156 J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 



."ARMOGERM 

 SEED— ° -SOIL 



EABF-THOMAS SEXSD AND SOII^ TEST- 

 ING OUTPIT. 



The Seed and Soil Testing- Outfit is one 

 of the most useful and complete of its kind 

 ever devised. ' Within forty-eight hours 

 most seeds can be tested as to their germ- 

 inating- power and their vitality determined 

 in a further t-welve to forty-eig-ht hours. 

 Most soils can be tested for acidity within 

 one hour. Soils that are very faintly acid 

 •will show up by chang-es of color in the 

 testing paper always within eight hours. 

 It pays to know if your seeds are good and 

 your soil has the right reaction, that is, 

 v/hen the paper turns faintly blue, almost 

 everything is in your favor for successful 

 crops. With proper cultivation of the soil 

 unfavorable weather conditions can be over- 

 come to a certain extent, therefore, this 

 outfit reduces failures in crop production to 

 the minimum. The outfit consists of one 

 package of 24 sheets of acid testing paper, 

 one package of filter paper, two testing 

 dishes, one bottle of transparent sprouting 

 jelly, a pair of tweezers to pick up the 

 seeds, a color chart which explains the 

 meaning of the changes that take place in 

 the paper in soil testing, and also full direc- 

 tions for the use of this valuable outfit. 

 Most failures in crops are due either to bad 

 conditions of soil or to poor seed. Price, 

 $1,00, postage 10c. 



BAIN- GAUGE. 



To measure the amount of rainfall, re- 

 course is had to the Rain Gauge. A Rain 

 Gauge should not be set on a roof, a slope 

 or a terrace, but upon a level piece of 

 ground and in a clear space, so that it will 

 not be sheltered by trees, shrubs or build- 

 ings, the Gauge should be placed as near 

 level as jossible, and fixed in such a way 

 that it would not be overturned by strong 

 wind. 



In using the Measuring Glass, it should 

 be held quite level, so that the surface of 

 the water is level and a true reading ob- 

 tained from the graduation on the glass to 

 which it is in contact. 



Snow. — The best way to measure the 

 rainfall by the depth of snow, is to select 

 a place where the snow has not drifted, in- 



vert the Funnel of the Gauge, press it down 

 through the snow to the surface of the 

 ground, give the Funnel a turn and it will 

 lift up the snow within its circumference, 

 this should then be melted into the Gauge 

 and measured. Price, $3.50; postage, 10c. 



FEEBX.ESS PEA AND BEAN HUI^I^EBS. 



Built of Best Material and Guaranteed to do 

 Good Work. These machines are not built 

 to sell in competition with frail, poorly 

 constructed cheap hullers, but are well 

 built along mechanical lines, and will do 

 the work for which they are intended. It 

 is better to pay a little more for a high 

 grade, durable machine, one that will last 

 you years and years, than to purchase the 

 cheapest huller no matter what the quality 

 is and have it to go to pieces in a short 

 time. 



No. 3 Hand Power Peerless Pea and Bean 

 Huller, price with one crank as pictured, f. 

 o. b. New Orleans, $37.50. Price with two 

 cranks, f. o. b. New Orleans, $50.00. 



No. 4 Large Size Peerless Bean and Pea 

 Huller, price as pictured, less driving belt, 

 f. o. b. New Orleans, La., $105.00. 



Btiy from Steckler's and gfet the "benefit 

 of 50 years experience. 



It Will Pay You to Buy From an Old and Reliable House. 



