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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 3. 
SOMETHING 
ABOUT WAGONS 
NEVER 
KNEW 
BEFORE 
How the Farmer’s Handy Wagon 
saves horse-flesh and man labor; 
how Empire Steel Wheels make an 
old wagon worth a new price; how 
to keep from cutting up 
your roads; how to haul 
a winter load on spring 
ground; how to save re¬ 
pair bills and other bills. 
It’s all in the Wagon 
Book we send FREE. 
EMPIRE MFG. CO., Box 70-C, Quincy, III. 
$35.50 
30 Day 
Test. 
No 
Money 
in Advance 
-THE— 
“Anderton” Vehicles 
are al'. sold direct from factory at lowest fac¬ 
tory prices. 
We are the only factory offering to let you 
try an Anderton with your money in your 
pocket.” 
We are the only factory that eives a 
Two Years Approval Test, 
of the vehicle you buy, backed by $25,000 bank 
deposit put up as guarantee of four money 
back, if your purchase does not stay all right. 
Write for our free 110-page illustrated cata¬ 
logue No. 15. It fully explains our offer on 
high-grade vehicles and harness. 
THE ANDERTON MFG. CO., 
19, Third Street, Cincinnati. Ohio. 
20th Century Wagon Box 
_____tter 
you expect. Thoroughly bolted, not nailed. Write 
fodel 
Co., 
WE’LL PAY THE FREIGHT 
and send 4 Wheel*. Steel Tire on • 
With Kubher Tire*, $ 14.50. I nifg. wheels to 4 in. 
tread. Top Buggies, $28.75; Sleighs, $10.75. Write for 
catalog. Learn how to buy direct. Itepnlr Wheels $4.00. 
Wagou Umbrella FREE. R. BOOB, Cincinnati, O. 
Make Your Own Fertilizer 
at Small Cost with 
Wilson’s Phosphate Mills 
^ From 1 to 40 H. P. Also Bone Cut¬ 
ters, hand and power, for the poul- 
trymen; Farm Feed Mills, lira- 
hum Flour Hand 31111s, Grit and 
Shell Mills. Send for catalogue. 
WII-SON BROS.. Hole Mfrs* 
Dept. 1>, Kaston, Pa. 
GARDEN TOOLS OF ALL KINDS 
needed by the home or market gardener. A 
special tool for every purpose. 
MATTHEWS’ uni ^&al 
Hand Seeders and Cultivators 
for every condition of truck growing from 
drill ana hill seeding to last cultivation. 
Free Booklet on planting and cultivating 
the garden; gives firfff 'fffnt The Easy Running 
full description. U(ill 
Write for it. 
AMES FLOW CO., 54 Market St,, Boston, Mass. 
ALL AT ONCE 
Plant and fertilize as you go. Corn, peas, 
beans, beets, etc., planted and fertilizer de¬ 
posited, in hills or drills, all at one passage, 
with the 
Eclipse Corn Planter 
and Fertilizer Distributer. 
Improved row marker. Wide range for hill 
spacing, 6 to 45 inches. Handles any kind 
fertilizer, in any condition, 50 to 450 lbs. per 
acre. We make a special gear which sows 600 lbs. 
per acre. Plants all seeds accurately. Light draft, 
easily handled, quick and positive adjustments. 
We also make the Eclipse Two Horse Two Row 
Planter. Good terms to agents where not intro¬ 
duced. Write us. 
BELCHER A TAYLOR A. T. CO., 
Box 76 ’ Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
Plaster or Lime With Fertilizers. 
IS. G., BuldivinsvUle , N. Y .—Does the mix¬ 
ing of laud plaster with polash. nitrate of 
soda, tankage and acid phosphate tend to 
make the plant food insoluble? 
Ans. —No—land plaster will not make 
the plant food insoluble. It is quite often 
used as a “filler” in mixed fertilizers— 
that is, to give them bulk so they can be 
spread easily. You are perhaps thinking 
of lime, which is different from land 
plaster. When lime is put with acid phos¬ 
phate the phosphoric acid in the latter 
becomes less soluble. We have often ex¬ 
plained that what we call “phosphate” is 
a combination of lime and phosphoric acid. 
When three parts of lime combine with one 
part of phosphoric acid we have a tough in¬ 
soluble form like that kept in hard bone or 
ock. Two parts of lime make a more soluble 
form known as “reverted.” This is not 
soluble in water, but is in weak vinegar, 
which is about the strength of the acid se¬ 
creted by growing roots. One part of 
lime and one part of phosphoric acid make 
a phosphate which is soluble in water. 
“Acid phosphate” is the hard bone or 
rock phosphate on which sulphuric acid 
has been used. The acid dissolves or 
“cuts” the bone—which means that it takes 
two parts of lime away from each part of 
phosphoric acid, leaving the soluble ‘form. 
What we may call the “highest ambition” 
of the acid phosphate is to get back more 
lime and go into the less soluble form. 
You see therefore that when lime is used 
we lose the effect which" tl?e acid gives 
us. This is not true of fancT'plaster which 
is a sulphate of lime, and does”not com¬ 
bine chemically as the lime would. 
Fertilizer Questions; Buckwheat. 
Reader, New York .—How may I use chemi¬ 
cals in fertilizer so I may dispense with the 
freight on the useless mixer? I have two 
tons fertilizer on hand analyzing one am¬ 
monia,^ four phosphoric acid, eight pot¬ 
ash. I want to raise it to 4-7-8 ; can 
I get nitrogen, nitrate of soda and phos¬ 
phoric acid and sow on the ground with this? 
\yhat is a good hay and grain fertilizer? 
There is very little clay in this locality. I 
have been planting potatoes on ground sown 
St Wosi R Tjl?,“5 SoX' -Tfo buckwheat the year before. Js there any¬ 
thing injurious to potatoes left in the ground 
by buckwheat? 
Ans. —You can use nitrate of soda and 
fine ground bone or acid phosphate. The 
fertilizer you now have contains 20 pounds 
nitrogen and 80 of phosphoric acid. You 
want 80 pounds of nitrogen and 140 of 
phosphoric acid. Nitrate of soda contains 
16 per cent of nitrogen and ground bone 
3 per cent of nitrogen and 25 of phosphoric 
acid; to supply 60 pounds of nitrogen you 
must add 400 pounds of nitrate. To fur¬ 
nish 60 pounds of phosphoric acid you 
need 250 pounds fine bone or 500 of acid 
phosphate. You can use the fertilizer you 
now have in drill or broadcast and for 
each 500 pounds scatter on the ground 
100 pounds of nitrate and either 75 pounds 
fine bone or 125 pounds acid phosphate. 
We should also add 25 pounds muriate of 
potash to each additional dressing. An 
expensive but very effective grass mixture 
is 500 pounds each of nitrate of soda, acid 
phosphate, fine ground bone and muriate 
of potash. Other combinations containing 
equal quantities of plant food may be 
cheaper in some localities. If this mix¬ 
ture is used for grain we would use half 
in Fall and half the following Spring. 
We do not believe that buckwheat leaves 
anything in the soil that is poisonous for 
potatoes. The injury that one crop does 
to another is generally due to overfeeding 
on some element of plant food. Buck¬ 
wheat is greedy for potash—so are pota¬ 
toes. The buckwheat may use up nearly 
all the available potash, so that the potato 
crop starves. This starvation may be mis¬ 
taken for poisoning. We should not hes¬ 
itate to follow buckwheat with potatoes 
if the latter were well fed. 
Ladders. Made Better than 
„ bolted, no 
ox 308. Muncie, Indiana. 
Lasting Qualities of Posts.— The ques¬ 
tion has been asked as to the lasting quali¬ 
ties of soft and hard wood fence posts. I 
have 200 acres Inclosed with posts from six 
Inches diameter to three feet—all round green 
posts. Red and White elm, Black and Jack 
oak, hickory. Black or wild cherry, hack- 
berry and wild crab-apple, and a few willow. 
The willow, crab-apple and small White elm 
lasts about five years, the others from five to 
10 years. B. a. s. 
Pana, III. 
Think 
Ol This—One Minute. 
How does it happen that the Studebaker 
factory in South Bend, covering 101 acres, is the 
largest vehicle factory in the world? 
How does it happen that more than a million Stu¬ 
debaker vehicles are in use the world over? 
How does it happen that the Studebaker business has 
shown a steady growth and increase every year for more 
than SO years? 
How does it happen that the Studebaker reputation for all 
that goes to make a good vehicle is higher to-day than ever be¬ 
fore? 
Do you think it “just happened,” or was there a reason for it? 
You know there must have been a reason, and this is it: 
The absolute reliability of the Studebaker product. It ap¬ 
peals to careful buyers—men who are satisfied only with the 
best. If you belong to that class—if you like a good farm 
rather than a poor farm— a.good horse rather than a poor 
horse— a good wagon rather than a poor wagon— good har¬ 
ness rather than poor harness—we ask you to investi¬ 
gate the Studebaker before buying. 
See the Studebaker Agent 
Before you buy a farm wagon—a buggy, carriage, surrey or any thing 
in the vehicle line. He will not ask you to buy on reputation alone. 
He will show you point by point wherein the Studebaker excels and 
you can see for yourself. 
If you don’t know a Studebaker agent, write to us. Enclose a 2 cent stamp and we’ll 
send you the Studebaker Farmer’s Almanac for 1906—Free. Please address Dept, 54- 
STUDEBAKER BROS. MFG. CO„ SOUTH BEND. INDIANA. 
Selling Agent* Almost Everywhere. The Studebaker—A wagon with a reputation behind it. 
A Word from Texas 
About 
f 
The Milburn Wagon 
rpEXAS Is the Bail Lands of the wagon business—the place where 
d- hubs and wheels go to pieces—the dry, hot land where cheap 
wagons won’t do. 
Our Texas Jobber, who has In the last live years sold 15,000 MII.BUKN’S, says: I have never heard of a 
loose tire, a loose spoke or a checked hub on the Milburn Wagon since 1 have been selling them.” 
And most wagons fail because of the wheels. The Milburn Wheels 
do not fall— that is the difference. And the huh, too.is all important. Look 
at the cut that shows how the spokes go in the M1LUUKN hub—strongest 
just where straight tenon spokes are weakest. 
That Is the way with the MILBURN, all the way through. 
Those hubs are all turned from Pennsylvania black birch, a close- 
grained, sound, durable timber. They are stored in well-ventbuied 
buildings for years. When dry they urecarefully culled and allchecked 
hubs are thrown out. The good ones are then soaked In hot boiled 
linseed oil. The oil soaks into the pores ami, drying there, makes them 
impervious to moisture. They will not swell in wet weather or shrink 
In dry weather. They are then mortised to take our peculiar double 
shoulder spoke, as shown in the cut. They ure then banded; all hands 
are made of refined iron of great tensile strength. Bands are welded by 
electricity and compressed by a powerful steam compressor at the 
proper place on the hub. Banda cannot be put on as tight by any othor 
f irocess. After the hands are on. the spokes are driven by a powerful 
lammer and we run no risk of splitting the hub. This la the kind ol 
work that makes MILBURN WAGONS last In Taxaa or anywhere olae. 
They are the kinds of things you ought to know all about, before you buy any wagon. 
And to make them clear to you we publish a little Wagon Book. Reading it will make any man a good 
judge of a wagon. II Is Free. Write lor It, 
MILBURN WAGON CO„ Dept. R, Toledo, O. 
No. 718. Bike Gear Driving 
Wagon with %-ineh Rubber Tires. 
Price complete, $55.50. Good as 
sells for $25.10 more. 
to the consumer exclusively. We 
Vehicles, 65 styles of Harness, Send for large free 
catalog. 
ELKHART CARRIAGE ft HARNESS MFG. CO., 
ELKHART, IND. 
33 Years Selling Direct 
Our vehicles and harness have been sold direct from our 
factory to user for a third of a century. We ship for examin¬ 
ation and appro¬ 
val and guarantee 
safe delivery. You 
are out nothing if 
not satisfied as to 
style, quality and 
price. 
We are the larg¬ 
est manufacturers 
in the world selling 
make 200 styles of 
No. 326. Extension Top Surrey. Price com¬ 
plete, $78.00. As good as sells for $25. more. 
GUARANTEED BUGGIES 
HERBls a reason why you can bpy a better buggy from us at $29.50 than j-ou 
T 1 .. _ _ _____ 
can from others at $15.00 and $50.00. We bought our gear woods, wheels am 
shafts of white spilt hickory when the market was low. These wood 
are In the Evanston Top Buggy exclusively In the parts named and the 
buggy itself sells to you for $29.80. It is the highest grade, strongest, | 
light draft and most stylish Vehicle In the world. Rides easy, wears long 
and is of striking finish .and appearance. Our complete catalogue of 
vehicles and harnesses free when you send for it— a book about top buggies 
you ought to get and read before buying one. 
. THE FAVORITE CARRIAGE MFC. CO.. 1 isDayUn Bios 
Buy only the genuine 
FARQUHAR Keystone 
Corn Planter 
Ov —^ 
mmc b 
mw-v 
DON’T BUY ANY OTHER 
Uutll You Investigate the Merits of a Machine 
Thut Hus Stood the Test of Time. 
Plants corn, beans, peas, etc., without cracking a grain or 
missing a hill. Drops seed in drills, or in hills at any dis¬ 
tance. Distributes any kind of fertilizer in any quantity de¬ 
sired, with absolute safety from injury to seed. Send for 
handsome new catalogue of Com Planters, Grain Drills, 
Cultivators,Spring Tooth Harrows and other farm tools; 
also Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills and Threshing .Machinery. 
We manufacture the largest and most complete line of iarm 
Faruunar maemnery 
Louts than any other. 
A. B. FARQUHAR CO., Ltd., York. Pa. 
