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The  RURAL  NEW'  -  YORKER 
March  3,  1923 
A  Better  Summer  Spray 
for  fruits,  vegetables  and  flowers 
Fifteen  years  ago  a  change  was  made 
from  the  use  of  bordeaux  mixture 
to  lime  sulfur.  Today  the  pendulum 
is  swinging  back  to  bordeaux.  And 
why?  Not  because  both  sprays  are 
not  good,  but  because  neither  has 
met  the  needs  of  fruit,  vegetable  and 
flower  growers.  Hence  the  present 
demand  for  a  better  summer  spray. 
After  15  years  of  comparative  use, 
Sulfocide  is  offered  as  a  better  sum¬ 
mer  spray — not  a  perfect  summer 
spray;  but  better  than  any  now  in 
general  use.  Today,  in  our  own  or¬ 
chards  of  over  30,000  trees,  we  use 
Sulfocide  exclusively — not  because 
it  is  cheaper  or  because  we  make  it, 
but  because  we  get  better-  results: 
On  apples,  higher  color,  smoother 
finish,  and  greater  freedom  from  scab 
and  other  fungous  troubles  (and 
combined  with  Cal-arsenate,  more 
thorough  control  of  insects);  on 
peaches,  plums  and  cherries,  better 
brown  rot  control  and  higher  keep¬ 
ing  qualities.  There  is  no  fussing  or 
mussing  with  Sulfocide.  Simply  pour 
one  gallon  of  Sulfocide  into  a  200- 
gal.  spray  tank,  with  soap  or  Kayso 
added  as  a  spreader.  For  most  vege¬ 
tables  and  flowers,  use  same  strength. 
Sulfocide  is  a  concentrated  sulfur 
preparation  in  liquid  form.  When 
sprayed,  it  quickly  decomposes,  leav¬ 
ing  a  film  of  pure  sulfur  and  carbo¬ 
nate  of  soda  ( non-poisonous  and 
non-in jurious)  so  fine  that  they  are 
almost  invisible  except  where  drops 
accumulate.  No  dry  sulfur  can  be 
ground  so  finely  or  applied  so  evenly. 
Ash  your  dealer  for  Sulfocide.  If  he  doesn’t  have  it,  order  from  us.  In  any 
event  write  today  for  literature  and  further  information.  Address  Dep’t  16. 
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Strawberry  Plants 
Hardy,  healthy,  true-to-name  plants  of  best 
fruiting  quality,  direct  from  NURSERY  to  you. 
100  250  1000  5000 
Premier  .  §0.90  $1.00  $5.00  $22.50 
Big  Joe  . 90  1.00  5.00  22.50 
Chesapeake  .  1.10  2.25  7.00  32.50 
laipton  . 90  1.60  5.00  22.50 
Horsey  .  1.10  2.25  7.00  32.50 
Big  Late  . 90  1.00  5.00  22.50 
Dunlap  . % . 80  1.40  4.00  18.75 
Ford  . 90  1.60  5.00  22.50 
dandy  . 80  1.40  4.00  18.75 
dihson  . 90  1.60  5.00  22.50 
Wm.  Belt  . 90  1.00  5.00  22.50 
Progressive  K.  B _  2.25  3.00  10.00  47.50 
Champion  E.  B .  2.25  4.00  15.00 
Lneretia  Dewberry...  2.50  4.50  16.00  75.00 
500  at  the  1000  rate.  Satisfaction  guaranteed. 
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Trees,  Plants,  Shrubs,  Vines,  Etc. 
V egetable  Seeds  for 
New  York  Farmers 
and  the  other  47  States,  too. 
Ford’s  Sound  Vegetable  Seeds  test 
high  in  vitality  and  purity,  and  are 
the  best  that  we  can  grow  or  buy. 
Ideal  Beet  Glory  Cabbage 
Ohio  Yellow  Globe  Onion 
Ford’s  Early  Sweet  Corn 
Old  Virginia  Ensilage  Corn 
Hundreds  of  farmers  and  garden¬ 
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are  reliable,  and  plant  these  and 
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Fresh  dug,  direct  from  NUKsEKY  to  you, 
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tions.  Write  today. 
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HOWARD  17  STRAWBERRY— KING  OF  THEM  ALL 
Free  booklet  tells  why.  Secure  plants  from  introducer. 
C.  E.  Chapman  North  Stonington,  Conn. 
For  Sale— 1  -Yr.-Old  "E  Grape  Plants 
Four  Dollars  per  100. 
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STRAWBERRY  PLANTS 
Gandy  and  Klondyka,  $3  per  1,000  .  50«  per  100.  Chesa¬ 
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Roofing 
Buying  the  best 
is  greater  economy  today  than  ever  before. 
ARMCO  INGOT  IRON 
roofing  is  made  from  pure  rust  resisting  iron  and 
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ary  steel  roofing.  It  is  by  far  the  most  econom¬ 
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The  Farmer  His 
Own  Builder 
By  H.  Armstrong  Roberto 
A  practical  and 
handy  book  of  all 
kinds  of  building 
information  from 
concrete  to  carpen¬ 
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For  sale  by' 
THE 
RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
323  W.  30th  St.,  N.  ¥, 
gives  full  descriptions  and  reasonable 
prices  of  seeds,  plants,  trees,  bulbs. 
Send  for  a  copy  today. 
Ford  Seed  Company 
Box  24  Ravenna,  Ohio 
BRECK’S  BELMONT  TOMATO 
The  best  Early  for  Greenhouse  Culture 
or  for  the  Home  Garden. 
Pkt.,  5c.;  oz.,  40c.;  %  lb.,  $1.50; 
lb.,  $5.00. 
BRECK’S  SELECTED  COPENHAGEN 
MARKET  CABBAGE 
Pkt.,  10c.;  V2  oz.,  25c.;  oz.,  40c.; 
%  lb.,  $1.50. 
Send  for  Free  1923  Seed  Catalogue 
Seedsmen  Since  1822. 
51  NORTH  MARKET  STREET 
BOSTON  -  -  -  MASS. 
GLADIOLI  surpisuaVtock 
25  bulbs  mixture  ot  25  named  varieties 
$1.  60  bulbs  mixture  of  50  named  va¬ 
rieties  $3.  100  bulbs  mixture  of  50 
named  varieties  $4  Standard  kinds, 
colors  nicely  blended.  Postpaid. „ 
C.  FRED  BOSHART 
Lowville  .....  New  York 
ROOT  GRAFTS 
Delicious.  McIntosh  and  othervarieties  should  make 
nice  one-year  trees  by  fall.  $3.50  100.  lOOOormore. 
special  price.  HUNTER  E.  MARKLE.  Martinsburu.  W,  Va. 
Fed.  Washington  Asparagus— Roots,  Seed 
The  one  best  asparagus.  Prolific.  Early.  Rust  resistant. 
Send  for  price  list.  SAMUEL  BURNLEY  Seekonk,  Mass. 
nr  DfWYTC  Com-. id  and  Niagara.  1 
1,  r\  M  ML.  ItUU  1  15  ami  2  \  ear  old.  Ht  plant¬ 
er's  prices.  R.  E  FOWLER  A  SONS,  No  Kingsville,  Ohio 
Get  Cold  Storage  Right 
In  answer  to  John  Buchanan.  I  hardly 
think  his  idea  is  possible  or  practical. 
In  the  first  place,  I  do  not  think  he  could 
maintain  an  even  temperature.  It  would 
get  too  damp,  which  would  help  fungus 
to  grow,  and  in  the  end  he  would  have 
nothing  but  what  we  call  a  common  stor¬ 
age.  In  this  section  a  common  storage  is 
a  thing  of  the  past,  as  everything  is  being 
kept  or  pre-cooled  in  cold  storage,  or,  as 
he  calls  it,  a  brine  circulating  storage. 
About  January  1  fruit  in  cold  storage 
has  a  higher  market  value  than  common 
storage  by  25c  to  $1  per  bbl.,  and  after 
that  some  buyers  will  not  buy  common 
storage  fruit.  The  secret  of  keeping  fruit 
in  storage  is  to  keep  it  at  an  even  tem¬ 
perature,  not  over  a  variation  of  one  de¬ 
gree  either  way. 
If  Mr.  Buchanan  lives  in  a  section  of 
Nova  Scotia  where  he  could  get  50,000 
bbls.  to  store,  I  would  advise  him  to  form 
a  company  and  build  a  cold  storage.  This 
may  look  big,  but  I  think  he  would  have 
all  the  space  engaged  for  the  first  season 
before  he  started  to  build.  There  were 
two  new  ones  built  in  this  section  last 
season,  and  they  were  full  before  they 
were  finished.  I  know  of  one  whose  space 
is  all  taken  now  for  another  year.  Fifty 
thousand  barrels  is  about  the  minimum- 
size  cold  storage  to  build. 
All  kinds  of  makeshift  storage  as  he 
speaks  of  have  been  tried  in  Western 
New  York,  but  the  chemical  storage  has 
come  to  stay,  and  you  will  find  10  in 
Wayne  County,  one  under  construction 
and  one  going  to  be  built. 
It  may  look  funny  to  advise  a  man  in 
Nova  Scotia  to  build  a  cold  storage,  but 
a  well-constructed  storage  is  frost-proof  in 
Winter  as  well  as  heat-proof  in  Summer, 
and  it  has  got  to  be  so  to  maintain  an 
even  temperature.  M.  A.  T. 
Wayne  Co..  N.  Y. 
CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  MARCH  3,  1923 
FARM  TOPICS 
Making  Compost  Heap .  326 
Suckering  Sweet  Corn .  326 
Hope  Farm  Notes — Part  I . . . 340,  341 
Farm  Earnings  in  the  Corn  Belt .  343 
How  About  the  Horse . . 343 
Countrywide  Produce  Situation .  356 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
Another  Comparison  of  Milk  Prices .  343 
Analysis  of  a  Feed  Mixture .  350 
Wood  or  Tile  Silo .  350 
Trouble  with  Molasses  Feed .  350 
Home-grown  Feed  for  Pigs .  352 
Utilizing  Buckwheat  .  352 
Dairy  Ration  with  Alfalfa  and  Corn  Fodder.  352 
Silage  and  Tuberculosis . 354 
Calf  Scouring  .  354 
White  Scours  in  Calves .  360 
THE  HENYARD 
A  Successful  Turkey  Raiser . 
Poultry  Matters  in  Massachusetts 
Vaccination  for  Poultry  Diseases. 
Temperature  for  Incubator . 
Disinfectant  for  Henhouse . 
Building  a  Turkey  House . 
Worms  in  Gizzard . 
Non-roosting  Brahmas  . . . 
Failure  in  Laying . 
Value  of  Mangels . 
Troubles  in  Henyard . 
Backward  Pullets  . 
Kerosene  for  Colds . 
Check  in  Laying . 
Building  Henhouse  . 
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HORTICULTURE 
The  Need  of  New  Apples . 315, 
Ridding  the  Orchard  of  Many  Varieties. 316, 
Picking  Apples  in  January . 
Red  Roman  Apples . 
Late  Ripening  Grapes . 
No  Two  Buds  Alike — Part  I . 
Pear  Growing  in  New  York . 
Planting  Asparagus  in  the  Home  Garden... 
Making  Garden  Opportunities . 320, 
Cotton  in  New  Jersey . . 
Vines  and  Flowers  for  the  Summer  Time... 
The  San  Jose  Scale  Again  on  the  Increase 
322, 
Inoculated  Sulphur  for  Scab . 
Transplanting  Old  Raspberries . 
Distinguishing  Varieties  by  Leaves . 
Transplanting  Grapevines  . 
The  Professional  Man  and  Fruit  Growing.. 
The  Hardiest  Begonia . •••• 
The  Future  of  Eastern  Grape  Growing.  .334, 
Dust  for  Apple  Scab . 
Combined  Duster  and  Sprayer . . . 
Lime-sulphur  Spray  . .  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  • 
Lhe  Latest  About  Dusting - 339,  341,  358, 
Mushrooms  on  the  Lawn . 
Raising  Large  Watermelons  or  Pumpkins.. 
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WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day.. . 
Another  Dumb  Waiter . 
Mettwurst . . . . . 
The  Rural  Patterns . . 
An  Ohio  Woman’s  Garden — Part  I.. 
Snowflakes  . . . .  ....  • 
Connecticut  Experience  in  Canning 
A  Trio  of  Cottage  Cheese  Goodies.. 
The  Next  Garden . 
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Meat, 
347,  355 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Keep  Out  of  the  Well . 
Getting  a  Start  with  Bees . 
Editorials . 
Weather  in  Southern  Ohio . 
Candid  Talk  from  a  “'Sportsman” . 
Building  Ice  Pond  Dam . . . 
Car  Expense  and  Experience . 
Corrosion  of  Furnace  Pipe . 
State  Civil  Service  Positions . . 
Use  for  Graphite . 
Making  Cedar  Oil . 
Polishing  Rubber  . 
Stain  for  Shingles . 
Spoiled  Maple  Syrup . 
Publisher’s  Desk  . 
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The 
Sweetest 
Richest 
Creamy 
Flavored 
Sweet 
Corn 
on  Earth 
Rich  Gold 
Color, 
Large  Ears, 
Prodigiously 
Productive— 
Sometimes  as  many  as  5  ears  on  a  stalk. 
Years  of  patient  toil  have  been  devoted  to  de¬ 
veloping  this  MARVELOUS  strain  of  Sweet 
Corn  on  the  grower’s  experimental  farm,  and 
the  first  seed  is  being  6old  for  1923  planting. 
Sold  only  in  packages  of  200  Kernels  at 
20  c  a  Package. 
BUY  IT  FROM  YOUR  LOCAL  SEEDSMAN 
If  he  has  not  yet  stocked  it  Bend  me  his  name 
and  20c  and  I  will  mail  you  a  package. 
My  Egyptian  Lima  (pole)  Beans  have  never 
failed  to  mature  as  far  North  as  Minnesota 
and  Maine.  Delicious  flavor,  heavy  yield  erg. 
Sold  only  in  pack  ages  of  60  beans  25c  per  pack. 
My  field  of  Giant  Rainbow  Zinnias  were  the 
wonder  and  ad  miration  of  the  Country  Side 
last  year.  Mixed  colors  15c  per  package  from 
your  seedsman  or,  if  he  does  not  carry  them, 
direct  by  mail  upon  receipt  of  price  and  his 
name.  Grower 
Geo.  H.  Allen,  Clinton,  N.  Y. 
NEW 
GOLDEN 
SWEET 
CORN 
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ar  Small  Strutts 
PLANTS  OF 
KNOWN  VALUE 
For  almost  half  a  century  the  name 
of  Lovett  has  stood  for  the  choicest 
obtainable  in  Raspberries,  Strawber¬ 
ries,  Blackberries,  Grapes  and  all 
those  nursery  products  generally 
known  as  small  fruits.  During  our 
business  career  we  have  had  but  one  single  aim: 
to  grow  the  choicest  plant  product*  obtainable 
under  congenial  soil  and  climatic  conditions,  with 
the  help  of  skilled  labor. 
The  existence  of  thousands  of  satisfied  customers 
throughout  the  land  speaks  in  a  measure  for  the 
quality  of  the  plants  we  have  supplied.  We  shall 
continue  to  make  every  endeavor  to  produce  a  plan! 
product  better  than  the  ordinary  commercial  grades. 
Please  write  for  the 
45th  Annual  Edition  of  the  Catalog 
Through  it  we  will  endeavor  to  introduce  to  you 
what  we  feel  is  the  largest  stock  of  really  choice 
varieties  of  small  fruits,  besides  some  unusual  Roses, 
a  broad  line  of  hardy  perennials  and  other  select 
nursery  products. 
Mailed  to  all  our  customers  of  record  about  middle 
of  January,  but  we  would  like  to  see  it  in  the 
hands  of  every  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Reader  not  at  present  among  our  customers. 
LOVETT’S  NURSERY,  Box  162,  Little  Silver,  New  Jersey 
SEEDS  THAT  SUCCEED 
Direct  from  the  Nation’s  Capitol.  Send  for 
our  Big  Catalogue  in  color.  Now  ready.  Ab¬ 
solutely  free. 
SEND  lO  CENTS 
And  we  will  include  1  pkt.  each:— 
Dwarf  Mixed  Naslurtiums,  Featherbloom  Asters. 
Giant  Flowered  Zinnias,  Scarlet  Globe  Radish, 
Masterpiece  Lettuce,  Bolgiano  Tomato. 
Don’t  Delay.  Send  Today. 
FW  BOLGIANO  &  CO 
1022  B  St,,  Washington,  D.  C. 
DAHLIAS 
We  have  the  best  varieties  grown.  Every  home 
should  have  a  Dahlia  Garden.  Send  for  1923  Catalog. 
Try  a  packet  of  our  special  Hybridized  DAHLIA 
SE*ED.  This  is  the  nay  new  varieties  of  DAHLIAS 
are  originated.  Price,  $1.00  per  packet  of  60 
Seeds,  with  instructions  for  growing. 
DAVID  M.BENFORDsp^alust DARIEN,  CONN. 
Cabbage  Seed 
Danish  Ball  Head,  Copenhagen  Market 
and  Glory  of  Enkkoizen  $2,00  per  pound 
Our  seed  is  grown  by  a  reliable  grower 
in  Denmark.  Every  package  has  the 
percent  of  germination  marked  on  it.  You 
will  be  more  than  pleased  with  our  seed. 
Hundreds  of  Satisfied  Customers 
Order  Today 
S.  A.  SMITH  &  SON,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 
Gardens  to  Halt  Tourists! 
Gorgeous,  graceful  Gladioli  will  do  more  to  beautify 
your  yard,  will  prove  a  greater  attraction  for  automobile 
parties  than  will  large  expenditures  in  other  decorations 
and  signs.  Tourists  will  stop  to  look  and  will  purchase 
your  wares.  Blooms  will  sell  readily  at  from  75  cents 
to  one  dollar  a  dozen.  Bulbs  will  multiply  rapidly  and 
orders  can  be  taken  for  these  w  ith  large  profits. 
Send  today  for  free  details  of  newest  and  most 
profitable  venture  foi  homes  on  highways. 
ELMWOOD  TERRACE  GARDENS 
Box  388-H,  BENNINGTON,  VERMONT 
