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1'JHkC KUKA L, NEW-YORKER 
FORKNER 
SPRING 
TOOTH 
TILLERS 
WORK RIGHT UP TO YOUR TREES ^ 
Cultivate entire surface between rows without disturbing boughs or fruit. Does 
more work—easier and quicker—and leaves better surface mulch than any other 
- — t cultivator. Used by thousands of fruit 
-- — growers and pronounced indispensable. 
One grower says: “The Forkner 
reduces labor 40%”. Another says: 
'We have all kinds of tools, but we 
can do our work quicker and bet¬ 
ter with a Forkner”. Still an¬ 
other says: “I wouldn’t take 
$ 150 . for my Forkner Tiller if 
_ I couldn’t get another”. 
.1- Write today for catalog and 
r * 1 free book—"Modern Soil 
~ a .*’ Tillage”—invaluable to 
1 — any farmer or fruit 
grower. Mailed free. 
Write today. 
LIGHT DRAFT 
HARROW CO. 
612 Nevada Si. 
Marshalltown, la. 
$1000 
An Acre 
Growing 
EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES 
Fruit tame year as planted. 
Freo Catalog with full Instructions. 
C. S- KEMPTON, Longmeadow, Mass. 
FANCY CLOVER 
Medium, Mammoth, Alsike, Alfalfa. 
TIMOTHY. All kinds Pure Field Seeds. We buy 
direct of the farmer. Quality high, Prices low. Can 
save you money. Witte for Fbeb Samples and Prices 
F. J. WOOD & SONS. LONDON, O. 
SPRAY--$IIO 
WITH THIS OUTFIT 
You cannot afford to do without a spraying 
outfit when you can get our Winner No. 1 at the 
extremely low price of $ 110 . 00 . It will handle 
1 nozzles, giving 5% gallons of liquid a minute 
at a pressure of 175 lbs.; comes complete with 
100 gallon tank, 50 ft. of hose, all ready to go 
10 work. Price on skids, $110.00, or on wheels, 
$135.00. We have two larger sizes, one with 150 
gallon and one with 200 gallon tank. Send for 
information. If you need power on your farm 
for any purpose, you need to know about Excel¬ 
sior engines. They are reliable ancT durable. 
Tell us your power needs and get special propo¬ 
sition and catalog free on request. 
R. CONSOLIDATED GAS & GASOLINE ENGINE CO. 
202 Fulton Street, New York City. 
^^Twenti/AVilliori 
Dewberry, raspberry and other small 
fruit plants, fruit and ornamental 
trees and shrubbery. Everything for 
the farm and home at wholesale prices. 
Big 20 th century catalog, illustrated in 
colors sent free. 
TOWNSEN 
ntury catalog, illustrated in 
-ee. Worth its weight in gold. 
ID, 25 VINE ST.. SALISBURY, MO. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS^ £• 0 b r« 
nual catalog. Slaymaker & Son, Wyoming, Del. 
STRAWBERRIES 
We have grown strawberry plants for over 40 year*: write 
for our money-saving price list. George W. Bridgman 
Nursery Co., Dept. A, Benton Harbor, Michigan. 
SEED POTATOES 
WITH BUSINESS BACK OF THEM 
Grown in Maine under supervision of Plant Pathologist. 
Parent Plants yielded 6 to 10 large tubers each. Spraying 
practiced. Weak, unhealthy plants and those not true 
to'type removed from fields. Constant inspection from 
planting to digging. Yields per acre 400 to 555 bua 
Pedigreed Seed—Kit to Plunt. 
Clovers—Alfalfa— other grass seed—Oats—Corn — 
Field Peas and Beans. Fine Catalog — Free. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, LANDIS VILLE, Lanc.Co..PA. 
LOWELL’S SELECTED SEED POTATOES 
Guaranteed 100% pure and practically free from dis¬ 
ease. No powdery scab in this section. Send for 
catalog. Frank Lowell & Sons, Gardiner, >Ie. 
STURDY, VIGOROUS, HARDY TREES 
Complete assortment of standard and new varieties 
DELICIOUS APPLE (J. H. Hale), EARLY ALBERTA PEACHES 
Guaranteed as represented in every particular. 
APPLE, 2 and 3 yr. on whole imptd. roots, 
3^ to 5 ft,. *6.50 per 100 
PEACH, 2 yr. roots, 1 yr. tops, 
2 to 3 ft.. *2.75 per 100 
All other prices equally low. Write for price list on 
complete line of General Nursery Stock. 
LAKESHORE NURSERIES, Box R.U, Girard, Pa. 
Lay That Cellar Floor Now 
while you have the time to make a good job of it. Concrete makes 
a clean everlasting floor, easily swept or washed— one that the furnace 
or hot ashes cannot set ablaze. All the materials you need are good 
sand and gravel or crushed stone and 
TuaiMie 
PORTLAND 
CEMENT 
ALPHA Portland Cement always 
gives satisfactory results on the farm. 
It goes further and is cheaper in actual 
use than ordinary cements. It makes 
everlasting walls, walks, driveways, 
porch floors, silos, posts, troughs, etc. 
In building for permanence you 
need the best Cement you can get. 
Use a brand guaranteed for strength. 
Insist upon ALPHA and be SURE. 
The ALPHA Dealer Has a Book for You 
Our large illustrated ALPHA book shows how to make scores of home-and- 
farm improvements. The ALPHA dealer in your community will be glad to 
give you a copy and tell you more about everlasting improvements made with 
ALPHA Cement. If you don’t know the ALPHA dealer, write us, mention¬ 
ing what you are planning to make or build. Address Dept. R. 
ALPHA Cement is sure to produce 
a fine hard job, for its quality is guarded 
carefully by chemists throughout the 
process of manufacturing. It is tested 
every hour, so that every bag is sure to 
be of full strength and binding power. 
ALPHA is warranted in composition, 
fineness and tensile strength to more 
than meet the Government require¬ 
ments and all other standard tests. 
Alpha Portland Cement Co., 
General 
Offices: 
Easton, Pa 
SALES OFFICES: New York, Chirac®. Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Baltlmora, Boston, Savannah 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—Eighty-five persons were 
dragged from the icy water of 
Chesapeake Bay, Jan. 22, when 
the steamer Maryland of the Maryland, 
Delaware and Virginia line burned off 
the Megothy River. That there was no 
loss of life was due only to the fact that 
the two night liners from Norfolk to 
Baltimore arrived promptly. Many pas¬ 
sengers donned life belts and jumped into 
the bay to escape the flames, and almost 
perished in the icy water. 
The executive board of the New Jersey 
State Federation of Labor, in session in 
Newark, Jan. 23, adopted a memorial 
which will be sent to the Legislature, 
demanding legislation that will do away 
with the possibility of a repetition of the 
shooting down of strikers by armed 
guards. One bill will be submitted pro¬ 
hibiting the use by private corporations 
of armed guards in labor disputes. An¬ 
other will make it unlawful to swear in 
as a deputy sheriff any non-resident of a 
county. 
Nineteen men composing the crew of 
the schooner Mary L. Baxter were 
rescued in a 70-mile gale near Diamond 
Shoals, Va., Jan, 24, by a volunteer 
crew from the Morgan liner El Valle. 
The Baxter was partly dismantled and 
her crew were forced to take to the 
rigging of the broken masks to escape 
the high seas which beat over the vessel. 
There is a strong probability that the 
proposed parade of American warships 
through the Panama Canal in March will 
he abandoned and that President Wilson 
will journey to the San Francisco expo¬ 
sition overland. Colonel Goethals told 
the President, Jan. 25, it was impossible 
to say whether or not the Atlantic fleet 
could be sent through the canal, because 
the slides at Gold Hill had proved so 
formidable that the engineers had not yet 
been able to dredge a depth sufficient to 
allow the battleships to pass. 
Additional indictments returned at 
Chicago, Jan. 26, in connection with the 
broken La Salle Street Trust and Sav¬ 
ings Bank charged William I-orimer, 
president, Charles B. Munday, vice- 
president, and Henry W. JIuttig, a di¬ 
rector, with misapplication of funds. 
The first indictment is against Lorimer 
in 26 counts, and charges misuse of $61,- 
500 of the bank’s funds. In each instance 
Munday is charged with aiding the pres¬ 
ident. The second indictment charges 
Munday in 26 counts with the misuse of 
$125,000. The third charges in 60 counts 
the misuse of $S0,000 by Munday and 
Huttig. 
Jan. 26 the five-masted schooner Eliza¬ 
beth Palmer came into collision with the 
freighter Washingtonian off the Dela¬ 
ware Capes. Both ships sank. The crews, 
with one seaman missing, were picked 
up by the Hamilton of the Old Dominion 
l.ine. It was the first voyage of the 
freighter, which left Honolulu on De¬ 
cember 30, had passed through the Pana¬ 
ma Canal, reached Balboa on Jan. 17 
and left Cristobal on Jan. 19, with a 
cargo of sugar and a small amount of 
general merchandise. The schooner was 
bound for Norfolk to ship a cargo of coal 
for Portland, Me. She was worth about 
$125,000. The Washingtonian is a com¬ 
plete loss. She belonged to the Ilawaiian- 
American Steamship Company, and was 
worth about $1,000,000 and her cargo 
of sugar about half that much. Both 
were fairly well covered by insurance. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Plans for 
the biggest Farmers’ Week yet held at the 
Masachusetts Agricultural College at Am¬ 
herst are fast maturing. Farmers’ Week 
is scheduled this year from March 15 to 
19 inclusive. Special features will be 
moving pictures of Massachusetts agricul¬ 
ture and country life; the corn, potato, 
and dairy shows; the big evening meet¬ 
ings and the meetings of various associa¬ 
tions and soeieties during the week. The 
program will be divided into six distinct 
sections which will hold continuous meet¬ 
ings '-n different places about the campus. 
A “movable school” under the auspices 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege and the U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture opened at Nash’s Mills, Mass., 
Jan. 22, is to continue one day a week 
for 12 weeks. This is under a plan 
whereby such instruction may he given 
through a local teacher, lessons being 
prepared by State and Government auth¬ 
orities. The local leader will he Rev. 
Arthur Rudman of Nash’.. Mills. r ' he 
classes will be held in the vestry of the 
chu h Nash’s Mills. It is expected 
that considerable assistance in the prac¬ 
tice exercises will be received from the 
newly formed Franklin County Farm 
Bur au 1 its County Agent, Mr. S. R. 
Parker. 
The Massachusetts Forestry Associa¬ 
tion has announced a town forest com¬ 
petition for 1915, the object being the 
imp .vement of 100 acros of town, forest. 
The prize is the setting of 50 acres to 
two-year White pine transnlants. It is 
urged that every town should make a 
general survey of possible tracts and 
when one is selected a well-studied lay¬ 
out, plan of roads, paths, camp-sites, re¬ 
creation features, etc., should be made 
and a definite forest policy should be out¬ 
lined. Towns and communities which are 
not able to employ a regular landscape 
office to draw up definite plans may se¬ 
cure help of this kind through the Massa¬ 
chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. 
Men especially adapted to work out such 
problems are available, the only expense 
being for travel and the drafting of the 
plans. 
F'ebruary (!. 
The American Association of Nursery¬ 
men will hold its fortieth annual meeting 
at Detroit, Mich., June 23-25 ; John Hall, 
secretary, 204 Granite Building, Roches- 
terr, N. Y. 
Working in cooperation with the new 
State Department of Foods and Markets 
the New York Central railroad company 
is about to build a $1,000,000 market ter¬ 
minal on the block bounded by Eleventh 
and Twelfth avenues and Thirty-fourth 
and Thirty-fifth streets, New York. 
Plans for two similar structures in 
Brooklyn and Long Island City are also 
being made. These are to be the first of 
a dozen or fifteen terminals for receiving 
and distributing foodstuffs in the greater 
city. 
The annual meeting of the Farmers’ 
Transportation Association, Inc. (of Bur¬ 
lington County) was held in Grange Hall, 
Burlington, N. J., Jan. 16. Officers for 
the ensuing year were elected: President 
W. T. Baggs, Beverly; vice-president 
Howard Russ, Delanco; secretary and 
treasurer L. A. Page, Palmyra; trustees. 
II. K. Cramp, W. K. Ilookstra, E. M. 
Brock, E. W. Scott, C. C. Shipps, A. D. 
Mueller and Watson Van Sciver. Peti¬ 
tion for a public hearing before the Pub¬ 
lic Utilities Commission of the State 
of New Jersey will be made, at which 
time improved conditions will be asked 
f r both from the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company and the Adams Express Com¬ 
pany. 
The board of governors of the Farm 
Mortgage Bankers Association of Amer¬ 
ica announces that the association will 
welcome criticism concerning questionable 
methods of farm mortgage bankers any¬ 
where in the United States. It is the 
aim of the association to assist in an ef¬ 
fort to p farm mortgage banking be¬ 
yond reproach of any sort and to pro¬ 
mulgate educational plans to enlighten 
investors concerning farm mortgages. 
The association purposes to take steps 
this year to secure legislative action with 
regard to rural credits throughout the 
country. The next annual convention 
will he held in St. Louis in October. 
The regents of the University of the 
State accepted the resignation of Dr. 
Cl ”les Horton Peek, New York State 
Botanist, who is said to have the long¬ 
est record of continuous activity in the 
history of the State civil service. Dr. 
Peck is 82 years old and for some time 
has been in slightly impaired health at 
liis home iu Menands, a suburb of Al¬ 
bany. He joined the staff of the State 
Museum as botanist in 1867. 
With the $2,500,000 appropriated by 
Congress in the urgency deficiency bill 
fo the eradication of the foot-and-mouth 
disease immediately available, the I )e- 
partmen*. of Agriculture has begun the 
prompt payment for losses to owners of 
infected herds. This step will enable the 
federal authorities to push their cam¬ 
paign against this epidemic much more 
energetically, as it will minimize the re¬ 
luctance of farmers to surrender their 
stock for slaughter. The outbreak cost 
the government a total of $2,129,138.04 
up to January 1. Of this sum $1,840,- 
528.99 represents the government’s share 
of the expense of slaughtering infected 
herds and reimbursing the owners for 
their losses, of which the government 
pays half and the individual stands the 
remainder. The figures show that exclu¬ 
sive of the work in January 101,176 ani¬ 
mals have been slaughtered. Of these 
46,268 were cattle, 47,735 swine and the 
remainder sheep and goats. The loss in 
Illinois has been larger than in any other 
State, with 36.758 animals slaughtered 
there. Pennsylvania comes next, with 
17,896, and Ohio third with 10,111. None 
of the 16 other States in which there was 
an outbreak lost as many as 8,000. 
The directors of the Dairymen’s 
League met in Albany, Jan. 20, for tin* 
(lection of officers for 1915, and the of¬ 
ficers for 1914 were re-elected. The exe¬ 
cutive committee appointed were It. D. 
Cooper, Little Falls, F. H. Thompson. 
Holland Patent, Frank Sherman, Copake. 
the president and secretary being ex-officio 
members. Several reports were received 
of efforts upon the part of the dealers to 
get the producer to sign contracts from 
April to April, which the directors feel 
is decidedly bad policy for the producer, 
and bel’eve it will be a serious mistake 
f the producer to sign for a longer per¬ 
iod than Oct. 1, even should it be neces¬ 
sary to tie themselves for any definite 
period. The directors reiterated their 
belief that the most effective way for the 
farmers to secure relief was to control 
t 1 ' *r slipping station and instances were 
shown where farmer owned plants were 
securing much better returns than those 
selling to dealer operated plants. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Fa mers’ week. New York Agricultural 
College. Ithaca. Feb. 8-13. 
New York State Vegetable Growers’ 
Association, fifth annual meeting, Feb. 
9-12, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Second annual meeting of the New 
Hampshire State Department of Agricul¬ 
ture and the thirtieth annual meeting of 
the Granite State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, Manchester, N. H., Feb. 10-1L 
Madison Square Garden Poultry Show. 
New York, 26th, annual exhibition, Feb. 
12-18; secretary and superintendent, 
Chas. D. Cleveland, Eatontown, N. J. 
Farmers’ Week, Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College, Amherst, March 15-19. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
fortieth annual convention, June 23-25. 
Detroit, Mich. 
