560 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 13, 1920 
i 
* 
* 
i 
< 
i 
A Morning" Dish Of 
GrapeNuts 
certainly does Hearten one up 
for the day. Why shouldn’t it? 
Grape-Nuts is ready-cooked, 
ready- sweetened, and contains 
just those good elements nature 
requires for the strength to do 
things. 
Make Grape=NutS your home cereal 
* ‘Theres a Reason ” 
agsg 
'OR the first time American farmers 
can solve the drainage problem at 
7 cost. Find out about this tool, 
t it off. Write for the new book that 
ptfig# 'Ditcher 
Mf & Grader 
Model 20 All-Steel—Reversible—Lasts a Lifetime 
Cuts V-shaped farm ditch down to 4 ft. deep; cleans old 
BBHI ditches; grades roads; builds farm terraces, dykes and 
levees; works in any soil, wet or dry. 2, 4 and 6 
PM||l horse sizes; large size fine for tractor. Does work of 100 men. 
» ffli Write and find out how to make big crops sure. New free book 
■UmpHI on drainage, irrigation and terracing. Address 
1 M IB OWENSBORO DITCHER AND GRADER CO. 
■UM1 Box 834 OWENSBORO, KY. 
DRAINAGE 
SOLD ON 
■A days 
IVTRIAL 
every room indoors can be as warm as 
toast. It simply means putting in the 
cellar a 
NEW-IDEA 
Pipeless Furnace 
“ The one you've heard so much about" 
When the 
Porch Thermometer 
Says Zero 
It takes but a day to install a New- 
Idea because there are no altera¬ 
tions to make—just the cutting of 
a hole for the big dust and gas- 
tight New-Idea register which 
heats the whole house evenly with 
clean, moist air. 
Burn any fuel in the patented non¬ 
clinker grate. It means better 
heating at less cost than with 
stoves and you are free from the 
dust and dirt due to carrying ashes 
and coal through the house. 
You take no chances when you 
order a New-Idea. The signed and 
sealed money-back guarantee of 
satisfaction goes with every one. 
Read it before you order. Expert 
advice on heating, free. 
UTICA HEATER COMPANY 
Box 50, Utica, N. Y. 
Also manufacturers of “ Superior’' Warm 
Air Furnaces and,"Imperial'' Steam and 
Hot Water Boilers 
Excellent proposition for the right kind of hard¬ 
ware dealers, implement dealers, etc. New-Idea 
dealers everwhere are “making good.” 
20-9 
Orchard Surgery; or Fitting Over Trees 
(Continued from page 52S) 
close up to the tree. This forms an ideal 
harbor for mice to propagate inland re¬ 
sults in serious injury to fruit trees 
every year. If the weeds are cut back in 
the Fall away from the trees a distance 
of three feet, and a half-dozen sliovelsful 
of clean dirt thrown around the trunk 
and packed down, the injury caused by 
mice will be reduced to the minimum. 
Rabbits generally injure a tree further up 
the trunk, and usually above the snow. 
Certain wire protectors are on the market 
that give a good protection against this 
form of injury. 
Common ok Cleft Grafting. —This is 
one of the most usual methods, but is 
not used as much as it might be. Every 
year fruit growers are disappointed be¬ 
cause trees that they purchased for some¬ 
thing standard come into bearing and 
produce an inferior fruit. Half the lead¬ 
ers should be cut back to stubs the first 
year with a sharp saw. These should 
then be split in half with a hatchet an 
inch or two back from the cut, the 
hatchet removed and a little wedge driven 
in to hold the crack out far enough for 
the scions. Then two scions of a variety 
that is wanted are prepared and 
trimmed to fit the shape of the split in 
the limb.. These scions may be from 
six to eight inches, and only the end 
that is to be inserted in the branch is 
trimmed. Care should be taken in plac¬ 
ing the scions so that the cambium layer 
of the stock or branch exactly touches 
the outside cambium layer of the scion. 
A. scion is placed properly on both sides 
of the limb and the wedge removed care¬ 
fully, so as not to disturb the scions. 
Then the grafting wax is carefully placed 
around all the end of the branch and down 
to the end of the crack. The reason two 
scions are used is to be doubly sure that 
KEEP THE WEEDS OUT 
and Your Garden Growing 
It’s easy— and a 
pleasure—with a 
Barker AND ° E M ULTIVATO R 3Machines ini 
Kills the weeds and breaks the hardest crust into 
a level, porous, moisture-retaining mulch. Works as 
fast asyou can walk. Cuts runners. Aerates the soil. 
“Best Weed Killer Ever Used.” Works right up 
to plants. Guards protect leaves. Has easily 
attached shovels for deeper cultivation. 
Requires no skill. A boy can run it, and 
do more and better work than ten 
men with hoes. 
Inexpensive. 
Write today for illus¬ 
trated book and special 
Faetory-to-User offer. 
BARKER MFG. CO., 
Dept. 16 
David City, Neb. 
FARQUHAR CIDER PRESS 
This Hydraulic Press will work up your 
apple cull into profitable cider. You can also 
make money pressing for your neighbors. 
Our high pressure construction gets 
all the juice with minimum power and 
operating expense. Sizes 15 to 400 
barrels a day, suitable for 
individual and merchant 
service. 
Illustrated Catalog 
free on request. 
A. B. Farquhar Co# 
Ltd.. Box 130, 
York, Pa. 
We also meko 
Engines and Boil¬ 
ers. Sawmills, 
Threshers, Implements, etc. 
Write lor descriptions. 
SAVE HALF Your 
Paint Bills 
BY USING Ingersoll Paint. 
PROVED BEST by 77 years’ use. it 
will please you. The ONLY PAINT en¬ 
dorsed by the “GRANGE” for 45 years. 
Made in all colors—for all purposes. 
Get my FREE DELIVERY offer. 
From Factory Direct to You at Wholesale Prices. 
INGERSOLL PAINT BOOK—FREE 
Tells oil about Paint and Painting for Durability. Valu¬ 
able information FREE TO YOU with Sample Cards. 
Write me. DO IT NOW. I WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. 
Oldeit Ready Mixed Paint House in America—Estab. 1842. 
Q. W. Ingersoll, 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
The Common Cleft-graft 
one will he successful, and if both are 
successful the poorest one should be cut 
off. The limbs not grafted can be done 
a year or two later, according to the 
health of the tree. Joseph, r. french. 
Ashes for Concrete Work 
Ou page 364, H. N., Massachusetts, in¬ 
quires regarding the value of ashes of 
hard or anthracite coal for concrete work ; 
also inquires whether or not ashes of bi¬ 
tuminous coal would be of any value. We 
have never tried making blocks of ashes, 
but from the experience we have had with 
ashes we can corroborate Dr. Dean in his 
reply, as the resulting concrete is both 
too porous and lacking in strength. We 
have been using concrete walls at the 
base of all our greenhouses to a height of 
2 to 4 ft, and 5 in. thick. These w T alls, 
some of which have stood for six years, 
show no signs of disintegration, though 
it is absolutely imperative that only ashes 
from bituminous coal arc used. I have 
seen walls erected with anthracite coal 
ashes fall down after a few seasons’ 
freezing. A greenhouse wall is nearly 
always wet during Winter, either on the 
inside or outside, and it is a pretty severe 
test for any material of this nature. 
We use only the fine ashes as they come 
through the shaking grate, and all cinder 
that will not go through a screen of 
about 1%-in. mesh is discarded. We 
have never added any sand, using only 
ashes and cement, one part cement to 
seven or eights parts ashes, by measure. 
The materials should be thoroughly 
mixed when dry and made sloppy wet 
when put in the forms, and tamped thor¬ 
oughly. Some of these walls are plas¬ 
tered on outside and others are not. We 
also have a tobacco shed 20x60 ft., with 
cellar 7 ft. deep, the walls 8 in. thick, be¬ 
ing made of the same material. The re¬ 
sulting concrete is somewhat porous, 
though remarkably tough. 
_ ELMER J. WEAVER. 
Farm operations will he curtailed very 
decidedly. Farm laborers have nearly 
all gone to the city, and the plan is, as 
far as possible, to do just what the 
farmer and family can handle alone, 
raising everything possible that will be 
needed for home consumption. There 
is no use raising crops to sell for less 
than cost, and the city man must some 
day understand that if he has food to eat 
he must do as he would be done by 
Worcester Co., Mass. E. D. G. 
Wheat, .$2.25 bu.; corn, $2.10 bu.; 
oats, $2.10 bu.; hay, $40 per ton; straw, 
$15; butter, SOc lb.; eggs, 7.5c doz.; 
chickens, 42c per lb. Everything sells 
high; good fresh cows, $135 to $225; 
horses, $175 to $275. it. K. 
j Westmoreland Co., Pa. 
Beat the Fuel Shortage 
As foul as 
$10 
Don’t depend on coal 
these days. Install a 
Hcrtzler & Zook 0 All/ 
Portable Wood Onll 
and bo sure of your fuel 
supply. Easy to operate. 
Our No. 1 is the cheapest and 
best saw made to which a ripping 
itable can be attached. Guaran¬ 
teed for 1 year. Mouey refunded 
33a. 6 tf not satisfactory. Write for catalog. 
HERTZLER & ZOOK CO.. Box 3 , Belleville, Pa. 
FARMERS 
HANDY 
WAGON 
Low etecl wheels, wide tires, mako 
loading and handling easier. We fur¬ 
nish Steel Wheels to fit any axle, to 
carry any load. Plain or grooved tire. 
Catalogue sent free. 
EMPIRE MFG.CO., Box 396, Quincy, Ilk 
The THRESHING PROBLEM 
£/\Y 1/DTI Threshes cowpeas and soybeans 
OULVEV from the mown vines, wheat, 
oats, rye and barley. A perfect 
combination machine. Nothing like it. “The 
machine I have been looking for for 20 
years,” W. E. Massey. “It will meet every 
demand,” H. A. Morgan, Director Tenn. Exp. 
Station. Booklet 30 free. 
Roger Pea & Bean Thresher Co.,Morrlstown,Tenn. 
WELL DR ^ S NG WELL 
Own a machine of your own. Cash or easy 
terms. Many styles and sizes for all purposes. 
Write for Circular 
WILLIAMS BROS.. 432 W. State St., Ithaca. N. T. 
HIGHOpRAYERS 
WT 38 Years 
Expe 
Pressure^ 
Experience 
Ospraymo With speclatfeaturesaUtheirown. 
Catalan , They claim your kind attention, 
p In every size .... for every zone. 
J ILL They furnish sure protection. 
FIELD FORCE WIST CQ., Dept. 2, Elmira, Hew York 
AGENTS WANTED jffiKSSSfc 
subscriptions for Rural New-Yorker 
in Ohio. Prefer men who have horse 
or auto. Address 
J. C. MULH0LLAN0, General delivery, Columbus. Ohio 
or 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 333 W. 30thSt., NewYorkCity 
