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January 18, 
A FARMER S NOTES. 
Repairing Roofs. —An experienced 
workman will repair a roof to last sev¬ 
eral years, but one who does not un¬ 
derstand the business will work nearly 
as much harm as good. The shingles 
used in repairing should be only an 
inch longer than twice the amount the 
courses are laid to the weather. Driven 
the shingles even with the course they 
cover. This will cover one course out¬ 
side and reach an inch under the sec¬ 
ond course. If long shingles are used 
and driven even with the course it 
springs the shingles out of place and 
causes cracks for wind and leaks,: It 
is an easy matter to make a few short 
shingles somewhat thinner than ordi¬ 
nary thickness, or saw off the butts to 
get the shingles of proper length. I 
have found that most people place the 
shingles one course too low to do the 
work properly. It makes a better job 
to cover the defective shingles than 
place a shingle under them. 
Gathering Brush with Harrow.— 
Several years ago I did the most of the 
work in cultivating a vineyard and 
peach orchard in Seneca Co., N. Y. The 
brush was raked from underneath the 
trees, where the horses could not be 
driven, and drawn to the outsides of 
the field with a spring-tooth harrow. 
When starting to make a haul of brush 
the harrow was adjusted to run light 
and gradually set to run deeper as the 
brush collected under the harrow. When 
the outside of the field was reached the 
harrow was dumped, leaving the brush 
in piles. It is surprising to see the 
amount of small brush that can be re¬ 
moved from an orchard in a few hours. 
I believe a team and one man will draw 
more brush with a harrow than three 
men will with a wagon. The work is 
beneficial in pulverizing the surface 
somewhat, and helps cultivate the or¬ 
chard. It is also much more conveni¬ 
ent to turn around at the end of the 
rows with a harrow than it is with a 
wagon. 
Squashes with Potatoes. —When 
planting the earliest varieties of pota¬ 
toes early in the season if every sev¬ 
enth or eighth row is left vacant and 
planted with Winter squashes the lat¬ 
ter part of May or first of June there 
will be nearly as many potatoes as there 
would have been if every row had been 
planted and two-thirds as many 
squashes as there would have been on 
the whole plot of ground. When the 
potatoes are fit to dig, dig those next to 
the squashes first. If all of the pota¬ 
toes are not dug before the squashes 
commence to run they will be nearing 
maturity and the squashes will do but 
little harm. Plant the squashes very 
thick, and thin when the bug season is 
over to leave a vine every 20 or 24 
inches apart. Train the vines fo run 
straight across the rows as much as 
possible. 
Beginning Bee-keeping. —When most 
persons commence to keep bees they are 
not satisfied with a colony or two the 
first two or three years. It is far bet¬ 
ter to get a knowledge of bee-keeping 
while keeping a few colonies than to 
get 20 or 30 colonies and have the busi¬ 
ness turn out more or less loss from 
incompetent management. Unless a per¬ 
son can work under instructions from 
one who understands the business it 
would be better to study at odd times a 
year or more before purchasing bees. 
When bees have been confined in the 
hives several weeks and have a flight 
during the latter part of Winter or early 
Spring they are apt to have a general 
cleaning up of the hive and themselves. 
Bee-keepers who are learning their first 
lessons in bee-keeping and see three or 
four bees having hold of one, quite nat¬ 
urally think they are fighting. If they 
will watch them a few seconds they 
will see the bee released and scamper 
away as if well pleased with the job. 
New York. j. h. a. 
THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
Care of a Potato Crop. 
Reader. —I have read about that crop 
of ■fine potatoes .grown -by L. A. Littlefield 
of Maine. Is it likely that the Green 
Mountain variety could be planted at Vine- 
land, N. J„, and give potatoes in June? 
Ans. —I am not able to state whether 
you would get good potatoes in June, 
but we plant from the middle of May 
to the 15th of June and sometimes as 
late as the 25th, and we dig from the 
middle of September up to the 20th of 
October. My prize acre was planted the 
6th of June and dug the 20th of Octo¬ 
ber. They were ready to dig about the 
10th. Here in Maine the Green Moun¬ 
tain is about two weeks later than Cob¬ 
bler, but is a good de ' heavier yield- 
er. Of course you understand that 
spraying and the kind of soil has a good 
deal to do with the time of ripening. 
I planted one piece on old potato 
ground about June 10, and they were 
read}" to dig the 15th of September. Po¬ 
tatoes that are thoroughly sprayed will 
remain green from three to.four weeks 
longer than unsprayed ones, especially 
in a dry season. I begin spraying when 
they are about six inches high (earlier 
if bothered by bugs), and spray every 
10 days or two weeks, according to the 
weather. My prize acre was sprayed 
three times with Bordeaux mixture and 
twice with pyrox. l. a. Littlefield. 
Maine. 
Fertilizer for Potatoes. 
On page 3, J. H., College Hill, O., asks 
what is wrong with his potato crop. The 
fertilizer used, I should think, was a very 
unbalanced one, also the 25 tons stable 
manure, first year, rather light, as his corn 
crop showed. The harrow used was not of 
much account in fixing his soil. A good 
cutaway harrow used till after one is tired 
of harrowing the plot is better. A fertilizer 
made as follows will make things go : 500 
pounds nitrate of soda at .$2.75, $13.75; 
500 pounds high-grade sulphate of potash 
at $2.55, $12.50; 1000 pounds acid phos¬ 
phate at 75 cents, $7.50, total $33.75. You 
would have a fertilizer whose constituents 
you know. Use 1500 pounds per acre of 
this, putting one-half with your potato 
planter, and other half broadcast with your 
fertilizer sower, when potatoes are about 
six to eight inches high. Is uot liming 
land for two or three years ahead of potato 
planting better? Your land should be 
plowed early, and kept harrowed till about 
June 15; use above amount of fertilizer 
and I think you will find something in 
ground at digging time. I have raised a 
good crop of potatoes as above for several 
years. w. a. e. 
Massachusetts. 
Butter, 25 cents; eggs, 20: wheat, 58 
pounds, $1; corn, 40; oats, 30; coal. 15; 
lard, 12; potatoes, 60; bacon, 10; hogs, 
per 100,'$7; retail price, 13 to 18 cents 
a pound. Cattle or best beef, 5% cents, 
retail, eight to 18. 0. p. b. 
Ashville, O. 
The prices asked by farmers on the 
Roanoke, Va., public market past week 
were 30 cents a dozen for eggs; butter, 
35; potatoes, 75, and very few brought 
in. Apples, ordinary stock, 50 cents for 
Pippins, 70 for Winesaps. Dressed hogs, 
11% cents a pound. I. w. w. 
Virginia. 
FRUIT TREES $Sg?$d 
ous individuals of known 
bearing characters are tho 
Key toSuccess 
‘rile for catelor ofl 
Nurrery «tock grown { 
by practical orchard 
fat. Many new idea*. Quality fir*t 
consideration; price* right. SABTFL 
FRASER, 114 Main St., Ueneseo, N. T. 
GREAT CROP RESULTS 
“ Personally I believe your High Grade Potato 
has NO equal ; half a ton to the acre has given me 
more potatoes and better stock than three-fourths 
ton of same analysis of any other make used,” said 
of Martin's by an expert New York Potato Grower. 
(Name furnished on application.) Martin Fertili 
zers lead in Crop Production and Soil Enrichment. 
Manufactured chiefly of materials from our own 
slaughterhouses and stockyards. Quality and me¬ 
chanical condition guaranteed. Responsible agents 
wanted. I). B. MARTIN CO., 706 Fenn 
Building, Pittsburgh. Pa. 
SOY BEANS FOR SEED 
500 bushels Ito San. grown on Rutger’s College 
Farm. Choice graded stock. Also small quantity 
of Wilson, Mongol, Baird and Brownie. Address, 
Irvins L. Owen, Manager College Farm, New Brunswick, N. J. 
SWF FT seed-i .large biennial cultivated varie- 
O TT LE I ties, white and yellow. Greatest legume 
fl AVFR fertilizer. Excellent hay and pasture. 
Price, and circular how to grow it. on 
request. E. BARTON, Box 29, Falmouth. Ky. 
IRON AGE (Improved Robbins) POTATO PLANTER, with 
fertilizer distributor. Includes whifliotrees and 
neck-yoke. Also Iron Age Four-Row Sprayer. In¬ 
cludes bucket strainer. Used one season on twenty- 
two acres of potatoes. Will sell at half price. 
Address, W. M. HARRIS, Walpack Center, New Jersey 
When you write advertisers mention Thb 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.'” See guarantee editorial page. 
Sweet Glover 
Feeds Stock and 
Lend Best of All 
S \ SA FERTILIZER of worn out or sandy soil it 
Y is unequalled. Sow Sweet Clover on the sand 
hills of Colorado and Nebraska and get a bumper 
crop- CATTLE pastured on Sweet Clover fatten as if fed 
on prepared food. Sown in the orchard it loosens the soil 
and promotes growth. Ploughed tinder it increases crops 
from 50% to 100%. Write for prices. 
GRISWOLD SEED COMPANY 
227S. lOth Street,Lincoln, Nebraska 
^GUARANTEED ALFALFA SEED 
Absolutely pure, free of weeds, vigorous 
the 
Sold t 
hardy, northern grown, non-irrigated. 
The kind that will grow on your land, 
on approval. Get free samples 
and colturai instructions; big seed 
catalog and wholesale price Bets. 
HENRY FIELD SEED CO., 
Box26, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
—All the best va- 
rietiesof Peaches. 
Pits from H.W. 
Harris, Hickory, 
N. C., buds direct from bearing trees. Results, 
sturdy trees and purity of kinds. Ask for special 
prices- NELSON B0GUE, Batavia Nurseries, Batavia, N. Y. 
ELBERTAS 
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WHOLESALE PRICES 
On 91 wortll and up. strawberry. Raspberry, 
Blackberry, Bash Plants, Grape Vines, and Garden Roots. 
Extra heavy rooted, high grade stock. No better 
plants can be grown. Everything fully gnaranteed. 
Catalog free. . . 
A. C. WESTON & CO„ Bridgman. Michigan 
Big 1913 Seed Catalogue 
and Great Premium List 
— All FREE 
cun buy Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Plants 
and Nursery Stock at lowest prices, and get 
valuable premiums for the homo, kitchen or 
farm free. Our offers for 1918 are the choicest 
and most liberal in our 37 years’ history. 
Succeed with Salzer’s Seeds 
For 10c we mall big packages of Salzer’s fa¬ 
mous Alfalfa Clover, Rejuvenated White Bo¬ 
nanza Oats, Silver King Barley, ami many 
other packages fine farm seeds. 
Flower seed collection —six generous packages 
—brilliant bloomers, 14c. Vegetable seed col¬ 
lection-six big packages—enough for a good 
garden—16c. Both collections for 25c, or send 
30c and we add new Earliest Red Riding Hood 
Tomato Novelty, alone costing 15c. 
JotipA.SalzarSeedCo., 1448.8th St, taCrosse, Wit. 
lAfrai riTund 
At Prices That None Can Beat 
You must be Satisfied or NO PAY 
We will send samples of UNITO Ready Roof¬ 
ing, and tell you flow to test it to prove that it 
pays to buy the UNITO. We want to send you 
our free Roofing Book. It shows how Roofing is 
made. Iin the making of UNITO Ready Roof- 
| ing neither convict nor child labor Is em¬ 
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THE UNITED FACTORIES COMPANY . 
il37Qnlted Factories Bldg. Cleveland, Ohio J 
CHFAP 
Now I. The 
Time to Buy 
Prices sure to 
rise. Save 
__money by buy¬ 
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free samples of our Iowa Grown New Crop Recleaned 
Toaled Clover and Timothy Seed. Also alfalfa, alsike, 
sweet clover, all kinds grass seed. 1913 eelelog free 
quoting all field seeds. Save monsy by writing 
A. A. BERRY SEBD CO., Box 1 60 CLARINDA, IOWA 
CLOVER 
Fruit GrowerrFavoritePrunin&Saw 
Enables you to save time by pruning from tho ground (no 1 
rlimblm). Shapaa tr«»» battar and doe. the work aaaily, ] 
quickly and well. If yonr dealer cannot supply yon, •end 
your order to us. W. pay Booklet on 
axpree. chargaa. Request 
Fruit Growers Saw Co., 20 Main St.. Scottsville. 
GOD SEEDS 
Bite BEST IN THE WORLD 
Prices Below All Other* 
I will give a lot of new 
Ig? sorts free with every order I 
if fill. Buy and test Return if 
*not O. K.—money refunded 
Big Catalog FREE ‘ 
Over TOO illustrations of vege¬ 
tables and flowers. Send yours 
. ’ and your neighbors’ addresses. 
R* H, SHUMVVAY, Rockford, Illinoiq 
cej- bi* | Our New Wonderful Book Entitled 
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Thousands of farmers have not been able to get a clover 
“catch” in the last few years. They have wondered why. Our 
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Tells you how to putin the necessary bacteria that yonr soil 
lacks on account of continual cropping and how tho soil is in¬ 
oculated. This process provide* the necessary bacteria that 
draw tho nitrogen from the air, that you lack. Send for it. 
Send 10c in Hturaps to cover pontage and handling:. 
Why not start a soil enriching: campaign on your farm ? 
Enrich Soil 
—Increase 
Your Crops 
Clover wonderfully enriches the soil. We can help you to get 
a fino stand of clover—tell you how to meet your particular soil 
conditions. No cost or obligation on your part. We spend 
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GALLOWAY-BROS.-BOWMAN COMPANY, Box 667 H, Waterloo, Iowa. 
DIBBLE’S 
D. B. BRAND 
Timothy, Alfalfa and Clover Seed 
99.50% pure or better is the kind to sow if you 
want the best and cleanest seeding obtainable 
Owing to heavy crops everywhere, Timothy is very cheap. A 
Dollar buys more than three times as much Timothy as it did a 
year ago. Alfalfa and Clover seed are also cheaper. This is the 
year to seed every available acre. Our D. B. Brand is sold subject 
to your test, the test of your Experiment Station or that of the 
Department of Agriculture at Washington, on a “ money-back-if- 
you-want-it ” gurantee. 
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Seed Potatoes, Seed Corn, Oats, Barley, in fact everything 
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Dibble’s new Farm Seed Catalog, the largest and most com¬ 
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High Grade Farm Seeds for testing, mailed absolutely FREE. 
ADDRESS : 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower 
Box B, HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
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