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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
"square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Buy Field’s Seeds 
KNOW WHAT 
YOU GET 
Buying untried or un¬ 
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—a mighty expensive 
one, too. Don’t do it! 
Try my better way—let me sell 
yon the same kind of seeds that I 
grow In my own truck gardens. 
Every Lot of My Seed 
Gets Several Tests, 
I know when and where it wasgro wn. 
1 make microscope tests, and germ- 
ination tests and plant it in my own trial 
j gardens, keeping accurate records 
of what it does. Then I grow my 
own market garden crops from it, 
so it’s got to be right. I’m not in 
business to lose money. Field’s 
seeds are the right kind of stuff! 
Let’s swap experiences—you mail me your name 
on a postal and I'll send you my new Garden 
Manual. You’ll find it interesting and worth 
while. 
HENRY FIELD, President 
Henry Field Seed Co. 
Desk 26 
SHENANDOAH, IOWA 
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READ SPECIAL OFFER BElOWl RLL 
For only 10c we send our large 112 
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flower seeds or five packets vegetable 
seeds, and then we return the money in 
the form of a due bill good for 
10c to apply on any order 
amounting to 50c or more. 
Isbell’s Seeds 
Are strictly fresh, vital, Mich¬ 
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rate prices. Perfect satisfaction 
or money refunded. Send today. 
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to Seed Users. 
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190 Pearl St., Jackson, Mich ,, 
SEEDS 
ESTINTHEWORLD 
PRICES BELOW ALL OTHERS 
a lot of new sorts for 
with every order I fill. 
Grand Big Catalog rnrp 
Illustrated with over rifEE 
700 engravings of vegetables 
and flowers. Send yours and 
neighbors’ addresses. 
AY, Rockford, Illinois 
CLOVER *«o TIMOTHY i 7 u E s °„ p i? 
Cheapest, and Best Seeding Known. 
Alslke, Clover and Timothy mixed. Fully one-third Al- 
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our large 76-page catalog describing this wonderful grass 
mixture and be convinced. Far ahead of anything you 
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becomes a pleasure through results 
obtained with our selected strains. 
VEGETABLES 10c 
Their qualities are proven every year 
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OlJV 1 et» of superb sorts, prepaid. 
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Contains 130 pages, 300 
pictures from photographs, 
oolored plate and many help¬ 
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quality seeds at fair prices. 
Writ* for your free copy today. 
THE LIVINGSTON SEED CO. 
457 High St. Columbus, Ohio 
Salzer’a Potatoes are known the 
world over for extreme earliness. 
The editor of the Rural New Yorker 
gives to Salzer’s Earliest Potato the 
tonishing yield of 164 bushels per 
Salrer’s Earliest Potato Collection. 
Composed of four rare earliest and 
later sort, separately packed, full weight, 
per bbl. only $4.00. Catalog tells 1 
For 16 Cents. 
10,000 kernels of splendid Lettuce, Radish, 
Tomato, Cabbage, Turnip, Onion, Celery, 
Parsley, Carrot, Melon and Flower Seeds 
iroducing bushels of vegetables and 
overs for iCc postpaid. 
Big vegetable and farm seed cats 
logue free for the asking. 
John A. SaJzer 
144 Bo. 8th 
Saw Tables, Sawing Outfits on 
Wheels, 24-in. Saws $4.50, 26-in. 
Saws $5.25, Gasoline Engines 
from 2 to 12 H. P. Catalogue free. 
PALMER BROS., COS COB, CONN. 
Fruit Trees in Chicken Run. 
M. A. P.j Long Island .—My chicken runs 
are 80x185, and I wish to plant them to 
apples, cherries, pears, peaches and plums. 
Would you advise dwarf or standard trees? 
IIow far apart? riease suggest right sorts, 
and what proportion of each for a family 
of three, for home use. 
Ans. —Don’t plant any kind of fruit 
in the henyard, not even quince and 
plums. The San Jose scale is almost 
sure to get them in such a place. I ex¬ 
pect the tree agent has told them the 
henyard is just the place for fruit 
trees and we may as well say use dwarfs, 
as more trees can be used in the space 
they have. Standard apples should not 
be less than 36 feet apart; pears and 
cherries, 20; plums and peaches, 15 to 
18 feet. The space given would allow 
of two rows of peach and plums of nine 
trees each, one row of peaches between 
the apples, four trees of peaches or 
plums between the apples, two rows of 
apples of five trees each, and one row 
of pears or cherries of nine trees. The 
following varieties will do fairly well 
on Long Island: Plums: Red June, 
Abundance, Reine Claude and Lombard. 
Peaches: Carman, Champion, Belle of 
Georgia, Elberta, Stump, Oldmixon 
Free, Stevens Rareripe, Salway and 
Crosby. Apples: Yellow Transparent, 
Red Astrachan, Oldenburg, McIntosh, 
Greening, Baldwin and Roxbury Russet. 
Pears : Bartlett and Kieffer. Cherries: 
Yellow Spanish, Black Tartarian, Gov. 
Wood and Montmorency. f. A. S. 
Potash on Pacific Coast. 
Is there any truth in the story that 
potash has been found on the Pacific coast? 
8. B. K. 
Yes, the Department of Agriculture has 
found great “groves” of kelp or seaweed 
which "are able to extract, by selective 
absorption, the potash salts from he sea 
water and on drying these salts are very 
largely exuded on the surface. The dried 
plants contain from 25 to 35 per cent of 
their weight of muriate of potash and the 
latter can very readily be extracted. Some 
of the Pacific groves are five miles long 
and two miles wide, and the growth in these 
groves is exceedingly dense. The two prin¬ 
cipal species that would be available are 
Nereocystls luetkeana in the North and 
Macrocystis pyrlfera In the South. Both 
these plants reach a length of 100 feet or 
more and grow In strong tideways, or 
where they are exposed to the full force of 
the open sea.” 
No Use for Wild Deer. 
I do not like the manner in which “A 
Friend of the Deer” has criticised those 
who claim that the increase in the number 
of deer is a menace to orchard planting in 
Connecticut. Until this year, I too had 
friendly feelings for the deer, but after 
planting an orchard and having the major¬ 
ity of the trees eaten off three times, and 
some of them partially denuded of hark 
by the deer’s horns, 1 am glad that I did 
not rush my idea into print without being 
fully informed on the subject. 1 believe 
that if the skeptics will try to establish a 
young orchard in a location where the deer 
have an opportunity to "brush against the 
limbs,” they will become as firmly convinced 
as 1 am of the unfairness of a law which 
protects for the benefit of those who are 
very seldom affected by the damage to the 
crops. f. P. B. 
Connecticut. 
Lazy Hotbed. —For years I have n< 
started my hotbed for raising early plan' 
until April 1. I plant enough seeds i 
boxes kept in a sunny window to fill 
good-sized hotbed when transplanted, i 
most plants have to be anyway. This sav( 
a month’s care of the hotbed, and the be 
itself does not have to be kept so carefuii 
in April as in March. I suppose it is 
lazy man’s trick but it answers my purpoi 
well. £. N. B. 
New York. 
Spraying Paid. —Four years ago, I bought 
a small place, with about a dozen young 
apple trees on it. They had been well 
taken care of, except the last two years 
when the place was occupied only in Sum¬ 
mer. The trees did not look well, and it 
was not until the second Summer I found 
the trouble to be San Jos<5 scale. The first 
year I did not spray at all. The apples 
were many in number, small, wormy, and 
full of hard woody spots. From one tree 
in particular, the apples were almost worth¬ 
less on account of these spots. The second 
year I sprayed twice with Bordeaux and 
Paris green for Codling moth, and the 
apples were decidedly improved. The third 
year I sprayed with soluble oil once and 
twice with Paris green and Bordeaux; again 
a decided improvement in the apples. Last 
year I sprayed once with soluble oil, and 
three and four times with Bordeaux and 
Paris green. The formerly worthless tree 
was sprayed five times. Last year the 
apples were fine handsome ones, smooth, 
and not a wormy one among them. They 
kept well and sold well. I conclude it 
pays to spray. CHARLES p. knapp. 
Massachusetts. 
LIOKf 
Millions of Dollars Are Lost Annually by 
Fruit Growers, Because They Do Not Spray 
Persistently With Properly Made Sprays 
BLANCHARD’S 
LION BRAND 
INSECTICIDES & FUNGICIDES 
ARE THE STANDARD OF THE WORLD 
Strongest—Purest—Most Effective—Safest to Use 
Destroy Every Known Insect Pest and Fungus 
Disease of Fruit Trees; Save the Trees and 
Insure Larger Crops of First Quality Fruit 
* 'LION BRAND” LIME-SULPHUR SOLUTION 
For San Jose Scale particularly, and the only Spray 
that destroys Scale and does not injure Trees. Ready 
for use, and more economical than home-made. 
“LION BRAND” BORDEAUX MIXTURE 
prevents Blight, Mildew, Rot, etc., from destroying 
Potatoes. Beans, Peas and Melons; keeps spots and 
specks off Apples, Peaches and other fruit, and makes 
crops su rer and f ar larger. One gallon to 49 of Water. 
“LION BRAND” PURE PARIS GREEN 
contains absolutely not a particle of filler or adulter¬ 
ant of any sort. Accepted the world over as the 
standard. 
“LION BRAND” ARSENATE OF LEAD 
The stickiest arsenate made. Preferable for Codling 
Moth, Curcullo, Elm Leaf Beetle and Chewing Insects 
of fill sorts, on trees, shrubs, vines, bushes and vege¬ 
tables, where it is desirable that the poison remain 
longer on the foliage than is possible with other in¬ 
secticides. Does not burn the most delicate foliage. 
We Also Make Many Other Specialties 
Something to destroy every injurious insect, and 
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We are the largest and oldest manufacturers of In¬ 
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a copy of which we shall be glad to send you. 
Write For It To Nearest Office 
Blanchard’s Products arc sold by dealers and agents 
everyxchere.or direct if your dealer cannot supply you 
THE JAMES A. BLANCHARD CO. 
556 Hudson Terminal 557 Broad Street 
NEW YORK ST. JOSEPH. MICH. 
Factories—New York and St. Joseph 
TOWER’S 
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The design shows how our REFLEX EDGES (pat'd) 
keep water from running in at front of coat. 
Every drop goes down and off. so 
YOU CAN’T GET WET 
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February 24, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
y with the Comet 
Surest Results 
Wanted 
Price" 
$3.50 
to 
$4.50 
Agents 
Comet Sprayers are Easiest to Operate 
Simplest in construction—foot Rest is at¬ 
tached or detached instantly—Have complete 
Agitator and Brass Screen which prevent 
clogging of pump. This double acting spray throws 
a continuous stream 60 feet or spray tineas a mist. 
The fruit saved from a choice tree will more than 
pay for it. You need it for your orchard, vines, 
lawns and plants. Very durable— all brass. Weighs 
only 6 pounds. Thousands of fruit growers and 
farmers have proved it a success. Just try it for 
applying liquid poisons, fertiliizers, etc. The re- 
sultswill surprise you. Best proposition for agents. 
Send us a postal tor full information about this 
superior sprayer now. Get after the tree and plant 
pests early arid make more money. 
H. B. RUSLER MFG. CO, 
Dept 6 JOHNSTOWN. OHIO 
the use of a Hercules Stump Puller. 
Bumper crops instead of stumps. Big 
money in place of taxes. $1,200 from 40 
acres the first year—$750 in extra crops 
every year after. Get the catalog of the 
Power I Hercules 
Stump Puller 
x&g&sSfal&KL- You can clear an acre 
of stumps a day. 80 days’ 
free trial. Guaranteed 3 
^ -From Iowa: 
1000% Returns From 
To McMILLAN FUR & WOOL CO. 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
Old Reliable (85 yrs.) and Largest Dealers in tho Northwest. 
Pay High Prices. Quick Returns. Satisfaction. 
Cron I Circulars to anyone interested In Raw Furs. 
I IBB* Trappers Guide to those who ship to us 
Spray Your Trees Before Spring Plowing 
ind free them from San Jose\and other scale and eggs of destructive 
insects. Spray thoroughly, before foliage appears, with 
ECTR 
fN CENT RATED) 
Lime-Sulphur 
Solution 
the most dependahte^and successful insecticide for winter use and the 
coming summer spray'foc fungous troubles. It\is a clear, cherry-colored 
liquid, free from sediment, ahd^guaranteed to contain the maximum per¬ 
centage of soluble sulphur — the'aqpve insecticide. 
Se 68-pa r S e u 4o F o R k EE “Spraying SitTmlified” 
It tells just when and how to spray to control fnsects'v@nd 
fungi A valuable booklet every farmer neeH 
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The Vreeland Chemical Co. 
32 Church Street 
i -rgSgt- \\\ New York 
Fall Bearing Strawberries 
These Berries are truly wonderful. They bear fruit every fall as well 
as spring, three crops in two years. They have yielded as high as 
10,000 qts. to acre in Aug., Sept, and Oct. of first year, with us. We can¬ 
not get enough fruit to supply the demand at 25c per qt. wholesale. I 
know of nothing in the fruit line quite so profitable. We are also 
headquarters for Plum Farmer, Idaho and Royal Purple Raspberries, Early Ozark 
Strawberry, Watt Blackberry, Hastings Potato. Catalogue of all kinds ol Berry 
Plants free. Address L. J. FARMER. Box 220, Pulaski, N. Y. 
