1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
227 
Jadoo Fiber. 
S. Hamburger, Philadelphia, Pa.— 
In The R. N.-Y. of February 20, Mr. C. 
Henderson gives his experience with 
Jadoo. If Mr. Henderson did not get 
the desired results, it may have been 
because of not handling it properly. 
Two years ago, when it was first 
made, even the originator was only 
handling it experimentally. To-day, ex¬ 
perience has taught us how to use it, 
and we now know, that where instruc¬ 
tions are followed, the desired results 
are always obtained. It has been in 
use here since May last, and the Ameri¬ 
can results indorse all claimed for it. 
Value of Cement Pipe. 
H. S., North Carolina. —Cement pipe 
may be made strong enough for moder' 
ately-sized town water-works, and will 
bear much more than the pressure men¬ 
tioned on page 53. Syracuse was sup¬ 
plied with water in cement pipes. But 
how does G. Z. G. want to get the water? 
Is it to be forced up ? Then the greatest 
pressure, only 16 pounds to the inch, 
will be quite easily withstood by a 
cement pipe. A cement pipe rightly made 
will be much stronger than this, and 
will be air-tight; thus it will very well 
answer the purpose of G. Z. G. Good 
Portland cement without any sand will, 
in the form of a pipe less than four 
inches in diameter, withstand a pres¬ 
sure of 100 pounds to the inch for one 
inch thick. Of course, a mixture of sand 
decreases its strength ; it is the cheapest, 
and in all the best of small pines. 
Grass and a “ Nurse Crop.” 
C. A. G., Lyons, N. Y.—I am satisfied 
that little grass plants do not need a 
nurse crop. I sowed four acres of Al¬ 
falfa July 16, and another four acres 
August 1, without a nurse crop, and both 
plots came up in four days, and kept 
clean from weeds. In November, part 
of it was in bloom. But I think there 
is a misunderstanding in regard to the 
meaning of a nurse crop. We, in New 
York State, usually seed with wheat, 
and one reason is that it saves plowing 
and fitting the land for a seed-bed, as we 
can sow both wheat and grass in one 
seed-bed, and the grass or clover usu¬ 
ally doesn’t make much of a growth 
among the wheat. But the roots have 
one year more to make a growth, and 
the result usually is a large crop. 1 have 
cut as much as 5% tons of clover and 
Timothy cured hay per acre after a 
wheat crop, first cutting, four tons, 
second cutting, 1% ton ; but this is above 
the average yield. For Timothy and 
clover mixed hay, I like seeding after 
wheat; but for clover alone, I would 
give it all the ground, and would sow 
in July or August after a good rain. I 
would thoroughly harrow in and roll 
after sowing the seed. This is the way 
I treated the Alfalfa referred to. 
Some Novel Novelties. 
W. T. S., Pennsylvania. —It might be 
a kindness to your readers to warn them 
to go slow in spending money on new 
vegetables and plants, unless they have 
some reliable recommendations. I have 
experimented in this line for a long 
series of years, and though not yet quite 
bankrupt, have a nice balance on the 
wrong side of the sheet. Last season, I 
was tempted to try Lincoln oats, recom¬ 
mended by the advertiser to make over 
100 bushels per acre. As I had known 
this man (with Hon. to his name), for 
years, how could I doubt his word ? But 
the oats were a lamentable failure; 
smutty, harsh, wiry-strawed, persist¬ 
ently sappy, and grown beside a very 
plebeian variety 20 per cent behind in 
yield, of a dingy brown grain. And 
among potatoes, the Sir William was so 
generally recommended and from such 
sources, that I thought that t must 
be [a prize. But beside two old varie¬ 
ties, the Rural New-Yorker No. 2 
and Munro Seedling, the result was 
very disappointing. The latter variety 
we have grown steadily for 15 years 
without changing the seed, and the 
last crop was up to the highest 
standard in size, quality and smooth¬ 
ness ; while the former exceeded its 
previous record. This warns us not to 
throw off old friends for untried new 
ones. A little farther back, all our 
farmer community were agog over 
Jones’s Winter Fife wheat, paying fancy 
prices for seed, and to-day there is, 
probably, not a field of it growing in all 
our region. Fultz, Poole and Mediter¬ 
ranean were the old loves on which we 
were glad to fall back. And so on to 
the end of the chapter. 
R. N.-Y.—Our advice has always been 
to try the novelties in a reasonable way. 
Naturally, an oat or a potato may be a 
great success in one locality and no im¬ 
provement over local varieties in an¬ 
other. Test them in a reasonable way. 
Spring Medicine 
la a necessity, because the blood must now be 
purified and the system fortified against the 
debilitating effects of warmer weather, and the 
dangers which threaten the health because of 
impurities in the blood. Now is the time to take 
a thorough course of Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
which is unequalled as a Spring Medicine. 
Be sure to get Hood’s and only Hood’s because 
HoOd’S S pariHa 
Is the One True Blood Purifier. $1, six for $5. 
Wrzrw-Pc Dalle are the only P ills to take 
1 1UUU S v III* with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 
IT 
KILLS 
all kimln of insects. Goodoll’s Gray Minoral 
Ash, a wonderful new product, is sure death to 
all jdant destroying pests. It goes three times 
as far as Paris Green or London Purple, and 
acts in half the time. Can’t harm man or 
beast. To introduce it, will send free 5 lb. can 
to at least two farmers in each county. 
GRAY MINERALASH 
5 iba. make 1 barrel of spray for field, or 2 bbls. for garden 
plants. For sale by druggists, seedsmen and fertilizer 
agents. National Mining and Milling Co., Baltimore, Md. 
ARMSTRONG at McKELVY 
Pittsburgh. 
BEYMER-BAUMAN 
Pittsburgh. 
DAVIS-CHAMBERS 
Pittsburgh. 
FAHNESTOCK 
Pittsburgh. 
ANCHOR ) 
> Cincinnati. 
ECKSTEIN ) 
ATLANTIC 
BRADLEY 
BROOKLYN 
JEWETT 
ULSTER 
UNION 
SOUTHERN 
SHIPMAN 
COLLIER 
MISSOURI 
RED SEAL 
SOUTHERN 
Now York. 
. Chicago. 
St. Louis. 
JOHN T. LEWIS * BROS CO 
Philadelphia. 
MORLEY 
Cleveland. 
SALEM 
Salem, Moss. 
CORNELL 
Buffalo. 
KENTUCKY 
Louisville. 
pLEASE bear in mind the fact 
that the “ best,” or the 
“ standard,” in all lines com¬ 
mands a fair price. See list of 
the brands of Pure White Lead 
which are the standard. They 
are the best. Avoid those brands 
said to be “ just as good,” offered 
for “ less money,” and of “ so 
called White Lead.” 
rnPn By using National Lead Co.’s Pure White Lead Tinting Col- 
r< |v r< r< ors, any desired shade is readily obtained. Pamphlet giving 
* valuable information and card showing samples of colors free ; 
also cards showing pictures of twelve houses of different designs painted in 
various styles or combinations of shades forwarded upon application to those 
intending to paint. 
National Lead Co ., / Broadway , New York. 
FARMERS 
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REDUCE the Price of Your Insurance 
I by roofing your building with our COERUGATED 
IRON AND STEEL ROOFING. 
/ No more fires from defective flues, where the chimney 
passes through the roof, or from sparks falling uponi the j 
roof. Cheaper than shingles because the first cost is no 
- greater, while the lasting qualities are double. ACOOD; 
OORRUCATED STEEL ROOF at 2M Cts. per square 
foot A building roofed with iron or steel is entitled to the < 
same rate per thousand of insurance as one which is 
roofed with slnte—the difference in first cost is in 
favor of iron and steel. 
For circulars, prices and estimates, address 
The Berlin Iron Bridce Co., 
EAST BERLIN. CONNECTICUT. 
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Catalogue and full treatise on spraying fruit i 
and vegetable crops mailed free. Address 
WM. STAHL, QUINCY, ILL. 
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PERFECT AGITATORS. No scorching 
leather or rubber valves. Twelve 
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foliage. No- -- - 
styles of Spray Pumps. Catalogue Free. 
FIELD FORCE PUMP CO., 1» Market Bt., Lotkport, S.T 
FUNGIROID 
A DRY BOR¬ 
DEAUX MIXTURE 
Add Water and it's Ready to Spray. 
ASK FOB LEGGETT'S WHALE-OIL SOAP. 
LKUGJETT & It BOTHER, 
Circulak Free. 301 Pearl Street, New York. 
STAND UP 
TO YOUR WORK. 
Not necessary to Lean Over 
to operate the 
EAGLE 
.BRASS 
CYl INOFP 
BODv 
fgIL SPRAYER 
T ) NO BACKACHE. 
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ONK MAN can operate the 
n pump and handle the hose 
So attached, that the highest 
fruit trees can be reached. 
1) m Save your orchards and 
jLA. small fruit by ordering one of 
AWf our SPKAYKBS. No Fancy 
All kinds of Pumps 
Prices 
Pump, complete, $3 50, Cash 
with order. Outfit guaranteed 
first-class. 
Send for Catalogue. 
PITTSBURGH PUMP CO., 
322 H Liberty St., Pittsburgh, Pa- 
KILLS ALL BUGS 
You can dust one acre of potatoes in 40 
minutes by doing two rows at once. 
No plaster or water used. With this 
machine you can dust tobacco, 
cotton, fruit trees, currant 
„ bushes, etc. BOOK FREE. 
' i Write to 
HOTCHKISS BROS., 
Wallingford, - Conn. 
REMEMBER.... 
That we guarantee 
THE ECLIPSE 
SPRAY PUMP 
To be the best on the 
market, and we prove it or 
refund money. 
Send for catalogue. 
MORRILL & MORLEY 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
CABLED FIELD AND HOG FENCE, 
'•'Cabled Poultry, Garden and Rabbit Fence, Steel 
Web Picket Lawn Fence, Steel Gates, Steel Posts, 
Steel Wire Fence Board. The best complete line of 
smooth wire fencing. Catalogue free. 
OE KALB FENCE CO.,315 HICH ST., DE KALB, ILL 
wWen.®0'ence 
- Beat on Earth. Home-high, Bull- 
strong. Pig ami Chicken-tight. W 1th 
Our DUPLEX AFTOMATIC Machine 
you can make 60 rods a day for 
12 to 20 cts. a Rod. 
Over 50 styles. Catalogue I> roe. 
KITSELMAN BROS., 
Box lor,. Ridgeville, Ind. 
f—bucket barrel—have every improvement. 
' Best for orchard, garden, house. Continu¬ 
ous stream, 60 feet. 175,000 sold. Fully gu Ir¬ 
an teed. Pricez, Ex. paid, No. 1, tin, 1,1.50 ; No. 2, 
iron. $2; No. 16, two bo«e, nozzles and ezten. pines, 
1 91S.OO. Catalog free. Agent* wanted. 
’ W. M. JOHSSTOX & CO., Box 24, Canton, Ohio. 
AGITATORS 
m AGITATE 
keep the liquid always, 
stirred to a point of utility. 
TheDEMING AUTOMATIC' 
combines more good qualities than. 
any ugllalor on the market. Used i 
only on the DOING SPKAYING 
OUTFITS. Spray with Bordeaux< 
Nozzle, “The World's Best." Hand- ' 
some 40-Page Book on Spraying^ 
sent free on application. 
THE DEMING CO.< 
SALEM, OHIO. 
IIENION & HUBBELL, 
General Western Agents, 
61-69 Jefferson St., Chicago. 
•THE BEST WAY 
to produce profit returning fruit and ber¬ 
ries is to spray your trees and plants with 
RUMSEY’S NEW DOUBLE CYLINDER 
SPRAY PUMPS. 
Big air chamber keeps spray going 
for lO minutes after pumps 
are stopped. New agitators that 
agitate. Metal Valves. 1‘1 ungers 
easy to remove and easy to pack. 
All about them and the question of 
spraying in our free book. Write 
RUMSEY & COMPANY, Ltd., Seneca Falls,N.Y. 
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' KEYSTONE woven wire 
• IS A GOOD AND PERFECT FENCE.'* • 
• That is the verdict of those who use It and are 
• hence the most competent to judge of its qual- • 
• ities. 26 to 6S inches high—turns everything. ,• 
• All about it in our fro. book on fence con- • 
• struction. • 
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Unruly Stock at a Premium 
We want animals to show off our fence, persistent 
fighters for '‘liberty,” whose war cry shall be “up and 
at 'em” again. We bought a Jersey bull, "highly 
recommended” for the position, but two rounds satis¬ 
fied him, and neither dogs or red rags could induce 
him to give the Page Fence another trial. 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. 
HARTMAN’S 
STEEL 
STEEL PICKET FENCE. 
i 
HANDSOME 
ENDURING 
STRONGER THAN IRON. 
CHEAPER THAN WOOD. 
HANDSOMER THAN EITHER. 
Made from the best steel wire and woven into a hand¬ 
some fence,which when constructed with our ornamen¬ 
tal steel posts adds greatly to the beauty of the lawn, 
flower garden or the cemetery lot. Tlio ideal fence for 
enclosing l’ublic Grounds, Church Yards, Court Yards, 
School Grounds, etc. Catalouguc and Circulars Fukk. 
HARTMAN MFG. CO., ELLWOOD CITY, PA.,on 
Manhattan Bldg., Chicago. 227 Broadway, N.Y. 
BOWEN 
CABLE ST AY FENCE CO 
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<r I n For a machine to build 
4) I U the cheapest strongest 
and best fence made of wire. 
No royalties, no farm rights, 
machine easily and quickly 
operated by any farmer. 
Send for large circulars 
NORWALK.O. 
BUCHANAN FENCE. 
INDIVIDUAL TENSION THROUGH ENTIRE FENCE 
100 RODS $35.00. 
SEND STAMP FOR CATALOOUI . 
BUCHANAN FENCE CO.. 
258 main st., smithvil'-e, o. 
