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06 |e Pence aca ee Swish; GARDEN MAGAZINE ' SEPTEMBER, 1908 
This is 
THE SIGN 
Look for the Genasco Trade-Mark on every roll. 
This insures your getting the roofing made of real 
Trinidad Lake Asphalt—the perfect natural waterproofer. 
Genasco 
Ready Roofing 
Ask your dealer for Genasco. Don’t be misled by any other sign. Insist on the hemisphere 
trade-mark, and get the roofing that lasts. Mineral or smooth surface. Write for samples and Book 60. 
THE BARBER ASPHALT PAVING COMPANY 
Largest producers of asphalt, and largest manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. 
PHILADELPHIA 
San Francisco Chicago 
“SCALECIDE’ 
SAVE YOUR TREES THIS FALL ?°N'T war 
The chances are they’ll be killed by San Jose Scale. Take time by the forelock—spray with SCALECIDE. 
It kills every insect it touches. Cheaper than Lime-Sulphur or any home-made mixture, and easier to 
apply. Non-corrosive, non clogging. 92 per cent oil—the largest amount with less water than is found in 
any spray yet discovered, Weproveit. Order a fifty-gallon barrel at $25. Makes 800 or 1000 gallons cost- 
ing 34c to 8c at any station in the U. S. east of Mississippi and north of Ohio Rivers, There’s nothing 
cheaper. Send now for free, special booklet I. 
B. G. PRATT CO., Mfg. Chemists, P 
50 Church Street ; Borie New York City 
3 Ineiniagel  S Ist 18, 18, 1? 
“Natural Guano, WANGRE on te 
applied with profit in the fall on any and all crops, includ- 
ing grass plots. Price for too lb. bag $2.50, delivered 
your station. Larger quantities on application. 
NATURAL GUANO COMPANY AURORA, ILL. 
EVERGREENS 
FOR AUGUST PLANTING 
The best time to plant evergreens is August, when the ground is 
warm and moist. The reason for this is that the leaves of evergreen trees 
have to be supplied with sap every day inthe year. Therefore they should 
be planted when the sap is running freely. Summer drouths or winter 
colds dry the resinous life-blood of the evergreen and kills it. 
We are prepared to plant specimen trees of all kinds of evergreens. 
Such trees, we believe, cannot be procured elsewhefe in the country, for 
nowhere do they receive such care and preparation. The trees we plant 
are first keptin our nursery for several years; they are frequently trans- 
planted and root-pruned. Each tree is allowed 64 square feet of growing 
space. We discard all stunted and unsymmetrical trees. 
Our stock always comprises the rarest European and Japanese varie- 
ties, as well as the domestic, and is composed mainly of trees for immediate 
effect. Write for booklet showing grounds we have planted. 
HENRY E. BURR 
Landscape Architect and 
Importer of Rare Nursery Stock 
MAIL ADDRESS : 
Tremont Ave., East Orange, N. J. (Tel. 2001 Orange) 
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NURSERIES: 
Irvington and Boyden Aves., South Orange, N. J. 
Rather than bother with raising grain, the 
poultryman with only a few acres finds more 
profit in growing alfalfa on a small part of 
his land, sowing crimson clover wherever 
possible among his garden crops, and Dwarf 
Essex rape early in spring, some mangels 
later and still later Pearl millet and cabbage. 
Each one should be able to figure out his 
most profitable course, taking into account — 
location and markets, character of soil and 
prices of products. 
There have been cases where wheat has 
yielded nearly sixty bushels per acre, and oats 
more than a hundred; but these yields could 
hardly be approached on average farm land. 
The highest average wheat yield of the whole 
United States in any one year from 1866 
to 1905, WaS 15.3 bushels in 1898, and the 
lowest, 9.9 bushels in 1866. ‘The average 
for the forty years was approximately 12.5 
bushels. Only one of the Eastern states 
grew enough wheat in 1905, according to the 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
to rank very high as a wheat growing state, 
and that was Pennsylvania. The average 
yield in that state from 1896 to 1905 was 15.8 
bushels. The highest average yield of any 
New England state was 19.5 bushels, in 
Maine, probably on account of the virgin soil 
of its newer settled counties. But the acre- 
age in the New England states is very small. 
New York ranks fair as a wheat growing 
state, having an average yield of approxi- 
mately 17.5 bushels, but wheat is grown 
in a comparatively small part of the state. 
New Jersey is of minor importance as a 
wheat producing state, and the average 
yield is approximately 16 bushels. 
TRUCK FARMING 
Most of the farmers in this locality are 
engaged in truck or fruit growing, poultry 
raising, or milk production for local sale. 
Land is held at $400 per acre, without 
buildings, but considering it at $200, with 
interest at $12, and high taxes, even with a 
yield of twenty-five bushels (which it would 
not produce), the wheat would cost much 
more than $1.17 per bushel. Team labor 
here is $5 per day, and the day is a short one 
at that. A good day laborer cannot be had 
for less than $2.50. Any one raising grain. 
would need to go back to first principles, 
and do most of the work in primitive fashion. 
I do not know of a grain drill, a reaper, or a 
threshing machine anywhere in this neighbor- 
hood, farmers having learned that they can 
make more money from crops that do not 
require their use. 
Most truckers plan to grow two crops each 
year on at least a part of their land. One 
grows large quantities of celery, and from two 
crops on the same land last year, was said 
to have received in the neighborhood of 
$2,000 per acre. Of course, this was 
exceptional, the crop being heavy, the 
quality choice, and the price high. Another 
man witha large area planted to cantaloupe 
realized hundreds of dollars per acre. Peas 
and beans, tomatoes, sweet corn, Limas, 
squashes, cucumbers and other vegetables 
prove profitable to those having suitable 
land. 
New Jersey. F. H. VALENTINE. 
