The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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100  cords  of  wood  this  Winter.  What  is 
more,  the  children  have  come  through  the 
dry  Summer  rosy  and  juicy  as  [teaches. 
I  would  not  like  to  say  how  many  pounds 
of  child  we  have  produced  on  this  farm 
during  the  drought.  We  can  still  go  into 
the  garden  and  help  ourselves  to  nine  dif¬ 
ferent  kinds  of  vegetables.  Are  we  dis¬ 
couraged?  I  should  say  not!  We  had 
18  different  people  on  the  farm  for  din¬ 
ner  today,  and  except  for  the  meat  and 
flour  and  sugar,  it  was  a  Hope  Farm  pro¬ 
duction.  We  haven’t  contributed  much 
toward  that  million  this  Summer,  I  con¬ 
fess.  but  have  become  more  convinced  that 
if  we  had  it  we  would  spend  it  just  as 
we  have  outlined.  There  was  a  thunder¬ 
shower  just  about  dark.  The  clouds  and 
wind  threatened  to  deluge  New  Jersey, 
but  little  came  of  it  after  all;  just  enough 
for  those  Elbertas  to  get  a  sip.  All  too 
soon  the  clouds  swept  away  and  the  stars 
appeared.  Then  I  went  out  and  walked 
up  the  road,  getting  as  near  to  the  blessed 
moisture  as  I  could.  There  was  a  light 
at  the  back  of  the  house,  and  framed 
against  the  tinted  glow  of  the  lamp  shade 
was  a  large,  well-shaped  head  bending 
over  a  desk.  l\J,v  daughter  was  working 
away  at  the  great  thesis  which  is  to  win 
her  an  'M.A.  from  the  great  university. 
There  is  a  pile  of  books  as  large  as  a 
haystack  beside  her.  'I  stop  and  watch 
this  literary  hope  of  the  family  grinding 
away  at  ber  work,  and  for  a  moment  per¬ 
haps  there  is  a  feeling  of  regret  that  I 
could  not  have  had  such  a  chance  in  my 
own  youth.  Yet  then  I  remember 
the  book  I  have  been  reading,  “A  Man 
From  Maine,”  by  Edward  Bok.  He  tells 
how  Cyrus  Curtis  employed  Chief  Jus¬ 
tice  Taft  to  write  for  the  Public  Ledper. 
Curtis  made  the  proposition,  but  Taft 
demurred  a  little.  It  was  out  of  his  line, 
he  was  not  a  literary  man,  etc.  Finally 
he  said,  “I  have  a  daughter  at  college, 
well  up  in  English,  and  she  can  help  me.” 
Curtis  told  him  that  was  just  what  he 
did  not  want.  He  was  not  after  highly 
polished  English,  but  plain,  common  talk, 
which  would  express,  in  their  own 
thought,  what  ordinary  people  want ! 
My  daughter  has  been  good  enough  to 
tell  me  the  truth,  which  is  that  I  may 
have  “a  good  running  style,  but  of  course 
I  could  not  write  polished  English  !”  The 
great  majority  of  people  I  know  seldom 
have  their  shoes  fully  polished.  I  thought 
it  quite  an  appropriate  act  for  me  to  go 
into  the  house,  open  Bolt’s  book  at  the 
account  of  this  Taft  episode  and  hand  it 
to  the  talented  and  titled  young  woman 
as  a  little  antidote  for  the  thesis! 
H.  \V.  C. 
Fall  Planting  of  Evergreens 
Can  you  give  me  some  information 
about  the  Fall  planting  of  coniferous 
trees,  particularly  small  transplants  or 
seedlings  for  mass  planting?  I  am  aware 
that  Spring  is  the  preferable  time  for  this 
work,  but  find  it  difficult  to  obtain  men 
at  that  season.  w.  e.  t. 
As  a  matter  of  fact  the  Fall  months 
are  fully  as  satisfactory  as  is  the  Spring 
for  the  planting  of  evergreen  trees  or 
shrubs.  Even  good-sized  evergreens  can 
be  moved  readily  in  September,  and  will 
have  the  advantage  of  the  Fall  rains.  It 
is  exceedingly  important  that  all  kinds  of 
evergreens  have  an  abundance  of  moisture 
at  all  times,  but  particularly  after  having 
been  reset.  Many  evergreens,  including 
Rhododendrons,  which  fail  to  go  through 
the  Winters,  would  not  be  lost  if  they 
had  been  watered  freely  in  the  Fall. 
Young  trees,  like  small  transplants  or 
seedlings,  should  be  set  close  together. 
One  foot  apart  is  not  too  much  for  the 
upright  growing  kinds.  Spruces  should 
have  a  foot  and  a  half.  This  may  seem 
like  very  close  planting,  but  experience 
has  shown  that  coniferous  trees  do  not 
thrive  as  a  rule  under  any  other  system. 
They  need  the  protection  which  one  gives 
the  other.  Later,  of  course,  some  of  them 
must  be  thinned  out.  With  large  ever¬ 
greens  it  is  very  important  that  there 
should  be  an  unbroken  ball  of  earth 
around  the  roots.  Good  nurserymen  al¬ 
ways  envelop  this  ball  of  earth  with  bur¬ 
lap.  This  matter  is  not  so  important 
with  small  stock,  but  of  course  it  is  wise 
to  retain  all  the  earth  possible,  and  not 
allow  the  roots  to  be  exposed  to  the  sun, 
or,  quite  as  bad,  to  drying  winds.  If 
there  is  but  little  earth  on  the  roots,  a 
good  plan  to  follow  is  to  dip  them  in  soft 
mud,  wrhich  will  adhere  to  them  until 
after  they  are  planted,  or  to  carry  them 
about  in  pails  of  water  or  very  thin  mud. 
E.  I.  FARRIXGTOX. 
Kerosene  for  Moles 
In  regard  to  ground  moles,  punch  a 
small  hole  through  the  roof  of  their  main 
tunnels,  pour  in  a  little  kerosene,  cover 
the  hole  with  a  lump  of  dirt  or  a  small 
stone.  They  will  soon 'disappear. 
,  J.  L.  D. 
R.-N.-Y. — This  is  worth  trying  at 
least. 
Why  Do 
Stark  Bros. 
This  $5000  Tree  with 
SCALECIDE 
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Here  is  perhaps  the  most  valuable  and  best 
known  apple  tree  in  the  world — the  mother 
of  all  genuine  Golden  Delicious,  for  which 
Stark  Bros,  paid  the  record  price  of  $5000. 
Standing  on  its  native  mountainside  in  West 
Virginia,  this  famed  old  tree  is  given  the  best 
care  known.  It  is  enclosed  in  a  burglar-alarm 
cage  for  protection  against  man  and  beast. 
But  to  protect  it  against  scale  and  other 
pests  that  are  controlled  by  dormant  sprays, 
SCALECIDE  is  applied  every  year.  Can  a  higher 
recommendation  of  SCALECIDE  be  given? 
Can  there  be  a  more  expert  endorsement? 
Stark  Bros,  take  no  risks  with  this  tree,  so 
they  spray  it  annually  with  SCALECIDE.  In  a 
recent  letter  Mr.  Paul  Stark  said,  "For  a  num¬ 
ber  of  years  the  tree  has  been  sprayed  each 
year  with  SCALECIDE.  It  is  in  clean,  vigorous 
condition,  bearing  annual  crops.  This  tree 
has  borne  as  much  as  35  bushels  one  crop.” 
When  men  like  Stark  Bros.,  who  know  or¬ 
charding  and  know  SCALECIDE,  use  SCALE¬ 
CIDE,  why  not  let  SCALECIDE  be  your  dormant 
spray?  Then  you  will  know  that  you’ve  done 
all  that  can  be  done  at  that  particular  time  by 
any  dormant  spray  or  combination  of  sprays. 
Fall  spraying  with  SCALECIDE  controls  psylla 
and  peach  leaf  curl.  Spring  application  con¬ 
trols  aphis,  pear  thrips,  leaf  minor,  case  bearer 
and  leaf  roller.  Either  fall  or  spring  spraying 
with  SCALECIDE  controls  scale,  bud  moth, 
European  red  mite,  fungus  or  blight  cankers 
from  which  are  spread  fire  blight,  collar  rot 
and  root  rot.  And  in  addition  to  controlling 
these  insects  and  diseases,  year  after  year  use 
of  SCALECIDE  invigorates  the  trees .  - 
H7E  GUARANTEE  that,  if  you  will  divide  an  orchard,  your  worst  or  best,  in  two  parts  equal  in  general  condition,  and 
'  '  for  three  years  spray  one  part  with  SCALECIDE  according  to  our  directions  and  the  other  part  with  lime  sulfur,  giving  the 
same  summer  treatment  to  both  parts,  the  part  sprayed  with  SCALECIDE  will  be  better  than  the  part  sprayed  with  lime  sulfur 
— in  the  judgment  of  three  disinterested  fruit  growers — or  we  will  refund  the  money  you  have  paid  for  the  SCALECIDE. 
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