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R. M. DELEHANTY, Mgr.
Ravendel Farm New Scotland, N. Y.
P. O. Voorheesville, R. F. D.
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H. M. ROCKMAN
Breeder of
HIGH GRADE POULTRY
EAST SCHODACK, N. Y.
Grandview Poultry Yards
East Schodack, N. Y.
LEROY B. POYNEER, Prop.
Breeder of White, Golden, Silver Partridge and Buff Wyandottes, Rose and Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks, Light Brahmas, Dark Cornish Indian Games, Rose and Single Comb White Leghorns, Rose and Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Rose Comb White Minocas, Single Comb Anconas, Black and Buff Cochin Bantams.
Stock and Eggs For Sale
800 Layers, White Market Eggs, Milk Fed Broilers, Hatching Eggs, Baby Chicks.
WILLOW BROOK EGG FARM GEO. D. SHULTES, Prop.
S. C. W. Leghorns, R. C. B. Minorcas
West Berne, N. Y.
Phone 5F3
Illustrated Booklet Free
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PRINTERS, BINDERS AND BOOKMAKERS
J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers and Printers, Lyon Block, Albany, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Allen Book and Printing Company, 454-456 Fulton Street, Troy, N. Y.
PUBLISHERS
Orange Judd Company, Publishers of American Agriculturist and Rural Books, 315 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. (See Adv.)
TWO VOLUMES ON RURAL LIFE
YORK STATE RURAL PROBLEMS
I and II By L. H. BAILEY
PRICE, POSTAGE PAID, ONE DOLLAR EACH TWO DOLLARS FOR THE SET
J. B. LYON COMPANY, Publishers ALBANY, N. Y.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FARM BOY
By ISAAC PHILLIPS ROBERTS, M. Agr. Professor Emeritus and for thirty years Professor and Dean of the College of Agriculture, Cornell University
PRICE, POSTAGE PAID, ONE DOLLAR
Remit by Check or Money Order to J. B. LYON COMPANY ALBANY, N. Y
THOROUGHBRED STOCK
That is what every good farmer wants. For he knows it pays. This is just as true in poultry as in cows. A mongrel flock of hens does not pay as high a rate of interest as a flock of thoroughbred Rhode Island Reds. Nine years experience with this one breed puts into my command an excellent strain. They have won for type and color wherever shown, and in two seasons on four entries at the New York State Fair won 1st and two 2nd prizes for the best dozen brown eggs in the state. Eggs for hatching and stock for sale in season. Eggs for hatching $1.00 per 15 and up. Yearling hens $1.25 each.
F. E. BLEEZARDE
RAVENA, N. Y.
Member of
American Poultry Association
Rhode Island Red Club of America
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REAL ESTATE
W. A. Cahill, Dealer in Real Estate and Attorney at Law, 12 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. (See Adv.)
John J. O'Hare, Real Estate and Farm Implements, 17 First Street, Troy and 3 North Pearl Street, Albany, N. Y. (See Adv.) Ezra Tiffany, Garbarine Block, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. (See Adv.) Ole N. Olsen, "For Land Sake," Voorheesville, N. Y. (See Adv.) Blanchfield Realty Company, Farms, Real Estate, 36 State Street, Albany, N. Y.
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
Job Doty, Real Estate, Insurance, Hay, Straw, Melrose, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Salem H. White & Son, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Comeskey & Morier, 7 First Street, Troy, N. Y.
William J. Battin, Lathams, N. Y.
SALEM H. WHITE
FORREST S. WHITE
Salem H. White & Son Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD FIRE INSURANCE
Agency for Oliver Typewriters, Ribbons and Supplies Rebuilt Typewriters, Rented, Bought and Sold Full Line of Fire Extinguishers
Agent for American LaFrance Fire Engine Company, Inc. EVERYTHING FOR PREVENTION AND FIGHTING FIRES
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Choice Village and Farm Properties FOR SALE By W. A. CAHILL, Attorney HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y.
WHEN YOU WANT TO BUY
A Farm, Silo or a High-grade Auto Truck, Evan a Pleasure car- It Will Pay You to Write to
John J. O'Hare
17 FIRST STREET, TROY, N. Y. 3 N. PEARL STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. Telephone Main 5735
Telephone 107
Established for 20 Years
FARMS FARMS FARMS FARMS
If you want to buy, sell, or exchange Real Estate of any kind, write or phone,
EZRA TIFFANY Garbarine Block, HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y. (Loans Effected)
JOB DOTY
DEALER IN HAY, STRAW, REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE and ADJUSTER OF LITIGATION
MELROSE, RENSSELAER CO., N. Y.
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Planting Table for the
A digest of the experiences of the best farm- handling the various crops. The seeding miles north or south of the P - Potash, Ph - Phos-
Crop
Seed per acre
Seeding Season
Seeding Methods
Alfalfa
15-25 1bs
May or Aug
Broadcast
Artichokes
2- 3 bu
May-June
Hills 3 ft wide
Barley
6-10 pks
Apr-May
Drill, broadcast
Broom Corn
4- 6 pks
May-June
6 in apart in row
Buckwheat
2- 3 pks
June-July
Drill, broadcast
Beans (field)
6- 8 pks
June-July
4 in apart in row
Clover, red
10-16 1bs
Feb-May
Broadcast
alsike
12-20 1bs
Apr-May
Broadcast
crimson ..
12-15 1bs
July-Sept
Broadcast
Corn
1- 4 pks
Apr-June
Rows or hills, 3 1-2 ft wide
Cotton
10-14 1bs
Apr-June
Rows 4 ft wide
Cowpcas
1- 2 bu
May-Aug
Rows 30 in wide
or broadcast
Flax
2- 8 pks
May-June
Rows 30 in wide
Grasses, orchard. . 66
blue
10-15 1bs
Sept or Oct
Broadcast
Hemp
Broadcast
Hops
6- 7 1bs
May-July
3 ft in rows
Millet
4- 8 pks
Apr-June
Drill, broadcast
Peanuts
4- 8 pks
May-June
Rows 3 ft wide
Potatoes
8- 1 bu
May-Aug
Rows 3 ft wide
Rape
2- 3 1bs
July-Aug
Broadcast or rows 30 in wide
Rice
1- 3 bu
Mar-May
Drill. broadcast
Rve
4- 8 pks
Apr-Sept
Sorghum
1- 3 pks
May-June
Seed broadcast
Soybeans
2- 3 pks
May-June
Rows 25-30 in wide
Sugar Beets
15-18 1bs
Apr-May
Rows 18 in apart
Sugar Cane
4 tons canes
Sept-Mar
Tobacco
5,000 plants
May-June
Rows 3 ft wide
Vetch
4- 6 pks
Aug-Sept
Broadcast
Wheat
5- S pks
Oct-Nov
Broadcast
or broadcast
2- 3 bu
Apr or Oct
Broadcast
4-15 1bs
Apr-July
Hills 7x7 ft
Fafir corn
2- 6 pks
May-July
Broadcast
Oats
2,000 roots
Apr-May
Drill, broadcast
Rows 5-7 ft wide
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Most Important Field Crops
ers of the United States as to methods of season is given for localities within 100 latitude of the Ohio River. phoric acid, N-Nitrogen
Soil Requirements
Tillage Requirements
Fertilizer Requirements
Common range of yields per acre
Fertile loam Well-drained loam Fertile clay Rich loam Medium loam Dry clay loam Clay loam
Clip weeds Surface plowing After clover Frequent, shallow
P and Ph
Manure
Strong P Manure
400-700 1bs brush
P and lime
15-40 bu
P and Ph
20-35 bu
Lime and P
1-3 tons hay, 1-4 bu seed
Moist loam Clay loam
With grasses Fine seedbed
Lime and P
1-4 tons hay
Lime and P
1-3 tons hay, 8-12 bu 'seed
Fertile loam
Frequent, shallow
N, P and Ph
25-75 bu
Deep loam Loose loam
Surface plowing Light plowing
Ph, P and N Ph and P
8-40 bu seed, 2-3 tons hay 8-15 bu seed
Rich clay loam Limestone clay Loose loam
Manure
500-1,500 1bs fiber
Rich loam
Manure
600-1,200 1bs
Rich loam
Manure
30-50 bu
Sandy loam
Manure
20-25 bu
Rich loam
N, Ph or manure
30-60 bu
P and Ph
60-100 bu
Sandy loam Rich sandy loam Rich loam
Rotted manure Manure
75-300 bu
30 tons forage
N and Ph
25-40 bu
Manure
25-30 bu
Manure
3-15 tons
Light loam
12-20 bu
Sandy loam
Frequent, shallow
P and Ph or Manure
Rich loam
Rich loam
Sandy loam
Rich loam
Shallow plowing Shallow plowing
N and Ph N and P and Ph
P and Ph Ph and N and P
20-30 tons 700-1,200 1bs 2-3 tons hay 12-30 bu
Rich deep loam
N, no manure
Manure
Pasture Pasture
Manure
Light plowing Frequent, shallow
Shallow Frequent, shallow
Shallow Shallow
Manure or N, Ph and P
10-14 tons
Clay loam Dry loam Rich loam
200-500 1bs
3-8 tons hay 275-1,000 bu 30-60 bu
Frequent, shallow After grain
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SEEDSMEN
Schenectady Seed Company, 140-142 Clinton Street, Schenectady, N. Y. (See Adv.)
SEEDS AND IMPLEMENTS
H. W. Gordinier & Sons Company, Franklin Square, Troy, N. Y.
SHOE STORES
Millard's Shoe Store, Retail Shoes for Men, Women and Children, 20 Third Street, Troy, N. Y.
SPECIALTY STORES
B. Lodge & Company, Knit Goods, 91 North Pearl Street, Albany, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Cotrell & Leonard, 472-478 Broadway, Albany, N. Y. (See Adv.)
TAXICABS AND LIVERY
W. H. Primmer, Auto Livery, Gas, Oil and Repairs, Main Street, Castleton, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Schenectady Seed Co., Inc. The Largest, Most Reliable, Most Up-to-date SEEDSMEN
in Schenectady County It will pay you to do your shopping at our store. We carry EVERYTHING IN SEEDS AND Poultry and Supplies
Sprayers, Spraying Materials, Baskets, Etc. Plants and Bulbs in Season
BURPEE'S TESTED SEEDS
a Specialty We are also agents for the
OLIVER CHILLED PLOWS
and can supply you with anything in the Oliver line
140-142 Clinton Street Schenectady, N. Y.
Be Sure and Remember the Name OUR PHONE NUMBER IS 3164
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LODGE'S KNIT GOODS STORE For Underwear and Hosiery
Reliable goods for cash at the right prices, also seconds at reduced prices. A specialty store run for 50 years by specialists. Special attention given to Mail Orders, delivered free, via Parcel Post. Money Refunded or Goods Exchanged.
B. LODGE & CO.
91 NORTH PEARL STREET ALBANY, N. Y.
COTRELL & LEONARD Albany's Leading Specialty Stores HATS, TRAVEL GOODS, FURS WOMAN'S WEAR, FOOTWEAR, RUGS Smart Styles at Reasonable Prices 472-478 Broadway Albany, N. Y.
W. H. PRIMMER Livery and Taxicab Service Gas Oil and Repairs
CASTLETON, N. Y. Tel. 13, F. 3
"FOR LAND SAKE"
Let Ole N. Olsen, Voorheesville, N. Y. Sell or exchange that FARM of yours
WRITE FOR LIST OF FARMS FOR SALE
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F. T. BRUNK
UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY
Automobile Hearse and Touring Cars Hearse and Hacks for Horses
Horse and Auto Livery Prompt Service, Moderate Prices
Fine Equipment, Careful Drivers Free Usage of Undertaking Parlors
N. Y. TELEPHONE
VOORHEESVILLE, N. Y.
HAUSSLER & SON
Undertaking
Haussler Bldg., 57-59 Classic St., Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
Established 1859 Telephone 75
Use of Chapel without Charge
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UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING
Walter E. Robson, Undertaker and Furniture Dealer, Classic Street, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Haussler & Son, Funeral Directors, Haussler Building, 57-59 Classic Street, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Walter J. Duffy, Embalmer and Funeral Director, 262 Ontario Stree, Cohoes, N. Y. (See Adv.)
F. T. Brunk, Undertaking and Livery, Voorheesville, N. Y. (See Adv.)
C. H. Mason, Undertaker, 588 Second Avenue, Troy, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Up To Date Furniture Store WALTER E. ROBSON
HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y.
LEADING UNDERTAKER
Modern Embalming Latest Equipment
Lady Attendant
Private Chapel
WALTER J. DUFFY
Embalmer and Funeral Director
262 ONTARIO STREET COHOES, N. Y.
AUTO AMBULANCE
Open day and night. Night Bell.
Cohoes 478
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WELL DRILLERS
Brady & Torlish, Practical Well Drillers, P. O. Box 156, Voorhees- ville, N. Y. (See Adv.)
Water Wells, Test Wells for Minerals, Air Holes for Shafts, Etc.
1. Do you know that a dug well, made in the old fashioned way, is a trap for man, beast and vermin?
2. Do you know that it has to be cleaned out two or three times a year?
3. Do you know that it acts as a cesspool or drain for all the surface water for hundreds of feet around ?
4. Do you know that it costs more than a drilled well?
5. That the digging of it disfigures your yard?
6. That on account of the water is hardly ever sunk ibeyond the first surface stream ?
7. And that therefore it usually goes dry at the very time of the year you need water the most?
8. Do you know that a DRILLED WELL 6 inches in diameter will afford as much water as a dug well 6 feet in diameter?
9. Do you know that a drilled well NEVER needs to be cleaned out ?
10. That, being small, affords no room for stagnant water?
11. That all surface drainage is cased off?
12. That all mice, rats, bugs, worms and vermin are shut out?
13. That in drilling it, you can go through any kind of rock in one-tenth of the time it takes to dig or blast ?
IF NEEDING A WELL
KEYSTONE OG DRILLER CO BEAVER FALLS PA USA
BRADY & TORLISH VOORHEESVILLE, N. Y.
PRACTICAL WELL DRILLERS
Will call, inspect location and quote you a price for the work. Please send us a card.
Telephone Connection P. O. BOX 156
WHITE BROTHERS Masons and Contractors
RAYMOND WHITE Voorheesville, N. Y.
IRA WHITE. Delmar, N. Y.
C. H. D. CHESEBROUGH
Paper Hanger, Painter, Decorator
All Work First-Class and Guaranteed at Reasonable Prices Altamont, N. Y.
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F. T. BRUNK UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY
Automobile Hearse and Touring Cars Hearse and Hacks for Horses
Horse and Auto Livery
Prompt Service, Moderate Prices
Fine Equipment, Careful Drivers Free Usage of Undertaking Parlors
N. Y. TELEPHONE VOORHEESVILLE, N. Y.
C. H. MASON UNDERTAKER 588 2nd Avenue TROY, N. Y.
PHONE
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Why Farmers Ought to Advertise-and How
The Farmer Finds It Pays to Advertise His Productions Direct to the City Consumer and to His Brother Farmers
This is an age of advertising. It is the most powerful factor in modern business life, and while already some farmers have realized that they can make money by advertising, there are numbers of progressive farmers who have not advertised because they feel they don't know how to take the first step.
But it is really an easy matter to write an advertisement of your farm produce that will sell the goods for you.
How to Write an Advertisement.
First of all, tell the truth. If the article you are advertising is not in first-class condition, don't say that it is, but rather say : "In fair condition."
Second, be brief, but to the point. Read over your adv and see if you could not say the same thing just as well in fewer words. Tell the essential things that a purchaser would be most likely to want to know. Tell about the quality.
Third, be sure to give names, dimensions and prices.
In other words, tell all the things you would want to know if you were an intending purchaser. If your arti- cle is of a well-known make or has a trade mark or a familiar name by which it is known, be sure to men- tion that.
Write Just as You Would Talk. to any one you were trying to sell something to. Never mind the gram- mar, but say what you actually feel and the grammar will take care of itself, and when you have signed your
full name and address you will be sur- prised to find what a readable adv. you have written. Some people think careful grammar or big words neces- sary. Not at all. Just tell your story in a clear straightforward way, so that everyone that reads it will know exactly what you say, and be perfect- ly honest. If you misrepresent ever so slightly, your customer will feel that he has been ill-used, and nine men out of ten would rather give you a dollar than feel they had been done out of ten cents. Honesty is not only the best policy-it's the only policy in advertising. Much better say of your advertised article, "It's in fair con- dition" or "It's been used a little," than say, "In splendid condition," or "Never been used."
Display advertising is more profit- able for many things than small classi- fied advs. It does cost a little more, but your adv. will stand right out and catch the eye the moment the page is turned. In display advertising you should have two or three words set in large type, so as to attract atten- tion. Usually the name of the arti- cle you are advertising should be the largest, and then you can add in a somewhat smaller type a short phrase -just five or six words-that ex- plains a little more about your article or makes so strong an appeal to the reader that he will feel as though he must buy what you are advertising. There you have the foundation for a rattling good adv. that will produce sales if the small text matter fol-
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lowing gives, in the fewest possible words why your article is different from others, because of the way it is made, the conditions under which it is produced, etc. Then give the dimen- tions, prices, etc.
You Can Tell the Space and Adv. Occupy. by the following rules. For con- venience, most newspapers have adopted what is termed the agate line standard, so they can readily tell the space occupied by any given adv., and the price is figured at so much per agate line.
This line is set in Agate type
It contains seven words, and this is the average number of words con- tained in any agate line of a single 'newspaper column, although, of course, if the words are short ones, a line may contain nine or ten, while if the words are long, it may contain only five or six, but seven is the average.
It takes 14 of these lines, one be- low the other, to make an inch in depth, so if you want to write a 1- inch adv, you must limit yourself to 98 words, but of course you will want some of the words displayed in large type as headlines, so you will have to allow for the headlines by sub- tracting enough words to equal the space occupied by the display head- lines. For instance, you want a quarter-inch headline. Now that is equal to four agate lines, so you will have to subtract 28 words from your 98 words, which will leave you but 70 words for your adv. Then if you want another line half as big, you will have to subtract 14 words more, which will leave 56 words, and then it is well to try and condense these 56 words into 40 words, so you can have a little white space, which will set off the display lines to better ad- vantage.
You Can Figure the Cost of Display Advs.
For display advs just decide how much space your adv is to occupy, seven lines to a half inch and 14 lines to a full inch. If you want your adv double column, just multiply by two, that is, 1-inch double column adv con- tains 2 inches of space, or 28 agate lines. Then multiply the number of agate lines in your adv by the price per line.
We'll Help to Write Your Advs if you will tell us just exactly what it is you want to sell, give us full particulars as to prices; etc.
Low Rates for Classifield Advs.
To find the cost of a classified adv in the Farmers' Exchange, Help Bur- eau and Real Estate Market, you count the number of words, including your name and address, counting each initial and abbreviation as a word, and then multiply the number of words by 6 cents for the American Agriculturist.
Cash must accompany the order for both display and Classified advs.
We Guarantee All Our Advertisers.
so before we accept an adv from any- one we require them to give us the full particulars regarding their prop- osition, which we hold as strictly con- fidential, and we reserve the right of rejecting any adv for reasons that may appear satisfactory to ourselves. We do not accept any liquor advs, or any objectionable advs of any kind, medical or otherwise. Write to us freely, ask all the questions you want. You will find an advertisement will 'move the goods." Address your let- ters to the Advertising Department.
Orange Judd Co., Publishers 315 Fourth Avenue
New York, N. Y.
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CLEAN OUT
No. 040
WARM AIR HEATING
Installed by the C. M. Dorr Co., always gives satisfac- tion ; sold under our positive guarantee.
WE HEAT CORRECTLY HOMES, SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES, ALL OVER THE STATE.
We install our own heaters. Get our estimate before awarding your heating contract.
We also install steam and hot water systems. Pneu- matic water supply for country homes. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty.
C. M. DORR COMPANY
7 LAUNDRY PLACE
39 CHURCH STREET
TROY, N. Y. HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y.
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