1126 
September 17, 1021 
7f* RURAL NEW 
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YORKER 
using Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of 
zinc, or some substitute, of which there 
are several. The zinc kills the bugs and 
the Bordeaux prevents blight, and should 
be used often if the weather is warm as 
long as the tops are green. 
FRANK LOWELL & SONS. 
Kennebec Co., Me. 
CUT ditching 
AND 
Why Not Sign Your Name? 
Will you tell me what to do with my 
potatoes to prevent a total loss from 
blight? It has a good start on the vines 
and seems to work fast. The roots are 
'•osh yet. Will it be practical to cut the 
v mcs nlf and then sprayi 
Xew York. 
l. w. 
1. The trlantular tats make Ruber- 
oid Strip-shingles economical to 
buy and to lay. On every hun¬ 
dred square feet of roof surface 
you save 30 shingles when you 
lay Ruberoid Strip-shinties. 
2. The slats surf ate — of unfadine 
natural slate — in either Venetian 
red or sate treen. tives a beauti¬ 
ful and durable finish to Ruberoid 
Strip-shinties. 
3. The tut turners eliminate one of 
the weakest points of most 
shinties. , Ruberoid Strip-shinplcs 
cannot curl or turn up. 
4. Ruberoid saturated felt is the 
best trade of roofint felt made. 
The saturant is made of the purest 
bituminous materials and manu¬ 
factured accordinr to a special 
formula. 
5. Ruberoid surfate ttating. The 
fact that hundreds of Ruberoid 
Roofs, laid nearly a quarter cen¬ 
tury ago, are in active service to¬ 
day, is the strongest evidence we 
ran tire of the remarkable wear¬ 
ing quality of Ruberoid Coating. 
6. An unusually heavy iatk toatine 
of the same quality 36 the sur¬ 
face coating—protects the under 
side of the shingles from the 
sweating which inevitably takes 
place under any roof. 
A Shingle of Unusual Merit 
Enduring quality, economy, low application cost, 
attractive appearance —these are the chief attri¬ 
butes of the Ruberoid Strip-shingle. You have in 
this shingle all that you can ask. 
Ruberoid quality, the quality that has been tested 
on thousands of roofs during the past thirty years, 
is reflected in this shingle. Otherwise it would 
not bear the name Ruberoid. 
Economy in material is obtained in the Ruberoid 
Strip-shingle through a patented feature involving 
a saving in manufacturing cost—a saving that we 
gladly pass on to you. As a result, you get true 
Ruberoid quality at an unusually low price. The 
application of Ruberoid Strip-shingles is quick and 
simple. Spacing is automatic. No chalk lines 
are necessary. 
Greater safety is imparted by the very design of 
the shingle. The corners are cut away—hence 
there are none to turn up. Only five nails are 
used to a strip, but each strip is actually secured 
by nine nails due to the tabs on the upper edge. 
It will not curl. It will not warp. It is approved 
by the Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., and bears 
their label. 
In appearance Ruberoid Strip-shingles leave nothing to he 
desired. I nusual thickness, coupled with a pleasing sur¬ 
face of red or green crushed slate, imparts massiveness and 
character to the roof on which this shingle is laid. 
There is a Ruberoid Distributor near you. Ask him to 
show you Ruberoid Strip-shingles. You will quickly ap¬ 
preciate that here is a shingle of unusual merit—one which 
should be on the roof of your home. 
Here is a good illustration of the 
trouble some of our readers make for us. 
There is no signature to this letter, and 
we are unable to locate this man. Of 
course it is impossible to make any reply 
in print that will bo of help to nan. Ills 
potato vines will no doubt be fully de¬ 
stroyed long before he reads this. Why 
should a man act in this way about a 
question of this sort? There is nothing 
private or secret about it, and we have 
• fated over and over again that we can 
ray no attention to unsigned communica¬ 
tions. Just why, in the face of these 
things, people should continue to ask 
questions and conceal their identity is 
more than we can understand. And un¬ 
fortunately. in some cases, these men 
come back later and say that we ignore 
them or do not treat them fairly. When 
blight once gets a good hold on the potato 
crop it is next to impossible to save the 
vines. Spraying is more of a preventive 
measure to prevent the blight from start¬ 
ing if possible. We have known of sev¬ 
eral cases where the vines were removed 
after blight started and carried from the 
field. A new growth started and the 
tubers made some further growth. If the 
vines die it will usually pay to pull and 
burn them, for this seems to delay rotting. 
COST TERRACE 
Make your time and dollars 
count big now. I have shown 
farmers in every state how to put 
their land into shape to produce 
bigeropsat low cost. Let me show 
you. Drainlevel land; save waste, 
boggy and washed land too. 
Use the Low Cost 
Farm Ditcher 
Terracer and Road Grader 
All-Steel — Reversible—Lasts Almost a Lifetime 
Cuts a V-shaped open-drain, irrigation or 
\ tile ditch down to 4 feet. Cleans old 
ditches. Builda farm terraces, dikes, 
levees, and grades 
roads. Works in any 
60 il —■ wet or dry. 
Sold on 10 Days' 
Free Trial 
Get the whole b!ir 
money-savint? offer In 
my free Drainage, Irri¬ 
gation end Terracinjr 
Boole. Special Intro¬ 
ductory Offer now. 
JDWENSBORO DITCHER 1 
GRADER CO.. Icc, 
Box 434 
Owensboro, 
Kentucky 
ASPIRIN 
CONTENTS 
Chicago 
The RUBEROID Co. 
formerly THE STANDARD PAINT COMPANY 
95 Madison Avenue, New York 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, SEPT. 17, 
FARM TOPICS 
N. Y. 
□ 
1921 
Boctoi 
from budding (o shipping, and know just what we 
hear and bloom true to name. 
Wo have a fine assortment this Fall and can 
are sending you and that our varieties 
Send today for our FREK'DESCRIPTIVE CAT®and'-^ - f ° r F "? 1 planting ‘ 
place your order early. 
We prepay Transportation Chorees on AH Orders for o-cer *7,50- 
MALONEY BROS. & WELLS CO., 32 Bank Street, 
Dansville’s Pioneer Nurseries 
DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
Place Your Order This Fall 
Although we have our usual fine assortment of high 
grade fruit trees to offer for Fall delivery, the demand 
1 ^ exCe ^^*° na ^^ r s * ron £ «nd we recommend that our 
old and new customers place their orders early this 
season. 
You will never regret planting Kelly trees. Our trees 
are all perfect specimens and cur guarantee is your 
protection. We offer you a b.g money saving and 
reliable stock 
Send for Fall, 1921 Price List 
KELLY BROS. NURSERIES, 1 160 IVIain St., Dansville, N. Y. 
RIGGS 
A progressive AGRICULTURAL BOARDING SCHOOL for 
older boys. All modern equipment. GRADUATESemibled 
to earn living or enter agricultural college, barge farm 
In the Berkshires. Lake. Water sports. Indoor and 
outdoor athletics. Recreation and work beneficially com¬ 
bined. Music, High scholastic and moral standard. In¬ 
structors are specialists in their departments. New 
earpentry and machine shop in course of construction. 
Students taught to DO things in these lines. For wide¬ 
awake. manly, ambitious hoys. Write far Bnaltlet. 
F. B RIGGS, Headmaster Lakeville, Conn. 
Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 
Fresh dug, direct from NURSERY to you. Peach, Ap¬ 
ple, Pear. Plum. < ’herry, Quince, Apricot, Nectarine 
trees. GRAPE VINES, Blackberry, Raspberry, Goose¬ 
berry, Strawberry, Dewberry, Currant and Aspara¬ 
gus plants, Etc. Peonies, Hyacinths, Tulips, Nar¬ 
cissus. Also shade trees, Evergreens, Shrubs, 
Roses, Privet Hedging, Barberry, etc. Write for 
our FREE CATALOG, whirl) gives prices, descriptions 
and illustrations of varieties, also complete plant¬ 
ing and culture instructions. 
BUNTINGS’ NURSERIES Box 1 Sclbyville, Delaware 
Green Pea Crop of Madison County, 
Part II. 1124 
The Cost of Co-operative Thrashing. 1124 
How to Grow Potatoes.1125, 1120 
Fertilizer on Sour Soils. 1127 
Hope Farm Notes. 1132 
Imperfect Ears of Corn. 1133 
Seed Potato Growers Hire Manager. 1135 
What Shold a Man Do?. 1135 
As Some Others See Us. 1135 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Three-year Dairy Rotation. 1124 
Short Talk About Guinea Pigs. 1124 
The Dairy Situation in Wisconsin. 1135 
The Wool Problem Solved. 1135 
Silage and Tuberculosis. 1133 
Repairing Silo . 1138 
Feeding Dogs . 11"3 
Holding Up of Milk. 1138 
Trouble with Young Rabbits. 1138 
Some Rabbit Diseases. 1138 
THE HENYARD 
Bel Mites: Linseed for Horses. 1140 
White Diarrhoea . 1140 
Hatching from Pullets. 1140 
Salt in Mash; Wood Ashes ar.d Hen 
Manure . 1140 
Shrunken Eggs . 1140 
Bisulphide of Carbon on Feed Grain. 1140 
Wheat Substitutes for Poultry. 1142 
Loss of Young Turkeys. 1142 
Poultry Fit to Eat. 1142 
Worms in Fowls. 1142 
Egg-laying Contest . 1145 
Enlarged Liver . 1145 
Fattening Cockerels . 1145 
Ailing Pullets . 1145 
HORTICULTURE 
New England Anples for the Home Or¬ 
chard .1123, 1124 
Another Good Strawberry Record. 1125 
Propagating Brambles Rapid'y. 1127 
‘ Fake’’ Cucumber Flowers; Staking Toma¬ 
toes . 1133 
Rot of Grapes. 1133 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1136 
The Rural Patterns... 1136 
Notes from Oklahoma. 1136 
More About Canning Beans. 1136 
Dried Sweet Corn. 1136 
Savory Nut Loaf. 1135 
Delicious Spice Cake. 1136 
Once-raised Oatmeal Bread. 1136 
Uses for Elderberries: Boiled Cider Pie.... 1137 
Some Unusual Cake Fillings. 1137 
Canned Tomato Soup Stock. 1137 
Cold Cream for Chapped Hands. 1137 
Cantaloupes in Pickles. 1137 
Cantaloupe Preserve . 1137 
Removing Lettering from Sacks. 1137 
Easy Mustard Pickle. 1137 
Butternut Pie . 1137 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Building Cement Steps. 1125 
How to Catch Moles. 1127 
Events of the Week. 1130 
Editorials . 1134 
Peonle at the Ohio State Fair. 1135 
Lawn Fountain . 1144 
Water Supply Without Pressure. 1144 
Renewing Worn Files. 1144 
Improving Well . 1144 
Strength of C!ay Water Pipe. 1144 
Name “Bayer” on Genuine 
ED 
A 
) nlcss you see the name 
“Bayer on package or on tablets you 
are not getting genuine Aspirin pro¬ 
scribed by physicians for twenty-one 
years and proved safe by millions. Take 
Aspirin only as toid in the Bayer paclc- 
age for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, 
Kheumatiem, Earache. Toothache, Lum¬ 
bago and for Pain. Ilaudy tin boxes of 
twelve Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost few 
cents. Druggists also sell larger pack¬ 
ages. Aspirin is the trade mark of 
Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticaeid- 
ester of Salicylicacid. 
Plant Trees This Fall— 
Save Time Next Spring 
Trees planted this fall form new root 
contacts with the soil before winter sets 
in. They start to grow with the first 
warm days of spring. We have an espec¬ 
ially line lot of one and two-year-old 
Apple Trees ready for immediate plant¬ 
ing. Also standard varieties of Pears, 
Peaches, Plums and Cherries. 
3\ rite for FREE Nursery Book today. 
Lighten the spring rush—get your plant¬ 
ing done this fall. 
/divines /isco* 
^LTTHJ I 
Box 8 
Yalesville, ConC. 
STRAWBERRY Plants S^WSiK! 
find runner p In n t # 
i nt " ill bear fruit ni st summer. RASPBERRY. BI, WK- 
1SEKRV. OOOSEBKHHY. CURRANT. GRAPE. ASPAliA- 
O' 9 . RHUB UiP. PERENNIAL FLOWER PLANTS, 
ROSES npil STIRURS for fall planting. Catalogue fi re. 
HARRY L. SQCIRF.S Good Ground, N.Y. 
STRAWBERRY Plants 
FOR SALK from vigorous, prolific strain of lus¬ 
cious Wm. Belt's strong-rooted plants from this 
spring s plantings. $1.50 per *0: S10.1,01)0. Plant noiv 
loi nextyear’s berries, Gas ser Fruit Farm, Bethel, Conn. 
The ONTARIO Red Raspberry 
is the most valuable fruit ever produced by the 
. hand of man. Illustrated Plant circular free. 
A. li. KATKAMIER - Macedon, N. Y„ 
GRAPE VINES FOR SALE 
Also RASPBERRY, BLACKBERRY and all kinds of 
small fruit plants, for Fall orSpring planting. 
Send for our price list. It is free. 
BRIDGMAN NURSERY CO., Box 4, Bridgman, Mich. 
CONCORD, CATAWBA. DIAMOND, 
DELAWARE. NIAGARA and WOR- 
UFN. 4f»e. each; $8.7ft dozen; 
„ , Jv? 2 hundred ; 81SO thousand. 
HARRY L, SQUIRKS Good Ground, N. Y. 
GRAPE 
VINES 
Strawberry, Raspberry & Blackberry PL SSLI *So?r 
for Fall planting. Ca talogue free. M. N. borgo. Vineland, a. J. 
For Sale-Home Grown Genuine “Hairy” Vetch 
1921 crop. Address GEO. G0UGHN0UR, R. D. No. 3, Canton, (lido 
SFFn WHEAT Extra Fine and clean. Price #2.»S 
OCCU WflCA I Rusbel, E. O. B. E. S. CONE, Gladstone, N J. 
A choc Vnleaohed, packed inbags.flS 
Mitts per ton F. O. B. Swarthmore. Pa 
TA . IT. LKIDY - Swarthmore, Pa. 
