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THE RURAL NEW-VOHKER 
February 4, 
Wk ^ Grow a 
Bumpejr 
Garden 
Crop This 
Year—and 
Win One of 
My Big Prizes 
Yon tvant to grow a bumper garden 
crop anyway don’t you? And here’s a 
chance to make a little extra money. I 
want extra fine gardens this year and 
I’m offering ten prizes to get them. There 
are no conditions to this contest—don’t 
have to buy anything from me or sell any¬ 
thing or do any other work for me except 
to write a 200 or 300 word letter telling me 
how yon raised your banner garden crop. 
Three well-known editors are the judges 
and they will award the prizes. 
1st Prize $100 2nd Prize $25 
3rd Prize $10 4th Prize $5 
5th Prize $5 Five Prizes of $1.00 
Yon don’t have to write fine or use big 
words or college grammer. All I want you 
to do is to grow a good garden and tell me 
bow youdidit. Send me a few photographs 
too. Tell me how you laid the garden out 
—what you raised, how you treated the 
soil, etc., etc. That’s all there Is to it. 
Everybody stands an equal chance, no 
matter where you live or how much ground 
you have. Don’t pass up this fine plan. 
Everybody Should Enter 
at once. Get the boys and girls interested 
and watch them work. Let them read this 
advertisement. Then mail me the coupon. 
I want to send you my special Garden 
Contest folder that tells all about it. Tells 
about the Book of Garden Experiences I’m 
going to publish and give away to my cus¬ 
tomers. Let me tell you how to get one of 
these books without expense. And I also 
want to send you my 1911 Seed Catalog¬ 
ue finest I’ve ever published. So 
Send Coupon by First Mail 
You’ll find just what you want in the seed 
line in my catalog. The facts about this 
contest and the Book of Garden Experi¬ 
ences are in my Garden Contest Folder. 
You’ll find it pleasant to deal with me. 
But right now—write your name and address 
on the coupon and send it by first mail to 
Henry Field, President 
Henry Field Seed Co., Box 26, Shenandoah, Iowa 
Henry Field, President, 
HENRY HELD SEED CO., 
I Box, 26, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
I Dear Mr. Field:—Please send me your 
Special Garden Contest Folder and your 
1911 Catalogue Free. 
* Name . 
Address. 
WGSTONS 
Famous Tomatoes 
are favorably known through¬ 
out the world. Twenty-five of 
the best sorts were introduced 
by us. We grow more high- 
grade tomato seed than any 
other seedsman in the world. 
New Globe-Shaped Sorts: 
Globe, Hummer and Corcless are nearly 
Packet of Globe 10 ets; Hummer 10 cts; Coreless 
- the three sorts, one packet of each for 25 cts. 
Livingston’s Superb Onions 
We grow acres of Onion seeds on our farms annually. 
Livingston’s ( Southport White Globe 6c ) the 8 pkts. 
Private < Southport Bed Globe • 6c V for 
( Ohio Yellow Globe • • 6c ) 
Strains 
10 cents. 
Beautiful 130-Page Catalogue FREE! 
It's the finest seed book of the 
year. Contains more than 250 
illustrations from photo¬ 
graphs. Practical cultural 
hints will help to make your 
work a success. Write for it 
today. It's F-R-E-E ! 
THE L/VINCSTD* 
357 Hioh St., Columbus, Ohio 
CENT 
SEED 
SALE 
in OOO KERNELS of 
IVjUUU Selected ^ _ 
FERTILE SEEDS for lOC 
1800 Lettuce 10OO Celery 
1 OOO Onion 1OO Pariley 
10OO Radish 1 600 Rutabaga 
10O Tomato 10OO Carrot 
1 BOO Turnip 1 OO Melon 
1200 Brilliant Flower Seeds, SOsorts ] 
Any one of these packages is worth 
the price we ask for the whole 
10,000 kernels to start with. It is 
merely our way of letting yon test 
our seed—proving to you how 
mighty goad they are. 
Send 16 cents in stamps to-day and 
we will send you this great collection of seeds by 
return mail. We’ll also mail you absolutely free 
our great catalog for 1911 —all postpaid. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., 
11 44 South 8th Street, LaCresse, Wts. 
00D SEEDS 
85BESTINTHE WORLD 
PRICES BELOW ALL OTHERS 
|5- I give a lot of new sorts for 
trial with every order I filL 
Grand Big Catalog CDCC 
■Illustrated with over rilLC 
,700 engravings of vegetables 
and flowers. Send yours and 
__'your neighbors’ addresses.* 
R. H. SHUMWAY. Rockford. Illinoi* 
VAN DEMAN’S FRUIT NOTES. 
The Care of Sour Cherries. 
J. G. G., Ithaca, N. Y. —I have 50 sour 
cherry trees that were set last November 
(1910), and are not trimmed as yet. I 
wish to know about pruning, spraying and 
fertilizing them ; also would like to know 
If sour cherries are a success when set in 
a poultry park? 
Ans.— Sour cherries are a success in 
New York if properly cared for. In a 
poultry park they will flourish after the 
trees have been cultivated for several 
years following the planting. It is not 
always practical to cultivate trees in a 
poultry yard, and the birds need grass 
or some kind of green forage to pick. 
When the trees have come into bearing 
the ground can be allowed to grow up 
in something of that kind. The young 
trees should have been pruned back 
quite severely when they were set, but 
it should be done now. The trees will 
grow off better for having the small 
branches cut off. Afterwards they 
should be pruned very little. If the soil 
is not strong it should be fertilized and 
there is nothing better than potash and 
phosphorus in some form. Spraying is 
needed to keep down the fungus dis¬ 
eases, and the latest method of using 
self-boiled lime-sulphur solution is the 
best for this purpose. 
Pecan Tree in New York. 
8. E. L., Staatsburg, N. Y. —How can 
hickory trees be made to bear? They used 
to hang full, but of late years have been 
shy bearers. I have a pecan tree 25 feet 
high whose branches extend 10 or 12 feet 
from trunk, hangs full of blossoms every 
Spring, but only about 24 of the nuts will 
ever amount to anything, and they only 
about two-thirds mature. Can I do any¬ 
thing to hasten maturity, and develop them 
In this climate? 
Ans.— The pecan in New York is a 
failure because of the climate being too 
cool and the Summers too short. There 
are wild pecan trees in southern Indiana 
and there is a possibility that varieties 
will be found or originated that may yet 
succeed as far north as New York. But 
the little Shellbark hickorynut is en¬ 
tirely at home there and should be given 
far more attention than it now gets. 
Why old trees that “used to hang full” 
do not bear now seems very strange. 
One tree standing alone might fail to 
bear after the other trees had been 
taken away, because of the fact that 
some nut trees bear the flowers of the 
two sexes at different times and pollina¬ 
tion is not accomplished. The only way 
to cause pollination in such a case would 
be to plant other trees near and their 
flowers might bloom at the right time 
to cross-pollinate those of the older 
trees. 
When to Plant Nuts. 
H. IF. L., So. Framingham, Mans .—When 
should nuts be planted, in Autumn when 
they fall from trees, or is it better to strat¬ 
ify in damp sand and plant in Spring? I 
have been told by a botanist that a dry nut 
would not sprout, and the only ones that 
grow naturally are those buried by squir¬ 
rels. 
Ans.— The time for planting nuts is 
not so material, either Fall or Spring, 
provided they are never allowed to get 
dry. If planted in the Fall in nursery 
rows or where the trees are to stand 
they are almost sure to come up the 
following Spring. And if the nuts are 
stratified and kept damp and cool all 
the Winter they are quite likely to 
grow, but they should be planted very 
early the next Spring, because nuts ger¬ 
minate as soon as the earth first becomes 
a little warm. Nuts that are somewhat 
dry may often be germinated by soak¬ 
ing them in cold water for several days 
and then planting them in moist soil. 
Those planted by the squirrels never 
have a chance to get dry, and that is 
best H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Morrison : “I bet the man who ran 
l his auto over Snodgrass is sorry.” Har- 
| rison: “Why do you think so ?” “Mor- 
! rison: “Snodgrass was wearing a scarf- 
| pin that punctured the fellow’s tire.”— 
■ Chicago News. 
Home 
Mix your own fertilizers. 
It’s the simple, satisfactory and 
profitable way. You get exactly what 
your land and crops need and don’t waste a 
cent on make-weights and fillers. Add enough 
POTASH 
to make a perfectly balanced plant food for the , 
crops you are putting in and you’ll get proof that 
Potash Pays. 
For valuable information on the mixing, use and 
value of fertilizers write today for our free literature on 
Home Mixing. 
We sell Potash through dealers 
everywhere, or direct to /,*>t as h 
farmers anywhere in any 
amount from a two-hundred 
pound bag up. 
Get Prices. Potash Pays. 
German Kali Works 
^Baltimore: Continental Bldg. 
Chicago: Monadnock Blk. ^_ 
New Orleans: Whit- - " / 
ney central Bank 
Building 
Mixing 
Pays 
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MVOWR 
brand 
NO 
FILLER 
Kellogg 
Plants 
Will Yield $500 to $800 per Acre 
THE Kellogg 1911 strawberry book is the most 
complete treatise on strawberry growing ever 
written. It tells the farmer how to grow big 
crops of big, red strawberries and how to sell 
them at big prices. No matterwhereyouliveor 
what kind of soil you have, thisbook will tell you 
how to prepare your soil, what varieties to set, 
and how to manage the plants to insure best 
results. One acre of Kellogg Thoroughbred 
plants grown the Kellogg way will yield £500 to 
£800. Get this beautifully illustrated 64-page 
book and learn how easy It is to grow straw¬ 
berries for market or home use. It’s free. 
ft. M. KELLOGG COMPANY, Box 480 Three Rivers, Mich. 
Drop a card for 
FLANSBURGH'S 
STRAWBERRY CATALOG 
for 1911. Reliable, interesting and instruc¬ 
tive. HIGHLAND, ST. LOUIS, GOLDEN GATE 
and all the best varieties. Address 
C. N. FLANSBURGH & SON 
JACKSON, MICH. 
SCARFF’S 
SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 
1000 acres devoted to the growing of Scarff’s 
fruiting strains of small fruit plants, fruit trees, 
farm seeds, garden roots, etc. Our free catalog 
will surely please and save you money. 
W. N. SCARFF, New Carlisle, Ohio 
as 
grows 
ONION SEED 
We are hoadquarters for a full line of Stras- 
burg, Flat Danvers and Yellow Globe Onion 
Seed. Try them for No. 1 stock. Get prices. 
-THEILMANN SEED CO . ERIE, PA.- 
VICK’S 
Garden and Floral 
GUIDE for 1911 
J Cabbage Seed —We sup-I 
'ply largest growers in U.S.l 
Cauliflower — Danish’ 
grown, large, fertile seed. ’ 
Onion Seed -No cleaner, truer seed. 
Cucumber Seed —White as chalk. _ 
Also pedigreed Peas, Beans and Sweet Corn. About 
K usual prices. We sell direct—no middlemen. Write. 
FORREST SEED CO„ Box 32 Cortland, W.Y. 
You can’t sow thistles and 
reap figs. If you plant 
Ferry’s Seeds you 
grow exactly what 
you expect and in 
a profusion 
and perfec- 
tion never G 
excelled. _ _ '_ _ _ 
Fifty 
years of 
study and 
experience 
make them re¬ 
liable. For sale 
r everywhere. Ferry’s 
1911 Seed Annual 
"free on request 
D. M. FERRY & CO., 
Detroit Mich. 
* 4 
Strawberry Plants-gooT^ 
at $1.00 ger 1,000 and up. Catalogue free. 
ALLEN BROS.. I’AW PAW, MU’H. 
W ARFIELD STRAWBERRY PLANTS for $1.00 per 1.000. 
Sen. Dunlap for $2.00 per 1,000. Catalogue free. 
100 varieties. J. G. PRESTAGE. Allegan. Mich. 
CTRAWBERRY PLANTS —All the 1 eading mid money making 
O varieties .ready to ship now. D. KODWAY, Hartly.Del. 
rf)D CM E— Canada Peas.Sl.85bushel; Alas- 
rUn Oil Lb ka Peas, $4.00 bushel: Cow Peas. 
$2.25 bushel; Crimson Clover Seed, $8.50 bushel. 
Sow Canada Peas and Oats in March and harvest 
a crop of Hay in May. Onion Sets at $2.25 per 
bushel. JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
Ready now. As always, the authority on what, how, 
when’ and where to plant. Sent Free, 
xrv a n s r errne Headquarters for Alfalfa, 
a AKIV1 OL L OO Clover, all liay and pasture 
mixtures, Beans. Cabbage, Corn. Oats, Onions, Potatoes 
and all farm seeds in large or small quantities at lowest 
market prices for absolutely highest quality. Your copy 
of the Guide is waiting for you. Write for it to-day. 
JAS. VICK’S SONS, 430 MAIN STREET, ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
ISBELL’S SEEDS 
For only 10c we send fivey 
packetsFlowerSeeds or five 
packets Vegetable Seeds 
andthen return the money 
in the form of a Due Bill 
good for 10c to apply on 
any order amounting 
to 50c or more. 
We also send free our 
large 104 page Seed An- ^ 
nual,quoting fresh,vital 
Mich iga n -grown seeds at very 
moderate prices. Perfect satisfac¬ 
tion or money refunded. Sendto-day. 
S. M. ISBELL & Co., Seedsmen 
Box 401 JACKSON, MICH. 
| imp. Yellow Globe Onion 
Sew England grown seed—blight resisting, 
heavy cropper, good shipper, unequalled tor , 
keeping. Repeatedly fives from 700 to 800 bus. 
per acre. Per lb. $1.T5 postpaid; % lb. 65c; ounoe 
25o; package 10c. Write to-day for our haudsome 
1911 Catalogue, lor facta about Excelsior Pea*, 
Swedish Oata, Imp. Original Crosby Corn, 
Vickery’8 Forcing Gucnmbcr, 
Symmes Bloc Hubbard /^ a rrop_T. 
Squash, and other 
Grc K“ ^hdhest, 
J.J.H.Gr«rory k f 
14 Elm St., Mar 
ALFALFA 
All Northern grown, guaranteed to be 99 percent 
pure and free from dodder. Write for free sample 
on which we Invite you to get Government testa. 
This Beed should produce hay at $60 per acre, an¬ 
nually. Free Instructions on growing. 
GRAIN AND GRASS SEED 
Northern grown and of .strongest vitality. We 
handle export grade only and can furnish grass 
mixture suitable for any soils. Write for catalog. 
WING SEED CO., Box 223 Mechanicsburo. O. 
GLOVER TIMOTHY ?£§&" 
Cheapest and Ilest Seeding Knows 
i Alsike, Clover and Timothy mixed. Fully 14 AJ- 
, slke, a great bargain. Most wonderful hay and pas- 
i ture combination that grows. Write for Free Sam¬ 
ple and our large 76-page catalog describing this 
wonderful grass mixture. Far ahead of anything 
you can sow and ridiculously cheap. Be convinced. 
A. A. Herr> Seed Co., lioxseo (Jlariuda, Iowa* 
Special 
Offer 
Try our seeds this year. They will more 
than please you. For only 10c. in U. S. 
stamps or coin we will send a regular 
. full size packet of 
Beet, Improved Blood Turnip, 
Bettuce, May Kina, , 
Radish, Scarlet Turnip, White Tipped, 
Aster, Queen of the Market, mixed, 
I Sweet Peas, Finest mixed, and a copy ol 
the best Catalogue we ever issued. 
Remember, these are regular size packets***! should hot be 
compared with those sent out in some collections. Sena tor 
the catalogue anyway. It’s free and better than ever. 
M, H.BRUHJES A SOHS.^'.nlia'S.Vr: 
