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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Samples & 
Roofing Book 
Reo Steel 
Cluster Shingles 
Lightning-Proof, Fire- 
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as long as Building Stands 
Your roofing expense will 
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HOW TO TEST 
GALVANIZING 
Take anyothergalvanizedsteel, 
bend it back and forth several 
times, hammeritdown each time. 
You will be able to flake off great 
Bcaies of galvanizing with your 
fingernail. Apply thistestto Ed¬ 
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Roofing—you’ll find no flaking. 
Interlocking Device Edwards Patent 
Prevents Warping, Buckling or "Grip-Lock’- 
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OTTAWA MFG. CO., 232 King SI.. Ottawa, Kans, 
Rough New England Land for 
Orchards 
How They Are Planted 
P reparing land.— what shall be 
done with the semi-waste land in 
Massachusetts? On the historic North 
River, in Plymouth County, where 
the first vessel in the United States 
be found 100 acres 
It consists of old 
up to brush and 
was built, may 
of rough land, 
pastures grown 
trees, some meadow, and some tim- 
| ber. This is only one of many aban¬ 
doned farms, and is typical of large areas 
in this section. The farm in question 
was purchased by a young man, a gradu¬ 
ate of the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, at Amherst, with the intention of 
growing apples and other fruit. Thirty 
-3 f i 
o 
4' 
acres were cleared, plowed, laid out for 
apple trees, holes dynamited, and the 
trees set in just four weeks’ time. Three 
thousand trees were set last Fall, and the 
job all completed just as the ground froze 
up. Four acres are planted to the quince 
and the varieties of apples include 900 
McIntosh, f>00 Delicious, 900 Stayman, 
200 Wagoner, 200 Gravenstein, 200 
Wealthy, 100 Baldwins, and 50 Black 
Ben Davis. 
Planting Methods. —The method of 
planting is hexagonal, and is very com¬ 
plex to new beginners. Perhaps the sys¬ 
tem is more properly an equilateral trian¬ 
gle one, after the pattern of the bee cell 
in honeycomb. The bees use space most 
economically. The orchard was first 
1 started in a rectangular manner; stakes 
set 35 feet apart in one direction, and 
20 feet in the other. Then a stake was 
set, the centre of each of those rectangles 
I making, as will be seen in diagram, equi¬ 
lateral triangles, the sides of which are 
all 20 feet. All trees are thus 20 feet 
distant from all other trees. Permanent 
trees may be placed either 35 or 40 feet 
apart at the owner’s discretion, and yet 
preserve the same figure ; at 40 feet three 
fillers to one permanent and at 35 feet 
two fillers to one permanent. With per¬ 
manent trees 40 feet apart as many as 
four different varieties may bo used in 
the same field, any one of which may be 
chosen as a permanent after trees are in 
full bearing and the fillers ready to be 
taken out. This is of groat value to the 
grower, who is using varieties not tried 
in his section, but which he wishes to de¬ 
velop. If such kinds prove satisfactory 
they may be kv.pt as permanents; if not, 
some other of known value may be taken. 
What will probably appeal to the or- 
chardist more than anything else in this 
system of planting is that more trees can 
be set to the acre allowing the same dis¬ 
tance between trees than with any other 
system known. At 20 feet apart 123 
trees may be planted to the acre. When 
the fillers are taken out 31 trees per acre 
may be left 40 feet apart or 41 trees 35 
feet apart. The permanents are set in 
this orchard 35 feet apart. 
Dynamiting The Holes. —Does it pay 
to dynamite the holes for young apple 
trees? If anyone will take the trouble j 
to witness this method of planting they j 
surely will be impressed with its value. J 
The land is first lined out and the holes 
made with a bar two feet or three feet, 
then the experts come along, two of 
them as a rule. They have a small box 
which contains fuse, dynamite, a wooden 
hamper, and an ax. One man cuts the 
sticks of dynamite as large or small as 
he deems right for the place, the other 
places the cap on the fuse, pushes the 
primer into the dynamite, lowers it into 
the hole by the fuse, cuts the proper 
length and lights it. The other man in 
the meantime tamps the hole and then 
both go to the next one. This operation 
was repeatedly completed in 35 seconds. 
On arrival at the next hole the same 
process was completed, and in the mean¬ 
time the last charge was exploded. Both 
men looked up at the earth, stones, etc., 
and if any came their way they dodged 
them, but as a rule they never moved 
away, being very indifferent about such 
a little thing as a charge of dynamite. 
Massachusetts. c. w. p. 
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AMERICAN INGOT IRON 
ROOFING 
Defies time and weather; resists rust and 
lightning and is fire-proof. A new roof free 
if our roofing fails to give the satisfaction 
we guarantee. Our bond protects you. Saves 
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Make us prove it. Writetoday for Catalog and 
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We also make Corn Cribs, Slock Tanks, Wire 
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THE AMERICAN IRON ROOFING CO. 
Station 10 MIDDLETOWN, OHIO 
Pure Iro 
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W ITH sixteen years of ex¬ 
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NEponseT k 
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shows itself the most economical 
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BIRD & SON (Est. 1795) 
10 Neponset Street, East Walpole, Mass. 
Now York Chicago Washington San Francisco 
Fireproof, weatherproof, clean, rea¬ 
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General Offices: Frick Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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—WEATHERPROOF-DURABLE— 
ROLLS OF 108 SQUARE FEET 
INCLUDING NAILS & CEMENT 
NO SECONDS 
1 PLY 85 ROLL FREIGHT ALLOWED 
2 U5 3 ROLLS OR OVER 
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5 CORTLANDT ST., NEW YORK 
Although we buy the best pro! 
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Let us send you a sample of one at 
59c for instance. If you mail the 
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Send (without obligation to me) your 
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