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The Seedsman Exonerated. 

 Page 544. June Ist Ili.itTicuLTUBE, 

 Id Philadelphia notes: "If a man 

 sows liftv feel of a row with carrot 

 seed and only six leet comes up, 

 whafs the answer?" Here 11 is: I 

 sowed two rows 200 feet long of car- 

 rots and none come ui). and in two 

 rows mangel beets, one came up and 

 the other didn't ! I forgot the inwar^U 

 of the seed drill and threw it out of 

 gear when 1 dldnt sow the seed and 

 threw It in when it did sow! We old 

 fogies do all kinds of tool things and 

 blame the seedsman; e. g.. sow pars- 

 ley and parsnip an inch deep; plant 

 eladioli two to three inches deep; cut 

 off all the leaves with the stems low 

 down to have nice long stems of gladi- 

 oli and then wonder why we don I 

 get hulbs for next years plantmg, or 

 what do survive are all red ones and 

 we think they have all turned red, 

 etc.! E. M. 



Beans. 

 The farmers of the country did 

 their duty last year and brought out 

 a larger crop of beans than ever be- 

 fore According to the fgures of the 

 Department of Agriculture, the last 

 crop of beans was about 15,000,000 

 bushels, an increase of 5,000,000 

 bushels over the normal crop. Con- 

 sidering the extraordinary demand 

 for beans by the Army and Navy, 

 this crop was not too large, and only 

 unusual circumstances explain the 

 fact that any beans are left over. 

 Boston baked beans have taken the 

 place of meat in certain meals for a 

 large section of the country for many 

 years. Thev have become an institu- 

 tion. Bean' loaf skillfully made can 

 hardly be told from meat loaf, and 

 there" Is little difference In nutritive 

 value. 



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Single Itmgcd Salmon. Deep Rose. Scarlet, 

 Crimson. White. Yellow, Or.ingc, Copper- 

 Bronze. Mixed: loo, $7.00: 1000, S65.00. 

 Single-Flowering — Delicitc Pink, Deep Rose, 

 Scarlet, Crimson. White, Yellow, Orange, 

 Salmon. Mi.\ed: 100, $4.75; 1000, $43.00. 



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SAVE FERTILIZER BAGS. 



Twenty-one million yards of burlap 

 valued at $4,000,000 could be saved an- 

 nually if all fertilizers were shipped in 

 200-pound bags. Burlap is now grow- 

 ing scarce because of its increased use 

 in trench warfare and food shipments 

 and because of reduced importations. 

 Pointing out that the burlap situation 

 is steadily getting worse, the United 

 States Department of Agriculture sug- 

 Eests that fertilizers be shipped in 

 200-pound bags. 



Not only are burlap bags scarce, but 

 the jute from which they are made Is 

 imported from India, and the shortage 

 of ships has materially interfered with 

 the supply. The necessity of furnish- 

 ing the Army with bags for trench use 

 •will further deplete the available sup- 

 ply. A severe shortage of burlap 

 would seriously handicap the move- 

 ment of fertilizers to the farm, since 

 the need for food containers would 

 receive first consideration. It Is, there- 



WEEBER & DON 



SEEDS 



114 CHAMBERS ST. 

 NEW YORK 



J. BOLGIANO & SON 



Careful Seed Growers and Seed Dutribu- 

 tor» for One Hundred Years 



WRITE FOR OUR 1918 SPECIAL CATALOGUE 



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We Make a Specialty in 

 GRASS MIXTURES 



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Tlie Liiwn. Sti.Tcly Spots or Under 

 Trees, tlie South, llie Senchore. the 

 Terrace iirwl Iteslnrliig Old Lanni, 

 I'ulo Goruncls. Tennis Courts. Put- 

 ting Greens. Fair Ureena, Meaduwi 

 and I^aslureH. 

 All of the KiniBt Recleaned ,Seeda. 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



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 53 Barclay Street, NEW YORK 



GARDEN SEED 



ItKET. CARKOT. PARS.VTP, RAIUSH aad 

 GARDEN PICA SEED In variety: also othar 

 Items of tlie short rrop of this past aeaaoB, 

 ns well aa a full Una of Garden 8eeda, will 

 be quoted you upon appMratloo to 



S. D. WOODRUFF & SONS 



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fore, considered necessary that the 

 use of burlap for carrying fertilizers 

 should be cut to the greatest possible 

 extent. Knowing these facts, every 

 patriotic farmer will gladly co-operate 

 by handling the larger bags. 



Another way in which farmers can 

 help save buriap is by marketing any 

 second-hand bags they may have on 

 hand. Dealers are offering from fi to 

 15 cents each for these second-hand 

 bags, depending upon size and con- 

 dition. Why not sell any spare burlap 

 bags now while the need Is so great. 



A new strain of asparagus that is 

 larger, more uniform and more pro- 

 ductive than the old varieties and in 

 addition is highly disease resistant 

 has been developed through ten years 

 of work by .1. B. Norton, a plant 

 breeder In the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, who introduced, tested and hy- 

 bridized asparagus from all parts of 

 the world. Introduction of the new- 

 strain is expected eventually to stamp 

 out the "rust," a destructive disease 

 that swept over the country a few 

 years ago. Commercial quantities of 

 the new type recently sold In Wash- 

 ington. D. C. for more than double 

 the price of other asparagus. 



The note from an American trade 

 paper In last week's H. T. J. seems to 

 indicate that our American friends are 

 moving in the direction of licensing 

 seedsmen. We could very well do 

 with a proper system of licensing the 

 trade In this country, for as a friend 

 puts It to me in a letter last week: 

 "It is about time we got rid of the 

 ironmonger-seedsmen, or the fishmon- 

 ger-seedsmen, and this would be one 

 of the advantages of licenses." 



Yes. undoubtedly, it should be so, 

 but it is necessary that a qualification 

 for obtaining a license shall be satis- 

 factory evidence of a knowledge and 

 bona fide connection with the seed 

 trade. It is impracticable, at present 

 anyway, that the applicant for a 

 license shall produce a certificate or a 

 diploma on the lines required of the 

 chemist and druggist, but a man who 

 wants to trade as a seedsman should, 

 at least, be able to show that he has 

 had training in the business. — Horfi- 

 cuUural Trade Journal (Eng.). 



She also serves who stoops and 

 weeds. 



