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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Rally Call 



Still Time to Have Good Gardens 

 by starting with sturdy plants 



This is a Message of Good Cheer for late comers to the ranks of garden makers. 

 You may gather vegetables as early as the early starters if you set out plants during 

 June — ^July. Our plants are grown in soil thoroughl}- sterilized with live steam. The 

 plants ha\-e been sprayed as a protection against blight and fungous diseases. 



"Double-Rooted" 

 Transplanted 



PLANTS 



$1.00 Per 100 

 Postpaid 



Though worth double the price of plants as ordinarily grown, we can sell them so reasonably 

 because of immense quantities provided. Guaranteed to reach destination in good condition after a week's 

 journey. Do not ask us to send less than 100 of one kind. Ratlier combine order with neighbors, thus 

 taking advantage of the greatest bargain plant offer ever made by us. All plants are grown from selected 

 strains secured from leading seed specialists. 



Cabbage — for Winter use: Succession; Surehead; 

 Danish Ballhead; for Summer use, Copenhagen 

 Market and Burpee's All Head. Ey. 



Cauliflower — Snowball; Dry Weather. 



Egg Plant — Xew York Improved Purple. 



Peppers — Ruby King, Chinese Giant. 



Tomatoes— Stocky plants, 8 inches high, with extra 

 fine root system, started under glass and repeat- 

 edly transplanted. Varieties: Earliana, Bonny 

 Best, Red Rock, Stone. 



I also offer for Fall Pllating: Big Boston Lettuce, Egyptian Onions, and Kale Seed — Strawberry, Blackberry, Cur- 

 rant, Gooseberry, and Raspberry plants, also Asparagus, Rhubarb, and Cultivated French Dandelion roots. Ready for 

 delivery during October — November and again March — April. Write for variety names, leaflets, describing my methods of 

 growing, etc. Order NOWl 



The following at 50c per 100 



W'f als'j ulTcr, postpaid; — 



Beet — Crosby's Egyptian. 



Celery — Golden Self Blanching; New Easy Blanch- 

 ing; Winter Queen. 



Lettuce — Grand Rapids; Big Boston. 



Onion — Prizetaker; Southport, Red and Yellow 

 Globe. 



Sweet Potatoes — Red and Yellow Jersey; Gold 

 Standard and Southern Queen. 



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W. J. RITTERSKAMP 



VLJiJ^T SPECIALIST 



Lotus Gardens 



Princeton, Ind. 



Electrical world, April 14, 1917. — Saw-mill 

 waste for generating electricity, by J. B. 

 Woods, p. 697-8. 



Engineering news, March IS, 1917. — Trees 

 planted by new machine replace railway 

 snow fences, by Hugh Smith, p. 432-3. 



Engineering news-record. May 3, 1917. — 

 Wood-stave pipe will deliver Everett's 

 new water supply, by R. E. Koon, p. 

 246-7. 



Gulf Coast lumberman. May 1, 1917. — The 

 renaissance of wood, by Robert Henry 

 Downman, p. 40. 



Hardwood record, April 25, 1917. — Figures 

 by quarter-sawing, by Hu Maxwell, p. 

 16-17; Seeking boxwood substitutes, p. 

 19; Japanese wooden toys, p. 3i. 



Journal of industrial and engineering chem- 

 istry, May 1, 1917. — The chemical com- 

 position of the higher fractions of 

 maplewood creosote, by Ernest J. Pie- 

 per and others, p. 462-5. 



Lumber trade journal, April 15, 1917. — 

 Shavings and sawdust and their uses as 

 shown by Forest service tests, by Rolf 

 Thelen, p. 19-20: Important confer- 

 ence of cut-over land interests held in 

 New Orleans, p. 24-33. 



Lumber trade journal, May 1, 1917. — Many 

 uses for turpentine and rosin listed by 

 the government as a result of navy in- 

 quiries, p. 39. 



Lumber world review, April 25, 1917. — Op- 

 portunities for marketing American 

 lumber abroad, by Nelson C. Brown, p. 

 21-3. 



Luml)er world review, Mav 10. 1917. — 

 " Forest products exposition " at An- 

 derson, Ind., p. 25-8. 



National coopers' journal. May, 1917. — The 

 proper drying of cooperage stock, by 

 Thomas Robertson, p. 7. 



New York lumber trade journal, .^pril 15, 



1917. — Some basic facts and invaluable 

 suggestions concerning the lumber in- 

 dustry and its future possibilities in 

 foreign trade, by J. Rogers Flannery, j 

 p. 19. ' 



Packages, April, 1917. — Canning case speci- 

 fications, p. 14; History of the labora- 

 tory, by Howard F. Weiss, p. 19. 



Pioneer western lumberman. May 1, 1917. — • 

 Mountain mahogany sought by pipe 

 manufacturers, p. 5. 



Pulp and paper magazine. March 15, 1917. — 

 The barking drum ; its history and de- 

 velopment, by Herbert Guettler, p. 

 261-6. 



Pulp and paper magazine, .Vpril 5, 1917. — 

 Wood as a raw material in papermak- 

 ing, by Bjarne Johnson, p. 333-6; Slasli 

 disposal as a commercial proposition, 

 by B. W. Lakin, p. 339-40. 



Railway review, Jan. 27, 1917. — Grouping of 

 ties for treatment, by C. P. Winslow, 

 p, 128-9. 



Railway review, Fcl). 17. 1917. — Timber 

 treating processes used in the United 

 States, p. 242-3. 



Railway review, April 21. 1917. — The status 

 of the timber supply, by Logan G. Mc- 

 Pherson. p. 571-2. 



St. Louis lumberman. .'Xnril 15, 1917. — Keep- 

 ing tabs on Arkansas tree erowth, by 

 John B. Woods, p. 39; Report on 

 changes in yellow pine grades, p. 54-5 ; 

 Modern merchandising methods make 

 money, by F. P. Hunter, n. 55-6. 



St. Louis lumberman, Mav 1. 1917. — Lod- 

 ging along the highways, by J. B. 

 Woods, p, 44-5; Uniform classification 

 of forest products, p. 52 



Southern lumber journal. May 1. 1917. — 

 Yellow pine for shipliuilding purposes 

 has no equal anywhere, by A. C. Pow- 

 ers, p. 27. 



Southern lumberman, April 14, 1917. — Prac- 

 tical afforestation, by Henry S. Graves, 

 p. 19. 

 j Southern lumberman, April 21, 1917. — 

 Wooden shipbuilding campaign starts 

 under direction of Gen. G. W. Goethals, 

 p. 26-7. 



Timber trades journal, March 24, 1917. — 

 . Empire timbers and their utilization, p. 



513-26; The Swedish trade in 1916, p. 

 541-2 ; The Russian timber trade in 

 1916, p. 543; Russia and our future 

 supply of building wood and wood pulp, 

 p. 544; Review of the timber trade of 

 1916. p. 561-643 ; Engineering section, 

 p. 645-60. 



Timber trades journal, April 14, 1917. — The 

 weights of British timber, p. 761-2. 



Timberman. April. 1917. — Lumbering in 

 Russia, by W. Toritch. p. 35 ; Luraber- 

 I ing on Alaska coast, by W. G. Weigle, 



p. 36; Government plans the building of 

 1,000 wooden vessels, 37-9; Commer- 

 cial importance of sugar pine, I)y Louis 

 T. Larsen, p. 42-3; Uniform lumber 

 list submitted by west coast lumbermen, 

 p. 48 B ; Kiln drying white pines, by 

 V. G. Gilbreath, p. 48 C; Suggestions 

 for logging engineers, p. 48 F; Plans 

 for wooden bridges, by O. P. M. Goss, 

 p. 48 G. 



L'nited States daily consular report, Anril 

 17, 1917. — Lumbering operations in 

 eastern Canada, by E. Verne Richard- 

 son, p. 212-13. 



United .States daily consular report, .^nril 

 21, 1917.— Siam's teak trade, by Carl C. 

 Hansen, p. 275; Lumber trade of Ki- 

 angsi province, bv lohn R. Arnold, p. 

 282. 



United States daily consular report. April 

 25, 1917. — Canada's timber resources 

 and production, p. 330-1. 



