7bt  RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
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Powder-post  Beette  in  Oak  Woodwork 
Can  you  give  a  remedy  for  the  insect, 
presumably  a  worm,  that  burrows  into 
hardwood,  oak.  furniture  or  casings?  A 
house  was  finished  with  two  such  insects 
in  a  certain  section.  They  have  bored 
through  the  varnish,  and  the  dust  from 
their  burrows  falls  on  the  floor.  As  they 
do  not  work  in  a  straight  line  they  can¬ 
not  be  taken  out  by  a  book  or  sharp  in¬ 
strument.  We  would  like  some  remedy 
that  does  not  injure  the  appearance  of  the 
"wood.  M.  B. 
Silver  Creek,  N.  Y. 
The  grubs  of  these  beetles  work  in  oak, 
ash  and  hickory  especially,  and  sometimes 
reduce  the  wood  almost  to  sawdust.  I 
have  before  me  a  piece  of  ash  board  from 
the  wainscotting  of  a  room  which  is  full 
of  the  small  shot-like  holes  of  the  beetles 
and  is  riddled  with  the  burrows  of  the 
small  white  grubs.  When  these  small 
beetles*  get  into  the  finished  woodwork  of 
a  room  there  is  no  practicable  method  of 
stopping  their  work  except  by  removing 
the  infested  wood  and  replacing  it  with 
new. 
It  is  well  to  remember  that  these 
beetles  work  only  in  sap  wood  and  not 
in  heart  wood.  Therefore,  when  the  in¬ 
fested  piece  of  board  is  removed,  it  should 
be  replaced  by  one  composed  of  heart 
wood  only.  G.  w.  n. 
Evergreens  from  Seed 
How  are  those  little  ornamental  bushes, 
and  pine  and  spruce  trees  raised? 
•Hempstead,  N.  Y.  E.  v. 
Pines  and  spruces  may  be  grown  from 
seed,  requiring  mellow,  well-prepared  soil, 
preferably  a  sandy  loam  enriched  with 
well-rotted  manure.  Cow  manure  is  con¬ 
sidered  preferable  to  horse  manure.  The 
covering  of  the  seed  varies  according  to 
its  size,  the  large  pine  seeds  requiring 
about  x/i-in.  Sow  the  second  or  third 
week  in  May,  when  the  weather  is  settled. 
Rows  should  be  6  in.  apart,  and  the  space 
between  the  rows  should  be  mulched  with 
pine  needles  or  sphagnum  moss,  to  con¬ 
serve  moisture  and  keep  down  weeds. 
The  seedlings  are  very  susceptible  to  sun 
and  drying  winds,  and  it  is  advisable  to 
shade  them  with  a  lath  screen  the  first 
Summer.  In  the  Winter  they  should  be 
protected  with  a  mulch  of  clean  meadow 
hay  or  evergreen. 
For  growing  small  quantities  of  ever¬ 
greens  the  following  plan  is  very  desir¬ 
able  :  Sow  the  seed  soon  after  gathering 
in  well-drained  boxes,  pile  four  or  five 
deep  in  a  sheltered  place,  cover  with 
boards,  and  when  severe  Winter  weather 
begins,  cover  with  lenves  or  hay.  About 
the  middle  of  April  stand  the  boxes 
on  the  ground  where  they  will  get 
the  early  morning  sun,  keep  the  boxes 
well  weeded  and  -watered,  and  shade  with 
lath  screen  or  thin  cotton.  The  shading 
should  be  removed  in  the  late  afternoon, 
as  free  circulation  of  air  is  necessary 
when  the  sun  is  gone,  to  avoid  damping 
off.  Winter  the  seedlings  in  the  boxes, 
well  covered  up,  and  transplant  the  fol¬ 
lowing  Spring. 
Ornamental  shrubs  are  propagated  by 
seeds,  by  layers,  by  cuttings  of  green  or 
ripe  wood,  and  by  suckers,  the  procedure 
varing  with  different  classes.  Layering  is 
the  simplest  method  for  the  amateur,  and 
is  successful  with  a  great  variety  of  such 
plants. 
Pruning  Climbing  Rose;  Onion  Blight 
1.  IIow  shall  I  prune  my  climbing  rose? 
It  is  on  a  trellis  or  arbor.  It  put  out 
several  new  shoots  or  canes  in  1922  from 
root.  Should  the  older  parts  be  pruned 
away  to  make  room  for  the  new  wood? 
2.  Our  onion  crop  fails  each  year.  About 
the  time  the  plants  (from  sets)  are  about 
10  in.  high  and  as  the  bulb  starts  form¬ 
ing,  a  sort  of  blight  attacks  them.  The 
leaves  whiten  from  the  tips  and  die 
downward.  When  new  sets  are  secured 
the  result  is  the  same.  When  planted  in 
the  field  the  result  is  the  same  as  when 
planted  in  the  garden.  Will  you  advise 
treatment?  .  E.  M.  L. 
Ebensburg,  Pa. 
1.  Cut  out  any  dead  wood  from  the 
climbing  roses,  also  the  weak  interfering 
shoots.  The  new  canes  which  have  grown 
from  the  base  during  the  previous  sea¬ 
son  should  not  be  touched.  About  the 
last  of  July  or  first  of  August,  when  the 
blooming  season  is  over,  it  is  well  to  cut 
out  some  of  the  oldest  canes ;  this  gives 
new  wood  a  better  opportunity  to  de¬ 
velop,  and  it  becomes  the  flowering  wood 
of  the  following  season. 
2.  The  onion  trouble  described  is  blight, 
which  is  common  and  destructive.  It  is 
likely  to  appear  in  warm,  damp  weather, 
and  is  most  destructive  in  wet  lands.  A 
spray  of  Bordeaux,  5-5-50,  should  be  ap¬ 
plied  as  soon  as  the  disease  is  noticed. 
New  growth  should  be  protected  by  fur¬ 
ther  spraying.  Where  the  disease  has  oc¬ 
curred  in  previous  seasons,  it  is  well  to 
spray  before  the  disease  appears,  and 
continue  spraying  throughout  the  season, 
using  a  fine  spray  with  high  pressure  to 
make  the  mixture  stick.  Crop  rotation, 
and  the  raking  up  and  burning  of  the 
dead  tops,  will  assist  in  control  of  the 
disease. 
The  powerful  hold  of  the  Hupmobile 
upon  the  American  public  is  not  due 
to  any  one  or  two  outstanding  features. 
The  Hupmobile  is  unique  today  in  that 
it  combines  within  itself,  in  balanced 
measure,  all  the  advantages  which  are 
worth  while  in  a  motor  car,  and  which 
every  motor  car  buyer  always  hopes  to 
get  when  he  buys. 
in  the  Hupmobile  you  obtain,  in  major 
degree,  dashing  appearance,  brilliant 
performance,  power,  strength  and  stur¬ 
diness,  extreme  endurance,  very  low 
operating  cost  and  long  life. 
The  Hupmobile  is  uncommon,  further¬ 
more,  because  it  can  be  purchased  at 
a  comparatively  low  price,  and  re-sold 
again — when  the  time  for  a  new  Hup¬ 
mobile  finally  does  arrive — at  a  com¬ 
paratively  high  price. 
Hupp  Motor  Car  Corporation,  Detroit,  Michigan 
Hupmobile 
“On  15  acres  of  corn,  I  lost  but  3 
or  4  hills” - write*  A.  B.  Wilmot 
Thotf*rt’.  Vt’  And  il  cost  Mr-  Wilmot  only  about  $3.00  to  save  from 
i-4  to  1-3  of  his  entire  crop.  Previously,  the  crows  and  other  pests  had  fairly 
picnicked  on  his  corn-fields.  Hill  after  hill  was  entirely  pulled  up.  Hill  after 
hill  he  had  to  replant,  every  season.  This  cost  him  not  only  money,  but  it 
cost  him  a  lot  of  his  valuable  time  right  at  planting-  time.  Then  someone  told 
mm  ot  a  way  to  coat  his  seed  corn  with  a  mixture  that  neither  crows  nor  any 
other  pests  would  touch,  after  they  once  had  a  taste  of  it.  This  corn-saver  was 
Stanley’s  Crow  Repellent 
Mr.  Wilmot  sent  for  some.  He  mixed  it  with  his  seed  corn.  He  did  not  have 
Tf  °r  dlT’  But  planted  it  at  once.  And  it  did  not  clog  the  planter, 
it  am  not  injure  the  seed  corn.  It  was  not  poisonous,  so  it  would  not  kill 
b‘rds,  °if-  animals-  But  dld  keep  every  crow,  mole,  squirrel  or  other  pest 
off  of  his  corn-field,  after  they  got  the  first  whiff  of  it.  Now  there  are  no 
more  scare-crows  m  Mr.  Wilmot’s  field.  There’s  no  more  worry  over  not 
®ett'ng.a  fuI1  cJop;  so  far  as  pests  are  concerned.  And  Mr.  Wilmot  is  only  one 
of  hundreds  who  have  written  us  that  they  would  never  plant  a  hill  of  corn 
again  without  coating  their  seed  corn  with  Stanley’s  Crow  Repellent  Large 
can,  enough  for  2  bu.  of  seed  corn  (8  to  10  acres),  $1.60.  Half  size  can,  $13)0. 
f  your  hardware,  drug  or  seed  store  doesn’t  have  it  in  stock,  order  direct  Ad¬ 
dress,  Cedar  Hill  Formulae  Co.,  Box  500H,  New  Britain,  Conn.  "  Ad 
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Is  there  a  single  book  in  the  public 
library  in  your  town  which  gives  an  ac¬ 
curate  picture  of  farm  life  or  an  interest¬ 
ing  story  of  real  farm  people? 
Many  city  people  form  their  opinion  of 
farmers  and  farm  life  from  the  books  they 
read.  Therefore,  there  ought  to  be  at 
least  one  good  book  picturing  real  farm 
life,  with  its  mixture  of  bright  and  dark 
sides,  in  every  town  or  grange  library. 
“Hope  Farm  Notes”  is  a  well-printeo 
224-page  book,  containing  25  interesting 
stories  of  farm  life  and  country  people. 
Many  consider  it  the  best  book  of  country 
life  which  has  ever  been  published. 
Ask  for  this  book  at  your  library,  and 
if  it  isn’t  there  tell  them  they  ought  to 
have  it.  You  will  enjoy  the  book  your- 
self,  and  it  will  give  those  not  familiar 
with  farm  life  a  better  understanding  of 
real  country  people. 
Many  people  are  making  a  present  of 
this  book  to  city  friends  or  to  their  town, 
grange  or  school  library,  and  it  is  always 
considered  a  welcome  aift. 
The  price  is  only  $1.50,  postpaid.  Just 
fill  out  the  coupon  below  and  mail  with 
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RURAL  NEW-YORKER, 
333  West  30th  St..  New  York. 
Gentlemen. — Enclosed  find  $1.50,  for  which 
mall  me  a  cloth-bound  copy  of  Hope  Farm  Notes. 
Name  . . 
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