The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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^^HEN you buy 
a hand or pow¬ 
er pump, buy one that 
you know will operate ri( 
and give you many years of 
trouble-free service. Myers 
Pumps are that kind. They keep 
on working without any tinkering, 
without repairs, long after other 
pumps have served their_usefulness. — 
We have built pumps for 
50 year* and have devel 
oped a line that meets ev 
ery requirement on the 
farm. All are simple, reli¬ 
able— and built (or a Iona 
life. If you want pumps you 
can depend on, get the 
Myers — absolutely ^“v\ le? 3 ’ 
the best pumps made. 
See your Myers dealer or 
write for catalog. 
THE F. E. MYERS & BRO. CO. 
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IHt r. fc. WlIfcKi & DKU. CU. 
315 Church St., Ashland, Ohio * i 
^ b Pumps, Water Systems, Hay 
Tools, Door Hangers 
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Every Day 
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Your 
* there is a job 
for th is Sprayer ~ ^ jffr i 
You can get more days of 
profitable work out of this 
sprayer than from any other tool 
on the place. You won’t neglect 
that important job of spraying, 
whitewashing or disinfecting, 
when you can do it so quickly, 
easily and effectively with a 
SmBANNER 
COMPRESSED AIR SPRAYER 
For spraying against in¬ 
sects and fungus on fruit 
trees, potatoes, cotton, vege¬ 
tables, gardens, shrubs, berries, 
grapes,flowers;'sprays whitewash, 
paint. Carbola and disinfectants 
in poultry houses, stables, barns, 
washes windows, autos and 
buggies. 
Built to stand hard service 
and strong chemicals. Heavy 4 
gallon galvanized steel or solid 
brass tank; 2 inch seamless brass 
pump; all brass castings. Few 
strokes of pump compresses air 
to discharge contents of tank 
fine mist or coarse spray; brass 
automatic, non-clog-nozzle — no 
work- - just press nozzle handle— 
acts “Quick as Lightning.” 
Ask your hardware or imple¬ 
ment dealer you will be sur¬ 
prised at the low price; to avoid 
disappointment refuse substi¬ 
tutes; insist on the genuine Smith 
Banner—if he cannot supply you 
write us for catalog and prices. 
D. B. SMITH & CO. 
70 Main Street Utica, N.Y. 
The name SMITH on a 
sprayer is a guarantee of last - 
ing quality and satisfaction, 
or money back. 
SIVKITH 
SPRAYERS 
ENTAUR 
SMALL FARM 
TRACTOR 
Displaces the Horse on the small farm. Pays for itself, 
in the saving of time, labor and Horse Feed. Make: 
the hard jobs easy. “New-Way' ’ Ajr Cooled Motor, 
Hyatt Roller Bearings, Bosch Ignition, Automatic 
Governor, 13 inches Axle Clearance. 
Plows 7 inches Deep in Clay Sod 
Riding Attachment for Harrowing, Dragging, Plant 
ing. Cultivating, Mowing, etc. A portable Power 
Plant for Sawing Wood. Grinding Feed and doing 
the many power jobs on the small farm. Costs only 
8 to 10c per hour to run. Has REVERSE— 
Backs On Its Own Power 
5 years’ successful performance has provan the CEN¬ 
TAUR the most economical, reliable and efficient 
small Tractor made. Liberal Terms. Money-Back 
Guarantee. Write for illustrated Catalog. 
THE CENTRAL TRACTOR CO. 
Bean Weevil Invades House 
Can you tell me what the inclosed in¬ 
sects are, where they come from, and how 
I can exterminate them? Our kitchen xs 
on the north side, with no sun striking it 
at all, and this is where they come in; 
cannot have my kitchen windows down 
an inch, as they swarm in through every 
available place. Still I can have my 
dining-room windows wide open and let 
the air and sun stream in, and not a bug 
cD I see. My neighbors are not pestered 
with them. Under the kitchen windows, 
against the foundation, we have a honey- 
rickle vine. Can they come from that? 
One cannot-see them from the outside, as 
they seem to come up the sash cord and 
the tiniest cracks where the putty has 
loosened. MRS. c. H. s. 
Midland Park, N. J. 
A correspondent once sent some small 
gray beetles to an entomologist with an 
inquiry as to what they were and where 
they came from, and how to get rid of 
them. The entomologist, being something 
of a wag, and knowing the correspondent 
personally, replied : “If you will look in 
the northwest corner of the cupboard in 
your pantry you will find a bag of beans 
which you have forgotten about. In this 
bag of beans you will find many of these 
beetles. Burn the beans or bury them 
and you will get rid of the bugs.” The 
correspondent wrote back at once: “How 
did you know we had a bag of beans in 
the northwest corner of our cupboard?” 
The entomologist happened to gness 
right. 
Mrs. C. H. 'S. must have a bag of beans 
somewhere about the kitchen, but in just- 
what corner I shall not try to guess. 
Among these beans the small grayish 
beetles, of which she sends specimens, 
will be found. This bean beetle, or wee¬ 
vil (Bruchus obtectus) comes in from the 
field with the beans and continues to live 
and multiply among the di’y stored beans. 
The tiny white eggs are deposited on the 
outside of a bean, where they hatch, and 
the Email white grub bores into the bean. 
It lives inside until it becomes grown, 
when it changes to a weevil, which cuts 
a round hole in the skin of the bean and 
comes out ready in a few days to deposit 
eggs for another generation. The beans, 
if left long enough, will be nearly eaten 
up and reduced to powder. 
The pests may be destroyed by de¬ 
stroying the beans, of the beans may be 
fumigated with carbon bisulphide in a 
tight jar or other receptacle. Carbon bi¬ 
sulphide is inflammable and explosive, 
and great care must be exercised not to 
come near it with a light or fire in any 
form. The beetles and grubs can be 
killed by putting the beans in an oven and 
heating them up to 125 or 130 degrees 
Fahr. for a half hour. This is not a high 
temperature, and the oven does not need 
to be nearly as hot as for baking. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Root Aphis on Asters 
My aster plants are troubled with lice 
every Summer. It is a white louse, gets 
on the roots and sucks the life right out 
of them. The plant begins to wither and 
then it dies. Last year I tried tobacco 
water and I also made a strong soapsuds 
and watered them, but it did no good. I 
intend to plant something else in the same 
bed, but I am afi-aid they will bother 
whatever I put there. What can I do to 
get rid of these pests? mrs. h. h. h. 
South Glastonbury, Conn. 
This aphis is destructive on the roots 
of many plants, and is protected and 
cared for by ants. It is often very de¬ 
structive to asters. I)o not plant asters 
in the same place another year; rotation 
of crops is helpful. Clear up remnants 
of plants in the Fall, and give Fall cul¬ 
tivation, which disturbs the ants caring 
for the aphis eggs over Winter. De¬ 
stroy any ants’ nests with bisulphide of 
carbon (remembering that this chemical 
is inflammable and explosive). The ants 
colonize the aphids near favorite food 
plants. Stirring tobacco dust into the 
soil around the roots when setting the as- 
ters will be helpful. 
The Missus: “Why is it Jane, that 
every time I come out here in the kitchen 
I find you reading a novel?” Jane: “I 
think it’s because you’re wearing rubber 
heels, Mrs. Brown.”—Detroit News. 
Young Man : “So Miss Ethel is your 
oldest sister? Who comes after her?” 
Small Boy: “Nobody ain’t come yet; but 
Pa says the first fellow that comes can 
have her.”—Everybody’s, 
This house is a crumbling ruin from lack of paint. 
Where paint is not used, deterioration is rapid. 
Lead frees you 
from a weather tax 
H OW much is your weather tax? Thousands of 
owners in the United States pay such a tax 
for the share of rain, snow, and sunshine that fall 
on their properties. 
A billion dollars’ worth of property crumbles 
beyond repair in this country each year. And this 
vast total includes the many millions paid by prop¬ 
erty owners as weather tax—money that lead would 
help to save. 
Lead is the ugly duckling among 
metals. It isn’t so handsome as 
gold. It isn’t so strong as iron. 
Yet lead performs many func¬ 
tions—for which the other metals 
are not suitable. In the form of 
white-lead in paint it is man’s 
mightiest protector of wooden 
and other non-metallic surfaces. 
Rain and storm have attacked this pillar, 
which was unprotected by naint. The owner 
is estimating the size of his weather tax. 
Approximately 350,000,000 
pounds of white-lead are used 
every year in this country. This 
makes enough paint to cover with 
one coat about 3,000,000 houses 
of average size. 
From the days of our fore¬ 
fathers, white-lead has been the 
standard for preventing decay 
and deterioration and for pro¬ 
viding the desired decoration. 
Wise owners everywhere are 
obeying the rule, “Save the sur¬ 
face and you save all,” and are 
covering the surface with white- 
lead paint. Thus they avoid pay¬ 
ing weather and repair taxes. 
For exterior painting they 
find that white-lead and 
pure linseed oil make 
a paint that sticks tight 
to the surface, is impervi¬ 
ous to moisture, and lasts 
long. And they know that 
fresh - looking, well-kept 
property is a sign of pros¬ 
perity, of cleanliness and 
respectability within. 
For interior painting of walls 
and woodwork these owners find 
that white-lead mixed with flat¬ 
ting oil not only protects the sur¬ 
face, but also gives a soft, beau¬ 
tiful finish. By mixing coloring 
matter with white-lead they ob¬ 
tain the color that will harmonize 
perfectly with any decorative 
scheme. 
Handy Book on Painting 
If you want to know how to save 
surfaces of wood, masonry or 
metal with paint, write for our 
Handy Booh on Painting. This 
book is a storehouse of paint 
facts and formulas and will be 
sent free at your request. 
Producers of white-lead 
Dutch Boy white-lead is the name 
of the pure white-lead made and 
sold by National Lead Company. 
It is extremely fine—so fine that 
it easily flows through a silk screen 
containing 27,000 holes to the 
square inch. This gives opacity 
and smoothness of film. 
On every keg of Dutch Boy 
white-lead is the picture of the 
Dutch Boy Painter shown below. 
This trade mark guarantees a 
product of the highest quality. 
Dutch Boy products also include 
red-lead, linseed oil, flatting oil, 
babbitt metals, and solder. 
National Lead Company 
makes lead products for practi¬ 
cally every purpose to which lead 
can be put in art, industry, and 
daily life. If you want informa¬ 
tion regarding any particular use 
of lead, write us. 
NATIONAL 
LEAD COMPANY 
New York, 111 Broadway; Boston, 131 
State Street; Buffalo, 116 Oak Street: 
Chicago, 900 West 18th Street; Cincin¬ 
nati, 659 Freeman Avenue; Cleveland. 
820 West Superior Avenue; St. Louis. 
722 Chestnut Street; San Francisco, 
485 California Street; Pittsburgh, Na¬ 
tional Lead & Oil Co. of Penna., 316 
Fourth Avenue; Philadelphia, John T. 
Lewis & Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut Street. 
