April, 1914 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



209 



This is the way our 



DWARF TREES BEAR 



DWARF APPLE TREES 

 DWARF PEAR TREES 

 DWARF PLUM TREES 

 DWARF CHERRY TREES 

 DWARF PEACH TREES 

 Also all Standard Fruit Trees 



Catalogue Free 



THE VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 

 W. L. McKAY, Prop. Box M, Geneva, N. Y. 



Hardy 

 Flowering Plants 



Get the hardiest kinds of flowering 

 plants, those that will bloom and 

 flourish year after year and weather 

 the severest climate. We have 

 every kind of plant that goes to 

 make a first-class flower garden — 

 the finest and hardiest specimens 

 of their kind- — Iris, Paeonies, Old- 

 Fashioned Plants, Shrubs, Trees, 

 Vines, Hardy Ferns for shady 

 places, Wild Flowers, Lilies, Tril- 

 liums, etc. We pack them so as to 

 reach you perfectly fresh. 



Before buying your hardy plants 

 for Spring setting get Horsford's 

 New Catalog — just off the press 

 and free for the asking. 



FREDERICK H. HORSFORD 

 Charlotte, Vermont 



"Scalecide" "Scalecide" at $25 per 

 « •• barrel is cheaper than 



Saves Money Lime Sulphur at $6, be- 

 cause si bbls. of L. S. will cost $20, plus $22.50 to 

 apply, or $42.50. One barrel of "Scalecide" will spray 

 just as many trees, and spray them better, and will 

 cost only $25, plus $12 to apply. You save $5.50 and get a better 

 protection against San Jose Scale, Leaf Roller and all pests con- 

 trollable in dormant season. Write for booklet — " 'Scalecide' the 

 Tree Saver." B. G. Pratt Co., Dept. I, 50 Church St., N. Y. City. 



JOHN TRUE'S MAPLE SUGAR 



shipped express collect, fresh, direct from a homestead 

 Vermont farm. The pure, wholesome, honest, delicious 

 old-fashioned kind so seldom seen nowadays. Sent on 

 receipt of amount — which will be returned if you ever tasted 

 better. Small cakes, daintily wrapped, quaintly packed— 

 {5 lb. box), plain $1.80, with nuts (most delicious) $1.95, 

 % & % $i-9°; larger size (10-lb. economy-family box.) plain 

 $3.25, with nuts $3.50, % & % $3.40. 



JOHN TRUE 



ROUTE 9 G 



ORANGE, N. J. 



Balanced Rations and Why 



United States 

 Government tells you 



RE you feeding for beef or milk? Or 

 do you fatten a bunch of hogs each 

 ? Uncle Sam has spent millions of 

 dollars working out just the right kind of 

 feeds under every possible condition, and 

 for every desired result, and all he found 

 out is at your service in the 



Farmer's Cyclopedia 



Abridged Agricultural Records 



SEND the coupon without money for the whole set on approval, and if it's worth 

 many times its low price to you, pay for it in little monthly payments. 



AU the books in the world may not be able to teach a man how to plow a straight 

 furrow, but a feed formula from a Government Bulletin can make a difference of $2 a 

 head in the profit on hogs. 



That's how Ned Hicks worked it out. Ned had rather scoffed at "book farming." 

 Fed his hogs on cornmeal and ear corn, like everybody else in the neighborhood. Cost 

 him about 6 cents a pound to put on a hundred pounds during the fattening season. 



One day Ned read up on protein. And that year he fed his porkers cornmeal and 

 ear corn PLUS bloodmeal. It didn't cost him any more, because he cut down on the 

 corn; and it resulted in a gain of 150 pounds per porker, instead of 100 pounds, as 

 formerly. 



When Ned finally figured it out, he found that he had made a profit of $2.65 per pig 

 with the new way of feeding, as against fifty to seventy cents a head profit in the old days. 



Nowadays Ned ALWAYS reads up on such things as feeding, or fertilizing, or seed 

 selection. It PAYS. 



They Would Cost You $4000 a Set 



EACH year the Department of Agriculture spends millions of dollars in experimenting and collec- 

 ting information. Valuable as it is, no human being could read it all. It would take 20,000 vol- 

 umes — a whole house full of books to hold it all. And it would cost $4000 to bind and put them 

 into shape. At that it would be full of technical matter and things you wouldn't care about. 



The Department of Agriculture Helps 



A YEAR or two ago a group of agricultural experts came to realize this situation and resolved to 

 select the most authoritative and up-to-date matter on all topics of interest and importance to the 

 farmer and country dweller — and nothing else. The Department of Agriculture and the State Ex- 

 periment Stations did all in their power to forward the enterprise. Complete files of all publications 

 were placed at the disposal of the Editors. The result you have here. 



Each Minute You Spend With it Worth $5 to YOU 

 7 Big Thick Volumes 



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DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 



Some of the Subjects 

 Covered; 



Breeds of Horses 

 Mules 



Breeds of Dairy Cattle 

 Milk 



Breeds of Beef Cattle 

 Sheep 



Breeds of Swine 

 Poultry Keeping 

 Other Animals 

 Diseases of Horses 

 Diseases of Swine 

 Health and Disease of Poultry- 

 Grass and Hay 

 The Vegetable Garden 

 Field Crops 



Various Farm Products 

 Miscellaneous Crops 

 Horticulture 

 Pome Fruits 

 Stone Fruits 



Forestry and Conservation 

 Floriculture 

 Other Farm Crops 

 Entomology 



Diseases of Cultivated Plants 

 Farm Management 

 Special Farm Topics 

 Soils and Fertilizers 

 Home Economics and Educa- 

 tion 

 Agricultural Education 

 How to Run the Farm Like a 



Business 

 How Much it Costs Per Acre 



to Grow Various Crops 

 How Soils are Made and How 



they Can be Modified and 



Improved 

 How to Design Attractive, 



Convenient , Economical 



Farm Buildings 

 What Most People Do Not 



Know About Feeding the 



Human Animals 

 What the Farmer's Wife Should 



Know About Pure Food, 



Drugs, Sanitation, Etc. 



Mail Coupon 

 Without Money 



G. M. 4, '14 



Doubleday, Page & Co. 

 Garden City, New York 



Send me, all charges prepaid, the complete set 

 of The Farmer's Cyclopedia (Abridged Records 

 of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture) in 7 big thick vol- 

 umes — bound in strong buckram. If not satisfac- 

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 Otherwise I will send you $2 at once and $2 a month for 

 9 months. 



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