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THE RURA& NEW-YORKER 
Used with bucket, knapsack or barrel 
Here is a pump that will spray your tallest fruit trees from 
the ground in half the time requi. _d by others. Will white- 
i wash your chicken coop, spray cattle “dip” aud with 
L knapsack attachment, spray a field of potatoes as fast as 
« a man can walk. 
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91t> Main St., Marysville, O. 
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Ruralisms 
MISSOURI NOTES. 
The last days of January are here and 
our lowest temperature has been only 
10 degrees above zero. Winter has reg¬ 
istered 16 below and to that succumbed 
my Citrus trifoliata, which has stood in 
the yard for 10 years and borne several 
crops of its oranges, unedible but ex¬ 
ceedingly ornamental. It is certainly 
worthy of extensive propagation to the 
limit of its latitude, for when loaded 
with its fruit that turns a brilliant yel¬ 
low in the Fall, it attracts general ad¬ 
miration. Its oranges are about the size 
of black walnuts. The cold affected it 
at the surface of the ground, as it is 
said to do with other trees of a trop¬ 
ical nature, with the result that the 
bark broke loose and curled up. 
Not one of the large collection of 
grapes was killed, which certainly speaks 
well for the general hardiness, but from 
what I heard of damage here and there 
I am satisfied that altitude, soil and gen¬ 
eral culture all exert an influence on 
hardiness. If the present Winter does 
not bring harder frost, the Loganberry, 
Himalaya and other half tender sorts 
will for the first time here go through 
for the McPike grape came into bear¬ 
ing. The berries were certainly very 
large, and in goodly quantity. Against 
them was the fact that they were thin- 
skinned. showed a little unevenness in 
ripening and were not quite as good 
quality as Concord. However, there 
was no gainsaying their size. They 
were easily larger than Campbell’s Early 
that before held the palm. I was dis¬ 
posed to think quite well of this variety 
until I happened to think of its similar¬ 
ity to the Eaton, a vine of which grew 
in another field. An examination dis¬ 
closed that apparently they were iden¬ 
tical, just as I was congratulating my¬ 
self that I had the true McPike. Pos¬ 
sibly there is a similarity, but so very 
few growers feel sure that they have the 
genuine McPike that it is difficult to get 
authentic information. I should like to 
hear from anyone who is sure he has 
true specimens of these two grapes. 
• L. R. JOHNSON. 
Rodents and Young Trees. 
We see much complaint now and then 
of planters and nurserymen having 
young trees girdled by rodents in Win¬ 
ter. They may not trouble this Winter 
because it is such an open season. Two 
years ago the horticultural department 
COMPARATIVE SIZE OF GRAPES. 
uninjured. I expect nothing of the 
Himalaya, however, for so far as tried, 
it is universally condemned. The Lo¬ 
ganberry has fruited for a neighbor, and 
appears to be a good canning berry, 
but is too acid for eating off the vine. 
The precipitation here in southeast 
Missouri has been abnormal to a rare 
degree, more than 12 inches of rain hav¬ 
ing fallen within a month, nearly a third 
of the annual average. Wheat and Fall- 
sown grass and oats are looking uncom¬ 
monly well as a result of the constant 
drizzle. For a space of two days a 
coating of ice on the trees worked great 
damage to orchards and even forest 
trees. Lack of direct communication 
between districts often results in great 
inequality of price. Thirty miles from 
here across the Mississippi in a fruit 
district Kieffer pears were worth 40 
cents a bushel. An enterprising citizen 
hauled wagon loads of them here and 
sold them at $1 because people here 
were accustomed to pay that price. 
Then this man turns about and loads 
up with river bottom potatoes at 40 
cents, takes them back to his neighbors 
in the hills and sells them out at $1, 
thus making 60 cents on each bushel of 
his load, both going and coming. The 
grocers could smooth away a good part 
of such inequalities if they would but 
why undertake work that involves no 
more profit? There is no doubt that by 
searching out cheaper markets and buy¬ 
ing directly from the producer they 
could very often give their customers 
the benefit of lower prices, but if they 
make the same percentage it matters 
little to them whether their goods be 
high or low. I know one grocer who 
has the capital to buy for cash and 
storage room for carload lots, but he is 
only one out of many. The others buy 
in small quantities from wholesalers, and 
make no effort to reach the producer. 
I lie one does sell many things cheaper, 
and has a large trade, but the others 
maintain a living trade also, and many 
people by inducements of credit or pure 
unwillingness to exert themselves will 
continue to trade wherever convenience 
first drew them. Beginning last Sum¬ 
mer a speculator brought in several car¬ 
loads of watermelons and sold them 
from the car to grocers and consumers. 
In the Fall he tried apples and one car 
of cabbage. On the cabbage, which he 
sold to consumers at 1J4 cents a pound, 
he claimed to have lost money. The 
apples were Ben Davis at 50 cents per 
bushel. This was cheaper by 50 cents 
than the grocers had been selling them. 
Last Summer two vines that I bought 
of the college had many two-year-old 
nursery trees girdled by rabbits. A few 
would be taken each night for two or 
three nights. We finally decided to 
see what virtue some spray might have. 
Accordingly we sprayed with soluble oil. 
Not a tree was touched after the spray¬ 
ing. Why not spray the trunks in such 
snowy Winters and thus ward off the 
damage done in this way? 
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prevent blight, 
destroy insects which play 
havoc with your crops. 300,000 suc¬ 
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40 styles and sizes. For 5 acres of field 
crops, or 1 acre of trees, use Auto Spray 
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—the only ndizle made that will spray any solution 
for days without clogging. Adjustable for all sprays. 
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The H. P. Spramotor shown 
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Twelve nozzles that cannot 
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