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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1909 



The Coming Universal Use of 



DE LAVAL 



CREAM 



SEPARATORS 



The same economical considerations which have already brought about the practically 

 universal use of creamery and factory sizes of DE LAVAL Cream Separators are absolutely 

 certain to accomplish the same result in the use of farm and dairy sizes of such machines 

 within the next five years. This is no mere advertising claim but the simple statement of a 

 conclusion based on the logic of facts as positive as to outcome as the solution of a 

 mathematical problem. 



The same considerations of greater capacity; closer separation, particularly under 

 hard conditions; better quality of cream and butter; more economical operation, and 

 greater durability are bound to ultimately accomplish the same result in the use of small 

 as of large sizes of cream separators. 



But naturally it requires longer and is vastly more of an undertaking to educate 

 the 2,500,000 present and prospective American users of farm sizes of separators as to 

 the importance of separator differences than the 12,000 users of creamery separators. 

 Naturally it is more difficult to make a user appreciate a difference of $50.- a year in 

 results than a difference of $1,500.-, even though the difference of $50.- may relatively 

 mean more to the user than the difference of $1,500.-. 



Again, the users of factory or creamery sizes of separators have so much better 

 sources of information. The use of the separator is a business with them. The results 

 are known from day to day and year to year, and what one user accomplishes is readily 

 comparable with the results of another. On the other hand, the great majority of users 

 of farm and dairy sizes of separators know little of separators and cannot easily deter- 

 mine whether their results are as good as they should be or might be better under other 

 circumstances. But the problem is bound to finally work out in the same way. 



The DE LAVAL factory separator was invented 31 years ago and commenced to come 

 into creamery use 28 years ago. Within a few years the original patents began to expire. 15 

 years ago there were a dozen makes of power cream separators on the market. To-day the 

 use of DE LAVAL factory machines exceeds 98% and is almost literally universal. It has 

 been so for five years. No effort is longer made to sell any other make of power separator. 



The DE LAVAL hand separator was invented 23 years ago and commenced to 

 come into farm use about 20 years ago. As the earlier patents expired there were more 

 than 30 makes of such machines on the market five years ago. To-day there are less 

 than a dozen and not more than five which have a sale worth counting at all. Each 

 year the number decreases and their sales become fewer and more difficult. 



What is true in America in this way is true in even greater degree elsewhere throughout 

 the world. In many countries the sale of DE LAVAL machines is now almost universal. 

 Dollars-and-cents differences in product mean more there than to American farmers. The 

 sale of cheap "mail order" separators has not been attempted elsewhere, and would-be 

 competing manufacturers and dealers have never been so unscrupulous in making the 

 unjustified "claims" that so many American buyers have accepted as facts. 



It makes an AVERAGE DIFFERENCE OF FIFTY DOLLARS A YEAR whether 

 the farm user of a separator uses the DE LAVAL or some other kind. It will make that 

 difference this year and go on making it until a DE LAVAL is used. A DE LAVAL 

 catalogue helps to explain this and is to be had for the asking, as well as an Improved 

 DE LAVAL machine for practical demonstration of it to any intending separator buyer. 



THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO, 



42 E. Madison Street 



CHICAGO 



1213 <SL 1215 Filbert St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Drumm O. Sacramento Sts. 



SAN FR.ANCISCO 



General Offices: 



16 5 Broadway 



NEW YORK 



173-177 William Street 



MONTREAL 



14 (SI 16 Prince Street 



WINNIPEG 



107 First Street 



PORTLAND, OREG. 



LEAF-BURN 



The leaves of my day-lily burn around the edges. 

 How can I prevent it? 



Canada. M. A. S. 



— The trouble is that the root conditions are not 

 healthy. Possibly the soil is too wet, or, again, it 

 might be just the reverse; either of these conditions 

 will give about the same result. Sour soil might 

 also cause burning of the leaves. 



MITES IN GLADIOLUS BULBS 



Every year my gladiolus bulbs, which are stored 

 for the winter, are attacked by lice, and I have 

 also found them on bulbs bought from dealers. 

 What can be done to destroy them? 



Michigan. W. C. H. 



— A corrosive sublimate solution of one ounce to 

 eight gallons of water will destroy this insect, 

 which is the mite. Another solution which could 

 be used effectively is made of one ounce of formal- 

 dehyde to twenty-eight gallons of water. Mites 

 usually attack bulbs which are under-ripe and also 

 when they are kept in a dark place. 



THE TARNISHED PLANT BUG 



My dahlia buds, when small, turn black and die. 

 The tarnished plant bug, which is present in quite 

 large numbers, seems to be doing the mischief. 

 Can you suggest any remedy except hand picking? 



Connecticut. C. C. A. 



— The tarnished plant bug, otherwise known as 

 the rose beetle, is not responsible for the blacken- 

 ing of the dahlia buds. Of course, it will disfigure 

 anything it touches, but my own belief about this 

 trouble with dahlias is that when the plants, owing 

 to early starting, try to develop flowers at this 

 time of the year, they find themselves constitution- 

 ally unable to do so; and in consequence of the 

 strain upon their vitality, in order to save them- 

 selves they simply fail to perfect these early flowers. 

 I am convinced that generally it is a mistake to 

 plant dahlias so early that they are forced to 

 produce flowers at this time of the year. The 

 normal season of blooming is September and Octo- 

 ber; therefore, do not set out your roots until the 

 first week of July. When a plant is so forced 

 that it begins to develop flowers before its consti- 

 tution is built up sufficiently to earn' them, some- 

 thing is bound to happen; either the plant will 

 die, or these too early buds will "blast." Endeavor 

 to force strength into your plants now by pinching 

 back and thinning out the present growths. Try- 

 to get an open, well-balanced plant, with not too 

 many stems, and do not permit the flowers to 

 develop before the beginning of September. 



L. B. 



HARDY PLANTS FOR SOUTH DAKOTA 



In this part of the country (Milbank, South 

 Dakota) the winters are usually very cold with 

 considerable snow, and the summers are always 

 hot and range from dry to very wet. Would 

 Lonicera Morroivi, Viburnum Lantana and cassi- 

 noides, Elceagnus umbellata and Rhodotypus ker- 

 rioides withstand our climate? 



South Dakota. G. C. 



— Professor L. C. Corbett, horticulturist in the 

 Department of Agriculture and formerly of Brook- 

 ings, South Dakota, states: "I doubt if Lonicera 

 Morrowi will be hardy in the neighborhood of 

 Milbank. It is a Japanese plant and there is nothing 

 in any of the literature available to me to indicate 

 that it is suitable for that rigorous climate. Vi- 

 burnum Lantana, while found in Europe and 

 Western Asia, is spoken of as 'hardy and specially 

 desirable for dry situations and limestone soil.' 

 Both plants may be worthy of trial at Milbank, 

 but they are not included in Hansen's list of plants 

 which have been tested at the South Dakota 

 Experiment Station. Viburnum cassirwides is 

 reported to have killed to the ground each year at 

 Brookings, but made an annual growth of about 

 two feet. Under such conditions the plant would 

 not bloom satisfactorily. Elceagnus umbellata is 

 from Japan and is also not included in the list of 

 shrubs tested at the South Dakota Station. Several 

 of the family are hardy in South Dakota, but I 

 fear this will not prove so. Rhodotypus kerrioides 

 is mentioned as 'hardy in Massachusetts.' There 

 is no information available to indicate its behavior 

 in Dakota." 



