720 
“Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Covering an acre in six minutes 
Fast, Easy, Complete 
Potato Spraying with an IRON AGE Engine 
Sprayer brings your crops safely through to digging 
time. The time required for going over your fields is so little, 
you can give them the frequent spraying they need. 
A high pressure of 200 lbs. produces a dense, fog-like spray that 
does the work completely and correctly, avoids drenching the plants 
and covers thoroughly and economically, leaving no lurking places for either 
bugs or disease. The IRON AGE line of engine, traction and hand sprayers 
covers all spraying needs of field, orchard and garden. Write for booklet. 
IRONAQE 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Ear)ie8t, latest, largest, most productive varieties, 
inrliiding the Everboaring. Also KASI'HEKHV, HI.AeK- 
HKHRV, OimilANT, UOOSEHKKHV, OKAPK I'LAN I'S, KRCIT 
ANU ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERING PLANTS, 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
(lA HIIAOE, CA ULIFLO WER, UELERV, BEET, EGG, PEPPER. TO¬ 
MATO. ONION, LETTUCE, PARSLEY, SWEET POTATO, ASPARA¬ 
GUS, RIIUHAHB, IIORSERAUISII. Mail or exprc.ss prepaid. 
( at alogiie free. hARRY L. SQUIRES, Pood Ground, N.Y. 
Planfo for I afu Transplanted Strawberry 
nanis lOr Late oenmg. plants. Raspberries and 
all other Berry Fruit Plants, Asparagus, Rhubarb, 
Sage, Vegetable Plants, Seed Potatoes. Ornamental 
Shrubs and Plants, Roses, etc. Catalogue free. 
L. J. Farmer, liox 830, Pulaski, N. V. 
Strawberry Plants For Sale 
.'0 varieties to select from, including the fall-bear¬ 
ing. Send for free catalog. 
.t. KEIFFORI) HALL, R. 2, KhoUesdale, Mti. 
Cabbage^ 
__ J plants $2 per tliousaud. 
, anO lOniaiO pepper and Potato, $3, ex¬ 
press collect. Poitpaid, 60c pemundred 
Special Prices large lots. Plants are open 
Held grown and are stocky, tough and hardy. Full 
«ouiit—carefully packed—immediato shipment. 
OAKLIN FARM. - • SALISBURY, N. C. 
For Sale-Sweet Potato and Cabbage Plants lOOPost 
paid. Catalogue free. W, 8. FORI) A SON, lUrtly, Delaivarv 
Choice Marrow BeanSa?c^‘ 9 o/g‘^S^^^ 
Tested at Tompkins Co. Farm Biii'eau, Ithaca, N.Y. 
flO per bu. Bags free. LUTHER ROWER, Lndlowvllle, N.Y. 
Aenaraoiie ROOTS. HORSERADISH SETS. CABBAGE- 
Asparagus beets, onion plants, lettuce, toma. 
TOES EGG PLANTS. PEPPERS and CAULIFLOWER PLANTS. 
Bend for Price List. J. C. Schmidt, Bristol, Fa. 
PngkAn-A Dln«l«— Two Mlllioii. Daiiish and Domestic. 
uaDoage rlante a»h m e a i>, wiiuamson, n. y 
CABBAGE PLANTS-Any Variety 
Parcel—Postpjiid: 300—$1; 500—$1.50; 1,000—$2.50. Big 
lots special prices. J. T. COUNCILL & SONS, Franklin, Va. 
8>Row Yellow Flint Seed Corn ForSale 
a limited quantity of high-testing selected seed at $5 
per bushel. Brookdalo Farm, Brewster, N.Y. 
B:E3./^lNrS-Whife Medium 
9.5% test. SP13 per husliel. 
G. L. BOAKHMAN, - .Springville, N. Y. 
Seed Potatoes-Green Mountain and Gobbler 
Any quantity. Two cents pound: one twenty bush. 
HENRY KELLY S SONS,Tel.Chelsea 2100,413 W. 14tli St .N.Y. 
Potato Engine Digger uses tlie same 
engine as the IRON AGE Engine Sprayer. 
When digging time comes around it is easy 
to change the 4^ H.P. “New Way’’ 
engine over to your IRON AGE Potato 
Digger and set it to tossing your crop out 
onto the ground ready to basket. No matter 
how heavy the vines, grass or soil, this ma¬ 
chine will go right through. Two horses 
easily pull it, releasing one team for other 
work. There are also several models 
without engine, to suit your particular 
needs. Write for booklet today. 
Bateman g Co. 
Box 200 H Grenloch, N. J. 
LYMAN'S 
Guaranteed Genuine 
GRIMM 
ALFALFA 
Proven Hardiest By 
Agricultural College Tests 
A Photo taken of one of the 47 Fields established 
in 1916 by F, Forbell, Alfalfa Specialist in Minne¬ 
sota College of Agriculture. Liscomb Alfalfa was 
sown along side of Lyman’s Grimm. During the 
following winter most of the Liscomb, touted by 
some seedsmen as being very hardy, winterkilled 
—but the Grimm came through the winter in excel¬ 
lent shape. Lyman’s Grimm has been equally suc¬ 
cessful all over the country. 
Heaviest Yields—Highest In 
Feeding Value—Best For Seed 
Summer Planting Recommended. 
Sow Grimm Seed which is known to he genuine. 
With each lot of my seed I furnish a certificate of 
its genuineness. Book, "How I discovered the 
Grimm Alfalfa” and seed sample Free. 
A. B. LYMAN, Grimm Alfalfa Introducer 
Alfalfadale Farm, EXCELSIOR, MINN. 
, Pepper' 
Brussels 
Sprout Plants, Asparaeus roots, California Privet. 
Red Skin Potato, Early and Late Vegetable Plants, 
Catalogue Free. MICHAEL N. BORGO, Vineland. N. J. 
C lU p p T of all the leading varieties delivered by 
V VV C E I parcel post. 26 plants, 20c ; 60 plants, 35c ; 
nUTavit 100 plants, 50c; 600 or more, 30c per 100, 
I U I A I U By express, charges collect, 1,000 plants, 
Dl AUTQ 6,000 or more, $1.50 per 1,000. 
rLAII I d H. AUSTIN, FELTON, DELAWARE 
Saves two horses 
Don’t Worry About Corn 
PLANT SCOTT’S SOY BEANS 
Y OU may be all the better off if you find your corn won’t germinate for—owing to 
the mellowing effect of the bean roots and the large amount of nitrogen stored up— 
the soil is left in such shape that followed by wheat the production is greatly 
increased. Besides you get at little cost immense quantities of protein feed, the very 
element that is almost prohibitive in price now. We have very special prices. Ask 
for them and special information. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO., 1 SO IVlain St., Marysville, Ohio 
use tho m.Tchino without the fertilizer at¬ 
tachment. I never care<l for this, any¬ 
way, as I would rather h.ave the fertilizer 
(li.stribnted than sown along in the drill, 
and when one is planting there is enough 
to do to look after that. 
When the ground is ready and we have 
.showers so plants grow readilv we often 
plant by hand, even when the machine is 
available, unless there is a large acreage. 
The past season we had the plants about 
all set by hand befoi’o the ground wa.s 
dry enough to use the machine. Then 
again, when the weather is hot and the 
ground dry one can set plants right along 
and have every plant grow when it woidd 
be impossible to set them by hand.. And 
plants so started may become established 
and make a good growth until rains come 
that would make hand sotting possible, so 
that the difference in time of setting may 
make the difference hotNveen failure and a 
well-matured crop. Altogether, if I were 
growing four to six acres of cabbage, to¬ 
matoes, etc., I would think it worth 
while to have a machine, and possibly get 
.some rental for the machine to neighbors, 
as it is simple and easily handled, only 
that it takes )Jome practice in setting the 
plants, and a steady, slow-walking team 
and good driver to do good work. When- 
first st.irting the plant set.ter.s are apt to 
get the plants in uneven, miss .some, some 
upside down, Mome covered, etc., but after 
setting awhile the habit is .soon acquired, 
especially ffiy some active young persons, 
of planting at just the right time, depth, 
etc., and rapidly enough .so hand setting 
becomes burdensome compared with this 
method of planting. When breaking in 
young workers it is best to have them do 
all the planting in the neighborhood when 
they become iiroficient, rather than break 
in new hands. With good setters we can 
often put in 10,000 to 15,000 in a half 
day, with very few plants missed or mis¬ 
placed, and when the water ajiparatus is 
set right and the plants .set in the water, 
they will stand up erect by the next day 
and grow better than hand-set i)lant.s. 
Ohio. C. WECKESSEB. 
A Potato Patch Under Straw 
I have a plan which should be of 
benefit to all city gardeners, especially 
as I have nearly every year followed this 
plan of raising white potatoes in my 
garden for early table potatoes. Use a 
IG-foot fencing plank, six inches wide. 
Measure off with the plank a square by 
laying the plank down along the edge of 
the walk, or in any bed suitable for po¬ 
tatoes. With a chalk or heavy pencil 
put cross marks 'evei-y eight inches across 
the plank. This gives the correct dis¬ 
tance. Fork up the ground thoroughly, 
top-dress the ground with commercial 
fertilizer or year-old, well-rotted cow 
manure, and hand rake the ground and 
mix the manure or fertilizer in the soil. 
Now lay down on one side of the plot 
the plank, so as to make a row of po¬ 
tatoes on the outside edge of the plank. 
Cut your ixitatoes as usual for planting, 
having .soaked the whole potatoes in 
formalin, a gill to three gallons of water 
for one hour, and thoroughly dry them. 
Then cut and immediately sprinkle or 
dust the fresh-cut potatoe.s w'ith flower.s 
of sulphur. Plant on each side of the 
plank at the cross marks, pushing the 
pieces into the soft earth, cut side 
down. Turn the jdauk over twice and 
plant at each mark. This gives eight 
inches sijuare for each potato planted. 
Walk on the plank so a.s not to pack the 
soil. 
f’over the entire piece of ground 
planted with straw, old hay or leaves 
eight inches deep. You will have no 
weeds, no work to do, and moisture in 
plenty. I have made a success every 
time with this manner of planting. The 
last three years my crop has been im¬ 
mense potatoes, no small ones, and 12 to 
14 bushels to the plot. When done 
blooming scratch away the straw as you 
need potatoes, and there they are, on 
top of the soil, perfectly clean. This 
plan may help .someone to make potatoes. 
Madison Co., Virginia. F. l>. turner. 
E. N.-Y.—We have tried this plan sev¬ 
eral times. It works well when the soil 
is made very fine and rich and the mulch 
over the patch is thick enough to keep 
the soil moist. 
May 2."), 1918 
A Bulletin on Tomatoes 
The food bulletins i.ssued by Prof. Ceo. 
W. Carver of the Tnskegee Institute at 
Alabama are about the most instructive 
and practical of anything we have read, 
lie now has another, which is Bulletin 
No. 36 of the Tu-skegee Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, that is entitled ‘TIow to Grow the 
Tomato,” and in addition to methods of 
culture 115 methods of preparing tho 
tomato for the table are carefully out¬ 
lined. The.se run all the way from fried 
green tomatoes and tomato butter to 
tomato surprise. The last-named delicacy 
is described as follows: 
1 large can tomatoes. 
1 tablespoon butter. 
1 tablespoon flour. 
2 hard-boiled eggs. 
1% tablespoons sugar. 
1 teaspoon salt. 
% teaspoon pepper. 
Melt the butter and flour, and stir till 
dark brown; turn in the tomatoes, .sugar, 
.salt, and pepper; cook till thick (about 
30 minutes). Just before serving slice 
the hard-boiled egg over the top. 
During the season we always have 
many requests for good methods of mak¬ 
ing tomato cat.snp. Several recipes are 
given in this pamphlet, the following prob¬ 
ably being as good as any: 
y2 bushel of ripe tomatoes, pared. 
1 quart vinegar. 
T 4 pint salt. 
1 tablespoon cloves. 
1 tablespoon ginger. 
1 tablespoon cinnamon. 
2 tablespoons mustard. 
2 tablespoons black pepper. 
2 tablespoons allsjiioe. 
teaspoon cayenne pepper. 
Cook the tomatoes until very soft; 
press through a fine sieve to remove the 
seed; return to the kettle, and cook as 
thick as you desire the catsup. Now add 
all the other ingredients; cook 10 or 15 
minutes longer ; pour into sterilized bot¬ 
tles and cork tightly. No further sealing 
is necessary; it will keep for years. 
It seems that broiled tomatoes when 
properly cooked are very palatable. The 
tomatoes are cleaned and peeled and then 
cut in halves or thick .slices, then they 
are put on a wire broiler over a quick 
fire and w’hen hot salt and pepper and a 
bit of butter added, they are toasted 
quickly until brown and served hot. That 
certainly ought to be good enough to eat. 
During the Summer we frequently see 
pco))le in New York making an entire 
meal of tomatoes with bread and butter. 
One morning last Summer we saw four 
Greeks, all large men, eating their break¬ 
fast in a store. They had bread, cheese, 
several good-sized tomatoes and coffee, 
and that seemed to be a fair sample of 
their ordinary breakfast. They were 
strftig, healthy men, well capable of doing 
hard work. Broiled tomatoes should 6)iit 
them about as well as beefsteak. 
The Ortley Apple 
I note on page 550 what Mr. Mc¬ 
Gregor says in regard to the Ortley. In 
my edition of Downing (1872 to 1881) 
there are 27 synonymous names, among 
them Greasy Pippin, Jersey Greening and 
Hollow Core. I read Mr. Powell’s de¬ 
scription, and at that time I thought it 
correct. This is an old Jersey favorite, 
and in my boyhood was generally known 
as Greasy and Hollow Cored I’ippin, as 
it has that waxy substance on the skin, 
and has a very large hollow core; so 
much so that the seed would rattle, and 
.sometimes it was called Battle Core. It 
can easily be known from this character 
alone. I know of no other of the same 
character. On strong clay, well-drained 
subsoils, there is no finer apple for its 
season, and when grown to perfection 
none outsell it in our local market, as it 
is of fine quality and appearance. I regret 
very much that its cultivation in our nur¬ 
series has been dropped. I have six old 
trees that give me a heavy crop e^ery 
other year. In our local market it has no 
competition except Yellow Bellflower. Its 
sea.son here is November to December. 
NewJei-sey. WM. black. 
To keep the bug.s off of cucumbers, mel¬ 
ons, etc., let me suggest covering the jilants 
with cheesecloth. If you do not want the 
cloth to touch the plants, bend a piece of 
wire in shape of a TJ and push the ends 
into the soil next to or over the plants. 
The edges of the cloth can be held by plac¬ 
ing soil on them. A yard of the cloth one 
yard wide costing six cents will make four 
covers. I have bought 100 yards and will 
give it a trial. n. G, m. t. 
Indiana. 
