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•Ptt RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 14, 1920 
A Health-Building Cereal 
Grape-Nuts 
A satisfying food, 
greatly pleasing 
to taste, full oi 
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and ready to eat 
without cooking. 
Needs no Sugar 
Pleasing alike to young and old. 
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FRUIT TREES and 
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Three times as speedy as the saw. Makes smooth cuts. Operator stands 
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WHAT IS AFERTILE SOIL? 
The growing of crops depends on BIOLOGICAL rather than CHEMICAL phenomena. 
Make the soil fit for the development of Hie essential bacterial life and you have what is 
recognized as a fertile soil. Maintain this fertility and profitable crops will result. 
All organic matter in the soil. i. e., humus, manure or green crops turned under, must 
be broken down and transformed by these bacteria before it can ho used by the plant. 
SOIL MUST BE KEPT SWEET 
in order that these essential bacteria may exist and work. They cannot live under acid 
conditions. An acid soil is of necessity bucteriallv dead, or. In other words, agriculturally 
dead. Dead soil can never lie farmed at a profit. 
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AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
ANALYSING 
PHOSPHORIC ACID Grade A 28.00% Grade B 16.00% 
BARIUM SULPHIDE 7.00% 7.00% 
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Uscsd in combination with manure or plowed under with green crops, Barium-Pliosphate 
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THE MAILBAG 
Freezing Ice in Cans 
Referring to your article, page 84, 
about freezing ice in cans, if you put a 
thick cover on the cans so the top will 
freeze last, I do not think your cakes 
would bulge on top and crack. The sides 
and bottom would freeze first and the ex¬ 
pansion would he up in the top of the can, 
and freeze last. If the can is left open 
the top freezes first, and the rest of the 
water is confined, and when that freezes 
it expands and the weakest place must 
give way. I should make cans, top 12x18, 
28 in. deep. w. a. p. 
Lime and Sulphur on Cucumbers 
How many use lime and sulphur, pow¬ 
dered, equal parts, sifted or blown on cu¬ 
cumbers, squashes, cabbages, etc., to kill 
or drive away bugs and worms? E. M. P. 
We have not used the mixture of sul¬ 
phur and lime for the purpose, but have 
used the poisoned dust which we use on 
trees, with good success. This dust con¬ 
tains powdered sulphur and dry arsenate 
of lead. 
Screened Hen Manure with Acid Phos¬ 
phate 
Has anyone screened the dry hen ma¬ 
nure and mixed the fine manure with acid 
phosphate, running it in the drill? 
E. N. P. 
Thousands of our renders have doue 
this with success; acid phosphate is the 
standard reinforcement for chicken ma¬ 
nure. This manure lacks phosphorus, 
and the addition of the phosphate in the 
proportion of 400 lbs. to 1,000 lbs. of lieu 
manure will pay. 
More About the Walking-stick 
On page 155 I note an article on “walk¬ 
ing-sticks.” While this name is a new 
one to me it is very appropriate. In the 
Western States they are known as “dev¬ 
il’s horse”, and are quite common, while in 
the South some years they are nearly as 
numerous as grasshoppers, hut never 
knew them to do any great harm. When 
young they vary, according to age, from 
pale to dark green, and when mature are 
the color of bark or dead sticks. One 
species is very voracious and lives mainly 
on insects, and if two of them are put 
under a glass, or in a wire cage, will 
fight a most desperate duel. A. M. s. 
Albany, N. Y. 
Gasoline Power in Well-digging 
I have been a member of the R. N.-Y. 
family for over 20 years, and I always 
come to you when I have a problem that 
I cannot solve. This time it is a well¬ 
digging proposition. I have a well at least 
25 ft. deep to dig, 12 ft. iu diameter, and 
as help is scarce and high I must use my 
three horsepower gas engine to hoist the 
dirt out of the well. Have any of the R. 
N.-Y. family ever used an arrangement 
the same ns they use in the West for 
stacking hay, that is, a cable, track and 
carrier, the same as they use on a horse 
hay-track. What is the capacity of a 
cable carrier aiul can I get a bucket at a 
reasonable price that has an automatic 
trip? If there is a hotter way to draw 
the dirt from the well with a gas eng ue 
I would he glad to know how. 
New Hampshire geo. w. wilder. 
Corncobs for Pipes 
On page 143 is note regarding value of 
corncobs. Out here in Missouri they 
grow a variety of corn called Collier. It 
is not a heavy yielder, but its cobs are 
worth $1.25 per 100 for cob pipe making. 
The supply is never above the demand, 
and it is said that no other variety of corn 
will grow cobs suitable for making first- 
class pipes. C. D. LYON. 
Missouri. 
Rheumatism Cura 
I am not quite sure as to the name, 
but I was informed that Rheume Oil was 
a cure for rheumatism. Could you find 
out where it can be obtained and send me 
a bottle G. O. D.? T.w. 
New York. 
You were misinformed. There is no 
known cure for rheumatism. If there 
were it would not be considered one of 
the most intractable diseases, in some of 
its forms, with which the medical pro¬ 
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of what we call rheumatism yield readily 
to certain remedies in common use; others 
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and pocketbook, am glad that I do not. 
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