‘Jhi RURAL NEW-YORKER 
635 
T HERE’S always some work for the Arm¬ 
strong Standard Spray Pump — something 
that means easier, better results. While the im¬ 
portant use is spraying fruit trees and truck 
crops, yet it is as efficient for applying cattle 
dip, fly and vermin spray, whitewashing, cleaning 
motor cars, etc., and as a Veterinary Injector. 
Sprays the tallest trees from the ground. Brass 
construction throughout. Not affected by chemi¬ 
cals. Five year guarantee. 
If your dealer cannot supply 
you, send us $5.50 and his 
name ($6.00 in the far west). 
Knapsack extra. Send for cata- 
M. 
The Armstrong Mfg. Co. 
939 Seventh Avenue 
Huntington, W. Va. 
ARMSTRONG 
The Pump of a Hundred Uses 
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value to every gar¬ 
dener, describesthe 
BARKER, tells 
what users say. 
gives prices deliver¬ 
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TJERE'S the machine that 
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finest work, and is much 
easier and faster than any 
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P A WED Weed*r, Molcker 
ImlulLlY .nd Cultivator 
Eight revolving blades working in 
combination with the underground 
knife destroy the weeds and in the 
sameoperation chop the crusted 
surface into a level, moistrre- 
retaining mulch. Intensive cul¬ 
tivation. “Best Weed Killer Ever 
Used.” Cuts runners. A boy can 
use it. and do more and better 
work than 10 men with hoes. Has 
leaffu ards; also shovels for deep¬ 
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Over 800,000 farmer customers 
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On orders for thirty gallons or over we will prepay the 
freight within a radius of three hundred miles. 
AMALGAMATED PAINT CO. 
Factory: 372 WAYNE ST., JERSEY CITY, N. J. 
For $1 postpaid. Edmonds’ Poultry 
Account Book. The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
Apple Maggot or Railroad Worm 
I would appreciate the proper classifi¬ 
cation of a fruit disease, its cause, aud a 
remedy. The Northern Spys are chiefly 
affected, while the very early varieties 
are practically unaffected. The outer ap¬ 
pearance is unripe color and a humpy, 
shrunken surface. The inner appearance 
is of small spots and thread-like borings 
of brown discoloration sometimes tinged 
with green. Except for a small speck on 
the surface, no holes are visible to. the 
naked eye. There is little or no juice 
where this is found. Please tell me also 
how to distinguish between the effects of 
canker-worm and aphis. H. H. L. 
St. Albans, Yt. 
You have given a very good description 
of the work of the apple maggot, also 
called “railroad worm.” Moreover, the 
fact that the Northern Spys are affected 
makes the diagnosis all the more certain, 
since that variety is especially subject to 
the ravages of the insect. Why the mag¬ 
got should chose the Spy as its favorite 
is a mystery unless we ascribe refined 
sense of taste to the larvae, or unless the 
thinness of the skin permits easier egg- 
laying within the fruit by the adult. 
Sometime between the last of June 
and the middle of July, depending upon 
the locality, the flies emerge from the 
ground and may be seen hovering about 
the fruit and the leaves. They are a 
trifle smaller than a house-fly, and have 
two spots on the wings. Soon after 
emerging they begin to lay their eggs, 
puncturing the fruit and laying the eggs 
just under the skin. Since the puncture 
is so small, there is no external sign of 
the insect, and in the meantime the small 
larvae hatch within the fruit and begin 
their burrowing. 
For a long time no effective means of 
control was found, the recommendation 
to pick up and destroy all dropped fruit 
not sufficing to control the pest. More 
recently, however, it has been found that 
the flies are easily killed by a stomach 
poison applied to the foliage just before 
they appear in large numbers. They 
seem to lap up the poison in drops of 
moisture on the leaves, for they do not 
get it through eating the leaves. Arse¬ 
nate of lead, then, 2% or 3 lbs. to 100 
gallons of water, applied about the first 
of July will hold the trouble in check. 
Apparently it is no advantage to add mo¬ 
lasses or sugar to make the spray more 
attractive to the fly, because any added 
attractiveness is more than offset by the 
lack of adhesion which any such material 
affords. A spray used at this time will 
have the added advantage of being on 
hand for the large brood of skeletonizer 
which makes its appearance about the 
first of July. 
You should have no difficulty in sepa¬ 
rating the work of the aphis from that 
of the canker-worm. The former is a 
sucking insect and produces a gnarled 
condition in the fruit and a curled and 
puckered condition on the foliage. The 
canker worm, on the other hand, is a 
chewing insect which confines the most of 
its activities to devouring the leaves. 
H. B. TUKEY. 
Training Evergreens 
I have a Norway spruce on the lawn 
that is 13 years old and about 9 ft. high. 
It is now a perfectly shaped Christmas 
tree, and I would like to keep it from 
getting larger. Can it be trimmed to 
make the branches grow thicker but to 
keep the tree from growing? w. R. R. 
Franklinville, N. Y. 
In nurseries and on private estates 
where certain shapes are desired in trees, 
especially the pyramidal trees, it is cus¬ 
tomary to prune and train them toward 
the desired shape. Where great num¬ 
bers are to be prunde, the trees are simply 
sheared, but where there are fewer trees 
and more pains can be taken a more 
careful process is used. It consists 
either in disbudding or in cutting back 
the terminal growths, in the case of dis¬ 
budding the object being to remove the 
central buds so as to force growth into 
the laterals and form a denser tree. 
Whatever treatment is decided upon 
should be given before growth starts in 
the Spring. H. B. T. 
“Are you sure these field-glasses are 
high power?” asked the lady potential 
customer. “Madame.” replied the ambi¬ 
tious 1 salesman, “when you use these 
glasses anything less than ten miles away 
looks like it’s behind you.”—American 
Legion Weekly. 
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READY MIXED PAINT 
has that marked spreading capacity, hiding power 
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Their surfaces can be washed with soap and 
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Your Guarantee 
THE WM. CONNORS PAINT MFG. CO. 
1852 TROY, N. Y. 1924 
If your Dealer cannot supply you, write us. Our Service Depart¬ 
ment welcomes inquiries on bettering homes, and offers you invaluable 
suggestions with no obligation on your part. 
BEEMAN 
The Pioneer Garden Tractor 
It Plows, Harrows, Cultivates, etc. 
Write direct 
[to Factory for 
Free Catalog 
and 1924 X’ricen. 
BeemanTractorCo. 
705 B 2nd Ava. No. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
PowerCultivator 
Does work of 4 men or I horse- 
heavy cultivating or light — fast 
or slow. Easily operated and steered; • 
simple, sturdy. Automatic lubrication, 
dust-proofworking parts and our 
4-H. P.,4-cycle air-cooled engine. 
Uses hand orlight horse tools 
M.B.M. Manufacturing Co.. 
382 Reed St., Milwaukee,Wis.' 
Crows pulled one 
hill, and S aid“Good night!” 
writes C. H. Barrett, Thetford Cen¬ 
ter, Vt. “I wouldn’t plant without it.” 
Hundreds of corn-growers write us 
letters like these: “Had no corn 
pulled that I could discover.”—F. G. 
Vincent, W. Tisbury, Mass. 
“Crows nor nothing seem to bother 
it”—M. Crockwell, Red Hook, N. Y. 
“It does the job”—L. Varnum, Alex¬ 
ander, Me. 
“One kernel was pulled by 
crows. None were eaten. Yet 
crows were in fields all the time 
catching bugs,” says M. S. Taite, 
Turnhannock, Pa. 
“The crows pulled only one hill of 
my corn”—L. Martin, Hillsboro, N. H. 
“Saw but one hill taken”'—A. J. 
Hicks, New Carlisle, Ind. 
“Did not pull one hill in 1*4 acres 
of corn”—G. Post. Dover, Mass. 
Stanley’s Crow Repellent 
is what they are talking about. And we can give you scores and scores of 
more letters all saying the same thing. Why do you worry about your corn 
crop, when for $1.00 you can save from 1 to 2 acres of corn for every bushel 
of seed you plant ? “Money Back” guarantee,—you to be the only judge. 
Large can, enough for 2 bu. of seed corn (8 to 10 acres) $1.50. Half Bized 
can, $1.00. If your hardware, drug, or seed store doesn’t have it in stock, 
order direct. Address Cedar Hill Formulae Co., Box 500H, New Britain, Conn. 
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