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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 25. 
ItWinsinClover 
This picture from an actual photo shows 
Louden Balance Grapple Fork 
lifting a third of a ton of dry clover hay. 
How’s that for a winner? 
MAULE’S SEEDS 
ONCE CROWN ALWAYS GROWN 
Is the reason why for many years past I have 
done such an enormous seed business. 79,430 
customers In Pennsylvania alone, with almost 
half a million the world over. My New Seed Book 
for 1911 is a wonder; contains everything in 
seeds, bulbs and plants worth growing. Weighs 12 
ounces; 600 illustrations, 4 colored plates, 176 
pages. Any gardener sending his name on a 
postal card can have it for the asking. Address 
WM. HENRY MAULE 
1707-09-11 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
6 cents (stamps) and mention this 
paper and I unit enclose in the catalogue 
a packet of seed of the above choice pansy. 
FOR SALE 
J—Canada Peas,$1.85bushel; Alas¬ 
ka Peas $4.00 bushel; Cow Peas. 
$2.25 bushel; Crimson Clover Seed, $8.50 bushel. 
Sow Canada Peas and Oats in March and harvest 
a crop of Hay in May. Onion Sets at $2.25 per 
bushel. JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
N. Y. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT 
EXPENSES. 
The financial statement of the State 
Department of Agriculture will be inter¬ 
esting to New York State farmers, and 
incidentally to all farmers. In the fol¬ 
lowing statement the first column gives 
the appropriations authorized by the 
Legislature for each division of the De¬ 
partment work. The second column 
gives the exact expenditures for each 
division: 
Statement for fiscal year ending September 
30, 19 iO. 
Total funds. Expended 
Commissioner’s Salary .$5,338.70 $5,338.70 
1st Asst. Commission¬ 
er’s Salary . 3,600.00 3,600.00 
Chief of Accts. Salary. 2,250.00 2,250.00 
Chief Chemist's Salary 3,000.00 3,000.00 
Asst. Chemist’s Salary. 2,000.00 2,000.00 
Chemists, Bacteriolog¬ 
ists, etc.11,376.12 10,878.72 
Veterinarian’s Salary. . 3,737.00 3,730.68 
Confidential Agent’s 
Salary . 2,000.00 1.800.00 
8th grade salaries.... 6,780.00 6,760.56 
7th grade salaries... .22,500.00 21,976.67 
6th grade salaries. ... 47,350.00 42,946.67 
5th grade salaries.... 9,300.00 8,312.99 
4th grade salaries. . . . 1,440.00 1,440.00 
2nd grade salaries.... 480.00 480.00 
Farmers’ Institutes.... 33,994.54 28,064.96 
Actual and necessary 
traveling expenses... 61,159.94 58,533.66 
Commissioner’s Travel¬ 
ing Expenses . 1,109.69 955.20 
1st Asst. Commission¬ 
er’s Expenses. 500.00 203.69 
Nursery Inspection.... 43,573.61 29,732.24 
Exterminat ion of 
Moths .50,000.00 15,410.17 
Bureau of Statistics. .. 10,347.75 8,320.48 
Agricultural Labor . . . 7,989.44 7,979.45 
Fertilizers and feeding 
stuffs . 8,621.59 6,888.26 
Pure food .14,269.13 14,266.47 
Dairy products .25,322.37 17,039.97 
2 confidential detective 
agents . 5,700.00 4,195.41 
Diseases of animals. .274,487.54 191,076.19 
Sheriffs and deputy 
sheriffs .18,000.00 6,836.09 
Furniture and office 
repairs .10.904.17 5,472.40 
Agricultural fairs_252,231.78 252,231.78 
Litigation Fund . 4,558.80 1,673.88 
Bills payable in hands 
of Comptroller, Oct. 
1, 1910, Orders Nos. 
214, 216, 219. 957.32 
Totals .$943,922.17 $764,352.61 
A Plague of Rabbits. 
My local paper contains the following 
regarding a bill to prevent us from kill¬ 
ing rabbits: 
The open season for hunting hares and 
rabbits is shortened by a bill introduced 
by Assemblyman C. W. Phillips, of Monroe. 
The season is changed by the bill from 
October 1 to December 31, instead of Feb¬ 
ruary 15. The number to be taken in any 
one trip is reduced from 10 to six and 
hunting with a ferret is prohibited. 
I hope you will use your influence to 
see that this bill is defeated. I have seen 
two acres of newly-set cabbage nearly 
all nipped off by rabbits in the short 
time of one or two nights. Last Win¬ 
ter the snow drifted up to the branches 
of one of my young Baldwin apple trees, 
and before we had time to look after it 
the rabbits had all of the lower limbs 
girdled. It ruined the tree. It had 
been set 12 years. I could go on and 
tell of a great amount of destruction 
that has been done by them, but do not 
think it is necessary, as most farmers 
living near woods or swamps who try 
to raise garden truck or fruit know what 
a nuisance they are. I hope that the 
farmers will make such a protest that the 
bill will be defeated, melvin thomas. 
. Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Farmers should get after 
their Senators and Assemblymen at once 
and ask them to vote against this bill. 
Orchards on Damp Soil. 
S. Mayville, N. Y .—I own about 20 
acres of flat level land in southern New 
York, and am desirous of setting a part of 
It to fruit of different kinds. It is in¬ 
clined to be wet during the Spring and Fall 
rains, but works up fine during the Sum¬ 
mer. It is alluvial soil, with clay sub¬ 
soil, and has produced big hay crops. Is 
there any way I can drain this land by 
surface ditching so that fruit will do well 
on it? I am not able to go to the expense 
of under-tiling it at present, but would like 
to have proceeds of crops take care of 
future improvements. 
Ans. —We should have that field 
looked over by a surveyor or some one 
who can determine levels. They can tell 
where ditches should be run. No doubt 
open ditches would take off enough 
water to permit planting apple trees, but 
before you can hope to have a success¬ 
ful bearing orchard such land must be 
under-drained. You can put in open 
ditches, plant and tile drain later, as you 
have capital, having the field surveyed 
first so as to be sure where the tile 
drains are to run eventually. Select 
varieties of apples best suited to damp 
soil. 
VERY PRODUCTIVE HEAVY GRAIN- 
THIN HULL STIFF STRAW 
Johnson Oats originated here in Michigan and we have many 
testimonials attesting to their value. The heads are large and 
branching and loaded with big, plump, thin-hulled and bright grain. 
Its roots run deep into the soil, thus supplying the plant with 
moisture and food even in a dry season. It stools out and a single 
plant produces a number of large heads. It is plump and heavy, 
often weighing 36 to 40 Ih s. to the bushel. The straw is very stiff 
and of medium height, holding up its large, well filled heads on the 
richest ground when other varieties lie flat. “The Johnson’’ are not 
side Oats. The money you invest in the Johnson Oats for seed will 
yield a profit of 100 to 200 per cent in the increased yield you will 
get over the common kind you have been planting. The extra cost 
of the seed of the Johnson over common Oats is so light that no one can 
afford to plant the common varieties. A change of seed once in 2 or 3 
• years is absolutely essential to growing good crops and when a change is 
made get the best variety possible. The Johnson will fill the bill every 
time. Prices by mail, postpaid: Pkt., 4c; qt., 18c; 3 qts., 45c. Not pre¬ 
paid: Qt., 10c; Vi pk., 18c; pk., 30c; bu., $1.00; in lots of 2y 2 to 10 bus., at 
95c; 10 bus. or more, at 92c per bu., bags free. Freight to be paid by customer. 
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There isn’t another fork in the world 
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long stuff or short, large load or small. 
Louden’s Fork 
has a patented arch support that gives perfect bal¬ 
ance. It takes bold or releases its load at the slight¬ 
est touch. Simple in design, made of steel with 
heavy malleable connections. Will lift hall a Ion 
withont bend or break. 
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Hall's Gold Nugget Corn Yielded 200 Bu. 
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HARRIS’ SEED CORN 
‘^S7'E take the greatest pains 
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SEED POTATOES 
The best early and late varie¬ 
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disease. Some bargain prices. 
(Sir Walter Raleigh, {pure) 75c 
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OATS—The best varieties,pure 
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VEGETABLE SEED-Largely 
our own growing of very superi¬ 
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Potato Growers 
Wanted 
to write for Dibble’s Seed Potato Catalog containing full descriptions of the 31 varieties 
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H. R. Nottingham, of Eastville. Va., writes: "They yielded over 100 barrels per acre.” 
II. W. Cogging wood. Editor Rural New-Yorker, says: “The seed potatoes were 
very satisfactory. L obtained a yield which I figure at 300 bushels per acre.” 
L. G. Waite, Westerly, R. I., reports: “Rate of yield, 310 bushels. Returns, $225,00 
per acre-” 
“ The yield from your seed was three times as good as that from my home grown 
seed” is the verdict of H. B. Nogg, Ellicott City. Md. 
J. H. Sisger, Uniontown. I’a., advises us: “The yield from your seed was double 
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“ The potatoes I bought of you yielded about twice as much as my own seed planted 
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We have hundreds of similar testimonials on file, and the evidence of our customers 
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-A D D HESS- 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower, Box B, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
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SEEDS 
ESTINTHE WORLD 
PRICES BELOW ALL OTHERS 
a lot of new sorts for 
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Illustrated with over £JQE£ 
700 engravings of vegetables 
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AY, Rockford, Illinois 
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in non kernels or 
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FERTILE SEEDS for IOC 
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1 OOO Onion 1 OO Parsley 
1000 Radish 1500 Rutabaga 
100 Tomato 10OO Carrot 
1 500 Turnip tOO Melon 
1200 Brilliant Flower Seeds, 50 sorts 
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„ Send 16 cents in stamps to-day and 
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JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., 
14 South 8‘h Street,LaCrosse, Wl«. 
