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Spraying with Pyrox 
kills bugs; prevents blight 
and many rots; invigorates 
the vines and makes them 
produce bigger, finer tubers. 
By combining a powerful 
fungicide with a deadly 
poison, it gives extra crop- 
insurance at no extra labor 
cost. Thousands of potato 
igrowers use Pyrox, and give 
their dollars-and-cents “rea* 
sons why” in the Pyrox 
Book. 
Free Pyrox Booh 
send for it now 
Pyrox mixes thoroughly; does 
not clog the finest nozzles; when 
dry, sticks like paint. The 
present formula has grown out 
of our 23 years experience. It 
makes Pyrox better than It eves; 
was. 
If not at your dealer’*, write 
our nearest office. But send 
now for Pyrox Book and read 
what enthusiastic user» eay. 
Bowker Insecticide Company 
49 Chambers St.j New York City 
Baltimore. Md. Chicago, 1U. 
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• Nozzle 
I Won't Clog | |^—ga 
Here's a nozzle Vjji "'~S Sd 
that saves your 
time and your 
O temper. The patent screen 
B strains out all the sediment. 
There's no bothersome clogging, no 
wasted solution when you use 
You need only srnirio the nozzle and 
the Auto-Spray puts on a fine mist or 
oolid Htri>nnj. A tilisht prenmiro 
of the thumb starts and shuts 
off tha flow Of solution. Every 
infill firmer, gardaner and home 
rMETJIl inakor#houl<l have one. Nearly 
40 other styles, big sod littlo. 
Our Spraying Citlandu, pve- 
pared by Cornell Specialist*, 
Will k»H]i yuu ono mors ahead 
of the bugs and blights. It's 
free. Send for It today and 
ask for Catalog. 
Ti»e E. C. Brown Co. 
092 M»pl. st 
^ Rocha.t.r. N. V, 
For hUoht.deitrouIno buoi.fltat and Tieetln. tprny tolM o 
Red Jaekct or Yellow Jacket Traction Sprayer et 
THE OSPRAYMO LINE 
Strong constant pressure drives linn spray mixture 
home to every part of foliage—above and below. 
Spray potatoes, beans, vegetables— s. 1 or 6 rowa hi 
once. No oust for 
power. Don't buy any 
•prayer until you know 
the OSPRAYMO I.lmv 
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sprsyer*. Write direct 
today for catalog to 
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Dept, i 
I Elmira. N. V. 
this voter on the run. That made it a 
tie, and everyone knew it. and the young 
lawyer suggested that they toss a coin 
for it. Both sides were afraid ot another 
ballot. The It«itblleans held a caucus in 
one corner, while the Democrats went 
outside for discussion. The Republicans 
finally agreed to toss if they could provide 
the coin. The Democrats agreed to this 
if Jed Ba scorn could toss it. Jed had 
a crooked thumb, which made a coin cut 
more curves in the air than a champion 
pitcher can put on a ball. A silver quar¬ 
ter with a suspicious nick at the edge 
was produced, and it was agreed that the 
face of the woman meant heads and the 
eagle tails. In case the coin did not lie 
flat, on the ground, it was ‘caw-caw,’ or 
neutral. 
Jed shot the coin out of his crooked 
thumb, and Tom Harris called “beads.” 
The coin nearly touched the ceiling, and 
as it. came down went rolling along the 
floor, with the entire company chasing 
after it. There never was such au erratic 
coin, for it rolled across the room and 
half way back again, then made a quick 
turn, and just as we all expected it to 
drop, rolled right into a crack between 
two boards, and fell out of sight through 
the floor. 
“A boy crawled in under the school- 
house with a lantern and found the quar¬ 
ter standing on edge in the mud. It was 
‘caw-caw,’ or neutral. Neither side would 
take another chance, and it was Anally 
decided that both Harris and Mann should 
serve—each to have half a vote, As they 
could not possibly agree, they decided to 
let the teacher run the school as he 
pleased. It was a great experience. Few 
will believe it, in these modern times, yet 
With Potash 
With Potash 
Without Potash 
Without Potash 
Potash for Swamp Land 
T^VOES the corn 
grown on your 
swamp or muck land look like 
the large ear or like the small one? The 
small one shows the kind of corn pro¬ 
duced on potash hungry muck land. 
When 100 to 200 lbs. per acre of 
Muriate of Potash, or 400 to 800 lbs. 
of Kainit, are broadcasted on potash 
hungry muck, full yields of sound corn 
are produced. 
For onions, on such lands, 100 to 200 lbs. 
per acre of Sulfate of Potash is the 
right amount to produce full yields of 
sound onions that ripen normally and 
keep well. 
With potatoes and truck crops, like 
results are obtained. 
Even at war prices potash gave a good profit 
on swamp lands. Now it can be bought for 
very much less. It will help you reduce the 
cost of production, and greatly improve the 
quantity and quality of your crops. There 
is plenty of it if 'you will take the trouble to 
insist on having it. 
Forcing Darwin Tulips and Gladioli 
T have a small greenhouse that is idle 
after October 20 each Fall. If I planted 
it to Darwin tulips and let it freeze tip 
until February 1, could I then slowly 
force them to bring in a crop about 
Easter? I notice at this date they are 
coming in the market, and I wondered if 
the above plan would prove a success. 
My house has all solid beds, with 4 to 8 
ft. head room, and is not used during the 
Winter months. j. v. c. 
The suggestion for forcing Darwin tu¬ 
lips in a vacant greenhouse is all right. 
They would not dare be planted too early. 
They should be kept frozen for some time, 
and not allowed to freeze and thaw, if 
possible. Towards Spring they will begin 
showing through the ground, while the 
weather is cold enough to freeze the sur¬ 
face each night. 
Gladioli in a similar house will possibly 
be a more profitable crop. The bulbs 
should not be planted before February 
1-15. or the larger percent of them will 
come blind. They can be planted 3x6 in. 
apart. This will appear entirely- too close 
to the majority of growers, but experience 
shows that it is not. Just, as good flow¬ 
ers can be grown at this distance, and 
four times as many as where the distance 
is 8x9, as some growers necommend. 
e. j. w. 
SOIL & CROP SERVICE, POTASH SYNDICATE 
H. A. HUSTON, Manager 
42 Broadway New York 
POTASH PAYS 
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At Treelands, a farm of Pulteuev town¬ 
ship, stands an apple tree, the trunk of 
Which a foot from the ground has a cir¬ 
cumference of 9 ft. 6 in. Five feet higher 
the body divides into five branches, each 
as large as a tree of common size. This 
trqe is one of an orchard of eight acres 
planted in the year 1800. The natural 
fruit was a sour russet of small dimen¬ 
sions; but after its purchase in 1812 by 
forebears of tlm present owner, nil five 
branches were grafted to the Rare-ripe. 
The ridges thus caused are readily dis¬ 
tinguished. Four generations of the same 
family have eaten fruit from the Rare¬ 
ripe grafts. Thto Summer of 1920 was. 
perhaps, the tree’s banner season, as over 
ofli bu. of apples were its contribution to 
the year’s abundance. Said apples have 
always been uniformly free from disease 
and insect, life. As the tree receives con¬ 
siderable smoke from a nearby kitchen 
chimney, spraying has never been neces¬ 
sary. Y\ bile a violent windstorm the 
past year broke many branches, destroy¬ 
ing much of its beauty and symmetry, it 
remains a living monument to pioneer 
industry and endurance. 
On another farm of the same locality 
grows a magnificent elm. measuring 22 ft. 
at its base. Its origin must have been 
a tiny seed dropped into a pine stump, a 
portion of which is securely held by the 
elm’s gnarled roots. Spreading branches 
form an immense flattened top. the shade 
of which protects an area of ne.arlv 5 000 
sq. ft. Before the closing of the little 
white church in the vaRey. the old elm 
made a favorite picnic ground for Sunday 
schools, but now it serves a more unique 
purpose, for it has become a storehouse 
for many squirrels. From the black wal¬ 
nut of the vicinity bushels of uufs are 
gat honed yearly by these chattering red¬ 
coats and deposited in the thousands of 
branch-formed angles, and even in the 
f'W} bark of tbe elm. On sunnv davs 
ui u inter the stockholders transfer their 
property to vacant houses or other ren- 
dezvous. merrily scurrying to and fro. 
M dh the coming of Spring the last squir- 
rel w,th the last nut vanishes, to reappear 
with the Autumn season. e. l. c 
MARKAY 
One of the eeveu attractive 
styled in the new Lauiulrv-Shrunk 
HALLMARK 
^ , SEMI-SOFT COLLARS 
They have all the laumlry economy of soft collars. 
They fit before and after laundering; will not wilt; 
will not shrink and are wonderfully good style. 
A»k your dealer. 
HALL HARTWELL & CO., Troy, N. Y. 
Makers of HALL-MARK Shirts, HALLMARK 
Underwear and SL1DEWELL Collars. 
