CLEAN  THRESHING 
WITH  FARM  POWER 
Z"!'  RAIN  must  be  threshed — from 
shocks,  stacks  or  barn.  The 
quickest  and  cleanest  method  is  best 
and  cheapest.  That  is  why  we  have 
been  asked  to  build  the  “  Farquhar 
Junior  ”  Thresher. 
Some  of  its  strong  features  : 
Heavy  Threshing  Cylinder 
Efficient  Separating  Grate 
One-piece  frame  Straw  Rack 
Adjustable  Chaffer 
Adjustable  Riddle 
Quiver  Shaking  Shoe 
Cheat  or  Wild  Seed  Screen 
Grain  Saving  Device 
Hand  or  Self-Feeder 
Wind  Stacker  or  Straw  Carrier 
or  Weigher  Bagger 
Low  Down  for  Barn  Threshing 
Not  today’s  price  but  tomorrow’s 
satisfaction ;  therefore,  we  ask  you 
to  send  for  Farquhar  Thresher  In¬ 
formation.  Machines  built  in  six 
sizes— one  or  the  other  will  meet  the 
demands  in  any  community.  New 
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Box  530  -  -  YORK.  PA. 
Manufacturers  of  Locomotive  Engines  and  Boil¬ 
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Harvest  Time 
Economy 
It’s  real  economy  to  operate 
the  John  Deere  Grain  Binder. 
It  gives  extra  years  of  service, 
and  its  upkeep  costs  are  ex¬ 
tremely  low.  It  stands  the 
strains  under  most  severe  field 
conditions.  Harvesting  costs 
are  greatly  reduced  when  you 
use  a 
John  Deere  Grain  Binder 
Frame  made  of  wide  steel  bars  widely 
overlapped  and  hot-riveted  together  — 
Btrong  —  rigid. 
.  Bearings  in  main  frame  are  self-align- 
ln2  keeps  important  parts  running 
true. 
Platform  strongly  braced  —  prevents 
knife  and  apron  rollers  from  binding. 
Knotter  wearing  parts,  are  steel- 
cut  gears  or  drop-forgings,  and  case- 
hardened  to  resist  wear. 
Bundie  Carrier  easily  operated  and 
provided  with  adjustments  to  maintain 
its  easy  operating  qualities. 
Quick-Turn  Tongue  Truck.  Takes 
off  neck  weight  —  prevents  sluing,  and 
takes  off  side  draft  from  horses. 
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Elm  on  a  Tompkins  County.  A  .  Y.,  Farm 
planted  by  the  great-grandfather  of  the 
present  occupant  of  the  farm  [>0  years 
ago. 
Blackberries  Running  Out 
Years  ago  I  bought  1,200  or  more  black¬ 
berry  plants  from  a  reliable  nurseryman 
in  New  York  State.  w;hich  ran  out.  He 
said  that  they  had  run  out  because  they 
had  been  propagated  from  root  cuttings, 
and  he  refunded.  Now  I  see  that  another 
large  nursery  claims  to  have  the  largest 
stock  of  piece-root  blackberry  plants  in 
the  United  States.  If  they  will  always 
run  out,  as  mine  did,  the  nurseryman 
should  be  told  to  quit  or  the  people  told 
to  avoid  them.  e.  r. 
Halsey,  Ore. 
It  is  often  said  that  if  successive  gen¬ 
erations  of  blackberries  are  propagated 
by  root  cuttings  they  will  run  out.  But, 
like  a  lot  of  other  information,  it  is  hard 
to  run  the  leads  to  earth.  In  most  cases 
the  reports  of  running  out  are  that  the 
plants  are  sterile  and  unfruitful.  Again, 
it  is  claimed  that  certain  varieties  will 
run  out,  while  others  will  not.  The  ex¬ 
planation  advanced  for  this  is  interest¬ 
ing,  and  is  based  upon  the  fact  that  the 
outer  layers  of  the  root  develop  into  the 
inner  part  of  the  stem  of  the  plant.  Fur¬ 
ther,  the  good  parent  manifests  itself  in 
the  outer  portion  of  the  plant,  from  which 
the  shoots  bearing  the  fruit  arise,  while 
the  poor  parent  is  bottled  up  inside  and 
cannot  express  itself.  Now,  it  is  said 
that  root  cuttings  from  hybrids  between 
a  good  and  bad  parent  will  run  out  be¬ 
cause  the  poor  parent,  already  being  oh 
the  outside,  in  some  way  or  other  retains 
its  superiority  over  the  good  parent,  and 
the  fruit  is  consequently  poor.  With  hv- 
brids  between  two  good  parents  this  be¬ 
comes  of  no  consequence,  and  there  is  no 
running  out. 
However,  we  are  inclined  to  look  to 
other  sources  for  an  explanation,  such  as 
mosaic,  crown  gall,  or  other  diseases,  just 
as  running  out  in  potatoes  has  now  been 
shown  to  be  largely  a  matter  of  disease. 
Or  it  might  be  that  the  trouble  lies  in 
not  having  the  original  stock  true  to 
name,  or  in  contamination  of  the  stock 
with  foreign  or  seedling  sorts.  Our  old 
neighbor,  R.  ,T.  Reasoner,  the  originator 
of  the  Senator  Dunlap  and  the  Dr.  Bur- 
nll  strawberries,  used  to  say  that  he  sus¬ 
pected  some  of  the  so-called  running  out 
m  strawberries  was  due  to  seedlings  that 
sprang. up  in  the  row  from  seed  of  rotted 
or  unpicked  berries. 
It  would  be  a  fair  estimate  to  say  that 
the  majority  of  blackberrv  plants  are 
propagated  from  root  cuttings.  If  any¬ 
thing,  the  young  plants  from  root  cut¬ 
tings  have  better  root  systems  than  those 
from  suckers.  We  should  not  hesitate 
to,P«y  plants  from  root  cuttings  from  anv 
reliable  nurseryman.  h,  b.  t. 
What  causes  our  heavy  losses  in  white 
cherries?  When  they  are  half  grown 
about  half  of  the  crop  rots  and  drops  off. 
Would  any  particular  time  for  spraying 
prevent  this,  and  what  mixture?  The 
cherries  are  mostly  Napoleon,  f.  l.  h. 
Bridgewater,  N.  S. 
The  brown  rot  fungus,  common  on 
peaches  and  plums,  and  especially  severe 
on  white  sweet  cherries,  is  doubtless  the 
cause  of  the  rotting.  The  disease  may 
be  controlled  by  spraying  with  lime-sul¬ 
phur  1-40,  making  applications  (1)  just 
after  the  shucks  have  been  pushed  off, 
and  (2)  rs  the  fruit  is  coloring.  The 
addition  of  lead  arsenate  to  the  first  ap¬ 
plication,  2  lbs.  to  50  gallons,  will  in¬ 
crease  the  fungicidal  value  of  lime-sul¬ 
phur  and  will  control  worms.  II.  B.  T. 
A  Majestic  Eim 
The  picture  shows  an  elm  tree  on  the 
Baldwin  Farm,  Tompkins  County,  N.  Y. 
This  tree,  now  01  ft.  in  height,  was 
The  Bride’s 
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