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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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SEND US YOUR ORDERS FOR 
Fruit Packages, Quarts, 
Pints, Peach Baskets, 
and Tills. 
32-0t. Crates, 
Complete with 
Baskets. 
Send forCircular and prices. 
Hudson Valley Fruit Package & Supply Co., 
MlLTON-OX-THE-HlTDSON, N. Y. 
BERRY BASKETS & BERRY Crates and prices 
write to ANDREW REESH, New Springfield, Ohio. 
HURST'S 
POTATO 
SPRAYER 
FREETRIAL 
Sprays Everything. 
Potatoes, Truck, etc., 4 
rows at a time, 20 acres 
a day. Even 2-acre grow¬ 
ers say, “Pays for itself 
f i rst season,’' as it has *o 
many uses. (Also a first class Tree Sprayer). 
Has HIGH PRESSURE, and delivers a“FOG Tike spray. 
Perfect agitation. All working parts made of “BRASS”. 
Runs very easy, a BOY 16 years old can operate it with 
ease. (Horse-hitch for hilly country). FIRST ORDER 
where no Agent, gets wholesale price, or will take extra 
yield one acre our pay. Sent on 10 DAYS' TRIAL—does 
not cost you one cent if not satisfac ory. GUARANTEED 
for 2 yrs. We give one away, in each locality for a little 
help in Advertising. Write today for our liberal terms. 
H. L. HURST MFG. CO., 1 501 North Street, Canton, 0. 
Leggett’s Dusters 
DISTRIBUTE 
INSECTICIDES 
IN DUST FORM 
saving Fruit and Vegetable Crops when other 
methods fail. 
NO BARREL OF WATER TO HAUL 
Two Acres of Potatoes 
dusted per hour. 
Several styles for 
LESGETT'S 
CHAMPION 
GARDEN, 
FIELD 
or 
ORCHARD 
Our Spray Calendar Klven concise Information regarding 
Dusters and Matariala. Mailed on request. 
Leggett & Bro., 301 Pearl St., New York. 
MITCHELL SEEDER 
FOR 
Windy Weather. 
Porfect seeding can be done whether tn 
[ wind blows or not—if there is no wind the 
I seed 1 b thrown directly in front, ami when | 
1 the wind blows the cast can be shifted Bo'j 
• hh to throw the seed with the wind the I 
>ame as sowing right or left band. The 
changes are made instantly by reversing a 
small lever. Very simple—nothing to get out of order. 
Fully guaranteed. We also manufacture wheelbarrow 
seeders—lightest, best and cheapest. Sow perfectly 
under all conditions. Seed box on springs j 3 sizes. 
For sale through dealers or shipped 
direct from factory prepaid. Write 
for booklet and prices show¬ 
ing our complete line— ^ 
mailed free. The Skkdkii 
Mko. Co., Homer, 
Midi. Box B. 
MUSHROOMS 
Quickly and easily grown. LARGE 
PROFITS. Sell for fancy prices at 
all times. Tremendous opportuni¬ 
ties for those who begin NOW. 
My new treatise explains this 
Immensely rich home industry 
and (he most successful Mush¬ 
room farm in this country. Send 
4c for postage to 
VAUGIRARD MUSHROOM CELLARS 
Ramsey, New Jersey. 
Peach & Other Fruit Trees CDcularFRER 10 * 55 ' 
K. S. JOHNSTON, Box 4, Stockley, l)el. 
PPPQ-All kinds, cheap. Freight paid. 
H Ci Catalog free. Agents wanted. 
MITCHELL’S NURSERY, BEVERLEY, O. 
VARIETIES STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
$1.00 per 1000 and up. Send Postal card to-day 
for 1006 catalogue of plants, fruits and roses. 
II. W. HENRY. La Porte, Indiana. 
RUBY 
RED 
RASPBERRY 
A new berry of great promise; has been grown six 
years, and to-day is ahead of all others for profit to 
growers. We have a nice lot of well-rooted plants. 
Send for circular and price list. 
C. G. VELIE & SON, Marlborough, N. Y. 
Valley View Fruit Farm. 
Steven's Champion Strawberry.Large, late,productive 
Plants, $2 per 1000. Alfred W. Leeds, Moorestown.N.J 
Strawberry Plants 
OF MANY VARIETIES. 
Now and Old. Also the Blowers Blackberry, the 
Comet Currant, and a verv choice stock of Gladiolus 
Bulbs. CATALOG FREE. 
M. CRAWFORD CO., 
Sackett Street, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 
Book No. 17 on 
NITRO- 
CULTURE 
the wonderful 
soil and seed b&cteria. 
Enrich your farms. 
NATIONAL NITRO-CULTURE CO., 
West Chester, Pa. 
“NEW CURE " FOR SAN JOSE 
SCALE. 
A Pennsylvania .reader sends us a 
clipping from the Waynesboro Herald 
headed: “San Jose Scale Will Have to 
Take a Sneak.” We have always felt 
that this scale was taking a sneaking ad¬ 
vantage of us, but it seems that the insect 
is not alone in this. A company com¬ 
posed of an undertaker, a cigar dealer, 
a sand contractor and a motor man have 
organized to sell “Eyler’s San Jose Scale 
Exterminator.” This is described as a 
mixture of harmless chemicals “which can 
be eaten,” and yet when poked into a tree 
it makes life a burden to the scale and 
other insects. It is said to have been dis¬ 
covered in Scotland, where it did a won¬ 
derful work. By the way, we are told 
that the scale insect has never appeared in 
Scotland ! This is what we are told: 
Last Spring he made a test in an orchard 
at Rouzerville, applying the exterminator to 
a tree that was badly infested. The scale 
disappeared, and no other insect or larvae at¬ 
tacked the tree. The caterpillar even passed 
it by, the only tree in the orchard that was 
not visited by this pest. The tree bore a crop 
of perfect fruit, while the other trees not 
treated bore hut little and that of a very in¬ 
ferior character. The exterminator is ap¬ 
plied to the trunk of the tree near the 
ground. A small hole, from a quarter to 
three-quarters of au inch, is bored and the 
powder inserted. Then the hole is sealed 
over with wax. The powder goes into the sap 
and goes all over the tree. Scale will not at¬ 
tack it, and if previously infected the scale 
will die and drop off. 
It will puzzle most of us who know 
the scale to understand how it can drop 
off the tree—being held on by a tough 
shell—but, of course, that is a mere detail. 
It is claimed that a tree can be “treated” 
with this powder at the cost of a nickel, 
while the cost of spraying is “from 25 
cents up.” No man with ordinary com¬ 
mon sense will believe such nonsense and 
buy this powder—and yet very likely these 
people will sell large quantities of it. Who 
will buy it? Mostly the class of people 
known familiarly as “smart Alicks,” who 
have such uncommon sense that they 
know more than scientific men who have 
given lifelong study to the matter. 
Just think for a moment, and realize 
how absurd it is to suppose that a cigar 
dealer and an undertaker can have dis¬ 
covered a secret which has baffled the 
skill of trained entomologists. This fool¬ 
ish idea of killing insects without work is 
a favorite bait to use when fishing for 
suckers, but let us hope that no reader of 
The R. N.-Y. will swallow any of this 
“powder.” __ 
Propagating Japanese Barberry. 
li. B. F., Boston, Muss .—Will you tell me 
the best way to propagate the Japanese ber¬ 
berry used for hedges? 
Ans. —Stratified seeds of Berberis 
Thunbergi may he had from J. M. Thor- 
burn & Co., 36 Cortlandt street, New 
York, for $2 per pound. Sow thinly in a 
well-prepared seed bed in early Spring 
covering one-half inch deep and firming 
the soil well. Cultivate and weed fre¬ 
quently for two seasons, when the plants 
will be ready for planting in hedges, plac¬ 
ing them one foot apart. The species may 
also be propagated from short cuttings of 
newly ripened wood under glass, but these 
should be put in the propagating bed by 
December. 
Lima Bean Vines for Stock.— In a recent 
number I notice you use the Lima bean vines 
for mulching. My old horse Billy is fond of 
them; he knows a good thing when he eats 
them, so all these Lima bean vines he gets, 
as well as pea vines. e. h 
Missouri. 
Machine Set Plants. —There is a hand 
droppea and setter for plants catalogued by 
a western firm. Great claims are made for it. 
I saw one once, and my impression was that 
the time required to drop the plant into ma¬ 
chine, (as they had to he dropped root down 
one at a time) would make it very slow 
work. One of the principal claims of the 
manufacturer is that it will prevent back¬ 
ache, hut any one wishing to set out plants 
with rapidity must get his hack used to the 
burden or employ a horse planter. They work 
all right. One of my neighbors has a pair of 
wooden tongs about three feet long, and then 
a spade-like implement about the same length 
that he sets out 10,000 tomato plants with 
in a day. With a boy to drop the plants 
root towards the setter, they are set out 
without stooping, and lie claims that a larger 
percentage will live than if set out with a 
dibber and hand. C, E. C. 
Delaware. 
T 
A 
IIE above photograph represents some of the horses in use at Green’s 
Nurseries. Other horses are not shown. The extent of a nursery may 
be judged by the number of its horses. No nursery can he conducted 
without many horses to plow, cultivate, haul manure, etc. No nurseryman 
will keep more horses than necessary, since keeping horses is expensive. 
There are thousands of nurserymen in this country who do not keep horses, 
who do not own land and who do not in fact grow trees or plants. 
NOTICE THAT GREEN OFFERS AT SPECIAL LOW PRICES 
Apple and Poplar Trees,Grape Vines, Rose Bushes. Live-Forever Pink 
Rose, 10 to 20 cents each. We have a good supply of Cherry, Peach, Plum, 
Quince and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. Let us price your list of wants 
in Vines, Plants or Trees. Get our Poultry Catalogue, Implement and 
Nursery Catalogues. Also copy of Green’s Fruit Grower Magazine, all 
free for the asking. Address, 
GREEN’S NURSERY COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
V_/ 
GHOIGE GRAPE VINES 
Pumps, etc. Write for catalog. 
Best of Stock, Thrifty Trees, 
Plants, Vines, etc. Garden 
Tools, Spray Mixtures, 
ARTHUR J. COLLINS, Box R, Moorestown, N. J. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS THAT GROW (Best Standard Varieties). 
Also Raspberry, Blackberry, Currant and Grape Plants, Asparagus Roots and 
Seed Potatoes in assortment. All stock warranted high grade and true to name. Forty, 
page Catalogue with cultural instructions. Free. C. E. WHITTEN, Box 11, Bridgman, Mich. 
300,000 Asparagus Roots 
Rhubarb and Horse Radish, 
Pepper and Tomato Seed. 
Gladiolus Bulbs, all kinds of Vegetable Plants in 
season, Jersey Sweet Potato Plants. Plymouth Rock 
and White Wyandotte Eggs for Hatching. Write for 
what you want. 1. & J. L. LEONARD, Iona, N. J. 
AND FOREST TREES 
I have been growing evergreens 
and forest trees for 31 years, al¬ 
ways with one idea— trees that 
satisfy. When you buy Hill’s 
trees yon get honest value — 
highest quality. My catalogue 
is my salesman; it’s free. Con¬ 
tains 48 pages illustrated with 
beautiful pictures; describes 
all kinds of nursery stock for 
.11 purposes—hedge., windbreaks and ornament. Also fruit 
trees, shrube and rlnei. 50 Best Bargains ever offered—?1.00 
to910.00per 100 Prepaid. Ererjthing #rst-olaes,guaranteed 
exactly as represented. Write for catalog today. 
D. HILL, Evergreen Specialist 
Dundee, Ill. 
That 
are 
Sure 
to 
Satisfy 
Most Extensive Grower of 
Crape Vines 
1 in America 
Intro- ("CAMPBELL’SEARLY The Best Grape 
ducer -{ JOSSELYN - - The Best Gooseberry 
of l FAY ...... The Best Currant 
Small Fruits. Catalogue Free. 
GEO. S. JOSSELYN, Fredonia, N. Y. 
Grape Vines hy mail, exp. or freight. Safe arrival 
y in good condition guaranteed. 
15 vines, 5 each, Niagara, Brighton, Worden, $1,00 
20 Niagara—White, $1.00. 100 by exp. or frt., 2.50 
20 Brighton—Red, $1.00. 100 " ** 3.00 
20 Worden—Black, $1.00. 100 “ “ 2.50 
20 Catawba—Red, $ 1 . 00 . 100 “ " 2.50 
25 Concord—Black, $ 1 . 00 . 100 “ " 2.00 
10 Campbells Early Black,$1.00 100 " " 0.00 
Price per M given on application. 
To induce early orders, will mail free one two-year 
field grown Crimson Rambler with vines in early 
Spring. J. H. TKYON, Willoughby, O. 
Strawberries 
Grown by the pedigree sys¬ 
tem. Biggest and Best 
Berries, and lots of them. 
$2.00 a 1,000 
and Upwards. 
plants by the 
a spberries. 
Blackberries, Gooseberries, 
Currants, Grapes. All the 
good old and many choice new 
varieties. Illustrated, descrip¬ 
tive catalogue giving prices and 
ling how to plant and grow them, 
to all. For 30 years a small fruit 
specialist. ‘250 acres in berries. 
I nvett I ittlft Silver. N.J. 
T 
TREE PROTECTORS 
75c. per IOO—$5 per IOOO 
Send for froe samples and testimonials 
Do not wait until Rabbits and Mice 
ruin your trees. 
WRITE US TO-DAY, 
Hart Pioneer Nurseries, 
Fort Scott, Kans. Box 73. 
A beautiful colored plate of our 
New Eaton " 
Red Raspberry 
and our strawberry catalog of valu¬ 
able information about varieties 
with instructions for beginners. 
Free to all. 
THE FLANSBURCH & POTTER CO., 
Laalls, Michigan. 
Fall Bearing Strawberry Plants 
Pan American and Autumn. For sale by 
SAM’L COOPER, Delevan, New York. 
Circulars free. 
The Ward Blackberry 
The WARD is a very strong grower, 
perfectly hardy in New Jersey, very pro¬ 
lific ; the fruit black throughout. We 
offer root cutting plants at so moderate 
a price that all can plant it who desire a 
first-class and profitable market variety. 
For price address 
D. Baird & Son 
Baird, N. J. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Write for catalogue. J. K. 
true to name of both 
old ami now varieties. 
LOSEE, Elnora, N. Y. 
Strawberry Plants 
1000 up. Semi for m.v new catalogue FREE to-day. 
DAVID BODWAY, Hartly, Delaware. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS, 
$1.50 per thousand and up. Raspberry Plants, $4.00 
per 1000; Blackberry ami Dewberry plants at low 
prices. All plants will bo fresh dug, witli bright 
dean, yellow roots, strictly first-class, True to name 
and packed so they will reacli you in fine condition. 
Price List Free. 
A. R. WESTON & CO. 
R. R. No. 8, Bridgman, Mich. 
HIGHEST QUALITY. LOW PRICE. 
Our Strawberry Plants Please All Customers. 
Crimson Cluster, New Home. Stevens Champion, 
Cardinal, Abington, Superior, and all the best vari¬ 
eties are fully described in our new free catalogue. 
Mr. Alex. F. Fisher. Columbia Co.. N. Y , says : 
“The 10,000 plants received in splendid shape, and 
thev are the finest plants I ever saw. Some large 
fruit-growers saw these plants while I was unpack¬ 
ing them, and said you deserved a medal for t he way 
you packed them and the stock you gave. I expect 
to set 10,000 next spring, and will certainly give you 
the order, for £ know where to get good stock now." 
Otto Greef, Crawford Co., Kansas. sayB: “I enclose 
draft for the following plants. Please ship as soon 
as possible, and if they are as nice as the ones sent 
me last month l am sure they will please my neigh¬ 
bor for whom they are Intended. - ’ 
Send for catalogue at once. 
W, S. TODD, Greenwood, Del, 
