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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 29, 1921 
Shingles Must be 
Tapered 
The taper makes the shingle snuggle down to the roof 
and leaves no place for wind to catch or moisture to 
gather. Without the taper shingles will curl and 
warp, collect snow and moisture and soon rot, spoiling 
your roof. Insist on the taper when you buy roofing. 
Winthrop Tapered Asphalt Shingles are the only 
asphalt shingles that are tapered. The high quality 
materials and the taper make these shingles last as 
long as the building. Lay Winthrops. They are fully 
guaranteed. 
Get Your Free Sample 
of these popular shingles and the 
book, “ Shelter, the Second Instinct 
of Man.” Send the coupon, today, 
for free book and sample. 
Besides Winthrops we make a full 
line of high grade roofing. Look 
for the Indian Brand trade mark. 
Lockport Paper Co., Dept. No.4 
Lockport, New York 
,-COUPON---- 
LOCKPORT PAPER COMPANY, DEPT. No. 4 
LOCKPORT, NEW YORK 
■ Please send me a sample Winthrop and a copy of “.Shelter, the Second 
Instinct of Man.” I am thinking of roofing: 
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Place Your Order This Fall 
Although we have our usual fine assortment of high 
grade fruit trees to offer for Fall delivery, the demand 
is exceptionally strong and 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 our guarantee is your 
protection. We offer you a big money saving and 
reliable stock. 
Send for Fall, 1921 Price List 
KELLY BROS. 
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NURSERIES, 
1 160 Main St., Dansville, N. Y. 
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Have you ever used 
MECHLING’S 
SCALE OIL? 
THOUSANDS of fruit 
growers have used it dur¬ 
ing the past decade. 
We have yet to hear of one 
who does not consider it the 
best oil he has ever used. 
We have had expert chemists 
working with our most suc¬ 
cessful fruit growers until we 
have produced an oil that is 
just what the fruit needs. It is 
mechanically perfect—MIXES 
EASILY-STAYS IN EM¬ 
ULSION INDEFINITELY— 
COVERS FREELY ON 
TREE. 
Scale Oil Makes Healthy Trees 
If your dealer does not handle our line 
write us direct. 
MECHL1NG BROS. MF’G CO. 
Camden, N. J. 
Philadelphia, Pa, Boston, Mass. 
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 fine lot of one and two-year-old 
Apple Trees ready for immediate plant¬ 
ing. Also standard varieties of Pears, 
Peaches, Plums and Cherries. 
Write for FREE Nursery Book today. 
Lighten the spring rush—get your plant¬ 
ing done this fall. 
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Box 8 
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URSERY CC 
Yalesville. Conn. 
MALONEY TREES 
Fruit and Ornamentals, Vines, Shrubs, 
for fall planting, selected from the 
choicest stock grown in our 400-acre 
nurseries. Direct to you at cost plus 
one profit only. Hardy, fresh dug, 
healthy, true to name—Write for free des¬ 
criptive catalog- giving valuable information 
about nursery stock. Wo prepay transpor¬ 
tation charges on all orders over $7.60. 
Maloney Bros. & Wells Co., 38 Bank St., Dansville, N. V. 
Dansville'a Pioneer Nurseries 
BERRY and HARDY Y fa K A si" Vk ui:y rR A fi LAr K- 
ci nu/rp pi AIITC lurry, dewberry, goose- 
rLUTVCIf rLHH I 0 BERHY, CURRANT, GRAPE, 
ASPARAGUS, RHUBARB. HORSERADISH, HOLLY¬ 
HOCK. DELPHINIUM, COLUMBINE, CANTERBURY 
BELLS. FOXGLOVE, HIBISCUS, SWEET WILLIAM, 
SHASTA DAISY, PANSY PLANTS; ROSES. SHRUBS. 
Catalogue free. HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, New York 
$135.00 FOR BEST NUTS 
BEECHNUTS, BLACK WALNUTS BUTTERNUTS. CHESTNUTS, 
ENGLISH WALNUTS, HAZELNUTS, HICKORYNUTS JAPAN 
WALNUTS. PECANS. Full information from WILLARD G. 
BtXBY, Tre*«- Northern Nut Growers Assn., Baldwin, Nesssu Co.. N V. 
CTrwurKarru PLANTS for fall setting, 75c per 100 post- 
uTraWDBrry paid. David Rodway, llartlj , Delaware 
GrapeVines 
Concord No. 1, $6 per 100 ; $50 per 
1,000. Write for small fruit price 
list. RANSOM FARM, Geneva. Ohio 
The ONTARIO Red Raspberry 
is the most valuable fruit ever produced by the 
hand of man. Illustrated Plant circular free. 
A. B. EATKAMIER - Macedon, N. Y. 
i good .spoilers. At 4 p. m. the survivors 
had dwindled to the four prize-winners 
J shown in the picture. 
After the contest had narrowed to the 
four winners two hours were necessary, 
j on the next day, to decide places, the 
I youngsters taking the hurdles of jaw- 
; breaking words without a quiver and 
| spelling them as nonchalantly as the air¬ 
man out-of-doors was hurdling above 
them in the air. 
Most business men will admit that it. is 
an unusually well-educated person who 
can write even the simplest business let¬ 
ters without misspelling some perhaps 
very ordinary word in it. Then all honor 
to the winners of the State Fair spelling 
contests, and surely success will attend 
their after efforts in life if they will apply 
themselves as diligently as they have to 
the mastering of the art of spelling. 
It is of interest to note that this year 
was the tenth anniversary of the first 
State, spelling bee. held in 1911. The 
occasion was suitably observed by a ban¬ 
quet and reunion of those who attended 
the first contest. Raymond A. Pearson was 
then Commissioner of Agriculture, and 
was prominent in forwarding the plan. 
He was invited to attend the reunion this 
year as one of the main speakers. It was 
an inspiring occasion. Many of the boys 
and girls of that first contest are now 
farmers, farm managers, Farm Bureau 
agents and other important factors in the 
rural life of the nation. 
The prize winners of 1921 are: First, 
$20 in gold. Virginia Cook, 14 years old, 
New Rochelle; second, $15 in gold. Ster¬ 
ling Hills, East Aurora, Erie County; 
third. $10 in gold. Charles B. Newton, 
Xorthport. Long Island; fourth, $5 in 
gold, Lucile Minkow, New York City. 
Dr. Graves, speaking before the Grange 
at the fair, and referring to the spelling 
bee, said it was the finest tribute to New 
York State's educational system that 
could be devised. 
“You know how hard the English lan¬ 
guage is to spell,” he said. “It is a mix¬ 
ture of many tongues, and the selection 
with respect to the nation is about the 
same. We are a nation of mixed races. 
And yet, thanks to our public schools, we 
are turning out pretty good Americans 
from our raw material.” 
Dr. Graves emphasized the need of 
finding a way to give every farmer boy 
a high school education. How to do it, 
he said, he did not know. A large school 
unit so that the burden can be better 
equalized is a necessity. He declared the 
country boy to be the backbone of the 
nation, whether he stay* in the country 
or goes to the city, and he must not, he 
believes, be deprived of his birthright of 
advanced education. state fair patron. 
Teeth and Health 
TThis is the second of a series o* talks with men and women who have 
studied or practiced some particular subject until they have become experts at 
it. The first article discussed the milk diet, and was printed on page 980.] 
The book “Teeth and Health,” by Dr. less the lime is freely supplied to the body 
Thomas .T. Ryan and Dr. E. F. Bowers, it will be drawn from the teeth and bones, 
will startle many readers who appear to This weakens the structure until finally 
think that if the teeth are kept well the enamel cracks and breaks down, per- 
cleaned and reasonably well preserved haps from accidentally biting some small 
little more can be done. The recent in- piece of hone. Then germs enter and be- 
troduction of the X-ray photographs in gin the work of decay. Here then we 
dentistry has given us new notions re- have another great argument for the use 
garding the problem of keeping the poor of milk by children. The milk contains 
old human body in working order. It an abundance of lime, and this satisfies 
has now been demonstrated that many the demand made by the sugar, so that 
cases of rheumatism, defective heart ac- the teeth and bones are not injured, 
tion. headache, loss of vigor, kidney Thus we see why some children really 
trouble and other diseases are due to seem to grow puny and weak-boned when 
defective teeth. Many a tooth which from they consume large quantities of candy, 
the outside may seem quite sound or well The sugar is eating up the soluble lime, 
filled may carry an abscess at the root and no new supply is being provided. A 
which is slowly filling the system with quart of milk every day would correct 
poison. In fact, it is true that the teeth this trouble and cure the child by pre¬ 
represent the starting point of many venting this loss to its teeth and bones, 
diseases. The greatest enemy of the modern 
Dr. Ryan says that good teeth are not tooth is pyorrhoea. That word has howled 
“hereditary” in the sense that red hair over many an aspirant for spelling bee 
or a long chin would be so considered, honors, while the disease has taken many 
They are the result of eating good food million teeth from human jaws. In fact, 
which may supply the needed lime and in its injury to health and its annoyance 
mineral salts. It is true, however, that to mankind, pyorrhoea should be ranked 
if the parents and grandparents have not with the six great diseases which afflict 
been well nourished the child may suffer mankind. It is an inflammation of the 
for this lack of proper food—in his teeth, gums and tooth cavities. It develops pus, 
Long before the child is born the little leads to decay, and finally to loosening 
teeth are developed. Hence it is of the and loss of teeth. Dr. Ryan says that 90 
utmost importance that the mother should out of every 100 people will have this dis- 
be well nourished with food that will sup- ease, or condition, which, if not treated. 
Ply an abundance of lime and other will lead to it. It is found even among 
minerals. And after it is born and savages. It may be caused by poor nil- 
while it is growing the child should have trition, an injury or wound, or cases 
all it needs of these minerals. That is where the teeth do not meet properly in 
one great reason for giving the child and chewing. We venture to say that many 
its mother a full supply of milk, for in of our readers know all about the prog- 
addition to its food value, milk contains ress of this disease from the first bleeding 
more digestible lime than any other food, gums to the last stage, when the teeth bo¬ 
lt is commonly supposed that the col- come so loose that they may actually be 
ored people as a rule have superior teeth, pulled out with the fingers. Few, how- 
On the limestone lands of the South we ever, realize how this disease and other 
have seen negroes with dazzling white somewhat similar conditions mav lead to 
teeth, yet they seemed in their habits of trouble in all parts of the body. There 
life to upset all scientific and sanitary is one case on record where it is estimat- 
laws. They lived mostly on fat meat, ed that one human mouth contained 
corn bread, molasses, sweet potatoes and 3,000.000.000 bacteria. As Dr. Ryan 
cow peas, all these foods being deficient says, it would not matter much whether 
in lime. As for “sanitary” conditions, the food entering that mouth was pure or 
the mouth was probably never cleaned not. Along with pyorrhoea is usually a 
except now and then in Spring, when the growth of tartar on* the teeth. This is a 
colored people seem to scrub their teeth combination of certain mouth secretions 
with sassafras roots. mixed with mineral or organic substances 
Dr. Ryan says that so far as he can from the food. A rinsing of the mouth 
see the colored people have no better teeth with soda, salt or milk of magnesia will 
than others. The contrast in color be- help prevent this. Biting and chewing 
tween their teeth and their dark skin raw apples will help, both mechanically 
may make the teeth seem better than and through the fruit acids. The tartar, 
they really are. Dr. Ryan says'that some once formed, must be scraped or chiseled 
of the very worst teeth he has ever seen off, or it will cause recession of the gums 
were in the mouths of colored children, and loose teeth. As for pyorrhoea, a full 
He says that in the limestone sections the use of both brush and some of the tooth 
teeth and bones are supplied with lime powders or pastes will often hold it in 
through the drinking water. This may check, but if the attack is severe the pa- 
correct the errors of diet in supplying tient should see a good dentist at once, 
lime—but no matter what fine teeth the Dr. Ryan says that the habit of chew- 
baby's ancestors may have had, unless the ing gum is. on the whole, good exercise 
little one can have a full supply of lime for the teeth. It is also suggested in 
and other minerals in his food his teeth some cases of deafness, where massage of 
will be inferior. _ the ears is needed. 
Dr. Ryan says that people who live in Dr. Ryan cites many cases to show 
dairy countries or section where milk and how neglected teeth cause trouble to any 
its products are freely consumed usually organ in the body. It seems strange to 
have fine teeth. Their preservation, of speak of curing rheumatism by extracting 
course, will depend upon the care they re- teeth, but it has actually been aceom- 
ceive, but naturally a diet containing con- plished. There are cases where teeth 
siderable milk will surely develop sound seem sound, or where they are apparently 
teeth. well filled, yet an X-ray photograph will 
There has always been much discussion show a condition of the roots which is 
as to the effect of sugar or candy upon slowly killing the patient. Eye trouble, 
the teeth of children. The usual opinion bad heart action, kidney disease—many 
seems to be that sugar acts directly in other ailments have been relieved in this 
the destruction of teeth—operating much way. We could hardly believe some of 
like an acid on metals. Dr. Ryan shows these statements if there had not been a 
that sugar does not in itself destroy tooth case in our own family. This man suf- 
enamel. He says that sound teeth may fered from various troubles which none of 
be immersed in sugars and fruit acid for the doctors could quite locate. His teeth 
months without injury. What the sugar seemed sound, but on going to a dentist 
does is to extract lime from the teeth and an X-ray revealed a fearful condition of 
bones. There is such a strong “selective the jaw. Abscesses had formed at the 
affinity” between sugar and lime that un- (Continued on page 1288) 
