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October 12 
FARMERS' CLUB 
[Every query must be accompanied by 
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sure attention. Before asking a question, 
please see whether it is not answered in 
our advertising columns. Ask only a few 
questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper.] 
Compressed Air in Gas Sprayer. 
J. II., Berwick, Nova Scotia .—Can I use an 
air compressor to work by hand, on my 
Niagara gas sprayer, 100 gallons capacity? 
Will it take long to get up pressure? The 
gas costs a good deal in Canada. The turn¬ 
ing-on apparatus (on gas tubes) is poor, and 
out of three tanks imported from the United 
States one was empty, one half full, and other 
about seven-eighths part. 
Ans.— We have had no experience with 
compressed air. The gas tank will stand 
the pressure. Have any readers ever tried 
such an outfit? 
Value of Tobacco Stems. 
C. IF. C., Staat8burg, N. Y .—I can get from 
a cigar factory all the strips or stems for 
the carting. Are they any good for ferti¬ 
lizer? I have heard they were worth about 
.<30 a ton for such. They will cost me here 
at my farm about .$7 a ton. 
Ans.— If those stems have not been 
exposed to the rain they are worth about 
five times as much as average manure. 
In small quantities when ground fine 
they might sell at the rate of $30 per ton, 
but as you get them they are not worth 
as much as thaf. We would buy all we 
could get at the price you mention. The 
best use for them will depend on the 
crops you are growing. We should use 
them for mulch around trees or around 
vine plants, or they would be plowed 
under like manure. 
Winter Oats in Pennsylvania. 
O. D. G., Waymart, Pa .—Is it well to sow 1 
Winter oats this Fall in northeastern Penn¬ 
sylvania? 
Ans.— No, we would not sow the 
Winter oats above Wilmington, Del. We 
have seeded them several times in north¬ 
ern New Jersey, sowing in September. 
They made a heavy growth so long as 
the soil remained open—much heavier than 
rye or wheat. In the Spring there were 
only a few scattering plants left. In 
Delaware and States south these Winter 
oats are seeded in the Fall like rye or 
wheat. They survive the Winter usually, 
and give a fair crop of grain. The only 
use we can see for them in the North is 
to sow them in orchards or in small 
fruit, where Winter protection is needed, 
yet where no Spring plowing is desired. 
Rye, wheat or clover would have to be 
plowed under in Spring, but the Winter 
oats would die out, so that a disk harrow 
would answer for culture. 
Apples ix Wayxe County, N. Y.—The 
apple situation this season is probably one 
of the most peculiar that has ever existed 
here, as regards the purchase of evaporated 
fruit. Usually many of the evaporators open 
the last of August or first of September, and 
by tbe middle of the month hundreds of 
them are in operation and the industry is at 
its height. But now at the last of Septem¬ 
ber there are few in operation, and an air 
of uncertainty prevails which will prevent 
many evaporator owners from opening until 
late in the season, and many will not run 
at all. As matters now stand there is noth¬ 
ing for the evaporators except drops and cider 
apples. The green apple men are buying 
everything in sight, but they are moving 
very slowly. In 1905 nearly everything was 
sold by the 15th of September, but this year 
the tendency of buyers of both green and 
evaporated fruit seems to be to keep the price 
a mystery. Instead of coming out early in 
the season with a certain price, no one has 
been able to get direct quotations, but the 
buyers have gone quietly through the country 
buying here and there an orchard, at any 
terms or price that could be agreed upon. 
In some orchards the buyer would give a 
lump sum for the entire crop. In the next 
purchase he would give a set price per bushel 
and take everything. In the very next or¬ 
chard everything would be taken at two 
inches in diameter or above. One dealer in 
Wolcott opened the season by buying about 
15,000 bushels of picked fruit at one dollar 
per bushel, taking all fair apples at two 
inches and over. Since then he has bought 
about 20,000 bushels at 75 to 80 cents pet- 
bushel. The highest price paid in this vi¬ 
cinity for any crop is .$3 per barrel for first 
and seconds, buyer to furnish barrels. Only 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
a few hundred barrels have been sold at this 
price, and from present appearances, this 
price would take everything in this section 
that has not already been sold. The fruit 
has improved wonderfully during the last 
two weeks, and orchards which early in the 
season appeared to have nothing but inferior 
fruit, are now classed among those, of the 
highest grade. In ordinary years at this 
season local dealers have under contract thou¬ 
sands of tons of evaporated fruit, but this 
year scarcely a contract has been made and no 
price established. Everybody seems possessed 
with a desire to wait, and no one is anxious 
to buy or make any offers. A few have been 
sold at eight and 814. and even nine cents 
has been offered, but this latter quotation 
is being kept very quiet. There will be no 
high-grade evaporated fruit this year and the 
stocks that will be made will be of small and 
inferior quality, because everything of any 
size will be barreled. c. j. Armstrong. 
Burning the Scale. —I have just read the 
article on “Burning Off San Jos6 Scale,” 
page 666, and the success which your corre¬ 
spondent had suggests to me something along 
the same line which I imagine would be bet¬ 
ter than a gasoline torch. Why not have a 
furnace mounted on wheels the heat from 
which shall be reflected from a parabolic sur¬ 
face in straight, parallel lines? Direct these 
heat rays against the affected tree for such 
time as will kill the scale without injuring 
the tree (if such a thing is possible). Such 
an apparatus could be passed down one side 
of a row of trees and up the other side, thus 
getting at both sides of all the branches. 
Texas. A. D. MC N. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
CATALPA TREES. 
LAND OWNERS—I have a message for you. 
It is about our trees. The story will surprise 
you. There is money in it too. Write for it. 
It is free. Address 
H. C. ROGERS, Box 11, Mechanicsburg, Ohio. 
PEACHES ft FRUITS 
ARE BRINGING HIGH PRICES. 
You Had Better Plant Some Trees this Fall. 
We have them for sale. 
Address J()S JJ SON 6 CO., 
HIGHTSTOWN, N. J. 
REENS 
ow AND 
O TO YOU 
SAFELY BY MAIL, EXPRESS, or by FREIGHT 
Now is the time to send in your order for fall planting 
Send for free catalogue of plants, vines and trees 
GREEN’S NURSERY CO.. Rochester, N. Y. 
Money in Mushrooms. 
A mushroom bed is a money-maker. Big 
demand, good prices, success assured if 
PURE CULTURE SPAWN 
Is used. Our Book " Mushroom Spawn and 
Guide to Mushroom Culture ” tells how. Free. 
Ask for book “L.” Write to-day. 
PURE CULTURE SPAWN CO., Pacific, Missouri. 
Distributing Warehouses : Cincinnati and Philadelphia. 
TREES - PLANTS 
Fruit, Shade and Ornamental 
No Scale or Diseases 
Illustrated Catalogue Free 
P. J. BERCKMANS CO. me. 
Frultland Nurseries, Augusta, Georgia. 
^^^_^^^^^_Estah)islied 1g v ; 
“Farmers* Favorite’* 
TTim rAAKKP Just the thing for butchers, 
rCtC.Lt l/UUIiLH sugar-makers, pou 11ry ni en, 
A\Tn RAIT HD stockmen, dairymen and fruit 
rilll/ DUILlA growers. Has no equal for 
cookingfeedand heating water. 
Fine for sterilizingmilk cans. Cheap and economical. 
Write for circular. Lewis Mfg. Co., liox C, Cortland, N. Y. 
LEFFEL 
Farmers are coming back to steam, the one re¬ 
liable power. It's suited to more kinds of work, is 
cheaper, surer, safer, more 
powerful. The old reliable 
Letlel engines are built spe¬ 
cially for 
Farm Power 
Ser¬ 
vice 
Styles 
and 
Sizes 
for 
All 
Needs 
Furnish steam for many uses as well as power. 
Portables and on skids If moving is required. Good 
for a man’s lifetime. Write for book. 
James Leffel & Co.. Box 210, Springfield, Ohio 
Tuttle’s Elixir 
The Horse Remedy ol the Age 
No stable is now well equipped without 
this incomparable liniment on the shelf. It 
has cured more blemishes and made more 
horses clean limbed than any other remedy in 
the world. It never fails to locate lameness. 
$100 Reward 
Our offer is always open. Some cases have 
passed the curable stage. But whenever a 
cure is possible we will pay $100 for any fail¬ 
ure of Tuttle’s Elixir to cure Spavin, Curb, 
Splint, Sprain, Colic or Lameness. 
It is theimain dependence of Veterinaries, 
Express, Livery and Transfer Stables as a 
Leg and Body Wash 
Beware of all blisters; they give only temporary relief, if any. 
Tuttle’s Hoof Ointment, Worm Powders, 
Condition Powders, White Star Liniment 
and Family Elixir are other excellent 
specifics. “Veterinary Experience,'* an 
infallible guide for horsemen, is free. 
Every disease and symptom made plain. 
Write for copy. Postage 2c. 
Tuttte’s Elixir Company, 
30 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. 
Montreal: H. A. Tuttle, Mgr.. 32 St. Gabriel St. 
So. Farmington. N. S.: C. H. R. Crocker, Mgr. 
Chicago: C. F. Tuttle, M??r.. 311 East 63d St. 
Los Angeles: W.A. Shaw, Mgr., 1921 New England Av. 
Pill 1 PROD 1908 FROM OL’R MID-SUMMER 
rULL OllUr STRAWBERRY PLANTS. Send 
for List. Kevitt’s Plant Farm, Athenia, N. J. 
Nurseries Pay Cash Weekly 
V 1 and Want More Salesmen Everv- 
A1 where. Best Contract, Best Outfit, 
PJI “ Largest Nurseries—with an 82-Year Record. 
^ STARK BRO'S, LOUISIANA, MO. 
CALIFORNIA PRIVET 52°J?MS, I'SK 
Trees, Shrubbery, &c. J. A. Roberts, Malvern, Pa. 
pOTATOFS—Best 85 kind*, Bovee, Carman, Cobbler, Oreen Mu, 
* Giaiil, Ohio,Longfellow,Norotoii,Hose. C. W. Ford, Flaheis. N.Y. 
APPLE BARRELS, f 
ni 1 LL UrmilLLUl Robt. (illllcs, Medina, Si. Y. 
PDI 1 IT and Shade Trees at WHOLESALE 
I KUIl PRICES for fall delivery. Catalog free. 
Woodbine Nurseries, W. A. Allen & Son, Geneva, O. 
APPLE TREES 
NOTHIN Gr BUT 2Y1*±*LES 
ROGKRs ON THE HIRE, Dansville, N. Y. 
DO YOU SHIP APPLES? 
If you do, ship them In the New York 
or Canadian Bushel Box made by 
South Side Mfg. Co,, Petersburg, Va. 
We offer the FINEST and LARGEST assortment of 
Nursery Stock we have ever handled. All the best varieties 
of FRUITS and ORNAMENTALS that are healthy and 
native grown. HAlso have a fine line of selected large stock 
in ORNAMENTALS and FRUITS which will give results at once and sure to live. Let us give yon a 
price on your wants before ordering elsewhere. HWe do LANDSCAPE GARDENING in all its branches. 
HWrite to-day for our FREE illustrated catalogue. T. J. DWYER & CO., Box 1. Cornwall, N. Y. 
FOR FALL PLANTING. 
Big interest on pr investment. 
A Farmer who knew said that if a man 
did not have the money to buy a 
manure spreader, lie could afford 
to borrow it, pay 50 per cent interest, and 
still make money. 
This shows how extremely profitable 
the use of a manure spreader is. 
It will make more than 50 per cent per 
year on the investment. 
It increases the fertilizing value of 
barnyard manure, the only fertilizer 
produced on the farm, fully 100 per 
cent, and when you remember that this 
barnyard manure is worth £2.00 or more 
per ton, you know how much money a 
spreader makes for you on every ton of 
manure hauled into the field. 
Of course, you must be sure and buy 
a good spreader. We mean a strong, 
dependable, practical machine—one 
that you can load up day after day and 
drive into the field with absolute cer¬ 
tainty that it will spread as many loads 
per acre as you desire. 
The I. H. C. spreaders—Corn King, 
Cloverleaf, and Kemp 20th Century, will 
do this. The Corn King and 20th Cen¬ 
tury are return apron machines. All 
are replete with valuable features, not 
found in other spreaders. 
The vibrating rake on the Cloverleaf 
and Corn King spreaders is one of their 
valuable features. It levels the load 
before it reaches the cylinder and in¬ 
sures an even and uniform distribution 
of the contents. 
There are many excellent features 
about each of these spreaders. They 
are among the most substantially built 
spreaders on the market, and make ma¬ 
nure handling easy, agreeable, fast work. 
All have broad tires to prevent rutting, 
and on all, the front wheels cut under so 
the spreader can be turned in its own 
length. 
We suggest that you look into the 
question of a profitable manure spread¬ 
er very carefully. The local agent in 
your town will gladly demonstrate the 
line he handles, or write the general 
office for catalogues, colored hangers 
or other information desired. 
Send for copy of “Farm Science” or 
“Wasteful Farm Practices” which con¬ 
tain very valuable information on agri¬ 
cultural subjects of special interest to 
you. 
International Harvester Company of America, Chicago 
(Incorporated) 
