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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 2 , 
THE PRIZE CLIPPINGS 
Prizes are awarded this week as follows: 
The Average Farmer. 
We often hear of the average farmer. By 
the average farmer we mean not the best 
farmer nor the poorest. When we say that 
a man is an average farmer we mean that 
he does things as most farmers do them. 
Permit us to say that we do not think that 
the average farmer is a very good example 
to pattern after. The average farmer in the 
United States produces 25 bushels of corn 
per acre. In many communities where this 
is the average production, there are other 
farmers that produce two and three times 
this amount on soil of no greater fertility. 
The average man in this world is not a 
very high type of man. The eternal strug¬ 
gle of all of us should he to get away from 
tlie average way of doing things. This does 
not mean that we are to do uncommon 
things necessarily, hut that we are to do 
common things in an uncommon way. The 
man with uncommon common sense is the 
man who is surest to succeed. The best 
prizes of this world go to the men who can 
do the common things of life better than 
other people can do them. It is always the 
extra labor and skill that make profit for 
the farmer. The farmer who produces 50 
bushels of corn to the acre makes a good 
deal more than twice the profit he would 
make from 25 bushels per acre. It was 
never more difficult for a man to get along 
who does things in the average way, while 
on the other hand the profits were never 
so great to the man who does things uncom¬ 
monly well. And more and more will this 
be true. We are very much mistaken if the 
time does not come before long when the 
farmer who can secure only 25 bushels per 
acre of corn in an average year cannot make 
a decent living for himself and family.— 
St. Paul, Minn., Farmer. 
Beautifying the Cities. 
The movement to beautify the cities of this 
country is becoming widespread. It is one 
of the most hopeful signs of the times. It 
should extend to every municipality of the 
land, should Invade every village and should 
be carried into the country itself. No su¬ 
premely great civilization has reached full 
flower till it has been manifested in artistic 
surroundings. Greece here evolved her chief 
glory. The landscape gardening of England is 
a more certain sign of her high civilization 
than her immense navy or her “far flung bat¬ 
tle line.” So in America it should be the 
dream of every patriotic citizen io make 
each city a thing of art, and the whole land 
a noble poem written on the language of 
grass, of flowers and of trees. No country 
was ever blessed with a better natural ground 
work. Mountain and prairie, hill and river 
all lend themselves to the pleasing task. 
The marvelous love of country shown by the 
Japanese comes from the fact that they have 
made their land beautiful enough to love. 
Why cannot Americans create for themselves 
a like incentive to patriotism of the highest 
and best sort? Here is a reform worth 
while, one that has no party lines, one that 
contributes to religion, education, art and its 
effects even to literature, one that incul¬ 
cates nation-love, one that adds to the social 
sense, one that makes for the enjoyment and 
refinement of fhe people.—Rutland, Vt., Even¬ 
ing News. 
Wires Grounded by Cat. 
When the Bell Telephone Company’s toll 
operator in Batavia had occasion to call the 
central office in Albion yesterday she was 
able to get the north town only a portion of 
the time, owing to the grounding of the 
connections. For a few minutes the wires 
would work all right and then would sud¬ 
denly become grounded. After trying for 
some time to locate the trouble, Fred Click, 
one of the trouble men, was sent out from 
here to inspect the line. Click tested the 
wires at intervals, but did not find the 
source of the trouble until he reached a pole 
a short distance south of Albion, where he 
discovered a cat lying on the cross arm of 
the pole. Her body crossed two of the 
wires, forming a ground, but whenever she 
rose the wires would work all right. Glick. 
climbed the pole and took the cat to tht 
ground. No trouble was experienced after 
that. From people in the vicinity Glick 
learned that a dog chased the cat up the 
pole on Thursday night, and that it re¬ 
mained there, being afraid to climb down. 
This is the first instance of trouble from 
a cause like that of which the linemen con¬ 
nected with the Batavia exchange ever 
heard.--Batavia, N. Y., News. 
Lime and Sulphur for Rabbits. 
J. E. 8., Columbia. N. J .—Have you ever 
heard of spraying with lime salt and sulphur, 
late in the Fall for the San Jos6 scale and 
to keep rabbits from barking young trees at 
same time, and do you think it would be 
practical ? 
Ans. —We have not heard of this use. 
If we could make the wash stay on the 
trees, Bunny would never come back for 
a second bite. The trouble is that the 
wash will not stick through the Winter. 
For apple trees white lead and oil is 
better. 
LIME AND SULPHUR SPRAY. 
I used some lime, sulphur and salt for 
the first time this year, so I have had 
only little experience with it. It seems 
to prevent leaf-curl about the same as the 
strong Bordeaux I used in same orchard 
at the same time; further than this I have 
not as yet noticed any difference. I am 
trying the Hitchings plan on a few thou¬ 
sand each of apple, plum and pears, and 
will include cherry and peach this Sum¬ 
mer. A. I. LOOP. 
Pennsylvania. 
It has been the general experience here 
with peach trees that those to which the 
lime and sulphur wash has been applied 
during the Winter or Spring have been 
but little troubled with leaf-curl. This 
seems to be fully as good, if not a better 
remedy, than the Bordeaux Mixture. A 
little damage has been done to the peach 
twigs by the use of this material, but the 
damage has not been great. If it were 
not for the difficulty of making the mix¬ 
ture on a small scale, and the trouble in 
applying it, we would consider it as a per¬ 
fect wash for the purpose of killing the 
San Jose scale and preventing leaf-curl. 
As it is, we have nothing better, and if 
we could induce the people to use it gen¬ 
erally we would have but little to fear 
from the scale. w. j. green. 
Ohio Exp. Station. 
Only a few hundred trees of our own 
orchards were sprayed with lime-sulphur 
spray this season. Our plant was busy 
all the time making spray liquid for our 
neighbors’ trees. Our trees sprayed this 
Spring show good foliage, not much if any 
leaf-curl, which has been our experience 
preceding seasons. In portions of the 
orchard not sprayed, particularly where 
great damage is apparent from the past 
two Winters’ severe cold, leaf-curl is very 
bad, worse than we have experienced 
before. The wash appears to give good 
healthy foliage, clean glossy bark on the 
limbs and body of the tree, also it appears 
to have killed the eggs of the tent-cater¬ 
pillar on the trees where applied. Our 
success in accomplishing the purpose we 
set out to do has greatly encouraged the 
use of this wash in this section, and we 
believe, with reasonable prudence not only 
can we keep the scale fully under control, 
but at the same time receive much benefit 
from the use of this wash in other ways. 
We are now testing its value in use on 
apple trees to keep out borers; dirt taken 
away to the roots of trees, a heavy coat 
applied around the lower part of the tree 
body with a brush, and the dirt put back 
again. j. norris barnes. 
Connecticut._ 
Ants and Aphids. 
N. P. Y., Crossville, Til .—I planted an or¬ 
chard last year. There are thousands of 
small black ants on the trees; they suck the 
under side of the leaves and they curl under. 
There is also a small light green fly on the 
same leaves. What can I do with these 
pests? The ants run up and down the trunk 
of the tree. Could I place a hand of cotton 
on trunk and keep it saturated with some¬ 
thing obnoxious to them that would not harm 
the tree? The trees are wen cultivated and 
growing nicely. I pinched the ends of the 
twigs off to keep the trees small and to in¬ 
duce early fruit. I want apples quickly on a 
small tree. 
Ans. —It is not the ants that are injur¬ 
ing the trees, but the aphis or green fly. 
Spray thoroughly with a soapy emulsion, 
one pound laundry soap to eight gallons 
of water, applied warm ; when cold it is 
too thick to spray. Kerosene emulsion, di¬ 
luted with 10 parts of water, or fish-oil 
soap, one pound in six gallons of water, 
are also good, but the laundry soap is 
always at hand. The ants, however, are 
a nuisance, because they “herd” the aphids 
for the sake of their “honey-dew,” a 
syrupy excretion, of which ants are fond. 
Some species of plant-lice are practically 
dependent upon ants for their existence; 
the ants store their eggs, place them in 
a favorable place for hatching, carry the 
young aphids to the plants upon which 
they are to feed, and “milk” them after¬ 
wards, with an intelligence that suggests 
a stock raiser or dairyman. For this rea¬ 
son florists always discourage ants in a 
greenhouse, and they are equally unwel¬ 
come in an orchard; there is also a sus¬ 
picion that they disseminate scale. Note 
where their hills are located, and then 
destroy them with bisulphide of carbon, 
as advised by Prof. Slingerland on page 
508. 
Delivering Mail in Homemade Box. 
Reader (No Address .).—Would a rural 
route mail carrier be obliged to put mail in 
a homemade box if requested to? He refuses 
to do this and says the law will not let him. 
Ans. —As we understand the law, the 
carrier may refuse to put letters into a 
box which has been condemned by an 
inspector. The Post Office Department 
specifies a number of boxes which are 
acceptable, and homemade boxes are usu¬ 
ally rcjecteu. 
Field Peas for Stock. 
J. IF. G. Grant, Mich .—Can some one tell 
me if iieid peas’ have much feeding value for 
stock, and when is the proper time of growth 
to cut for hay? 
Ans. —Canada field peas make good 
feed for stock either green or cured as dry 
fodder. The following table shows how 
such pea vines compare with other fod¬ 
ders : 
POUNDS TO THE TON. 
Muscle Fat Pure 
makers formers fat 
Clover hay.155 800 29 
Timothy hay. 75 825 20 
Corn fodder..... 48 680 9 
Pea vines.180 660 82 
Oat hay.100 870 26 
The best way to handle field peas for 
fodder is to sow them with oats, as we 
have often described, and cut all together 
when the oats are soft or “in the milk.” 
At about this time little pods will be 
found on the pea vines. This combina¬ 
tion is cured about like clover hay and 
makes a very good substitute for it.. It 
is too late now to sow field peas in our 
latitude expecting a fair crop, as they do 
not thrive in hot weather. Cow peas will 
do better, though the seed is scarce and 
high. _ 
I used caustic soda as spray, 10 pounds to 
50 gallons water, to kill San Jose scale, but it 
was not a success with me. as a largo per 
cent of the insects are alive and ready for 
business. E. M. w. 
Indiana. 
Hot Water For Weeds.—I have seen a 
few ways given in the paper of destroying 
grass and weeds in brick walks or yards 
paved with bricks. I have found that I can 
get rid of them quite easily by pouring on 
them boiling water; if the water is hot one 
or two applications fixes them, and helps 
drive away the ants if there are any. 
F. R. J. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowkers Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
A Little Gold Mine for Women 
The U.S. Cook-Stove Fruit-Drier 
Dries all kinds of Fruits, Berries, Cher¬ 
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no extra Are. Always ready for use, 
will last a lifetime. It works while 
you cook. Write for circulars and 
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B. B.Fahbney. B.120,Waynesboro,Pa 
Oil A perfect steel frame siio with gunr- 
9ILVO anteed workmanship and material. 
10x20 silo $78.37. Special terms to Farmer's Clubs 
& Granges. The International Silo Co., Jefferson, O. 
spavii 
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dsminute 
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y /LtMINC’S Is the | 
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SPECIAL OFFER ! 
For sixty (60) days only this 
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KITCHEN CABINET. 
for only 812. Write to-day for 
catalog and full description to 
CORTLAND KITCHEN CABINET 
COMPANY Cortland, N, Y. 
Potted Strawberry Plants Wyandottes. 
List free. C. *A. HALL, Oak'Hi 11, N. Y. 
POTTED STRAWBERRY PLANTS, K2 
T C. KKV1TT. Athcuia, N. J. 
rnn C A | C —Crimson Clover Seed, $4 per bushel. 
lUn OnLL Cow Peas, $1.75 and $2 per bubhel; Seed 
Sweet Potatoes, $1 per bushel. 
J. K. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
shows in NATURAL COLORS and 
accurately describes 216 varieties of 
-- 'fruit. Send for our liberal termsof distri- 
'butiou to planters.—Stark Bro’s, Louisiana, Mo. 
100 
KINDS APPLES 
_ _ All varieties for summer, fall 
and winter. Ben Davis, always a fa¬ 
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and well rooted, noaithy, shapely. Ours Is tho 
best climate in the world for fruit tree dcrelop- 
Write for free 1904 catalogue. 
harrlHon’s Nurseries, Bx 29, Berlin, JId. 
PECAN TREES AND NUTS seedlingtrres,(1.2&3 
years old.' TheG.M.Bacon Pecan Co. Inc.) Dewitt.Ga 
CABBAGE AND CELERY PLANTS. stocky! 
transplanted plants from best seed. Danish, Flat 
Dutch. Warren Stone Mason and 8ure Head, $1.25 per 
1.000. For prices on Celery plant s write Frank Shearer 
& Son, Market Gardeners, Binghamton. N. Y. 
CHOICE CELERY : CABBAGE 
PLANTS, only 81 per 1,000. All gcod sorts rt ady 
in July. SLAYMaKER & SON, Dover, Del. 
CELERY AND CABBAGE PLANTS 
For Sale.—Leading varieties, carefully packed with 
moss in baskets. F. O. B. here. W ito for prices. 
Cash with order. Plants ready about June 15th. 
WOODLAND FARM, Canastota, Madison Co., N. i 
CELERY 
PLANTS. The plants have an 
average of 7 squareinches of space 
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/-a a DDA/'C PLANTS, $1 perl.OUO; 70c. per 
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Danish Ballhead, Surehead. a llfecasons. Stone Mason, 
APPLE BARRELS.- Made of seasoned stock 
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PRESSES. 
Investigate the ‘Monarch' 1 
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Catalogue free. 
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THE NIAGARA 
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It always standsand never 
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We manufacture a full line of 
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Appleton, N. Y. 
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No Bruising of Fr it. 
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Order one by Mail at once, to insure delivery in time for crop. 
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LARGE LUSCIOUS STRAWBERRIES IN 1905. 
From our STRONG POT GROWN PLANTS offered in our Sutamer Catalogue. A full crop of fruit 
ten months after plants are set out. Plant now, we have the best varieties for market t nd home 
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on request. HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut 
The great soil improver. Valuable 
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Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
