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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 28 
THADC MARK 
[Acme] 
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pLANT pota- 
-*• toes without 
horses and plow, 
at even depth, with¬ 
out stooping, in ^ 
the usual time. 
Just drop a potato in¬ 
to the hopper, plunee 
the planter into the 
ground, and have an¬ 
other piece ready by the 
time you’ve lifted the 
planter up again. It’s as 
fast as you are. 
A I* M E POTATO 
All III k PLANTER 
350,000 Acme Planters in use, 12,000 
new users auded last year, every user 
satisfied. 
Buy from your dealer. If he can't 
supply, write for Free Book “The 
Acme of Potato Profit” and name of 
dealer who can supply you and also 
show you the ACME Compressed Air 
Sprayer. If no dealer is near you. we 
will ship direct, prepaid. 
POTATO IMPLEMENT CO. 
301 Front Street Traverse City, Mich; 
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Meeker 
Disc Smoothing Harrow 
Onion Seed Drills and Hand Wheel Hoes 
Southport Glebe Onion Seed 
Send for Catalogue and Prices 
THE C. O. JELLIFF MFG. CORP. 
SOUTHPORT - - CONNECTICUT 
SAVE MONEY S 
■■ Bigger Crops, Less Labor ■ 
With The Imperial Pulverizer because It does the 
work of a roller, pulverizer, clod crusher and leveler 
all in one trip over the plowed ground. 
It is the ONLY machine that packs the subsoil and 
leaves ground loose on top. Makes best seed bed. 
Boil retains moisture and produces bigger crops. 
Don’t Buy Any 
until you get our 
Booklet 
Peterson Mfg. Co. 
148 River St., 
Kent. Ohio 
—View o/faUand' 
Stone Crusher 
Get one of these crushers for crushing trap rock or 
any other stone for concrete or road making. 
Big money makers for farmers having 4 to 
12 H.P. Take on neighboring contracts 
and machine will soon pay for itself. 
Write for catalog, prices and trial offer. 
WEW HOLLAND MACHINE CO. 
Box 41 New Holland, Pa. 
Plain or Fertilizer Styles. 
Runners, Single or Double 
Dies. Flat and Edge Drop 
Plates with each SuperiorPlan- 
ter. Hoppers easily closed; 
always right, no matter when, 
how or where dropped. Cen¬ 
ter Reel—Self-Winding; Cen¬ 
ter Lift — Perfect Balance. 
Automatic Throw-Out. Two, 
three, or four Kernels to Hill • 
Without Changing Plates. 
Self-Adjusting Valves. Ac¬ 
curate Drop. Also furnished 
as a Two-Row Corn Drill. 
Simplicity and Great Strength. 
If you think of buying a Corn 
Planter, be sure and send for 
the Superior Corn Planter 
Folder an d then go to you r i mple- 
ment dealer and insist on seeing 
the Superior—“The Name Tells 
a True Story.” 
Remember, the Superior is 
sold under such a warranty that 
you run no risk in buying. 
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Sweet Clover in Maryland. 
Will you inform me about Sweet clover 
on the Eastern Shore. Caroline County, 
hog pasture, also for hay 
J. w. S. 
for cattle and 
and when to sow? 
Goldsboro, Md. 
Why anyone on 
Maryland should 
the Eastern Shore of 
want Sweet clover, 
where we can grow Soy beaus, cow peas 
and Crimson clover in the greatest 
abundance, is hard to understand. Sweet 
clover smells sweet, but is really so bit¬ 
ter that no animal I ever tried would 
eat it unless starved into it. You can 
make better hog pasture with rape and 
Crimson clover and cow peas and Soy 
beans than you can with Sweet clover, 
and by sowing it here you will only add 
another weed that after a while you will 
be glad to get rid of. The plant will 
grow in Caroline County, but thrives 
best in a soil rich with lime. Better 
leave the Sweet clover to the cold North¬ 
west, where they cannot do so well with 
better legumes as we can. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Fruits for Michigan. 
I have a small farm in Berrien Coun¬ 
ty, Mich., and this Spring intend setting 
out some apples, sour cherries and also 
some quince trees. I already have an 
orchard of Northern Spy and Baldwin, 
but with to set other varieties. The soil is 
a clay loam. What varieties would you ad¬ 
vise for commercial purposes in that sec¬ 
tion of the fruits mentioned below. Can 
the Wolf River, Wealthy and the De¬ 
licious be grown in this district with any 
degree of success? What sour cherry 
would you suggest, and what age of trees 
would be recommended? IIow many 
quince trees would be advised on a small 
farm and what variety would do best in 
this section? t. s. 
South Beud, Ind. 
The climate and soil of Northern 
Michigan are well adapted to the growth 
of all the fruits mentioned. In fact it 
is a very good region for general fruit 
growing, although peaches are rather ten¬ 
der there. The Delicious apple origin¬ 
ated in Iowa where the temperature goes 
down to 30 below zero at times. The 
Wolf River and Wealthy are still hard¬ 
ier and are among the safest to plant in 
Wisconsin and Minnesota where they or¬ 
iginated. Northwestern Greening is an¬ 
other good one. The Montmorency is the | 
best sour cherry to grow there for mar- I 
ket. Trees two years old are the limit 
as to age and one-year-olds are as good 
but either will be all right. About five 
or six quince trees are enough for home 
use on a small farm. Orange is the 
best variety to plant there. 
II. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Saving the Soil. 
A few years ago Mr. B. F. Viquesney, 
of West Virginia, wrote us about a farm 
proposition. The soil he had in mind was 
wet, sour and very poor for most crops. 
There was a supply of wood ashes which 
could be obtained at a low figure, hut to 
most men the outlook did not seem bril¬ 
liant except perhaps to the untried imagi¬ 
nation of a baek-to-the-lander. We ad¬ 
vised draining this poor land as far as 
possible and building up the soil by 
means of cover crops with the wood ashes 
to start them. Now we have the follow¬ 
ing letter to show what has happened : 
I have about 15 acres, of which I plant¬ 
ed three acres in potatoes. They pro¬ 
duced about 1,-100 bushels; half au acre 
entered in a contest produced 325 bush¬ 
els; 1acres of cabbage 00.000 pounds, 
at 1*4 cents per pound. Potatoes are 
selling around .$1 per bushel. I had about 
two acres of sweet corn, and produced 
about 2,000 dozen, and same plot in the 
sweet corn had green beans, turnips, ruta¬ 
bagas, parsnips, peas and a general gar¬ 
den crop. When all is sold I shall have 
over $3,000 worth of goods; beside this 
had pasture for two cows and two horses, 
and cut hay, etc. So much for under 
drainage, wood ashes and cover crops. I 
don’t use much stable manure because I 
cannot get it, and the crops that I am 
plowing down every year are cheaper 
made than buying manure. 
There are many places throughout the 
country where soil of this kind can be 
made to “come back” and go into produc¬ 
tion. It should be deep soil with fair 
quality to start with. Drainage will take 
out the water, lime will sweeten it, and 
cover crops will fill it with organic mat¬ 
ter, and in time make it “productive soil.” 
Sometimes it is possible to buy ashes or 
other wastes at a very low price, to take 
the place of lime or fertilizer. A man 
must have capital and courage and great 
patience to carry such a job through, but 
it can be done. 
363.1 Bushels Potatoes 
From One Acre of 
Massachusetts Land 
A. Webster Butler of Brockton, Mass., 
won the first southern zone prize offered by 
the Bowker Fertilizer Company for the larg¬ 
est yield of best quality potatoes grown ex¬ 
clusively on Stockbridge Potato Manure. 
His acre was a “rocky loam” producing 
about 2 1-2 tons of hay per acre in 1912 on 
manure. Rows were 36 in. apart and Green 
Mountains cut to two eyes were planted 14 
inches apart. The piece was cultivated five 
times. The acre was sprayed with Pyrox. 
STOCKBRIDGE 
POTATO MANURE 
was applied 2100 lbs. broadcast and 700 lbs. 
in the drill. No other fertilizer or dressing 
of any kind was used. The entire crop 
weighed 21,783 lbs. or 363.1 bushels. His 
total score including quality points was 589 
points, the highest in the southern zone. 
Other Winners secured yields ranging from 
311.1 bushels to 502.6 bushels in the northern zone, 
(Me., N. H., Vt.,) and from 183.8 bushels to 363.1 
bushels in the southern zone, (Mass., R. I., Conn.) 
Send us your name for complete and intructive statement 
concerning the results of the contest and how these great 
yields of potatoes were obtained. No other fertilizer thau 
the Stockbridge Potato Manure was used. 
DrYI]l7’fc r I7D FERTILIZER COMPANY 
.DLJ W JVIlirV 43 Chatham St., Boston. 
Also Baltimore, Buffalo, Philadelphia and New York. 
BfILCOX fertilizer! 
Nothing Equals Wilcox Fertilizers 
for raising prize vegetables. In fact, all properly cared-for crops j/J' T3. 
raised on WILCOX FERTILIZERS, the fertilizers that jj jk [T’-'r 
fertilize, may be safely exhibited at fair or grange. Better /[-x ' *■* 
still, the soil from which these products have been gar- 
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nered is in much better condition at the end of the 
season, for we take into consideration the neces- 
f sity of soil upkeep — an element that is'sadly 
(W-*. • * 1 - neglected by many. 
Send today for our book 
WILCOX FERTILIZER CO. 
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MYSTIC, CONN. 
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from any other element, 
or combination of 
elements. 
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THE MASTER KEY TO PERMANENT AGRICULTURE 
Phosphorus is so-called because it’s use elves largely increased yields of 
clover, alfalfa and other legumes, which secure nitrogen from 
the air. The acids formed by the decaying roots of these 
plants make available the potash which is abundant 
in most soils. Recorded experiments on all nor* «Ae* v ‘ •o' ,c “ A 
mal soils in the Eastern and Middle West* r\Q0 *’*' 
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FEDERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY, 
Ground Rock Deparment COLUMBIA, TENN. 
LIME 
FOR THE SOIL. “BEST ON EARTH” 
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