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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 191 
Good-bye Backache! 
No more tedious bending over long rows of vegetables. 
Don’t waste your valuable time with old-fashioned tools. 
There’s health, pleasure, and economy in a good garden. 
And, it costs so little in time and effort, if only you have 
the right tools. A few minutes gardening every morning will 
furnish plenty of crisp, fresh vegetables for the home table. 
IRON AGE 
Solve the Home Garden Problem 
Do the work ten times faster than the old-fashioned tools 
and do it far better, too. A woman or even a boy or girl 
can push one. Not toys, but sturdy, long-lived tools— the 
result of 80 years’ tool-building experience. 
Combined Drill and Wheel Hoe 
Many tools in one. Will open its own furrow; sow in con- 
tinuous rows or drop in hills, cover the seed with loose 
soil, pack it with a roller and mark the next row — all in 
one operation! Quickly changed as needed into a fast- 
working wheel hoe. Stored in small space. 
Wheel Hoe, Double and Single 
The only combined double and single wheel hoe on the 
market. Easily changed from one form to the other. 
Double wheel hoe enables you to stride the rows when 
the plants are young; 
while the single hoe 
works between the rows 
of larger plants. 
Write for Booklet 
Iron Age Garden Tools may 
be had in 38 combinations, 
one for every garden purpose 
and to suit ever}' pocketbook. 
Send to-day for booklet, 
“Gardening with Modern 
Tools” and plan for a bigger, 
better garden. 
Bateman 
M’f’g Co. 
Box 35 -G 
Grenloch, N. J. 
Makers also of Potato, 
Spraying and 
Cultivating Machinery 
Ml 
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How We Started 
in Garden Seeds 
It is just about 25 years ago that Alfalfa was introduced 
into the corn belt by our Mr. Joseph E. Wing, who later 
became the founder of this business. 
On the principle of only selling seed proven “Best by Test” 
the business during the following 10 years grew very rapidly. 
Dealing then in field seeds, we soon found customers who 
wanted the same distinct service in garden seeds. During 
the last few years our vegetable and flower seed depart- 
ments have developed at a rapid pace, until to-day we 
stand prepared to supply the “ Best by Test” in all garden 
seeds as well as in such flowering bulbs as Gladioli, 
Dahlias, etc., and in Peonies. 
Vegetable Specialties for 
Your Garden 
We always wanted to be more than mere sellers of seeds. 
The breeding of important varieties, the selection of pedi- 
greed strains, the introduction of rare, new kinds of merit are 
as much our life work as supplying staples. For five years 
we have worked along definite lines of improvement in types. 
Here are a few of our “pets” worthy of your consideration : — 
Wing’s Golden 
Sugar Corn 
Offers all the wonderful qualities 
of famous Golden Bantam in an ear 
one-half as large again. “Going 
some,” you will exclaim. But it is 
true and nothing we can say will 
convince you as quickly as a fair 
trial this season. Matures in about 
80 days from date of planting. We 
will mail \ pint for 15c.; 1 pint for 
25c.; quart for 45c. Safe arrival 
and satisfaction guaranteed. 
Red Sunrise T omato 
Introduced by us in 1915, this bids 
fair to eclipse Earliana 
in popularity and use- 
fulness. Fully as early 
as the earliest strain 
of Earliana, 30% 
more prolific and 
of distinctly superior 
flavor. Thin skin, solid 
meat, small seed cells. 
P a cket 
“Cos” Lettuces for the Epicure 
These deserve more 'attention. They remain in fit condition longer 
and stand more heat than the average head lettuce. We really find most 
of them far superior to anything we can grow late in the season. Try 
Express, Green Provence, and Magnum Bonum for early, midsummer and 
late. Packets 10c. each, all 3 for 25c. postpaid. 
Catalogue Telling all About Garden Making FREE 
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We make it our business to tell in an unusually thorough manner how 
the seeds we sell should be handled 
for biggest success in your garden. 
w,n s’ s O ne die ^ ew cata logues you will 
Golden ^jjr j/ get containing definite data about 
Sugar i, time of maturity. Write us TO-DAY. 
Corn Jf 
THE WING SEED CO. 
Mechanicsburg 
Ohio 
Box 1526 
1 1 BBH Hi I 
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