THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
March 2 , 
HURST 
SPRAYER* 
Money in Advance — pay when convenient. The 
iC|T7_A| I M fits-on-tn-any-barrel ortank. Sprays 
■ 11 fc-HUI. all solutions. Proven best and most 
durable. Guaranteed Five Years. Brass Ball 
Valves, Cylinder, Plunger, etc. Strainer Cleaner and 
3 Agitators. 200 lb pressure. A boy can operate it. 
Doubles Your Crops. After trial if you keep it— 
pay when yon can. Wholesale Price where no agent— 
Agents Wanted. Sprayers is our specialty—you get 
the benefit of our 20 years' experience. 
Special FREE OFFER for first in each locality. 
Valuable “Spraying Guide” and full information 
Free. Write now. We pay freight. 
H. L. HURST MFG. CO., 30 North St., Canton, 0. 
Black Hawk 
GRIST MILL 
A hand mill for country, vil¬ 
lage and city housekeepers. 
Fresh corn meal, graham, rye 
flour, etc. Fast, easy grinder made to last. 
Weight 17 lbs. $ 3 . 00 . E PA?D. SS 
Soon pays forltself. You’ll flndadozenuses 
for it. Grinds corn, wheat, rye, rice, spices, 
coffee, etc. fine or 
coarse. Just the 
thing for cracking 
grain for poultry. 
Black Hawk book FREE- 
A. H. PATCH, 
Mfr. of Hand Mills And Corn BhMltri 
exclusively. Agents Wanted. 
Clerkavllle, Tennessee, 
BOILING THE LIME AND SULPHUR 
WASH. 
Our method of making the lime-sul¬ 
phur wash is very simple. In the first 
place, we use two iron kettles, one large 
one in a sheet-iron jacket, and holding 60 
gallons, then a small one holding 20 gal¬ 
lons. In the small one we put water 
and leave until boiling hot, then throw 
in twenty pounds of flowers of sulphur, 
and 25 pounds best stone lime, always 
being sure to have cold water at hand 
in case it begins to boil over. We build 
a good fire and let it cook until a dark 
bluish color. In the large kettle we 
simply put water and let it heat to about 
250 Fahrenheit. Many put the ingredients 
all together and boil that way, which is 
all right if one has enough fire, but where 
the wagon is drawing out all the time 
each hatch must be ready when the wagon 
drives up. Dilute the mixture when ready 
with water and strain in barrel. Where 
power sprayers are used it must he done 
on a larger scale. At home we use steam, 
but at our neighbors’ (we serve quite a 
number) wc do not always have steam 
handy. I have never seen any noticeable 
than, Arkansas Black and some others 
sell high in Chicago, New York and Liver¬ 
pool. One of two things must be the re¬ 
sult of this competition ; either the eastern 
grower must grow a higher grade of ap¬ 
ples and put them up in better shape, or 
the apples from this section will capture 
the trade in what is known as the “fancy” 
stock, and that is the business that pays 
us best. Consumption of apples is on the 
increase, hut that this will keep pace with 
the increased production does not seem 
probable. 
The irrigated orchards in most cases 
will be in the hands of small growers, 
who own their farms and do a good share 
of their own work. This is best for the 
country and best for the apple business. 
Large farms, operated with hired help, 
must ever be worked at a disadvantage. 
There is an idea in the East that irrigated 
fruit is not as good in quality as that 
grown where rainfall is the source of sup¬ 
ply, and as a consequence that our fruits, 
however fine in appearance, can never 
supplant the home-grown product. Bet¬ 
ter not, brethren, lay that flattering unc¬ 
tion too closely to your hearts. The func- 
The PERFECTION SPRAYER Sprays Everything 
For Trees use it as a hand-pump. For Potatoes and 
all Vegetables use the horse-power. It creates a 
perfect mist, not affected hy winds, and covers 
all the ground and plants. 
SIX ROWS AT A TIME. No 
insect life escapes. Oldest and best. 
Over 600 in N. Y. State alone. For full particulars 
and Catalogue, address 
THOMAS rE3?3?IjEn, 
Box 70 HIGHTSTQWN. N. J. 
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with a Gaboon hand 
broadcast seed sower I 
than six men can sow by 
hand. 5 acres per hour is a 
fair average for the Cahoon. 
and the seed is distributed 
evenly, with a great saving 
of time. 
1 The Cahoon Hand 
Seed Sower 
Is a practical machine for any size farm- 
It increases the farmers profit both ways- 
in better crops raised, and 
time and seed saved, write, 
for new book “Sowing for 
Results” and 60th annlver-1 
sary Souvenir. 
Goodell Co. 14BlalnSf.fUtrlm.N.H. 
BOILING LIME AND SULPHUR WASH. 
difference between steam and fire-cooked 
materials, although steam is much the 
handier. harry vail. 
Orange Co. N. Y. 
FRUIT GROWING IN THE PACIFIC 
NORTHWEST. 
The only kind of fruit growing in this 
section of the United States that is likely 
to come into competition with the East is 
the apple. Peaches can he successfully 
grown here in some sections, but the area 
suitable for this fruit is very much limited- 
Some of our peaches may he sent to Chi¬ 
cago, but very few will go east of that 
point. Pears do well in a much wider 
area, but the prevalence of the blight has 
already ruined the business in some places, 
and without a doubt will greatly curtail 
the pear industry. Prunes some time 
since reached the limit of profitableness 
and planting ceased to a large extent. 
Prices are looking up by reason of in¬ 
creased consumption, but little planting is 
going on. 
The planting of apple orchards is some¬ 
thing enormous in the Northwest. The 
nurseries are taxed to supply the demand 
for trees, and train loads of trees are- 
shipped in from the Middle West and the 
far East. Several things have stimulated 
the apple industry in this section. Good 
returns have been received on well-kept 
orchards, the reclamation of the arid lands 
is adding millions of acres of land where 
apples grow to a very high state of per¬ 
fection. Then land speculators are spin¬ 
ning exaggerated yarns about the profits 
of apple growing. Many people believe 
these yarns, and are rushing into the busi¬ 
ness. Will the business be overdone? It 
will, so far as home consumption is con¬ 
cerned, and our apples must find a market 
in Asia, Alaska, and the big cities of the 
Middle West and the Atlantic coast, as 
well as in Europe. How much of a figure 
this will cut with the growers east it is 
hard to foretell. Our highest grade of 
Spitzenburg, Newtown, Winesap, Jona¬ 
IRON AGE « 
Tour-Row Sprayer 
Most practical, rapid, economical sprayer. 
I Protects potatoes and other crops from bugs 
land blight. Sprays under high pressure. 
Write for new 1 907 Iron Age Book that 
[describes Potato Planters. 
I Cultivators. Diggers, 
|complete line of Farm 
land Garden 
I Tools. 
| Bateman Mfg. Co- 
Box 102h , 
Grenloch, N. J« i r « B 
IKffHBHBWCBHBiHi Foot Bow 
THE DEYO 
Power Spraying Outfit 
Complete With Mechanical 
Agitator. 
tion of water is to put the elements of 
fertility into the available form, and that 
it will do whether it falls out of the clouds 
or runs along in a ditch. Then, the Gov¬ 
ernment experts have shown that our arid 
lands are richer in plant food than are 
the soils that have been leached hy copious 
rains. We all know that unleached ashes 
are richer than leached ashes. Then, con¬ 
tinuous sunshine, such as we have in the 
arid regions, enables the leaves to elabor¬ 
ate the crude sap, and thus store up food 
material in the form that will advance 
tree growth and the production of high- 
colored fruit. F. WALDEN. 
Seattle, Wash. 
Direct From Factory to You. 
Established 1880. 27 Years' Experience. 
We are the Originators cf the 30-Day 
Free Trial Plan. 
Eight styles of CONCORDS to choose 
from, $34.00 and up. 
TOP BUGGIES, DRIVING WAGONS and BIKE 
$34.00 and up. 
Eighteen styles of SPRING WAGONS, 
$38.00 and up. 
Send for descriptive catalogue. 
Kalamazoo Carriage & Harness Co, 
Box 25, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Spraying Made Easy 
By Using 
STAHL’S 
Excelsior 
Spraying Outfits 
and Prepared Mixtures 
Save your trees, vines and plants 
- from the ravages of scale, fungi 
and worms by spraying, and thusinsure an increased 
yield, lively fanner, gardener, fruit or flower 
grower should write at once for our free, catalog, 
describing Excelsior Spraying Outfits, and con¬ 
taining much information on how to spray fruit 
and vegetable crops. 
WM. STAHL SPRATER CO., Box 30.0, (jniney. III, 
ASPINWALL 
Potato Machinery 
Great improvements for 1907—our 
latest No. 3 Planter plants 99 per cent 
good; sack hopper prevents bridging 
or clogging. Our line includes Cut¬ 
ters, Planters, Sprayers, Diggers, 
Sorters—all money makers and labor 
savers. Every potato grower should 
write for catalog. Sent free with val¬ 
uable booklet, “Potato Culture,’* will 
be worth dollars to you. Write today. 
ASPINWALL, MFG. CO., 
262 Sabin St., Jackson, Mich. 
Used by the Largest and Most Suc¬ 
cessful Fruit Growers. 
NOT AN EXPERIMENT 
Years of success in the field have proven them the 
best. Asktheuser. AIR-COOLED gasoline engine. 
No water tank or pipe in the way. Engine can easily 
be disconnected from pump and used for sawing 
wood, grinding, ensilage cutting, etc., etc. 
Write for Catalogue 5 on Spraying. 
R. H. DEYO & CO.,Binghamton, N.Y. 
Once a “Friend” 
always a Friend” 
This is the latest “Friend’, 
Nozzle. No horns, no 
hooks. Nothing to catch 
or clog. Does the work of 
four, yet makes the finest 
mist spray. Our way of 
advertising is the good old 
"Quaker” way, i. e., “Sat¬ 
isfied Customers.” Our 
pictorial catalogue free, 
showing the best spraying 
machines, hand or power. 
The most popular Nozzle 
and Shut-off, etc., all in operation. We build every 
part instead of the tinker job hy others. Our engines 
spray, saw, milk, churn, pump, cut feed, etc., etc. 
“FRIEND ” 
MFD CO 
GASFORT, N. Y. 
DISTRIBUTE 
INSECTICIDES 
IN DliS 1 FORM 
Leggett’s Dusters 
saving Fruit and Vegetable Crops when other 
methods Fall. 
NO WATER TO HAUL 
LEGGETT'S 
CHAMPION 
DUSTER 
The CHAMPION 
dusts two rows of pota¬ 
toes as fast as you walk. 
The BEETHE 
Potato Duster (Horse 
Power) dusts, four rows. 
The JUMBO 
dusts trees. 
Our Spray Calendar gives concise information regarding 
Dusters and Materials. Mailed on request. 
LEGGETT & BRO., 301 Pearl St., N. Y. 
