1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
233 
The Elbridge 
Saves the Wages 
a h p of a Hired Man 
Pumps- your water, runs your cream separator, 
itrimls your grain, runs your feed cutter, saws your 
wood, cheaper and lietter than any other power 
known, BECAUSE—- 
I t is simple to operate—only three moving parts: 
air-cooled—no pump to get out of order: no water 
to freeze: made from best-materials possible to 
obtain. Guaranteed Forever. 
Information Booklet Free 
ELBRIDGE ENGINE GO. 
205 Culver Road ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
A 
Boy 
Ban Work li 
Accurate, thorough cultivation with the 
Kraus Pivot-Ax’.e Sulky Cultivator is only a 
matter of steering ; not of work. Instead of 
pullingand pushing the entire gang of shovels 
from side to side as with theordinary cultiva¬ 
tor, the Kraus is steered by the slightest touch 
of the foot, wheels and shovels moving side¬ 
wise simultaneously. Pjl^Q^ j| 
SULKY 
CULTIVATOR 
Perfect for hillsides or 
crooked rows. Instantly 
adjustable for width of 
row and deptli and anglo 
of shovel. Hi/:h or low 
wheels or Pivot-gang. 
Light draft. Also Clipper 
Hummock Sent. 
If tout dealer doesn’t; 
handle the Kraus, don’t 
accept a substitute, write 
us. Catalogue free. 
^UL\C<- 
\ us. catalogue tree. 
AKRON CCI.TIVAT01! CO. 
I)i pt,13 AKRON, OHIO 
J2?AN HOUR 
ecnoh*'v 
nly one* I 
FI inker I 
Iling it. | 
t, Mich \ 
Koonoh" amenta make this and moro. “Kecnoh''i 
is the great razor sharpener, the only < 
that will hone or strop. L. A. 
makes $50,00 to $150.00 a week sol 1 ir 
KEENOU CO. 202 Kocnoh HI. Detroit, 
LET ME START YOU IN BUSINESS ! 
I will furnish the advertising matter and the plans. 1 
want one sincere, earnest man in every town and town¬ 
ship. Farmers, Mechanics, builders. Small Business man. 
Anyone anxious to improve his condition. Address 
COMMERCIAL DEMOCRACY, Dept. D-35, Elyria, Ohio. 
The FARMERS’ GARDEN 
A Seed Drill and Vv'hcol IIoo is in¬ 
dispensable—not only irv a village 
garden but on largest farms. 
Farmers should grow ail manner 
of vegetables and “live on the lat of 
the lnrfd.” Should provide succu¬ 
lent roots for Cattle, Swine, Poultry, 
and save high priced feed 
stuff. Great labor-say 
ing tools of special 
value for the home 
as well as tho 
marltot gar¬ 
den. Send 
for free 
book, 
Tho 
most 
complete 
n?\ to °* 
■ \JJS made 
BATEMAN MFG. CO.. Box 102-G GRENLOCH. N. J. 
IOO-GALLON CYPRESS 
TANK. 
For storing wa- 
ter.forsca ding 
and salting and 
many other purposes. Can 
furnish with tight cover mak¬ 
ing it suitable for spraying, 
for $3.00 additional. We make 
all other size Tanks in any 
shape, for all purposes. Steel 
Towers to elevate Tanks, 
Hells, Wind Mills, also Silos, 
Pumps and GasolineKngines, 
Goods guaranteed as repre¬ 
sented or money back. 
THE BALTIMORE CO., 
32 S. LIBERTY STREET, 
BALTIMORE, MD. 
WANTED AT ONCE. 
A few more responsible farmers to sell and nse 
our Pure Animal Bone Fertilizers which are leading 
all others as crop producers and enrichers of the 
soil. Manufactured from by-products of our own 
seven abattoirs and stockyards, they are every 
pound a fertilizer, containing double the value of 
rock, rock-base, hair, leather and cheap materials 
fertilizer. No cheap filler or make-weight used in 
our brands. We guarantee satisfactory prices and 
terms. Territory should be taken at once. 
D. B. MARTIN CO., 713 Penn Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. 
SAVING ASPARAGUS SEED. 
IF., Osircrjo, N. Y .— How can asparagus 
seeds bo extracted from the berry? 
A ns.— The best method I have ever 
found for gathering, separating, cleaning, 
and drying asparagus seed is as follows: 
Cut the asparagus stalks after they have 
had considerable hard freezing, tie in 
bundles for convenience sake, take to a 
building with a tight clean floor, spread 
out reasonably thin, and proceed to 
thrash the berries from (lie straw, the 
same as father or grandfather used to 
do the wheat, rye or buckwheat, with the 
old-fashioned flail or similar implement. 
This completed, separate the straw from 
the berries, then screen the berries 
through a coal sieve or something simi¬ 
lar to take out small hits of straw, that 
the rake has missed; place the berries in 
a good strong, tight box. Now take a 
square-ended, wooden pounder and 
churn it up and down in that box until all 
berries arc burst; dump this crushed mass 
into a deep tub or a water-tight barrel 
and add water, stirring and working 
over with the hands to make the seeds 
separate from the pulp, skins and small 
bits of straw left, adding water from 
time to time to thin the mass down. 
When all the seeds have sunken that 
will do so readily, pour the top off, Yet¬ 
ting all seeds that now float pass off 
j with floating mass in the water on top; 
let this run till the seed begins to appear, 
then stop and add more water. Continue 
1 this process until they are clean, then 
dump the washed seeds into a burlap bag 
1 and drain or squeeze all surplus water 
out. This accomplished, spread the seeds i 
out thin to dry, where they will not 
freeze. When thoroughly dry, screen or 
blow out all small and light seeds, sack 
and hang away in a dry place for future 
use. Asparagus seed gathered ' and 
handled as herein described, will grow 
stronger plants than most of the mis¬ 
cellaneous stuff usually planted. 
C. C. IIUI.SART. 
GRASSELLI 
Lime Sulphur Solution 
COMMERCIAL 
IlMuch has been said about Lime Sulphur Solution during the past season. It has 
given results of the best, not only as a scale destroyer, but as a fungicide. 
^Tbe question nearly always uppermost in the fruit grower’s mind is 
* VV hat brand will give me the greatest value for money expended ? 
€|We claim, GRASSELLI Lime Sulphur Solution, and here is our authority 
for saying so: 
GJSummary of bulletins 3 1 9 and 320, recently issued by the experiment station at 
Geneva, gives a table on page eight showing the amount of soluble sulphur actually 
found in four brands analysed last season. GRASSELLI Lime Sulphur not only 
contained a higher average per cent., but ran more uniform than any tested. 
m is a clear solution, free from sediment, shipped in good barrels, and at the 
right price. 
^Address inquiries to office nearest you for name of nearest distributor. 
THE GRASSELLI CHEMICAL CO. 
New York 
Boston 
Cleveland 
Chicago 
A SUBSTITUTE 
For Bordeaux Mixture 
10-gal. keg making 1,500 pels. Spray; delivered at 
any It. It. station in tlio United States for £ I 2.50. 
Prompt shipments. Write to day for full information. 
B. G. PRATT CO., M, c " h " , “ l S” ns 
50 CHURCH ST., NEW YORK CITY 
MAKE 
YOUR OWN 
.SAVE 
HIRED 
HELP! 
Only 0no 
of M«nj 
Iron Age Tools 
OUR NEW TRADE-MARK 
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Solely Manufactured by 
THE ROGERS & HUBBARD CO. 
Middletown, Conn. 
Send for Free Almanac telling all about the 
Hubbard “Bone Base” Fertilizers 
RYE AS GREEN MANURE. 
A. IF. B., Laredo, Mo. —I see in Tun R. 
N.-Y. that green rye plowed under is. not 
good for corn. Will you state what the ef¬ 
fect of green rye will he on sweet potatoes, 
tomatoes and celery? I have a truck patch 
sown to rye that I intend to plant to those 
vegetables in the Spring. 
Ans. —Sowing rye as a cover crop, to 
be plow'ed under the following Spring, is 
a practice that has been in vogue in this 
and many oilier sections ever since the 
writer can remember. There is not as 
much rye sown at the present time for 
that purpose, however, because of the 
fact that we now have other and much 
better manurial crops, but yet, where 
Summer crops are harvested too late to 
admit of sowing clovers, vetches, etc., 
rye or wheat is sown rather than nothing 
at all, and I have yet to see any direct ill- 
effect from its use. The main trouble, 
in my opinion, where crops fail to do 
their best when planted in soils where 
green rye has recently been turned un¬ 
der, is because it is let grow too long in 
the Spring, before turning under. When 
it is left too long before plowing the 
top growth gets so dense, that when 
turned under it cuts off the capillary 
waters from below, and the furrow slice 
lies so loose, that the moisture is soon 
evaporated from the surface. Then, too, 
this late plowing is likely to be after the 
period of heavy rainfall, preventing the 
soil from being thoroughly wet, through 
that medium. A further deleterious ef¬ 
fect may come from too rapid fermenta¬ 
tion in this heavy amount of top growth, 
turned under after the weather has be¬ 
come warm, causing the whole mass to 
sour, thus creating an acid condition of 
the soil. I would not hesitate to plant 
either of the crops mentioned on green 
rye plowed under, provided it is plowed 
under shortly after growth begins in 
the Spring. The writer has practiced 
this method more or less for the last 25 
years, without any noticeable ill effect 
from the practice. I would far rather 
have green rye to plow under, to plant 
the future crops on than nothing at all. 
C. C. HULSART. 
Compressed Air 
Spraying Outfit 
You '•an make it at home with material purchased in 
the open market, Our 40-page Instruction Catalog 
Tells you how to do it 
Tells you where to g'et every part 
Tells what each part costs 
Tells you how to operate 
Catalog shows every part,and tho completed outfit. 
It gives formulas and instructions for mixing and 
applying more than twenty different kinds of spray¬ 
ing mixtures, and also a full and complete spray 
calendar as compiled ami approved by tho Ohio 
State .Experiment Station for lUUli. Up-to-date plans 
for central or mixing stations for Bordeaux and 
lime-sulphur. Our plan has stood the test of ten 
years’ service. It is in use by the largest pencil grow¬ 
ers in tii© world. Its capacity is unlimited. Suit¬ 
able for orchard of ten acres or 1000. It works per¬ 
fectly on steep hill sides, or soft ground where no 
other power sprayer can be used. 
Catalog Giving Full Information, Postpaid $3.00 
PIERCE-LOOP SPRAYER CO., North East, Pa. 
THE PERFECTION SPRAYER 
Spray* Anything. Trees by hand, potatoes by horse 
power. Oldest and best. Over 1000 in use. Always gives 
perfect satisfaction. Don’t buy till you get my catalogfreo 
THOMAS PEPPLER, Box 45, Hightstown, N. J. 
Wood Saws For Farmers’ Use 
For sawing firewood, lumber, 
lath, posts, pickets, etc., tho 
cheapest and best saw you can 
buy Is a 
Hertzler & Zook 
Wood Saw 
Easy to operate. Guaranteed for 
one year. You can build up a 
paying business in sawing fire¬ 
wood or lumber for your neigh¬ 
bor. PrlcellO.OO. Write for circular. 
Hestzler 5 Zook Co.. Box 3 Belleville, P.i. 
SAVE HALF THE LABOR 
in sawing wood. You can do 
this and at the same time, 
cut more wood in a given 
.. time than in any other way 
-j by using 
1 
TM IRELAND WOOD 1 
SAWING MACHINE 
Table is mounted on grooved rolls, moves 
easily—cut of saw is down instead of 
against tho operator as in old style ma¬ 
chines. Must ho seen to bo appreciated. We aiso 
manufacture Drag Saws, Saw and Shingle Mills. 
Send for prices and full information. 
Ireland Machine & Foundry Co.,14 State St.,Norwich,N.Y. 
lie sure to ask your storekeeper to show you a 
pair of Extra Heavy 
PRESIDENT 
SUSPENDERS 
Just give them a try-out as a work suspender. 
You’ll find them so much more comfortable 
than the rigid-back kind you have been wearing 
and last so much longer, that you will never 
want to wear any other kind. 
The sliding cord in the back takes all Strain 
from your shoulders, allows freedom of motion, 
ami prevents chafing. 
Maker's guarantee on every pair— 
SATISFACTION, NEW PAIR. OR YOUR MONEY BACK. 
If your storekeeper doesn't have tho Extra 
Heavy Weight, made especially for farmers, 
wo will scud you a pair postpaid, upon jr 
receipt of price.v/ Lv 
(Bus 
SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS 
^801 MAIN ST. t 
SHIRLEY, MASS. 
J 
or saw 
your neighbors’ 
wood and 
MAKE 
$5 TO SI5 
A DAY 
Hundreds arc doing it with an Appleton Wood Saw. 
Why not you? We make six styles—steel or wooden 
frames—and if desired will mount the saw frame on 
a substantial 4-wheel truck on which you can also 
mount your gasoline engine and thus have a 
PORTABLE WOOD SAWING RIG 
that is unequalled in effective work and profitable 
operation. 
We make the celebrated Hero Friction Feed Drag 
Saw also, and complete lines of feed grinders, corn 
shcllers. corn huskers, fodder cutters, manure spread¬ 
ers. horse powers, windmills, etc. Ask for our Free 
Catalogue. 
Sfreel 
.S.A; 
Appleton Mfg. Co. &33US 
Mmewsy Air-cooled Guaranteed 
Is the only engine that you can nse 
anywhere for any work, and not have 
water to cool it. 
lS T o Tanks. Ho Freezing. 
Write Us for Catalog No. 5. 
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