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The RURAL NEW- YORKER 
August 10 . imo 
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Do Your Farm Work 
with the 
FRICK TRACTOR 
A light, easy running Kerosene Tractor for 
general farm work. Is small, sturdy and has 
plenty of power. Made and sold by Frick 
Company, manufacturers of substantial 
Farm Power Machinery since 1853. Frick 
Tractors have been successful in all de¬ 
monstrations and can again be seen at Butler, 
I’a., August 21st and 22nd. 
Write for price and further information. 
Dealers wanted, immediate deliv¬ 
eries. 
FRICK COMPANY, Inc. 
345 West Main St. 
WAYNESBORO, PA. 
M 
Build your own concrete liog 
troughs, water tanks, barn floors, 
hog houses, steps, sidewalks, etc., 
and save money. 
ELMCO Handy Concrete Mixer 
This mixer was designed especially for 
farm use. is of convenient size and durably 
made of best quality materials, yet the price 
is within the reach of every farmer. It soon 
pays for itself in savings. Can be filled from 
one side and dumped from the other. Clutch 
pulley permits throwing in or out at will. 
Operates with 11-2 h. p. gas engine or 
with ELMCO Ford Belt Attachment- 
Send today for name of nearest dealer 
and big illustrated circular with pictures 
end lull description of this handy ELMCO 
mixer and other ELMCO money savers. 
E. F. ELMBERC COMPANY 
30 Main St. Parkershurg, Iowa 
A FAST CUTTER 
For 
Light 
Power 
This Gale-Baldwin re¬ 
quires about half the 
power demanded by 
other cutters of similar 
size. It has a revolving 
self-feed table—is astrong. positive feeder, 
and cuts more ensilage per hour than any 
machine operated with same amount of 
power. 
Gale- 
~ ^ Baldwin 
ENSILAGE-CUTTER 
Also makers of a large line of ROTARY 
HAND and LEVER FEED CUTTERS. 
CORN S HELLERS, VEGETABLE 
CUTTERS and POTATO DIGGERS for 
Fall Use. 
A Catalog showing the full line mailed 
free on application. 
Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Tool Co. 
Box No. 75, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
FARQUHAR 
WILL DIG YOUR 
We have long studied the economical har¬ 
vesting of potatoes, and nowofferaFarquhar 
Digger suitable for every condition of soil. 
The No. 1 Elevator Digger shown above is 
a general favorite, built to stand the strain of 
hard continuous usage. Rigid tongue con¬ 
struction, and the choice of Cross Bottom or 
Angle Buckettype of Elevator. It digs clean, 
and leaves the potatoes convenient for pick¬ 
ing. Large Nos. 2 and 3 Elevator; Diggers for 
deep diggilfg and bad conditions. Engine 
drive, if desired. 
Our Success Jr. Plow Digger gets more 
potatoes in one trip over the row than a turn 
plow in three. Price so low it is within reach 
of the half acre grower. For those who pre¬ 
fer a more elaborate Walking Digger, we 
have the renowned Gilt Edge. 
If you grow potatoes for the market, you 
can’t afford to be without a Digger. Illus¬ 
trated Catalogue explaining why that Digger 
should be a Farquhar mailed free on request. 
Write for copy today. 
A. B. FARQUHAR CO., Ltd. 
Box 230, York, Pa. 
Success Jr.” 
A Plow Digrorfor 
producing: more 
less labor. 
Other Farquhar products are Engines and Boilers , 
Steam and Gas Tractors , Sawmills , Threshers, Grain 
Drills, Hydraulic Cider Dresses, Ask J'or literature . 
FOR SALE-2 OO-Acre Dairy Farm 
20 rods to school, village and ereninery, on state 
road; fi5 acres level meadow; 90 acres pasture; 40 
acres timber; 2H story brick house, good condition; 
4 barns; sanitary cow barn; 2 silos; sugar orchard 
equipped: 41 bead cattle: complete set farm tools; 
spring water system: buildings wired; steam power 
cream separator, sterilizer, everything handy and 
easy to carry on. Price for quid; sale, S12.BG0. $5,000 
down, balance5%. L. S. DARBY, White River Jet., Vermont 
INCREASED APPLE PROFITS 
A Farquhar Hydraulic 
Cider Press will' turn 
your culls into good 
selling cider. You can 
also make money 
pressing for your 
neighbors. 
Our high pressure con¬ 
struction gets all the juice 
from the apples with mini¬ 
mum power. Presses in 
sizes from 15 to 400 barrels 
a day. New Catalogue 
giving full particulars free on request. 
A. B. Farquhar Co., Ltd., Box 130,York, Pa. 
Wt also make Engine! and Boilers, Saw Mills, Threshers, eta. 
The THRESHING PROBLEM 
SOLVED 
Threshes cowpeas and soybeans 
from the mown vines, wheat,, 
oats, rye and' barley. A perfect 
combination machine. Nothing like it. “The 
machine I have been looking for for 20 
years," W. F. Massey. "It will meet every 
demand,” H. A. Morgan, Director Teun. Exp. 
Station. Booklet. 30 free. 
Roger Pea & Bean Thresher Co.,Morristown,Tenn. 
Mnloccoc Richest Feed. LowTonCost 
mOldbscs Write today for lowest price 
HEW YORK MOLASSES COMPANY. 30 Church St.. New York City 
When you write advertisers mention 
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a quick reply and a “square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
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Pruning and Grafting Grapevine 
1 . I have an enormous wild grapevine 
growing up a tree 50 or (50 feet. I think 
the tree is a white ash. Will it injure 
the tree? If T were to out the vine off 20 
or 30 feet from the ground, would it 
throw out shoots so as to cover a pergola? 
1 wish to build near the tree. The vine is 
'2y* or 3 in. in diameter at the ground 
and if I could have it grow over a per¬ 
gola it would be very effective. Is it 
possible to graft a different kind of grape, 
such as Concord or Niagara, on this vine? 
2. Do climbing vines, such as Virginia 
creeper, injure trees? A. is. m. 
Akron, <). 
1. If there is a goodly number of buds 
or leaves or even small branches below 
the point where the vine is cut, there 
will be no trouble about its living and 
sending out new branches and foliage, and 
the more times it is out back the more 
dense will be the foliage. If it is just an 
old. naked, rough-barked stalk, the chances 
are strongly against its living, though the 
roots would probably send out uew shoots 
to take the place of the old stem. In 
this case it would be better to cut it 
higher up. so as to secure the buds, and 
pull it out of the tree. The best time to 
do the work will be after the leaves have 
fallen, though it may be safely deferred 
until Spring if desired. New shoots com¬ 
ing from the roots may be grafted to any 
desired variety that will thrive in that 
locality. The younger branches may also 
be successfully grafted, but it will be im¬ 
possible successfully to graft the old stem. 
Success will be most certain on wood that 
is three years old. but T am not prepared 
to give even an approximate estimate as 
to the age limit. The methods are pre¬ 
cisely the same as in grafting apple trees, 
but the operation is more difficult and 
requires more delicate work. The cleft 
graft is the best, and the work should be 
done during the latter part of February 
or the first of March. As a strictly com¬ 
mercial proposition it will hr much bet¬ 
ter to tear out the old vine and plant a 
new one, than to attempt to work it over 
to a more desirable variety, but. in this 
case it seems that the old vine and none 
other is desired. The vine may also be 
budded, though this will not be as satis¬ 
factory. Two-year-old wood should bo 
used for stock, and the work should be 
done early in August. 
2. If a grapevine, or Virginia creeper, 
or any other vine, grows over a tree in 
such a manner as to choke and smother 
the foliage, it will certainly injure the 
health of the tree to a greater or less ex¬ 
tent. Also, the tendrils or even the vines 
may encircle the smaller branches so 
tightly as to prevent their growth, and 
thus ultimately kill them. 
C. O. ORMSBEE. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, AUG. 16, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
New Grain Harvesting- Machinery. 1~03 
Frost Protection for Silos. 1303 
Crops and Farm News. 1206 
Hope Farm Notes. 1212 
Value of Local Market Gardeners’ Associa¬ 
tions . 1215 
A Complaint About Wheat Grading. 1215 
A Virginia Farm Loan Association. 1215 
Harvesting Rape Seed. 1218 
Experience with Alfalfa Weevil. 1218 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Where Live Stock Attend to tho Harvest.. 1202 
Trouble with Milk Tests. 1215 
Guernsey Breeders Meet.1215, 1224 
Rye for Pigs. 1218 
Prolificacy of Berkshire Swine. 1218 
Ration for Milch Cows. 1218 
Cortland Wool Tops the Market. 1220 
A Silo as Personal Property. 1220 
Manufacture and Uses of Powdered Milk... 1222 
THE HENYARD 
Egg-laying Contest . 1224 
Sweet Flag and Hen Lice. 1224 
Success with Geese. 1224 
HORTICULTURE 
Pruning and Grafting Grapevines. 1204 
A Successful Strawberry Patch. 1209 
Summer Meeting of the Ohio Agricultural 
Society . 1210 
Notes from s. Maryland Garden. 1210 
Garden Notes from Now England—Part II. 1205 
Tomatoes Failing to Set. 1205 
Celery Going to Seed. 1205 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day.*.. 1216 
The Rural Patterns. 1216 
Wanted—How to Crochet a Sweater. 1216 
Mulberries and Currants. ; . 1216 
How I Carried On Kindergarten Work in 
My Home—Part III.:. 1216 
Tennessee Notes .. 1217 
Embroidery Design . 1217 
Canning Baby Beets and Carrots. 1217 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Building a Dam for Ice Pond.1202, 1206 
Countrywide Produce Situation. 1208 
Editorials . 1214 
Publisher’s Desk . 1226 
Mr. Wheat Grower—i 
V 
Plan early for fall seeding 
■—carefully prepare seed¬ 
bed—arrange for fertilizer 
—sow good seed wheat 
of the right variety—sow 
“Hoffman’s 
Seed Wheat” 
Grown in famous Lancas¬ 
ter Wheat Belt—known in 
every section for its hardi¬ 
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tiveness. Is reliable—means 
increased yields wherever 
' taken to be sown. 
,Eight varieties —smooth and 
bearded sorts—graded—sound 
cleaned clean — free of rye, 
cockle, garlic, chess, smut. 
Shown here is the head cf 
"Leap’s Prolific” variety — 
yielding 35 to 46 bushels per 
! acre. 
Seed must please you. Sold 
i on Money Back Plan. Costs 
very iittle per acre to change 
xto "Hoffman’s Seed.” 
“Hoffman’s Wheat Book ’ 
Describes varieties — offers 
other farm seeds. It is free— 
with samples—if you tell where 
you saw this offer. Write for 
it today. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc. 
Landisville, Lancaster C«., Pa. 
HAY 
PRESS 
40styles and sizes 
for every purpose, 
Catalog free. 
COLLINS PLOW COMPANY 
L'ii h Hampshire St., Quincy, III. 
16% ACID PHOSPHATE 
STRAIGHT CAR LOADS 
Also Nitrate ol Soda, Potash 
and 
Mixed Fertilizers 
Largest shippers in midtile west 
Write us for prices 
EGGERT CHEMICAL CO.,-CANTON, OHIO, Dept. R 
The Best Potash Fertilizer 
The JOYNT Brand 
Pure Unleaehcd Hardwood Ashes 
A complete and sure fertilizer for all growing crops. 
They solvo the problem. Especially adapted for top 
dressing worn out grass mid meadow land and for seed¬ 
ing down have no equals. Increase your hay yields 
while prices are high. AGENTS WANTED 
Correspondence invited. Address John Joynt, Lucknow, Ont., Canada 
References : Bradstreeta Agency or Bank of Ham ilton, Lusknow. Ont 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
For August anil Fall planting. Pot-grown and runner 
plants Ilmt will bear fruit next summer. Also RASPBER¬ 
RY, BLACKBERRY, GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT, GRAPE, 
ASPARAGUS, RHUBARB, PARSLEY, and PANSY 
PLANTS; FRUIT ami ORNAMENTAL TREE8and SHRUB8. 
(’aIni -■ITno in e, II A HUY l„ Stjl • I KKS, IjiKili (tBOVSD, X.Y . 
CRIMSON CLOVER 
HIGH TEST SEED 
11.40 Bush. Bag in. LAYTON & LAYTON, lnc.,G«orge1own, Del. 
ForSale-Recleaned SEED RYE 
W. S. FORD & SON - Hartly, Delaware 
RUSSIAN PITKUS RYE 1 > a " k cower. Bigyielder. 
nuooiBU ii i i\uo nit Sow until ground freezes. 
1 to 5 bu., S2.25 per bn. Over 5 bu., S2.00, Bagged. 
Sninp.e for stamp. CL0VERDALE FARM. Charlotte. N. Y. 
For Sale- LongIslandSEED CORN manmi 
J. CODUINGTON, . Glen Head, L. I. 
Apple BARRELS 
ongnly seasoned material. ItORT. (HI.I.IES, Medina, X. V. 
, a, , Get our low 1919 prices. Farm* 
Kinder I wine ' he o e -—~ v ■ - e ~ 
BURTS SONS, Melrose. Ohio 
PRINTED Farm Stationery Samples for any business 
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