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Dibble’s Mammoth Yellow Flint, early rank grower, 
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Dibble’s Early Yellow Dent, largest extra early yellow 
dent for crop or silo, matures with us in 90-KX) days. 
Dibble’s Improved Learning, ten days earlier than 
standard Learning of commerce with larger stalks 
and ears and more of them. 
Dibble’s Mammoth White Dent, grows under favor¬ 
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Dibble’s Seed Com tests90# or above. (Average tests 
to date over 95£) and wo sell it to you on a ten 
days approval your-money-back-if-you-want- 
itplan. Price as low as $1.50 per bu. in quantities. 
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ADDRESS 
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1600 acres In our own seed farms 
and samples of 
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EVER-BEARING 
Strawberries and Raspberries 
that fruit same year as planted 
I give my personal guarantee that these plants if set 
out in May will yield an abundance of large delicious 
berries next September and October and again in 
Spring same as common June berries. 
I offer for the first time seed of my famous 
Longmeadow Cantaloupes 
that I sell each season daily in barrel lots to the hotels 
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all other fine hotels and clubs in Boston and New 
York. These melons average netting me 30 cents each. 
Don’t buy berry-plants or melon seed until you write for my free catalog 
toiling what kinds to grow and how to grow them. 
C. S. KEMPTON, Longmeadow, Mass. 
"There is no better authority in the East regarding melon-culture than Mr, Kempton. 
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75 varieties, Strawberries, Rasp¬ 
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1000 , not prepaid, 
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STRAW BERRY PLANTS 
We have eight that have been selected out of a 
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$12 per tiiousand. By PALL L IIEGGAX,Waterford Works, N.J 
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prices. Send for price list. (’has. Black, flights town, N J. 
St, Regis Everbearing Red RaspberryjPlants 
$12 per tiiousand. Also Strawberry and Blackberry 
plants, trices low. 
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Send for prices and booklet on Potato Growing. 
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cidiolJ Finest Varieties, 
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VETCH AS A MANURIAL PLANT. 
Part I. 
Securing Hardy Types. —During the 
last decade much discussion has arisen 
regarding the use of vetches as green 
manure and cover crops. For many 
years it has been known as an admirable 
forage crop in foreign countries, as well 
as in the United States, but not until 
recent years has its full value been real¬ 
ized. This has come about chiefly 
through discoveries and research in mod¬ 
ern agricultural principles. In 1890, 
Winogradsky, a Russian scientist, iso¬ 
lated bacteria for the first time. Ilis 
projects were at first confined to such 
crops as cow peas, Red clover and Al¬ 
falfa, but at the beginning of the present 
century important experiments were 
tried with the vetches. A little later, 
in 1901, A. D. Shamel, of the Bureau 
of Plant Industry, introduced into the 
tobacco regions of Connecticut some of 
the seed of European grown vetch. He 
sowed this seed on some of the bottom 
land soil in Connecticut Valley, and at 
first only a small proportion of the 
plants resulting survived the Winter. 
Then the seeds from the hardiest of those 
plants were sown the following year 
resulting in a larger and stronger growth. 
This was continued for two more years, 
and at the end of that time a hardy va¬ 
riety was secured that was adaptable to 
the climatic and soil conditions of Con¬ 
necticut Valley. 
Vetch And Tobacco. —The important 
part of this experiment was not alone the 
securing of a desirable variety of vetch, 
but the fact that it brought to light the 
advisability of using vetch as a green 
manuring and cover crop when the to¬ 
bacco was off the fields. It was found 
that it accomplished this by means of 
nitrifying organisms that work upon the 
plant roots. The nitrogen resulting from 
this action had been taken from the air 
and added to the soil. This experiment 
has been of lasting importance, as now 
throughout the Connecticut Valley Ilairy 
vetch plays a large part in the addition 
of nitrogen to the tobacco crop. To¬ 
bacco, depending upon the variety, re¬ 
quires from four to eight per cent, of 
nitrogen, and the farmers have found 
that in using the Hairy vetch as a legum¬ 
inous cover crop they can save about 
half of their fertilizer bill. The writer 
last Summer visited a number of to¬ 
bacco growers in the vicinity of Hartford 
and was very much interested to see the 
progress that had been made there in this 
way. On a large farm near Rainbow the 
only fertilizer used in addition to the 
growth of vetch was common New York 
City manure, and after the plants had 
been reset a small amount of nitrate of 
soda was added. At several other places 
the farmers bought only phosphates and 
potash, relying wholly upon the vetch to 
produce the nitrogen. Possibly it is not 
safe to do this entirely, but the amount 
of nitrogen that need be purchased can 
be cut down to a much smaller figure 
than without the use of vetch. 
Other Experiments. —Connecticut is 
not the only section of the United States 
where the value of vetch has been felt. 
Experiments similar in nature to those 
performed by Mr. A. D. Shamel have 
been conducts in practically every part 
of the country. The South now uses 
common or English vetch as a green 
cover crop for cotton in Alabama, 
Georgia and the adjacent States. In 
the West, common vetch is used as a 
Winter crop with oats and wheat for hay 
production. This is a common practice 
in late years in Oregon and Washington. 
Tests on the Umatilla Experiment Farm 
at Ilermiston, Oregon, have shown the 
superiority of vetches as a Winter cov¬ 
er crop, and also that Alfalfa, when 
grown near young trees in an orchard, 
gave a depressing effect upon the less 
hardy trees, while the vetch had no un¬ 
favorable influence over them. It now 
plays an important part in the Citrus 
groves of California, being more exten¬ 
sively used than any other green manur¬ 
ing crop. In Michigan, Wisconsin, and 
Minnesota vetch has been found to be the 
best seed and forage crop for the sandy 
jack-pine cut-over lands. 
Thus the vetches have come to play an 
important part in various localities, and 
there is perhaps no crop to-day more 
worthy of the farmer’s attention. Es¬ 
pecially here in the East is it coming 
April 11,. 
to be the leguminous crop in rotation 
and in many instances taking the place 
of Red clover, cow peas and Alfalfa. The 
successful results in Connecticut could 
well be duplicated in New York State, 
and doubtless within a few years it will 
take its place in the crop rotations of 
mdny of the largest farms. 
W. II. BULLOCK. 
Fertilizing Asparagus. 
I have an asparagus patch of 2% 
acres that is just six years old this 
Spring. The crowns were one year old 
when planted in 1908, and in 1910 I cut 
and sold $308.41; 1911 (price was very 
low) $206.43; 1912, $245.42; 1913, 
$408.63. I am sure I lost at least $50 
of “grass” by not having help at the 
proper time and could not get it. I only 
manured this patch once; that was the 
second year, and from that time on I 
have been using a special mixture that 
our agent puts up for asparagus, that 
costs $27 per ton. I use 1,500 pounds 
per acre of this in early Spring, at first 
working, drilled up the rows; at ray last 
cutting in July I use 1,500 pounds, and 
keep cultivation up as long as I can, and 
in spite of all I can do in the Winter 
for the last two years the yard grass 
will grow. Do you know of anything 
that could be done to get rid of it? It 
is an awful bother in the Spring. 
c. J. R. 
The natural habitat of asparagus be¬ 
ing the sea coast, common salt applied 
at the rate of 800 to 1,000 pounds to 
the acre will not only prove more or 
less beneficial to the plants, but will 
destroy practically all weeds and grass 
that may infest the plantation. Crab or 
yard grass, like asparagus, prefers a 
sandy loam to a clay loam soil, and will 
thrive with more persistency in the rich 
light soils such as are generally used for 
asparagus than on any other kind of 
soil. In some sections of the country 
where the soils are light and where there 
is much high wind during the Winter, 
crab grass is really of great benefit in 
preventing the soil being blown away and 
is welcomed as a valuable protection 
against soil loss, which in certain sections 
where the winds are unbroken by wood¬ 
land or hills would be very heavy if it 
• was not protected by the covering of 
dead crab grass. The yield .of your 
plantation seems to be nearly up to the 
average, but would no doubt greatly ben¬ 
efit by a good application of composted 
stable manure to which should be added 
about 35 pounds of muriate of potash and 
100 pounds of fine ground natural phos¬ 
phate rock to each ton of manure, about 
15 tons of this manure and chemical 
mixture to the acre will be sufficient. 
Apply immediately at the close of the 
cutting season. 
A very successful grower in Virginia, 
writing upon the subject of manuring as¬ 
paragus beds, states that he had made 
a practice of applying 25 tons of well- 
rotted manure to the acre, broadcast and 
worked in with the cutaway harrow 
every third year, also using at the same 
time 500 to 1,000 pounds of finely ground 
raw bone, and every third year 500 
pounds of kainit should be broadcast to 
the acre. There are many ideas as to 
what kinds of fertilizers are best for as¬ 
paragus, how much should be used to 
the acre and when it should be applied. 
The most reasonable and common-sense 
method seems to he that advocated by the 
author of “Asparagus Culture,” issued 
as a farmers’ bulletin by the U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, in which he 
says: “Those growers who apply a lib¬ 
eral dressing of stable manure or fertil¬ 
izer immediately after the cutting season, 
supply the required nourishment to the 
plants at the time they most need it, and 
can most profitably utilize it in the pro¬ 
duction of spears. Manure thus applied 
will also act as a mulch preventing the 
growth of weeds, keeping the soil light 
and cool, and preserving the moisture 
intact. The manure should not be ap¬ 
plied directly on top of the row.” As 
between manuring in the row and be¬ 
tween the rows, the latter should be se¬ 
lected as the evidently advisable one by 
which the feeding roots of the plants are 
most easily reached. K. 
“Some of your constituents are dis¬ 
agreeing with you,” said the trusted lieu¬ 
tenant. “Well, keep tab on them,” re¬ 
plied Senator Sorghum; “when enough 
disagree with me to constitute a reliable 
majority, I’m going to turn around and 
agree with them.”—Washington Star. 
