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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
CLOTHES 
Good clothes 
sense 
'tie in clothes 
Copyright 1920 
Henry Sonnebora 
& Co., Inc. 
Sold by one leading clothing- 
merchant in most citie* and 
towns. Write us (Dept. V) 
for name of local dealer. 
* 45 - $ 50 -* 55-$60 
“The sleeve ticket tells the price” 
HENRY SONNEBORN 
& CO., Inc. 
' Baltimore, Md. 
Good clothes just can’t cost less than Styleplus these days. Conditions 
will not permit it. Stylish, all-wool clothes, guaranteed to give splendid 
service and priced well inside the medium range. 
Only known quality can be guaranteed. Styleplus prices are known. 
We attach a sealed price-ticket to the sleeve of every garment. Guaran¬ 
teed quality at known price. 
The big advantage in buying at a store is that you see the clothes and 
try them on before you pay for them! 
Farm, Garden and Orchard Tools 
Answer the farmer’s big questions: 
Bow can I grow crops with less ex¬ 
pense and labor? How can 1 grow 
fancy fruit at low cost 2 The 
IRON AGE 
Barrel Sprayer 
. (horizontal) sol ves the I 
problem for the busy farmer. 
Can be used in any wagon, 
cart or sled. Reliable easy- 
working pump placed outside 
the barrel—prevents rusting- 
all parts easy to reach. 100 to 
12S pounds pressure with two 
nozzles. 60 and 100 gallon sizes. 
We make a full line of spray¬ 
ers. Write today for our free 
booklet. 
BatemanM’f’gCo.» Box 96E # Grenlocli,N.J. 
“BROOKLYN 
BRAND” 
SULPHUR 
COMMERCIAL FLOUR SULPHUR, 99>4% pure, for making Lime-Sul¬ 
phur solution. 
SUPERFINE COMMERCIAL SULPHUR, 99^2% pure for dusting purposes. 
FLOWERS OF SULPHUR, 100% pure. Also Crude Nitrate Soda, Saltpetre 
and Muriate Potash. 
BATTELLE & RENWICK 
80 Maiden Lane, New York 
Write for price lists 
SULCO-V.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 Oil Soap. 
Booklet Free. Address 
COOK & SWAN CO., INC., 
Suico Dept. R 148 Front St., New York, U.S.A. 
PULVERIZED 
POULTRY MANURE 
Latest Development in Fertilizers 
Nature’s best Plant Food. Excellent for Lawns, 
Shrubs, Flowers, Gardens, Vines and Trees. 
Well Adapted for Grape Production 
Poultry Manure as a Fertilizer is well known, 
and by our Scientific Process of Preparation it 
is much improved. Ideal, for garden and lawn 
and superior for farm purposes. Richer in 
Ammonia and Bone Phosphate of Lime than other 
manures and equal in Potash. Analysis 5% 
Ammo., G% B. P. L„ 1.50% Pot. 
Owing to limited supply and big demand we 
suggest ordering early. 
RESPONSIBLE DEALERS WANTED 
Samples and Quotations on Request 
Poultry Feed Company, Suite 1208, Fisher Bldg., Chicago, III. 
GRANGERS LIME 
“The Proven Soil Sweetener 99 
Write for Prices and Commodity Freight Rates 
Grangers Lime Company 
Sales Olfices: 
Hartford, Conn. 
Bridgewater, Mass. 
Works: 
West Stockbridge, 
Mass. 
0 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page 
April 3, 1020 
The Farm Grounds and Their 
Possibilities 
Unconsidered Value. —Were some¬ 
one to offer you a lump sum of money 
for which you would agree to give up the 
modern improvements installed in your 
home, your automobile and good roads, 
your phonograph, movies and kindred 
pleasures, you undoubtedly would feel 
that your tempter had best be on his way 
or have a pretty generous bank roll along 
with him. In other words, these things 
have proven themselves a mighty good 
investment for the farmer, and on ac¬ 
count of them much of the old-time 
drudgery of the farm has been banished. 
And yet on many of these very same 
farms a condition exists today as re¬ 
gards the outside appearance of the 
grounds which only awaits a little change 
in order to make them an investment as 
good as, if not better than those above. 
Pimple Means of Beautifying.— 
Beautifying the home grounds does not 
necessarily mean an expenditure of a 
large amount of money, as so many 
think. The arrangement and use of ma¬ 
terial at hand so as to receive from it 
the greatest amount of benefit is far more 
necessary. For instance, a more gener¬ 
ous use of the lawn mower, a more care¬ 
ful disposition of farm machinery when 
not in use, and a neat appearance around 
the entire grounds will all do much to 
offset present conditions. 
Beauty at Small Cost. —How often 
we see by the roadside a small, modest 
little farmhouse nestling snugly among a 
few well-plaeed trees, an unbroken stretch 
of lawn in front, with possibly a group 
of shrubs around the home, and an¬ 
other for use in screening off some ob¬ 
jectionable object, above all a general 
neat appearance to the grounds as a 
whole. Were you to investigate as to 
the cost of accomplishing such results 
you would probably find that it amounted 
only to the time necessary for thd clean¬ 
ing up and possibly transplanting a few 
shrubs from one place to another. In 
many such cases the planting material 
has come from the very farm itself. 
Native Material. —It is not ordinar¬ 
ily realized by the farmer that many of 
the more desirable shrubs and trees are 
actually growing on his own premises, 
such as the white and pink flowering 
dogwoods, unexcelled for their Spring 
blossoms and charming Fall effects of 
foliage and fruits; the native pink and 
white honeysuckles or Azeleas, considered 
gems amongst all plants; the black al¬ 
ders, elders, sumac, sheepberry and way¬ 
faring tree, the high and low-bush huckle¬ 
berry and the native barberry, not to 
mention the ever wonderful mountain 
laurel and bayberry so prevalent through¬ 
out many of our Eastern States ; surely a 
collection of plants hard to equal any¬ 
where. By transplanting these in the 
early Spring or late Fall, care being 
taken to secure as much of the root sys¬ 
tem as possible, and with the removal of 
at least one-third of the tops, excellent 
results can he had. Plus the saving in 
the cost of these plants, the very fact of 
having found them on your own premises 
will add much to your later enjoyment of 
them. 
House and Grounds. —It is. however, 
ns important to consider the arrangement 
of the planting material with its relation 
to the grounds as it is in selecting it. 
On the average farm grounds where the 
house stands 60 to 150 ft. back from the 
roadside, two or three well-selected trees 
can be located along the highway, not 
closer than 40 ft. apart. With the ex¬ 
ception of these it is generally best to 
locate the remainder of the trees to the 
side and rear of the house. The size to 
which the trees will ultimately reach 
should also be considered, for if not, a de¬ 
sirable view may be screened off, or too 
much shade may result. Only strong, 
hardy and thrifty varieties should he se¬ 
lected, such as the Norway and sugar 
maple, American elm, white and green 
ash. pin, scarlet and red oak. European 
linden. American linden, Oriental plane 
or buttonball. Soft-wooded trees, sueli 
as the Carolina poplar, hackberry, and 
soft maples should he avoided. 
Walks and Drives.- —In the general 
ground arrangement the walks and drives 
should he given some consideration. Avoid 
straight lines wherever possible, although 
if the drive or walk may serve its pur¬ 
pose best by an easy and graceful curve, 
so much the better. When, however, no 
logical reason presents itself for the curv¬ 
ing. it is often possible so to plant a 
tree or group of shrubs in the break of 
the curve as to make it appear entirely 
reasonable. 
Desirable Shrubs. —In planting the 
shrubs it is desirable to avoid the dotted 
appearance of individual plants over the 
entire lawn. These, plus the round gera¬ 
nium and Canna beds in the center, do 
much to make your grounds appear much 
smaller than they actually are. By group¬ 
ing the smaller-growing varieties, such us 
the Japanese barberry, Hegel's privet. 
Japanese Spiraea, Spiraea Anthony Wa- 
terer. the dwarf Deutzia T.emoinei and 
Gracilis, Weigelas and Stephanandras 
aloug the foundation walls of the build¬ 
ing, using the taller-growing plants, such 
as golden bell. Spiraea Van Houttei. brid¬ 
al wreath, lilacs, bush honeysuckles, way¬ 
faring tree, sheepberry, snowball and su¬ 
mac for screening off objectionable views 
and as a border planting along the side 
boundaries of the lawn area, a gr<mt im¬ 
provement will soon he noted. > For the 
shady nook around the north side of the 
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