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THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE 
OcTosBer, 1908 
Made of Trinidad Lake Asphalt— 
Genasco 
Ready Roofing 
Does what roofing ought to do—gives you absolute 
weather protection all the year ’round. Ovutlives every 
other ready roofing. Doesn’t dry-out, rot, crack, or break. 
Keeps out heat and cold. Resists fire. Is proof against 
lightning. Can be laid on any surface; and by any handy man. 
Cement and nails in every roll. 
Ask your dealer for Genasco. Mineral and smooth surface. Look for the 
hemisphere trade-mark. Write for Book 60 and samples, free. 
THE BAR BE R ASP HVA WPA sluNtGeC@ViebrAgNin4 
Largest producers of asphalt, and largest 
manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. 
PHILADELPHIA 
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For Liquor and 
A scientific remedy which has been 
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medical specialists for the past 28 years 
= AT THE FOLLOWING KEELEY INSTITUTES: 
Portland, Me. Buffalo, N. Y¥. Pittsburg, Pa. 
Grand Rapids, Mich., White Plains, N.Y. 42 
2658. College Av. reensboro, N. C. 
Fargo, N. D. 
Omaha, Neb., ees Pa. 
Cor.Cass & 25th Sts. 81 - Broad 8t. 
North Conway, N. H. Pa. 
Hot Springs, Ark. Dwight, I. 
Benth ReTiclecs: ak St. Marion, Ind. 
acramento S 5 
Denver, Col: Plainfield, Ind. 
9 West Haven, Conn. 
Washington, D. C., 
211 N. Capitol’ St. 
Providence, KR. 
Waukesha, Wis. 
Des Moines, La. Toronto, Ont., Canad 
Crab Orchard, Ky. 
Lexington, Mass. Hisebaray 
I Good clover follows good 
wheat, but it takes Potash to 
set the clover. 
Starved clover won’t feed the crop that follows it. It needs a 
vigorous root anda sturdy growth for itself before it can gather 
nitrogen for you. 
Give it a good start by exough Potash with your phosphates in zhis Fall’s seeding 
of wheat or rye. 
The clover will do the rest—you’ll see when you cut the clover. 
Clover, timothy, rye and oats, for turning under, or a crop in rotation—all need more Potash 
than ost commercial mixtures afford. 
Do not use fertilizers that contain less than 6 per cent Potash. If your dealer does not 
carry them, then mix 15 pounds of Muriate of Potash with each 100 pounds of your fertilizer, 
Potash is profit. Buy the Potash first. 
Send for pamphlets containing facts about soil, 
crops, manures and fertilizers. Mailed free. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York 
Chicago — Monadnock Building Atlanta, Ga. —1224 Candler Building 
Drug Using 
46 Fife Ave. 
Winnipeg. Manitoba qa, 
London, England. , 
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Treating Seed Oats for Smut 
i ee HAS been my misfortune to haye 
my oat crop seriously damaged by 
smut. Where this has once obtained a 
foothold years may pass before it is entirely 
eliminated, for even after it has been killed 
in the seed, the spores may remain in the 
stubble or in the soil to contaminate the 
crop the following year. However, burning 
the stubble when it is perfectly dry (allowing 
the fire to penetrate thoroughly to the roots) 
and fall plowing may do away with this 
infection. I have found, however, that it is 
always best to treat the seed before planting 
to guard against any posse of its 
carrying smut spores. 
I have tried hot water, corrosive sublimate, 
and formalin methods on treating the spel 
for smut, all of which were efficacious, 
although I consider the formalin treatment 
the simplest, cheapest, and most practical. 
The hot-water treatment, except under 
unusually favorable conditions, must be 
applied almost immediately before placing 
the oats in the seeder; and then, unless every 
operation in the process is carefully and 
exactly carried out, the destruction of the 
spores is more or less uncertain. 
The corrosive sublimate treatment while 
positive, carries with it an element of danger, 
not only to the operator, but in the possible 
destruction of the seed’s germinating powers. 
It is a most dangerous poison and must be 
handled with exceeding care. 
THE USE OF FORMALIN 
Under ordinary conditions the formalin 
treatment is attended with no danger, 
either to the seed or the operator, and its 
application is very simple and easy. One 
great advantage of it is that the seed may be 
treated at any time. It is applied as follows: 
Spread the seed oats on a clean floor to a 
depth of eight or ten inches, leaving paths 
through the “heap” so that all parts of it 
may be readily reached. Make a solution 
of one-half pound formalin to one barrel 
of water and, with an ordinary sprinkling 
pot, thoroughly wet the surface of the seed. — 
Then immediately use a large scoop to turn 
the pile over, so as to place the moistened 
seed on the bottom, thus allowing the for- 
malin gas in evaporation to escape upward 
and penetrate to each grain. 
It is not absolutely necessary, however, 
that this solution come in actual contact 
with each individual grain, since the action . 
of formalin is that of gas; but it is necessary 
in order to destroy the smut to have the 
gas penetrate the husk or shell of the kernel 
