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THK IRRIGATION AGE. 



month of May, hoping to destroy so large 

 a percentage of the first brood and to ren- 

 der work of the second and third broods 

 less destructive. 



E. F. STEPHENS, Crete, Neb. 



POTATO MACHINERY. 

 Aspinwall potato machinery embraces a 

 line of farm implements which will ap- 

 peal strongly to the practical irrigator as 

 possessing all the requirements for success 

 in the establishing and furthering of po- 

 tato culture throughout the reclaimed por- 

 tions of the country where the soil, com- 

 bined with requisite moisture, is pecul- 

 iarly adapted to the growth of the tuber. 

 The superior quality of the western potato 

 and the ready market it finds in many por- 



Plain Planter. 



tionsof the country is a matter of general 

 knowledge. From the standpoint of econ- 

 omy, the desirability of the use of time, 

 labor and money- saving tools, especially 

 upon large acreages, is conceded. The ex- 

 tensive sale which has universally attended 

 the introduction of potato machinery gives 

 sufficient force to the statement that the 

 western grower will not be slow in turning 

 to account every useful means of up-to- 

 date farming. 



The Aspinwall Manufacturing Co,, of 

 Jackson, Mich., who were the originators 

 of the first successful machines for cutting, 

 planting, cultivating, harvesting and as- 

 sorting potatoes, have for years made a 

 careful study of the requirements of the 

 grower, not only in this country, but 

 abroad, which has resulted in the produc- 

 tion of the "only complete outfit of these 

 machines on the market to-day. The orig- 



inality of their implements is a quality 

 much remarked; no imitations, make- 

 shifts, unnecessary attachments, useless 

 combinations or parts are to be found. 

 Characterized by simplicity and mechan- 

 ical principles uniquely employed for prac- 

 ticable work, the distinctive feature of the 

 line is apparent. 



The cutter prepares the seed rapidly and 

 in an entirely satisfactory manner for im- 

 mediate planting, so there is no delay, 

 The planter opens the furrow, plants, fer- 

 tilizes, covers and marks all in one opera- 

 tion. With the four-row sprayer the vines 

 are protected from bugs and blight. The 

 digger is fully on a par with the planter 

 and does first-class work. The sorter is a 

 prime favorite 

 with thousands 

 of large grow- 

 ers, shippers, 

 and c om m i s- 

 sion men. In 

 addition to the 

 a above the As- 

 pinwall Com- 

 pany manufac- 

 ture a line of 

 cotton sprayers 

 to protect cot- 

 ton from the at- 

 uairy Cotton Sprayer. tacks of grass- 

 hoppers, coreless worms, spring web worms^ 

 leaf and army worms and the much dreaded 

 Mexican boll weevil. 



A catalogue giving full description of 

 the above machines may be had for the 

 asking, and is well worth reading and pre- 

 serving for reference. 



RECENTLY STARTED. 

 The Fort Hays Military Reservation has 

 recently been opened up as a branch of the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College Experi- 

 ment Station. J. G. Haney, superintend- 

 ent of the Fort Hays branch, says: ''There 

 are nearly 4,000 acres of good tillable land 

 that the first furrows were broken on only 



