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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Handling Liquid Manure. 
E. A. II., Windham, N. Y.—We can 
economically complete our own principal 
stable to save the liquid separately, and 
load it by gravity into a 250-gallon stave 
tank on wheels which we already have 
rigged. We use the manure spreader for 
solids, which is a great saving, but con¬ 
sidering the wear, breakage and delays, 
extra draught for team in hauling so 
heavy a vehicle and propelling spread¬ 
ing machinery, I believe that we can 
handle three loads of liquid manure as 
cheaply as one of solids. Our method of 
distribution I like better than that pre¬ 
sented in The It. N.-Y. of January 15. 
The liquid discharges from the under 
side of the rear, and the lowest end of 
the tank, through a short, upright tube 
and hinged gate that lifts by a lever 
accessible to the driver’s hand, and 
underneath which tube centers a sus¬ 
pended cone. The pitch of the cone and 
its height from the ground, describe the 
width of spread, and it never clogs, and 
spreads as well on a slope as on a level. 
Our solid manure would handle very 
much nicer for being free from so much 
liquid, and effectual absorbents are utter¬ 
ly out of the question on our farm. 
The Soap Fraud Again. 
J. L. W., Worcester, N. Y.—Last June, 
a man called at my house and inquired 
whether we had had a sample of his soap, 
at the same time handing a cake to my 
wife. He then proceeded to give the merits 
of the soap, and said that his company had 
combined with others, and in order bet¬ 
ter to introduce their soap, he was call¬ 
ing at two houses out of three, and offer¬ 
ing his soap for sale. As a great in¬ 
ducement, he gave, with a $5 box of 
soap, the purchaser’s choice of a carpet 
from the samples he had with him ; with 
a half box, a $2.50 order, he gave a din¬ 
ner set, and with smaller orders, clocks, 
rugs, curtains, carpet sweepers and 
things innumerable. He would leave the 
soap, take his pay, and in a week, another 
man would bring the prizes. He stated 
that two of our near neighbors had 
bought and were to have carpets. His 
tongue made good time, but as we had 
seen, only two or three weeks previously, 
an account in The R. N.-Y. of almost the 
same thing being operated in Madison 
County, and the sequel, his great offer 
was declined without thanks. However, 
within a radius of three miles, he sold, at 
least, eight or nine $5 and some smaller 
orders. No one yet has received the pre¬ 
miums, and as soon as the purchasers 
had a moment to reflect, they did not 
expect them. Upon being exposed to the 
air, a crust of salt will form on the soap, 
similar to the salt on butter when ex¬ 
posed. Of course, it is nearly worthless. 
Notes on Trees. 
W., Tyrone, Pa. — The practice of 
shortening in the roots of young tree- 
plants for transplanting is sound, both 
in theory and practice, and the more the 
top is also shortened down, the stronger 
will be the issuing- shoot the next year. 
When the top growth is quite straight, 
or any one shoot of it, I leave that full 
length—a straight stem being a main 
object in the growth of a young orchard 
tree. I have practiced this reguiai-ly for 
20 years past, taking up all stocks that 
are to be transplanted, including even 
peach plants, in October and November, 
when the mild air and warm soil are so 
much more favorable for the work than 
the weather of our brief and hurried 
Spring season. Each kind then ties up 
into as compact a bundle as so many neat, 
straight canes would, and takes little 
room in a bed of well-aired loam, in a 
cellar with windows admitting good 
light, and on a damp but not wet earthen 
floor. No water is given, as moisture 
enough rises from below, and more than 
that would be injurious, while the plants 
are at rest. The stocks are budded here 
while the cuts are quite fresh, and the in¬ 
ternal movement of growth suffices to 
film them over and to form a callus in 
which new root points from ready to 
issue with the first movement of growth 
in the Spring. As soon as the ground 
dries sufficiently in March or April, the 
bundles are taken out, the roots dipped 
in a puddle of loamy mud, and this does 
not dx'y until the plants are set out on 
ground ready cleaned and worked in the 
Fall; the planting of such shortened 
roots is of the easiest sort. When a 
bunch has been set, the earth is pressed 
to the roots with the foot, while the 
hands hold the top erect. Growth starts 
as early as in trees not moved. 
To keep rabbits from trees, I have used 
pieces of liver, rubbing it on the stem 
about the end of December. To l’epel 
the Apple-borer beetle, linseed oil is 
much easier applied than the cement 
mixture would be, and in many years I 
have found it a full protection, and safe 
on trees of any size ; even on bark of the 
present year, I have had no bad effects. 
It improves the color, at least, of the 
bark. 
Thin in flesh? Perhaps it’s 
natural. 
If perfectly well, this is 
probably the case. 
But many are suffering 
from frequent colds, nervous 
debility, pallor, and a hun¬ 
dred aches and pains, simply 
because they are not fleshy 
enough. 
Scott’s Emulsion of Cod- 
liver Oil with Hypophos- 
phites strengthens the diges¬ 
tion, gives new force to the 
nerves, and makes rich, red 
blood. It is a food in itself. 
50 c. and $ 1 . 00 , all druggists. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. 
flow TO Get 
m Them 
In 1899 we propose to Intro¬ 
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ties. One A NEW TOMATO and 
the other A NEW BEET. Wo want 
names that are worthy the high quality of 
these vegetables and therefore will pay you 
$200 FOR A NAME. 
To those who wish to test them this season and 
compete for these prizes, we will send liberal 
packets of the seed of each as part of our 
STAR prize collection 
which includes also a packet of seed of each of 
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JOHNSON & STOKES, 
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Vy E no longer supply our seeds to dealers to 
'' sell again. At the same time, any¬ 
one who has bought our seeds of their 
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Garden” for 1898 rnrn provided they 
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name of the local merchant from whom 
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