1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1 91 
FARMERS' CLUB DISCUSSION . 
(continued. ) 
culation of the time that is lost, and the 
wear and tear of vehicles, harness and 
animals, it seems as though there would 
he a unanimous sentiment in favor of 
none but good roads. But even with 
all this favorable impression, the great 
obstacle is the first cost, as stone would 
have to be used almost exclusively to 
make roads good the year ’round. 
Stone roads built on the Macadam or 
Telford system are generally made 10 to 
18 feet wide, costing from $2,000 to $3,000 
per mile, which seems ample for two 
teams to pass. Now why not build one- 
half of stone, or say, 10 feet wide, which 
would make the first cost very little 
more than one-half ; build it on one side 
wherever practicable, to make a summer 
or earth road adjoining. Make the earth 
road nearly level with the stone part, so 
that it would be easy for one team to 
turn off and on again when the earth 
road is not in good condition for travel. 
Teamsters, however, generally prefer 
traveling earth roads in good condition, 
to those of stone ; a horse even prefers it. 
We may safely conclude that an earth 
road properly cared for, is in good con¬ 
dition one-half the time. Both earth 
and stone roads, however, require re¬ 
pairing ; but stone will cost for material 
and hauling, while earth costs compara¬ 
tively nothing. 
By my proposed method, nearly one- 
half the first cost would be saved, and 
the travel on the earth part would save 
nearly one-half the repairs. If this 
theory be correct, it will be easy to cal¬ 
culate the difference in first cost between 
the expenses of, say, 10 feet, and 18 feet 
wide fora township, a county ora State; 
also for the repairs. I have traveled 
some of our public roads where the 
supervisor, with a vague idea of good 
roads, stoned some sections about 12 to 
14 feet wide, with coarsly broken stone, 
which we are obliged to travel at ail 
seasons, getting a regular shake up at 
all times of the year, while many would 
prefer to travel through mud, some¬ 
times, and have nice traveling when dry. 
I am interested in a turnpike company 
which stoned a road in the centre, but 
has since taken out one side of the stone, 
and made a summer road to its full satis¬ 
faction. 
One-Year-Old Trees. 
P. S., Exeter, Pa. —I fully agree with 
A. D. Webb, of Kentucky, in regard to 
setting one-year-old apple trees. A few 
years since, I set about 70 one-year-old 
apple trees with the same results that 
he claims. I cut every limb off, and also 
the top, when I set them. They looked 
like a lot of stubby whips, and I got tops 
to suit me by rubbing off the buds that 
started where I did not wish branches. 
Chapman’s Seed Potatoes 
Only cost yc. to raise. Hints telling how for 2c. stamp. 
Prices way doivn on account of cost to grow. Illustrated 
catalogue free. C. E. CHAPMAN, Peruville, N. Y. 
50 
Barrels 
Balance 
Carman No. 
Potatoes 
$1.75 
Barrel. 
Maule's Irish Daisy, $l.lb. That Great Early Thor¬ 
oughbred. $i2.5U (one-half Philadelphia Prices). Rural 
New-Yorker No. 2 and others, Ho cents per barrel. 
1,300 sold. Am going to sell balance. Write now for 
list. Stock choice. Bank or other reference. 
S. J. SMITH, Seed and Stock Farm, Padelfords, N. Y. 
Pure Carman No. I Potatoes bushel, 80c.; 
per bbl.. $2.25. ISRAEL DENL1NGER, Trotwood, O. 
Plant Parman Nn Q Potatoes. Pure blood from 
I I dll I Udlllldll 11U > 0 Thorburn’s stock. By 
mail, 8 lbs. 00c ; by freight- peck.$l; half bush., $1.75; 
bush., $3. Address W. W. 11 AVELY, Coal Center, Pa. 
Choice Seed Potatoes Puritan. Improved 
Rose White Seedling, It. N.-Y. No. 2 and Delaware at 
low prices. Send for list to D. M. Royer, Randolph, O 
Vineland Sweet Potatoes three bushel bbl. 
Cash with order. F. S. NEWCOMB. Vineland, N. J. 
Carman No. I Potatoes $1 per bushel; $2.60 
per barrel. E. M. WOOD, North Madison, Ind. 
Perfect Seed Potatoes 
for prices. G. A. PARCEL.!., Wllawana, Pa. 
Seed Potatoes. 
ED S. HILL, 
PERUVILLE, 
Tompkins Co., n. y. 
Carman Seed Potatoes (Thorburn 
stock), R. N.-Y. No. 2 and Sir William. Costs less to 
grow in Wisconsin. We sell accordingly. Write for 
prices. FRASER BROS..Vernon,Waukesha Co..Wis. 
Carman No. I Potatoes. 
8*3 per barrel. Barrel lots only. 
T. GREINER. La Salle, N. Y. 
Seed Potatoes 
D. 
empire otaie oeea rotatoei 
for sale at $2 per barrel 
choice stock. 
J. SHANAHAN, Fallston, Md. 
SEED POTATOES 
5C0 bushels Carman 
No. 3. Thorburn Early 
and Beauty of Hebron. Send for prices. Address 
STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS. New Canaan. Conn. 
CARMAN No. I. 
A fine stock of this grand potato. Prices reduced. 
Circulars free. Dr. JABEZ FISHER, Fitchburg, Mass 
Parman IIa I <'l' ll0r l>urn Stock), $2.60 per 
U dllfldll HO i I barrel; 90 cents per bushel; 
six pounds postpaid $1. Carman No. 3, $6 per barrel; 
live pounds, $1. Also, Moonlight and Shuleys No. 7 
(new). Price list free. 
A. E. JANSEN, New Paltz, N. Y. 
CARMAN No. I 
Early Harvest, Ea. Norther. Ea. Pride. New Queen, 
$1.50 per bbl.; American Wonder, Wilson's First Choice 
and others. $1.25 per bbl. Pure seed. Northern grown. 
Send for cat. AMERICAN SEED CO., Rochester. N.Y. 
FOR SAL E.—Carman 
No. 1. 25c. per lb., three 
lbs., 50c.; No. 3. 30c. per 
lb., three pounds. 60c.; 
Divide (Burpee’s), three 
lbs., 50c.; Freeman. Late Burbank, three lbs., 40c., 
all prepaid. CHAS. C. FITCH, West Groton. N. Y. 
Crop Pedigree Seed Potatoes; they make 
__ earlier, larger potatoes than Northern 
U Seed everywhere: old and new varieties. 
Strawberry plants, best. Raspberry. Black- 
berry Asparagus, etc., tine and true to name. 
Catalogue free, J. W. HALL, Marion Sta., Md. 
POTATOES 
Adirondac (Wilson’s), Great 
\ 
HIGH CLASS SEEDS. 
Our Ninety-Fifth Annual Catalogue is now ready, and will be 
mailed FREE on application. It contains the 
largest collection in the world of 
Vegetable,Flower and Farm Seeds, 
including every standard variety and every novelty 
of established merit. 
For Nearly a Century the Leading Seed House of America. 
J.M.THORBURN & Co. 15 JOHN ST.NewYork 
JERRARD’S SEED POTATOES 
are always THE BEST. Grown from pedigree seed in the I 
new lands of the cold North-East, they yield Earliest and| 
largest crops in every climate. 
JERRflBD’S HOBTHERH SEEDS 
produce earlier vegetables than any other on earth. I 
OUK NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE MAILED FREE. Address 
The George W. P. Jerrard Co.. Caribou. Maine. 
1 
There is hot one u BEST ff in everythingf — 
Dibble's “ Blooded Seeds 
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are the “ BEST” Farm Seeds. jV 
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Grown in the cold North, under our personal supervision, and 
on soils especially adapted for each variety, they invariably produce 
larger and better crops than those from any other source. We are the 
largest growers of Farm Seeds in the world, growing all kinds of 
Oats, Corn, etc., but 
SEED POTATOES 
have always been, and are now our leading specialty. Our stocks 
this year were never larger, never better, never more complete, and 
never cheaper. I his is the best opportunity you will have in ten 
years to get choice, new varieties. 
We book orders now and ship any time before May ist, and as 
our potatoes are stored in especially constructed storage cellars you are 
assured of getting stock fresh and vigorous. You get the first sprouts. 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE SEED COMPANY, 
Honeoye Falls, New York. 
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Cprn PHTATOCQ CARMAN No. I. CARMAN No. 3. Farly Harvest. 
1 ■ VCiJ Great Divide and 50 more of the new and best varieties, 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2 and other standard sorts, $1 per 
barrel. Pure choice stock direct from the grower at HARD TIMES PRICKS. Catalogue free. Mention 
this paper. M. K. WEBSTER CO., Victor, N, Y, 
Choice Standard and New varieties grown and stored 
in the Cold Northwest. Send for handsome 
Illustrated Catalogue, containing article de¬ 
scribing method of raising and handling. 8mall ship¬ 
ments at car-load freight rates. Prices greatly 
reduced on large lots Samples free. 
K. VV. ALLEN, Wolverton, Wilkin County, Minn. 
CLOVER SEED] 
l Largest growers of drags and Clover Seeds I 
1 in America. 5000 acres. Our Grass Mixtures last 1 
1 a lifetime. Meadows sown in April will give a; 
rousing crop in July. Prices dirt cheap. Mam-, 
moth catalogue and 10 pkgs. Grass and Grains, 
free for but lOc. postage. Catalogue alone 5c. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO.. La Crosse. Wis. 
OP M^RN m nUCD ^« lar «est handler 
UnimdUll ULUVCll of American-grown 
Crimson Clover Seed in the United States, is JOSEPH 
K. HOLLAND, Grower and Jobber. Milford, Del. 
Also, Cow Peas, Winter Oats. Timothy Seed, etc. 
Another Apology to Keiffer Pear. 
M. H. C. Gardner, Orange County, 
N. Y.—The editorial bard of The R. 
N.-Y. of February 29, went into ecstacies 
in his “ apology to the Keiffer pear,” for 
having thought so slightly of it as a pre¬ 
serve pear, and makes an apology so 
profuse that the Keiffer will, probably, 
have an honorable standing in The R. 
N.-Y, in the future, so far as the editorial 
pen is concerned. It was by the merest 
accident, too. A peck sent him, unfit 
to eat, he was going to throw away, 
but bis wife canned them, and on New 
Year’s Day, they were sampled, and the 
editor bursts into song over their de¬ 
licious flavor. 
Three Grand New Potatoes. 
For the first time at popular prices, from Thorburn 
seed : Carman No. 3.$3.00 per barrel 
Carman No. 1.$2.25 per barrel 
Great Divide.$2.00 per barrel 
R. N -Y. No. 2 in car lots, at market prices. 
Quantity, quality and type guaranteed. Terms cash, 
f. o. 1). C. W. Burnett. Lyons, B. 59, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
IT’S A GREAT POTATO 
That outyields the Sir William, Carman No. 1, Rural 
No. 2. American Wonder, and half a hundred others 
Wise's Seedling did it at the Ohio Experiment Station. 
All the above varieties and many others for sale t 
popular prices. Lincoln Oats and White Cap Corn. 
Send your own and neighbors' names for free cata¬ 
logue. J. M. FLUKE, Box 32, Nankin, O. 
Mu h cr L a N n e d SEED POTATOES 
ARE ALWAYS THE BEST. 
I have a couple of trees that have been 
prodigious bearers, and I hardly knew 
what to do with the fruit ; it was so 
hard that I always shook instead of 
picked the pears, and what were left on 
the ground took the hens a long time to 
eat. Last fall, some were left in the 
house to ripen, and as we had plenty of 
fruit, they came near being thrown 
away ; but quite late, my wife canned 
them, and their fine flavor was pro¬ 
nounced so fine that we talked about it 
at the time not a little, and, like Oliver 
Twist, I wanted “ more.” They will re¬ 
ceive closer attention the coming fall, 
for they never miss bearing, at least, 
part of a crop. 
One hundred best varieties. Choice sorts, $1.50 per 
barrel. Early Michigan, best extra early. Carman 
No. 3, best late potato grown. My Northern-grown 
pedigree seeds are guaranteed the best. Michigan 
Wonder Oat, the ’96 novelty. Seed Corn, Clover, etc., 
at lowest prices. 40-page Catalogue and new book. 
“ Potato Culture iu a Nutshell,” free. Read it before 
ordering your seeds. Address 
HARRY N. HAMMOND. Seedsman, Decatur, Mich. 
& 
$ 
Olds’ Seed Potatoes 
irst Premium last fall at Ills., 
Mich. State Fairs. A tremendous 
Took Fir 
YVis. and a _ _ 
stock. A good year to obtain Choice Seed of 
Improved Varieties. Prices Low, for this 
reason most people will not plant many pota¬ 
toes Now is the timefor you to plant. 
Illustrated catalogue of field and garden seeds 
Free. L. L. OLDS, Clinton, Rock Co., Wis. 
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[Bargain Sale of Seeds, 
POTATOES. 
Selected Tubers: Hebrons, Freemans. Rurals. Most 
excellent seed I ever offered. Lowest in price. Cor¬ 
rosive-sublimate treated, to protect crop from scab. 
May plant safely In diseased soil, or use barnyard 
mauure. Also, 
CHOICE WHITE MAINE SEED OATS. 
This variety never falls. Does well on wet, dry 
high or low lands. Heavyweight; large yield. 
Address MAH LON SAGER, Orangeville, Pa. 
CARMAN No. I, ££ 
Carman No. 3. $7 per barrel. Great Divide and 
Maggie Murohy, $2 per barrel. Freeman, World’s 
Fair, Irish Daisy. Early Puritan and Vaughan, $1.50 
per barrel. lUU-Oay Bristol Corn, $1 per bushel. 
Barrels and bags free. 
WONl; HC SEED CO., Rochester, N. Y. 
References.—Bank of Monroe, Rochester, N. Y.; 
Four to National Bank. New York City. 
THE SEED THAT GROWS 
THE 
Aroostook 
County .Maine 
SEED POTATOES 
All of the good NEW and the STANDARD varieties. 
Don’t pay for ttowing catalogues, but buy the best 
PUKE SEED POTATOES of us at fair prices. De¬ 
scriptive circular mailed free. 
WM. S. SWEET & SON, Providence, R. I. 
UnlMdUN ULUVtn pean Seed Commission 
Merchant, Mercantile Exchange Building. Harrison 
St., N.Y. Continues the largest importer of tine grade 
Crimson Clover In the U. S. Prices to dealers only. 
BURR’S No. I 
Beginning March 16, 
and for 10 days there¬ 
after. patrons of The 
I t. N.-Y. can secure seed stock of this NEW SEED¬ 
LING POTATO at a special introductory price of $1 
per peck. f. o. b. cars here. Parties desiring larger 
quantities, can have their orders booked at regular 
prices, viz.: Pecks, $3; bushels, $10; but their accept¬ 
ance will he subject to stock on hand at the close of 
this sale. If special orders clean up stock, regular, 
orders cannot lie accepted, and all money for same 
will be returned. Remember, that orders under this 
offer are limited to one. peck; that neither, offer or ad., 
will be repeated, and that this offer closes March 26. 
R. D. BURR, Gloversville, N. Y. 
Seeds and Potatoes Carman No 3, $4.00 
33 varieties, true stock, our growing. Rural New- 
Yorker No. 2,Orphan, Dutton, Irish.Daisy,Am. Wonder, 
$1 per barrel. Write for free catalogue of Seeds, 
Grains, Plants, etc. Everything at special low prices. 
ENTERPRISE SEED CO., Newark. N. Y. 
SEED POTATOES FOR SALE. 
Nineteen leading varieties, including Carman No. 1 
and 3, Sir William, Great Divide, World’s Fair, Irish 
Cobbler, New Queen, Vick’s Early Pride, etc. If with 
the times you would keep pace, order your seeds from 
Mace. Illustrated catalogue free. 
GEO. W. MACE. Greenville, Ohio. 
Carman Seed Potatoes. 
No. 1, 800 bushels (Livingston’s stock). $1.25 per 
bushel; Carman No. 3 (Thorburn stock), $3; Banner, 
$2; World's Fair, $1. All seeds kept true to name! 
Packages free. WM. H. RUSSELL. Pine City. Minn. 
CARMAN No. 3 SEED POTATOES. 
Carman No. 3, free from scab and nice. Raised 
from Thorburn stock. $1 per peck, $3 per bushel, $6.50 
per barrel. Money order office Woodbury, Pa. 
SAMUEL KEAGY, Maria, Pa. 
CARMAN No. I. 
A splendid stock of this new potato of my own 
growing. Sound, true. Thorburn stock. $2 per barrel. 
W. A. POTTER, Uockport, Ohio. 
