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CORSETj 
Doctors prescribe it, because it supports the 
bodily orprans in their natural position, improving; 
the health and drivintj away the lassitude and 
iiragrging pains so common to farm women. 
Dressmakers like it, because it restores the 
stout or distorted figure to the natural lines of 
beauty, making it possible to attain a style and 
attractiveness otherwise impossible. 
Thousands of farm women 
—and city women too—are 
wearing the M.&K. Uplift 
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they heard of it. 
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once for full descriptive cir¬ 
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Katherine Kellogg 
IVI. & K. CORSET CO, 
208 Main St., Jackson, Mich. 
Don’t Think Only of Scale 
when you think of 
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it is all there is to 
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Does all that any other spray will do 
—but no other spray will do a/Z that 
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Profits in Fall Spraying** 
B. G. Pratt Co., M’t’g Chemists 
SO Church Sl Dept. N New York 
PLANT nut trees 
REED’S 
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NORTHERN PECANS 
and ENGLISH WALNUTS 
Grafted on Black Walnut are Reliable 
Beautiful Shade Trees. Prolific Bearers 
24 Page Illustrated Special Nut Catalogue 
on request. I.atest Information. Pioneers 
in Nut Growing. Endorsed by Leading 
Experiment Stations and Department of 
Agriculture. (Established 1891) 
VINCENNES NURSERIES, Drawer 299, Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A* 
Pomeroy English Walnut Farm 
Many readers of The Rural New-Yorker have 
visited this noted farm in tlie past few weeks. One 
man said: “ Mr. Pomeroy, iny whole life has been 
spent in Horticulture. I have seen thousands of 
English walnut trees in Europe and California, but 
you have here some of the finest specimens of this 
beautiful and profitable tree it has ever been my 
pleasure to see.’’ The above seemed to be the ver¬ 
dict of all. If it is impossible to visit this farm this 
fall send address and photographs will be mailed to 
you. ALBERT C. POMEROY, Lockport, N.Y. 
MALONEY TREES 
Por Fall Plantinsr. Fruit and Ornamental, 
Vines, Shrubs, Maloney A>1 Quality* direct 
from the nursery at wholesale. 
3 Bearing AgcTrccs $1.00 
8f to 10 feet.! Trees mat will bear in 1918. 
1 McIntosh Ited Apple: 1 Bartlett Fear Cl 00 
1 Montmorency Sour Cherry, all for . v 
Write for free wholesale catalog today. 
MALONEY BROS. & WELLS CO. 
77 Main Street. DansvHle, N.V. 
Dansville^s Pioneer Wholesale JSurserics 
Harvesting Beans 
We are experimenting on bean grow¬ 
ing and do not know at present 
as much about it as we hope to later on, 
hut we have a di.spnte about the harvest¬ 
ing of the crop. One claims the fii’st 
ripening should be hand-pulled, and if not 
would burst open and lose the beans. 
Another says the w^hole crop can be 
harvested at maturit.v and thrashed with¬ 
out any material loss. Will you settle this 
for us, and advise usual methods of doing 
this? w. XV. c. 
Linglestown, Pa, 
When a field of beans presents a yel¬ 
low appearance as regards the leaves, 
turning to a deeper brown, and the hulk 
of the pods are ripened dry, it is time 
to harvest the crop, although many pods 
are still white and the beans in the pods 
soft. A small percentage of pods will 
still he green, although the beans in them 
are full grown. If the crop is pulled by 
bund and set up in bunches, most of the 
beans will be hard in a few days, and 
they will be ready to haul to the barn, 
where they .should be stored without 
tramping. The few soft beaus will then 
cure out and harden, and all wall be 
sound and bard when thrashed. As the 
beans seldom all ripen at the same time, 
there will be a loss from shelling, and 
damage by the ends of the ripe pods com¬ 
ing in contact with the ground, as the 
stalk dries out and settles doxvn, so it is 
unwise to wait until all are dry and hard 
before harvesting. We use a machine 
cutting or pulling two rows at a time. 
This is usually done a day before they 
are packed into small hunches. After 
these bunches have laid a day or two 
according to the weather, they are cocked 
up like hay; a good dry bunch is first 
tumed bottom up in a clean dry spot to 
start with, and other hunches are placed 
on and over this until the bunch or cock 
is of the desired height. If this work be 
properly done they wdll withstand a lot 
of bad w^eather wdthout material damage 
and be ready to house much quicker than 
if they be left in the small bunches. 
Beans must be dry and hard before 
thrashing, as it is almost impossible to 
get them dry afterwards if they he in any 
quantity. n. E. c. 
Fall Treatment of Asparagus 
Will you t('ll us the right way to care 
for our asparagus plants this Fall? 
They have groxvn from three to 10 
sprouts to each plant, and are a pretty 
sight. "iVould it he right to cut a few 
from them the coming Spring, or lot 
them groxv and cut a year later? We 
have a few fine plants grown from seed 
too thick as they stand. When is the host 
time to transplant, this Fall or in the 
Spring? II. K. T. 
Khinebeck, N. Y. 
Our own plan is to let the tops of the 
asparagus alone xvithout any attempt to 
cut them off in the Fall. They are finally 
killed by the frost and fall to the ground. 
Through the Winter they give some lit¬ 
tle protection, and serve to collect snow, 
which gives still more. In 'the Spring 
they can be rakt'd off and burned. In 
case they were badly diseased by rust we 
should cut and burn in the Fall, hut 
xvhen the tops are healthy our plan is to 
let them alone. We consider Spring the 
best time to transplant the young plants. 
The Line Storm 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
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I’ot-Ki’own and runner plants that will bear fruit next 
Bummer. June-bearing and Ever-bearing varieties. Also 
Raspberry, Blackberry Plants and FrullTrees. Catalogue 
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Russian Pilkus Seed Rye SS/.f SS: 
Big yielder, grain and straw. Sow until freezing 
weather. $2.30 per bu. CLOVERDALE FARM, Charlotte,N.Y. 
Best standard APPLE BARRELS Pi ompt shipment. 
ROBT. GILLIES - Medina, New York 
Sawdust 
Clean dry sawdust makes an ideal 
bedding for cows, and is highly 
recommended by reliable dairy 
authorities. Economical and easy 
to use. Keeps the barns clean and 
sanitary. Write today for prices. 
We also sell Baled Shavings for beddinsr, fn carload Iota 
BAKER 
84 FOSTER ST., 
BOX CO. 
WORCESTER, MASS. 
The autumnal equinox has passed, and 
the weather has been for several days, 
and promises to he for .several more, fair, 
and the weatlierwise will remark upon 
the non-appearance of the “line storm.” 
The weather man denie.s the reality of 
such a phenomenon. The “line” part of the 
name comes from the equator, or “line.” 
as the sailors call it. On Septeiuber 23 
the sun crossed the equator on its ap¬ 
parent jo.urney south to the Tropic of 
Capricorn, This seeming movement is 
due to the inclination of the Oiirth’s axis 
and its revolution round the sun. _As the 
earth swings round the sun xvith its axis 
always pointing in the same direction, 
the latter seems to move northward from 
the Winter solstice in December till the 
Summer solstice in June, and then south¬ 
ward for another six months. In Sep¬ 
tember, as in March, the equator comes 
under the sun and the latter “crosses the 
line,” but there is nothing in the act or 
fact of crossing that causes, or should 
cause a storm. 
In the weather changes that seem to 
take place without rule or reason we 
have a maximum of storm in Winter and 
a minimum in Summer, A storm, in the 
lexicon of the Weather Bureau, is an 
atmospheric di.sturbance of considerable 
extent in which there is a spiral move¬ 
ment of the air towards the center or 
area of low pressure, Such a disturbance 
brings us, first, easterly winds, usually 
accompanied by precipitation ; then, as the 
storm center passes, westerly winds with 
clearing xveather. Storms, or cyclones, 
as they are properly called, are distinct 
from the showers of Summer of limited 
area, due to smaller disturbances of the 
atmosphere. 
Few, if any, storms occur in mid¬ 
summer, but as Autumn approaches, so 
do the storms, and frequently the first 
real storm comes in late September. It 
is the forerunner of similar disturbances 
that will increase in frequency till Feb¬ 
ruary, and then become less frequent as 
Summer draws near. The change of the 
sun to the southern hemisphere in Winter 
is coincident with the season of storms, 
but there is no reason for the belief that 
the crossing of the “line” should cause a 
storm at that particular time, xvl ii. h. 
Boston Produce Markets 
This is the time of year when the lines 
of perishable outdoor produce drop grad¬ 
ually out of market. The desire to buy 
them seems to fall off quite ns fast as the 
supply, and peddlers complain of difficul¬ 
ty in selling such things as corn, beans 
and tomatoes, although the supply is lim¬ 
ited and prices are loxver than they 
were last month. The public buys eager¬ 
ly the first of the season, hut grows jaded 
at the end. Much of the stuff, too, is 
poorly ripened. There are still a good 
many tomatoes ripened under straw and 
manure, or hung with the vines in sheds, 
or simply stored in open boxes until those 
ripen that do not rot, but flavor and color 
are far from fancy, and the price ranges 
from .$1.25 to .$2. A few really good ones 
sell from $2 to $3 per box. Green to¬ 
matoes are 75 to 85c. The last of the 
sweet corn sells at 75c to $1.25. Beans 
of all kinds are scarce, but not higher, 
ranging from $1.75 to $2.50. As high as 
$3 is paid foi^good “hot” peppers. No. 1 
cukes bring $5 to $6. Roots are in heav¬ 
ier supply and lower, with carrots, $1; 
beets, 75 to 85; large turnips, 75c; rad¬ 
ishes, 35 to 50c. Cabbages are back to 
65 to 75c bbl. for plain and 85c for curled. 
Some onions run rather small and the 
range is $1.50 to $2 box. Parsnips are 
down to $1.25, unless fancy. 
APPLES SELLING SLOWLY 
Salesmen complain of difficulty in dis¬ 
posing of average lots of apples without 
cutting prices, but the market has held 
about as last quoted on choice fruit. The 
former high prices have brought along a 
great deal of poor stuff that properly be¬ 
longs to the cider market. Mills are pay¬ 
ing 40o per 100 lbs., compared with 25c 
last year. A considerable quantity of 
very small but sound fruit is sold to can- 
uers, etc., at a little better than eider 
I)rice. Baldwins and Raissets, now be¬ 
ing handled, are I’oported running much 
to small sizes, with one-fourth to one- 
fifth classing Grade “B,” and an unusual 
number below 2^/i in., and so not even 
“B’s.” Northern Spies in well-tended 
orchards are large and of fine color, early 
shipments selling at $1.25 to $1.75 box. 
A few lots of good Baldwins sell at .$1.50, 
and No, 2’s at $1, hut there are few' users 
of hard apples yet. Prices for orchard 
lots hold as last quoted, but buyers are 
not very eager now* that the city market 
has eased off, and it has been easier to 
buy country apples this mouth than in 
September. The city markets are busy 
with late Fall kinds, with a general range 
of $1.25 to $2.25 for No. 1, and 75c to $1 
for No. 2, in boxes. No. 1 in barrels are 
$3 to $G. Top figures are for McIntosh 
and a few other fancy ap'ples. But hold¬ 
ers ■ who aw'hile ago refused $3 or more 
per box for finest McIntosh would have 
to sell for about $2 now. 
CRANBERRIES, PEACHES AND GRAPES 
Quite a contrast to last year is the 
cranberry market at $8.50 to $0 bbl., 
$2.75 per crate. Most lots show a few 
frosted beiTies, Some growers have good 
crops, and others, including many of the 
largest hogs, have no berries in a market 
way. The local Government agent calls 
it oiie-half the early estimate. Some bad¬ 
ly frosted fruit sells at $5. Peaches are 
about done, with price steady around $1 
per crate. Wild gi'apes bring $1.50 to 
$2.50 box, aud Concords $1.25 to .$2, hut 
a good many are being bought in the 
country by grape-juice factories, etc. 
BEANS AND POTATOES IN FAIR DEMAND 
The field beau market acts a little bet¬ 
ter. Local supplies seem light, old stock 
being reduced to low' proportions, '.ind not 
much new expected before the last of the 
month. New Y"ork pea beans are quoted 
$8.50 to $8.75. F. M. Quimby Co. reports 
the new crop not so badly damaged as 
thought at first. There are a lot of beans 
coming from the West, hut not yet at 
hand. 
Native potatoes are selling at $1.50 in 
the free municipal markets, hut trade 
wholesalers sell 5 or 10c lower. The 
general market is only fairly steady. Said 
E. M. Ely: “The potato market is a 
little w'eak, bag shipments selling at $2.75 
at the yardj, or $1.35 in bulk. Bags 
cost 11c, aud there iS a few' cents for 
shrinkage and cost of handling. Aroo¬ 
stook seed Cobblers are selling at $3.10 
to $3.35 in barrel bags at Presque Isle. 
Maine growers seem inclined to hold 
their potatoes, and receipts are very mod¬ 
erate.” 
(Continued on page 1170.) 
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