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March 5, 
THE RURAh NEW-YORKER 
KANSAS 
Pruning 
Knife 
IMPROVED 
'THE knife that makes pruning 
* easy. It is automatic. No lever* 
to work by hand. Just put the hook 
over the limb and pull on the handle 
and off comes the limb. Will do 
heavy work and do it fast. 
Another, “The Happy Thought,’ 
with pump-gun movement foe light 
work, shaping, budding, etc. 
Write and we will tell you more. 
INTERNATIONAL TOOL CO, 
49 Porter St-, Detroit, Mich. 
Isbell’s Seeds. 
Twenty Years* Experience has 
taught us just how to please you. 
If you are interested in Growing 
Vegetables, Corn, Oats, Barley, 
Grass, etc., you will be the loser 
if you do not see Isbell’s Seed 
Annual. It is FREE. 
S. M. ISBELL & CO., Seedsmen, 
Box 66, JACKSON, MICH. 
PAPER POTS. 
Your garden will be one to four weeks 
earlier if you start it in paper pota 
Plant melon, enkes, Lima beans and 
sweet corn in paper pots three to six 
weeks before time you plant seeds in 
the open ground, and at planting time 
you have growing plants instead of 
seeds to plant. 
If tomato, egg plants and peppers are 
in paper pots they may be planted out 
in time of drought and not a leaf wilt, 
PRICES-3 inch Pots, SI .25 a 1000, S5.00 for 5000; 4 inch 
Pots, SI.75 a 1000. S7.50 for 5000. 
P. B. CROSBY & SON 
Catonsville, Maryland 
I Guarantee to Please You 
MILLIONS OF HIGH GRADE 
Strawberry Plants; 60 of the best new and stand¬ 
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vou should test. Exhibition R. I. Red Chickens; 
stock and Eggs for sale. Send for large, free illus¬ 
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A NEW STRAWBERRY. 
The best one yet; 42 other money-making varieties. 
My big, vigorous plants please all and make more 
dollars to the acre than any other fruit. Choice 
Second-crop Seed Potatoes. Seed Corn. My free 
30th Annual Plant Seed and High-class Poultry 
Catalog gives complete description of stock. You 
get what you buy. J.W. Hall, Marion Station, Md. 
StrawberryPlants 
100 Varieties. Try the MANHATTAN, the Biggest 
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CLIFF WOOD, New Jersey 
Berry we know 
J. E. KUHNS, 
STRAWBERRY 
PLANTS—Send for our 28th 
annual catalog. Try Chip- 
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“ LYMAKER & SON, Wyoming, Del. 
Asparagus Roots. 
Grown from seed gathered fi'om 
Crowns that grow only Large 
Stalks, Leonard’s New Disco v- 
erv; nine stalks make a full- 
sized bunch of fancy grass, 
$5.00 per 1,000. 
I. & ,T. L. LEONARD, IONA, N. J. 
“Prince Henry” Potato. 
ety of the Rural type. Excellent Quality, grown 
expressly for seed from selected and treated seed. 
Choice stock, put up in 2-bushel sacks, 11.60 each; 
5 sacks or more, $1.50 each. J. N. MacPHERSON, 
Pine View Farm, Scottsville, N. Y. 
CALIFORNIA PRIVET, Asparagus 
Roots, Strawberry Plants. Price 
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Moorestown, Burlington Co., N. J. 
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$10 PER ACRE UP. 
In the famous Piedmont section. Noted for fertil¬ 
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Drops which fall to the ground are 
wasted: For large trees the same gen¬ 
eral methods apply, but more time and 
care will be reouired, and a man cm the 
tower will be needed to spray the top¬ 
most branches. Should the trees be so 
large and close together, with low-hang¬ 
ing branches, that a sprayer with tower 
cannot be driven between the rows, then 
the labor and unpleasantness of •spray¬ 
ing are greatly increased. The owner 
of such an orchard has a hard and dis¬ 
agreeable task before him, and he may 
well .wish that present day methods of 
setting, pruning and training an orchard 
had been earlier understood and fol¬ 
lowed. Many such orchards are left un¬ 
sprayed, or if spraying is undertaken the 
work is only partially done. A small 
power sprayer can be rigged up on a 
sledge or stone boat, and by the use of 
ladders a fairly good job can be done if 
sufficient time is taken and care and 
patience are exercised. Where trees 
are not too large to be thoroughly spray^- 
ed from the ground and a power sprayer 
is used four rows can be taken in one 
trip across the orchard. This is done 
with two lines of hose—one on each side 
of the spray wagon—each about 40 feet 
long if the trees are 20 feet apart; other 
distances in proportion. The diagram 
will illustrate the mode of procedure 
much better than can be conveyed by a 
written description. 
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The reason for spraying in the order 
indicated by numbers on the diagram is 
that as the sprayman passes to westward 
of B he will need to get his hose around 
and by that tree. Just as he is passing B 
the spray wagon is started ahead so as 
to be a little west of D. He sprays the 
east side of D and C, then turns and 
sprays the west side of A and B. Then 
forward past D (the spray wagon start¬ 
ing ahead again as before) to spray 
F and E and so on, his route d>eing in¬ 
dicated by numerals. By pursuing this 
method any tangling or kinking of the 
hose is avoided. A spraying crew who 
are experienced and equally handy will 
follow this plan with almost military 
precision and cover considerable ground 
in a day. What has been said above 
applies more particularly to operations 
where either Bordeaux or lime-sulphur 
is used for general spraying. When 
poisons are to be sprayed directly on 
blossoms or fruit sets the modus oper- 
andi will be varied somewhat. These 
variations will suggest themselves to any 
intelligent orchardist. High pressure is 
advisable in order to throw the spray 
into the calyx as far and as completely 
as pos-sible. 
Notes and Suggestions. —Credit is due 
my fruit foreman, Mr. B. P. Olin, for 
developing the scheme of spraying as 
shown by the diagram. Washing the 
hands (and face even) with vinegar after 
spraying will neutralize the caustic ac¬ 
tion of either Bordeaux or lime-sulphur. 
In large orchard's where rapid work is 
sought it is a good plan to have the 
spray' material in or near the orchard, 
and a separate team and extra tank with 
which to draw water,so that the sprayer 
shall lose only the minimum of time. 
Distribute barrels of lime-sulphur at 
ends of rows about where needed, as 
sacks of grain and fertilizer are placed 
in a field to be sown. Spray pumps, hose, 
extension rods and nozzles should be 
thoroughly washed and cleansed before 
the apparatus is put away even for a 
night. Any spraying outfit should be con¬ 
structed so that the suction hose will 
reach over into the barrel or tank with 
a cover fitted around it over the orifice. 
Then when the spray wagon comes in 
at night take out the suction, put it in a 
barrel of clean water, and pump the 
water through. The cap's of the nozzles 
can be removed in order to give a more 
rapid flow. To experienced orchardists 
much of this article may appear elemen¬ 
tary. But the request of the editor was 
that I should give practical details which 
would have been valuable to me when 
I began as a fruit grower. This idea has 
been the motif of its composition. 
..0. H. AYRES. 
The Best Spray Pump 
Sprays the tallest fruit trees from the ground. 
Not too heavy for low bushes. Sprays quick¬ 
est and best. Does the work in half the time 
and does it thoroughly. Always ready. Used 
with bucket, barrel or tank. Lasts a lifetime. 
No leathers to dry up, wear out, or make 
trouble. 
Standard Spray Pump 
Warranted for 5 Years. Price $4-00. 
It will not cost you a cent to try it. Our 
special offer gives complete details. Write 
for it today and we will also send onr illus¬ 
trated circular showing how this pump pays 
for itself many times over the first season. 
T-he Standard Stamping Co. 
94 Main Street Marysville, O. 
Combination 
Orchard 
and Vine 
Sprayer 
A popular machine; 100 gallon solution tank: 10- 
gallon air chamber pressure gauge; relief valve. 
We make all sizes ana kinds. Write for prices. 
MORRIS SPRAYER CO., 187 N. Water St., ROCHESTER, N.Y. 
This is No. 20 
Whex you; write adverti«ers mention Tthb 
R. N.-Y. ami you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” 
POWER 
SPRAYER 
is equipped with the famous 
‘NEW WAY” Air-Cooled EN6INE 
Fruit of quality 
follows this 
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Raise the Quality 
—Increase the 
Value ofYour Fruit. 
Buy a high grade 
Sprayer; the “NEW 
WAY" is a 
whirl wind. 
Complete 
in every 
detail and 
the engine 
»is invalu¬ 
able for 
other 
work. 
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140 Slieridan Street 
PUMP 
AND 
SPRAY 
With Same 
MACHINE. 
BOND BROS., 
SPENCERVILLE, V0. 
Make Tout* Own 
One man can make 300 m F'S 
to 600 perfect tile a day g fffp 
with our 
Farmers* Cement Tiie Machine 
At a cost of $3 to $5 per 1,000. The only farm tile machine that 
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ECONOMICAL — THOROUGH — RAPID 
S PRAYING is absolutely essential. You must control plant diseases and 
insect pests to get the most from your field crops and fruit trees. There is no 
argument on that point. But get the right spraying outfit—to do the work 
right, at the least expense, in the shortest possible time, with the least work. 
One of the Famous spraying outfits meets your needs exactly—no matter what style 
or size you want. The outfits are complete—engine, pump and all accessories, 
mounted on skids or trucks. You can 
Use the Engine for Other Work 
An I H C spraying outfit is a year-’round money-maker. You can easily 
detach your 1 or 2-horse-power engine and use it to operate any machine you 
have on the farm—grinder, washing machine, saw, separator, churn, pump, etc. 
You know the reputation of I H C engines for simplicity, economy, dependa¬ 
bility. They are making big money for thousands of farmers, gardeners and 
fruit-growers everywhere—and the fact that you can use your I H C engine for 
any purpose beside spraying, makes it invaluable to you. 
Don’t tie your money up in an outfit that can be used only for spraying pur¬ 
poses. Investigate the I H C line. We furnish blue prints so you may build 
your own spray wagon, tank, etc. Our valuable spraying book will interest you 
immensely. Let us send you a copy or get one from our local agent—with full 
particulars about the I H C line of Famous spraying outfits. 
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA 
(Incorporated) 
Chicago USA 
(m; ihc line 
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