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February 14, 
<TH1£ KUKAL EStElW-YORI'CECFi 
LITTLE 
;w^»<SSsssSies 
Light 
Rigs With Lots of Power 
W E make a complete line of Sprayers 
for Orchard. Field and Vineyard, both 
Hand and Power Types. Built to 
stand up under hard work, and so 
constructed that they put the spray where you 
want it. and combine maximum power and 
strength with minimum draft weight, so that 
they won't kill horses on rough, heavy ground. 
Little Giant Orchard 
Power Sprayers 
are built in two sizes with tanks of 200 gallons 
and 100 gallons capacity. Both are equipped 
with a special pump of our own make, espe¬ 
cially powerful, easy working, and so simply 
constructed that every part is accessible. 
The Pump With The Clutch 
is a Little Giant feature. By throwing out 
the clutch the pump may be stopped with 
out stopping engiue or interfering with agita¬ 
tor. It’s a great advantage to be able to 
crank the engine without having the pump 
attached. You can also mix your solution 
thoroughly before starting spraying. 
Little Giants are giving extra satisfactory 
service to many growers. It will be worth 
your while to write for our catalog and prices. 
W. C. AKINS MACHINE CO. 
976 Insurance Bldg, Rochester, N.Y. 
mj 
HAMILTON-MADE 
SPRAYING HOSE 
will spray your trees for several years for one 
cost. 
J£-Ln. PERFECT spray hose, C ply, 50-ft. pieces 
coupled, or 
J4-in. STERLING WORTn reel spray hose in 
500-ft. lengths. 
Either grade will stand 600 pounds test and 
will be satisfactory for any power or hand 
sprayer, 
$15.00 FOR 100 FEET 
Cash with order 
Freight paid to your station. Shipped direct 
from factory the day the order is received. 
HAMILTON RUBBER MFG. CO. 
TRENTON, N. J. 
Clifton Springs. N. Y. 
For Two New Yearly Subscriptions 
at $1.00 each; or Twenty 10-Week 
Trial Subscriptions at 10 Cents each; 
or Four Renewal Subscriptions at 
$1.00 each. 
FARM TOOL AND KNIFE SETS 
Cocobolo Handle. 3% in. long; brass 
lining and rivets; German silver bolster; 
set contains one Knife, 3% in. blade; 
one Chisel, 3 Vi in; large Screw Driver, 
3% in., and small Screw Driver, 2% in.; 
double and single Cut File, 3% in-; one 
Saw, 3% in., and one Combination 
Scratch Awl, Punch or Reamer; all 
made from best Tool Steel. One tool 
can be immediately substituted for an¬ 
other—and each tool is firmly set in the 
handle. Each kit is enclosed in strong 
Russet Leather Pouch, which can be eas¬ 
ily carried in pocket. Every farm home 
should have one of these sets. 
These articles are not given with a 
subscription to the R. N.-Y., but are 
given to the agent as a reward, in place 
of cash, for extending the subscription 
list of the R. N.-Y. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
333 West 30th Street, New York City. 
Trees—Plants—Vines 
in small rr Urge lots at wholesale 
prices. Catalog and Green’s Fruit 
Book—FRFE. Green’s Nursery Co. 
4 5 Wail St., Eocnestcr, N. Y. 
U 8. INSPECTED IRISH COBBLERS-Hand 
■ dug, selected No. 9. Peek, 50 ets.; bn., $1.50, F. 
O. B. Dansviile. N. Y. ISAAC C. ROGERS. 
P OTATOES—Bliss. Cobbler, Hebron, Mountain. Kins. Ohio, Ra¬ 
leigh, Rose. 85 kin-la. C. W. FORD, Fishers. N. Y. 
OlifCCT PI nvm SEED for Winter sowing. 
uLUl Cn Price and circular how to 
grow it, "Free.” JOHN A SHEEHAN, R. 4. Falmouth. Ky. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
berry. Blackberry, 
Asparagus Plants. All leading varieties, catalog 
free. Harry L. Squires, Uemsenburg, N. A’. 
REDDY D1 A MTC — 15estvarieties, ITighostquality. 
ocnni rLHNIO Price right. Send for circular. 
J. V. MEEDER. NORTH GIRARD, l'A. 
Maine Seed Potatoes ^ 
varieties: no blackleg or dangerous diseases; 
heavy yielding varieties. I. L. WARE, Gardiner, Maine 
FOR Cp.J „_J p ny . n —CHARLES COOUDGE 
SALE—* 3eea Dais ana COrn nufton Snrinns N Y 
The Home Acre. 
BEAUTIFY THE RURAL HOME GROUNDS. 
In the beautifying of the rural home 
grounds, the development should be con¬ 
ducted along lines that will produce a 
harmonious and pleasing effect. The 
style of development will depend much 
oq the size of the area to be improved, 
the character of the soil, climate and the 
amount one can afford to expend for the 
purpose. Three styles of improvement 
are employed in landscape work, formal, 
informal or natural, and a combination 
of both. The size of the ground to be 
improved, together with the other import¬ 
ant features mentioned, will in a great 
measure determine the style of improve¬ 
ment that can be most appropriately em¬ 
ployed. For small places of less than 
an acre, particularly when situated 
among others of like dimensions, the 
formal style will in most cases be the 
more appropriate, whereas estates of 
larger dimensions should have the in¬ 
formal style of treatment, or a combina¬ 
tion of both styles may be employed as 
seems best suited to the circumstances. 
When the home grounds are undergoing 
improvement, it should be the aim of 
those in charge of the work to arrange 
the planting of trees, shrubs, etc., as har¬ 
moniously as possible, making the con¬ 
trast between the different species of 
trees, shrubs and flowering plants show 
to the best advantage, as it is the habit 
of growth, color of foliage or flowers, 
that serve in bringing out prominently 
the individual beauty *f each, when 
grown together. Therefore they should 
be so arranged, whether planted in groups 
or singly, that a group or individual of 
any species of tree, shrub or flowering 
plant will not be out of harmony with 
its associates, or out of adjustment with 
the contour of the place. 
Nature is our best teacher, and in the 
arrangement of the various plantings, 
etc., nature should be imitated as closely 
as possible, particularly when the area 
is large enough to admit of the informal 
style of improvement. Small places, on 
account of their limited area, will make 
the formal style of treatment necessary, 
in most cases, as the limited room will 
not admit of curved driveways, walks or 
irregular outline to the margins of the 
shrub and hardy herbaceous flowering 
plant borders. However, beautiful and 
pleasing effects can be produced, even 
on a town lot, though the lines of drive, 
walk and plantings are straight; there¬ 
fore let not the smallness of the ground 
act as a deterrent to their improvement. 
The expense of improvement would be so 
small as to seem almost unworthy of con¬ 
sideration, when compared with the great 
pleasure that will be enjoyed by the 
owner, and the greatly enhanced value 
of the property, because of the improve¬ 
ment. Every rural home should be sur¬ 
rounded by as many trees, shrubs, vines 
and hardy plants as can be appropriately 
used in the adornment of the grounds. 
Harmonious and pleasing arrangement of 
the home surroundings will go far in 
maintaining harmony in the home. No 
home should be without either. K, 
SEED POTATOES 
Hoffman’sCatalogofFarmSeeds 
with samples—free. Grass Seeds, Seed Oats, Seed 
Potatoes, Seed Corn. Everything for the farm. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, - Box 30, Landisville, Pa. 
PURE FIELD SEEDS 
Plover, Timothy. Alsike, Alfalfa and all kinds of 
PURE FIELD Seeds direct from producer to consumer; 
free from noxious weeds. Ask for samples. 
ft. C, HOYT & CO., - Eostoria, Ohio 
. . . Choice . . . 
Northern Grown 
CATALOGUE SENT ON REQUEST 
NORTHERN SEED COMPANY 
Box 31 :: :: :: Grand Rapids, Michigan 
SECOND CROP SEED POTATOES 
— ■■ ■!!!■■ are the best seed grown. 
Irish Cobblers and other varieties. 98 per cent pure. 
Catalog Free. JOHN W. HALL, Marion Station, Md. 
COR SALE-SOUND J p n f a Gw,.-l D. GRAVES. 
• BLUE SPROUT rOtatOeS Pratlsbnrg, N. Y. 
"Wilsons” Soy Beans, $2.75 Bushel 
Cow Peas.$2 25 to 2.50 “ 
Crimson Clover Seed... 4 00 " 
~~' lied Clover Seed $8-50 to 9.50 " 
JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
For Sale 
We have just had au old-fashioned 
January thaw, which has taken our 
sleighing, leaving wheatfields and meadows 
quite bare. A large number of logs have 
been hauled to mill during sleighing. Ice¬ 
men have cut a good quality of ice. Stock 
is doing well. Cabbage has not been very 
renumerative when we consider the light 
yield per acre of Danish. Apples are not 
keeping very well. Hens are on strike, 
giving but few eggs on good feed. The most 
senseless and unjust law that has been 
introduced in the Senate is that in 1917 
all sleighs shall be altered to four feet 
eight inches in width, just to accommo¬ 
date the autos. Won’t that be a bless¬ 
ing to the poor man? We have had to 
alter our wagons to wide tires, and they 
have taken the breakwaters off the hills, 
which should never have been done, as 
the heavy rains are washing the roads 
badly. We old hayseeds have always had 
to ride over them, why not the auto? 
What will they want next? We certainly 
have high taxes out of the operation and 
road graft put in for filler. When will 
the farmer have justice? E. F. B. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SEED 
OATS,BARLKY,WHEAT, POTATOES 
All New varieties. L&rgeit yieldert known. 
Best quality. Prices low. New Catalog free. 
G. A. KKAl), Itcad'ii Kxp. Farms, Charlotte, Yt. 
Medium and Mammoth Cloiera™ 
Alfalfa, hardy Northern noil-irrigated seed. All high 
in germination and purity tests. Prices and samples 
freely furnished. MACE & MANSFIELD, Greenville, Ohio 
^wA»tPntatn < \PPrI~ Rweet Potnto Plants; vege- 
oweetrotatODeea tablep , ;in , s .,„ d f rn jtpianw. 
Price list free. MICHAEL N. B0RG0, Vineland, New Jersey 
PI flVFR QFFn-<’ o 0 ^ r «P°f fine quality. If in- 
UbUILIl OULU terestrd ask for samples nnd 
prices. Address WYSONG’S SEED HOUSE. Lebanon, Ind. 
f'l OY/F'l? CIT'p'ri All varieties shipped. 
]>ire( . t Freight Prepaid, 
Glick’s Seed Farms, Box 16. Smoketown, I’a. 
ONION SEED 
—Best strains grown 
Send for prices. J.B. QUIRK 
NORTH MADISON. OHIO 
OATS 
Reg. Swedish Select. Also Early learning. Reid's and WhilQ 
Cap Seed Com and Garden Seeds. Samples Sni Catalogue 
fr«. THEO. BURT A SONS, Wlclrpse, Oh.^i 
SWEET CLOVER SEEDtS^*^. 
and circular how to 
grow it. sent on request. E. Barton, Box 29, Falmouth, Ky. 
ALFALFA FOR SAI F -11,ave 50 tons ° f first 
MI.rHL.rM run OHU cutting Alfalfa, bright 
color and fine. I can ship at once at reasonable 
price. JOHN McUCNNAN, Jb’ayetteville, N. Y. 
CARFF’S TESTED SEED 
§ 
CORN 
6000 bushel 1912 crop. Tested and euro to prow. Finest 
quality. 20 Varieties. Also Seed Oats, Barley, Grass Soed, 
Potatoes, etc. 1100 acres. Catalog and samples on reaueet. 
Write today. W. N. 8CARFF, Box C7, New Carlisle, Ohio. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
Millions of them. All kinds. Also forty varieties 
of Strawberry Plants, including Pall Bearers. Prices 
Right. Catalogue Free. S. C. ATHERTON, Greenwood, Del. 
FOR SALF-® bushels of Ohio Seed- 
. w ling potatoes. They have 
yielded 2 to 4 hundred bushels per acre the past 2 
years. Price $1 per bu. Albert Power, R.ED 1. Tully. N. Y. 
PEAS VORS ALE 
Thomas Laxton, $5; Telephone. $4.50, and 
Heroine, $4 per bush., in lots of two or more 
bushels. Cash with order. Bags free. No 
botterquality can be had at any price. Freight 
to Buffalo, N, Y . is twelve rents a bushel. 
P. J. Wilkinson, Cambray, Ontario, Canada 
-iv wv - y-i-v-v-v-v-yv-o-Y-i ,» , ... 
[FORD'S OLD VIRGINIA 
5. ENSILAGE CORN 
Solves the feeding problem—one of our customers 
ii lied a /0-ton silo from 2^ acres. Stalks grow 12 to 
lo feet, often weigh 6 lbs. or over, and produce two 
ears each. Matures well, and is the greatest milk- 
producer of all corns. 
Our farm seeds are carefully selected and 
tested. Send now for our free Catalogue of Farm 
and Garden Seeds. 
FORD SEED CO., Box 24, RAVENNA, OHIO 
GREAT CROPS OF 
STRAWBERRIES 
AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
I S the title of a beautifully .llustrated book of ex¬ 
pert information written in every-day language by 
America’s most successful strawberry grower. It 
explains how the Kellogg Pedigree plants are grown 
on the great Kellogg plant farms in Oregon, Idaho 
and Michigan. It contains pictures of the best va¬ 
rieties of strawberries, including fall-bearing kinds, 
and gives full descriptions. It tells how to grow big 
crops of fancy berries, and how to market them at 
big prices. Explains in detail Xi.e Kellogg Way. 
OUR FAMILY STRAWBERRY GARDEN 
Whether you have a small garden only or a big 
farm, you should grow your own strawberries. Kel¬ 
logg’s Big Red Strawberry Garden will produce all 
the delicious strawberries your entire family can eat, 
summer and winter. You can have shortcake, straw¬ 
berries and cream, preserves, jam and canned berries, 
the year ’round for less than one cent per gallon. 
Our Book gives full 
information. 
Strawberries 
yield more dollars per 
acre and give quicker 
returns than any other 
crop. Set one acre to 
Kellogg’s Pedigree 
plants this year, and 
put from $500 to $800 
in the bank next year. 
Our Book tells vou 
how. IT IS FREfi. 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Box 480 , THREE RIVERS, MICH. 
SL Regis, Ranere bearingR ed Raspberry 
Ward Blackberry plants, by mail, $1 per doz. Fa¬ 
mous Black Diamond Blackberry plants, $1.50 per 
doz. Price list free. F. A. T0MKINS0N, Blue Anchor. H- J. 
GOOSEBERRY PLANTS FOR SALE. Honrhton's *nd Downing'., 
$-1 to $6 per 100, f. o. b. Frank WHInnd, Egg Harbor, Pi. J* 
CTRAWRKRKY PLANTS—Guaranteed tme-to- 
** name. Best varieties at reasonable prices. Cata¬ 
logue Free. E. W. JOHNSON & BR0 . Salisbury, Maryland 
Strawberry Plants for $1 per 1,000 
etc. Quality guaranteed the equal of any. All va 
rieties and Everbearers. Catalogue free. 
ALLEGAN NURSERY, Allegan, Michigan 
Ctrawberry Plants 
Guaranteed as good as grows at $1.00 per 
1000 and up. C atalogue FREE. 
ALLEN BROTHERS, R. 10, Paw Paw, Mich. 
Sh-awKprrv PlanF«~° ver Twent y Varieties at 
oirdwoerry I la Ills $2.50 per 1000. Descriptive 
Catalogue Free. BASIL PERRY, Georgetown, Delaware 
Headquarters for Fall-Bearing Strawberry Plants. 
the n b e w Standpat Everbearing Strawberry 
and other important new varieties. 
Our 21st annual catalog now ready. 
C. N.FJLANSBUKGH & SON. Jackson, Mich. 
3,000,000 Strawberry Plantsl^ic^sLooto^ 
per 1,000. A customer Fays: “1 am well pleased. Neverhnd 
nicer'Strawberry Plants. Martin Nye, Hummelstown, Pa.’ 
All the best varieties. Satisfaction and safe delivery guar¬ 
anteed. Wholesale and Retail Catalogue free. Write to¬ 
day and save money. 0. S. PERDUE, Box 20, Showell, Md. 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
on Strawborry Plants. Many other varieties and irardeo roots 
at reasonable prices. Catalogue FREE. Write today to 
A. C. WESTON & COMPANY.BRIDGMAN. MICHIGAN 
STRAWBERRIES to November 
- from Superb 
and other new seedlings- Plants for sale by the orig¬ 
inator. Circulars free. SAMUEL COOPER, Delavan, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
We have eight that have been selected out of a 
hundred; eight that are TRUE BLUE. If you wish 
that kind send for our 1914 catalogue. Do not cost 
any more than common stock. ROMANCE SEED, PLANT 
AND TRUCK FARMS. Caleb Boggs S Son. Cbeswold, Delaware 
Strawberries 
Summerand Fall Bearing 
Headquarters for Strawberries ™ 
and Email Fruit Plants of all kinds. 
Raspberries, Blackberries, Cur¬ 
rants, Gooseberries, Grapes. Fruit 
Trees, Roses, Shrubs, Eggs for 
Hatching, Crates, Baskets. Catalog. 
L.J.Farmer, Box 420 , Pulaski, N.Y. 
Grow This Berry 
for big profits and sure yields. It 
is hardy and wonderfully produc¬ 
tive, coal black and very large, almost as thick through as long. In luscious 
flavor it surpasses by far all others I have ever grown. In my long exper¬ 
ience with this berry its canes have never been affected, even slightly, by 
orange rust or other fungus disease, and I believe it immune to them. 
The “JOY” BLACKBERRY 
brings joy to all who grow .sell or eat it. It is immensely profitable to the market grower, 
and “ a joy forever ” to the amateur gardener. The canes are of 
iron-clad hardihood, need no staking, and are literally loaded with 
fruit every year. I know this berry thoroughly and willingly stake 
my reputation upon it. Illustrated catalog replete with cultural in¬ 
structions, free to everybody. Established 1S78. 200 acres, Quality 
unsurpassed, prices low, 
J. T. LOVETT Box 162 LITTLE SILVER. N. J. 
OVETT 
My! What Large, Luscious Strawberries 
That's what they’ll exclaim and then quickly buy—at a good price— 
all such delicious berries you can produce. It pays to raise large, 
beautiful true-to-name standard varieties of berries such as 
ALLEN’S Strawberry Plants Yield So Heavily j 
Your success is assured if you start right with ALLEN’S hardy, prolific, 
correctly gfpwn berry plants. Ail the early and late strains of standard varie¬ 
ties for every soil and climate requirement. Over 120 acres devoted to straw¬ 
berry culture alone at the ALLEN Nurseries, 29 years successful experience 
growing berry plants oi the best quality. 
Shipments Prompt and Guaranteed in Good Condition 
ALLEN'S plants are carefully selected and packed ior shipment. They are 
fresh and guaranteed truc-to-uume. 
Send for ALL.EN* S 1914 of Berries 
It's full oi valuable information to fruit grower: Lists and describes Allen's 
complete line of Strawberries. Raspberries. Blackberries, Currants. Grapes. 
Asparagus, etc. Tells how to grow small fruit profitably. A copy will be 
sent I-'REE. Write today. 
W. F. ALLEN, 72 Market Street, Salisbury, Md. 
