The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Said 
the 
Farmer: 
Brown’s 
Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.. 
Beach Jacket 
“It is just what I have been looking for 
for the last five years. I am out in the 
cold a great deal and have hard work to 
keep warm.” 
It is as warm as an overcoat, cheaper 
than a good sweater, wears like iron and 
can be washed. It comes coat without collar, 
coat with collar, and vest. 
ASK YOUR DEALER 
BROWN’S BEACH JACKET COMPANY 
e Worcester, Massachusetts J 
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ion PAGES of m 
A OO usefulness 
for every farmer. Vest pocket size, bound 
in flexible leatherette cover. Has pages 
for cash accounts, crop, livestock, in¬ 
surance and bond records, postal rates, 
interest tables, calendars, fencing charts, 
manufacturing processes and other 
valuable information. 
• A book of genuine service and value 
to farmers. Sent postpaid for 10 cents, 
coin or stamps, to help cover its cost. 
We send you also, free, our Catalogue 
No. 216 upon “Pittsburgh Perfect” Fenc¬ 
ing for farm, poultry, garden and lawn 
purposes, a perfected, guaranteed fencing. 
Pittsburgh Steel Company 
720 Union Arcade, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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THE HOPE FARM BOOK 
^ This attractive 234-page book has some of the ^ 
best of the Hope Farm Man’s popular sketches 
— philosophy, humor, and sympathetic 
human touch. Price $1.50. 
For Sale by 
Rural New-Yorker, 335 W. 30th St., NewlYork 
Notes from a Maryland Garden t 
Some years ago Mr. Memory, in South¬ 
eastern North Carolina, sent me two 
vines of the Memory grape raised by his | 
father. This grape is a black grape of the 
same race as scuppernong. Vitis vulpine. 
One of the vines died. The other one has 
grown finely. It is probably the latest of 
the family,-for it is only fairly colored 
the last of September, and Avill take a 
week longer to get fully ripe. This family 
of grapes is well suited to the flat sandy 
soils of the coast region ; in fact, they do 
not thrive their best in a clay soil. The 
scuppernong ripens here earlier, and we 
are on about the northern limit of their 
success. The scuppernong is the best 
wine grape in this country, is sweet 
enough to make a very light wine with¬ 
out sugar. In fact, the pure scuppernong 
juice would, when fermented, come near 
passing the half per cent of alcohol. 
We are still in the grip of the drought. 
We have had no rain to do any good 
since the third of August, now about two 
months. The weather man has been pre¬ 
dicting rain nearly every day for some 
time, and yet when any at all falls it is 
only enough to fail to lay the dust. My 
Irish potatoes have great green tops, but 
no potatoes. Even the late tomatoes 
from seed sown in June are about played 
out and there is little prospect of any 
late green ones to wrap up and store. I 
have sown lettuce seed three times and 
have not a plant even under the irriga¬ 
tion pipe. The second sowing of spinach 
came up in spots, though the plot was 
well watered. I will give the late cab¬ 
bages a dressing of nitrate of soda to 
push them along; do not want them to 
head before November, and they now 
seem to have come to a standstill, and I 
fear will be making small heads. As the 
editor has said, the use of the nitrate will 
not and is not intended to hasten the ma¬ 
turity of the plants, but to stimulate 
growth and to make better and later heads 
of cabbage. 
I have been well acquainted with the 
fact that Dahlias should not be planted 
in heavily manured soil, but this season 
I planted a row between the peonies, and 
though they were staked and tied, the 
stakes were entirely insufficient, for the 
plants grew over six feet tall and fell 
over on the ground. Nothing but a G-ft. 
stake would have held them. Hereafter 
the Dahlias will go into poorer soil. The 
old small-flowered Cannas have become a 
weed in my garden. I grow some of them 
every year because of finer foliage than 
the improved sorts, and they make seed 
when not constantly cut out and a hirefl 
man will hoe around every plant, so that 
I soon have Cannas where none is want¬ 
ed. It is a curious fact that these old- 
fashioned Cannas have grown as lux¬ 
uriantly as though there had been plenty 
of rain, while the large-flowered varieties 
are badly stunted. A large bed of King 
Humbert is hardly 2 ft. high the last of 
September, while the old-fashioned Can¬ 
nas that were left out in the ground last 
Winter are over 6 ft. tall. Most of them 
will be left out the coming Winter, and 
if killed will not be missed, as they are 
getting too numerous. I have learned 
this, that when a seedling Canna starts 
off with a luxuriant growth and great 
foliage, it would better be pulled up and 
thrown away, for it is not going to make 
fine flowers. 
After the late peas were off the wire 
fence I planted Crease Back beans. They 
have tried bravely to grow and make 
beans, but have succeeded only in a very 
partial manner. With good weather con¬ 
ditions we have plenty of time to make a 
full crop of the Crease Backs. The egg¬ 
plants feel like rubber balls and hardly 
swell to half size before getting too old 
for use. This season will here go into 
history as the driest ever known in this 
section. w. F. massey. 
You remember the story 
of the Pitcher— 
It made a good many trips to the well and it 
came back in good order. 
“I can take care of myself,” it said—“they 
don’t need to talk about risks to me.” 
But it went once too often. 
After that it was only part of a pitcher, and 
they didn’t need to talk to it about risks—it knew. 
A lot of people won’t believe coffee can harm 
them until it does harm them. 
“Nonsense!” they say, “it never disturbs me.” 
When it does disturb them, then they know. 
Often the disturbance which they then recog¬ 
nize is the result of irritations to nerves and di¬ 
gestion which have been going on for a long time. 
If you have to lie awake at night and count 
the clock ticks, after an evening cup of coffee, then 
you know that it’s better to he safe than sorry. 
The risk of coffee's harm is gone when the 
meal-time drink is Postum. 
Here’s a delightful and satisfying table bev¬ 
erage, with charm for the taste and without harm 
for nerves or digestion. You know you’re on the 
right road with Postum; there’s never the pos¬ 
sibility that you’ll go once too often. 
Postum comes in two forms: Instant Postum (in tins) 
made instantly in the cup by the addition of boiling water. 
Postum Cereal (in packages of larger bulk, for those who 
prefer to make the drink while the meal is being prepared) 
made by boiling for 20 minutes. 
“There’s a Reason” 
for Postum 
Made by Postum Cereal Company, Inc., Battle Creek, Mich. 
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THE JOSEPH 8C FEISS CO., 2163 West 53rd Street, Cleveland, O. 
A number of local G. A. Yets, were 
having a reunion and were entertaining 
brother members from a neighboring 
State. Some of the visiting A r ets. protest¬ 
ed against certain proposed legislation by 
the State Assembly. One of the speakers 
became so vehement in his remarks and 
painted the situation so despairingly that 
an earnest auditor, overwhelmed by the 
oratory, jumped to his feet and cried ex¬ 
citedly : “Comrades, is it possible that we 
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THE JOSEPH SC FEISS CO., 2163 W. 53rd St., Cleveland, O. 
Please send me, without obligation, folder containing actual awatch of the new Clothcraft Overcoat, 
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