The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
41 
me nt a hook l saw rnnnv years ago, en¬ 
titled “The Barkeeper’s Assistant.” It 
was a compilation of recipes for all sorts 
of alcoholic concoct ions. (me I remem¬ 
ber was for making cider from turnips, 
and another for making champagne from 
the turnip cider. One advantage we 
have in the country is that we can deal 
directly with the people on the farm. 
We get the best, of butter from a farm 
woman who practices tin* old arts of the 
farm, and twice a week, when she brings 
the butter, she also furnishes us with 
buttermilk thai is not synthetic. 
The open garden still furnishes us with 
loose lettuce, spinach, turnips and par¬ 
sley. and the cellar with home-grown 
Irish and sweet potatoes and onions, and 
tin* canned tomatoes in the pantry. 
Christmas brought a big North Carolina 
ham, etc. Christmas Day was cloudy, 
with a Tittle rain in the morning. The 
weather man’s promise of a white Christ¬ 
mas failed entirely here, but may perhaps 
have reached New York. 
The best tiling will be the seed cata¬ 
logues. In fact, one has already reached 
me. with a highly embellished cover, but 
not quite so many novelties as usual. 
The sooner one makes up his seed list for 
the season the better, for the orders re- 
eeived in January at the seed -tores are 
far more promptly filled than late ones, 
when some things may run short. Many 
old things are still good in spite of years 
of novelties. While we have some string 
beans recently introduced. I find that so 
far as the table quality is concerned the 
old Tied Valentine is as good as any. The 
Black Valentine is early and compara¬ 
tively hardy, hut is not of tbebpst quality. 
As a climbing string and white dry bean 
the Creascback is still among the best. 
Of the Dwarf Lima beans the Fordhook 
does very well here, and is grown Con¬ 
siderably for Northern .shipment. The 
Dwarf Sieva or Henderson’s Bush Lima 
makes the largest crop. There have been 
many cucumbers of the white spine class, 
and for a good while our market growers 
planted nothing but the Klondike. I 
$840 off one acre! $21,000 off of 25 acres! That Is exactly what 
two of my customers actually did last year with my Hubam. Just 
read the clipping at the left! And they did this when their neighbors 
were down in the mouth over the low price of corn and wheat. Hibbs 
and Barnett didn’t waste time grumbling at their luck. They didn’t 
waste time growing com, either. They pitched in and raised Hubam 
for seed and they are one year’s jump and $21,000 ahead of their 
neighbors! They had a vision and they made that vision come true 
with Field’s Guaranteed Parent-Strain Hubam. Read the rest below. 
I don’t know of any crop the farmer can producesas muckmoneseason asthcbiennialdoc9 
grow that offers as good a prospect for pro- two r b.' s a .£ T0 V c l op Dr bee past-are, a; you 
fit the coming season at the growing of Hubam for f?" SetqmcV action the first year and if seededl early 
teed, nor a better chance forfarmers to make money, r ' - , U J c 1 t ' , 
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clover. It is similar to the big biennial type est growing one we know. And the leaves are 
(From Registe.Tribune^Des 
huge clover CROP 
NETS LARGE INCOME 
jounds P Thirteen mea were 
ikfSW SiX SS 
as it was *°“g. thus 
the “ e ®, 1 ^« 1 ( 2 d b |r«5 from weeds. 
fce T P he B s«Sd cost $10 a round, but 
inch 0 ", JSK? wffi 
“Vnril"'T & >» °<*S 
l .‘and the plants were tieaip 
seven feet high. The owners count 
j i sppri stem on an averag* 
1 ?^n S this field and found 301 
P nroduced thre 
borne dear to the ground. 
w »eed next year. You can caab in on it. 
CUT OUT CORN- 
MAKE BIG MONEY ON HUBAM 
Cut down your corn acreage this year. 
Raise Hubam instead. It should, bring at 
least ;oc a pound next fall. You ought to raiac 
400 pounds of seed to the acre easy. That would be 
around $200 yield per acre off your land this year, 
besides its other value. I really don'tthink Hubam 
will ever sell as low as 15c. but suppose yon get 
only 25c a pound for the seed next year. Can you 
make ?roo an acre on corn or wheat or cotton? 
WHY BUY OF HENRY FIELDT 
When you come to seU seed yourself people 
are going to ask you where you got your start 
and what guarantee you can give as to genuineness 
and purity. You will be absolutely in the clear if 
you can refer to us as your source of supply. 
Buying Hubam seed is like buying jewelry. 
You have to depend considerable on the repu¬ 
tation and honor of the man you buy from and you 
will find you can get a better price for your seed if 
you can show papers that you got your original seed 
from Henry Fi .-Id’s Parent-Strain than if you give 
the name of some less known grower. 
SEND YOUR ORDER EARLY— 
We have a fair supply of seed this year, b it 
it’s probably not near enough to go round. 
But I’ve got enough to fill all early orders, and if 
you get your order in we’ll do our best to fill it 
promptly. But we’ll have to fill orders inrotation 
and if yours is mailed (00 late you may get left. 
LAST YEAR S10 A LB.—THIS YEAR $2 
Last year I sold my Hubam at $10 a pound, 
I don’t like to ask $10 a pound, or even $5. 
I’m going to start it this year at but only $2 a pound 
and at this price Hubam is cheap seeding. It takes 
Z to 3 lbs. to the acre, or $4 to $6 an acre cost for 
seeding, and it’s sure to catch if you follow* our di¬ 
rections. And you can’t make anything like the 
profit off of any other crop that vou probably can 
off of Hubam. So sen d me your order, NOW. if you 
don’t want to part with all the money right now, 
send me & 1 per pound deposit and I’ll ship the seed 
on the date you say, balance to be paid on arrival. 
That way you are protected against being left out 
in thecold, ora raise in price. Lit her way suits me. 
But get your order in by return mail, if possible, one 
way or the other. You’ll thank me in the years to 
come for putting you next. HENRY FIELD. 
7 n A A SHENANDOAH. IOWA 
mU lyUil DEPT. H. B. 
Back in 1916, Prof. H. D. Hughes, of 
Iowa State College, noticed a sport plant. 
,n Boeder’* Gazette- 
““Proving cron k, 1 * -* 1 
7» St3,V££*" 
that th.V, Hubam U 
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t^.f ays aao *l »hhe'Z Produc « 
to the so an,I A vr sweet clove 
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T noticed your article uu wood ashes, 
page 1-17‘2. When is the best time of 
year to spread about fruit trees? T piled 
coal ashes about them to keep mice 
away. c. R. s. 
Reading, Pa, 
We are putting wood ashes from the 
fireplace around the peach trees right 
now—at any time when the ground is 
free from snow. With a large quantity 
of ashes we prefer to broadcast after 
plowing and harrow in. Such work would 
naturally be done in Spring. With a 
small quantity, we use at any time. 
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