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BORDEAUX FOR POTATOES. 
Bordeaux mixture for use on potatoes is 
usually made after the formula 5-5-50 ; that 
is five pounds of lime, five pounds of cop¬ 
per sulphate or blue vitriol, and 50 gal¬ 
lons of water. In order to get a mixture 
which will have a fine precipitate and 
which will work freely through the spray 
nozzles it is necessary that the copper sul¬ 
phate and lime solution be made up and 
diluted properly before being brought to¬ 
gether. For economy of time and labor 
this requires at least four barrels for the 
stock and dilute solutions, which should 
be placed on a platform high enough so 
that the mixture will run into the sprayer 
tank. For a thorough spraying when the 
vines are large it will require about 100 
gallons of mixture per acre. For a large 
acreage an abundant supply of water is 
therefore a necessity. On a farm which is 
fortunate enough to have running water 
with a good head it will not be difficult 
to erect, above the mixing platform, a 
storage tank of sufficient capacity to stand 
the draft of a day’s spraying, but in our 
We now take 10 gallons of stock solu¬ 
tion from our copper sulphate stock barrel 
after stirring thoroughly and put it into 
our copper sulphate dilution barrel. In 
the same way we take 10 gallons of lime 
stock and strain it through burlap into our 
lime dilution barrel. Then start the pump 
and fill these barrels to the 50 gallon 
marks. We have, then, the solutions di¬ 
luted so that when they are put together 
they are in the right proportion to make 
Bordeaux mixture. e. s. brigham. 
The English Sparrow : Is He a Nuisance? 
I have noticed from time to time several 
articles for and against the English spar¬ 
row, which I read with great interest. I 
have spent considerable time and study 
on this subject, and should like to add my 
experiences. Last Summer I observed a 
pair of these sparrows which built a nest 
under the eaves of our roof. They hatched 
out four young on the seventh of May. 
These young were fed on grasshoppers, the 
caterpillars of the cabbage butterfly and 
horseflies. The last were occasionally cap¬ 
tured by the parents on the wing. The 
young were full-fledged on the second of 
June. While nestlings they were fed for 
about four hours in the morning and five 
hours in the afternoon. During one hour 
this pair made 31 trips from the fields to 
their nest, carrying each time a grasshop- 
MAKING BORDEAUX FOR POTATOES. 
own case, having to depend upon wells, 
which will not furnish a large amount of 
water in droughty years, we have had to 
devise the portable outfit shown in the 
picture. 
On the bed of an ordinary farm wagon 
a frame was constructed by laying down 
two pieces of 3 x 4-inch x 10 feet spruce as 
far apart as the stakes will permit. These 
pieces are held apart by cross pieces of 
2x4 inch material spaced so that they 
give requisite strength, and at the same 
time furnish a bed on which is fastened 
the pumping machinery. Near the front 
and to one side of this frame is fastened 
a one and one-half horse-power gasoline 
engine. Far enough back so that a rea¬ 
sonable length of belt is given is placed 
a rotary force pump so that the pulleys 
are in alignment. The pump is connected 
with a piece of suction hose having a 
strainer of brass wire cloth on the end of 
it. The hose shown in the picture is 10 
feet long, but we have another 30 feet long 
to use where we cannot get near the well 
or brook. 
Above this lower frame is erected a plat¬ 
form raised high enough so that the Bor¬ 
deaux mixture when made will run from 
the strainer box into the sprayer tank. 
The uprights supporting the platform are 
8x4 inch material and are mortised into 
both the upper and lower sills. The meth¬ 
od of bracing shows plainly in the cut. 
A piece of galvanized iron pipe screws 
over the discharge pipe of the pump and ex¬ 
tends above the upper platform. A piece of 
hose long enough so that it will deliver 
water into any of the barrels on the 
platform is coupled to this extension pipe. 
On the platform are four barrels. Those 
in front are called the stock barrels and 
those at the rear are called the dilution 
barrels. The stock barrels are graduated 
to 10 gallons by driving copper nails in 
the sides at the required heights. The six 
dilution barrels are graduated in the same 
way to 25 gallons. The stock barrels are 
provided with covers to prevent rain get¬ 
ting in or to prevent evaporation. A 
few hours before we intend to begin spray¬ 
ing we suspend near the top of the stock 
barrel which we use for a copper sul¬ 
phate solution 50 pounds of copper sulphate 
crystals in a burlap bag. Then we fill 
the barrel to the 50 gallon mark. In a few 
hours the crystals will have dissolved. In 
the other stock barrel we slake 50 pounds 
of lime and fill this barrel up to the 50 
gallon mark. We have then made our 
stock solutions, so that ©ne gallon of liquid 
represents one pound of material. That is, 
one gallon of the stock in our copper sul¬ 
phate barrel represents one pound of cop¬ 
per sulphate, and the same is true in case 
of the lime. 
per or a caterpillar. This means the de¬ 
struction of approximately 279 insects a 
day, and, during the time the young were 
fledglings, of 3,185. The five pairs that 
nested near our house must have fed to 
their young 47.775 insects during that Sum¬ 
mer ! (They raised three broods in a sea¬ 
son.) 
On the other hand, the parents lived dur¬ 
ing this time most entirely on grain. The 
only grain they could get'was rye, and of 
this they could not have eaten more than 
20 cents’ worth. I think that the 3,185 in¬ 
sects destroyed would easily weigh more 
in the scale of profit than 20 cents! This 
same pair of sparrows laid another clutch 
of eggs on the seventh of July, and on the 
second of September a third and last clutch. 
During this time they destroyed thousands 
of insects, and they never took more than 
four holidays in two months and a half. 
English sparrows are said to drive away 
song-birds, but this Summer there was a 
robins’ nest in a large pine near the house, 
and two branches below it there was a 
sparrow’s. Twenty-five feet from this was 
another robins’ nest, and a few feet away a 
woodpecker’s. The eggs in the various 
nests hatched out at about the same time, 
and the families seemed to live in perfect 
harmony. During last Winter I observed 
a flock of English sparrow's and found that, 
although they ate a little rye from the 
stack and corn from the crib, they also ate 
a great many seeds of the ragweed, mullein, 
mustard and other noxious weeds. These 
sparrows are supposed to carry chicken lice, 
mites, etc., from one farm to' another; but 
I have never seen them fly more than 400 
feet from their nesting-sites, and this only 
during the time they had young, when they 
flew to the back fields of our own farm in 
search of grasshoppers; so that the charge 
of carrying parasites can only be laid at 
their door in places where the barns are 
very near together. They will take posses¬ 
sion of any bird-houses which have been 
put up, but this is only a case of first 
come first served. They are also said to 
have a very harsh and discordant twitter, 
which is almost unbearable to some per¬ 
sons ; to me, however, it is cheery and 
homelike. 
It may interest bird-lovers to know that 
I have observed 55 species of birds near 
our house, which have not been driven out 
by the English sparrow's. 
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1913 AGENT 
This Catalog contains a 
volume of information re¬ 
garding Trees and Plants 
for KockGardens.Old Fash¬ 
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Planting andGronnd Cover¬ 
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suggestive planting plans 
and planting list for Rose 
Gardens, Herbaceous Gar¬ 
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Names and describes desir¬ 
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Ornamental Fruits, Hedge 
Plants, Trees for Orchard and Forest Planting, 
new and old varieties of Roses and Climbing Vines. 
Copy sent Free upon Request. 
We grow in quantity every hardy Tree or Plant 
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THE NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES CO. 
Dept. “M” Bedford, Mass. 
OUR SOLE 
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are northern grown from selected stock seed and frequently outyield home¬ 
grown seed two to one. They are used and recommended by thousands of 
progressive, money-making Farmers annually. 
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30 varieties, best early, medium and late in any quantity from barrels to 
car loads. 
Canadian Experiment Farm, Ottawa, reported yield: “rate of 422 
bushels per acre.” 
H. W. Collingwood, Editor of The Rural New-Yorker, writes—“I 
obtained a yield which 1 figure at 300 bushels per acre.” 
Hugh Raymond of Connecticut says: “The yield from your seed was250 
bushels per acre, other kinds 100 bushels.” 
“Tlie yield from your seed planted by side of my own home-grown seed 
was throe times as good,” was the verdict of 11. B. Noll, Ellioott City, Md. 
Dibble's Seed Potatoes as low as $2.50 per barrel. See page No. 
14 of our catalog. 
DIBBLE’S SEED CORN 
Four varieties, Flint and Dent, best for crop or silo for the Middle and 
Eastern States. Germination tests 95-984. 
C. W. Burkett, Editor of the American Agriculturist, who is one of 
our regular customers, says: “Almost every grain of that seed corn germin¬ 
ated. Everybody ought to be your customer.” 
“400 bushels from two acres” is the yield from our Mammoth Yellow 
Flint Corn reported by H. A. Medlong of Oswego, Co., N. Y. 
R. B. Anderson of Connecticut writes that he filled a 300-ton silo from 
12^4 acres of our ensilage corn. 
Dibble's Seed Corn as low as $1J!5 per bushel. See pages Nos. 
25-29-31 of our catalog, 
DIBBLE’S SEED OATS 
Two varieties, early, productive, with stiff straw, are thoroughly re¬ 
cleaned twice right in our seed house and frequently produce for our cus¬ 
tomers two bushels where but one grew before. We offer this year Oats that 
have yielded on entire fields over 100 bushels per acre weighing 40 lbs. per bushel. 
“Your oats made fsvo bushels to one of our own seed ” is the testimony 
of Harry Reamer of Pennsylvania. 
l*evi Simmons of New York, reports: “440 bushels thresher’s measure 
from four acres.” 
Dibble's Seed Oats as low as 65c. per bushel. See page No. 21 of catalog. 
Dibble’s Alfalfa , Clover and Timothy Seed 
D. B. Brand 99.504 pure is the highest grade obtainable. 
Samuel Fraser, Geneseo, N. Y., who sowed D. B. Alfalfa on 50 acres, 
reports as a result of his test, “99.504 pure and free from dodder and trefoil.’ 
R. I. Richmond, Mansfield, Pa., sent samples of our D. B. Clover and 
Timothy to Washington, and says : “They reported they were as good a sample 
both for purity and germination as could be obtained.” 
Luther Tucker and Son, former publishers of the Country Gentleman, 
write: “There is no firm in this country from whom we could order seeds 
with greater confidence.” 
D. B. Brand Timothy Seed just tested, 99.85 4 pure $2.25 per 
bushel. See page No. 17 of our catalog. 
Dibble's Farm Seed Catalog, the loading farm seed book of the year 
and ten sample packages of Dibble’s Farm Seeds for testing FREE. Write 
today. Planting time is at hand. Address— 
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GREAT DANE OATS 
Bred in Denmark, imported and acclimated in 
Michigan and Northern Ohio. Big heavy meat, thin 
shuck. Customers report they outyiolded 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, $1.75 
per bushel. Less than ten, $2.00 per bnsliel. 
DUNCANS EARLY YELLOW DENT CORN 
Bred and seed grown in Michigan. Won State champion¬ 
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Get away from that big cob short kernel corn, order some 
DUNCANS EARLY YKLLOW DENT, and your motto will 
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that is ripe before tho 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. 
•'Kberlc Quality" Seeds arc bound to grow if given 
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plants and bulbs at fair prices. 
Eberle’s 1918 Seed Annual—Free. 
It describes our great collection of fresh seeds, in* 
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TRY STOKES’ SEEDS THIS TIME 
I will send five 10-cent packets of seeds, credit 
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Lettuce— Big Boston. Greatest heading kind. 
Radish—Scarlet Globe. Ready in 20 days. 
Tomato—Bonny Best. Earliest; productive. 
Asters—Stokes' Standard. Many colors. 
Pansies—Stokes’ Standard. Finest French. 
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UHI O t wo b es t yieldors. Also SEED CORN, Seed Po¬ 
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OATS AND BEANS- 
Slorm King Oats $1.00 bushel. 
Excellent sample. Burlingame 
White Medium and Yellow Eye 
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$3,00 bushel. Sow clean seed and harvest a clean 
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