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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 21 , 1020 
You Can Spray Faster with a 
HARDIE SPRAYER 
The Hardie is built for it—a time saver and a fruit saver. Its ample 
pump capacity provides a volume of spray liquid that enables you to 
quickly cover every leaf and limb. Its powerful engine gives the pressure 
necessary for effective work. Simpli¬ 
city of construction—always a Hardie 
feature, increases its efficiency. 
And here’s another fact—we know how 
to build them—twenty years’ experience 
has taught us how to give the proper 
relationship between size of pump and 
horse power of engine which provides 
ample power for hard continuous spray¬ 
ing, This balance can only be obtained 
through the use of high-grade materials 
and skilled workmanship. 
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More Hardie Sprayers are used wherever good 
fruit is grown—big growers, men who figure spray¬ 
ing costs down to the penny, who check results by 
high-grade fruit produced, buy Hardie Sprayers 
exclusively. Write today for Hardie catalog. It 
shows the reason why. 
The Hardie Manufacturing Co. 
HUDSON,:mich. 
Branches: Portland, Ore. Hagerstown, Md. 
Kansas Ciity, Mo. Los Angeles,Cal. 
Hardie Orchard Gan — The Perfect Spray Gan 
Wm ; ' 1920 
Improvements \f' 
SW Underfeed suction-f 
§V s ! Height of sprayer 
reduced. 
N ,9,V Rapid Tank J 
filler. * 
Rigid Steel M/ 
frame. J&hM. 
Evei y Farmer am use it 
Every; 
Day! 
The Pomp of o Hundred Uses 
N OT only is it heavy artillery 
for the battle against bugs, 
germs and infection of all 
kinds, but it will wash vehicles, ex¬ 
tinguish fires, apply whitewash, spray 
live stock, and serve as syringe in 
veterinary work. So many are its 
uses that every farmer needs it no 
matter what the equipment he may 
have now. 
This pump is already used success¬ 
fully by over a hundred thousand farmers. It is a proven success. 
Built throughout of brass which is not affected by ordinary chem¬ 
icals. It is guaranteed for five years and will last a lifetime.. Standard 
Spray Pumps are sold by hardware and seed stores. Sold direct where 
we have no dealer. 
Price, $5.00. ($5.50 west of Denver, and in the extreme South). 
Knapsack and other attachments extra. IVrite for leaflet M 
THE STANDARD STAMPING CO.,975 Main St., Huntington,W.Va. 
You Need this Handy Sprayer 
Use the Auto-Spray No. 1 to disinfect 
incubators and brooders and to clean 
out lice and mites in the poultry house. 
Prevent blights and destroy insects in the hot 
house, cold frame, garden and on the lawn. 
Whitewash the cellar, stables and other outbuildings faster 
and more evenly than with a brush. Wash windows, bug¬ 
gies and motor cars quickly and thoroughly. There are 
nearly 40 other styles of Auto-Spray—big and little. 
Write for free Spraying Calendar and Catalogue. 
The E. C. BROWN COMPANY 892 Maple Street. Rocketer. N. Y. 
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A Case of Spavined Science 
My daughter attends high school at a 
small country village. The teachers are 
mostly imported. The biology teacher in 
a very learned effort to elaborate on the 
origin of new varieties in the vegetable 
kingdom, stated that if an eye from each 
of two distinct varieties of potatoes were 
planted in close proximity, the result 
would be a cross between the two, par¬ 
taking of the qualities of both. She (the 
teacher) also stated that potato plants 
must form seed in order to produce tu¬ 
bers. Now I was born and raised on a 
farm, married a farmer, and have raised 
considerable garderf stuff in my day and 
have also been favored with as much 
education as this wonderful expounder 
of modern science. I haven’t seen a po¬ 
tato ball in this section for a good many 
years, and potato blossoms are a rarity 
in some seasons, yet we manage to raise 
potatoes, and have never seen two kinds 
in the same hill unite to form a third 
kind. I told my daughter that I didn’t 
feel like leaning my feeble weight (nearly 
200 lbs.) against such a mountain of ig¬ 
norance, but she wants a little dose of 
real science to administer to that in¬ 
structor, and so I have to appeal to head¬ 
quarters. Am I “jumping” on the 
teachers? They teach in proportion to 
their pay, and I am continually tolling my 
children to be thankful for the hooks and 
schools, and to appreciate and make the 
best of their teachers’ efforts, and help 
out by extra studiousness. MRS. C. L. v. 
The statement that if two “eyes” or 
buds from two different varieties of pota¬ 
toes were planted in close proximity, 
the result would be a cross between the 
two, is entirely untrue. The teacher 
was probably thinking of the crossing 
that may result from pollination by adja¬ 
cent plants, an entirely different process. 
Buds, grafts, cuttings and roof divisions 
are a part of the parent plant, and they 
come true to type with few exceptions. 
Sometimes a single bud develops an inex¬ 
plicable mutation, and what we call a 
“sport” or bud variation occurs. Expe¬ 
riments have been made in sectional graft¬ 
ing of buds, a delicate and precarious 
operation concerning which we have lit¬ 
tle knowledge, but any results from this 
would have no hearing on the adjacent 
planting of two distinct potato eyes. The 
mixed results we sometimes see in potato 
fields are nop*due to mixing of the buds 
or eyes, hut to mixed “seed” stocks. 
It is not true that potatoes must form 
seed in order to produce tubers. On 
the contrary; long propagation by the 
tuber seems to have atrophied the pota¬ 
to’s inclination to blossom and form 
seeds. For countless generations the 
potato has been selected for tuber qual¬ 
ity, and propagated solely by tubers, 
unless new varieties were sought from 
seeds. As seed is not necessary for the 
survival of its race, the potato apparently 
does not trouble to produce it. The same 
peculiarity may be seen in the banana 
and the pineapple, two economic plants 
propagagted from time immemorial by 
sprouts or suckers, which are now prac¬ 
tically seedless, save in rare instances. 
Some seasons one may find quite a few 
potato balls or seeds, some seasons very 
few. and very often the seeds do not prove 
viable, so that plant breeders who are 
working with the idea of producing new 
varieties have these difficulties to contend 
with. Some seasons an unusual produc¬ 
tion of potatoes, flowers and seeds is re¬ 
ported, variety, weather and locality 
doubtless influencing this, but the crop 
of tubers depends on other factors. As a 
rule, the less chance an individual plant 
has to survive, the greater is its seed 
production, and human control of propa¬ 
gation by tuber enables the potato to 
survive whether it forms seed or not. Wild 
forms in various parts of South America 
are said to seed freely, and their appar¬ 
ent immunity to certain diseases has 
caused plant breeders to experiment with 
them in crosses on our cultivated forms, 
but their tubers do not yet equal the cul¬ 
tivated form in size or quality, and it 
is probable that In nature they propa¬ 
gate by seed to a considerable extent. 
Seeding Wheat to Alfalfa 
Wv have nine acres of wheat on soil 
most of which is a gravel. We are in the 
habit of sowing Timothy in Fall and 
Red clover in Spring on our wheat. The 
Timothy always grows, but the Red clover 
fails about two out of three times. There 
is a fair stand of Timothy on the 
wheat now, and we are wondering whether 
Alfalfa wouldn’t stand a better chance of 
starting than the Red clover. If we get 
the stand we are sure to get the crop, for 
this is natural Alfalfa soil. Our habit 
is to fit ground in August for Alfalfa, es¬ 
pecially top-dressing with manure and 
lime. We are top-dressing the wheat 
with 10 loads of manure this year. We 
have had no experience with seeding 
wheat to alfalfa. Do you think this 
would work, to sow on the Alfalfa and 
work iu with weeder or light drag? Six 
acres of wheat was sown after the silo 
corn without any plowing, and three after 
first cutting Timothy and clover sod. 
About 200 lbs. 2-S-2 fertilizer was used 
per acre. E. C. P. 
Albion, N T. 
We doubt the wisdom of seeding Al¬ 
falfa in this way. It has never paid us, 
though there have been one or two reports 
of success with such seeding. We should 
seed the Alfalfa alone. Our plan would 
be to use a mixture of Red and Alsike 
clover seed and inoculate it with the com¬ 
mercial bacteria. 
Try It Yourself 
Without Obligation 
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Merry Garden 
Auto Cultivator 
We want you to try this great labor-saving 
device and see it do the work of four men 
quicker, better and easier. Operates by 2 h. p. 
motor, controlled by levers on the adjustable 
handles. A child can run it. 
Saves Labor—Betters Crops 
Travels from 120 to 200 feet per minute. Thor¬ 
oughly cultivates the soil no matter how hard 
baked. Goes between wide rows and strad¬ 
dles narrow ones. 
The present low price—$195—will be withdrawn 
April 1st, due to advancing costs. Order now— 
save money. Delivery when you want it. 
ATLANTIC MACHINE & MFC. COMPANY 
457 W. Prospect Av. 
CLEVELAND 
OHIO 
L Firm Tractor 8 Supply Co., Eastern Distributors 
815 Boyiston St., Boston, Mass. 
N. V. Office “Bn the Concourse" Hudson Terminal Bldg, 
oPR* 
* *g&S&**' WITH 
SULCOV.B. 
Charles Fremd’s Formula 
Sulphur—Fish Oil—Carbolic Compound 
A Combined Contact Insecticide 
and Fungicide of known reliability. Con¬ 
trols scale insects, also many species of 
lice and fungus diseases on trees, plants 
and animals. 
AT YOUR DEALERS OR DIRECT. 
Manufacturers of Standard Fish OH Soap. 
Booklet Free. Address 
COOK & SWAN CO., INC., 
Snfco Dept. R|pl48 Front St., New York, U.S. A. 
.—NEW JERSEY ESTATE— 
FOR SALE 
CONTAINING 
Acres 
LOCATED AT 
Lawrencevil le* 
TRENTON. N.J. 
ON THE MAIN LIKE 
OF THE 
PENNSYLVANIA 
RAILROAD i 
ONE OF THE FINEST 
FARMS IN THE EAST 
Completely stocked with all necessary machinery, 
tractors, implements, and live stock — in full 
running order. 
The purchaser of the real estate may purchase the 
live stock, machinery, etc., if desired. 
For circular describing the property 
and further information, address — 
LEANDER F. HERRICK 
105 Main Street Worcester, Mass., or 
W. M. DICKINSON CO. 
145 East Hanover Street Trenton, N. J. 
Large Owner’s 
House 
5 TENANT HOUSES 
2 GREENHOUSES 
2 TROLLEYS 
Electric Light 
Sewage System 
Hourly Express 
Trains 
.Magnificent Water 
Supply 
OTHER BUSINESS Must Sell 
130-acres: 8-room house: water in house: two barns, 
both 30x40; silo, hen house, other buildings; 2,000 
cords wood, estimated. Buildings insured $3,000. 
lOlcows. one ho>-se, brood sow, 225 hens, laying fine: 
all tools, hay and grain. All for $5,000: only $1,500 
cash. HALL'S FARM AGENCY, Owego, Tioga Co., New York 
We Sell Farms 
Write for complete list o t New York State Farms tor sale 
We have a size, location and price to please vou. 
Reliable representatives wanted. Give referen¬ 
ces and mention Rural Now-Yorker. 
MANOEVILLE REAL ESTATE AGENCY. Inc., 0LEAN, N. Y 
FARMS ANDHOMES 
WHERE LIFE IS WORTH LIVING. Moderate prices-geninl 
climate—productive lands. For information write 
STATE BOARD DF AGRICULTURE, • Dover, Delaware 
sale Grain, Dairy, White Potato & Poultry Farms 
From 5 to 150 acres. In best section of - South Jersey. Ex¬ 
cellent soil. Good markets. Long growing season. Rea¬ 
sonable prices. Good terms. W. M. WHEATLEY, Elmer, M. J. 
FrnaFarmflatalmrilft of New England States Farmsup- 
rreerdrm uaiaiogue on request. First-Class properties 
only. Chsmbcrlain 8 Burnham, Inc., 294 Washington SI., Boston, Mass. 
For Sale-Eraif and Dairy FARMS 
Free list. HARRY VAIL, New Milford, Orange Co., N. Y. 
A gents —Mason sold 18 Sprayers and Autowashers one 
Saturday: Protits, $2 60 each; Square Deal; Particu¬ 
lars Free. ItrSLElt COMPANY, Johnstown. Ohio 
AGENTSWANTED 
Active, reliable, on salary, to 
take subscriptions for Rural 
New-Yorker in Schuyler and 
Chemung Counties, N. Y. 
Prefer men who havo horse or auto. ' 
Address; — 
JOHN G. COOPER. 24G5 W. St*t« St,. 
OLEAN. N. Y. 
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