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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 8„ 1922 
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HOT SHOT 
BATTERY 
FOR MOTOR IGNITION 
Put a Columbia "Hot Shot” 
Ignition Battery under the front 
seat of your Ford, and use its cur¬ 
rent for sure-fire ignition while start¬ 
ing. Full ignition power instantly, 
regardless of weather. The Col¬ 
umbia "Hot Shot” No. 1461 
fits under the front seat—put it 
there today. 
Columbia Dry Batteries for all 
purposes are for sale by imple¬ 
ment dealers; electricians; auto 
accessory shops; garages; hard¬ 
ware stores; general stores. Insist 
upon the genuine Columbia. 
Columbia Dry Batteries 
work better and 
last longer 
—for ignition on the Ford 
while starting 
—for gas engine* 
—for tractor# 
—for bells and buzzers 
—for thermostats 
—for dry battery lighting 
outfits in closet, cellar, gar¬ 
ret, barn, woodshed, etc. 
The world's most famous dry 
battery. Used where group of 
individual cells is needed. 
Fahnestock Spring Clip Bind¬ 
ing Posts at no extra charge 
Columbia 
Dry Batteries 
they last longer 
Isbell’s Michigan-grown Garden Seeds assure a big-yielding, profit¬ 
able garden, for they are thoroughbred stock — the result of 43 
years of development and selection. Send today, for Isbell’s 1922 
Seed Annual, giving valuable information on quality seeds and quoting direct- 
from-grower prices. 
S. M. ISBELL & COMPANY 697 Mechanic St. (30) Jackson. Mich. 
Write for 
Isbell's 
1922 
Catalog 
ASPARAGUS Plants 
Good, strong one year roots. 75 for One lFolliif. pre- 
" lid to 3rd zone. fVERFTT l. HALL. Ec« JGJ. Diukurj, Mai. 
APPLE TREES 
from BEARING ORCHARDS 
BERRY PLANTS, CONCORD GRAPES 
and complete line of fruits 
BARNES NURSERY & ORCHARD CO. 
Wallingford ... Connecticut 
I’LA.NT the new It AIX IKK Al’PLE, pro- 
n -uncetl by U. S. Department Agriculture best 
keeper of the Pacific Northwest. Keeps common 
storage until May: cold storage a year. Wc can 
still supply lUu.ted number mail size trees at 
special prices for spring planting. Colored illus¬ 
tration ot fruit nnd special information free. 
Sample apple, 10c. WASHINGTON NITKS- 
KICV CO., Tojiponish. Washing!on. 
Good Stork, Low l’l'lccs 
Free Catalogue. 
- Beverly, Ohio 
)le and Peach Trees 
CHELLS’ NURSERY 
By expo lb-. Official Journal. *2yr. Copy 
a)c. AMERICAN NUT JOURNAL, Roaliasler. N. T. 
HUT CULTURE 
For Bigger Yields Per Acre 
Sow Agricultural Gypsum on your alfalfa, clover 
and beans. It supplies economically the sulphur so 
vital to leguminous crops and commonly doubles 
the yield per acre. Try a test strip and be con¬ 
vinced, Agricultural Gypsum also preserves the 
valuable nitrogen in barn manure. Send in ^ *" 
the coupon for a free booklet which tells ^ 
how and why. ^ gypsum 
•*"' INDUSTRIES 
^ ASSOCIATION 
. ^ Dept. 18 
111 W. Waahinglon St. 
y'' Chicago, Illinois 
Please send me your free booklet. 
Ilow and Why of Agricultural Gypsum. 1 ’ 
X Hame .. 
Address ... 
GYPSUM INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION 
Dept. 18, 111 W. Washington St. 
Chicago, Illinois ^ 
Agricultural Gypsum is Sold by 
Local Dealers 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
We are too apt to imagine that all 
novelties in kitchen vegetables are im¬ 
provements. In fact, wo have in every 
class of vegetables certain varieties which 
hold their own, though many really valu¬ 
able sorts have been introduced. Wc 
have had a number of excellent varieties 
of string beaus brought out, but really 
it is still hard to find one of better 
quality than the old Red Valentine. We 
plant the Black Valentine because it 
seems slightly more resistant to cold, hut 
after real bean weather wo do not want 
any more of the Black Valentine, which 
is not grown for its quality. 
Then as to the early garden beets, city 
people, who buy by the eye. want a dark 
red beet. The market gardeners want 
one with a small top. easy to bunch. So 
between the two the Egyptian has been 
put into general use. and the old Bas- 
sano. a far better beet, has dropped out 
of use. 
In my boyhood the only early cabbage 
used was the Early York. The seed was 
generally English-grown, and was very 
uncertain about, heading well in our cli¬ 
mate. But in quality, when headed, the 
Early York was excellent. Many seeds¬ 
men now offer special early cabbages, 
which are only the Early York. I be¬ 
lieve that if the Early York had been 
taken in hand as the English Wakefield 
was we would have a sure heading 
variety earlier even than the Wakefield. 
In fact, it is important to use cabbage 
seed grown in this country to get. a cer¬ 
tain standard of heading and quality. 
Varieties run out through careless 
propagation. If my memory is right we 
have never had a potato of better quality 
than the White Mercer, which the dar¬ 
kies called the “Merciful,” but it got un¬ 
productive nnd seems to have entirely 
disappeared. There was a rage for the 
production of seedling potatoes .lust after 
the war between the States. The first 
one to attract much attention was the 
Early Goodrich. This was a good crop¬ 
per. I grew it one season, but tbo qual¬ 
ity was so puor that T dropped it. Then 
in 1SG9 or 1*70 Mr. Bliss sent out the 
Early Rose, and I paid him a dollar for 
three potatoes that weighed a pound. 
Eater he sold them for $3 a pound. The 
Ruse is of fairly good quality, but we 
still need an early potato of quality equal 
to the White Mercer. The Cobbler fills 
tlie bill pretty well for a market potato. 
But we want higher quality. We have 
main crop potatoes of high quality, but 
do need higher quality in early ones. 
In my boyhood the elongated canta¬ 
loupes were called ■'mnshmelons,” and 
only the round netted sorts were canta¬ 
loupes, Now the whole tribe is called 
“muskmelon.” Cucumber seems to bother 
people. The old people called them the 
“cowcumhers.” The marketman calls 
them “cukes,” for the American has not 
time for long words. The curled leaf 
mustard is a popular greens in the South, 
but seems to be little used in the North. 
The leaves are beautifully crimped or 
curled, and the plant stands a good deal 
of frost and comes in nicely in early 
Spring;. It is far better than kale. 
The gardeners are complaining of the 
rainy and cold weather, hut a warm 
March is almost certain to destroy the 
fruit bloom. This weather is holding 
back the trees till it will likely be safe 
for them to come out in bloom. The 
early shrubbery seems to be independent 
of weather, and conies out when it is 
blooming time. The Forsylhia and .Tas- 
minum nudiflorum are out, and the Pyrus 
.Taponica is showing red buds, though not 
open yet. Our bushes usually make some 
fruit, and the little quinces make as good 
jelly as any. w. F. MASSEY. 
Small Potatoes 
In the past, two years T have planted 
a small potato patch. The vines grow 
very large, but the potatoes are mostly 
all very small. What remedy would you 
suggest? G. c. h. 
You do not tell ns whate manure or fer¬ 
tilizer you are using, but probably the 
land is too rich. Potatoes often act. in 
that way when chicken manure alone is 
used, because there is an excess of nitro¬ 
gen in such manure. If that is the trouble 
the remedy is to “balance” the manure by 
using acid phosphate and potash along 
with the manure. 
THE BEAUTIFUL GLADIOLUS 
y Send a dollar for 30 bulbs (will 
V, bloom this summer), including 
TsA pink, white, scarlet, yellow, critn- 
ZA son. orange, rare purple, etc., with 
easy planting directions, postpaid. 
3 Strut fur free illus Ira ted coin lop of over 
I • one hundred niai/nificent varieties. 
HOWARD M. GILLET, Gladiolus Specialist 
Box 253, New Lebanon, N. Y. 
DAHLIA TUBERS l S n r g o ,s * a n nd 
Colli'ction includes Li leer's Whip?, Conquest, Jack Rose, 
Golden queen, and others. Due to accidental destruction 
of Held sCuktH we cannottmn.e tubers nnd are compelled 
to sacrifice. In collections, $10 per hundred or 21.60 
per dozen, prepaid. Cash with order preferred. 
M1NEOLA DAHLIA GARDENS Minicola, L. I., N. Y. 
The finest, of nil ilowers. Direct from grower. Lend- 
iugvarieties. No trash. If you have not received my 
Catalogue write for it. E. J. SCHULER, Wyninlanch, N.V. 
Giant Blooming Pansies and Sweet William 
collars, 40c per do/..; 4 doz lor SI post paid. Seed 
Sweet Corn and pole Lima Beans. Catalogue free. 
W. S. FORD & SON - Hakti.v, Delaware 
Cabbage Plants 
You should use our FROST PROOF 
cabbage plants and get your cabbage 
into tbomitrkcis four tosix weeks earlier 
than vou could by using 1 tonic grown HOT 
MO( 'SK plants. Early Jersey and Charles¬ 
ton Wakefield.Succession and Flat Dutch, 
$1,515 per 1.000- 6,POD for Jr>U0 - lO.UOO for $!UX) 
—L’fi.uod for $20.00. F- O, H. here by express. 
Should you desire shipment, by parcel post 
prepaid, add $1.00 per 1,000 to above prices. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed 
S. M. GIBSON CO., Yonges Island, S.C. 
WINSOR’S WHITE DENT 
Many Tint** Sint* anti County 
CJruntJ Champion 
Severely for type, yield 
nnd vigor* Breeding ntock 
from enr-t»*-row method plata. 
L Hjih prod need 1 )M to 142 bu. 
\ *h«’Ut*d eorn per acre in 
\ oflininl Content*. Hulked 
, *l fttundinjf— Dried on racks— 
Order early. 
At* . Edward W Wiitxar, Monmouth Farm 
f uritmigtlalc, New Jersey 
CHOICE FARM SEEDS 
Field selected, rack dried. Inch germination Im¬ 
proved Champion nnd Cloud s Yellow Dent seed 
corn, $2 50 per bushel on the ear. While Tartar 
seed oats, SI.25 per bushel. Choice Russel seed po¬ 
tatoes, free from disease, at SG 50 pur sack of I fin Ihs. 
W W. WOMAN P. 0. Bo* No. 469 Huimnelstown, Pa. 
Cantaloupe Growers 
We want the name and address of every Rural 
New Yorker reader who is interested in growing 
or selling cauialoiipes for commercial or private 
use. To those who respond we will send. FREF., 
onr 1922 descriptive catalog of the HEARTS OF 
MOLD Cantaloupe, containing some valuable in¬ 
formation to any cantaloupe grower. 
It- MOliltlLI. A < 0 Kenton Harbor, Mich. 
SEED POTATOES 
664 bu. per acre official test by Farm 
Bureau, on Jones’ immature, hill se¬ 
lected Rural Russets. 443 bu. per acre 
on Irish Cobblers. Write for pamphlet 
and prices. WM. A. JONES, Truxton, 
Cortland County, N. Y. 
SWEET POTATO SEED AND PLANTS 
G'ato!»Hf- r e idutitfi. Strawberry. I dark harry au<l Kaspber* 
rv plant*, t'al. FVivrt. Khnbwrb root*, ’catalogue free* 
M N. B0RGO Wo* IDS Vineland, N. J. 
Box IDS 
Prize Winning Potatoes For Sale Kui-hI Varieties. 
/' W. I'A TT1 SGTO V Si 50 A Merrifietd. N. Y. 
Red Skin and Superb Seed Potatoes 
M. N\ HOKC.O . Vineland, N. J. 
Certitied Green Mountain Seed Potatoes u’^cuiS 
showed—Mosaic, none. Leaf Roll. H of 1%. Hliijoc., 
trace. Address PAUL CRRXItWdOP, it li. t, Fulton, ,\. V. 
C ertified Kn—ett Uiirnl SUFI! POTATOES. 
TIAROI.li F. HL'RBK - UlUKVtt.LK, Nkw YoitK 
KinKvitxK. Nkw Yohk 
DINATnCC’'"" 1 '""- Colder. GreeuMt., Ohio, Russet 
ru I R I UtO—Gmnt,Triumph, others. C.W.FORD.F.sheri.N.f. 
Northern Grown Seed Potatoes '££*" M $i vl a 
Ilu. F. *i. II. t’.tsh with order. F. F. KEZfR, Rachaatar, Varmont 
For (?alo Silver Minn s FKI»OAT9. Heavy yielders. 
rUrOdlu Oliver IvmlO J| Bushel* per acre past season 
#1.25 per liu. Bugs free. C. J. STAFF0NU, laula *. Carlland. N T' 
ITTtn * mw ASK FOR FREE BOOK “Hubam 
HI RAM 2®» wb ^ why! " uct 
llUl/fllll Grown when- It originated under 
supervision II. 11. Hughe*, original 
dlacuven-r and distributor. We lire determined to give 
vuii the Lot teed available, unquestionably genuine, nt 
iirieeH you can pay You will grow llubam if you get the 
book nml our special low prices; transportation prepaid. 
Ask—A J. ABA M A lU'RA.M f 1.0 V'10 It ASSOCIATION INC. 
" There's a Henson." Box M0, New born, Ala. 
T T T TD /\ A !\ Will close out Huimm at 
I I I* h\ VI following prices,postpaid: 
- 1 - k-t d. li'l j,;) ||, s | l)nie HOe pei- 
lb.; less amounts, 7Oc per lb., scarified. Inocula- 
tor for Alfalfa and Sweet Clover, 55c for half 
bushel size; SH for bushel size, postpaid. 
E. E. BASIL - Lutty, Ohio 
HUBAM 
Guaranteed to be Ames. Iowa, 
Strain, doe per lb. pienaid. 
Growiiin Western New York for 
2 yearn. Acclimated, scarified. 
WRIGHI ISO#. (e» r Ena. fa. 
HUBAM clover seed 
eil: iaiss than ton poumis nt 7 5c; 10 to 
4!) pound'.' at 64>c; 5u or more pound* at 50c. 
F A. JAMES CLOVER SFfO CO. Ncwhcm. Alabama 
HUBAM clover 
Revolutlnnlr.ini.’ agri¬ 
culture. Makes six times growth of oilier clovers. Guar- 
Hiiteed pn e WRITE FOR PRICES. Free circular, 
IIOW TO GROW \ \ l> SOW. 
KEITH lllttlfi. M KSEItY, Sawyer, Mlehlgau 
