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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 19, 1901 
Humorous. 
She: “This Summer-house has been 
the scene of three engagements.” He: 
“Sort of a match-box, eh r"—Credit Lost. 
“And was my present a surprise to 
your sister, Johnny?” “You bet! She 
said she never suspected you’d give her 
anything so cheap.”—Judge. 
Customer: “Waiter, it is nearly half 
an hour since I ordered that turtle 
soup.” Waiter: “Sorry, sir; but you 
know how slow turtles are, sir.”—Tit- 
Bits. 
He: “What do you think is the most 
appropriate name for a girl?” She: 
“That all depends upon the girl. Your 
name would suit me all right.”—Illus¬ 
trated Bits. 
Teacher: “Who was it supported the 
world on his shoulders?” Bright Pupil: 
“Atlas.” Teacher: “And how was Atlas 
supported?” Bright Pupil: “By Mrs. 
Atlas, I suppose.”—Chicago News. 
“There is not much to brag about,” 
said the Cornfed Philosopher, “between 
the woman that has married the first 
man that proposed and the woman that 
has married what she thinks is the last 
one that will.”—Indianapolis Press. 
Miss Lafin: “What has become of 
Mr. Clay?” Mr. Rand: “He has taken 
employment in a powder miil for six 
months.” Miss Lafin: “How strange!” 
Mr. Rand: “Not at all. He wished to 
break himself of smoking.”—Stray 
Stories. 
A rake treat in 
TEASand COFFEES 
BEST IMPORTED at almost HALF PKICB.S. 
OolonRS, .lapans, Young Hysons, Gunpowders. Eng¬ 
lish Breakfasts, Souchongs Congous #) 7 « rjn per 
-Yssams and Ceylons from. / I U lU J i (i lb. 
Very Heat Koasted Coffee from lOcto 29c 
The Goods are sold on their merits. NO PRESENTS. 
CONSUMERS IMPORTING TEA CO., 
P. O. Box 290, Dept. R. 66 Church St., New York. 
ACME 
PULVERIZING HARROW 
SS9 Clod Crusher 
To be returned at my 
expense if not satisfactory. 
The best pulverizer and cheapest Riding 
Harrow on earth. We also make walking 
Acmes. The Acme crushes, cuts, pulverizes, 
turns and levels all soils for all purposes. 
Made entirely of cast steel and wrought 
iron— indestructible. 
Catalog and Booklet, “An Ideal Ilarrmv," by 
Henry Stewart, mailed free. 
Freeon board at New York, Chicago, Columbus.I.ouis- 
ville, Kansas City, Minneapolis, San rrancisco, etc. 
DUANE H. NASH, Sole Mfr,, 
Millington, New Jersey, and Chicago, 111. 
How to Drain Land Profitably. 
On every farm there is probably some land 
that could be made more productive by under¬ 
drainage. Properly drained land can always 
be worked earlier, and more profitably. The 
b^t and most 
I economical way 
' to drain is ex¬ 
plained in the 
book, “ Benefits of Drainage and How to Drain,” 
which is 8ent/r«e by 
JOHN H. JACKSON, Third Ave., Albany, N. Y. 
The old hoe for fighting weeds was like an old-time musket, it killed 
the enemy one by one. The Hallock “Success” Weeder is like a 
Gatling gun. It knocks them over by the million. Can you afford to be a slave 
to the hoe when you can escape so easily? Hallock’s is the only perfect weeder. It has 
the most enthusiastic possible endorsement from the 50,000 farmers who now use it. 
TJyjrGjv 
The Old Hoe 
HALLOCK’S 
SUCCESS WEEDER 
and 
Gultivafor 
IS the quickest, easiest and most thorough implement for w'orking corn, wheat, oats, rve cot¬ 
ton, potatoesandotherve^etables, asparagus, strawberries, for cov- ' ’ 
ering grass seed, Hungarian, crimson clover, millet, etc. By its 
use farmers get from 5 to 10 more bushels 
of wheat or oats to the acre and they can^ 
cultivate 20 to 40 acres of corn, wheat or 
potatoes a day. For light harrowing, pulver¬ 
izing, weeding, or cultivating it is 
the success of the century. Write to¬ 
day for circulars telling what farmers 
have done with the “Success” Weeder. 
HALLOCK WEEDER AND CULTIVATOR CO., 
Box 805 York, Pa. 
iPlease ‘inendon box number.) 
TRANSPLANTERS 
We make them for transplanting plants, such 
as Cabbage, Tobacco, Sweet Potatoes, Celery, 
.Sugar Beets, Turnips, Tomatoes, Strawberries; 
also used on Sprouts and in planting Potatoes. 
Absolutely guaranteed to do the work. Capacity 
4 to 6 acres per day. Lightest, cheapest and 
easiest operated machine made. 
THE NAGLEY MFG. CO., Lyons, N. Y. 
(Sold with or without Elevator.) 
For Every Variety of Work. 
Have conical shaped grinders. Differenti 
from all others. Handiest to operate acd| 
LIGHTEST RUNNING. 
Have them In T sises—2 to 25 horse 
power. One style for windwheel use. 
(Also make Sweep Feed Grinders.) 
P. N. BOWSHEB €0., South Bend, Ind. 
CHARTER 
Gasoline Engine 
I T fv r* Any Place 
I ^rll »y Any One 
j-or Any Purpose 
Stationariet, Portables, JEnginea 
and Pwmpa, Boistera 
State your Power Needs. 
Charter Gas Engine Co., Box 26, Sterling, III. 
LIGHTNING WELL MACHY 
IS THE STANDA.RD/ 
ST£AM PUMPS, m UFTSa.^ // 
GASOLINE ENCINES'jp 
tlRITEFOR CIRCULAR SZaT* 
THt AMERICAN WELL WORKS 
AURORA.ILL - CHICAGO- DALLAS TEX 
For Farm 
and Garden 
Iron Age 
Tools Save 
Time and Money 
Iron Age tools more than double the work you 
can do In a day. They do better than band work. They save you many dollars 
for labor in a season. They have been tried and found honest by two genera¬ 
tions of farmers and gardeners so that the name Iron Age stands for all that 
Is best In Seed Drills, Wheel Hoes, Riding Cultivators, Potato 
Planters, Horse Hoes and Cultivators. Don’t do another season’s 
hard work without Iron Age help. One of our novelties this 
^year for garden and truck farm work is the No. 15 Iron Age 
^Single IVlieel Hoe, Hill and Drill Seeder, by far the best 
^seed drill and single wheel hoe ever made anywhere. Not 
single advantage of the separate tool is lost. Places 
seed in bills or (Irills, plows, rakes, opens 
furrows, covers, hills, hoes 
and cultivates. Write to-day 
for free copy of the new Iron 
Age Book. 
BATEMAN MFC. CO., 
Box 102 Crenloch, N. J. 
No. 15 
Iron A.^fl 
Combined 
Single Wheel 
Hoe, Hill And 
I>rlll Seeder* 
$18.50 
for this team harneM, 
cut from select oak«tanned 
leathery traces 6 ft. long.lH 
in. wide, with cockeye, 18-ft 
lines; Iiook & Territ pads, 
i^le and breast straps 
Bic Rarirain All kinds 
of emg) e and double harness. 
For 
BALL BEARING. 
A11 steel disc barrow,easiest 
running and best made. 8 
sizes, discs 16 or 20 in. in 
diameter. Fay double 
you set no better. 
for steel lever harrow | 
cuts 10 ft; 60teeth, 2wc» 
tions; also S & 1 sections. 
Buys this 
Cullitaior, 
Steel Beam 
plain, with 6 
shovels. Spreads to 33 In, 
BUYS 
tilis 8*ft. steel mill; guar¬ 
anteed easiest running 
a strongest made; n ump- 
ing and power mills, 8 to 
16«ft.; abo tanks,pumps, 
pipe a all pumping sup¬ 
plies. We furnish com¬ 
plete outfits. Prlcea all 
reduced. Catalog 
Don't fail to send for it. 
$28.7S 
85Cts. 
Send for our FREE 328-Pase Agricultural Catalogue. 
is the price of oar Calnmct 
Improved check row planter 
with 80 rods wire. Nevermisses, 
drops in hills and drills. We 
challenge the world with this 
planter. Will ship it on trial in 
competition with all others. We 
have 95 styles of Planters and 
Drills for neld and gard«>n. 
Crank Seeder 
Sows wheat, oats, grass 
seeds, etc. 4 to 10 acres 
an hour. Worksperfect. 
XTsuslIy retailed tor $3. 
7)^ft. Land Roller. 
$14.90 
SSCTriu^ph 
$ 10:21 
for this 
One-horse 
com, bean, pea and 
Garden Seeder. Drops 
in hills and drills. 12 ac. a day.! 
Fertilizer extra. Handles all" 
kinds of seed perfectly. 
97 flty 
pumps, 1 
Ding mills. 
MARVIN SMITH CO., SS.S7-S9 N. Jefferson St., Chicago, Ills. 
Plants the Seeds—Cultivates the Plants. 
That is the shortest way to tell what this “Planet Jr.,” No. 4 Combined ^■’eder and Wheel 
Hoe does. Sows in drills or drops in hills at any distance. Opens the sows, covers, 
rolls and marks the next row at one operation. Being very fast it get' ^a^ie seed in just 
when the ground and all conditions are at their best. All plants ^ even start. Can 
be changed quickly to cultivator, hoe, rake, plow, biller, etc. Has att .ts for all these uses. 
Guaranteed satisfactory. Price low. . 
The “Planet Jr.” line comprises also Wheel Hoes, Horse Ho ^ fc "Wheel Cultivators, 
Orchard Cultivators. Celery Hillers, Markers, Lex^^ /otato Diggers. Sugar 
Beet Seeders and Cultivator^ etc. Prices on all ar 
Send for our 1901 “Planet Jr.” Catalog. It tell^ 
16 full page photographifi illustrations how they a ^ 
We have already Issued 350,000 and will issue more 
S. L. ALLEN & CO., Box 1107-^ ^ 
Two Gold Medals at Paris Exf ^ 
,y reduced for 1901. 
ut our goods. Shows by 
n this and other countries, 
sary. We mail it free. 
i^ADELPHIA, PA, 
Highest Award, 
A Big Harvest 
follows careful seeding. The best 
seeder made—the one which has 
proved its worth is the 
CAHOOM 
Broadcast 
SEED SOWER. 
It saves four-fifths of the 
labor of band sowing and 
one-third of the seed. Sows 
6 to 8 acres an hour. Absolutely 
even distribution. Ask your 
dealer for it. tfircnlnrs free. 
OOODELl COMPANY, 14 MAIN ST., ANTRIM, H. H. 
COUNT NOSES 
.N- 
^0) 
I Take the verdict of your live stock, and wo ven-1 
ture that it is overwhelmingly 
in favor of ground feed. 
Scientific Grinding Mills 
I will make more feed and better feed from the I 
same amount of grain. They save time, money I 
and iced. Numerous kinds—both sweep and I 
power. Crush and grind ear corn andall grains I 
I separate or mixed. Send for catalog U before ( 
voti buy. "We mall it free. 
.THE FOOS MANFQ. CO., Springfield, Ohio. 
CONTENTS. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Till!; Rural New-Yorker, Jan. 19. 1901. 
Alfalfa for New York State.33, 34 
"VN’hat a Cement Stable Floor Docs.34 
I’arming Difficulties in New York Slate..34 
Farmers’ Institutes .34, 3.5 
P'ish for Corn Fertilizer.35 
Stable Manure for Potatoes.37 
Bits of Talk.37 
Seeding Grass .37 
Hope Farm Notes.39 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Grout Bill at "Washington.45 
Silage and Abortion.46 
Value of Corn Fodder.46 
The Contented Cow.46 
A Bottle Pig.46 
Oleo Morals .46 
Evolution .46 
Cottage Cheese: A By-Product.47 
A Talk About Roup.47 
Why I Keep Leghorns.47 
HORTICULTURE. 
A Lantern Moth Trap.35 
Cover Crops in Apple Orchard.35 
A Hemlock Hedge.35 
Self-Fertile Apples .36 
Hales Hickory nut; Gilbert Black Walnut..36 
Germinating Mahaleb Cherry and Apple..36 
Fruit Questions from Colorado.36 
Newtown Spitzenburgh .36 
Planting an Orchard.36 
Castor Pomace and Insects.36 
Peck Pleasant Apple.37 
Apple Seedlings .37 
A Liquid Grafting Wax.37 
Tobacco Stems for Green Lice.37 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.38 
New Jersey Horticultural Society.41 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day.42 
The Rural Patterns.42 
Sunshine .43 
The Farmer’s Fare.43 
A Market for Chinch Bugs.43 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Cutting and Loading Ice.34 
Building a Stone Road.35 
Editorials .40 
Events of the Week.41 
Markets .44 
Business Bits .41 
Market Briefs .46 
