V/te RURAL NEW-YORKER 
199 
Smooth Potatoes 
With usually a thirty to forty per cent, 
increase yield assured to every grower if 
he will rid his seed potatoes of potato 
scab and black-leg by using 
FOgfsmiiQM 
• Termer's Triend 
the official Standard seed cleanser to 
prevent smuts and fungus; flax wilt. Po¬ 
tato scab and black-leg once in the 
ground may persist for many years. 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture rec¬ 
ommends cleansing seeds with Formal¬ 
dehyde solution to prevent spread of po¬ 
tato diseases and smuts of grain. For¬ 
maldehyde in pint bottles at your dealer, 
35 cents. Big illustrated book sent free. 
PERTH AMBOY CHEMICAL WORKS 
100 WILUAM STREET NEW YORK 5 
I T TAKES 400,000 cars to 
carry American Fertilizers 
every season. Forty per 
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160,000 cars! Insist on less 
Filler and higher grades with 
most Available Nitrogen, viz.; 
Nitrate of Soda 
and cut freight bills. 
Use of such Fertilizers 
means everybody’s benefit. 
It is up to you, Mr. Farmer. 
Send for “Cost of Available Nitro^eo” 
DR. WM. S. MYERS 
Director, Chilean Nitrate Committee 
S3 Madison Avenue New York 
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Farm lands ?11 to .?30 an acre; Irrigated lands 
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crops and livestock |irove it. Special liomeseek- 
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Books Worth Buying 
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Weeds of Farm and Garden, Pammel 1.60 
Book of Wheat, Dondlinger.2.00 
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Study of Corn, Sboesmith.60 
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RURALISMS 
Baking Apple Varieties 
I am interested to note the comments 
of the baked apple matter. We liave never 
recommended the planting of snch apples 
as olf Ttiver and Alexander. You may be 
interested to know further tliat Mrs. .John 
Barclay -won the prize for baked apples 
at the Trenton Fair with either Alexander 
or Wolf Biver. This was not la'cause the 
apples remained rather rigid in form, bnt 
because wlien the circle of skin is cut 
from the top of the apple the llesh breaks 
and puffs up in a line attractive condition, 
while with such a vtiriety as Grime.s the 
flesh is much coarser. The feature of 
Alexander and Wolf River is that the 
flesh breaks up in a fine, most agreeable 
condition. 
We have baked Pall Pippin apples, 
.which are, of course, fine quality, a number 
of times, hut have never been able to bake 
them .so that they compared with Alex¬ 
ander for example. The fle.sh does not 
break up as nicely. In other words, some 
of our so-called very high quality apples 
do not bake so that the flesh is fine, and 
of just the right acidity and sweetness. 
Delicious is often very fine baked after it 
has passed its stage for eating. In other 
words, after it has become mealy and dry 
in the green state the flesh breaks up 
nicely and is of very fine quality when 
baked. ji. A, blake. 
New .Tersoy. 
Experience with Tomatoes 
We have hardly hot weather enough to 
ripen tomatoes properly, but generally 
manage to grow enough for home use. 
Farliana is early and a large producer, 
but not very high quality, ('balk’s .lewel 
is nearly as early and of better quiility. 
There are inttny other varieties which 
we like better than either. The old fa¬ 
vorite, Stone, is sure to be found in some 
of the gardens on the place. With all 
the new varieties that are being intro¬ 
duced, Stone is still tlic standard of com- 
pari.son. “Larger than Stone.” “Farlicr 
than Stone,” “Fully equal to Stone,” etc., 
are statements that appear time and again 
in the catalogues. 
I.iist setison we tried a jiacket of seed 
of Golden Queen. The result vvtis so 
good thiit it will probtibly have a perma¬ 
nent place in our garden. It is a large, 
bright yellow tomato of high qutilit.v. 
Most of th(‘ yellow vtirieties are rather 
insipid, but tliis setmis to bo of as high 
flavor as Stout'. Matchless is priicticiilly 
a hirge Stone of higli quality and very 
productive. It is ratlier late for us un¬ 
less it gets an especially early start. 
Victoriii is a variety which we have 
been growing for several yciirs. The 
fruits are small, altout two inches in di¬ 
ameter, round, very .solid tind of high 
flavor. It is small enough to be used in 
salitds, etc., witliout slicing. The fruits 
are borne in clustt'rs like curnint.s. often 
10 or more in one Ininch. The vines grow 
slowly at first, and seem rather weak, but 
later grow very fast. AVhen trained up 
to a firm support they will grow six feet 
tall or more. 
M’e Imve followed the discussions of 
staking vs. sprawling with much inter¬ 
est. but we do not adhere to either meth¬ 
od. In lOlG we tried fastening tlu' vines 
to a piece of old fence strung on stakes 
set across the gtirden. This was very 
good, except tliat it was hard to get 
through the fence to reach some of the 
fruits. Last Suininer we .set the posts in 
a similar manner and strung wires about 
a foot apart. This was better, except 
that the wires were too far apart to give 
support to tlio vines. M'here a branch of 
a tomato jdant gets long enough to hang 
down much it almost stops growing, but 
if it has a firm support every six inches 
or so it will keep on growing and setting 
fruit indefinitely. M'e expect to try put¬ 
ting the wires about six inches apart next 
year. Grown in this way, tomatoes mtike 
quite an ornamental hedge and it is easy 
to gather the fruit. We do not cut off 
any branches. Alfred c. weed. 
AMayne Co., N. Y. 
“You can trust the wisdom of the plain 
people.” “Some of us can.” replied Sen¬ 
ator Sorghum. “Others will discover it’s 
just that that will prevent them from 
coming back,”—Washington Star. 
Averqizel^iirfermWMrk 
T here isn’t any question any more about the success of tractor farming 
—the only question now is—which is the best tractor for you to get. 
When you Averyize your farm you can 
be sure you have made a wise selection. 
When you get an Avery you are getting 
a tractor that is long past the experi¬ 
mental stage. It has been put to every 
test known. 
We proved our faith in the Avery de¬ 
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a sold-on-approval policy. We have 
proved the success of the Avery design 
by entering it in every important motor 
contest and demonstration iield in this 
or a ^ other country. 
And the strongest proof of the success 
ot the Avery design is that men who 
bought the first Avery Tractors years 
ago are buying more Avery Tractors— 
and sons, brothers, cousins and neigh¬ 
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numbers. 
Avery Tractors are built by a company 
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tens of thousands of Avery machines 
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A Size for Every Size Farm and Every 
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There are six sizes of Avery Tractors from 
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of the same design. . 
Avery Tractors are the only tractors with 
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Saves expense and increases the power. 
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inner cylinder walls, crankshafts one-half 
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There’s also a 5-10 h. p. Tractor, especially 
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large farms. 
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You can get an Avery Tractor Plow, either 
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To do 
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efli- 
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machi¬ 
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Let us tell you about 
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_ —PLANTERS 
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Smoothing Harrow 
Docs work of a rake, a roller and small 
stone crusher, leaving soil smooth and free 
fromlumpsand stones— seed mast come up. 
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