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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 19, 1924 
arnes 
Fruit 
Grown in New England 
A third of a century’s experience has 
taught us to grow Fruit Trees especially 
adapted to the requirements of the North¬ 
eastern States. These Trees are inured to long 
winters and low temperatures. You will be 
delighted with their shapely tops and heayy, 
fibrous root systems. We take great pains 
when packing and budding to keep every 
tree true to name. Many of our men have 
been with us from ten to twenty years; 
they are highly skilled and thoroughly re¬ 
sponsible. 
Barnes* Bargain $1 Post 
Peach Collection 
For only $1 we will send you, postpaid, a complete 
collection of Peach Trees for the home garden. These 
will include: 3 Extra Early; 3 Early; 3 Medium; 3 
Late. Retail at dozen rate, $2.50. These Trees will 
furnish your table with fresh fruit for many weeks, 
provide plenty for canning and a surplus to sell. 
Send a dollar bill or a check today; we will reserve 
the Trees for you now and ship as soon as weather 
permits. 
Write for Free Fruit Book 
Our illustrated Fruit Book describes hardy vari¬ 
eties of Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Cherries and 
Grapes. Also a complete line of money-making 
Small Fruits. Write for your copy today. If inter¬ 
ested in improving the home grounds, ask for our 
Home Planting Book. 
THE BARNES BROTHERS NURSERY CO. 
The Original Barnes Nursery, Established 1890 
Box 8 YALESVILLE, CONN. 
Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Vines, Etc. 
Fresh dug, direct from nursery to you, 
Peach, Apple, Pear, Plum. Cherry, 
Quince, Apricot, Tree6, etc. v ( 
Strawberry, Blackberry, Hasp- I • .up 
berry, Dewberry, Gooseberry, 
Currant, Rhubarb, Asparagus 
plants. Grape vines, etc. Shade Trees, Evergreens, Shrubs, 
Roses, Privet Hedging, etc. SATISFACTION GUARAN¬ 
TEED. Our FREE CATALOG gives prices, descriptions, 
illustrations, and complete planting and culture instruc¬ 
tions. Write today. * . __ 
BUNTING’S NURSERIES, Bex 1, Selbyville, Del. 
FRUIT TREES 
BERRY PLANTS, Ornamental Shrubbery 
3 to4-t't. Apple Trees, U5c; 3-ft. Peach, 20c each, 
postpaid. <Guaranteed to Grow. True to Name. 
Flower and Garden Seeds. Send for 1924 Catalog 
and save money, buying direct from Grower. 
ALLEN S NURSERY & SEED HOUSE Geneva, Ohio 
TREES 
Grow more fruit. Increase your income. Im¬ 
prove your property. Our trees grow. Froe 
catalogue. MITCHELL'S NUKSEHY, Beverly, Ohio 
CARFF’S 
Seed Corn 
t 5000 bushels extra 
_ ’selected and sure to 
grow. 10 leading varieties. Highest 
yielders. Wonderful for ensilage. 
Also Seed Oats, Barley. Alfalfa, 
Timothy, Clover, Rape. 25 years 
experience. 1400 Acre farm. Send 
for samples and free catalogue. 
W.N. SCARFF & SONS 
NEW CARLISLE, OHIO 
Have satisfied thousands of 
growers. Fresh and reliable. No 
better seeds can be obtained. Try our 
5 Choice Vegetables 10c 
I pkt. each postpaid of the following popular 
varieties. Tomato, Early Jewel; lettuce. Big 
Boston; Be«t, Detroit Dark Red; Rad- 
ifh. Scarlet Globe; Carrot, Denver 
Half Long. Guaranteed to please. 
CATALOG FREE 
Contains valuable information on suc¬ 
cessful gardening. Lists all standard 
sorts of vegetable, flower and field seeds. 
HOLMES-LETHERMAN SEED CO. 
Bo* 
CANTON, OtHO. 
Pot-grown rose bushes, on own roots, for 
every one anywhere. Plant any time. 
Old favorites and new and 
rare 6orts, the cream of the 
world’s productions. 
gee Roses” known as tht best 
for 73 years. Safe delivery 
guaranteed anywhere in U.S. 
Write for a copy of 
Our “New fluid® to Rose Culture ’ 
^— for 1924. It’s FREE* 
'illustrates wonderful “Dingee Roses** in 
natural colors. It’s more than a catalog— 
It’s the lifetime experience of the Oldest ana 
Leading Rose Growers in America. A Poetical work on rose 
and flower culture for the amateur. Offers 500 varieties Roses 
and other plants, bulbs and seeds and tells how to arrow 
them. Edition limited. Established 1850. /0 Greenhouses. 
THE DIHGEE & CONflRD GO., Box 195, West Grove, Pa. 
From the Grower to the Sower 
Seeds grown in the north produce earlier crops and better yields than if grown 
further south. This has been proven over and over again. Get seeds you £nou> 
are northern grown. Harris' seeds are raised near the Canadian border and are therefore by far 
the best for the northern states. They are sold direct from the grower to you at wholesale prices. 
We raise Vegetable seeds. Flower seeds and Farm seeds, all of the 
very highest quality 
HARRIS’ EARLIEST PEPPER—The earliest 
large sweet pepper grown. Wonderfully prolific. 
KING OF DENMARK SPINACH —A great 
improvement over all other kinds, as it stands two 
weeks longer before running to seed and yields 
more and is of superior quality. 
HARRIS’ PEDIGREE TOMATOES —Very carefully bred strains of Earliana, Bonny Best, John Baer 
and other kinds that are far superior to the usual strain. 
A REAL TEST—Harris’ seeds are tested to find out how many 
will grow, and the result is marked on the label of each lot we 
sell. When the purchaser gets the seeds he can tell just how 
thick to sow each kind. 
HARRIS’ catalogue, a book of over 100 pages, beau¬ 
tifully illustrated from photographs, is worth asking 
for — that’s all it will cost you. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO., Coldwater, N. Y. 
R. F. D. 11 
Send for FREE Catalogue 
and Buy Direct 
WHIPPLE’S NEW YELLOW SWEET CORN 
—Earlier than Golden Bantam and much larger. 
A money-maker for the market grower. 
WHIPPLE’S EARLY SWEET CORN (White) 
—The largest early variety. Looks like Evergreen 
and matures three weeks earlier. 
Improving a Poor Lawn 
I have recently bought my home, and 
the lawn is very poor. There are places 
with no grass at all. How can I im¬ 
prove this lawn without spending much 
money? B. D. 
Suffern, N. Y. 
It is very doubtful if you can get satis¬ 
factory improvement of this lawn, without 
ireaking it up and reseeding. Now and 
then people tell about scattering grass 
seed over the entire lawn, putting on 
lime and getting a complete “come-back.” 
We have never been able to do that. If 
the greater part of the lawn is in good 
shape, we should spade up those bare 
spots, rake and fine the soil, put on 
enough lime to whiten them, rake it in 
and seed thickly to lawn grass seed. 
Then put on bonemeal and a small 
amount of nitrate of soda. 
Filtering Cider 
WTiat is the best method of filtering 
cider at a custom mill where people bring 
apples and carry away their cider as soon 
as made, daily run from 25 to 50 50-gal. 
casks? J. d. v. 
Rhode Island. 
Evidently you want quick action so 
that the cider will be ready and filtered as 
soon as the last of it is pressed, in order 
not to hold up the customer. In most 
cases the cider is not filtered at all, and, 
unless the parties are very careful, it will 
have more or less pomace in it. We have 
sometimes known of custom mills who 
pumped the cider as fast as made into a 
large cask over the head of which was 
placed a cloth filter, made by fastening 
several thicknesses of cloth on a barrel 
head and placing it over the head of the 
barrel, allowing the cloth to sag down in 
the center. This arrangement will take 
out the bulk of the pomace and by hav¬ 
ing several of these strainers they can 
be kept clean and would probably answer 
every purpose and would cost practically 
nothing. If you want something better 
than this, there are several manufactured 
filters which, while expensive, will do the 
work. 
Notes from the Southern Tier 
This day is the finish of 1923, and I 
will say it has been one of the leanest 
years the southern tier farmer has seen 
in a long time. We had no soaking rains 
in the Spring, and only light showers un¬ 
til about Sept. 1. The only crops that 
received any benefit then were late pota¬ 
toes and Fall-sown grain. Fruit is not 
grown to any extent here. There are a 
few apple orchards in this county that 
are well cared for, and in ordinary sea 
sons they return good crops. The drought 
the past season reduced the size of the 
fruit considerably, and some heavy winds 
we had in September rattled them down 
quite badly. Apples are now selling here 
in the city at from $1 to $2 per bu. Po 
tatoes bring $1 and $1.25 per bu. Dairy 
butter finds a quick sale at 50 to 55c per 
lb.; eggs 60 to 70 per doz. The shops 
and road contractors have paid a price 
for labor that a farmer cannot afford. 
The result is a great number of untilled 
fields. There are some calls for farm 
lands, mostly from Western men, who 
evidently see the advantage of living near 
a good market. We are now entering on 
a new year with faith that we will work 
under more favorable conditions for crop 
production. The average farmer is no 
quitter, and will plant what he can, and 
trust in the Lord for a crop of some kind. 
Farmers who live not too far from the 
city are getting good pay for their time 
during the Winter months in hauling 
wood to market; they get $4.50 for 32 cu. 
ft., or $1S per cord. There were a great 
many Christmas greens brought into the 
city; it is estimated that there were over 
10.000 young pines, hemlock, spruce and 
balsam trees sold in Elmira, which is 
only one of the many cities that have fur¬ 
nished a market for them. It is a shame 
that so many valuable young trees should 
be destroyed for a few hours’ pleasure, 
when we know that the time is coming 
when good timber will be needed. The 
farmers are not wholly to blame for this 
slaughter, as I have seen men go out 
from the city with trucks and load with 
evergreens where they could find them 
near the road, regardless of whom they 
may belong to. A. H. prince. 
Chemung Co., N. Y. 
Massachusetts Fruit 
Growers’Association 
Certifies KELLYTrees 
Our new 1924 Catalog tells how 60,000 
of our large stock of trees have a certified, 
true-to-name seal fastened through a limb to 
stay there until the tree bea.? true-to-name 
fruit as guaranteed by us. 
Our 1925 plans have been made fora still 
larger amount of stock to bear this seal. Kelly 
Trees have been the favorite stock of prom¬ 
inent fruit growers who have 
gained confidence in our 
true-to-name guarantee. 
Orders will be booked 
in order of their receipt as 
long as the stock lasts. Get 
your order in early. 
CAREFUL HANDLING 
44 years’ nursery experi¬ 
ence has taught us the prop¬ 
er method of handling young 
trees so that they reach you 
in perfect condition. 
Send for 1924 Fruit Book 
Our beautiful 1924 fruit book 
is now ready. _ It tells how our 
trees were certified to be true-to- 
eame. Send today for your copy, 
and be sure to get your order in 
early. 
KellyBros.Nurseries 
1160 Main St.. Dansville, N.Y. 
KELLYS’ 
CeAiML&cts 
True to Na me Fruit Trees 
Shrubs.Vines 
For over 45 years 
thousands of growers 
have bought direct 
from Green’s nurse¬ 
ries. They have saved money 
and obtained strong, healthy, 
hardy Northern grown, full- 
rooted stock, true-to-name. 
Thru them, Green has built a 
wonderful reputation for fair 
dealing. 
Apple, peach, pear,plum, quince, 
cherry, nut trees; grape and orna¬ 
mental vines; gooseberry, currant, 
raspberry, blackberry and rose 
bushes; strawberry plants, all 
grown in our own nurseries. 
Offered direct to you at money¬ 
saving prices and guaranteed true- 
to-name. 
Green*s Money-Saving 
64-Page Catalog 
is a textbook of useful, practical in¬ 
formation on fruit culture and the 
care of plants and vines. It lists and 
describes only best growing and 
bearing varieties. With catalog we 
send FREE booklet, “How I Made 
the Old Farm Pay." Write today. 
Green’s Nursery Co. 
613 Green St., Rochester, N. Y. 
from NURSERY to You 
Buy TREES and PLANTS 
With a GUARANTEE 
that really means something 
A guarantee on nursery stock is a 
new idea—a safeguard to make sure of 
what you buy. Woodlawn Nurseries are 
not afraid to guarantee what they sell. 
We grow our own strongly-rooted, vig¬ 
orous-growing, heavy-bearing treesand 
plants and honestly GUARANTEE 
them. The guarantee is plainly printed 
on and is a part of every order blank. 
Our nursery has been celebrated for half a 
century for Fruit, Nut and Ornamental Trees, 
Shrubs, Roses, Bushes, Perennial Plants of 
honest worth. 
We are introducers and have exclusive 
sale of the New Ohio Beauty Apple, a splendid f 
Winter Apple, beautiful in appearance, of de- / 
licious flavor; a splendid shipper and heavy, i 
regular bearer. Also the Dr. Worcester Peach. 
Beautiful, delicious, good shipper and keep¬ 
er. Extra hardy. A most valuable commer¬ 
cial variety. 
We sell to you direct—no commission to 
agents—you get the benefit in lower prices. 
Why take chances when you can get in¬ 
sured stock? Send for complete illustrated 
catalogue and growers guide, telling how 
to obtain best results and best stock at 
best prices. Write to-day, it is FREE. 
WOODLAWN NURSERIES 
857 Garson Avenue 
Rochester, N. Y. 1 «— UMHt'Uwn 
