The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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STEVENS 
Fertilizer Sower 
Saves Material—Pays Its Way 
Good distribution is assured with the 
old reliable Stevens—pays for itself in 
fertilizer saved and better crops. Force 
feed prevents fertilizers from clogging or 
“arching.” Handles lime equally well. 
Stevens Fertili¬ 
zer Sower made 
for two horses 
but can be ad¬ 
justed for one. 
Sows in rows 
or broadcast. 
Write for Free 
Pamphlets 
// HAMPSHIRE 
n ‘IMPLEMENT 
\\ COMPANY 
Dept. A 
Hatfield. Mata, 
Makers of 
Fertilizer and 
Lime Sowers 
Better Crops From 
The One Horse Farm 
The small farm is just the place where compact 
and efficient work will be done by the 
One Horse 
Disk Harrows 
Market gardeners, truckmen, florists and others 
will obtain greater yields and bigger profits from 
the use of these light draft 1-horse harrows. 
In several styles and types; one at least, just 
what you need. Disks are forged sharp — dust- 
proof oil soaked hardwood bearings. 
See your Moline dealer 
or write us for details 
NEW MOLINE PLOW CO. 
Moline. III. 
POWER HOE 
BOLENS 
and Lawn 
Mower Tractor 
It seeds, it culti¬ 
vates, it mows the 
lawn. It supplies power for 
operating light machinery. 
The BOLENS has a patented 
arched axle for clearance and a 
tool control for accurate guid¬ 
ance in close weeding and culti¬ 
vating. A differential drive _ _ _ _ ^ 
makes turning easy. All attachments have - snap 
hitches and are instantly interchangeable. A hoy will 
run it with delight. Used by market growers, florists 
nurserymen, farmers, home gardeners, parks, cemeter- 
ies. etc. Send for full particulars 
312 PARK ST., GILSON MFG. CO. PORT WASHINGTON, WIS. 
^RUJgFRIEND''SPRAYERS 
~ gasport. n.y 
FERTILIZER FOR SALE 
CANADA HARDWOOD ASHES—Joynt’s High Me 
Have just received an order from one of the largest To¬ 
bacco Firms in New England for 171 tons. Write for par¬ 
ticulars. Add res- John Joynt Co., Lucknow, Ontario 
For $1 postpaid. Edmonds’ Poultry 
Account Book. The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
cut off close above the inarch and the 
variety wanted be cut off close below the 
same inarch. In the next Spring the 
bearing variety stump can be transplant¬ 
ed for another try-out, or it can be de¬ 
stroyed. 
In this way success has attended 90 
per cent of the experiments, and the in¬ 
arching in above months can be done at 
any height, either head high or at the 
ground, without covering or moisture ex¬ 
cept that secreted by the vines. Old 
vines of “Mills” grape (extremely hard 
to propagate from cuttings) which throw 
suckers near crown of vine, can be prop¬ 
agated very successfully by planting 
young rooted resistants near “Mills” 
roots crown and inarching. In our vine¬ 
yard there is a complete row of “Mills” 
taken from old vines in this way. 
A long cane from the head of a vine 
can be brought low to a resistant and at¬ 
tached or a cane from a vine far off, if 
long enough, can be attached to a resis¬ 
tant three or four vines removed, and 
just as successfully manipulated—or one 
can have a number of varieties on the 
same resistant by inarching at the head 
of a bearing variety on the wood forming 
for next year and thus supplying a her¬ 
maphrodite for pollenizing a sterile va¬ 
riety. 
Inarching is most successful at the 
time when the pith of the vines is begin¬ 
ning to turn white and in time for the 
wood on both vines to mature in the Fall 
before severing the inarch from the root 
of the variety wanted. It has been my 
wish to interest growers in this hobby 
and induce them to go into growing grapes 
in a commercial way, especially in the 
southern tier of counties in Pennsylvania 
with southeastern exposure. Prof. F. T. 
Bioletti, viticulturist of the University 
of California, under date of Feb. 2, 1924, 
writes: “I am very much interested in 
your letter of Jan. 25 and iu the really 
surprising photographs you sent me of 
your exhibit of grapes. It makes me real¬ 
ize how very successful you have been in 
raising Vinifera grapes in Pennsylvania. 
The list of varieties which you have 
grown successfully covers such a wide 
range of characteristics that I can see no 
reason why you should not be able to 
grow any of our Vinifera grapes by using 
the same methods.” j. k. gross. 
York Co., Pa. 
Apple Blossoms Blasted 
I have rented a farm that has an or¬ 
chard 25 years old. Eight years ago the 
orchard produced a large crop of fruit, 
but since the blossoms form, turn black 
and fall off. The orchard is on gravel 
ground. It has been plowed and manured 
but not properly pruned or sprayed. Do 
you think spraying three or four times 
each Spring, or potash sprinkled around 
the trees and worked into the ground, 
would be of any benefit to the trees? 
What would you suggest? p. s. 
Schodack Landing, N. Y. 
We do not think that you would help 
matters by applying potash to the trees. 
If the question were one of nutrition or 
food supply alone, the trees would not 
blossom. Apparently the trees are in con¬ 
dition to bear fruit, but some agency in¬ 
terferes to prevent. Fire blight attacks 
the blossoms and turns them black, some¬ 
times blasting all prospects for a crop. It 
is a bacterial disease that winters over in 
cankered areas on the limbs and branches 
of the trees, and which is spread by drip¬ 
ping of water from the upper branches 
onto the ones beneath, and by insects 
visiting the flowers. The remedy is to 
cut out the cankered spots, disinfecting 
the tools with carbolic acid and the 
wounds with corrosive sublimate. 
Again, apple scab is sometimes severe 
enough to cut an entire crop, attacking 
the pedicels of the blossoms and causing 
them to drop. The first standard spray 
for scab is one applied when the blossoms 
show pink. The second should be applied 
when the last of the petals are falling, 
and the third should be made 10 days or 
two weeks later in case the season is wet, 
and the fourth about the first of August 
as insurance against late secondary in¬ 
fection. The materials used should be 
1(4 gallons of lime-sulphur and 1 lb. of 
arsenate of lead to 100 gallons of solution. 
H. B. TUKEV. 
‘Harrowing Apr. J ’ 3 J —picture and title from an autographic kodak negative. 
Kodak Picture - Records 
Kodak pictures play a definite part 
in your business. The illustration above, 
for example, plus the title and date you 
wrote on the film at the time by means 
of the autographic feature, is a complete 
picture-record. Each year you’ll find it 
invaluable for reference. 
The Autographic Kodak gives you just the pic¬ 
tures you want—gives them the easiest way and 
the cost is little enough. Catalog free at your 
dealer’s or from us. 
Autographic Kodaks $6.^0 u p 
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y. 
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nicotine spray, is recommended 
hy Agricultural Colleges and Ex¬ 
periment Stations. Spray singly 
or in combination with solutions 
for scale, codling moth and other 
orchard pests. 
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and new leaflets. If he is out, write 
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