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The RURAL 
MANURE IS DEFICIENT IN 
PHOSPHORUS 
WITH COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS COSTING MORE 
THAN DOUBLE THE USUAL PRICE, MAKE 
YOUR MANURE GO AS FAR AS POSSIBLE 
BY REINFORCING IT WITH 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
ANALYZING 
16% Phosphoric Acid 7% Barium Sulphide 
Is an ideal material for the Dairyman or Market Gardener to use. 
Added to manure it supplies Phosphorus in a most desirable form. 
A few loads of manure, to each of which a bag of Barium-Phosphate 
has 
the 
is 
a 
acre 
than three or four times 
been added, will produce more Corn per 
amount of manure used alone. 
Barium-Phosphate is a mixture of an alkaline salt, of Barium, ■which 
soluble in water, and Phosphate of Lime. 
IT SUPPLIES PHOSPHORUS AT A LOW COST 
Every farmer knows that so long as he can grow clover, he caai grow 
anything else, and the converse is also true, that where clover persistently 
refuses to grow, owing to acid conditions, then other crop* must steadily 
deteriorate. 
Barium-Phosphate, in addition to supplying Phosphorus 
Sweetens the Soil 
and INSURES a LUXURIANT GROWTH OF CLOVER 
WITHOUT THE USE OF LIME 
crops, Barium-Phos- 
the fertility of your 
Used with manure, or plowed under with green 
phatc alone, will produce good yields, and build up 
farm. 
This material is being used by some of the most successful farmers and 
market gardeners in New York and New England, and in giving excellent 
results. 
WHY NOT GIVE IT A TRIAL 
We urge that you order at least a few tons of this material and give it 
a fair trial. 
We will deliver Barium-Phosphate anywhere in New England, New 
York, Pennsylvania or New Jersey at the following prices: 
Carloads, 15 tons or more $21.50 per ton 
Less Carloads, 1 ton or more 23.50 per ton 
It will pay you to write for our books: 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE FOR GENERAL FARM CROPS. 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE FOR MARKET GARDEN CROPS. 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE IN THE ORCHARD. 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Inc. 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
FARMERS 
ARE WORKING HARDER 
And using their feet more than ever be¬ 
fore. For all these workers the frequent 
use of Allen’s Foot=Ease, the antiseptic 
powder to be shaken into the shoes and 
sprinkled in the foot-bath, increases their 
efficiency and insures needed physical com¬ 
fort. It takes the Friction from the Shoe, 
freshens tin* feet, and prevents tired, ach¬ 
ing and blistered feet. Women everywhere 
arc constant users of Allen’s Foot-Fuse. 
Don’t get foot sore, get Allen’s Foot Ease. 
Sold by dealers everywhere 
QAYTON AJRLES^ 
HOLLAND t, 
SIMONS & CO., Nieuwe haven 
147, Rotterdam, Holland 
wish to ronve-.'m sevoral first-class firms in copper 
armatures, elect'utoi.hnlc-l and agricultural articles. 
MANUAL OF MILK PRODUCTS, by 
W. A. S to ck inti: an excellent dairy 
book. For aale by Rutx' New - Yorker 
Can’t Puncture 
Can’t Blow Out 
Piers of live, elastic rubber 
built about one inch opurt inside 
the casing and vulcanized or 
welded to it take the place of on inner 
tube. Nothing can happen but wear. 
30x3 and 30x3!-£ sizes only—Ford Sizes. More 
than 50,000 cars equipped with them in 6 years. 
IHrr MVxnOV in becoming our exclusive 
151g money dealer in your county. Tire 
experience unnecessary. Write today for terms. 
Dept.HN.Thc Dayton Rubber Mfg. Co. Dayton, 0. 
Water Proof Tarpaulins 
by 11! ft . Parcel 
Covers, $5 each. W. W. 
Only Sulkyi Plow With These; 
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Up-State Farm Notes 
Record Production in 1018.—The 
Commissioner of Agriculture reports that 
last year was New York’s biggest year agri¬ 
culturally. The farmers of the State raised 
agricultural, horticultural and animal pro¬ 
ducts to the value of $801,840,000, or an 
increase of $142,000,000 over 1017. Crops 
alone were valued at $447,000,000, plac¬ 
ing the State eleventh in point of pro¬ 
duction in the United States. Eliminat¬ 
ing cotton, New York would stand fifth. 
The average value of the crops produced 
was $5 per acre greater than in any of 
the large agricultural States. The value 
of milk was increased $60,000,000 over 
the previous year. Values of beef and 
dairy cattle, sheep and swine, wool in 
particular, have been higher than in any 
previous year. The oat crop was the 
largest on record. Wheat increased in 
acreage. Apples, 15,910,000 barrels, or 
in quantity were equal to the total crop 
produced west of the Mississippi. 
Normal Schools. —Potsdam Normal 
School will celebrate a double event in 
June, the annual commencement, and the 
dedication of the new building, exercises 
extending over a week. The bill appro¬ 
priating $20,000 to the Cortland Normal 
School has passed, giving means of secur¬ 
ing the new site for rebuilding, also for 
needed text books and equipment to re¬ 
place that destroyed in the recent fire. 
Pre-natal Clinic. —The women of 
Solvay are to open a pre-natal clinic iu 
connection with the infant welfare station 
of Boyd School. Dr. Clara Gregory will 
supervise it, the purpose of the work be¬ 
ing to reduce infant mortality. Successful 
work of vital importance has been done 
by the infant welfare station, and the 
women are anxious to extend it. 
Offer for Wool. —A reliable Eastern 
dealer has offered the Cortland Sheep 
Growers’ Association terms which would 
net the members about 60c per’pound for 
medium wools. This is a direct result of 
the growers forming an association. The 
large wholesalers are planning to offer to 
deal direct with county associations in 
such a way as will net the growers all the 
wool would bring in the market after de¬ 
ducting 6 per cent commission. This 
county organized last year and realized 
$600 more for total wool sales than would 
have been received selling individually, be¬ 
sides learning much about grading wool 
and how to grow better wool. 
Interesting Small Notes. —Nearly 
all of the St. Lawrence River is again 
open to navigation, the earliest ever 
known. The Cattaraugus County Farm 
Bureau is starting a movement among 
farm owners to establish a regular weekly 
pay day for farm help, as one means of 
making it easier to secure laborers. Or¬ 
ders to salvage Camp Syracuse, and 1.200 
acres of land will -be returned to owners 
on July 1. Meanwhile all of the evi¬ 
dences of two years’ of war activity, in¬ 
cluding 100 buildings, will be removed. 
Dairymen Pleased with Utica 
Meeting. —Delegates to the big Utica 
dairy meeting seemed pleased with the 
League’s new plan. A survey is now be¬ 
ing made of every community of the State 
to locate the cows, the shipping points 
best available, and other data that will 
assist in putting the co-operative plan 
into force efficiently. It is no part of the 
plan for farmers to distribute milk to 
consumers. This will be put up to the 
municipalities, who will be asked to re¬ 
strict the number of distributors and to 
prevent overlapping of routes. County 
meetings are being held this week to dis¬ 
cuss the plan, and local meetings will be 
called shortly. No prices for April milk 
have been announced, yet there is talk 
thiit it will be between $2 60 and $2.80 
per 100 lbs., as against $3.21 for March. 
Syracuse producers will have 24c added to 
the State prices. Milk producers of this 
April 
5, 1919 
INCREASE YOUR PROFITS 
I’uro Unluuched Hurdwooil Ashe*. The lie-t Potash 
Fertilizer. The .loynt Brand the Rest by 'lost. 
Write for Particulars. Aconts Wanted. Corres¬ 
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Canvas Covers, Plain Wag¬ 
on Covers, 8 oz . Duck. 7 ft. 
Post Pr-paid. Waterproof 
STANLEY,50 Church St New York 
Huimose you bad a Sulky Plow with which you could lift a plow almost instantly by transmitting 
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device keepH the w at 
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EDDY 
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has the roller-hearing FOOT 
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slightest pressure of the foot— not several com¬ 
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but one part only. 
Our SPECIAL SPRING CLEVIS keeps the line 
of draft, in the right position every minute, no 
matter how rough nr stony the ground. 
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60-70 Eddy Building. Greenwich. New York J 
The SPECIAL TILTING 
•omfortuhle on the steepest, slope. 
All levers are In convenient reach. Castings of 
tough malleable Iron. Halls, axles and wheels are 
of steel. Removable dust-proof boxes. Adjustable 
tongue. Width of furrow regulated by u lever 
from the seat. Entire plow Is light of draft and 
of weight yet extra strong. 
W. EDDY PLOW CO., 
Milk . 
section see the opportunity for greater 
milk consumption in the passing of the 
saloon, and favor a State-wide campaign 
to increase its use. The use of abandoned 
breweries and saloons as milk distributing 
stations has been discussed. 
Big Annual IIorse Sale. —Unusually 
high prices were received at the annual 
New York sale of harness horses in Madi¬ 
son Square Garden. The record price of 
$2,175 of the opening day was topped 
twice, with $3,500 for a two-year-old hay 
colt, and $2,700 for a four-year-old trot¬ 
ting mare. Twenty-seven yearlings 
brought $0,060 the last day, and 32 
brought $12,380, or an average for the 
two days of $363.50. 
Hooked Food Center. —The Home 
Economics Committee of Albany County 
has raised $750 to initiate a cooked food 
center in a factory district in Cohoes. 
The latter lias 3,500 inhabitants, two- 
thirds of whom are foreigners, with wom¬ 
en as well as men working in the fac¬ 
tories. The food center will aim to fur¬ 
nish suitable dinners for the families, 
and one hot, nourishing dish in a suit- 
nble container to be carried home at night. 
The home bureau experts are looking for¬ 
ward to more cooked food centers in the 
State, and more community enterprises 
of many sorts to simplify home work, such 
as canning centers, or Community kitch¬ 
ens. and community laundries. 
Junior Extension Work Grows.— 
During 1918 there were started in this 
State 23,444 junior projects, and 18,003 
were completed, or an average of 80 per 
cent. This is considered very good, oun- 
sidering the large number of local and 
county leaders who resigned to enter mili¬ 
tary service. The total value of products 
grown was $239,536, with a net profit to 
boys and girls of $11!),172. Steuben Coun¬ 
ty led in the number of products, followed 
by Dutchess, Chemung, Madison. West¬ 
chester, Chautauqua and Rockland coun¬ 
ties, in the order named, with 43 report¬ 
ing. M. G. F. 
Planting and Care of Blackcap 
Raspberries 
I am going to set out 1.000 purple rasp¬ 
berries this Spring. Can you tell me how 
to plant them, how far apart the rows 
should he, and how far apart the platFs 
should be set in the row? Some say it is 
a good plan to pinch the young shoots olT 
when at a certain height. Would that be 
the best; thing to do with the purple ber¬ 
ries? F. W. M. 
Tunkhannock, l’a. 
The blackcap raspberry thrives best on 
a rather rich clay loam that is naturally 
well drained. Unless the soil is already 
sufficiently rich, stable manure, if avail¬ 
able, should be applied broadcast at the 
rate of 10 to 20 tons to the acre, and 
turned under, plowing deeply; or if stable 
manure is not available, complete fer¬ 
tilizer containing 4.5 per cent nitrogen, 
7.7 per cent phosphoric acid (available) 
and 13 per cent potash, applied broadcast 
after plowing, and worked into the soil 
with cultivator or disk harrow will give 
equally as good results. Good prepara¬ 
tion of the soil must not be overlooked*; 
all clods should be broken up and the 
ground put in the best, possible mechan¬ 
ical Condition before planting. 
The distance at which blackcaps are 
usually set in commercial plantations is* 
three feet apart in rows, which are seven 
or eight feet apart. The most economical 
way of planting raspberries is to lay off 
the rows with a turning plow three or 
four inches deep. The plants can then he 
laid along the row at the proper distance' 
apart, the roots spread out, and the soil 
pulled in over them to a slight extent 
with a hoe or small steel rake, and the 
job finished by turning the soil thrown 
out of the furrow hack over the roots of 
the plants with a one-horse turning plow. 
Clean cultivation is necessary, as the 
raspberry and weeds cannot thrive to¬ 
gether. Therefore the raspberry will give 
way and weeds take full possession, unless 
they are kept under control hy good, clean 
cultivation. 
The black raspberry requires care in its 
pruning, which must be done at two sea¬ 
sons of the year to get the best results. 
The young stalks that, grow from the roots 
in Spring should be stopped by pinching 
out the tip when they reach a height of 
about 20 inches. This work will necessi¬ 
tate going over the patch several times, in 
order to stop the canes when they have 
reached the right height. This stopping 
or pinching back the canes will induce 
the development of numerous lateral or 
side branches, and also cause a more 
sturdy growth of the cane, which will ( 
fortify it to a greater or lesser extent ’ 
against strong winds, and prevent much 
damage by blowing over Hu ring heavy 
storms. These lateral or side branches 
form the bearing wood for the succeeding 
year, hence it is desirable that the great¬ 
est possible number of side branches he 
secured to insure a large crop of berries. 
The second pruning, which is of quite as 
much importance, may be done the fol¬ 
lowing Spring, and consists of cutting out 
all the old wood that bore fruit the pre¬ 
vious year, and cutting hack the side 
branches of the new canes to 10 to 12 
inches in length. All the old canes and 
ends cut from the laterals of the present 
season’s fruiting canes should be raked 
off, piled in a heap and burned. They 
should never be allowed to lie in a pile to 
rot, as they harbor insects and their eggs, 
also spores of fungus diseases that are 
injurious to the raspberry, and should 
therefore he promptly burned. I have 
used the word blackcap, as all purple cane 
sorts, as well as the true blackcap, are 
most generally spoken of as blackcaps. 
Both are cultivated in the same manner. 
K. 
Lino Fence of Public Institutions 
Can you advise me ns to the status of a 
property owner iu this State whose land 
joins that of a public school, in respect to 1 
building and maintaining a line fence? 
Also, the status of the same person whose 
land joins a cemetery? Our farm is so 
situated. We have the impression that 
these two public institutions are required, 
by law to build and maintain all of the! 
line fence. B, u.n. 
Coeymans, N. Y. 
The law in respect to line fences does 
not vary in respect to a public school ,\ 
cemetery, or any other more or less pub¬ 
lic institution; that is, they must build 1 
and maintain their share of a line fence; 
the same ns an individual would. Oft 
course, most, cemetery corporations do not) 
like the idea of leaving their lauds un¬ 
fenced, even where they adjoin properties 
which are not used for grazing purposes,! 
and so the majority of them build a good 
substantial fence which more than com¬ 
plies ,,'ith the township fence law; and 
the uiir^ ma.v be said of school districts, 
but they are not, of course, compelled to 
do any more than to build and maintain 
their share of the fence; but owing to the 
fact, as above stated, that there is a gen¬ 
eral feeling against having roving ani¬ 
mals in cemeteries and over school yards, 
these corporations generally provide a 
good fence around their property, and 
this may have given rise to the supposi¬ 
tion that they were compelled to do this. 
