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‘Ibt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 11 , 1920 
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^Jkose u)ho hade used 
POSTUM 
instead of coffee during 
the past year are sure to be 
ahead in purse and axe Quite 
apt to be ahead in health. 
Fair price, uniformly 
pleasing flavor and gen¬ 
eral table satisfaction keep 
Postum in first place with 
many a family. 
There's a Reason 
Made lay 
Postum Cereal Company Inc. 
Battle Creek, Mich. 
^ABEV^Aoi' 
Saws Wood Fast 
Does the Work of Ten Men —& Cost 
This one-man cross-cut saw outfit run 
by gasoline engine cuts 15 to 35 cords 
of wood a day—fells trees—makes ties 
— runs machinery. One man or a boy 
can handle it. Easy to operate, easy to 
move. Engine can be used for 
Other farm work when not sawing. 
PHILLIPS MAN DRAGSAW 
Fast money-maker and big labor 
saver. Works anywhere 
in any weather. Simply 
send name — 
a post card 
will do—for 
free folder 
and special 
direct prices. 
Address 
PKILUPS DRAG SAW MFG. CO. 
828 Phillips Bldg,, Kansas City. Mo. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. : : 
Safety First for Trees 
Trees cost much more than they did. Save those 
you have. Rabbits, mice, and other rodents cannot 
gnaw tre es that are protected by 
HgglQft T Tree S s 
They’re especially strong and durable: heavily gal¬ 
vanized; rustproof; easy to set up and remove; cer¬ 
tain protection for young and mature trees. They 
cost little and save many dollars. All sizes. Write 
lor cat.uoa it. 
Wickwire Spencer Steel Corporation, Worcester. Mass. 
w SO styles and sizes 
for every purpose. 
Catalog free. 
COLLINS PLOW COMPANY 
2044 Hampshire St.. Quincy, III. 
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Why Sell 
Potatoes for less 
than they're worth? 
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tr%u'( 
If you grade potatoes by hand, you are not 
^ getting all they are worth. Buyers know that the best 
i J&Hl hand sorter will mix a lot of No. 2's with the No. 1’s, con¬ 
sequently hand-graded potatoes will not bring top prices. 
Also the best hand sorter will put a lot of No. 1’s with the 
No. 2’s, thus cheating himself out of his just profits. Don’t continue on 
"''"this unprofitable basis. You can get top prices for your potatoes by grad- 
/fi ing them with the 
Potato Grader 
Buyers recognize that machine graded potatoes are dependably uniform. They know, 
too, that the Boggs will not bruiso or injure potatoes, as the grading is done by carrying 
potatoes up over an endless belt. ' ........ 
One man can sort and grade the two U. S. Government sizes, besides eliminating 
culls and dirt, in one operation with a Boggs. Handles either round or long shapes. 
The capacity of the Boggs ranges from 25 to 250 barrel# per hour. It ia operated 
by band or power. Prices $55 and up. Send for booklet. 
Boggs Manufacturing Corporation, 11 Main Street, Atlanta, N. Y. 
DEALERS; The Boggs Grader present# an exceptional oppor¬ 
tunity for big money. Write for exclusive agency proposition. 
AH Sorts 
An Object Lesson 
Fig. 458 tells its own story. The Ford 
tried to make the railway crossing and 
failed. Some will see (his picture aud 
become a little more cautious iu approach¬ 
ing all tracks; others will not learn, ex¬ 
cept through actual experience. Iu this 
particular instance no one was killed, 
though the baggage of the driver’s wife 
was tossed over 50 feet. The fence saved 
the car from rolling down the embank¬ 
ment. When the time comes that auto 
drivers use the same caution in appoach- 
ing railway tracks that they use when 
driving with “Old Dobbin,” the number 
of fatalities will be materially lessened. 
A. H. P. 
Annual Sweet Clover Notes 
T have just read with interest your 
editorial on the annual Swee't clover. 
Last Spring I sent for one of those little 
packets of seed. As it was a very busy 
Spring with me. I neglected planting this 
seed till the last week in June. I sowed 
it in some rows with new-set raspberry 
plants, three feet wide, and thought I 
was putting in the seed very thin. The 
young plants soon appeared at an average 
distance of about eight inches apart. I 
have just returned from the garden with 
yardstick in hand. The tallest, plant, 
without stretching a leaf, just as it stands, 
measures 05 inches, the next 04, and the 
average for all “plants GO inches. The 
plants are just showing signs of getting 
ready to blossom, and will no doubt 
greatly exceed these measurements before 
the season ends. 
That none of your readers may get. the 
impression that this is a one-way plant I 
may say that the space between the rows 
the trees for a mulch. Our trees are 
making a great growth, and this year are 
loaded with fruit. JoriNB. lewis. 
Brunswick Co., Ya. 
TL N.-Y.—Mr. Theron McCampbell of 
Monmouth Co., N. .T., has brought us a 
plant of this clover considerably over 
seven feet high. The seed was planted in 
May, but the plant did not begin its 
growth before .Tune 1. Our own clover is 
now about 00 inches high, and some of 
the plants are beginning to bloom. It 
seems to vary quite a little in time of 
flowering. 
Transferring Bees 
T would like to transfer bees with their 
brood combs from damaged hives to new 
ones of the same size. Could you give 
me information on how to do it? 
Bethlehem, Pa. w. n. b. 
To transfer brood combs to a movable 
frame hive, and you cannot well transfer 
them to any other, smoke the bees suf¬ 
ficiently to enable you to handle them; 
remove the old hive from its stand; re¬ 
place it with the new hive in the position 
of the old; drum as many of the bees as 
possible out of the old hive into a box 
inverted over it; open the old hive and 
remove a brood comb. Lay this brood 
comb upon a smooth, cloth-covored board; 
lay a frame from the new hive upon it, 
and with a thin-bladed knife eat out a 
soot ion of tho brood comb to just fit within 
the same. Slip the frame down over this 
section and wind a string two or three 
times about both to hold the comb in place 
until the bees have fastened it in. The 
string may be removed later or left, for 
tho bees to take care of. Never mind po¬ 
sition of comb in frame; got it into place 
and return the frame to the new hive. 
Continue until you have used up all the 
good brood combs of sufficient size to 
fill a frame. Dump the bees that you 
The Argument for Safety First. Fig. f/58 
is nearly filled by laterals. On the tallest 
plant I counted 24. The first one meas¬ 
ures today, 41 inches, flic twenty-fourth 
one inch, with five or six more visible, and 
the end is not yet. I am greatly im¬ 
pressed with this plant, and I do not 
think you have over-emphasized its possi¬ 
bilities of importance. As former County 
Agricultural Agent in Berkshire County, 
I advocated tho common Sweet clover, 
and several farmers are using it, with 
marked success, as a pasture for sheep 
and lambs, as a honey crop for bees 
and for a hay crop. One of the 
nicest hay crops I have ever seen 
consisted of a mixture of Sweet clover, 
Bed and Alsiko clover, Timothy, Rod-top 
and Alfalfa. This farmer pronounced it 
the best milk-producing crop he could 
grow, and the highest yielder per acre. 
This farmer got his start with Sweet 
clover when a seed house, through some 
mistake, filled the Alfalfa bag with Sweet 
clover seed. The seed company was never 
sued for damages, and the farmer now 
orders Sweet clover seed as well as Alfalfa 
from the company. 
If the biennial had any defects (although 
farmers have been a long while discover¬ 
ing that it even had merits) this wonder¬ 
ful annual seems destined to remove all 
objections to this member of the legumi¬ 
nous family. F. E. PECK. 
Massachusetts. 
I have been much interested in the ex¬ 
periment you are making with annual 
Sweet clover, as I have been growing the 
ordinary biennial white Sweet clover as 
a pasture crop, and also as a soil im¬ 
prover in my apple orchard for several 
years, and like it better every year. The 
picture of 5-ft. Sweet clover from Florida, 
on page 1368, made me think that possibly 
your readers might he interested in know¬ 
ing that in Southside Virginia eight feet 
is not an uncommon height for this won¬ 
derful plant. We allowed about an acre 
to go to seed in an orchard this Summer, 
and I think it averaged 6% ft. high. 
Usually in orchards we cut it when about 
three or four feet high, and pile it around 
have dumped out Into the box before the 
hive on the old stand and they will enter 
and take possession. Flying bees will 
also return to this hive. The best time 
for this mussy job is during fruit bloom 
in the Spring, when enough honey is com¬ 
ing in to enable the bees to build comb 
and finish up your work inside the house. 
M. B. I). 
Gathering Wild Honey 
When would be the best time to gather 
the honey of a swarm, of wild bees, and 
how could it be done to avoid destruction 
of the hive? I have located a hive of 
these bees in the nearby swamps, in a 
hollow tree, and it seems to me as though 
there will be quite some honey in it. 
Barnegat, N. J. k. g. 
Tt will not be possible to get this honey 
without destroying the home of the bees, 
and probably not without cutting the tree. 
If the chamber iu which the honey is 
stored is accessible from the ground, you 
may be able to open it by sawing a slab 
from the tree trunk, hut it is more likely 
that you will have to cut the tree down. 
Unless the tree is wholly without value, 
the permission of the owner should be se¬ 
cured before it is cut; otherwise you will 
he liable for trespass. This honey may 
he secured at any time in the Fall after 
the honey flow in your locality has ceased, 
and you may find all that your imagina¬ 
tion pictures as stored in that hollow 
trunk. Bee trees have a way of being dis¬ 
appointing after being opened up, how¬ 
ever, and it is well not to build too high 
hopes of heating the II. O. of L. this 
Winter at the expense of those bees. 
M. B. P. 
They were talking about the different 
places they had visited during the war. 
One Australian was saying he had en¬ 
joyed the privilege of being on guard one 
night at the gates of Bethlehem. hiid- 
dently another Australia looked up at the 
first speaker and said: “I’ll bet the 
shepherds watched their flocks that night 
—New York Globe. 
