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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 
Your Milk Permit 
depends 60% on your dairy methods, 40% on 
your equipment, in New York State. 
LISK 
Sanitary Hooded 
DAIRY PAIL 
Counts 5 points or 12}4% 
of your equipment; score. 
Bulletin 320. Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Geneva, X. Y., says:—“Moreihan half the infec¬ 
tion milk receives during milking can be pre¬ 
vented by 1 lie use of a covered ('hooded) pail. 
Such a pail is inexpensive, durable, easily 
cleaned.” 
Hand made from IXX and IXXXX Finest 
Charcoal Plate. One piece retinned top or 
hood. Steel bail. Reinforced Ears. All 
seams sanitary soldered, inside and out. No 
loose parts. No seams to collect germs. 
Opening 8b x 514 inches. 
Easy to milk into as an open pail. Thoroughly 
practical. Size, shape and weight based on ex¬ 
periment station recommendations. The stand¬ 
ard pail. Used by leadiug dairies. 
LISK Dairy Pail Supports add to convenience 
and sanitation in milking. Can he used on any 
pail as shown in use on our Hooded Pattern. 
Ask you’- dealer to show yon our .full tin *, '/ dairy 
uten -it*. Write vs hie name if he is ? . , yet hand¬ 
ling teem. We u ill see you are supplie l. 
The LISK IV^'G. CO., Ltd. 
Canandaigua New York 
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Prepared with the 
ACHG Pulverizing Harrow 
A FTER plowing sod or stubble, it must be worked down thoroughly and 
xx pulverized. Sods, clods and’lumps must be broken up; air spaces _ „ 
and voids worked out and filled to insure a good seed bed that will 
give BETTER CROPS. Make available the plant food i- 
plowed in manure by thoroughly mixing with pulverized soil 
BETTER CROPS will result. The‘‘ACME” PULVERIZING 
HARROW makes possible the perfect seed bed. c - a 
to 1714 ft. wide, for one to four horses. 
Light Draft-All Steel—Low Price 
Write for catalog and name of nearest dealer. 
DUANE H. NASH, Inc., 379 Division Ave., Millington, N. J. 
You Pa/ for this Spreader 
Anyhow-Why Not Have It? 
T HE saving effected by a Nisco spreader can be figured 
in actual dollars and cents. If you do not have the 
spreader you are losing the money just as surely as 
though it dropped out of your pocket. 
If you go without a Nisco spreader you lose enough money to pay for it- 
If you use it you not only save this money but have the added convenience. 
Here’s the way the Nisco saves you: 
It saves valuable manure because the variable spread enables you to 
lessen or stop the spread where little or no manure is needed. It saves 
repairs because it’s strongly made and has few parts, Saves time and labor 
because It can be loaded high and the wide spread means fewer trips to 
the acre. 
THE 
FORTY 
FEATURE 
SPREADER 
N ISCO 
The New Idea V 
THREE 
WHACKS 
AT THE 
MANURE 
Backed by 15 years’ experience. A practical machine for farmers who 
want results. Loads high, hauls easily, spreads wide. ‘\ n _ 
revolving distributor take three whacks at the manure. n ,,. vn !’. 
veyor prevents clogging. Seventeen-inch clearance insures against comej 
striking ground. 
A Successful Gearless Spreader 
Demonstrated by years of actual service. No gears to strip, break or 
freeze. The Nisco is a simply made machine-lias only about nan as 
many parts as others. Two levers afford easy control from driver s seat. 
We guarantee the Nisco for one year against 
breakage from any cause, even carelessness. We guar¬ 
antee It to be of best material and workmanship and 
to do everything we claim for it. 
ASK YOUR DEALER 
If he does not handle the Nisco write us for catalog. 
Take no substitute. 
New Idea Spreader Co. 
193 Fir*t St. Spreader Specialists COLDWATER, OHIO 
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Live Stock and Orchard 
Stable Manure in Orchards. 
URIXG the past three or four years, 
and more especially the last two 
years, there has been" a great revival of 
Interest in the use of manure for fertil¬ 
izing Citrus groves in this section of 
California. The supply of manure here 
is limited and. consequently, the price 
is high, but some growers feel that it 
is economical and more beneficial than 
any other method of improving the pro¬ 
ductive capacity of their orchards. In 
this connection we have little experimental 
evidence available for study as to the 
comparative value of manure and other 
fertilizers or treatments in maintaining 
healthy trees and a production of valu¬ 
able commercial fruits. 
In conversation recently with several 
deciduous growers from the Middle West 
cessful growers tell us that there is noth¬ 
ing equal to good stable manure for ap¬ 
ple orchards. All through Western New 
York growers buy large quantities of 
stockyard manure. Many of them are 
working into some form of stock keeping 
in order to provide the manure which 
they consider necessary. On the other 
hand, we are told that if a fruit grower 
will plow under green crops and use 
lime to start its rapid decay lie will not 
need manure. That is our own opinion, 
as we are unable to see what great value 
would be added to vetch, clover, rye or 
other crops h.v Iceding t!: ::: to animals 
and bringing the manure back to the soil. 
We believe that the manure is chiefly 
useful because it brings large quantities 
of decaying organic matter to the soil 
and this can be done through plowing 
GROUP OF DAIRY IIEIFERS. 
and East, I have been surprised to find 
that these men consider barnyard ma¬ 
nure as the most important fertilizer in 
the orchards, and has given them the 
best results of any method of treatment 
which they have tried, especially when 
used in conjunction with vetch or some 
other leguminous cover crop. Since be¬ 
coming interested in this matter from 
observations in Citnis groves in which 
we are keeping performance records and 
from conversation with deciduous grow¬ 
ers, I have been wondering whether it 
would be possible to collect in different 
fruit-growing regions the experience of 
oreliardists in the use of manure, both 
as to its results on the behavior of the 
trees, i.e., the actual value of the crops 
of fruit, and as to its economy as a 
means of soil improvement in orchards of 
different kinds of fruits, sueli as the 
Citrus fruits, and such deciduous fruits 
as apples, peaches, cherries, etc. In 
this connection the age of the orchard, 
the amount of manure used, the num¬ 
ber of years during which manure* has 
been used, the method of application, in¬ 
cluding time and condition in which the 
manure was added to the soil, the va¬ 
riety of fruit, cost of manure, source of 
manure, and results in yield and value 
of the crops, would be important facts 
for consideration. 
T have had little or no experience in 
this matter, have had limited observa¬ 
tion and have seen little definite evi¬ 
dence of the comparative value of ma¬ 
nure and other fertilizers under orchard 
conditions. I had gained the impression 
from some source that manure was not 
usually considered by some fruit growers 
of my acquaintance to be a desirable 
source of plant food, or means of im¬ 
proving orchard soil conditions for the 
yield of desirable crops of fruits. From 
conversation with many growers, it seems 
that they are more or less in my class 
in this respect and I believe that the se¬ 
curing of experience from successful or- 
eliardists in different districts and on dif¬ 
ferent fruit varieties along this line might 
prove to be of interest and value to hor¬ 
ticulturists as a whole. A. n. siiamel. 
California. 
R. N.-Y.—This is an excellent sug¬ 
gestion. and we start at once to collect 
the information. We hope to make a pri¬ 
vate investigation, but we would like to 
have all fruit growers consider this a 
personal invitation to contribute exper¬ 
ience. It is true that opinion differs 
radically. We have had high authorities 
tell us that they would shoot a man if 
they caught him bringing manure into a 
peaeh orchard. On the other hand, suc- 
green crops under. It is a good question, 
and we would like to have facts. 
Grapevines and Cows. 
HAVE a long lane, about 10 feet wide, 
wire fence on both sides, on the south¬ 
easterly slope of a hill, through which 
we drive six head of cattle to pasture 
daily. I intend to plant cherry trees on 
the one side of this lane and grapevines 
on the other side along the fences. I do 
not fear for the cherry trees, but would 
the cattle annoy the grapevines and event¬ 
ually the fruit, so that my work and ex¬ 
pense would be of no use? If grapevines 
are not suitable, is there anything else I 
could plant on the side of the fence that 
would not be bothered by the cattle and 
yield some return? It is good soil, and 
as it is I have a job keeping brush from 
growing there. M. A. 
Allendale, N. J. 
Cattle will feed more or less on the 
leaves and tender shoots of nearly all 
kinds of tree, vine and bush fruits, but 
when plenty of green grass is before 
them they as a rule are easily and quick¬ 
ly satisfied. It seems to be natural for 
them when walking along to nip off a 
few leaves here and a tender shoot there, 
but when under the care of a herdsman 
and kept moving, opportunity to do real 
damage is reduced to a minimum. There 
is nothing else in the way of vine fruits 
that you could train on the fence that 
would be less attractive to the cattle or 
suffer less from the breaking or biting off 
of an occasional branch or two as they 
pass along. Of course if the cows should 
1><> allowed to remain within reach of the 
vines for a considerable length of time, to 
eat what and where they pleased, then 
they would probably do considerable dam¬ 
age to the grapes, particularly if grass 
was scarce. I think I should risk this 
proposition. Grapes grow rapidly and in 
favorable soil bear abundantly, and if 
planted on the field side* of the fence, and 
the main vine trained on that side, the 
cows can only reach the growth on the 
lane side, and even if they should dam¬ 
age or destroy a portion of the crop on 
;he lane side, there would still be enough 
of the crop remain on the field side of the 
fence to repay one well for the expense of 
caring for them. But such loss and dam¬ 
age need not and will not occur if the 
cows are not allowed to roam and feed at 
will, within reach of the vines. K. 
“There will have to he new rules made 
here, or I shall give notice.” said the girl 
in the telephone office to the chief clerk. 
“Why, what’s the trouble?” “Well, 
some of the things said over the wires 
are not fit for me to hear.” “Oh, that’s 
all right,” was the flippant rejoinder 
“You can’t expect to work around elec¬ 
tricity and not get shocked.”—Melbourne 
Leader. 
