The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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ford, Maine, are in our files. 
“We have moved to another town, but our Sterling came 
right along too, and I am very proud to have it in my home and 
am pleased with the chance to let you know how well I like it. 
It has given me line service both in heating and cooking. 
The oven heats very quickly and many goodies come forth 
from it with a perfect browning. 
1 like the Sterling also for its plainness, which makes it so 
easy to keep clean and always bright and shining. It will al¬ 
ways be a pleasure to me to tell others of the fine qualities of a 
Sterling Range. I would not change it for any range I ever 
saw. I am a friend of the Sterling Range.” 
If you want to make housekeeping more pleasant and more 
economical, send today for our free book on the Sterling 
Range, and the name of the nearest Sterling dealer. _ 
We can give you just the range you want equipped /■ 
to suit your needs. fiqm 
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NP STERLING FURNACE 
The Scientific One Register Furnace 
SILL STOVE WORKS, Rochester, N. Y. 
Management of Maine Orchard 
I have just come on to a place where 
there is an orchard of about 150 acres. 
These trees are about 40 years old, and 
are in fairly good condition. The rows 
are 50 feet apart, and the trees stand 40 
feet apart in the row. There is a space 
of 15 or 20 feet between the rows that 
the trees do not cover. There are five 
rows. One of these I am told was 
planted to potatoes last year. This row 
I would like to seed with oats and clover, 
cutting the oats green to feed. I would 
like to use two rows for garden truck 
and plant the other two to Japanese mil¬ 
let to cut to feed. Next year I would 
seed the two garden patches to oats and 
clover and use the two pieces which I 
sowed to millet this year for garden 
truck. • v. b. 
Eliot, Me. 
The proposed place of operations is 
good and may well be followed because 
of material benefit to the trees. Natur¬ 
ally, the strips will be confined to the 
open spaces between the branches. A 
generous use of barn manure will not 
only grow the desired crop, but fertilize 
the trees. At the same time it will be 
well to guard in plowing not to injure 
the roots. When once seeded all grass 
should be used to mulch the trees. An 
orchard cannot well be maintained where 
the grass crop is removed. Cultivation 
will increase wood growth and leaf size 
am 1 development, and this spells fruit 
later. Oats take large quantities of 
water from the soil, but as these strips 
are no? wide the loss can be overcome 
by working i-u good barn manure. In 
addition I am forced by experience to the 
use of acid phosphate, 400 to 500 pounds 
per acre. This added to the manure will 
put substance into the growing stalks and 
wood tips, and quality and size into the 
product, whether it be beans or apples. 
The best good of the orchard will be in¬ 
sured when these well-fertilized strips are 
seeded and the grass all used to mulch 
not the trunks but the outer branches of 
the trees. g. M. twitciiell. 
Maine. 
TRACTOR STARTI N G LIGHTING & IGNITION 
Why let your 
tractor motor 
run in this case—- 
when 
—you wouldn’t 
let your auto 
motor run here? 
R 
A West Virginia Garden 
In cultivating gardens during the past 
three years we have met with some prob¬ 
lems we would like your advice upon. 
Stable manure is scarce and high in price. 
Old sod was plowed under three years 
ago, and for two years treated with acid 
phosphate about 400 lbs. per acre. Soil 
mostly dark loam; heavier, almost clay, 
bakes hard, at one end, tapering off to 
light, almost sandy soil at other. Crops 
usually start off well, but incline to fail 
before maturity. We buy the best North¬ 
ern seed. Potatoes sprayed, produced sec¬ 
ond year about two-thirds of first year’s 
crop, and third year only a little over 
one-third of first year’s crop, although 
perhaps drought was partly responsible. 
Peas, beans, dwarf and Lima, produce 
abundant growth of vine, but production 
has tapered off; so also with sweet corn. 
Lima beans are particularly disappoint¬ 
ing : vines very heavy, which continue 
growing till frost, with only a light, crop 
of beans early in season, and although 
considerable blossom, no crop after first 
week or 10 days. This has been the case 
with the Limas from the beginning. I 
am anxious to know just how to treat the 
soil. In absence of stable manure, just 
what fertilizer do I need for this garden 
truck, and in about what quantities? It 
has been suggested that there may be suffi¬ 
cient nitrogen, but a serious lack of pot¬ 
ash. Is lime needed, and. if so, in what 
form, quantity and best time, and way 
to apply it? Ground rented from year to 
year. w. m. 
Elm Grove, W. Va. 
The growth of these vines indicates an 
abundance of nitrogen in that soil. The 
“baking” indicates the need of lime, and 
we think part of the soil is sour. The 
failure to make seed and to mature shows 
the need of both phosphoric acid and pot¬ 
ash. We should use lime at the rate of 
1.500 lbs. to the acre, spread after plow¬ 
ing or spading, and raked or harrowed in. 
If you can get a supply of stable manure, 
use it, but double the amount of acid 
phosphate. It is possible in many towns 
to find a supply of wood ashes. Much 
wood is now being used as fuel, and in 
many cases a local advertisement will 
bring out quite a supply of wood ashes. 
If you can get them, use up to the rate 
of two tons to the acre, broadcast, and 
well worked into the soil. This supply 
of potash with the acid phosphate will 
put that soil into condition. If you can¬ 
not obtain the wood ashes, buy one of the 
mixed garden fertilizers containing as 
high a per cent of potash as possible. 
EMY ELECTRIC STARTING EQUIPMENTcan 
save the average farmer $75 a year on his tractor. 
This estimate is based on practical experience of the average 
time spent by the tractor engine idling when the machine must 
be stopped for such duties as filling the fuel tank, the radiator, 
the seeder, fixing the binder, waiting for grain to come to the sep¬ 
arator from the fields, etc. A half hour to an hour a day is spent 
on the average in such idling, and on account of the usual diffi¬ 
culty and hard work of starting the tractor, the farmer, in nearly 
all cases, lets his engine run during these times. 
Eight per cent of the fuel cost can be saved by use of a self¬ 
starter that will make it practical and easy to shut off the tractor 
engine on such occasions. Figured on an average cost of 25c per 
gallon for gasoline, running the tractor for ten hours a day for a 
hundred days in the year, this will amount to $75 saving, that 
will be effected by Remy Starting Equipment—and this does not 
take into consideration any of the other many advantages of 
Remy equipment. 
Write for the Remy booklet that tells what Remy Electric Starting, Lighting, 
Ignition and Engine Governing can do for your tractor. 
REMY ELECTRIC COMPANY 
Tractor Equipment Division, Chicago 
Motor Equipment Division, Detroit Factories, Anderson^ fcdiasa 
Generations of Good Cooks 
Designed this Range 
And made it convenient, easy, quick, and economical to use. 
All the improvements in cooking methods since log cabin days 
have been studied and combined by practical cooks and scientific 
experts into this modern time, temper, and step saving 
The range that hakes a barrel of flour with one hod of coal 
Built along the most scientific lines by a firm who have been devoting their 60 years 
experience to the manufacture of high grade ranges, this particular Sterling designed by a woman 
is guaranteed to satisfy the most exacting housewife. 
It has a large roomy evenly heated oven, rounded fire box that uses less coal, reservoi- (or 
waterfront) that heats plenty of water, grates that are easily removed and interchangeable for 
wood or coal, deep roomy ash pan, polished top that 
never requires blacking, key plate that lifts for feed¬ 
ing and broiling without raising heavy lids, high 
roomy heating oven, oven thermometer, and everv feature in 
fact to save a woman’s time and back and make’ housework 
easy. 
