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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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buy direct from factory, best 
MIXED PAINTS 
AtWnOLESALE PRICES, Delivered FREE 
For Houses, Barns, Roofs, all colors, and SAVE Dealers 
profits. In nse 61 years. Officially Endorsed by the 
Granite. Low prices will surprise you. Write for Samples. 
0. W. INGERSOLL, 240 Plymouth St„ Brooklyn, N. Y. 
mnn Rn Big Four Seed Oats. 50c. per bn. lots of 
lUUU Dll* lObu.orover. Early Wh.Cap Seed Corn, 
$1 bu.; cash with order. J. S. Tilton, Norwalk, O. 
F OR SALE —Cow Peas, $1.50 Bushel: Crimson 
Clover Seed, $5.50 per Bushel; 2d Growth Seed 
Potatoes, $3.50 Bag: Seed Sweet Potatoes. 
,J. K. HOLLAND, Milford, Delaware. 
(RICE). Bred 30 years by 
one person. One ear has 
produced 5 bushels. Ears 
often 10 inches long with 24 
rows. None other has this seed. Excels in everything. 
Sample on cob, 10 cents, or write for full particulars. 
A. H. CRAIG, Mukwonago, Wisconsin. 
REAL SEED CORN 
'’Graded or crated and shipped on approval ,T| 
guaranteed to suit or money back. Bred I 
from prize-winning stock. Catalog free. I 
Sample seeds free if you pay postage. I 
Henry Field, Seedsman, Box 26,Shenandoah, la. I 
Griswold’s Seeds. 
Why not purchase your supply of Seeds, Seed Po¬ 
tatoes, etc., direct from Seed Growers? Every market 
gardener and seed planter should have our wholesale 
catalogue. Mailed free. Address 
THOS. GRISWOLD & CO. 
38 MapleAve. S.Wethersfield,Conn. 
To give advice if needed. Lay out 
your plans and start your team, and 
if anywhere along the route, between 
planning and cropping, you need help, 
just draw on our accumulated capital 
of 50 years' experience. At the start 
off you will need good seed. 
Catalogue free. 
J. J. H. GREGORY & SON, 
Marblehead, Mass. 
CAD e«| C—SEED CORN. Glenns Learning; 
rUn OHLL a yellow dent, 20 days earlier than 
any other. Pedigree and prices on application. 
B\ P. HADDOCKS, ALLEGAN, MICHIGAN. 
Grtt-n 5 °0 bush. Stowell’s Evergreen 
On LUl vUI II .75 per bush; 800 bush. Mason’s 
Favorite, an improved variety about 10 days earlier, 
with longer and sweeter kernels and more ears to 
the hill than any othersimilar variety. $ 2.00 per bush, 
and 300 bush. Country Gentleman, $2.50 perbush., 
cash, Special prices on large lots. This is grown 
from an extra line selection for improving seed for 
canning purposes. Ludvig Moshiek, Onarga. Ill. 
SEED POTATOES. 
Early and Late. A Square Deal Guaranteed. 
C. W. BURNKTT, l’helps. New York. 
GARDEN PEAS. 
First and Best; Admiral,Horsfords, Shropshire Hero, 
Champion of England. All $2.00 a bu. Notts Ex¬ 
celsior, $5.00. Gradus, $8.00. Alaskas, $3.00. Mar¬ 
rowfats, $1.30@$1.50. Canada Peas $1 and up. 
OGEMAW GRAIN & SEED CO., 
_ West Branch, Mich. _ 
Alfalfa Seed, 
Beardless Barley. 
J. E. WING & BROS., Mechanicsburg, O. 
Eldorado Oats 
Outyleld all others. 204 bu. have been grown on one 
acre. Seed Potatoes: all leading varieties. Write 
for price list. CHAS. CODNER, Owego, N. Y. 
SEED POTATOES 
THAT ARE RIGHT. 
Northern Grown, especially for seed. In fleldsfree 
from blight, scab and rot.’ Send for free catalog 
containing every standard variety grown 
This is Our 31st Anniversary 
S. J. CONNOLLY, Fishers, N. V. 
5 p for 50c. worth of leading 1906 Novelties in 
u Choicest Garden Seeds. $l's worth of Universal 
Premium Coupons free with every order. 
BOLGIANO’S SEED STORE. BALTIMORE. 
COR SALE—A large lot of Paragon and ltidgely 
Chestnut wood for grafting. 
HENRY C. LOVETT, Emilie, Bucks Co., Pa. 
A Hr O Sensation, 123 bu. per acre, also choice 
1 O Seed Com. Samples and Catalogue 
Free. THEO. BURT & SONS, Melrose, Ohio. 
GRASS SEED. 
Timothy Seed, all kinds of Clover. Blue Grass, Red 
lop. Orchard Grass, Seed Oats. Ask for prices and 
samples on what you want. U. J. Cover, Mt. Gilead, Ohio. 
PLANT PAGE'S SEEDS. 
THEY GROW. 
That’s the kind we sell-Tliat’s the Kind You 
''a'U - Wewill be pleased to supply you. Page’s 
high bred seed corn—None better—Few as good. Il¬ 
lustrated catalogue FREE. Mention this paper and 
re i£tl»? flve Packages sweet peas for live cents. 
THE PAGE SEED CO., Seedsmen, Greene, N. Y. 
• Top-working Seeding Apples. 
E. B. R., Littleton, Mass. —I have about 
200 seedling apple trees in my pasture; they 
are from two to four inches iu diameter. 
When is the best time of year to graft them, 
and what kinds would you graft for market? 
I am 20 miles from Springfield. 
Ans. —We should graft in late March 
and early April. Such trees make fair 
stocks, provided the borers are not too 
bad. They should be hoed or cleaned up 
in some way, so as to have a cleared space 
around each tree—and of course protect¬ 
ed from stock. It is hard to keep such 
scattered trees sprayed and properly cared 
for. We should use scions of Baldwin, 
Sutton, McIntosh Red and Palmer Green¬ 
ing, but it will be safest to follow the 
advice of the best local growers. 
Getting Humus Into Soil. 
C. B. D., Wantagh, N. Y.—Would you give 
me a hint in regard to a worn-out piece of 
land of which I may have the use? I am 
not going to grow a crop on it next year. 
Intend to plow it, manure it slightly, and 
plant a crop to plow under, question, what? 
Would cow peas do. or would Soy beans in 
this latitude be better? Also, could either 
crop be turned under end of August to be 
followed by clover? 
Ans. —On such land we would sow 
Wonderful cow peas about the middle of 
May. If broadcast sow five pecks per 
acre on the furrows and harrow in. Sow 
with them 300 pounds per acre of good 
fertilizer. About the middle of August 
plow the cow peas under. This can usu¬ 
ally be done by using a rolling cutter on 
the plow. After plowing use at least 1,200 
pounds of lime per acre and harrow in. 
Then sow Red clover alone, rye and 
Crimson clover together or Crimson 
clover and Dwarf Essex rape together. 
We like the last-named combination. 
Trimming Peach Trees In Ohio. 
M. J. C., Willoughby, O .—I planted an 
orchard of 500 peach trees last Spring, the 
first fruit trees I ever set out; 200 of them 
I set on clover sod, have main limbs three 
feet long; the others, set on an old hilly 
worn-out pasture of gravelly soil, did not do 
as well hut made a fair growth. I cut them 
to a straight whip about 2% feet high. They 
have from four to six main limbs and a lot 
of side branches. IIow many main limbs 
should I leave on each tree? IIow much 
should I cut the main limbs back, how many 
side branches to each limb, and how long 
should they be left? 
Ans. —The pruning of young peach 
trees is quite a simple matter wIiqii the 
trees have made a uniformly symmetrical 
growth, as I infer that those of the cor¬ 
respondent have done. Peach trees are 
greatly benefited by severe annual cut¬ 
ting back—especially the older trees—but 
I do not like to cut back the little tree too 
severely just after its first season’s growth. 
It is desirable to get a well-balanced, sym¬ 
metrical head with well-distributed 
branches as a foundation for future work; 
and too close cutting after the first year’s 
growth is not the best means to this end. 
It would be well to shorten the branches 
of the trees which made the better 
growth, those growing in the clover sod, 
from one-third to one-half of the past 
season’s growth, leaving such side 
branches as will extend and fill out spaces 
which it is necessary to round out in 
forming a well-balanced top. All side 
branches that incline toward the center 
of the tree or that promise to cross or 
come into contact with each other would 
better be removed entirely. The trees 
growing on the thinner soil, and which 
have not made so vigorous a growth, 
should not be pruned back so much as 
those on the more fertile ground. I 
should merely clip the ends of the 
branches, removing possibly one-fourth 
the length of last season’s growth, but 
just enough to round up the tops uni¬ 
formly. The side branches should be 
treated the same as with those of the 
stronger growing trees. I should prune 
the side branches very lightly, if at all. 
From three to five main or scaffold 
branches are desirable for peach trees. 
But the commercial orchardist cannot af¬ 
ford to be over particular as to the ex¬ 
act number of main branches or the par¬ 
ticular number or position of the side 
branches. Peach trees require continual 
cutting back and renewal of their heads 
in order to keep them within bounds, and 
their form and the distribution of their 
branches cannot be considered permanent¬ 
ly fixed. It is necessary to keep in mind 
an ideal form—a low-headed, sturdy, 
symmetrical tree—and prune and thin 
and renew the branches accordingly. 
Ohio. F. H. BALLOU. 
SEEDS FROM GROWER TO SOWER. 
We KNOW we could sell you all your seeds if we could meet you face to face, aud take you 
through our storehouses and out over the farms where our seed is grown. We could show you the 
enormous difference between our expenses and that of the city seedsman, and how 4 OU get the 
benefit of that saving; how we make our own low prices as we belong to no combination or association 
for keeping prices tip, and save you the middleman’s profits. We repeat, if we could meet you here 
we could show you why we save you about one-half of your seed money, and you would know that 
our present big business must be the result of Honest Seeds at Honest Prices. However, we can’t 
meet you all here, so we want you to have our catalog which talks to you face to face aud tells you 
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E. J. Wakefield, H. C. Parsnip, Beauty Tomato, Long Orange Carrot, 
Sweet German Turnip, Rocky Ford Muskmelon. 
FORREST SEED COMPANY, Box 34, CORTLAND, NEW YORK 
FREE 
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with BARGAIN LIST 
A Big Package of Splendid Radish Seed, Enough 
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Everybody loves a tender, juicy radish. 
Send to-day aud get free, our Great Bargain Seed Book and enough 
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Or, if you prefer, we will send you sufficient grass seed 
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summer and our Bargain Catalog, free for the asking. 
Our Bargain Catalog is a wonderful book, brim full of rare bargains at 
bargain prices of all kinds of Onion, Sweet Corn, Cucumber, Radishes, 
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Simply send us this notice, sign your name and address 
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flowers, vegetables and farm seeds, all the valuable in¬ 
formation showing our wonderfully low prices, all will be 
sent you by return mail postpaid. 
It yon encloie 4c. we add a package of Cosmos—the 
most beautiful fashionable annual flower. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., 
Lock Box 44, La Crosse, Wis. 
SEEDS 
THEILMANN’S—The Seedmen—carry a full line of Garden 
> and Field Seeds. Onion Seed a specialty. Write to-day for 
their catalog and Special Prices. 
THE THEILMANN SEED CO., - Erie, Pa. 
SEEDS GROW! IZ'ZZ 
that can be grown, you should read The Thirtieth 
Anniversary Edition of- 
BURPEE’S FARM ANNUAL FOR 1906, 
so well known as the “ Leading American Seed Catalogue.” It is mailed FREE to all. 
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.... . — 11 mm \ 
No matter how rich your soil or 
how carefully you cultivate it, the 
best success with vegetables—and 
the most money—is impossible 
without the newest and choicest 
varieties of seed. 
New White Mexican 
Sugar Corn 
is early and brings good prices. It is a 
heavy producer, good size, and has the 
same rich, sugary flavor that made the 
famous old Black Mexican variety so 
popular. 
lOc. pkt.; 25c. pt.; 40c. qt. 
Other choice and profitable varieties of vegetables 
you can grow from our tested seeds, are fully de¬ 
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Garden and Farm 
Manual —Free 
and illustrated from actual photographs. 
JOHNSON & STOKES, a 'V’hlhuieiinuaf 4 * 
*•Seedsmen to the Money-Makers." 
NIIT TRFF^' ,a V an Chestnuts and Walnuts, Paragon 
IIU I I I1LLO Chestnuts, Ridgely and American. 
MANCHURICA WALNUTS. 
CALIFORNIA PRIVET, extra tine aud cheap. 
Fruit trees and small fruits in every kind worth fruit¬ 
ing. Catalogue free. Address, 
JOS. H. BLACK,SON & CO., Hightstown.N. J. 
“THE THREE W” 
strawberry is large, beautiful, sweet, perfect bloom, 
wonderful roots, bears abundantly 5 weeks. Kept 10 
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FRUIT TREES THAT GROW 
and bear fruit true to label. Fine assortment of stock. 
All conveniences for packing FRUIT GROWERS 
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Martin Wahl, Nurseryman, Rochester, N. Y. 
K FRUIT BOOK 
'shows in NATURAL COLORS and 
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Best book on Strawberry Culture ever written. 
Worth its weight in gold. Free if you send your 
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Write us today for our catalogue and price list, it is 
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NURSERY CO., Confluence, Somerset Co., Pa. 
HARDY PERENNIAL 
PLANTS 
•r Old Fashioned 
Flowers 
Nothing will make the 
home grounds so cheer¬ 
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Hardy Perennial Plants; yielding, as they do, 
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They flourish in almost every soil, need but 
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to succeed with them. That those who have 
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12— Double Hollyhocks, all ditfsrsnt, 11.00 
12—Hardy Phlox, no two alike, 1.00 
15.—German Irla, ohoioeat aorta. 1.00 
10—Hardj Pinks, including Perpetual Snow, 1.00 
12—Hardy Chrysanthemums, ohoice named, 1.00 
6—Foxglove, no two alike, .60 
6—Larkspurs, no two alike, .50 
12—Hardy \stera.no two alike, 1.00 
10—Day Lillies, no two alike, 1.00 
10—Hardy Grasses, 6 kinds 1.00 
All are choice named varieties. I will send the 10 col¬ 
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My special catalog of Hardy Perennial Plants, a beauti- 
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Two Million 
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Every one of them good honest plants with 
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contains 20 pages of matter devoted exclusively 
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PRICE SI.78 to S2.50 per Thousand. Dis¬ 
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Strawberry Plants 
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r-. J Full line best new and standard old vari- 
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