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THE) RURAI> NSW-YORKER 
January 4, 
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250,000 Apple 
250000 Peacli 
grownhy men of experience in the gr eatest 
tree growing center of theU. S. We si i ip 
only quality trees and burn those we be¬ 
lieve will not please our customers. We do 
not grow the quantity of trees that some 
nurserymen do, but we do maintain quality 
and have built our reputation by so doing. 
For 48 years these nurseries have been 
known for reliability. We’d rather not 
sell a planter if we can’t please him. 
We guarantee our trees true to name and 
free from scale, and will refund $3 to $1 in¬ 
vested in every case where found otherwise. 
Write for Catalog and price list of _ 
selected stock 
Special allowance on large orders 
before March 1st 
J. B. MOREY NURSERIES 
29 State Street Dansville, N. V. 
Kelly’s TREES 
Gu a r a niee d St u rdy 
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It means real money to you to buy Fruit Trees 
with the confidence that you are getting varieties 
true to name, sturdy stock of perfect grades, all 
free from disease. Think it over. 
We have over 100 acres of the finest blocks of 
Apple, Pear, Peach. Plum. Cherry and Quince Trees 
in all the leading varieties. 
We have the endorsement of our fellow towns¬ 
men, which is the best recommendation any firm 
can have. 
You can order our quality trees from ourCatalog 
just as if you were givi ng us your order personally. 
It will receive the best possible attention. 
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KELLY BROS. NURSERIES 
26 Main Street Dansville, N, Y. 
You’ll Never Regret Planting Kelly Trees 
DIRECT TO YOU 
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DENTON, WILLIAMS & DENTON 
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RICH LAND NURSERIES 
Box 282 Rochester, N.Y. 
Freight PAID 
W.Jenklns.Monroe.Neb., 
writing about his 1912 crop 
of Hog Pasture Mixture, 
says: “ When the pasture was 
at its bestthehogs would stay 
in the pasture Instead of com¬ 
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proved to be just the thing In the 
right place. No farmer can make 
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GRISWOLD'S 
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produces in the hot summer when other 
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Can be planted in summer forfall feeding. 
Great forstock of all kinds. Growsqulckly 
—produces big tonnage of tine green fodder 
when it is needed most. Write today forprlces 
also free book of Garden and Field Seeds. 
GRISWOLD SEED COMPANY 
227So. lOthSt., Lincoln, Neb. 
1878Grown Right .Handled Right 1913 
Plums 5c Apples 8c 
Cherries 4c 
Write at 
once for our FREE bulletin, a gold 
mine of information about buying, 
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KING BUGS. NUKSERIKS 
8 Oak St., Dansville, N. Y. 
"It’s Cheapest to Buy the Best ’ ’ 
NORTHERN NUT GROWERS MEET. 
The third annual mooting of the North-' 
orn Nut Growers’ Association, held at Lan¬ 
caster, Pa., December 18-19, was a pro-' 
nounced success in every way. If anyone 
doubts our ability to grow the various 
nuts in great excellence in all parts of the 
North he has only to attend one of these 
conventions and listen to the discussions, 
to have his mind completely disabused of 
any such wrong notion. The exhibits of 
fine nuts—pecans. Persian walnuts, liickory- 
nuts. shellbarks, Black and White walnuts, 
chestnuts and many other common nuts, as 
well as quite a number of very uncommon 
ones were remarkable for their high 
quality and great numbers. 
The strong paper of T. P. Littlepage 
warning the inexperienced investor against 
the financial danger of all promoted and 
proxy farming, fruit growing and nut rais¬ 
ing, and the concrete instances of failure 
and loss cited by various other speakers, 
should guard many a small investor against 
such schemes. 
Dr. Robert T. Morris of New York is 
president of the association and gave a 
short discription of some of his methods 
in nut hybridization and the very scientifi¬ 
cally advanced work he is doing in that 
branch of nut culture. Dr. W. C. Deming, 
Westchester, N. Y., is secretary, and read 
an excellent paper giving primary instruc¬ 
tions to the beginner in nut growing. This 
paper is proposed to supply to all those 
who want first aid in selection of location, 
choosing varieties, planting and subsequent 
care of the trees. This paper was strongly 
supplemented by a somewhat more ad¬ 
vanced account given by ,T. G. Rush of 
Lancaster, of the results he had accom¬ 
plished in his nut growing enterprise, es¬ 
pecially as it relates to the propagation and 
culture of fine Persian walnuts. In this 
line of nut growing Mr. Rush has been 
conspicuously successful, and has propa¬ 
gated some of the best and most promising 
varieties of Persian walnut grown in this 
country, lie has recently been reinforced 
in this work by Mr. .T. P. Jones, who has 
located near Mr. Rush, and the two will 
carry on extensive Persian walnut nurse¬ 
ries. A pleasing and instructive session 
of the meeting was held at the nurseries of 
these growers, located a few miles from 
Lancaster. On the ground Mr. Rush was 
able to show what he had done and has in 
contemplation. 
Representatives of the Pennsylvania 
Chestnut Blight Commission were present 
and made reports on the progress of the 
work of the commission. As is to be ex¬ 
pected in Pennsylvania, this commission 
is costing the State a very nice sum of 
money, and it may be interesting to citi¬ 
zens of the State to know that not a word 
of encouragement has yet gone out that the 
blight in large tracts can be cured or even 
controlled. Cutting and marketing the af¬ 
fected timber is thus far the only recom¬ 
mendation of relief. If we wipe out the 
Pennsylvania chestnut we may save the 
chestnuts of some other States: but it ap¬ 
peared to be the convention opinion that 
inasmuch as the spores of the blight are 
of a viscid character they may be carried 
from forest to forest as far as a bird may 
fly. On the other hand Mr. Coleman K. 
Sober, of Lewisburg, Pa., probably the 
most extensive and successful grower of 
Paragon chestnuts in the State, asserted 
at the meeting that he had been able to 
combat and hold the disease in check by 
care, cutting and cleanliness, and that in 
his hundreds of acres of groves and 
nurseries he does not regard the blight as 
more serious or its control more expensive 
than the scale and other pests to the fruit 
grower. Examples were cited where single 
large trees had undergone surgical opera¬ 
tions of cutting off and out and painting 
and spraying at a cost per tree of about 
$ 20 . 
Prof. Smith made a strong plea for 
general conservation of trees and soils and 
believes that the time will come when men 
will be more abundantly fed from trees 
than from grains, and expects great results 
from the successful hybridization of Black 
and Persian walnuts, the work being under¬ 
taken by Messrs. Rush and Jones here and 
others elsewhere. Enthusiastic, conserva¬ 
tive nut growers from all sections of the 
South and East were in attendance. The 
meeting was very useful, illuminating and 
delightful. w. f. m’sparran. 
SPRAYING TO PROTECT FROM DEER. 
The wild! deer are a great nuisance here. 
Is there any spray which we can use on 
the trees to prevent these deer from gnaw¬ 
ing the young growth? s. B. 
Massachusetts. 
I can sympathize with your Massachu¬ 
setts correspondent, for I have lost thou¬ 
sands of apple trees by the dear deers. For 
the past three years I have sprayed the 
trees late in the Fall with a heavy lime- 
sulphur mixture containing an excess of 
lime and the Winter damage has been 
much less; I do not know how much credit 
the wash deserves, although I believe it is 
chiefly responsible, for the spray covers 
every part of the surface and has an un¬ 
pleasant taste, to my palate, at least. 
Rhode Island. H. w. heaton. 
The doer problem has seriously been con¬ 
sidered during the past few weeks, and I 
have contemplated an experiment with a 
view of trying out the proposition sug¬ 
gested in your letter. Personally I would 
favor the doing away with the deer, and l 
I am inclined to believe that it would be 
an easier matter to station a man in the 
orchard with a shotgun for a few morn- I 
ings than to go to the trouble of spraying 
the whole orchard, even though a repellent 
could be found. In Connecticut a man may 
shoot deer if he finds they are doing dam¬ 
age to his property. c. d. jarvis. 
Conn. Experiment Station. 
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NEW HOLLAND MACHINE CO., 
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I have no record of experiments being 
conducted with any kind of spray to keep 
deer from feeding upon fruit trees. The 
taste and odor of the lime-sulphur mixture, 
however, is such that it would load one to 
suggest it as a possible remedy. As this 
is commonly used for spraying trees and 
an excellent remedy for the San Jos6 scale, 
I would like to see it well tested in this 
particular before devising other methods. 
W. E. BRITTON. 
Conn. State Entomologist. 
N. Wertheimer & Sons 
LIGONIER, IND. 
^7T Choice Home Grown Field 
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Write for samples and prices. 
N. WERTHEIMER & SONS 
LIGONIER, IND. 
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Ferry’s Seeds prove their worth at 
harvest time. After over fifty years 
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DETROIT, MICH. 
“Eberlo Quality" Seeds are bound to grow ifglven 
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21 Stone Street The Flower City 
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1 Troeacres Road, Dansville, N. Y. 
First-class stock, 2 years old, 4 to 5 feet high, 
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[ 626!Cutler Bldg.. Rochester, N. Y. 
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First-Glass FRUIT TREES 
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Box 66 
COLDWATER, N. V. 
HARRIS 
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