JShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
417 
RURALISMS 
Thoroughly, while 
you are about it. A 
“half done” spraying job 
means that you get only 
50 cents where you might 
have had one dollar. Get a 
sprayer that Covers. 
That is the only kind you will 
find listed in our new 
1918 FREE CATALOG 
Send for it to-day. For 10c we will 
also include the handsome 94-page book 
'' Why and Haw of Orchard Success." 
It is a complete Spraying Guide. 
FIELD FORCE PUMP CO. 
Dept. 2 Elmira, N. Y. 
The 
Leader 
Insist on the 
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Hardie Orchard 
Gun, $12.00 
Takes the hard, tiresome 
work out of spraying. 
A light, handy spray gun I 
tnat shoots a penetrating 
cloud of spray—operates 
with any power sprayer—* | 
adjustable from 10 to 30 ft. 
Hardie Spray Pumps 
Put one on your sprayer. ] 
Made in various sizes. A 
simple, compact pump. 
_Bigcapacity. Smooth- 
_^est working. Used on I 
Hardie Sprayers, 
standard for over 
18 years. Write! 
for catalog. 
The Hardie Mfg. Co, 
HudBoOe Mlcb. 
Also pQrtlaods Ort. 
^miM 
Farm, Garden and Orchard Tool* 
Answer the farmer’s big questions: 
How can 1 grow crops witii less ex¬ 
pense and lal>or ? How can 1 grow 
fancy fruit at low cost V The 
IRON AGE f"-' 
(horizontal ■ solves the spraying 
problem for the busy farmer. 
Can be osod in any wagon, 
cart or eleti. Reliable easy- 
working pump placed outside 
the barrel—prevents rusting— 
aP parts easy to reach. 100 to 
125 pounds pressure with two 
nozzles. 60 and 100 gallon sizes. 
We make a full line of spray¬ 
ers. Write today for our free 
Barrel .Sprayer booklet. 
BatemanM’f'gCo., Box 2£ yGrenlocIi,N.J. 
Yours! 
A .^)0-gallon barrel 
of Scalecide to 
any one wlio will 
suggest a fairer 
guarantee than 
_ that given below. 
“SCALECIDE” 
As proof of ou r confidence and to strength¬ 
en yours, wo will make the following 
proposition to any fruit grower of average 
honesty and veracity; , . , 
Divide your orchard in halt, no matter how large 
or small. Spray one-half with ’’BGALECIDE 
l*and the other with Lime-Sulfiw for three yesxs, 
everything else being equal. If at the end of that 
time, three disinterested fruit growers say that 
the partspray^ with “SCALECIDE " is not in 
every way better than that sprayed with Limc- 
Sulfur, we will return you the money you paid 
us for the “SCALECIDE’’. 
Send for new free booklet, 
“ Profits In Fall Spraying”. 
B. G. Pratt Co., M’Fg Chemists 
SO Church St. Dept. N New York 
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Own a muchiue Of your own. ^^sli or easy 
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WILLIAMS BROS., 432 W. State St.. Ithaca. N. Y. 
Missouri Fruit Notes 
The strawberry crop of 1917 in this 
district was unifornily good. As usual 
.Toe was the premier berry of the home 
acre, excelling all others in the qualities 
which combine to make a fancy berry. 
This is a record that it has uniformly 
made for many years, although after its 
introduction, about 20 years ago, it went 
into eclipse and remained obscured until 
quite recently, when it emerged and 
bounded to the front with additions to its 
old name, and amid universal praise. My 
first fancy berry of a long time ago was 
Marshall, and it grew to perfection for 
several years. After tliat it refused to be 
its old self, and has been a failure ever 
since. Tint .Toe has never f.ailed, pro¬ 
vided the soil was deep and rich .so it 
could mature its big lierries. and there¬ 
fore T rate it number one among all other 
kinds tested. A gre.at deal has Ix'en said 
in praise of the Chesapeake, but I think 
the .To(’ is superior, chiefly in jirodnctive- 
ness and plant making, and equal in all 
other resj)ects. Tts berries grow to the 
largest size, one of tin* last crop w’eighing 
2^4 nunce.s. So shy a hearer is the 
Chesapeake here that I do not deem it 
profit.’ible. IVrhaps the best of tlu’ newer 
varieties here is the Warren. The plant 
is not large, but the berries are always 
there, very large, handsome and good. 
It seems to he a most dependaldi’ bearer 
of large berries that would be graded 
fancy. The Billy Sunday bore a good 
crop of nice 'berries. So also did the 
Collins, a new introduction from Michi¬ 
gan, and ripened over a long .season. 
Both of these miglit he found worth 
growing. Cook and Wilson, creations of 
Dr. Van I'leet, produced larg(' berries, 
in quantity and of very high quality. 
They are very dark, almost black Avhen 
dead ripe, and their most serious defect 
seems to he that the calyx leaves die and 
turn black as berries ripen, thus greatly 
marring tlieir appearance. They <:in be 
recommended for the family gaid(‘n. 
Bewastico lias not done well here. 
I’reniier, also, was not impressive on the 
few jilants that grew. Bubach can al¬ 
ways be depended fui for a good cro|> of 
very large berries. ITnstler did not .show 
.superior qualities. Willard attracted at¬ 
tention with large l)e;iutiful berries that 
held on till quite late in the season. The 
(dd Sanii)le was large*, fine, proebictive, 
better than most new sorts. Most of 
ns aree de'sirous of new favorites and for 
that reason are not dispo.sed to do full 
justice to tlu’ old standards in competi- 
tioii with them. We cannot always rely 
on ourselves to be stiictly impartial. 
Columbia, a Candy-Warfield cross orig¬ 
inating in Missouri, is dest'rving of men¬ 
tion ami trial as one of the finest late 
berries; resemibb’s Cli<>sapeake in many 
re'speets and is fully as late as 
Gaudy, but not more* jeroductive. 
Very handsome, firm, symmetrical, liigh 
quality and worthy of trial with other 
late kinds. 
Among tlio.se which fruit<‘d here for 
the first time the most mjteworthy was 
I’earl. ripening very late, even lat('r than 
Candy. Plants were very large and vig¬ 
orous. very prolific, more so than Candy, 
of berries of large.st size, good (piality and 
color. It really seemed to he the berry 
we were looking for that was actually 
later than the Candy, and more iirodiic- 
tive; hnt there was a perceptible flaw in 
the fact that the calyx turned black ami 
impaired the general attractiveness of 
the berries, a certain result of such a 
habit. Yet I consider Pearl a valualde 
actiuisition :ind shall ti’st it on a larger 
scale. Lady (’orneille. shown on page 494, 
is ju’odnctive of extra large berries foi- a 
variety said to he an early, hut here it 
did not prove t<t he mm-e than a second 
t'arly and mid-season sort. The berries 
wer«‘ firm and ratlu’r acid. I can s(‘e that 
for some localities and soils it might he .i 
profital)le market kind. T,. K. .toii.v.son. 
Cape Girardeau Co.. Mo. 
Mary, from tlie city, watched the farm¬ 
er’s wife plucking the duck for the mor¬ 
row’s dinner. Mary was interested in 
farm life. “Please, ma’am,” she asked, 
“do yon take off their clothes every 
night?”—Credit lost. 
Get More Money 
For Your Work 
Worms and caterpillars, bad as they arc, are not the 
cause of all poor fruit. Potato bugs and flea beetles are bad 
enough, but blight is worse. Plant diseases tnust be fought 
as well as worms and insects. Pyrox is the weapon to use 
against both. It also invigorates the plant or tree, yielding 
products of superior size and quality. In order to get more 
money for your work 
Spray with 
lyrox: 
'*11 fills the barrel with the kind tliaf used to go on fop** 
It is an insecticide and fungicide combined,—a smooth, 
creamy paste, all ready to use by mixing with cold water. 
It mixes easily and saves time and labor. In a letter to a 
friend, the Editor of “The Fruit Belt” says: “I have made 
up many thousands of barrels of spray mixtures on the farm, 
and I can say to you I have mixed my last barrel. I now 
use Pyrox.” 
Most good agricultural supply dealers sell Pyrox. 
Last year the demand for Pyrox exhausted the dealers’ 
supplies. See your dealer at once about your supply and 
write for new Pyrox Crop Book. It tells when and 
how the large farmers and growers spray to make 
money. We send it free. 
Bowker Insecticide Company 
43A Chatham St., Boston 1012 Fidelity Bldg., Baltimore 
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- Spray your trees with hose made to withstand the 
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who recognize Hamilton quality and ultimate econom^^ 
VS-Inch Perfect Hose VJi-Inch Sterlingworth Hose 
In 50-foot pieces coupled. 6-ply Reel Spray Hose in 500-f()ot 
fabric and fine rubber. lengths. Tlie best. 
$1500 
for 
Either kind will stand 600 pound test. Satisfac¬ 
tory for any power or hand sprayer. $15.00 for 
100 feet. Cash with order. Express paid tii your 
100 Feet station. Shipments immediate. 
HAMILTON RUBBER MFG. CO. 
204 Meade Street, Trenton, New Jersey 
Spray That Garden! 
Don’t allow the bugs and blight to foreclose a first mortgage 
on your garden crops. You can keep them off by spray¬ 
ing and greatly increase the yield of your garden. Our“Bor- 
deaux ’ Sprayer has been especially designed for odd jobs 
in garden, poultry houses and barns. The pump parts 
are entirely of brass—practically indestructible. This 
sprayer is furnished either plain or with adjustable 
foothold and clamp, or with tank and foothold. 
POULDS SPRAYERg 
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areinade in 60 styles—one for every spraying 
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