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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1909 



NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW 



DE LAVAL 



BUTTER AWARD TRIUMPH 

 AS USUAL 



The great NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW was held at Milwaukee, Wis., 

 October 15-24, and in keeping with the invariable result since 'ALPHA-DISC " 

 DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS went into use all the HIGHEST 

 BUTTER and CREAM awards went to DE LAVAL users, in this latest 

 representative contest, which included the exhibits of nearly one thousand of the 

 best butter and cream producers throughout the country. 



The three highest awards in the CREAMERY BUTTER class — all to 

 DE LAVAL users — were as follows : 



A. J. ANDERSON, Otisco, Minn Score 97 



THOR. MOE, Winthrop, Minn., Score 96& 



A. L. OESTRICH, Watertown, Wis., .... Score 96 



The highest award on DAIRY BUTTER was to P. Daingaard, Camp Point, 

 111. — Score 94 \ — • a DE LAVAL user. 



The highest award in the CERTIFIED CREAM contest was to G. Van B. 

 Roberts, Highland, N. Y. — Score 99 — a DE LAVAL user. 



The highest award in the CREAMERY PATRONS contest for hand separator 

 cream was to G. B. Fisher, Viroqua, Wis. — Score 93J — a DE LAVAL user. 



Full details of all the entries and scores have not yet been made public, but 

 there is no doubt that the vast majority of all exhibits scoring 90 and above will 

 prove to have been DE LAVAL made, as heretofore. 



Incomplete reports have been received of highest butter awards at the various 

 STATE FAIRS this year, but practically all of them have been to DE LAVAL 

 users, including particularly New York, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, North 

 Dakota and South Dakota. 



As has been said before, the separator does not of itself insure the making of 

 the best butter, but the superior mechanical and sanitary bowl construction and 

 low speed of the DE LAVAL separator indisputably enable the production of better 

 cream and better butter under the same conditions than can possibly be made in 

 any other way. 



This is something that even the most enterprising and resourceful of those who 

 seek profit through the manufacture and sale of would-be competing separators 

 never attempt to explain or deny — that practically all the best butter, as evi- 

 denced by the highest awards in all representative butter contests, is and has for 

 more than twenty years been made by users of DE LAVAL cream separators. 



Hence the great advantage to every DE LAVAL user in having the separator 

 that not only makes the MOST but the BEST cream and butter, is the simplest 

 and easiest machine to use and lasts an average of twenty years against from two 

 to five years in the case of all others. 



A DE LAVAL catalogue helps to make plain the reasons for DE LAVAL 

 superiority in good buttermaking and other respectsj and is to be had for the asking. 



THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO, 



42 E. Madison Street 

 CHICAGO 



1213 <a 1215 Filbert St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Drurnm ®. Sacramento Sts. 



SAN FRANCISCO 



General Offices: 



165 Broadway 



NEW YORK 



173-177 William Street 

 MONTREAL 



14 <& 16 Princess Street 



WINNIPEG 



1016 Western Ave. 



SEATTLE 



As to the cuttings one can start in such a box the 

 geranium ranks among the first. With a sharp 

 knife or shears, the young shoots from some thrifty 

 plant should be removed so that each cutting will 

 be from one to two inches long and have but one 

 large • leaf. The growing point must never be 

 injured. The aim must be to reduce the evapora- 

 tion to a minimum and yet keep enough leaf surface 

 to carry on the life functions and induce the forma- 

 tion of roots. The cuttings as soon as made should 

 be stuck into the sand (which has been previously 

 thoroughly soaked) and placed far enough apart to 

 allow ample room for the leaves. By starting to root 

 cuttings toward the end of January and following 

 each batch with another as fast as ever your old 

 plants (which should be forced along) can produce 

 new shoots, you may find it possible to grow a 

 sufficient supply for the garden next summer. For 

 this purpose as soon as the cuttings are well rooted 

 pot into 4-inch pots. They can be held back con- 

 siderably and still retain their vitality by being 

 placed in a dry, cool place, though it is necessary 

 to give them a good start in the pots for the first few 

 weeks. True, this will give a rather uneven lot of 

 plants, but I have found that for bedding purposes 

 it makes practically no difference, for within a very 

 few weeks all the geraniums in a bed attain much 

 the same size. Nor is it any serious matter if the 

 plants, when they are set out, are somewhat scraggy 

 and leafless, as they will soon recuperate. 



A fair supply of coleus for bordering the geraniums 

 can also be started in the cutting box. They are 

 as easily started as the geraniums, but it is some- 

 what more difficult to carry the potted plants 

 along until they are wanted. In the matter of pro- 

 ducing new shoots the mother plant is even more 

 prolific than the geranium. 



In rooting geraniums and coleus you may some- 

 times be troubled with a rot that manifests itself by 

 blackening the cut end, thereby preventing the for- 

 mation of roots. When this occurs throw away the 

 affected cutting and provide entirely new sand taken 

 from a different source than that from which the 

 former has been obtained. Where the rot has not 

 gone too far the cuttings can sometimes be saved by 

 removing the blackened end, but there still remains 

 the danger of infection. 



PROPAGATING BEGONIAS 



The begonias are another class of plants that start 

 very readily from cuttings. With the flowering 

 varieties cuttings made from healthy stems will 

 generally root easily enough, while in the case of 

 those grown for their large ornamental foliage, such 

 as the Rex begonia, new plants are started from 

 leaf cuttings, either by taking an entire leaf and 

 cutting it in two along the midrib, or into triangular 

 pieces so that each contains a portion of the petiole. 

 Stand the cuttings upright and bury to about half 

 their depth into the sand. Likewise an entire leaf 

 may be pegged down flat on the sand and incisions 

 made across the midrib and larger veins, when roots 

 will develop and new plants grow from the injured 

 spots. In this manner, if one be persistent and not 

 too impatient, one plant may in time become the 

 progenitor of many without the least injury to itself. 



Some of the other plants that root readily if a piece 

 of the vine be stuck into the sand are the ivy and the 

 tradescantia. The tradescantia or wandering Jew 

 is a creeper that grows so easily as to make it a 

 veritable weed. Many of the cactuses can also 

 be started from cuttings, but they differ, however, 

 from other plants in that the cuttings will need to be 

 dried for several days so as to induce the formation 

 of a callus across the cut end. The cuttings must, 

 however, not be allowed to shrivel. Gloxinia can 

 likewise be started in this manner if an entire leaf, 

 retaining a portion of the petiole, is planted to about 

 one-third its depth in the sand. 



Raising plants from cuttings is really a very simple 

 operation, but there is a knack in doing it that can 

 only be acquired by continual practice. Remember 

 to keep your sand at all times saturated with water, 

 but not soaked. During the first week, after 

 planting, before the cuttings have yet begun to form 

 roots, it will be best to shade them during the 

 sunniest part of the day — from about ten in the 

 morning to four in the afternoon. No more eco- 

 nomical and at the same time more appropriate 

 Christmas present can be given to our friends than a 

 plant which we can feel that we have really raised. 



North Dakota. C. L. Meller. 



