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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 27, 1920 
Grow Potatoes 
with More Profit 
High labor costs and low yields cut big 
holes in the bag of potato profits. You 
can make the crop pay and pay big, 
if you reduce your costs and increase 
the bushels per acre. 
Old methods of planting, cultivating, spray¬ 
ing and harvesting are wasteful of time and 
labor, and do not insure a maximum yield. 
One day less in labor and 25 more bushels 
per acre can mean a difference between 
breaking even and making a big profit. Put 
yourdependence on these successful, tried and 
trustworthy labor savers and crop increasers. 
POTATO CUTTER 
POTATO 
PLANTER 
POTATO MACHINES 
POTATO Saves time and labor in cutting 
r-irr-rco seed. Produces uniform seed of 
CL/ I 1 t,K approved sizes. Operates with 
both hands free for feeding. Adjustable. 
POT A TO One man and team plants the entire 
or a \itcd cr °P ! °P ens furrow, drops seed 
rLAly I ER an y distance or depth, drops ferti¬ 
lizer (if desired) covers and marks next row. In¬ 
creases yield by uniform planting. No injury to seed. 
Sizes for 1 or 2 rows. 
RIDING Breaks crust, mulches soil and kills 
weeds when potato crop is young 
MULCHER an d tender. Gives crop a big start 
and does the work quickly. Three sizes, 8, 10 and 
12 feet, 't his machine with or without seeding 
attachment has many uses. 
TRACTION Saves time and labor in doing the 
hardest and most necessary job in 
SPRAiER potato growing. Increases yields by 
insuring prompt spraying for bugs and blight. 
Sizes to cover 4 or 6 rows. 
POTATO Gets all the potatoes and pays 
for itself in one season. With or 
DIGGER without engine attachment, gets 
potatoes and separates where other diggers fail. 
All these machines arc in stock near you 
Write for complete Catalog 
Eureka Mower Ce., Box 1102, Utica, N. Y. 
EUREKA RIOINO MULCH Eft 
EUREKA TRACTION SPRAYER 
EUREKA POTATO DICCER 
MULC0NR0Y METALLIC SPRAY HOSE 
LIGHT 
Weighs 6oz. to foot 
STRONG 
Tested to 2000 lbs. 
FLEXIBLE 
Will coil in 3-in. 
circle 
CAN’T KINK, TW (J i', BURST, COLLAPSt OR CHAFti 
Protected against kinking, hard knocks, sharp turns, dragging over rough 
surfaces and other outside abuse. 
Tube specially compounded to resist the action of the oily and corrosive liquids 
and powders used in spraying. 
Full capacity always, because hose cannot kink. 
When equipped with Mulconroy High Pressure Couplings it makes 
The Strongest Hose Made. Ask for No. 65 Folder. 
MULCONROY CO.} Inc. Established 1887 
Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago Boston New York 
MANURE IS DEFICIENT IN 
PHOSPHORUS 
DOUBLE ITS VALUE BY REINFORCING IT WITH 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
ANALYSING 
PHOSPHORIC ACID Grade A 28.00% Grade B 16.00% 
BARIUM SULPHIDE 7.00% 7.00% 
MANURE IS NO MORE A COMPLETE RATION 
FOR CROPS THAN HAY IS FOR A COW 
The addition of Phosphorus to manure will pay as well as feeding grain with hay. 
A few pounds of B-P scarttered each day in the gutters of your barn will 
DOUBLE THE VALUE OF YOUR MANURE 
absorb all liquids, prevent the loss of ammonia and keep the stable sanitary. 
This is a sensible and logical thing to do. 
WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT? 
Our Book. “Phosphorus and Manure,” will give you valuable information along these 
lines, and “Cover Crops. Manure and Phosphorus” will show you how to keep a large 
part of your annual fertilizer bill in your pocket. They are free for the asking. 
We ean also quote attractive prices on carload lots of 
GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK 
AND 
NITRATE OF SODA 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Inc. 
2 Rector St., New York City 393 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 
Co-operative Food Buying 
A co-operative group of people here in 
New York is conducting a restaurant and 
food store. Among other kinds of food 
these people use each year almost $1,000 
worth of canned fruit—exclusive of veg¬ 
etables. Thus far this fruit has been 
purchased in the open market, but the 
people who conduct the restaurant would 
like to extend their co-operative work 
to farmers or gardeners. They ask us 
if we know of any farmer who would be 
interested in such a plan. The plan 
would be for this farmer to supply (lie 
fruit and have a company come from this 
restaurant and do the canning and pre¬ 
serving. including the picking. We have 
no doubt that a large quantity of such 
fruit could he sold at retail. This ar¬ 
rangement would take care of the market¬ 
ing problem and insure good prices. If 
any of our readers near New York are 
interested in such a co-operative plan we 
can put them into communication with 
(lie restaurant. 
Another “Plain Farm Woman” 
As II. C. K. W. has asked for other 
farm women’s opinions on the social side 
of farm life, and as I have been a city 
woman, a small town woman and last 
hut not least, a country woman, prob¬ 
ably you will allow me to express my 
opinions. We se-m to be living in a 
speed-craze age. Not being content with 
Dobbin and the buggy, the auto has come 
into general use, so that one who doesn't 
own a car is considered a back number. 
Just so the social side of farm life. 
We no longer need go to the city for 
the modern conveniences, but can have 
them even on the most isolated farms, 
and with a phonograph or a player-piano 
are able to bring the best of music into 
1 he home, and works of the best, writers 
through books or magazines. But, you 
say, so many farmers cannot afford all 
these things. Quite true, nor can he ever 
afford them until his produce brings him 
a price to compare with the merchandise 
i he must buy. 
If one is happy in her home she can 
he content to spend the greater part of 
her time in her home. Then this idea 
of go, go, go, all the time, is very much 
a habit, and a bad habit at that. When 
I was living in the city I formed the 
habit of attending the movies, and it 
seemed I simply could not be content if 
one of my favorite actors or actresses 
'was showing at a local playhouse. Since 
coming to the farm and becoming really 
interested in my house, I can very weil 
content myself, after a hard days’ work 
in the poultry yard, garden or ofttimes in 
the held, to settle down in the evening 
with the daily paper, poultry magazine 
or one of the several magazines, and read 
and plan for the future. I am sure I am 
far better off both financially and men¬ 
tally, than when spending my evenings 
at the movies. 
I, like II. S. K. W., think there is a 
happy medium between the stay-at-hojue 
and the go-all-the-timc. Nothing does 
one so much good, and makes one ap¬ 
preciate her home more than to get away 
from it all once in a while, to mix with 
our neighbors and friends, hut the best 
part of going is the getting home. 
G. B. L. 
Day’s Work of a Retired Farmer 
(Continued from page 628) 
some still more sad and unhappy days be¬ 
fore the end comes. It does hurt so when 
a child takes such a position toward the 
one he should love best of all! 
A Roundabout Hoad. —But now the i 
day is hastening toward its close. While 
I have been listening to this dear old 
lady’s story and trying to plan out with | 
her the best way out of a had situation, I 
have been thinking of the girl with the ; 
lame knee and devising a scheme for 
helping her. Making the best guess I 
can as to the size of the bandage needed. 
I procure two of them, one a little larger 
than the other. Just when I am ready 
for it, the street car comes along. I 
take it with no small sense of relief, and 
it takes me 10 miles down the river, to 
a factory town from which every even¬ 
ing a motor car goes with hands that 
work in the shops up into t he country to 
a village a mile and a half from the farm, 
llow things do dovetail when we are 
trying our best to give somebody a lift 
over a tight place! A lady I meet in a 
drug store while waiting for the taxi to 
come on its trip to the country village, 
tells me she is going that way when the 
shop hands do. and will take my package 
right with her. I step into the booth of 
a pay station, call up my boy at the farm, 
tell him what I have done, and am ready 
for the return trip home. The words of 
thankfulness from the lips of my hoy are 
all the pay I need for what I have done. 
It is awfully good of you to take so 
much pains for us. W.e do thank you 
more than we ean tell.” 
So the shadows fall. My day’s work is 
done now. I am glad to reach home, glad 
strength has been given me to do the 
little tilings I have, and glad that the 
things have come to me to do. 
EDGAR. L. VINCENT. 
For the Land’s Sake—Use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth aud 
those who till it-— Adv. 
LUCKY BOY 
Fall-Bearing Strawberry 
Bigger, sweeter and more productive than any 
other ever-bearing strawberry. No more trouble 
to grow than a standard variety. Blossoms ent 
off once in the Spring is all that is necessary 
Fruits until hard freeze. Frost lias no effect.*' 
Price prepaid 
25 Plants.$3.00 100 Plants.S7.50 
50 Plants.5.0C 500 Plants.25!oo 
Townsend Strawberry Plants 
Are 100% Perfect 
S TRONG, healthy, vigorous, heavy 
rooted plants dug fresh every 
day for your order. 35 the leading 
standard varieties-4,the bestEver- 
bearing—including the 
Lucky Boy, Fall-Bearing Strawberry 
Lucky Boy which is claimed by all who 
have grown them to be the best Fall¬ 
bearing berry yet. Don’t fail to get 25 
or 100 plants to start this season. Get 
your order in early. April is the Straw¬ 
berry planting time. 
Take No Chances on Cheap John Plants 
We have the largest, stock of plants in the 
country and no one can give you more for your 
Dollar than Townsend. Take no Chances on 
Cheap John Plants. 
We Have What You Want 
Now growing in our Nurseries waiting for 
your order. Orders can usually be filled same 
day received if wanted. 
See R. N.-Y., Page 469—March 6th for Prices 
Or ask for our Catalog No.30, will goby return 
mail. 
Special Prices for April on th« following 
10% off list price und we pay the Charges 
Aroma Dr. Burrill Dunlap Early Ozar 
Klondyke Glen Mary Gandy Missionary 
Haverland Sample Ford Townsend’s Late 
Peerless E.B. WORLD’S WONDER 
The above are some of the best known varieties in 
the country which tee arc long on at this time 
and orders must be sent in at once to get the 
Special discount — and prepaid charges to you. 
E. W. TOWNSEND & SON 
25 Vine Street :: Salisbury. Md. 
Old Reliable Nurseries 
CADMC FOR ui3 acres on Chester River, 
rHltniOSALE H miles from l 'hestertown. Md., 
all tillu ble, very good soil. Will sell in small tracts 
or as a whole. 
A. PARKS BASIN :: Chestertown, Md. 
FARMERS, ATTENTION! 
f am offering 400 Khodn Island and Connecticut 
Farms at prices front $275 to $25,000. If interested 
send lor my Farm Bulletin. Latest edition just oat. 
Send for one. WILLIAM «. WILCOX, Farm Specialitl, Weiterly, II. 1. 
FOR SALE or RENT 
from Elkton. Md., 150 acres tillable, balancein good 
timber and cord wood. Prices right: Terms easy. 
A. PARKS RASIN :: Chestertown, Md. 
PLANT THE BEST IN SEED SPECIALS 
it seemed like highway robbery to have charged 
my customers Forty-eight Dollars per pound for 
special strain of Brussel Sprout seeds last year, but 
they made money for their crop brought fabulous 
sums because of the high quality of their product, 
and so it is with the various varieties of cabbage, 
spinach. Luce's Favorite Seed Corn, cauliflower seed 
and many other seeds. They are special seeds to 
meet high class demands, they are selected to meas¬ 
ure high in the quality of production. Avail your¬ 
self of the best that grow. Sondforprlce lists,they 
will reach you in a couple of days. 
S. H. SMITH, Seedgrower PECONIC, L. I. 
ICOII S SWEET CLOVER 
cu 
Ten dollars cheaper than Red and the best 
substitute. Fits light into the rotation. Ask 
m W for our catalogue telling "How to Know 
B Good Seed” and sweet clover chart explain- 
ing all about this wonderful plant. 
0. M. SCOTT & SONS CO., 470 Main SI., Marysville, 0 
1 
NOW IS THE TIME 
. To Order Plants 
STRAWBERRY BLACKBERRY 
CABBAGE TOMATO 
All Varieties 
We will gladly mail you our PRICE LIST 
CALEB BOGGS & SON CHESW0LD, DELAWARE 
Strawberry Plants 
*1 per 100. Larger lots on applica¬ 
tion. GEO. H. GASSETf, Puliicf. Vcrmonl 
?ale — Raspberry Plants 
*2 per 100: *15 per 1.000. 
J. K. 0BEKH0LHER. Mitflinl.wn, fJ. 
W ATSON’S l’rolIHe BLACK RASPBERRY. The 
most, productive and finest quality of all. ‘.mpno 
Ped. Plants. In* P. Watson, Fbkdonia, nkw f okk. 
POTATOES-Iiliis, Boveo, Carman, Cobbler. Green Sit., Beb- 
rou, Oleut, Runet, Six.Wreka, Others. C. W. FORD, filbert, 
