JJhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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W asteful extravagance goes 
hand in hand with ineffi¬ 
cient farm power apparatus. Soil 
scratched with light plowing that 
reduces production, crops lost 
with poor threshing that wastes 
the yield, soon eat up the saving 
made in the purchase of a cheap 
and light farm engine. The farm 
engine should be a good one, 
capable of doing work that will 
bring returns in proportion to its 
cost. No better engines can be 
found than those that bear the 
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In steam tractors there are five 
sizes and fifteen variants, 13-40 to 
25-85 h. p., burning any kind of 
fuel, wood, coal or straw. In Oil- 
Gas Tractors two sizes are built, 
25-50 to 35-70 h. p., developing 
full power on kerosene—nothing 
that a farm engine can do is too 
much for either kind. 
Your own neighbor probably owns a steam or 
a gas engine of our mako. Let him teli yoa 
wliat it can do. and then you might write for a 
little farm paper that will give you the opinion 
of others that you know at home. A catalog 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden | 
A Late Spring. —Not much Spring 
weather .vet, and it is now the end of the i 
third week in March. The tomato plants j 
should be in the frame, but as the week | 
opened with a partial attempt 1 1 a cold 
wave, wliicli broke off in the middle, one 
feels doubtful about the cold frame for 
tender plants yet. Yet with the violet 
bed purple with bloom, the Homan hya¬ 
cinths in full bloom outside, and the 
Dutch ones showing their spikes of buds 
well above the ground, it looks like Spring 
even if the temperature is low, for the 
waj' the grass is growing we will soon 
have to get out the lawn mower. 
Dornr.E-ciLAzEn Sasii. —With the 
double-glazed sashes on the frames there is 
now little danger from frost under them. 
The main objection to these double-glazed 
sashes has been the accunuilation of dust | 
hotween the two layers of glass, which ; 
darkens them too much, and causes plants 
to get drawn up and weakly. A newer 
style does awa.v to a great extent with 
this trouble, for they are made so that a 
layer of glass can he easily removed and 
cleaned in the Fall, and no bad amount of 
obscuration will take place during the 
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Potato Plaxti.xo. —A great area has 
been planted to early Irish potatoes, not¬ 
withstanding the high cost of the seed po¬ 
tatoes, and the prospect for fair prices for 
the new crop was never better. But .some 
people do nut seem to know when they 
are well off. Bight next to me is an area 
of vacant lots which have been held for 
years for sale as the city grew toward^ us. 
n'hese lots have been covered with a dense 
hlue-gra.ss sod, Avhich has been allowed to 
grow and fall without pasturing or inow- 
ing. On one of these lots the purchaser 
concluded to plant iiotatoes this Spring, 
and surely he had the finest of chances 
for tlie crop had lie treated the land right, 
hut instead of turning under all the ac¬ 
cumulation of dead grass, he burnt it off, 
actually burned dollars and dollar.s that 
would have been his had the whole been 
turned under. Of course, he has the roots 
of the sod, hut has lost the organic decay 
that potatoes love so much, and no 
amount of feitilization is going to make 
up full.v for the absence of that moisture- 
retaining organic matter, especially in 
this light soil. With the land so badly 
in need of hmnns it is strange that there 
are men calling themselves farmers who 
will burn off what could easily be plowed 
under and become a permanent help to 
the Soil. 
Coon pROSi'KCTa for Farmer.s. —With 
sweet potatoes retailing here at 4.T cents 
a ])eek, and the wholesale price North 
higher than for nian.v years, it would 
seem that onr large growers of Irish and 
sweet potatoes should have a profitable 
season. Then, too, there is a spirit of eo- 
ojieration abroad among the farmers. The 
success of an organization of tomato 
growers la.st Bummer in an adjoining 
county lias led to similar organizations 
being made in all the comities of this 
great canning section. While the.se are 
marketing organizations, they are not at 
all antagonistic to the canners, hut coin- 
jiel those of their members who have con¬ 
tracted their crop to adhere to the con¬ 
tract, though the association undertakes 
to sell for all. There will doubtless he 
less contracting of crops in advance, and 
ns the jiroducts will be inspected, the cali¬ 
ners will he .saved from having all the 
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W. F. MASSEY. 
Ben Davis in Storage 
I was quite interested in the articles by 
John E. Walker, particularly the one 
“Six Middlemen Handle Apples,” page 
387. One of our orchards is Bon Davis, 
producing 1,000 barrels annually. In the 
Fall I place them in m.v own common 
storage coohu', holding 1,500 barrels, three 
rooms. In IMarch we begin to pack; 
apples keep in excellent condition. Wliat 
I would like to know is this: Why do 
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age men make such a howl about cold 
storage Bens being siqierior to coinnion 
storage ones, and claim to get higher 
prices? M.v Bens will keep many weeks 
longer than cold .storage Bens after they 
leave the cooler. I have had them up to 
the Fourth of .fuly. 
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