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THE RURAL NEW-YUKKKR 
January 20, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Have Several Main Crops. 
Mr. W. T. Guptill, of Maine, who is 
writing the articles on potato culture, 
thinks that a good many Maine farmers 
make the mistake of growing but one 
chief crop like potatoes. This is really 
a gambler's farming. When prices are 
high the farm brings in a small fortune, 
while when the price runs low, as it is 
sure to do at times, there is hardly 
enough to pay expenses. Such farmers 
are not likely to carry the proceeds of 
a fat year over to a lean one. Mr. Gup¬ 
till says he grows potatoes, cabbage, hay 
and squash, and he sends the following 
figures to show how prices for these 
crops have ranged during the past few 
years: 
1908. 
Cabbage sold her for. 845.00 per ton 
Squash sold slowly for..$7 or $8 per ton 
liny sold for. 10.00 per ton 
Potatoes sold for. .90 per bus. 
Here was money for these things, good 
money. 
1909. 
Cabbage . 820.00 per ton after Jan. 15 
Squash . 81.00 per ton after Jan. 15 
Hay . 20.00 per ton 
Potatoes.30 per bus. 
Three to the good, take your losses on 
potatoes. 
1910. 
Cabbage ..$10.00 per ton 
Squash . 22.00 per ton Jan. 15 
Ilay . 20.00 per ton 
Potatoes . * .30 per bus. 
Two to the good and two not so good. 
1911 to date. 
Ilay .$20.00 per ton 
Cabbage.$7 and $8 per ton 
Squash . 8.00 per ton 
Potatoes don’t move here for 
less than .90 per bus. 
Now with evenly balanced crops, every 
year was to the good, witli potatoes pre¬ 
dominating loss was a certainty in 1909- 
1910. The equipment in tools for squash 
and cabbage is absolutely nothing; the cost 
comes in storage facilities. 
An Ohio Family. 
Every year we try to show at least 
one country-raised family that may be 
called “old-fashioned”—at least in size. 
So we print on the first page the picture 
of an Ohio family as square and as well 
rounded out as that famous State—fa¬ 
mous for statesmen, presidents and 
farmers. The picture shows Joseph M. 
Gamble, his wife and their 12 children. 
This family may be a gamble in name, 
but it looks like a pretty sure thing in 
fact. Mr. Gamble is 67 and bis wife 62 
—their children are all grown up? The 
combined weight of this family is 2,100 
pounds—a ton of solid and valuable live 
stock. If we could stand them up on 
each other’s heads we should have 70 
feet of humanity. One of the young 
men weighs 338 pounds. We should 
put him at the base of this human shaft. 
In addition to these adults there are 11 
grandchildren and one great-grandchild. 
They are all sound, clean, and doing 
well. Surely this is a remarkable “old- 
fashioned” family, and Mr. and Mrs. 
Gamble may well be proud .of their chil¬ 
dren. 
That Hand-Power Air-Sprayer. 
On page 1231 I noticed a communica¬ 
tion from J. B. B., Kent Co., Mich. The 
greater part of what our Michigan friend 
has to say is perfectly true. The hand 
machine for one in his circumstances 
is a farce, and the large power machines 
are out of the question completely on 
account of size and expense (installa¬ 
tion as well as maintenance). Of all 
(he various sprayers manufactured I 
know of hut one that would he what he 
would need, and that is not a compressed 
air outfit. I seriously doubt the practica¬ 
bility of the combination he suggests. 
Compressing air for pressure is a vastly 
different task from pumping “spray 
slop,” whether Bordeaux or any of the 
other compounds, against the air cham¬ 
ber for pressure. If J. B. B. had pumped 
but a small fraction of the air that 
scores of us have pumped he would 
abandon bis idea of a sprayer of ibis 
kind even before he conceived it. One 
of our esteemed townsmen is the in¬ 
ventor of the compressed air sprayer. In 
the years past you have published com¬ 
plete descriptions of this machine, to¬ 
gether with cuts, so that anyone could 
go into the open market and buy every 
piece that is needed to complete the out¬ 
fit. If J. B. B. wants what he says lie 
does (which I continue to doubt) here 
is how he can get it: Any dealer in 
plumber’s supplies can furnish hifn with 
the tanks, any size he desires, brass tub¬ 
ing, stop cocks and fittings. The Goulds 
M fg. Co. make a powerful hand com- ] 
pressor. Any dealer in spraying supplies 
can furnish hose, pole and nozzles. 
North East, Pa. f. c. 
I heartily endorse what J. B. B. has 
to say on page 1231 about sprayers. 
There are hundreds in the same box. I 
have bought at least one spraying ma¬ 
chine a year for the last 10 years and 
have not got the right one yet. It may 
he some of the trouble is in me, but if 
some of your many spraying advertisers 
can fill the bill and supply a spraying 
outfit that one man can work and in a 
small way do good work, they will 
surely get some business. H. n. c. 
Lawrence, Mass. 
Why Some Concrete Jobs Fail, 
All such cases that have come under my 
personal observation could be easily traced 
to some defect in material, slighting the 
work or doing the work in cold weather, 
permitting the fresh work to freeze, etc. 
But on the other hand I have seen nice- 
looking jobs that looked first class through¬ 
out. with a had crack or corner broken off, 
that would take more of an expert than 
I am to tell what caused it. 1 just re¬ 
turned from a three-week” trip and as I 
am particularly interested in cement I kept 
both eyes open. The first change of cars 
was at Northumberland. I’a. A new .sub¬ 
way composed entirely of concrete had been 
built to cross under tin* Pennsylvania rail¬ 
road tracks at that point. 1 admired the 
work as I went through, it is certainly fine. 
As r emerged from the other side the first 
thing that struck me was concrete telegraph 
poles as far as the ('ye would reach, up and 
down the track; it looked good to me. As 
you get off the train at Harrisburg, the 
first tiling that greets you if you stop and 
look is the line cement work around the 
depot, and the concrete bridge over the 
tracks just a little below; they interested 
me more than the Barnard statues in front 
of the Capitol. Then as you walk along 
the streets you will notice a walk in per¬ 
fect condition, the next badly cracked; you 
will also notice many flagstone walks going 
to pieces, many cracked in all shapes where 
tree roots have been the cause. I then trav¬ 
eled on to Washington, where they arc sup¬ 
posed to do their best. I saw cracks in the 
cement around the public buildings just the 
same as we see on the farm. As I was 
going down the steps back of the Capitol 
I noticed many of the stone steps were 
scaling off until they sounded hollow under 
one’s foot. As I walked up the asphalt 
walk leading to the Washington Monument 
1 noticed it was cracked clear across every 
few feet, and as I closely inspected the 
monument itself I found many stones were 
scaling or blistering off, and had been 
patched up with cement in many places. A 
kind of gummy substance was oozing out 
of little cracks that were being made by 
tile work of old Father Time. Again in the 
old churchyard at Williamsburg, Va., are 
immense stone vaults 200 or 1500 years old. 
and hard to find one that is not broken 
in many places while some are simply in 
slivers. We cannot expect concrete to get 
any harder than a stone; an ordinary sand¬ 
stone. Now if there is a limit to the life 
of a stone where it is exposed to the ele¬ 
ments iu all its various moods we will 
have to acknowledge there is a time limit 
to the life of cement under certain condi¬ 
tions. The life of the job depends on the 
man behind the work and the material used. 
I saw lots of walks in one town where the 
public had been allowed to walk over them 
While still soft, showing their footprints 
as they walked down the street and the 
impressions ran from little bare feet and 
high-heeled opera slippers up to the big 
farmer’s cowhide boots, yet the work was 
in good condition. I then inspected the ma¬ 
terial used at that place and found they 
used good clean river sand and Portland 
cement, and although built by crude work¬ 
men the results were above the ordinary. 
In my observations around home 1 notice 
after a man comes to you for advice and 
plans for some concrete job he finds it much 
easier to get a load of sand or gravel at 
some roadside wash than to go to some 
good creek or gravel hank where good ma¬ 
terial can ho had. but will probably cost 
a few cents a load. Cement sealing as a 
rule is caused by making a flimsy body for 
fin' job and then veneering it over with a 
nice shiny coat of very rich cement, which 
dries quickly, getting very hard, and in 
time cracks, and as the body underneath is 
not strong enough to hold it it then begins 
to scale. Building cement work during 
freezing weather will cause it to scale as 
deep as it was frozen: exposing a large 
surface of fresh cement to the glare of mid¬ 
summer sun is very apt to crack it unless 
more than ordinary care is taken in keeping 
it covered and sprinkled for several days, i 
T know of one cement silo built on north 
side of barn that lias been in use for many 
years, gives entire satisfaction, and shows 1 
no signs of giving way in any respect. I 
know another built inside barn that is jusl 
plastered in wooden lath and is answering 
the purpose all right. w. a. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
FRUIT TREES 
Buy them direct from the grower at first 
cost and get. the benefit of our wholesale 
prices. Catalog free. WM. J. REILLY, 
Nurseries, Box (19, Dansville, N. Y. 
WHITE TO IIS ABOUT 
Fruit Trees 
King: Bros., Nurseries, Dansville, N.Y. 
TREES and PLANTS^!,ffiERJS 
salepriees. Big supply Apple* Peach Trees, Privet 
Hedging. The Westminster Nursery, Westminster, Md. 
TREES 
c 
150 ACRES 
CATALOC FREE 
Genesee Valley grown. "Not tbe cheapest, hut the beat. 
Never have hud San Jose 8ca)e. fistaMis/ied 1869 . 
Geo. A. Sweei Nursery Co., 20 Maple St., Dansvi l le, N. Y. 
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FRUIT Choicest Western New York Grown. 
-|-p££g Fresh from the ground. 
Lowest Prices, 
Catalogue Free. 
BLOSSOM NURSERIES. 503 Blossom Road, Rocbester.N.Y. 
FREE TO YOU 
for 72 Years a 
Guide to the best 
Trees and Plants 
'*2 
An In¬ 
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for farmers, fruit growers 
and owners of small gardens or 
large estates. Trustworthy descriptions of tho 
Most Complete Nursery Stock in America. 
Standard varieties and tested novelties, everyJ 
1 specimen true to species and in prime condi-1 
tion. A world-wide patronage, developed! 
through seventy-two years of honest dealing. 
Write TO-DAY for a copy of this seventy- 
second Annual Catalogue. 
ELLWANGER &. BARRY 
Mount Hope Nurseries Box 33, Rochester, N. Y. 
HUNDREDS OF CARLOADS OF 
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES 
Evergreens, Shrubs, 
Hardy Hoses, Etc. 
1,200acros,60in Hardy Bones, 
none better grown. 47 green¬ 
houses of Palms, Ferns, Fi¬ 
cus, Evcrbloomlng Roses, 
Geraniums, and othor 
things too numerous to men¬ 
tion. Mail size postpaid, snfo 
arrival and satisfaction guar¬ 
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SUPERB GANNAS, tlio 
queen of bedding plants. 
Acres of Pnconlas nnd other 
Perennials. 60 choice col lec¬ 
tions cheap in Heeds, Plants, Hoses, etc. For Fruit 
and Ornamental Trees ask for Catalog No. 1,112 pages; 
for Seeds, Kverblooming Roses, Gannas. Geraniums, 
Greenhouse and Bedding Plants in general. Catalog 
No. 2, 168 pages. Both FREE. Direct deni will in- 
Buro you the best nt least cost. Try It. 68 years. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO.. Box 680 . Painesville, 0. 
BIG FRUIT 
CROPS 
If you set out an orchard 
with our stock, you will 
have fruit trees and plants 
of splendid hardiness and 
great productiveness, com¬ 
bined with the best quality of fruit. For 
years we have been growing the kind you 
can absolutely depend on. Persons who 
buy from us once come back every season. 
Our Booklet contains the best of our ex¬ 
perience, gathered during the thirty years 
we have been growing fruit. This practi¬ 
cal book is free. Write for it now. 
BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO. 
Box 8, Yalesville, Conn. 
BUY DIRECT FROM US 
AND SAVE MONEY 
Wc have no agents and grow 
our own stock tn Dansvillo 
where scale is unknown. 
II PEAR TREES, 98c. 
2 Bartlett 3 Flemish 
2 Keiffer 2 Socket 
I Clapp I Wilder 
AW fine, two year, well matured 
trees. Carefully selected, fresh 
dug, true to name, or money back. 
Write now for FREE catalog of complete line. 
Reilly Bros. Nurseries, 1057 Reilly Rd., Dansvillo, R. Y 
Peach and 
e Trees 
For fall or spring planting. Prices right; stock 
right. MYER & SON, llridgeville, Delaware 
FRUIT 
TREES 
Fresh Dug Western N Y. Trees.] 
Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, I 
Small Fruits, Shrubs, Roses, etc. Bestj 
Trees. Best Prices. Write for FREE Cat. 
TIIK FRCITLAND NURSERIES , 
J. Faiuiin, Profw 303 Wlnton Road, Rochester, N. Y. ] 
“BLACK’S QUALITY” 
FRUIT TREES 
NONE BETTER 
None Give Better Returns when They Fruit 
Buy Direct From the Nursery 
and save agent’s discounts and middleman’s 
profits. When you buy our trees you get a 
Dollar’s Worth of Trees 
for every one hundred cents you remit to us. 
PEACH and APPLE TREES 
a specialty. _ CATAL OGUE FREE 
JOS. H. BLACK, SON & CO. 
H1GHTSTOWN. N. J. 
!2 Fruitlrees f<>r94i 
!■ ii-M ritths stock, 2 yra. olil, worth 82.00, 
1 Baldwin, 1 Northern Spy, 1 Bartlett, 1 
Keckei Pear, 1 Tartarian, 1 Montmorency, 
1 Early Richmond Cherry, 1 Bradshaw, 1 
Lombard,1 German Prune,1 Elberta Poach, 
1 Orange Quince—all for 94 cents. Write 
tor free catalog and other offers. 
L. W. HALL & CO., Established 1879 
820 Cutler Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
On Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, Gooseberry, 
Currant, Asparagus and Grape Plants, Heavy Rooted, 
High Grade Stock. 20th Annual Catalogue Free. 
A. R. WESTON & CO., R-8 Bridgman. Mich. 
MARLBORO RED RASP. 
FOB SAIiE 
100,600 Marlboro Bed Basp. at $0.00 M. Good stock 
well rooted, guaranteed true to name. Grown by 
us and froo from disease, yielding with us $500 
per acre, Discount on large orders. 
SHARON FRUIT FARM, Sharon Springs. N.Y. 
P| A MTP THAT GROW-75 varieties—true to 
iLHIi 10 name. M.v free illustrated hook tells 
how to plant and grow STHA WBERRIES, RASP¬ 
BERRIES, BLACK BERRIES, etc. Lowest price. 
A. G. BLOUNT, Hastings, N. Y. 
Pl arl t 0 Over Forty Varieties, at 
otrawberry riants $2.50 per 1 , 000 . Descriptive 
Catalog Free. BASIL PERRY, D-18, Cool Sprinn, Del 
UCUf CTD AUfDCDDlCC ! 1912 Catalog FREE t. 
NtVf O I nflnotnit’Ld ■ nil. Reliable, Interest 
ing and Instructive. ALL THE NEW EVERBEARERS, 
ami other important varieties Address— 
C. N. FLANSBURGH St SON, - - JACKSON, Mich. 
Fruit, Two Acres of Straw¬ 
berries next Spring by 
planting one this Spring. 
Catalogue Free 
T. C. KEVITT, ATHENIA, N. J. 
Great 
Crops 
Of r. 
CTRAWBERRIEC 
W And HOW to CROW THEM w 
Is a complete treatise on 
strawberry culturo written 
by America's greatestst raw- 
berry expert. Indorsed by 
agricultural colleges nnd 
straw berry grow ers of h i gh- 
estauthorlty. Government 
reports show that straw¬ 
berries yield more dollars 
per aero nnd give quicker 
returns than any other erop. 
Got our book and learu 
how. IT’S FREE 1 
R. M. KELLOGG CO. 
Bo* tROThroe Itlvors. High. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS THAT GROW 
All Standard Varieties. Also RASPBERRY. BLACKBERRY, 
CURRANT and GRAPE Plans anil ASPARAGUS Root* In 
ASSORTMENT. WARRANTED TRUE-TO-NAME, and of 
GRADE represented. Caialog with Cultural Instructions r KKK 
C E. WHITTEN. BOX 11, BRIDGMAN, • MICHIGAN 
IcCk ' iff 
•$! PJ 
STRAWBERRIES 
Hants by tho dozen or by tho million. 
120 acres planted in 103 vaiietlcs. All 
t he standards and tho most promising ol 
the new ones. Largest grower in 
America, livery plant true to name. 
Also Raspberry,Blackberry,Gooseberr> 
I nnd Currant Plants, Crape Vines, Cali¬ 
fornia Privet and other Shrubbery. 
( Cultural directions with each ship¬ 
ment. Beautiful Catalogue FHKIC. Send 
a postal today. My personal guarantee 
back of every sale. 
W. F. ALLEN 
72 Market Street, Salisbury, Md. 
IP 
FRUIT TREES 
We have Ihe nicest lot ol guaranteed fruit trees 
you ever saw—apples, plums, cherries, pears, 
peaches. All grown in the north, hardy, healthy, 
absolutely free from scale. And they're all 
going to be sold at bargain prices. 
We Do Not Sell Through Agents 
No need of your paying agents’ commissions 
and expenses. Buy direct from the nursery. 
We save you about half the price agents charge. 
Get Our Nursery Book 
Tells how to plant trees, shrubs, vines, etc. 
Tells how to care for them, when and how 
to spray. Gives a fund of information and 
quotes prices that are bound to interest you. 
We prepay the freight on orders of $5 or more. 
ALLEN L. WOOD, Woodlawn Nurseries 
593 Culver Koad, ItocheAtcr, N. Yi 
$ 1.50 
FOR 12 LARGE 4 TO 6 FT. FEACH TREES 
Selected to cover season early to late. Collection in¬ 
cludes one each—Carman, Champion, Early Crawford, 
Fitzgerald, Elberta, Niagara, Bello of Georgia, Mat¬ 
thew's Beauty, Crosby, Late Crawford, Lamont and 
Snlwuy. Agents would ask $4.00 lor the same lot. 
WE GROW OUR OWN TREES 
And guarantee them to be true to name. Have equally 
attractive collections of Apple, Pear, Cherry, Plum and 
ornamental trees. Also shrubs, berry bushes, plants, etc. 
GET OUR 1912 CATALOG F 
Contains information every fruit grower should know. 
Tho result of 44 vears of nursery experience. Write to¬ 
day. We pay freight on orders amounting to $7.00 net or 
over. 
Wm. P. RUPERT 6 SON 
Box 20, S eneca, N. Y. / 
GROW GOOD 
WE HAVE BEEN GROWING MOREY TREES 
for nearly half a century, but many of yon have never even heard before that‘'More jr» 
Grow Good Tree*.” l>o you know why ! That's easy. Nearly every tree was sold to 
other nurserymen, and now, when we come to you direct, the strongest competition we 
meet in many instances, is among satisfied customers of the very nurserymen to whom 
we have been selling our t rees. Moreys have ti reputation for square dealing, and for 
years their trees have commanded a price ol $n* to $2.i per thousand higher than the 
ordinary market price, because they have stood the t«-*t at p In in in ^ time, at fruiting time. 
Can you afford not to learn more about them. 
THE J. B. MOREY M'ltKKKIES 
I*it«c C. Roger*, Sale* llnntiger .No. It Morey Avenue, PaiiKville, New York 
FRUIT TREES 
800,000 APPLES 
675,000 PEACH 
We grow what trees we sell direct to the planter from bearing or¬ 
chards at wholesale prices which are 75% less than you pay agents and dealers. 
Every Tree as Represented and Guaranteed True to Name. 
Free from San Jose - Scale, fresli dug, the best for orchard planting and personal 
attention given each order. Everybody write for free illustrated catalogue. 
Established 20 years; 250 acres; capital $00,000. 
. giiiuij;: Filial IMALONEY BROS. & WELLS CO., Box to Dansville, N- V. 
