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THE RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
January 23, 
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DIAMOND JUBILEE EDITION 
HPHIS book is a proof of 
our interest in all the prob¬ 
lem* which confront the man who 
wants a garden, be he amateur or 
professional with acres or a plot of 
grass to work on. 
DREER’S GARDEN BOOK is 
our seventy-fifth anniversary gift 
to anyone who grows flowers or 
vegetables. Itcontains the accum¬ 
ulation of seventy-five years of ex¬ 
perience, and lists only tested vari¬ 
eties of all the old-time favorites, as 
well as the dependable novelties in 
flowers and vegetables. It also 
containscultural articles written by 
experts, has 288 pages with photo¬ 
reproductions on each page, four 
color and six duotone plates. 
DREER’S DIAMOND JUBILEE 
GARDEN BOOK is not just a catalog 
—it is a book^of valuable information. 
Sent free to anyone men¬ 
tioning this publication. 
:*i4 chestnutstiv :. 
QOD SEEDS 
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I will give a lot of new 
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Over 700 illustrations of vege¬ 
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__ and your neighbors’ addresses, 
S HUM WAY, Rockford, Illinois 
;arff’s CATALOG 
Folly describes the products of our 
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strawberries, raspborries,currants,goose¬ 
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Also seed potatoes, rhubarb, horseradish, 
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SWEET CLOVER FOR GREEN MANURE. 
On page 28, A. D., Saugerties, N. Y 
asks for information about Sweet clover 
Melilot (more commonly called Sweet 
clover) is coming to be recognized as a 
valuable forage plant and soil renewer. 
perhaps not excelled for the latter pur 
pose. It thrives in waste places, rail¬ 
road cuts, along roads, especially in clay 
soils, and rarely if ever becomes 
nuisance in cultivated fields. Its roots 
go deep down into the hard soil, and it 
withstands weather that will wither most 
plants. It takes possession of cuts and 
embankments, creeps up the banks ant 
holds the soil, and prepares the way for 
grass, etc., to follow. Where left to 
itself it often grows so rank as to choke 
out its own seeding every other year 
thus giving other plants a chance to get 
started. 
In the West it is cultivated on many 
farms as a regular crop in the rotation 
and at the State Dairymen's convention 
at Syracuse in December Prof. Van Pelt, 
editor of Kimball’s Dairyman, Waterloo, 
Iowa, referred to it repeatedly in men¬ 
tioning dairy rations. In Iowa and Kan¬ 
sas, particularly, some place it even 
ahead of Alfalfa, claiming it is tougher 
and can be pastured off. It leaves the 
necessary bacteria in the soil for Alfalfa 
to follow; not that Alfalfa will grow 
anywhere that melilot will, but in suit¬ 
able and properly prepared soil a pre¬ 
ceding crop of melilot leaves the soil 
in such condition that special inocula¬ 
tion for Alfalfa is not necessary. Occa¬ 
sionally it is necessary to inoculate for 
the melilot, but this is easily done with 
dirt from roadsides, etc., where it has 
grown. It is a biennial, does not bear 
seed until the second year, and therefore 
is easily controlled even in the few 
cases where it encroaches on cultivated 
fields. 
H. R. Boardman says in ‘‘Gleanings 
in Bee Culture”: “I have demonstrated 
to my entire satisfaction that horses, 
cattle and sheep not only learn to eat it, 
but will thrive upon it, both as pasture 
and dried as hay, and that hogs are fond 
of it in the green-state. Most stock have 
to acquire a taste for it” A United 
States farmers’ bulletin says: “As a 
restorative crop for yellow loam and 
lime lands this plant has no superior, 
and for black prairie soils no equal.’’ 
And a Kansas Experiment Station pro¬ 
fessor writes: “As a soil inoculator, 
renovator and builder, there is no other 
plant or fertilizer that compares with 
Sweet clover.” The first year’s growth 
is light and makes the best hay. If cut 
for hay the second year it should be 
just before bloom, before stalks become 
woody. It may be sown with Winter 
wheat or rye, in the Spring, same as 
other clovers. There is a steadily in¬ 
creasing demand for .the seed. It is one 
of the best honey yielders, the bees 
working on it constantly. from June or 
July to frost, and for this purpose the 
white and yellow varieties furnish a 
good succession, yellow during June, 
followed late in the month or early 
July with the white. The white is the 
most common and usually the thriftiest 
grower. c. b. l. 
R. N.-Y.—In spite of many reports 
like the above we also hear from read¬ 
ers who say they are disappointed with 
the results from Sweet clover. 
TIIE ASPARAGUS BEETLE. 
Can you toll me what the so-called 
“asparagus beetle” Is, and how it can be 
got rid of? h. j. i. 
Danielson, Conn. 
The common asparagus beetle, Criocerls 
asp&ragi, is about one-fourth inch long, 
wing-covers black with red or yellow mark¬ 
ings, the thorax red with black spots. It 
hibernates in the beetle form, and appears 
early in Spring, eating the stalks and lay¬ 
ing its egg-s upon them. The eggs are black, 
long, slender and cylindrical, set on end 
so as to project from the stalk. The larvae 
which arc; quickly hatched, are slimy 
greenish slugs, with black heads and legs; 
they do great injury, especially to young 
plants. It is advised that on beds where 
cutting is done, a few stalks should be al¬ 
lowed to grow as traps; the majority of 
the beetles will deposit eggs on these, and 
they should be cut and destroyed, other 
shoots being allowed to take their place, 
and similarly destroyed. If this is kept 
up for a month there will be very little 
injury later on. Volunteer asparagus 
should always be destroyed, as this harbors 
the insects. They are troublesome in young 
beds, as the feathering foliage cannot be 
sprayed, but after the slugs develop they 
can be brushed off with a stick during the 
hottest part of the day. and few get back, 
being killed by exposure on the heated 
soil. Where a field of old shoots is badly 
infested by larva*, dusting with fresh dry- 
slaked lime while the plants are wet with 
clew is very destructive to the pests. The 
lime is quite* effective if used several times 
at short intervals. Turkeys or Guinea 
fowls are sometimes recommended as help¬ 
ful in reducing the asparagus beetle. ■ 
Dibble’s Seed Potatoes 
for nearly a quarter of a century have produced profitable crops 
for thousands of money making farmers who plant them annually. 
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Dibble’s Seed Potatoes 
are northern grown from selected stock seed, and each variety is planted on soil 
especially adapted to its best development, therefore it is no wonder that scores 
of farmers have written us that Dibble’s Seed Potatoes double their crops. 
Our warehouse capacity is 75,000 bushels and we have full stocks on hand, 30 
varieties in all. Early, intermediate and late, the kinds that have proven best 
by test and a new main crop round white potato introduced by us last year that 
our customers report as the best potato they have ever grown, first, in point of 
yield; second, as to eating quality; and third,freedom from blight and disease. 
Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog 
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contains full accurate descriptions of our seed potatoes, with copious illustra¬ 
tions, and a hundred testimonials from satisfied customers proving that 
Dibble’s Seed Potatoes are all we claim for them and more. 
We are Headquarters for Seed Potatoes, 
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Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog and 10 samples of our newest and best Farm 
Seeds for testing mailed FREE. 
Edward F. Dibble, Seedgrower 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
Box B 
1,600 Acres in our own Seed Farms 
The Luscious, Profitable 
Yellow Transparent Apple 
In a certain orchard at Wyoming, Del., is a ten-acre block of early apple trees 
which the owner repeatedly has refused to sell for $10,000. It ia said to give $4,800 
net profit each year. *■> 
The man who grows the very early apples can make a lot of money easily. In June 
and J uly apples sell quickly on local markets, and bring very high prices when they 
reach the big city markets. You should grow at least all the early apples you can eat at 
home from the time they first ripen until fall apples are mellow. Ten nine-year Yellow 
Transparent trees should yield all the apples you can eat and $40 worth to sell. A h undred 
trees, nine or more yeara old, should give you $400 a year net profit. 
Four-Year Trees Yield a Bushel Each i 
Yellow Transparent is the best early apple for l>oth eating at home and to sell. The apples 
are perfumed, juicy, rich and spicy—as delicious as strawberries. They are the first dpples to 
ripen in the summer. Yellow Transparent trees begin to bear when they are three years old. 
They generally produce a bushel each when four years old, and often yield five bushels each^ 
when five years old. They thrive anywhere. North or South, low or hiyh. 
Get Our Special 11)13 Booklet, Free, It names the four apples that made two- 
thirds of all the apple profit in the East last year, and tells what kinds of other fruits are 
roost widely planted. Send for it today, and ask, too, for our big general catalogue. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES, Trappc Ave., Berlin 
Goine to Berlin—we will pay your hotel expenses while here. 
£ astern Shore Farms lop Sale. Write lor particulars. 
160.000 AT%PRK^ S 
GREEN’S TREES 
Apple trees are easy to grow, thrive almost anywhere and yield big profits. 
We have 160,000 fine specimens to sell at half agent's prices! Peach, pear, 
plum, quince and cherry trees. Good bearers. Finest grown—result of 
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Head Green’s guarantee—trees true to name. 
500.000 
FOR SALE 
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Green’s new catalog illustrates and describes best varieties of trees, vines and plants, 
gives tested advice, and tells how toplantand grow. A hook every farmershould have. 
Send now and we will give you one of our interesting booklets, “How I Made the Old 
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Beautify your home grounds with my superb California 
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and give pride and pleasure in the home. My Illus¬ 
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ARTHUR J. COLLINS, Box R, M00REST0WN, N. J. 
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