The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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INCREASE 
Your Yield 
Give your crops a top or 
side dressing of our 
NITRA TE 
of SODA 
G r o‘w i n g crops absorb it 
quickly, and it becomes im¬ 
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Best used as a side or top 
dresser—400 lbs. to the acre 
for cobblers. 
We can also supply other 
Fertilizer materials and In¬ 
secticides— and quality Mix¬ 
tures—proportioned |so as to 
give uniform growth from 
seeding to maturity—even 
under most adverse weather 
conditions. 
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New York City 
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FOR THE PESTS THAT PESTER 
DUST YOUR CROPS WITH 
BUG DEATH 
The Non-Arsenical 
No Paris Green 
INSECTICIDE 
Used over 20 years with 
utmost satisfaction, its 
users repeat eaeli season. 
For sale in and 
100 lb. packages, by seeds¬ 
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BY USING 
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(STANDARDIZED) 
Easy to use; efficient; economical; kills 
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Livestock and Poultry. 
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DETROIT, MICH. 
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1 
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Removes animal and feed odors—halts germ 
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off by themselves, where the worms and 
grubs are thick, and have rich picking. 
But they refuse to do it, and remain to¬ 
gether in order that the goslings may 
have a full chance. I have heard well- 
to-do men gay: 
“I have no children to send to school. 
It is an outrage to make me pay taxes. 
The children are no good, anyway, and 
the schools are worse.” 
My geese do not talk or act that way. 
They gladly give up what is needed to 
educate and care for the young genera¬ 
tion. That is why geese tire so self- 
reliant, independent and strong—capable j 
of taking care of themselves. And that 
is just the way it ought to be in every 
school district. We cannot have good 
schools or good teachers or good children 
until we work on the principle of m.v 
geese atitl give up something worth while 
for the benefit of the youngsters. In our 
district the women have organized a 
School and Home Society, which meets 
regularly and works with the teachers. 
They are doing great work. It is high 
time wo discarded tlio hen as a type of 
instructor and teacher and set the goose 
op in her place. And when we do father 
will have to imitate the gander and do 
his full share of caring for the brood. 
H. w. c. j 
Cutworms in Greenhouse 
I am sending you in this letter a worm 
which I found in my greenhouse. These 
worms crawl up the stems of the young 
tomato plants and eat off the tops. I 
have found several of them in the earth 
around the roots of the plants. Could 
they have been in the compost which I 
used? m. c. s. 
Eden, N. Y. 
The “worm” sent by the correspondent 
was one of the common caterpillars known 
as cutworms. Cutworms are common 
and serious posts in gardens, and often 
occur in greenhouses. Carnations, Chrys¬ 
anthemums, smilax. greenhouse asparagus 
and other plants are often seriously in¬ 
jured by them. They hide just under the 
surface of the soil during the day, com¬ 
ing out at night, climbing up the stems of 
the plants and 1 eating the buds, stems and 
leaves. 
Sometimes, where they are not abund¬ 
ant. they may be killed by searching them 
put during the day, while they are hidden 
in the earth around the injured plants. 
In other cases they may be caught at 
night by the aid of a lantern, while they 
are feeding on the plants. Usually these 
methods are too laborious and costly, es¬ 
pecially in large greenhouses. 
Probably the most, effective method of 
destroying cutworms in greenhouses is 
by the use of poisoned baits. Lettuce 
leaves lightly sprinkled with Paris green 
and a leaf placed on the ground at the 
base of every other plant have given de¬ 
sirable results. A mash composed of 
bran, 10 lbs., and Paris green, 1 lb. has 
also given satisfactory results. The bran 
and poison should be thoroughly mixed 
while dry, -and then the bran should be 
slightly dampened with water. A table- 
spoonful of this mash placed at the base 
of every other plant will attract the cut¬ 
worms as they emerge from the soil at 
night, and kill them as they eat of it. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Tarring Seed Corn 
I am a farmer, and have had quite an 
experience wiith crows. M.v method of 
late years is to take my seed corn, about 
half a bushel at a time, put it in a large 
tub and put on about one gill of the 
thinnest coal tar I can get, and then stir 
with a round stick, say, an old broom 
handle, until the corn is all coated. It 
takes a lot of stirring, which is the most 
essential part of the job. Then when 
Hie corn is well coated, take dry wood 
ashes or dry land plaster and put in 
enough to make the corn dry, then stir 
again until the corn does not stick to¬ 
gether. and then it will run through the 
seeder all right. 
After my corn was treated in the above 
way I have seen flocks of crows on my 
cornfield when the corn was just coming 
np. and have taken pains to walk over 
the field to see if any was pulled, but 
never found more than one or two spears 
pulled ; the kernel never was touched. 
New York. n. h. henderson. 
On page f>49 W. W. G. states that seed 
corn treated with coal tar to discourage 
the crows “would not work in a planter.” 
With us it works well. Dash hot water 
(not boiling) into the tub containing the 
corn, then with a corncob dipped in the 
tar stir, adding tar as necessary till all 
the corn is thoroughly glazed. Now 
spread in the sun, stirring at times till 
all is dried, so that the corn does not 
stick together; then it will work in a 
planter. We would use tar were there 
no crows, as it. seems to discourage the 
cutworms. ethan brooks. 
Massachusetts. 
A MOTORIST had been haled into court 
and when his name was called the judge 
asked what, the charges were. “■Suspi¬ 
cious actions, your honor,” answered the 
policeman who had made the arrest. 
“Suspicions actions?” queried his honor. 
“Wlmt was ho doing that seemed to make 
you suspicions?” “Well, replied the offi¬ 
cer, “he was running within the speed 
limit, sounding his horn properly, and 
trying to keep on the right side of the 
street, so I arrested him.”—(New York 
Globe. 
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FORMERLY THE STANDARD PAINT COMPANY 1 
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If the Milk Yield Drops Down in Fly Time 
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