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Let the Soil Breathe 
Utilize the Fertilizer 
If the full value of the fertilizer used is 
to be obtained, the soil must be frequently 
and thoroughly stirred. Hand and wheel 
hoeing is laborious and expensive and 
always slow. I he Spry wheel Tractor 
makes possible timely and frequent culti¬ 
vation at a minimum expense. Market 
Gardeners, Home Gardeners, Florists, 
Seedsmen, Nurserymen, and small Fruit 
Growers by the hundreds have increased 
yield of crops by using Sprywheel, It is 
simple in design, well made, easy to oper¬ 
ate and does as much work in a day as 
several men could do with hand and 
wheel hoes only. It pays for itself in a 
few week* in the savings effected. This 
wonderful little Tractor sells for 
$150.00 F. O. B. Boston 
Weed Laws in New Jersey 
On adjoining farm Canada thistle has 
been allowed to seed, and my farm is now 
covered. I have had three boys for three 
days pulling it up by the roots during 
the short wet spell. There seems to have 
been no impression on the plants still vis¬ 
ible. What can be done to eradicate the 
thistle, and have I any redress for hav¬ 
ing my farm so injured? a. e. j. 
New Jersey. 
So far as we can find out. no State de¬ 
partment of New Jersey has control over 
the weed situation. The Department of 
Conservation and Development may burn 
dry material to protect forests. Protec¬ 
tion against the introduction of weed seed 
would probably be given by the local offi¬ 
cials of county or townships, but we do 
not find any definite legislation about it. 
When it could be demonstrated that the 
weeds were surely introduced from a 
neighbor’s farm through carelessness in 
handling them we think an ordinary ac¬ 
tion for trespass or damages could be 
brought. The last Legislature empower¬ 
ed the governing bodies of municipalities 
to require the owners or tenants of land 
bordering upon the highways to keep the 
roadsides dean. There are four ways 
recommended for killing or destroying the 
Canada thistle. When there are not 
many of them they may be dug out with 
a sharp spade or spud. Wheu cut off sev- 
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oral inches below the ground they usually 
fail to grow again. In some cases they 
are cut with a mower or scythe and a 
small quantity of salt put on top of the 
root. Frequent mowing—that is. cutting 
off the tops again and again through the 
season—will generally destroy them, but 
of course the surest way is to plow the 
ground, plant some hoed crop in hills and 
give the most, thorough cultivation. 
Where a farm is badly infested this last 
named plan is probably the best. 
Fertility Value of Manure 
Will you tell me the respective value of 
horse and cow manure as fertilizer? Flow 
much should I pay for each, considering 
the present value of commercial fertilizer? 
The cow manure is from Hnlsteins heavily 
grained with mixed hay ami some straw 
bedding. The horse manure is from horses 
well bedded with straw and fed the reg¬ 
ular army ration. H. D. B. 
The following figures represent the 
average of many samples of manure: 
Potato Planter 
For over 21 year* the Eureka one- 
man planter has been a aucceas 
with thou lands of ,ma!l and big 
grower* 
Doc, 5 operation, at once, auto- 
_matically and accurately. 
0HOT'S fertilizes One man and team open, furrow. 
drop, seed any distance or depth, 
drop, fcr.iliz rfif tie,irerl),cover,, 
and mark* next row. Furrow open, 
and «e«d drop, in plain aight—an 
equal distance apart. Better and 
quicker titan hand plantingandin- 
creaie*yiold. Operate, in any,oil. 
Write today for free catalog de- 
acribing t he largest line of planters 
made. Sizes for 1 or 2 rows, with 
or without fertilizer attachment. 
Special attachment, for unusual 
soil or field condition*. In atock 
near you. 
EUREKA MOWER CO. 
Bor840 Utica, N. Y. 
Send for Catalog rx. 
OPEMS furrow 
Nitrogen P. Acid Potash 
Pounds per ton 
Horse manure. 
Cow manure... 
There is more water in the cow manure 
and the horse manure is "warmer"—that 
and. therefore, bet- 
or quick-growing 
It is almost impossible to put a 
is, more likely to heat, 
ter for colder soils 
crops. 
commercial value on manure as compared 
with chemicals, because a large part of 
the true value of manure is found in its 
organic matter, or humus. Actual plant 
food can usually he bought cheaper in 
such chemicals as nitrate of soda, acid 
phosphate, and potash, but while the or¬ 
ganic matter is greatly needed on most 
OROP5 SEED 
Does 
Above 
Four 
Operations 
in One 
Old Burial Grounds as Parks 
A small cemetery once neat- a city, 
which in time grew up to and beyond it 
was made into a little park, as no rela¬ 
tives could be found for most of those 
buried there, and it had become a congre¬ 
gating place for children. Some removals 
were made, and in those left the stones 
were laid flat over the graves they marked 
and covered with earth. A careful record 
was made that they might be located if 
wished. As it was being used as a play¬ 
ground. it seemed better to the city coun¬ 
cil to take this action, and it looks more 
"respectful to the dead as it now is than it 
was before a dreary reminder of forget- 
iillness. It seems a lack of proper feeling 
to turn such a place into a pasture for 
money-making, and it also seems that the 
disrespect taught the children would 
counteract anything they might learn pro¬ 
vided by the small sum received from 
renting “God’s Acre.” m. f. k 
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think it far better to use 
•ound for a park of this 
it. into a pasture. 
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Stout lady on leaving a crowded trol¬ 
ley car: "Well, I'm glad to get out of 
this crush. I've had to stand on one foot 
all the way.” Voice from corner: "Yes. 
and Unit one foot was mine.”—New York 
Globe. 
When the Thinker Came oAlong 
T HERE was a hole in your mother’s dishpan. How 
was it to be mended? 
One day Citizen Fix-it, carrying his battered fire- 
pot, with its bed of glowing coals, knocked at the 
back door. 
You and your playmates watched him, fascinated, 
as he drew his iron hot from the coals and melted the 
end of his bar of solder. He rubbed the molten solder 
over the pan, and presto! the hole was gone. 
Every day you live, solder figures in your life. When 
you turn a faucet, the water runs through pipes whose 
joints have been made water-tight with solder. The 
tins of fruit, meat, salmon and vegetables opened in 
your kitchen are sealed with solder. So are the tubes 
in the radiator of your automobile. Solder closes the 
joints of tin roofs, gutters, and leaders. 
Solder is a product of lead. Good solder is made of 
pure lead and pure tin, alloyed in the right proportions. 
Countless other products of lead add to the com¬ 
fort and convenience of your daily life—very often 
without your knowing it. 
Consider your automobile, for instance. Besides the 
lead in the solder of the radiator, there is lead in the 
battery, in the bearings, in the glass of the headlight 
lenses, in the rubber of the tires, in the paint, and in 
the rubber mat on the step. 
There are many other important uses of lead in the 
arts and industries of civilization, and the most im¬ 
portant of all is the use of white-lead as the principal 
factor in good paint. 
The more white-lead any paint contains, the greater 
its protective power and its durability. Painters com¬ 
monly use what they call “lead-and-oil” for all their 
outdoor work. This is simply pure white-lead, thinned 
by adding pure linseed oil. This paint is famous for 
its staying qualities and the long life it gives to the 
surfaces it covers. 
The importance of paint-protection is just begin¬ 
ning to be generally understood. People are learning 
that a general heeding of the maxim, “Save the Sur¬ 
face and You Save All,” will mean the conservation 
of millions of dollars yearly in property values. Un- 
painted or poorly-painted surfaces decay — a surface 
painted with a good white-lead paint remains whole 
and sound. 
National Lead Company makes white-lead of the highest 
quality, and sells it, mixed with pure linseed oil, under the name 
and trade mark of 
Dutch Boy White-Lead 
Write to our nearest branch office, address Department G, 
for a free copy of our “Wonder Book of Lead,” which inter¬ 
estingly describes the hundred-and-one ways in which lead 
enters into the daily life of everyone. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 
New York 
Cleveland 
Boston 
Buffalo 
Cincinnati 
Chicago 
San Franciaco 
St. Loui* 
JOHN T. LEW IS & BROS. CO., Ph.ladelphia 
NATIONAL LEAD & OIL CO., Pittsburgh 
the Surface and 
Some Products Made by National Lead Company 
Dutch Boy White-Lead Lead Pipe 
Dutch Boy Red-Lead Printers' Metals 
Dutch Boy Linseed Oil Traps and Benches 
Dutch Boy Flatting Oil Bakelite Products 
Dutch Boy Babbitt Metals Condensite Products 
Dutch Boy Solders Fuse Wire 
U. S. Cartridges and The Black Shells 
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