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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1909 



ffyses tL t mi/ Bloom 



K\ this Summer 



THE^ 

 BE5T ROSES 



IN 



AMERICA 



You can plant roses now and have an 

 abundance of blooms all Summer long. 

 Of course you must select the right varieties, 

 get good, sturdy, well-rooted plants, plant 

 them properly and care for them skilfully. 

 Growing Roses successfully is easy when 

 you have learned a few simple facts and have good plants 

 to start with. 



All the "know how" of Rose Culture is clearly explained 

 in our profusely illustrated little manual 



"How to Grow Roses" 



Tells how to select the right ones for your locality; how to 

 plant and prune them; and how to grow the finest blooms; 

 how to keep them free from insect pests and disease — in 

 fact answers every question the amateur rose grower need ask 



The price of "How to Grow Roses" is ten 



cents, but to every reader of The Garden 



Magazine ^ who orders it, we will present 



free of iftfN charge a 25 cent Rose, guar- 



bloom this year. Send the 



or silver. 



25 Cent 

 Rose 

 Free 



anteed to 



10 cents in stamps 



The Fordhook Early watermelon, which the author 

 found ripened ten days earlier than any other 



his wages are seventy-five cents a day, while 

 women will work in the field for fifty cents a day. 

 The expense, receipts and profits, were as follows: 



EXPENSES 



Labor 



Seed io£ pounds . 



Poison (Slug Shot). 



Tobacco dust 



Cutting and loading melons 



Freight to Baltimore at two cents on 863 



melons . 

 Incidental expenses 

 Commission 8 per cent. . 

 Second cutting — 

 Freight on 3,200 melons to Norfolk at one 



cent ...... 



Incidental expense .... 



$50.00 

 4-5° 

 3-75 

 3.00 



55-°° 



17.26 

 8.00 

 6.90 



32.00 

 6.00 



Total 



.$186.41 



863 melons at an average of eleven cents . $94.93 



1,200 culls at Norfolk at three cents . . 36.00 



2,000 primes at ten cents . . . . 200.00 



Sold on farm and nearby market . . 9.00 



Total . 

 Profit 

 Virginia. 



.$339.93 

 $153-52 

 G. B. Donnelly. 



WWIUL 



MARKER 



Shipping Poultry to Market 



IN ORDER to make the selling of poultry a 

 success it is of extreme importance that the 

 requirements of the market with which you are 

 dealing be carefully noted. For instance, New 

 York requires most of its poultry dry picked, 

 undrawn, with heads and feet on. This does not 

 mean that scalded poultry cannot be sold, but 

 that it will not bring as high a price as that which 

 has been dry picked. 



The Boston market is much the same as New 

 York. Sometimes the heads are removed and 

 the skin drawn down over the end of the neck and 

 tied. 



Philadelphia prefers to have its poultry picked 

 dry, undrawn, with heads and feet on. Fat 

 birds neatly dressed will aid in securing higher 

 prices. 



Baltimore differs from most other Eastern 

 cities in its preference for scalded poultry, un- 

 drawn, but with heads and feet off. 



Chicago for its home trade makes a distinction 



