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THE  MAILBAG 
When  you  write  advertisers  mention  The  U. 
N.-Y.  and  you’ll  get  a  quick  reply  and  a 
‘'square  deal,”  See  guarantee  editorial  page. 
MaKinq 
Twice 
as  Many 
A  Substitute  Hay  Crop 
Can  Alsiko  clover  seed  sown  in  Spring 
bo  put  for  hay  the  same  year?  If  not 
what  eon  hi  be  sown  to  use  for  hay?  A.  o. 
Englishtown,  N.  .T. 
Alsiko  clover  seeded  this  Spring  would 
give  only  a  light  crop  the  same  season, 
probably  not  enough  to  satisfy  you.  If 
you  want  a  hay  crop,  or  a  substitute  for 
it  this  year,  you  might  sow  oats  and  peas 
early  in  the  season,  after  the  plan  we  have 
so  often  described.  When  you  put  in  the 
oats  and  peas  you  can  also  seed  to  the 
clover,  and  if  the  season  is  favorable  you 
can  cut  the  oats  and  peas  in  late  July  as 
a  hay  crop,  and  then  the  clover  will  come 
on  ami  cover  the  ground,  so  that  you  can 
cut  clover  hay  the  next  year. 
Why  Not  Cut  Off  the 
Two  Cars  of  Filler? 
It  takes  400,000  cars  to  carry 
Fertilizers  to  our  farmers 
every  season.  Forty  per  cent. 
—  2  cars  out  of  5 — is  Filler. 
Order  higher  grades  and  Ni¬ 
trate  of  Soda  for  your  activ 
Nitrogen  and  save  freight. 
The  greater  producing  capacity  of 
high-grade  fertilizers  without  much 
filler  means  bigger  out-bound 
tonnage  for  railroads  and  bigger 
purchases  by  farmers. 
Send  for  “Cost  of  Available 
Nitrogen." 
DR.  WM.  S.  MYERS,  Director 
25  Madison  Ave.,  NewYork 
ePend 
The  Farm  Manager 
1  find  the  hardest  thing  about  this  farm 
manager's  work  is  having  to  carry  out 
impractical  theories  of  the  owner  who 
knows  but  little  about  farming.  These 
ideas  a  practical  farmer  knows,  from  the 
start,  are  doomed  to  failure.  When  they 
do  fail  owner  is  apt  to  lay  blame  on  man¬ 
ager.  I  would  much  prefer  to  work  for 
a  practical  farmer  who  knows  what  con¬ 
stitutes  a  day's  work,  and  is  in  a  position 
to  judge  fairly  and  give  helpful  criti¬ 
cism.  IT. 
That  is  true.  Many  a  good  man  has 
been  made  sour  and  discouraged  by  being 
told  to  carry  out  plans  which  his  common 
sense  tells  him  are  sure  to  fail,  and  for 
which  failure  he  will  he  blamed. 
Our  Big  Production 
Means  to  You 
Year  after  year  for  many  years,  we  have  made  more  spark  plugs  than  all 
the  others  combined. 
Year  after  year  we  have  greatly  enlarged  our  output. 
This  year  we  will  double  last  year’s  production. 
Year  after  year  we  have  made  Champions  more  and  more  dependable. 
As  our  production  has  grown  we  have  been  able  to  adopt  extreme  and 
still  more  extreme  measures  to  insure  dependability — ■ 
Because — as  our  production  increases  we  can  distribute  the  expense  of 
these  extremes  of  engineering,  of  testing  and  of  processing  over  a  vastly 
larger  number  of  spark  plugs. 
That’s  why  Champions  are  so  much  more  dependable. 
Your  dealer  will  supply  you  with  the  Champion  designed 
to  serve  your  car  more  dependably  than  any  other, 
Look  on  the  porcelain  [not  merely  on  the  box]  for  the 
name  Champion • 
Champion  Spark  Plug  Company 
504  Auburndale  Ave.  Toledo,  Ohio  (&  V- — ^  A 
Mulch  for  Strawberries 
I  notice  frequently  in  our  agricultural 
journal*  advice  in  regard  to  mulching 
strawberries,  and  that  leaves  from  the 
lawn  or  forest  leaves  are  sometimes  rec¬ 
ommended.  My  experience  is  that  leaves 
as  a  mulch  for  berries  are  entirely  unsuit¬ 
ed  for  the  purpose.  When  they  become 
wet  they  mat  down  and  stick  together  to 
that  extent  that  most  of  the  plants  are 
smothered.  Leafy  clover  hay  or  Alfalfa 
will  act  the  same  when  used  for  a  mulch, 
while  clean  straw  or  long-stemmed  hay, 
as  Timothy  or  swauip  grass,  will  not 
form  Kiii  li  a  unit,  and  the  plants  can  get 
breath  and  come  up  through  without  any 
trouble.  HENRY  E.  COX. 
It.  X.-Y —  You  never  saw  that  advice 
in  The  II.  X.-Y.,  for  we  have  often 
warned  our  readers  not  to  use  leaves  or 
sawdust  for  mulching.  The  mulch  must 
be  of  some  coarse  material  so  as  to  give 
ventilation. 
M,U(L  I.IAIK  in  Molnidu  it  will  yloM  nn|c|c»*r  Utid 
ci  resile*  than  i*s>*n  onllimn  id  milt*.  And 
w-  n'f  need  ua  mill'll.  VVi  IIk  t«»  «Ih>  jut  priori, 
i*'hI  |>si|tcr»,  •ft*.  Intel  national  Aqiictiltmal  Corporation 
CALEDONIA  MAKE  BKAMH 
808  MARINE  BANK  BLOG.,  BUFFALO.  N.  Y. 
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A  Farmer’s  Garden 
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Hr Ips  his  wife  in  plan  law  table  in  busy  times.  Saves  work 
ao  i  worry,  saves  buying  so  nun  ti  nir.it,  gives  better  satis- 
l.icann  to  the  help.  A  pood  garden  wilt  be  almost  impossi¬ 
ble  in  your  busy  life  without  proper  tools.  They  cost  little 
and  save  much  hard  work. 
HAVANA  FARM  TRUCKS 
We  can  furnish  these  Low-Down  Gears  with 
either  Steel  Wheels  or  Wood  Wheels.  They 
are  a 3  handy  for  farm  work  as  the  Auto 
is  for  traval. 
We  can  furnish  broad  tire  Steel  Wheels  to  fit  any 
wagon.  May  we  not  send  yon  our  Free  Catalogue? 
Havana  Metal  Wheel  Co.,  Bor  17.  Havana,  Ill. 
sent  to  your  station  charges  prepaid 
Delivered  prices  quoted  on  request 
All  sizes,  2  inches  to  20  inches. 
WHEEL  HOES 
AND  DRILLS 
The  Yield  of  Artichokes 
THE  E.  BIGL0W  CO.,  New  London,  0 
Ten  or  T2  years  ago  I  had  a  Montreal 
correspondent  who  was  continually 
sounding  the  praises  of  the  common  Jeru¬ 
salem  artichoke,  claiming  they  would 
yield  crops  of  from  800  to  1,200  bushels 
to  I  he  :  ere  in  the  latitude  of  Montreal, 
when  planted  in  cold  clay  hind  without 
any  fertilizer  whatever.  Years  ago  I  also 
grew  Jerusalem  artichokes  oil  the  cold 
day  soil  of  Brewer,  Maine,  without  any 
fertilizer,  though  the  average  harvest  was 
not  above  100  to  150  bushels  to  the  aere. 
To  settle  a  dispute  of  long  standing  will 
the  editor  please  inform  me  what  the  av¬ 
erage  yield  of  the  Jerusalem  artichoke  is 
in  the  northern  temperate  States,  and 
also  in  Canada?  Are  the  tales  which  one 
often  sees  published  from  Montreal  and 
vicinity  regarding  the  marvelous  crop* 
which  the  .swiue-gmwcrs  produce  all 
strictly  veracious  or  is  considerable  lee¬ 
way  allowed  for  advertising  purposes? 
Maine.  viRCir,  g.  Eaton. 
R.  X.-Y. — We  have  never  grown  the 
artichoke  as  a  feed  crop,  anil  we  must 
leave  the  settlement  of  this  dispute  to  our 
readers.  They  will  settle  it. 
will  saw,  cultivate.  fMgc.  furrow,  n. br**rr  than  you  can 
with  olfj-fashionfil  tools  Amt  tett  time*  q  -.icker.  A  woman, 
boy  or  girl  caq  do  It.  <*..u  pWit  eU«,rr  »mt  work  haml 
^  toote  while  the  horcei  rcvc.  AH  c-gjiIh nations 
3k.  Itooa  %rliv~h  to  chcRjie  .ti  $2. SO  to  One 
cumSiuctl  tool  will  do  nil  of  the  work, 
A»k  your  dealer  to  *h-»w  tlt.-rti  and 
k  write  us  for  booklet,  '‘Gardening 
X,  Modem  Tools'*  Ff«e. 
No. 6^ 
Drill 
And 
Wheel 
Hod  . 
BATEMAN 
M'F’G  CO. 
Box  22 
Grenloch,  N.J. 
Get  Stumps  Out 
With  Less  Work 
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Pulling  stumps  is  slow  and  costly.  "An  explosive  reduces 
the  labor  of  clearing  land  to  the  minimum.  It  may  be 
used  by  any  intelligent  man,”  says  Minnesota  Farmers' 
Bulletin  134.  Get  any  stump  out  quickly,  and  at  the 
same  time  split  it  into  pieces  easily  handled,  by  using 
Care  ok  Hen  Manure. — My  experi¬ 
ence  with  this  has  been  that  if  sufficient 
land  plaster  is  thrown  on  the  dropping 
boards  just,  before  they  are  cleaned  the 
manure  will  he  covered  with  the  plaster. 
Then  it  should  be  kept  in  a  building 
somewhat  like  a  corncrib,  letting  the  air 
through  it.  You  will  find  very  little  heat¬ 
ing  take  take  place.  \Ye  sell  this  to 
the  farmers  here  for  30  cents  per  bushel. 
The  supply  lias  lias  never  equalled  the 
demand.  T.  J.  K. 
I  lammoqton,  N.  J. 
You  can  save  money  and  make 
money  by  using  Atlas  Farm 
Powder  to  blast  out  stumps 
and  shatter  boulders,  break  up 
hard-pan,  do  ditching  and  dig 
holes  for  trees  or  posts.  It  is 
the  cheapest  farm  hand  you 
can  possibly  find. 
Houses  and  Carrots. — I  noticed  the 
question  11.  1).,  of  Xew  Jersey  asked  in  a 
recent  issue  of  The  R.  X.-Y.  about  a 
horse  not  eating  carrots.  In  your  answer 
you  stated  this  was  the  first  case  of  the 
kind  you  hud  heard  of.  Last  Spring  I 
bought  a  team  of  mares,  four  and  five 
years  old.  shipped  in  from  Iowa.  They 
are  perfect  animals  in  every  way.  and  as 
easy  keepers  as  I  ever  saw.  I  have  never 
been  able  to  get  them  to  eat  carrots  or 
any  other  vegetable,  though  I  have  of¬ 
fered  them  repeatedly,  also  they  won’t  eat 
apples.  At  first  they  would  not  eat  brau, 
either  dry  nor  mash,  but  I  am  getting 
them  to  eat  it  now.  The  only  feed  they 
seemed  to  know  was  corn  and  oats,  hay 
and  corn  fodder.  c.  G.  p, 
Michigan. 
[Free  book  coupon  ] 
ATLAS  POWDER  CO.,  Wilmington, Del. 
Send  me  your  74-page  book  “Better  Farming.” 
I  am  interested  in  the  use  of  explosives  for  the 
purpose  before  which  I  mark  X.  RX2 
I J  Stump  Blasting  _  Tree  Planting 
jj  Boulder  Blasting  Pj  Ditch  Digging 
I  Subsoil  Blasting  Quarrying-Mining 
AJdrcs* 
