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lift* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 21, 1924 
REASON NO. 5 
Actual economy. It costs less to j 
operate the WILLSEA AUTOMATIC WATER | 
SYSTEM than to pay for city water : 
service. And if you could compute in ; 
dollars and cents the actual saving in 
time and labor of merely turning a : 
faucet to fill the stock watering troughs, 
to draw running water in the kitchen, 
laundry, bathroom, instead of pumping 
and carrying bucket by bucket for all 
these different [purposes — the initial 
cost would be made up in a surprisingly 
short time. Running water is a real 
economy. 
The WILLSEA AUTOMATIC WATER 
SYSTEM is of the very highest quality. 
It supplies running water automatically 
and requires no tinkering or fussing. 
It is silent, dependable, durable—built 
to give efficient service and lasting 
satisfaction. 
If your local dealer cannot give you the information, write'us 
THE WILLSEA WORKS 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Keep the Boys Contented on the Farm 
Give them equipment which will make the work of culti¬ 
vating and lawn mowing real sport. 
The BOLENS Power Hoe and 
appeals to boys and with it one boy 
can usually do more and better 
work than four men. All attach¬ 
ments instantly interchangeable. 
IVrite for particulars 
GILSON MANUFACTURING CO. 
312 Park Street - Port Washington, Wis. 
Lawn Mower Tractor 
Killed with PARAFIX. (Pure Paradichlorbenzene 
recommended by U. S. Gov. & State Exp. bta.) 
Full instructions, results guaranteed or money 
back. Booklet FREE. ~ 
Treat 10 trees $1. 
60 trees $3. Postpaid or C.O.D. Dept. B 
The Parafix Co., 7 East42nd St.. N.Y.C. 
Cabbage and Tomato Plants 
500 for SI.25 ; $2.25 per 1,000, P. Paid. Aster, Scar¬ 
let Sage, 25c per dozen, DAVID R0DWAY, Hartly, Delaware 
9 film flflfl CABBAGE PLANTS. Leading varieties. 
4,UUU,UUU Early and late. Prepaid, 100—45. ; 600 
-*1,35; 1,000—*3.35. Express, 5,000—*7.50. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. List free. W. J. Myers, R. 7, Massillon, Ohio 
Five Solid Acres Early Glory, Copenhagen Market 
and Danish Cabbago Plants. Ready from June 15 to July 
15. $1.60 per 1,000. C. J. STAFFORD, Cortland, New York 
Celery Plants For Sale 
blight, ready to ship after June 27. Orders filled prompt¬ 
ly. Prices reasonable. New and old type Paris Golden. 
Also green varieties. Warner Celery Co., Canastota, N.Y. 
C|onfc For Coin Celery, Cauliflower : 100—60c ; 500—*3 ; 
rldlllS rur oaie 1 , 000 — *3. Cabbage: 100 —40c; 500 —* 1 . 35 ; 
1,000—*3, postpaid. Cat. free. W. S. FORD ft SON,Hardy,Delaware 
COW IPEAS For Sale 
PeifS, $3.65 bu. SIMPSON BROTHERS. Milford. Delaware 
2,000,000 Sweet Potato Plants for sale - Also late 
Catalogue free. Michael N. Borgo 
Cabbage plants. 
Vineland, N. J. 
DIMnCD TWINF Get our low P rt ce. Farmer 
mill)r.ft 1 _agents wanted. Sample free. 
THEO. BURT & SONS 
Melrose, Ohio 
Our Hew Handy Binder 
Sides are heavy Book Board, Imita¬ 
tion Leather Back and Corners, 
( Cloth Sides, Two Tongues Inside. 
> Inside of Cover Neat Lining Paper, 
Stamped in Gold— “Rural New- 
‘ Yorker”— on outside. 
Will hold 52 issues, or more. 
Sent prepaid upon receipt of 
' price, 65c. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Business Farmer's Paper 
NEW YORK CITY 
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KELLYS’ 
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True to Na^rTe Fruit Trees 
Kellys’ true-to-nanie fruit trees are 
shipped direct from our nurseries to 
you no middleman, no agents. Our 
reputation for sq u are dealing is 
established; you take no risk. 
44 Years’ Experience 
In growing true-to-name trees has 
taught us the proper method of hand¬ 
ling young stock. It is packed correct¬ 
ly to reach you in perfect condition. 
Prompt Shipment 
Orders filled and shipped same day as 
received or any time you specify. Our 
1924 fall catalog will be sent free upon 
request. 
Kelly Bros. Nurseries 
1160 Main St., Dansville, N. Y. 
Established 
in 1880 
The I 1 ———————— 
BASKET* 1 The Berlin Quart 
That secures highest prices 
for your fruit. Write for 
catalog showing our complete 
line, and secure your baskets 
and crates at FACTORY 
PRICES. 
THE BERLIN FRUIT BOX CO. 
Berlin Height,, Ohio 
OR 
PARCEL 
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Per 100 
600 
1.000 
; 6,000 
SO 30 
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SI 25 
$ 5 00 
. 65 
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Vegetable, Flower and Berry Plants 
Celery, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, Pepper. 
Egg Plant, Tomato, Sweet Potato, Kale plants ; Holly¬ 
hock, Baby’s Breath, Hardy Salvia, Phlox, Delphinium, 
Marigold, Chinese Pink, Mourning Bride, Portulaca, 
and other annual and perennial flower plants ; pot- 
grown Strawberry plants for August and fall planting ; 
runner Strawberry plants, Raspberry, Blackberry, 
Gooseberry, Currant, Grape plants for September 
planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Hampton Bays, N. Y. 
CABBAGE. $0.30 
CAULIFLOWER S PEPPER. 
TOMATO AND B SPROUTS... 
SWEET POTATO. .60 
CELERY.50 
Catalog Free. C. E. FIELD, Sewell, N. J. 
MILLIONSVegetate Plantsc^e F a,!d d To G S, 
for late crop ; standard varieties; name 
choice; 300—75c; 600—$1.36; 1,000—*3; postpaid, *1.35 per 
1,000, by express. Ruby King Peppers, 100—50c; 1,000— 
*3.50 prepaid. Sat. good order delivery guaranteed. Old 
reliable growers. MAPLE GROVE PLANT FARMS. Franklin, Virginia 
F O R SALE 
Two Million Tomato Plants ®.SS1.50 per 1.000 
Two Million Oelery Plants®. 3.00 per 1,000 
Two Million Cabbage Plants @_ X.SO per 1,000 
All plants from selected stoek seed. 
CALEB BOGGS A SONS 
Seed and Plant Farm Cho&wold, Delaware 
Millions of Cabbage cEi!EUY 1 pia.Tta 
-- 3 _ from June 20th, 
$2.50 per M ; $1.75 per 500. Special prices on large 
orders. Early Snowball Cauliflowerplants. $3.50 per 
M straight. All kinds of plants, shrubs, trees, orna¬ 
mentals, etc. Wells M. Dodds, North Rose, N. Y. 
7H Blooming Gladiolus, #1. No two alike. Dahlias. 
I V Cannas. Circular. A. SIIEIUIAN, Chicopee Falls, Muss. 
Garden and Farm Notes 
The Pickle Worm 
What can I do to keep small worms 
out of my muskmeloDs and watermelons? 
They spoiled my entire crops of muskmel- 
on last year. They are inside of melon 
when green and before the melon ie ripe 
it is rotten inside. Worms are % in. or 
1 in. long; green. They do not bother the 
vines. Each melon has small holes in ir, 
about the size of No. 5 shot. c. b. b. 
The trouble referred to by C. B. B. is 
undoubtedly due to the common pickle 
worm (Diaphania nitidalis). This insect 
is more commonly injurious south of 
Maryland, It attacks cantaloupes, cu¬ 
cumbers and Summer squash, being par¬ 
ticularly fond of the latter. 
Early cantaloupes are not usually bad¬ 
ly infested, and growing an early crop is 
one method of avoiding injury by this in¬ 
sect. Another preventive method is to 
plant a trap-crop of Summer squash. If 
two or three plantings of squashes are 
made at intervals of two weeks, the 
moths will be attracted to these plants 
and will lay their eggs on them. The 
squashes planted at intervals will fur¬ 
nish a succession of blossoms during the 
ripening period of the melons. The worms 
are so fond of the squash plants and flow¬ 
ers they will not notice the melons. As 
the blossoms become infested with the 
worms they should be picked off and de¬ 
stroyed. 
After the harvest all of the old plants 
and worthless fruit should be raked up 
and destroyed. Many of the worms in 
all stages of development will be killed, 
thus lessening the infestation during the 
following year. Land on which an in¬ 
fested crop has grown should be plowed 
deeply in early Fall or Spring in order 
to bury and kill the insects, as they are 
living over the Winter in the soil. 
I would also recommend dusting the 
melons with a dust composed of arsenate 
of lead, 1 lb., and hydrated lime, 10 lbs. 
It would probably be best to make the 
first application about as soon as the 
melons began blooming, following this 
with subsequent dustings, two or three, 
at intervals of 10 days, during the grow¬ 
ing period of the fruit. If rain follows 
the application of dust and washes it off, 
another dusting should be given. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Growing Mushrooms in Old Icehouse 
1 am sending you some mushrooms. I 
have a big icehouse, 40x100, which I 
have not used for ice storage and had 
the floor covered with sawdust for a foot 
or more 18 years ago. Now the mush¬ 
rooms come up since there is no ice in it. 
Will you tell me whether it is safe to sell 
these, as they grow in the house? I think 
they are all right, but as I have no ex¬ 
perience I am sending you a sample. Is 
there anything that I can do to make 
them grow and continue to produce? The 
floor is laid with boards on top of the 
sawdust, with space in between where 
they come through. h. b. h. 
The mushroom samples are different 
from what we are familiar with, and 
could not say whether or not they are 
safe to use. Send some, fresh, direct to 
Washington, D. C., Bureau of Plant In¬ 
dustry, and also to State College, Pa. 
An icehouse 40x100 ft. should make an 
ideal mushroom house. Clear all saw¬ 
dust out of bottom and put in a small 
heating plant. A hot-water heater placed 
in a shallow pit below the floor or bot¬ 
tom of icehouse at one end, so that the 
heating pipes can be run in the walks on 
the bottom of house would be necessary. 
Your plumber could give you size of boiler 
and number of pipes to keep the house 
65 to 70 degrees for a portion of the de¬ 
veloping period. The size would depend 
entirely upon how well the walls are insu¬ 
lated. Ventilators would have to De 
placed on the roof. An opening 12 in. 
wide the entire length of the house would 
be sufficient. This opening would have to 
be arranged to open and close easily, and 
have a protection to keep rain and storms 
from entering. In a house of this size, 
allowing 2-ft. walks and beds 5*4 ft. in 
width, you could build 2.600 sq. ft. of 
mushroom beds. Each 2 ft. of headroom 
will allow you to add another bed on 
top of the first one, until you have five or 
six beds in height, if the roof is high 
enough to permit such construction. If 
you could build six beds high you would 
have over 1,500,000 sq. ft. of beds. That 
would require 150 tons of fresh horse 
manure to fill the house, and about 450 
bottles of spawn to plant it. 
The spawn is made in Ivennett Square, 
West Chester and Coatesville, Pa. If 
you contemplate this business seriously, 
it would pay you big to try to go to Iven- 
nett Square, Chester Co., Pa., and see 
how they build houses and grow mush¬ 
rooms. There are many very successful 
growers in that district. An outline of 
how to grow mushrooms will be found in 
The R. N.-Y., issue of March 1, 1924. 
ELMER J. WEAVER. 
Insects on Roses 
I have a Crimson Rambler rose climb¬ 
ing on the northeast corner of the house. 
Last year lice ate the leaves so that 
when Fall came the stems were nearly 
bare, and the first of June the lice were 
again at work. They are a small green 
louse working mostly near the hearts. 
Could you help me to destroy this pest? 
Summer Hill, Pa. a. l. 
Rose lice or aphides suck the juices of 
the plant, but do not eat the leaves. There 
are several chewing insects that attack 
the leaves. The rose slug, the larva of 
a saw-fly, may be the trouble; it is a 
small green slug, extremely voracious, 
which begins to devour the leaves as soon 
as hatched, and does a great deal of dam¬ 
age. Tobacco or whale-oil soap are de¬ 
sirable sprays for controlling this, and 
if the two are combined the spray will 
stick much better. One ounce of Black 
Leaf 40 (nicotine sulphate) to five gal¬ 
lons of water, to which 7% ounces of 
whale-oil soap are added is a standard 
mixture. If whale-oil soap is not at hand, 
common laundry soap may be used. This 
spray is also effective for plant lice, if 
they are present. 
This inquiry does not refer to mildew, 
but Crimson Rambler is exti’emely sub¬ 
ject to this trouble, and a northeast ex¬ 
posure, climbing on a house, would be 
rather likely to be favorable to it. We 
have always used sulphur to control mil 
dew, but plan this season to try a new 
remedy, bicarbonate of soda. This is 
said to work well in the Pacific North¬ 
west; one to 1 y 2 ounces of soda bicar¬ 
bonate are dissolved in a gallon of boil¬ 
ing water, which is allowed to cool, and 
then used as a spray. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JUNE 21, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Wire worms in Potatoes.906 
Reseeding- Bare Spots in an Alfalfa Field.. 907 
Cesspool Contents for Manure. 909 
Thirteen Years on a Farm—Part IV. 910 
Farmers Should Study Economics. 913 
The Answer About Farm Labor. 913 
Hope Farm Notes . 914 
Exterminating Sassafras Roots. 915 
Fertilizing Value of Nightsoil. 915 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Cheesemaking at Home... 910 
Meeting of Milk Committee. 917 
Keeping Cows in Good Flesh. 920 
Feeding Buckwheat and Oats. 920 
Contracted Hoofs; Panting Horse... 922 
Excitement Fits of Dogs. 922 
Ear Mange in Cat. 922 
THE HENYARD 
Clogged Smokepipe in Brooder Stove. 913 
New York State Egg-laying Contest. 924 
Scratch Feed for Little Chicks. 924 
HORTICULTURE 
Root-rot and Mouse Injury . 907 
California Grapes in New York State. 909 
Terms in Grape Culture.909 
Black Rot on Grapes. 909 
Culture of Sweet Peas. 911 
Lice on Rose and Snowball Bushes. 911 
A Roadside Flower Bed. 911 
Winter Injury on Apple Trees; Brown on 
Stone Fruits . 911 
Rose Bugs in the Garden. 911 
Religion of a “Specked” Apple. 913 
The Herbert Red Raspberry. 915 
Forcing Young Grafts to Bear. 915 
Radiating Surface for Greenhouse.... 915 
Equivalent Amounts of Dry and Liquid 
Lime-sulphur . 915 
Controlling Ants in Garden. 915 
Aphis and Rose Chafers. 915 
Cultivation of Orchards. 917 
WOMAN AND HOME 
More About that “Mother’s Day”. 915 
A Pennsylvania Mother’s Opinion..,. 915 
From Day to Day. 918 
The Rural Patterns. 918 
Rag Carpet Suggestions. 918 
Tennessee Notes . 919 
The Laxative Diet . 919 
Letters of An Indiana Farmer. 919 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The School Trustee; His Powers and Duties 
905, 906 
A Scheme for Electrocuting Rats. 906 
The Modern Car and Its Work.906, 907 
Extinguisher for Hornets.. 913 
Editorials . 916 
The Consolidated School . .... 917 
Countrywide Produce Situation... 922 
Chemical to Clean Cesspool. 922 
