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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 1, 1924 
the sensation of Eastern horticulture. 
“We consider this about the most promising variety of recent intro¬ 
duction,” writes the editor of the Rural New-Yorker. (Jan. 26, ’24.) 
The Cortland Apple is of the McIntosh type with the same dark- 
red skin covered with bluish bloom. The flesh resembles the McIntosh 
in color and flavor, but is a month later in ripening. The Cortland 
hangs firmly to the tree, instead of dropping like the McIntosh. 
Keeps in common storage until January. Awarded the Wilder medal. 
We offer sturdy, true-to-name, one-year Cortland Trees. Those who 
plant this variety will reap a rich reward. Order now while the 
Trees can be had. Gain a season by planting this fall. 
12 Flowering 
Shrubs 
Assorted vari¬ 
eties, 12 - IS in. 
high. Plant them 
on lawn or around 
porch. Send $3; 
we’ll mail them 
postpaid. 
You can safely 
order direct from 
this advertise¬ 
ment. Prompt 
shipment. 
The Barnes Bros. Nursery Co 
$1 Small Fruit Garden, 
i wmmmm mmmm—mmmm mmammmmma mmmmmmmmmmmmm. 
Plant these in your home garden 
or backyard. Send $1 with order; 
we’ll mail this Collection postpaid: 
0 Blackberries; 12 Strawberries; 
3 Currants ;• 2 Grape Vines. 
$3 Home Orchard 
3 Apple Trees ) Early, Medium 
3 Pear Trees j and Late 
1 Plum Tree 1 Cherry Tree 
All 3 to 4 feet high 
Send $3 today; we’ll mail you 
postpaid this collection. 
Box 8, Yalesville, Conn 
The Original Barnes Nursery—Established in 1890 
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An honest to goodneeu 
quality shoe. Biggest 
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offered in 
years. Thej 
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tications, Mnnson toe ol chrome leather 
uppers, double thick solid leather heels and 
soles, will surely last more than six months. 
SEND NO MONEY— Pay postman $2.85 plus postage 
on delivery. Monevback if not satisfied. 
INTERNATIONAL COMM. HOUSE, Dept. B-275 
433 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
All Sizes 
$f)85 
Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Vines, Etc. 
Fresh dug, direct from nursery to you^ 
Peach, Apple, Pear, Plum. Cherry, 
Quince, Apricot. Trees, etc. 
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 ^ives prices, descriptions, 
illustrations, and complete planting and culture instruc¬ 
tions. Write today. 
BUNTING’S NURSERIES, Box 1, Selbyville, Del. 
CORTLAND APPLE 
Large, Stocky, 1-yr. Trees, 3-5 ft., SS L each. Scions 
for drafting in Season, 10c ft. A limited number 
Red Spy. Ea. McIntosh, Medina and Delicious, No. 
1940, 3-5 ft., SSI each. Above from stock direct 
from New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 
GEO. A. MORSE Williamson, N.Y 
Peach and Cherry Trees. Hardy, 
Northern grown stock. Buds selected 
from bearing trees with the greatest 
care. One-year-old Duchess, Yellow 
Transparent bore fruit and Rhode Island Greening and 
Stayman Winesap bloomed in the nursery rows. Our 
county agent has seen these bearing trees. $8 will bring 
postpaid 3 apple, 3 peach, 1 cherry tree and 6 concord 
grapevines. Trees3to4 ft. Specify variety. Commercial 
Growers write for prices. H. A. Borling, Madison, Ohio 
APPLE 
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. 
CONCORD GRAPE VINES 
One and two-year-old. Priced low for Fall delivery. 
Special prices on fruit trees. Send us your list for quotas 
t.ions which will save you money. 
RANSOM SEED S NURSERY COMPANY Geneva. Ohio 
Established in 1880. 
True 
Send For Fall Catalog 
Our new Fall catalog tells how 60,000 of 
our trees have a certified true-to-name 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers Associa¬ 
tion seal fastened through a limb to stay 
>there until the tree bears true-to-name 
fruit as guaranteed by us. 
Orders will be filled in order of their re¬ 
ceipt ns long ns the stock lasts. Write for 
catalog and get your order in earlv. 
Packed by Experts 
Our 44 years of nursery experience has 
taught us the proper method of 
handling and packing young 
trees so they reach you in 
proper condition. 
Write today for your copy of 
the Fall Fruit Book. 
Kelly Bros. Nurseries 
1160 Main St.. Dansville, N. Y. 
MALONE Y TREES 
60,000 CERTIFIED FRUIT TREES 
FOR FALL PLANTING. We sell direct 
at cost plus one profit only. 
Write for our free catalog of trees, 
vines, berries and shrubs. 
Fall Planting Pays. We Prepay transporta¬ 
tion charges. See Catalog. 
MALONEY BROS. NURSERY CO., INC. 
lie's Pioneer Nurseries, 90 Main St., Dansville, N. Y. 
piirnu r^NDnCII profits with these 
EL Villi I O ft nUCIl GOOD THINGS TO EAT 
COLUMBIAN- tasteful Raspberry, dozen plants, 
SI; 101),S4. WASHINGTON— healthful A spara- 
gus, 100, SI; 1,000, S8. III.ISS—highest quality 
Strawberry, dozen, SI; 100, S5 Postpaid. Circular 
free. CERTIFIED PLANT FARM, Macedon, New York 
Send Your Nursery Lists to 
Corson’s Nurseries, Avondale, Pa. 
and GET OUR LOW PRICES on FRUIT. ORNAMEN¬ 
TAL AN0 WEEPING TREES, SMALL FRUITS, GRAPES, WASH¬ 
INGTON ASPARAGUS, ETC. Free catalog. 
HAVE A FATtGE SURPLUS OF 
The Beautiful Turks Cap Lily 
Will send six for One Hollar, thirty for Three 
Hollars, postpaid. T. TI. Shaw, Lincoln, Mass. 
IRIS-PEONIES PHLOX £«£ 
W. H. TOPPIN - Merchantville, N. J. 
GREENHOUSE GLASS 
n 0RS , AlE Concord Grape Vines and Wilder Currant 
DUSnGS c. J. Hepworth Milton, New York 
POTATOES AND HAY 
All grades BALED HAY-TIMOTHY AND CLOVER mixed. 
MAPLE LEAF BRAND SACKED POTATOES. 
Wire or Write for quotations. 
GROVER-SC HULTHEIS CO., Inc. HorneU, N. Y. 
Palifornio Privof Strong rooted plants. 18 to 24in. high, 
uailiurnid iilVoi $4 per 100; 600 or nv»re at special 
prices. J. 5- Earnhart, 67 W St. N. "..Washington, D. C* 
ALL SIZES—BEST BRANDS 
BIENENFELD GLASS WORKS, Inc. 
1539-1549 Cover! St., BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
GRAPE VINES 
Concord, Catawba, Moores Early, Niagara, Moores Dia¬ 
mond, Delaware, Worden and several 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 large or small. Our vines are first- 
class and true to name. Write for price list. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Cuntlngs' Nurseries, Box 1, Selbyville, Del. 
other forms developing which do not suc¬ 
cumb to the treatment. In this difficulty 
of attack the insect reminds one of our 
friend the pear psylla. 
So far, spraying with lead arsenate and 
with nicotine sulphate have proven loo 
expensive for practical use. Deep plow¬ 
ing in early Spring has been found to be 
the best means of control, by destroying 
the cocoons in the soil. Early varieties 
suffer least from attack, while late vari- 
ties are severely affected. h. b. t. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Two flyers were killed 
and another narrowly escaped death in an 
airplane collision over Coronado, Cal., 
Oct. 16. Lieut. Kerr met instant death 
and the second pilot, when taken from the 
wreckage, could not be identified. 
A naval officer, identified as Lieutenant 
Commander Grattan C. Dichman, of the 
Air Service at San Diego, was burned to 
death at Glendale, Cal.. Oct. 16, when 
flames destroyed his plane after it struck 
a small building. 
The United States Steamship Inspec¬ 
tion Service Oct. 16 revoked the license 
of Captain Alfred W. Call, master of the 
steamer Boston, which was in collision 
with the liner Swift Arrow last July 21, 
near Point Judith, R. I. The inspectors 
at Providence, who conducted the trial of 
Captain Call, held that he was respon¬ 
sible for the collision in that he permitted 
his vessel to exceed a reasonable speed 
when fast traveling was dangerous. 
Nicky Arnstein, serving two years in 
the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth 
for conspiracy in the theft of $4,000,000 
of securities, was one of six men indicted 
by the County Grand Jury in Jersey City 
Oct. 17 for conspiring to obtain $80,000 
from Nathan Weiss, a contractor of Wee- 
hawken. Weiss alleges the six accom¬ 
panied him in 1922 to Pittsburgh, where 
he lost $80,000 playing an “unbeatable 
game’’ on the stock market. Those in¬ 
dicted with Arnstein are: Charles Druck- 
er of Pittsburgh, Walter Clyde Smith, 
Morris Blaufare and James Watkins of 
Youngstown, O., and Milton Small of 
New York. 
Three persons were killed, 75 are in 
hospital, and 300 others were shaken up 
Oct. 19 when two sections of an excur¬ 
sion train of the International Traction • 
C-ompany crashed in Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Four of the big steel coaches were demol¬ 
ished. The excursionists were from New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania and were on 
their way back to Buffalo from Niagara 
Falls to board a train for the East, after 
spending two days at the Falls. Failure 
of a flagman to give the danger signal 
after the first section had halted caused 
the wreck, officials of the company said. 
Ten foreigners, first quota of hundreds 
smuggled into the United States over the 
Canadian border and then arrested by 
Federal immigration inspectors, were 
brought to Ellis Island in chains Oct. 19. 
They will be deported on the first vessels 
sailing for their European homes. Ac¬ 
cording to Inspector W. B. McMahon, in 
charge of the prisoners, traffic in smug¬ 
gling aliens has increased very fast all 
along the border. Fees ranging from $75 
to $150 are exacted by regularly organ¬ 
ized groups of Canadians and Americans, 
who are familiar with the customs of in¬ 
spectors, to deliver their “clients” to 
places from which they can proceed safely 
to large cities. 
Thirteen men are dead and several more 
in the hospital at Norfolk, Va., as the re¬ 
sult of an explosion in the forward twin 
gun mount on the scout cruiser Trentou on 
the southern drill grounds Oct. 20. Sev¬ 
eral men among the injured are not ex¬ 
pected to live. The explosion came while 
the Trenton was at target practice, and 
was caused by a powder “flare back” 
which occurred almost immediately after 
the gun was fired. 
Detectives of the New York truck 
squad, under Acting Captain George Bus¬ 
by and Sergeant Samuel Dribben, raided 
a 10-story loft at 39S Broadway, and a 
storage warehouse at 1227 39th St., 
Brooklyn, Oct. 20. and recovered stolen 
merchandise valued at more than $100,- 
000. Three moving vans and several pa¬ 
trol wagons were kept busy until late in 
the evening transporting the goods to 
headquarters. Six hundred overcoats were 
among the articles discovered at 398 
Broadway. The plunder recovered there 
is valued at more than $25,000. In the 
warehouse on 39th St., Brooklyn, were 
packing cases filled with linen, cretonne, 
silks, silk stockings and other goods val¬ 
ued at more than $75,000. Three men 
were arrested, Max Cohen, Samuel Cit¬ 
ron and George Clemons.. 
Eight persons were injured at noon 
Oct. 20 when the Commercial Express 
from St. Louis to New York on the Penn¬ 
sylvania Railroad was derailed at Long¬ 
fellow, Pa. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The United 
States Government has formally recog¬ 
nized the gull as one of the most useful 
foes of the grasshopper, and will use 
every means to protect and preserve him. 
The Department of Agriculture an¬ 
nounced Oct. 19 that from 4.000 to 5,000 
birds in Pondera Co., Mont., had devoured 
most of the hopping pests this season. 
An official observer states great clouds of 
Franklin gulls prey on grasshoppers in 
the Alfalfa fields immediately after the 
hay has been taken off. The whole flock 
usually moves from place to place. After 
it has worked for a day or two in a field 
very few grasshoppers remain. 
Practical courses in vegetable garden¬ 
ing will be offered from Nov. 5 to Feb. 13 
at the New York State College of Agri¬ 
culture at Cornell University in connec¬ 
tion with the regular 12 weeks Winter 
course. These courses are offered free of 
charge to residents of New York, and are 
open to any person 18 or more years of 
age. No examination is required for ad¬ 
mission. since these courses are designed 
primarily to meet the needs of the farm 
boy and girl who m^ not have had an 
opportunity to complete a high school 
and college education. Students who take 
the course in vegetable gardening may 
take also work in soils, fertilizers, injuri¬ 
ous insects and plant diseases. Further 
information regarding the vegetable gar¬ 
dening courses may be secured from the 
Vegetable Gardening Department, New 
York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, 
N. Y. An announcement of all the courses 
offered in the 12 weeks’ Winter course 
may be obtained from the Secretary of 
the College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Special effort has been made this year to 
outline combination courses of vegetable 
gardening with fruit growing and with 
poultry. 
Intensive Gardening 
The pictures and accompanying data 
on page 1371 were sent by Wm. Perkins, 
expert New Jersey market gardener. They 
show what can be done with smail pieces 
of land when worked to the limit. 
Preparing a Compost Heap 
I have a large lot of turf, wood ashes, 
hen manure and leaves, which I would 
like to compost. What combination is 
advisable, with possible addition of any 
other needed compound to render this a 
usable fertilizer? My object is to use up 
the whole of these. DEB. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
You should add a quantity of acid phos¬ 
phate or ground bone to a compost of 
this sort. The materials you mention are 
lacking in phosphorus. First put a layer 
of the turf on the ground, and then scat¬ 
ter on top a quantity of the wood ashes, 
then put a layer of the leaves, and then a 
quantity of chicken manure. Build the 
pile up in layers, putting the wood ashes 
in between the turf and the leaves, so as 
to mix these materials thoroughly. Build 
the compost in this way, and if the leaves 
are dry, moisten them a little as they go 
in the pile. After two months, work the 
compost over by starting at one end with 
a spade, digging in the compost and 
throwing out behind, so as to form a new 
pile. This will mix it thoroughly. It 
can be greatly improved by throwing a 
quantity of either ground bone or acid 
pllosphate into the pile as it is made up. 
A good place to put this ac-id phosphate 
would be on top of the chicken manure 
as it comes in the pile. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 1, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Possibilities of Alfalfa. 1371 
Forming- a Farm Partnership. 1378 
Hope Farm Notes....1380, 1381 
Getting Hay Out for Baling. 1381 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Railroad Decision on Milk Rates. 1383 
Saddle Sore . 1388 
Horse -Coughing and Lame.1388, 1390 
Poultry and Cow Questions. 1390 
THE HENYARD 
A Defense of the Cross-bred Hen.. 1371 
House for 400 Birds. 1392 
Cod Liver Oil for Pullets... 1395 
Potatoes for Poultry .'.. 1395 
Price for Custom Hatching. 1395 
Sick Pullets . 1395 
New York State Egg Contest. 1396 
Feeding Mangels . 1396 
HORTICULTURE 
A Monument to "Johnny Appleseed”. 1370 
Apple Tree Has Not Bloomed in 30 Years. . 1370 
Another New Pest—the Oriental Peach 
Moth .1371, 1372 
Blanching Celery with Drain Tile. 1373 
Oats for Strawberry Mulch. 1373 
Treatment of Japanese Iris Seedlings. 1373 
Keeping Bunch Grapes in Winter.. 1373 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Catering for Hired Help. 1377 
Boys and Girls .1384, 1385 
The Memory Quilt . 1386 
Embroidery Designs . 1386 
Pumpkin Butter . 1386 
A Hammock Bedspread . 1386 
Early Training in Table Manners...1387 
The Rural Patterns . 1387 
Notes from) Oklahoma . 1387 
When Eggs Are Scarce. 1387 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Ten Nights Spent in a Tent.1369, 1370 
Dangerous Political Fun . 1370 
Caring for the Incompetent. 1370 
Radio in the Country . 1378 
That Automobile Law . 1378 
A Poison Ivy Cure. 1378 
Child Labor, Rural School, and the Candi¬ 
dates . 1383 
Change in Political Campaigns . 1383 
Hunting and Trespass Laws. 1383 
Government Expenses . 1383 
Publisher’s Desk . 1398 
