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March 15, 
SEED CORN 
Six Varieties, Heavy 
You want our White Cap Yellow Dent. Our stocks 
were grown by the winner of first prize at the recent 
Penn’a State and the South Carolina National 
Corn Shows. 
* nnnn Clover at $11.00 per bu. Tim- 
I lK /V SSKS othy—Red Top—Orchard— 
VJlVrtkJiJLjiJ Ky. Blue-Millets, Alfalfa, 
vetches and 30 other grasses. White, Alsike, Mam¬ 
moth, Crimson and Sweet Clovers. 
SEED OATS—SPRING RYE and BARLEY 
BUCKWHEAT-FIELD PEAS and BEANS 
nP A O You should plant North- 
I .1 I VV K r. A ^ ern Grown Cow Peas of 
„^r\Z the earliest varieties. 
We have them in nice qualities at moderate prices. 
Maine Grown Seed Potatoes, Clean, Sound 
Cobblers—Ea. Ohios—Ea. Rose—Carmans—Mountains— 
Giants—Raleighs—State of Maines-Gold Coins. 
Everything For the Farm, Moderate Prices 
You want our 32 page catalog. It is free. Askfortt 
A. H. HOFFMAN. LANDISVILLE, LANCASTER CO. PENN‘A. 
ALFALFA 
We have spent $ 12,000 instructing over 200,000 
farmers how to grow alfalfa. Our free booklet 
makes a certainty of this crop if our directions are 
followed. We receive each year hundreds of 
letters from our customers saying that their fields 
planted with our seed, and under the same condi¬ 
tions as other fields planted with seed from other 
sources, have in every instance out-yielded the 
meadow secured from other seed than our own. 
VVe could sell much cheaper alfalfa seed than we 
do, but we refuse to handle anything but the very 
best, which costs us more than the price at which 
ordinary alfalfa seed retails. 
SOY BEANS 
We have tested every promising variety of soy 
bean that has been introduced into the United 
States. We are pioneers in this business and are 
glad to see today that farmers are easily suc¬ 
ceeding with this great plant, and that they are 
securing fully as good results when our varieties 
are used as we have prophesied. Every day some 
one writes us that his soys yielded 25 to 30 
bushels per acre. We have discarded poor ones 
and offer you simply the best there is anywhere. 
Write today for free catalog which tellj all about 
the best seeds that can be grown. 
WING SEED CO., Box 923, Mechanicsburg, Ohio 
THE RURAb 
Market for Kumquats. 
G. P. W ., London, Miss. —I have about 
three barrels of the small Chinese orange, 
known as the kumquat, and as there is not 
much of a local market here for them, am 
thinking of shipping them to New York 
City. What can I get for them there? 
Ans. —Kumquats are sold here in a 
small way, but there is not much de¬ 
mand. We have seen them retailed at 
all the way from 20 to 30 cents per 
quart. The wholesale price would de¬ 
pend on how scarce they were when 
the shipment arrived. We doubt 
whether they would net more than $1 
per bushel. 
NRW-YORK'ER 
Choice Home Grown 
Field Seeds 
direct from the farmer to the 
user. All seeds best possible 
quality obtainable. We pay 
freight on all shipments. 
Write for samples and prices 
H. WERTHEIMER & SONS, 
Ligonier, Ind. 
Fertilizer and Lime on Grass. 
Will it pay to use commercial fertilizer 
and lime on the same piece of ground that 
is to be seeded to grass, oats as a nurse 
crop ? I would spread the lime on the 
plowed ground and harrow in, then sow 
the fertilizer with the seed. The land is 
not very rich. Will it do to top-dress new 
seeding (clover and Timothy) with nitrate 
of soda? Would it be better on an old 
meadow? II ow much should I use per 
acre? There was fertilizer used when the 
seed was sown, no manure used on land in 
a long time. j. d. h. 
Ans. —Generally speaking it will pay 
if the land is naturally sour. The na¬ 
ture of the fertilizer makes some dif¬ 
ference; when ground bone is used to 
supply phosphoric acid the lime wil 
have but little effect upon the phosphate, 
Where acid phosphate is used the lime 
would cause it to “revert” and become 
less soluble. On poor land, however, we 
would take the chances and use both 
lime and fertilizer as you mention 
About 125 pounds of nitrate of soda per 
acre would be a fair dressing. It wil 
probably give better results on the ok 
meadow though the new seeding wil 
also respond to it. You may find it dif¬ 
ficult to spread this amount of nitrate 
evenly over an acre unless you mix it 
thoroughly with several times its bulk 
of soil or dried muck. 
SEED POTATOES 
B I G 
FOUR 
Yields 25 to 75 bu. to the acre 
Mountain and will do it year 
Price, bbl. $3.00 ; 10 bbls. $2.75 each, 
L L. WARE, ... Gardiner, Main* 
more than Green 
in and year out. 
START YOUR MELONS, Jrtg'SUffl.'TJ 
dirt bands, (paper pots without bottoms) under 
glass and plant them in the garden without remov¬ 
ing from the pots and your garden will be a 
month earlier. 1000 3-inch or 600 4-inch, prepaid 
by parcel post, East of the Mississippi, for $1.75. 
P. B. CROSBY & SON, - CatonsviUe, Jld. 
FRUIT TREES 
Grown by 
Fra serftie Raiser 
RIGHT ,n quality 
«T l«n | andPRIC- 
Illustrated Catalog FREE. SAHTJEL 
FRASER, 116 Main 8t., Geneseo, N, 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS-Reliable money 
* making varieties. Only $1.50, $1.75 & $1,98 per 1000 
Illustrated catalog free, S. A. VIROIN, Hartly, Del. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS *1.00 per 1000. 
Less than others aak for same quality. 
You can't buy better plants than Townsend’s 
Thorough-Breds—120 Varieties. 20th Century 
Catalog—Free. Tells everything. K. W. Town- 
send, East Vi ne Street, Salisbury, Md. 
Onion Seed 
We are extensive growers and dealers in the best 
varieties. Onions will be high next season. Write 
forprices. 8CH1L DKR BROS., Chilltcothe.O. 
HARDY ENGLISH WALNUT TREES 
Shade and profit in zero climates. 
FREB ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET. 
DAN'L N. POMEROY. English Walnut Farms. LOCKPORT. N. Y. 
!878GrownRight,Handled Right 1913 
H JO FRUIT TREE BULLETIN 
O Gives you the whole story of the nnr 
rifiwc) 
_ sery business in Western New York, and 
tells you all about buying, planting and 
growing trees. Write for free ropy today. 
'KING BROS. NURSERIES 
8 Oak 8t„ Dansville, N. Y. 
“It’s Cheapest to Buy the Best" 
TREES PLANTS 
Large assortment of APPLE and PEACH. 
500,000 BLACKBERRIES— Eldorado, Merse- 
reau, Snyder, etc., grown from root cuttings— 
the best way to grow blackberries, free from 
disease. | unless deprived of all other succulent 
W. B. COLE, Avenue Nurseries, Painesville, 0. j foods. v 
Food Value of Weeds. 
F. K., Philadelphia, Pa. —Will you tell 
me whether there is any nourishment in 
the roots of curled dock? There is a great 
deal of it on my farm, and I thought if I 
could cut it to prevent its seeding, and 
by degrees dig and use the roots, I should 
prefer it to burning them. Chickens seem 
to like them. Could I feed them as green 
food to chickens, pigs, cows or calf, or 
horse? Many of these roots are as large 
as big turnips. Can purslane also be used 
for feed to any of these animals? I 
think the pigs like it. 
Ans. —No analysis of yellow dock or 
garden purslane from the stock-feeding 
standpoint appears to have been pub¬ 
lished. Dock root is largely used in 
tonic medicinal mixtures, and contains 
besides starch, sugar, gum and cellulose 
or inert woody fibre, a bitter principle 
almost identical with the active chry- 
sophanic acid found in rhubarb root, 
which belongs to same family (Poly- 
gonaceae), together with two yellow 
coloring matters known respectively as 
nepodin and lapodin, both acting as 
bitter tonics. These active principles, 
however, scarcely have the same effect 
on animals as on humans when taken 
into the stomach. Domestic animals 
generally possess strong digestive pow¬ 
ers, and can utilize all the vegetable ma¬ 
terial they care to eat under normal 
conditions. If pigs and chickens relish 
dock roots there appears no reason why 
they should not be offered all they will 
consume. It would not be desirable, on 
the other hand, to feed them to cows 
or horses unless very finely divided as 
they are too tough to be readily masti¬ 
cated and might cause choking. 
Purslane, Portulacca oleracea, has 
long been known to be an acceptable 
green food for pigs and poultry, and 
in many localities is prized as a pot 
herb for human consumption. It con¬ 
tains a noticeable quantity of gum or 
mucilage and a considerable proportion 
of potash in the form of oxalate. 
Chickens confined to a yard will eat it 
greedily but soon reject it when al¬ 
lowed free range. Pigs like “pussley” 
at all times, and often prefer it to grass 
or clover. No better use can be made 
of this pestiferous weed than to feed 
it to the hens or pigs before seeds form, 
but cattle, horses and sheep have but 
little liking for it at any time. As a 
rule domestic animals rarely consume 
common weeds to an injurious extent 
Better Know What’s in 
Your Next Suit 
Y OU can buy Clothcraft with a guarantee 
that takes the risk out of clothes buying— 
a guarantee that covers the vital points and 
tells you what you have a right to expect as well 
as what you are going to get. 
CLOTHCRAFT CLOTHES 
Guaranteed All Wool at $10 to $25 
Clothcraft Clothes, in many 
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$25 are guaranteed by both 
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Clothcraft suit you will find 
our signed assurance that the 
cloth is all wool, properly 
shrunk and fast in color ;that 
the trimmings and workman¬ 
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suit will give you permanent 
shape and satisfactory service. 
Find the Clothcraft store. 
Ask especially to see the Cloth¬ 
craft Blue Serge Special No. 
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label in the neck x>f the coat 
and the guarantee in the 
pocket. If you can’t locate a 
Clothcraft store, write us and 
we will send you a card of 
Introduction to the nearest 
dealer the Clothcraft Style 
Book for Spring, and a sample 
of 5130 serge. 
THE JOSEPH & FEISS COMPANY 
Founded 1846—Oldest American 
Manufacturers of Men's Clothes 
635 St. Cl.ir Av«., N. W. LiSHSlH 
Pure Field Seeds 
Clover, Timothy, Alsike, Alfalfa and all kinds of 
Pure Field Seeds direct from producer to con¬ 
sumer ; free from noxious weeds. Ask for samples. 
A. C. HOYT «fe CO., - Fostorla, Ohio 
DEWDROP 
If yon are interested in 
Fall bearing 
STRAWBERRIES 
send for circular. It will 
tell yon abont the merits 
of this wonderful berry. 
All good qualities com¬ 
bined. Plants ready now. 
H. F. DEW, ALBION, MICH. 
SAUER'S Alfalfa, 
Oats m Potatoes 
Three great Salzer specialties. Thousands 
have enriched their bank accounts by 
planting Salzer’s northern-grown seeds. 
Salzer’sllardy Allalla— big, quick, 
continuous money-maker. 
Salzer’s Re|uvenated White Bonanza 
Oats— sworn-to yield of 60 to 259 
bushels per acre. The biggest 
thing in oats. 
POTATOES 
Salzer’s Earliest and other heavy 
yielding varieties. Change your 
seed stock this year while po¬ 
tatoes are low in price. 
Succeed with Salzer’s Seeds 
For ten cent* we gladly mall big pack¬ 
ages Salzer’s famous Alfalfa Clover, 
Prize Wheat, White Bonanza Oats, Sil¬ 
ver King Barley and many other fine 
farm seed samples. 
Catalog and Premium List FREE. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. 
144 South Eighth St., LaCroue, Wli. 
nRRYs 
Market gardeners and large planters 
everywhere place absolute confidence 
In Ferry’s seeds. Professionals make 
their profits by knowing where to put 
their trust. Ferry’s vegetable and flower 
seeds have averaged best for half a century. 
They are pure and they are vital. For 
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1913 Catalogue free on application. 
D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. 
Seed! 
CARFFS 
Seed Oats, Speltz, 
Barley, Alfalfa, Tim¬ 
othy, Clover, Rape, 
Soy Beans, Cow Peas, 
P P Canadian Field Peas, Hun- 
W £■ CL U parian Millet, Sugar 
0 + ^ ■ Cane, Buckwheat, Seed 
C . 1 JfM Potatoes, etc., quality first 
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seed catalog and samples if wanted free. Write 
ub before you buy. 
W* N. ScarfT, New Carlisle, Ohio 
MILLIONS OF ASPARAGUS ROOTS, Blackberry and Straw 
m berry plants. Sweet Potato seed and plants, vegeta 
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QTKAWBERRY PLANTS—Money making va 
w rieties. Prices from $1.50 per 1000 up. Sendfor 
my price list free. DAVID RODWAY, R. D. 39. Hartly, Del 
WONDERFUL EVERBEARING WHITE 
STRAWBERRY. FULL OF BLOOM. 
RIPE STRAWBER RIES ALL SUMMER 
AND LATE FALL- catalogue free. 
New Strawberries 
Onr annual plant catalog free to all. Reliable, in¬ 
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and other important varieties. The New Progressive 
Everbearing Strawberry Roekhill’s best of all, now 
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fruiting until the ground froze produced for us at 
the rate of $1,000 per acre for the fruit alone. A 
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Troes anrl Plairifc -a11 kinds, by the mil- 
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at wholesale prices. APPLE and PEACH trees 5c , PEAR & 
CHERRY 10c.. ASPARAGUS $3 per M.. PRIVET HEDGING $10 
per 31. THE WESTMINSTER NURSERY, Westminster, Md. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
We have selected eight out of a hundred kinds, so 
we have eight of the very best. Get our 1913 cata¬ 
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PLANT AND TRUCK FARM, Caleb Boggs S Son, Cheswold, Del, 
TREES, PLANTS and VINES. 
Best Money Value*. Catalog free. 
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la f J] 
Hox 48 Tippecenoe City, Ohio 
Re illys 
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13 PEACH TREES, 98 CENTS 
3 Elberta, 2 Early Crawford, 3 Late Crawford, 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
over 30 years. New and standard sorts at reasonable 
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Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, 
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A. G. BLOUNT. Box 121, Hastings, N. Y. 
cecn A A TC _: Swedish Select and Siberian. 
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J. H. STOCKER. 197 E. 17th St„ Brooklyn, New York City 
OATS 
-Swedish Select, Siberian and Big 4. Also SEED 
CORN and GRASS SEED. Samples and circular 
free. Reid Hurt, Melrose, Ohio 
SWEET SEED -l arge biennial cultivated variety 
w " *• *■ 1 for hay, pasture and fertilizer. Price, 
ft! nUPR a,1 <l circular how to grow it, on request- 
VLU,cn K. BARTON. Box 29, Falmouth. Ky. 
BEST SEED POTATOES 
A. G. ALDRIDGE, Fishers 
Catalogue of 
70 varieties freo. 
Ontario Co., N. Y 
ASPARAGUS 
—My stock is standard, heavy-bearing, vigorous. It 
will yield latge crops of finest quality shoots. Care¬ 
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profitable. Send for FREE book describing my 
berries, fruits, shrubs, etc. It will save you money. 
Arthur J. Collins, Box It, Moorestown, N. J. 
3 , 000,000 
Strawberry Plants 
Earliest, Latest, Largest, Most Productive Varie¬ 
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Raspberry. Blackberry, Currant, Gooseberry, Grape, 
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Seeds, Fruit Trees. I guarantee good stock, shipped 
in good shape. Prices Reasonable. CATALOGUE I'KEE. 
HARRY I,. SQUIRES, Iteinsenburg, N. Y. 
