1911. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee 
THK RURA.I> N LC W - Y O RKER 
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ORCHARD CULTIVATOR 
THE FORKNER LIGHT DRAFT HARROW 
is the only perfect light running wheel cultivator 
ever offered for orchard work. Each section is 
so easily manipulated with levers that a small 
boy can operate it and cultivate perfectly 30 acres 
per day with one team of medium weight. With 
this harrow one team can easily do the work of 
two teams with ordinary harrows. Works well 
in stumpy or stony land and does not clog with 
loose grass, roots, etc. Its extension of lift., 
3*2 ft. each side of the team, enables perfect dust 
mulching near the tree trunks without disturb¬ 
ing the branches or fruit, and eliminates the use 
of the hoe. One machine will work 101) acres of 
orchard and keep it in garden tilth. These ma¬ 
chines are labor savers and will reduce your 
cultivating oxpenses one-half, even if you have 
but five or ten acres of orchard. Full particu¬ 
lars on request. Address 
LIGHT DRAFT HARROW COMPANY, Marshalltown, Iowa 
'row onions 
7/Bio^ofj'rcRop 
V BEST SEEP/jnd! 
only A. 
Start Right with GOOD SEED 
We know that our Seed is EXTRA 
GOOD, and supply yearly many of 
i the largest growers. 
it $15? TO $300 PER ACRE 
IS WITHIN YOUR REACH 
Wo have an enormous crop of best 
commercial varieties and make 
Special Low Frices on quantity. 
Tell us how many acres you will 
plant in Onions and what varie- 
ties and we will send samples 
and rock bottom prices. Better 
write now—it's worth your while. 
Also any other seeds you need. 
Henry Field Seed Co. 
No. 26 Field Bldg., 
SHENANDOAH, IA. 
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O/V/O/V SEED- 
We are headquarters for a full line of Stras- 
burg, Flat Danvers and Yellow Globe Onion 
Seed. Try them for No. 1 stock. Get prices. 
—— THE1LMANN SEED CO., ERIE, PA.- 
ONION Fancy home-grown stock. 
'“'■LllV-'flY JXZEmJ Send for samples and 
prices. J. B. QUIRK, North Madison, Ohio. 
FERRY'S 
5* ft* To fln- 
JLL BL_, Bar est flowers and 
““”’ most luscious 
r vegetables, plant the best 
seeds. Ferry’s Seeds are best 
becausethey never fail In yield 
or quality. The best garden¬ 
ers and farmers everywhere 
know Ferry’s seeds to be the 
highest standard of quality 
yet attained. For sale 
everywhere. 
FERRY’S 1911 Seed Annual 
Free on request 
D. M. FERRY & CO.. 
tJETSOnr. MiBH. 
lOMQO Privet Hedging" 
Finest stock at a low price. APPLE and 
PEACH in assortment with other stock. 
A Large Stock Cherries 
Largest trees at the lowest price in years. 
SHADE TREES, Shrubs and Roses. 
We ship by freight or express,well packed. 
Wo cannot send our large healthy stock 
in the mail bag. CATALOG FREE. 
NORTH JERSEY NURSERIES. 
Newark and Milburn, N. J. 
FRUIT, SHADE and ORNAMENTAL 
TREES, SHRUBS and ROSES 
A Large Stock of the Finest Quality. Also 
a Full Line of the BEST Spray Pumps, and 
Spray Material. Prices Low and Satisfac¬ 
tion Guaranteed. We Deal Direct with 
our Customers. Write for Price List. 
CALL’S NURSE KIES, Perry, Ohio. 
PLANT HARDY TREES 
Healthy, acclimated, high grade, true to label fruit trees 
and plants for Northern States at wholesale prices, direct 
from nursery to planter. Send for catalogue. 
^^CEHRl^mYNtJRSERIE^DESKG^UuMWO^Mlcr 
Fruit Trees From the Grower, 
Save middlemen’s expense and get them 
fresh dug. Catalog free. 
WM. J. REILLY. NURSERYMAN. DANSVILLE, N Y. 
SALESMEN WANTED 
TO SELL TREES AND PLANTS 
Free outfit. Commis¬ 
sion paid weekly. Write 
for terms. PERRY NURS¬ 
ERIES, Rochester, N. Y, 
A NEW BERRY GRADING SYSTEM. 
I do not know whether other berry grow¬ 
ers have as much trouble in getting their 
strawberries properly graded in the field as 
we have had, but it surely is a problem to 
ship a uniform product when new pickers 
are coming every day, some of them really 
too young and others too dumb to observe 
any rules and instructions we feel inclined 
to give. As long as it does not require an 
inspector for each picker, however, we must 
retain them, unless totally incompetent or 
unruly, for help is hard to get here in the 
rich thinly settled prairie country, where 
most farms are 200 or 300 acres in extent; 
all the young folks are needed at home, and 
most people are too well-to-do to work for 
wages. Sometimes a whole family will 
come for a day or two to pick on shares ; 
until they have their home supply of fruit ; 
for canning: then we have to break in a 
now gang. We find these helpers almost 
more difficult to manage than those coming 
from the small towns. They do not like 
to be told how we want the work done, are i 
inclined to pick a row clean of berries, j 
green or ripe, snap the berriqs off instead 
of picking with the stem, a d cannot be | 
made to understand that large and small or 
cull fruit should be put in separate baskets. 
Harris’ Home Grown Seeds 
FRONT VIEW OF GRADING TABLE. 
The whole family want to pick on the same 
row, or, at least, as close together as pos¬ 
sible, and with the privilege of talking as 
loudly as they please and visiting the other 
pickers without restraint. The village pick¬ 
ers are ineliaed to pick short measures, 
leave the smaller berries in the row, and 
we have sometimes found a neat nest of 
straw mulch in the baskets underneath the 
berries to help out the measure. These are 
only a few o. the minor worries that cause 
the grower who desires to place upon the 
market a fhst-elass guaranteed product to 
desire some plan by which he may be cer- 
tain that every box of berries he sends out j 
is what it Is represented to be, and of a 
uniform grade 
We must, therefore, bring the fruit to 
the packing shed ungraded and have in , 
charge at this point some help competent 
to receive the berries, keen account with 
the pickers, and sort the fruit into market- j 
aide grades. The least possible handling 1 
and tumbling about is greatly to be desired, 
Digging Potatoes Raiser fob Seed at Harris’ Seed Farm 
H ifi'h Grade Seed Potatoes We raise 30 acres of potatoes on our own 
farm and every one is sold for seed. Wo 
take the greatest care to keep up t he vigor and purity of the. seed by selection, both while 
growing and after digging, and have some seed to offer that is much superior to the 
ordinary seed offered by other dealers. 
The “Silver King " potato, so highly recommended by Mr. C. T. Hunt, was introduced 
by us, and we have the true stock. We also have many other varieties, both early and late. 
Ask for Special Low Prices as well as our Descriptive Catalogue. 
We raise a lot of corn for seed right hero 
! n western New York. This corn is far 
Northern Grown Seed Corn 
^ _ _ T ___ o ___ _ vv avv per 
cent. Beware of poorly cured corn this year. 
We offer some greatly improved varieties of both Flint and Dent corn. 
Seed Oats of best varieties free from smut and thoroughly cleaned ; no weed seeds. 
Soy Beans, Fetches, Choice Alfalfa Seed. 
Garden Seeds of °H r own growing—every one fresh and of highest possible 
guaSity. A\ e mark the per cent that germinates on each lot of 
seeds we sell. No other seedsman does this. 
If you have not a copy of our Catalogue for this year it will pay you to ask for it. If you use garden 
seeds in considerable quantities also ask for our Wholesale Price List for market gardeners. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO., Coldwater, N. Y. 
END VIEW OF GRADING TABLE. 
yet the expense, in time and money, of 
handling each berry separately is too great 
to be considered. In the great berry fields 
of Missouri a quart scoop i« used at the 
shed into which each box of f.uit is emptied 
for grading, and the culled berries removed. 
Sometiin.-s. however, unless the work is 
slowly and carefully done the grading is not 
thorough enough for a critical home trade, 
and we have studied out a plan which we 
consider superior, iu that not as much 
tumbling is necessary and the berries can 
be examined more carefully and rapidly. 
Our picking stands are specially built of 
three-eighths inch light stuff and are 16 
inches long by 10 inches wide; two inches 
d at) at one side and four inches at the 
other, the legs extending below the bottom 
three and one inch, respectively, making 
the top level when set on the ground. The 
four-inch side is hinged at bottom and se¬ 
cured by hooks at each end at the top, that 
it may be dropped down at the grading 
table. The lining of the stand is of white 
oilcloth and can be easily cleaned with a 
damp cloth. It does not fit closely in the 
corners of the frame, but should give a 
cubic measurement of about 403 inches, 
which is the standard six-quart capacity in 
many States, including New York. 
The grading table may be of any length 
In laying out the garden use this book. Hundreds of cultural 
articles tell plainly just where, when and how to plant flowers, 
vegetables and plants—preparation of soil, fertilizing, water¬ 
ing, etc. 1911 edition increased to 288 pages, nearly 1,000 
illustrations, 8 color and duotone plates. Over 1200 varieties 
of Flower Seeds, 600 kinds of Vegetables, 2,000 kinds of Plants 
described, besides Hardy Shrubs, Roses, Climbers, Small 
Fruits, Aquatics, etc. The standard gardening guide for over 
70 years. M ailed free to anyone mentioning this publication. 
IHIEEK’S KTO<' K-F I.OW E K E I» LARKSPURS 
'Iliis beautiful old-fashioned favorite fiower should bo in every garden. Easy to 
row, flowering all summer in many exquivite shades of blue, rose, red, lilac, white 
Ic. Mixed colors. 10 cents per packet. “Garden Book’’free with each order. * 
HENRY A. DREER, 
END VIEW OF CARRIER. 
desired ; the board at the back or receiving 
side is 14 inches wide and inclined toward 
the sorters at an angle of 20 or more de¬ 
grees, where it joins a 12-inch board, set 
level. White oilcloth covers this table and 
extends over the front about two inches, 
which part is cut or slashed at the width 
of each berry box, and strips extending out 
from the bottom of the table divide the 
fringe into any desired number of troughs 
to guide the berries into boxes beneath and 
to break their fall. The boxes slide along 
continuously in a trough built as closely 
as possible beneath the edge of the table, 
and the berries, after the culls are removed, 
are swept into them with a polished stick 
or ruler. The boxes are then slid on to a 
fiat table at the end of the trough, where 
an extra supply of berries is kept for filling 
and facing. We also wrap our cool, dry 
berries in paraffined paper if they are to be 
shipped without refrigeration. In the dia¬ 
gram of end view of carrier a is a hinge, 6 
hook. The dotted line at a in end view of 
grading table shows position of carrier open 
for dumping. In front view of grading 
table, a, a, a, strips extending out from 
bottom of table about two inches; b, b, b, 
slashes in oilcloth (c. c.) making a trough 
or leader into boxes placed below at d. 
Indiana. w. a. witiiuow. 
714 Chestnut Street 
PHILADELPHIA. 
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MAULES SEEDS 
ONCE GROWN ALWAYS GROWN 
is tlie reason wliy Tor many years past I have 
done such an enormous seed business. 79,430 
customers in Pennsylvania alone, with almost 
half a million the world over. My New Seed Book 
for 1911 is a wonder; contains everything in 
seeds, bulbs and plants worth growing. Weighs 13 
ounces; 600 illustrations, 4 colored plates, 176 
pages. Any gardener sending his name on a 
postal card can have it for the asking. Address 
WM. HENRY MAULE 
1707-09-11 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
•Send 6 cents ( stamps ) and mention this < 
paper and I unit enclose in the catalogue ‘ 
a packet of seed of the uhovc choice pansy. 
C ABBAGE SEED— Finest Danish Ball Hoad Cabbage 
Seed grown. Imported stock. Oz., 30c; h lb., 
80c; 1 lb., $2.f)0, postpaid. Danish Giant Cauli¬ 
flower, oz.. $2.00, Order now. THE BATCHELOR 
SEED STORE, 48 Lafayette Street, Utica, N. Y. 
Better Seeds 
Lower Prices 
If we did not know we had something better to 
offer you in seeds,at lower prices, we would not be 
so anxious for you to have our catalog. No better 
seeds can be had.—We offer them to you direct at 
wholesale prices. 
(Inbliage «ee<l—We supply seed to 
the largcstgrowers and storers of cab- 
, bage 1 n the United States—pure seed— 
jtbe kind that produces cabbage, sure 
to head up even and hard u aud stand 
up and stay green in 
storage until spring., 
Cauliflower Weed — Is Danish 
grown, from selected head 8, screened I 
so you get only large plump seed. We * 
will forfeit $500 for better, truer seed 
than we f urnish at moderate prices. 
.Onion Seed— Ttiereis no cleaner, 
truer seed to be had. Get our 
special prices before buying. 
LCuouinber Seed— Is all grown 
'in New York State. Aswhiteas 
chalk—no seedsman putsout bet¬ 
ter pedigreed stock at any price. 
Pens— We grow our own stock, 
hand-picked and cleaned. Peas second to none. 
Beans-We grow here, hand-picked, 
screened, and graded. New York State beans 
excel the world. 
Sweet Corn— Ask the gardener or the can- 
ner If he would plant western grown sweet 
corn ? Ours Is all eastern grown. Field corn 
on approval. 
Forrest’s Honest Seeds are second to none 
—and at about one-half the usual price. 
Catalog free to all—drop us a postal. 
CABBAGE SEED 
New Enkhuizen Glory (the world’s best cab¬ 
bage) : extra selected seed, my own importa¬ 
tion. direct from Introducers in Holland, of 
tliis truly wonderful Cabbage. Lb. $2 50,Oz., 
35 cts., l*kt., iu cts. 1C. J. Wakefield, All 
Head Early. Early Summer, Succession, 
Winnigstadt, Surehead. Late Flat Dutch, 
Drumhead, Lb. $1.50. Oz. 20 cts., Pkt. 5 cts. 
Postpaid. Write for free Catalog. 
. AUG. DRAKE, Seedsman, 100 Main St., Chester N. J. 
FORREST SEED CO.. Box 32, Cortland, N. Y. 
SEED CORN 
WING’S IMPROVED WHITE CAP will out- 
yield any other 120-day corn you can put beside it. 
Improved on our farms by ear row test plots for 
15 years. 3 acres have yielded 147 bu.per acre. 
EXCELSIOR, pure white, has yielded 145 bu. 
por acre in test plot. A splendid variety. 
. /^J, N ,9£,i 20_DAY YELLOW, FUNK’S YEL¬ 
LOW DENT, and REID’S YELLOW DENT. The 
three heaviest yielding yellow varieties in Ohio. 
WING’S 90-DAY YELLOW. A sensation in 
very deep grained, heavy yielding, very oarly ma¬ 
turing corn. 
All our corn bred by ear row test plots. Write 
today for catalog and information. 
WING SEED CO.,Box 483 Mechanlcsburg, O. 
