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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Does Your 
Farm Drink 1 
Money?! 
It does if your house drinks 
rain. The pores of wood 
uncovered by good paint 
harbor moisture which swells 
and rots your buildings, 
makes them an easy victim of 
rough weather. Then repairs 
—and the costs of rebuilding 
do sting. 
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and Batch Boy Linseed Oil 
III 
make a beautifying, impenetrable 
armor against sun and storm. Try 
this little experiment. Mix a paste 
of White Lead and water, then add 
linseed oil.. Watch the oil and 
lead get together, and squeeze the 
water out. Do you see why lead 
paint is waterproof? It is elastic, 
toe—just enough to keep it from 
cracking and scaling. Not one 
drop of water can penetrate this 
armor to rot your wood. It saves 
you money. It preserves and 
beautifies your outdoor and indoor 
woodwork, carriages, wagons, im¬ 
plements, etc. Have your painter 
mix it or mix it yourself, any tint 
you want. 
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need and probable cost of painting; 
how to test paint for purity. Write 
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NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 
New York Boston Cincinnati Cleveland 
Buffalo Chicago San Francisco St. Louis 
(John T. Lewis & Bros Co., Philadelphia) 
(National Lead A Oil Co.. Pittsburgh) 
U. S. Government and State 
Experiment Stations Say : 
HOME-MIX 
YOUR FERTILIZER! 
IT IS SURE—SAFE-EASY 
P l i. 1100 Bushels per acre yearly 
I OtcllOCS in Guernsey, Channel Islands. 
350 bushels per acre average on 
160 acres at State Farm, Mass. 
NO READY-MIXED FERTILIZER USED— 
THEY HOME-MIX THEIR FERTILIZER. 
Home-Mix Your Fertilizer 
and SAVE K 
Nitrate of Soda—Potash Salts—Animal 
Tankage—Acid Phosphate—Blood—Bone. 
Genuine Thomas Phosphate Powder (Basic 
Slag). Materials sold in any quantity, and 
guaranteed according to State requirements. 
WE INSTRUCT you how to mix your 
goods, and the number of pounds of each 
material, to make goods of any analysis. A 
Postal brings book telling How. 
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106 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK 
INNER 
PLOW 
TRUCK 
and let the boys 
plow. The wheels 
__ carry the plow and 
hold it to the furrow. Easier on the team. Plows as good 
as you ever did holding the handles. Get a Winner, and let 
the boys use it 10 Days. If you are not tickled with the result, 
semi the truck back to us. We’ll return your money and pay 
all the freight. Special Offer in New Territories. Write 
today. >lewis Co< g ox ft, Cortland, N. Y., 
LET THE BOYS DO THE BREAKING 
No matter what kind 
of a plow you have you 
can swing it to a 
Lime With Fertilizers. 
Will lime mixed with fertilizer be as 
good for the land as fertilizer alone? 
And how should it be mixed? N. a. 
Sprakers, N. Y. 
No. We should use the lime separately 
after plowing and harrow in. Then drill 
the fertilizer by itself. Most fertilizers 
contain soluble phosphoric acid and or¬ 
ganic forms of nitrogen. The lime will 
make this soluble phosphoric acid “re¬ 
vert” or become less available, and set 
some of the ammonia in the organic forms 
free. While this would not cause much 
loss after the mixture is put into the 
ground, there is nothing to be gained by 
the mixing. 
Slag Cinders as Fertilizer. 
Why don’t some of our Experiment 
Stations say something about the use 
of slag cinders or granulated cinders 
from our blast furnaces? I have used 
them, four tons to the acre and secured 
as good clover as where I put 1,500 
pounds burnt lime. The cinders cost 
15 cents per ton. lime costs $0.25; the 
haul is the same distance. Others have 
used several carloads, they get better 
clover with cinders than with raw or 
burnt lime. A. M. 
West Middlesex, Pa. 
The only property in slag cinders that 
would be useful on the soil would be the 
lime contained, and at the price given, if 
the haul is not too far, they may be 
useful for that purpose. All depends 
upon the percentage of lime. The fact 
that the furnace slag resulting from the 
manufacture of steel by the “basic” or 
Thomas-Gilchrist process, is used as 9 
carrier of phosphorus, leads to some con¬ 
fusion on this point. This basic slag 
was formerly made at the Pottstown Iron 
Works in Pennsylvania, but has not been 
made in this country wr a number of 
years. There is some talk of reviving 
this process of manufacture, but at pres¬ 
ent our supply of basic slag comes from 
Europe. As a carrier of phosphorus the 
genuine basic slag has proved to be a 
very useful vehicle, ciias. e. thorne. 
Ohio Experiment Station. 
Sweet Clover in New York State. 
No attempt has been made to grow 
Sweet clover in this county except by 
a few farmers who are mixing it with 
Alfalfa. The plant thrives naturally 
here, and persists in all kinds of soil, 
even the stillest kinds of clay. Cattle 
eat it, when tender, and if it can be fed 
so as to lie in a palatable condition, 
ought to prove a valuable fodder. Efforts 
are being made in this north county to 
get it established in pastures where feed 
is scarce, and especially where “devil’s 
paint brush” has crowded out the better 
grasses and clover. There are many rea¬ 
sons why Sweet clover ought to have a 
place in our agriculture, but we need to 
test out its adaptability before it can be 
generally considered. c. S. P. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
So far as I can find out. there never 
has been much seed of Sweet clover sown 
in this county. Sweet clover has come 
in along the roadbed of the Cortland 
Traction Company in those places where 
the roadbed had to be filled, the fill being 
taken from gravel pits in the town of 
Preble, in the edge of the limestone dis¬ 
trict. The plants made a rank growth 
the first year or two along the banks of 
these fills, but are gradually diminishing, 
How the seeds came to be there, no one 
knows, probably scattered by birds. 
There seems to be less growth each year. 
Cortland Co. e. h. fouuistall. 
As to the growth of Sweet clover in 
Clinton County, this clover does quite 
well, but very little is grown. It is con¬ 
sidered more of a weed here than it is 
a forage plant. Alfalfa seems to thrive 
well on soils that naturally grow Sweet 
clover, and for this reason sections that 
grow Sweet clover are usually seeded 
with Alfalfa. Farmers generally think 
that the Alfalfa is far superior in feed¬ 
ing qualities. Sweet clover is very com¬ 
mon here in Clinton County along the 
roadsides and neglected places. As yet 
very little is grown for feeding purposes. 
I think that we may be able to make 
use of this Sweet clover in building up 
some of our light soil so that we can 
grow Alfalfa on it. Much to my astonish¬ 
ment. this last season, I found Alfalfa 
growing on very light soil, soil that 
would blow in fact. c. b. tillson. 
Clinton County. County Agent. 
A real negro “mammy” of the old 
type came up the walk through the old- 
fashioned garden to the side porch. She 
had a basket of “fresh aigs” on her arm 
and was offering them for sale. “Are 
you sure they are perfectly fresh, 
auntie?” asked the lady who came out 
of the house. “Yes’um, they sho is all 
right. Miss Bess. Ain’t nary disorderly 
aig amongst ’em.”—New York Evening 
Post. 
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Now’s the time to gain 
on Spring 
If you wait on the weather to start your Spring plants, the 
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Ten years’ use has proved their success. Made of the best 
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need of mats or shutters; making plants early without undue 
forcing—they are simply indispensable to obtain the best results. 
j 
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in the ground where th 
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Half the Clover, Alfalfa and 
Grass Seed Planted is Wasted 
There never was a more sinful 
waste of seed than broadcasting 
Broadcasted seed is scattered to the four winds of heaven; part is 
washed away by rain; another portion goes to feed the birds; much 
of it lies on top of the ground and never makes healthy plants. 
In broadcasting, there is usually sown an average of 66 clover seeds 
on a square foot of ground. This is more than twice too much, 
and the results are doubtful, at that. 
If you intend to sow clover In your winter wfteat, the Superior Alfalfa 
and Grass S£ed Drill will show you a gain of about FOUR DOLLARS 
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If the seeding is done in old pastures and meadows or run-down alfalfa fields, the 
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where it is sure to grow. This method increases the hay tonnage and forage. It 
also saves half the seed. 
In sowing Hungarian Grass or Millet, half the seed is saved and the tonnage is 
greatly increased over other methods. 
The Superior Force Feed accurately sows Crimson and Red Clover, White Clover, 
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