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PLAN NOW 
For Next Winter 
Make up your mind that next winter 
you will have a perfectly comfortable 
home — a home with every room 
heated just right. Decide now that 
you won’t put up with the nuisance 
and labor of tending several fires— 
or the inconveniences of having only 
one room comfortable. 
NEW-IDE A 
PIPELESS FURNACE 
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The NEW IDEA costs 
but little more to buy or 
operate than one good 
stove. It is easilyinstalled 
—no alterations, no pipes, 
no muss. 
The NEW IDEA has 
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the result of over 30 years’ 
experience and mean sat¬ 
isfaction and ecomomy 
for you. 
UTICA HEATER CO. 
Box 50 Utica, N. Y. 
Write for Free Catalogue. Our 
experts will advise you on heating 
problems without charge. 
GOOD AGENTS WANTEO 
SAVE AH Your GRAIN 
Don’t wait for the custom thresher. Do vour 
threshing when the grain is right and get' the 
full return from your labor. 
The Ellis Champion Thresher and Cleaner 
equipped with self feeder and wind stacker 
makes the ideal small out tit. 
If you have only a very little threshing to do, 
or small power, we can supply you with a 
machino without self feeder or wind stacker 
and at a price that will make your purchase 
a real investment. 
Juat srivo ua the size of your enjrine and the amount of grain 
usually raised and wo 11 submit a proposition on a machine 
that will be just the one for your work. 
ELLIS KEYSTONE AGRICULTURAL WORKS 
Pottstown - Pennsylvania 
Aak for Cat¬ 
alog No. 274 
The Special 
shape teeth cut 
the weeds close 
to the hill and 
do not cover 
the cron with 
earth. 40 years 
actual sorvico. 
Rear wheel furnished If desirsd. 
CLIP YOUR WEEDS 
with a COLT 
Wood Beam 
Cultivator 
BATAVIA CLAMP COMPANY. 21S Center St.,BaUvia,N.Y. 
1 it 
; with, a 
FISH BRAND 
REFLEX 
SLICKER 
Keeps omI all the wet 
DEALERS EVERYWHERE 
ff r a 'terp roofs. 
Absolute. 
are Marked thus — Hst\ 
313 AJ.TOWER CO. BOSTON 
JUDGING FARM ANIMALS, by C. S. 
Plumb; $2.25. A Practical Manual on this 
subject. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Red-top and Potatoes in West Virginia 
Roughly speaking, there are two types 
of potato growing in the United States; 
the early or truck crop, and the late or 
main crop. Florida and Texas plant in 
December and January, aud each State 
in succession, going north, plants as soon 
as the ground is in shape to work. In our 
locality in the Kanawha Valley, the first 
of April is considered early planting time 
for the truck crop, aud early July for the 
second or late crop. There are farmers 
and truckers here who persist in planting 
their truck crop of potatoes the first pret¬ 
ty days in March, but nine times out of 
10 the crop is badly damaged by late 
frost. Some of these same farmers plant 
out their late or main crop iu May. and 
the dry season catches the crop just about 
the time that the tubers are starting. If 
those people could be convinced that we 
must plant our crops with a view to the 
effect weather conditions will have upon 
their growth and maturity, they would be 
much more prosperous, and the country 
would be better off. 
We live in the coal-mining belt, aud 
here trucking pays large returns if man¬ 
aged intelligently. Intensive farming 
should be the slogan of every farmer, 
trucker and gardener, because the area of 
tillable land here is very limited, and 
there is an immense market to supply. 
Our type of soil is a light clay and sand, 
with generally enough loam to keep it 
loose when tilled. Then, too, this kiud of 
soil will produce au early crop from one 
to two weeks earlier than a heavier soil. 
Potatoes, both white and sweet, are our 
hobby, and we have been fairly successful 
with this crop. Our liking for this par¬ 
ticular crop may be because of the high 
price the consumer is willing to pay us for 
the freshly dug early potatoes delivered at 
their doors. We have made au average of 
$300 net profit per acre on our early crop 
of potatoes. But we have found that the 
largest yields and greatest profits are se¬ 
cured, in the long run. by planting early 
in August, and this will bring normal ma¬ 
turity just at or about the time the killing 
frosts in the Fall may be expected. As 
the potato market is generally at its low¬ 
est ebb at this time, and as there is al¬ 
ways a great waste where the surplus is 
so large, we put our late crop in pits and 
wait for the Spring market, when they 
are really needed. We have pits dug 4x8 
and 0 ft. deep; these are sided with 2-in. 
white oak boards. In Summer, when they 
are empty, the covers are left off and 
this gives them a chance to dry out thor¬ 
oughly. We never cover them with earth. 
The lids, or doors, are closed; when pit is 
filled with potatoes two feet of oat or 
wheat straw is placed over this aud then 
' a stout tarpaulin is stretched roof fashion 
over all. The potatoes keep dry and 
sound and the rodents never bother them. 
We have found that it pays to prac¬ 
tice a rotation, and for potatoes perhaps 
the best suited is, first year, potatoes; 
second year, oats, and third year clover 
for hay. Sometimes this hay is cut for 
two or three years. For our early crop 
of potatoes we generally use Red-top sod. 
as this grass, when well sodded, furnishes 
a great amount of organic matter. There 
is a great deal of prejudice against the use 
of Red-top. No doubt for market pur¬ 
poses, Red-top hay does not sell as well 
as other hay, but this grass plant pro¬ 
duces a larger and heavier root system, 
and consequently a far heavier sod for 
the use of the potato crop; aud its sod 
gets heavier with age, instead of dying 
out like Timothy. 
Red-top will grow and form a heavy 
sod upon soils too poor, too wet or too dry 
for the successful use of the other perhaps 
more valuable hay plants. To make a 
long story short, we have found, in actual 
practice, that Red-top sod is closer to the 
ideal fertilizer for a potato crop than any¬ 
thing else we have tried in the way of 
grasses and clovers. wesley ray. 
West Virginia. 
Cbabshaw : “Being hack iu New York 
must be a great relief from the terrible 
strain of the war zone.” Corporal Jim: 
“Quit yer kidding! Since I came over I’ve 
been knocked down by a taxi, held up by 
1 a couple of tough guys, aud charged a 
mouth’s pay for a weekV *oard.”—Life. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers: they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.’’— Adv. 
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'T'HE farmer is the real judge of tires. He’s the fellow—driving 
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Racine Country Road Tires 
These Racine Tires are scientifically designed for country road 
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LIGHT-STRONG-BIG CAPACITY 
There won't be any chaff mixed with your grain if you use this machine. Your money in¬ 
vested in this machine pays big and sure returns, year after year. Being light in weight, it 
is easily hauled, even in hilly country. Why pay a big price for a heavy machine when you 
can get a light machine of the same capacity at less cost in the Gray Line. 
These machines handle oats, wheat, rye, barley, buckwheat, beans, peas and grass seed 
and you can depend on good work. 
In the 5 years we've been making Threshers, all our machines 
have been long lived. The cost of running Grays is much 
lower than that of other makes. Made in many sizes for thresh- 
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