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June 16, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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PULLING AND PUSHING A WHEEL 
HOE. 
Arc there any readers of The R. N.-Y. 
who knows just how to use a wheel hoe? 
1 very much doubt it. I have used the 
implement for the last 20 years, but never 
learned how to use it right until last 
Summer. I have experimented in all 
manner of ways, and made a good many 
forms and styles of teeth, but never could 
get anything just to suit me; too much 
strain on the arms and shoulders. I have 
tried also many straps, bars and ropes to 
push against with the breast and body, 
but found none fully satisfactory. Well, 
this is what I did at last: First I re¬ 
versed the handles, so that they projected 
in front of the machine instead of back; 
next I fastened a strap to each handle 
on inside about one-third down from the 
top ends, then stood in between handles, 
facing backwards, having the strap just 
long enough to fit around my back just 
at top of my hips; with both hands hold 
the handles, and even with the hips, arms 
straight down, then walk backwards and 
“pull”, not “push” the machine. I found 
I could do the work 10 times easier than 
to push by the arms. I could do all the 
pulling with the hips, or all with the 
arms, or I could divide the strain between 
the hips and arms in any proportion de¬ 
sired; no jerking or swinging the hands 
back and forth, but a steady even pull 
all the time, walking backwards of course. 
To push a wheel hoe in the usual way 
the strain is exerted from the hands 
through the wrists, arms, shoulders, body, 
hips, legs and feet, but in my new way 
the strain may be only from the hips 
down. In pushing a wheel hoe you are 
pushing down towards the ground all 
the time, and the wheel is necessary to 
keep from going too deep, but in pulling 
it you are pulling up so that the wheel 
is not needed. I also found in hard 
ground a little weight was best to make 
it work deep enough. I believe whoever 
will try my plan and pull his wheel hoe 
will never want to push another one. 
Ohio. A. A. FRADENBURG. 
RULES FOR STRAWBERRY PICKERS 
II mo do you, have your berries picked so as 
to guarantee the fruitf 
My instructions to pickers are to pick 
those berries that are colored all oyer red, 
but no objection to some with the tip of the 
berry somewhat lighter colored, but no show 
of green. It is a hard matter to get fruit 
picked so you can guarantee it. The pickers 
must be watched by the overseer in the field, 
and closely scrutinized when received at the 
packing shed. My carriers hold six baskets. 
If not in proper shape credit but five, and 
they will do better next time. Our nearness 
to market calls for fruit to be nearly or 
quite ripe when picked. Walter f. taber. 
New York. 
I do not grow strawberries for fruit bearing 
largely, and what I do grow is sold in local 
markets, and not picked tint!! fairly colored. 
Very choice fruit we have picked by pinching 
off the stem, but nearly all is picked by run¬ 
ning the fingers under the fruit and breaking 
it off the stem. We try to keep the pickers 
from taking direct hold of the fruit and 
watch them while picking as much as possi¬ 
ble. The ordinary fruit is all picked togethei. 
Choice fruit is assorted by careful pickers. 
We have but little trouble with women, but 
boys and girls give us lots of trouble. We 
have to resort to rejecting the fruit when 
too badly picked, and giving no pay for it; 
this will secure better work than all that 
can be said. We pick every other day to 
give the fruit time to ripen. For long ship¬ 
ment it is necessary to pick before fruit is 
all colored, and not to bruise fruit in pack¬ 
ing. CHAS. BLACK. 
New Jerser. 
There are two distinct classes of growers, 
a few who struggle for a fancy market, the 
great majority who aim to sell in the gen¬ 
eral market. The first class cannot succeed 
without the intelligent co-operation of their 
commission merchant. They begin by grow¬ 
ing the fruit in the most approved manner; 
at picking time the berry is not touched, but 
the stem carefully pinched off. The ripeness 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
of the berry must be determined by the color, 
though some varieties, such as the Clyde and 
the old Sharpless, which ripen unevenly, 
must be picked while one side or the point 
is still green—or rather, white. As these 
growers have the best fruit, and pay the 
same prices for help, they can usually get a 
trutworthy class of pickers, whose work the 
owner is able to guarantee. This fruit is con¬ 
signed to a commission merchant who under¬ 
stands the grower’s purpose, and who usually 
has but little trouble in getting a satisfac¬ 
tory price. The second class of growers 
usually sell to local buyers who ship the 
fruit. It goes at a price which is nearly uni¬ 
form, i. e., not much distinction for quality 
or condition, and usually low—this does not 
furnish an incentive for gilt-edge work, and 
the result is the grower pursues such meth¬ 
ods as will place his fruit on the market at 
the least expense. L. w. B. 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
Disk Harrow on Stony Ground. 
M. II., (No Address). —Will a disk or Cuta¬ 
way harrow work well on stony land? 
Ans.— It depends upon the stones. 
With small round stones the disk har¬ 
rows do fair work, though they are not 
at their best. Where the stones are flat 
and of good size this type of harrow is 
not a success. We much prefer a spring- 
tooth for such work. The disk and Cut¬ 
away are designed for smoother land, and 
from their shape and character cannot 
be expected to do their best among stones. 
Berry 
Baskets 
Lapped Corners. Quarts 
for Blue Berries, Perfectly 
Tight. 
Peach 
Baskets 
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 
16-quart sizes. 
Peach Covers. 
Wooden, Burlap and 
Cotton. 
Berry, Peach and 
Grape Crates, etc. 
COLES & COMPANY 
109 & 111 Warren Street, New York, 
ESTABLISHED 1884. 
WINTER 
Wheat, 60 bushels per acre. 
Catalogue and samples free. 
4011A A. SALZEKSEEI) CO., LaCrosse,Wis, 
°ne quart STRAWBERRIES = 
plant guaranteed or money returned. Send for my 
mid-summer catalog. T. O. KEVITT, Athenia, N. J. 
B ERRY GROWERS who use our “Pickers’ 
Tally Tickets” save time and trouble; samples 
FREE. Thompson, The Printer, R.-8, Oswego, N. Y. 
CELERY and CABBAGE PLANTS 
I* OK SALE— Leadiug varieties, carefully packed 
■with moss in baskets, f. o. b. here. Write for prices. 
Cash with order. Plants ready about June 15. 
WOODLAND FARM, Canastota, Madison Co., N.Y. 
COD C A! C—Cow Peas, $1.75 per bushel; Crim 
lUn v M I.E son Clover Seed, $5.50 per bushel. 
J. E. HOLLAND, Milford, Delaware. 
A LFALFA SEED—Kansas grown, best known. 
Prices and samples on application. 
KANSAS SEED HOUSE, Lawrence, Kans. 
UTAH ALFALFA SEED. 
The best. Buy where grown. Write for samples 
and prices at any time. SALINA MERC. CO.. 
Box 1, Salina, Utah. 
CUfCCT PnPAI Choice Stowell'sEvergreen 
wTIlCI UUllll $1.50 bushel; also Pride of 
the North and Improved Learning, $1.00. American 
grown Alfalfa, $10.00; Timothy, $1.75. 
O. W. CLARK & SON, Seedsmen, Buffalo, N. Y. 
TREES ARE FAMOUS 
'wherever planted; are planted 
"everywhere trees are grown. Free 
Catalog of superb fruits—Black Ben, 
King David, Delicious, etc.-StarkBro’s, Louisiana, Mo. 
ROGERS TREES ARE 
DIFFERENT 
FROM OTHERS. 
ROGERS ON THE HILL 
Dansville.N. Y. 
APPLE BREEDERS. 
PIONEER GUARANTEED 
NURSERY STOCK 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES* 
All stock guaranteed disease free—' 
true to name—pure bred and heavy 
crop producers. Full value for every 
dollar sent ns. No agent's commis¬ 
sion. Write for complete pricelist. 
We will save yon money. 
HART PIONEER NURSERIES 
Established 1865. Fort Scott, Kan 
How the “1900” Gravity Washes 
Clothes in Six Minutes. 
ERE'S a mechanical wonder—our “1900” 
Gravity Washing Machine. 
It runs by the aid of Gravity-Power, 
and almost works itself. 
You give It a start with your hand, and grav¬ 
ity pulls it along . 
A little help is needed from you each time, 
but gravity does nearly all of the hard work. 
The Tub whirls on wheels that follow the curv¬ 
ing gravity tracks, and as it spins around, first 
one way, then the other, it Is raised and lowered 
at every revolution. 
All the weight of the Tub and Clothes rests 
on these light-running wheels. 
That’s why the Tub spins as easily when full 
of clothes and water as when it is empty. 
So, a whole tubful of Clothes can be washed 
almost as easily and as quickly with this machine 
as a single garment could be washed. 
. « • 
* 'How does it wash Clothes?’ ’ you ask. 
Well, It’s done by driving the hot, soapy 
water through the meshes of the Clothes as the 
Tub and the water whirl rapidly—and by alter¬ 
nate squeezing and suction as the Tub is raised 
and lowered. 
There’s a perforated wooden disk that rests 
on top of the Clothes, which is held so firmly in 
place by the center rod that It can’t move up nor 
down. 
But the Tub moves up and down as It whirls 
half way round and back, squeezing the Clothes 
against the disk when Tub goes urn and forming 
a suction of water through the Clothes when the 
Tub goes down. 
Thus, the swift driving of this soapy water 
through the Clothes at each half turn, and the 
squeezing and suction, washes the dirt out of 
the threads without any rubbing. 
Mind you, without rubbing ..—which means 
without wearing, the Clothes. - 
It’s the rubbing on washboards, and on 
other Washing Machines, that w ears out Clothes 
quicker than hard use at hard labor. "" 
That costs money for clothes, doesn’t it? 
And the everlasting rubbing is the hardest 
work in washing, Isn’t it? Rubbing dirty clothes 
on a metal washboard with one’s knuckles, over 
a tub of steaming hot water, is harder work and 
more dangerous to health than digging coal deep 
down In a mine. 
* • • 
Well, the “MOO” Gravity Washer cuts out all 
the slavery of washing, and half the expense. 
It will wash a whole tub full of dirty clothes 
In Six Minutes. It will wash them cleaner in 
SixTTinutes than they could be washed by hand 
In Twenty Minutes. And it won't wear the 
clothes, nor break a button, nor fray even a 
thread of lace. 
Because Running Water can’t wear the 
clothes, nor break buttons, nor tear buttonholes. 
And, it is the hot, soapy water, swiftly run¬ 
ning through the clothes that takes all the dirt 
out of them in Six little minutes. 
A child can wash a tub full of dirty clothes in 
half the time you could do It yourself—with half 
the work. 
Think what that half-time lo worth to you 
ever] week for Ten years! 
It is worth 50 cents a week to you. That Is 
$26.00 a year, or $260.00 saved in 10 years. 
And, a 1900 “Gravity” Washer lasts 10 years, 
Well,—pay us the 50 cents a week our 1900 
"Gravity" Washer will save you, for a few 
months only. 
Then you will own a Washer that will last 
10 years without any cost to you. But don't pay 
us a cent until you have tested the ”1900” Grav¬ 
ity Washer for a full month at our expense. 
We will ship it to any reliable person free, on a 
month’s trial, and leave the test to you. And we 
will pay the freight both ways out of our own 
pockets. That shows how sure we are that the 
”1900” Gravity Washer will do all we promise. 
If you don’t find it does better washing, in 
half the time, than you can wash by hand, sent! 
It bacFto us. If you don’t find it saves more than 
half the wear on the clothes, send it back to us. 
If it doesn’t wash dirty clothes in six minutes, 
send It back to us. 
• * # 
Remember, we will pay the freight both 
ways , out of our own pockets. You don’t even say 
you’ll buy it, till you have used it a full month, 
and know all about it. Isn’t that a pretty straight- 
forward offer between strangers? 
How could we profit by that offer unless our 
”1900” GravityTVasher would do all we say it 
will? 
How could we have sold thousands upon 
thousands of ”1900” Washers on this plan, if 
they hadn't “made good?” 
Don’t slave over the wash-tub any more. 
Don’t pay a washerwoman for eight hours a 
week when she can do the work far better, with 
less wear on the clothes , in four hours, with a 
“1<J00 U Gravity Washer. 
The 4 hours a week less labor thus saves you 
60 cents a week for Washerwoman's Wages. 
Pay us 50 cents a week out of that 60 cents our 
Washer saves you, if you decide to keep it, after 
a month's trial. Then you own the Washer. 
Write us today, if you want a month's free 
use of the quickest Washer in the world. 
Address, R. F. Bieber, Treasurer, 'T900” 
Washer Oo., Box 6072 Binghamton, N. Y. , or 
355 Yonge St, Toronto, Canada. 
IR0NAQE 
POTATO MACHINERY 
Improves the quality and yield of the crop and cuts the cost 
of production. 
The Iron Age Four Row Sprayer. No potato grower can afford 
to be without it. No more losses from bugs or blight. Applies 
spray rapidly, effectively and economically. Has orchard attach¬ 
ment. Automatic pump and dasher. Thoroughly adjustable. 
The Iron Age Potato Digger gets all the potatoes 
and injures none. Easily operated as a low- 
down digger by two horses. Elevator and 
shaker attachment for use witli weedy crops. 
Our New Iron Age Rook describes and illustrates 
our full line of labor-saving implements. Seeders, Wheel 
Hoes,Cultivators, Horselloes, Fertilizer Distributors, Potato 
Planters, Riding Cultivators, etc. Free on application. 
BATEMAN MFC. CO., Box 102 Crenloch, N.J. 
Iron 
ref 
loir Row Sprayer 
Iron Ago 
Potato Digger 
TREES 
Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Peach and Carolina 
Poplars, healthy, true to name and fumigated. 
$5 PER 100, FREIGHT PAID .. 
Allkindsof trees and plants at low wholesale prices. % Remember we beat all other reliable 
Nurseries in quality and price. Catalogue free, Reliance Nursery, Box 10, Geneva. N.i. 
POST MACHINES PRICE 
CEMENT POSTS ARE A SURPRISING SUCCESS 
To further introduce Cox 
Cement Post Machines, we 
will sell until June 30 only, a 
limited number at one-half reg¬ 
ular price. 
No. 1 Machine, Regular Price 
$85.C0; Special Price $42.50. 
No. 2 Machine, Regular Price 
$32.50; Special Price $16.50. 
The whole world is rapidly 
awakening to the practical value 
of cement products. Improve this 
opportunity to get a practical 
machine that will turn out posts 
that are everlasting and that can 
be made for about 15cents each. 
This is a rare bargain and it will 
be to your interest to act at once. 
Lengths of posts, 7 feet and 
8 feet. 
Cash must accompany orders 
for machines at these prices. 
Atlas Cement Machinery Co. 
322 South Ave. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
CRIMSON CLOVER 
on request. HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn. 
The great soil improver. Valuable 
also for early green food, grazing 
and hay crop. Special circular 
free, also sample and price Of seed 
