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Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October IS, 1019 
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small profit. Furthermore, we handle only thoroughly seasoned A-l prime 
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Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co., Inc. 
‘Price Regulators of Building Materials’ 
75 Main Street 
North Tonawanda, N. Y. 
I Pr,,mrtrt Bennett Lumber Co. 7b Main Street | 
I catalog LOUpOn North Ton««*ndu. N. Y. 
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Reputation Courts 
Any Business. Twenty- 
five years of Fur Business in 
New York City. Always DE¬ 
PENDABLE, RELIABLE, and 
PROGRESSIVE. Mr. George Singer 
takes personal charge of each ship¬ 
ment of raw furs sent to George 
Singer Fur Co., thereby insuring each 
one of our shippers EXPERT hand¬ 
ling which means TOP 
PRICES and JUST GRAD¬ 
ING, Always. Get on our 
mailing list at once and we 
will keep you posted thru- 
out the season. We pay 
five per cent extra on all 
shipments of $50 or over. 
GEORGE SINGER FUR CO. 
Dep. C, 220 W. 28th St., N.Y. 
Ship your furs here. Our prices 
are record breaking high. We 
pay all your shipping charges on 
shipments of $20 and over. On 
shipments of $100 and over you get 5% 
additional and a liberal assortment. 
Put your own valuation on. We will 
hold them separate on request. Price list 
and Trapper Guide sentfree on request 
HARRY LEVY *SK?8!S5 
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A HOUSE CAN TRAVEL WHERE AN 
AUTOMOBILE CANNOT GO 
Often in the deep snows of winter an 
automotdle cannot get through the 
drifts, hut the horse can travel any¬ 
where if he can secure footing. 
There is just one thing will insure safe 
footing on any road anywhere any 
time, no matter how Icy or slippery, 
and that is the 
Neverslip 
Red Tip 
Horse 
Shoe 
Calk 
Whatever 
the o c c a- 
sion; a hur¬ 
ried trip to 
the doctor, an important call to town, 
a load of produce to be delivered— 
your horse is ready when you are ready. 
The wise horse owner will go to his 
horse shoer early and have the safe, 
reliable RED TIP SHOES put on. Then 
lie can laugh at the weather. No sleet 
storm, no sudden freeze will hold him 
back. His sharp, strong RED TIP 
CALKS can he adjusted in 20 minutes, 
and he is ready for the road. 
Avoid substitutes. LOOK FOR THE 
RED TIP 
THE NEVERSLIP WORKS 
New Brunswick, N, J. 
^ 
$120.00 FOR BEST NUTS 
Beechnuts. Black Walnuts, Butternuts. English 
Walnuts, Hsizel Nuts, Hickory Nuts. Japan Walnuts 
Pecans. Full information from Willard G Bixby, Sec'y. 
Northern Nut Growers Assn. Baldwin. Nassau Co.. N. Y. 
South Jersey Farms For Sale 
BLACK & DAVENPORT REALTY CO 
Pemrli Street . . • lluiniiiontou, N'.J. 
Ep ymii 
^Springfield-Remington I 
Single shot rifle altered and refinishsd. Shoots 
cal. *0, model 1806 army cartridge. Weight 7J4 
lbf., total length IS inches, U. S. Barrel 23}£ inches 
Remington breech action, blued finish U. S. graduated 
sight. Price $7.77. CARTRIDGES $3.60 Per Hundrod 
packing charge 45 cents. 
FRANCIS BANNERMAN SONS 501 BROADWAY. N.Y 
FARM HOMES: £?,’!%: 
write State Board of Agricultituk, Dover, Delaware 
The Farmer His 
Own Builder 
By II. Armstrong Roberts 
A practical anrl 
handy book of till 
kinds of building 
information from 
concrete to careen¬ 
try. Price $1.50. 
For sale by 
THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St.. N. Y. 
TDADPPDCI Fur* are high; trap- 
■ HHrrLIIdl ping pay a. New 
illus. book tells how to trap fox, 
* w muskrat, skunk,wolf, mink, etc.,wa- 
^ ter den. snow, lug, blind sets, etc., 
how to fastentraps, stretch furs, make dead falls, snares. 
Fur News, big illus. magazine, tells about fur markets, 
trapping, hunting, woodcraft, fishing, fur fnrming, roots, herbs ; 
lots of good stories. Send 10c coin for copy of book and sample copy 
g,™'- FUR NEWS,71 W. 23d St., Room 507, New York 
Sabo Sure Catch Trap 
for fox. coon, skunk, possum, ground 
hog. rabbit, etc., place in nnintnlh 
burrow. SOLD DlUKtrr at factor 
price. Write for booklet. Agents 
wanted. Hallo Trap M fg. Co. 
3118 W. 25th Ureal CLEVELAND, OHIO 
Annin D A D DCI C standard size. Al- 
MljpitJ DAn rtllLO Elm hoops. Thor¬ 
oughly seasoned material, ROUT, (ill, MLS, Medina, N. Y, 
Horticultural Notes 
■ f x Ladder for Sidehill Trees 
I do not know of any special device 
which growers arc using on their ladders 
\ylion picking fruit on a sidehill. If it is 
necessary to have some special attach¬ 
ment then the following might be used. 
Two iron sockets could be made of wagon 
tire, or out of 3 /ixl in. metal strips. 
& I 
wM/mm/fMMiik 
Lengthening Ihr “Leg” of a- Ladder 
These two sockets, or brackets, can be 
bolted to the ladder, the first, about six 
inches from the lower end of the ladder, 
and the second, about 20 inches above. 
Then a four-foot piece the size of the 
ladder can be used to slide in these 
sockets, with holes at intervals of three 
inches, and one hole through the side of 
the ladder. A holt can be used to hold 
this leg at any desired height and thus 
base of the ladder will rest evenly ou a 
sidehill, as shown in sketch. 
S. P. HOLLISTER. 
Connecticut Agricultural College. 
It would of course be possible to rig 
up iin extension leg making the one wide 
longer than the other, which, if attached 
to the main leg with sev¬ 
eral bolts with thumb nuts, 
and assuming that the ex¬ 
tension leg would be slot¬ 
ted. it would be easy to ad¬ 
just it to suit auy irregu¬ 
larity in the land. How¬ 
ever, we believe that would 
be a clumsy way to arrive 
at the solution. 
The upper part of our 
orchard is quite hilly, and 
we have no difficulty in 
picking the fruit on this 
land by using a ladder 
which terminates 1 with a 
single extension at the top, 
instead of the usual two 
beams. In the illustration 
it will show just what I 
mean. The real problem, 
of course, i6 to equalize the 
difference between tbe slope 
of the land and the slope of 
the limb the ladder is rest¬ 
ing against. However, if 
the upper end of the lad¬ 
der is a single point in¬ 
stead of two beams, you 
can readily see that it will 
rest firmly in any position, and we don’t 
undertake to stand the ladder in a posi¬ 
tion which would require the one leg to 
be longer than the other. We simply come 
at the limb from either the uphill or down¬ 
hill side. 
You will readily realize how easily the 
pointed top will drop into the crotch of a 
limb, aud thus staud firmly, whereas it 
would be extremely difficult to adjust a 
ladder with two beams at the top into a 
position of that kind, edwin o. tyson. 
Pennsylvania. 
Vinegar from Pomace 
_ My brother and I have a community 
cider mill. We make cider Wednesdays; 
in the evening we soak the pomace, and 
on Thursday we re-grind and press it. 
We have also a small evaporating plant. 
This juice, we conclude, is about half 
strength. Will that be too weak to get 
sour enough for vinegar? And if it does 
get sour enough, will it be lawful to sell 
it, because it is only half strength? 
Pennsylvania. g. «. g. 
Soaking the pomace, preparatory to re¬ 
pressing it, is not advised. This added 
water content has no proper place in the 
cider, and while the water is leaching 
through acetic fermentation sets in and 
only a portion of the sugar is utilized. 
If acetic fermentation does not set in, 
the wash thus obtained is so weak that 
it is of uo practical use. Vinegar, how¬ 
ever, deficient in any of the legal require¬ 
ments may be brought up to the proper 
stondard and utilized by blending. For 
instance, with two grades of vinegar, one 
showing a test of three per cent acetic 
acid and another testing six per cent, by 
mixing a quantity of the weaker vinegar 
with an equal quantity of the stronger, 
you would obtain a blended article having 
an acid content of 4.5 per cent. Fare 
should be exercised to have the blend 
thoroughly mixed before placing tbe vine¬ 
gar on the market. There is hardly a 
Place for the evaporator in vinegar pro¬ 
duction alone. That valuable adjunct 
equipment to any plant has its place in 
the reduction of cider to apple jelly and 
boiled cider. 
The best method of handling pomace 
for a re-pressing is first to overcome the 
formation of vinegar yeast by sprinkling 
on it a large quantity of pure yeast cul¬ 
ture as it is dumped into the tanks, also 
covering the entire surface. This will 
hold tbe formation of vinegar yeast and 
promote the growth of good alcoholic¬ 
forming yeast. The pomace must be 
broken up and allowed to stand long 
enough for the desired fermentation to 
start, which generally requires about 
three days, so that the juice not broken 
open during the first pressing may be 
acted upon by the yeast and the juice 
liberated. Rather than a second grind¬ 
ing, putting the pomace through a picker 
would be preferred. This would thor¬ 
oughly do away with the lumpy condition. 
The second pressing averages about one- 
eighth the amount of juice per bushel as 
resulted from the initial operation. 
A. H. p. 
Heater for Small Greenhouse 
I was much interested in Prof. Mas¬ 
sey’s article concerning a small heater for 
a small greenhouse. Could, I get some 
information about the cost of such a heat¬ 
er and where it could be obtained? I 
have a small greenhouse, 0x12, that T 
wish to heat. h. m. k. 
Goshen, Conn. 
The little boiler I use is called a tank 
heater, being used for heating tanks for 
large bathing establishments and other 
purposes where hot water is needed. I 
argued that if it would heat a tank of 
water it would heat pipes. I bought it 
from a mail order house along with about 
100 ft. of pipe, a brass valve and a closed 
expansion tank. The whole outfit at that 
time cost me $30.95 in Chicago. The 
plumber here charged me $16 for install¬ 
ing it. The piping is arranged iu a return 
coil. There are nine lines of pipe (2 in.) 
each 9 ft. long, hanging on the inner brick 
wall. By leaving the door to my office 
open, the boiler gives me plenty of heat 
in moderate weather, aud is aided iu very 
eold weather by a fire in an open grate in 
the office. It takes one ordinary hod of 
coal to run it 24 hours of cold weather. I 
fill it up at bedtime aud shut off the draft 
and think no more about it till morning, 
and invariably find the thermometer mark¬ 
ing 55 to 60 degrees. With the office door 
closed I can easily run the temperature to 
70 degrees in the coldest weather, with 
draft shut off after the pipes get hot. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
"Does it take much pull to get a berth 
under the Government?” "Some. Do 
you want a sleeping car reservation or a 
job ?”—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
