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5V  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
March  24.  1923 
gallons  of  deadly  spray 
at  less  than  Q?  a  gallon 
10  lb.  tins —  $13.50 
2  lb.  tins —  3.50 
V2,  lb-  tins —  1.25 
loz  bottles —  .35 
10  lb.  tins  make 
800  to  1000  gallons 
of  spray. 
Next  to  its  deadly  certainty,  the 
best  thing  about  Hall’s  Nicotine 
Sulphate  is  its  very  low  cost.  T.t 
can  be  diluted  with  water  800  to 
1000  times  to  make  a  deadly  spray 
costing  less  than  2  cents  a  gallon. 
Hall’s  Nicotine  Sulphate  con¬ 
tains  40%  pure  Nicotine  —  the 
most  powerful  contact  poison 
known.  Being  a  vegetable  ex¬ 
tract,  it  will  not  harm  fruit,  flower 
or  foliage.  But  it  will  wipe  out 
aphids,  thrips  and  similar  insects. 
Use  it  next  season. 
Buy  from  your  dealer.  If  he  is 
net  supplied,  send  us  your  order 
along  with  his  name. 
NICOTINE  SULPHATE 
HallTobaccoChemical  Co. 
114  East  10th  St.,  JVe w  York  City 
There  is  no  Argument — 
Feeding  the  Corn  Crop 
to  Live  Stock  Increases  Your  Profits 
But  the  yield  and  quality  of  your  Corn  Crop 
determines  the  number  of  hogs  you  can  feed. 
Does  your  soil  provide  enough  available  plant 
food  to  grow  a  large  yield  of  Corn  with  high  feed¬ 
ing  value? 
Every  200-pound  bag  of  \  -C  Fertilizer  used  per 
acre  on  Corn,  will  produce  under  good  cultural 
conditions,  an  increase  of  10  bushels  of  grain, 
equivalent  to  100  pounds  of  pork. 
Compare  the  cost  of  the  Bag  of 
Fertilizer  with  what  you  get  for 
the  100  pounds  of  pork. 
'i  ou  can  make  this  profit.  Ask 
your  dealer,  or  write  our 
Agricultural  Service  Bureau 
Virginia-Carolina  Chemical  Co. 
Richmond  Virginia 
Ask  Our 
Agricultural 
Service  Bureau 
Dealers  and  warehouses  at  all  points 
emler  instead  of  blue.  Seeds  have  been 
advertised  for  a  year  or  two.  and  many 
amateurs  planting  it  have  been  disap¬ 
pointed.  probably  because  they  have  not 
realized  that  it  is  very  slow  to  germin¬ 
ate,  often  requiring  two  weeks.  It  is  the, 
best  plan  to  sow  the  seeds  in  boxes  of 
earth  in  the  hoqse,  the  small  plants  be¬ 
ing  set  out  when  well  started. 
<  Ji.ADior.i.- — It  would  he  impossible  to 
deal  at  any  length  with  the  newer  Glad- 
ioli,  the  introductions  are  so  numerous. 
Yet  it  may  be  well  to  call  attention  to 
the  Primulinus  hybrids,  as  even  yet 
Gladioli  in  this  form  are  absent  from 
many  well-ordered  gardens.  These  hy¬ 
brids  were  produced  by  crossing  the  com 
mon  Gladiolus  with  one  found  in  Cen¬ 
tral  Africa.  The  offspring  are  much 
daintier  in  appearance  than  those  of  the 
common  Gladiolus,  are  more  free  flower¬ 
ing,  and  are  characterized  by  a  peculiar 
di'oop  of  the  upper  petal.  Xo  flowers  are 
more  decorative  or  more  suitable  for  cut¬ 
ting.  while  the  shades  are  so  soft  and 
varied  that  florists  are  sometimes  called 
upon  to  match  them  to  the  gowns  being 
worn  at  a  fashionable  function  in  the 
larger  cities.  It  may  be  said  in  this  con¬ 
nection  that:  the  growing  of  Gladioli  com¬ 
mercially  has  grown  rather  faster  than 
the  market  for  the  flowers,  and,  for  that 
matter,  for  the  bulbs.  Farmers  or  others 
who  are  considering  the  growing  of  Glad¬ 
ioli  as  a  money-making  project  will  be 
wise  to  go  slow,  so  far  as  they  can  sell 
their  products  locally,  e.  t.  Farrington. 
Sugar  Maple  Borer 
Can  you  suggest  a  spray  to  save  my 
rock  maple  trees,  which  arc  dying  slowly? 
I  find  a  small  white  insect  under  the  hark 
of  the  dead  limbs.  F.  V.  w. 
It  is  probable  that  the  maple  trees  of 
F.  V.  AY.  are  being  injured  by  the  sugar 
maple  borer  ( Plaf/ionotus  ttpeciosus). 
This  maple  borer  is  a  large,  handsome 
beetle,  which  deposits  its  eggs  in  crevices 
of  the  bark,  where  they  hatch  into  whitish 
grubs,  which  enter  the  trunk  of  the  tree 
and  bore  large  galleries  in  the  wood.  As 
a  result  of  the  work  of  the  borers  dead 
areas  of  hark  appear  on  the  trunks  and 
limbs  of  the  infested  trees,  and  in  many 
cases  the  branches  die..  Sometimes  be¬ 
neath  the  moist  bark  of  the  dead  branches 
white  maggots  of  certain  flies  are  found, 
which,  however,  are  not  injuring  the  tree. 
The  maggots  come  after  the  branch  is 
injured  or  killed. 
Trees  badly  injured  by  the  borers  would 
probably  better  be  cut  down  and  tin*  wood 
burned  before  June,  in  order  to  destroy 
the  grubs  before  they  transform  to 
beetles. 
In  particularly  valuable  trees  the  bor¬ 
ers  should  be  located  by  the  fine,  saw- 
dust-like  particles  which  they  push  out 
of  their  burrows,  and  which  lodge  in  the 
crevices  of  the  bark.  Whenever  a  borer 
is  located,  it  should  be  dug  out  with  a 
sharp  chisel.  The  wound  made  will  soon 
heal  over.  It  is  sometimes  possible  to 
spurt,  a  spoonful  of  carbon  bisulphate 
into  t It <•  burrow  of  the  grub.  In  case  this 
ran  be  done  the  opening  of  the  burrow 
should  be  closed  with  grafting  wax,  in 
order  that  the  fumes  may  be  held  within 
the  tunnel.  ggknn  w.  iterrick. 
White  Worms  in  Well  Water 
I  have  a  pump  in  my  kitchen  and  I 
always  had  very  clean  water.  The  well  is 
in  the  cellar.  AVhen  I  used  the  water  I 
found  small  white  worms.  The  insect  has 
a  great  many  feet  and  the  back  part  is 
the  form  of  a  fish.  AArould  you  inform 
me  whether  Jt  is  harmful,  and  the  reason 
the  water  seems  unclean?  airs.  S.  R. 
Livingston  Manor.  N.  Y. 
The  so-called  “worms’’  found  in  the 
well  of  Mrs.  S  K.  are  the  young  of  insects 
known  as  stone  flies.  Stone  flies  lay 
their  eggs  in  brooks,  ponds  and  lakes, 
and  just  how  these  young  ones  happen  to 
be  in  the  well  is  certainly  a  mystery.  It 
is  possible  that  they  come  in  through  an 
underground  stream  which  flows  into  the 
well  from  a  brook  or  pond  somewhere  in 
the  vicin’ty. 
AY<>  d<>  not  believe  that  the  presence 
of  thesi*  young  stone  flies  in  the  well  is 
any  indication  that  the  water  is  impure. 
Tn  fact,  the  insects  probably  could  not 
live  in  the  well  if  the  water  were  not  pure 
and  full  of  oxygen.  Xo  doubt,  it  is  an- 
uoying  to  find  these  insects  in  the  water, 
and  T  know  of  no  practical  method  of 
excluding  them.  They  will  probably  dis- 
annear  in  a  short  time,  for  the  supply  of 
them  must  he  very  limited. 
GT.ENN  W.  HERRICK. 
V _  ^ 
25c  a  day 
to  run  sprayer  and  handle 
2  to  3  leads  of  hose. 
The  economy  and  dependability  of 
Hercules  operation  has  made  it  the 
power  for  sprayers  on  thousands  of 
farms.  The  1V2  H.  P.  Hercules — 
light,  high  speed — will  run  a  spray 
outfit  with  three  leads  of  hose  all 
day  long.  And  the  cost  will  not 
exceed  a  quarter. 
“One  set  of  piston  rings  in  six  years” 
writes  one  Hercules  owner,  “  is  all 
that  I  have  done  in  the  way  of  re¬ 
pairs.”  This  is  an  engine  that  has 
been  in  constant  use. 
There  are  a  host  of  other  farm  uses 
for  the  Hercules — running  the  wash¬ 
ing  machine,  the  grindstone,  the 
pump.^the  saw,  the  feed  mill — all 
the  hard  jobs  that  are  just  so  much 
drudgery  but  that  must  be  done. 
The  Hercules  does  them  quicker, 
more  economically — and  more  effi¬ 
ciently. 
Behind  every  Hercules  Engine 
is  the  five-year  guarantee  of  the 
Hercules  Corporation.  In  every  one 
of  them  is  the  same  sturdy  construc¬ 
tion,  the  same  excellence  of  work¬ 
manship. 
There  should  be  a  Hercules  Dealer 
near  you.  He  will  gladly  demon¬ 
strate  the  Engine  to  you.  Write  us 
your  power  problems  and  let  us 
advise  you. 
The  Hercules  Corporation 
Engine  Division  Evansville,  Indiana 
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ENGINES 
Day  by  Day  in  Every  Way 
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with  1853,  each  succeeding  year 
showed  improvements  in  design  and 
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Manufacturers  of  Gas  Tractors, 
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Cloth  for  Cold  Frame 
Here  is  a  valuable  hint  that  we  got 
from  your  paper.  We  tried  out  the 
uaraffin  and  gasoline  waterproofing  on 
new  muslin  for  cold  frames  as  a  substi¬ 
tute  for  glass  cloth.  It  was  satisfactory, 
only  that  it  shrunk,  and  we  had  the  same 
trouble  with  glass  eloth.  Time  must  be 
given  to  air  thoroughly,  as  it  takes  some 
time  to  get  the  gasoline  odor  out. 
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ACCOUNT 
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Price,  $£.00 
To  Canada,  $1.25 
If  you  keen  only  ten  or  a 
dozen  liens,  there  will  be 
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knowing  just  how  the 
account  stands.  This  hook 
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The  account  may  be  begun 
at  any  time,  and  the  balance 
struck  at  any  time.  Simple 
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