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W* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 1, 1924 
Start the Season with 
Clean 
Trees 
SUNOCO 
SELF-EMULSIFYING 
SPRAY OIL 
‘V? r OU realize the value of clean, healthy trees. They 
mean a larger crop of clean, perfect fruit; bigger 
prices; more profits. 
Sunoco is safe for trees because it forms a perfect emulsion 
with any ordinary water. It kills more pests than lime 
sulphur. 
Sunoco Self-Emulsifying Spray Oil makes a safe and per¬ 
manent emulsion by merely adding to water and stirring; 
no trouble, no boiling, no excessive agitation needed. 
As a late dormant spray, it kills scale insects, aphis, eggs 
of red spiders, mites and leaf-rollers, and several other 
pests which overwinter on trees and shrubs. 
Use SUNOCO as a spreader and sticker for Bordeaux, 
arsenate of lead, nicotine or Niagara Soluble Sulphur; to 
increase their value. 
Peach Leaf-Curl is easily controlled by a late autumn 
spray using one gallon of Sunoco Spray Oil and six pounds 
of Niagara Soluble Sulphur (not lime-sulphur) to each 
100 gallons of water. Attractive proposition for dealers. 
Write for booklet and information to 
SUN OIL COMPANY 
Philadelphia 
New York Office Buffalo Office Syracuse Office 
52 Vanderbilt Avenue 2246 Niagara Street Sunset Ave. & Turtle St. 
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SUGAR TOOLS ™EVER ST 
SUGAR, MAKERS’ GUIDE— information on 
sugarmaking FREE for the asking. 
LEADER EVAPORATOR CO. 
Dept. A Burlington, Vermont 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal. ” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
AUTO ROBES 
fringed at both ends, 70x84 inside fringe, 
$10.00 each. Also yarns, bed blankets, 
sweaters, shirts, pants, sport and lumber¬ 
men’s stockings, heavy mackinaw shirts 
with double back and front for hunters, 
fishermen and lumbermen, wool and 
worsted suitings by yard or tailor-made. 
All goods virgin wool, from producer to 
you. Samples and catalogue. Dept. A. 
MAINE SHEEP AND WOOL 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 
Augusta, Maine 
msm KITSELMAH FENCE 
“I Saved 26%c a Rod,” Bays J. E. 
Londry. Weedsport, N. Y. You also save. 
We Pay the Freight. Write for Free 
Catalog of Farm, Poultry. Lawn Fence. 
C KITSELMAN BROS. Dept.230IWUNCIE, IND. 
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Every wire uniformly insu¬ 
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Things To Think About 
Radio in the Country 
With the invention of the telephone, 
automobile and radio people living in the 
country have gained most of the advan¬ 
tages of city life, while enjoying the 
freedom, natural scenery and fresh air 
of the country. The telephone and auto¬ 
mobile have been in use so many years 
that they have become indispensable to 
the large majority of country people who 
make up the solid foundation of rural life 
in America, while the radio is of more 
recent introduction; but its rapid prog¬ 
ress and development during the past two 
or three years warrants the prediction 
that it is destined to become just as great 
a factor in our economic and social 
progress as either of the others 
A few years ago the practical use of 
radio, or wireless telegraphy, as it was 
called at that stage, was looked upon as 
a sort of dream which might come true 
in the far distant future. Very few people 
could comprehend the importance of the 
invention, and what it would mean, espe¬ 
cially to people who live in the country. 
The radio is no doubt the phonograph’s 
most formidable rival. Although we 
have a phonograph costing .$200, and a 
radio outfit costing $70, the phonograph 
is used only about twice a year, while 
the radio is in use practically every day. 
The radio programs from a large number 
of broadcasting stations are published 
every day in our city daily papers, and 
there is usually something interesting 
and worth while listening to. With a 
good radio outfit we can hear delightful 
music from Philadelphia or Boston, a 
drama from Schenectady or jazz from 
Chicago, whichever suits our fancy best. 
We can also listen to the market reports, 
keeping us in touch with the latest de¬ 
velopments in Wall Street and the com¬ 
modity markets of the world. Instruc¬ 
tive talks are given on up-to-date sub¬ 
jects, and all the latest bits of news 
comes to us almost as soon as the events 
take place, such as prizefights and base¬ 
ball reports for people who enjoy these 
sports. And then, if you have time to 
spare for a couple of weeks, an oppor¬ 
tunity occasionally presents itself to 
listen to a rare treat like the noise made 
at the Democratic National Convention 
which played a warm weather engage¬ 
ment at Madison Square Garden. It 
sounded, for the most part, about like 
this: “A-l-a-b-a-m-a 24 v-o-t-e-s f-o-r 
U-n-d-e-r-w-o-o-d,” except when every¬ 
body was trying to get onto the “band 
wagon” at once, which sounded like 
school was let out for noon. Oh yes, and 
there was some delightful music which 
we enjoyed very much. No doubt cam¬ 
paign speeches will be among the lead¬ 
ing attractions for radio fans now until 
after election, so no one can have any 
excuse for not knowing how to vote if, 
after election, all the good promises of 
the successful candidates are not prompt¬ 
ly fulfilled. 
The tendency now is to commercialize 
radio more and more as it becomes de¬ 
veloped and adapted to general use. How 
far this will extend is hard to prophesy. 
The problem of distance seems to have 
been very satisfactorily solved, as a 
broadcasting station in New York State 
has been heard in New Zealand, a dis¬ 
tance of over 9,000 miles. There is no rea¬ 
son to believe, however, that radio will 
ever take the place of the telephone, tele¬ 
graph or the U. S. mail, as a large part 
of the communications sent by these 
methods are confidential and, like love 
letters for example, are not supposed to 
be broadcast, yet we do not know what 
improvements will be made in the future. 
I am not going to try to tell you 
which radio outfit to buy nor how to 
build your own, because I do not know. 
I do know, however, that there are some 
good outfits on the market at the present 
time, which can be purchased at very 
reasonable prices. For a busy man or 
woman one of these outfits which em¬ 
bodies the latest improvements, and 
which is not too complex in its mechan¬ 
ism, should give good satisfaction. Any¬ 
one who has lots of time and is mechan¬ 
ically inclined can enjoy himself many 
hours studying how and building an out¬ 
fit at home. The different parts are, 
like parts for a “flivver,” for sale in most 
every five and ten cent store. A few 
days ago I saw a one-tube receiving set 
built at home from parts costing less 
than $10 for everything, and it worked 
very satisfactorily. 
There is one disadvantage with a radio, 
however, and only one which I have 
found from my two years’ experience 
with it, and that is it takes considerable 
time, but I consider the time well spent 
in an entertaining and educational man¬ 
ner. Radio will help keep- the boys and 
girls on the farm, and is far better than 
hanging around the corner grocery and 
talking about your neighbors. 
C. S. GREENE. 
Forming a Farm 
Partnership 
On page 1216 you print an inquiry 
from a farmer who wishes to take his 
son as a partner on the farm. It strikes 
me that the son should pay interest on 
only one-half of the investment as shown 
by the inventory, instead of the whole as 
suggested. The case is practically the 
same as it would be if they should divide 
the farm, tools, etc., the father working 
one-half and the son the other half, each 
to have what he could make on his own 
half. The son should pay interest on the 
half he works, but not on the half his 
father works. But they will get better 
results if the farm is not divided, work¬ 
ing together and dividing the profits. 
Look at it from another standpoint: 
To share the profits equally, each should 
own half the farm and equipment. But 
the son has not the money to buy half 
the farm and equipment. Then let him 
borrow it from his father and pay inter¬ 
est on it—the half which he borrows, of 
course, not on his father’s part of the 
investment. The boy should not receive 
wages, as his labor is offset by that of 
his father. 
In brief: Each makes half of the in¬ 
vestment, the father directly, and the son 
by paying interest on the other half. 
Each puts in his labor. Each pays half 
the expenses by deducting same before 
profits are divided. Each receives half of 
the profits after such deduction has been 
made. c. A. P. 
That Automobile Law 
I will only state facts where the new 
motor law hits me. I have a boy 17 
years nine months old, every bit as good 
a driver as I am, and a whole lot better 
than men I meet every day who have 
been given a license to drive. He can 
drive any car or truck also tractor and 
is a good one. Is it right to take his 
services away from me when I need him 
so badly, or stop him from driving to 
high school when he really wants an edu¬ 
cation, and when we farmers are trying 
to make an honest dollar? No wonder we 
have with us the K. K. Iv. I don’t know 
anything about them, or whether they 
will do any good, but I do know the farm¬ 
ers. are desperate and turning to most 
anything that might give them relief from 
the way things are being done. I don’t 
think we will ever have clean politics un¬ 
less the real men and women of the coun¬ 
try wake up to their duty. I am glad 
your paper is doing all it can along this 
line. h. F. w„ 
R. N.-Y.—The age limit of 18 in the 
motor law is wrong. There are many 
good-sized young people under 18 who 
are quite competent to drive a car. As 
they are situated such driving is a neces¬ 
sity. In many cases they cannot get to 
high school unless they go in a car. 
There ought to be road tests and exemp¬ 
tions in certain cases. There will be a 
storm over this in the next Lewislature. 
It is claimed at Albany that the law is 
mandatory, and that it must stand until 
the Legislature changes it. We must all 
get together and make them change it. 
A Poison Ivy “Cure” 
Every year during the poison season 
we have suggestions for a remedy or 
“cure” for poison ivy. Now comes this 
one—printed in the Fisheries Service 
Bulletin, a government publication: 
To equal parts of alcohol and water 
or glycerine and water, add sufficient 
ferric chloride to make a 5 per cent so¬ 
lution. Ferrous sulphate may be used, 
but the ferric chloride is preferred. 
If one bathes with this solution be¬ 
fore going into the woods, such plants 
as those cited above may be touched or 
handled without fear of poisoning. If 
the poisoning has already occurred, the 
parts should be bathed with this solution 
and dried thoroughly with a fan. Quicker 
results may be obtained by coating the 
poisoned parts with paraffin, on which 
should be laid a thin layer of cotton and 
a coat of paraffin put on top of the cot¬ 
ton. This excludes the air, prevents 
scratching, and allows the new skin to 
be more quickly restored. 
