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<THEJ RURAL) NEW-YORKER 
April 20, 
1 Kill the vermin 
in your poultry house 
by the use of this bucket 
spray pump. White wa»h 
your buildings and fences, spray 
your small trees, bushes, and vegetables, 
wash your porches, windows and vehi¬ 
cles with it. 100 lbs. steady pressure; 
bronze ball valves; candle wick packing. 
IRONAGE throughout 
Solution comes in contact with brass pat 
only. Easier to repack than any similar 
outfit made. With or without bucket. 
Ask your dealer to show it. Also write 
for special booklets. Complete line. 
BATEMAN M’FG CO. 
Box 102 B Grcnloch, N. J. 
Does not chafe, overheat 
or draw end of stump. 
Send for Catalog 
Sold on Easy Terms 
The largest limb factory In the world. 
K. It. Erlrkaon Arllflcrnl I.imh Co. 
19 Wubtneton Arc., It.. Minneapolis, Minn. 
Erickson Leg 
UME-SULPtlllR HYDROMETER ive Fruit “ 
1 
Price By Mall With Ten Cl 
J« and Instruct lorn. V A 
Agents Wanted Everywhere 
* Fruit-Crowers 
CARBONDALE INSTRUMENT CO.. Carbondale, Pa. 
'OTHAWBEKKT PLANTS-All tlio new and 
0 old varieties. Send for New Ulus. Catalog 
for 1912, free. DAVID RODWAY, Partly, Del. 
T horoughbred sirawberry plants—T here is al¬ 
ways a demand for Big Berries. That’s what 
our Plants Grow. Prices low for Quality Plants. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. WRI1E TO-OAY. 
E. W. TOWNSEND, The FairDkalingNurSery- 
man, Box 2, SALISBURY, Maryland. 
(P.S. —Headquarters for Fall-bearing Strawberries) 
P AN-AMERICAN SEED POTATOES for 
sale. White: big yielders: grows nearly round. 
For particulars write Moses Hill, Greenwich, N.Y. 
True-to-Name Catalpa Trees 
Ten times your 
money back if 
not true speciosa. Also Catalpa Seed. Cypress 
trees, most beautiful in the world. Free booklet. 
H. C. ROGERS, Box 111 Mechanlcsburg, Ohio 
GUARANTEED ALFALFA SEED 
Absolutely Pure and free of weeds—vigorous 
mid hardy—endorsed by Experimental Sta¬ 
tions and Alfalfa Authorities everywhere; 
sold on approval. Alfalfa will grow on 
your land. Write for Free sample. 
HENRY FIELD SEED C0„ 
Box 26 Shenandoah. Iowa. 
Pomeroy Hardy English Walnut Trees 
Profitable Orchards—Beautiful Lawn Shade Trees. 
Booklet Free. 
Daniel N. Pomeroy, English Walnut Farm, Lockport, N. Y. 
Call’s Nurseries, 
Perry, 
Ohio 
Have a Large Stock of the finest Fruit, 
Shade and Ornamental Trees, Spray 
Pumps, Spraying Solutions, and Gasoline 
Engines. Deal Direct. Prices Low. 
Send for Price List. 
Peach and Apple Trees 
For fall or spring planting. Prices right; stock 
light. MYEB & SON, liridgeville, Delaware 
S 
it 
FUMA 
tive Catalog Free. 
Soy 
Ratine Best varieties for grain, hay and en- 
DCullO silago. for sale. Willi) 
Starting 10,000 Tomato Plants. 
I have read the whole story of cantaloupe 
growing by Paul Rose in which he says that 
5x5 inch veneer boxes can be bought from 
any plant box manufacturer. Please fur¬ 
nish me information whether I could get 
boxes 10x12 inches without bottoms. I 
have about 10,000 panes of glass of that 
size, and I would like to get the boxes and 
not nail together, but just put them in 
the ground out in the field 4x5 feet, and 
plant early tomatoes in them and put a 
10x12 inch light on each box, or would you 
advise me to cut the glass and get smaller 
boxes, dimensions 5x6? I think if I can 
get the boxes high enough and use the 
lights upon them it would be safe to plant 
early tomatoes in them on the first of May. 
Regarding early tomatoes, which would you 
consider the best? I have used Chalk's 
Early Jewel, Spark’s Earliana, Early Mas¬ 
cot, ‘ June Pink and Early Royal Pink. 
Maybe you know of something new in the 
market. N - G - 
Caldwell, N. J. 
I do not know of any such box factory, 
and if I did I would not advise you to pur¬ 
chase 10,000 boxes such as you describe 
with the idea of planting early tomatoes in 
them. I do not think your plan feasible. 
Have you thought of the amount of labor 
such a project would involve? I think the 
cost of such an undertaking would exceed 
the returns. I consider Chalk’s Early Jewel 
the best and most profitable early tomato; 
it is large and smooth, and is always mar¬ 
ketable. Earliana is 10 days earlier in 
ripening and is planted more extensively 
than any other early tomato, which is in 
itself a good recommendation for it. 
G. G. I. 
Non-Rusting 
The Skimming Sections of the 
Interlocking 
U. S. CREAM SEPARATORS 
are now made of Nickel Silver and cannot rust. 
Nickel silver is made 
especially for us by a cele¬ 
brated metallurgist and is 
perfect in its sanitary qual¬ 
ities. Milk and casein do 
not adhere so tightly to it as 
to other metals. Non-rusting 
nickel silver makes the Inter¬ 
locking Skimmer more dur¬ 
able and easier cleaned than 
any other skimming device. 
The Interlocking style 
U. S. Cream Separator runs 
with 
Half the Power 
and does twice the work of 
older models and should not 
be confused with them. Its 
gears are enclosed, dust- 
proof and automatically 
lubricated by an oil spray. 
It’s to your own advantage to investigate. See for yourself. Ask our 
local agent to give you a free demonstration on your farm, or write us. 
Prices for Farm sizes $25 and up, according to guaranteed capacity. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO. 
Bellows Falls, Vt. 
Distributing warehouses 
everywhere 
200 t nrletles. Also Grapes, Small Fruits, ete. Best 
rooted utock. Genuine, cheap. 2 sample currants mailed for 10c. 
Catalog free. LEWIS KOKSCH A SOW, Box k. , Fredonla, N. V, 
English Walnut Trees 
Of the Variety “MAVETTE” 
A hardy variety for cultivation 
in the New England and 
Northern States. Trees three 
years old; delivered by mail, 
$1.00 each. Write for descrip¬ 
tive circular. 
JAMES L. HALL 
Box 31 Kingston, Mass. 
0IIDDI IIC ASPARAGUS CROWNS reduced to $2 50 
OUniLUo per M. Eggs for Hatching, $4.00 per 
100—W. W. and B. P. R. Send for free strawberry 
catalog. SLAYMAKER & SON, Wyoming, Del. 
Cabbage Plants Jersey Wakefield, 
$2.50 per 1,000. Basil Perry, D-18, Cool Spring, Del. 
IR WALTER RALEIGH POTATOES-Clean seed from good 
crop. References given. Geo. D. Sprague, Ovid, N.Y. 
A Run on Baked Apples. 
The demand for big apples during the 
last three months of the past Winter has 
exceeded all records of the past for this 
kind of fruit. It all conies from the tre¬ 
mendous run of baked apples in the dining 
and lunch rooms of the middle-western 
cities. Not long ago baked apples were 
served here and there occasionally in a 
small way. Now there is not an eating 
place of any pretensions in a great busi¬ 
ness center or in the outlying districts 
of the big cities where this table delicacy 
is not served at all meals and in between. 
The movement got a start in Chicago early 
in the Winter, and rapidly spread to other 
towns, until scores of the Chicago commis¬ 
sion men were called on to supply big 
apples for their own city, but there were 
continued calls from Milwaukee. Kansas 
City, and St. Louis. Invariably the order 
would particularly stipulate big apples for 
baking purposes. A proprietor of a com¬ 
paratively small place would order no less 
than 25 ‘ boxes at one time. Largely the 
Black Twig variety was supplied, but the 
proprietor of a large number of lunch 
rooms and eating places in Chicago who 
uses 15 carloads of apples, says that he 
uses the Northern Spy and Spitzenberg al¬ 
most entirely as long as this kind of apple 
may be bought in the market. He claimed 
that the eastern apple for baking purpose 
is much better than the production of the 
West, on account of the richer flavor, but 
on account of the immense demand for big 
apples for baking he has been 1 buying heav¬ 
ily in Michigan. A 
Apples are baked in big pans that hold 
about two dozen, and almost swimming in 
an abundant supply of juice, they are dis¬ 
played on counters and in windows where 
they have served well to make a man _ hun¬ 
gry. They have been served at a uniform 
price of five cents without cream and 10 
cents with it. Within a short time it has 
become one of the most popular morsels 
of food in the entire Middle West. 
Illinois. J- L. GRAFF. 
FRUIT TREES 
II. S. WILiEY c Sc JSOUXT, 
For a Quarter of a Century we have been repre¬ 
sented on this page, we again call your attention 
to OUR DEPENDABLE FRUIT TKEE8, 
Our values are good because our trees are 
reliable and will cause you no disappoint¬ 
ment. Free catalog mailed on request. 
Box 33, Cayuga, N.Y. 
0 1 , 000,000 
Strawberry plants 
Dozens of enrietles. Plants large, thrifty, strong. Special Offer: 
100 plants of my famous Norwood or Heritage varieties for $1.00, 
postage prepaid. All varieties big yielders. Guaranteed true to 
name. Ornamental Trees. Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Vines, California 
Privet, Asparagus Roots, Spray Pumps. Write for freo catalog. 
ARTHUR J. COLLINS, Box R, Moorestown, N. J. 
MILLIONS gf 
Strawberry Plants 
Thirty-nine of the earliest, latest, largest, most 
productive varieties—$3.25 per thousand. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS—Palmetto, Argenteuil, 
Barr’s, Conover’s—$2.90 per thousand. 
RASPBERRY, BLACKBERRY. CABBAGE 
PLANTS, FRUIT TREES. Prices reasonable. 
Large discounts on large orders. Catalogue Free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRE, Remsenburg, N.Y. 
HARDY TREES 
Trees for Orchard, Forest and Garden 
Planting, Shrubs, Roses, Vines and 
Herb Perennials. Hedge Plants and 
Wind Breaks. Catalogue Free. 
NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES, Bedferd, Mass. 
100,000 Fruit Trees 
APPLES, PEARS, PEACHES & 
PLUMS at wholesale prices. 
All Stock Government Inspected. Stock budded 
from bearing trees. 
Write today for our Free Catalogue. 
ONTARIO NURSERY CO. 
Box Yo. 21 Geneva, N.Y. 
55, kills Prairie Dogs, 
Woodchucks, Gophers, 
and Grain Insects. 
“The wheels of the gods 
grind slow but exceed¬ 
ingly small.” So the weevil, but you can stop their 
g £i n t i “Fuma Carbon Bisulphide doing 8 
EDWARD R. TAYLOR, Penn Van, N. Y« 
Strawberry Plants Over Forty Varieties, at 
$2.50 per 1,000. Descrip- 
BASIL PERRY, 0-18, Cool Spring, Del. 
C ABIUGE, LETTUCE, ISLETS— Fine plants, $1.00 per 1,000- 
Cauli (lower, $2.f>0 per 1,000. Sweet Potatoes, Peppers, Toma, 
toes, Celeryj best kinds. Send for list. J. C. Schmidt, Bristol, Pa. 
silago, for sale. Wilirnail instructions, 
free of charges, to each of our 1912 customers, for 
growing big crop. WM. McD. STONE, Soy Bean 
Specialist, Atwater, Portage County, Ohio. 
Sweet Potato Plants 
Warheim Farm Strain, Selected Jersey, 
Yellow and Ited. Chunky, very pro¬ 
ductive—150, postpaid, 50c. Write for 
Circular and prices on larger lots. 
GEO. H. LIEPE . . COLOGNE. N. J. 
Soil for Apple Tree. 
Would you tell me which of the two are 
better for planting an apple tree, rocky 
land or well tilled soil with no stones upon 
or in it? b. a. j. 
Elmsford, N. Y. 
Generally speaking, the best land should 
be used for apple culture. It is a mistake 
to take poor and rocky soil from choice. 
Some of us have done so because we had 
no other, or because the rocky land was 
cheap and enabled us to start with limited 
capital. There may be cases where a rocky 
hill would be better than level land in a 
valley because the latter is more subject to 
frosts. As a general proposition, take the 
best land you can get, but avoid “pockets” 
or level places where there is not good air 
drainage. 
Self-supporting Apple Growth. 
Do you know of anyone who has tried 
growing apple trees in some way so that 
all branches would be supported and able 
to bear any amount of fruit without dan¬ 
ger of breaking? * Two Summers ago I 
looked at Mr. Hales’ fine apple orchard on 
top of the mountain and it seemed to me 
the small branches were in danger, bent 
down with fine red apples. c. n. e. 
Only in a small way. Most growers 
prefer to thin the fruit. If anyone has 
tried it on a large scale, we would like to 
hear about it. 
Destroying Alfalfa Roots. 
Is there any way in which I can remov« 
or destroy Alfalfa roots? Last Spring I 
sowed grass seed and by mistake I got the 
wrong seed. J. P. M. 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
You cannot destroy Alfalfa roots without 
plowing the sod and giving thorough cul¬ 
ture. Why should anyone wish to kill out 
the Alfalfa? Many of us are obliged to 
work hard to make the crop grow. 
Exterminating Muskrats. —I am great¬ 
ly annoyed by muskrats causing leaks and 
occasional breaks in a head-race about one- 
eighth of a mile long, leading from dam 
to" plant. Can any of your readers sug¬ 
gest a feasible plan for the extermination 
of the pests ? b. 
Pennsylvania. 
$750.00 PRIZE CUP 
FOR BEST DISPLAY OF APPLES 
An Opportunity for All 
Eastern Growers of Good Apples! 
For a Fong Time You Have Contended That Your Apples Are Superior to 
Those of the West—Here is the Opportunity of a Life-time to Prove It l 
The Coe-Mortimer Company Offers a Magnificent Solid Silver Cup 
(Value $750.00) for the Best 15 Boxes of Apples (Any 3 
Varieties, 5 Boxes to Each Variety)—The Apples Are to 
be Displayed at the American Land and Irrigation 
Exposition to be Held in New York City, 
November 15th to December 2nd, 1912 
This Offer is Open to Every Fruit Grower in New England, New Yor\, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia 
(Territory not mentioned is not included in the competition) 
There are no “strings” on this offer. The best apples win the cup, 
whether our fertilizers are used or not. 
No one connected with The Coe-Mobtimeb Company will have anything 
to do with judging the apples or awarding the prize. 
You should send for information in regard to this competition promptly. 
We honestly believe that your chances of winning the cup will be very 
much better if you use Genuine Thomas Phosphate Powdeb or E. Fbank 
Coe’s Febtilizebs. Of course you know that the apples that won the 
International Cup, the Gov. Foss Cup and the Gov. Pothier Shield at 
the New England Fruit Show in October, 1911, were raised with 
GENUINE THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER (Key=Tree Brand.) 
Why Not Put YOUR Fruit in the Prize Winning Class by Purchasing 
GENUINE THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER 
Key-Tree Brand 
FROM 
THE COE-MORTIMER COMPANY 
51 Chambers Street, New York City 
Our Booklet " Up-to-Oate Fruit Growing with Thomas Phosphate Powder,” is sent free if you mention THE 
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