I'M 1C RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DIBBLE'S SEED POTATOES 
IHMiIo'm Kurin Srnl UntnUt; *11(1 ten nnmple packages nibble's! 
Farm Seed* Free to ovary fnrimtr. Write for yours now. ts :: 
AddreflH,Edward F. Dibble, H«M*dgrow®r,H©neoye Falls, N.Y. Box B 
FROM OUR FARMS TO YOURS 
grown in t he cold north from selected slock Seed, 
on natural l’oiato soil, are full of vitality and 
have a reputation for Purity and Productiveness 
not excelled by those from any other source. 
Headquarters for Seed Potatoes 
60,000bushels in our frost proof storage. 
32 varieties, tho bust early. Intermediate and late 
and a new White Main ■ troll variety pronounced 
by over 100 customers "the best yet” in that It 
outylelded oilier varieties in the same Held over 
2 to 1.” 
1600 Acre* in the Dibble Farm* 
Buy Direct and Save Money 
Also full stocks of Alfalfa, Clover,Timothy, Corn, 
Oats, Barley, etc. Over 100,000 bushels in all. 
One grade only, the best obtainable. 
HARRIS SEEDS ALWAYS GROW 
If you want seeds that you know will prow, pet HARRIS’ 
with the exact per cent, of seeds that will germinate 
marked on the labels. No other seedsman does this. 
Harris Cabbage Seed has been used by many larpe 
growers for years. A number reported a $300 per 
acre crop this year. Harris Seed Corn, Oats, Po¬ 
tatoes and Vegetable Seeds are all of the highest 
quality and are 
SOLD DIRECT FROM OUR FARM AT WHOLESALE PRICES 
Catalog froo. Write for it today. (If you raise 
vogolalilos for market, ask for Market 
Gardener’s Price hist also.) 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO Bo*93, Coldwater, N.Y. 
Hoffman's Catalog ofFarmSseds 
with samplos—froo. Gras* Seeds, Seed Oats. Rood 
Potatoes. Seed Corn. Everything for the farm. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, - Box 30, Landi*vill«, Pa. 
60 
o 
RFF’S TESTED SEED CORN 
6000 biiahttl 1012 crop. and sure to grow. Finest 
quality. 20 Varieties. AI no Seed Oats, liar fry. Or Mfl Head, 
Potatoes, etc. 1100 ftOTM. Catalog mid samples on request. 
Write today. W, N. BOAKPP, Ho* 07, New Carlisle, Ohio. 
PURE FIELD SEEDS 
Mover. Timothy, Alsiko, Alfalfa and all kinds of 
PURE HELD Seeds direct from producer to consumer; 
free from noxious wends. Ask for samples. 
ft. G\ HOYT St CO., - Foetorln, Ohio 
oorn CITim All varieties shipped. 
V/lvVJVIbK OLLU Direct Frcipht Prepaid, 
GLICK'S SEED FARMS. ROUTE IB, LANCASTER. PA. 
P 0 TAT 0 K 8 —llllwi, Benuty, Carman, Cnbhlnr, Hold Coin, Kin*. 
Longfellow,HUWaeki,Wonder, nr. kind,. l).W.Ford,KI«li*r»,NY 
Medium and Mammoth Clover 
ami Valley. Also 
Alfalfa, hardy Northern non-lrrlgated seed. All high 
in germinntiou and imrity tests Prices and samplos 
freoly furnished. MACE & MANSFIELD, Greenville, Ohio 
SWEET CLOVER SEED ennial yellow. Price* 
imd circular how to 
grow it, soul oil request. E. Burton, Box 29, Falnioulli, Ky. 
We are annum the A I Cll/C PI (TUCD in this country 
laroesl grower* ol MLOIivL uLUVCn offer good 
clean seed. Bushel. *11: half hushol. 85.7J*: dock, $11. 
C. J. BALDRIDGE, HOMESTEAD FARM, KEN0AIA, NEW YORK 
s F flL ° E R SEED CORN 
-12-ROW FLINT. $125 BU. 
NATHAN H. BROWN. Kimlerhook.N. Y. 
SECOND CROP SEED potatoes 
whwwili* i ■ are the Lest sued grown. 
Irish Gobblers and other varieties. UHpercent pure. 
Catalog Froo. JOHN W. HALL, Marlon Station, Md 
SEED POTATOES 
... Choice ... 
Northern Crown 
CATALOGUE SENT ON REQUEST 
NORTHERN SEED COMPANY 
Box 31 :: :: :: Grand Rapid*, Michigan 
WEEDLESS FIELD SEEDS 
t 
We are trying with all our might to furnish nls 
solutely pure. Red, Alsiko, Mammoth, Alfalfa, 
Timothy, rtwoet Clover, and all other Held seeds, 
with all Mooted and immature, grains removed. 
Writs today for free Hnmpla nod In.trnotlon* 
"How to Know (laud tired." 
O. M. HCOTT tc HON, HO Main Ht., Mnry.vllle, Ohio 
J 
M0U " Tfll " ENSILAGE CORN 
Grows mammoth stalks with big ears ami full 
of leave* Its early maturity always insures a 
full eropof ideal forage before frost A very vig¬ 
orous sort, often growing 14 to 111 foot tall. Our 
extra selected seed gives highest satisfaction. 
GREAT DANE OATS 
A hoavy yielder of highest quality. Berrios 
golden yellow, with thin hulls and hoavy moat. 
Writs lor FREE Circular 
Lot u* toll you more about O. & M pedigreed i 
farm seeds. Shows through pictures what 
results others score with them Send a postcard 
roquost Today. 
0ATMAN & MONfORT, Box 114, CLEVELAND, DHIO 
The best money can buy— 
Clean and hardy—germination and purity 
guaranteed. Our choice home grown 
CLOVER, TIMOTHY and ALFALFA 
and all other frrasa and field Reeds are the best 
it is possible to secure. We will send Abso¬ 
lutely Free samples anil prices, also on r ru-w 
Alfalfa Guide, full of valuable information 
about this profitable plant. Don’t buy until 
you have seen our samples. Write to 
N. WERTHEIMER & SONS 
Dept. K Ligonier, Indiana. 
WE PAY THE FREIGHT 
WOOD’S FAMOUS 
Brimmer 
Tomato. 
The Peer of all tomatoes for 
large, uniform size and superior 
table qualities. Market growers 
sell it at more than double the 
price of ordinary tomatoes. 
Wood’s 1914 Descriptive Catalog 
gives reports from customers, 
showing large profits from grow¬ 
ing this variety. Wood’s Cata¬ 
log also tells about all the best 
Farm and 
Garden Seeds. 
It is the thirty-fifth year of its issue 
and is more valuable than ever. 
Mailed free. Write for it. 
T. W. WOOD & SONS. 
Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. 
ft a -rn *ro Swedish Select Also Coil, teaming. Reid's md While 
IIA I X Cap Seed Corn end Carden Seeds. Samples And Calatooue 
UH I U !<U THCQ GUNT 4 SONS, Wolroso, Olnp, 
Bust strains grown 
Soiul for prices. J.B QUIRK 
NO Rill MADISON. OHIO 
PI flVFR QFFfl—Flood crop of flue quality. Tf in- 
uLUYLIIOLLU torcstnd ask for - is in p I o 8 and 
prices. Address WYSUNG'S SLED MOUSE, Lebanon, Inil. 
SEEDS a* ONE-HALF 
CITY SEEDSMEN PRICES! 
But us send you our catalog of seeds—it's differ¬ 
ent. It, tells you facts, and why wo can save you money, ami give you a guaranteed HfJIJAKK 
DKAI.- .lust, drop a postal torlay and see the difference in buying your seeds in country or city. 
fi'OKKKHT SIClil> COMPANY, BOX .'12. : COKTI,ANI>, NI(\V YORK 
■HlftlllMi **■> MB Direct to the planter at wholesale price*. We Pay The 
!■ Ull I 1 I KJIh L Freight and Guarantee Satisfaction. 400 , 0 (K) trees 
| Bh b> select from. Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Berry 
Plants and Ornamentals. Send for Catalogue. 
L’AMOREAUX NURSERY CO., Schoharie, Now York- 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The large new dam of 
the West Virginia I’nlp and Paper Co., 
at Dobbin, W. Va., broke, Jan. 15, let¬ 
ting loose a body of water 50 feet deep, 
seven miles long and with an average 
width of more than two miles, which 
swept down the Stony Creek valley thirty 
feet high. Warnings of the approaching 
flood sent the residents of small towns 
along the river scurrying to safety in the 
hills. Officials estimated that property 
along the path of the flood had been 
damaged to the extent of $200,000. To 
this was added thousands of dollars’ 
worth of logs carried away by the water. 
After a preliminary hearing attended 
by many oil producers and refiners the 
Oklahoma State Corporation Commis¬ 
sion lias issued an order fixing the retail 
price of kerosene at eight cents a gallon 
in certain territory in western Oklahoma. 
The retail price formerly ranged from 
15 to 20 cents a gallon. This is said to 
be the first time in the history of the oil 
business in the United States that State 
officials have ever fixed the price at which 
kerosene should hi' sold to the public. 
The penalty for the violation of the com¬ 
mission’s orders is a fine of $500 and a 
jail sentence. 
The four officers of the steamer Greg¬ 
ory, ’. ho risked their lives by jumping 
into the sea on January 4 to rescue six 
men adrift in a lifeboat from the sink¬ 
ing Oklahoma, were presented with gold 
medals Jan. l(i, by the Life Saving Be¬ 
nevolent Association or New York. They 
are Captain William Trow Aspinwnll, 
Richard Henry Buck, chief officer; John 
Sydney Williams, second officer, and 
Frederick David Roberts, third officer. 
The society also voted to present 288 
medals to the officers and seamen on the 
10 vessels that took part in the rescuing 
of passengers and crew of the Volturno, 
which burned at sea in October, when 
1 15 lives were lost. The medals will lie 
presented only to persons who took actual 
part in the rescue work. They will cost 
$4,800. 
After hearing hundreds of personal ap¬ 
peals and reading letters and petitions 
hearing more than 2,G00 names, Justice 
Davis in the Supreme Court, Criminal 
Term, New York, Jan. 21, sent to State 
prison for not less than one year and nine 
months and not more than three years 
and eigiit months David Kalhofer and 
Max Swersky, convicted of horse poison¬ 
ing. Kalhofer was president of the Horse 
Owners’ Protective Association and presi¬ 
dent: of the Columbia < >. K. Ice Cream 
Company. Swersky was his business 
partner. It was shown at the trial that 
the two hired for $150 Nigger Friedman’s 
gang of horse poisoners to kill eight 
horses owned by a Brooklyn business 
rival. 
The international convention in Lon¬ 
don called to provide regulations for 
greater security at sea has provided for 
the following precautions: Ice patrol 
of the Atlantic passage under control 
of the United States Government., better, 
equipment of vessels with wireless tele¬ 
graphy and a new code of signals, regu¬ 
lation of speed during thick weather, 
double bottoms for passenger steamships 
in addition to watertight compartments, 
stronger construction of all steamships, 
an improved system of lighting, the pre¬ 
vention of fire al sea, the best life saving 
apparatus available and the requirement 
of thorough and frequent inspections, 
with constant drilling of crews for emer¬ 
gencies. After tin* rules of the conven¬ 
tion go into force every steamship of the 
fourteen signatory nations will I.bilged 
to carry enough lifeboats, rafts or their 
equivalents, to accommodate all persons 
on hoard, including members of the crew. 
Elaborate as the new code is, it assumes 
Unit no ship is unsiukahle. As Lord 
Mersey, the president of the convention, 
said in his closing address, no matter 
how vigilant commanders might he, there 
would always remain the possibility <>f 
“a serious and even totally destructive 
accident.” 
FARM AND GARDEN. —F. M. .Tones 
of Ulinton, N, Y., lias purchased Spring 
Farm Pontiac Cornucopia, a Holstein 
Friesian hull, for which he will pay 
$15,000 to Colvin Desliane of Richland, 
N. Y. This is a new record price for a 
young bull. Tim purchaser of Spring 
Farm l’ontiac Cornucopia recently sold 
to Stevens Brothers at Liverpool, N. Y., 
the cow Pontiac Lass for $10,000. Pon¬ 
tiac Lass is the mother of the bull for 
which Jones now pays $15,000. 
January 31., 
The mid-winter meeting of the Michi¬ 
gan State Horticultural Society will be 
held in Benton Harbor, Mich., Thursday 
and Friday, February 5 and G, in the 
auditorium of the First Baptist Church. 
The State society will lie the guests of 
Berrien County Horticultural Society, 
which numbers over 200 members. For 
further information, address J. Pomeroy 
Munson, president, Grand Rapids, or 
Robert A. Smythe, secretary, Benton 
11 arbor. 
Midsummer weather for 10 days has 
brought out such numbers of grasshop¬ 
pers in Hamilton county, central Texas, 
that the State Department of Agricul¬ 
ture was appealed to, Jan. 10, to assist in 
preventing the insects from destroying 
crops. 
Indian Agent J. F. Smith, of Chase, 
British Columbia, reports that in his 
work the past year has been a most en¬ 
couraging one. The first exhibit made 
by the Chase and Shuswap Indians at 
tlie New Westminster fair was eminently 
successful. In wheat and oats they won 
first prizes in competition, not against 
Indians merely, but against the whole 
province. The Spence’s Bridge Indians 
won u similar success in certain classes 
of fruit. The wheat and oats from the 
Shuswap reserves were included in the 
exhibit sent by the Government to Chi¬ 
cago. In tlie quantity of produce raised 
tin* year shows returns that are not in¬ 
significant. On the local reserves there 
was baled for selling as much as GOO 
tons of hay, while the grain crop harvest¬ 
ed amounted to 1,500 tons. 
The annual convention of the Con¬ 
necticut Vegetable Growers’ Association 
will occur in Hartford, February 4, at 
Foot Guards Armory in connection with 
the second day’s meeting of the State 
Bornological Society. The principal 
speakers will he Dean It. L. Watts of the 
Pennsylvania Agricultural College, and 
Stephen F. Willard, the veteran .seeds¬ 
man. For further information address 
David S. Kelsey, secretary, West Hart¬ 
ford, Conu. 
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. -Presi¬ 
dent Wilson read to Congress, Jan. 20, 
his promised address on the subject of 
legislation designed to curb the supposed 
monopolistic tendencies of modern indus¬ 
trial corporations. Nearly all of the 
an-inhcrs of the Senate and House were 
present. The address was well received 
and was indorsed in unusually candid 
terms by members, regardless of political 
affiliations. Following arc President Wil¬ 
son’s recommendations for curing the 
trust evil: 
1. Effective prohibition of interlocking 
directors of great corporations hanks, 
railroads, industrial, commercial and pub¬ 
lic service bodies. 
2. Powers to be conferred on the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission to superin¬ 
tend mid regulate financial operations by 
which railroads in the future may get the 
necessary capital for development and im¬ 
proving transportation facilities. 
3. Supplementary legislation to make 
the Sherman law more explicit. 
4. Creation of a trade commission 
which shall he a clearing house of infor¬ 
mation to help business to conform to 
the law and at the same time investigate 
and report to the Attorney-General on 
violations. 
5. A law prescribing penalties for indi¬ 
viduals who are responsible for unlawful 
business practices. 
t>. To prohibit holding companies and 
to restrict the voting power of individuals 
who may hold shares in numerous corpo¬ 
rations. 
7. Allowing private claimants to found 
suits for redress against unlawful com 
binations under the Sherman law upon 
faeti? and judgments established by Gov¬ 
ernment suits and providing that the 
statute of limitations against such claims 
shall begin to run from the date of the 
conclusion of the Government suit. 
The message delighted the conserve 
lives in Congress, irrespective of party, 
but brought some disappointment to tin* 
extreme radicals, who considered the ad¬ 
dress too temperate. In Wall Street and 
in financial circles generally the I’resi 
dent’s programme produced a reassuring 
effect, which was reflected in the stock 
ma rket. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Tennessee State Horticultural Society, 
State Nurserymen’s Association, Stale 
Beekeepers’ Association, Nashville, Tonn., 
January 28-30. 
Forty-first annual meeting, New Jer¬ 
sey State Board of Agriculture, Trenton, 
N. J., January 20-30. 
Farmers’ Week. State School of Agri¬ 
culture, Canton. N. Y., January 20-81. 
Ohio Corn Improvement Association, 
Mansfield, < January 27-80. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Rochester, N. Y., January 28-20- 
80. ‘ 
Farmers’ Week, Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio, February 2-0. 
Connecticut Vegetable Growers’ As¬ 
sociation, Foot Guards Armory, Hart¬ 
ford, February, 4. 
Midwinter meeting Michigan State 
Horticultural Society, Benton Harbor, 
Feb. 5 G. 
Sixth National Corn Exhibition, State 
Fair Grounds, Dallas, Texas, February 
10 - 21 . 
Granite State Dairymen’s Association, 
Concord, N. II., February 12. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, ten-weeks’ Winter course, Jan¬ 
uary G to March 13. 
