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TMH) RURAb NEW-YORKER 
February IB, 
& t o a n r d2S blackberry 
TRULY A STAR PERFORMER 
A wonder indeed! in growth, excellence, 
productiveness. Bears for two months; 
large luscious berries in clusters, like 
grapes—see illustration. A single plant 
has yielded over two bushels in a year. 
Write for particulars. Headquarters also 
for St. Regis Everbearing, the best red 
Raspberry; and Caco, by far the choicest of 
all hardy grapes. A full 
assortment of Strawber¬ 
ries, Raspberries, Black¬ 
berries, Grapes, Currants, 
Gooseberries, Garden 
Roots, hardy Perennial 
Plants, Shrubs, Vines, 
Evergreen and Shade 
Trees, Roses, Hedge 
Plants, etc. Illustrated des¬ 
criptive catalog replete with cul¬ 
tural instructions. FREE TO 
EVERYBODY. Established 
1878 ; 200 acres; quality 
PRICES LOVY. 
unsurpassed; 
j T> J. T. LOVETT, 
Box 1G2, Little 
Sliver, N. J. 
Two Million Strawberry Plants 
Healthy, vigorous, strong-rooted and true to name. 
Grown in the warm sandy soil of Maryland's famous 
"Eastern Shore;” the small fiber roots all come up 
with the plant and they start well in their new home. 
You will want that kind. All Small Fruit 
Plants a Specialty. Grown right, packed right, 
and priced nght. Catalogue free. 
" You may pay more, but you can't buy better 
J. W. JONES & SON. Box 30, Allen. Md. 
New Strawberries 
Our annual plant catalog free to all. Reliable, in¬ 
teresting ana instructive. All about the New Everbearers 
and other important varieties. The New Progressive 
Everbearing Strawberry. Rockhill’s best of all, now 
offered for the first. Plants set last spring and 
fruiting until the ground froze produced for us at 
the rate of $1,000 per acre for the fruit alone. A 
Great Sensation. Address, 
C. N. FLANSBURCH & SON, Jackson, Mich. 
STRAWBERRIES 
TOWNSENDS 20th CENTURY Catalog FREE. 
Explains why Thoroughbred plants are best. 120 
Varieties. Prices low for QUALITY plants. 
E. W. TOWNSEND, East Vine St., Salisbury, Md. 
—- —— 
5,000,000 Extra Fine Strawberry Plants 
at $2 per 1,000. Also Raspberry plants cheap. Best 
varieties. No expensive adv. No fancy catalogue. 
My customers get the benefit. Send for circular. 
J. V. MEEDER, 
No. Girard, Pa. 
PLANTS-Over 75 Varieties 
Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, 
etc., etc. Our complete catalog 
quoteslowestprices. tells allaboutthe 
culture & describes in an honest way. 
A. G. BLOUNT. Box 121, Hastings, N. Y. 
DUKE BRED STRAWBERRY PLANTS—We 
* have selected nine varieties out of a hundred and 
have selected nine of the very best, the ones that 
are worth setting and worth taking care of. If you 
wish the best of everything in the vegetable plant 
line and also seed, get our 1913 catalogue, now ready. 
Our Tomato Seed are from the very best New Stone 
tomatoes and "ill please any one wishing good 
seed. ROMANCE SEED, PLANT & TRUCK 
FARMS, Caleb Boggs & Son, Cheswold, Delaware. 
Strawberry Plants^'pfr i* ie i)e^ 
cnptive catalog free. BASIL PERRY. Cool Spring, Delaware 
Dlanic fftrQaln - Early Cabbage, Tomato, Egg 
rldH.b IuiobIC Plant, Pepper, Sweet Potato, 
Celery, etc. Also 40 varieties Strawberry plants. 
Catalogue free. S. C. ATHERTON, Greenwood. Delaware 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
On $1 wortll and up. Strawberry, Raspberry, 
Blackberry, Bush Plants, Grapo Vinca, and Garden Roots. 
Extra heavy rooted, high grade stock. No better 
plants can be grown. Everything fully guaranteed. 
Catalog free. 
A. fc, WESTON & CO„ Bridgman, Michigan 
S TRAWBERRY undotliersmall fruit plants. Asparagus 
Roots, Apple Trees. Hedge Plants, etc. Descrip¬ 
tive illus. catalogue FREE. G. E. Bunting, Selbyville, Del. 
SWF FT s™- 1 ,arge biennial cultivated varie¬ 
ty VT tula 1 ties, vvhite and yellow. Greatest legume 
f l OVFR fertilizer. Excellent hay and pasture. 
Price, ami circular how to grow it, on 
request. E. BARTON, Box 29, Falmouth, Ky. 
Fall-Bearing Strawberries 
I grow the best testejvariety—it is the “ Superb.” 
15 plants, $1 00; 100 plants, $4.00. Order early. 
WILLARD B. KILLE, Swedesboro. N. J. 
PURE SEEDS 
THAT GROW —- Genuine — Unadulterated 
No matter how valuable your land ; no matter how much 
you hoe, weed and dig; no matter how much the sun shines 
nor how much it rains; nor how much you irrigate your 
land. Your efforts are all in vain and your money lost if you 
get cheap seed. Why take a chance—even if you got your 
seed for nothing—of sowing stalo, low germination test, 
inferior seed when you can get Absolutely Pure v Genu¬ 
ine and Unadulterated Seed from us. We sell only one 
quality—the best; no second or third qualities, 
50c COLLECTION FOR 10c 
All packed in big envelope which is good as part payment 
on future orders. Good for 25c on orders of $1.00 or.more. 
Collection contains one regular 10c packet each of Champ¬ 
ion PickleOucumbers, Matchless Tomatoes, Plize Head Let¬ 
tuce, Southport Globe Onion?, and large G-B Mixed Sweet 
Peas. Nothing like equal value ever offered before. 
BIG, NEW, ORIGINAL AND 
DIFFERENT SEED BOOK 
Shows largest collection of pure garden, flower and field 
seeds ever offered and at a big saving in money to you. Send 
for it right now aid inclose with your letter iOc for the big 
50c collection.described above. Remember catalog is free. 
GALLOWAY BROS -BOWMAN CO. Pure Seed Specialists 
P. O. Box 666 Waterloo, Iowa 
Baldwin Spot. 
J. B. H.j Stockbridge, Mass ,—On page 
23 I note the enquiry of N. A. H., Allen¬ 
town, Pa., regarding the Baldwin apple 
spot, and the reply thereto of H. E. Van 
Deman. I have recently taken up this 
same question with the Massachusetts 
Agricultural Experiment Station, and their 
reply after examination of specimens sent 
them, was that the trouble was Baldwin 
fruit spot (Cylindrosporium) and could be 
controlled by spraying with Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture, also that a late Winter spraying with 
lime and sulphur would have a tendency 
to hold the spot in check, as it is one of 
the best fungicides we have. This seems 
to be an exactly opposite opinion from 
that expressed by Mr. Van Deman. Can 
you throw any more light on the subject? 
Ans.— There are two diseases or ail 
ments that are quite prevalent with the 
Baldwins and some other apples, and 
they resemble each other in some re¬ 
spects and are often confounded and 
called “Baldwin Spots.” One is known 
as the “fruit spot” and is the result of 
the development of the germs of a fun¬ 
gus that first attacks the outside of the 
skin and finally enters the flesh and 
causes the spots. This* is the one that 
has been sent to the Massachusetts Ex¬ 
periment Station and found in the sam¬ 
ples. The other is very often seen in 
the flesh of the Baldwin and some other 
apples and is entirely internal and phys^ 
iological, only, and not the result of 
any fungus germs. It is now distin¬ 
guished by scientists and given the new 
name of “bitter pit.” It cannot be pre¬ 
vented by spraying, as can be done for 
the fruit spot, nor by any other means 
known at this time. Warm weather is 
apt to cause it to develop. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
RESULTS PROM NATURAL SOIL. 
AH sorts of plans for increasing crops 
and improving soils are being advocated. 
It is well enough to listen to all sides of 
the discussion. Here is a suggestion from 
the Nashville, Tenm, “Banner,” which has 
the merit of novelty at least. We pre¬ 
sume, of course, that such an experiment 
as the “Banner” mentions might include 
the use of lime. 
“Some years ago a man in Paris of¬ 
fered a prize for the invention of a machiue 
heavier than the air that would fly. Balloons 
have been in use a century or more, and 
with the advent of the gasoline motor the 
dirigible soon came into being. But what 
was wanted was a machine that could 
fly of its own action, without the support 
of a gas bag. This was thought to be 
impossible at the time the prize was of¬ 
fered, but it came. The analogy may be 
strained, but it would seem that some one 
who wishes to advance the farming inter¬ 
est should offer a prize for the greatest 
number of bushels of corn, or greatest 
measure of some farm product, from an 
acre of oi’dinary land without the use of 
fertilizer. 
“A correspondent of the ‘Banner’ in a 
recent communication called attention to 
the fact that the marvelous production of 
corn by boys reported in various parts of 
the country, and so much advertised and 
discussed, was in each instance on a single 
acre, and accomplished by the liberal use 
of stable manure. There is no secret about 
great results from intensive farming on a 
limited area, but it is not practical for 
the farmer who grows corn for commercial 
purposes, or as staple crop, on a large 
scale to follow that plan. 
“The good effects of the Boys’ Corn 
Clubs are not to be disparaged. ' The riv¬ 
alry of production alone is worth a great 
deal; even the proper use of fertilizers 
and the value of the intensive system are 
needed lessons, but no Southern farmer is 
prepared to put the intensive plan into force 
on a 5000-aere plantation, or even a farm 
of much smaller size, and it is out of the 
question to ui-ge its general adoption. Wlmt 
farmers need most to learn is bow to con¬ 
serve the natural fertility of their lands 
and to restore fertility to the soil when it 
has been exhausted. And this must be 
done without a lavish use of fertilizers. 
“All over the South there are fields aban¬ 
doned as ‘worn out’ that have not been in 
cultivation more than 75 years, some for 
much less time. In West Tennessee, where 
land is subject to erosion, fields that pro¬ 
duced abundantly when the forest was first 
cleared away soon begin to ‘wash’; deep 
red gullies appear, they bring forth less 
from year to year and are finally aban¬ 
doned. All of West Tennessee is a very 
new country, compared to parts of the 
world where the fields still yield an abund¬ 
ance after many centuries of cultivation. 
All the 'worn out’ lands in the State can 
be reclaimed, and how to do it is one of 
the chief secrets of farming prosperity. 
“Somebody should offer a prize to the boy 
who redeems an acre of eroded land by 
planting it in leguminous crops or by 
other means and produces thereon the larg¬ 
est crop grown without the use of fertiliz¬ 
ers. That is the manner of industry the 
Southern farmer needs most to learn. 
I-iands have been badly treated in this sec¬ 
tion. They were abundant in pioneer 
days, and when one tract grew sterile an¬ 
other was cleared. The proper care of 
lands has not yet been learned, and the 
secret of restoring fertility to exhausted 
lands is the xffiief discovery needed In agri¬ 
cultural science.” 
You can have running water in every building on your 
farm v/ith the aid of a Goulds Pyramid Pump—the pump 
that has put a private waterworks system on thousands of 
farms. Just the turn of a faucet and you can have a stream 
of clean, fresh water in the kitchen, bathroom, barn, cow 
stable, barnyard—in fact, everywhere you need it. 
Save Work, Time and Money 
by installing a Goulds Pyramid Pump. No more tramp¬ 
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Water is right on tap in the house or barn, ready for instant use. 
The 
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over a long period. Staunch and solid con¬ 
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300 types of hand and power farm pumps. 
A Goulds System costs little to install and 
almost nothing to maintain. 
Write for Our Free Booklet 
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It is brimful of good ideas for farmers desiring up-to-date running water 
systems on their farms. Tells how to select and install the right 
55 -n pump for every purpose. A mine of information. Send for it now. 
*-j while it is in your mind. A postal will do. Address 
* THE GOULDS MFG. COMPANY, 58 W. Fall St., SENECA FALLS, N. Y. 
“Largest Manufacturers of Pumps for Every Service” 
W'ALL SEEDS TESTED 
\AJHEN YOU BUY OUR SEEDS you know just 
how many will grow, as we test allseeds sold 
and mark the results of the test on the label. 
We raise the seeds on our own farm and sell 
, direct to gardeners and farmers at much lower 
prices than city seedsmen. We have some very 
fine improved varieties of 
POTATOES, CORN and OATS 
as well as high-grade vegetable 
seeds for truck and private gardens. 
Ask for our catalog and also 
Market Gardeners’ Wholesale 
Price List, if you grow for market. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO. 
Box 66 
COLDWATER, N. Y. 
GREAT DANE OATS 
Bred in Denmark, imported and acclimated in 
Michigan and Northern Ohio. Big heavy meat, thin 
shuck. Customers report they outyielded other oats 
sowed beside them three to one. Ninety to 110 bush¬ 
els per acre not an uncommon yield. Very stiff 
straw. Stools very heavy. Price, ten bushels, $1.76 
per bushel. Less than ten, $2.00 per bushel. 
DUNCANS EARLY YELLOW DENT CORN 
Bred and seed grown In Michigan. Won State champion¬ 
ship prize. Very deep kernel, small cob, beautiful golden 
yellow, enormous yields. Ripens in ninety to hundrod days. 
Get away from that big cob short kernel corn, order some 
DUNCANS EARLY YELLOW DENT, and your motto will 
he one hundred bushels per acre on every acre, and corn 
that is ripe before the frosts come. Price, per bushel, $3.00. 
BLUE MOUNTAIN ENSILAGE CORN 
Grown in high altitude in Blue Ridge Mountains, mammoth 
forage, ripens earlier than ordinary ensilage, $3.00 per bu. 
OATMAN & MONFORT, Cleveland, O. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS THAT GROW 
All Standnrd Varieties. Also RASPBERRY, BLACKBERRY, 
CURRANT and GRAPE Plants and ASPARAGUS Roots in 
ASSORTMENT. WARRANTED TRUE-TO-NAME, and of 
GRADE represented. Catalog with Cultural Instructions FREE. 
P E- WHITTEN. BOX 11, . BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN. 
WONDERFUL EVERBEARING WHITE 
STRAWBERRY. FULL OF BLOOM. 
RIPE STRAWBERRIES ALL SUMMER 
AND LATE FALL- catalogue free. 
DRAKE’S 
“Satisfactory Seeds” 
Planted by those who appreciate quality 
and very moderate prices. 
ONION SEED. Yellow Danvers, Large Red 
Wethersfield, $1.00; Yellow Globe Danvers,$1.25 per 
pound, postpaid. 
ONION SETS. Choice Tellow, $2.50; Choice 
Red, $2.50; Choice White, $2.76 per bushel (32 lbs.) 
Write for Seed Catalog and Free trial pkts. 
of New Knkhulzen Glory Cabbage and New 
Triumph Radish. 
J. AUG. DRAKE, Seedsman 
tOO Main Street, Chester, New Jersey 
SEED FOR THE FARM 
NOTHING FOR GARDEN 
Grass Seed Alfalfa 
Seed Oats Cow Peas 
Seed Corn Vetches 
Seed Potatoes Millets 
Peas, Soys, Buckwheat, Rape, Crimson, Barley, Rye 
CATALOG FREE 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Landisville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
PEES af HalfAgents Prices 
10 peach, First ClaRS, 8 to 4 ft. for 60c. 3 El- 
borta, 2 Champion, 2 L. Crawford, 2 Crosby, 1 
Greensboro. Other sizer accordingly. FREIGHT 
PAID and GUARANTEED. Send lor FREE 
WHOLESALE CATALOG of a complete line. 
THE WM. J. HE ILLY NURSERIES, S3 Ouian St., 
Dansvlllc, N. Y. 
IF YOU WISH 
Fruit, Shade, or Ornamental Trees; 
Hand, or Power Spray Pumps; Spray¬ 
ing Material of any kind ; full directions 
How, When and Where to Spray ; Gas¬ 
oline Engines of any size ; write Call’s 
Nurseries, Perry, Ohio, for Special Price 
®IS^Guaranteed fruit Plants 
r Healthy, northern grown Strawberry, 
Raspberry, Blackberry, Currant and Grapo 
plants—all covered by the following liberal 
guarantee:—All plants guaranteed to bofirst- 
class and truo to name, packed to reach you in 
good growing condition (by expross) and to please you, 
or your money back. You tako no chances. Sond for 
catalog today. O. A. D. Baldwin, R.R, 16* Bridgman, Mich. 
10 Fruitlrees 
First-class stock, 4 ft. high, worth $2.00: One each of 
Baldwin, Transparent Apple; Bartlett, Kieffer Pear; E. 
Richmond, Windsor Cherry; Lombard, Burbank Plum; 
Elberta, Crawford’s E. Peach — all for 97 
cents. Order now to get catalog of big 
offers. Freight paid on $5 orders. 
Every order guaranteed. 
RICH LAND NURSERIES. Box 156 .Rochester. N.Y. 
/$s?* 
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SMALL FRUITS 
My stock of vigorous, heavy-bearing black¬ 
berry, raspberry, strawberry plants, large and 
small fruits, shrubs, asparagus, privet, trees 
and decorative plants, is largo and complete. 
Careful attention to selecting and packing ship¬ 
ments. Send lor illustrated book. Free to grow¬ 
ers. ARTHUR J. COLLINS, Box R. Moorestown, N. J. 
