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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 29 
BOOK TRADE NOTES. 
WK WANT YOUR BOOK TRADE. 
A9 an indication of the way The R. N.-Y ’shook 
business is developing, we print the followiog 
letter from a reader in New Hampshire: “We 
have about $300 to invest in a library for a small 
country village. It will be patronized mostly by 
farmers, and so, it seems to me, should be strong- 
in its aericuitural section. I notice you are mak¬ 
ing things hum in the book trade, and if you 
would like to send a list of the best agricultural 
books and your best terms on them, I will see 
that it is considered. I should think that we 
might use $50 to $75 for that department.” 
We have no doubt that there are thousands of 
localities in this country where school libraries 
are being formed, and, of course, an assortment 
of agricultural books will be in order It is some¬ 
times pretty hard for the directors of such libra¬ 
ries to select the books best suited to their needs. 
We wish to say that this is a part of our reeular 
business. We make it a point to study all the 
agricultural books that are placed on the market. 
We know something about the authors, and are 
in a position to recommend the volumes that are 
best suited either for private reading or for 
library service. We hope our friends will con¬ 
sult us before forming these libraries. We shall 
take pleasure in offering advice in the matter of 
selection, and we are prepared to quote as reason¬ 
able prices as any one else, when the order is 
made up. Do not forget us now! We want a 
share of that book trade! 
You will notice, on the editorial page, a new 
combination offer. The Fertility of the Land is 
a new book just published by Prof. I. P. Roberts. 
We have no hesitation in saying that it is, by all 
odds, the best work on soil culture that has 
ever been written. We say “best”, because we 
mean that it is the clearest and the sim¬ 
plest book of the kind. Prof. Roberts gets right 
down close to the people. He does not go 
hunting after great long words, but he says 
what he has to say in simple, clear language, 
and beingoa practical farmer himself, he knows 
just what farmers want to know. You will 
And in this book just the poln s that have 
troubled you so many times in your farming 
operations, and when you put the book down, 
you will simply take a long breath and pick it up 
again, and keep at it, studying and rereading 
until you come to have a respect for the soil that 
you never had before. We shall have an extended 
review of this book in a few weeks, but now we 
ask you to take our word for it, and we want to 
show you that you make no mistake if you add 
this book to your agricultural library. The other 
books named in this combination are all good, 
and will give you all sides of the question, the 
theoretical, the practical and the scientific. We 
advise you to get these books just as soon as you 
can. Now is the time for active work on the 
farm. The soil is now alive. Tnese books are 
brain tools, and you need them to go with the 
wood and steel that make up the ordinary imple¬ 
ments on the farm. 
Another excellent book for students of horti¬ 
culture is the Principles of Plant Culture, by 
Prof. E. S Goff, Wisconsin. Lots of young men 
and old ones, too, have often wished for the 
chance to take a course of horticulture at some 
good horticultural college. They have been pre¬ 
vented by one reason or another from carrying 
out this plan, but there is no reason why they 
should give it up entirely. In this book, Prof. 
Goff has given a synopsis of his lectures on plant 
growth and development. It is really the next 
best thing to sitting m the lecture room and 
listening to Prof. Goff’s voice. His words live in 
this little volume, because he is one of those men 
with the faculty of making plain printer’s ink 
almost think. We are very glad, indeed, to com¬ 
mend this book to horticulturists. It gives one 
just exactly the information he has been hunting 
for so long. The price is $1.25, and we will guar¬ 
antee that many a man who buys this book and 
gives it a careful study, will say when he puts it 
down, that he would not be without it for $5. 
There is one thing we would like to have 
you all remember, viz., that “The Rural New- 
Yorker is in the book business”. We are pre¬ 
pared to quote prices on any book that has ever 
been printed or sold in this country. We have 
already received calls for the revised version of 
the Bible, and books on leather making, and one 
man has engaged us to supply the Decline and 
Fall of the Roman Empire. We shall certainly 
fall very low, before we decline to quote a price 
on any book. We take it for granted that every 
reader of The R. N.-Y., during the coming year, 
will want three or four books. When you come 
to think of it, that means quite a good sized 
transaction in literary matter, and we want our 
full share of that trade. We are ready to do 
our part, and it only remains for you to come 
forward and tell us what you want. 
And by the way, do not forget that 52 copies of 
The R. N.-Y. will make just about the most valu¬ 
able book that you can ever get together. If you 
can get your neighbor and frirnd to subscribe to 
The R. N.-Y., we are ready to make you a first- 
class present in the book line Just mention 
what you can do in the way of subscriptions, 
when you send your order for books, and you 
will find that we' are more than ready to meet 
you half way. Do not forget, by the way, to order 
that combination named on the editorial page. 
Through your advice to stick to it, I have suc¬ 
ceeded with Crimson clover this year. The first 
year was an entire failure of 20 acres; s*cond 
year, one-half acre matured seed; the third, or 
this year, four acres, perfect stand and about 
ready to come in head. This was sown in July 
on a piece of sweet corn, cut and fed green. 
Elderton, Pa. t. h. r. 
SEASONABLE SCRAPS. 
Sweet and Sour Apples.—I saw one of those 
apple trees that always bore apples sweet and 
sour in each. The sections of sweet were yellow, 
the sour green, and numbered from five to seven. 
The dividing line was so even that they could all 
be cut out separately. The owner said that the 
graft taken from the parent tree was formed by 
cutting two buds, one of sweet, the other sour, in 
two parts, and once in a wuile one of those half 
double buds would live and form the singular 
tree. Another excellent apple was one that all 
called sweet when they first tasted it, and 
afterwards thought it sour. I think the outer 
circle was sweet and the rest sour. q. a. t. 
Ludington, Mich. 
I sowed 12 acres of Crimson clover by itself, and 
10 acres with buckwheat, all on freshly-plowed 
land, using 150 pounds oi commercial fertilizer 
per acre on the 10 acres; sowed all about the last 
of July. I pastured tue 12 acres considerably 
until the first oi May. It is now 16 to 24 inches 
high, and so thick that 1 can see the ground only 
in a few places. I am turning the 10 acres under 
for corn or buckwheat. Tue ground is full of 
rootlets covered witn nodules. All who see the 
clover say that it is the prettiest thing they ever 
saw growing, but their objection is its naving to 
be sown yearly, whicn I consider no disadvant¬ 
age, as tae roots soon decay, in time to make a 
crop of corn, cow peas or buckwheat. I trunk a 
crop of it will improve tne laud as much as the 
Medium clover will in two years. My ciover 
would turn off twice as much hay if cut now as 
the Red clover would cut next month on similar 
land. I wish Mr. Latta, of Indiana, could see my 
clover. I want to sow it in tne corn at the last 
cultivation this year, but am doubtful about it 
doing so well, but hope it may succeed there. 
Moab, Va. A - c * M - 
In the face of the large losses returned from 
northern New Jersey fruit growers from the 
sharp freezes of late April, we can now see pretty 
clearly the extent of tne damage to the peach 
crop. Favorable indications show a proportion 
of healthy buds saved, about 40 per cent on such 
varieties as Champion, Alexander, Eiberta, St. 
John, and Reeves’s Favorite. The more sensitive 
are Early and Late Crawford, Crosby, Globe, and 
Mt. Hose. Injuries to the Crosby are the most 
severe, and strongly show a loss of 70 per cent; 
still an ample crop will be savPd, barring out a 
later frost. Japan plums show but little injury. 
Keiffer pear buds are in good condition for a 
favorable crop. Strawberries in old beds show 
more injury than plants in new beds. 
Passaic County, N. J. t. c. kkvitt. 
Strawberries, a fair crop; plums and apricots, 
one-fifth crop; peaches, one-balf crop, and they 
promise to be fine: cotton doing well. Dewber¬ 
ries are now ripe. Blackberries ripening fast, 
also cherries. I have a few mulberries planted 
near.my strawberry beds; they are a great attrac¬ 
tion to the birds. They ripen at the same time 
as the strawberries, and I am satisfied to have 
the birds eat mulberries, in place of picking 
holes in the largest of my strawberries. They 
still love berries, but do not destroy so many 
as they did before they could get mulberries. 
Aiken, S. C. w. t. 
Random Notes from Wisconsin. —We have had 
a cold, backward spring, although small grain 
looks well now. Only about one-half the corn 
and potatoes are planted. Strawberries have 
only just begun to show blossoms. Apple and 
plum trees are loaded with bloom, but few apples 
are grown here and only native plums. I laid and 
covered only a few of my black raspberries, but 
they wintered well, although the mercury showed 
30 degrees below zero two or three times. As to 
the hardiness of the Loudon, every bud was alive, 
also the Marlboro; but Turner, Cuthbert and 
Golden Queen were hurt a good deal. The Shaffers 
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Smashing Separator Bubbles. 
It is very amusing to see how disparagingly “would-be competitors ” speak and write of the value 
of Experiment Station tests of Cream Separators, when the tests show, as they do, that The Improved 
United States Separators do better and more thorough separation than any others. Before The Improved 
United States Separators came on the market, and the “ would-be competitors” had some records, but 
not so good nor so many as The Improved United States Separators have, they esteemed them very 
highly and advertised them with a great flourish of trumpets. Now that they are left behind, they strive 
to make dairymen think there is no value to Experiment Station records, but dairymen can see through 
such “hubbies” without sticking a pin in them. 
Examine the Records —some of which we give below : 
New York Experiment Station (Cornell). In 2 3 tests, 
between Jan. 7 and March 18, 9 showed 
only - 
T race 
14 showed 
only 
0.03 to 0.05 
flame Experiment Station, 
- 
Feb. 2, 
0.03 
C C ic 11 _ 
- 
Feb. 9, 
0.04 
New Hampshire Experiment Station, 
- 
Feb. 18, 
0.01 
r ( C C 11 
- 
Feb. 19, 
0.04 
Wisconsin Experiment Station, 
- 
Jan. 4, 
0.03 
C C a u 
- 
Jan. 5, 
0.02 
CC ( C t 
- 
Jan. 21, 
0.03 
Vermont Experiment Station, - 
- 
Jan. 13, 
0.01 
H cc cc _ 
- 
Jan. 28, 
0 02 
cc cc CC 
- 
Jan. 29, 
0.03 
CC Cl 11 _ 
- 
Jan. 30, 
0.04 
flassachusetts Experiment Station, 
- 
Feb. 10, 
0.01 
1 C 11 CC 
- 
Feb. 12, 
0.03 
Ohio Experiment Station, 
- 
Jan. 15, 
0.02 
CC CC 1c _ 
- 
Feb. 2, 
0.00 
CC CC CC _ 
Feb. 15, 
14 tests under 
0.02 
0.05 
Illinois Experiment Station, 
- 
March 12, 
0.01 
C C CC l c 
- 
March 15, 
0.005 
So. Carolina Experiment Station, 
- 
April 23, 
0.04 
CC CC CC 
- 
April 24, 
0.05 
CC CC CC 
- 
April 30, 
0.04 
The Improved United States Separators are taking the lead in all dairy sections, and this is what makes 
the “would-be competitors” writhe so and talk about “pins,” “crowbars” and “bubbles” in lieu of records. 
If any dairyman, wishing a separator, cannot decide otherwise, let him try this “crowbar” on the 
agent of the “would-be competitor.” Ask him if he will meet The Improved United States Separator in a 
test of one day, or one week, or a month, each separator to be run on its published rules, and the separator 
that excels on the most points shall be paid for by the agent of the other separator ? Ask him to sign the 
agreement on the spot. Such a proof of our willingness to meet our “would-be competitors” must 
convince thoughtful dairymen that the Experiment Station Records can be and are duplicated in every-day 
work in the dairies. 
Catalogs furnished free. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vermont. 
