The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Power At The Right Time 
Did you ever ride a bicycle up a steep hill like thisp i 
If you have, you know the absolute necessity of putting every 
ounce of power on that top pedal the instant it reaches center 
and starts downward. 
The same is true of the piston of the tractor engine. TKe gas 
in that cylinder must be completely burned or exploded so that 
its full punch will come exactly at the instant when the piston 
starts on its power stroke. 
If the gas takes even the thousandth part of a second too long in 
burning, the punch comes late and some of the power is lost. If 
it fires a thousandth part of a second early, it pushes backward on 
the crankshaft and works against the other cylinders. 
The generation of the power and the proper timing of it depend on 
the heat of the spark produced by the magneto. 
The K-W Magneto on a tractor is assur¬ 
ance that you will get the full power out Removable Time 
of e\ ery drop of fuel, and that you will The “timer” or “circi 
get it at the time when it will do the most br e e t * ke c r an °be take*'V*! 
good. magneto in one mini 
rpi . . . , . , _ . •without tools. This sat 
TRADE 
2827 Chester Ave, 
Cleveland, Ohio. U.SJL 
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Fires Any Fuel—Gets Maximum Power Out ol Every Drop , 
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Take no chances. Smut is a 
common disease which usually 
decreases the yield of grain as 
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standard treatment of seed grain, 
to prevent smuts, fungus growth, | 
potato scab and black-leg. 
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FRICK COMPANY, Inc. 
345 W. Main Street, Waynesboro, Pa. 
Insures a full yield because it destroys 
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Can be used also on the soil. One 
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For Sale-Frutf and Dairy FARMS 
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Pure Unleached Hardwood Ashes 
The best Potash Fertilizer for top dressing, worn out 
grass and meadow lands, wheat growing or seeding 
down, they have no e>)ual. Correspondence Invited. 
Agents Wanted. Address JOHN JOINT, L. 8. 297, Lucknow. Out. 
iuihcmiflnu 
’ and strong production. Surely no one 
would have dreamed of such a thing 30 
years ago. The stockmen of that section 
have simply held true to an ideal of 
breeding. They have found a type of 
cow exactly suited to their soil and cli¬ 
mate and conditions, and all through these 
years they have held right to that ideal, 
iiot changing with every wind that blows, 
but introducing the best blood they can 
find anywhere and selecting the true type 
of butter cow. It is a great lesson in 
possibilities. Some of the original Jersey 
blood came from Vermont, which at that 
time promised to excel as a high-grade 
cattle State. I have often wondered why 
and how Vermont ever let 'her chance 
pass away from her to Wisconsin. She 
might well today be attracting the entire 
world to her sales of dairy cattle, as she 
led the world in butter production when 
I was a boy. In every country or section 
of this land today there are great possi¬ 
bilities for some natural product to be 
developed for the future. There must 
be men like Colonel Montgomery to hold 
the idea before the people until it be¬ 
comes part of their thought. H. w. c. 
Rose Fails to Bloom; Planting Damp, 
Shady Place 
1. I have a rose bush that has been 
planted out three years. It is perfectly 
healthy, grows fine and sends out a num¬ 
ber of new shoots each year. It is pruned 
and cultivated each year, but it has never 
flowered. Is there anything I could do 
to bring this to flower? 2. Will you give 
me the name of some pretty flowering 
plants to be planted along a bank that 
it partly shaded and running down to a 
small brook? I would like something 
that would give flowers each month. 
3. What is the name of those tall grasses 
that we planted along the brook? 
Tarrytown, N. Y. T. w. 
1. You do not give any information 
regarding this rose, as to variety. It mav 
be a very, shy bloomer, or it may be too 
much shaded. If in a shady place, it is 
not likely to bloom. Again, it mav be 
that it is a grafted rose that has‘died 
out. leaving the stock. The Manetti rose, 
on which many garden varieties are graft¬ 
ed. is a very vigorous grower, and occa¬ 
sionally the scion dies out and the stock 
takes its place. It frequently occurs that 
the shoots of the stock do not bloom, and 
thus it appears that the rose planted does 
not bloom, when in reality it has died 
out If quite certain that the rose plant¬ 
ed has not been overgrown by the stock, 
study its surroundings and make sure that 
starvation or shade are not responsible 
for the absence of bloom. 
2. No one variety of plant would fur¬ 
nish bloom throughout the season on the 
partly shaded bank described, but it gives 
an opportunity for extremely decorative 
planting. Near the brook we would ad¬ 
vise Irises in variety, Japanese, Siberian, 
the garden varieties commonly called Ger¬ 
man. and the little Iris pumila. Shaded 
parts of the bank would be desirable for 
lily of the valley or the creeping ever¬ 
green Vinca, commonly called myrtle. 
Yucca or Adam’s needle does qpite well 
in shade. A very charming native plant, 
that succeeds in moist, shaded places, is 
the Carolina pink. Spigelia Marilandica. 
which produces its brilliant red flowers 
from .Tune to October. Another peren- 
mal that prefers a moist, semi-shaded po¬ 
sition is the mountain feather fleece, Ste- 
nanthium robustum, which produces pan¬ 
icles of fleecy white flowers in August 
and September. Funkias succeed in sun 
or shade, and their handsome foliage 
makes them very attractive when not in 
flower. Some of the native lilies are de¬ 
sirable for partial shade, and a damp, 
shady spot is congenial to forget-me-nots, 
ion can also find desirable materials 
among native ferns. 
• >• Perhaps the “tall grasses” referred 
-i - a £ e . ^ be £iant reed. Arundo Donax. 
wnieh is a favorite for waterside planting, 
it ’s a very stately plant, growing to a 
, 1R,1 t id feet, and suggesting a bam- 
ooo. there is a plain green and also a 
wry handsome variegated form. The 
< apanese grass Eulalia Japonica. plain 
giecu, variegated or zebra striped, is also 
orv desirable, and forms a beautiful 
feathery plume. 
a bank of the character vou 
describe gives an excellent opportunity 
• us 1 j R native plants, such as marsl 
S ol f .(Caltha), turtle-head, loose 
herK ’ i? pnng bea »ty, gentians, willow 
bergamot, boneset, rose mallow 
S W VM eau i y > Asters. aad native or 
givp o, Whl P the edge of the brook woulc 
* : P ,* n opportunity for naturalizing tin 
Pitcher plant or whip-poor-will’s shoe 
The American Crow 
oiJ V/ 6 been bav ' n E a discussion aboul 
that th? . cr T vs - M -V friends clain: 
ronL„ blrd ls descended from the Eu- 
wEte Srtt, *“ a “ ot 1111 ««»»« 
Aii^'ri,^', <n . IISS ' ,r , f ^.Ovnt our common 
is a r ‘^r, mv /T'.irvus brachyrhynchos) 
other in ii Ct y distinct species from any 
ant of U n ! be - wor d ’ aud ^ not a descend- 
l ouah Z nnportod European crow, ai- 
W. O. HENDERSON. 
iug^ Colorado farmer, in see- 
‘ Weil T <n ouds boating by. remarked: 
“Aw <” arc e°iug to have rain.” 
cx-railronH Pessimistic neighbor, an 
coming i.- niV’ those are just empties 
Ug back from Iowa.”—Credit Lost 
