<Iht RURAL NEJV.YORKER 
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Keep Down the Weeds 
Conserve moisture with a dust 
mulch. An “Acme ” Coulter Har¬ 
row will keep your orchard as 
clean as a corn field. Special or- 
chard model works close up un¬ 
der the branches. Can be used 
also in making perfect seedbeds 
for field or market garden crops. 
“Acme” 
Coulter Harrow 
An “Acme" Harrow will do good 
work on light or heavy soil, on 
hilly or level ground. You can 
use either a team or a tractor. 
Made in sizes from 3 to 1734 ft. 
wide. 
Your dealer has an "Acme” Coulter 
Harrow or can get one for you. Ask 
him about them. Now is the time to 
replace worn outtillage tools with the 
efficient “Acme”. Send for booklet. 
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377 DrexelBldg. 
££?■> Philadelphia, Pa. 
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The Rural New-Yorker 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
seems to me that parents ought to respect 
the feelings of their little children if 
they expect a full return of respect for 
themselves. In the family I am describ¬ 
ing Henry was the ornament. Mother 
trotted him out on all occasions. He al¬ 
ways appeared at Sunday school enter¬ 
tainments. he was the oratorical orna¬ 
ment of the neighborhood, and everyone 
predicted great things for him. All but 
blunt old Uncle Robert, who helped settle 
the little estate when father died. 
“Mary,” lie said, “you’re making a fool 
of that boy. He’s smart enough, but he 
won’t work. You’ve turned his head, it 
wasn’t well fixed anyway. Let me take 
him ! I’ll make him work.” 
“Why, Robert! What an idea! Henry 
is the smartest hoy in town! lie’ll make 
a great man, and we must educate him !” 
“Educate nothing.” said plain old Uncle 
Robert. “Y'ou might as well put water in 
a bushel basket. The only thing that will 
hold education without leaking is the 
plain character that comes from honest 
work. Let me have Sarah then. She’s 
worth two of him. I’ll bring her up and 
give her all the education she can take.” 
“Oh no, we can’t do that! She must 
work and help us educate Henry. That’s 
the hope for our family, and of course it’s 
her dutv to do it.” 
And that is what Sarah did—that was 
the beginning of a great woman who 
lived without complaining in one of the 
smallest of the world’s places—as we 
shall see. ir. w. c. 
(To be continued.) 
Compost Value of Wood Ashes 
Are not hardwood ashes, not leached 
out by exposure to wet. as good, partic¬ 
ularly for grass and grain land, as any 
fertilizer on the market? It is claimed 
that, used like fertilizer, for potatoes, 
tkev will cause scab. If so. why? 
Amherst, N. S. G. c. w. b. 
It is true that unleached wood ashes 
make a very good fertilizer as far as they 
go. These ashes contain lime and con¬ 
siderable potash with a small quantity of 
phosphoric acid. We have always felt 
that good unleached wood ashes represent 
about the best combination of these ele¬ 
ments of plant food that one can obtain. 
We have never been able to make a mix¬ 
ture of lime, potash and phosphorus that 
will give as good results on grass and 
grain as high class ashes. The ashes 
however, cannot he said to be equal to 
any fertilizer on the market. They con¬ 
tain no nitrogen whatever, as that ele¬ 
ment is driven away in the form of gas 
when the fuel is burned. As far as they 
go the ashes are excellent, hut they can¬ 
not fully compare with a fertilizer giving 
a high analysis of an available nitrogen. 
It is true that the use of wood ashes in 
large quantities will usually cause an in¬ 
crease of scab on potatoes. This scab is 
a germ disease and spreads from one 
tuber to another, or the germs may he 
found in the soil. These germs prefer an 
alkaline soil, and they grow faster and 
are more vigorous in the presence of lime. 
They are less active in an acid soil, and 
that is the chief reason for using the 
inoculated sulphur when planting pota¬ 
toes. The lime in the wood ashes will 
help neutralize the soil and thus make 
the scab germs more active and trouble¬ 
some. 
Hog Manure on Cabbage 
I have quite a supply of hog manure 
this year, and had planned on using it on 
my cabbage. I was told recently that 
this would cause “club-foot.” Ho you 
think it would? Have any of your read¬ 
ers ever heard so. o'r had any experience 
with it? o. b. 
Groton, N. Y. 
We have had some complaint about hog 
manure on cabbage. We have used it for 
fertilizing that crop and had no trouble 
with club-foot when we used lime around 
the plants. We cannot see that manure 
from hogs is any more likely to cause the 
disease than that from .other farm ani¬ 
mals, unless the hogs are fed on diseased 
cabbage. If the disease follows the use 
of hog manure we do not think the hogs 
are responsible, but diat the disease 
germs are in the manure as the result of 
feeding. 
Trimming a Yucca 
Tn pruning the evergreen Yucca is it 
jusi necessary to cut out the old flower 
stalk, or must plant be cut to within 8 in. 
of the ground, the same as other peren¬ 
nials? C. B. II. 
Bellmore, N. Y. 
Cut out the old flower stalk, but do not 
trim off the foliage, which is evergreen. 
The handsome and persistent foliage is 
one of the beauties of the plant. We 
prefer to cut the flower stalk as soon as 
blooms are fallen, and do not leave it to 
form seed. . 
IT PAYS 
~many times over~ 
in better return for fmit 
Apples at first cov¬ 
er spray—Arsenate 
of Lead and Lime 
Sulfur — without 
KAYSO. 
Suppose we advised you to stop spraying 
and save the cost! You would refuse—be¬ 
cause you know that spraying increases the 
market value of your crop. 
Well, why not increase it still further by improving 
the efficiency of your spray? 
That’s just what you can do with KAYSO, the 
spray spreader and adhesive—as hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of orchardists and vegetable growers know. 
Added to your Arsenate of Lead, Bordeaux, Lime- 
Sulfur or other sprays, KAYSO spreads an unbroken, 
protective coating over fruit, leaves and bark (instead 
of a splotchy, uneven pattern) — and makes it stick 
better (greatly lessens the danger of removal by rain, 
wind or dew). 
Its cost is small—40c buys enough for 200 gallons 
—and it makes spraying more economical—decreases 
“run-off”—makes the spray go further—takes less 
labor to apply. 
Trove Its Worth Yourself! 
Fruit and vegetable growers, the country 
over, have proved the remarkable value of 
KAYSO—and Farm Bureaus, Agricultural 
Colleges and Experiment Stations have en¬ 
thusiastically endorsed it. 
But thebest proofis an actual working test 
in your own orchard. In order to make 
such a test easy we are making you the 
offer below. 
Send for this sample package! Add it to 
the spray mixture you are now using and 
compare results—in your dormant,delayed 
dormant, pink, cluster bud and cover sprqy. 
Mail the coupon— today! 
SPREADS THE SPRAY AND MAKES IT STAY 
Check this Coupon and mail to New York office 
Conditions and 
•mount of spray 
same as above, but 
with KAYSO added. 
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Don’t let 
this happen to 
your apples 
Kill the aphids before they have a 
chance to do serious damage to fruit 
or trees. Spray with Hall’s Nicotine 
Sulphate. It contains 40% pure Nico¬ 
tine—the deadliest aphis-poison known. 
Being a vegetable extract, it does 
not harm blossom, fruit or foliage; but 
it does kill aphids every time. 
A ten-pound tin makes 800 to 1100 
gallons of spray. The cost is less than 
2 c a gallon. 
When spraying for scab, codling 
moth,etc.,mix Hall’s Nicotine Sulphate 
with the solution and make one spray 
do double duty. 
Buy from your dealer. If he cannot supply 
you, send us your order along with his name. 
Note—Hall’s Nicotine Sulphate is also 
deadly effective against thrips, red bugs, leaf 
hoppers, psylla and many similar insects on 
fruit trees and truck crops. 
10 lb. tins, $13.50 
2 lb. tins, 3.50 
l A lb. tins, 1.25 
1 oz. bottles, .35 
NICOTINE SULPHATE 
Hall Tobacco Chemical Co. 
212 Fifth Avenue, New York City 
