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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 18 ; 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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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 votes of farmers can 
defeat them. It should be the duty of 
every farmer to blacklist them and keep 
them away from Albany. Vote them out! 
JOTTTAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. RANCHER. .Salamanca. N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham, N. Y. 
WILLIAM .T. TI LLY.Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y, 
P.EN.L M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE... East Schodack, N. Y. 
FRANCIS 11. GATES... Chittenango, N. Y. 
W.\I. W. WEMPLE.Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM. T. O’NEIL.St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y. 
peaches. The Niagara is of about the 
same character in all respects, but is a 
more dependable bearer than either of 
them. Elberta is the next in order of 
riperting, and a large yellow freestone of 
beatftiful appearance and fair quality. It 
is also hardy in bud and tree and is 
really one of the most dependable 
bearers in either favorable or unfavor¬ 
able sections. Crosby is j a very fine 
yellow peach of medium size and good 
appearance. The tree is hardy in bud. 
Fitzgerald is another yellow peach 
of good character, much like Late 
Crawford, which is a standard va¬ 
riety, but is not suitable to severe cli¬ 
mates. Bokhara is a late white free¬ 
stone of medium size and quality. It 
is said to be very hardy. Aside from 
these varieties inquired about there are 
others that are as suitable as any of 
them, among which may be mentioned 
Snow’s Orange. This is a yellow free¬ 
stone of midseason. It is not large but 
large enough and of good quality. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Keeping Horseradish. 
C. D. /., Qucchee, Vt .—Will you tell mo 
how to put up horseradish so it will not 
turn dark? 
Ans.—A large commercial packer of 
horseradish, who has been in the busi¬ 
ness many years, says he would be very 
glad to learn of some process that would 
keep horseradish white, but although 
he has given much thought to the mat¬ 
ter, and engaged a chemist to study it, 
he has not yet learned an absolutely 
sure way to prevent the horseradish 
from darkening, if kept indefinitely 
after grating. He says that after pre¬ 
paration it should be sealed airtight; if 
corked, wax should be put over the top, 
and the bottles kept in a cool dark 
place. It is not wise to prepare a quan¬ 
tity in advance, so that it must be 
stored a long time. The change in color 
is doubtless due to some chemical or 
bacterial process. 
Test for Nitrate of Soda and Muriate of 
Potash. 
A. G. 8., Yenetia, Pa .—I Fought 100 
pounds each of muriate of potash and ni¬ 
trate of soda a year ago; used about half 
of each, and got no results whatever. I 
put it on clover, strawberries and under 
fruit trees. The stuff in the sacks looks 
and tastes like dirty salt, and as tags are 
not on the sacks, how can I tell one from, 
the other? 
Ans. —Of course the surest test would 
be to send samples to the experiment 
station. The following simple test which 
usually gives satisfaction is suggested 
by a chemist: Take one teaspoonful, or 
a small tablespoonful of nitrate and put 
it on a small thoroughly clean shovel, 
and then put the same over an ordinary 
fire, with the bottom of the shovel di- 
TESTED FARM 
SfflS 
We are Recleaners 
of Clover, Timothy and 
a full line of Grass and 
Farm Seeds, also Grow¬ 
ers,Importers and dealers 
in Garden, Field and 
F'lower Seeds. 
Write for Field Seed 
price list, also Annual 
Seed Catalog Mailed Free. 
THE HENRY PHILIPPS SEED & IMPLEMENT CO., Toledo, Ohio 
Bargains in PEAR TREES 
I have about 7000 Pear trees unsold. Ten leading 
varieties including Bartlett. A $10.00 Collection of 
Pear and Poach trees for $15.00. 
MARTIN WAHL, Nurseryman, 
B51 Gregory St., Rochester, N. Y. 
mm hh on Booklet on CATALPA TREES 
■■ Iv Let me tell you about the 15U acres 
I I m wmm i am growing for Telephone Poles. 
This wood takes the place of Ash and Hickory for Car¬ 
riage-makers’ uses. Beats farming Two to One. 
H. C. ROGERS, Box n, MecLanicsburg, Ohio 
COW PEAS 
The Great Rebuilder of Poor Soil. Suitable 
Either for Hay or Plowing" Under. 
SO.TA BEANS. One of the richest feeds which 
we have. As grain they analyze as high as thirty- 
eight per cent protein. As hay they compare favor¬ 
ably with clover. Our retail prices are actually as 
low as wholesale. Write for Catalog and prices. 
J. E. WING & BROS. SEED CO., Box 423, Mechanicsburg, Ohio 
FOR SALE- 
I—Crimson Clover Seed, $3.50 to $4.50 
bushel; White Onion Sets, $3.00 
bushel; Yellow Onion Sets, $2.50 per bushel. Har¬ 
den Peas, P#w Peas, Clover Seed, Seed Potatoes, 
etc. JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Delaware. 
P EACH TREES—4 cts. each, Elberta, etc: free 
catalogue of all kinds of Nursery Stock. Wood¬ 
bine Nurseries, W. A. Allen & Son, Geneva, Ohio. 
ASPARAGUS PLANTS only $3 to $ 2.50 
per 1,000 —strong plants, or 50e. per 100 by 
mail. 26th Annual Berry Plant Catalogue Free. 
SLAY.MAKER & SON, Dover, Del. 
C ALIFORNIA PRIVET, Strawberry plants- 
fruit trees,etc. SamT O.DeCou.Moorestown.N.J. 
CHOICE SEED POTATOES 
Early Dewdrop, Carman No. 1 and Chicago 
Market, grown from selected seed. Strong, 
vigorous seed free from blight. Write at once." 
F. H. THOMSON <fc SON, 
Fairview Farm, Holland Patent, N.Y. 
PEACH AND PEAR TREES. 
BARTLETT PEARS, 2 Yr. 1st Class at 
$20.00 per 100. 
Special Prices for These Two Kinds Only, 
IRON MOUNTAIN AND SMOCK. 
5 to 6 ft, fa $ 6 .HO per 100, 4 to 5 ft. ® $5.00 per 100, 
3 to 4 ft. ® $4.00 per 100, 2 to 3 ft. ® $3.00 per 100. 
JOSEPH H. BLACK, SON & CO., - Hlghtstown, N. J. 
A BUSINESS BERRY 
Juicy, delicious flavor. “VV. H. Taft”"' 
strawberry a money-maker. Vigor¬ 
ous, healthy, prolific. Dandy shipper, 
quick seller. 25 plants, 60e postpaid; 
6U plants, $1.00. Catalog of seeds, 
, nursery stock, free. Binghamton Seed 
Co., 119 Court Bt., Binghamton, N, Y. 
PLANTS FOR SALE 
10,000 Plum Farmer Blaclc Cap Plants. 
1,000 Eldorado Bl kherry Plants. WALTER 
F. TABER, Lakeview Farm, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
TO ATjIj 
Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry and Currant 
Plants. Also Seed Potatoes. HIGH GRADE. 
Heavy rooted stock true to name. 16th annualprice 
list free. A.R. Weston & Co.,R.D. 8 , Bridgman,Mich. 
NEW STRAWBERRY 
R. W. Johnson, Northboro, Mass., introduces 
“PAUL JONES,” the handsomest, largest, 
firmest and best all-round Market Strawberry. 
EIRST PRIZE in field of thirty new varieties, 
Worcester Co. Hort. Soe. Circular Free. 
RICHARD W. JOHNSON, Northboro, Mass. 
THE ENORMOUS YIELD of 50.000 quarts of 
* Strawberries now growing by my system on 
one acre. Send for CHART. 
KEVITT S PLANT FARM. Athenia, N. J. 
Beautiful Gladiolus- 
FREE — 
lover © f 
flowers? I am, and I want 
every one to have plenty. If 
you wish, I will mail you 
free some of my beautiful 
Gladiolus Bulbs. They will 
grow anywhere and bloom 
for anyone. Mailing ex¬ 
pense about 5 cents, which 
send or not as you please. 
FIELD’S 
NEW SEED BOOK 
will he sent to you. It is full of 
practical and interesting Seed 
Talk. I ought to know for I wrote 
it myself. It tells you just what 
you want to know about Flowers 
and Farm and Garden Seeds. It 
tells how I test seeds and guar¬ 
antee them to “make good.'* 
Write TODAY before the bulbs 
and til© books are all gone. 
Address, 
HENRY FIELD SEED CO., 
Box 26, Chenandoah. Iowa. 
Wood’s Virginia 
Ensilage Dorn. 
We are headquarters for all Farm Seeds, 
Cow Peas, Sorghums, Millets, Crimson 
Clover, etc- Prices quoted on request. 
Write for prices and Wood’s Crop Special, 
f iving interesting information about Farm 
eeds. Mailed free on request. 
Superior both 
in growth and 
nutritive qual¬ 
ities, Our En¬ 
silage Corn has a- 
chieved a big rep¬ 
utation wherever 
planted. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
AND FLOWERS. Send for Price List of Transplanted, Well- 
Hardened Plants. The J. E. IIITTON CO., I’onyngham, Pa. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
If you would set the best send me your 
address. 202 varieties lifted. 
GEO. R. SCHAUBER, Box R., BalBIon Lake, N. Y. 
Ctrawberry Plants—All the leading varieties, 
new and old. Send postal for my new catalog. 
Prices $1.25 per 1000 up. David Rod way, Hartly, Del. 
S TRAWBERRY PI,ANTS— Reliable, money¬ 
making varieties, only $1.50 and $1.75 per 1000. 
New illns. cat. Free. S. A. VIRDIN, Hartly, Del. 
PARR ARP plants. E. J. W. & Charleston Wake- 
UHDUHUL field. $2 per 1000. Carefully packed, 
Ready now. F. W. ROCHELLE, Chester, N. J. 
GLADIOLUS BULBS Newest. Best. * Circular 
free. B. F. WHITE, Terryville. Conn. 
T. W. WOOD & SONS, 
SEEDSMEN, - - RICHMOND, VA. 
Red Dragon Dandelion 
Killer—Sample Free 
A powder that is sure death to dan¬ 
delion, plantain, and other weed pests 
in lawns. Does not injure or affect the grass in any 
way. Dust it on lightly when dew is on and the 
weeds will curl up and die. No kill, no pay. We 
are willing to “show” you. Large package for 
ordinary lawn sent postpaid for 50 cents. 
Henry Field Seed Co. Box 26, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
DnTATRPQ Grown especially for Seed, Early 
r U I H I ULO and B a te. Prices right. List Free. 
GEO. H. COLVIN, Crest Farm, Dalton, Pa. 
parly Potatoes— Bovee and Irish Cobbler, $1.25 
bn.; Late Sir Walter Raleigh, $1.00; yield 325 bu. 
per acre. Clay Loam. J. A. Burns, Bedford, O. 
Every Requisite for the Amateur or Professional Gardener 
LAWN MOWERS GARDEN HOSE WEED KILLER 
LAWN ROLLERS GARDEN SPRINKLERS SHEEP MANURE 
POULTRY SUPPLIES SUMMER SPRAY FERTILIZER 
POULTRY FOODS MATERIALS GARDEN TOOLS 
Full description in Dreer's Tool and Implement Catalogue. Sent free on request. 
HENRY A. DREER, - - 714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
OU will be satisfied with the products of 
Burpee’s “Seeds that Grow 
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Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia, —for new Complete Catalog, 
ROGERS TREES “FIT THE LABELS.” 
reetly upon or very close to the fire. If 
the mass melts readily in all probability 
it is nitrate of soda. If it does not melt 
it is some other salt. If it crackles with¬ 
out fusing or melting it is probably com¬ 
mon salt. 
Peaches for California. 
Irish Cobbler Seed Potatoes, 
stook Co., Maine. Clean, sound, pure. Barrel of 
105 lbs. $3.50, 3 barrels $10, 5 barrels $16, 10 barrels 
$31. A. H. HOFFMAN, Seedsman, Bamford, Pa. 
NORTHERN GROWN SEED POTATOES. 
No blight. Raleigh, Ionia,Twentieth Century, Man¬ 
istee. Sam’1 Fraser, Geneseo.N.Y., author of “The 
Potato ” hook. Formerly at Cornell Exp. Station. 
Strong, Healthy, Choice Nursery Stock 
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We offer for Spring of 1908 the finest and largest assortment of Fruits and Ornamentals that we have 
ever grown and they cannot be surpassed. Write to-day for our Free Illustrated Catalogue which will 
show you what you waut for your Spring planting. We are always pleased to quote special prices on 
your list and can give you the right figures for the right stock. 
We do Landscape Gardening In ail its branehes Don’t place your order until you get our prices. 
T. J. DWYER & CO., P. O. Box 1, Cornwall, New York 
M. IT. S., Goleville, Cal .—What is the 
time of ripening and general description of 
the following peaches. Carman, Champion, 
Early Crawford, Fitzgerald, Niagara, Late 
Crawford, Salway? I have the Elberta, 
Bokhara, Crosby, Foster; Elberta is the 
only one of value here at this elevation of 
5,000 feet. I shall have to have peaches 
of hardy wood and bud. I see that the 
Niagara is well spoken of, hut never have 
seen anything as to its hardiness, and time 
of ripening. Are all of the above kinds 
good shippers? Elberta ripens here Sep¬ 
tember 20. I wish to lengthen the season, 
so will have to plant four or five kinds. 
Ans. —Taking the varieties named in 
the order of their ripening, Carman is 
the earliest, but it is not one of the 
earliest of the varieties in cultivation by 
more than two weeks. It is an excel¬ 
lent peach, medium in size, red and 
white, freestone, high quality. Cham¬ 
pion is another peach of nearly the same 
character as the Carman but more sub¬ 
ject to rot. Foster and Early Craw¬ 
ford are large yellow freestones that 
are of fine quality, but they are tender 
in tree and bud, and unsuited to any 
climate that is not very congenial to 
THE PLUM FARMER RASPBERRY 
Send at once for our General Catalogue of Berry Plants, Poultry, Roses, 
•mant later than in me 
selection of varieties to us. Write today. Address 
The greatest moneymaker of the Day. Yielded 3900 quarts, 
or at the rate of $471.53 to the acre. See letter from Chas. C- 
Chapman in my 1908 catalogue. Mr. Chapman again writes:— 
North Stonington, Conn., March 16,1908. 
Friend Farmer:— Your catalogue for 1908 is the most interesting of any, and I get all 
tlie principal ones. I see you have printed my letter in regard 
to the Plum Farmer Raspberry and I hope it may help you to 
sell a good many plants. The best part of it is that it is all 
true. The Plum Farmer is still on top hero and brings me 
more money for the labor, etc., than anything else in the fruit 
line. I have nearly 10,000 plants of the Plum Farmer and ex¬ 
pect to set them all. I have none to sell. I have not yet been 
able to supply the demand here for the fruit, and shall keep on 
setting them. Yours sincerely, 
CHAS. C. CHAPMAN. 
NO FRUIT GROWER OR NURSERYMAN ^ l0 a wi°th- 
out this grand black cap. Wherever known, it is being set to 
the exclusion of all others. I know of many fruit growers who 
will set 10 acres this spring. We offer 125,000 plants at 50c. 
per doz., $1.50 per 100, $10 per 1,000. We also offer 
50,000, each, Cuthbert Raspberry and Snyder Blackberry at 
same price. _ , 
eppn We offer 300 bushels Plum Farmer Oats, 10 
o [1 ays earlier and yields double ordinary oats, 
at $1 per bushel. 
pm II TRV— We have ten trios of White Rocks (U. R. Fishel 
ruULliw strain) at pe; . bird. Also 10 White Wyan¬ 
dotte Cockerels, besides a few birds of 10 other breeds, at same 
price. Eggs of 12 breeds $1 per setting, $5 per 100. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS-2 
*3 per 1,000 and up. Our new “NOKWOOI),” the 
*10,000 strawberry, *10 for 25 plants (under contract), 
us, Grapes, etc. We are located in the cold north where plants remain 
»te P as r ^une loVln If inexperienced, send whatever you wish to invest and leave 
.. Write today. Address" 
PLUM L. J. FARMER, Box 820, Pulaski, Oswego Co., N. Y. 
