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February 2, 1924 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
lyrox makes a big 
difference in potato crops 
Ask your dealer for 
the new PYROX 
SPRAY GUIDE. Free 
but worth many 
dollars to you. 
I T has been proved conclusively that 
Pvrox increases yield and lowers pro¬ 
duction cost. Be a good business farmer 
and give yourself this extra profit. 
Pyfox is both a bug killer and a blight 
controller—a perfect blend of deadly 
poison and a fungicide extra high in 
copper content. What’s more, Pyrox in¬ 
vigorates—makes sturdy plants, healthy 
dark-green foliage, longer growing sea¬ 
son, bigger and higher quality tubers. 
Ideal for home gardens. 
Pyrox, a finely milled paste, mixes 
quickly and completely; sprays readily. 
Mist-like under pressure, it covers the 
whole plant. And, it sticks! Jars, cans, 
drums and barrels. 
You can now buy all your spray materials from* 
the complete Bowker Line 
Bowker’s Arsenate of Lead — Dry powdered and paste. 
Bowker’s Calcide— HighgTade calcium arsenate ; quick-acting. 
Bowker’s Bodo—A ready-mixed Bordeaux, 10% copper. 
Bowker’s Lime Sulphur— Concentrated liquid and dry. 
Bowker’s Dusting Materials-Sulphur. Copper, etc. 
Nicotine Sulphate. 
BOWKER CHEMICAL COMPANY 
49 Chambers St., New York 
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Kills bugs - controls diseases - stimulates growth 
More Profit in 
Garrahan Seeds! 
EARLY WAKEFIELD CABBAGE 
The Garrahan strain is a development of the 
early Jersey Wakefield into large, sturdy heads 
like the Charleston. Gives you quality in an early 
crop. Permits you to market your crop when 
prices are highest. 
EASY BLANCHING CELERY 
Garrahan Celery is uniform in size; green with 
a golden heart; and unusually firm and tender. 
Although it matures early, it will keek well until 
the holidays. Larger crops—and better Celery— 
if you use Garrahan Seed. 
C. E. GARRAHAN, Market Gardener 
393 NORTHAMPTON ST. KINGSTON. PA. 
FRUIT TREES, VINES, BERRIES, SHADE TREES, 
HEDGING, ROSES,SHRUBS and HARDY PERENNIALS 
We employ no agents—we deal direct with you by mail. Stock reserved now 
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OUR BEAUTIFUL 1924 CATALOG NOW READY 
An interesting and helpful book from the pen of our Martin E. King, an 
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Contains our reduced 1924 prices and accurate descriptions of several hun¬ 
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Tells you the correct number of trees to set to the acre; how to beautify your 
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KING BROTHERS’ NURSERIES, Box 40. Dansville, New York 
In Business Forty-six Pears 
Propagating Evergreens 
Will you tell me how to root small 
branches or slips of any evergreen trees? 
How do you plant seeds from the cones, 
and when ? A. w. 
Pleasantville, N. Y. 
In the case of spruce cuttings, the cut¬ 
tings are taken from mature wood in 
Autumn and set under cover in sand. 
They are kept quiet until the cut ends be¬ 
gin to callus, when they are given bottom 
heat and they then strike root. When the 
trees are propagated from seed the sex! 
is frequently sown in the Autumn, about 
the middle of September, soon after being 
taken from the cones, or they may be 
sown in early Spring. It is well to incor¬ 
porate a little leaf mold with the soil, and 
the seed should be sown lightly and cov¬ 
ered not over *4 in. It will be found con¬ 
venient to sift sand over the seed as a 
covering. H. b. t. 
Tomatoes Running to Vine 
What causes my early tomatoes that 
have blossoms and sometimes small to¬ 
matoes on them, when I set them out, to 
run to vine, thus causing me to have to¬ 
matoes when they are cheap? I generally 
plant Bonny Best in the greenhouse about 
Feb. 15. I have sandy soil. The vines 
grow very rank. W. J. K. 
Kenosha, Wis. 
When plants are set out they receive a 
severe check. If the plants are fruiting, 
the check is all the more severe, and it is 
necessary for a new growth to be ma le 
before the plants will again fruit. W e 
should suggest that you start your plants 
later, about March 1 or 15. h. b. t. 
Teacher; “Johnny, name a collective 
noun.” Johnny: “A vacuum cleaner.— 
Life. 
CONTENTS 
ROHRER S Sure-pay^ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, FEB. 2. 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Maltose Sugar from Corn. 160 
Success with Cabbage on Muck....,. 166 
Poisonous Fertilizers . 173 
Inoculating the Soil for Beans. 173 
Farm Forestry . *'4 
Dissolving Nitrate of Soda . 174 
Power-driven Potato Digger . 176 
Treating Scab on Potatoes . 176 
New York Agricultural Society . 177 
Hope Farm Notes .178, 179 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Plain Talk from Lealing Dairymen.... 160, 161 
A Ton of Pork to a Litter. 174 
Feeding Value of Beans . 174 
Comparative Milk Prices . 181 
New Dairy Organization . 181 
Rations for Maryland Herd . 186 
Various Live Stock Questions . 186 
Rye for Live Stock . 188 
Trouble with Calf ... 183 
Grain with Poor Roughage . 188 
Bean Straw f-or Cows . 191 
Improving Ration . 191 
Ration with Beet Pulp . 191 
A Chapter on Milch Goats .192, 193 
Buckwheat for Live Stock . 195 
Fattening Calf . 195 
Excess of Wheat Feed . 195 
THE HENYARD 
Raising Peacocks . 179 
Hens in an Improved Barn... 164 
Valuation of Poultry Buildings. 164 
Wandering Fowls . 174 
New York Egg-laying Contest . 190 
Children and Poultry . 190 
Possible Roup . 198 
Lumber for Henhouse ..... 198 
Bergen County Laying Contest . 200 
Remedy for Roup . 200 
HORTICULTURE 
Questions ^bout Dahlias .. 163 
Resting the Garden . 163 
How to Line Out Large Orchards . 166 
Garden Questions . 171 
Hen Manure for Radishes; Strawberries Fail 
to Bear . 172 
Spinach Yellows; Worms in Radishes . 172 
New York Horticultural Society . 181 
Growing Christmas Trees . 190 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day .-. }82 
An Old English Quilt .. • ■ • J82 
Letters of an Indiana Farmer .182, 183 
The Rural Patterns .. ■ • • J®; 
Notes from a Busy Home .183, 184 
Tennessee Notes . 184 
Embroidery Designs . 184 
Canning Baked Apple Sauce . 184 
A Future Housekeeper Asks Advice . 185 
Keeping Lard . a . }85 
Way to Try Out Lard . 185 
"Angel Food” Fish Balls . 185 
Two Sausage Recipes . 185 
Wellesley College Fudge Cake . 185 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Sound Sense from a Rural School Teach¬ 
er.159, 
Cure for a Leaking Cellar .. 
Winter in the Jackson Hole Region 
A Dissatisfied Hired Man . 
The Farmer and the Radio . 
Salaries of Judges .. • • 
Maine Co-operative Association . 
Mail Carrier’s Sick Leave . 
Legal Maple Syrup . 
The Freeze in Southern Alabama . .. 
Location of Mail Boxes .. 
Healing Chapped Hands . 
Bears in Pennsylvania- . 
A Barrel Smokehouse . 
Editorial . 
Rural School Fight ... 
Local Fairs in New York .. 
The Summer Vacation . 
Countryside Produce Situation . 
Publisher’s Desk . 
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