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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Destroying Gooseberry Worms. 
J. B. H., IAnville, 27. C .—How can I kill 
Gooseberry worms’ 
Ans. —You can easily destroy the 
Gooseberry worms by dusting or spray¬ 
ing the bushes as soon as they are no¬ 
ticed with Paris green, made somewhat 
weaker than vou would use for the 
slug of the Potato beetle. Powdered 
hellebore, which may be obtained from 
any druggist, is also a certain remedy 
for the currant and gooseberry worm. 
It should be dusted or blown over the 
bushes as soon as the worms are no¬ 
ticed. The worms a~e the larvae of a 
small fly. They generally lay their 
eggs on the leaves in the middle of 
the bushes. The young worms begin 
destroying the foliage from within, and 
by the time they are noticed on the 
outside of the bushes are nearly full 
grown and have done much barm. By 
keeping a sharp watch and frequently 
parting the branches soon after the 
leaves come out you will notice them 
before much harm has been done, when 
they should be immediately destroyed 
by either of the two remedies men¬ 
tioned. The use of Paris green early 
in the season is not at all dangerous, 
as it is washed off the young fruits by 
rains long before they ripen. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Virginia Apple Exhibit- —The Virginia 
State Horticultural Society had an in¬ 
teresting display of excellent apples 
grown in that State at the Fruit Auction 
Company’s rooms in New York, January 
21. The fruit was of good size and color 
and neatly packed in bushel boxes. The 
principal varieties shown were Winesap, 
York Imperial, Grimes Golden, Ken Davis 
and Albemarle Pippin, practically identi¬ 
cal with Yellow Newtowp. but growing in 
Virginia to a degree of perfection not 
found elsewhere. But these “Old Do¬ 
minion” apples are something more than 
pictures, as those who have tested their 
quality well know. 
Bermuda farmers are now having their 
harvest, potatoes, beets, carrots, Lima 
beans and salads being among the present 
receipts. Most of this stuff sells high in 
New York, and this is necessary in order 
to furnish even a fair profit to. (Jhe 
grower, considering the freight and tariff 
charges. The duty on potatoes is 25 
cents per bushel: onions, 40 cents, and 
most other vegetables 25 per cent of their 
value. The Bermuda produce is marketed 
largely by associations. 
Defunct Eggs. —The pure food law 
gi\ es Government officials authority to 
seize shipments of bad eggs, and some 
effective work of this sort has been done. 
In a recent instance 25 cases of such eggs, 
alleged to have been intended for a New 
York bakery were captured and declared 
by chemists to be unfit for food. The 
baker swore that he did not use such 
eggs, but the evidence appeared to be so 
conclusive that he was given the maximum 
fine. It is a matter of common belief here 
that large quantities of eggs in various 
stages of badness are worked into bakery 
goods here every week. The eggs are sup¬ 
posed to be denatured with formaldehyde 
or carbonate of ammonia, the latter being 
a regular ingredient in bakery goods. From 
close observation of the methods of numer¬ 
ous bakers in sections of the city where 
bad eggs are supposed to be most used, I 
judge that the ideas about this abuse are 
exaggerated. The matter is, however, 
serious enough to warrant as careful in¬ 
spection as possible and a prompt punish¬ 
ment of all shown to be wilfully guilty. 
After tiie Rats. —These pests of the 
farmer are specially troublesome around 
the docks where ships unload their car¬ 
goes. The Department of Agriculture esti¬ 
mates that last year rats did more than 
$150,000,000 damage in this country. 
These wharf rats get to be experts in 
climbing about slippery places under docks 
and dodging their numerous enemies. Some 
of them get large and tough enough to 
make a serious fight when cornered. At 
the Erie Basin in New York harbor an 
experiment is to be made with the rat 
virus prepared by Prof. Danysz, of Paris. 
After eating grain mixed with this virus, 
the rats are infected with a fatal dis¬ 
ease causing thirst and a desire to get in 
the open air, so that they leave the 
buildings and die outside. This treatment 
is said to have been successful in parts of 
Europe. Two excellent discouragers of 
rats on the farm are a tight granary and 
a corncrib on stilts with metal collars. 
Add to these a few lively cats to look 
after the mows and the rats will be very 
homesick. 
Hothouse Lambs, when in good condi¬ 
tion and weighing from 30 to 35 pounds, 
have sold well, occasional carcasses bring¬ 
ing $12, though $9 or .$10 covered most 
sales. These lambs are neatly bog-dressed 
and the wool brushed free from dirt. The 
finest I have seen were wrapped in muslin 
and burlap and packed in strong crates, 
thus avoiding all injury in handling. 
What hothouse lamb dealers fear. most is 
a warm foggy spell when the lamb is on 
the way. Under such conditions the finest 
carcasses may get sour or fainted, so that 
part or all must be thrown away. This 
makes a situation that is naturally hard 
to explain to the shipper, who thinks the 
loss is owing to some carelessness here. 
Two precautions that the shipper may 
take will lesson probability of loss. viz.: be 
sure the animal heat is all out, and never 
send during mild foggy weather. The fog 
itself may have nothing to do with the 
trouble but it seems to accompany a 
peculiar atmospheric condition that a 
dressed lamb cannot endure. w. w. h. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal." See guarantee page 12. 
THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER 
( Basic Slag Phosphate ) 
Prof. Alva Agee, of the Penna. 
Agricultural College, Writes Con¬ 
cerning the Availability of the 
Phosphoric Acid in This Material, 
and Concerning Its Valuation. 
The following extract from a very 
able article written by PROF. ALVA 
AGEE, of the PENNSYLVANIA 
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, (for¬ 
merly of the OHIO EXPERIMENT 
Station), for THE NATIONAL 
STOCKMAN AND FARMER, issue 
of October 29th, 1908, will interest every 
practical farmer:— 
“Careful experiment station tests 
show that a pound of plant food in 
Basic Slag (sometimes called Thomas 
Slag), is just as effective as a pound of 
so-called available phosphoric acid in the 
acid phosphate that is the source of 
most of this element found in commer¬ 
cial fertilizers. I think we can safely 
assume three things: 
“(1) If the fertilizer contains 16 or 
17 per cent of phosphoric acid the actual 
phosphoric acid is worth $16.00 or $17.00 
wherever freight rates are such that a 
14 per cent acid phosphate is worth 
$14.00. 
“(2) The Basic Slag contains effec¬ 
tive lime, and we may add a dollar or 
two for that. 
“(3) THE BASIC SLAG, LIKE 
ANIMAL BONE, CONTAINS NO 
HARMFUL MATERIAL, AND FOR 
THAT REASON WE MAY ADD 
SEVERAL DOLLARS MORE PER 
TON WHEN COMPARING IT 
WITH ACID PHOSPHATE FOR 
ACID SOILS. 
“BASIC SLAG TENDS TO 
SWEETEN SOUR LAND, AND TO 
KEEP SWEET SOILS SWEET, IT 
FAVORS CLOVER, HENCE THIS 
PAPER HAS CALLED ATTENTION 
TO IT FOR YEARS. WE MUST 
HAVE CLOVER, AND WHERE 
CLOVER IS FAILING, BASIC SLAG, 
AT PREVAILING PRICES, IS THE 
BEST FERTILIZER I KNOW. It is 
worth several dollars a ton more than 
‘one dollar a unit’ for acid soils.” 
In this connection Mr. Monroe Morse, 
of Medway, Mass., one of the most suc¬ 
cessful farmers in Massachusetts, and 
well known to all Rural New-Yorker 
readers, writes as follows in the Ameri¬ 
can Cultivator, date of Nov. 16th, 1907: 
“The cheapest way to supply lime to 
the soil is to use BASIC SLAG 
(THOMAS PHOSPATE POWDER) 
as a source of phosphoric acid for the 
fertilizers. SLAG (THOMAS PHOS¬ 
PHATE POWDER) carries from 30 
to 50 per cent of lime, and the value of 
the phosphoric acid it carries will cover 
its whole cost.” 
At the Ohio Experiment Station care¬ 
fully conducted experiments with 
THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER 
(Basic Slag Phosphate), are reported in 
Bulletin No. 100, which says: “Experi¬ 
ments made at this Station indicate that 
the total phosphoric acid of BASIC 
SLAG is practically as effective as the 
available phosphoric acid of acid phos¬ 
phate.” 
The excellent results from the use of 
the THOMAS PHOSPHATE POW¬ 
DER, especially on fruits, grass, clover, 
Alfalfa, beets, cabbages and turnips, to¬ 
gether with the low price at which it 
is offered, certainly should lead every 
progressive farmer and fruit grower to 
investigate its merits. The Coe-Morti- 
mer Company, 24 Stone St., New York 
City, are special importers of this mate¬ 
rial and they will be glad to furnish full 
information and to quote prices. (Adv.) 
When you write advertisers mention The 
I t. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 12. 
Pretty Places Make 
Happy People and 
Bring More Money 
when for sale. It pays to make 
your place attractive, therefore, 
and it increases the happiness 
of your family. At Harrison’s 
Nurseries are found a full line of 
Trees and Plants for 
Home Grounds 
We have all the good orna¬ 
mental trees and plants, as well 
as a complete assortment of 
fruits. Send for our new cata¬ 
logue which Is free to you. 
Harrison’s Nurseries 
Box 421 Berlin, Md. 
Specialties: 
Peaches and Strawberries 
Peach Trees 
Fine, stocky, hardy. Grown 
on the banks of Lake Erie. 
Free of borers and ail peach 
di; eases. Everything of the 
best for Orchard, Vineyard. 
Dawn, Park, Street, Gar¬ 
den and Greenhouse. Cata¬ 
log No. 1, 112 pages, FREE to 
buyers of Ornamental and 
FruItTrees. No. 2. 168 pages, 
to buyers of Seeds, Hulks, 
Roses, Pnlins, Ferns and greenhouse plants in 
general. Immense stock of SUPERB CA NN AS, the 
queen of bedding plants. Seeds, Plants, Roses, etc., 
by mail postpaid. Safe arrival and satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed. Direct deul will insure you the best and save 
you money. 55 years. 44 greenhouses. 1200 acres *. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO. 
Box 185t PA 1 NESVILLE, OHIO 
DIBBLE’ 
SEED POTATOES 
Northern Grown, are Healthy 
and Vigorous 
We are Headquarters for Seed Potatoes and 
at this time have in store from 2,000 to 10.000 bush¬ 
els of each of the following varieties: 
Green Mountains. State of Maines, Irish Cob¬ 
blers, Houlton Early Rose, Bovees, Early Hebrons, 
Giants, Chios, Carmans, Manistees. Raleighs and a 
score of other kinds aggregating 50.000 bushels or 
100 car loads, eyery bushel of which was saved 
from fields that were free from blight or disease 
and we sell direqt from our 1,200-acre seed farms to 
you in any quantity from a single bushel to car 
loads, Our catalog the handsomest Farm Seed 
Book of the year, Is FREE. Address, 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE 
Seedgrower 
Box C. HONEOYE FADES, N. Y. 
February 13, 
Ornament Your Lawn 
There is no reason why the fanner’s yard should 
not be as handsome as that of his city cousin. 
A few Trees along the front and down the lane 
and a well selected clump of Shnibbery helps 
wonderfully. Let us fix up that lawn of yours 
for you. A full descriptive catalogue free. 
JOS. H. BLACK, SON & CO., 
Higlitstowu, N. J. 
FRUIT TREES-SHRUBS-ROSES 
Hardy, thrifty, well developed, fibrous-rooted trees and 
plants at prices which, after you investigate will attract 
your close attention. Assortment ami quality unsur¬ 
passed. Catalogue free. THOMAS MARKS & CO., 
Nurserymen, Geneva, New York. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS Tom&>. 
per, Cauliflower, Celery, Asparagus, Sweet Potato, 
etc. Also 35 varieties of Strawberry Plants. Price¬ 
list free. S. C. ATHERTON, Greenwood, Del. 
THAT DO NOT DISAPPOINT 
prrno 
J I I Sold on The Ford Plan, which guar- 
L EJ AJ antees satisfaction and saves you 
^ -w nione y on every purchase. Our cat- 
ices on 
otatoes, 
__ t Contains 
lots of testimonials from our customers. It’s free. 
IfORD SEED CO., Dept. Ravenna, Ohio. 
Our new seedling. A prodigious yioldor of Large 9 
Round 9 Smooth, White, Deliciously 
flavored tubers. Vigorous grower; liandsomo in ap¬ 
pearance. Splendid shipper. Cooks dry and mealy. - 
For 25c (stamps or coin) will mail 1 lb. Late Petoskcy, 
1909 catalog of sure to grow Northern Grown 
Seeds and coupon good for SOc worth F~rCO 
ScodSm Catalog alon~ mailed free. Write quick. 
Darling & Be ah an, 350 Mich. St., Petoskey, Mich. 
Send.Postal lor] 
i BULLETIN No.21 
60 cts. | 
a bu. 
Seed Barley 
See Salzer’s catalog page 129. 
Largest growers of seed barley, oats, wheat, I 
j speltz, com, potatoes grasses, clovers and farm I 
seeds in the world. Big catalog free: or, send I 
10c in stamps and receive samples of barley I 
yielding 173 bu. per acre, Billion Dollar I 
Grass, Oats, Speltz, etc., easily worth $10.oo| 
I of tiny man’s money to get a start. Or, send 14c I 
I and we add a sample farm seed novelty never | 
I seen by you before. 
THE SALZER SEED CO., LaCrosae, Wis. 
$5.oo per lOO 
AYl) UP. FREIGHT PREPAID 
Send for Free Catalogue that describes over 400 Varieties and tells 
how two Rural New-Yorker readers found we were reliable 
W. P. RUPERT * SON, Seneca, New York 
$ 6.50 
SPECIAL VALUES 50 PLUMS 
FOU 80 BAYS 50 CHERRIES f 
Beautiful well formed, well rootod 2 year trees, 3k> to 5 ft. Your choice delivered to all New England 
points: also in N. Y., N. J., Pa., Ohio, Mich., Ind., and Ill. Many other attractive offers in our complete 
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through these columns for nearly a quarter of a century. Established 1847. 
H. S. WILEY & SON, Box 13, Cayuga, New York. 
DCAPU TRFPC_RFRRY PI AMTQ 
rtflun mtto Btnni rLAmo 
how to grow them successfully. Over 
forty varieties of strawberry plants; a book brimful of good things: write for it. 
BARNES BllOS. NURSERY COMPANY, Box 8, Yulesville, Conn. 
GENUINE 
Thomas Phosphate Powder 
(BASIC SLAG PHOSPHATE 1 
MAKES CLOVER AND ALFALFA GROW where they 
have refused to grow before. 
Gives Vigorous and Healthy Foliage to Your Fruit Trees, 
and High-Colored, Long-Keeping' Fruit. 
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS 
17 to 19% Phosphoric Acid 35 to 50% Lime 
THE PRICE IS LOW 
Prices and Special Booklet sent promptly if you mention The Rural New-Yorker 
THE COE-MORTI MER COMPANY 
Special Importers of THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER 
Sole Manufacturers of E. FRANK COE FERTILIZERS and PERUVIAN BRANDS 
24 STONE STREET,_ NEW YORK CITY 
