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f  VY/ HEN  you  plant  yom  orchard  it  pays  in  1 
¥Y  actual  dollars  stud  cents  tc  have  de¬ 
pendable  slock.  For  three  eenerailons 
ELLWANGER  &  BARRY 
FKUIT  TREKS 
hnvc  b<4n  planted  hjr  fnrrfwra  and  orrhnrrlUtn  who 
want  the  b.-..t»u*k  it  iu  potMitbta  to  obtain.  Soveniy- 
Six  years  of  export  fffowlm;  hux  cievolopeO  ••  1Jn«  of 
— .  stock  um  m  un*au*l!eU  in  Amarica, 
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f  “IP  L  |  MOUNT  HOPt  NURSFRIfS 
Bts239,  Raehc.lir, «.  T. 
tember,  just  when  his  peaches  were  in 
full  bearing.  There  must  have  been  close 
to  500  people  there.  We  saw  two  tractors 
disking,  one  n  larger  one,  using  crude 
petroleum  as  it  comes  from  the  ground, 
drawing  large  Cutaway  harrows  heavily 
loaded.  This  place  was  a  revelation, 
land  they  were  fitting  for  planting  having 
produced  that  year  07  bushels  oats  to  tin- 
acre.  There  were  hi  bearing  six  and 
seven-year-old  apple  and  peach  trees  that 
looked  like  30-year-olds,  clean,  healthy 
and  low-headed.  Cherries  were  on  some 
trees  in  September,  firm  and  hard,  to 
show  the  possibility  of  holding  part  of 
the  crop  back.  Mr.  Elsler  was  disking 
down  Crimson  clover  sown  iu  the  Spring 
and  seeding  that  ground  to  rye  and  vetch, 
that  to  go  under  next.  Spring  and  the 
clover  repeated.  R.  F.  shannon. 
Pennsylvania. 
A  Family  of  Horses 
The  horse  picture  shown  on  page  147 
was  sent  by  Mr.  Chas.  Lichtenwnlner,  of 
Macungie,  Pa.  This  certainly  is  a  horse 
family.  The  mare  at  the  extreme  right 
with  the  white  streak  on  her  face  is  the 
■mother,  and  the  rest  are  all  her  descend¬ 
ants.  The  oldest,  which  stands  next  to 
the  mare  will  bo  seven  years  old  next 
Spring,  and  is  17  bands  high.  Thus  there 
was  one  colt  for  each  year,  llie  little  fel¬ 
low  at  the  extreme  right  being  the  baby. 
Although  these  eolts  are  not  highly  bred 
they  are  all  excellent  workers,  four  of 
them  having  been  in  farm  service  al¬ 
ready.  They  eau  be  used  anywhere  that 
a  horse  is  needed,  either  single  or  double, 
and  surely  this  group  shows  what  a  far¬ 
mer  can  do.  starting  with  good  stock  and 
using  care  in  the  breeding  and  in  raising 
the  colts.  For  a  number  of  years  our 
Eastern  farmers  were  told  that  it  did 
not  pay  them  to  raise  horses.  Too  many 
of  them  took  the  advice  and  gave  up 
raising  colts.  As  it  turned  out  this  was 
poor  advice  and  many  of  these  farmers 
who  have  been  paying  out  their  money  for 
Western  horses  would  have  been  far  bet¬ 
ter  off  to-day  if  they  had  kept  one  or  two 
brood  mares  and  raised  a  colt  or  two 
every  year.  In  spite  of  the  development 
of  motor  cars  and  tractors  we  still  think 
it  will  pay  our  Eastern  farmers  to  raise 
good  colts.  Poor  scrub  stock  will  never 
nav.  but  good  horses  will,  we  believe, 
are  hardy, 
healthy,  well- 
rooted,  true-to- 
name.quick-grow- 
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Planting  Barnes'  trees 
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Fruit  Growers 
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W.  L.  McKAY,  Prop.  Box  R,  Geneva.  N.  Y 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
First  annual  farmers’  work.  Delhi  Agri¬ 
cultural  School.  Delhi,  X.  Y.,  Jan.  24-27. 
Annual  Convention  Tennessee  State 
Floral  Association,  Nashville,  Jan.  24 ; 
Tennessee  State  Fruit  Growers’  Associa¬ 
tion,  Jan.  25;  Slate  Nurserymen's  As¬ 
sociation  Jan.  2(1 ;  State  Beekeepers’  As¬ 
sociation,  Jan.  27. 
Madison-Chennngn  Counties  Holstein- 
Friesian  Club.  State  School  of  Agricul¬ 
ture,  Morrisville,  X,  Y.,  Jan.  27. 
Greater  Newark  Poultry  and  Pigeon 
Association,  annual  show.  Coliseum,  New¬ 
ark.  N.  .T.,  Jam  24-20. 
Connecticut  Dairymen's  Association, 
annual  meeting.  Unity  Hall,  Hartford. 
Conn..  Jan.  25-27. 
Western  New  York  Horticultural  So¬ 
ciety,  Rochester.  Jan.  20-28. 
New  York  State  Tobacco  Growers’ 
Association,  Raldwinsville.  N.  Y.,  Jan, 
29. 
Connecticut  Pomologieal  Society  and 
Oonectiout  Vegetable  Growers’  Associa¬ 
tion,  Hartford,  Conn..  Feb.  1-3. 
New  York  State  Grange,  Jamestown, 
Feb,  1-4. 
Farmers’  Week,  Ohio  State  University, 
Columbus,  O.,  Jan.  21 -Feb.  1-4. 
Ohio  State  Dairymen's  Association,  an¬ 
nual  meeting,  Ohio  State  University 
Campus,  Columbus,  O..  Feb.  2-4. 
Ohio  State  Corn  Show.  Ohio  State 
T’niversitv  Campus,  Columbus,  Jan.  31- 
Feb.  1-4. 
Ohio  State  Vegetable  Growers’  Associa¬ 
tion.  Ohio  State  University,  Columbus. 
Feb.  3. 
State  Round-Up  Farmers’  Institute 
Workers.  Ohio  State  University,  Colum¬ 
bus,  O.,  Felt.  1. 
New  Jersey  State  Board  of  Agricul¬ 
ture,  Trenton.  Feb.  2-4. 
Farmers’  Week,  New  York  State  Col¬ 
lege  of  Agriculture.  Ithaea,  Feb.  7-12. 
New  York  Vegetable  Growers’  Associa¬ 
tion.  Ithaca.  X.  Y..  Feb.  8-11, 
Farmers’  Week,  State  School  of  Agri¬ 
culture.  Alfred  Univcrsitv,  Alfred,  N.  Y„ 
Feb.  22-25. 
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A  Distribution  of  Lime 
All  over  the  country,  and  through  the 
Eastern  States  in  particular,  farmers  are 
becoming  greatly  interested  in  the  lime 
question.  Within  the  past  few  years  it 
has  become  generally  understood  that 
practically  every  soil  which  has  been  in 
cultivation  for  50  years  will  be  benefited 
by  an  application  of  lime.  The  trouble 
is  to  know  bow  to  get  the  lime  at  a  fair 
price,  and  what  kind  of  lime  to  use.  The 
Vermont  Marble  Company  has  made  a 
proposition  to  the  farmers  of  Rutland 
County.  Vermont,  which  is  rather  a  novel 
proposition.  The  County  Adviser.  Mr. 
M.  F.  Downing,  has  been  talking  lime  to 
farmers,  and  urging  them  to  give  it  a 
trial.  As  a  result  of  bis  work  the  4  er- 
mont  Marble  Company  has  made  an  offer 
which  is  summarized  as  follows : 
To  help  the  cause  of  agriculture  and  Pennsylvania  Live  Slock  Breeders’ 
farming  in  Rutland  County  we  would  socirttion  and  Pmmsyl vania  Dairy  U 
like  to  give  to  as  many  farmers  as  care  Monongnhcla  House,  Pittsburgh, 
to  avail  themselves  of  this  offer  five  tons 
of  ground  marble.  This  ground  marble 
will  be  delivered  to  teams  or  to 
the  railroad  in  bags  holdiug  100 
pounds  each.  If  more  convenient  for 
some  we  can  probably  arrange  to  send 
some  of  this  material  to  our  plants  at 
Center  Rutland  and  West  Rutland,  hut 
the  supply  is  at  the  place  of  manufacture 
at  our  stone  crusher  in  Proctor. 
The  conditions  are  that  five  tons  of 
lime  will  be  given  to  each  farmer.  It 
must  be  used  under  the  direction  of  the 
Rutland  County  Farm  Bureau.  It 
must  be  applied  to  only  a  part  of  each 
piece  of  ground,  the  other  part  left  so  as 
to  get  a  fair  basis  for  comparing  results. 
There  is  a  charge  of  one  dollar  a  ton  for 
the  bags,  and  when  these  bags  are  re¬ 
turned  in  good  condition  this  cost  will  be 
repaid.  If  the  farmers  have  bags  of  their 
own,  those  will  be  filled  without  charge. 
This  ground  marble  shows  by  analysis  a 
little  over  98  per  cent,  of  carbonate  of 
lime.  This  lime  is  a  waste  product  in 
the  quarrying  of  marble,  the  pieces  not 
suited  for  the  regular  trade  being  crushed 
to  a  dust.  This  gives  a  good  opportunity 
for  these  Vermont  farmers  to  give  lime  a 
fair  trial.  It  is  u  good  thing  all  around, 
good  for  the  farmers  and  also  for  the 
marble  company,  for  if  through  its  efforts 
those  farmers  can  be  led  to  see  that  the 
lime  is  an  advantage,  property  will  be  in¬ 
creased  in  value,  the  country  become 
nearer  self-supporting,  and  increased  in¬ 
terest  will  be  taken  all  through  the  com¬ 
munity.  Here  is  a  good  thing  for  other 
manufacturers  to  follow. 
Oui’imtnfiiso  stuck  or  TREES  enable*  us  to  sell  at  less 
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