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April 6, 1918 
U/>e R U R AL N E W-YO R k E R 
This Engine Sprayer tcill Cover an Acre in 6 minutes 
Your War Problem 
YOUR boy—your neighbor’s boy, friends and relatives 
of yours—have gone to make the world safe. Whether 
they succeed or not depends on you at home. Production 
must be vastly increased to make up for their absence, and 
the absence of the men who make ammunition and ships. 
We have got to feed the world to win. 
There is only one way to increase production now— 
use modem machinery. 
The Government recognizes the vital importance of 
farm and garden implements. The manufacturers of 
IRONAQEi^^ “"ois 
The 100% Potato Piantcr Increases Yields 
have disregarded industrial shut-downs. They are running on a war basis. 
Every effort will be made to fill all orders in time, but you should get 
yours in today to be sure. 
The 100?^ Potato Planter shown here saves time, saves seed and avoids 
missed plantings. In every hill a plant, and only one. The boy behind sees to 
that,earning many times his pay in the savingof seed alone. Write for booklet. 
Bateman M’Pg Co., Box 200T, Grenloch, N. J. 
MoreDoluir/ 
From Ever ^ Acre 
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ought to know all about the 
% KRAUS PIVOT AXLE CULTIVATOR 
t Helps solve labor shortage-any boy old enough to drive 
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Simplest in construction, least number of parts, nothing 
i to get out of order. Outwears two or three ordinary riding 
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Dept, 94. Akron, Ohio. 
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The Greatest Labor Saving Tool 
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than alawnmower. 
Use it 2 weeks if n t 
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us and we will ref und 
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ELYRIA, OHIO 
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It is more powerful and much less ex¬ 
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150 gallons of spray. 
Send for circular 
B. G. PRATT CO., Mfg. Chemists 
30 Church St. Dept. N New York 
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Garden and Farm Notes 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
^>o^v that it lia.s been .^hown the price 
of .$21 a ton for tomatoe.s was not fixed 
by flu* fJovernment. but was a price 
agreed on between the canners and the 
pnrelia.sers of the Army and Navy as a 
foundation for contracts, the farmer.s are 
I i»re])aring to plant as large a crop as 
they can get labor for. Some of the 
fanners are now offering 50 cents for a 
five-eighths bushel basket, but the pros¬ 
pect is that there will be little inclina¬ 
tion on tlie part of the farmers to con¬ 
tract in advance at any price. They re¬ 
member last Summer, when the early con¬ 
tracts were made at ,$15 a ton, .and the 
price on tlie open market went to .$3.5 
and over. At .">0 cents .a basket there 
would not he a very great advan<*e on the 
$21 a ton, and it is hardly probable that 
the canners will get any tomatoes for less 
than .$,30 a ton. 
While it is evident that a very large 
area has been planted in early Irish po¬ 
tatoes in the South, there is a very de¬ 
cided inclination here to plant very lightly 
this season, hut to depend mainly on 
planting a heavy late crop. Planting 
is about done and the area, so far as I 
can judge, is not more tlian half of that 
last Spring. It is probably wi.se for our 
growers, for with the great (|uiintity in 
the North that must be sold this Spring 
it is evident that tlie crop from the 
South is going to run foul of difficulty. 
Speaking today to a man planting a 
field of iiotatoes, he said that seed is so 
cheap that he hoped the crop would sell 
for more. lie has but poor reason for 
lioiiing. 
After such a wonderfully hard Winter, 
March is giving us a rather mild month 
unless there is a sudden change now, 
for today is the opening of* Spring, ac-. 
cording to the almanac. The daffodils 
and hyacinths are blooming in the gar¬ 
den, and the For,sythias and Spira*a 
Thunliergii are trying to see which can 
get in bloom first. The Porsythias rather 
have the advantage, though the Siiinea is 
little behind, and Pyrus .Taponicus is 
getting color on the buds. The Englisli 
jx'HS are up as early as usual, and the 
onions planted last September are grow¬ 
ing rajiidly. The Fall-sowm spinach is 
all killed hut one row on the north side 
of the plot. Why that row survived and 
no other is onie of -the puzzles that often 
mark the passage of cold. Some years 
ago on a trip down the South Atlantic 
coast in middle of March to Florida. T 
noted that the clumps of oleander.s in 
Charleston, S. C., and Savannah had all 
the leaves browned, while at New Berne. 
N. C., not a leaf was scorched. Here 
this AVinter one Magnolia gi;andiflora ex¬ 
posed 'to the sun had its leaves scorched 
and dropped, while a number of others 
scattered about our town .show no signs 
of injury. The .Tupan Euonymiis bushes 
are badly injured, and in some cases 
killed. Ni'ver before have I ever seen 
a scorched leaf on these. Fven kudzu 
is killed to the ground. Had it been 
killed to the last root i would have been 
thankful. 3'he canes of the red raspber¬ 
ries are partly killed. 
Of course, I am testing some new to¬ 
matoes, as I do every Spring, merely to 
find that most of them are simply new 
names for old varieties. For the main 
crop I intend to depend on Dwarf Stone, 
though I cannot leave out Globe, the 
be.st of the ]iiuk sorts. 
My Diihlias were buried as usual in 
the oiKui ground, and have not been lifted 
yet. and it is too soon to say whether 
they are living or not. Cannas are all 
gone. Looking today at my various seed 
boxics I found that a box so small that 
a iiano of glass 8x10 inches fully covers 
it, has fully 1,000 germinating Begonias, 
little dots of gia'on so thick that no one 
could count. It seems amazing that a 
seed so .small as a Begonia can ripen aiifi 
dry all M’'inter. and carry over the jn-in- 
ciple of life. The everblooming Begonias 
bed out so finely and bloom so prr- 
sistontly in defiance of the snu that I 
always grow a iiuantity. saving the seed 
from the beds. In fact, I save so many 
that I furnish them to the seedsmen. 
The difficulty in growing them from .seed 
is in getting them thin enough in the 
seed boxes. The dust-like seeds are 
merid.v scattered on the surface of the soil 
after watering it, and a pane of glass is 
laid over to prevent drying out, and the 
germination take.s place in a .short time, 
but always too thick. Soon as they 
have leaves I lift them, one or more, on 
the blade of my pocketkuife, and set them 
in a fresh box with more room to get large 
enough to set in 2 14 -inch pots. They are 
generally large enough to set in the beds 
in late May, and begin to bloom by the 
time they are three inches high and never 
stop again during the life of the plant. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Notes on Spring Spraying 
'Phe quickening infiueuce of warm 
wcatlier has i-evived interest in spraying 
and the numerous connected problems. 
These are particularly important at the 
present time, owing to the high cost of 
labor, a possible local scarcity of insec¬ 
ticides and fungicides and the urgent 
need of maximum production. 
The lime-sulphur wash, dormant or de¬ 
layed dormant, is one of the most effi¬ 
cient treatments for control of San Jose 
scale, pear psylla and fungus infections, 
e.specially the apple scab. 'Phere are por- 
tion.s of the country Avhere scale has been 
of comparatively little importance dur¬ 
ing the last few years, notably parts of 
the Hudson River Valley, aud in such 
places we would not urge spraying with 
lime-sulphur uuless there was some other 
good reason aside from danger of injury 
by scale, though there is no question but 
that this treatment is valuable, and un¬ 
der uormal conditioii.s usuall.y advisable. 
Special attention is called to the de¬ 
layed dormant sjtray, since treatment at 
the time buds have started, namely, when 
the young leaves are a quarter to a half 
an inch long, will not only give protec¬ 
tion from San .lose scale but if tobacco, 
40 per cent nicotine, is added at the 
usual strength, we have an excellent ap¬ 
plication for control of aphis. Investiga¬ 
tions during riHient years have shown 
that these insects cause con.siderably 
more damage than many fruit growers 
realize and in sections where they are 
habituall.v present or abundant, the de- 
la.ved dormant treatment is by all means 
advisable if conditions permit. This spray¬ 
ing is also of considerable value, especial¬ 
ly if somewhat late, for the control of 
the early hatching red bug. Rexmrts re¬ 
ceived from all parts of the State last 
year indicate increasing I'amage from 
these pests and warnuit their btdng placed 
among the insects which slionld receive 
at least some atiention in the regular 
spraying schedule. 
'Phe delayed donnaiit lime-sulphur 
sjira.v iiiqdied just before the blossom 
buds hegiu to pull apart is one of the 
most effective treatments for control of 
pear psylla and consequently a most im¬ 
portant treatment for the pear grower. 
It is necessary to delay this spraying un¬ 
til the over-wintering p.syllas have all is¬ 
sued, depositiug their yellowish eggs 011 
the fruit spurs aud practically disap¬ 
peared, if one would secure the be.st re¬ 
sults. The lime-sulphur destroys the eggs 
aud M'here the treatment is thorough the 
iusecfts may be almo'.st entirely eradicate<l 
from an orchard. 
It is advisable to add a poison, such as 
arsenate of lead, to the delayed dormant 
spray u.sod with or without tobacco, since 
the poison applied at that time to the 
opening leaves is of great value against 
earl.v and fi'o<iu(‘ntl.y destructive leaf feed¬ 
ers, such 'as bud-moth caterpillars, case- 
bearers and young ajiple or forest teni- 
caterpillars. 3'he former two winter as 
pai'tly-grown caterjiillars, and attempt 
within a few weeks to make up for the 
long AVintcr's fast. Tin* tent-caterpillars, 
though frequently very d(‘structive, are 
readily destj'oyed h.v poison, aud conse- 
quentl.v they are never abundant in well- 
sprayed orchards. K. l'. feet. 
New York State Fiitoiindogist. 
“For the I.and’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they euiiuU the earth an^ 
those who till it.”—.4 
