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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 11 
All communications intended for E. S. 
Carman, should he mailed to Ri/ver Edge, 
Beryen County, N. from now until 
October 1. 
Jadoo Fibbe. —Much has been said as 
to the efficacy of Jadoo Fibre and Liquid, 
both here and abroad. Tjik R. N.-Y. has 
made inquiries of those who have used 
it, with contradictory results. We have 
before us a list of 168 plants that, ac¬ 
cording to the claims made, have grown 
more satisfactorily in Jadoo than in any 
other medium whatever. The company 
has sent a quantity of both the Fibre and 
Liquid to the Rural Grounds, so that 
we may give it a trial during the pres¬ 
ent season. Then we may tell our read¬ 
ers from experience what we think of it. 
Whether we use phosphoric acid in 
the form of dissolved bone black or in 
the form of acid phosphate or dissolved 
rock phosphate,makes no difference. The 
value of either phosphate is just the same. 
Rut here comes in an important differ¬ 
ence, as the Connecticut Experiment 
Station points out. At $22 a ton, avail¬ 
able phosphoric acid costs about 6.6 cents 
a pound, while in acid phosphate, avail¬ 
able phosphoric acid costs only four cents 
a pound. 
Ik farmers choose to buy fertilizers on 
time, they must expect to pay a heavy 
interest for the accommodation. The 
Connecticut Experiment Station says 
that, if purchasers would not call on 
dealers or manufacturers to do a bank¬ 
ing business for them, as well as a fer¬ 
tilizer business, by carrying their notes 
for three, six or nine months, the cost of 
mixed fertilizers to the farmers would 
be considerably lessened, and the profit 
of their use correspondingly increased... 
Double Portulaca. —We rarely see 
anything about double Portulaca in the 
rural journals. We say “ double,” be¬ 
cause the single Portulaca is, compara¬ 
tively, not worth talking about. Yet 
there is a lot to be said in favor of this 
hardy annual, but little to be said against 
it. It is a timely topic, since seeds, even 
though self-sown the Summer and 
Autumn before, will not germinate be¬ 
fore early June. Portulaca is a hot- 
weather plant. It thrives in heat, and 
will stand any amount of it. A bed of 
Portulaca needs no other care than keep¬ 
ing it free of weeds. It needs no water¬ 
ing, let the situation be ever so hot, 
the season ever so dry. 
Now a double Portulaca is more deli¬ 
cate than a rose, and fully as brilliant in 
its varied colors, yellow, orange, light 
and dark rose, white, salmon, carnation 
striped, purplish—all but blue. The 
seed-bed should be thoroughly fined and 
firmed ; then the seed should be evenly 
sown and pressed into the soil rather 
than covered. A considerable propor¬ 
tion of the seed gathered from double 
varieties will give single flowers, and 
these single flowers will bloom before 
the double flowers. It is not a trouble¬ 
some matter to separate the double from 
the single varieties, even before the buds 
bloom. The bud of the single flower is 
narrowly conical, that of the double 
flower is nearly round, while the semi¬ 
double buds are between the narrowly 
conical and round in shape. As soon as 
a plant gives a single bloom which is 
not satisfactorily double, it should be 
pulled iip, because if the first flower is 
single, all the flowers subsequently borne 
by that plant will be single. It will, 
therefore, require but a few days to rid 
the bed, be it large or small, of all 
plants that bear single flowers, and the 
double-flowering kinds alone will be 
left to shed their seed for the next sea¬ 
son. In this way, the bed may be kept 
up indefinitely from year to year, and 
the double flowers will increase from 
year to year, according to the thorough¬ 
ness of the selection. It is an interest¬ 
ing fact which the writer discovered 
many years ago, that the color of the 
flowers which a given plant may pro¬ 
duce may, in a general way, be foretold 
even before a bud appears. If, for ex¬ 
ample, the plant is to bear white flowers, 
the stems will be of a lighter green than 
those which bear colored flowers. If the 
flower is to be rose-colored, the stems 
will be of a darker shade, while those 
bearing the darkest colors will be dis¬ 
tinctly purplish. If the flowers are to 
be variegated, the stems will be striated 
with tiny lines of a different color. The 
plants will continue to bloom until late 
Fall, or until after severe frosts. The 
beds require no protection during the 
Winter. The seeds are as hardy as those 
of its disreputable relative, Purslane_ 
Seeds of the Awnless Rrome grass 
(Bromus inermis) were first sown in a 
plot of poor soil at the Rural Grounds 
four or five years ago, as has been stated. 
It flourished finely, and we concluded to 
try it on a portion of lawn which, owing 
to its poverty, was covered with Poten- 
tilla (Cinquefoil). Would it drive out 
the Potentilla, and hold possession ? Ilad 
it any special value as a lawn grass 
where Blue grass, Red-top, etc., would 
not thrive ? We have alluded to this be¬ 
fore, but notes of progress seem desir¬ 
able, so that we may hope to keep our 
readers interested in the experiment. 
The Brome grass on this poor-soil plot 
began to grow earlier than the mixed 
grasses of the better lawn, and needed 
cutting a week before, and we are, thus 
far, encouraged to believe that it may 
prove a satisfactory substitute for lawns 
where, for one reason or another, the 
finer grasses will not thrive. As a grass 
for hay, it may be said that the animals 
to which we have fed it seemed to relish 
it as well as any other grass, and we 
should say that, on even less fertile land, 
it would yield more than Timothy. 
We have long known that The R. 
N.-Y. No. 2 potato produces tubers large 
enough early in the season to be sold for 
early potatoes, and we further know that 
many of them have been sold for early 
potatoes. A correspondent of the Ohio 
Farmer, Mr. W. E. Imes, who seems to 
have made a careful study of the growth 
of different varieties, says that the great 
value of the Carman No. 1 lies in the fact 
that it will produce a crop of ripe tubers 
planted two weeks later than any other 
variety that will equal it in yield. lie 
also regards it as valuable for a second 
early. We quote : 
To those who plant late in the season, I would 
say that I have been conducting experiments for 
several years to ascertain which, of all obtain¬ 
able sorts, would produce best results when 
planted late, and for the last three years the 
Carman No. 1 has been clearly in advance of all 
for extremely late planting. 
BLACK DEATH 
The best and cheapest Insecticide on the market. Instant death to potato 
bugs, and will not injure the vines. A tine dry powder ready for immediate 
use. Recommended oy Edward F. Dibble, the largest grower of Seed Potatoes I 
in the United States. To introduce, special price, 100-pouud keg, $1. AGENTS WANTED. Address for 
lull particulars O-AT-KA CHEMICAL CO., Le Roy, N. Y. 
SLUG SHOT KILLS BUGS. 
In 
Preserves vegetation from destruction by insects, preserves foliage, and is always safe, 
use since 1880. Is sold in nearly all towns and villages by dealers in seeds. 
“CATTLE COMFORT” keeps cows and horses free from flies, gnats, etc. 
fob »«™ K « (Sg . s and B HAMMOND, Fishkill on Hudson, N. Y. 
The exceptionally wet weather con¬ 
tinues, alternating with cold, heat, fog 
and stickiness, all favorable to potato 
rot. Many seed potatoes are rotting, we 
are told ' by the farmers near the Rui-al 
Grounds. Yet the Big Potato Flower¬ 
pot is all right so far. After all the 
pains we have taken with it, we would 
be sorry if anything happened to that... 
It has rained 23 out of the 28 days of 
May up to the time that this note goes 
to press. 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
A Beautiful Crop.—Decoration Day haw the 
Crimson clover at its best. On two fields along 
the public road, it .averaged close to two feet 
high, and was as thick as a mat. The green of 
the leaves and the dark crimson of the blossoms 
make a striking appearance. This crop has been 
very satisfactory. It was sown at the last cul¬ 
tivation of the sweet corn, and has not, there¬ 
fore, interfered with any other crop. The only 
expense that can fairly be charged against it is 
the cost of the seed which, as we used it, runs 
less than Si per acre. On most of our ground, 
the clover is too heavy to plow under, as it stands. 
We mowed most of it on Decoration Day. We 
fed it green to the stock for some time before 
this. There is not much use expecting to make 
hay from it. With us, the weather at this season 
is usually wet, and it is almost impossible to 
cure this rank growth. We can plow it under, 
however, after mowing. It will make a stock 
farmer’s heart ache to see this beautiful clover 
go into the soil, but as we are situated, it is the 
best thing to do with it. We shall order five 
bushels of seed this year! One thing about the 
Crimson is that it is sure to go to bloom in our 
latitude about June 1. We have it all the way 
from 1 inch to 30 inches high, and it all comes in 
bloom together. It is not a hot-weather plant! It 
is not a plant specially suited to poor soils. 
Cow Peas.—We have five bushels of Early 
Black cow peas, and part of them are already in 
the ground on a field that we want for potatoes 
next year. We shall sow cow peas all through the 
bush fruits after picking, and also expect to 
broadcast them in the early sweet corn at the 
last cultivation. There are several very poor 
small fields on Hope Farm—too poor for any 
profitable crop. We shall Cutaway them up first, 
using potash and basic slag, and sow cow peas, 
working them in with Acme and roller. Next 
year, when the vines are plowed into the soil, we 
shall have a fair chance for a crojt of potatoes. 
We are also sowing some Soy beans, though from 
all we can learn, the cow pea is more satisfactory 
on poor soil. We shall try an experiment on one 
field, of letting the clover go to seed before sow¬ 
ing the cow peas. Our plan is to let the clover 
seed fully form. Then we shall broadcast the 
cow peas among the clover, and work the whole 
thing in with the Cutaway, and follow with the 
Acme or roller, as seems most desirable. We try 
not to expect anything from such experiments, 
but we hope to obtain a combination of cow peas 
and clover in this way. 
Use of the Weeder. -Our potatoes were just 
coming up through the ground when the boys 
started out with the brand new weeder. It 
scratched up the ground so on the way to the 
potato field that the boys got just a little afraid 
of it. We had used the planter in that field, and 
the potatoes were on ridges. It did seein as 
though those springing teeth would break and 
tear the tender sprouts. “ Go ahead and risk it”, 
said I, “ hundreds of farmers are using these 
weeders, and if they can, we can ”. So they said 
“ Get up! ” to old Frank, and off they went. They 
bore down pretty hard on the handles, and I tell 
you right now that, an 'hour later, it did look as 
though half the plants on that field were dead. 
The weeder teeth seemed to have broken them 
off or pulled them out. In 24 hours, though, we 
began to feel better. The fact is, I doubt whether 
we lost five plants to an acre. They grew faster 
than ever. The weeder stirred and scratched the 
ground, and did just what was needed. We are 
running it over the young corn. By taking out 
a few teeth, we expect to straddle the rows, and 
use it until the corn is knee high. It is certainly 
a good implement for young plants, but it takes 
courage to use it for the first time. We used this 
weeder for raking up the rye and Crimson clover. 
It will save us the expense of a hayrake this 
Summer. 
Good Potato Prospects.—We have three acres 
of early potatoes that we will match with any in 
the county. They were planted April 16, on light, 
warm soil, and started as well as we knew how¬ 
to start them. In one field, the seed was five 
weeks in getting plants above the ground, but 
now they are fairly jumping. We fertilized them 
at the rate of 800 pounds per acre in the drill, 
and now we are putting on 300 pounds more per 
acre close along the rows. On June 1, many 
plants were a foot high, We planted largely of 
second-sized seed, with larger seed of the same 
varieties for comparison. Thus far, the heavier 
and stockier plants are certainly from the larger 
seed. The later varieties, Orphan and Rural 
War Times 
Mean war taxes and war prices. Medicines and 
other necessities are to be heavily taxed, besides 
increasing in cost of production. Therefore the 
retail prices must soon be raised, and it is econ¬ 
omy to lay in at least a year’s supply of Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla and Hood’s Pills at once. With 
these grand preparations your blood will be kept 
pure, your digestion regular and your health- 
tone perfect. 
Hood’s S ??rHIa 
America’s Greatest Medicine and 
Hood’s Pills, the family cathartic. 
SURE DEATH TO BUGS. 
(SAFE TO USE—NO ARSENIC.) 
Pat. March 18and Nov.9,1897. 
Pat in Canada Nov. 2, 1897. 
Kills Potato, Squash and 
Cucumber Bugs, Currant, 
Tomato Worms, etc. 
PREVENTS HEIGHT 
or Potato Bust. Use freely 
on Vegetables and House 
Plants. More freely used, 
better plant will thrive. 
Applied dry; no water to 
carry; will not blow or 
wash off. 
Apply to local dealer for 
free sample package. 
1-lb. package, 15c.; 3-lb. 
package. 36c.; 5-lb. package, 
50c.; 12^-lb. package, H. 
Perfection Shakers, 50c.; 
Rubber Atomizers, 75c. 
For sale by all local dealers 
DANFORTH CHEMICAL CO. 
35 Spruce Street, 
>Leominster, Mass. 
FRANK B, BARKLEY MFG, CO,,5™ 
Bldg., Chicago. III., will sell you a Spray Pump, Gas 
Engine, or Cider Press, direct from factory. 
CELERY PLANTS. 
First-class stock, all leading varieties. First sow¬ 
ing ready June 5. $1.50 per 1, 000 . Special price on lots 
Of over 5,000. T. W. HOWELL, Port Byron, N. Y. 
CELERY PLANTS FOR SALE. 
Leading varieties, carefully packed in baskets, and 
delivered here at Express Offices; 250 plants for UUe.; 
500 for 90c.; 1,000 for $1.60. Special price on quantities 
over 0,000. Cash with order. 
WOODLAND FABM, Canastota, Madison Co., N.Y. 
Choice Seed Potatoes 
by the bushel, barrel or car-load, Including the best 
new and standard varieties; prices right. Write for 
catalogue. THE C. C. BBAWLKY SEED AND 
IMPLEMENT CO., New Madison. Ohio. 
Potted Strawberry Plants. 
100 Buby for $1. 
T. C. KEVITT, Athenia, N. J. 
W/rv DA Y CASHeach WUK the year round, if 
T T v5 I r\ I you sell Stark Trees. Outfit free. 
STARK NURSIRY, LOUISIANA, MO., Stark. Mo., Rockport, III., Oamvillt. N. Y 
REMEMBER 
DANTSVITiXiE, NEW YORK. 
LEGGETT’S 
The Original 
Dry Sprayer. 
Dusts tree, bush or 
vine. Two rows of po¬ 
tatoes as fast as you 
walk, wide or narrow 
planting. No plaster 
or water used. 
AGENTS WANTED. 
Catalogue free. 
LEGGETT&BRO. 
301 Pearl Street, 
New York. 
