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151 West 28th St. 
New York City 
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ROSENSTIEL FUR CO. 
MAURICE ROSENSTIEL, Proprietor 
107 West 26th Street - New York 
Wanted: 
Raw Fur Buyer 
We want a country raw fur buyer 
in every county of your state, to 
represent us this season. A big op¬ 
portunity for those accepted. 
Write at once for our proposition. 
Charles S. Porter, Inc. 
126 W. 27th Street, New York City 
We pay highest cash prices for 
all s t a p 1 e furs—Skunk, Mink, 
Muskrat, Raccoon, Red For. 
Fancy furs a speoialty, includ¬ 
ing Silver and Crows Fox, 
Fisher, Marten, etc. Est. 1870. 
Our continued prompt returns and liberal policy are 
now bringing us shipments from all North America, 
Alaska to Mexico. Send for free Price List. Address 
M. J. JEWETT & SONS. REDWOOD, N. V. Dept. 29 
Ship Us All YOUR FURS %£ 
with the Leading Raw Fur Hmi.se of Vermont. Write 
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Everbearing Raspberries 
In growing the everbearing raspberry, 
will the same cane or plant which bears 
fruit in the Fall bear fruit again the fol¬ 
lowing Spring, or the Spring-bearing cane 
bear again the following Fall? d. n. c. 
Vineland, N. J. 
Yes, but when the first crop of the 
current season is off, the old cane dies, 
and the subsequent or Fall crop is borne 
on the new canes or suckers fom the roots 
of the old clump. This new growth, 
which has borne the Fad crop, should be 
pruned the following Winter or early 
Spring in the same manner as the single- 
cropping varieties, and at the same time 
cut all old and dead wood, which should 
he burned, to destroy eggs and lame of 
insects that use such wood as a depository 
and harboring place for their eggs and 
offspring. k. 
Pruning and Propagating Wistaria 
IIow should I trim a Wistaria vine, 
and how can I start a new one? Ours 
is (beginning to be a wilderness. 
Williamson, N. Y. j. p. o. 
For picturesque effect the Wistaria 
should receive as little pruning or train¬ 
ing as possible, but to cover a space 
solidly, or to produce a mass of bloom, 
outside branches should be trained where 
desired, and the vines pruned back to 
spurs each year. The Spring crop of 
flowers is borne on .spurs, while a smaller 
crop of late flowers is borne on terminal 
shoots of the season. The easiest method 
of propagation for the amateur is hiver¬ 
ing in Summer; the ripe wood roots 
readily and the new plant may be de¬ 
tached the following Spring. To root in 
this way. bend a branch down on the 
ground, cutting a slight “heel” in the 
outer hark in the place where you wish 
to root it. Peg it down here, and put it 
little earth over the place pegged down. 
In the Spring you can cut off the tip of 
the branch with the rf s attached, and 
plant like a new specimen. If your Wis¬ 
taria has grown into a wilderness, you 
may find some self-layered branches lying 
on the ground, which vou could detach 
next Spring. 
Garden Compost 
1. I wish to prepare compost for pot¬ 
ting flowers, mushrooms, etc. Two years 
ago I moved to the place I am living «.n 
now (my old home). The lawn was in 
very poor condition. I disked it up at 
times all through the season, each time 
raking off the roots, etc. I put it under 
cover in a heap. I should judge I have 
one-half or three-fourths of a t<>u. I have 
mixed 100 lbs. of ground fish scrap, 100 
lbs. ground bonemeal, 50 lbs. acid phos¬ 
phate (18 per cent), with this heap, and 
have poured on about a barrel of liquid 
cow manure and have turned it over 
three or four times. It is not thorougnly 
decayed yet. Would it be best to mix dirt 
or sand with it now? If so, how much? 
I would like to use it in about four 
months. I expect, to build a small con¬ 
servatory and use it there. 2. I have also 
a heap of rakings from wood pile, for the 
last 2.1 years. This was screened out and 
nothing but fine dirt and rotten wood 
left. Do you think it advisable to mix 
that with the other? ,°». Can you give me 
analysis of liquid horse and cow ma¬ 
nure? 4. I have started an asparagus 
bed (planted in Spring), about 12 iu. 
deep, and have the trenches filled now to 
within 4 in. of the top. Would it be ad¬ 
visable to fill in the balance (4 in.) with 
sand? J have mixed in the dirt in the 
trench 50 lbs. ground bonemeal. 50 lbs. 
ground fish scrap and 50 lbs. acid phos¬ 
phate. How much potash, if any, do I 
need to put in about 75-ft. row? N. D. 
Orient, N. Y. 
1. The combination mentioned by N. 
D. is an entirely new one to me, anil the 
only suggestion I could intelligently make 
would be that he experiment with the rak¬ 
ings mixture in this manner. The pile of 
material sounds pretty concentrated for 
growing flowers or vegetables, and I 
should mix a portion of it with some soil 
and pot up some plants in it and see just 
what growth they make before using it 
too strong on a large lot of plants. I 
should think you will want at least three 
parts good loam to one portion of the 
compost. 
2. I have never had any experience 
with rotten wood. I am inclined to think 
it would be very acid, and will require a 
liberal application of lime to make it of 
any value for the overage crop. Rhodo¬ 
dendron, laurel or kindred plants that are 
easily naturalized in acid soil should grow 
very easily in this soil. I would not mix 
it with the first lot, except a small portiou 
for experimental purposes. 
8. There is very little difference be¬ 
tween the analysis of the urine of the 
horse and cow. The latter averages: 
Nitrogen, .80 to 1.20 per cent, just a 
trace of phosphoric acid, and 1 to 1.50 
per cent potash. Horse: Nitrogen, 1.20 
to 1.50 per cent; trace phosphoric acid; 
potash. 1 to 1.50 per cent. 
4. The asparagus row could he leveled 
off in the Spring when it is cultivated to 
kill weeds. Refore the first growth ap¬ 
pears above the ground the addition of 
as much muriate of potash as of bone- 
meal will make a well-grounded fertilizer 
application. Some growers use salt rath¬ 
er freely each season, while others claim 
it is of no material benefit aside from 
killing some of the weeds. e. j. w. 
Economical Equipment 
Forty years ago the management of the Bell Telephone 
System organized for a supply of the apparatus which it foresaw 
would be required in the development of its new industry— 
telephone service. 
The telephone in some countries is the luxury of the rich, 
but in America it is used by practically all the people. This 
universal service is due in large measure to foresight in engineer¬ 
ing and manufacture. 
Switchboards with millions of parts, other apparatus of high¬ 
est efficiency, and all necessarily of complex and intricate design, 
cables and wires and a multitude of technical devices enable 
our country to lead the world in telephone service. 
All this telephone equipment is made in a factory which is 
recognized throughout the world as having the largest produc¬ 
tion and the highest standards of workmanship and efficiency. 
This factory, controlled through stock ownership by the 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, has been for 
forty years the manufacturing department of the Bell System; 
with the result that the associated companies secure equipment 
of the highest development, made of the best materials, produced 
in accordance with the requirements of the public, and with the 
certainty of moderate costs. 
Economy in the Bell System begins with the manufacture of 
equipment. 
\Bell System* 
American telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associatedi Companies 
One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed 
toward Better Service 
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T HERE’S big money in raw furs for you this season. We 
want all the furs you can get and we want 'em quick. 
We are paying extremely high prices—NOW—for Muskrat, 
Skunk, Mink, Raccoon, Opossum, Foxes and all other kinds 
of furs, so get after the fur-bearers in your neighborhood 
and just as fast as you get them ship 'em direct to 
SHUBERT 
an honest, reliable, responsible, safe fur house. For more 
than thirty-eight years we have been satisfying fur shippers 
all over North America and we can satisfy you too. Whether 
you ship only one skin or a large collection, you’ll get the 
6Btne square deal. Each and every skin will be graded care* 
fully and correctly by an expert — you will be paid the 
highest market priees and you will get your returns in a 
hurry. You take no risk whatever—“THE SHUBERT 
GUARANTEE“protectB you absolutely. 
Don't delay—ship now while prices are high. 
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We aruarantee roa will he 
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or we will ehip back four 
Every trapper knows that the place to 1 
set highest prices is where they have >—- 
experts assorting and grading. The fact that I grade every skin 
personally assures you of getting every cent your catch is 
worth. Don’t take my word for it. but ship a small lot at first and 
be convinced. You take no risk, for my iron clad guarantee 
protects you. 
ppre My new price list contains ap-to-the-minnte quotations. Send for 
1 IVLL a copy now, before you forget. A postal card will do. 
Sol AVarenoff Co Iitc. 
155 W25 T "S1i 
NEW YORK CITY 
