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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February ig, 
FRUIT GROWERS 
THINK OF IT! 
81-1909 MODEL 
“FRIEND” 
POWER SPRAYERS 
SOLD TO UP-TO-DATE MEN. 
Buyers of “ FRIENDS ” are not in 
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needs, we’ll do the rest. 
“ FRIEND ” MFG. CO., 
GASPORT, - NEW YORK. 
Mfgrs. of the world’s best 
Hand and Power Sprayers. 
The Tree Preserver 
Save your fruit treer! Kill all San Jose Scale, worms, 
insects, scab or fungi, by spraying thoroughly with 
Good’s Ca ^e p cm sh Soap No. 3 
It is sure death to all enemies of vegetation. Con¬ 
tains no salt, sulphur or mineral oils to injure or 
poison the tenderest trees, plants or shrubs. The 
potash and iish oil are active fertilizers, and enrich 
the soil. The soap dissolves easily in water, and 
sprays perfectly. Used and endorsed by State Ex¬ 
periment Stations and by the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture 
50 lbs. 82.50; 100 lbs. 31.50: larger 
quantities proportionately less. 
Write today for free “Manual of Plant Life.” 
James Good, Original Maker, 945 No. Front Si.,Phila. 
JARVIS SPRAYING COMPOUND. 
Is the Cheapest and Rest. It Has X# Superior. 
Sure Cure For San Jose Scale. 
Buy direct from the manufacturer and save money. 
Spraying Compound ready to mix with water. One 
gallon of Spraying Compound will make from sixteen to 
twenty gallons of spray. 
TERMS In barrel lots ( BO gills. ) 80 cents per gal. 
We would refer you to J. H. Hale, the Peach King, 01 - 
Prof. Jarvis, of the Connecticut Agricultural College. 
They will tell you there is nothing better. Address 
The J. T. ROBERTSON CO.. Box R. Manchester. Conn. 
My New Plant and Poultry Catalogue 
describing the Norwood, Fendall, Early Ozark, Paul 
Jones and fifty other new ami standard varieties of 
strawberries, and the pi-iie winning Delaware Strain of 
R. L Red Chickens is free and ready to mail. Send for 
copy at once if you want good stock cheap. 
XV. S. TOI)l>, Greenwood, Del. 
450.000TPgpc 
200 mrletlss. Also Grapes, Small Fruits ete. Best rooted 
stock. Genuine, cheap. 2 sample currants mailed for 10c. 
Desc. price list free. Lewis KOKSCU, Box K, Fredonl., K. Y. 
flAUI IAQ—kinds (my selection) $1. Satis- 
UHRLIHO faction guaranteed. Write for full 
particulars. H. BURT, Taunton, Mass. 
SEED POTATOES, SEED OATS 
Seed Corn, Clover and all other Garden and 
Field Seeds, sold under our guarantee. 
Catalog Free. Write today. 
KIKENKERltY BROS., Camden, Ohio. 
Sk TO SENSATION— Great jiel.ier, (weight 
S I 40 lbs. per bu.) A Iso Seed Corn, Potatoes, 
I Alfalfa, Cow Peas and Clover Seed. 
Samples and catalogue free. Theo. Burt <fc Sons, Melrose, Ohio. 
PEACH TREES 
Hardy New England Grown Fine Stock 
True to Name 
ASPARAGUS PLANTS 
Special prices, with list of varieties, now ready. 
Send for it to-day. 
BURR XURSEIIIES. 
Box Y, - - Manchester, Conn, 
TWO APPLE TREES 
$1.00 Value for 25c. 
One McIntosh and One Banana 
Apple for 25c post paid. 
Dnnsville grown, fresh dug, 
true to name, every tree as represent¬ 
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order. Send ns a list of your wants for wholesale 
prices freight paid. Write for free catalog. 
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We Supply the U. S» 
Government. 
PricesCutinHalf 
this season. Our large 
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178 E.4th St. Clncinnatl;or, 
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Cheap Tennessee Farms 
— Making Men Rich! — 
Fortunes are being made on fertile Tennes¬ 
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Literature, I’ll tell you how to get one of these 
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The Mild Climate 
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Offers splendid opportunities for farming, stock 
raising, dairying and fruit growing. Winters are 
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reasonable but advancing each year. Write for 
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G. W. KOINER, 
Commissioner of Agriculture, 
RICHMOND, VIRCINIA 
Scraping and Painting Trees. 
0. R., Ulster, Pa. —Having a prompting 
to scrape off the dead or superior layer 
of bax-k from my apple trees (standing 
about. 25 years) and then whitewashing, I 
hesitate, preferring to have good advice as 
to both of these practices, or if scraping 
be good, whether there may not lie some¬ 
thing better to do thereupon than white¬ 
washing. 
Ans. —It is considered good practice 
to scrape off this rough bark provided 
labor for doing it can be secured. The 
scraping destroys some insects which 
winter in the bark, and stimulates the 
tree to some extent. We have never 
been able to see much advantage in 
using a plain wash of lime and water. 
A lime and sulphur wash made as for 
spraying and put on like the whitewash 
would do more good. 
Strawberry Mulching and Fertilizing. 
G. F. (!., Hornell, N. Y. —Would oats and 
Canada field peas sown together make a 
good mulch for strawberries, and would 
an acre of such mulch an acre of ground? 
Would an application of cotton-seed on 
newly-set strawberries well cultivated in be 
beneficial? The ground was xx’ell fertilized 
with a chemical fertilizer, analysis 2-8-10. 
Ans. —The oats and peas would make 
a good mulch, but we would rather cut 
the oats and peas for hay—then plow 
the ground, fertilize well and sow Jap¬ 
anese millet for the mulching crop. 
With a good season you can grow a 
larger crop of the millet than of the 
oats and peas. The millet is coarse 
and makes good mulch. The oats and 
peas make better fodder. The cotton¬ 
seed meal will help the crop—that is, 
it will increase the size of the vines. 
The chief fertilizing value in cotton¬ 
seed meal lies in its nitrogen. The 
average strawberry crop does not need 
nitrogen with such a fertilizer as you 
have used. We think dried blood or 
nitrate would be cheaper than the cot¬ 
ton-seed meal in case extra nitrogen 
were needed. 
Bone or Acid Phosphate. 
W. A 7 ., Liberty, Pa. —Which pays the 
farmer the better, applying phosphoric acid 
as a fertilizer in the material of pure 
bone, or ground rock? 
Ans. —We have answered this ques¬ 
tion several -times. Let us understand 
the difference between bone and rock. 
The former is well known. The rock 
is really petrified bone or bone turned 
to stone. Thus the bone is an organic 
substance, which will in time decay like 
wood or grass, or any other organized 
substance. The rock is a mineral, will 
not decay* in the soil as bone will, and 
is only decomposed by strong acids. 
The jawbone of a mule might be called 
about the toughest bone proposition. 
Bury it near an apple free and in a few 
years you will find a mass of roots 
around it, and marks where these roots 
have actually eaten into it. Bury a 
large chunk of phosphate rock in the 
same way and you will find that the 
roots have barely touched it. Thus in 
the natural state, whole or crushed, the 
bone is more available than the rock. 
As between raw ground bone and 
ground "floats” we should use the bone. 
The rock is generally used as an acid 
phosphate. To make this equal parts 
of the ground rock and sulphuric acid 
are mixed together. This “cuts’’ or 
dissolves the phosphoric acid by taking 
out lime. In this form the rock is 
more available than the bone when first 
put in the ground. As time goes on 
the bone becomes more and more 
available, while the rock becomes less 
so. The reason for this is that the 
bone decays more or less rapidly in the 
soil. On the other hand, the dissolved 
rock makes new combinations with 
lime, iron or aluminum, and in these 
forms becomes more and more insolu¬ 
ble. On sandy soils, in particular, much 
of the value of acid phosphate is lost 
in this way; while when bone is used 
year after year it becomes more avail¬ 
able. Probably the best plan would be 
to use a combination of the two forms 
—the dissolved rock for immediate use 
and the bone for later. 
Fertilizers on French Vineyards.— 
Consul Murphy gives an account of the 
fertilizers used in French vineyards. A 
combination of nitrate of soda, sulphate of 
potash and superphosphate is used. In 
one case a grower used stable manure 
mixed with rich soil. ITe increased the 
crop hut injured the quality of the wine. 
The following statement will interest grape 
growers : 
“A vineyard not far from Bordeaux in¬ 
variably produced excellent wine until one 
season the proprietor used pieces of 
creosoted wood for arbor stakes. The 
grape crop was as large as usual, but the 
wine was so strongly impregnated with 
creosote as to be undrinkable. So well 
understood is this fact of the sensitive¬ 
ness of the grape vine, that the courts in 
a suit against a railroad company awarded 
damages to the owner of a vineyard at 
Saint Emilion, who claimed that his entire 
crop was ruined by the proximity of a pile 
of creosoted ties. It appeared that the 
ties were so placed that the prevailing 
breezes during the growing season reached 
the vineyard laden with the odor of creo¬ 
sote. This so affected the growing plants 
that when the wine was made, its flavor 
and bouquet were found to he utterly de¬ 
stroyed.” 
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TIMOTHY 
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Apply at once for Nitrate of Soda by post card, as this offer 
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Send name and complete address on post card 
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Collar Pad 
that saves you a lot 
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Made of a new ventilating 
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