1915. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKEK 
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FINDLAY, OHIO 
Builders also of Buckeye Open Ditchers and | 
Gasoline Engines for Farm Use 
What Is Rock 
Phosphate Worth? 
When at the Ohio Agricultural College 
40 pounds, costing about 15c, added to a 
ton of manure gave increased crop yields 
worth 75c. This was the result of an 
eighteen year test and is one of the many 
that prove the claim, “ Kock [Phosphate is 
the most economical and only permanent 
source of Phosphate.” Get literature from 
us today on Kock Phosphate. Mention 
this paper and we will send you free a copy 
of “The Farm That Won’t Wear Out.” 
FEDERAL CHEMICAL CO: 
Ground Rock Dept. 
30 West Main St., Columbia, Tenn. 
LIME—LIME—LIME 
YOUR LAND NEEDS 
“WYANDOTTE CHIEF’ 
HYDRATED AGRICULTURAL LIME 
Write us for prices 
THE NATIONAL LIME & STONE COMPANY 
CAREY. OHIO 
AGRICULTURAL LIME 
BULK AND SACKED GROUND LIMESTONE 
Also Hydrated, Bulk, Burnt and Ground Burnt Lime. 
Largest Capacities and Prompt Deliveries. 
JAMES E. GASTON, Cochranton, Penn’a 
INCREASE THE VALUE OF YOUR FARM with Pulverized 
Rock Phosphate, HORSE HEAD brand. Mix 2 lbs. per 
head per day and increase the value ofyotu - manure 
75%. Write us for delivered car load price 
HASER0T LIME a PHOSPHATE CO.. • CLEVELAND. 0 
Sure Cure For 
in oats. Guarant’d 
Simple to treat. 
Sent direct by parcel post where we have no agent. 
Agts'.'wanted. Sporicide Chemical Co. A N?Y t . a ' 
The New GREENWOOD LIME 
and FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER 
TOP FEED-NO RUSTING-NO CLOGGING 
Accurate indicator for 100 to 3,500 lbs. per acre, 
whether material be wet. dry, sticky, lumpy, heavy 
or light. Write for booklet R to 
GREENWOOD MFG. CO., Lawrence, Majj. 
Ruralisms 
Cracking Butternuts. 
f S there any way to open butternuts 
and walnuts by which the kernels 
can be taken out whole? The hammer 
in my hands make bad work of them. 
Ottawa, Pa. L. s. L. 
Butternuts should be cracked through 
the long axis by striking them on the 
sharper end with the hammer. “Wal¬ 
nuts,” by which I take it that you mean 
the shagbark hickory, should be cracked 
through their long equatorial diameter. 
Much depends on the blood. Your nut 
aristocrat prides himself on cracking 
along certain lines so that the meats 
come out in unbroken halves. Your low¬ 
brow nut cracks any old way, and the 
meats crack like the shells. The aristo¬ 
cratic nuts are the ones we want to 
locate and preserve by grafting. Perhaps 
we shall be able to practice eugenics 
with them and by mating together the 
proper parents get a regular prince of 
nuts. The pecan experts advise soaking 
or steaming pecans to make them crack 
better. I don’t know of any cracker that 
will work any better with butternuts 
and hickorynuts than the hammer does. 
Good cracking nuts, aud good ma- 
chiuery for cracking nuts, are things 
greatly to be desired commercially. I 
have just cracked with a hammer a dozen 
shagbark hickorynuts of quite unusually 
good cracking qualities and thin shell. 
Three of the nuts were bad. Seven of the 
nine good ones came out in unbroken 
halves. The good meats weighed, in com¬ 
parison to the shells and bad meats to¬ 
gether, as two to three. This is an un¬ 
usually good proportion. In November 
the price of hickorynuts at Pittsburgh 
was four cents a pound. Hickorynut 
meats are not quoted. Other nut meats 
were priced at from 50 to GO cents a 
pound. Assume that hickorynut meats 
will bring 30 cents a pound, that the 
nuts are worth six ceuts a pound, that 
there are 50 pounds to a bushel and 
that the nuts will shell out one-third of 
their weight in meats, which are all 
very conservative figures, the increase in 
the value of a bushel of hickorynuts from 
the operation of shelling would he about 
$2.10, besides the saving on transporta¬ 
tion charges. Black walnuts are a third 
of the price of hickorynuts and, though 
I can get no price on Black walnut 
meats, I understand that they are in de¬ 
mand by confectioners and bakers, and 
I believe that they would work out a 
greater profit than hickorynuts. Here is 
a chance to turn to account the good 
cracking nuts, and to invent machinery 
to crack nuts. w. c. deming. 
Seedling Nuts. 
I N your issue for February G are three 
good communications about nut grow¬ 
ing. This is excellent, and shows, with 
other indications, that the “sacred cause 
of nut growing,” as Dr. Dennis of Cedar 
Ttapids puts it, is coming into its own. 
But people who plant nuts should know 
exactly what they are doing. They are 
doing a thing similar to planting peach 
stones. They will get similar results. 
They will get trees varying in charac¬ 
teristics. If they plant fine nuts the re¬ 
sults will almost all he inferior, because 
plants tend to revert to the common type. 
The uncommon type tends to extinction 
unless it has some characteristic fitting 
it to survive. Fitness for man’s use 
Nature doesn’t care anything about, so 
if man is to take advantage of something 
offered him out of Nature’s horticultural 
grab-bag, he must take artificial ways of 
doing so. Therefore he buds and grafts. 
If he didn’t he would lose every one of 
his valuable fruits. A man plants nuts 
or peach stones for one of two purposes: 
either he allows them to fruit to produce 
new varieties from which to select; or 
he raises stocks for grafting, if he wants 
stocks on which to graft the English 
walnut he should plant the Black walnut 
and not the English walnut, which the 
experience of the Californians has shown 
to be not so good a stock as the Black 
walnut. w. c. DEMING. 
Tourist : “Do you still lynch horse 
thieves out here?” Cowboy: “I should 
say not; we’re more up to date than 
that.” “Up to date?” “Yep. The horse 
thief days have passed and gone, but we 
occasionally string up some guy for swip¬ 
ing an automobile.”—Youngstown Tele¬ 
gram. 
/‘Sprayed Nine Years Without a Mishap j 
eo writes E. C. Bowers, State Horticultural Inspector. Harrisburg. Pa., 
regarding his Goulds Sprayer used for heavy demonstration work. The 
thousands of Goulds Sprayers in use are giving the best of results— 
and there's one for every purpose. The Goulds “Monarch’' outfit 
shown below is specially adapted for high pressure work not 
needing a power outfit. Operates 4 leads of hose—8 nozzles; 
outside packed plungers — no leather: only one of the 25 
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making experience. Send today for 
free book “How to Spray” and 
ask for expert advice on your 
requirements. Both free. 
The Goulds Mfg. Co. 
Main Office and Works 
Seneca Falls, N.Y. 
Branches: Chicago, 
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, Atlanta 
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WELL ROTTED 
HORSE MANURE Dried—Ground 
A natural manure for the use of Gardeners, 
Truck Growers and for General Farming. 
It is largely HUMUS and rich in Plant 
Foods, which are immediately available. It 
also stimulates bacteriological action in the 
soil. It is sure to please the most critical 
grower. 
Write for Circular " H ” and prices. 
NEW YORK STABLE MANURE COMPANY 
273 Washington St., Jersey City, N. J. 
“50 pounds to the ton of manure will increase 
the producing value of the manure 60%, saya 
the Ohio Experiment Station. 
Raw Rock Phosphate 
Finely Ground (Floats) 
A phosphorus fertilizer for use with stable 
manure or green manure crops. Write for free 
booklet Y-15, and delivered prices. 
Robin Jones Phosphate Co. 
NASHVILLE, TENN. 
SULPHUR 
FOR SPRAYING PURPOSES 
T.S S.C. WHITE CO., Bergenporl Sulphur Works.100 William St. ( New York 
Don’t Stop Spraying 
It is easier to keep up than catch up. It 
takes two years for trees to boar after the 
foliagre is destroyed. Remember, too. that 
dormant spraying is important, anti *.n 
some states spraying ia compulsory. 
Sprayed fruit is good fruit, and good fruit 
always brings a tfood price In any season. 
miASE 
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and Traction Sprayers 
include 70 combina¬ 
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field, garden, poultry 
house and homouaes 
Our*'Spray' 'booklet 
shows now you can 
buy barrel or bucket 
Sprayer now and 
build to larger uses 
when you need it 
Ask your dealer to 
show this line and 
write us for* ‘Spray 
booklet and ourspray 
calendar, both »ree. 
Bateman M’f’g Co. 
Box 24 
Grenloch, N.J. 
Use in any wagon. 
Here’s the NewHILLSIDE Sprayer. Likeall Domestic 
Sprayers, the pump, engine and all other parts are 
made In our factory under the supervision of experts. 
DOUbstic 
” Sprayers w 
The Hillside Sprayer is complete for any purpose, but 
indispensable for the man with a hillside orchard. 
We build a full lino of High Pressure Sprayers, both 
Hand and Power. Our new free hook, “important 
Information About Spraying,” contains spray calen¬ 
dars, formulas and other valuable Information. 
Send for your copy today. Box 503, 
DOMESTIC ENGINE AND POMP CO. / Shlppensbarg, 
GROUND 
LIME 
STONE 
$1.50 BULK-BAGS $2.50 
WRITE FOR FREIGHT RATES 
ROCK-CUT STONE CO. 
5.31 Union Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y. 
LET LIQUID 
manure; 
BUY YOUR 
Between now and seeding time. 10 tons of Cale¬ 
donia Marl (Lime Carbonate) could absorb, from 
your stable floor. $40.00 worth of ammonia and pot¬ 
ash—in addition to acting as deodorizer and germi¬ 
cide. This Marl (Nature’s Lime) could then be put 
pn your soil to increase each acre’s productivity $1.5 
a year, as it did for Mr. L. .1. Rounds, for instance. 
Write us to-day for explanatory booklet, etc. 
INTE RNATI ON A L A C R 1C U LTURAL CO R P. 
800 MARINE BANK BUILDING, BUFFALO, N. Y. (CALEDONIA MARL BRANCH) lN 
Stop Experimenting 
It’s expensive—and results are usually doubtful. You 
will not be experimenting—or taking chances— if 
you use 
Hubbard’ 
ON 
Fertilizers 
Let us tell you about them—what they have done for others—what they will do for you. 
Send or write today for Hubbard’s “Bone Base” Almanac for 1915, which con¬ 
tains much valuable information about soil, fertilizers and other farm subjects. 
Sent free to any address. Also booklets on “The Grass Cropland “The Apple.” 
THE ROGERS & HUBBARD CO., Address Dept. A, Middletown, Conn. 
OFFICE AND WORKS, PORTLAND, CONN. 
