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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
- March 8, 1HO 
arnes’ Trees 
, are New England grown 
hardy, vigorous and true 
to label —no better trees 
grown. Our supply is short, 
though, and many items 
will be exhausted be¬ 
fore Spring. Avoid 
disappointment; 
write today. 
General Farm Topics 
The Barnes Bros. Nursery Co. 
Box: 8 Yalesville, Conn. 
You’ll Never Regret 
Planting Kelly Bros.Trees.Thc prices 
are right. The trees are all perfect 
specimens, and our guarantee is your 
protection against loss. We offer you 
a big money-saving and reliable stock 
Send for 1919 Free Catalog 
Kelly Bros. Wholesale Nurseries 
604 Main Street Dansville, N. Y. 
• given satisfaction for 32 years. This fall they 
are better Ilian ever—every tree cov¬ 
ered by an absolute guarantee. All the 
Nut, Ornamental Trees, Vines, and 
Shrubs grown in our 400-acre Nurser¬ 
ies. the largest in Now York, are sold 
direct at cost plus one profit. Send for 
free, wholesale catalogue today. Ma¬ 
loney Quality plus Maloney Service 
means money in your pocket. 
\Ve prepay tr an .porta tian charges on all 
orders for over $4 00. 
MALONEY BROS. & WELLS CO. 
#51 East St., t: Dansville, N. Y. 
Dansville'« Pioneer Wholesale Nuraenea 
BERRY PLANTS 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS, earliest, latest, 1 arrest, 
most produc tive and everbearing varle'les. RASP- 
(iURIt V,BLACK HERR Y.GOOSKBERRY.GR A PE, 
CURRANT. ASPARAGUS, RHUBARB, HORSE¬ 
RADISH PI,ANTS. FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL 
TREES. SHRUBS. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
GABBAGE, CAUIJFLOW^ BEET, *CELERY, EGG, BRUS- 
SKI#S SPROUTS, KALK. LKTTU< E, ONION, PARSLEY, SAGE. 
PEPPER SWE^T POTATO. TOMATO FI AN1S. ( atalo* free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, 
Renaming an Old Strawberry 
Four years ago I bought 100 straw¬ 
berry plants, thinking they were Progres¬ 
sive, but was very much disappointed. 
When they bore 1 found they were not 
the ever-bearing kind. So the next year 
we wrote the party we bought them of, 
and lie replaced them with Progressives, 
writing that his plants hail given out. and 
In* had bought 100 plants ol: another 
grower to fill the first order. The kind 
we were disappointed in were, the best 
and earliest berry we have ever had on 
our place, and fruited hist year when 
berries were 40 cents a quart and no 
natives in town. IN e lost all hut Jo 
plants when we put them in the ground, 
but now from those Jo have nearly a 
quarter of an acre. Put try our best we 
cannot find out. what variety. they are. 
I would like to advertise these plants 
and sell some of them, but do not know 
whether I would have the right to do so 
or not. Would I have the legal right to 
give these plants a name* and sell them 
as such? I am already in the plant and 
bulb business and send out thousands of 
plants every year. ,,i.L. 
Massachusetts. 
We do not think your would be justified 
in offering this variety under a new name 
until you have exhausted every reason¬ 
able effort to find out what it is. It 
may he a new seedling, hut most likely 
it is some good old variety which does 
specially well on your soil. NNait until 
it fruits and then send samples of fruit 
and plant to the Massachusetts Fxperi- 
men Station at Amherst and the IT. S. 
Department at. Washington. Tf they can¬ 
not identify it yo.u might safely name it 
and sell it under a new name. If you 
should name it now and those who bought 
it found it some old variety your reputa¬ 
tion and trade would surely be injured. 
This same thing has been done in years 
past. A notable case was that of the Joe 
strawberry, originated by E. S. Black. 
It is a fine berry. Several growers took 
it up and “introduced” it as Big Joe, 
Black Joe, Joe Johnson, etc. Tt was the 
same old Joe, a fine berry, but its repu¬ 
tation was hurt by all this “introducing. 
GOOD GROUND. N. Y. 
N DPI r 5 to 7-ft. high: strictly first-class; budded 
HllLt ojj whole roots; leading varieties at 18**45 
— per 1011. TKAK, PLUM, CHKRKY, 
TREES ORNAMENTALS, SH RU BS, Etc. 
Low price for quality Stock. 
J. F. BRYANT, Nurseries Est. 1870 Dansville. N. Y. 
ROSS’ 
Eureka Corn 
These seven cows kept for one 
year on the product of one acre of 
Eureka Corn. Yield was 70 tons 
800 lbs. of best quality ensilage. 
Every bag of Rom’ Eureka Corn 
bears our trademark —man 
holding stalk of corn. We 
have complete line of 
supplies for farm, garden, 
dairy, orchard or poultry. 
Seedsourspecialty. Send 
, for 120-page free catalog. 
Supply limited; write today. 
ROSS BROS. COMPANY 
Front Street Woroeeter, Meet. 
of High 
Germination 
10 bu. 
Seed Corn 
Price bu. 
Golden Surprise (Pedigreed 
Stock growti oil ear-to-row 
method). . 
100-I>ay ltristol. J.%5 
Improved Learning ... . 
All shelled tind F. O. It. Moorestown, bags included. 
STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY. Moorestown. N. J. 
*37.50 
30.00 
30.00 
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jure most soils if used freely. A fter the 
sawdust has been well rotted, or after it 
has been thoroughly soaked in the stable 
liquids, it loses much of its acid character 
and is fit for use. It contains some plant 
food, and when well rotted or sweetenel 
will be useful as organic matter. It is 
bulky stuff to handle; and where there is 
a long haul and the sawdust is fresh it 
will often pay best to burn the pile where 
it stands and haul the ashes. This means 
the loss of some nitrogen, but the lime, 
potash and phosphoric acid are saved in 
the ashes. We would not use fresh saw¬ 
dust directly on the land, but would use 
it as bedding or absorbent first. We 
would not use any sawdust worked into 
the soil without using lime along with it. 
A coat of sawdust with lime added makes 
a fair mulch for use around apple trees. 
With the rotted sawdust, nine years old. 
we would send a fair sample to the New 
Jersey Experiment Station at New Bruns¬ 
wick and ask the chemists to test it for 
acidity. -They will tell you if it is safe 
to use without lime. The best way to 
use it would be to spread after plowing 
and harrow in. As for the fresh saw¬ 
dust, we would use it as bedding and ab¬ 
sorbent in the stables and work it well 
into the manure, and then use lime when 
this manure was plowed in. 
Bean Board 
Here is a picture of my bean board. I 
think it quite an improvement over the 
old idea of putting beans on table to pick 
out poor ones. This is made from a half- 
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“When You Think of Dutchess 
County--Think of Seed Corn 
PutclicHH County offers Seed for Sale. 
Husking Varieties, *4.00 per bushel. 
Eight-rowed Yellow Flint, Longfellow 
Type, Red Nose White, King Phillip. 
Also extra early Flint and early Pent. 
Particulars 
DUTCHESS COUNTY FARM BUREAU, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
DENT CORN 
FOR SHORT SEASONS 
Our EARLY WHITE HYBRID DENT Is Michigan 
Grown, beautiful deep kernel, cap white, sides lemon- 
yellow tinged with red. Ears filled solid to tip. The surest 
and most prolific early corn yet developed. Our seed 
stock was husked in August, yield 98 bu. per aero. Shelled 
69 lbs. grain from 79 lbs. ears. Sample, Price List, FARM 
and DARDEN SEED CATALOG Free on request. 
THE C. E. DE PUY CO., PONTIAC. MICH. 
r» _ j Knrlv maturing White Flint. *3.60 bushel. 
v66Q liOfn lIAttbi.1) A. LATHAM, . Orient, 1.1., K. 1. 
Growing Tomato Plants 
I wish to grow tomato plants for can- 
house. What date would be best to sow 
the seed so that the tomatoes would be 
ready to pick about August 1? Would 
a coal stove have any bad effect. on. the 
plants if steam coal was used for tuel. 
New Jersey. F - R - G - 
Main crop tomatoes require from T2f> 
to 140 days from time of sowing seed 
till ready for use, according to variety 
and weather conditions. Peppers require 
140 to 150 days from time of sowing seed 
till ready for use; therefore if they are 
wanted about the first of August peppers 
should be sown about first of March, and 
tomatoes from middle of March to April 
the first. 
The writer has a greenhouse 0x40 feet, 
in which he raises thousands of plants, 
including peppers and tomatoes, every 
year. This house is heated with a 1.1- 
inch cannon style heating stove. This 
little stove is fired with hard coal, nut 
size, and has been most satisfactory in 
every respect. There cannot be any bad 
effect if no leakage of gas occurs, and 
this will not occur if the stove is tight 
and draft is strong enough to give a good 
lively lire when dampers are open. A 
sluggish draft might permit gas to escape, 
in which case damage to young plants 
will be noticeably serious, if not fatal. 
K. 
Board for Hand-picking Bean*. Fig. 116 
inch board with planed lath nailed to 
edge all around except narrowed end. 
To operate I sit. down with beans at my 
right and receptacle at my left. I put 
about a pint or a little more on board, 
spread them out with the hand, and shake 
board until beans are only one deep; then 
pick out poor ones, run my finger through 
beans and shake again. This will turn 
beans over. When poor ones are all out 
I raise closed end of board and let beans 
run out at opeu end. I can hand-pick 
more than double the amount with this 
board than I can on table. 
New York. V. A. BALDWIN. 
One Bottle in the 
Barn Is Worth a 
Dozen in the Store 
S FPrOSE one of your valuable 
horses should suddenly cut or 
calk itself badly- 
What would you do? Patch it 
up the best you could, then drive 
to the store and lose much im¬ 
portant time? 
Or just step to the barn and 
get your bottle of Hanford's Bal¬ 
sam of Myrrh —used by breeders 
and owners for over 70 years. 
A few drops of Hanford’s Bal¬ 
sam makes a wound clean and 
antiseptic. And covers the ex¬ 
posed flesh with a film that 
keeps out dirt and dust. 
In lameness, sprains or strains 
—any of a horses’s many skin 
and "muscular ailments—apply 
Hanford’s Balsam and rub it in 
thoroughly. Puts most such trou¬ 
bles out: of business in a hurry. 
Don’t wait for something to 
happen to your horses. Get your 
bottle of Hanford’s Balsam now. 
That you may know its merits 
for yourself, present this adver¬ 
tisement at your dealer’s and 
buy a bottle (in any of three 
sizes). And 
Te*t It At Our Risk! 
If not completely satisfied, 
take empty bottle to dealer and 
get your money back. No ques¬ 
tions asked! 
Made only by 
G. C. Hanford Mfg. Co. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
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The Use of Sawdust 
I have a large pile of nawdust and bark 
on my place, where a sawmill was in op¬ 
eration nine years ago. This material is 
thoroughly rotted, so that it will pulverize- 
in the hand as fine as Hour. Will this he 
of any value if spread on the land ; also, 
should I use lime in conjunction with it? 
If so, should it be applied before or after 
plowing? What crops would it benefit 
the most? We raise hay and grain, in¬ 
cluding corn and some truck. w. L.E. 
Dover, N. J. 
Can you tell ine any uses which saw¬ 
dust is good for? There is a sawmill on 
our farm at present, and a large pile of 
sawdust is accumulating. How is it for 
bedding stables? Can it be used in any 
way as a fertilzer? c. H. 
Mt. Vernon, Iud. 
The thing to be considered in this is 
whether the sawdust is too sour. Fresh 
sawdust contains an acid which will in- 
Moneywort in Lawn 
Several years ago I planted some yel- i 
low myrtle in the front, yard. It looks ] 
very pretty with its yellow bell-shaped 
flowers and light green leaves, but has 
kept on increasing until there are several 
patches. Some hay you cannot get rid 
of it. Is it so? Would plowing and cul¬ 
tivating the land do the work i If you 
can tell what, will exterminate it the price 
of the paper will be small, compared to 
the looks of the yard, as the grass is run 
ou t. mbs. s. n. c. 
Southampton, Conn. 
Moneywort, often called myrtle (Ly- 
simachia nummularia) is a troublesome 
weed when once introduced in a thin 
lawn; like chickwced, it is best con¬ 
trolled by encouraging the grass. Where 
there art* isolated patches they may be 
torn out, the place enriched and reseeded, j 
If it is practical to plow up the whole 
lawn, put it in good tilth, give it abun¬ 
dant. fertiizer and lime, and reseed, the 
weed should lie controlled. It this is not 
possible, give it all a good top-dressing, 
reseed patches from which the weed is 
removed, and give the whole lawn good 
care during the Summer. A thick sward 
strangles out most weeds. r i his little 
moneywort is very pretty, and often use¬ 
ful in bare spots where grass cutting is 
not desired, but it may easily become a 
garden pest. 
“Who is at the phone?” “Your wife, 
sir.” “What does she want?” “The only 
word I can understand is ‘idiot,’ sir.’ 
“Let me come there. She probably wants 
to talk with me.”—Boston Transcript. 
Willie Willis : “Pa. what do they 
mean when they speak of the ‘mysteries 
of the East’?” Papa Willis: “How so 
many people in New York get along with¬ 
out working.”—Life. 
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We offer the best that can be grown in vegetable 
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Citrus Fruits. Hume. 2.60 
California Fruits. Wickson. 3.00 
Plums and Plum Culture. Waugh. 1.60 
Fruit Ranching in British Columbia. 
Bealby .1*60 
Farm and Garden Rule Book . 2.00 
Live Stock — Poultry 
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals. 
Plumb . $2.00 
Poultry Feeding and Management. 
Dryden . 1*60 
Swine in America. Coburn. 2.60 
Diseases of Animals. Mayo. 1.76 
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