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I j you are planning lo build, the Readers' rpTTT? r"AT>"T»17TVT M A P A7TMT? 

 Service can give you helpful suggestions 1 Jtl iL \T A 11 JL> Ji, IN IV! A Lr A Z< 1 IN Hi 



March, 1909 



Victor V 

 $60 



Other styles 

 $10 to $300 



"Why, that is the real thing 

 — you can't tell it from the 

 actual human voice! 



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That's what people say every day, upon hearing the Victor. 

 And when their amazement is over they further exclaim, "I never knew the 

 Victor was like that ! " 



Do you know what the Victor is like ? 



You owe it to yourself to hear it. Any Victor dealer will gladly 

 play any Victor music you want to hear. 



Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., u. s. A. 



Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal, Canadian Distributors 



A complete list of new Victor Records for March will be found in the March number of Munsey's, 

 Scribner's, McClure's, Century, Eveiybody's, Current Literature, and April Cosmopolitan. 



DAHLIAS 



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 1908. 7 prizes at Am- 

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Early Spring Suggestions 



THE first half of March is the best pe- 

 riod in this section for an early sow- 

 ing of oats. The best seed-bed is made by- 

 breaking the ground with a disk harrow and 

 disk drill. After harrowing once, seed with 

 the drill crosswise. Leave the surface 

 reasonably level by dragging or rolling. 

 Use no commercial fertilizer, but all the 

 barnyard manure you can, applying it in a 

 pulverized condition and not too heavily. 



Whenever a rest crop is needed for a field 

 that has become worn out, sow orchard grass 

 and clover, which will also hold the soil. 

 Sow the grass thick so that it will not grow 

 in tufts, but will form an even sod. Broadcast 

 the seed and harrow or roll it in lightly. 

 When sown alone, two bushels an acre is 

 the usual amount. Sow the seed in this lo- 

 cality in February or early March, if the 

 ground is dry enough. The seed gener- 

 ally ripens in June. Clover seed can be 

 sown with the timothy and orchard grass, 

 planting only one at a time crosswise. 



Spread a light coating of the manure over 

 those parts of the field where there has 

 been difficulty in getting a good stand. 

 Old pastures and meadows can be thickened 

 and patched by reseeding the bare spots 

 with clover and bluegrass. When patch- 

 ing, use a little manure. 



Buy only the best, recleaned grass and 

 clover seed. 



Kentucky. E. W. Jones. 



The Truth About Cantaloup 



HPHE word cantaloup (also written cante- 

 jf- loupe, etc.), according to the Century 

 Dictionary, comes from "Cantalupo, a town 

 in Italy, where it was first grown in Europe." 

 Others say " Cantelloupi, an estate near 

 Rome belonging to the Pope." Certainly 

 the type did not originate there (it is supposed 

 to have come from Armenia) and certainly 

 the Century Dictionary's definition is wrong 

 and must give way to that accepted by the 

 "Cyclopedia of American Horticulture" and 

 "Vilmorin's Vegetable Garden." Strictly 

 speaking, a cantaloup is a melon with a 

 hard and warty rind, as opposed to the 

 nutmeg type, which has a netted rind. The 

 cantaloup type is practically unknown in 

 this country and the Southern use of the word 

 as exactly synonymous with muskmelon is 

 simply the result of that natural law by which 

 every word in common use comes to have two 

 meanings — a narrow one and a broad one. 



