contain less than one percent, diseases. G64 
bu. Russer and 443 bu. Cobblers per acre 
official test by Farm Bureaus. We have as 
good seed as can be found, Write 
WM. A. JONES, Truxton, Cortland Ceunty, N.Y. 
ED CLOVER 
A lfalfa 
■\WARF E 
II RAPE 
Car or Ton 
Lots 
Peas 
Timothy 
Crimson 
Vetch 
Best Northern-grown American Seed. Free 
Booklet on "Success with Alfalfa.” Have 
you written for our new Seed Wheat 
catalog '( Ii will nay you to read it. Write 
today. .Mention tide paper. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc., Landisville, Lancaster Co.. Penna. 
Here they are fitting an overcoat to the old wooden house. Originally built of clap 
boards, /tow they are adding a covering of concrete blocks, put up close to the build 
iug. The shingles on the roof will give place to slate. 
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First Cl»(« Second-Hand Peach and 
Tcmalc Camera. with till* 
r Htid ilivMor Al-.o onion rnUrs, 
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Let us quote you—That * Att 
THE EMPTY PACKAGE SUPPLY CO. 
Dept. R. 301-303 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The Bees and the Tractor.... 
College Students and Farmers 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings.... 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Shalt We Grow Rye!. 
State Fair Dates.......... 
Where the curculio feeds on the stem or 
punctures the stem to insert its egg. a 
wound is made, and the sap flows out 
freely, collecting in drops on the outside. 
Later the wounds dry out, leaving scars 
on the outside of the stems and hard 
places within. 
The beetle lives on dock, sunflower and 
thistle, in the stems of which it deposits 
its eggs, and in these plants the eggs 
hatch into whitish grubs that bore down 
the stems, finally attaining their full 
growth and changing to beetles. 
I know of no way to control the beetle on 
rhubarb except to catch it by hand as it. 
rests on the stems and destroy it. If one 
looks the stems over quietly the dark, 
rusty-coated curculio with its long snout 
can easily be found, for it is over half an 
inch iu length, and not very shy. It is 
found most, commonly early in the season, 
in June. In addition, all of ils wild food 
plants iu the vicinity, the broad-leaved 
dock, wild sunflower and thistle should 
lie destroyed, as far as possible to prevent 
the curculio from breeding and increasing. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
We Buy, Sell 
and lire lean 
Canary, Hetup. 
Snnllnsrer. Bird 
Rape. Orchard 
Grass, Ky. Blue 
Grass. Sun¬ 
shine, Moon, 
Venus Brands 
AURAL 
GRASSES 
E nglish 
rye 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Give the Horse a Wide JBed 
The Attack Upon Milk. 
August Milk Prices. 
Various Cow Questions. 
Use of Beet Pulp. 
Trouble with Milk. 
Pumpkin Seeds for Worms 
Mange: Fly Repellant. 
Lame Cow .. . .. 
K E Gr Si K EGrS 
Tlie Largest Wholesale Jobbers 
on Kegs, in New England 
We sell White Onk, l'un.ttinc Lined 1 S1 f , .. 
. 
170 Gallon Empty Olive Cnekn. 
Get our pricer before /ibli'iny u"itr order. 
A ' ,s s'c N o m ™ ols New Haven, Conn. 
I. L. RADWANER SEED CO. 
Seed Merchants 
Office end Warehouse, 83 Water Street, New York City 
THE HENYARD 
Treatment for Cannibal Chicks.. 
•'Unders 1 ' Instead of Leghorns.. 
Choking Chicks .. 
Sleeping Sickness .. 
Inbreeding and White Diarrhoea 
Egg-laying Contest . 
Trouble with Eggs. 
SEED W11 EAT, Trumbull, Dbidden. Poole, 
Goings, Ruse 11 Itye. Timothy. Alfalfa, Kuuc, 
Sampled, "xCA Itl'F’S SEED FARM, 
R. F, D. New Carlisle, <1. 
HORTICULTURE 
Their 
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Identifying Apple Varieties b; 
Leaves ... 
Notes from a Maryland Garden... 
Propagating Rambler Roses. 
Root Rot or Crown Rot of Cherry 
Transferring Bees; Dwarf Stock.. 
Chemicals Burn Lawn. 
Peach Borers and Tobacco. 
We save von 20 to 35 per cent 
on all standard water or steam 
pipeand fittings. We pny freight 
to your R. K, station and guar¬ 
antee satittlaclion. 
Save yourself money on 
plumbing supplies, water sys¬ 
tems. gasoline engines, roofing, 
pulleys, belting and machine 
tools. We 6ave money by cutting 
out in between profits and book¬ 
keeping. You get that saving. 
Get our catalog and prices now. 
SMYTH-DESPARD CO. ‘ 
801 Broad Si reel Utica. N. Y. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
BUCKETS 
From Day to Day... 
Comfort and Beauty on the Summer Porch 
The Rural Patte~na. .. 
Making Every Lick Count iu Dishwashing. 
Cooking Rabbits ... 
Ti nnex re Notes .... 
0ld-f'°in nned Gingerbread .. 
A Suva Rerne'y for Bedbumt. 
Stiffe lug Strawberry Jelly. 
Salti-ig Corn on Cob. 
To Season a Buttorbowl . 
Sterilizing Soil with Steam 
This has been an unusually bad year 
for nurserymen in respect to fungus 
troubles. Weather pundit Inns probably 
have been responsible, but much difficulty 
has been found in getting seedling trees 
to grow. The possibility of .storilVing the 
<oil with steam has conic up. It would 
not be possible, of course, to practice this 
method in a nursery where seedlings are 
now growing. It might be dune where a 
lot of stock had been taken out before 
seeding again, but it would be an expen¬ 
sive matter, and require much I a boy. The 
equipment would include a portable boiler 
for generating steam and pipes for carry¬ 
ing it through the soil, and some very 
ln'’ge canvas blankets for holding tic 
steam. 
Florists in some sections have practiced 
sterilizing the soil in the greenhouse, and 
so have cucumber growers, with excellent 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Seed Wheat 
The Real Estate Shark . 
Give the Childion a Chance. 
Health of the Country Child. 
Two Foxes and a Hole In the Ground 
Another View of (ho Bonus. 
Centralixed ft. non Is. . 
Another Good Woodohuck Dog. 
Events of the Wo*k . 
A Snake to Scare Birds .. 
A Don and Woodchuck*. 
Something Wn Cannot Understand. 
Farm Candidate for Congress.. 
Changing Hitch on Tractor . 
Attic Tank tor Water Supply. 
Cou-'t ywidc Pro uon Situation. 
Hai ' for Water Supply... 
Publ shcr’s Desk ... 
Nine reliable kinds—hardiest strains yield more 
per acre—require less need. Sound—graded 
seed cleaned clean, free ol cockle, rye, smut, 
garlic Fiices arr just. 
Write for leer Caiitlug and 
"Uintslea. Mention this paper. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc., Landisville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you'd (let 
a quick reply and a “square deal" See 
guarantee editorial page. 
CABBAGE PLANTS Danish Ball [loud 
and Flat Dutch. Ulle. period; $ 1,110 per 500; $1.50 
per 1000, postpaid. Special price on 5,000 and 
10,000 lots. W. S. FORD & SON. Hartly. Delaware. 
