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It’s Time to Spray 
Trees are sleeping, but the scales are not sleeping. 
Dormant spraying is the first step in the season’s spray 
schedule. Let us advise and direct you. Write and we 
will send you an excellent spraying book and tell you 
why you should use 
Orchard 
Brand 
B.T.S. 
for San Jose Scale and Peach Leaf Curl—a great scale 
remedy—the result of over 20 years’ experience. You 
will prefer this dry product to any solution you can buy 
because the bulk is less, weight less, shipping charges 
less, no leakage and altogether more economical and satis¬ 
factory. Simply add water in the orchard—then it’s ready. 
A 100-lb. keg of B. T. S. is the equivalent in all spraying 
operations of a 50-gallon barrel of Lime Sulphur Solution 
weighing 600-lbs. For dormant spraying begin shortly 
after leaves fall—spray any time weather is suitable 
until shortly before buds open in spring. We gladly 
answer any questions personally. 
Orchard Brand Spray Materials 
include also the standard Orchard Brand Lime Sulphur Solution 
and a complete line of Insecticides and Fungicides for Dormant 
and Growing period spraying. 
We are cooperating with fruit growers everywhere. 
Put your problems up to us. Write us direct. Get 
your name on our mailing list to receive seasonable 
spraying information. Address as below. 
General CliemlcaVr 
Insecticide Dept., 25 Broad St., New^ork^ 
MANURE IS DEFICIENT IN 
PHOSPHORUS 
WITH COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS COSTING ABOUT DOUBLE 
THE USUAL PRICE MAKE YOUR MANURE GO AS FAR 
AS POSSIBLE BY REINFORCING IT WITH 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
ANALYSING 
16% Phosphoric Acid 7% Barium Sulphide 
MANURE IS NO MORE A COMPLETE RATION 
FOR CORN THAN HAY IS FOR A COW 
The addition of Phosphorus to manure, in the form of Barium-Phosphate, will pay as well us 
feeding grain with hay. 
A few pounds of B-P scattered each day in the gutters of your cow barn will 
DOUBLE THE VALUE OF YOUR MANURE 
BY ITS ADDITION OF PHOSPHORUS 
It is the sensible and logical thing to do. 
WHY DON 9 T YOU DO IT? 
We will deliver Barium-Phosphate anywhere in New York, New Jersey and most New 
England points at the following prices: 
CARLOADS, 20 TONS OR MORE $21.50 A TON 
LESS CARLOADS, 1 TON OR MORE 23.50 A TON 
Write for our book “Phosphorus and Manure” 
Wither bee, Sherman & Company, Inc. 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
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When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you'll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Garden Notes From New England 
Fall Cleaning. —Never was it more 
important to give the garden a thorough 
renovation at the end of the season than 
it is this year. A general cleaning up of 
all rubbish, combined with Fall plowing, 
will do much to get rid of the many pes¬ 
tiferous insects that live over in rubbish 
or just under the suface of the ground. 
This year the European corn-borer has 
been added to the list and is by far the 
most dangerous pest of all. Experience 
Tree Protector of Wire Netting 
has shown that the best time to get rid of 
this newcomer is in the Fall and Spring, 
and that unless the most vigorous meas¬ 
ures are adopted at that season the pest 
will inevitably increase until it sweeps 
over the entire country, doing incalculable 
damage. In many section this cleaning 
up work can be made obligatory, but it 
ought to be done voluntarily everywhere. 
Increasing Popularity of Cider.— 
The abnormal rainfall, plus high winds, 
has made apples drop badly. Perhaps 
that is one reason for the great increase 
in the amount of cider being made in 
New England. Other reasons are given, 
too, such 'as the lack of sugar for canning 
apples and making them into jelly. Truth 
to tell, though, cider seems to have re¬ 
newed its popularity to a remarkable ex¬ 
tent. Small kegs of cider are now to be 
found on the counters of drug stores all 
over Boston. The heavy demand has re¬ 
sulted in high prices for cider apples, so 
orchard growers will lose many trees from 
girdling this year unless they are given 
protection, and at the price of young trees 
now it pays to give them extra attention. 
I have seen various methods tried to pre¬ 
vent damage from rabbits and field mice, 
and have found nothing to equal the 
tree protectors made of stout wire net¬ 
ting. These protectors may be purchased 
ready for use, or made up at home by 
buying the netting and cutting it into 
squares. It should he placed loosely 
around the trees, as shown in cut, not 
touching the bark at any place, and 
should be pressed half an inch or more 
into the ground. An easy way to fasten 
the nettiug in place is to run a wire 
around it near the top and near the bot¬ 
tom, crooking it at the ends with pliers. 
These wire protectors exclude both rab¬ 
bits and mice, and if for any reason they 
are not taken off in the Spring they do 
not provide a lodging place for insects, 
as do the strips of wood veneer some¬ 
times used. Yet the latter prove effective 
and are often used to advantage. They 
last well and are inexpensive, but they 
should be taken off in the Spring. Tough 
paper, cornstalks and other cheap ma¬ 
terial may be used, but they cannot be re¬ 
lied upon to last the Winter through ^ 
without considerable attention, so that in 
the end the wire netting gives the great¬ 
est service. 
Protecting Raspberries. — Although 
♦here are protected gardens in New Eng¬ 
land where most of the raspberries will 
go through the Winter safely, there are 
many exposed situations where it is wise 
to lay down the plants. This is a simple 
enough process, and one that takes but 
little time when the berry patch is small. 
It is best to have two people to do the 
work, one of whom should wear heavy 
gloves and should grasp the canes firmly, 
bending them over almost to the ground. 
Ilis assistant should then throw enough 
earth over the ends to keep them in place. 
I have not found it necessary, as a rule, 
to cover the entire plant. Some time ago 
I saw a good-sized plantation after the 
plants had been prepared for Winter and 
found that they had simply been bent over 
in the way described. This same plan can 
be adopted for protecting blackberries, 
except that it often is necessary to first 
loosen the roots on one side with a fork 
so that there will not be too much strain 
on them when the plants are laid down. 
E. 1. FARRINGTON. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
(Continued from page ISIS) 
of the class that is shipped North, is the 
Hayman, known in the Baltimore mar- 
Laying Down Raspberries for Winter Protection 
that the farmer benefits to that extent. 
One large cider bottling establishment 
near Boston has been bringing apples 
from Central Connecticut by the carload. 
Protecting Young Trees. —For some 
reason “varmints” of various kinds seem 
to have increased in many parts of New 
England the past year, whether this is 
because of last Winter’s mildness or be¬ 
cause less hunting was done during the 
war, or some other reason. Poultry 
keepers and garden makers have suffered 
largely from the depredations of various 
animals. There is season to believe that 
ket simply as the yam. Years ago the 
late B. K. Bliss, seedsman of New York, 
got hold of the Hayman and sent it out 
under the name of Southern Queen, by 
which name it is still known in many sec¬ 
tions. The main shippiug potatoes here 
are the Big Stem Jersey and the Gold 
Skin. w. F. MASSEY. 
“Are you of the opinion that Doctor 
Bimby’s medicine does any good?” “Not 
unless you follow the directions?” “What 
are the directions?” “Keep the bottle 
tightly corked !”—Melbourne Australa¬ 
sian. 
