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GUARANTEED PRICE LIST 
Ship now for 
Highest Prices! 
Eliminate the gamble from your fur ship¬ 
ments. Ship to Prouty today. If the market 
goes up, you are paid higher prices accord¬ 
ingly. If the market goes down you are paid 
no less than the prices listed. You suffer no 
loss, no matter how the market fluctuates. 
Insure Your Fur Profits 
No matter where you have been shipping your furs, 
or what prices you have been getting, Prouty pays 
more. That is why trappers who have tried others, 
eventually ship to Prouty, and Prouty alone. They 
realize that New York itself houses the greatest 
number of fur manufacturers, that its fur safes draw 
fur buyers f rom all over the world, and that the offer¬ 
ings of the House of Prouty always command the 
highest spot-cash prices. Our guaranteed Price List 
System is, in itself, an exclusive Prouty feature. It 
is yours to profit by. 
Right now New York can buy up all the furs you can 
catch, and pay the highest prices that the fur market 
has ever known. Try U3 on our next shipment. 
Join the list of money-makers. Ship to Prouty, New 
York’s oldest established fur house. Protect your 
fur profits. Get on our mailing list at once for our 
New Guaranteed Price List. Keep posted on the 
fur market. 
J. L. PROUTY’S SONS. INC. 
Dealers in Raw Furs, Ginseng Roots, 
Golden Seal, etc. 
384 G West Broadway, New York City 
Orchard for Virginia 
I am planning to set a large orchard 
and would appreciate any suggestions 
through the columns of your paper rela¬ 
tive to apple and peach culture, the va¬ 
rieties best suited to this section. Farm 
lies on top of Blue Ridge in Fauquier 
County, Va. B. M. R. 
The first consideration in the planting 
of peaches and apples is, of course, the 
soil and the aspect of the orchard. If 
there is any difference in the soil, give 
the peaches the lightest, and with full ex¬ 
posure to north and west, where there is 
a good air drainage, to guard against too 
early blooming. The lower and heavier 
soil will suit the apples, as they are more 
insistent on soil moisture. Then, as to 
the trees. Peaches, of course, are always 
planted at one year from the bud, and if 
the orchard is to be properly cared for, 
the best apple trees are strong one-year 
budded trees. If you buy two or three- 
year-old apple trees you not only have to 
pay more for them, pay more freight, but 
you get trees with head started and gen¬ 
erally with too tall a stem, for the aver¬ 
age buyer buys by the height of the tree 
and the nurserymen accommodate him 
But the one-year tree is a mere switch 
with live buds throughout, and can be 
headed back within a foot of the ground 
to make a low-headed tree so desirable in 
these days of spraying. Peaches are 
headed down in like manner. Peaches ar( 
set 20x20 feet. Apples, 35x35 feet. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
RAW FURS 
With our boys back at peace time work—the 
prosperity of the country is shown by the ex¬ 
tensive purchases of fill's by women everywhere. 
You can iliKpoa? of the furs you trap at the bent market 
prices by soiuliiiK them to me—here’s a typical letter. 
I got more for my catch than 1 expected — 
and will ship to you from note on . 
My price list is simple, and you pet your money by 
return mail—and I have established a world wide re¬ 
putation for square and honest dealings. 
F p cr ET Send today for price list, grading 
“ slips and snipping tags. 
LOUIS BRIMBERG 
26 Vest 26 tk St dept. wuNYCity.® 
Raspberry Culture 
How far apart should those varieties 
of raspberry that are propagated from 
the tips, be set out? Is the Fall a good 
time to set them out? Do such berries 
do well when set with only commercial 
fertilizer? The land Is a heavy black 
jloam, and has been set to currants for sev¬ 
eral years. The currants have had a 
liberal coating of horse manure each year 
until the last two years, when pulverized 
sheep manure was used. 
Black and purple raspberries should 
have a deep, rich, loamy soil for best 
; productive results. If this soil has been 
liberally supplied with stable manure in 
bygone years it prooably will not require 
any for a year or two. These two classes 
of raspberry seem to give best results 
when stable manure in moderate quanti¬ 
ties only is used, which should be supple¬ 
mented by a fertilizer carrying approxi- 
■ mately 4% nitrogen, 10% phosphoric acid 
and C>% potash at the rate of 300 to 500 
lbs. to the acre. Preparation of the soil 
should be thorough, it should be plowed 
; deep and well pulverized by frequent bar- 
rowings; in fact the soil cannot be too 
well prepared. 
For horse cultivation the plants should, 
ibe set in straight rows 7 feet apart, and 
the plants 2 y 2 or 3 ft. apart in the rows, 
i setting the plants only slightly deeper 
than they grow in the parent patch. They 
may be set out either in the Fall or early 
Spring with good success. 
I Cultivation should commence as early 
in the Spring as the weather is settled 
and the ground will permit, and continue 
at 10- or 12-day intervals until the first 
week in August, when cultivation should 
be discontinued, so as to restrict further] 
growth and to allow the canes to harden 
up against the cold of Winter. Later cul¬ 
tivation promotes late growth and thus 
canes being more or less tender, would 
be apt to suffer from freezing, and often 
result in being killed to the ground in 
the more northern latitudes. 
The first year no pruning will be re¬ 
quired. After the first year all old canes 
should be cut out close to the ground as! 
soon as the- crop is harvested, and at the 
same time cut out all surplus new canes, 
leaving four or five of the strongest for 
fruiting -the following year. Many grow¬ 
ers practice what is called Summer prun¬ 
ing, which in reality is not pruning at all. 
but consists of stopping or pinching back 
the young canes when they have reached 
a height of about two feet. This is done 
for the purpose of promoting a heavy, 
stocky growth of cane so it will be self- 
supporting, and to induce the growth of ; 
side shoots. It is considered quite an 
advantage from a commercial point of 
view, as the plants need no artificial sup¬ 
port, and the yield of fruit is much greater 
when the canes are thus handled. In the 
following Spring the patch should be gone 
over and all dead wood (if any) should 
be cut out and the branches of the fruit¬ 
ing canes cut back about one-third. 
K. 
Ship your fur# here. Our prices 
arc 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 ■ liberal assortment. 
Put your own valuation on. We will 
hold them separate on request. Price list 
and Trapper Guide sent free on request 
I HARRY LEVY 
American Pomological Society 
The next meeting will be held at St. 
Louis, Mo., December 30-Jauuary 1. The 
program is not yet fully made out, but 
will include addresses and discussions of 
various phases of amateur and commer¬ 
cial fruit and nut culture. If you expect 
to attend, please advise Secretary E. R. 
Lake. 2033 Park Road N.W., Washing¬ 
ton. D. C. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society 
The fifty-third annual meeting will be 
held at the Ohio State University, Colum¬ 
bus. January 28-20. 1920. This will be 
during Farmers’ Week. 
Right now fur prices are 
way up. This is the 
time to ship because it 
will mean big money for 
you. Probably more mon¬ 
ey than you will get later. 
We will pay you every 
cent of their value now 
f—charge you no commission—pay all express ™ 
charges—and refund postage on mail ship- " 
ments. That’s the kind of treatment you are looking for, 
isn’t it? If not, let us know what else we can do for you. 
Sixty-Five Years ol Honest Dealing 
That’s our record. And our immense business is proof 
positive that our policy is the right one. Your satis¬ 
faction means our success. Trappers in every state in 
the Union have made big money through their dealings 
with Joseph Ullmann, Inc. 
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You can get some good advice and information if you 
will fill out the coupon below and mail it to us. Do it 
now. It means money to you. 
JOSEPH ULLMANN, Inc. 
(Established 1854) 
, Dept. 80 
18-20-22 W. 
20th St., 
NewY ork,N.Y 
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Write for our price list today. Highest prices paid—Square 
deal guaranteed. All shipments graded personally by our 
Mr. Maurice Rosenstiel. 
ROSENSTIEL* FUR CO., Inc. 
112 West 29th Street NEW YORK 
TDADDCDCI Furs are high ;trap- 
I nHr I DnO ■ piug pa y s. New 
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muskrat, skunk, wolf, mink, etc., wa¬ 
ter den, snow, log, blind sets, etc., 
how to fasten traps, stretch furs, make dead falls, snares. 
Fur News, big illns. magazine, tells about fur markets, 
trapping:, hunting, woodcraft, fishing, fur farming, roots, herbs ; 
lots of good stories. Send 10c coin for copy of book and sample copy 
FURNEWS.71 W.23dSt., Room 507,New York 
Sabo Sure Catch Trap 
for fox, coon, skunk, possum, ground 
hoar, rabbit. etc., place in animal'/ 
burrow. SOLD DIRECT at factor? 
price. Write for booklet. Agcn j 
wanted. Subo Trap M fir- Co. 
3118 W. 25th Street CLEVELAND. OHIO 
SKUNK 
tVe pay highest cash prices for 
all staple furs—Skunk, Mink’ 
Muskrat, Raccoon, Red Fox’ 
Fancy furs a specialty, includ' 
ing Silver and Cross Fox. 
Fisher, Marten, etc. Est. 1870. 
Our continued prompt returns and liberal policy are now 
bringing us shipments from all North America, Alaska 
to Mexico. Send for free Frlce List. Address 
M. J. JEWETT & SONS, REDWOOD, N. V. [Dept. 20 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal. ” See 
guarantee editorial page . : : : 
RAW FURS 
WANTED 
Mr. RAW FUR SHIPPER- 
We want your raw furs. Put your own assortment on them and 
mail us a copy. If we cannot net you more than you expect, we will 
return them to you, express paid. Our price list is yours for the asking. 
Milton Schreiber & Co.—Raw Furs 
138-140 NEW 
West il vS g YORK 
29th Street Iferff *f CITY 
