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the: RURAt NEW-YORKER 
March 29, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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 tells all about 
the best seeds that can be grown. 
WING SEED CO., Box 123, Mechanicsburg, Ohio 
o 17 17 r\ P D M Six Varieties, Heavy 
iJLjEjL/ Vvrlvl t Yielders, $2 per bu 
You want our White Cap Yellow Dent. Our stocks 
were grown by the winner of first prize at the recent 
Penu’a State and the South Carolina National 
Corn Shows. 
~ Clover at $11.00 per bu. Tim- 
rR A vJWKN othy—Red Top-Orchard— 
VilVrtUiJLiiJ 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 
m «« v m You should plant North* 
III lA/ r H A s em Grown Cow Peas of 
***’'*-' *» * A-****-' t ]j e 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. Ask for U 
A. H. HOFFMAN, LANDISVILLE, LANCASTER CO. PENN'A. 
Practical Potato Culture 
128-pago Illustrated Potato Book, just published 
by E. A. Rogers, Brunswick, Maine, a practical 
potato grower, explains why Maine grows more 
potatoes to the acre than any other State. It covers 
preparation of soil, care and cutting of seed, culti¬ 
vating, fertilizing and spraying. 
Single copies 50c. postpaid. 
Good Profit to Farmers who Become Selling Agents 
M. & C. SALES CO., 1009 Spring Garden St ,Dept.B, Phila.,Pa. 
A JIT A—Swedish Select, Siberian and Big 4. Also SEED 
Uf! I u CORN and GRASS SEED. Samples and circular 
free. Reid Burt, Melrose, Ohio 
f b 0 ' u g r SEED POTATOES 
Stood up without spot or blemish (comparatively) 
while others were dead and dying all around it. 
Yields 25 to 75 bushels per acre—more than Moun¬ 
tains—every year. Barrel, $3.00; 10 barrels, $2.75. 
I. L. WARE, - - - Gardiner, Maine 
OJITC—Reg. Swedish Select and Imp. American, 
UHI O Two best yjeiders. Also SEED CORN. Seed Po¬ 
tatoes, Clover, Timothy and GARDEN SEEDS. Samples 
and Catalog free. THE0. BURT & SONS, Melrose, Ohio 
^ Q D N State grown. The best early Bent 
v for grain or ensilage. $1.50 per bu. 
OATS I m Ported White Gothland: gavooyield 
* ** here of 95 bu. per acre. $1.25 per bu. 
E. S. HILL & SONS, Freeville, Tompkins Co.,N. Y. 
MILLIONS OF ASPARAGUS ROOTS, Blackberry and Straw- 
berry plants. Sweet Potato seed and plants, vegeta 
ble plants. Catalogue free. M. N, B0RG0,Vineland, N. J. 
VERY CHOICE 
per 1,( 
CHERRY 
King, Cutlibert, K a n s as and 
Gregg Raspberry plants, $7.00 
1,000. Lueretia Bewberries, $0.00 per 1,000. 
HILL FRUIT FARM, Toboso, Licking County. Ohio 
Onion Seed 
We are extensive growers and dealers in the best 
varieties. Onions will be high next season. Write 
for prices. SCHILDKR BROS., Chillicotlie.O. 
S TONE’S SOYBEANS ami Leading Standard Varieties of 
Held and ensilage corn. Fill granary and silo with balanced 
rations. Don't buy high-priced protein teed and nitrogen fer¬ 
tilizer. Grow them cheaply with STONE’S SOYBEANS. 
Illustrated catalogue free. WM. McD. STONE, Soyboan 
and Corn Specialist, Atwater, Portage County, Ohio 
BEST SEED POTATOES 
A. G. ALBRIBGE, Fishers, Ontario Co., N. Y 
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. IIOYT <fc CO., - Fostoria, Ohio 
START YOUR MELONS, all early vegetables in 
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, - Catonsville, Md. 
' GROWING POTATOES. 
In your January 4 issue you pub¬ 
lished an article by J. H. entitled “What 
Ails the Potato Crop?” Believing in 
co-operation among farmers and the in¬ 
terchange of ideas, I offer the following, 
in which J. H. may find suggestions that 
will help. I write of the culture of 
potatoes as practiced in Maine, where 
potatoes are a main crop, and where 
farmers take pride in having big yields. 
Wherever possible a grass or clover sod 
is turned in the Fall, being plowed to 
a depth of from seven to nine inches. 
In the Spring the ground is well disked 
both lengthwise and crosswise four to 
six times, or until the soil is well mel¬ 
lowed and fine as ashes. It is not con¬ 
sidered good policy to use stable manure 
on potato ground, as this causes scab 
and also rot. A good commercial fer¬ 
tilizer, usually of the 4-6-10 proportion, 
will give much better results, as the 
potato needs a large amount of potash. 
Many farmers mix their own fertilizers 
by formulas received from the State 
chemist at Orono, Me. It is a good 
plan to have a sample or several samples 
of the soil analyzed by your own State 
chemist, who will tell you just what 
your soil needs. Quantity to he used 
is often a difficult question to settle by 
one who has had little experience. One 
ton per acre of the above-proportioned 
fertilizer is considered sufficient on aver¬ 
age ground, although as much as two 
tons per acre has sometimes been used. 
The increase in yield, however, does not 
warrant the extra expense. Then, too, 
the potatoes are very apt to be so large 
and often hollow where so much fer¬ 
tilizer is used that they are only fit for 
the starch factory. Lime is often used, 
on land that has become sour, by sow¬ 
ing or spreading broadcast during late 
Fall and Winter, at least four to six 
weeks before planting time, one ton per 
acre. 
For early planting from April 20 to 
May 15 is considered best when weather 
and condition of ground will permit. 
Do not plant potatoes in the mud, hut 
wait until ground can he worked well. 
Cut the potatoes so there will he about 
two eyes in each piece. Plant either by 
hand or with planter in rows feet 
apart, and in hills nine inches apart in 
rows. Do not drop potatoes directly 
on fertilizer, as the fertilizer will burn 
the potato. When the potatoes are up 
about two inches, cultivate, and with a 
wing horse-hoe proceed to completely 
cover the new plant about two inches 
deep. This kills the first crop of bugs, 
makes a much stronger root growth, and 
by experiment it has been found that 
covering will do much to stop blight. 
The plants will be out of the ground in 
from four to six days, after which they 
may be again cultivated and hilled up. 
When hilled in this manner the surplus 
water will run off between the rows. In 
spraying for bugs use from one to two 
pounds of Paris green in 50 gallons of 
lukewarm or sun-warmed water. Bor¬ 
deaux mixture used for killing rust 
should also be used with warmed water. 
Cold water will not affect the appear¬ 
ance of tops, but blights potatoes. Above 
methods work well in Ohio. G. W. H. 
WEEDLESS FIELD SEEDS 
Are what we are trying harder than ever to furnish our cus¬ 
tomers. FREE SAMPLES will show that we come pretty near 
doing it. In many varieties we DO IT. Red, Mammoth, Alsike. 
Alfalfa, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Sweet Clover and all others, 
0. M. SCOTT 6 SON, SO Main Street, MARYSVILLE, OHIO 
A Grapevine Proposition. 
G. IT. T„ Orleans, Jnd .—Can you tell me 
anything about the reliability of the writer 
of the enclosed letter? lie sent me some 
samples which are equal to California 
grapes, which he claims were kept in his 
cellar since last Fall. 
I 
I 
Salzeks 
FARM SEEDS 
Big, valuable premiums given away free 
with purchasesof Salzer’s Pedigreed Farm 
Seed. Send todayfor Bigger 1913 
Catalogue and Premium List, and see 
how you can save money on the best 
seeds and at the same time secure 
articles you would like to have. 
Salzer’s catalogue has for 37 years been 
famousfor Farm and Vegetable Seeds, 
Flowers, Plants and Nursery Stock. 
Succeed with Salzer’s Seeds 
We sell direct, thus quoting you lowest 
prices and cutting out useless profits. 
For ten cents we gladly mail samples 
of Salzer’s famous Alfalfa Clover, 
Bonanza Oats, Silver King Barley, 
$1,000 Prize Wheat and many other 
packages of fine farm seeds. 
Red Clover and Timothy 
Within a radius of 100 miles of 
La Crosse is grown this year five 
times more rich red clover seed than 
anywhere else In the United States. 
Be sure to get catalog and premium list. 
John A. Sslzer Seed Co. 144 S. 8th St.. UCbosse.Wis. 
Ans. —The letter enclosed was signed 
by W. J. Cline, and stated in part: 
I want some one to sell grapevines, a 
few choice varieties, the fruit of which 
will keep fresh all Winter without any¬ 
thing being done to them. This I can 
prove satisfactorily. These grapes are not 
mere novelties, but hardy varieties that I 
have grown for years. They are good 
growers, large yielders and well adapted 
for your locality. 1 furnish fresh grapes 
free for samples and allow 40% commis¬ 
sion. Anyone who will show the grapes 
I furnish can sell a lot of vines during 
the next three months. There is money in 
it and no expense. 
Quite a number of these letters from 
Mr. Cline have been sent us. So far as 
we can learn the grapes are domestic 
varieties such as Lucille, Brilliant and 
Norwood. The varieties are not grown 
to any extent by commercial growers, 
but are well known to amateurs or gar¬ 
deners. There is little remarkable about 
them—certainly nothing new. 
DIBBLE’S 
SEED CDRN 
Four varieties best for crop or 
silo, the highest grade obtainable, 
grown by Seed Corn Growers 
from pedigree stock seed, shelled 
from hand selected ears, thor¬ 
oughly recleaned and screened. 
All of our Seed Corn is tested and our 
tests so far show germination 95%- 
100%. Dibble’s Seed Corn is sold on 
a money-back-if-you-want-it guarantee. 
Keep it ten days. Test it any way 
you choose, and if not entirely satisfac¬ 
tory return it and get your money back 
and we will pay the freight both ways. 
Dibble’s Early Yellow Dent 
the earliest large growing dent adapted to the Middle 
and Eastern States. Here in our country, planted around 
May 15, it is ready for the harvest first week in Sep¬ 
tember. This is the kind to plant where seasons are 
short and frost comes early. Stalks 8-12 feet high, 
very productive. 
Wm. Smeck, New Albany, Pa., writes : " Germination 98%. 
Stalks ^0-12 feel high, filled two silos, each 12x28, from // 
acres.” “It matures easily in 80-90 days.” 
Bushel, $2.00; 2-bushel bag, $3.00; 10 bushels 
$12.50. Bags Free. 
Dibble’s Improved Learning 
10 days earlier than common Learning of commerce, 
with large ears, taller stalks and much more productive. 
Probably the best all around Ensilage Corn. We have 
put into our Silos thousands of tons of Learning Ensilage 
Corn that would have husked 125-150 bushels of good 
sound ears per acre. 
"Filled two silos, each 14 x33 feet, from 1 A4 acres, ihc best 
field of com in this section ”—is the testimony of J. H. Godfrey, 
Trumansburg, N. Y. 
Bushel, $2.00; 2 - bushel bag, $3.00; 10 bushel, 
$12.50. Bags Free. 
Dibble’s Mammoth White Ensilage 
is the largest, strongest growing, most productive variety 
for Northern and Eastern States. It is a corn of northern 
origin and our seed is northern grown, therefore adapted 
to our climatic conditions. 
A. D. Bitner, Beaver Meadows, Pa., reports— "From one acre 
planted, fed my herd of 20 cattle for two months. The biggest, 
leerfiest, most palatable corn I have ever grown, ” and R. B. Ander¬ 
son, Guilford, Ct., calls it —"King of Ensilage corn. Filled a 300- 
ton silo from 1214 acres. Stalks averaged 12-22 feet high accord¬ 
ing to conditions of soil. " 
m. Bushel, $2.00; 2 - bushel bag, $3.00; 10 bushels, 
$12.50. Bags Free. 
Dibble’s Mammoth Yellow Flint 
is the largest growing, most productive Flint corn in 
existence. Stalks 8-10 feet in height, ears 10-15 
inches in length. 
H. A. Medlong, Oswego County, N. Y., says: —" IVe put into 
our corn crib from this 2 acres 460 bushels of Very fine corn. ” 
Bushel, $2.50; 2-bushel bag, $4.00; 10 bushels, 
$17.50. Bags Free. 
Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog and four' 
samples of cornlfor testing FREE 
Address EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower 
Honeoye Falls, New York, Box B 
Headquarters for Seed Corn, Potatoes, Oats, 
Alfalfa, Clover and Grass Seeds 
From Our Farms to Yours 
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 
N. WERTHEIMER & SONS, 
Ligonier, Ind. 
"Ebcrle Quality” Seed* are bound to grow if given 
the proper cure. Years of experience enable us to 
offer you a wonderful variety of choice seeds, 
plants aud bulbs at fair prices. 
Kberle’* 1918 Heed Annual-Free.. 
It describes our great collection of fresh seeds, in* 
eluding nearly every variety of kuowu worth. Con¬ 
tains much valuable information and advice to the 
large and small grower. The most complete cata¬ 
logue we have yet issued aud it‘s absolutely tree. 
Send for > our copy today. 
: .W. EBERLE, 116 South PeahiSt.. Alb«ht, N.Y. 
CoIq—C ow Peas, $2.50 bushel. Seed Buek- 
r Ml dale u lieat. 85c. busli. Crimson Clover Seed, 
$4.51) bush. Rod Clover Seed, $11 aud $12 bush. 
Oniou Sets, $2 bnsli. JUSEPH E. HULLANU, Milford, Del. 
(UJCCT SEED—Largo biennial cultivated variety 
• H t L I for hay, pasture and fertilizer. 1 i ice, 
ni Alim aud circular how to ** * 
