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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
June 7, 1924 
AN outstanding feature of Goodyear bal- 
loon tires is SUPERTWIST, the remark¬ 
able new cord fabric perfected by Goodyear. 
Tests made with this enduring new material 
showed that a tire carcass made of SUPER- 
TWIST delivered more than 100% greater 
service than a carcass made of an equal 
number of plies of standard cord fabric. 
SUPERTWIST is used only by Goodyear, and 
is built into Goodyear balloon tires of both 
kinds—to fit new small-diameter wheels, 
and to fit the wheels now on your car* 
Qoodyear M eans Qood Wear 
Copyright 1924. by The Goodyear Tire & RubberCo., Inc. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
10 MILLION FOR SALE 
Fine Field grown stock. 12 leading varieties. Cab¬ 
bage plants. 300. 75c; 500,»1.25; 1,000, $2.OO, mai 1- 
ed prepaid. Expressed, 5.000, S6.25; 10,000,810; 
Cash. Tomato plants, 300, $1.00; 500, 81.50; 
1000. 82.50; 10.000 820,00. Mailed prepaid. Ex¬ 
pressed, 10.000, 815.00. SWeet Potato, 300, 81.50; 
500, 82.00; 1,000, 83.50 Postpaid. Expressed, 
10,000, 980.00, Cash. Largest and Oldest growers 
in Virginia. Good order delivery positively guaran¬ 
teed or money refunded. 
J. P. Council! Company Franklin. Virginia 
Berry, Vegetable and Flower Plants 
Leading varieties Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry 
Gooseberry, Currant, Grape plants ; Asparagus, Rhubarb’ 
Horseradish roots;Cabbage, Cauliflower,Celery, Tomato’ 
Egg Plant, Beet, Onion, Pepper, Sweet Potato and other 
vegetable plants; Delphinium, Foxglove, Hollyhock, 
Canterbury Bells, Phlox, Pansy, Salvia, Aster, Zinnia, 
Snapdragon and other Perennial and Annual flower 
plants; Dahlia, Gladioli, Canna bulbs; Roses, Shrubs, 
Hedge Plants. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Hampton Bay., N. Y. 
Millions of CabbagecKLEitvpia,!u 
. /I P from June 20th, 
$2.50 per M ; $1.75 per 500. Special prices on large 
orders. Early Snowball Cauliflower plants, $3.50 per 
M straight. All kinds of plants, shrubs, trees, orna¬ 
mentals, etc. Wells HI. Dodds, North Rose, N. Y. 
2 nnn nnn CABBAGE PLANTS. Leadingvarieties. 
,UUU,UUU Early and late. Prepaid, 100— 45c ; 600 
—$1.25; 1,000—$2.25. Express, 5,000—$5.50. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. List free. W. J. Myers, R. 2, Massillon, Ohio 
Cabbage and Tomato Plants 
500 for $1.25; $2.25 per 1,000, P. Paid. Aster. Scar¬ 
let iSage, 25c per dozen. DAVID R00WAY. Hartly, Delaware 
|l.|,L._. One haif million Danish and Glory. 
baDDage rrants Ashmead Williamson, N.Y. 
Cabbage and Tomato Plants l 
paid. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. 
$5!, 
II. SCOTT, Franklin, Va. 
MILLIONS Vegetable Plants,” bb1^ e F an!iV®nau" 
for late crop ; standard varieties; name 
choice; 300—76c; 600—$1.26; 1,000—$2; postpaid, $1.25 per 
1,000, by express. Ruby King Peppers, 100—50c; 1,000— 
$2.50 prepaid. Sat. good order deli very guaranteed. Old 
reliable growers. MAPLE GROVE PLANT FARMS, Franklin, Virginia 
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Culture 
By LOUIS GRATON 
II This book has grown out of Mr. || 
|1 Graton’s more than 40 years’ experi- || 
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|| turist. Of special value to the home || 
|f gardener and small commercial |1 
11 grower, producing high quality her- || 
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CATALOG 
C. S. KEMPTON & CO., 
“ Longmeadow ” Springfield, Mass. 
EVERBEARING Strawberry Plants 
$1. SOper 100; $9.75 per 1,000. HARRY L.SQtllRES, Hampton Bays,N.Y. 
Certified Seed Potatoes 
H. F. IIU1JBS - Kirkville, N. Y. 
2,000,000 Sweet Potato Plants Cabbage plants. 
Catalogue fie©. Michael N. Borgo Vineland, N. J. 
GLADIOLI 
Beautiful unnamed varieties. $1. “5 
per 100. prepaid, all blooming size 
E. N, Tilton Ashtabula, Ohio 
70 
Blooming Gladiolus, >M. No two alike. Dahlias. 
Cannas. Circular. A. S11E IlM AN, Chicopee Palls, Maes. 
GENUINE Martha Washington ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
Extra large selected Northern grown roots, $1 5 per 1,000; 
$2 per 100. Howard No. 17 Strawberry Plants, $12 per 
1,000; $2 per 100. Shipping charges collect. 
WILFRID WHEELED Concord, Mass. 
F O R SALE 
Two Million Tomato Plants @. 81.50 per 1.000 
Two Million Celery Plants @. 3.00 per 1,000 
Two Million Cabbage Plants @.... 1.50 per 1,000 
All plants from selected stock seed. 
CALEB BOGGS A SONS 
Seed and Plant Farm Cheswold, Delaware 
PADQAGC Tomato and Peppers. Plants, 100—50c ; 500— 
UADDAUl $2: 1,000—$8, Postpaid. Catalogue Free. 
W. S. Ford & Son - Hartly, Delaware 
FOR SALE-" WILSON’S" Soy Beans. . $4.00 Bush. 
Cow Peas . . 3.85 
Mixed Peas and Beans. 3.65 
Joseph K. Holland Milford, Delaware 
BINDER TWIN! 
Get our low price. Farmer 
agents wanted. Sample free. 
THEO. BURT & S0N8 Melrose. Ohio 
were desperately afraid of this feed. 
They thought it would ruin their cowe. 
We know a man who tried Soy beans for 
the first time, and refused to feed “these 
coarse sticks to respectable cattle.” The 
cattle themselves settled the problem by 
eating the “sticks” up clean when they 
were used for bedding. Apple pomace, 
rice polish, yeast and dozens of other 
foods have gone the same way. They had 
value; that was demonstrated, but they 
were new, and most people fully believe 
in Pope’s line: 
“Be not the first bv whom the new is 
tried.” 
It will require persistent advertising to 
introduce a new food. Probably the most 
practical way would be to use it as a part 
of mixed feed, after considerable experi¬ 
ment. It should all be saved, and prob¬ 
ably will in time, like apple pomace, 
fish refuse and other wastes, but it is 
hardly a job for an individual without 
capital and considerable experience. 
Development of Hardy Plants 
Very recently I ran into a case of nat¬ 
ural unintentional selection demonstrat¬ 
ing the survival of the fittest. 
By looking at a map of Alabama on a 
map of the whole United States you will 
see that Mobile Bay has two sides. The 
eastern side is Baldwin County, until 
recent years very thinly settled in the 
lower portion. Years ago the early set¬ 
tlers planted seed of such oranges as they 
bought in Mobile, or picked up on the 
shore, mostly Spanish Valencia type of 
fruit. Successive freezes wiped out the 
weaklings, and evidently seedlings of the 
survivors were grown, until a rather 
hardy seedling of high quality has 
evolved. An old friend of mine, a de¬ 
scendant of the early settlers, told me 
some days ago that he had just been 
“across the bay” and hack in the coun¬ 
try, and that the native sweet oranges 
had suffered far less than the grafted 
Satsumas on Trifoliata stocks ; that many 
of them had suffered some damage, some 
killed down, but many were showing good 
healthy growth. 
I am advising you of this incident to 
show that your contention of the north¬ 
ward limit of cotton is entirely within 
reason, and that time will probably pro¬ 
duce a hardy plant. I should hazard a 
guess at 10 years, for it looks reasonable 
to assume that the present sweet orange 
on the average is removed 10 generations 
from the early plantings, allowing over 
100 years for the time the early trees 
were planted, and 10 years to a genera¬ 
tion. M. A. p 
Mobile, Ala. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JUNE 7, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
limestone. Rock Phosphate and Clover.... 855 
A Lawsuit Over Weed Seeds.855, 856 
Fanning Without Live Stock. 856 
Thickening Stand of Alfalfa. 866 
Happy Farmer; How He Got that Way.... 857 
A Pennsylvania Potato Warehouse. 862 
Thirteen Years on the Farm—Part II..863, 871 
Hope Farm Notes . 864 
Prospects for a Potato Crop. 874 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Feeding Value in Tomato Wastes.857, 858 
Grain with Barley. 870 
Tankage for Pigs. 870 
Ration with Pasture. 870 
Heifer Farms in Canada. 872 
Unprofitable Cow . 872 
Combating Abortion . 873 
Hard Churning . 873 
Tying a Wool Fleece. 876 
Four Horses on Harrow. 875 
THE HENYARD 
A Mud Henhouse. 875 
New York State Egg-laying Contest. 876 
White Diarrhoea ........ 870 
HORTICULTURE 
Lime for Club-foot in Cabbage. 869 
Red Bug and Maggot. 859 
Honey from Scotch Heather. 869 
Cleft-grafts Remaining Dormant. 859 
Shrubs for Shaded Places; Narcissi Fail to 
Bloom . 865 
Peony Blight . 865 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 868 
The Rural Patterns. 868 
Rhubarb and Raspberry Marmalade. 868 
Rhubarb or Gooseberry Pie. 868 
Uncooked Chili Sauce. 868 
Chicago Hot . 868 
Another Summer Kitchen. 869 
Embroidery Designs . 869 
Removing Lime from Teakettle. 869 
Bedbugs Once More.869 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Thinning the Woodchuck Crop. 856 
A Rural School Field Day. 857 
Markets. 860 J 
Events of the Week. 862 ! 
Editorials . 866 
A Snag in the Milk Conference. 867 
Figuring the Soldier’s Bonus. 867 
The N. Y. District School Meeting. 867 
The Cost of Farm Life. 867 
What Do You Think of Crop Surveys?. 867 
Eastern Apples Wanted in Nebraska. 867 
Salt to Insulate Refrigerator. 874 
Removing Nickel Plating from Brass. 874 
Renewing Bichromate Battery. 874 
Salt in Water Glass. 874 
Ambergris or Paraffin. 874 
Smoky Meat . 874 
Removing Soot from Copper. 874 
Publisher’s Desk . 878 
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to stay there until the tree bears true-to- 
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Packed by Experts 
Our 44 years of nursery experience has 
taught us the proper method of handling 
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Write today for your copy of 
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1160 Main St., Dansville, N. Y. 
Wall Paper 
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Finest quality, large double rolls, 
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Factory Representatives, as we are, 
enable us to sell the best Wall Paper at 
lowest prices obtainable, eliminating 
many in-between profits and giving 
them to you. . 
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Don’t buy without seeing this book; 
it will save you money. Full instruc¬ 
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quality of our Goods and our Prices 
will 'convince you that weean 
and will save you money. 
Write to the nearest office 
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THE BERLIN FRUIT BOX CO. 
Berlin Heights, Ohio 
Barrels of Slightly Damaged Crockery “! ‘cook! 
ingware, Glassware, etc., shipped direct from factorv to 
consumer. Write us forpartic. E. SWASEY SCO..Portland,Maine 
Farm Co-operation 
is a protest against the monopoly 
and other oppressive methods of 
organized distributors and the 
capital stock companies. Can 
farmers afford to adopt the policies 
in their own organizations that 
they denounce in others ? 
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HIS SUBJECT is treated fully 
but concisely in the new book, 
“Organized Co-operation.” Farmers 
must understand these questions if 
they are to direct their own organiza¬ 
tions, and no organization can be 
co-operative unless the members direct 
it themselves. 
The book will be sent 
postpaid for $1.00 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
