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"I'ME RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 2 
Big, Luscious Strawberries 
—the kind that win grreat admiration for 
their beauty and flavor — can be grown 
right in your own garden. Allen’s True- 
To-Name plants assure you of large 
crops of big delicious berries. They are 
hardy and true-to-type — the result of 
over 30 years’ careiul study and selection. Tliey 
compriseall theearly and! tte strains of the standard 
varieties. Prompt slnpmentof any quantity. Fresh 
stock, careful selertion. All plants guaranteed 
truc-to-name. Write for 
Allen’s 1915Berry Book 
Gives latest cultural methods. 
Describes fully Allen's many 
varieties of strawberries and 
other small fruits. It's free. 
Write for copy today. 
The W. F. Allen Co. 
72 Market St. 
Salisbury, Md. 
$614, cleared by one man from V/\ acres 
of Wilkins strawberry plants. Send for 
free catalog describing the Wilkins money 
makers—all the finest varieties. 
WILKINS 0 C0. ( 40 Wilkins Bldg'., Salisbury, Md. 
^f^Twen ti/Aiillion 
Dewberry, raspberry and other small 
fruit plants, fruit and ornamental 
trees and shrubbery. Everything for 
the farm and home at wholesale prices. 
Big 20th century catalog, illustrated in 
colors sent free. Worth its weight in gold. 
TOWNSEND, 25 VINE ST„ SALISBURY, MO. 
At YEARS GROWING 
CO BERRY PLANTS £ 
Healthy, northern grown Strawberry. Rasp¬ 
berry, Blackberry, Currant and Grape plants, 
grown on new ground. All plants guaranteed 
to b© first olus, truo to name, paekod to roach j 
you in good growing oondition and to pleaso you 
or your money back. Send for oatalogu© today, 
0. A. D. BALDWIN. B.R.15, Bridgman, Mich. 
St. Regis Raspberry Plants",-^ “ n ™SSey a «: 
funded. Arthur K. Heggau, Waterford Works. N J. 
"SUPERB” ClrauuhorrioQ a success. Circular Free. 
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WILLARD B KILLE, Swedcshoro, N. J. 
pi nVCD Crcn-Buy direct and save money. 
LLU V LilA OEitiLf We Prepay the freight, 
(ilicks Seed Farms, Box 23, Smoketown, Pa. 
Planters 
Cultivators 
Planting 
More important than ever, 
nr he U. S. will export potatoes this 
r year. Every bushel raised will be 
r needed. Potash is scarce. Seed 
J will be high. This planter 
/puts one piece only in every 
J space, saves at least one 
J bushel of seed every acr& 
i no injury to seed, no 
I disease carried, best 
| distribution oi 
f erti lizer. 
Ask your 
dealer 
to 
BIGGEST 
YIELDS 
with 
show 
you 
planter 
and write 
us for free j 
illustrated 
booklet. 
Bateman 
M'f’O Co- 
Box 21 
Qrenlocb. 
N. J. 
Ten Apple Trees for One Dollar 
Will ship now or hold till Spring. Special prices on 
Pears and Cherries. Send for Catalog. 
SAMUEL FRASER, 186 Main St,, Geneseo, X. Y. 
unriititeod Fi ?t Clas«. True to Name, Fr^e 
fr< in Di»:;.be and to reach \ouin good condi¬ 
tion. Have stock reserved now to be shipp' d 
when you want it. Pay at shipping time. Write 
for free Wholesale Catalog and send list of wants lor 
special Freight Paid price. 
THE WM. J. REILLY NURSERIES, 22 Ossian St., DANSVII.LE, N. Y. 
Originators of “ Trees at Half Agents' . lie.. ' 
Apples for Profit and Use” 
—wafronloads for market and barrels for 
the homo. The interesting chapter on 
apples in our 1915 Fruit Hook tells best 
methods of selecting, planting and 
growing and lists our many standard 
varieties —all guaranteed true-to- 
name, hardy and, well rooted. Other 
chapters describe our full line of pears, 
plums, strawberries, currants, ornamen¬ 
tal shrubs. Write for book today. Free. 
Barites Bros. Nursery Co. 
Box 8 Yalesville, Cong, 
Cl Do You Have to 
be Shown?- 
I’m told that I have the best 
quality of seed, give the largest 
packages and have the most com- 
mon-for.se Seed Book in the bunch. 
And I’m willing to admit it. 
Do you have to be shown? 
All right. I live close toiheMIs- 
souri line and I’ll “show” you. 
I’ll send you the Seed Book and a big pack¬ 
age of garden seed, and you can judge for 
yourself. NO CHARGE FOR EITHER, 
and you need not even send the postage un¬ 
less you wish. 
I also have guaranteed Clover and Al¬ 
falfa, and all kinds of farm seed at 
Farmer’s Prices. Shall I send you free 
samples of these also? 
HENRY FIELD, Pres. 
HERRrnELOSEEOCO^Btn^G^S^trandojlnjDw^ 
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F SEED 
L SAMPLES 
And Alfalfa Gwide 
We supply you absolutely free samples 
of our hardy, northern grown seeds. Our 
CLOVER, TIMOTHY ALFALFA 
seeds are the best that money can buy; High in 
Purity, Strong in Germination Also on request we I 
will send you our Alfalfa Guide full of informa¬ 
tion regarding this valuable plant. 
Write today sure for free samples and literature in re¬ 
gard to all field seeds. 
N. WERTHEIMER & SONS, 
Dept K, Ligioner, Ind. 
SWEET 
CLOVER 
Three Leaders 
Robinson’s Earliest Tomato, Earliest 
Lettuce and Earliest Round Red Rad¬ 
ish. With these you can havethe first 
vegetables in your section. Ourresr- 
ular price is 10c per pkt., but to prove 
to you the superior quality of our seeds 
we offer these three packets for 10c. 
Write for our Wholesale Catalog of Best Quality 
Seeds from grower to you at Wholesale Prices. 
C. N. ROBINSON & BRO. Dept. 61 Baltimore, Md. 
Seed Growers and Importers Established 1870 
'Millions of trees & plants 
“Wholesale Prices. Direct from grower. Guaranteed 
quality Apple & peach trees. AsDaragus, gooseber¬ 
ries berry plants, privet hedging. New catalog ready 
THE’WESTMINSTER NURSERY, Box 129, Westminster, Md. 
SEKI>. White and large biennia 
yellow. Prices and circular on 
request. K. BARTON, Box 
29, - Falmouth, Kentucky 
at ONE-HALF 
CITY SEEDSMEN PRICES! 
Let us send you our catalog of seeds — it’s 
different. It tells you facts, and why we can save you money, and give you a guaran¬ 
teed SQUARE DEAL. Just drop a postal today and see the difference in buying your 
seeds in country or city FORREST SEED CO., Box 32, Cortland, N. V. 
I<e I ly’s 
Backed by 35 Years Experience 
And nob! direct from our nurseries 
to your orchard at Grower’s Prices. 
Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, Cherry aud Quince trees, also small Fruits and Ornamentals, in 
all the leading varieties, guaranteed Free from Disease and True to Name. We know the 
history of every tree we sell because we grow them in our own nurseries right here in Dansvllle—Dig, Haul, Pack and 
Ship every tree mirier the personal supervision ol one or the live Kelly Brothers. When jou order from our catalog you 
get what you order because we make It a personal matter. Yon also get your order promptly ami carefully packed. 
Write for our catalog—This year we quote low prices for the beat stock we have ever grown. 
KELLY BROS., WHOLESALE NURSERIES. 235 Main St., Dansville. N. Y. You’ll never regret planting Kelly Trees 
LONEY Guaranteed TREES 
We wish every fruit grower could visit our nurseries here in Dansville and see our new methods of 
raising, digging,packing ami selling trees under our personal supervision. It’s the i*est way to show 
you what we really have. However,we have issued a novel catalogue which is as near a visit to us 
as description can be—it’s free on request. Tells all about our guaranteed, true-to-nanie, healthy 
quality stock and our methods. Shows how we sell for actual cost ot production plus one profit and 
always ship trees that measure up to the Maloney Standard. If you are going to plant Fruit 
Trees send lor this catalogue. , 
MALONEY BROS. & WELLS, Box 64, Dansville, N. Y., Dansville’s Pioneer Wholesala Nurseries. 
FOR SEED The Biggest Flint CORN 
Gold Nugget corn is by far the largest Flint corn 
and yields the largest crops—200 bushels of ears 
per acre is not uncommon. Our catalogue tells all 
about it and a great many other good varieties of 
farm and vegetable seeds which wo grow on our 
own farms and sell direct at wholesale prices. 
New Methods in Potato Growing 
Harris’ catalogue tells about selecting seed 
potatoes by the “hill-unit” system which aims to 
select seed from the best producing hills only. 
We are large potato growers and furnish very 
high class seed at lower prices than many dealers 
charge for common seed. Ask for free catalogue. 
It explains why we test all seeds and mark the 
percentage, that will grow, on the 
label. Write today. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO. 
Box 102, Coldwater, N. Y. 
THE MAILBAG. 
Acid Phosphate in Henhouse. 
W ILL it pay to use acid phosphate on 
dropping boards in henhouses? 
Droppings are removed two or 
three times a week and spread direct on 
the land. Land fairly level. J. W. 
New Jersey. 
We should not do it, though the plan 
is suggested by some hen men. The acid 
phosphate is good to hold the ammonia 
in the manure, but the danger is in using 
too much of it, so that the hen’s feet are 
made sore. We prefer a dry, dusty mate¬ 
rial like coal ashes, sand or ground phos¬ 
phate rock. 
Litne-sulphur Wash on Trees. 
D O you think lime and sulphur put on 
the trunks of fruit trees would keep 
jack rabbits away? Also, would it 
be injurious to the tree put on very 
thick? I have heard of painting trees 
with white lead and oil. I)o you think 
that would hurt apple, pear and peach 
trees? J- B. 
Amenia, N. Y. 
The lime-sulphur about one to eight 
parts water painted on the trees will 
help, but the rains wash it off. Smear¬ 
ing with blood or raw meat will prove 
effective for a time. We have varying 
reports from the use of lead and oil, and 
do not use it ourselves. We mound up 
the trees and put wire netting or strips 
of veneer wood or heavy cornstalks 
around the trunks, fastening with rope 
or wire. 
Rotation to Kill Quack Grass. 
I HAVE a field badly infested with 
quack grass, which it is desired to get 
seeded to Alfalfa, and the following 
rotation of crops to exterminate the 
quack and pay the cost is proposed. It 
differs from any rotation for the purpose 
that I have known, and I desire to get 
expert opinion as to what is likely to be 
the outcome. Soil clay loam; last crop 
wheat harvested last season ; seeded to 
clover, but the “catch” is mostly quack; 
preceding crop corn. Proposed rotation ; 
1. Plow early in the Spring and sow to 
early peas for cannery market, to be har¬ 
vested late in June. 2. Plow again im¬ 
mediately upon removal of peas and sow 
to buckwheat and seed to Hairy vetch. 
3. The following season cut the vetch for 
hay or perchance harvest it for seed. 4. 
Follow the removal of vetch by plowing 
again and sowing to Alfalfa with oats to 
freeze down and afford protection to the 
young Alfalfa plants and prevent soil 
washing. 5. Chemical fertilizers to be 
used with each sowing. Criticism in¬ 
vited. A. H. 
Long Island. 
It. N.-Y.—Here is a good chance to 
discuss rotation. What do you say? 
Ben Davis at Home. 
I F you were growing fruit in Virginia 
yo'u would not have to apologize for 
your Ben Davis apples. A few years 
ago I sold my orchard, principally ^ ork 
Imperial and Ben Davis, to a New York 
State canner. When examining the or¬ 
chard, when we came to Ben Davis, he 
asked what they were, and upon being 
told said: “There is as much difference 
between these and New York Bens as 
between a Bartlett and Kieffer pear. I 
wish you had enough of those to keep 
hauling until Christmas.” Again, this 
year, upon an export buyer quoting same 
price for York and Ben, I said : “There 
should be about 50 cents per barrel dif¬ 
ference in price,” and he said that 
when Ben Davis were marketed in Lon¬ 
don in the Spring they were just as pop¬ 
ular as York and preferred by some. Now 
don’t say “That is because au English¬ 
man can’t see a joke.” G. l. bothgeb. 
Virginia. 
Gas Tar and Fence Posts. 
C AN fence posts be preserved by using 
gas or coal tar? I say yes, from ex¬ 
perience. Forty-five years ago I had 
300 3x4-inch eight-foot posts sawed from 
White oak tree for vineyard purposes. 
I was very particular to have them saw¬ 
ed so they would be free from sap, and all 
sawed commencing at the butt eud of 
each log, so the stubsliot would be on 
the top end of the log, setting that end 
in the ground, just the reverse the way it 
grew. I procured a barrel of gas tar, 
set it on end under an apple tree, cut 
out the head, except about six inches 
around the outside leaving a narrow 
strip through the center to hold the head 
in place. I set in three posts; first they 
stayed in sill night, then were raised up, 
letting the ends rest on the barrel head 
to drain with the tops against the tree 
limbs. If I happened to pass that way 
in a couple of hours others took their 
places and as the tar was lowered there 
was room for more posts at a time. I 
used a brush to paint them higher than 
the barrel as I wanted to set them 3U> 
feet deep, leaving 4y 2 feet or more 
above ground. Here is the secret of the 
preservation. I did not know it at the 
time. As I dislike to be daubed up with 
tar or anything else I got a load of lake 
sand, and just as soon as the tar got 
through dripping I rolled the posts in 
sand for convenience in handling. The 
results are that of 12 posts not treated 
one set in each row, two rotted off in 
eight years, remainder in 10 years. At 
the end of the sixteenth year the vineyard 
was abandoned and the posts taken lip. 
All were sound, and were sold to a neigh¬ 
bor for fence posts, and to my knowledge 
gave good service for 10 years more. 
Florida. R. A. hunt. 
FARM NEWS. 
Potatoes are used as stock feed to 
considerable extent in foreign countries, 
and in all probability the use will become 
more extended in the United States. Al¬ 
ready the matter of potato drying has 
been given careful study by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, It has been found 
that dried potatoes may he kept indefin¬ 
itely for stock feed, and are of course 
much less bulky and less expensive to 
transport than ordinary potatoes. 
Further uses of the potatoes will be in¬ 
vestigated, such as the manufacture of 
starch and glucose, in order to encour¬ 
age the production of potatoes as a reg¬ 
ular part in crop rotation in sections 
where this could be done with benefit. 
With the growing scarcity of meat it 
is evident that fish will become an im¬ 
portant part of the nation’s food supply. 
Comparatively little attention has been 
given to best methods of storage, trans¬ 
portation, and prevention of waste in 
fish, and already the government is de¬ 
voting careful investigation with the view 
to improving the industry. As result of 
investigations marked improvement has 
taken place in quality of American sar¬ 
dines put up by establishments along 
the Maine coast, and the industry has 
profited wonderfully in that State by 
government efforts. Two important san¬ 
itary surveys weree made in the oyster- 
growing localities, one in Chesapeake 
Bay and one in Jamaica Bay, New York. 
Wlierever polluted areas were found, the 
oystermen moved their stock to clean 
water, until all danger to consumer was 
done away with. 
The Bureau of Chemistry is waging 
war against false and fraudulent label¬ 
ing of medicines and mineral waters. A 
large number of veterinary remedies and 
so-called cures for hog cholera have been 
compelled to coine under government reg¬ 
ulation or go out of business. So-called 
lithia water hereafter must contain 
enough lithia to produce an appreciable 
therapeutic effect. Measures are being 
taken to prevent the exploitation of so- 
called radio active waters in which the 
amount of radium is negligible. 
Fanciers of eats will appreciate 
knowing the United States Post Office 
department annually keeps more than 
400 eats. The New York post office alone 
spends $00 a year for meat for pussy. 
The Ohio corn show, the State apple 
show, the State poultry show and the 
State Dairy show are to be held at the 
State Fair Grounds at Columbus from 
January 9th to 15th, 1015. This will be 
known as the Ohio Winter Exposition, 
and will be conducted under the manage¬ 
ment of the Agricultural Commission. 
The plan of combining the State shows 
is unique and the location is convenient 
for people from all parts of the State. 
The corn show which is one of the feat¬ 
ure of the mid-Winter Fair, will offer 
premiums amounting to $1,000 and seven 
trophy cups. Entries for the corn show 
close December 31st, and should be ad¬ 
dressed to Secretary D. W. Galehouse, of 
the Ohio Corn Improvement Associa¬ 
tion, Wooster, and he will supply pre¬ 
mium list and information. 
The apple crop in Norway is prac¬ 
tically a failure according to the report 
of the American consul. Norway lias 
also depended on the Servian prune crop 
which is denied that country. These 
conditions furnish an opportunity for 
American fruit exporters to find a large 
market in that country for both apples 
and prunes. The import duty on apples 
is $1.40 per hundred pounds, and on 
dried prunes $1.82 per hundred pounds. 
In its experimental work, the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture intends adding, dur¬ 
ing the coming year, raccoons, skunks and 
foxes. It is carrying on this work with 
minks and martens at two stations, Pri¬ 
chard, Idaho, and the National Zoologi¬ 
cal Park. The minks promise to be suc¬ 
cessful, but martens were secured too late 
for the animals to breed this season. 
“It looks pretty wasteful to me to hog 
down corn.” The hired man said this. 
He is only mortal man and wants to get 
out of all work he can. An Eastern au¬ 
thority champions the system in com¬ 
mon practice in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and 
Iowa. This writer advises enough hogs 
to be turned in to care for the crop in L’0 
days, or about 20 125-pound sliotes to 
the acre, in good corn. Rape or clover 
or a combination should be seeded be¬ 
tween the corn rows at last cultivation. 
Oats and Canada field peas, may be see l¬ 
ed early in the Spring, an I may make 
good pasture at the end of five weeks. An¬ 
other good Spring pasture mixture is a 
bushel each of bats and Canada field peas, 
and five or six pounds of rape. The rape 
will persist after the oats and peas are 
gone. The writer also suggests the add¬ 
ing eight pounds of Sweet clover, and five 
pounds Red clover to a mixture of 30 
pounds of oats and 50 pounds peas. 
Mother: “Is the clock running, Wil¬ 
lie?” Willie: “No, ma, it’s just standing 
still and wagging its tail.”—Melbourne 
Leader. 
