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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
.Ammonia 1 
TOP-DRESSING TALK No. 1 
Fertilizer Booklets Free 
What fertilizers are you going to buy for your next 
year’s crops ? m Do you know about the top-dress¬ 
ing- fertilizer, Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia? 
We have had prepared a number of fertilizer book¬ 
lets which discuss in a practical way the use and 
value of Sulphate of Ammonia as a supplement to 
the mixed fertilizers. 
These booklets contain opinions and suggestions of practical growers who 
are using Sulphate of Ammonia, as well as of scientific investigators who 
have tested this fertilizer in comparison with other forms of nitrogen. 
These booklets will be sent free upon request to Desk 10, The Barrett 
Company, Agricultural Department. 
1. “Important Facts About Arcadian 
Sulphate of Ammonia.” 
5. “Intensive Market Gardening.” 
6. “Sulphate of Ammonia by Those 
Who Know.” 
27. “How to Increase the Yield' of 
Timothy.” 
71. “Fertilizer Note Book.” 
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85. 
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91 . 
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“Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia 
—Directions for Use.” 
“Fertilizing the Apple Orchard.” 
“More Wheat.” . 
“Successful Potato Growing.” 
“Sweet Potatoes and Yams.” 
“Fertilizers for the Orchard.” 
ARCADIAN 
Sulphate ojTAmmonia 
Sulphate of Ammonia is the well-known standard article that has done you good 
service in your mixed fertilizers for years past. 
Arrndian is the kiln-dried and screened grade, made fine and dry for top dressing 
purposes. Ammonia 25 1 /i% guaranteed. Made in U. S. A. 
Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia is for sale by the larger fertilizer dealers and 
their agents. Order Arcadian early. 
For information as to application, write Desk 10 
Medina, Ohio 
Berkeley, Cal. 
The 
Company 
Baltimore, Md. 
Atlanta, Ga. 
Agricultural Department, New York 
TREE PROTECTORS 
Protect your Trees from Rabbits and Mice. 
We offer a Protector at a little more than lc. 
each which affords perfect protection. 
Write for description and prices. 
CALL’S NURSERIES, Perry, Lake Co., Ohio 
Annual White Sweet Clover 
Garden trrown, fr»»ra Prof. Huf?he*t’ original stock. Guar¬ 
anteed genuine. Price. 50c per ounce or $6 per lb. Post 
paid. HENRY FIELD, Shenandoah, Iowa 
Layer Strawberry Plants 
from, inclinlimr ihe fall bearing. 
J. Kkifford H ai.l, Route 2, 
40 varieties to select 
Ask for catalog. 
Rhodesdale, Mo. 
LARGE ASPARAGUS, WITLOOF, 
CHICORY AND RHUBARB ROOTS 
For fall and winter forcing in cellar or greenhouse. 
Easily and quickly grown. Catalogue and cultural dii ac¬ 
tions free. Hurry L. Squire*, Rood Gruuml, Ai. V. 
GRAPE VINESM.tt 
Niagara, Worden. Sac. each; #11.75 per 12; #s5 per 100. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, N. Y. 
CuioeUUnvor Unhulled White, $7 BmExp. paid; Hulled, 
oweeiulinei *1«. Sow now. A. BLOOMINGDALE.Sditntciiily, N ». 
ForSale—The New Annual Sweet Clover Seed 
1 had some to grow 8-ft. high this year. I have 2 lbs. of 
Seed at $3 per oz. K. II. UAM.V, Kelly, UouUinnn 
RUSSET RURAL 
SEED POTATOES 
10 Years’ Hill Selection 
One Strain 
Smooth, round, uniform, white 
with russet skin, shallow eyes, 
hand-sorted. U. S. Grade No. 1. 
Potatoes put up in sacks con¬ 
taining 120 lbs. net and held in 
our storage until you want them 
FAIRACRES POTATO FARM 
E. R. SMITH, Specialist 
KASOAG, OSWEGO CO., N. Y. 
JOIN THE 
Quicksteppers 
See Pane 1753 
2ND CROP SEED POTATOES 
Cobbler, Mill* Pride, Giants, Green 
Alt., Superba, Red Miiu 
SKKI1 CORN-YELLOW & WHITE 
WHITE PLY. ROCK COCKERELS 
M1NCB BROS. BRIDGETON, N. J. 
Place Your Order This Fall 
Although we have our usual fine assortment of high grade 
fruit trees to offer for Fall delivery, the demand is ex¬ 
ceptionally strong and we recommend that our old and 
new customers place their orders early this season. 
You will never regret planting Kelly trees. Our trees are 
all perfect specimens and our guarantee is your protection. 
We offer you a big money saving and reliable stock. 
Send for 1920 Free Catalogue 
KELLY BROS. NURSERIES - 805 Main Street, Dansville, N. Y. 
The Value of a Single Seed 
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poles three feet apart, and then planting 
seven peas about each pole. Go where 
you will and you will find here and there 
a man who is getting seemingly abnormal 
yields by giving each seed a chance to 
do its best. Here, 1 feel impressed, is a 
lesson for us all, one which will lead 
towards maximum crops and highest 
quality, as well as increased profit per 
acre. It is a lesson to be worked out 
by everyone who wants larger revenue 
from his acres. In it there arc infinite 
possibilities to be developed only by 
actual experience. We must ask our 
fields what they want to do, and what 
they are hungry for, and then go to it 
like men to supply the needs and give 
every seed a chance to do its best. Here, 
to my mind, is the lesson for 1921. 
Maine. g. m. twitciiell. 
fhe Waste in Burning Leaves 
At this time of the year, especially in 
the smaller towns, the air is full of 
smoke from burning leaves. This year 
has been peculiar in the fact that the 
leaves have mostly ripened* fully before 
a frost. Thay are falling rapidly, and in 
order to get rid of them people are raking 
them up in piles and burning them 
promptly. Many of the people who do 
this have gardens or even small farms, 
and next Spring they will be complaining 
November 1:?, 1920 
small, is a very good fruit; as I have said 
it is the Seckel of the self-fertilizing fig$' 
Another reader asks for more informa¬ 
tion about the Spokane Beauty apples 
that sold for 25 cenjis each, and asks 
what made them bring such a price. I 
simply gave the newspaper report of the 
sale. The man who sold them is a promi¬ 
nent citizen of Talbot County, Maryland, 
I know no more .about the apple than 
stated, for I have never seen one. I 
suppose that it is size and beauty that 
sold them, and they probably went to one 
of the fancy fruit dealers, who has cus¬ 
tomers who will pay any price for beau¬ 
tiful fruit. 
Still another was attracted by my re¬ 
marks on the failure of wheat produc¬ 
tion. and writes that he has a field now 
in corn, and that he has been following 
wheat after corn. He wishes to sow this 
field in peas next Spring to turn under, 
and wishes some information about this 
crop. I would advise this reader in Bal¬ 
timore County, Maryland, to plow and 
prepare the land well in Spring and sow 
the Whippoorwill peas with a wheat drill 
set to sow two bushels of wheat an acre. 
This will put them in at a uniform depth, 
and they will start oft' much better than 
sown broadcast and harrowed in. Then 
turn them under early enough to give time 
to decay, and get the soil well settled 
before seeding time. Then with a strong 
growth of peas turned under do not make 
the mistake of adding an ammoniated 
The Annual IJonfire 
because it is impossible to obtain a good 
supply of manure. For such people to 
burn leaves as they are now doing is a 
great piece of folly, for these leaves will 
certainly take the place of manure to a 
large extent, if properly handled. The 
leaves are rich in nitrogen, and if they 
could be saved and spread over the gar¬ 
den they would not only add plant food, 
but considerable humus as well. They 
can also hi* used as litter in the chicken 
house, or as bedding for farm animals 
where only one or two of them are kept. 
If they are to raked up at all it would 
be far better to gather them, if possible, 
and store them in a shed, or have them 
spread at once over the garden, or if it 
seems necessary to burn them the pile 
ought to he made on the garden and 
burned there, so as to leave the ashes 
where they will do the most good. It is 
certainly a nuisance and a waste in these 
times to burn the leaves, as many people 
are doing. The town is tilled with smoke, 
and this great loss of plant food and 
organic matter ought to he avoided. 
A. H. P. 
fertilizer. Under such circumstances in 
your soil you will need only 400 pounds 
of plain dissolved rock, acid phosphate 
of the 10 per cent grade, w. F. massey. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 13, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
Insurance of Farm Oops.1727, 1728 
The Value of a Single Seed. 1728 
Crops for Old Sod Land. 1729 
Hope Farm Notes.1738, 1739 
Storing Cabbage . 173? 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 1781 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Dairying Possibilities on Long Island. 
Minerals for Hogs. 
Whey for Pigs. 
Disinfectant Whitewash; Permanent Pas¬ 
ture . 
Dairy and Crop Notes. 
Value of Brewery Grains. 
Fee 1 for Grade Herd...... 
Lame Sow ....... 
Skin Disease ..... 
Worms of Cats..... 
Fits .... 
Feeding Guernsey Heifer. 
Feeding Family Cow. 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 
Cough ... 
Azoturia Lameness . 
Lungworms .... 
Mothering a Pup. 
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Capri Fig 
Will you give me tin* address of some 
nurseryman from whom I could purchase 
plants of tin* “Capri fig” or sterile fig 
plant? T want to set them among some 
lig bushes to help the maturing of the 
crop. h. c. o. 
Martinsville, Va. 
I do not suppose there is a nurseryman 
in the United States east of Arizona or 
California who has the Capri fig. Even 
if you could get it, it would be of little 
use without the wasp that lives on it, 
for the setting of tin* fruit of the Smyrna 
fig, and I do not believe that the Capri 
fig or the Rlastophaga would survive the 
Winter in Henry County, Virginia. The 
Bureau of Plant Industry of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture may furnish you 
plants of the Capri fig from t.he experi¬ 
ment grounds at Chico, Cal., but you can 
grow the self-fertilizing tigs by protecting 
them in Winter. The Celestial tig, though 
THE HENYARD 
Camphor for Fowls. 
Red Mites .. 
Electric Lights for Old Hens.... 
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HORTICULTURE 
The Dangerous Japanese Beetle. Part II.. 172® 
Orcharding with Blight-resistant Chestnut 1729 
Middleman in Tree Business. 
Notes from a Maryland' Garden. DJI 
Storing Apples in- Pits.... J734 
Celery Blanching and' Pruning. 1737 
Pruning Currants and Gooseberry. J7oi 
Pruning the Ever-bearing Raspberry. 1737 
Saving an Injured Peaoh Tree. 173y 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Fro 111 Dav to Dav..... • L 
Winter Amusements for the Tiny Tots. 1742, L43 
The Rural Patterns... 
Three Economical' Thanksgiving Dinners. .. 1743 
Embroidery Designs ........ .. *74o 
Old-fashioned Potato Soup 
The Japan Walnut h» Vermont... U48 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Honey and Abandoned Hillsides... 
A Labor Man on- Prices..... . 
Events of the Week. 
Porcupines Throw Theiv Quills.... 
Beeswax; Mixing Plaster of Paris 
Publisher's Desk ... 
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