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ORCHARD CULTIVATOR 



THE FORKNER LIGHT DRAFT HARROW 

 is the only perfect light-running wheel cultivator 

 ever offered for orchard work. Each section is so 

 easily manipulated with levers that a small boy can 

 operate it and cultivate perfectly 30 acres per day 

 with one team of medium weight. With this harrow 

 one team can easily do the work of two teams with 

 ordinary harrows. Works well in stumpy or stony 

 land and does not clog with loose grass, roots, etc. 

 Its extension of 11 feet, 3^ feet each side of the 

 team, enables perfect dust mulching near the tree 

 trunks without disturbing the branches or fruit, and 

 eliminates the use of the hoe. One machine will 

 work 100 acres of orchard and keep it in garden 

 tilth. These machines are labor savers and will 

 reduce your cultivating expense one-half, even if 

 you have but five or ten acres of orchard. Write 

 today for prices. LIGHT DRAFT HARROW 

 COMPANY, Marshalltown, Iowa. 



The Ring of YourTelephone 



Today is a part of your life. 

 You answer as you do the 

 knock on your door. 



It lifts the latchkey of your 

 neighbor, though he be miles 

 away by the highway. 



It aids you in fire and acci- 

 dent — saves time and money. 



But it must be a reliable, 

 efficient telephone. 



Get the best telephone made 

 — it's good economy — experi- 

 ence proves it. 



Kellogg telephones and sys- 

 tems are known as standard 

 apparatus everywhere. 



Write to us for information 

 and prices. Farm telephone 

 bulletins mailed on request. 



KELLOGG SWITCHBOARD AND 

 SUPPLY CO. 

 Chicago 



Manufacturers of Standard Telephone Equipment 



The Right Paint 



For This Spring 



You can't afford to let your 

 house stand exposed till oil drops in 

 price. The way things look now, 

 the buildings would be paint-hungry 

 before that time comes. 



Get the cost of iro pounds " Dutch Boy 

 Painter" White Lead, 4 gallons pure linseed 

 oil. 1 gallon turpentine. 1 pint turpentine 

 drier — this makes 8 gallons of pure white lead 

 paint. Divide by 8 for the price per gallon and 

 compare this with the prici' of any other paint 

 you'd think of usinsj. 



You'll find that the best is the cheapest; also 

 that, after nil. the increase in the cost of " Dutch 

 Boy Painter" White Lead made - to - order 

 paint is trifling. 



Write for our free " Hel-ps No. 4.io 

 It answers all paint questions. 



NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 



An office in each of the following cities: 

 New York Boston Buifalo Cincinnati Chicaffo 

 Cleveland St. Louis San Francisco 

 'John T. Lewis (i- Bros. Company, Philadelphia) 

 (Naliunal Lrail A Oil Company, Pittsburffh) 



Milk Cans That Wear 



Milk Cans made of tinned steel plate. The 

 kind that are inspected after every operatian 

 while in process of manufacture. The kind that 

 stand the wear and tear and give satisfaction — 

 the best. We are ag-ents for both the STURGES 

 and the BUHL MILK CANS because these 

 makes are known to make good. 



Send for special booklet. 



MUNROE & CRISELL 



Selling Agents Portland, Oregon 



THE GROWING OF EVERGREENS FROM THE SEED 



BY PROFESSOR B. Q. LONGYEAR, COLORADO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



A NUMBER of persons in Colorado 

 are interested in the growing of 

 forest and shade trees from seed for 

 planting on the farm or around the home. 

 To those who contemplate undertaking 

 such work during the coming spring 

 Professor B. O. Longyear of the Colo- 

 rado Agricultural College gives a few 

 simple directions. 



Most of the native evergreens can be 

 quite readily grown in ordinary good 

 garden soil, especially if somewhat sandy. 

 Seeds may be planted about the same 

 as onion seed, in carefully prepared beds, 

 which should have some slight shelter 

 from drying winds and too hot sunshine. 



For growing a few hundred seedlings 

 a bed four by six feet should suffice. 

 Boards ten inches wide, set on edge 

 around the bed, will offer good shelter 

 from severe winds and will give support 

 to a screen of lath or brush, which is 

 often desirable in growing these seed- 

 lings. The seeds may be covered with 

 about one-fourth to one-half inch of 

 finely pulverized, sandy soil. The larger 

 the seeds the deeper they should be cov- 

 ered. The seeds may be sown in drills 

 about six inches apart, putting seeds one 

 inch apart in the rows. This facilitates 

 the matter of weeding and cultivating 

 them, which must be done by hand. 

 F"irm the soil down with a piece of board 

 and 'A'ater with a sprinkling pot when- 

 ever it becomes dry. When the young 

 seedlings appear considerable care is 

 necessary to prevent the soil from 

 becoming too moist on the surface, 

 although it should not be allowed to 

 dry out below. This is best managed 

 by watering the plants only during the 

 middle of the day, so that the surface 



will have an opportunity to dry off. 

 Keep the seed bed perfectly free from 

 weeds, and during the hottest days a 

 slight shading by means of an open lath 

 screen or brush laid across the seed bed 

 frame will be desirable. Most evergreens 

 grow very slowly at first, and will not be 

 ready to plant out in nursery rows until 

 two years old. 



In the autumn of the first year, after 

 the growing season is past, it is well to 

 mulch the little trees with dead leaves 

 or fine straw, but do not allow the mulch 

 to pack down onto them, which will 

 often lead to smothering. The seedlings 

 should be grown in the seed bed during 

 the second season, but will require less 

 shading than during the first year. On 

 cloudy, damp days no shade whatever 

 should be given, and in the case of the 

 yellow pine very little, if any, shade is 

 needed during any period of the growth 

 of the trees. 



The little trees may be transplanted 

 into nursery rows the beginning of the 

 third growing season. They should be 

 set eight or ten inches apart, in rows two 

 feet apart, where they may be cultivated 

 the same as a crop of corn for two or 

 three years more, when they should be 

 large enough to transplant into perma- 

 nent quarters. 



Great care should be exercised in all 

 cases in transplanting evergreens to 

 avoid drying of the roots. The grow- 

 ing of evergreens in this way is rather 

 particular work, and should not be under- 

 taken unless one has the time and 

 patience to give the best of care and 

 wait for results. Otherwise it is usually 

 cheaper and better to buy the nursery 

 grown stock. 



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