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Deep  Seedbeds 
Properly  Prepared 
— That's  what  you  get  when  you  use 
the  deep-cutting,  double- turning,  level¬ 
ing  and  compacting 
'Acme”  Pulverizing  Harrow 
“The  coulters  (to  the  work" —  you  should  see 
them  mix  the  co'.l,  cut  clods,  weeds  and  trash 
and  make  the  whole  into  a  firm  yet.  mellow  seed¬ 
bed  several  inches  deep.  The" Acme”  ix simple, 
durable  arid  easy  to  pull.  Sir.es  U  ft,  to  1 7  1  -2  ft. 
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Just  as  a  Clock 
If  he  didn’t  have  an 
alarm  in  his  make-up 
he’d  be  the  best  two- 
fifty  clock  that  ever 
kept  track  of  the  day 
on  any  farm. 
As  it  is  he’s  two  good 
clocks  in  one — a  reliable 
alarm  to  get  up  by,  a 
punctual  timekeeper  to 
serve  in  parlor,  dining 
room,  or  kitchen.  He 
goes  quietly  about  his 
work — you  hear  him  only 
when  he  calls. 
Handle  him  with  reasonable 
care, — he’ll  last  for  years. 
7  inches  tall.  Price  $2.50  in 
the  States,  $3.00  in  Canada.  If 
your  jeweler  hasn’t  him,  send 
a  money  order  to  his  makers 
and  he’ll  come  direct  by  parcel 
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Western  Clock  Co. 
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Makers  of  Westclox 
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The  Threshing  Problem 
C  1  1  Threshes  cow-peas  and  soy  beans 
|  VPn  from  the  mown  vines,  wheat,  oats. 
^  *  — *  — —  r.ve  and  barley.  A  perfect  emu  Id  na¬ 
tion  machine  Nothing  like  it,  “The  machine  I 
have  been  looking  for  for  go  years. ”  \Y.  F.  Massey 
‘•It  will  meet,  every  demand."  H.  A  Morgan.  Di¬ 
rector  Tcnn.  Exp.  Station.  Hook-let  free. 
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Monument  to  McIntosh  Red  Apple 
Popular  Science  snys  that  Canadian 
farmers  have  erected  a  marble  pillar  to 
mark  the  site  of  this  famous  apple : 
More  than  a  century  ago  a  settler  in 
Canada  named  McIntosh,  when  dear'll? 
a  space  in  which  to  make  a  home  in  the 
wilderness,  discovered  among  a  number 
of  wild  apple  trees  one  whioh  bore  fruit 
so  well  that  he  cultivated  it  and  named 
it  McIntosh  Red. 
It  seemed  that  in  189f>  the  tree  was 
injured  by  fire,  but  it  continued  to  bear 
fruit  until  five  years  ago.  The  Meln- 
tosh,  where  the  climate  and  soil  suits  it, 
is  one  of  the  finest  apples  ever  grown, 
and  thousands  of  growers  and  millions 
of  consumers  may  well  be  thankful  today 
that  McIntosh  the  pioneer  let  this  seed¬ 
ling  tree  remain.  Farmers  do  well  to 
erect  a  monument  to  this  tree.  There  is 
an  old  proverb  that,  while  yon  may  count 
the  apples  on  it  tree  you  never  can  count 
the  trees  in  an  apple. 
Natural  Grafts 
The  Missouri  Botanic  Garden  Rulletin 
for  February  has  a  discussion  of  graft¬ 
ing,  giving  examples  of  natural  grafts. 
These  grafts  are  the  result  of  chance,  the 
essential  conditions  being  the  same  as 
in  artificial  grafting,  the  close  contacTof 
the  cambium  layers.  This  is  effected 
when  two  trees  of  the  same  or  related 
species  grow  sufficiently  close  for  a 
branch  of  one  to  interlock  with  or  come 
in  close  contact  with  a  branch  of  the 
other.  The  continued  growth  of  both 
branches  causes  great  pressure  and  fric¬ 
tion,  which  is  increased  by  wind  or  other 
natural  agencies.  Ultimately  the  bark  is 
worn  away,  the  cambium  regions  come 
in  contact,  and  tlie  union  of  the  two 
limbs  occurs.  There  are  several  exam¬ 
ples  of  self-grafted  trees  at  the  Botanic 
Garden,  a  self-grafted  hawthorn  being 
shown  in  Fig.  107,  the  graft  being  in¬ 
dicated  by  an  arrow.  Fig.  107  repro¬ 
duced  from  this  bulletin,  also  shows  a 
natural  graft  of  Red  oaks  at  Worcester, 
Mass. 
The  Opalescent  Apple 
On  page  322  Louis  II.  Buckshorn 
writes  “The  Opalescent  fills  the  hill  its  an 
apple,  but  I  know  nothing  of  the  tree.’' 
lie  asks  for  the  experience  of  some  one 
who  is  in  the  orchard  business  who  has 
fruited  it.  Perhaps  I  can  give  the  de¬ 
sired  information. 
We  have  only  one  tree  of  this  variety 
in  bearing:  my  knowledge  of  it  is  most¬ 
ly  confined  to  the  behavior  of  this  one 
tree.  It  is  now  about  IS  years  old.  The 
tree  is  a  thrifty  grower,  has  been  fruit¬ 
ing  about  10  years,  hearing  fruit  every 
year,  the  north  side  one  year,  the  south 
side  the  next.  It  lias  been  quite  vegu- 
lar  iu  this.  The  tree  is  making  a  good 
growth,  hut  probably  not  as  much  as  it 
would  did  it  not  bear  so  heavily.  The 
fruit  hangs  well  on  the  tree,  a  good 
characteristic;  it  will  hold  on  till  Oct. 
15.  unless  there  are  heavy  windstorms. 
A  weak  point  with  the  McIntosh  here 
is  that  the  fruit  drops  badly  before  Oct.  1. 
I  think  the  Opalescent  tree  in  this  sec¬ 
tion  is  all  right.  About  the  fruit,  Mr. 
P.uckshorn  seems  to  be  satisfied  with 
that  and  so  is  everyone,  except  perhaps 
in  quality.  The  Department  of  Agricul¬ 
ture  and  Stores  College  both  say  quality 
is  good :  probably  that  is  as  much  ns 
ought  to  be  said  of  it.  I  have  not  tested 
it  for  cooking,  hut  for  eating  we  have 
better  apples  than  the  Opalescent. 
Connecticut.  GEO.  F.  PLATT. 
R.  N.-Y.— A  picture  of  the  apple  is 
shown  at  Fig.  181.  page  513  reengraved 
from  “The  Apples  of  New  York.” 
St.  Regis  Raspberry 
In  regard  to  what  -T.  G.  Leighton  of 
Pennsylvania  says  about  St.  Regis  rasp¬ 
berry,  page  240,  I  am  inclined  to  think 
he  must  have  been  “stung”  when  he 
bought  Ids  plants.  My  experience  is 
this:  In  the  Spring  of  1914  I  purchased 
six  plants  of  St.  Regis  and  put  them  out 
as  an  experiment.  They  kept  me  busy 
picking  off  blossoms  to  keep  them  from 
hearing  the  first  Summer  and  Fall,  and 
in  the  Fall  of  1915  we  picked  a  quart 
every  other  day  of  the  biggest,  nicest 
flavored  red  raspberries  I  ever  stivs  and 
not  one  of  them  wormy.  They  kept  it 
up  until  the  last  of  October  which  I 
think  is  doing  well  for  six  plants.  I 
shall  put  out  a  lot  of  them  this  Spring, 
as  I  consider  them  very  fine.  A.  A.  it. 
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