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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 3, 1020 
ALBA MARI. 
Nature’s Soil Remedy 
High in calcium carbonate, readily 
soluble and quickly available to neu¬ 
tralize acid, aid humus decomposition 
and increase crop yield. 
IN BULK, PAPER SACKS OR 
BURLAP BAGS. LOW IN PRICE. 
Write now for prices and details 
ALBA MARL LIME COMPANY 
Charles Town, Jefferson Co., W.Va. 
180 ACRES, all Tillable 
20 ACRES OF TIMBER. Buildings insured for 
$19,000. On State Road in center of Oneida County. 
Pine orchard. Will include 60 head of stock. Get our 
catalogue with 150 descriptions of equipped farms. 
HUGH H. JONES COMPANY, Inc., Jones Building, UTICA, N. Y, 
Eastern Pennsylvania FARMS 
best of soil at owner’s prices, for sale at all times. Ask for 
latest lists. 0. ». ANDRES, National Bank Building, Quakartown, Pa. 
Productive Eastern Shore 
price to suit the buyer. HANDY & MORRIS, Federalsburg, Md. 
For Sale-Fraif and Dairy FARMS 
Free list. HARRY VAIL, New Milford, Orange Co., N. Y. 
Does Ten 
MensWorli 
One Man 
Saws 25 Cords a Day 
The Ottawa Log Saw falls trees or cuts off stumps 
level with ground. Saws up logs, cuts up branches, fee 
cutter, runs pump jack and otherbelt machinery. Mounted 
on wheels. Easy to move anywhere. 10 Year Guarantee. 
80 Days Trial. Write for Free Book and Cash or Easy Terms. 
OTTAWA M FQ. CO.. 1861 Wood St., Ottawa. Kana. 
Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard book by Henry & Mor¬ 
rison has been advanced to $2.75, at 
■which price we can supply it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30tb Street New York 
HOME For Sale 
A good well-built 7-room house In first-class repair. Lo¬ 
cated on the best street in Woodaide, Del. Fine shade 
trees, electric lights, summer kitchen, coal house, barn, 
henhouse, etc. Eight acres of fine land. Will make a 
splendid little fruit, truck or poultry farm. Apple, pear 
and other iruit t-ees in bearing. Areal home. 
\V. V. COSDEN, Agent, Dover. Delaware 
We Sell Farms 
1JO ACRES ON BEAUTIFUL LAKE 
14-room house. New 36x60 barn. Hen, hog, milk 
and ice houses. Garage; 12 row boats. Stock and 
tools included for @10,500. Write for complete 
list of New York State farms for sale. 
MANDEVILLE REAL ESTATE AGENCY, Inc., Dept. I, Olean. N.Y 
at a Saving 
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labor of cutting 
up your walls and 
partitions for pipes. 
Install the famous 
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And because there is 
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Booklet D describing the 
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Keeps the cellar cool for vegetables — warms every room above 
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Established 1637 
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Notice the direction 
of the heat in the ac¬ 
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All the cold air in the 
house is drawn into 
the single register and 
the one pipe heater, 
where it is warmed 
and sent into every 
room. Know that true 
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Richardson & Boynton 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
I have often wondered why a lot of 
people every Summer wfsb to force every¬ 
one to call six o’clock seven by law. If 
any industrial establishment and its em¬ 
ployes prefer to start an hour earlier, 
there is no need for a law on the sr.bir.ct. 
They can simply start at six instead of 
seven o’clock in the morning. But these 
town folks are not satisfied with this, 
but want law to compel everyone to 
change his clock. I believe that it was 
the Germans who started this fad during 
the war. Perhaps the city workers need 
to be compelled to get up earlier; the 
farmers do not. 
That Australian gourd bean keeps bob¬ 
bing up. Some years ago a man in Flor¬ 
ida sent us samples of the “bean” which 
he intended to advertise, saying that they 
tame from Australia. I saw at once that 
the beans were gourd seed, and I wrote 
to Mr. Ramsey, a seedsman in New South 
Wales, for information in regard to the 
gourd. He replied that it. was a long, 
slim gourd that was edible, but not very 
palatable, and that certain parties were 
calling it Giant bean. But I rather think 
that the Giant butter bean mentioned on 
page 998 is the same fraud I showed up 
two years ago. Parties from Georgia 
were traveling through North Carolina 
selling large, handsome white beans as 
Chickasaw Lima beans, and farmers were 
buying them at $5 a pint. These are 
the jack bean, Canavalia ensiformis, 
which makes pods a foot long. It was 
shown up years ago to be worthless as 
food for man or beast. This Spring the 
promoters changed their tactics. It is 
now the great coffee bean, and agents 
have been selling the seed in Georgia and 
South Carolina at $30 a bushel^ and 
promising to take the crop at $3 a bushel. 
Well. I showed this up, and a few days 
ago I had a letter from a man in Albany. 
Ga., taking me to task for denouncing 
the fraud. He said that he knew of sev¬ 
eral actual orders from the largest coffee 
roasters, and that the farmers are grow¬ 
ing the beans. I told him that this sim¬ 
ply confirmed what I had said about it; 
that the farmers growing them for the 
coffee roasters were simply aiding a fraud. 
In fact, this bean is suspected of being 
somewhat poisonous. I have heard of 
one man planting 40 acres of this coffee 
bean. Too many farmers are liable to 
bite at a fraud and then ask advice about 
it. The man from Albany, Ga., evidently 
is interested in the sale of the seed. 
That picture on the front of the issue 
for May 15 is another reminder of a 
false system of breeding corn for seed. 
We have had many corn ear shows, and 
the breeding of corn has been aimed to 
get ears that come nearest the require¬ 
ments of the score card. That Farm 
Bureau agent can tell the young man the 
ears that come nearest to the score card, 
but he cannot possibly tell him that for 
that reason they will make more corn per 
acre than ears of a very different char¬ 
acter. Breeding only to pretty ears is 
like the old Jersey fad of breeding to solid 
color, black tongue, and black switch. 
It is breeding to a fad instead of produc¬ 
tiveness of the article the plant or ani¬ 
mal is bred for. We have got to go to 
breeding for the best type and plant, and 
plants of the greatest productiveness. 
Mr. Batts in North Carolina made 25 
bushels of shelled corn on a measured 
acre of land, and if the best ears in his 
crop had been shown at one of the corn- 
ear shows, they would not have been no¬ 
ticed by the judge with the score card. 
If we wish to increase the corn crop we 
must breed productive plants, and stop 
making a pretty ear the final object of 
corn breeding. w. f. jiassey. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Canadian Agricultural Fairs—Calgary, 
June 2S-July 3; Edmonton, July 5-1G; 
Saskatoon, July 12-27; Itegina, July 
2(?-31. 
New Jersey Beekeepers’ Association, 
Summer meeting. Samuel Buser’s apiary, 
North Haledon, N. J., July 10. 
Summer meeting. New Jersey State 
Horticultural Society, Henry II. Albert¬ 
son’s Green Ilill Farm, Burlington, N.'J-, 
July 24. . ’ 
New York State Potato Growers 
ciation, annual meeting, Cortland, N. *•> 
August 6-7. 
Apple Shippers’ Association, < hicago, 
Ill., August 11-14. . 
ilornell Fair, Hornell, N. Y., August 
31-September 3. , 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, Sep¬ 
tember 13-38. 
