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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
KEEP THEM AT HOME! 
The following' members of the New York 
Senate voted against Governor Hughes in 
his efforts to remove the Superintendent 
of Insurance. Some of them have done so 
twice—others are backsliders. All have 
proved unworthy in a fair test. All are in 
districts where the voles of farmers can 
defeat them. It should he the duty of 
every farmer to blacklist them and keep 
them away from Albany. Vote them out! 
JOTHAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. PANTHER. .Salamanca. N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.EeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. V. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham. N. Y. 
WILLIAM J. TFLI.Y.Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE . Syracuse, N. v. 
BENJ. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD.Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE... East Schodaek, N. Y. 
FRANCIS II. GATES. . . Chittenango, N. Y. 
WM. W. WEMPLE.Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM. T. O'NEII.St. Regis Falls. N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y. 
English Sparrows and Bedbugs. 
It is reported that nests of English spar¬ 
rows are often filled with bedbugs. Can 
this new sin be fairly charged against the 
sparrow ? 
Ans. —I do not think that any species 
of bedbug has been recorded as living 
on the English sparrow, and if they do 
not live on the bird they certainly 
would not infest its nest. The bed¬ 
bug which infests henhouses, swallows’ 
nests and some other birds is not the 
human bedbug, but a distinct species. 
I do not think that the English sparrow 
is any worse than many other birds, so 
far as their harboring vermin is con¬ 
cerned. Of course, their habit of build¬ 
ing nests around about porches and in 
the vines around the houses makes such 
places unsightly, and sometimes their 
droppings cause injury to the vines as 
well as making them look untidy. 
M. V. SLINGERI-AND. 
Lime-Sulphur and Arsenate of Lead. 
Since the publication of my article on 
lime-sulphur as a Summer spray for 
Codling moth, on page 202, I have re¬ 
ceived a number of inquiries regarding 
the feasibility of adding it to Paris- 
green or arsenate of lead to form a 
combined spray for Codling moth and 
Apple scab. I therefore wish to sup¬ 
plement that article with the statement 
that in our experiments last season we 
used arsenate of lead with the lime- 
sulphur as well as with the Bordeaux, 
and as far as could be determined with 
equally satisfactory results. No injury 
whatever was produced upon foliage or 
fruit, and while no careful estimate was 
made, the percentage of wormy fruit 
was certainly no greater—apparently 
less—where the lime-sulphur combina¬ 
tion was used. It is true that when 
arsenate of lead is added to lime- 
sulphur solutions there is formed more 
or less of an olive-colored precipitate 
of lead sulphides, which varies in 
amount directly with the excess of lead 
present in the lead arsenate. It does not 
appear to detract in the least from the 
value of the spray, except as it with¬ 
draws from the solution a small amount 
of sulphur in the form of lead sulphide. 
A. B. CORDLEY. 
Oregon Experiment Station. 
Plowing a Side Hill. 
It. (No Address). —Which is the better 
way to plow sidehill ground? Which way 
will it wash most? I claim up and down 
hill, as then the rain as it falls will fol¬ 
low each furrow. Some claim to plow 
with the hill, hut I claim the land will 
wash more, as the water in crossing the 
furrows soon forms a gulley. 
Ans. —The method usually followed 
by farmers occupying hilly land to pre¬ 
vent washing of the same when plowed 
is to follow the contour of the land 
rather than to plow up and down the 
grade. Perhaps one reason for this is 
the extra strain brought upon the teams 
when plowing directly up and down the 
slope. But it seems to be the general 
experience that following the contour 
line in the majority of cases results in 
less loss from washing than plowing in 
other ways. When the amount of rain¬ 
fall is such that the contour plowing 
results in the water being absorbed by 
the soil rather than allowing it to run 
down the slope, certainly the contour 
plowing is least liable to washing. If, 
however, the rainfall is so heavy that, 
notwithstanding these precautions, water 
April 11, 
collects in those places where the con¬ 
tour leads into gentle sags, and over¬ 
running the furrows flows down the 
hill, then extensive cutting is likely to 
result^’because under these circum¬ 
stances the contour plowing tends to 
concentrate the water in these depressed 
places. On the other hand, the plowing 
up and down the grade would help to 
keep the water divided into many small 
rills, no one of which would do so much 
damage as might occur in the other 
case. J- L. STONE. 
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W HEN you buy a harvesting machine, you naturally want to be 
sure that you are buying the right one. 
You want a machine that will not make trouble and lose money 
for you at your busiest time. 
You want a machine that will harvest all of your grain crops— 
and thus save all your profit for you with the least possible waste. 
You want a machine that will be easy on your horses, and 
give you long service and good service in all conditions of grain— 
light—heavy — standing — down — tangled — in short, you want a 
machine that you can always depend upon. 
The machine you buy cannot be all this—cannot be right —un¬ 
less the •workmatiship in it is right. 
Two things are the prime essentials to the best workmanship 
—they are the best tools and the best workmen—the best 
facilities and equipment and the most skillful mechanics. 
The secret of success in the making of modern machines is in 
the machinery to make the machines. 
Although the International Harvester Company organized 
with $60,000,000 worth of equipment, the demand for International 
machines has compelled the expenditure of $16,000,000 more on 
factories alone. 
Tens of millions of dollars have been expended so that these 
factories shall have the best manufacturing facilities, and be as 
automatic as the inventive genius of man can make them. 
In the productive activities of the Company, an army of 25,000 
employes receive in their pay envelopes the immense wage of 
$15,000,000 every year. 
Two of the fourteen plants give direct support to 3 per cent of 
the population of Chicago. 
Is it any wonder that the International Harvester Company 
attracts to its factories the most expert workmen, the most skill¬ 
ful mechanics? 
It is the enormous demand for 
Champion, McCormick, Osborne, 
Deering, Milwaukee, Plano, 
Harvesting Machines 
which enables this Company to maintain plants of,the very highest 
efficiency and to employ workmen of the highest skill. 
Such workmanship could not possibly be maintained upon the 
comparatively small demand that would come to one independent 
manufacturer. 
In the manufacture of a harvesting machine, each one of the 
several thousand parts must be made exactly right or the ma¬ 
chines will never give good service. 
If you examine any part of an International machine, you will 
find each piece to be as carefully made as though an entire plant 
had devoted all its resources to making that one piece—every part 
of every machine being made with the utmost care and considera¬ 
tion for the work it must perform. 
The wonderfully automatic machinery which ample capital has 
enabled this Company to gather together in its plants is the 
basic reason for this perfection of workmanship and economy of 
cost 
This Company has the most perfect equipment for making 
castings. At one plant 56,000,000 castings are made in a year. 
Here tons upon tons of molten metal cool into sprocket wheels, 
bevel gears, frames and other familiar parts, and their quality 
cannot be excelled. 
In the tempering and case-hardening rooms, the parts to be 
tempered are heated in molten lead and dipped in oil and brine— 
the fuel used for the furnace is hard coal, coke and fuel-oil—but 
the parts are drawn to temper in wood furnaces. 
All sections, ledger plates, springs, etc., are hardened and 
drawn to proper temper. 
By an unfailing system of double checking the vast product 
from the various plants is handled with comparatively few errors. 
In large measure the efficiency and durability of a machine 
depends upon how carefully it has been tested. The purchaser of 
a machine should prefer the one which has been thoroughly tested 
before it is shipped from the works. The Company maintains 
laboratories at the steel mills and at each manufacturing 
plant. In these laboratories the raw materials are subjected to 
careful tests, the test at the works serving as a check on the 
steel mill test. The small manufacturer cannot afford to maintain 
such laboratories for the purpose of testing raw materials, and 
without such tests defective materials are certain to be found after 
the machine is put in the field. The rigid test given all material 
before it is allowed to enter into the construction of International 
machines is a guaranty as to their quality. 
All finished machines must pass a critical inspection by com¬ 
petent men who devote their whole time to this work. Their 
trained eyes discover any imperfection, and by means of their 
check marks and numbers which are carefully registered, they are 
held responsible for the good work and material entering into the 
construction of the machines. By this arrangement it will be seen 
that no machines are allowed to leave the works that would re¬ 
flect discredit on the inspector whose position depends solely on 
his watchfulness and care. This is a safeguard that saves the 
farmer much time and money in the midst of harvest when a 
serious breakdown would mean the loss of a whole year's profits. 
The large space set aside for testing, elaborate equipment 
used, the efficient organization and the methods adopted make it 
practically impossible for a defective machine to be shipped out. 
Not alone in workmanship, but in materials and principles of 
construction as well, International machines have the best of 
reasons for their undisputed superiority. 
The manufacturers of these machines are able to own their 
own timber lands and saw mills, mines and steel mills, thus secur¬ 
ing the best materials the world affords. 
And for the same reason these manufacturers are able to 
maintain a $350,000 a year staff of inventors and designers to im¬ 
prove their machines from year to year, thus holding the place 
they have established as the standard through fifty years of 
superiority. 
This is the kind of a harvesting machine that you want—the 
only kind that you can be sure is right. 
Call on your International dealer and get a catalog. 
If you do not know an International dealer, write us, and 
will be glad to give you the address of the one nearest to you. 
Equal in importance with a perfect machine is perfect twine 
The most perfect twine made may be had in Champion, McCor¬ 
mick, Osborne, Deering, Milwaukee, Plano and International 
Sisal, Standard, Manila and Pure Manila brands. 
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA 
(INCORPORATED) 
Chicago, U. S. A. 
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