The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
593 
Just write on a postal. Send 
me your NEW Bargain Fence 
Booh and Latest Low Factory 
Prices." It will come by next mail, 
free postpaid. I’ll also send you a 
sample to test. Then you will know 
why the BROWN FENCE LASTS 6 
TIMES LONGER THAN OTHERS. 
John Bruce, Cauthron, Ark., writes: "I put up 
140 rods of your fence seven years ago and it is 
nice and bright yet. Other fence I built about the 
same time is nearly ruined by rust." 
That PROVES my quality — the book 
PROVES my prices are lowest and 
WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF MONEY 
on the first cost. The long life of Brown 
Fence makes a still greater saving. You can’t 
afford to buy a rod of fence before getting my 
big 96-page Bargain Book. It is full of fence¬ 
buying pointers you will be glad to get. 
DIRECT FREIGHT 
FROM FACTORY PREPAID 
You know what Brown Fence costs 
you laid down at your freight station. 
Catalog shows 150 styles—Hog, Sheep, Cattle, 
Poultry and Lawn Fencing. Also Gates. Barb 
Wire, etc.— all at prices way below all com- 
petition. Get my book and sample, both free, 
before you buy. (15) 
The Brown Fence & Wire Co. 
Dept. 659 Cleveland, Ohio 
®11I1®L 
The finest and moat complete line of Lawn 
Fence in the Country ~ at Factory Pricea! 
FARQUHAR for 
SAWMILL MACHINERY 
O UR Standard Farquhar Portable Saw¬ 
mill insures you fast, accurate service 
and long life. Built in four sizes with ca¬ 
pacities 2000 to 15,000 feet. Also the Pony 
Mill for light work. 
The Farquhar Double Belt Feed equals 
the flexibility of a variable friction feed in 
cutting, besides has the speed for quick re¬ 
turn of carriage. Simple, easy to operate, 
with wear reduced to a minimum by shift¬ 
ing the friction on to specially prepared 
belts instead of on feed proper. We offer 
the choice of either Standard or Log Beam 
Carriage. 
Farquhar Mills are 
most economically oper¬ 
ated byFarquhar Power; 
Cornish “Slab Burner” 
and Locomotive Port¬ 
ables, also styles K and 
W Tractors. 
Write to us concern¬ 
ing your requirements, 
and we’ll send full de¬ 
scriptions and make rec¬ 
ommendations. 
A. B. FARQUHAR CO., Ltd. 
Box 630, York, P». 
OTHER FARQUHAR 
PRODUCTS 
GAS TRACTORS 
and PORTABLES 
THRESHERS 
POTATO DIGGERS 
GRAIN DRILLS 
HYDRAULIC 
CIDER PRESSES 
(’dialogs on request 
PAINT 
$ 1.25 
PER 
Gallon 
ORDER DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
We will send you as many gallons as you 
want of good quality red or brown 
BARN PAINT 
upon receipt of remittance. We are paint special¬ 
ists and can supply you with paint for any pur¬ 
pose. Tell us your wants am] let us quote joii 
low prices. We can save you money by shipping 
direct from our factory. SatisfactionGunraiiteed. 
On orders for thirty gallons or over we will prepay the 
froislit within a radius of three hundred miles. 
AMALGAMATED PAINT CO. 
Factory: 372 WAYNE ST., JERSEY CITY, N. J. 
Cut Cost 
Ditch, Terrace 
Grade roads, build dykes, levees 1 
Farm Ditcher | 
// « and Grader 
Works in any soil. Makes V-shaped 
ditch or qlcans catches up to four feet 
deep. Horses or tractor. Get my 
great labor and cosc saving story. 
Owensboro Ditcher & Grader Co., Inc, 
Box 334 Owensboro. Ky. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
I have boon figuring on tin' reason for 
the high price at retail for apples bore, 
and find that the transportation agencies 
are the worst sinners. I think that if tin 1 
railroad rates were lower the roads would 
do far more business and might he better 
off than at present. My daughter in Vir¬ 
ginia paid a grower fit) cents for a bushel 
of apples and sent them to me as a pres¬ 
ent. The express company charged me 
$1.10 to bring them here. Talk about 
your 35-cent dollar! Yesterday I saw 
some fine Stayman apples at a commission 
house. The price asked was $1.00 a 
bushel. That looks like a high price for 
a hamper of apples. But those apples 
were grown in lower Delaware. They 
were packed last Fall and shipped to 
Philadelphia and kept all Winter in cold 
storage. Then they wore shipped back 
here, 100 miles, and counting the expense 
of growing, pack and freight, to say noth¬ 
ing of the cold storage all Winter, it 
looked to me as though the grower lost 
money on them at $1.00 a hamper. Peo¬ 
ple are staying home unless compelled to 
make a trip by rail, because of the great 
cost of tickets and tax. The high passen¬ 
ger rates, the tax on tickets and the high 
freight rates are killing the railroads. 
Farmers are offering old potatoes at 25 
cents, and no buyers; cannot get freight 
I out of them if shipped. T have been try¬ 
ing hard all Winter to keep the Southern 
cotton farmers from throwing away their 
money in growing a crop of early Irish 
potatoes, but I fear that many of them in 
' their anxiety to get some money will lost* 
more in the experiment. There has been 
a smaller area planted here, but I hear 
that in the Virginia counties south of us 
they have planted as usual. With tin* aid 
of their selling exchange they may not 
I lose, hut T cannot see any chance for 
profit this Spring in the potato crop. Our 
farmers are planning for a large area in 
sweet potatoes, which are really our 
safest crop for pro-fit. Very few tomatoes 
will he planted, hut quite a large area is 
being prepared for planting cucumbers 
and cantaloupes in April. With New 
York stable manure costing over $5 a ton, 
delivered, the manuring for these crops is 
costly, especially as many of our farmers 
think that they cannot grow sweet pota¬ 
toes without stable manure. My exper¬ 
ience is that a better crop can be grown 
with commercial fertilizers rather light in 
nitrogen and strong in phosphoric acid 
and potash, a o-S-4 for instance. The 
practice is to use manure broadcast, and 
then use the fertilizer in the furrows un¬ 
der the ridges. One of our leading ean- 
ners has built an ice factory, saying that 
if he cannot run his cannery he can sell 
ice in hot weather. 
The I’yrus .Taponicus blooms so early 
that the hushes do not bear many fruits. 
They make as good marmalade as any 
quinces, and the bloom is so abundant 
this Spring that we may expect a good 
lot of the fruit if frost does not get hack. 
The earliest of the Spiraeas, S. Thunbergii. 
is nearly over its blooming period, hut it 
is a rarely pretty hush when only in leaf. 
The foliage is so line that I have had 
people take the plant for Asparagus 
Sprengeri. But the glory of the Spit-mas. 
Spirant, Van lloiittei, is swelling its buds, 
and will soon look like a snowdrift. Then 
as my big hush of this species fades there 
is another shrub right alongside that, con¬ 
tinues the snowy bloom. This is the 
white Weigela, and with its large flowers 
of pure white it tries hard to atone for the 
fading of the Spirant. w. F. MASSEY. 
Improving Clay Garden Soil 
I live in a city, and my garden plot is 
decidedly clayey. Can you inform me 
how to improve it for gardening? Would 
eoal ashes do any good, or would sand? 
Both are quite handy. v. v. d. 
Augusta, Me. 
Sifted coal ashes or sand thoroughly 
worked into such a soil will help by im¬ 
proving its physical condition. The firmer 
sand will make the clay more porous and 
less likely to bake hard. It will not 
make really good soil, however. You 
must fill it with organic matter in some 
way—either by using manure or growing 
cover crops and plowing them under. 
A Wichita youngster, age three, out 
joyriding with dad, recently saw iter first 
hailstorm. “Oh, daddy!” she observed, 
“see how it’s mothballing!” — Capper’s 
Weekly. 
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111 
Your Implements 
and Your Credit 
HE farmer, like the manufacturer, must 
frequently turn to the banker for credit 
order that his production may go 
In extending credit to the 
manufacturer, the banker 
takes account of the plants 
and their equipment, of the 
condition of the machinery 
used. 
But most of all he takes ac¬ 
count of the organization, rep¬ 
utation and good will— the 
value of the trade-name. 
He knows that when he finds 
these things he can more safely 
advance the funds that every 
business man requires from 
time to time. 
Your equipment aiuj your 
methods influence the banker 
in the same way. When you 
on. 
use farm implements that 
bear so well-known and de¬ 
pendable a trade-mark as E-B, 
you are increasing your credit 
standing. 
Your banker will be more 
disposed to aid you where 
and when he can. He knows 
of the long life and satisfac¬ 
tory service which E-B im¬ 
plements give, and he ap¬ 
preciates the importance of 
your being able to obtain re¬ 
pairs promptly through E-B 
branches and dealers. 
His sound business judgment 
sanctions your choice of E-B 
tools. 
Emerson - Brantingham 
Implement Co., Inc. 
Established 1852 
Rockford, Illinois 
A Complete Line of Farm Machinery Manufactured 
and Guaranteed by One Company 
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make full purses. 
Solvay Pulverized Limestone 
sweetens the soil, and forces 
the release of all fertility to 
hasten and complete full crop development. 
Solvay is in fine, pure, soluble form—guaranteed 
high test 95% carbonates—easily spread through 
drill or lime sower. Non-caustic—will not burn. 
Uniform stands of sound, full-matured grain and other crops 
prove the superior qualities of Solvay at the first harvest. 
Write for FREE Booklet. 
THE SOLVAY PROCESS CO. 
501 Milton Ave. Syracuse, N. Y. 
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