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THE RURA.L NEW-YORKER 
February 27, 
Top-dressing Wheat and Meadow. 
C OULD you advise mo when to top- 
dress on the wheat, also for mowing? 
I>o you think it profitable? Would 
you advise manure hauled out on snow 
when frost is in the ground? s. K. H. 
Jersey town, I’a. 
We use the top-dressing in early 
Spring, just as the grass and grain is 
starting up. Sometimes in a wet Spring 
the soil is too muddy at this time, so you 
would tear it up too much. In such ease 
wait until the soil is dry. We think wheat 
and grass will respond profitably to a 
top-dressing this year. If the ground is 
fairly level and there is no heavy wash 
over it the plan of hauling out manure 
now is all right. 
Lime Wash on Trees, 
ILL lime painted on a tree, provided 
it will not wash off, kill grubs and 
insects? G. w. c. 
In small orchards where there is time 
I believe there is value in whitewashing 
trunks of trees. It certainly will lessen 
chances of sunscald. and many of the 
weaker insects will be destroyed. I 
would not like to chance grubs with 
whitewash of lime alone. I believe, how¬ 
ever. if one could make a whitewash that 
would stick, say with soft soap in it 
and in this incorporate some poison like 
corrosive sublimate, grubs should be thus 
controlled. By scraping the bark, not 
deep enough to break the inner bark, 
just before the eggs of the borer are 
being laid I think much could be ac¬ 
complished. There are some reports of 
success with a thick lime-sulphate used 
late in Winter and then doing as sug¬ 
gested, with perhaps a fresh application 
for this purpose. A. T. s. 
Clover on Sod. 
L AST Fall I seeded a piece of gi’ound to 
Timothy, Red-top, and clover, but got 
a very poor stand. I cannot break it 
up again this Spring. If I sow additional 
clover seed on it and work it with the 
seeder, would I be likely to get a fair 
yield for a couple of years, until I am 
ready .to break it up again? How much 
seed should I sow to the acre? Land was 
limed before seeding. j. w. c. 
Massachusetts. 
In our own experience we have never 
had much success in trying to seed clover 
on such a sod. The grass comes up rapid¬ 
ly and usually kills out the young clover, 
and unless the seed in e is very poor indeed 
with a great many bare spots, we should 
not expect much results from such a prac¬ 
tice. It is worth trying if you are willing 
to take the risk. We should use half and 
half Red and Alsike clover, and use a 
light harrow instead of a weeder. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—Fanny Crosby, for 50 
years known to the world as “the 
blind hymn writer,” died Feb. 12 
at her home in Bridgeport, Conn. She 
was in her ninety-fifth year, and although 
failing rapidly continued her work almost 
to the end. Miss Crosby was born in 
East River, Putnam County, N. Y., 
March 25, 1820, and became totally blind 
at the age of six weeks through the negli¬ 
gence of physicians. Possibly it was her 
affliction that gave rise to the deep re¬ 
ligions feeling that dominated her life. 
Her most marked characteristic was 
cheerfulness, and that trait stood out 
clearly in her work. She was the widow 
of Alexander Van Alstyne, a blind musi¬ 
cian. 
The Iowa Senate Feb. 12 adopted the 
woman’s suffrage amendment—38 to 11. 
The measure, which provides for the sub¬ 
mission of the question to a vote of the 
people next Fall, now goes to the House. 
New Jersey and Massachusetts passed 
similar bills Feb. 16. 
Private Charles H. Hill, of the 10th 
Infantry, U. S. A., who has been doing 
lock guard duty at Miraflores, Canal 
Zone, was tried by a court martial Feb. 
13 on the charge of making sketches of 
the locks, taking notes and drawing a 
few unimportant maps. The sketches, 
notes and maps were meagre. Foreign 
tourists who have been taking photo¬ 
graphs of the Panama Canal locks and 
other works, as well as the Governor’s 
residence, have been under observation 
for several days. The case is not thought 
to be important. 
The Arizona State Supreme Court, 
confirming the conviction of Louis 
Gherna, upheld the Arizona prohibition 
law on all points Feb. 13. Gherna sold 
a pint of whiskey after the law went into 
effect, Jan. 1. The wet forces now de¬ 
clare they will take the case to the Su¬ 
preme Court of the United States. 
An X-ray examination of 178 bales of 
cotton waste intended for shipment on 
the "White Star liner Cretic at New York 
led to the discovery Feb. 15 that each 
bale of the consignment contained from 
four to ten sheets of valuable rubber. 
The Cretic was sailing for Mediterranean 
ports. Rubber is regarded by Great 
Britain as contraband. 
Senator Jackson's “lazy husband” bill, 
which is' supported 1— the women of the 
State, was passed by the Indiana Senate 
Feb. 16 without a dissenting vote. The 
bill provides: “Every husband who neg¬ 
lects to support his wife and provide 
her with necessary food, clothing and 
medical attention, and every person hav¬ 
ing any boy under the age of 16 years or 
any girl under the age of 17 years de¬ 
pending upon him or her for education or 
support who wilfully neglects to furnish 
the necessary food, clothing, shelter and 
medical attention for his or her child or 
children, ward or wards, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor and on convic¬ 
tion 'shall be fined any sum not exceed¬ 
ing .$500, to which may be added im¬ 
prisonment in the county jail or work- 
house for a period not exceeding six 
months.” 
Feb. 16 fire was discovered in the hold 
of the steamer Re d'ltalia as she lay in 
dock at Jersey City. N. J., just before 
the steamer sailed with 165 passengers. 
Fire engines and tugboats poured water 
into the hold, extinguishing the blaze 
among 3.000 bales of cotton with a loss 
of $70,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Virginia’s 
peanut king, Pembroke Decatur Gwalt- 
ney, died suddenly at Norfolk, Feb. 10. 
from heart disease. He was eighty-five 
years old. lie was the son of Colonel 
Benjamin Gwaltney, famous in the early 
history of the nation. lie served with 
distinction in the Civil War as an en¬ 
gineer, and then went into the develop¬ 
ment of the peanut industry. By the 
erection of warehouses, factories and 
cleaners he induced the farmers of that 
section to raise the nuts in quantities for 
distribution, and soon amassed a for¬ 
tune. Later he conceived the idea of 
manufacturing the famous Virginia pro¬ 
duct into ready-to-eat products, and 
achieved success in this also. A son and 
two daughters survive him. 
The East Buffalo, N. Y.. live stock 
yards were placed under complete quar¬ 
antine Feb. 15 by order of a federal in¬ 
spector and shipments of cattle cannot 
be received here for at least a week. The 
quarantine is the result of the passing 
through the yards of a shipment in which 
was a calf taken from a quarantined 
farm in Genesee County. 
The Wisconsin State Supreme Court 
in a decision handed down Feb. 12 
knocked out the entire State forestry 
plan, cancelling purchases of land already 
made amounting to approximately $3,000,- 
000. The case arose over the attempt 
made by State Forester Griffith to secure 
the payment of a $20,000 instalment due 
the G. E. Sanborn Company on a land 
contract, applying to Secretary of State 
Donald for a warrant upon the State 
Treasurer for the amount. 
University professors under the direc¬ 
tion of James J. Hill will conduct a live 
stock campaign throughout the North¬ 
west, it was announced Feb. 15 at the 
First National Bank at St. Paul, Minn., 
to which institution the professors will 
be attached. Howard R. Smith, pro¬ 
fessor of animal husbandry of the Uni¬ 
versity of Minnesota and author of 
“Profitable Stock Feeding,” has resigned 
his chair to direct the work, beginning 
Ins duties March 1. Mr. Hill’s campaign 
will last the twelve months of the year 
and will be exhaustive in character and 
territory. Prof. Smith will begin by talk¬ 
ing to groups of farmers and bankers. 
He will explain how to raise stock and 
how to finance the enterprise. 
By a federal Department of Agricul¬ 
ture order bearing on the foot and mouth 
diisease situation live stock shipments ex¬ 
cept for slaughter within 48 hours were 
prohibited Feb. 16 from all territory east 
of the Mississippi and north of Ten¬ 
nessee. It was provided, however, that 
Virginia, West Virginia. Vermont, Maine 
and the District of Columbia may ship 
stock on affidavit that it has been on 
their farms for a certain length of time 
and unexposed to contagion. Another or¬ 
der, covering the whole country, decrees 
that after Feb. 17 no live stock not in¬ 
tended for immediate slaughter shall be 
transported except in cars which have 
been cleaned and disinfected. 
Closer inspection of cattle, a general 
and frequent investigation of slaughter¬ 
houses and the pasteurization of skim 
milk will reduce bovine and human con¬ 
sumption, according to the report of a 
special commission filed with Gov. Whit¬ 
man of New York, Feb. 16. This com¬ 
mission. appointed a year ago. is com¬ 
posed of Seth Low. Calvin J. Huson and 
Dr. Linsly R. Williams, Deputy State 
Commissioner of Health. The commis¬ 
sion holds that many tubercular cattle 
are slaughtered annually and made into 
sausage, which may be eaten raw and 
cause tuberculosis in human beings. The 
report urges that farmers be indemnified 
for cattle slaughtered by the State. 
Northern-grown, Pedigree stock, average germination 95-98 % and 
sold on a money-back-if-you-want-it guarantee. 
Dibble’s Mammoth Yellow Flint. Record yields, 243 bushels from 
one acre in New Hampshire, 460 bushels’from 2 acres in New York. 
Dibble’s Early Yellow Dent. Best large, early Dent. 
Dibble’s Improved Learning. 10 days earlier than standard Learning. 
Dibble’s Mammoth White Dent. The White Dent with the big 
stalks with ears on them. 
Dibble’s Big Red Dent. A new one worth trying. 
No War Prices. Our prices on Seed Corn are low. as low as last season’s 
and we will not raise them as long as our present stock lasts. 
Buy Now and Save Money. Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog and 10 samples 
Farm Seeds including five kinds ol corn Free. Address 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE Seedgrower, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. Box B 
Headquarters for Farm Seeds. Over 1,600 acres in our own Seed Farm 
REAL SEED CORN 
ft 
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Don’t put in 
ki'w the same old crop every 
year. Get in on some of the new' 
'money-making crops including SudanV T - 
Grass, grows easy everywhere, wet or dryT* 
r weather, any kind of land; seed scarce, will be 
big money-maker for next two or three years. 
Also new, especially good for dry countries. 
FETERITA—WONDERFUL PRODUCER 
both seed and forage. Let us tell you all about It. 
A big money-maker for all farmers north and south. 
Also Imported Rape. Mangels and Vetch seed. Pure 
Alfalfa, Clover, etc. Write today for oar 1916 Pure Seed 
Book. GALLOWAY BROS. & CO. 
271 Galloway Station Waterloo, Iowa 
20 Packets Seeds—10c. 
We want every render to test our superior “HARRIS 
SEEDS THAT HUSTLE.” Send 10c. now—before you 
forget—for this mammoth collection. We semi you 
20 separate packets finest varieties—one each—of 
Beets, Chard. Cabbage. Celery. Cucumber, Lettuce, Cress, 
Muskmelon, Watermelon. Onion, Parsley, Parsnip, Radish, 
Salsify, Spinach, Tomato, Turnip; also packet each of 
finest poppies and cosmos; also Children’s Botanical 
Garden, a collection of flower seeds. With this 
collection we will send rebate check for 10c and 
our big free catalogue of world’s finest seeds. 
HARRIS 1JROS. SEED CO. 
188 So. Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. 
PEDIGREE POTATOES 
Seed Corn, Oats, Cabbage and 
Vegetables Seeds of All Kinds 
Choice varieties grown on our farm and sold direct 
at wholesale priees.—We can furnish a few 
varieties of potatoes that have perfect pedigree, 
grown from seed which came from perfoct hi I is 
only. A yield of 500 bushels per acre on five acres 
from our pedigree seed was reported a few days ago. 
And our Gold Nugget, Corn has yielded over 200 
bushels of ears per acre several times in New York 
State. Sample free. Write for our catalog—get 
the facts—buy our tested seed at wholesale prices. 
Save money—raise better crops. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO. 
BOX 102, COL DWATER, N. Y. 
Bethel Beauty Seed Potatoes 
Grown under field inspection; recommended and certi¬ 
fied by Maine Oep’t of Agriculture and Maine Seed Im¬ 
provement Ass’ll. Price: 1 bbi. $2.60; 6 bbls. $2.26, each, 
write for prices on Standard sorts. 
To introduce our four new quality varieties : Bethel 
Beauty, Dibble's Itussett. World’s Fair, Mill’s Pride, will 
ship 1 bbl. $4.00, 1 bu. $1.50, kj bu. $1.00. Each package 
containing the four varieties. 
I L. \VA1£E, ... Gardiner, Maine 
SEED POTATOES 
WITH BUSINESS BACK OF THEM 
Grown in Maine under supervision of Plant Pathologist. 
Parent Plants yielded <’> to 10 large tubers each. Spraying 
practiced. Weak, unhealthy plants and those not true 
to type removed from fields. Constant inspection from 
planting to digging. Yields tier acre 400 to 655 bus. 
Pedigreed Seed-Kit to Plant. 
Clovers—Alfalfa—other grass seed—Oats—Corn — 
Field Peas and Feans. Fine Catalog — Free. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, LANDISVILLE, Lanc.Co.,PA. 
EEDLESS FIELD SEEDS 
Lffi 
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■ We are trying with all our might to furnish ab- 
I solutely pure. Bed, Alsike, Mammoth. Alfalfa, 
■ Timothy, Sweet Clover, and all other field seeds, 
■ with all blasted and immature grains removed. 
Write todnv for free samples anil instructions 
"How to Know Good Seed.” 
| 0. M. SCOTT k SOS, 28 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
J 
SWEET 
CLOVER 
PROFITS-™ seed 
makes or mars 
your erop. Our FREE catalog is 
a potato “eye-opener.’’ 70 varieties. Northern 
grown. Soil perfectly adapted. Smooth, handsome, 
healthy tubers plus a frost proof storehouse. WRITE NOW. 
A. G. ALDRI0GE, 10-20. Aldridge Bldg . Fishers, Ontario, Co.. N. Y. 
SEED POTATOES fi«E£,™“ 
ULLU profits by planting 
potatoes grown on the rugged hills of 
Steuben Co.—1500 ft. above sea level. Strong, 
hardy, prolific varieties. Give them atrial. Free catalog. 
WALKER SEED POTATO FARMS, 3-15 Choso St . Avoco. Steuben Co . N Y. 
LOWELL’S SELECTED SEED POTATOES 
Lowell Green Mountain, Dibble's Husset, Karly 
Kureka, Clyde. Sir Walter Kaleigh, Karly Surprise. 
Send for catalog. FRANK LOWELL 8 SONS, Gardiner. Me 
For Sale-Maine Seed Potatoes 
Choice Hastings. $1 per bushel while they last. 
MAPLE HILL FARM, H S. Webber. Monroe. Waldo Co., Maine 
POTATOES — Beauty, Bovee, Cobbler, Giant. Moneymaker, Ro*e 
6 weeks, Triumph, Wonder, 85 kinds. C W. FORO, Fishers, N.Y, 
Cartons belt OAT 
is a record breaker in yield per acre and weight 
per bushel. Earliest of all large-berried oats. Of 
pure white color and great milling and feeding 
value. Extra large heads and strongest straw. 
FREE Illustrated Catalog and Samples 
will show you why we can sell our oats and other 
seeds under strong “money-back’’ guarantee. 11 
Garton-Cooper Seed Co., Box 23 Sugar Grove, Ill. 
SEED CORN THAT WILL GROW 
"CAROLINE WHITE" and “EGLANTINE" strain YELLOW 
LEAMING seed corn. Carefully selected and kept 
warm all Winter. Write for interesting free book. 
We have 1800 acres under cultivation. EGLANTINE 
FARMS. Temple Smith. Mgr.. GREENSBORO. MARYLANO 
SEED 
OATS, BARLEY, WHEAT, POTATOES. 
All New varieties. Largest .vielders known 
Best quality. PriceR low. New Catalog FREE. 
G. A- READ, Reid's Exp. Farms, Charlotte. VI. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
I 
Farmers’ Week. State School of Agri- ! 
culture. Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y„ 
March 9-12. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting, March 24, Wor¬ 
cester. Ma ss. 
Farmers’ Week. Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College. Amherst. March 15-19. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
fortieth annual convention. June 23-25, 
Detroit, Mich. 
This plant Is now generally recognized ns being the great¬ 
est fertilizing crop, and in addition is one of the greatest 
pasture plants, and makes excellent hay. We know tlila 
because we are growing It for all these purposes on our 
own farms. 
■ I |“J|| CJI American Northern groten. We sell noth¬ 
in I | l* |_ f LX ing but the very best. Can furnish 
’ Nebraska, Montana, Dakota, Siberian 
and Grimm seed. Write for free sample. 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
are receiving the same careful attention that has made 
our field seeds famous. Write today for free catalog. 
wrNG SEED CO., BOX 5g3 MECHANICS BURG, OHIO 
—Clover, Grasses, Seed 
1 Corn, Seed Oats and 
Potatoes, sold under delivered guarantee. Catalogue 
tells how. Ask for it. Standard varieties GARDEN 
SEEDS sold in hulk. 
EIKENBERRY BROS., Box 12, Camden, Ohio 
0 [[n ftiTQ Siberian, Imp. American, Swedish Select, and 
ULLU UA 10 MMay. Bi 2 yfolders. Also Clover and Timntliv 
seed. Write for samples and price. R. 0. EVANS Venedocia, Ohio 
FANCYCLOVER 
Medium, Mammoth, Alsike, Alfalfa. 
TIMOTHY. All kinds Pure Field Seeds. We buy 
direct of the farmer. Quality high. Prices low. fail 
save you money. Write for Full Samples and Pricks 
F. J. WOOD & SONS. LONDON, O. 
“Do you know anything about the lan¬ 
guage of flowers?” “Only this much : A 
five-dollar box of roses talks a heap 
louder to a girl than a fifty-cent bunch of 
on run fions."—Wa shington 8 fa r. 
SUDAN GRASS 
The greatest yielding liay plant known. Wonder 
fully drought resistant. AM seed grown by us and 
guaranteed PURE. Johnson grass unknown in my 
section. This is important, as seed of this grass ami 
Sudan grass are hard to distinguish. Write for our 
pedigree corn and Sudan booklet. Contains many 
valuable suggestions to corn raisers. Free. 
W. OSCAR COLLIER, Corn Specialist, Easton, Maryland 
PURE FIELD SEEDS 
Clover, Timothy, Alsike, Alfalfa and all kinds of 
PUKE FIELD SEEDS direct from producer to run- 
sinner; free from noxious weeds. Ask for samples. 
A. C. HOYT & CO., Box R, Fostoria, O. 
IP TT SKIiI>. White and large biennial 
VJ TI Av Av 1 yellow. Prices and circular on 
request. K. JiAKTON’, 
on 
Box 
Seed Gorn 
Oats, Barley, Potatoes, AlTaT. 
fa; 1200 acres. Catalog free. 
P. N. SCARFF. New Carlisle, Ohio 
CLOVER 39', - Falmouth, Kentucky 
fi OVFR SFFn—^Buy direct and save money. 
dksLU We Prepay the freight 
Glicks Seed Farms, Box 33, Smoketown, I’a 
\/ ry p4akIo Planlc bf all kinds, and 40vari- 
V egetaDie riants ties of Strawberries. 
Catalogue Free. S. C. ATHERTON, GREENWOOD, DEL 
i—is the coming garden flower. 
Blossoms entire season. Postal 
for list of choice new varieties 
My spccl.-iltv. G. S. RAMSBURO, Someraworth. N. H. 
SNAPDRAGON 
