W* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1795 
MOLINE 
BurnsKEROSENE 
cheapest fuel, 36 hours one filling; 
handy valve controls heat for small tanks os 
mild weather; flame can’t blow out; no ashes] 
smoke, sparks; heavy rust proof boiler iron in¬ 
sures steady heat; no rivets under water; de-| 
pendable; lasts years; fits any tank; pay s foi ; 
itself quickly. 
Farmers who owned ordinary tank heaters are 
the men who buy and stick by the "MOLINE.’’ 
Costs no more than the inefficient kind. 
MOLINE HOG WATERERSj 
Guaranteed heavy galvanized steel; non- 
freezing; sanitary; cool in summer; long 
taming lamp, three styles. Write for prices. 
Fanner Agent* 
ask for spare hour 
money making plan. 
Cet literature, price fo- 
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MOLINE vTurf«CO^s 
527 Main S»., Mo I in#, Illitvol*^ 
Oil Burning Tank Heater 
The tank heater with the Improved Burner. 
Different from others. New Features. No sparks, 
no smoko, no ashes, no danger from fire, no heat 
wasted. All heating spare under water. Compact, 
convenient and easily handled. Keeps water at 
even temperature in coldest weather. Made of 
heavy steel All seams welded. Fits any wood, 
steel or concrete tank. Pays for itself first year. 
Don’t buy until you get the facts and price of 
the Acme. • It's Guaranteed. 
ACME NON-FREEZE 
Hog Waterers 
Made of galvanized iron. Three 
different styles to choose from. All 
guaranteed not to freeze. Live Farm¬ 
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ACME CO.,210Main St., Washington, la. 
HORSES 
Pull This 
, Easy Spreader 
2 
tight draft—easy pulling—easy to load 
S ow down)—easy to unload. The sensible, practical 
emp-Olimnx Spreader pays biggest profits to users, 
preads evenly, quickly, all barnyard iii.muro, ashes. 
Spreads 
lime, or other 
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_/ fertiiiz. r. liidesmictihle end* we<l 
drum with sell-sharpening teoih shreds with wide 
strips. Ask l or “Saving and Application of Manure, 
by the Inventor of the Spreader. 
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Paint 
Notes By Prof. Massey 
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Made in all colors—for all purposes. 
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Tells all about Paint and Painting f or Durability. Valu¬ 
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9. W. Ingersoll, 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N X 
CANVAS COVERS 
Wagon & Hay Covers with eyelits. Medium & 
Heavy weights. Plain and waterproofed, made of 
a superior grade of Canvas. Best workmanship. 
Prompt deliveries to all parts of U S. Money refund¬ 
ed if not satisfied. Send postal for prices & samples. 
AMERICAN SAILMAKING CORPORATION 
Dept. R 49 & 51 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
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guarantee editorial page . .* 
Training Neglected Fruits 
We have just purchased a new home fn 
Baltimore County, .Maryland, 18 miles 
north of Baltimore. The place is planted 
with almost all varieties of small fruits, 
which have been very much neglected. 
Raspberries and blackberries have run 
together, and both are now full of dead 
wood. What treatment is advised? 
Curtis Bay, Md. J. c. D. 
Renovating a neglected place is a mat¬ 
ter of work, and much thought, but it is 
often much better than planting from 
the start. The small fruits, such as 
blackberries and rasnberries, should be 
thinned out to the original hills, and the 
dead canes taken out. The gooseberries 
and currants will need some pruning, and 
the removal of old stunted wood. Prune 
the grapes in the Spring. Probably it 
will be necessary to cut out much of the 
old wood. Then, of course, spray to 
prevent the black rot, spraying first be¬ 
fore the buds open with Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture. Then spray again after the bloom 
is off and a third time in 10 days later. 
It is hard to get old vines into any proper 
shape or system without cutting them to 
the ground and starting over again. An 
old, neglected vine would as well be 
pruned to spurs of one-year wood with 
two buds, till you can get enough new 
growth to adopt some other method. The 
fruit trees should be sprayed in Spring 
with the lime-sulphur wash to prevent 
the attacks of the San Jcse scale. You 
can get the concentrated wash and dilute 
it properly. You cannot use this Bor¬ 
deaux mixture on peach trees after the 
leaves are out, but lime-sulphur of 5 lbs. 
of lime and 5 lbs. of sulphur slaked to¬ 
gether, and then 30 gals, of water added, 
can be used on peach trees to prevent rot 
and leaf-curl; then plenty of manure on 
the surface during the Winter and plowed 
in the Spring will give the trees a new 
Start. W. F. MASSEY. 
Evergreen Figs 
On page 1637 Prof. Massey states that 
the fig is an evergreen. I wonder what 
variety he refers to. as all fig trees I 
ever saw drop the leaves in Autumn. The 
Calamyrna or Smyrna, the Black Mis¬ 
sion and the White Adriatic are all 
grown here in California, and all have 
deciduous leaves. I have seen some 
grown where tomato vines were not in¬ 
jured by frost, but the fig leaves dropped. 
In the dictionary also I find the fig clas¬ 
sified as a tree with dec : dunus leaves. 
Either nature and the dictionary are 
wrong, or Prof. Massey made a mistake 
in his general classification. b. n. 
In tronical climates most figs are ever¬ 
green. Here the ordinary self-fertilizing 
figs never drop their'Ieaves till, cut off by 
frost. Then there are an immense num¬ 
ber of figs that are tropical and not edible 
which are well-known evergreens, such 
ns the commonly grown rubber plant, 
the banyan tree of the East Indies, and 
the Ficus repens very commonly grown 
clinging to greenhouse walls. In fact 
there is a host of trees of the fig family 
that are evergreen. In Florida you 
will find evergreen figs, and I am of tho 
opinion that the whole Ficus genus will 
naturally hold their leaves under favor¬ 
ing conditions. I have never had a fig 
to change color or stop growing till frost 
cuts them. w. f. massey. 
3 
Blackberries and Dewberries; Peach Seed 
1. As a market proposition, which is 
more desirable, the dewberry or the black¬ 
berry? What are the relative advantages 
and disadvantages of each? 2. Can you 
name a reliable pollenizer for the McDon¬ 
ald dewberry? 3. Does the Eldorado 
blackberry require a pollenizer or is it 
self-fertile? 4. Last November I planted 
nearly a peck of peach seeds in garden 
soil 3 in. deep. Not one seed germinated. 
What was wrong? Should the seeds have 
been cracked before planting? We had 
plenty of freezing weather last Winter. 
Wellsburg, W. Va. P. a. j. 
1. The respective market profit from 
dewberries or the later blackberries will 
depend somewhat on the locality where 
grown and the market. Down here the 
Lucretia dewberry is more profitable than 
the high-bush blackberries, as they come 
in early. From your elevated section 
they would come in along with the berries 
from South Jersey, and from distance to 
market might not pay in this competition 
of near-by products, aud good high-bu«h 
berries might pay as well or better. The 
Lucretia dewberry is large and attractive 
and always sells. The Austin is a better 
berry for home use, but too soft to ship. 
2. I have never found any blackberry 
in need of help in making pollen. Have 
never grown the McDonald, but assume 
that the Lucretia would help it iu need. 
3. The Eldorado blackberry lias plenty 
of stamens and pollen of its own. 
4. If the peach seeds were sound and 
fresh they should have grown, but 2 in. 
was too little cover. They should have 
been planted 4 iu. deep. Peach seeds 
which have been long dried will not grow, 
and seeds from budded trees often are de¬ 
fective. The seed should be planted iu 
the hull, and not cracked. Nurserymen 
use the small seed from seedling trees, as 
they use a drill for planting, and large 
seeds do not drill easily. If seeds are 
sound and not too dry it makes no differ¬ 
ence whether they come from budded trees 
or from seedlings. w. f. massey. 
Coffee is often the 
hidden cause 
of many ills and discomforts 
‘Shat is because it contains 
certain elements which are 
injurious to many people. 
If coffee disturbs your 
health, change to 
Postum Cereal 
This pure cereal drink is 
healthful and wholesome, 
has a delightful coffee-like 
flavor, but contains none of 
coffees harmful elements. 
Sold by all grocers 
Costs less than coffee 
Hade Postum Cereal Co., Inc., Battle Creek, Mich. 
NEPDNSET ROOFS 
In the long run Bird’s 
Neponset Paroid is the cheapest 
roofing to use 
Twenty years without a single repair 
is not an unusual record for a Paroid 
Roof. 
That’s why we say that Paroid is 
the cheapest roofing to use. 
Paroid comes in natural gray. Every 
roll complete, with nails and cement. 
If your dealer does not carry Paroid we 
will ship direct to you. 
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Bird & Son, inc. (Established 1795) East Walpole, Mass. 
