The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Should be Used in 
Every Vineyard 
A wonderful labor-saver 
in the culture of grapes and 
berries. Using it, you hoe 
with horse power. You do 
quickly and thoroughly 
work that otherwise would 
be slow and tedious. 
JOHN DEERE-SYRACUSE 
Grape and Berry Hoe 
Kills grass and weeds; stirs 
the soil; prevents mildew; its 
use means better quality and 
bigger quantity grapes and ber¬ 
ries. Blade can be adjusted to 
cut deep or shallow and to 
throw soil towards or away 
from vines. Easily guided in 
and out around posts and vines. 
Horse hitches to one side of the 
pole, giving plenty of room for 
hoe to work under vines and 
bushes without injury to them 
from horse or whiffletree, even 
when foliage is at full growth. 
Cultivator attachment extra. 
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Get increased profits from your 
vineyard from now on by using this 
hoe. Sold by John Deere dealers. 
Write today for folder describing it, 
address John Deere, Moline UL, 
and ask for free Booklet GD7-37. 
.JOHNS DEERE 
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The Original Soil Inoculator^ 
/ or Alfalfa, Clovers, Soy Beans, Cow Peas, Peas, 
Beans, Vetch-all Legumes. Farmers and Experi¬ 
ment Stations have used NITRAGIN for twenty-six 
years. Sold in small cans. Contents granular, like 
a deep rich soil. Easy to mix with seed. Sold on 
bushel basis. The one bushel size will inoculate one 
bushel of any legume seed. Prices: 
% bushel size for 15 lbs. seed, $ .40 
Vi bushel size for 30 lbs. seed, .60 
1 bushel size for 60 lbs. seed, 1.00 
5 bushel size for 300 lbs. seed, 4.75 
Garden size Peas, Sweet Peas, Beans, .20 
Always state kind of seed you want it for. Write us 
for free booklet teliingyou about NITRAGIN and Soil 
Inoculation that increases yield, hastens maturity, 
and saves fertilizer bills. Order through Seed Catalog 
or Seed Dealer. If dealer does not handle it, have him * 
order it for you, or you can order from us direct. 
Like dll really big things, Hitragin has many imitators. 
■r*. THE NITRAGIN COMPANY 
i ^^East Water Street Milwaukee. Wisconsin*- 
Order thru Seed Catalog, 
SeedDealer orfromUs Direct 
T bore’s a Brown’s Sprayer for every need 
on the farm, in the orchard, garden, dairy 
or poultry house so you can spray every¬ 
thing thorouyhly, efficiently aud economi¬ 
cally as advised by the government and 
agricultural college experts. Catalog and 
Spray Calendar showing "When toSpray 
and How to Do It." free on reauest. 
THE E. C. BROWN COMPANY 
892 Maple Sreet, Rochester, N. Y, 
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“More Potatoes" 
Prom ground planted secured 
by use of The KEY8TONE 
POTATO PLANTER than 
any other method of 
planting. Work perfectly ac¬ 
curate, A simple, strong, 
durable machine. Write 
for CATALOG, price, etc. 
A. J. PLATT, MFH, 
BOX A. STERLING. ILL* 
BEEMAN 
The Pioneer Garden Tractor 
It Plows, Harrows, Cultivates, etc, 
Write direct * 
to Factory for 
J Free Catalog 
| and 1924 Prices. 
I BecmanTractarCa. 
. 705 B 2nd A*e. No. 
I Minnoaptlis, Mino. 
LITTLE \ 
VONDER DITCHER 
Direc-t from 
Factory 
to^ Farmer 
“In twenty days, I consider the 
Little Wonder has saved me, in 
labor, from two to three hundred 
dollars," writes Clint Bricker. 
Shelby .O. Cuts a clean trench 10" 
to 12" wide, down to 30" deep. Can 
be used with team or tractor. 
Write today for particular a and price 
LittloWonder Sales Co. Box 334, Bellevue, 0. 
A Damp Stone House 
I would advise E. W. TV. not to put 
l^-in. §trips for air space. You will 
find that the interior of a stone house 
(the same as concrete) varies; i. e., it 
would “bulge” or “dip” here or there. 
Try a straightedge to the height and 
across the wall, and you will find it very 
uneven. Therefore when you come to nail 
a strip you would have practically the 
same effect outside the plaster as you 
would have inside on the wall. 
The cheapest and most thorough way 
would be to take off all woodwork on 
Arrangement for Plaster Wall 
walls, window frames, door frames and 
wainscoting. Nail a 2x3 next to wall and 
on ceiling; then nail your 2x3s (up¬ 
rights) to same, and nail as best you can 
to walls, also. Lath and plaster as 
usual. Relay your frames back on to 
your 2x3s, fill space between doors and 
windows with the necessary amount that 
the space calls for. Then you will have 
one of the warmest homes around your 
community. What you will put iu in 
wood you will save in health, coal and 
comfort. 
Should you try to nail l^-in. strips to 
stone wall, your nails would bend and 
strips would split, and you would find a 
botch job. 
Do not cut space from cellar to top of 
house. This will not be necessary. It 
will not be necessary to touch your parti¬ 
tions, also. Just build snug to your 
walls, your framework, the same as if 
you were building a new frame for a 
house. Nail your 2x3s to floor and roof, 
then build in between. Use plaster, not 
plaster board. B. E. 
Thawing Frozen Pipe 
I tried an experiment Saturday that 
might come iu handy to some of your 
readers. The water froze in the pipe 
that comes into the house from a well 
outside. I took the teakettle of boiling 
water and poured it on as much of the 
pipe as was not under the ground, hut 
that did not thaw it enough, so I got a 
quart of salt and put it iu the pump and 
let it work its way down. In about 15 
minutes I heard the water and ice go out 
of the pipe. I put a long screwdriver in 
the pump to hold the lower valve open. 
Picture shows how my pipe is from the 
' pump to the bottom of the well. s. C. Y. 
New York. 
Celery Again 
On page 267 R. F. D. speaks of blanch¬ 
ing celery in the cellar. I have done this 
successfully for a number of years, but 
would suggest that the roots be placed 
directly on the cellar bottom and not 
iu a box, as they retain the moisture 
longer so. The long white shoots easily 
grown in the cellar are caused by the 
effort to stretch up to the light of a near-' 
by window, aud may he controlled by 
regulating the light. I have still (Feb. 
25) a few roots of celery in good condi¬ 
tion for eating which I am saving to set 
out in the early Spring for seed. I usu¬ 
ally grow my own seed, not only for 
planting the following year, hut for use 
in the kitchen, as it is excellent for 
soups and stews, better and cheaper than 
celery salt. G. P. 
Tons of lead roll along 
every highway 
H OW much lead is in your automobile—your 
truck—your tractor? In all the new motor 
vehicles built annually there are about 110,000,000 
pounds of lead. 
The storage battery in automobile, truck, and 
tractor is mostly lead. Lead-tin solder seals the 
seams of the gasoline tank and radiator. It is used in 
the generator that charges the lead storage battery. 
Lead is in the hard rubber switch button in your 
automobile, the soft rubber insulation about the 
wiring of your engine. Your rubber tires, tlie rub¬ 
ber top of your car, and the rubber mat on your 
car step contain lead. Electric light bulbs on your 
car are made of lead glass. 
Lead serves you long and faith¬ 
fully in your motor vehicle. But 
as paint, lead is more widely used. 
As white-lead in paint, it helps to 
protect your house, your farm 
buildings and farm equipment. 
This man is giving the farm house white-lead 
protection against the attacks of the weather 
In one year approximately 
350,000,000 pounds of white-lead 
paint are used in this country on 
wooden and other non-metallic 
surfaces. This record shows the 
awakening of property owners 
everywhere to the necessity and 
economy of paint protection. 
White-lead a standard 
protective paint 
White-lead paint is the most effec¬ 
tive protection for farm buildings 
against rot and decay. Pure white- 
lead mixed with pure linseed oil 
makes a paint for exterior paint¬ 
ing that has been a standard for 
generations. Skilled professional 
painters swear Jby it. Paint manu¬ 
facturers use it in making their 
best paints. 
Pure white-lead mixed with 
flatting oil gives a paint that pro¬ 
tects and beautifies interior walls 
and woodwork. This paint can 
be tinted to any color desired to 
harmonize with the decorative 
scheme in your rooms. 
Just as white-lead protects wood 
and non-metallic surfaces about 
your farm, so red-lead keeps your 
metal from rusting. Unless pro¬ 
tected, metal framework of wind¬ 
mills, iron fences, iron and steel 
implements and machinery often 
rust out before they have a 
chance to wear out. 
If you don’t belong to the ever- 
inereasing army 
of property own¬ 
ers who believe 
in the maxim, “Save the sur¬ 
face and you save all,” join now. 
Save the w r ooden and non-meta Hie 
surfaces with white-lead and your 
metal with red-lead. 
Handy Book on Painting 
If you want to know how to save 
the surface of wood, masonry or 
metal on your farm with paint, 
write for our Handy Book on 
Painting. This book is a store¬ 
house of paint facts and formulas 
and will be sent at your request. 
Producers of lead products 
Dutch Boy white-lead is the name 
of the pure white-lead made and 
sold by National Lead Company. 
On every keg of Dutch Boy white- 
lead is reproduced the picture of 
the Dutch Boy Painter shown 
below. This trade-mark guaran¬ 
tees a product of the highest 
quality. 
Dutch Boy products also in¬ 
clude red-lead, linseed oil, flatting 
oil, babbitt metals, and solder. 
National Lead Company also 
makes lead products 
for practically every 
purpose to which lead 
can be put in art, in¬ 
dustry and daily life. If 
you want information 
regarding any particu¬ 
lar use of lead, write us. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 
New York, HI Broadway; Boston, 131 State Street; Buffalo, 116 Oak Street; 
Chicago, 900 West 18th Street; Cincinnati, 05!) Freeman Avenue; Cleveland, 
820 West Superior Avenue; St. Louis, 722 Chestnut Street; San Francisco, 
485 California Street; Pittsburgh, National Lead & Oil Co. of Pa., 316 
Fourth Avenue; Philadelphia, John T, Lewis & Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut St. 
