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Why Corbin Duplex 
Equipment is Vital 
A coaster brake that is skimped in 
the making, that has some features 
and lacks some, is a poor invest¬ 
ment. 
Why not demand for that new bi¬ 
cycle the equipping of a brake that 
has all those necessary features a 
brake must have—the power, the 
certainty of control, the utmost 
durability, wear-defiance, long, 
trouble-free service — the 19 19 
Corbin Duplex 
Coaster Brake 
Your dealer will equip the Corbin 
Duplex if you refuse to accept any 
other. Test it—see how easily and 
gradually aslight pressure produces 
a slowdown and how positively yet 
smoothly, without jolt or x jar, a 
harder pressure brings a complete, 
sudden standstill. 
A ten million dollar corporation guarantees 
the Corbin Duplex. The 1919 Catalog- 
sent any where—gives you the whole story. 
Corbin Screw Corporation 
American Hardware Corporation, Successor 
New Britain, Connecticut 
Branches: New York, Chicago. Philadelphia 
Also makers of Corbin-Brown Speedometers 
tor Automobiles, Trucks and Motorcycles 
A 3,500 Mile 
Guaranteed Tire 
with a usual performance of 4000. 
way—a tire 
that’s made good to make 
good. 
Non-skid 
Price 
Grey Tubes 
80x3 
$12.50 
$3.00 
80x8*4 
15.50 
3.50 
32x3*4 
18.00 
3.75 
31x4 
25.00 
4.50 
82x4 
25.50 
4.75 
33x4 
20.50 
5.00 
34x4 
27.00 
5.25 
34x4*4 
35.50 
0.00 
35x4 *4 
87.50 
6.25 
30x4*4 
38.00 
6.50 
85x5 
43.00 
7.00 
87x5 
45.00 
7.50 
Take !} per 
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TIRE 
CO. 
839 N. Broad St., Philadelphia,Pa. 
\Vrite for booklet showing guarantee 
Tom 
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The Charles William Stores 
318 Storoa Building New York City 
FERTILIZERS AND CROPS by Dr. L. L. Van 
Slyke, Price, $2.50. The best general 
farm book. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
The RURAL 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Warm sunny days and cold nights have 
been the rule for a week or more. Hoar 
frost on the grass in the early morning, 
i but tomatoes, string beans and corn show 
no signs of injury, and the lettuce seems 
to be right in its element, and the early 
peas are blooming profusely. 
I have planted a bed of Zurich scarlet 
sage with plants from 2 1 /l>-in. pots, some 
of which are already showing blodni. 
Northward the Salvia seems to need to 
be strong plants before blooming. Here 
the seedling plants six inches tall begin 
to bloom and the bed is a blaze of scarlet 
in May, and if the mature spikes are cut 
out regularly the bloom is maintained in 
full till frost. The field mice got into my 
greenhouse and ate down every plant of 
the Pimiento pepper, but did not seem t<> 
care for anything else. I gave them a des¬ 
sert of poisoned cheese. They ate it and 
disappeared. 
Dahlia seedlings from the finest flow¬ 
ers of the decorative and cactus varieties. 
100 or more, are now potted, and will be 
ready to go out by the middle of May. 
All will bloom in the Fall, and- though I 
may not have any particularly striking 
flowers they will* •aSl -be useful, for the 
single-flowered ones are ‘better for cutting 
than the double ones, and*•there is a pecu¬ 
liar interest in watching the blooming of 
seedlings. 
There is a general taking out of tele¬ 
phones in our city. The majority of the 
people prefer to do without the telephone 
rather than pay the doubled charges. I 
have ordered mine out, and from present 
indications about half the telephones in 
town will go out, so that so far as we are 
concerned* the doubled- charges will* *be of 
no advantage to the telephone company or 
to Mr. Burleson. If he would let go the 
wires we would soon have the old rates 
back. What advantage the control is -to 
the Post Office Department I cannot im¬ 
agine. Then, the service on the telegraph 
lines is the worst ever. My daughter, in 
Muskogee, Okla., wired on Monday that 
she intended to visit home. The telegram 
was delivered here on Thursday morning. 
She could have written a letter and’ had 
it delivered as soon as the telegram. 
There is the same experience with others 
all around me. and a general complaint 
that the telegraph is useless. Perhaps it 
is au effort on the part of the companies 
to discredit the governmental control. 
Certainly something is very rotten, and 
the sooner the wires go hack to then- 
owners the better for everyone. Notwith¬ 
standing the termination of hostilities, 
everything is advancing. Our gas com¬ 
pany has advanced- its rates till many 
are abandoning it for cooking. High as 
is the price of coal it is cheaper than gas 
at $2 per 1,000. the price our company 
wrings out of us. Then the electric peo¬ 
ple have also advanced* the price for their 
current. They -talk wisely about kilo¬ 
watts and volts, etc., but few know what 
they are and the electric companies them¬ 
selves would not know one of these things 
if they saw it. 
Now they talk of prosecuting the cot- 
tou farmers for endeavoring to reduce the 
acreage in order to maintaiu fair prices 
for their product. There is little reason 
to worry about this, for I have seen many 
efforts made to reduce the cotton acreage 
and every one of them failed. There 
may be thousands pledge themselves to 
reduce their acreage in cotton, and they 
will do it, but there are other thousands 
more numerous who think they will take 
advantage of the reduction and they in¬ 
crease their planting, and the final result 
is that a bigger crop than ever is planted. 
But with the-settling of the nations down 
in peace the demand for cotton will enor¬ 
mously increase and the price will prob¬ 
ably rise rather than fall. Europe is in 
rags and needs all the cotton we can I 
grow. 
The asparagus is later than usual. We 
generally get it by the middle of April or 
sooner^ but up to this date (23d'i we 
have h*ad but very few stalks. The ma¬ 
nure mulch was left on the surface too 
late, probably, for the mulch keeps the 
ground from warming up, though it keeps 
freezing out. w. F. massey. 
NEW-YORKER 
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Low production costs enable him to beat competitors to 
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The shrewd business man never uses human labor 
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Farmers should follow the example of the shrewd 
business man and use mechanical devices when possible. 
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Red Cross Dynamite 
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using millions* of pounds of it annually. 
It costs nothing to find out what it will do, how to 
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