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Protect Your Young 
Fruit Trees 
Under the heavy snows of late 
winter rabbits, mice and other ro¬ 
dents injured or killed thousands 
of young fruit trees. This year the 
damage can be overcome by the 
use of Excelsior Wire Mesh Tree 
Guards at a cost of only a few 
cents a tree. Easily installed. 
Made in various sizes. Sold direct 
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Oldest Ready Mixed Paint House in America—Estab. 1842. 
0. W. Ingersoll 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N.Y, 
Saves a Man and Team 
Operated 
by the man 
en the load. 
Operated with 
gasoline 
engine. 
Orum holds 
240 ft. of rope. 
Ireland Hay Hoist 
A powerful machine that saves time and labor in 
storing hay and in other hoisting. Used in con¬ 
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yourown engine. Safe and easy to operate. Instant 
control. Pulley to suit your engine. Guaranteed 
as represented. Write for circular and prices. 
IRELAND MACHINE A FOUNDRY CO., Ino. 
State Street, Norwich, New York. 
We Manufacture 
Saw and Shingle Mills, Wood and Drag Saw Machinal 
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Before you buy send for prices and 
literature on Unadilla Water Storage 
or Cooling Tanks, Tubs or Vats in 
Spruce, White Pine, Oregon Fir or 
Cypress. 
Strongly built of best stock, cor¬ 
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adjustable hoops or bars. Made in 
round Water Tubs, Oblong Cooling 
Vats and Upright Storage Tanks. 
UNADILLA SILO CO. 
Box N Unadilla, N. Y. 
Useful and Interesting 
Intensive Ltrawberry Culture, by 
Louis Graton .$1.00 
Poultry Account Book, by D. J. 
Edmonds . 1.00 
Home Painter, by Kelly. 1.25 
Farmer His Own Builder, by H. A. 
Roberts . 1.50 
Feeds and Feeding, by Henry and 
Morrison, complete . 4.50 
Soils, by E. W. Hilgard. 5.00 
Organized Co-operation, by John J. 
Dillon . 1.00 
Commercial Poultry Culture, by 
Roberts . 3.00 
Adventures in Silence, by H. W. 
Collingwood . 1.00 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St., New York City 
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pillowed in the lady’s lap (the dog). The 
cat, the little tiger of our island, whose 
natural home is the forest, is equally 
domesticated, and caressed.” 
Oue with imagination may possibly pic¬ 
ture the feelings of some spirit of the lean 
and hungry wolf as he sees his latest 
descendant, the lapdog, taking a dose of 
castor oil because he has eaten too much 
cream or too many chocolates. Or take 
that fat man who goes rolling past in his 
expensive car. Years ago he worked with 
his hands, a mechanic, and never knew 
an ache or symptom of weariness. He in¬ 
vented some little essential part of a 
car—and now look at him. Worth at 
least $10,000 for every pound of his 
fat carcass, and with no ambition except 
to double the value, and not a sound or¬ 
gan in all that big body. Preserve me 
from a fortune which means frying in 
such rich fat as that. I would rather cut 
corn in this weedy field with just a little 
concern as to how these little girls are 
to be brought up and educated ! 
* * * * * 
.Tenner’s job of trying to convine the 
public of the relation between the grease 
on the hoof of the horse, cowpox and 
smallpox was harder than cutting corn 
in a weedy field. Something that comes 
nearer to us will answer our purpose. I 
am reading a great book, “The Life of 
John Marshall,” by Senator Beveridge. 
Marshall may be called the father of 
American constitutional law. He had an 
interesting life. In 17S1 he fell in love 
with a beautiful young woman and he 
was seized with a great fear that he 
might be taken with smallpox and left 
disfigured for life. Se he walked from 
Western Virginia to Philadelphia in or¬ 
der that he might be vaccinated. Under 
the Virginia laws of that time no one 
could be vaccinated unless he had the 
written permission of all the justices of 
the county and all the neighbors for two 
miles around. If even one of them re¬ 
fused the treatment could not be given, 
tinder penalty of $10,000. In those days 
if anyone was stricken with smallpox he 
was left alone in some remote cabin in 
the woods! John Marshall walked to 
Philadelphia and was treated literally in 
order to “save his face” for his young 
lady. We may compare such things' with 
our present health laws! Up in our 
neighborhood is a beautiful pond fed by 
the finest of springs. The water comes 
pouring out of the earth, a regular foun¬ 
tain of youth, yet not long ago, a man 
who tried to sell ice from this crystal 
pool into trouble because he did not 
have an analysis of the water! Of 
course I know that in discussing vacci¬ 
nations in this way I shall be bitterly 
criticized by some of the “antis.” Of 
all the language I have had directed at 
me the ‘Strongest and most abusive has 
come from those who oppose vaccination. 
I have no argument to present, but it is 
evident to me that before this treatment 
was adopted the disease of smallpox was 
perhaps the worst scourge which afflicted 
humanity. Now the disease has practical¬ 
ly disappeared. And take the treatment 
of the teeth. But the little girls want 
me to come and have a lunch with them. 
They seem to have crackers and cheese 
and raw apples, but the four of us have 
enough imagination to make it pass as a 
state dinner. Come on and join us! We 
will get at the teeth next week. 
H. W. C. 
Snails in the Garden 
Will you give me a remedy for slugs 
or snails, which during this wet weather 
eat off the young seedlings of tender flow¬ 
ering plants as soon as they appear above 
ground? w. h. I. 
Ashville, N. Y. 
A dusting of air-slaked lime around 
the plants will discourage slugs or snails; 
they will not crawl over it. Many may 
be trapped by laying cabbage or lettuce 
leaves on the ground in the evening; in 
the morning they will be found under 
these leaves, and may be destroyed. 
These molluscs are often a nuisance 
in cold frames, hotbeds and cellars, as 
well as in greenhouses. To control them 
the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture advises to remove all decaying 
boards or debris, and then apply air- 
slaked lime, finely pulverized salt or road 
dust liberally. Of course, salt could not 
be used on plant beds, but beds of cut¬ 
tings or seedlings may be protected by 
putting a border of salt, soot or dry lime 
around them. Dry lime or salt will be 
found desirable in a cellar where the slugs 
or snails appear. They can also be poi¬ 
soned with a bait of boiled potatoes or 
sweet potatoes sprinkled with white ar¬ 
senic or Paris green. Drenching the soil 
with a solution of mercuric chloride (cor¬ 
rosive sublimate), one-half ounce to the 
gallon of water, will destroy slugs, snails, 
earthworms, and the larvae of various soil 
insects, but this must be handled with 
great care, as it is a deadly poison. As 
the bichloride corrodes metals, it should 
be prepared in a glass or glazed vessel. 
This Is the "BIG-MONEY” Year 
For WITTE Log Saw Owners 
rpHIS is undoubtedly the year for 
J- owners of my outfits to make big¬ 
ger money than ever before. With prosperity 
in sight, prices on farm products going up— 
your profits should run into the thousands 
clearing up timbered land, sawing wood for 
fuel, doing power jobs, etc. Get into the 
money-making class right now—if you’ll 
write me I’ll show you how. 
£d.H. Witte 
One Man Can Do 
the Work ot ^ 
TEN! 
u a One-Man outfit 
—simple and easy to 
operate. Dependable 
and Trouble-Proof— 
one man can do more 
than 10 at 1/20 the 
cost. 
Has WIC0 
Magneto 
Most Perfect 
Ignition Known. 
Fat. hot spark 
in any weather 
or climate. Starts 
at 40 below zero. 
Not affected by 
water or oil. 
rPHAT’S the way the WITTE Log Saw works— 
a long, clean, “Arm-swing ’' stroke—steady-run¬ 
ning and dependable. By far the fastest saw built, 
Can’t bind or clog. Users report more than 40 cords 
sawed in an average day. Work "rain or shine” with the 
WITTE Log and Tree Saw 
Has made thousands of dollars for users all over the country. Martin Schultz, 
Wisconsin, made over $600.00 profit. He says: “We are through sawing now 
but the engine works every day pumping water. Sure saves time 
and labor.” J. J. Donahue, South Dakota says: “I cut 3-foot logs 
in 4 minutes. Big money maker for me.” The WITTE is the 
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moves easily in any direction. Weighs only 38 pounds 
at the handles. Fastest because blade 
cannot whip or “ride”. Makes any 
cut you want—speeded up or slowed 
down by merely turning a screw. 
SA WS THEM DO WN 
IN A HURRY- 
Earl McBurney felled 
fifty 18-inch trees in 
less than five hours. 
Friction Clutch 
Lever Control 
Start or stop saw blade while en¬ 
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a guaranteed absence of engine or blade troubles. 
Change To Tree Saw In 3 Minutes 
Only three minutes to change from Log Saw to Tree Saw—ten seconds to clamp 
to tree. Fastest ever known. Earl McBurney, Iowa, says: “I felled 60 18-inch 
tree8 in less than five hours. Best and cheapest I ever saw.” Saws trees from 
any position—clear down level to the ground. 
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c ■ rs n m-rsmm piacedirect from factory and you can take nearly a year to pay £ 
£ n/l 1 / small balance, the lowest price ever quoted on this amazing outfit. Suit yourself £ 
£ #1# trU V on the eusytermsand the WITTE will make you back its cost in a few days time. £ 
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Burns Kerosene, Gasoline or Distillate 
Cheapest to operate—runs all day at a cost of 2c an hour. Burns all fuels and the 
sturdy, standard WITTE Engine delivers a big surplus of power for all work. 
An All Plirnnco Huff it Theengine can be used for Belt work when not sawing as it has two 
Kll Hll“l UlpUaC VUilll flywheels. Grind grain, pump water, etc-—do all jobs at small cost. 
90 Days 9 FREE TRIAL—Lifetime Guarantee 
Sold direct to you from the factory on a Lifetime Guarantee. You can test the WITTE for 90 days 
at my risk—If it’s not right. I’ll make it right and it won’t cost you a cent. 
Write Today For My FREE BOOK 
You can make $1,000 more profit this year. Write today and I’ll send you my big free book on log sawa 
-gives full details, descriptions and low prices. No obligation. ED. M. 'WITTE Pros 
6895 Witte Bldg., KANSAS CITY, MO. 
6895 Empire Bldg., PITTSBURGH’ PA. 
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BIENENFELD GLASS WORKS, Inc. 
1539-1549 Covert St.. BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
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“I Saved Over 814". says L. M. 
well, Jamestown.N.Y. You, too, can 
We pay (he freight. Write for 
Catalog of Farm, Poultry, Lawn Ki 
KITSELMAN BROS. Dept. 220 MUNCIE. 
CORN HUSKERS 
That will hunk a bushel a minute. Send for literature. 
Chicopee Corn Husker Co. Chicopee Fall**, Mass. 
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Commercial Poultry Raising 
by Roberta. 
An all -around book; $3 postpaid, by 
Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
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