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The Rayo Lights 
Like a Gas Jet 
T O light the Rayo 
lamp you don’t 
have to remove the 
shade or the chim¬ 
ney. Just lift the gal¬ 
lery and touch a 
match. It is just as 
easy to light as a gas 
burner and it requires 
little effort to keep it 
clean. 
Lamps 
are the modern 
lamps for the farm. 
Simple of design — 
yet an ornament to 
any room in the 
house. 
The Rayo is only one of 
the many SOCONY 
(Standard Oil Company of 
New York) products that 
are known in thehousehold 
and on the farm for their 
quality and economy. 
Ask for them by name and 
you are sure of satisfaction. 
Standard Household 
Lubricant 
Matchless Liquid 
Gloss 
Standard Hand Sepa¬ 
rator Oil 
Mica Axle Grease 
Eureka Harness Oil 
Parowax 
If your dealer does not 
have them, write to our 
nearest station. 
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK 
(Principal Stations) 
NEW YORK 
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( ,NC -) Room sr. 
4th & Chestnut Streets 
Philadelphia, Pa, 
RURALISMS 
From an Alaskan Island 
I felt that some of your readers might 
be interested iu hearing about the agri¬ 
cultural possibilities of this faraway 
island and its neighbor, Kodiak Island. 
At present, Afognak Island is reserved by 
the Government for forestry and fish cul¬ 
tural purposes. The land cannot he 
homesteaded. Only natives and white 
men married to native women are sup¬ 
posed to be here—that is, with the ex¬ 
ception of school teachers and men in 
Government employ. Kodiak Island, 100 
miles long, lying 28 miles south, is open 
for settlers, and it is only a question of 
time before the laud will be covered with 
ranches. 
The climate is mild, owing to the in¬ 
fluence of the Japan current, which cor¬ 
responds to the Gulf Stream on the At¬ 
lantic coast. This last Winter the mer¬ 
cury rarely dropped below zero. There 
is seldom any extreme heat in the Sum¬ 
mer season, and the nights are gener- 
Salmon-berries from Alaska. Fig. 553. 
ally cool; in fact too cool for certain 
kinds of vegetables to thrive. Potatoes, 
roots of all kinds, cabbage, cauliflower 
and onions can be grown successfully. 
There is apt to be a superabundance of 
rain in the Summer, though this season 
has been unusually dry. 
In June of 1012 Mt. Katmai, 100 
miles west on the Aleutian peninsular, 
erupted, and ashes fell on these islands 
to the depth of nearly a foot. I believe 
it is a fact that volcanic ash, wherever it 
falls, eventually enriches the land. Cer¬ 
tainly it had a wonderfully stimulating 
effect on the grass crop of these two 
islands. Where the grass made but a 
stunted growth before, it now attains a 
height of five or six feet. The Agricul¬ 
tural Department of the Government 
maintains an experiment station on Ko¬ 
diak Island. They have grown excellent 
crops of grain there, and before the ashes 
fell, maintained a fair-sized herd of cat¬ 
tle. There are thousands of acres of fine 
grass land lying untouched. I have often 
thought as I tramped around this island 
what a pity it was that so much splen¬ 
did grass could not be utilized. Acre on 
acre standing higher than my head ripen¬ 
ing every season, and hardly a single 
head of cattle to have the benefit of it. 
Much of the soil below the ashes is fairly 
heavy, with a substratum of clay or 
hardpan. If the ashes could he plowed 
under and incorporated with the soil, and 
cattle brought in to keep up the fertility, 
I do not believe that finer grass and 
grain crops could be raised anywhere. 
For a fertilizer for their vegetable gar¬ 
dens the natives here use kelp, which is 
washed up on the beach by the tides. 
They have an antipathy to the use of cow 
manure, and they never stable the few 
head the village boasts, not even in Win¬ 
ter. The poor animals pick up a pre¬ 
carious living on the beaches munching 
seaweed, and in the Spring they are as 
poor as Job’s turkey. Of course, in the 
Summer they can wander back on the 
hills and get fine feeding. Very few of 
the cows are milked (milk is 50 cents a 
gallon), the calves running with their 
mothers and getting along as best they 
can. As a rule the natives prefer to buy 
canned milk and beef rather than milk 
the cows and raise chickens, hogs and 
cattle. 
There is no question that this is an 
ideal place for both sheep and cattle. 
There are already some sheep-ranches 
started on Kodiak Island. Wild ducks of 
many kinds abound and the streams are 
full of trout. Blueback or Alaska red 
and humpback or pink salmon ascend the 
rivers in large numbers in the Summer 
and Autumn to spawn. The former is 
the variety that is canned so extensively. 
One can salt and smoke all the salmon 
and trout he needs for the Winter. 
Salmon-berries and blueberries abound. 
The former resembles the raspberry to 
some extent, though it is more round in 
shape and when fully ripe is quite black. 
It lacks the delicate flavor of the rasp¬ 
berry, but is very sweet and full of juice. 
The jelly made from it is delicious. The 
berry grows to an enormous size, often 
an inch and a half to two inches across 
at the base. There are many blueberries 
also, and they make excellent jam and 
jelly, though the berry itself is rather 
sour and seedy. I enclose a picture of 
some of the salmon-berries my wife and 
I picked one day. frank s. iiokton. 
Plant Lice on Celery. 
Can you tell me how to prevent my 
celery becoming covered with plant lice 
when I take it into the cellar for the 
Winter? For two successive Winters, 
the lice have all but ruined it. Are they 
in the cellar or on the plants when they 
are brought in? f. n. T. 
This is something entirely unheard of 
so far as many records show. However, 
the conditions under which your celery 
is stored must be ideal for the develop¬ 
ment of the plant lice, else they would 
not be there. If the cellar were kept cold 
enough, that is near freezing, the plant 
lice could not develop and the celery 
would keep in fine condition. However, 
if the temperature runs up to about 00 
degrees and the lice become abundant, 
they can be killed off by fumigating that 
part of the cellar with potassium cyanide 
gas just as greenhouse men fumigate 
to kill the plant lice, white flies, and 
other pests. R. D. B. 
Protecting Roses. 
Will you tell me how to protect my 
rose bushes? I know we used to protect 
them, but after many years spent in the 
South where they needed no protection 
I need some help from you. J. D. s. 
Johnson City, N. Y. 
We are not told what varieties of 
roses are to be protected, but it is likely 
that even the hardier ones will be the 
better for Winter shelter in Broome 
County. A very satisfactory method is 
to hill up the earth around each plant, to 
a height of eight or 10 inches, and then, 
as soon as the ground is frozen, fill the 
bed level with strawy manure or forest 
leaves, scattering a little earth or loose 
branches on top if it seems likely to 
blow off. The litter should be removed 
quite early in the Spring. It is not put 
on until the ground is frozen to avoid 
giving refuge to mice. We do not ad¬ 
vocate wrapping the tops of bush roses in 
straw or paper, as is often done, because 
they are not likely to be killed back more 
than would be removed when pruning in 
Spring. 
Lilies from Seed. 
All native lilies germinate slowly. 
Seed should be sown in the Fall in beds 
outside and covered with an inch of ex¬ 
celsior or leaves. If sown now they will 
not germinate till the Spring of 1917, 
when they should be watched and re¬ 
move covering. The covering keeps the 
ground cool, moist and loose, also serves 
to keep weeds down. Thev germinate 
early in Spring and every seed will grow 
under this treatment. European lilies 
mostly germinate hi one season, like 
Ilenr.vi and Tenuifo 1 'im. I have always 
stratified Henryi in sand and buried in 
the ground over Winter but can’t say 
that it is necessary. E. s. miller. 
Long Island. 
The Chick Pea. 
The Arizona Experiment Station, in 
Bulletin 112, suggests a new crop for 
Arizona farmers. This is the chick pea, 
better known as “garbanzo” in the Span¬ 
ish speaking countries. This is a true 
pea or legume, and a Winter-growing 
crop in the Southwest. It is much used 
by the Mediterranean people and by 
Spanish Americans as a food stuff, es¬ 
pecially in soups. Large quantities were 
formerly grown in Mexico for export. 
Mexican conditions have been so upset of 
late that the garbanzo crop has been cut 
in two, and there should be an oppor¬ 
tunity for Arizona farmers, as well as 
those m New Mexico, to grow it to ad¬ 
vantage. The circular gives information 
about planting and caring for the crop, 
which would not interest our Northern 
readers, although large quantities of these 
peas are sold in New York City to the 
Cuban and Spanish residents. The or¬ 
dinary price for garbanzo is $0.50 for 
220 pounds, hut the price in the Los 
Angeles market today is about $7.50 per 
hundred pounds. The Arizona crop would 
usually bring four to five cents a pound, 
with an average yield of 1,000 pounds 
per acre. Aside from its food value the 
garbanzo crop makes an excellent green 
manure and good hay. 
31 years ago 
T HIS photo, taken in 1884, 
shows Mr. John Bean with 
one of his first hand spray 
pumps. Mr. Bean, a well pump 
inventor, moved to San Jose, 
Calif., in 1883, just as the San 
Jose scale was first discovered 
in America. 
The small squirt gun pumps 
then in use proved of no avail, 
and in 1884 Mr. Bean invented 
the first spray pump with an air 
chamber. Present day Bean 
Sprayers, manufactured by the 
son and grandson of John Bean, 
are lineal descendants of this 
first Bean Pump. 
The Spray Pump was John 
Bean’s life work, and up to the 
time of his death three years 
ago, he was inventing improve¬ 
ment after improvement—Pres¬ 
sure Regulator, Porcelain Lined 
Cylinders, Threadless Ball 
Valves, and many others—until 
there has been evolved the pow¬ 
erful, efficient and dependable 
Bean Sprayer of to-day. 
Power sprayers have been in 
use in the West six years lon¬ 
ger than in the East, and West¬ 
ern apples were freed from 
worms and scale by Bean 
Sprayers several years before 
the East knew this was possible. 
Repeated inquiries for Bean 
Sprayers from all over the East 
finally induced us to arrange 
with some business friends in 
Ohio to manufacture them. The 
demand grew rapidly and early 
last year we erected a brand- 
new all-brick factory in Lan¬ 
sing, Mich., and established 
sales agencies all over the East¬ 
ern and Southern states. These, 
added to our already long estab¬ 
lished Western sales facilities, 
enable us to give you all the 
benefits of Bean Sprayers and 
Bean Service, wherever you are 
located. 
Our new, fully illustrated catalog No. 30 
tells all about the Bean Power Sprayer and 
its ten big exclusive features. Also our full 
line of hand sprayers and spray accessories. 
You ought to have this catalog at once so 
as to be fully prepared for the spraying 
season. Send the coupon or a postal for 
your catalog today. 
BEAN SPRAY PUMP CO. 
30 Hosmer St., Lansing, Mich. 
228 W. Julian St„ San. Jose, Cal. 
Gentlemen: 
Please send me your new complete 
catalog No. 30 
I have-acres f Hand Pumps, 
of -. and am . Power Sprayers, 
interested in: (Accessories. 
Name. 
Address. 
