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March 0, 1918 
•She RURAL 
igger Crops of Better Fruit 
America will demand more and better fruit after the war 
Europe also, with its orchards ravaged and destroyed, must 
look to America for its supply of fruit. Don’t be caught with 
your orchards going out of bearing. Plant this Spring, and 
get ahead of the slow-minded. Barnes’ trees are grown 
in the bleak New England climate. They grow vigor¬ 
ously, bear early, bringing quick returns. 
Make up your planting list from our selected assort¬ 
ment of Apples, Peaches, Pears, and Small Fruits. 
SEND TODAY FOR FREE CATALOG 
es Brothers Nursery Co 
Yalesville,, Coniu 
• ■■■I 
FRUIT GROWING PAYS • 
Oovemment crop reports show that com, wheat and oats bring the S 
farmer about $18 an acre yearly. They also show that an apple 
orcbai^ will yield $100 an acre. Peaches do as well or better. 
Iiave started thousands of suecessful fruit farmers. Our 
thrifty, hardy trees are tnie-to-name and budded from 
bearing orcliards. Insuring high quality. All our stock Is 
rigorously Inspected, free fro.n disease—the product of 30 
years of earnest effort to produce the best trees that grow. 
Send to-iiav /or our 1918 Fruit Outde. 
Harrisons* Nurseries Box 14 Berlin, Maryland 
“Largest groivers of fruit trees in the world.” 
Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Vines, Shrubs Tf/S 
to slow freight service this year? We prepay ex press charges and guarantee quick, 
safe delivery of your order. Wo challenge any rell«Tble competitor to furnish better 
trccA, to beat oiir pricea and prepay express charores to your door. You will please drop a postal at onco 
for orr big 48-pafre illustrateo catalog. 
THE ROWAN WHOLESALE NURSERIES. Inc., Dansvillle, N. Y. 
SESJOMATOES 
THE BALL 
earlier than you ever had before. 
It's up to you to make your 
WAR GARDEN 
a booming success this coming 
season. Don’t be satislied with 
a garden like the other fellow— 
beat him to it. Have a garden 
that you’ll be proud of. No 
matter how backward the 
Spring, it’s easy with 
SEED & PLANT FORCER 
Send for my Beautiful BOOK FREE. It’s chuck 
full of latest developments in modern gardening. It 
gives you gardening information found in no other publi¬ 
cation. It tells you how you can have a garden with 
flowers in full bloom and vegetables for your table a month 
earlier than you ever had before. Just drop me a post 
card and I’ll send you your copy by return mail. 
THE BALL MFG. CO., Dept. K, Glenside. Pa. 
100 
EVER-BEARING plants 
RY (postpaid 
Progressive or Superb. Guaranteed to fruit this 
$ 1.25 
I 1 
STRAWBERRY(postpaid) 
to 
ou OK. Also big 20th century 
year—and to reach ....... --- 
Polnlnrr Froo fully describing our millions of small 
UdIdlUg ricB frtiit plants and how to grow them. 
Get the book atoitee. Make "Townsend s way yonr 
way." "IF IT’S STRAWBERRY PLANTS. WE GOT ’EM." 
E. W. Townsend, R. R. 25, Salisbury, Md. 
Mr. Quick, of Ohio 
bought $6 worth of Knight’s 
Strawberry plants and sold 
his crop of fruit for SIOO. You 
can equal that record with 
Knight’s Berry Plants 
Send today for nt*w catalojruo 
of all Kinds of berries. 
David Knight & S«)n 
Box 80 Sawyer, Mich. 
Maloneys^ 
FREE 
TREE 
CATALOG 
Ready 
MALONEY TREES 
PruItjNut, Onianiontal Trees, Vines and 
J shrubs, hardy upland Stock grown in 
our ^OO'Sero nurseries, tlie Isn;e^*t In 
New York, and sold at wholesale—^end 
for our big free catalogue, it tells why 
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^ MALONEY BROS. A WELLS CO. 
60 Main SI., Dansvfllo, N. Y. 
0ansville*t Pioneer Wholessle Nurseries 
Millions of Trees 
PLANTS, VINES, ROSES, ETC. 
T)ie oldfBt, InrgoBt and most complete nursery in 
Michigan. Send for catalog. Prices reasonable 
I. E. ILGENFRITZ’ SONS CO. 
THE MONHOE NURSERY Monroe, SIlClUOAN 
Write for 1918 catalog with low price.s. 
Choicest varieties, guaranteed stock, ,S8 
years of experience in selling direct to 
fruit growers. You’ll never regret planting 
Kelly Trees. 
Kelly liroK. Wholesale Nurseries 
169 .Main Street Ilunsvllle. N. Y. 
26 TREES & PLANTS 
— 8 TREES, 2 yr., 5-6 ft. 18 PLANTS, 2 yr., Ho. 1 —- 
2 Apple, 2 Peach, 2 Cherry, 2 Pear, 3 Grape 
■Vines, 6 St. Begis Everbearing Raspberry, 
6 Eldorado Blackberry, 3 Rhubarb Roots 
Parked for express shipment a^id guaranteed .to 
reach you in good condition. Order direct. 
FREE CATALOG OF COMPLETE LINE 
THE WM. J. REILLY NURSERIES 
66 OSSIAN STREET DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
N E W-YO R K E R 
growth, and the ninonnt of infection varies 
with the seasons, greater after a wot May 
or .Time. In this climate this form of 
blight in the apple orchard, while it does 
not often kill a tree, will sometimes de¬ 
stroy large limbs and leave canker«‘d 
spots of greater or Ic.ss extent. It does 
not seem to attack the same tree in re¬ 
curring years. The only thing to do is 
to cut ont affected wood in the Fall and 
Spring, make a tlmrongh .iob of dormant 
spraying, iind give only enough fertiliza¬ 
tion to keep the trees in hard lighting con¬ 
dition. 
Repairing Injury. —Another precau¬ 
tion in. the wjiy of providing against fu¬ 
ture troubles is the projier training of an 
apple tree from the beginning. When the 
main branche.s are allowed to grow at an 
,'icnte angle, .splitting down in later years 
is pretty apt to result. Avoid having .a 
crotchod tree; do not have two or three 
limbs to start from one place; got them 
growing singly, and let them be several 
inches apai't. From insuflicicnt attention 
to thi.s point, owing to inexperience, we 
htive had sevqral breakdowns in onr 
earlier orchards on this account. Also, 
as elsewhere noted, close-growing limbs 
crowd each other apart and Winter split¬ 
ting is made easier. It is a pity to lose a 
fine tree out of the ranks. Breakdowns 
and broken limbs having sufTicient woody 
fiber and hark left still attached can be 
set up and bolted, and it is ivorth while. 
We have done several good pieces of work 
of this kind, and trees in seemingly hope¬ 
less condition have been restored appar¬ 
ently as good as ever, as follows: Cover 
broken surfaces with thick w’hite lead 
paint, set up the limb or section in place 
and .support it tonqmrarily by props. 
Next, find where to place bolts or rods for 
hi’st leverage against the weight of suc¬ 
ceeding crops of fruit and firmness against 
wind pressure; mark the places and take 
measurements. Several rods may he need¬ 
ed for a good job. Have the blacksmith 
make tlimn of three-eighths inch iron of 
(he lengths required, each having cap on 
one end and .threaded for a nut and 
washer on the other. . Bore holes of stime 
size and <‘ut out a little bark to accom¬ 
modate cap and washer, place rods and 
scri’W them uji firmly. Apply grafting 
wax to points of contact and injury and 
I)aint the rods to prevent rusting. Take 
away supports and you have a pretty good 
tree again. Some ingenuity will he re¬ 
quired at times t<> accomplish a goo<l job, 
but it is an interesting woi'k and good 
busine.s.s. 
Verily, orcharding is not the place for 
a lazy man, but it is a vocation founded 
upon hope, and the man who i)lants an 
apple tree mu.st keep the faith. The 
rewards are hoantifnl. w. s. teator. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
W<* have Rclocted 10 varietica out of a hundred and tried to 
aelect ten of the best—h^arly, MidseaHon and lAto. Send for onr 
new iirice list—also of tomato 8ce<i tomato ])lanu}« * epper, 
C'abbuKC, Celpry. and Sweat I'ntato plants in scaaon. 
Romance Seed and Plant Farms. 
CALEB BOGGS & SON 
CHESWOLD, DEL. 
Strawberry Plants 
3,000,000 of them Rt S2.50 por 1,000* L. R. PhlUipa of 
Ra, Bays “ your plants are the finest 1 ever set.” Catnloi? 
free. Write todav and save money on your Sprinj? order. 
Address C. 8. r^EHDtJE, Box 20, 8howeU, Murylniid 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
ON STRAWBERRY PLANTS. Mimy othei- v.-ivieties and 
L'.irdeii roots at reasonable pi ieos. Catalogue FREE. 
- ... COMPANY, F 
Writetoday to A.K WESTON 8 
,BridDnian,Mich. 
Big STRAWBERRIES a'-t'.'!! 
Greatest Shipping Berry known. Outsells all others. 
Send for circular. This adv. will not aJiPJjvi'"kain. 
M. D. JL,upton,Oriuniator and Introdneer, NEWPORT, N. J. 
o._Pionfc money making varieties 
Strawberry rlants at reasonable prices 
t ataloguo Free. Basil Perry, Georgetown, Dku. 
V«..- Uf... PnrJnn In 1918 One grand suceops If you fol- 
lOUr War Uaruen low the expert planting directions 
mid the two practical garden diamirnis in this our brand 
new i>ooklet. Send 10c for it to the De La Mark Oo., It ■ 
W. 37ih St., New York. Catalog “Countryside Books” free. 
Golden Bantam Seed Corn 
»rL Limited quantity. 
sie, N.l 
$10 jK'r Bii.; $8 J^.r peoUj 50e 
,\ No. 1 quality. 
le qu»i , ^ 
F. A. TABEK, Poughkeepsie, N.Y . 
Two Excellent Vegetable Boohs 
By R. L Watts 
Vegetable Gardening . . . • • $1-75 
Vegetable Forcing ....... 2.U0 
For sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30ttt St„ New York 
JONES’ NUT TREES 
My Jiai’dy Pennsylvania-grown 
trees are the best obtainable. 
PceaiiB, English and Black Wal- 
imt, Shagbarks, ete., all budtied 
or grafte<l trees, no seedlings. 
Attractive catalogue free. 
J. F. JONES, 
Specialist 
Bex R, Lancastku, Pa. 
‘‘How to Grow Roses” 
will guide you straight to suc¬ 
cess with the "Queen of Flow* 
ers.’’ We will send this 32;^ag0 
booklet and our big 1918 Floral 
Guide with a 25c return check, 
good on your first $1 order, all 
three for lOc. Send today. 
ONARD & JONES CO. 
★roses. Bos 4lYESTGR0VE,P*. 
Bobt. Brio, PrM. A.WiDtci,Vlcc-PrM. 
SfiRAPE-VINES 
69 varieties. Also Small Fruits, Trees, etc. Best rooted 
stock. Genuine, cheap. 2 sample vines mailed for 10c. Des¬ 
criptive catalog free. LEWIS ROE8CH3oxL,Fredonla,N.Y. 
NEW STONE. Saved from fu st of 
last season’s crop. 14 Ih., 75c.; Ih., 
S92.50 delivered. Seed Sweet To- 
tatoes. Yellow Nanseniond, Up Riv¬ 
ers. and Big Stem Jersey, liusliel, 
$1.50 here. H. AUSTIN, Felton, Delaware 
TOMATO 
SEED 
o iNj e; cvi I l- l- I o isi 
California I M *e < and Asparagus plants, nnllions 
of trees and shrubs,etc. Healthy;true_toname;qual- 
ity high; price low. New PlantersPrice List ready. 
THE WESTMINSTER NURSERY, 
Box 129 Westminster. Md. 
For Sale-Inspected Seed Potatoes 
bushel. APLIN& BUGIJEE, Putney .Vermont 
nAVa —Oarniaii,Cobbler,Giant,Green Mt. .Ohio,Queen, 
r U 1AI UE.9— No-blight,Roae. Others. C.W.FORD.Fhhers.N.Y. 
D ahlia specialist 25 varieties DahUas, fl. Two collec¬ 
tions, 11.00. Circular. Mri. HOWARD HOLSINDFR. Dcnion. Md. 
DOMESTIC.—Ft'b. 2’2 iiino liorsons, 
all members of the family of Morris 
:Millor, lost their lives in a tire which de- 
Ktroyed their home on a farm near Poa- 
bodv, Mas.s. 
J’Vh. tiro destrityed the residence of 
W. T. MclOlwee at Hornell, N. Y.. with 
the loss of three lives, and an admeeut 
Methodist church ; property loss .$()(),000. 
I Foodstuffs and railroad iiropc'rty viiluc’d 
at more than .$250,000 were destroyed 
Feb. 22 when a freight train on the Cen¬ 
tral Pailroad of New .Tersey got beyond 
control of the engineer on the Wilkes- 
Parre ]Mountain, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and, 
after running four miles at terrific speed, 
crashed into two engines at Ashley. An 
engineer was killed and six otiier rail- 
roiid men were seriously injured. The 
runaway train, consisting of -42 cars 
loaded with meats and othc’r foodstulTs, 
caught fire after the erash, and virtually 
all the cars, with tlieir contents, were 
either di’stroyed or badly damaged. 
Feb. 25 Eugene Schwerdt, a wealthy 
German exporter, was arrested and in- 
teriK’d by New York authorities as an 
enemy alien. He i.s- charged with a scheme 
that included plans for obtaining wool 
from British possessions, including Aus¬ 
tralia and Canada, and for either ship¬ 
ping it secretly to Germany, where it was 
to be used for military purposes, or for 
storing it Avhere Germany might be able 
to lay hands upon it after the war. For 
the purpose of hoodwinking tlie Textile 
Alliance, which was organized for the 
purpose of iireventing wool from falling 
into German hands, dummy concerns ap¬ 
pear to have been emplo.yed by the plot¬ 
ters, and from evidence in the hands of 
the authorities it has been llearned that the 
schemers became so hold as to store their 
wares in London. It Is claimed that the 
plotters stored $3,000,000 worth of wool 
in New Jersey. 
While groping through a gale and 
.snowstorm on her way from St. John’s, 
N. F.. to New York by way of Halifax 
the lied Cross liner Florizel struck a reef 
twenty miles north of Cape Race Feb. 
24. The disaster occurred on a desolate 
part of the coast, two miles from the 
nearest settlement. Broad (Jove, and re¬ 
mote from any life-saving station, so that 
it was more than half a day before assist¬ 
ance could be sent. Later I’cports give 
the loss of life as 92. 
More than one million pounds of choco¬ 
late ill powdered form, one of the ad¬ 
vanced stages of manufaetnre, was de¬ 
stroyed by fire at the Hershey Chocolate 
Company’s plant at Hershey, Pa., Feh. 
24, causing a loss estimated at $500,000. 
A woman was named as the leader in 
alleged destructive acts of the I. W. W. 
along the Pacific Coast in a confe.ssiou 
of Fritz Hagerman, who is in the en.s- 
tody of Federal authorities at San Fran¬ 
cisco. The confession, they said, detailed 
plots to burn grain and buildings and 
poison cattle in four States. The woman 
was named as one of sl.x persons who 
went to Lassen County last September to 
ignite the $1,0(X),000 plant of the H(>d 
Iliver Lumber Cqfmpany. Hagerman con' 
fe.ssed, the officials said, that he had 
poisoned c.attle _ in California, Oregon, 
Idalio and Washington. 
Capt. D.avid A. Henkes of the Sixteenth 
Infantry, United States Army (regulars), 
■was brought back from France, tried hv 
a court-martial on charges of violation of 
his constitutional oath and adjudged 
guilty of "attempting to avoid service, 
demonstrating disloyalty to the Govern¬ 
ment of the TTiited States and sympathy 
■with its enemies.” He was sentenced to 
serve twenty-five years at hard labor in 
the United States Disciplinary Barracks 
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. 
Ten persons were killed outright, two 
died of injuries and between twenty-five 
and thirty-five otlier.s w’ere more or less 
seriously injured in a rear-end eolli.ssioii 
of two pa.ssenger trains Feh. 25 on the 
Colnmliia-Grecnville branch of the South¬ 
ern Railw.ay, near Columbia, S. C. 
Inve.stigation of an alleged gigantic con¬ 
spiracy to violate Presidential proclama¬ 
tions and orders of the Federal Fuel Ad¬ 
ministration establishing maximum prices 
for coal, said to extend throughout the 
Western Pennsylvania bitnmiiions dis¬ 
trict. will he asked of ji Federal Grand 
Jury, it was announced Fell. 25. by E. 
Lowry Humes. United States District 
Attorney. According to Federal authori¬ 
ties. the decision was readied after a pre¬ 
liminary investigation of the hooks of 
three Kittanning, Pa., and two Pittsburg 
coal concerns, seized yesterday by De¬ 
partment of .Tnstice agents. 
Cadet William .1. Weisslnger of Beulah, 
Miss., was killed and Cadet W. C. Storey, 
of Freeport, N, Y., fatally injured at the 
army aviation^ camp at Memphis, Term., 
Feh. 20 in a collision of airplanes which 
they were piloting. The machines fell 
about 1.0(10 feet. Both men were buried 
under tlie wreckage. 
THU PACKING INQUIRY.—Testi¬ 
mony intended to substantiate charges 
that big Chicago packers eliminated small 
dealers in poultry and eggs by unfair tac¬ 
tics, that their agents lobbied against 
certain labor legislation in State capitals 
and that they sought to increase negro 
help in their plants was introduced Feb. 
20 at the inquiry of the packing industry 
before Samuel AV. Tutor, examiner for 
the Federal Trade Commission. Francis 
.L Heney of the Federal Trade Commis- 
.sion attempted to show that the packers 
by setting up “dummy” firms and by un¬ 
derselling the small concerns had crowded 
many from the field. He named W. F. 
Prielie. whom he charged with drawing 
a salary from Swift & Co., while serving 
on the Federal Food Administration for 
$1 a year, with being e.specially active in 
the campaign against small concerns. He 
declared that tlie W. F. Priehe & Co., 
Chicago, reputed to he the largest “inde- 
peiuh’iit” butter and egg dealers in the 
country, and which he alleged is owned 
by Swift & Co., controlled a score of 
creamm’ies and poultry and butter and 
egg ])lants in Missouri. Illinois and Iowa, 
operating them under "dummy” names 
to make them appear as “independent” 
firms. "This was done to fool the fanners 
and jnihlic,” Attorney HCiiey said. “In 
reality all the concerns are owned by 
Swift & Co.” He then introduced a 
statement of "W. P. Priehe & Co., giving 
a list of their plants and buying stations 
in Iowa, which, he said, -wms seized by 
agents of the Federal Trade Commission 
from the files of the company after the 
management had denied any connection 
with the concerns, previously mentioned 
in testimony, except that the Priehe com¬ 
pany merely acted as selling agent. J. E. 
Hohan of Carrollton, Mo., after giving 
testimony in regard to the packers’ ac¬ 
tivities, made an appeal for Government 
protection, as he feared, he said, that his 
business would be completely wrecked by 
the packers in retaliation for his testi¬ 
mony. T. A. Buchanan, a poultry and 
egg dealer of Hardin. Mo., and Rudolph 
Miller, a creamery dealer of Macon, Mo., 
two of the principal witnesses Peb. 20. 
testified that the packers had “gobbled 
up” the little dealers in their territory by 
underselling and by price juggling. 
WASHINGTON. — Permission was 
given to Food Administrators in States 
west of the Mississippi Feb. 22 to lift 
the restrictions on the use of mutton and 
lamb during the Spring marketing season. 
This was done because this class of meat 
is not exported to the Allies, and railroad 
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