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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 25, 1924 
Massachusetts 
Fruit Growers 
Association Cer- 
tifies KELLY Trees 
Our new Fall Catalog tells how 60,000 of 
our large stock of trees have a certified, 
true-to-name seal fastened through a limb 
to stay there until the tree bears true-to- 
name fruit as guaranteed by us. 
Our 1925 plans have been 
made for a still larger 
amount of stock to bear 
this seal. Kelly Trees have 
been the favorite stock of 
prominent fruit growers 
who have gained confidence 
in our true-to-name guar¬ 
antee. ^ 
Orders will be booked in 
order of their receipt as 
long as the stock lasts. 
Get your order in early. 
Careful Handling 
44 years’ nursery experience 
has taught us the proper 
method of handling young 
trees so that they reach 
you in perfect condition. 
Send for Fall Fruit Book 
Our beautiful 1924 Fall fruit 
book is now ready. It tells 
how our trees were certi¬ 
fied to be true-to-name. 
Send today for your copy, 
and be sure to get your 
order in early. 
KELLY BROS. NURSERIES 
1160 Main St., DANSV1LLE, N. Y. 
KELLYS’ 
_ CeAfiJfads 
True to Nd nie Fruit Trees 
VINES, BERRIES, SHRUBS 
We know the varieties sent you are just what 
you order and guarantee them true to name and 
healthy—We sell direct at cost of production 
plus one profit, That’s why Maloney customers 
get better trees at exceptionally low prices. 
Fall Planting Pays. We prepay transportation 
elmrges. See Catalog 
MALONEY BROS. NURSERY CO., INC. 
89 Mala Street, Dansvllle, N. Y. 
Danville's Pioneer Nurseries 
Si a Free Catalog 
Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Vines, Etc. 
Fresh dug, direct from nuhskry to you, 
reach, Apple, Pear, Plum. Cherry, 
Quince, Apricot, Trees, etc. * "hm'... 
Strawberry, Blackberry, Rasp¬ 
berry, Dewberry, Gooseberry, 
Currant, Rhubarb, Asparagus 
plants. Grape vines, etc. Shade Trees, Evergreens, Shrubs, 
Roses, Privet Hedging, etc. SATISFACTION GUARAN¬ 
TEED. Our FREE CATALOG gives prices, descriptions, 
illustrations, and complete planting and culture instruc¬ 
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BUNTING’S NURSERIES, Box 1, Selbyville, Del. 
CORTLAND APPLE 
Large, Stocky, 1-yr. Trees, 3-5 ft., SSL each. Scions 
for Grafting in Season. lOc ft. A limited number 
Red Spy. Ea. McIntosh, Medina and Delicious, No. 
1940, 3-5 ft., SI each. Above from stock direct 
from New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 
GEO. A. MORSE Williamson, N. Y 
FRUIT TREES 
Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum and Cherry Trees 
Also GRAPE VINES and other small fruits, bred and 
grown from true-to-name orchard bearing trees,and 
sold to the planter at lowest possible prices. Write 
for Illustrated descriptive catalogue and price list. 
BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES. Box 266, Princess Anne, Md. 
GRAPE VINF,S™ L c L 
Concord, Catawba, Moores Early/Nlagara, Moores Dia¬ 
mond, Delaware, Worden and severaf other varieties. 
Good, strong, selected l-yr.-old vines, best size for vine¬ 
yard planting. We grow grape vines in large numbers, 
and can till your order largeor small. Our vines are first- 
class and true to name. Write for price list. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Buntings' Nurseries, Bax 1, Selbyville, Del. 
CONCORD GRAPE VINES 
One and two-year-old. Priced low for Fall delivery. 
Special prices on fruit trees. Send us your list for quota¬ 
tions which will save you money. 
RANSOM SEED 8 NURSERY COMPANY Geneva. Ohio 
Every Garden NeedsColumbian Purple Raspberries 
Delicious fruit; beautiful bushes: disease resistant; 
long lived: heavy producers; do not spread. Dozen, 
#1; 100, »4. Washington Asparagus: 100— #1; 1.000 
—S>8. Bliss, the highest quality Strawberry. Dozen 
—*1; 100—#5. Postpaid. Choice Iris roots free xvith all 
orders. Circular free. CERTIFIED PLANT FARM. .WacMlon, N.Y. 
BERRY 
PLANTS 
STRAWBERRY, RASPBERRY, 
BLACKBERRY, LOGANBERRY, 
GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT and 
GRAPE plants; ASPARAGUS and 
RHUBARB roots ; Hardy Perennial flower plants for 
October and November planting. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES Hampton Bays, N. Y. 
GREENHOUSE GLASS 
ALL SIZES-BEST BRANDS 
BIENENFELD GLASS WORKS, Inc. 
1539-1549 Covert St.. BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
HARDY PERENNIAL FLOWER PLANTS 
FOR OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER PLANTING 
Delphinium, Foxglove, Hollyhock, Columbine, Hardy 
Blue Salvia, Canterbury Bells, l’hlox, Oriental Poppy, 
Hardy Chrysanthemum, Gaillaidia. Wallflower. Penste- 
mon. 'and many others. These plants are perfectly hardy, 
living outdoors during Winter, and will bloom next Sum¬ 
mer. Catalogue free. HARRY L. SQUIRES, Hampton Baps, H. Y. 
along the back. The now seats sit fac¬ 
ing the side of the building, the fine 
slate blackboards, and the jacketed heat¬ 
er suggested the newness of the structure. 
Another jioint that appealed to me was 
the fine new floor (oiled I think), so dif¬ 
ferent from the splintered and stained 
ones often found. The open space be¬ 
tween the desks and the entrance side 
must afford room for physical training 
and for informal exercise as well. 
One familiar with rural school libra¬ 
ries, and with the fine collection of which 
this school formerly boasted would notice 
the bareness of the place, with only a 
dictionary for general reading. So, 
while the sight of such a modern school 
building makes one long to see more of 
them, it is to be hoped we will not have 
to get them by burning the old ones with 
all equipment. vida m. bates. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
Note.—Whittier did not refer to the 
schoolhouse as “an idle beggar.” The lines 
are: 
“•Still stands the schoolhouse by the road 
An idle beggar sunning.” 
We think this means that the “idle 
beggar” was sunning himself in front of 
the house. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The first snow flurry of 
the season in Western Massachusetts was 
reported Oct. 9 from Mt. Washington, in 
the southwestern corner of Berkshire Co. 
John .J. McNamara, business agent of 
the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers’ 
Union, Local 22, was in the county jail 
at Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 9. following 
indictment by a county grand jury for 
blackmail in connection with vandalism 
at the Elks’ clubhouse and other new 
buildings there. He was unable to raise 
bonds of $20,000. McNamara, who re¬ 
cently was'released after serving 12 years 
of a 15-year sentence in California in 
connection with dynamiting the Llewellyn 
Iron Works, in Los Angeles, in a labor 
dispute, is a brother of James B. Mc¬ 
Namara, who is serving a life sentence 
for dynamiting the building of the Los 
Angeles Times in 1910, in which 22 per¬ 
sons were killed. 
With 30 persons staring at them inside 
and scores passing outside, three young 
men flourishing revolvers took $11,358 
from the cashier’s cage of the Jewish 
Daily Forward, 175 East Broadway, New 
York, at 11 o’clock in the morning, Oet. 
10. Carrying the money out in a canvas 
bag, with only a casual warning to those 
in the building, they stepped into an au¬ 
tomobile and drove away. 
Police reserves of three stations were 
called out to battle more than 200 fear- 
crazed, shrieking Chinese, the crew of the 
President Polk of the Dollar Steamship 
Line, when flames early Oct. 11 ate 
through the superstructure of the ship, 
docked at Pier No. 0, 42d St., Brooklyn. 
While fireman who answered three alarms 
fought the flames, police, aided by the 
ship’s Chinese-speaking first offieer, Jones 
Devlin, managed to herd most of the crew 
into an improvised stockade on the pier. 
Eight of the Chinese leaped overboard 
and were rescued by firemen and police. 
Fire, which did damage to the vessel of 
approximately $100,000, is believed to 
have started in the main dining saloon 
and ate its way rapidly upward. 
Gerald Chapman, the mail robber who 
escaped from the Federal prison at At¬ 
lanta, Ga., some months ago, murdered a 
policeman at New Britain, Conn., Oct. 
12. Chapman, with Walter E. Shean, 
son of a prominent hotel owner of Spring- 
field, Mass., and brother of the owners of 
the Springfield baseball team, it is 
charged, was robbing the department 
store of Davidson & Leventhal at New 
Britain, Conn., when he was interrupted 
by the police. Shean was caught as he 
was about to enter a waiting motor at the 
curb. Chapman escaped, but Shean is un¬ 
der arrest. 
Four lighters loaded with hemp valued 
at $100,000, caught fire at lloboken, N. 
J., Oct. 13, and made a spectacular and 
dangerous blaze until they were finally 
beached at Weehawken. 
Mrs. Nellie G. Ross, wife of the late 
Gov. William B. Ross of Wyoming, was 
chosen unanimously Oct. 14 as Demo¬ 
cratic nominee for Governor by the Emer¬ 
gency Democratic State Convention in 
session at Cheyenne. Although “Wyom¬ 
ing, as a territory, in 1869 blazed the way 
for national woman suffrage by giving its 
women the right of the ballot, Mrs. Ross 
is the first woman ever to be nominated 
for such a high office. Together with Mrs. 
Miriam A. Ferguson, Democratic nom- 
iness for Governor of Texas, Mrs. Ross 
takes her place as a wife of a former Ex¬ 
ecutive to lie thus honored. Gov. Ross’’' 
term would not have expired for two 
yeai-s. 
Convicted of having violated the Vol¬ 
stead act, Don Chafin, sheriff of Logan 
Co., West Virginia, was sentenced at 
Huntington, W. Va., Oct. 14, by Judge 
McClintic to serve two years in the Fed¬ 
eral prison at Atlanta, Ga., and fined 
$10,000. The charge against Chafin grew 
out of the operation of a notorious road¬ 
house in Logan County. His arrest fol¬ 
lowed a raid on the establishment by 
State troopers two years ago. Chafin’s 
attorneys have 40 days in which to ap¬ 
peal. Chafin was released after his bond 
of $5,000 was increased to $20,000. Cha¬ 
fin gained much public attention several 
years ago when, as sheriff, he led forces 
against armed marchers who threatened 
to invade Logan County, a non-union 
coal field. The marchers came from the 
union fields immediately north of 
Logan. The forces battled along Spruce 
Ford Ridge for a week before Federal 
troops were sent in. 
Three bandits in a large automobile 
late Oct. 14 held up Bert Cowan, mes¬ 
senger for the Merchants National Bank 
at Los Angeles, Cal., and escaped with 
$25,000 in currency. The bandit car drew 
alongside Cowan’s machine, the trio cov¬ 
ered him with pistols, forced him to drop 
the money satchel, took it and fled. 
A lone masked bandit robbed the Ab- 
bottstown State Bank of Abbottstown, 
Pa., of more than $1,000 Oct. 14 and shot 
and killed a State policeman who was 
pursuing him, 25 miles west of Abbotts¬ 
town. The shooting occurred in front of 
a Summer hotel at Graeffenburg, in 
Franklin County. The bandit escaped, 
going west on the Lincoln Highway. He 
was driving a mud-spattered red touring 
car, bearing New York license plates. 
The dead State trooper was F. L. Haley, 
about 29 years old. 
Regarding Cross Pollination 
and Soil Fertility 
1. I should like to grow a few apricots. 
Will you advise me as to the best varie¬ 
ties and whether or not they need cross 
pollination? 2 ’What value has waste 
Portland cement dust as a source of pot¬ 
ash? 3. Would fine granite dust be worth 
the hauling as a source of potash to put 
around pecan trees on sandy soil? 4. I 
have been interested in the recent* ar¬ 
ticles on raw phosphate rock. What 
quantity would you use for pecan trees? 
5. Do you think ground limestone would 
help the trees? g. j. 
Jacksonville, Fla. 
1. Moorpark and Tilton are two va¬ 
rieties of importance which are worth 
trying where apricots are desired. So 
far as pollination is concerned, one should 
give himself the benefit of the doubt and 
always plant orchard trees so as to afford 
opportunity for cross pollination. The 
point is that some varieties are sterile in 
one_ section and fertile in another. The 
apricot is closly related to the plum, and 
plums are a common source of disappoint¬ 
ment whenever cross pollination is not 
provided for. Again, in bad seasons, the 
set of fruit in cross pollinated orchards is 
always better than in orchards of va¬ 
rieties that are supposely self-fertilie. 
2. Waste Portland cement is variable 
in composition, but considering that the 
clay in cement contains about one-half of 
1 per cent of potash and that only one 
part of clay is used to three of chalk or 
limestone, the resulting mixture should 
run somewhere around fifteen-hundredths 
of 1 per cent of potash. 
3. Granite dust will contain between 2 
and 4 per cent of potash. 
4. Raw rock phosphate varies from 20 
to 77 per cent of phosphoric acid, the 
Tennessee deposits running especially 
high. For orchard trees 4 to S lbs. of 
acid phosphate are used to the tree, the 
material containing about 16 per cent of 
phosphoric acid. Considering that the 
raw rock is slowly available it would be 
well to apply an equal amount of the raw 
rock. 
5. Pecan trees respond very much the- 
same as orchard trees. With the latter, 
limestone has not produced a favorable 
rsponse, yet where humus is needed in 
the soil and where a good cover crop can¬ 
not be grown without limestone, lime¬ 
stone becomes of utmost importance in 
this soil-building process. h. b. t. 
“Did he die a natural death?” “Yes, 
he was run over in the street.”—Kala¬ 
mazoo City Star. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, OCT. 25, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
A New Potato Growing-.. 1344 
Is More Farming Land Needed. 1344 
More About Calcium Cyanide. 1344 
Hope Farm Notes. 1350 
Farm Reports . 1362 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Sheep and Apple Trees. 1358 
Horse and Ox Together. 1358 
Fractious Police Dog . .. 1358 
Milk Prices; Who Is Responsible. 1362 
THE HENYARD 
How to Detect the Robber Hen.1343, 1344 
Construction of Incubator Cellar. 1364 
Straying Hens on Road.. 1364 
Pullets with Chronic Disease. 1364 
Ventilating a Damp House. 1364 
New-Jersey Egg-laying Contest. 1364 
HORTICULTURE 
Storing Fruit in Waxed-Wrappers. 1344 
Hudson Valley Fruit Investigations. 1345 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Making Apple Honey . 1349 
Sweet Apple Conserve . 1349 
The Last Night of Summer.1351, 1363 
Boys and Girls .1354, 1355 
The Pastoral Parson .1356, 1362 
The Home Dressmaker . 1357 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A Fallen Bridge and Its Warning. 1345 
Modem Rural School Building. 1345 
The Radio Problem . 1347 
The Child Labor Amendment . 1349 
Publisher’s Desk . 1366 
c this Improved Celery 
Brings the High Price 
AMERICAN GOLDEN 
SELF-BLANCHING CELERY 
BLIGHT and RUST RESISTANT 
Authorities pronounce this the best 
golden self-blanching. Matures two to 
three weeks before others and blanches 
in half the time. It is a money-maker for 
growers. Large, crisp, tender. Nostrings. 
Broad stalk, fast growing heart. Does 
not grow hollow and all of it including 
the foliage is good eating. Grows just 
tall enough to pack in crate without injur¬ 
ing foliage and right size for the table. 
Seed of this variety has been sold 
under the name of “Special Golden,” 
“Wonderful,” etc., at from $50.00 to 
$80.00 per pound. 
Price $2.50 per ounce, $25.00 per pound. 
Orders accepted in rotation as received until 
supply is exhausted. Seed is WARRANTED 
true, fresh, clean and of good germination. 
Approved by such authorities as Prof. 
Homer G. Thompson, New York Experiment 
Station, Cornell University; Dr. H. Clay Lint, 
formerly with Newlersey State Experiment 
Station ; Dr. Thos. F. Manns, Delaware State 
Experiment Station; Walter Wheatley, Com¬ 
mission Merchant, Philadelphia; A. A. Saisse- 
lin, Commission Merchant, New York. 
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USEFUL FARM BOOKS 
Fertilizers and Crop, Van Slyke... .$3.25 
American Apple Orchard. Waugh.. 1.75 
American Peach Orchard, Waugh.. 1.75 
Book of Cheese, Thom and Fisk.... 2.40 
Butter Making, Publow.90 
Commercial Poultry, Roberts. 3.0“) 
Edmonds’ Poultry Account Book... 1.00 
Intensive Strawb’ry Culture, Graton. 1.00 
Manual of Milk Products, Stocking. 2.75 
Milk Testing, Publow.90 
Pruning Manual Bailey. 2.50 
Successful Fruit Culture, Maynard. 1.75 
Turkey Book, Lamon. 1.75 
Vegetable Forcing, Watts. 2.50 
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