o/ic RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
ECONOMICAL 
FARM POWER 
■LTERE is the Farqnhar Locomotive. 
AX a real ereneral purpose portable 
Farm Engine. This outfit is univer¬ 
sally known for its convenient handling 
qualities and durability. The Farquhar 
Cornish is an ideal Engine for sawmill¬ 
ing. It is an easy steamer, furnishing 
dependable power, using offal lumber 
and sawdust for fuel. In addition to 
the above we build a full line of Steam 
and Gas Tractors. 
* All Farquhar Boilers are now built in 
accordance with the A. S. M. E. Stand¬ 
ard. Our Ajax Center-Crank Engine 
used on both Locomotive and Cornish 
Rigs, IS of the self-contained plain slide 
valve type and produces maximum 
power with the least possible consump¬ 
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This book sent free to prospective pur- 
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A. B. FARQUHAR CO.^ Limited 
Box 430* York, Penna. 
We also manufacture Saw Mills. Threshers, 
Potato Diggers, Grain Drills, Cultivators, Uy 
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Cheaper Wheat 
Broadcast loo lbs. of 
Nitrate of Soda per 
acre as a Top Dress¬ 
ing for Wheat and 
Seeded Crops. 200 
lbs. per acre for Culti¬ 
vated Crops. 
not make your laoor 
profitable and help feed our 
Armies in field? 
WILLIAM S. MYERS, Direetoi 
2 S Madiaon Atoduo, Now York 
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$ 10 , 000.00 
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PortabiB 
Wood 
Saw 
IS easy to operate^ 
Only $18.15 saw made to 
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be addad. Guaranteed 
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If not eatlsfactory. 
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Boj^Tj^Belleville^a. 
Quaker Cify Feed Mills 
Grind corn and cobs, feed, 
table meal and alfalfa. 
On the market 50 years. 
Hand and power. 23 
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Oept. E-374Q Filbert St», Philadelphje, Pa, 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
So far as tin* garden is concerned there 
is nothing to write about but disaster. 
The head lettuce is all destroyed, and as 
far south as Beaufort. S. (\, u subscriber 
to The R N.-Y. writes that he had G.OOO 
heads of lettuce just ready to ship when 
the blast from the North came and de¬ 
stroyed it. Sno.v after snow has kei)t 
the ground deeply covered through the 
whole of January, a thing never known 
liere before in the memory of anyone. 
No one ever expected any such Winter 
here, and the w'ater mains were not put 
deep enough in the ground and are frozen, 
cutting off our water so that we have to 
have it bronglit in buckets from a driven 
well in the block. .Safe or not, this is 
all we have. 
Our cantaloup** growers usually pre¬ 
pare their laud and get the manure in 
during January. The idea is to give the 
fresh manure time to rot before iilantiug 
time, and then reinforce it with a liberal 
application of commercial fertilizer. 
There seems to be no chance for doing 
anything in the ground for a good while. 
This is the last of January, and it has 
been snowing heavily today, and promises 
to keep at it. Fortunately I buried my 
late cabbages Northern fashion. Of 
course I have not been al>le to get at 
them, but hope they are all right. 
Everything in iny little greenhouse is 
gone. No coal, and I had to draw oft' 
the water from tlie pipes to prevent freez¬ 
ing, and everything perished. The amount 
is not large, but (here were a few plants 
t valued, especially a fine large plant 
of Phoenix Roebelenii in a tub. Not¬ 
withstanding the experience of 1915, 
when similar conditions iirevailed with 
the potato supply, there will be an im¬ 
mense area planted in early potatoes by 
the Southern farmers-, who would far 
better stick to cotton this year. I fear 
they will lose licavily, as many did in 
191,5. Letter after letter comes to me 
from men who know nothing about the. 
commercial grow*^h of early potatoes and 
their selling, asking information about 
the crop. I tell them to forget it and 
stick to cotton or tobacco or peanuts. 
But of course they will i)lant the pota¬ 
toes, and I fear a great slump when the 
Southern crop comes* in. The Northern 
dealers are holding seed jiotatoes too 
high. There is no reasdn for asking .$3 
a bnsliel tliis Spring for potatoes. Such 
profiteering should be looked after and 
stopped. It is time liere to start the 
early tomato seed, but there is no such 
thing as making a hotbed in this 
weather, my greenhouse is cold, and it is 
hard to get coal to keep the dwelling 
W'arm. IIen<‘e there is a prospect for 
getting late tomatoes in the garden. But 
seed time and harvest has never failed 
yet, and we look in hope to see the ground 
again shortly, and hid adieu to frost. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
28S 
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Witloof and Endive 
On page 34. chicory is spoken of as 
the same as witloof. We have grown as 
an experiment what is called witloof, or 
French endive. We have also grown 
chicory as a salad plant, and there is no 
resemblance between the two, except the 
roots. The writer would be glad to know 
if the pos.sibility of making a coffee sub¬ 
stitute which he knows can be made from 
chicory, is applicable to the witloof or 
French endive root. c. a. W. 
Oakland, N. .T. 
Witloof chicory is commonly called 
I'l-ench endive, althongli it is slightly dif¬ 
ferent from tlie ordinary varieties of en¬ 
dive which is grown for salad. The wit¬ 
loof plant can be used for salad purposes 
during the Summer as well as for forcing 
in Winter. The roots can be used as a 
coffee substitute, although they are in¬ 
ferior in this respect to the roots of some 
other varieties of chicory. The Large 
Rooted variety of chlcoiy is especially* 
adapted for use as a coffee substitute, be¬ 
cause of the greater bulk of roots jiro- 
duced, and more intense coffee Havor. 
J. T. R. 
Trapping Foxes 
On page loo is advice how to trap a 
fox. TJp ut Shin Ih)iul, ]Mt. (^Iinso, they 
walk tlie fox into the trap. One way is 
to set the trap before the snow Hies 'and 
pace off one rod. and remember. After 
snow (lies take a rod pole with a fox’s 
foot attached to one end and make fox 
tracks along and over the trap. Foxes 
will follow in each other’s tracks, and 
necessarily will walk into the trap, 
, J. B. BRYANT. 
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a Cool Cellar 
Think of the comfort, the 
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having the whole house warm, 
—real uarniy even on coldest 
days I 
The comfort for children and 
older folks, whether upstairs or 
down; the ease and economy 
of installation; the fact that 
your cellar will be as cool as 
ever—these ought to prompt 
you to investigate at once the 
pipe Heater. 
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bringing comfort economically into thousands of 
homes. It is not an experiment, but a proven suc¬ 
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ma-kes every room livable, enjoyable, healthful. The 
liiTERn 4 rion 4 L 
Onepipe Heater 
will not heat your cellar. You’ean store fruits and 
vegetables within a few feet of it— u'ill keep as 
well as they ever kept. It*is easy to install in old 
houses as well as new—simply requires cutting one 
hole in one floor, for the register. It is providing 
thorough satisfaction wherever installed and is sold 
on a 60-day trial and a 5-year guarantee. 
We offer to send you an illustrated booklet, 
also a simple chart which if filled out and returned 
enables us to give free and unbiased advice as to 
whether your particular home is adapted to this 
style heater, and the size required. It is expert 
advice, with no obligation—so write at once. 
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6-26 Monroe St.. Utica, N. Y. 
Makers of all slyles of heattn^ apparatus—steam avci 
hot water boilers and svarni air iut naces. 
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