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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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^ BRAND^ 
BERRY 
BASKETS 
BERRY BASKETS PEACH BASKETS 
all sizes all sizes 
Best quality goods. Factory prices. 
Berry, Peach and Grape Crates, etc. 
Write for Illustrated Catalogue. 
COLES & COMPANY 
109 & 111 Warren St., New York 
Established 1884 
Triple Your 
Fruit Crop 
You Can Do It by 
Spraying 
Government Teats have proven 
that unsprayed trees onlyproducc 
about 2f># first grade, salable 
fruit,while trees properly spray¬ 
ed will yield at least 90# perfect 
fruit—fruit that will also save 
through the winter. Can you af¬ 
ford not to spray ? Buy the famous 
CRESTLINE 
Double Acting; 
Spray Pump 
—the barrel pattern. It makes 
the work easy, is the most sim- 
pie to operate, and produces a 
constant, uniform spray that is 
most effective. Let us send you 
descriptive circular—free. 
35 Henry St., Cfestline, Ohio 
Write For Special Low 
Price On This Complete 
Spraying 
Outfit 
Barrel, pump, extension pipe, 
nozzle agitator, hose, everything 
complete and of the best. Just 
fill barrel and go to work. Fit¬ 
tings of brass, hemp packing, 
Sprays hot, cold or any caustic 
solution perfectly. Equal to largest 
operations in orchard or field. 
Develops greatest power with 
le.ist labor. Tump sets inside bar¬ 
rel, keeping it steady. Others are 
top-heavy and tip over. Write for 
catalog describing this and our 
complete line of spraying tools 
and insecticides. 
ROSS BROS. CO., Worcester, Mass. 
“KANT-KLOG” 
SPRAYERS 
Something New- 
Spraying 
Guide free 
Gets twice the resn 1 ta — =7.i 
with Bame laborand lluid. f 
Flat or round, fine or coarse sprays 
from same nozzle. Ten styles. For 
trees, potatoes, gardens, whitewashing, 
etc. Agents Wanted. Booklet Free. 
16 East Ate. 
Rochester, X. T 
Rochester Spray Pump Co. 
Defender Sprayer 
Buy the Best 
Made of brass, pow¬ 
erful. easy working, 
adapted to all kindsof 
spraying. 15 outfits to 
select from. Descrip¬ 
tive circulars free. 
C. S. HARDER, 
Sue. to J. F. Gaylord. 
Box 75, Catskill, N. Y. 
COMPRESSED 
AIR SPRAYERS 
TIME, LABOR, MONEY 
SAVERS 
W. H. OWEN SPRAYER CO. 
SANDUSKY, OHIO 
Spray Pumps. 
If you need a first-class spraying outfit write for 
my catalogue and prices. D. C. KAUFFMAN. 
m W. Philadelphia Street, York. Pa. 
■IT PAYS TO SPRAY 
The Tron A go 4-row Sprayer gives 
perfect satisfaction. Puts solution. 
j ust where needed and in fog-like 
mist. Pump delivers spray under 
high pressure, thus reaching every 
part of vine, effectually killing huge 
and preventing blight. Uaa 
Orchard Spraying attach-^ 
inent. Write for free 
catalog illustrafc- 
ing this and 
other Iron 
Age tools. 
.SAVE 
HIRED 
HELP 
Iron Age 
Four-How 
Sprayer 
Noxile Strainer 
Preveuta Clogging 
BATEMAN MFG. CO., Box 102-S BRENLOCH, N. J 
OFT-DEMANDED FACTS . 
Grafting Wax. 
The Ohio Experiment Station gives this 
recipe for standard grafting wax : Melt to¬ 
gether four parts (by weight) of resin, two 
parts of beeswax and one part of tallow. 
Pour the mixture into a pail or tub of cold 
water. As the mass begins to cool so that 
it can be handled, grease the hands with 
tallow and pull and work the lump of wax 
uctil it becomes quite light in color. Form 
into small balls or sticks for convenient use. 
This wnx will keep in good condition in¬ 
definitely. 
[Soaking Potato Seed. 
Would you expect to get a crop of potatoes 
free from scab, if the seed used was quite 
scabby but soaked in formalin, and after 
cutting thoroughly dusted with sulphur? 
For manure nothing but commercial fertil¬ 
izers. In the past I have used corrosive sub¬ 
limate, but it is such an active poison that 
I prefer the less active formalin if equally 
effective. G . d. c. 
Plainville, Conn. 
We should expect such treatment to kill 
the scab germs on the seed. The formalin 
is considered as sure as the sublimate. If 
there were any scab germs in the soil where 
the seed was planted the crop might still 
be scabby. The sulphur would help this to 
some extent, but w-e must remember that 
all the soaking can do is to kill the germs 
on the seed. It needs to be repeated year 
after year that potato scab is caused by 
a germ—it is really a skin disease. These 
germs may live in the seed potatoes or in 
the soil, and when conditions are right they 
multiply and spread. “Treatment” is the 
use of something that will kill those germs 
without hurting the seed. When the potatoes 
are soaked about two hours in a solution of 
one pint of formalin to 15 gallons of water 
the germs are killed. Sulphur dusted on the 
seed pieces as they are cut is also a good 
remedy. 
Destroying Bean Weevils. 
One of the most common insect questions 
is how to kill bean weevils or insects in 
stored grain. This work is done with bi¬ 
sulphide of carbon. This liquid, when ex¬ 
posed to the air makes a heavy gas or vapor. 
When put at the top of a box or barrel this 
heavy gas works down. It is poisonous, and 
sure death to all breathing things. The 
! grain or beans can be put in an airtight bar¬ 
rel or box. The bisulphide is poured into 
a deep dish which rests on top of the grain, 
ind a cover or blanket is thrown over. The 
vapor works down among the beans and de¬ 
stroys all living weevils without hurting 
the beans or grain for seed' or food. Be 
careful not to breathe the fumes or bring a 
light near them. 
The Oils for Spraying. 
Will you inform me if it would be per¬ 
fectly safe to spray trees with soluble oil 
where stock and poultry range? Is there 
anything liable to injure them from eating 
the grass under the trees? Also is there any 
danger of the oil injuring the bark of peach 
or plum trees? l. f. a. 
Fall River, Mass. 
No—there is no danger that the tested 
brands of spraying oil will hurt stock in 
this way. Nor will these oils damage trees 
if used according to directions and with fair 
judgment. We can ruin trees with lime and 
sulphur, pure water or even air if we really 
start out to do so. The oils have given very 
good satisfaction, and are, in some ways, 
superior to lime and sulphur in fighting the 
scale. At the Connecticut Pomological Soci¬ 
ety recently Geo. A. Drew, who has had 
great success in renovating old apple or¬ 
chards, said that where these old trees are 
badly infested oil gives best results. This 
is partly because the oil spreads better on 
rough or “fuzzy” hark. It must be remem¬ 
bered that the oils do not affect the eating 
insects. These must he poisoned. The warn¬ 
ing is given not to spray with the oils when 
the temperature is below 40 degrees F. 
“Curing” Oat Smut. —The smut of small 
grains, like wheat and oats, is a germ dis¬ 
ease. It is found in the seed grain, and as 
the plant grows the disease spreads from 
this seed all through the plant. The result 
is the disgusting black smut which blows 
away from some thrashing machines like 
black smoke from an engine burning soft 
coal. “To “cure” this disease the germs 
in the seed grain should be destroved. This 
can be done by soaking the seed in a solu¬ 
tion of one pint formalin in 60 gallons of 
water. The way we do it is to spread the 
oats on the barn floor and thoroughlv wet 
them by sprinkling on this solution. ‘Then 
the oats are shovelled together in a pile 
and covered with a blanket for two hours. 
Then spread out and drv and they are ready 
to seed. 
Deadly Fumigation. —We are often asked 
to repeat directions for killing insects or 
vermin with hydrocyanic acid gas. This 
deadly mixture must be handled carefully 
and the enclosure must be air-tight. For 
each 100 cubic foot of space iu the room 
use one ounce by weight of cyanide of po¬ 
tassium ; commercial sulphuric acid, one and 
one-half ounce by measure: and three 
ounces of water by measure. Have the room 
tightly closed and windows arranged so that 
they can be opened from outside. Set the 
vessel of water in the center of room, pour 
the acid slowly into the water. Have the 
cyanide in a piece of paper : drop it in the 
liquid and get out at once before taking 
breath, as one whiff may be fatal. This gas 
kills all breathing things. After an hour 
or two open windows from outside and air 
thoroughly before entering the room. 
This Free Book 
Shows The Sprayer 
You Want—at the Right Price 
N O MATTER how much or how little spray¬ 
ing you do, there is an auto-spray for your 
particular needs. 300,000 now in use; have 
the endorsement of practical farmers, orchardists and 
gardeners everywhere as well as nearly every State and 
Government Experiment Station in the country. There’s 
a reason for the universal popularity of 
Brown’s Hand and Traction-Power 
Auto-Sprays 
Figure it up yourself and you will find it is due to the efficient, quick, 
economical, satisfactory work they do and the strength and perfection 
of their construction. We have 40 styles, sizes and prices for you to 
choose from. 
Allfn-Snrav l\In 1_most powerful—most satisfactory 
^ I* 1, -*■ of all small hand-made sprayers. 
Best small sprayer for heavy work on 5 acres of potatoes and one acre 
of trees. Be sure to see Auto-Spray No. 1 at your dealer’s. 
Auto-Snrav No. 28 _ ideal traction-power orchard 
Auto-Sprav No. 1 , ■ **** sprayer for heaviest and 
^ ,, f largest operations. Capacity 100 to 250 gallons. Our book also shows 
many other traction-power outfits—better than gasoline rigs—more powerful, more durable, 
more economical, faster working. When desired, our traction-power outfits are equipped with the 
Non-clog Atomic Nozzle 
Auto-Spray 
No, 28 
T . Th S on l? ! e ' vhich Simply cannot clog. Will spray a solution with sawdust In it. 
instantly adjustable, from a fine misty spray or fog to a powerful, steady stream. Sprays into 
the very center of blossoms with force combating coddling moths. For spraying potatoes it 
is instantly adjustable to a fine, narrow 
spray for small vines, and to a wide- 
angle spray, covering large vines, with¬ 
out wasting the spraying solution in 
either case. 
Write for Free Book 
Worth money to you because of the 
valuable information it contains and 
the fact that it will show you the right 
machine for your pur¬ 
pose at the right price. 
Prof. M. V. Slingerland, - 
of Cornell University of Agriculture, the entomol¬ 
ogist of National reputation, has contributed a 
carefully compiled spraying guide which every 
fruit grower, farmer and gardener will find of 
great value in their spraying work 
throughout the year. Mail postal for 
this book now. 
E. C. BROWN. Pres. 
THE E. C. BROWN CO. 
28 Jay St., ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Atomic Nozzle 
Be sure this 
Label is 
on the 
pack¬ 
age 
'SWIFTS 
l You Gan Win Your Battle 
with the Bugs 
(ARSENATE 
LEAD 
§S/CAL^ 
Losses of fruit and vege¬ 
tables through leaf-eating 
insects are enormous, and 
unnecessary . Thousands of 
farmers have cut down that 
loss ninety percent by‘ spraying 
with Swift’s Arsenate of Lead — this is a matter of 
record — will you send for it? 
Swift’s kills all leaf-eating pests, is washed off the 
leaves only by heaviest rains, cannot scorch or burn 
foliage, mixes readily with water and stays in suspen¬ 
sion, and does not clog the pump. It increases both 
quality and quantity of yield. 
Send for valuable book on leaf-eating insects. Give your dealer’s name. 
Merrimac Chemical Co., 31 Broad Street, Boston, Mass. 
The HAND SPRAMOTOR No. 1 or 
No. 2 has 4 to 8 nozzles, all brass 
sprayer. The wheels and nozzles are 
adjustable, from 26 inches to 36 inches. 
Vertical adjustment from rack 16 
inches. Automatic vertical nozzle ad¬ 
justment brass spramotor. Ball valves 
automatic compensating plunger. Me¬ 
chanical agitator. 
It is mounted on a cart with strong, 
hardwood frame. Has 52-inch wooden 
wheels with iron hubs and steel axles. 
For one horse. 
(’an be used for orchard, vineyard, mustard and potatoes, or for painting and 
whitewashing. Sold without the cart as well. Guaranteed. 
Write for free Treatise on Crop Diseases. AGENTS WANTED. 
E. H. HEARD, 1326 Erie Street, Buffalo 
