WALTER S. SCHELL S QUALITY SEEDS FOR MARKET- GARDENERS 
Most Accurate Seeding Machine in the World 
IT MUST SOW SEED JUST RIGHT. IT CANNOT SOW TOO THICK, IT CANNOT SOW TOO THIN 
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The Columbia Seeder 
Every market-gardener should include one of these Seeders in his order. 
Those of my customers who have them say: " It is the finest seeder of them all: 
Seven cylinders are sent with each Columbia hand planter. These seven cylinders 
will sow about the entire list of the average market-gardener's planting. 
These machines are used by government experiment stations in nearly every state in 
the Union, where the machine is regarded as the most 
accurate seeding machine in the world. They are made 
especially to meet the demand of market-gardeners 
or nurserymen who must have a machine of large 
capacity and one that will plant all kinds of seed ac- 
curately, both in spacing and depth of planting. 
It has a positive force feed; each seed is carried to the 
ground and covered; not a seed can escape. The con- 
struction is simple and durable, and when equipped with 
proper cylinder, will plant all known vegetable seeds 
from the smallest seed to lima beans any desired distance 
apart in the furrow with mathematical precision. From 
the seed-hopper the seeds drop immediately into the 
cells or pockets in the cylinder, where nothing can dis- 
turb them, and they are carried to the ground by revo- 
lution of the cylinder. Will plant any distance apart 
required and change can be made easily and quickly. 
Walking fast or slow, the machine will plant the seed 
exactly the same distance apart and the same amount of 
seed to the acre. Full instructions with each machine. 
Price, No. 10, $19.50. 
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No. XI Columbia 
No. 11 Columbia 
Same as No. 10 except equipped 
with Fertilizer Attachment. 
Four fertilizer cones with this machine 
give positive control of the amount of 
fertilizer you may wish to sow per acre. 
Fertilizer spout is adjustable to sow 
fertilizer where you desire. Price, 
No. 11, $24. 
Hotbed Sash 
ORDER YOUR SASH AT ONCE 
The sash I offer you are positively the 
strongest and best made. They are 3x6 
feet, 1 1^ inches thick, all joints are blind- 
mortised, white-leaded and stecl-dowell- 
pinned; a ^i-'mch round steel rod sup- 
ports the bars in the center. 
Suggestions for Prepar- 
ing Hotbeds and 
Coldframes 
Coldframes are those warmed by the sun only; hotbeds are heated by an under bed 
of manure, giving heat by its fermentation. They are both a sort of "small greenhouse" 
that will yield bountiful returns every month in the year. 
This illustration shows how to make 
a hotbed. Put in 2 feet of fresh horse- 
manure for winter, use half that depth for spring. Mix the manure with one-third leaves or straw, which keeps it from 
burning by too rapid fermentation and destroying its heating qualities at the start. Tramp down hard; leave sash off three 
days.l and until a thermometer plunged into the mixture shows 
90 degrees. Now place 9 inches of good soil on top, free from 
lumps, the finer the better, having mixed with it thoroughly well- 
rotted manure. Then sift on top an inch of loamy soil, making a 
soft bed for the seeds. 
PRICES OF SASH. 3x6 feet. Glass and painted, two coats, 
single-light, $6» double-light, $8. Without glass and painted, 
one coat, single-light, $2.25; double-light, $2.50. Without glass 
and unpainted, single-light, S2.I0, double-light, $2.35. 
PRICES OF STANDARD FRAMES: 2-sash Frames, without 
sash, $9.50; with sash, $20.50. 3-sash Frames, without sash, 
$12.50; with sash, $29; 4-sash Frames, without sash, $15.50; 
with sash, $37.50. 
PRICES OF SUB-FRAMES: For 2-sash Frames, $7.50; for 
3-sash Frames, $8.75; for 4-sash Frames, $11.50. 
Order Sash Now, Get Started Early 
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