8 
IShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 6, 1917. 
a reliable iriiicle of fruits and ornamentals. 
It tells what to plant in your locality, arid 
how to trim and spray. Describes a wide 
variety of apples, pt^rches, pears, cherries 
and small fruits. Also full of helpful sug¬ 
gestions for beautifying your grounds. 
Just write a postal for a free copy. 
Woodlawn Nurseries, Allen L. Wood, Prop. 
897 Garson Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 
PLANT NI^T TREES 
REED’S 
GRAFTED, HARDY 
NORTHERN PECANS 
and ENGLISH WALNUTS 
Grafted on Black Walnut are Reliable 
Beautiful Shade Trees. Prolific Bearers 
24 Page Illustrated Special Xut Catalogue 
on request. Latest ] nformation. Pioneers 
in Xut Growing. Endorsed by Leading 
Experiment Stations and Department of 
Agriculture- (Established 1891) 
VINCENNES NURSERIES, Drawer 299, Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A 
WETD/^DmUCHiira SS Hardy 
V tlWVlt%E.tn9Te8ted Varieties 
All bardjp Tigorons and well rooteda We eblp ererywlieret 
Write fur free Evergreen book and 60 Great Eargaln eheet. 
D. HILL NURSERY CO.. Box 2121. Dundae, IIL 
SWEET 
CLOVER 
Builds Worn Out Soil. Has 
hiRher protein content than alfalfa. 
Write for prices and information. 
£. Barton, Box 29, Falmontb, Ky. 
This Year Plant the New 
Rochester Peach 
Begins to bear fruit after one yeai—heavily the 
second year. Tree so strong and hardy to produce 
heavy crop after a 16 -below zero freeze. 
Bears 10 Days Earlier Than Crawford 
or other yellow frcc-stonc varieties and fruit is 
large and handsome. That's why in Rochester 
market last summer, the Rochester Peach 
Sold for $1.00 a Basket with next 
best variety at 60 cents and others 
as Low as 15 cents 
Exceptionally prolific”in quantity of fruit that’s 
juicy, sweet, and fine for caoning. 
Write us today about Rochester Peach. Don’t 
plant a peach until you get complete story in our 
catalog which lists everything for orchard and 
garden. Send in your name and address today. 
L. W. HALL COMPANY, Inc. 
503 Cutler Bldg. • Rochester, N. Y. 
Buy Trees Direct 
Save agents’ profits by sending for our 
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WM. P. RUPERT & SON 
Box 20 Seneca, N. Y. 
Millions of Fruit Trees 
otMf'viliriaf Everyone genuine Harrison-grown, 
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Backed by more than , 
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Bnrsery •xpcricnce, Apples, peaches, 
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Harriwat’ Nuneriei, Box 14 Berlin, Md. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
lx Ajl'S'i’lC.—Doth houses of the Dan- 
ish I’ai iiuiiieiit have approved the sale of 
the Dauisli West Indies to the United 
State.s. The Landsthing, or Upper 
House, voted favorably upon the proposi¬ 
tion Deo. 21. 40 to 19. 
Navajo and Mogo Indians under their 
tribal chiefs, horse wranglers, cowboys, 
ranchers and jilainsmen in a force '200 
strong, campaigned for 10 days in Coco¬ 
nino County, Arizona, on the trail of wild 
horses, which the Government, in a suit 
for use of the mails to defraud, at Omaha, 
Neb., alleges were sold for a million dol- 
lar.s by the T'nited States lave.stook Com¬ 
pany and the Omaha Land and Invest¬ 
ment Company to a number of persons, 
hut which in reality did not exist. Clyde 
A. Smith, brother of .1. Sidney Smith, 
indicted head of the IT. S. Livestock Co., 
told at the trial of the alleged round-up. 
When the big herd had been gathered, 
Smith asserted, a terrific sto«n came up 
and .swept the horses away across the 
plains and they were lost. Only 2.3 mus¬ 
tangs were captured at a cost of $32 a 
head. 
Dee. 26 a tornado struck south central 
Arkansas, causing considerable- loss of 
life. The towns of England, Kew and 
Tucker .suffered severely. 
Destruction of the Thiesing & Chawkey 
gas scrubbing plants at the Bethlehem 
Hteel Company. Bethlehem, Pa., De(k 26, 
through a gas explosion cau.sed an actual 
damage of more than $100.()00, while loss 
to the company by the inability to operate 
the Lehigh plant and the consequent lay¬ 
ing off of thousands of men and tieup of 
contracts will also run up into the thou¬ 
sands of dollars. A bi'eak in a main 
water pipe cau.sed the explosion. 
Far Western States were in the grip 
Dee. 26 of the coldest weather of the 
Winter and .sn w fell in Los Angeles for 
the sixth time in forty years. In Helena, 
Mont., thermometers registered 29 below 
zero. There was more than a foot of 
snow in Eastern Washington and Mon- 
ta'na, and transcontinental trains were 
running behind schedule. Southeastern 
Nevada was experiencing zero weather. 
In the mountains of Fresno County, i 
California, the snowfall Dec. 25, was four 
feet. A blizzard with a snowfall of 17 
inches in 24 hours broke the record of the 
fall during the great blizzard 20 years 
ago at Bismarck ,N. D. Sioux Falls. S. 
I)., reported the worst storm in years in 
western and central part of the State. 
NORTHERN GROWN AT ROCHESTER 
We want to reach farmers who want healthy, hardy 
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Green’s Trees are sold direct to you at 
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Green’s Fruit Trees are hardy, sure-bearing and true 
to name. We have a good supply on hand, including 
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how you can save money by buying direct. 
GREEN’S KURSERT CO., 22 Wall St., Rochester, N. Y. 
Read the American Fruit Grower, a monthly magazine, in¬ 
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More Money From Fruit 
GRO>NTH 
Announcement to Customers: 
We begin the new year with this public expression of 
t’-.anks to our thousands of customers for iheir liberal 
patronage in the pasl. Our new 191 7 catalog will be 
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Kindly tell your friends and neighbors about our high 
quality trees and superior, prompt, painstaking service. 
Urge them, for their own interest, to write at once for 
our large, illustrated, FREE catalog. 
KING BROTHERS NURSERIES 
Box 7 Dansville, N. Y. 
TRADE MARK 
cheapest to buy the best.” 
Martin King;, Jr., 
traveled 8,000 tniles 
the past Summer 
studying orchard 
problems. IVe have 
special information 
udi ich wewillsupply 
free to those who arc 
planning to set an 
orchard this Spring. 
IVrite us, giving the 
mimber of acres, lo¬ 
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to local market of 
the field you have 
chosen. 
Sure of Your Seed Corn ? 
Is 5 ’onr coi n jiroperly In-ed to produce big yields, and properly 
cured so as to retain all its vitality and vigor ? 
If not, better get Ilturis" seed corn wliieli is carefully bred 
and cured in the most effective mauner. 
Yon want the best seeds for the garden also. 
(let them direct from the growers at wholesale prices. If 
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Coldwater, N. Y. 
According to our tests 
98 percent 
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Are You 
FARM AND CtlVRDEN.—Four of the 
largesst tanneries near I’nnxsutawney, 
I’a., have passed into the hands of i 
Armour & Go., the Chicago pticking house 
concern. They are the Big Run Tan¬ 
nery. the Glcasontown Tannery, the 
Driftwood Tannery and the Medix Run 
Tannery. "While no information could be 
obtained concerning the amount involved 
in the transaction, it will probably exceed 
$4,000,000. 
Congressman Frank Ptirk of Georgia 
has introduced a hill providing for the ap- 
pi’opriation of $25,000 for the establish- I 
ment of an experimental station at Col¬ 
quitt. Ga., to study the character of 
plants, shrubs, fruit and ornamental trees 
and vegetables. 
The Connecticut Horticultural Society 
at its annual meeting elected the following 
officers: G. H. Hollister, president; 
Frank Ronlier, vice-president; Oscar F. 
Gritzraachcr, trctisurer; M’. "W. Hunt, 
Hartfoi'd, secretary. 
The New York State Forestry Associa¬ 
tion, at a meeting of the executive com¬ 
mittee at Syracuse, decided to ask the 
Legislature to pass a Itiw for State-wide 
tree planting. It also urged that all tree 
doctors be licensed. 
The forty-second annual meeting of 
the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men will be held at Philadelphia, Pa., 
.Tune 27-29, 1917. 
OBITUARY.—Dr. .lahez Fisher, aged 
9.3 years, died on Dec. 15, in Fitchburg, 
Mass. He served in the State Senate in 
1S56-1S57. and was the oldest living for¬ 
mer Sttite Senator. He wtis an expert 
horticulturist and fruit grower. 
"William Crawford Barry, president of 
Ellwanger & Barry, Inc., the well-known 
nursery firm, died at Rochester, N. Y., 
Dec. 12, aged 69 years. Mr. Barry was 
born in Rochester September 17, 1847, 
son of Mr. and Mr.s. I’atrick Barry. He 
was the oldest of eight children. His 
ftither, who was born in Ireland, came to 
this country in 1836. After teaching 
school for several years, I’atrick Barry 
entered the nursery business at Flushing, 
j L. I. He went to Rochester in 1840, and 
I at the time of his death wtis known as a 
nurseryman all over the United States. 
Mrs. I’atrick Barry wtis horn in Rich¬ 
field, N. Y. "William C. Btirry received 
his education from a tutor and in the 
parochial schools. Later he attended 
Seton Hall College. South Orange, N. J, 
After he was graduated his ftither took 
him, with a brother, to London. The 
young men went to Berlin and to Heidel¬ 
berg, and afterwards to the University of 
I.ouvain. in Belgium. Then they went to 
Paris, and when they returned to the 
United States in 1869 they had acquired 
fluent use of French and German. Mr. 
Barry married Miss Louise Gaffney, who 
died five years ago. Mr. Barry took a 
loader’s part in the birth and growth of 
Roche.ster’s park system. For 26 years 
he was president of the Western New 
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