The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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All the Old Favorites 
and Many New Ones 
’T'HE Baldwin and other old-time 
* favorites have never been re¬ 
placed as leaders in Northern or¬ 
chards. We still carry large stocks of 
these time-tried varieties. Also of the 
most promising 
new varieties— 
Delicious, Opales¬ 
cent, Stark, etc. 
Our one and two- 
year apple trees were 
never liner than 
now. They are 
clean, sturdy and 
heavy-rooted. 
We also offer true- 
to-name P e a c h. 
Pear. Plum and 
Cherry trees — a 1 1 
adapted to Northern 
climate. 
O u r ornamental 
section is replete 
with carefully- 
grown Evergreens. 
Shade Trees, Shrubs, and Hedge Plants. These 
will make your home attractive at small cost. 
A post card will brinu you our l‘.»21 Price Ijist. 
Send tor it today. Come and see us-Welcome! 
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Box 8 
Yalesville, Conn. 
NEVINS' 
SUCCESS WITH SMALL FRUITS 
Do you know that you can obtain more health, 
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and raspberries than from any equal amount of land 
on your place ? My beautiful new Catalog greets 
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for planting. WHEN to plant. THE different sys- 
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to care for the patch. HOW to pick and market the 
fruit so as to obtain the highest prices. HOW to 
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Work of Disk or Turning Plow 
On page 1893. E. T. Barrett. fi-Qtn Mis¬ 
sissippi, asks for information concerning 
the two types of tractor plows—disk and 
moldboard. I have used both types ex¬ 
tensively with two plow tractors, but uot 
on his types of soil, though l do uot see 
why the same rules should uot apply. 
For several years I used a moldboard 
plow of our most widely known make, 
which had three 12-in. bottoms, or could 
be used with only two. For crop land I 
took off the extra plow and set the two 
bottoms down deep. For orchard use in 
plowing under cover crops I used the 
three bottoms to cover more ground where 
the plowing need not be more than 5 in. 
Last season I got a four-disk plow, which 
cuts a swath 40 in. wide—too much for 
a two-plow tractor, no doubt, but it seems 
to pull it all right for plowing under 
cover crops in the orchard. 
In comparing the work of the two im¬ 
plements it seems to me that for the same 
depth and width of furrow the disk plow 
takes less drawbar horsepower, does a 
better job of covering trash and vegeta¬ 
tion. chokes less easily, and leaves the 
soil in a much better physical condition. 
Moreover, in our shale soils, which are 
shallow and underlaid with shale rock, 
the disk plow cuts right down into the 
shale as though it were soil, and dis¬ 
tributes the new soil so evenly through 
the top soil that one cannot discover the 
difference in color. The moldboard plow 
throws the subsoil on top, where it ap¬ 
pears to detract from the physical con¬ 
dition of the soil, making it hard and 
lumpy after a rain. Where soil is a 
trifle moist or lacking humus, and mold- 
board plow shoves and compacts as it 
turns the soil over,' whereas the disk plow 
seems to scatter and granulate the soil 
go that it appears loose and loamy. When 
you strike a root with the disk, it cuts 
if off like a knife, while the moldboard 
plow point hooks under the root and 
either tears or it ' stops the plow and 
tractor. If there are tight stones on the 
land, the disk plow is likely to he in¬ 
jured. a piece breaking out with severe 
impact, and the disks usually cost more 
than new plow points. However, if there 
are no tight stones to break the disks, 
they may be used several seasons without 
removal. Plow points on a moldboard 
plow must, of course, be renewed at fre¬ 
quent intervals, ranging from one to three 
days, depending on the nature of the soil. 
In the matter of stumps, either style of 
plow will catch on a stump and can be 
backed off and raised to pass. 
Pennsylvania. s. h. karr. 
11. T. Barrett (page 1893) will make no 
mistake in using the disk plow on bis 
Mississippi soil if his land is perfectly 
level. My experience was in Franklin 
Parish. La., where I discarded a full set 
of moldboard plows and substituted the 
disk. The disk gang I used turned two 
furrows each 12 in. wide and 8 in. deep, 
with four medium-sized mules. Tt pene¬ 
trated hard soil, broke up the slice better 
and turned trash under better than the 
moldboard. I do not know how it would 
work in stumps with a tractor. Mules 
will stop when they bit a stump. Then 
lift the rear wheel out of the furrow and 
plow will dodge stump and immediately 
begin working, and do the work much 
better than can be done with common 
plow : will pass any stump cut low enough 
for plow frame to pass over. The disk 
is not a success in stiff sod, as it turns 
(he furrow too violently: turns some of 
it two or three times over, and one does 
not know which side up it will land. It 
is all right for Fall plowing here in the 
North. There is one made that intro¬ 
duces a third disk in between the regular 
disks, enttting narrow furrows, which I 
believe is worth looking into. J intro¬ 
duced the disk plow on my New York 
farm and found it a failure where land 
was rolling, all right where level. It 
cuts a wider furrow than it can turn 
when turning up a hill, and runs to too 
narrow a furrow when turning down hill. 
NAT. L. ROWE. 
Who Pays for Broken Glass? 
A rented a house from B. A left the 
house before his lease expired. P> did not 
provide any lock for the door and it blew 
open, breaking a pane of glass inside the 
house. Who should pay for this glass, 
A or B? Again, A’s boy. playing with a 
slungshot. broke a window in a neighbor’s 
house. Who should pay for this glass, 
the father of the boy or the owner of ihe 
house? b. m. 
Do you not think these are rather small 
things to have a controversy about? Tf 
A rents the house of B, he evidently 
agrees to return the property in as good 
condition as when he took it. Therefore, 
B ought to pay for the window. As for 
the boy and the slungshot. that combina¬ 
tion is a nuisance, and ought to he broken 
up. Without knowing any more of the 
circumstances, if the case were ours we 
would promptly pay for the window and 
then make the boy work until lie had 
earned enough money to make good for 
this loss. We should then see that the 
slungshot went into the discard. 
“There was a catch in your voice when 
you said our boys must uot fight the bat¬ 
tles of Europe. It was very effective.” 
“Thanks,” said the political spellbinder, 
“but it was unintentional." “How so?” 
“Just as I reached that part of my speech 
my suspenders broke.”—New York Globe. 
Grown in our Upland Nursery, tlie largest 
in New York State, under ideal climatic 
conditions. Guaranteed to give absolute sat 
isfaotion and sold to you at cost plus one profit only. 
For 37 years we have been receiving hundreds of letters 
like this one from the people who buy from our catalog. 
[ wish to acknowledge receipt of the trees ordered from you. 
They arrived in good condition and are the stockiest and 
» largest trees I have ever received from a Nurseryman. I take 
the first opportunity of expressing my appreciation and thank¬ 
ing ion for so good a selection. 
GEO. P., HUTCHINS. Riverton. N. J. 
Vines, Berries, Shrubs, Roses 
Maloney Quality has become a recognized standard by which all nursery 
stock is judged because we have given our personal attention to every step 
in the production of our stock from budding to shipping, and know just 
what we are sending you and that our varieties hear and bloom true to 
name. 
Fruit trees are scarce this spring owing to the fact that France 
has not been able to supply many seedlings for the past five 
years. However, we have a tine assortment and can give you 
what you want. Send today for our FREE DESCRIPTIVE 
CATALOG, and place your order early. 
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Ever Hear of Gibson? 
Our long experience in the propagation of small 
fruit plants has taught us many things and one 
of them is this: Gibson is the greatest strawberry 
grown, if profit is used as a standard. 
Ever Hear of Honeysweet? 
It’s a new black raspberry of wonderful value. You 
will never grow the best until you grow Honeysweet. 
You should also know about Black Pearl, Cumberland 
and Plum Farmer black caps, and the best varieties 
of red raspberries. 
Knight’s Guide to Small Fruits describes these and 
many other strawberries, blackberries and rasp¬ 
berries. Send for a copy of our catalog today; 
it’s free on request. 
DAVID KNIGHT & SON 
Box 80 Sawyer, Michigan 
Baldwin’s Big Berry Plant Business 
Located in the Richest Fruit Section of the Great 
Fruit State of Michigan. Grown on New Ground at 
Bridgman, Produces Long Deep Rooted Plants. 
Free Book. 
The best book I have ever 
issued on the growing of 
berry plants is now ready 
for you and is yours for the asking. It gives you in¬ 
formation on berry culture in a concise, practical 
form. It tells you how to get the biggest crop of most 
delicious and finest fruit. Follow Baldwin’s advice. 
BALDWIN’S BERRY PLANTS 
Produced by Baldwin himself, are sure growers. Every grower or prospective customer, large or 
small, should have my big handsomely illustrated and thoroughly descriptive Berry Book, It con¬ 
tains valuable information, showing how to plant and produce sucessfuUy delicious fruit from 
Baldwin’s Berry Plants. It explains how to have the earliest berries in the Spring and the latest 
berries in the Fall. For home garden or market purposes, for pleasure or for profit. Baldwin will 
show you the way. The early order gives you a choice of all our varieties. Write tonight. 
O. A. D. Baldwin, R, R. 15 Bridgman, Michigan 
$700.00 An Acre 
You couldn’t make that much money in 
wheat or corn, but it has often been the 
profit on crops of strawberries and rasp¬ 
berries. Some people make even more. 
Knight’s Guide to Small Fruits tells liow and what 
to grow. Our long experience with small fruits 
lias shown us which berries pay—you’ll find them 
in our catalog. Sent free for your name. 
DAVID KNIGHT & SON 
Box 80, Sawyer, Michigan 
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Grow Strawberries 
Nothingequalsstrawberries asacashcrop on thesmall place. 
One customer reports $1342 from less than % acre. Every 
farm and town garden should have a patch of Strawberries 
for the home table. 
Allen's Book of Berries for 1921 — tells just how to 
grow big, luscious strawberries for market and table. It de¬ 
scribes Everbearing Strawberries which will yield until frosts 
nip the green berries. Plant these this Spring and you can 
enjoy home-grown berries by August 1st. 
This Berry Book also describes and prices theleadingearly .medium and 
late standard strawberry varieties. Write for it today. | 
The W. F. ALLEN CO. 
72 Market St. Salisbury, Md. 
ALLEN’S 
PLANTS 
