THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
197 
1910. 
Have You Tried Them? 
For Market or Home Use 
Free From Hard Cere 
Matures a week to 10 days ahead of any 
other known variety; fruits of good size, 
smooth, solid, bright red color and finest 
flavor. Although a large number of so- 
called early sorts have been introduced 
of late years, on test— side-by-side—not 
one has equalled FIRvST OF ALL for ear¬ 
liness, hardiness, size and uniform shape. 
Price, Large Packet, 10c. Ounce, Postpaid, 40c 
pr» pC E2 |A “Northern Grown 
rntt UWlV Seeds, Plants, 
Bulbs, Fruits and Trees.” Contains all the 
good things for the Garden and Farm worth grow¬ 
ing at the right prices. Write today. [ 6 ] 
L. L. MAY & GO., St. Paul, Minn. 
That’s 
Votas* 
Nanas and Address 
G OVERNMENT reports show that strawberries pro¬ 
duce more dollarsperaereandgivequicker returns 
than any other crop. Our 1910 Strawberry Text 
Book teaches the Kellogg method of growing larger 
crops of better berries than can be grown in any other 
way. It explains how to fertilize and prepare the soil j 
shows how to prune, set and mate the plants. Every 
detail of the work is made perfectly clear. Including 
cultivation, spraying, mulching, picking, packing and 
marketing. Growers who have this book say itls worth 
its weight In gold. You may have one FREE. 
R. M. KELLOGG COMPANY, Box 4&0 Three Rivers, Mich- 
Early Tomatoes 
Oneof mycustomerssold 
$102.35 worth of big, red to¬ 
matoes from 100 plants in his 
back yard. Another from 14 plants in 
her flower garden, sold 312 lbs. during. 
-Tuly and August for $16.70. It’s all in 
the knowing how and In using the right • 
seed. They used my new tomato— 
Field’s Early June 
Earlier than Ear-liana, as handsome as Stone, as 
solid asPonderosa, and a greater yielder than 
any of them. Ihe greatest new tomato in 25 
years. Small pkt., 20c; 3 for 50c; Vi oz.. $1. 
(This for specially selected seed, saved 
early.) My Garden Manual and Seed 
Catalog will give lots of pointersand 
good advice about gardening It’s 
well worth reading. Get It and see. 
Henry Field, Pres. 
HENRY FIELD SEED CO. 
Box Shenandoah,la. 
1 , 000,000 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Large stock of thrifty, young 
plants from the famous “Her¬ 
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Privet, Asparagus Roots, Gar¬ 
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Catalog Free. Write today. 
Arthur J. Collins, 
Box R Moorcstown, N. J. 
Famous Tomatoes 
are favorably known through¬ 
out the world. Twenty-five of 
the best sorts were introduced 
by us. We grow more high- 
grade tomato seed than any 
other seedsman in the world. 
New Globe-Shaped Sorts: 
Globe, Hu miner and Corcless are nearly 
perfect. Packet of Globe 10 cts; Hummer 10 cts; Corcless 
15 cts.; the three sorts, one packet of each for 25 cts* 
Livingston’s Superb Onions 
We grow acres of Onion seeds on our farms annually. 
Livingston’s ( Southport White Globe 5c ) the pkts. 
Private «< Southport Red Globe • 5c > lor 
Strains ( Ohio Yellow Globe • . 5c ) 10 cents. 
Beautiful 130-Page Catalogue FREE! 
It’s the finest^eed book of tho 
year. Contain^ more than 250 
illustrations from photo¬ 
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hints will help to make your 
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THORNLESS BLACKBERRY.J 
F. B., Bound Brook, N. J .—I would like 
to find out where I could get the Thornless 
blackberry. I thought perhaps a reader of 
The R. N.-Y. would kuow something about 
them. Some 12 or 15 years ago I saw them 
growing on Long Island, hut now I cannot 
find them anywhere. 
Ans. —The Wachuset Thornless black¬ 
berry was once very popular, and almost 
every grower of blackberry plants listed 
it. The tree agent ran it as one of the 
“•catchy” things that .people would buy, 
as the blackberry fruit'was wanted with¬ 
out the scratching from the thorns 
which most of them had, some worse 
than others, none of them but what 
pricked the hands of the berry picker. 
The canes of the Wachuset, while not 
entirely thornless, had so few that they 
seldom inconvenienced the picker. The 
fruit was so small, seedy and hard that 
it never was planted the second time, 
most people preferring the kinds which 
bore large fruit even if they had thorns. 
The Wachuset 5s only listed by a few 
at the present time. Lewis Roesch of 
Fredonia, N. Y., had it listed in his cata¬ 
logue Spring of 1909. The old Hoosac 
Thornless was discarded years ago as 
neither it nor the Wachuset is desirable 
or profitable. e. s. black. 
Seeding Questions. 
R. G. P., Brooklyn, Md .—About the mid¬ 
dle of October I sowed two bushels of Tim¬ 
othy seed, on about six acres of ground 
that had just grown a fine crop of sugar 
corn. The ground was well plowed and 
harrowed just before Timothy was sown. 
Then seed was sown both ways and har¬ 
rowed in lightly behind each sowing, and 
was rolled last of all. I am sure the seed 
was all right, but as the weather kept dry 
so very long I have only about half a 
stand on the average. .Some spots are al¬ 
most bare, while it is thick enough in places. 
Could anyone advise me whether to sow 
more seed on it this Winter, or would it 
be best to wait until Spring? Will Timothy 
seed come up if sown on a light snow? My 
ground is all level and never washes. IIow 
nmch seed should be sown to the acre? 
Ans. —If the stand of grass is very 
thin I would prefer to plow the land as 
early as it can be worked in good order, 
and would then reseed it. If there is a 
partial stand that you do not care to 
sacrifice you can sow about eight pounds 
more seed per acre, and may get a 
stand. If there is a wet snow of an inch 
or two the seed may be sown on it, and 
thus carried better into the soil. If the 
grass is thick enough in some places I 
would simply sow the bare spots thickly. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
,Fruit Growing and Magazine Advice. 
L. R. L., Fast O range, N. J .—Many 
agricultural magazines are advising young 
men to take up scientific agricultural 
courses, and claim that there is a big 
opening for young men who become fruit 
growers. Yet I often find articles which 
claim that thousands of tons of good fruit 
go to waste annually, because it does not 
pay to market it. Will you express your 
opinion on this topic. l. r. l. 
Ans. —Our opinion is that many of 
those magazine articles do far more 
harm than good. They seem to be writ¬ 
ten merely to attract attention and make 
a sensation, and usually describe some 
exaggerated condition of affairs. A 
bookkeeper or clerk would not be im¬ 
pressed by an article about a city man 
who jumped into a salary of $5,000 per 
year, yet it would be as probable as 
some of these big stories of success in 
growing fruit. The business is compli¬ 
cated, requires capital, great patience 
and skill, and long years of hard work. 
It is true that much good fruit is wasted 
every year. A great deal of it might be 
saved and sold fresh, dried or preserved, 
for people in town or city do not have 
half the fruit they want. In our own 
case practically everything is utilized in 
one form or another. We think farm¬ 
ing and fruit growing offer better oppor¬ 
tunities on the whole, than law, medicine 
or ordinary business, but the man who 
starts in to work the one must have un¬ 
limited energy, strength and persever¬ 
ance, and some financial backing. 
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Are sold direct from the grower to you at the lowest possible prices consistent with 
highest possible quality. It is conceded that we have the largest mail order trade in 
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vheir confidence to such an extent that 
Our Sales Are Over Six 
Million Pounds Annually 
This great trade in Farm Seeds could only have been obtained by selling absolutely the 
Best Farm Seeds that grow, at right prices, and giving every one a square deal, and this 
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SEED POTATOES — Over 50,000 bushels in stock, 30 varieties. Our New York 
State stock was raised from fields free from blight, rot or disease in any form. 
Prices very low this season. 
SEED OATS -Best by test for the Middle and Eastern-States. Bright, heavy and 
thoroughly recleaned. Send for sample. 
SEED CORN -Best three varieties, either for crop or silo ; enormously productive 
and of the highest germination, testing 95-98$. Samples for the asking, and the 
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EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower, Honeoye Falls, N.Y. Box B. 
DSEEDS 
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PRICES BELOW ALL OTHERS 
a lot of new sorts for 
with every order I fill. 
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AY, Rockford, Illinois 
“THE FAMOUS 
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And All the Leading Varieties 
Send for catalogue. It’s free. 
SPECIAL SEED OFFER 
25 c 
for 
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To introduce our high grade seeds we will 
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Beet, Improved Blood Turnip, 
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W^\AT BARGAIN PRICES 
Bargain list. 
8 Apples for $1.00. 6 Pears for $1.00. 
6 Plums for $1.00. 8 Cherries for $1.00. 
12 Peaches for $1.00. Trees guaranteed. 
Write at once for Illustrated Catalogue and. 
ALLEN L. WOOD, Rochester, N. Y, 
CHAS. E. FENDALL & SON. 
Originators of the Fendall and Growers of Fine Plants, 
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For Best EXTENSION LADDER atf »r ces 
.JOHN J. POTTER, 14 Mill St., Binghamton, N. Y. 
P LANT PLANTS— Early tomato, egg plant, peppers, 
cabbage, sweet potato, celery, etc.; also forty 
varieties strawberries. Prices reasonable. Cata- 
ogue free. S. C. ATHERTON, Greenwood, Del. 
A RGENTEUIL ASPARAGUS ROOTS for 
sale. Strong crowns grown from imported seed, 
$5 per 1,000, selected, packed, f.o.b. E. LAURKNS 
BEEKMAN, Middletown, Monmouth County, N. J. 
nnn tl—that will grow; the best varieties. Early 
|l| KN Ohio potatoes._Send fqr 
price list. 
C. C. VALE, New Carlisle, O. 
THAT YIELD. OurSENSATlON 
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OATS 
Send for our 1910 SEEDS, BULBS 6 PLANTS 
Catalogue of Dahlias a Specialty 
MILLS & CO., Dept. 5, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 
Melons, Cukes, Lima Beans DADCD DflTO 
and Tomatoes one to four iHlLIl lUlUi 
weeks earlier if started in- 
P. B, CROSBY & SON, Oatonsville, Maryland. 
S EEDS, PLANTS. Pkt. Cucumber, Lettuce 
and Tomato for trial, 10c. Send for my Free 
List. C. H. BREWER, Rahway, N. J. 
NEW SEED OATS 
Big Money in Oats 
New Seed Oats. Big money in oats if 
you raise the right kind. Here's your 
chance to get them. Imported Cana¬ 
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for free sample. It speaks for Itself. 
This same oatswesokllastyearinthe 
United States and proved their merit 
and our statement that the farmers 
need a change of seed in this country. 
We make a specialty of growing extra 
fine seed oats on our big Canadian farm; 
new, clean land; no weeds. Have best 
known varieties. Regenerated Swedish 
Select went 116 bushels to acre this year; 
Early New Market. Canada's favorite. 110 
bushels to acre. Both of these are big,early 
yielders. 1 believe it will pay you to get a 
change of seed. Try some of these oats. 
The average oats are Inbred and run out. Cana¬ 
dian Government Grain Inspector graded thisgrain 
No. 1 White. Have stiff straw, white berry, thin 
husk, enormous yielder. It is as easy to put in and 
harvest a big crop as a small one. The reason your 
oat crop Is not bigger is because your seed is run 
out. This has been proven. Look at this cut. Taken 
from photograph of two stalks from Galloway 
Brothers’ field, over 200 kernels to the stalk. Write 
early for free sample, or, send ten cents for packet. 
Will also send you free booklet entitled “BigMoney 
in Oats and How to Grow Them.” by Galloway Bros, 
and Prof. M. L. Bowman, former professor of farm 
crops Iowa Agricultural College. Information in 
this book is priceless. Get it free. 
GALLOWAY BROS., 662Galloway Sta., Waterloo, la. 
A DISCOVERY OF IMMENSE VALUE. 
Growing over one quart of strawberries from 
each plant year after year, or at the rate of 30,000 
quarts to the acre. Five year old plants the past 
season yielded over quart each plant. Send 25 cents 
for Ivevitt System or Chart. 
T. C. KEVITT, - Originator, 
Athenia, N. J. 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, Grape and Currant Plants 
Extra Heavy Rooted High Grade Stock. 
18th Annual Wholesale and Retail Catalogue Free. 
A. R. WESTON & CO., R. 8 , Bridgman, Mich. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
At Si.00 per 1,000 and up. Catalogue free. 
ALLEN BROS., Paw Paw, Mich. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
Millionsof them—Aroma, Ivlondyke, Thompsons, 
Gandy, &c. Send $2.50 for 1.000 plants. 
JOHN LIGHTFOOT, Dept. 36, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS —Reliable money-making varieties at 
O very reasonable prices. New 1910 illustrated catalog Free. 
Address S. A. VIKDIN, Hartly, Delaware. 
QiKAWitEHBY plants.— All the new and old money- 
« making varieties at moderate prices. Send for 
new 1010 catalog free. David hodway, Hartley, Dei. 
^traufhorrv Plante —Of the best varieties. 
Olldwuerry rlddlS. Descriptive catalogue 
free. BASIL PERRY D-18, Cool Spring, Delaware. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS That Are Business 
Plants. Descriptive catalogue free. 
D. M. TEETER, Bellville, Ohio. 
I 00K! LOOK! STRAWBERRY PLANTS-Chipman, Bu- 
L bach and Fendall, Chesapeake; Cumberland and 
Kansas Raspberry Plants. Ratlibun, Lucretia 
B. B. Plants. My plants are fine. Before placing 
your order anywhere it will pay to get my catalog; 
it is free. D. W. MOSLEY, Dover, Del. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS—Millions of them; 
fine stock; price $1.50 to $1.75 per 1,000. Wo 
guarantee satisfaction and safe delivery. This 
offer will not appear again. Catalogue free. Write 
to-day. Address THE SNOW HILL PLANT. 
KRUIT & TRUCK FARM, Charlie S. Perdue, 
Prop., Dept. 20, Snow Hill, Md. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS—Eight best varie¬ 
ties. ASPARAGUS and vegetable plants. 
Prices right. Send for our price iist. 
CALEB BOGGS & SON, Cheswold, Del. 
Strawberry Plants. 
#3.00 Per Thousand. Catalogue FREE, 
H. H. BENNING, Clyde, N. Y. 
QooH PatalntrilP —Send us your name anti ad- 
OCCU uaiaiu 0 uc. dress, and we will mail free 
our 1910 catalogue of seed potatoes, seed corn, 
seed oats, alfalfa seed, in fact, everything in seeds. 
MACE & MANSFIELD, Greenville, Ohio. 
—Timothy, Oats and Seed Potatoes, 
■ 28 varieties; sold direct; catalogue 
free. CLICK’S SEED FARMS, Lancaster, Pa. 
^BTErr^O at ONE-HALF 
^9 Hm Ca \Jf City Seedsmen Prices ! 
^ — ™ Let us send you our catalog of seeds==It’s 
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SQUARE DEAL. Just drop a postal today and see the difference in buying your seeds in 
country or City. FORREST SEED CO., Box 34, Cortland, N.Y. 
