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April 5, 1924 
•Jhe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
In the Dead of Night 
In the dead of night a fire breaks out—the alarm 
must be given. A child is taken sick—the doctor 
must be called. A thief enters the home—-the police 
must be located. 
In the dead of night the American turns to his 
telephone, confident he will find it ready for the 
emergency. He knows that telephone exchanges are 
open always, the operators at their switchboards, the 
wires ready to vibrate with his words. He has only 
to lift the receiver from its hook to hear that calm, 
prompt “Number, please.” The constant availa¬ 
bility of his telephone gives him security, and makes 
his life more effective in wider horizons. 
Twenty-four-hour service, which is the standard 
set by the Bell System, is the exception in the service 
of Continental Europe. An emergency may occur 
at any time. Continuous and reliable service has 
become a part of the social and economic fibre of 
American life. 
largement of parts makes it cut in too 
deeply. 
Noting the lower brace on south side of 
tree, you will see a small limb growing 
and crossing the lower brace at a 45- 
degree angle. At this crossing point both 
the limb and the brace were properly 
opened through respective barks, and fit¬ 
ted into each other on sap channel, and 
in same season had healed over and were 
thoroughly fastened and joint covered 
with new bark. It is the intention to 
fasten the projection of the small limb 
into the large limb it is approaching, 
when the time comes for it. 
This, with many other experiments in 
the control of growth on lines of fruit de¬ 
velopment and cross pollination, especial¬ 
ly on grapes, has been carried out in the 
last 40 years—not in a commercial way, 
but simply experimenting as a hobby for 
relief from a very strenuous occupation 
in railroad business. Since retirement 10 
years ago, at the age of 70 years, the en¬ 
joyment of this hobby has been complete 
and satisfying. Here there are over 200 
varieties of grapes growing and matur¬ 
ing crops every year from natives, hy¬ 
brids and Vinifera—growing in (ffien 
ground—all grafted or budded or in¬ 
arched on phylloxera resistant roots. All 
Spray thoroughly and 
harvest clean fruit 
In hustling to spray your trees at just 
the right time, you can be thorough with¬ 
out being slow. Use a Hercules-powered 
sprayer and you’ll get through quicker. 
The Hercules engine puts thoroughness 
with speed in the job; pumps spray stead¬ 
ily lor hours without rest, at 200 to 250 
lbs. pressure. It is the same rugged and 
trouble-proof Hercules engine that is the 
standard farm engine of the world. 
Farm machinery that is equipped with 
a Hercules engine by the manufacturer 
will get your work done faster. Manu¬ 
facturers know that no machine can pos¬ 
sibly be better than its power plant. They 
use the best of power; Hercules engines. 
Saw rigs, concrete mixers, feed cutters, 
pumps, hoists—many machines are now 
sold complete with Hercules engines. 
They range from 1 ’/ 2 H. P. up. 
A Hercules dealer near you will gladly tell 
you why Hercules equipped farm machinery is 
most reliable. Or, we will be glad to have you 
write direct to us for help in planning power 
equipment to increase your farm and orchard 
profits. 
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NIMALS thrive on cleanli- 
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rm life and makes bams and 
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South Side 
the natives, hybrids and Vinifera have 
been grafted or inarched on roots of af¬ 
finity, and approved congeniality, as well 
as resistant to phylloxera. Many ex¬ 
periments have been made with, viz: 
Riparia x Rupestris 3309. 3306, 101 14 ; 
Riparia x Berlandieri 420 A; Berlandieri 
No. 1, Rupestris x Cordifolia 107 11 ; 
Riparia x Berlandieri 219 A, Rupestris 
Martin, Rupestris St. George, Montverde 
x Rupestris 1202, Constantia, Monticola 
x Riparia 18815, Champini variety Do- 
gridge, Riparia x Berlandieri 157 11 , Cor¬ 
difolia x Riparia 125-1,Solanis x Othello 
1613, Rupestris le Reux, Tisserand, 
Barnes and Gloire de Montpellier. 
Various methods of grafting have been 
tried from year to year, viz.: Fuller 
method of late Fall and covering over 
Winter, with marked success; also whip- 
tongue, champin, cleft, handsaw, saddle, 
Cadillac, Cadillac side-cleft, Gaillard, 
shield and bench grafts. Also budding by 
Horwath method, Salugues, Chirac and 
the Vouzou methods. All these have been 
used and then was tried out the one 
method least written about in the various 
viticulture writings, viz., inarching with 
herbaceous wood in June and July, i. e., 
with green wood before it hardens, and 
herein is complete success. W hen plant¬ 
ing, make the hole generous, go deep and 
fill up to depth needed with top ground, 
making a mound of earth in center of 
hole, plant the resistant rooted vine on 
one side of mound, and the rooted variety 
wanted on the other side of mound, bring¬ 
ing tops close together and fill in and set¬ 
tle thoroughly. When growth has come 
strong in June or July, inarch and tie 
with wool stocking yarn tight enough just 
not to cut into the green growth, and 
shade a little about union. In 14 to IS 
days the union should be about “set,’ 
and if the tie is too tight on account of 
swelling, untie gradually and retie at in¬ 
tervals with raffia, and securely at top 
and bottom of the inarch and let grow 
until Fall, when top of resistant must be 
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