W* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Profitable Forest Tree Planting 
On page 1732 G. F. W. of Maine 
advocates planting abandoned hillsides 
with basswood for bees, and a sics “Conld 
we not find forest trees to raise which 
would produce food?” This is just what 
some of us have been preaching for years. 
Yes, let us grow more food crops on 
trees, not only in our orchards, but in 
our forest, by the fences, in our pastures 
and along the roadsides. Let us raise on 
trees all the food we can for man, but 
let us not forget that nine-tenths of our 
crops go to feed our domestic animals, 
and much of our time is spent in serving 
their food to our animals. We shall save 
much time and trouble, and please the 
animals, if we can find some way to let 
them harvest their own crops and wait 
on themselves. For this end let us plant 
oaks, beeches and other nut-bearing trees, 
as long ago they learned to do in the Old 
World. We can plant and grow mul¬ 
berries over almost the whole of the 
Union, and persimmons and pawpaws 
over wide areas. All of these furnish 
nourishing food that drops over a long 
season. There are many others, the 
honey locust, the wild cherry and wild 
plum, the mesquite and our own human¬ 
delighting apple, which we have never 
thought to plant especially for our ani¬ 
mals, but their fondness for which has 
been observed by all of us. 
For man’s own food producing, besides 
the nectar-bearing basswood and the many 
other trees in which the bees delight, most 
dependable and least exacting of the 
servants of man, let us not forget that 
other sugar producer, the grand old sugar 
maple, nor those varied long-lived "en¬ 
gines of production,” purveyors of na¬ 
ture’s richest food, the nut trees. 
Connecticut. w. c. deiixng. 
Mice in Orchard; Cherries and Plums in 
, North Carolina 
1. I am in trouble with bobtail mice 
in my orchard in Winter. They get un¬ 
der trees and eat little roots. What is 
the best way to poison these things? 
2. I wish to plant next Spring some 
cherry and plum trees. What kind do 
you think I should plant here in Western 
North Carolina, where the altitude is 
3.850 ft. and where late Spring frost very 
often comes? I want a cherry and plum 
that are hardy and bloom late. w. A. n. 
Montezuma, N. C. 
1. The short-tail mice usually use the 
mole runs. I have found that T can 
reach them by mixing one part of Paris 
green in 50 parts of wheat bran. Mix 
well while dry and then mix into a doughy 
state with black molasses. Make balls 
ot this and drop them here and there into 
the mole runs. To prevent their eating 
the bark of young trees a few trees can 
be wrapped with screen wire netting, 
set on crown of roots, and 2 ft. wide. 
2. The best cherries will be the Illack 
Tartarian, Elton, Gov. Wood and Yellow 
Spanish. For plums jdant German prune, 
Bradshaw, Shropshire Damson. I doubt 
that the Japanese sorts will do well at 
ycur elevation. In the main street of 
the town of Jefferson, in Ashe County, 
there are two long rows of cherry trees. 
You could find what sort they are by 
going over there to see them. For sou 1, 
cherries, plant the Early Richmond; and 
you might include the Wild Goose plum. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Frozen Lime-Sulphur 
Every Spring we have many questions 
about frozen lime-sulphur mixture. Does 
freezing injure it? The following note is 
taken from the weekly bulletin of the 
Pennsylvania Agricultural Department. 
It evidently pays to keep the lime-sulphur 
und-r cover: 
One can never tell just what the effect 
of freezing will have upon concentrated 
lime-sulphur wash. Sometimes it, is not 
injured in the least by freezing, and at 
other times it is absolutely spoiled. Sam¬ 
ples from the same barrel have been taken 
in different bottles. These have been 
placed side by side in a freezing chamber 
and after having been subjected to freez¬ 
ing for the same length of time and re¬ 
turned to temperatures above freezing, 
one sample was found to be of absolutely 
no use, while the other sample was in its 
original condition. 
Injury to lime-sulphur by freezing is 
easily detected because injured lime-sul¬ 
phur will always have lost more or less 
of its rich dark red color, and by the 
presence of the fine sulphur particles in 
the bottom of the container. 
It is always best to store lime-sulphur 
where it will not freeze. 
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Dormant Spran 
revives run-down fruit trees 
H UNDREDS of times—-perhaps thousands—growers have 
been ready to pull out whole blocks of trees, because 
all hope of reviving them seemed lost. Then, as a last 
resort, Sealecide has been given its chance! And Scalecide has 
made good not. only because it eradicates insects, eggs and larvae 
of insects, and diseases that winter on the trunk and branches of 
the trees, but because Scalecide has stimulating and invigorating 
properties as well as being a contact insecticide. And, remember, 
Scalecide has often saved trees after lime-sulfur has failed. 
The stimulating and invigorating effect of Scalecide is shown by 
increased terminal growth; larger, darker foliage on bearing trees; 
Scalecide Requires Less Labor 
One barrel of Scalecide, which makes 800 
gallons of spray, will cover, until they drip, 
as many trees as three and a half barrels of 
lime-sulfur, which make 1600 gallons of 
spray. And of course you can apply 800 
gallons of Scalecide with much less labor 
than 1600 gallons of lime-sulfur. 
Scalecide Is Pleasant To Use 
Scalecide is soothing, healing and antiseptic 
to skin of man or beast, whereas lime-sul¬ 
fur is caustic and disagreeable. Scalecide 
does not injure even the eyes. It does 
not corrode the spray pump nor clog the 
nozzles, and being an oil, it makes the pump 
run easier and last longer. 
Avoid Disappointment - Order Scalecide Now 
If there is a dealer in your section, ask him to reserve enough Scalecide for you. If there is no agent near you, write 
for our booklet , prices and guarantee, and give us the name of your dealer. Use the coupon below. Address Dept. 16. 
B. G. PRATT CO. 50 Church Street NEW YORK CITY 
Manufacturing Chemists 
and the holding of the foliage later in the Fall, thus accumulating 
starch and sugar which results in a plumper fruit spur and insures 
a larger crop the following year. 
Scale is not the worst orchard trouble today and no orchardistcan 
afford to use a spray that does not do a great deal more than kill 
scale. Scalecide not only kills scale, but does much more. It 
kills the hold-over cankers that cause fire blight and allows new 
cambium to form and the old diseased bark to fall off. It kills 
the adults and controls Pear Psylla when applied in the Fall or on 
arm days in Winter. (It is too late after their eggs are laid in the 
pring.) It kills aphis, too, when used as a delayed dormant spray. 
Every Claim Has Been Proved 
Every claim we make for Scalecide has 
been proved in our own large orchards, 
which now total 26,000 trees, and verified 
by growers throughout the U. S. We speak 
to you from 10 years’ experience as fruit¬ 
growers, and our recommendations are 
based upon profitable orchard practice. 
Makes a Tree Outgrow Its Troubles '* 
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B. G. Pratt Company, 50 Church Street, New York City 
Gentlemen: Please send me prices, copy of Guarantee and free booklet on Scalecide, “Figuring the Cost of Spraying.” I have. 
bearing trees;...young trees. I have been using 
(number) 
My dealer is :. 
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will you be obliged to pump and 
lug water by hand for another 
year? 
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member of the household, eliminates 
drudgery, and provides a worth-while 
comfort. 
Any.form of power may be used for 
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We supply motors which will operate 
from farm lighting plants. Hoosier 
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operated. 
The interiors of Hoosier water 
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a rust resisting preparation, 
which prevents rust and water 
contamination. 
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and become acquainted 
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