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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Are you stepping on the brake 
or the accelerator? 
The food you eat does make a difference. 
Heavy, starchy foods often do slow down 
body and mind—often steal the energy that be¬ 
longs to the day’s work. Grape-Nuts is a go- 
ahead food. It contains the perfected nourishment 
of Nature’s best grains. It includes all those 
elements needed to nourish body and brain. It 
is easy to digest. It gives energy without taking 
energy. 
How about your breakfast or lunch—does 
it give , or take ? 
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the taste, and is an ideal source of power for a 
busy and difficult day. 
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MALONEY TREES 
Fruit and Ornamentals, Vines. Shrubs, 
for fall planting, selected from the 
choicest stock grown in our 400-aere 
nurseries. Direct to you at cost plus 
one profit only. Hardy, fresh dug. 
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Barnes’ Fruit Trees 
Are Northern Grown 
Barnes' Trees are hardy, rrorn to thrive 
in severe Northern climates. They 
include standard varieties of Apples, 
Peaches. Plums and Cherries, also Small 
Fruits. We especially recommend Barnes' 
one-year-old Apple Trees. They stand 
transplanting remarkably well and make 
rapid growth. 
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nurserymen with long-established repu¬ 
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Grain Drills 
54 Con s ™« H 150-Acre Dairy & Fruit Farm 
$15,000 from retail milk route yearly: $.1.0(0 from 
fruit in 1920; 12-room modern residence; cottage 
house for foreman; up-to-date barn: silo; foil equip¬ 
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Catalogs free. HARRY L. SQUIRES, Good Ground, New York 
The ONTARIO Red Raspberry 
is tlie most valuable fruit ever produced by the 
hand of mail. Illustrated Plant circular free. 
A. 11. KATKAMIEK . Macedon, N.Y. 
Asparagus and Rhubarb 
Quote prices ami send samples. 
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PF ANTQ AND BULBS for fail planting. 
rLrtn lo TULIP. HYACOTH NARCISSUS, 
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WILLIAM and other Hardy Perennial flower plants. 
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Large 
Wanted 
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GrapeVines 
Concord No. 1. S6 per 100 ; $50 per 
1.000. Write for small fruit price 
list. RtNStIM FARM. »:,n»va. Ohio 
Strawberry 
PLANTS fo: fall setting. ?5e per 100 post¬ 
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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. NURSERIES, 1160 Main St., Dansville, N. Y. 
pose. Some farmers add to their income 
by forcing a limited number of roots 
in tlieir cellars. There is always a good 
sale for rhubarb in Winter, and it is 
easy to keep it coming along, provided 
one has a large enough plantation from 
which to draw clumps. Of course, when 
rhubarb is forced commercially it is nec¬ 
essary to keep starting new beds outside. 
Forced Asparagus. —One private gar- 
' dener told me some time ago that he had 
asparagus practically all the year round, 
forcing it in the cellar when he was not 
growing it out-of-doors. It isn’t neces¬ 
sary to freeze asparagus roots, which may 
be dug up at any time in the Fall and 
set in boxes of earth. If they are well 
watered and kept in a warm place they 
i will soon throw up edible stalks. There 
is no need for keeping them dark. Some¬ 
times asparagus is forced commercially 
in greenhouses on raised beds with steam 
pipes underneath, but the plan doesn’t 
seem to be very profitable. The garden 
maker who seeks to have asparagus out 
of season must of course keep starting 
new beds, so that there will be a steady 
supply each year. 
French Endive. —When witloof chic¬ 
ory is purchased in restaurants under the 
November 12, 1921 
son says that the best varieties of lettuce 
for Fall heading are Big Boston and 
California Cream Butter. He recommends 
May King and Black Seeded Tennis Ball 
for Spring, with Hanson. Deacon and 
Iceberg as Summer varieties. As every 
backyard gardener knows, it is difficult, to 
get any kind of lettuce to head in hot 
weather. In fact, it is impossible to get 
good results in Summer uuless the let¬ 
tuce can be given an abundance of water. 
It must have pretty rich ground, too, and 
a little shade is beneficial. After all. 
there is no special advantage in having 
head lettuce except as a matter of ap¬ 
pearance in preparing a salad. The ten¬ 
der young leaves are just as appetizing, 
and across the water are greatly prized 
by professional cooks. Certainly these 
young leaves make much better eating 
than a head which has made such slow 
growth that it is tough and bitter. There 
was sweet corn in great abundance this 
year, no serious setback to the crop hav¬ 
ing been made, apparently, by the corn 
worm, although the pest is much iu evi¬ 
dence and spoils the appearance of a good 
many ears. 
- Greens for Poultry. —Many amateur 
gardeners are also poultry-keepers. The 
gardeu. if properly managed, will help to 
keep the fowls in green stuff. Early cab¬ 
bages are especially valuable iu this re- 
.1 Convenient Small Greenhouse. Fig. 565 
name of French endive it is rather ex¬ 
pensive. but it is easy enough to grow 
from seed in the home garden, and the 
roots may be forced the same season. 
W itloof chicory looks very much like the 
cornmou chicory of the roadside, hut pro¬ 
duces much larger roots. You can't get 
very satisfactory results if you try forc¬ 
ing the common chicory. If you have not 
raised the witloof variety you cau pur¬ 
chase a few roots and see how you like 
the product. To force them, simply plant 
them in boxes of earth and keep them in 
a warm place near the furnace in the 
cellar, or even behind the stove in the 
kitchen. If the roots are very long cut 
off a few inches. The way to get com¬ 
pact solid heads is to cover the earth in 
which the roots have been planted with 
4 or 5 in. of sand. The chicory will 
grow right up through the sand, and 
shortly after it appears will be ready for 
cutting. This cutting should be done, of 
course, under the sand, hut far enough 
above the top of the rootstock so that a 
second growth can ho made. Sometimes 
three cuttings can he obtained from one 
root. In order to have the chicory 
blanched second boxes with holes for ven¬ 
tilation are often inverted over those con¬ 
taining tlie roots. This chicory grows 
very fast, and a cutting can usually be 
obtained in three or four weeks, it is 
not often realized that^the common dan¬ 
delion can be forced in the cellar during 
the Winter, hut it makes a very good 
salad plant. The plants should be dug 
up, roots and all. before the ground 
freezes, and 2 in. of the tops cut off. The 
roots can be set in a little good garden 
soil ou the cellar bottom, perhaps with 
a hoard iu front to hold it in place. It 
is best when grown iu the dark, for the 
tops are theu almost white. 
Greenhouses for Farmers. —There’s 
a place on many farms for small green¬ 
houses. They need not necessarily be 
heated houses, either, for hot manure can 
he used to make up beds which can be 
started early in the year. One produc¬ 
tive greenhouse which I have seen is 
sunk about three feet into the ground 
and lias cement walls. The roof with its 
double slope is covered with hotbed sash 
running in grooves and easily removed. 
Such a house is practically an enclosed 
lsothcd. It is much easier to handle than 
a series of liotheds. and is admirably 
adapted for the starting of cabbages, caul¬ 
iflowers. tomatoes and other plants of 
this kind, which have a ready sale in the 
Spring. 
Various Vegetables. — After the 
onions have been pulled they should be 
left ou tlie ground for several days until 
they are well dried, uuless the weather is 
wet. in which event they should he re¬ 
moved to the barn aud spread ou the floor. 
It is well to remember that the earliest 
onions are not very good keepers, so they 
should he eaten first. The very early 
onions can be hung up in a dry. oool 
place for a few days, when they should 
be ready for the table. Most of the white 
varieties are the quickest to spoil. The 
red onions are the best keepers, and the 
yellow varieties next. Prof. H, F. Tomp- 
spect if they are not pulled by the roots 
when harvested. If the center is cut out 
and a few outside leaves allowed to re¬ 
main each cabbage stock will soou make 
another lot of growth which the poultry 
will enjoy. As a matter of fact, these 
young cabbage leaves are excellent for 
the table. Some epicures even break 
down forming heads of cabbages iu order 
to force out a lot of young leaves. 
Dividing Hardy Plants. —Fall is the 
time of year f. .• dividing several kinds of 
hardy flowers, particularly the peonies 
and the Iris. It is much better to set 
out new peonies then than in the Spring, 
and old clumps should ho split up before 
the middle of October. Peony clumps 
are rather tenacious, and not easily di¬ 
vided with a knife. The best plan to use 
is to take two garden forks and drive 
them into the roots, back to hack. If the 
handles are theu pushed in opposite di¬ 
rections the roots will he easily wrenched 
apart. Don’t plant your peonies in large 
clumps Two or three crowns are plenty, 
and should be sot at least two inches be¬ 
low the surface, the soil being firmed 
carefully around the roots. Don’t use 
any fresh manure when setting out 
peonies. The German Iris, sometimes 
Dividing a Clump of Iris. Fig. 566 
called the poor man’s orchid, is a differ¬ 
ent kind of plant. The roots are easily 
pulled apart with the hands, and should 
be divided every three or four years. It 
is bi tter to plant single crowns than large 
clumps, and the crowns should be barely 
covered with earth. While it isn’t neces¬ 
sary to set out Phlox in the Fall, the 
work will be done to the best advantage 
at this season. Phlox is easily grown 
from seed. bur. this seed should invariably 
he sown in the Fall, as it quickly loses 
its power of germiuatiou. The only safe 
months for planting Oriental poppies are 
August and September. If you already 
have some of these poppies they cau he 
increased by cuttiug up the roots into 
small pieces and planting them where 
they are to grow. L farrlngion. 
