RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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Get the Extra Bushels 
I N harvest, your sturdy Cletrac hauls the 
binder easily, cutting full, clean swaths and 
getting all the corners. Quick response to the 
steering wheel and short-turn ability fit this 
tank-type tractor for profitable work on the 
side-hills or in the low bottoms. 
Cletracs start the fall plowing early and 
make quick work of it. And they follow close 
behind the plows, fitting the ground before 
the moisture dries out. They never sink in or 
pack tresh-plowed ground or mellow 6oil. 
A.n improved water air-washer protects the 
powerful Cletrac motor on these dusty, dirty fall jobs. 
Cletrac power is economical and dependable— a 
mighty profitable farm investment. See the Cletrac 
dealer near you or write us for more information. 
Wheels on a track —the 
Cletrac way—take less power 
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"Largest Producers of Tank-Type Tractors in the World'' 
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Oneida, N. Y., for a brief list and state your 
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This Hydraulic Press will work up your 
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soil afid gbt thcTIT largo and thrifty by 
August. Then use phosphate freely. 
This year we have had an unusual 
number of complaints from people who 
say their fruit has been nothing but little 
buttons or nubbins. They gave every 
possible care and thought they had good 
varieties. Most of these people do not 
realize some varieties are “imperfect” and 
cannot produce good fruit unless other 
perfect varieties are planted near them. 
Another common cause for these “but¬ 
tons" is a late frost just at the time of 
blooming. Sometimes it comes unexpect¬ 
edly, and we do not realize that the bloom 
has been injured until the fruit fails to 
make good. I have found the strawberry 
crop more and more of a hazard with our 
changing climate and the labor troubles. 
It is safer for us to produce food. 
One question more. Do you really con¬ 
sider tomatoes food? 
Surely; nearly as much so as milk. De¬ 
cent study shows that the tomato is spe¬ 
cially rich in vitamines. You remember 
what Dr. Osborne told us about the value 
of a spoonful of tomato juice? We are 
coming to learn that certain foods have 
a value entirely aside from the actual nu¬ 
triment they contain, and I think to¬ 
matoes are to be known as ue most use¬ 
ful of all vegetables. I know plenty of 
people who will make a full meal of sliced 
tomatoes and bread and butter, and then 
outwork many a heavy meat eater. Food? 
Yes, indeed! h. w. c. 
Some Garden Questions 
I am caring for an acre of ground for 
one unable to do any outside work. I 
have planted about 50 trees of all va¬ 
rieties, some nut trees, on land that is 
very stony, but has not been cultivated. 
It has a nice stand of grass, some weeds. 
Since being fenced in moles have made 
it soft and springy. I recently cut the 
grass and immediately placed it about 
the trees, about 6 in. deep in a <5-ft. cir¬ 
cle. to conserve the moisture anil keep 
down the weeds. I am doing same in 
garden to the tomato plants, which I have 
tied to stakes. Will the plan do any 
harm by harboring insects during the 
Summer? I propose to remove in Fall, 
bank with ashes and protect with wire 
netting in strips wound around trees. 
There will be little danger during the 
Summer. Many of the insects which 
gather under such a mulch work up the 
soil and improve it. In the Fall this 
imileh must be moved away from the tree, 
and a mound of coal ashes made around 
the trunk. It will also pay to wind 
strips of wire cloth around. 
I have some wood ashes from an old 
hake oven, never wet. Would it be a 
good thing to sprinkle on the beaus and 
cabbage just after or before a rain? 
On the cabbage the fine ashes might 
help a little to keep off worms, but we 
see no reason for scattering over the 
bean vine. We should put it on the cab¬ 
bage before a rain, if at all, but our own 
plan would be to scatter on the ground 
beside the rows and hoe or cultivate in. 
I have also put some of the newly cut 
grass in the furrows when digging gar¬ 
den, as there is no manure on the place. 
1 found some chicken manure in an old 
abandoned henhouse, and spread that over 
the garden. Did not have much. 
That is a good use for the cut grass. 
If too much is used it may ferment and 
partly sour the ground, and we should 
use lime or wood ashes with it. The old 
chicken manure may be spread over the 
gardeu. 
Tomatoes Damp Off 
Can you tell me what to do with my 
tomato plants? They come up all right, 
but after a while they begin to fall over 
and seem to be weakly, shrunken down 
by the roots. I have transplanted them, 
but they are not growing very well. 
Stamford, N. Y. ‘ v. G. c. 
Seedlings and weak soft plants are sub¬ 
ject to rotting off at the surface of the 
'Oil and consequent toppling over. This is 
caused by a disease which lives at the sur¬ 
face of the soil and is commonly called 
damping off.” It is most injurious to 
plants, grown indoors or under crowded 
conditions. Injury can often lie largely 
avoided by so regulating moisture, tem¬ 
perature, ventilation aud spacing of the 
plants as to produce stocky, vigorous 
plants. High temperatures aud an excess 
<d moisture favor the growth of the fungi, 
, °ald be avoided. Where trouble 
witl; damping off lias beeu experienced it 
may he expected that the same soil will 
continue to give more or less trouble, 
i his can he overcome by using new soil. 
*v Here the plants are dropping over, re¬ 
move the affected plants and sprinkle the 
mo lace with clean sand. Keep the plants 
on the dry side aud conditions will im¬ 
prove. T- H T 
• ^ temperance lecturer recently burst 
into tlie office of the editor of a local 
H‘wt»p a p er and, with an angry frown, 
tiiriLst a marked copy of the latest issue 
ot his paper before him. “I am told you 
wrote this notice of my lecture on ‘The 
rim” 011 Dn , nk >’ ” he remarked sternly. “I 
vA ,’»n\ vas the <mlm reply. “Then perhaps 
‘^ be Sood enough to explain what you 
',p f? by stating that the lecturer was fuLl 
of his subject!”— New York Globe. 
