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THE RURAIs, NEW-YORKER 
March 22, 
Better 
With a Hair Cut ^ 
Just the same as you do. Hour 
would you like to still wear your 
winter coat when spring work begins? 
If you want your horses to keep well. 
last longer and give you better serTtce ~ - 
In every way take off the heavy coat that 
holds the wet sweatand dirt. Don’t buy any 
thing but 
The Stewart 
Ball Bearing 
Clipping Machine 
the only machine that will clip horses, cows 
and mules without any change whatever. 
Has all file hard cut steel gears, enclosed safe 
from dust and dirt and running In oil. 
Has 6 feet of new style, light, easy run¬ 
ning flexible shaft and the Stewart sin¬ 
gle tension clipping head, highest 
grade. Clips easier and faster than 
any other and lasts longer. Every 
machine fully guaranteed. Get ' 
one from your dealer or send I 
to us and we will PRICE 
ship C. O. D. tncfi 
for balance. * j 
GET 
ALL HIS 
WOOL. 
You lose 81 on every six sheep by shear¬ 
ing the old way. You know how many 
you’ve got. Figure out how much more 
money for you If you get more and a 
longer, better quality of wool, that will* 
bring a higher price. Usea 
Stewart No. 9 Ball Bearing 
Shearing Machine 
It’s the most perfect hand operated 
shearing machine ever dtvised. Has ball bearings 
In every part where friction or wear occurs. Has a 
ball bearing shearing head of the latest Improved 
Stewart pattern. Comes complete. In- PRICE 
eluding A combs and 4 cutters of the « j ies 
celebrated Stewart quality at. *11 ** u 
Gel one Irom your dealer, or send * • m ^ m ,m 
82.00 and we will ship C. O. D. for balance, M 
kPHICACO FLEXIBLE SHAFT CO. 
143 La Salle Av. CHICAGO 
w mon Seed 
We are extensive growers and dealers in the best 
varieties. Onions will be high next season. Write 
for prices. SCHILDFR BROS., Chillicot he.O. 
flATC —Reg- Swedish Select and Imp. American, 
VMI O Twq best yi elders A ] so SEED Q 0RNi g eed p 0 . 
tatoes, Clover, Timothy andJSARDEN SEEDS. Samples 
and Catalog free. 
BURT & SONS. Melrose. Ohio 
S TONE’S SOYBEANS and Leading Standard Varieties of 
field and ensilage corn. Pill granary and eilo with balanced 
rations. Don't buy high-priced proteiu feed and nitrogen fer¬ 
tilizer. Grow them cheaply with STONE’S SOYBEANS. 
Illustrated catalogue free. WM. McD. STONE, Soybean 
and Corn Specialist, Atwater, Portage County, Ohio 
MAKE MORE MONEY 
Up-to-date farming means spraying. Yon increase 
the amount of your crop as well as quality. We 
make all kinds of spraying outfits from the smallest 
hand power to the heavy gasoline power. Our 
prices are extremely low. We can give you gasoline 
engines that will run your spray pump, saw your 
wood, pump your water and do all other work. Tell 
us just what you have to do and let us submit the 
right engine for the work. Tell us size farm you 
have and get our proposition. 
R. WATERLOO ENGINE WORKS. 137 LIBERTY ST..N.Y. CITY 
Rln rlrkorrv Plante - Mersereaus, $8.50 per T000 
niacKDerry riants H rossman. vermilion, o. 
MILLIONS OF ASPARAGUS ROOTS, Blackberry and Straw- 
1,1 berry plants, Sweet Potato seed and plants, vegeta 
ble plants. Catalogue free. M. N, B0RG0, Vineland, N. J. 
POTATOES—lllisa, Bovee, Carman, Cobbler,Gr’n Mt.Queen,Rose 
Longfellow, 6-w'ks,Wonder. 85 kinds. C, W. Ford, Fi*hers,N.Y 
MILLIONS of TREES 
PLANTS, VINES, ROSES, ETC. 
The oldest, largest and most complete nursery in 
Michigan. Send for catalog. Prices reasonable 
I. E. ILGENFRITZ’ SONS CO. 
THE MONROE NURSERY, Monroe, Mich. 
F OR SALE—Danish Ball-Head CABBAGE 
SEED, Cape Elizabeth (Maine) grown. For 
those who want best seed obtainable. 40c oz.; $4.50 
lb. E. L. Thompson, 81 Quebec St., Portland. Me. 
THE LEVIN PRUIMER 
The best pruner. Cuts ^4-inch dry 
branch. Quick, clean, easy cut. We 
will send it post paid for club of two 
new yearly subscriptions at SI each, 
or for club of 10 ten weeks trials at 10 
cents each. 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York 
WORMS IN GRAPE VINE. 
/. 0. <S., New York .—How can I keep 
worms from eating the leaves of my grape 
vines. Do they come from the ground, or 
from a flying insect? 
Ans. —The feeding on grape foliage 
mentioned in this inquiry may be due to 
the larvae of moths, the larvae of a 
beetle or an adult beetle. Occasionally 
some caterpillars quite uncommon as 
grape-leaf feeders do some injury be¬ 
fore the grower is aware of their pres¬ 
ence, but seldom if ever are commercial 
plantings injured seriously by these 
caterpillars. As they are in chewing forms 
any spray containing arsenic will control 
them, provided it is applied before 
much feeding has been done. The best 
of these arsenical sprays is undoubtedly 
arsenate of lead at the rate of three 
pounds to 50 gallons of water. If the 
vines are few in number it can be ap¬ 
plied with a knapsack sprayer, care 
being taken to cover all the leaves thor¬ 
oughly. Quite frequently the grape 
bud is attacked before opening in the 
Spring by a steel-blue beetle that eats 
a small hole into the bud to a considera 
ble depth, thereby killing it. This 
trouble is more common in vineyards 
adjacent to woodlands where the beetles 
hibernate. During midsummer the grub 
of this beetle feeds upon grape foliage 
•and can be controlled by spraying as 
already directed. The common methoc 
of combating when the infested area is 
not large is to pick off the beetles as soon 
as they are seen on the dormant canes 
in early Spring and destroy. As they 
appear quite early in the Spring one 
has to be on the alert in order to get 
them before they have bored into the 
bud and killed it. A better method for 
larger areas is to spray the dormant 
buds with three pounds of arsenate of 
lead, one gallon of stock molasses added 
to 50 gallons of water about the time 
the beetles are migrating to the vines. 
In either case if the beetles are de 
stroyed as such there can be no leaf 
feeding. The bud injury is far more 
serious than the feeding on the leaf. 
The grape root-worm beetle feeds 
quite extensively on the grape foliage. 
In fact this feeding is the most sure 
indication that the insect is present. 
This beetle emerges from the soil about 
the vine, having passed the Winter there 
as a worm or larva, changing first to the 
pupal stage and emerging as an adult. 
This insect is by far more injurious to 
the grape in New York than all others. 
While perhaps no vineyards have been 
killed outright, thousands of vines have 
been so weakened that they have be¬ 
come unproductive and unprofitable. 
While the leaf feeding by the adult 
may be considerable and perhaps un¬ 
desirable, it is nothing as compared 
with the injury done the root system 
of the vine by the larva or worm stage 
of the pest. After feeding sufficiently 
on the leaf the eggs are laid on the 
canes and older wood. These hatch 
into small worms which drop to the 
ground and burrow their way into the 
soil and to the fibers <- f the root sys¬ 
tem upon which they feed till just be¬ 
fore transformation in the Spring. In 
the meantime they have increased 
greatly in size. Frequently all the 
fibrous roots are eaten away from the 
vine and in this condition it must make 
an attempt to make growth. Of course 
this amount of feeding is not done by 
a single individual, as often as many 
as 50 larvae have been dug from around 
single vine. As there is relatively 
only a short period of this insect’s life 
spent above ground, it is quite necessary 
that the vineyardist be on the alert to 
control its ravages when it makes its 
appearance. Two or three days after 
they are quite generally observed on the 
vines, a spray made up of three 
pounds of arsenate of lead, one gallon 
of stock molasses to 50 gallons of 
water should be applied to the foliage, 
care being taken to cover as much of 
the foliage as possible. If rains follow 
within two days a second application 
will be necessary. Two weeks later an 
application of Bordeaux made accord¬ 
ing to the 4-4-50 formula, that is, four 
pounds of lime, four pounds of blue 
vitriol, with 50 gallons of water. This 
will serve as a repellent to the beetles 
that may have migrated into the vine¬ 
yard later and will also aid in the con¬ 
trol of powdery mildew. In order to 
be successful in any control work with 
these insects, timeliness and thorough¬ 
ness are the limiting factors. 
F. E. GLADWIN. 
DIBBLE’S SEED POTATDES 
are northern grown from selected stock seed and each 
one of our thirty varieties was planted on natural potato 
soil especially adapted to the best development of the 
variety, carefully tilled and sprayed while growing, 
harvested at the proper time and are stored in our 
own specially constructed frost-proof storage houses 
and therefore can be depended upon to produce profit¬ 
able crops wherever planted, as the tubers are of the 
choicest quality, assorted by hand before packing and 
full of vigor and vitality. Thousands of progres¬ 
sive farmers plant Dibble’s Seed Potatoes annually 
and we receive numerous testimonials each season 
from customers who state that Dibble’s Seed Pota¬ 
toes outyield their home-grown seed 2 to 1. We 
have but one grade. 
THE BEST OBTAINABLE 
No seconds or little ones to offer. Our seed pota¬ 
toes are so well bred that we frequently put into our 
warehouses the product of a hundred acres that will 
not assort more than one or two bushels of small 
tubers to the 100 of merchantable stock. There is 
big money in growing potatoes when you get big 
potatoes and a dozen to the hill. 
We are Headquarters for Seed Potatoes. 
1,600 acres in our seed Farms. Warehouse capacity 
75,000 bushels and our prices are lowest possible con¬ 
sistent with highest possible quality. 
Seed Potatoes are cheap this spring. Now is 
the time to buy. 
Dibble’s Seed Catalog, the leading Farm 
Seed Book of the year, describing the best 
Seed Potatoes, Corn, Oats, Alfalfa, Clover 
and Grass Seed that grow. FREE. Address 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower, Box B, HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
FROM OUR FARMS TO YOURS 
Ql? 17 r* D M Six Varieties, Heavy 
iDIILjL/ v>v/I\il Yielders, $2 per bu 
You want our White Cap Yellow Dent. Our stocks 
were grown by the winnerof first prize at the recent 
Penn'a State and the South Carolina National 
Corn Shows. 
/-,n a ri r<r< r< Clover at $11.00 per bu. Tim- 
f m rc Z\ ^ othy—Red Top—Orchard— 
Ky. Blue-Millets, Alfalfa, 
Vetches and 30 other grasses. White, Alsike, Mam¬ 
moth, Crimson and Sweet Clovers. 
SEED OATS—SPRING RYE and BARLEY 
BUCKWHEAT—FIELD PEAS and BEANS 
r^r* A O You should plant North- 
1.11 VV I F. ern Grown Cow Peas of 
the earliest varieties. 
We have them in nice qualities at moderate prices. 
Maine Grown Seed Potatoes, Clean, Sound 
Cobblers—Ea. Ohios—Ea. Rose—Carmans—Mountains— 
Giants—Raleighs—State of Maines—Gold Coins. 
Everything For the Farm, Moderate Prices 
You want our 32 page catalog. It is free. Askforit 
H. HOFFMAN, LANDISVILLE, LANCASTER CO. PENN’A. 
20 Elberta Peach Trees for $1.00 
By Parcel Post Prepaid 
Pruned ready to plant, satisfaction guaranteed. Order 
at once and write for prices on full line of Nursery 8took 
sold direct to planters at less than half the usual prices 
NEW HAVEN NURSERIES. Box 11. NEW HAVEN. MISSOURI 
HARDY ENGLISH WALNUT TREES 
Shade and profit in zero climates. 
FREE ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET. 
DAN’L N. POMEROY. English Walnut Farms, L0CKP0RT, N. Y. 
VFRY DHftlfiF 5 in2 ’ Cuthbert, Kansas and 
VC.AI L/I1U1CL, Gregg Raspberry plants, $7.00 
E er 1,000. Lucretia Dewberries, $6.00 per 1,000 
HERRY HILL FRUIT FARM. T.boso, Licking County, Ohio 
AIIT©— Swedish Select, Siberian and Big 4. Also SEED 
Un I w CORN and GRASS SEED- Samples and circular 
free. lteid Burt, Melrose, Ohio 
ALFALFA 
We have spent $ 12,000 instructing over 200,000 
farmern how to grow alfalfa. Our free booklet 
makes a certainty of this crop if our directions are 
followed. We receive each year hundreds of 
letters from our customers saying that their fields 
planted with our seed, and under the same condi- 
tions as other fields planted with seed from other 
sources, have in every instance out-yielded the 
meadow secured from other seed than our own. 
We could sell much cheaper alfalfa seed than we 
do, but we refuse to handle anything but the very 
best, which costs us more than the price at which 
ordinary alfalfa seed retails. 
Write today for free catalog, which tells all about 
the best seeds grown. 
WING SEED CO., Box 223, Mechanicsburg, Ohio 
SEED POTATOES 
grown on the rugged hills of Steuben 
County, about 1500 feet above sea level, 
Strong, Hardy, Prolific Varieties. 
Give them a trial. 
Catalogue free. 
WALKER SEED POTATO FARMS, 
Box D, Avoca, Steuben Co,, N. Y. 
CORN State er° wn * The best early Dent 
for grain or ensilage. $1.50 per bu. 
OAT S Imported White Gothland; gave a yield 
" 7 * here of 95 bu. per acre. $1.25 per bu. 
E. S.HILL & SONS, Freeviile, Tompkins Co.,N.Y. 
FAY & WILDER CURRANT BUSHES 
Very fine. 2 year old, true to name. $18 per M 
J. F. WYGANT, • Marlboro, New York 
Pure Field Seeds 
Clover, Timothy, Alsii;e. Alfalfa and all kinds of 
Pure Field Seeds direct from producer to con¬ 
sumer; free from noxious weeds. Ask for samples. 
A. C. HOYT jfc CO., - ITos tor ia, Ohio 
SEED POTATOES 
B I G 
FOUR 
Yields 25 to 75 bu. per acre more than Green Moun¬ 
tain and Carman; and can be depended npon to do it 
year in and yearout. Price, bbl. $3.00; 10 bbls. $2.75 
L L. WARE, ... Gardiner, Maine 
S Mf F C T SEED— Large biennial cultivated variety 
w ” *■ *■ 1 for hay, pasture and fertilizer. Price 
Cl nUFD an d circular how to grow it, on request 
ULUHCII E- BARTON. Box 29. Falmouth. Ky. 
AND TIMOTHY ■ PerBlL 
INVESTIGATE—BmI and Cheapest Seeding Known. 
Alsike Clover and Timothy mixed. Fully 1-3 alsike, a big 
bargain. Greatest hay and pasture combination grown. 
Write for Free Sample and 76-page catalog and circulars 
describing this wonderful grass mixture. Beats anything 
you can sow and ridiculously cheap. We handle only best 
tested recleaned seed guaranteed. Write before advance. 
B. A. BERRY SEED CO., Bex 560, Clarinda, Iowa 
HARRISONS SELL ONLY TREES THEY GROW 
WE GROW THEM BY THE MILLION—OVER 2,000 ACRES 
We bud our stock from our own bearing orchards and every tree 
Harrison grown ; they must be right. Full line of trees, plants 
and ornamental stock. Booklet telling all about best varieties, 
also 1913 catalog—free. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES, Trappe Avenue, BERLIN, Maryland 
Earliest, Latest, Largest, Most Productive Varie¬ 
ties, including Fall-Bearing. Also Asparagus, 
Raspberry. Blackberry, Currant, Gooseberry,Grape, 
Rhubarb, Horseradish, Cabbage Plants, Onion Sets, 
Seeds, F ruit Trees. 1 guarantee good stock, shipped 
in good shape. Prices Reasonable. CATALOGUE EKEE. 
IIA KitY L. SOI IK ES, Kemsenburg, N. Y, 
8 , 000,000 
Strawberry Plants 
Kelly’s TREES 
HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY 
•to Buy the Famous Kelly Quality Peach and 
Apple Trees at low Prices. 
In order to introduce Kelly Quality to growers in all sections of the country we make 
very special prices on all orders for Peach and Apple Trees received inimediatelv 
This will give ovory fruit grower in the land a chance to find out for hhnself hai 
KKLLY QUALITY is real QUALITY ; that KELLY VARIETIES are MONEY MAKE US 
Write at once for catal ogue and take advantage of this offer. 
. Kelly Bros. Nurseries 
C3 MAIN STKEKT, - - - DANSVILLE, NEYV YORK 
You'U W«wr Regret Planting Kelly Trees 
