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November 29, 1924 
Start the Season with 
Clean 
Trees 
SUNOCO 
SELF-EMULSIFYING 
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V^OU realize the value of clean, healthy trees. They 
A mean a larger crop of clean, perfect fruit; bigger 
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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. 
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STANDARDIZED PLANT NAMES 
This is an authoritative work prepared by Fred- 
Orick Law Olmsted, Frederick V. Coville and Har¬ 
lan P. Kelsey, of the American Joint Committee on 
Horticultural Nomenclature. It gives the approved 
scientific and common names of plants in American 
commerce, and will be of great value to horticultur¬ 
ists and all interested in such matters. 
Price postpaid, S5.00, For sale by 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
Fruit Fog Sprayers 
Built like an automobile in one of the 
largest sprayer factories in the world. 
Every part mechanically perfected, 
simplified to give utmost performance, 
yet easily accessible. 
Nearly fifty models, ranging in capac¬ 
ity from V/t. to 16 gallons per minute, 
with 300 lbs. pressure guaranteed. Our 
small outfits are as efficient, as highly 
developed, as our big Triplex Sprayers. 
They vary in capacity only. 
Quoted with or without trucks, en¬ 
gines, pumps, tanks, or special 
equipment. 
SEND FOR CATALOG 
before you buy. We also make a full 
line of traction and hand sprayers. 
Distributers in all fruit sections 
HAYES PUMP & 
Dept. 411. Galva. Ill. 
Long Term Farm Mortgages 
YA/ , E grant loans to farmers in New York 
and New Jersey by first mortgages 
under the United States Government Plan. 
This plan gives you capital for thirty-three 
years and the installment plan of payment 
provides for the payment of the principal 
and interest in full on the due date. 
Write now for information to 
New York and New Jersey Joint Stock Land Bank 
31 Clinton Street, Newark, N. J. 
Books for Growing Girls and Boys 
Next to a strong, healthy body, probab¬ 
ly the greatest gift which a parent can 
give his child is a love of reading—a love 
of good books. The boy or girl who en¬ 
joys reading has always at -his command 
a means of wholesome recreation, of good 
fun and satisfying entertainment with 
little cost, and also the opportunity to 
use to material advantage the long Win¬ 
ter evenings on the farm. 
In these days the State Library is do¬ 
ing a splendid work in making books ac¬ 
cessible in rural communities; county li¬ 
brary systems are being organized which 
will eventually, it is hoped, bring books 
to every farmhouse door in the State; 
and innumerable towns and villages main¬ 
tain adequate little libraries. But the 
best that all these agencies can do is to 
provide the books, to offer the glorious 
opportunity to read. The longing for 
them, the desire to plunge into a thrilling 
story of chivalry or adventure, must be 
developed in the child. Practically every 
child loves to read, only many of them do 
not know it. The desire is there, but 
unawakened, simply because they have 
lacked the experience of having books 
around them. They haven’t been “ex¬ 
posed” to good books early enough and 
constantly enough. More books in the 
house, more reading aloud together of 
some sterling tale, and the long evenings, 
so often dreaded even by those who love 
farm life above all other, would come to 
be something eagerly anticipated. Even 
in the midst of the strenuous life in the 
White House Roosevelt found time to 
read regularly to his boys, and in a letter 
to Kermit he says: “With Archie and 
Quentin I have finished *The Last of the 
Mohicans’ and have now begun ‘The Deer- 
slayer.’ This reading to them in the even¬ 
ing gives me a chance to see them that I 
would not otherwise have.” And, by the 
way, however the election comes out, 
could anything be more timely than for 
you to read aloud to your boys and girls 
this Winter “Theodore Roosevelt’s Let¬ 
ters to His Children”—those sparkling, 
humorous letters, full of sane advice and 
thorough understanding, which he wrote 
to young Ted and Kermit and the others? 
You probably put in long days in the 
fields and deny yourself many a luxury to 
give your boy the advantages which you 
couldn’t have at his age. Are you equally 
determined that he shall not miss the ad¬ 
vantages which you did enjoy? Did you 
ever pore over “Scottish Chiefs” in a cor¬ 
ner of the attic and bleed wi’ Wallace? 
Does you boy know Wallace? There is a 
new and beautiful edition of this old fa¬ 
vorite more attractive than anything you 
ever dreamed of, but it is the same old 
stirring tale. Re-read it aloud, and see 
if growing girls and boys today do not 
love and admire the same book friends 
you did. Yow probably chuckled over 
Tom Sawyer when he skinned out of that 
whitewashing job. Have you ever tried 
reading that inimitable story of Mark 
Twain’s aloud to the family? And John 
Ridd was, most likely, another of your 
heroes. Any real boy or girl of today will 
read Blackmore’s “Lorna Doone” with 
the same absorbing interest. And Tom 
Canty, the street waif who changed places 
with a real prince in Twain’s “The Prince 
and the Pauper” is as popular today as he 
ever was. Most of your old favorites are 
still to be had, some of them in new, 
attractive bindings, with marvelous illus¬ 
trations to be sure, but the story is the 
same. 
Every family of growing young people 
should have a copy of Alcott’s “Little 
Women” to read and re-read and grow 
up with. There is nothing else to equal 
it hut “Katrinka.” The little peasant 
girl in Russia before the fall of the mon¬ 
archy who danced her way into the Im¬ 
perial Theater of the Czar is a very real 
and lovable girl to know. And Bronte’s 
“Jane Eyre,” DuBois’ “White Fire,” a 
story of Colonial days for older girls and 
boys; “Red Caps and Lilies,” a tale of 
the French Revolution by Adams, and 
“The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest,” by 
Yonge, are books which are well worth 
buying, because they are books which will 
stand reading over and over again. 
No family of little people can get along 
without some good fairy and folk tales. 
Reading of fairy tales is not a waste of 
time—they grew up with the race, and 
they satisfy a certain need in growing 
young folks. Crude and boisterous 
though these tales sometimes seem, they 
have a literary style, a simplicity, a vigor 
and a genuine humor in them. Even the 
tiniest home ‘bookshelf is incomplete with¬ 
out a copy of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” 
and others almost as desirable are Pyle’s 
“Wonder Clock.” Asbjornsen’s “Fairy 
Tales from the Far North,” and “Magic 
Casements” and “Tales of Laughter” by 
Wiggin and Smith. 
Younger children should know all of 
Lucy Fitch Perkins’ delightful twin 
stories, “The Dutch Twins,” “The Japa¬ 
nese Twins,” and the rest, with the 
charming pictures which she drew herself. 
And other stories of children in other 
lands well worth buying are “Heidi,” tne 
story of the little Swiss girl and her old 
grandfather in their hut on the mountain¬ 
side; “Johnny Blossom” by Zwilgmeyer, 
and also “Four Cousins,” both Norwegian 
stories so full of the very air of Norway 
that you feel as if you had been there; 
“Lady Green Satin and Her Maid Ro¬ 
sette,” a very lovelj story translated from 
the French, of a poor boy who trained 
and exhibited two white mice. And no 
book list would be complete without men¬ 
tioning the humorous “Dr. Doolittle” 
stories by Lofting, which children, little 
and big, have welcomed with an enthu¬ 
siasm and delight quite, unparalleled by 
any other juvenile of recent years. 
Out-of-door 'books and sea stories al¬ 
ways have a strong appeal, particularly 
to boys. “Treasure Island,” which has 
so long set the standard, has today dose 
rivals in three splendid sea tales by 
Charles Boardman Dawes, “The Mu¬ 
tineers,” “The Great Quest” and “The 
Dark Frigate.” Enos Mills’ “The Griz¬ 
zly” is unsurpassed as a description of 
animal life, and the stories of wolves and 
Indians, for boys from 10 to 14, by Olaf 
Baker, “Shasta of the Wolves” and 
“Dusty Star,” are full of the spirit of 
wild life and wild folk. 
One man who works very close to boys 
has made the statement that there are 
two ways of entrance into a boy’s mind 
—through poetry and through history. A 
good collection of poems is a splendid 
thing to have available wherever there 
are young people, and Stevenson’s “Home 
Book of Verse for Young Folks,” and 
“Rainbow Gold,” by Sara Teasdale, are 
both excellent. Little children will love 
Edgar’s “Treasury of Verse for Little 
Children,” with its big print and clever 
drawings. 
History and biography should always 
be within reach of young people, particu¬ 
larly at the time when they begin to want 
“true” stories. Two recent books by Sid¬ 
ney Dark, “The Book of France” and 
“The Book of England,” give admirable 
accounts of the history of two of our re¬ 
cent allies in concise and readable form. 
Good biographies are scarce, but Tarbell’s 
“Boy Scouts’ Life of Lincoln,” “Daniel 
Boone, Wilderness Scout,” by White, and 
“Jungle Roads and Other Trails of Roose¬ 
velt,” by Henderson, are popular among 
children, and Smith’s “Heroines of His¬ 
tory and Legend” is a splendid collection 
of stories of the courage and resourceful¬ 
ness of real girls. 
The titles mentioned hardly begin to 
scratch the surface of the wealth of at¬ 
tractive books which your boy and girl 
would read and love and grow on if they 
had them. No book is worth its cost un¬ 
less it will stand reading over and over. 
Books are expensive, and for this reason 
few of us can afford to buy anything but 
the best. Let us therefore 'buy, possibly, 
only one book at a time, or one book for a 
group of children, but let us be sure that 
that one is carefully selected, that it is a 
joy to hold and to feel and to look at, and 
a book that will live for all time in the 
hearts of the boys and girls who own it. 
Such a gift at birthdays or Christmas, 
even when it means considerable sacrifice, 
is a wise and far-sighted investment, and 
truly a great gift. jueia a. saver. 
Rural Conditions Best for 
Children 
It is with the greatest interest I have 
followed Mrs. D. B. P.’s accounts of their 
school, and I am sure more mothers than 
I have felt a deep sympathy for those 
who so bravely are struggling to better 
the < schools in the rural districts. But 
again we sometimes almost wish our own 
little folk were farther from the city in¬ 
fluences and dangers. The smallpox 
epidemic in several Ohio cities made it¬ 
self felt even in this extreme southern 
part of the State and we have undergone 
vaccinations rather than have an 
epidemic come among us. The infantile 
paralysis in several other cities gives us 
still greater fear, while the epidemic of 
$12 sweaters for the high school bovs and 
oOe-a-week bob and shingle bob of the 
high school girls is really with us, and 
giving us days of argument and nights 
of worry. It is too bad that we cannot 
be near the large city and get its spirit 
of progress, and avoid its spirit of reck¬ 
less spending and its disease germs. It 
might be helpful for some of the moth¬ 
ers to think upon these things while they 
are deploring that their children cannot 
have the benefits of the city schools. 
After, all, it is not so much what we at¬ 
tain to as in what direction we are striv¬ 
ing that counts in life. I wonder if the 
child brought up far back in the country 
and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, 
but surrounded in his family by the spir¬ 
it of bettering things, of makinv the dol¬ 
lars go farthest, of helping the whole 
community, will not become a better citi¬ 
zen than tha^ child who grows up in 
town. He learns early to expect every¬ 
thing to come easy; dimes and dollars 
mean more movies and more “eats” and 
better clothes. If the schools are not the 
best lie does not hear family talk of how 
to better them, but of politics, gangs and 
graft. It is the boy who can wear the 
best clothes and carries the most spend¬ 
ing money who ranks highest socially in 
the school; money, social position, a good 
time, are uppermost in his thoughts. He 
has not the- chance to become the citi¬ 
zen that the country boy will become. 
He is handicapped with the very things 
whic-h should be helping him. I hope to 
see the rural schools given better equip¬ 
ment, but in the meantime I would not 
want to see mothers and fathers move 
into the cities just to give their children 
a better education. mrs. e. e. l. 
Ohio. 
