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NEW-YORKER 
January 14, 
Wood’s Seeds 
For The 
Farm and Garden 
have an established reputation 
extending over thirty years, be¬ 
ing planted and used extensively 
by the best Farmers and Garden¬ 
ers throughout the Middle and 
Southern States. 
for 1911 will 
help you to 
Wood’s New 
Seed Catalog 5 e ! p 
** determine as 
to what crops and seeds to plant 
for success and profit. Our pub¬ 
lications have long been noted 
for the full and complete infor¬ 
mation which they give. 
Catalog mailed free on 
request. Write for it. 
T. W. WOOD & SONS, 
Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. 
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OurSeedatHome 
Nearly all our seed is grown right here on our own farms. 
We could buy seed a lot cheaper, but we can't afford to do it 
—neither could you afford to plant such stuff, even though 
you bought it for a few cents less—because nobody can ever 
tell how much of it w ill grow. 
Our method makes it easy for you to grow good crops. 
We watch the seed plants in the fields all summer, to 
make sure that they grow true to type, unmixcd with other 
seed; then we carefully clean and thoroughly test it, so that 
When You Plant Harris’ Seed You Can 
Tell Just How Much of It Will Grow 
On every package of our seed is a label telling just how 
much of that seed will germinate. If you aren t in the habit 
of buying seed that's as carefully grown as that, try our 
seed tins year; it won’t cost you much, if any, more, but 
your crops will be far better l Catalogue free. 
JOSEPH HARRIS COMPANY 
Moreton Farm, Box 31. Cold water, N. Y. 
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Oats, Cow Peas, Millet, Sorghum. 
Rape, Soja Beans, Potatoes, Onion 
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table -and Flower Seeds, Lawn 
Grass. Write for free book and low 
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they are received and guarantee 
seeds true to name and descriptions 
WOOD, STUBBS & CO., 
Louisville, Ky. 
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NOraffiSIf GROWN 
SEED POTATOES 
Buy genuine Northern grown 
seed potatoes and increase your 
yield per acre 50 to 100 bushels. 
You cannot afford to plant any 
other kind. Our new, rich land, 
free from all disease, our cool, 
fresh air, produce potatoes which 
cannot be excelled for vitality, 
strength, beauty of form, color 
and large yield. Our beans and 
peas are unequalled—we supply 
argest growers everywhere. Get 
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Northern field, garden and flower 
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See our prices before you 
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DARLING & BEAHAN 
-Michigan St - 
Potoskcy, Mich. 
,471 
OATS 
MIX THE APPLE VARIETIES. 
H. R. M., page 1163, is making some 
inquiries about setting out 10 acres of 
apple orchard in place of a life insur¬ 
ance policy for his son, and only plant¬ 
ing two varieties. I hope he will not 
make the mistake of planting one kind 
on half the ground, and the other va¬ 
riety on the other half. It should be 
planted two or four rows of one vari¬ 
ety and then two or four rows of the 
other, so as to fertilize both varieties. 
Wind and insects will scatter the pol¬ 
len for two rows both ways, and he 
will have more apples and of a better 
quality. Many orchards are a failure 
by not being properly pollenized. Set¬ 
ting large blocks of one variety is a 
sad mistake. I helped set two orchards 
of 15 acres each, solid Baldwins, and 
one of six acres of a family orchard 
mixed, two rows of a kind, and '-he six 
acres has given more apples than the 
30 of one kind, all set over 40 years 
ago. Many orchards of 10 to 100 acres 
of solid Ben Davis were set in Illinois 
15 to 25 years ago, when people were 
crazy over Ben Davis, and they proved 
a failure. In a very favorable season 
with wind and sunshine the pollen may 
be distributed so as to have a partial 
crop, and with a cold wet period at 
blossoming time (and it seems often 
it is the worst week of the year) there 
is failure. Better plant at least four 
varieties, so the boy can enjoy eating 
apples with father and mother most of 
the season. S. G. soverhill. 
Illinois. 
POSSIBILITIES OF ORCHARD HEATERS 
I tried 2,500 orchard heaters in an 
orchard I bought at Seymour, Mo., last 
Spring. On April 18 we had a frost, 
with the temperature down to 2S on low 
ground and 30 on higher ground. We 
lighted the pots at 3 a. m.; the trees 
were white with frost then. Inside of 
thirty minutes we raised the temperature 
six degrees, with the pots only one-third 
open. A week later we were struck by 
that big storm, had a 30-mile wind and 
a temperature of 27° when the apples 
were as big as hazelnuts. We lit the 
pots, but could not get the heat above 
three feet from the ground, the wind was 
too strong. I am absolutely convinced 
that all still frosts (and most of them 
are still) can be fought. With no wind 
the oil pot will raise the temperature 10° 
with 50 pots per acre burning. This 
orchard heating will in a very few years 
revolutionize southwestern orcharding. 
I bought a 480-acre farm with 240 acres 
of bearing orchard upon it, with all the 
personal property, for $25,000. I am 
looking after a 480-acre orchard for a 
stock company that did not cost them 
over $30,000. It has cost them now about 
$10,000 to put it in first-class condition, 
■but it has a bearing capacity of not less 
than 40,000 barrels per crop now, and 
the trees are only 12 to 24 years old. 
The good orchards are fast changing 
hands down there, and the new owners, 
are going after them Pacific Coast style. 
I have bought apples in New York and 
the Eastern States for 10 years, I know 
what they can produce out there. I am 
convinced that the Southwest can raise 
as many apples per acre in 10 years, and 
of better color and size than New York, 
provided the orchards get the care that 
the best ones get in New York, and are 
equipped with heaters besides. 
Wisconsin. c. vollenweider. 
ALFALFA 
All Northern grown, guaranteed to be 99 percent 
pure and free from dodder. Write for free sample 
on which we invite yon to get Government tests. 
This seed should produce hay at $60 per acre] an¬ 
nually. Free Instructions on growing. 
GRAIN AND GRASS SEED 
Northern grown end of .ftrongest Titality. We 
handle export grade only and can furnish grass 
mixture suitable for any soils# Write for catalog. 
WING SEED CO., Box 333 Mechanicsburg, O. 
THAT YIELD. Our Sensation Oats 
breaks all records. Nothing like it. 
_ _ _ _ _ Also SEED CORN. Samples and cat- 
loag free. THEO. BURT & SONS, MELROSE, OHIO. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
Drilling Wheat Both Wats. —We drill 
2% bushels to the acre. This Fall we 
could not get it all on one way, so crossed 
It. Will it thin out? The wheat came 
up very thick, but looks extra good. Our 
drill was not working very well, which is 
our reason for not getting it all on the 
one way. Will it pay to drill grain both 
ways using more seed wheat, oats, rye, 
etc.? a. M. D. 
Pennsylvania. 
R. N.-Y.—We have had no personal ex¬ 
perience with this kind of seeding. Can 
any reader tell us? 
BIG RED APPLES 
are selling at 
10 cents each 
There is money in fruit growing right where 
you are. Apples are worth twice as much as 
oranges, and if you cannot raise apples, there are 
other fruits equally profitable. 
Start an orchard. Those who have planted 
orchards as advised by Green’s Fruit Grower are 
getting their reward in big profits. You can pay 
for the orchard by growing small fruit in it. 
GREEN'S FRUIT GROWER 
will tell you how and where to plant, how to prune and spray, and 
how to make your trees productive. 
It is the oldest and the most popular fruit grower’s magazine. January is 
our 30th ANNIVERSARY NUMBER. 
Special offer to readers of Rural New Yorker : We will mail new subscrib¬ 
ers Green’s Fruit Grower one year on trial, at hall price, 25 cents. 
GREEN’S FRUIT GROWER CO., 
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All the exquisite shadings of the Spencer types 
Enclose us 10 Cents, Stamps or Coin, 
and we will mail you one half 
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for 1911 included FREE, which is 
beautifuly illustrated and full of 
New Novelties. Others are se¬ 
curing this liberal offer. Why 
not you ? Write to-day. 
WM. ELLIOTT & SONS 
36 Vesey St.. New York 
CDCPinOA TDECQ Mine are true to name. 
Ol LulUoA IUlLu Free booklet tells all 
about the 150 acres I am growing for telephone 
r.nies. H.C. ROGERS. Box 111, Mechanicsburg, 0 . 
Black’s Peach Trees-1911 
Peach Trees ere one of our specialties—v ' . 
grow for quality aiul not qi< t'y alone. ,,:r l 
frees, however, cost little, if any, more than thel 
ordinary sort—we employ no agents, but scljj 
£-8 direct .saving middleman's profits, «jr » i » 
■New booklet, " Springtime and YafU aDie 
> Harvest for the Fruit-grower," free, jj _ _ ■ > i 
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1 Bumper Crops of 
STRAWBERRIES 
in Mid-Summer 
and Late Fail. 
Send for Catalogue. 
T. C. KEVITT 
Atlienia, N. J. 
SCARFF’S 
GOOD SEED CORN 
We sold over 11,000 bushels of it last year, and we ex¬ 
pect to double it this year. Your money back if corn is 
not satisfactory. 10 days to test It. Can send either 
shelled or in the ear. Also choice lot of seed oats, barley, 
speltz, timothy and potatoes. We cannot tell you more 
about it here, but our catalog is free. Send for it to-day. 
W. N. SCARFF, New Carlisle, Ohio 
OTV/OAf SEED 
We are headquarters for a full line of Stras- 
burg, Plat Danvers and Yellow Globe Onion 
Seed. Try them for No. 1 stock. Get prices. 
■ - THEILMANN SEED CO., ERIE, PA.- 
WHOLESALE 
On Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry. Gooseberry. 
Currant. Asparagus and Grape Plants, Heavy Rooted, 
High Grade Stock. 19th Annual Catalogue Free. 
R. WESTON SCO, R 8 Bridgman. Mich. 
A. «. WESTON « CO, 
ST. REGIS 
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Those wishing to get 
the imported seed for 
spring sowing, must have their order here not 
later than Feb. 10, when the last cable order will go 
out. Price reduced for Rural readers to 510.00 per 
hundred kilos (about four bushels). 
FRANK HYDE, Peekskill, N. Y. 
ninrT) pr\TC-'Three-Inch,$1.25 a 1,000; 
L ArClV 1 1 3 four-inch, $1.75 a 1,000. 
P. B. CROSBY & SON, Oatonsville, Md. 
QTRAWBERRY PLANTS —All the leading and moneymaking 
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Bears tlie first season ! 
The most productive rasp¬ 
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October of same year. Tile 
first to ripen and the last. Ber¬ 
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and excellent quality — ship 
200 miles in first-class order. 
Absolutely hardy a sun-proof. 
Our new catalog Free—tells 
how to choose and grow small 
fruits * ‘that produce profits.’* 
Je T* LOVETT* 
Box 162 Little Silver, N. 3 . 
CLOVER SEED 
Mammoth and Medium Red Clover Seed. I buy 
direct from the farmer that grows It. Will mail 
you sample and quote you prices on lots of two 
bushels up. M. L. WHITE, NOBl.ESVlLLE, Inu. 
Fresh Dug Nursery Stock. 
A complete assortment of the finest Genesee Valley 
Grown Fruit Trees, etc. Stock guaranteed, prices 
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