Poor Men’s Patents 
Will you let me know whether a poor 
man lias ever made any money through 
a patent? I have an invention which I 
would like to get patented. E. T. 
New York. 
Yes, indeed; there are plenty of poor 
men who have made money out of inven¬ 
tions. Edison, Henry Ford, and hun¬ 
dreds of others were once very poor. In 
many cases the inventor is not a good 
business man, or has no capital, and 
others get his patent for less than it is 
worth. Just because a man invents 
some new method or device, it does not 
follow that he is sure to make a fortune. 
Only a small proportion of inventions 
ever make money for the inventors, be¬ 
cause they are not practical or do not 
strike a popular demand. Get your in¬ 
vention patented first of all. Then you 
can try to dispose of it. 
Clay as an Insecticide 
A Massachusetts reader sent us an ar¬ 
ticle in a Dauby paper in which Prof. P. 
,T. Parrott of the New York Experiment 
Station wa 0 reported as suggesting the 
following fo inulas for fighting leaf-hop¬ 
pers: 
First, Black Leaf 40, % pint; soap. 5 
lbs., water, 100 gals. Second formula, 
lime-sulphur solution, 2*4 gals.; water, 
100 gals.; Black Leaf 40, 1 pint. Third 
formula, copper sulphate, 2 lbs. j lime, 30 
to 40 lbs.; Black Leaf 40, 1 pint; water, 
100 gals. Fourth formula, copper sul¬ 
phate, 2 lbs., lime, 2 lbs., clay, 30 to 40 
lbs.; water, 100 gals. 
We thought there might be some mis¬ 
take about the suggestion to use clay, so 
we wrote Prof. Parrott about it. He 
says in reply: 
All of these mixtures, if applied in lib¬ 
eral amounts and at the proper time, will 
give effective results against such insects 
as the apple leaf-hopper, apple aphis, 
pear psylla, etc. 
If you have followed our experimental 
activities as reported in the Proceedings 
of tin' State Horticultural Society, you 
have perhaps noted that we have been rec¬ 
ommending the use of considerable lime in 
several formulas for spraying against the 
foregoing insects. In the case of potatoes, 
tomatoes and young growth of apple times, 
large amounts of lime may injure the 
tender leaves, and in experiments with 
various clays we have discovered that clay 
may be a satisfactory substitute for lime. 
Clay exercises the same repellent proper¬ 
ties as lime, and is safer, besides being 
much less expensive. In the region of 
Germantown and Newfane we are now 
carrying on some rather extensive ex¬ 
periments against the pear psylla, and if 
the results are satisfactory we shall per¬ 
haps be in a position this Fall to give de¬ 
tailed directions for the use of clay 
against the pear psylla. 
The suggestion that clay possesses in¬ 
secticidal properties generally provokes a 
smlie at first, but horticultural history re¬ 
veals the fact that clay has long been used 
as a repellent, although its merits for this 
purpose have not been thoroughly under¬ 
stood. I hope our work will determine the 
ranges of usefulness of clay and the condi¬ 
tions under which it can be satisfactorily 
employed for a number of our common 
pests, such as potato leaf-hopper, potato 
flea-beetle, pear psylla, apple aphids, etc. 
1*. J. PARROTT. 
Fruit Seedlings in Michigan 
Can fruit seedlings be grown in Michi¬ 
gan? What time of the year are they 
planted? How planted and cared for? 
Also, how are they marketed? What 
kind would you advise planting? How 
old must they be before they are ready 
for the nurseryman? M. B. 
I see no reason why fruit seedlings 
cannot be grown in Michigan, provided 
there is sufficient rainfall. One of the 
chief reasons for growing stocks in France 
is because of the warm, moist atmosphere, 
the seedlings making an ideal growth un¬ 
der these conditions. The experiment in 
growing seedlings in Kansas during the 
past season proved quite successful. In 
~ ranee the seeds are gathered in the Fall 
from the refuse from the cider mills. The 
seed is heavier than water, and after 
the refuse (pomace) has been dried it is 
placed in water, where the seeds sVik to 
the bottom and are collected and dried, 
ihe seeds are stored in a cool place over 
usually in dry sand, and planted 
in rows 3 ft. apart in the Spring. They 
are cultivated as any hoed crop and 
plowed out in the Fall after the leaves 
arop. Then they are tied in bundles of 
^w,i au i, ei “ ler s °ld at once or stored in a 
T „ C(> *] ar until Spring. For marketing 
onto 01 ' ( surest getting into conununi- 
,i‘ , 1 , an y large nurseryman who 
mais in stocks. 
wnni,i th T- wer , e wild apples available T 
planting the seeds from the 
wmiU n 110y are acclimated, hardy, and 
,, n °X d b .® “ore uniform in growth. Try 
broneli irs * ’ ■ n,u they are a success 
seeds of ?L 1Ut<> - Ul ° oth . or fruits - The 
could h« ,, . various varieties cultivated 
Xm ll "28?* b A lt wiU »ot give as uni- 
sold to One-year-old stocks are 
due in nurserymen ; that is. trees 
Snrine the Fal from seods Panted in the 
T. n. TOWNSEND. 
w How a new kind of farm hand 
added acres to my farm** 
W. E. Shetrone, a farmer near Le 
Raysville, Pa., shows how you can 
help to solve jlour labor problem. 
“How, I’m not going to tell you that the 
Western Electric Power and Light Outfit is 
the best on the mar\et. T he chances are you 
know more about farm plants than I do. All 
I want is to tell how this outfit has been doing 
a man’s wor\ on my place—when men are 
hard to get. That is how it saved time enough 
for me to cultivate seven acres more last spring.'] 
LeRaysville, Pa. 
A regular man's 
size outfit, able to 
do a man's work 
Mr. Shetronc's house 
is pleasantly located 
E 
‘^AST YEAR I was struggling 
along with my little farm- 
milking by hand, taking a 
two-hour trip to the creamery every 
day, working hard to support my 
family. Then a salesman showed 
me how I could do the work in less 
time and with less effort by install¬ 
ing Western Electric Power and 
Light equipment. Well, I put the 
apparatus in, and right from the 
start it began to save time and 
labor. In fact, the time it saved 
me made it possible to plow seven 
acres more last spring. * 
A powerful outfit 
for heavy work 
“Power ought to be the first 
consideration in buying a farm 
plant. There are plenty of good 
electric sets satisfactory for light¬ 
ing. But not many of them are 
strong on power. You can’t expect 
them to do the hard work. 
“The Western Electric has a 
three horsepower engine, which 
as you know is ample to run most 
all the machinery. Grindstone, 
feed-mixer, churn, mill—you can 
operate them all together from a 
shafting hitched up to this powerful 
engine, because there’s a pulley on 
it for just such work. 
“in generator and battery too, 
power is the feature that impressed 
me most. My Western Electric 
outfit furnishes plenty of electricity 
to light the house and barn, and at 
the same time it runs the 
pump, the milking machine 
and such household appli¬ 
ances as a vacuum cleaner 
and a washing machine. 
* What the Western Electric Power and Light Outfit did to make 
Mr. Shetrone’sfarm more producti ve, it can do for your farm too. 
Why the battery 
lasts longer 
“Another big feature is the auto¬ 
matic control of the battery charge. 
At the start the current flows in at 
a fairly high rate, but as the batter¬ 
ies fill, the rate of flow becomes less 
and less—till at last the current is 
just trickling in. Then it stops by 
itself. This ‘tapering charge’ takes 
the strain off the batteries and 
so makes them last longer. 
“Well, the Western Electric out¬ 
fit certainly has helped me in my 1 
work. And talk about time saved! 
Those extra seven acres I was able 
to plow will 
produce 
some hand¬ 
some profits 
this fall, I can 
tell you.V 
Western Electric distributors in your neighborhood; 
G. H.&J. T. Kelly. 
D. G. Babcocb, 
/ Imos Barnes, 
Elmira, N. Y. 
Lake Huntington, N. Y. 
Ithaca, N. Y, 
C. U. DcVoe, 
Perry L. Young, 
Miller & Wait, 
Syracuse, N. K. 
Green, N. Y. 
Oswego, N. Y, 
Theodore A I. Gunther 6- 
Rusterholtz Electric Co.. 
Sons, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Erie, Pa. 
Rochester, N. Y, 
Warden & Smith, 
D. & F. Engineering Co.. 
Calskill. N. Y. 
Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
Some good territory still available for live-wire representative. 
A portable motor 
drives the grind- 
stone 
Western Electric 
Power S' Light 
For further infor¬ 
mation write to 
the nearest West¬ 
ern Electric dis¬ 
tributor for 
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