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\THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Set Your Plants Better 
with a Fetzer 
Transplanter 
Waters the roots, 
leaves no hard crust 
on surface. Every 
plant lives. 1 man and 
2 boys transplant 5 acres a day and do better work. 
Write to-day for Free Book No. 49 on Transplanting 
THE WM. FETZEK CO., Springfield, Ill. 
“Gold Medal” 
Bates’ Yellow Flint Seed Corn 
FOR SALE 
j For free pamphlet giving particulars 
of cultivation, exhibits and prices, address 
THEODORE C. BATES 
NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASS. 
Cuthbert Raspberry, Eldorado Blackberry, 
Wineberry, Barrs Mammoth, and Giant 
Argenteuil Asparagus, Privet, etc. 
Prices and plants will satisfy. 
H. H. CORSON & SON, Avondale, Pa. 
EVERGREENS. 
Largest stock in 
America, including 
Colorado Blue Spruce 
and Douglas Spruce 
of Colorado. 
Also Ornamental 
Shade and Forest 
Trees. 
R. DOUGLAS’ SONS 
Waukegan, Ilk 
| / nnrrr Guaranteed 1 
lOnUdEnJ to Bloom 4)1 
We want to prove to you that here are 
“the Best Roses in America,” sold on 
their own roots, direct from America’s 
foremost propagators. Different spe¬ 
cies, in a variety of beautiful colors—a 
very riot of gorgeous loveliness. Sent 
postpaid on receipt of price. 1911 Floral 
Guido FREE. 
THE CON ARI> & .TONES CO. 
Rose Speci«lists—5# years’ experience 
4-C 
Box 4-C, 
West Grove, l’a. 
PLANT HARDY TREES 
Healthy, acclimated, high grade, true to label fruit trees 
and plants for Northern States at wholesale prices, direct 
from nursery to planter. Send for catalogue. 
CELERYCITYNURSERIESjOes^ 
Fruit Trees From the Grower. 
Save middlemen’s expense and get them 
fresh dug. Catalog free. 
WM. J. REILLY. NURSERYMAN. DANSVILLE. N Y. 
SALESMEN WAN TED sion paid weekly. Write 
- — for terms. PERRY NURS- 
TO SELL TREES AND PLANTS ERIES, Rochester, N. Y, 
EDUIT TDEEC Pear*. Bartlett, Seckel and others. 
I I\L11 InLLj Cherries and Plums, all standard 
varieties. Peaches grown from buds from bearing 
stock. Get wholesale prices direct from us ; also SI I.ot 
Offers. Free Catalog. Prize Hampshire sheep. Write 
W. P. RUPERT * SON, Box 20, Seneca, N. Y. 
CATALPA 
SPECIOSA 
TREES 
Mine are true to name. Write for Free booklet which tells 
all about the 150 acres I am growing for telephone poles. 
H. C. ROGERS, Box 11, Mechanicsburg, Ohio. 
200 t arletles. Also Grapes, Small Fruits, etc. Best 
rooted stock. Genuine, cheap. 2 sample currants mailed for 10c. 
Catalog free. LEWIS ROKSOH A SON, Box h , Frcdonla, N. V. 
CRAPE 
VINES 
can be bought right this year. Send us a 
memorandum of your wants for prices. 
MINER & MINER 
Grape Vine Growers, Sheridan, 1)1. V. 
RAPEVINE 
Large stock. Best varieties. Best Grade. 
Guaranteed true. 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
We will send, postpaid, 10 strong, hardy, two- 
year-old GRAPEVINES —best varieties, red, 
white and black — for $1.00. Just the kind 
for planting around the house, along fences, or 
in the garden. W e also offer Five Three-Year- 
old Vines For SI 00. Will bear year after 
, planting. Our valuable hook, how to plant 
, and prune, free with every order. Mention ' 
k this paper and we’ll add free one new, 
large, red currant. 
. T. S. HUBBARD COMPANY 
Grapevine Specialists 
2tO Central A ve., Frcdonla, N.Y. 
Established 44 years. 
am ■SI4S& NEWSEEDOATS. Big money 
nm aa mm in right kind of oats. Here's 
RR H yk your chance. I reported Canadian 
ifcJB B seed oats, raised on Galloway 
SRH B BjB Brothers’ big farm in Canada. 
{3MI H snow New, clean land. Regenerated 
Swedish Select went 116 bushels 
to acre; Early New Market 110 bushels to acre. Farmers who 
bought tliis seed from us last year raised as high as 75 to 100 
bushels in this country, and found out their old seed was inbred 
and run out. Change your seed. Try some of this new seed, 
pend for free sample, or 10 cents for large packet. Will also send 
our free booklet, entitled "Big Money in Oats and How. to Grow 
Them.’’ Galloway Bros.-Bowman Company 
6 62 Galloway Station _ Waterloo, Iowa 
QTT'lTn Potatoes, Disease-Proof Read’s 
OEvCtli Goldenflake, Golden Gem, and Peach- 
blow. New varieties, wonders. Sold direct. Write 
for facts., G. A. READ Read’s Exp. Farms, Charlotte, Vt. 
PLANTING APPLE TREES IN BRUSH. 
H. B. H., Buchanan, Mich .—What would 
you consider the prospects of success of an 
apple orchard, about four acres, planted on 
ground from which the timber, maple, 
beech and basswood, was cut six years ago 
and has since been pastured ? Most of the 
ground is sodded over, but in places are 
patches of briers and pawpaw. It is the 
top of a hill and the eastern slope. Would 
it be better to grub and plow, or plant as 
it is and mulch ? 
Ans.—I f properly handled here is a 
good chance to have a. profitable or¬ 
chard. We should grub or blow out 
enough stumps to enable us to plant 
straight rows. This can often be done 
in such cases by removing a few stumps 
so as to make strips five or six feet 
wide across the field. Plant the trees 
on these strips, sighting both ways to 
get them even. Then keep these narrow 
strips plowed and cultivated, with such 
grass and fine brush as you can cut 
piled around the trees. This gives some 
culture, and will keep the trees growing 
while the stumps between the rows can 
be killed and removed as opportunity 
permits. 
Starting Tobacco Seed. 
F. W. II., Hollywood, Md .—Can some 
one tell me about sprouting tobacco seed 
before seeding? Why do they do it? What 
stage of sprouting do they seed them? IIow 
do they do it, and how long can they be 
kept before sowing if weather conditions 
prevent seeding? With what do they mix 
them and how do they cover? How long 
does it take to sprout them? Is at neces¬ 
sary to water bed after seeding? 
Ans. —I have never sprouted tobacco 
seed before sowing, but have heard that 
the seed can be sprouted by putting them 
in a bag and putting the bag in a warm 
heap of fresh manure- till sprouted. I 
have always sown tobacco seed in an 
ordinary cold frame’ under glass sashes. 
I get better plants and earlier in this 
way than in the usual way. The com¬ 
mon practice is to burn the site of the 
bed thoroughly with wood and brush, 
rake in the ashes and apply a good to¬ 
bacco fertilizer liberally and sow the 
seed broadcast, then a cover of cotton 
cloth is placed over the bed as a pro¬ 
tection. But by sowing under glass in 
rows thinly one can get better, shorter 
and stouter plants. w. F. massey. 
THE EVERBEARING STRAWBERRY, AS 
GROWN IN MEXICO. 
In several numbers of The R. N.-Y. I 
have noted, with interest, the notes in re¬ 
gard to the everbearing strawberry. It 
seems that the editor of The R. N.-Y. is 
rather sceptical in regard to this plant. 
In the City of Mexico we have straw¬ 
berries every day in the year. In some 
months of the year they are more plenti¬ 
ful than in others, but in more or less 
quantity they are always here. They are, 
of course, from a plant that is practically 
everbearing, although, and here it is well 
to make a careful note, at no time during 
the year do they boar near as heavily as 
the same plant during its bearing season 
in the North. They are known here as the 
strawberry of Irapuato, because it is in 
that district that practically the entire 
crop is grown. This place is about 200 
miles north of the City bf Mexico, and the 
fruit is sent in by express, and just as it 
is picked, loose, in about 20-pound bas¬ 
kets. The growth of the fruit is slowly 
spreading, and some is now grown at 
Guadalajara and a little at Obregon, far¬ 
ther north. The climate, soil and water 
'suitable for the growth of the fruit, how¬ 
ever, seems to be very limited at present. 
The Irapuato strawberry, or the variety 
thus described, is, as will be seen, one of 
the so-called everbearers. It throws up 
flower stems at any time of the year as the 
plant reaches condition ; naturally the sea¬ 
son of the year in which vegetation is 
more vigorous, and this occurs here dur¬ 
ing the rainy season of Summer, it flow¬ 
ers more abundantly. In no case, it must 
be noted, does the flowering reach one- 
third of that which occurs in the same 
flowering season in the North, and the 
cost of picking is correspondingly in¬ 
creased. When the fruit is scarce, as at 
this time of the year, the picking is a big 
item. The Irapuato strawberry, in leaf, 
resembles the common northern one. It is 
distinct in throwing out few runners. It 
prefers to grow as a bunch or clump by 
stooling. In this it resembles the Alpine 
strawberry, and it may be a cross or va¬ 
riety of the two types. It is spoken of 
here as a “fresa,” which means the com¬ 
mon running strawberry, and is distinctly 
understood not to be the “freson,” which 
means the clump or Alpine plant. The 
“freson” we have here succeeding in one 
small village near the city, but it does 
not succeed in the “fresa” or Irapuato 
district. It is also an everbearer of good 
quality, but not so productive as the lat¬ 
ter. 
The better American varieties have been 
brought here for trial many times, but I 
do not know of anyone who has made 
them succeed or even grow well. They 
dwindle and die off as if lacking vigor or 
strength to stand the conditions. It may 
deserve noting here that in the French cata¬ 
logues are both “fresas” and “fresons,” but 
what relations they bear to the only two 
varieities that succeed here can only be con¬ 
jectured. It may be that from France they 
were introduced. L. E. benton. • 
Mexico. 
TO TREE 
SURGEONS 
You will soon be busy operating. 
Have you modem up-to-date in¬ 
struments, to do fast, easy and per¬ 
fect work and save tirpe and money? 
If not, investigate. Our Kansas 
Pruning Knife Improved is auto¬ 
matic—no hand levers to bother. 
Our Happy Thought Knife for light work has 
pump-gun action which means something. 
Illustrated circulars for the asking . 
INTERNATIONAL TOOL CO. 
49-51 Porter Street, DETROIT, MICH. 
rrrn ftllTC Read’s Green Mountain Won- 
dEKLU UQ I V derful new variety. Yields 
130 bus. to acre. Absolutely rustproof. Outyielded 
Swedish Select in five-year test. Circular free. 
fi. A . READ, Read’s Experiment Farms. Charlotte,*Vt. 
rnn CAI E— 1 Canada Peas,$1.85bushel; Alas. 
rUll OALC 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 Mav. Onion Sets at. $2.25 per 
bnsliel. JOSEPH E. HOLLAND. Milford, Del. 
OATS 
alog free. 
THAT YIELD. Our Sensation Oats 
breaks all records. Nothing like it. 
Also SEED CORN. Samples and cat- 
THEO. BURT & SONS, MELROSE, OHIO. 
ONION SEED- 
We are headquarters for a full line of Stras- 
burg, Flat Danvers and Yellow Globe Onion 
Seed. Try them for No. 1 stock. Get prices. 
-THEILMANN SEED CO., ERIE, PA.- 
ONION C'P'CTv—Fancy home-grown stock. 
v-Jit 1V-/it *3 ECU Send for samples and 
prices. J. B. QUIRK, North Madison, Ohio. 
CATALOG FREE 
The Best MEYER & 
<JfMwhprrv superior son, 
OiraWDerry The Best Bridoeville, Del. 
Dpnrh ELBERTA 
x CdUI The Best 
Manufacturers of all 
kinds of fruit baskets 
and crates. Write for 
Catalogue and Price 
List. 
WEBSTER BASKET COMPANY, 
Box 431. Webster. Monroe Co.. N. Y. 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
On Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, Gooseberry, 
Currant, Asparagus and Grape Plants, Heavy Rooted. 
Hlgb Grade Stock. 19tb Annual Catalogue Free. 
fi. R- WESTON & CO., R. 8 Bridgman. Mich. 
200 Bushels of Strawberries 
From a Single Acre 
One of our patrons made this record with 
plants bought of us. Just a^k a commission 
man what this quantity of fruit would have . 
brought the grower any year lately, and /g 
you’ll see that there's money in berries . * 
Knight’s Free Book 
on Small Fruit 
Tells the best Strawberries, Rasp¬ 
berries, Blackberries, Dewberries, 
Gooseberries, Currants, etc., and just 
how to groov them. Knight’s plants 
have a national reputation for superior 
quality and high vigor. Send todajr 
for free copy of our catalogue, 
David Knight 
& Son 
i 
Box 56 Sawyer, Micb. 
5,000 QUARTS OF 
STRAWBERRIES 
in September and October 
from one acre by planting 
Kevitt’s New Fall-Bearing 
Plants. This I guarantee or 
I will return your money 
paid for plants. Send for my 
catalogue. Over five new 
fall-bearing varieties. 
T. C. KEVITT, ATHENIA, N. J. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS—New and old varieties. Send 
for new Ulus. Catalogue for 1911. Prices from 
$1.50 per 1,000 up. DAVID RODWAY, Hartly, Del. 
STRAWBERRY Plants. Send for free catalog. Large 
stock Miller, best red raspberry, only $5 per 1000. Also, 
eggs for hatching. Pure W. Wy. and B. P. R., 26 eggs 
for $1.25. Slaymaker & Son, Wyoming, DeL 
Perfection Red Raspberry 
a a. _ a. TI22 _ ut:ij n 
March 11, 
THE APPLE BUSINESS 
Is a sure thing—if you have the right kind of 
a tree. People may plant too many oranges 
but the good old apple is a sure thing. The 
time to get in with that hillside is right now 
—this Spring. 
There is some discussion about the best 
aged tree to plant. Some want big trees and 
some little whips. We have them all! 
The size is a matter of opinion but every¬ 
body agrees that the health and life of the 
tree is more important. We put life and 
health in our trees—or they do it themselves. 
They grow in strong ground with no 
check from start to finish and with a long 
fall season to harden and ripen their woods. 
They are sound, free from disease and 
ready to grow. Every variety you want 
and every tree right. 
The Catalog tells all about it. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES, t Box 15, BERLIN, MD. 
'R0WONI0NS 
.BEST SEED/ 
iNLVr 
Start Right with GOOD SEED 
i Wc know that our Seed is EXTRA 
GOOD, and supply yearly many of 
* the largest growers. 
$150 TO $300 PER ACRE 
IS WITHIN YOUR REACH 
We have an enormous crop of best; ; 
commercial varieties and make 
Special Low I’rices On quantity. 
Tell us how many acres you will 
plant in Onions and what varie¬ 
ties and we will send samples 
and rock bottom prices. Better 
write now—it's worth your while. 
Also any other seeds you need. 
Henry Field Seed Co. 
No. 26 Field Bldg., 
SHENANDOAH, IA 
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PAPPP POTC—Three-inch, $1.25 a 1,000, 
1 nr Cl\ TUI J four-inch, $1.75 a 1,000, 
P. B. CROSBY & SON, Oatonsville, Md, 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS for Business. Fancy 
Berries. That’s what talks. Leading varieties. 
Catalogue free. D. M. TEETER, Belleville, Ohio. 
Strawberry Plants^roTirL™ 
at 51.00 per 1.000 and up. Catalogue free. 
_ALLEN BROS., PAW PAW, MICH. 
Qtrau/horru Plante of tho Besfc varieties. 
uUunUCliy nail 15 Descriptive Catalogue 
Free. BASIL PERRY, D. 18, Cool Spring, Del. 
TRAWDERRY PLANTS only $1.50 & $1.76 per 1000. Illus. 
Catalogue Free. S. A. VIRDIN, Hartly, Del. 
S 
PLANTS 
Our free book quotes 
lowest prices, honestly 
describes 60 varieties, 
explains C. O. I>. plan, 
tells how to plant and grow strawberries, rasp¬ 
berries, blackberries, grapes, etc. 
A. G. BLOUNT, Dept. A, Hastings, N. Y. 
T WO Million .Berry Plants at Attractive Prices. 
Full line of Fruit Trees. Miller Red Rasp- 
berryplants*5.00per thousand. Send forprice list. 
ELMER A. PRIESTLEY, Winslow. New Jersey, R. F D. No 1. 
6 PACKETS Garden Seeds, 
NORRIS W. ADAMS. Worcester. Mass. 
CCtnC Clovers; Medium Red, Mammoth, 
WktUw Alsike, Alfalfa; Timothy,Blue Grass. 
B.ed Top, Soy Beans, Cow Peas, Oats, Corn, etc. 
Send for prices and samples. _ 
ZACK HA VIS CO., Delaware Ohio 
P OTATOES—miss, Bovae, Carman, Cobbler, King, Longfellow, 
Queen, Koae, Wouder. 85 kinds. C. W. FORD, Fisher*, N. Y 
S WEET POTATO SEED, DEWBERRY AND 
Strawberry Plants, Asparagus Roots, Grape 
Vines. Catalog free. MICHAEL N. B0RG0, Vineland, N. J. 
N. WERTHEIMER & SON 
Choice seeds bought direct from the farmer and sold 
direct to the farmer. We offer you the choicest 
seeds, doubly recleaned, Medium and Mammoth 
Clover Seed, Alsike, Alfalfa. Timothy, Crimson 
Clover, White Clover, Red Top, Orchard Grass, 
Blue Grass, Lawn Grass, all kinds of Corn, Spring 
and Winter Wheat, Buckwheat, all kinds of Peas. 
Samples and prices sent on application. # * * 
N. WERTHEIMER & S ON LIGONIER, INDIANA 
55. kills Prairie Dogs, 
Woodchucks, Gophers, 
and Grain Insects. 
“The wheels of the gods 
grind slow but exeeed- 
ifi 
FUMA 
r—The best ever. 
Ironclad in 
hardiness; most prolific. Wilder 'Currant Bushes. 
Send for circular. VALLEY VIEW FRUIT 
FARM, Marlborough, N. Y. 
Argenteuil Asparagus Roots^fffiS, imputed 
seed. E ^^^£^’BE^KiiAN!MiddIetown. N. J. _____ 
■ AdiniAIIO six varieties of healthy, thrifty one and two-year-old roots. 
n\pn|{n|«IJN -A- lso ’ full * ine Fruit Trees, Ornamental Strawberry Plants, ^ mes, 
Vm I nilHw V W California Privet, Garden Tools, Spraying Outfits, etc. 
Write for catalog and valuable Spraying Chart. It’s FREE. 
ARTHUR J. CORUUNS, Box R, Moorestown, N. J. 
1 ingly small.” So the weevil, but you can stop their 
j e with “ Fuma Carbon Bisulphide ” a “ & 
J EDWARD R. TAYLOR, Penn Tan, N. Y» 
ROOTS. 
In order to get people to try our plants, we have decided to cut OUR 
prices in two on the following leading varieties, knowing that if "KILE 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
I we sell you once, we will hold 
’ your trade for years to come. 
All plants securely packed 
for shipment by express. If 
you order all these, you save 
$4.25. If you want plants in large 
quantities, let us price your list, 
tie are headquarters for the new¬ 
est and best in everything, including 
, Royal Purple 
Fall Bearing strawberries 
and Idaho raspberries, Early Ozark strawberry, Hastings potato, 
etc. 28 years of experience. Catalogue free. Address 
L. J. FARMER, Box 120, Pulaski, New York 
2 dozen Dunlap strawberry plants 25c, 
2 dozen Norwood ” 
2 dozen Champion ” 
2 dozen Cuthbert red raspberry 
2 dozen Plum Farmer blk. rasp. 
2 dozen Snyder blackberry plants 
2 dozen asparagus roots .... 
6 Concord grape vines .... 
6 red gooseberry plants .... 
6 red currant plants ..... 
6 rhubarb roots.30c, 
2 outdoor roses.25c, 
