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DIBBLE’S 
SEED POTATOES 
grown in Northern latitudes on genuine potato 
soil, .are full of health and vigor, and produce 
splendid crops when others fail. Although the 1908 
crop was light as a whole throughout the country, 
our potatoes did nobly, and our warehouses are 
full of potatoes that yielded on large acreages from 
200 to 3 ho bu. per acre. We have 30 varieties in all, 
and at this writing have between 40,000 and 50,000 
bu. in store every bushel of which was saved 
from fields free from blight or disease. 
We have scores of letters from our customers who 
claim that our potatoes are 
BLIGHT PROOF 
and while we do not guarantee'them blight-proof, 
we do say that, judging from hundreds of testi¬ 
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twenty States, our Seed Potatoes gave far better 
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In our seed farms and sell direct from our farms 
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of the year, with liberal samples, Free. Address 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE. Seedgrower, 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y. Box C. 
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Fancy, Graded Northern Mieli. Cl over Seed. 
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Samples free. Price $8.50 per bushel. Bags cents each extia. 
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FRUIT TREES—SHRUBS—ROSES 
Hardy, thrifty, well developed, fibrous-rooted trees and 
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PI A IJTQ—Early Cabbage, Early 
I LAN I O Tomato, Egg Plant, Pep 
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tile seed that produces big crops, worth double 
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JOS. H. BLACK, SON & CO., 
Hi gilts town, N, J. 
Handbook on 
Gardening 
—I wrote it myself and 
some people who claim to 
know about such things 
say that it is really worth 
while. 
— Twenty years of 
gardening and seed 
growing have taught 
me a few valuable les¬ 
sons, and I am willing 
to give them to you free. 
—While X am out for all the busi¬ 
ness lean net fairly and honestly, 
if I can help you over some of the 
rough places I will f'' jI better. 
—If you have had trouble with 
any special crop, I can help you. 1 don't 
claim to know everything, but what I do 
know is at your service. 
—More than" that, I will send you 
free samples of seed of varieties specially 
suited to your conditions. Tell me what 
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compliments. 
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HENRY FIELD, Pres. 
Henry Field Seed Com 
Box 26 f Shenandoah, la. 
P. S.—I forgot to say, 1 am in the seed 
„..p business and want to sell you your 
DlHjiSk , supply of seeds. But the catalog will 
* tell you all about it. Send for it.—ILF. 
Nitrogen Needed for Old Sod. 
T. S. Pi., Deposit, N. Y. —I have about 50 
acres of old meadow that is'stony, so I 
do not wish, to plow it. It does not cut 
XOO pounds to the aHe. I do not have 
manure enough to top-dress over one-qmir- 
ter of it. IIow can I bring it up to cut 
good hay? Can I apply lime? The lime 
costs $4 on car; have to draw one mile. 
What is the value of ashes made from 
charcoal two-thirds and soft coal one-third? 
I can have them for nothing; can draw 
about six tons a day. 
Ans. —If the seeding is still good and 
the land inclined to be sour lime may 
give you one or two fair crops of grass, 
but judging from our own experience 
with these old sods the land needs nitro¬ 
gen most of all. If you could use 
nitrate of soda or dried blood, 100 or 
125 pounds per acre, you would increase 
the grass. We do not believe you will 
get much more grass until you use 
nitrogen in some form. Charcoal is 
partly burned wood, and when you finish 
burning it to an ash you have the same 
that you would have in wood ashes. 
The coal ashes have little value, so that 
the mixture will be worth about two- 
thirds as much as average wood ashes. 
They wiH supply potash, phosphoric acid 
and lime, but you will still need nitrogen 
to go with them. 
Crops for Muck Land. 
F. C. M., North Fast, Pa .—I have lately 
bought a fruit farm and find there is a field 
quite entirely of strong black muck, the 
remainder of farm being a gravel loam 
soil. I wish to plant a lot of grapevine 
cuttings for roots on this muck, which they 
tell me is too strong for most crops. If 
not the place for the cuttings what would 
he best to plant for a few years until the 
strength is reduced enough for general 
purposes ? 
Ans. —You do not say whether it 
is wet or' well-drained land. On the 
supposition that this land is well 
drained, it is the ideal place for grape 
cuttings, currants, gooseberry or quince, 
either cuttings or plants. This land may 
be deficient in potash and phosphoric 
acid, but if they were supplied potatoes, 
corn and grass, especially Timothy, 
should thrive and pay. Wheat and rye 
might make weak straw and fall and 
tangle, but for any other crops this 
land with the addition of lime, potash 
and phosphoric acid ought to be the 
very best. This should be the land for 
strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, 
gooseberries, currants and quinces. 
Rhubarb would grow, and should pay 
well on such land. I have never seen 
land too rich for my use, and if I had 
it I would soon use it. I would not 
plant apples for fruit on this land, but 
it would he just the land to raise trees 
from root grafts or buds. He can 
plant his grape cuttings and never fear 
that the ground is too rich. 
E. S. BLACK. 
Cover Crops for Canada. 
II. S., St. Catherine's, Out .—I have fol¬ 
lowed your teachiugs about Alfalfa. I limed 
and inoculated from an old field, sowed 
August 3, 1907, and cut twice last year. 
Strawberries in two-year old poach orchard 
will be off July 20. I want to plow and 
sow a catch crop, preferably leguminous, for 
Winter protection, and to turn under fol¬ 
lowing Spring. I feel that Alfalfa would 
answer very well, but what about Mam¬ 
moth Red clover? Are the chances against 
sowing in midsummer? From my exper¬ 
ience with Alfalfa I am satisfied that on 
rich well-drained loam, provided it can be 
sowed August 1, there is nothing can 
equal it for cover and fertility. One of 
my neighbors sowed six bushels of Crimson 
clover in July or August in orchards and 
vineyard. The Fall was very dry. Not 
much chance. It invariably fails here. 
Ans. —I think that Red clover would 
not prove very satisfactory as a cover 
crop if sown after July 20, especially if 
August should prove as dry and hot as 
! usual. The chances are in favor of Al¬ 
falfa, for it makes a much quicker 
growth and soon sends its tap root down 
for moisture. At the Experimental Farm 
at Ottawa, rape was sown on July 28, 
at the rate of eight pounds per acre, 
and when Winter set in averaged 17 
inches in height, forming a dense cover¬ 
ing and killing out all weeds. Where 
the supply of nitrogen in the soil was 
already large rape would prove an ideal 
covering. Hairy vetch, sown in drills 
28 inches apart on July 15, also made a 
very good cover crop, and lias the ad¬ 
vantage of being a nitrogen gatherer. 
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O UR 1909 EDITION Is the most practical text book 
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