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The RURAL 
I F you are thinking 
of clearing your 
stump land this spring, 
ask your dealer about 
Hercules Dynamite, 
BERCULES POWDER. CO. 
904 Market Street 
Wilmington Delaware 
Send for our 
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u Land Development' 
HERCULES 
DYNAMITE 
STEAM ENGINES and DAIRY BOILERS 
Farquhar Engines are mounted 
on Locomotive, Cornish (Slab 
Burner) or Deep Fire Box Boilers. 
They are simple, easily operated, 
strong and powerful, and render 
dependable service. 
We also build the Farquhar Economy 
Dairy Boiler, Sawmills, Hydraulic 
Cider Presses, Grain and Bean Thresh¬ 
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A. B. FARQUHAR CO Limited, Box 430, York, Pa. 
Apple 
branches 
sprayed with 
Lime-Sulfur: 
Note inade¬ 
quate cover¬ 
age on left 
hand branch 
(Lime-Sulfur 
only). Con¬ 
trast even 
coating on 
theothcr 
branch with 
KAY SO 
added 
ABOVE: 
Arsenate of Lead 
without KAYSO 
AT RIGHT: 
Same spray 
with KAYSO 
—note even 
coating 
KAY50 
SPREADS 
the SPRAYS 
SPRAY SPREADER & ADHESIVE 
MAKES 
it STAY 
<v 
100 , 000 men proved its worth Myear 
PROVED IT—by scientific tests, yes! 
—but most of all by actual field use in 
thousands of orchards and gardens— 
under all sortsof climatic and weather 
conditions—on fruit, on vegetables, 
and on shade trees. 
Here’s what a few of your fellow-growers 
have to say about KAYSO. 
Warren W. Oley, Manager lor the Seabrook 
Company, Bridgeton, N.J.:" We started using 
KAYSO in an experimental way. The results were so 
good that we ended up by using KAYSO for oyer 
two hundred acres of bearing peaches and bearing 
apples.” 
Mayim Bros., Ocall, Fla.-. “Find it excellent as a 
spreader for Bordeaux Mixture on cucumbers. 
E. Karst Orlando, Fla.: “I found KAYSO an 
excellent spreader and it causes the spray to stay on 
the trees much longer. I found it just as useful with 
Black Leaf 40.” 
J. H. Allen, Fort Valley, Ga.: “KAYSO enabled 
me to cover more trees and it gave a uniform spread 
over the fruit. It doubles the value of the spray. 
F. A. Bartlett, Stamford, Conn.: “We have 
used two hundred pounds of KAYSO this year and 
we have estimated that the time saved in spraying 
and efficiency of this work as a result of using KAYSO 
has saved us several hundred dollars.” 
Ben Mattex, Sullivan, Ind.: “In the 
past, the first two or three trees sprayed 
have always showed up very white with 
poison, but at the last of the barrel I could 
hardly tell which trees were sprayed. When 
I added KAYSO, the last trees showed 
just as much spray as the first ones. 
And so we could go on 
quoting scores of other 
successful growers, as we 11 
as Agricultura 1 Schools, 
StateDepartments and en¬ 
tomologists. Butprove it 
yourself—mixed withLime- 
Sulfur, Bordeaux,Arsen- 
ateof Lead and allother 
sprays. Send 40c for tna 1 
package—Usethecoupon* 
NEW-YORKER 
Fruit Notes from Missouri 
Co-orERATivE Berry Growing. —Lead¬ 
ership, leadership, how it counts; how a 
community will wait for years to leap 
forward at the call of it! A railroad hor¬ 
ticultural agent, assisted by our County 
Farm Agent, calls a meeting of berry 
j growers here to form a co-operative asso¬ 
ciation and, presto, the thing is 'done; 
110 acres pledged for growing strawber¬ 
ries, and the money up to buy the plants 
from a reliable grower. Everybody should 
unite to plant a single variety that is a 
good shipper and a standard berry on the 
big markets, the agent explained, and so 
the Klondike was chosen, and a price of 
$2.15 per 1,000 was secured, though the 
grower of them protested that less than 
$2.25 was not a “living price.” Never¬ 
theless there were bids as low as $2. So 
now for the first time in our local history 
we are going to grow strawberries on a 
commercial scale, and some wise head 
proposed that instead of waiting for the 
berry crop in 1925 we should pledge 
enough acres to sweet potatoes to initiate 
us this year into the thrills of carload 
shipping and selling. And so it seemed 
good and was so ordered. In the county 
just south of us it was a Catholic priest 
who assumed leadership in introducing 
the farmers to the dairy industry, and 
who led delegations to visit the famous 
dairy districts in a distant State, Wiscon¬ 
sin, and induced them to invest money in 
purebred cows. Later on it was the ex¬ 
ample of this farm-loving priest that 
moved local bankers in this county to 
inaugurate a similar successful campaign. 
Frost Damage to Peaches. —It is 
now discovered that the peach crop was 
damaged by our first severe cold spoil 
just after New Year’s, when the mercury 
sank to 10 degrees below, a degree seldom 
reached in this latitude. From 30 to 50 
per cent of the buds appear to be killed, 
and this condition, according to report, 
prevails throughout the Ozark country, 
where there are extensive orchards. East 
of us in Southern Illinois even greater in¬ 
jury, extending to the wood of the tree, 
is rumored. It seems that at about 10 de¬ 
grees below the peach bud begins to re¬ 
cord injury, and lower than this, the tree 
itself. But if not more than 50 per cent 
of the buds are killed we shall not mourn, 
but rejoice that we save that much thin¬ 
ning. All the other kinds of fruit seem to 
be unhurt. 
A Cotton Crop. —A strange visitor 
February 16, 192# 
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package of KAYSO— including the testimony 
enough for 200 gallons. of spraying experts. 
NAME- 
R-3 
address- 
TOWN- 
. ST ATE- 
appeared in our county last season, who 
had uot been seen here before in 00 or 70 
years—-cotton. Last year a great cam¬ 
paign for planting more cotton was 
waged all over Southeast Missouri by the 
newspapers, County Agents, banks and 
big landowners. The counties lying next 
to Arkansas are old and regular growers 
of the staple, but the high prices of the 
last two years have started a craze for 
cotton planting iu a latitude much far¬ 
ther north than cotton has been seen since 
cheap slave labor hoed the plants before 
1S60. Farmers have been urged and ex¬ 
horted to plant cotton, and rosy visions 
of sudden wealth held before their eyes. 
They were told that at present prices it 
was the most profitable crop they could 
grown, and that they were too far north 
for the range of the boll weevil. A good 
many farmers yielded to the temptation. 
Meetings were held at which experts ex 
plained bow to grow the new crop. The 
Spring was too wet and the Summer too 
dry, and instead of the boll weevil a cot 
ton army-worm appeared that ate off ill 
the leaves of the plants. These condi¬ 
tions spelled disaster to many, but the 
new growers iu the northern parts were 
troubled least of all, and did fairly well 
Most of them will try another crop in 
the Spring. Four acres on the Teachers’ 
College experiment farm here were esti 
mated to yield at the rate of over $200 
per acre. 
Banking Celery. —We are still en 
joying plenty of good homegrown celery 
that was banked up, then two boards, V- 
shaped and then a covering of straw 
Thus protected it withstood 10 degrees 
below zero. We dig a quantity at a time 
and pack with plenty of dirt on roots in 
the cellar. Celery does well here, making 
extremely large clumps without extra fer¬ 
tilizing. 
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Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
ADDRESS. 
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