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M'JILC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 
May All Be Kept for One Year on the Product of One Acre 
I T is hardly believable. ’ Keeping seven cows for a whole year 
on one acre goes a long way toward reducing the cost of 
milk. Ross’ Eureka Corn produced in one year on one acre 70 
tons and 800 lbs. of the best quality of ensilage. Figuring at 
the rate of 50 lbs. of ensilage per day, which is a very liberal 
allowance, this amount will feed seven cows for one year and 
enough left over for 2G1 feeds. This enormous crop 
won our $50.00 gold prize. 
We Oiler $100.00 in Gold to the First Party Breaking 
this Record with Ross' Eureka Corn 
Every bag or crate of Ross’ Eureka Corn bears our 
trade mark—the man holding the stalk of corn. We 
do this for your protection, because there has been 
so much corn sold as Eureka which is not Ross’ Eureka 
and does not produce the same results. As ye sow, 
so shall ye reap. If you plant cheap seed, you must 
expect to reap accordingly. Ross’ Eureka is backed by a 
reputation of more than 25 years. We know before we ship 
our seed that it will grow under favorable conditions, as we 
test every variety before we send it to you. If it doesn’t germinate, the fault 
is with the planting, weather or some conditions that cannot be foreseen. 
Ross’ Eureka Ensilage Corn 
Grows tallest, has the most leaves, greatest number of ears. The four heaviest acres of this 
corn in one year gave a total yield of 200 tons and 06 lbs., an average of 50 tons and 24 lbs. per 
acre. This is not much above the average yield lor Ross’ Eureka Corn if it is planted under 
favorable conditions. 
You do not need to plant your whole farm when you can fill a 200-ton silo from 4 to 6 acres 
with Ross’ Eureka. The best money you can spend on the farm is for good seed. Poor seed 
is dear at any price, but good seed is always worth what you pay for it. Ask yourself what 
corn is worth per bushel that will produce 70 tons and 800 lbs. per acre over ordinary corn. 
We are not asking you to experiment. We are only asking you to buy seed corn from us that 
thousands of successful farmers have bought from us and planted on their own farms, year 
after year, and have found it to be the cheapest and best corn they can buy. 
Our Customers tell us that Ross’ Eureka Corn Germinates nearly 100% 
Ross’ Eureka Corn was introduced by us about 25 years ago. It is a white, smooth-dent corn and 
grows the tallest, usually 16 to 20 feet, has long, broad leaves, is short jointed, and if planted 
thin will yield two or three large juicy ears to a stalk. Planting Eureka Corn is as good as 
an insurance policy to any farmer. It grows where other kinds fail and the yield is 
tremendous. We do not ask you to take our word for this, but we will gladly refer you to 
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Bibb. Agricultural Institute, Macon, Ga. 
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• Vegetable Growing Under Irrigation : j 
A PRACTICAL SUCCESS. — “Ten 
years ago,” said A. M. Seabrook, of 
the Seabrook Farms Company, Cumber¬ 
land County, New Jersey, “had I talked 
upon this subject, you would have looked 
upon me as an enthusiastic theorist. The 
work, however, has passed the theoretical 
stage, and vegetable growing, by the aid 
of overhead irrigation, is a practical suc¬ 
cess. For many years, in our farmers’ 
institutes, there has been a period set 
apart in which was discussed conserva¬ 
tion of moisture. But our attention is 
being diverted from this, and instead of 
waiting for natural rainfall, we now con¬ 
sider utilizing the springs, ponds and 
subterranean streams for the growing of 
crops. 
Essentials of Irrigation. —“Regard¬ 
ing some of tlie essentials, first is an ade¬ 
quate water supply. It would be utterly 
useless to go to the expense of erecting 
an irrigation plant unless you had suf¬ 
ficient water supply to give the crops all 
the water needed. There are three pos¬ 
sible sources, a spring or pond, artesian 
wells, or city water. I know a man who 
is using city water and paying 15 cents 
per thousand gallons, and he says it p ys 
him. I know another man who, a short 
time ago, was hesitating because the best 
acre. After digging the potatoes we set 
the ground to strawberries and inter¬ 
cropped with romaine, from which we 
harvested a heavy crop. We took three 
crops from the piece of ground, and it 
was ready for a strawberry crop in the 
Spring. It has been exceedingly dry in 
our neighborhood. From the first of May 
until November 7 we had only 12.Ft 
inches of rainfall; it was the driest point 
in the State of New Jersey, so it can 
readily be seen that crops grown last 
year were grown under adverse condi¬ 
tions. We had seven acres of Chesa¬ 
peake strawberries that were set out in 
the Spring, and five or six set out in Au¬ 
gust. We took from that field between 
74.000 and 75,000 quarts; some sold for 
25 cents a quart, a great many for 18 
cents, and the average price was 15 cents 
a quart. This year we have extended 
our strawberry acreage, and we shall 
have over .‘>0 acres to pick next year. 
We made our first picking on the first 
or second day of .Tune, and these ber¬ 
ries picked for 2.” days, which is an un¬ 
usually long period. They held up in 
size, none of them dried up and none 
rotted.” 
Other Crops.—L ast year we planted 
about 26 acres of head lettuce and ro- 
dea! he could make was four cents a 
thousand. A water supply from artesian 
wells is somewhat uncertain, for you do 
not know to what depth you may have 
to go to get your supply. In our own 
case we have a never-failing stream 
which we dammed, thus forming a pond. 
The past year, which was unusually dry, 
we had an abundance of water. Second 
is a high state of fertility of your soil. 
You readily realize that if you are going 
to spend from $125 to $150 an acre for 
irrigation, you need soil that is in a state 
of fertility to produce a maximum crop. 
This naturally leads up to a knowledge 
of soil conditions. Such knowledge will 
assist in choosing fertilizers that are 
adapted to the particular crops that you 
are going to grow. Third, a quick suc¬ 
cession of crops; keep tlie ground busy 
all the time. Fourth, still another essen¬ 
tial which has not been given as much at¬ 
tention as it should is the testing out of 
seeds before planting. If you go to the 
expense of getting soil in a high state of 
fertility, install expensive equipment, 
then plant a crop of seed which you do 
not know will germinate or come true to 
name, you are taking great risk. I would 
suggest that all seed be tested as to pur¬ 
ity and germination.” 
Practical Results.—“A few of the 
results from our practical experience, 
under our overhead system of irrigation 
are as follows: In 1012 we sent to the 
experiment station at New Brunswick 
for a man to measure and weigh one 
acre of Cobbler potatoes officially, and 
we grew 002 baskets, 84 pounds per 
basket, or 562 bushels per acre. Not 20 
feet away, and without irrigation, the 
same variety yielded about 300 baskets 
per acre. The following year our crop 
averaged about 900 baskets per acre, and 
that year was not a good potato year. 
Last year we had only about l 1 /* acres 
of irrigated potatoes. This ground was 
sown to spinach in January. Wo mar¬ 
keted the spinach and planted potatoes, 
and they yielded about 800 baskets per 
maine under irrigation, Spring and Fall. 
From th<> head lettuce we had 10.710 
boxes fancy stock and 4,450 hampers of 
second; from our romaine we had 10.150 
packages, of which 9,000 were fancy. We 
tried to grow four acres of lettuce with¬ 
out irrigation, and the dry weather came 
on and we did not take $25 from the 
four acres. We were equally success¬ 
ful with cabbage, carrots and beets. We 
had our cabbage in three different places, 
and sold 1,200 barrels from two acres, 
which was a very good yield. From 
seven acres of carrots we sold 157,000 
hunches, nearly all of which went to the 
New York market, selling at two cents 
to three cents per hunch. I have not our 
record at hand for beets and onions, but 
our onions pulled 700 to 800 hampers 
per acre under irrigation where under 
equally favorable circumstances without 
water we did not get 100. Most of the 
irrigated onions were shipped while 
green, direct from the field.” 
Type of Installation. —In explain¬ 
ing tlie installation. Mr. Seabrook said: 
“We have our pipes seven feet high; (lie 
nozzles are four feet apart, and the pipes 
are 50 feet asunder; they throw the 
water 25 feet each way, which covers the 
ground. We carry water at 60 to 75 
pounds pressure at the pump, which 
means about 50 pounds at the nozzle. 
We already have 78 acres under over¬ 
head irrigation, and we shall put 25 
acres more the coining season. Our 
power equipment consists of a 50 horse¬ 
power engine, and three pumps; one 
pumps LOGO gallons an hour, another 450, 
and still another 250 gallons. It re¬ 
quires 27.152 gallons to give an inch <>f 
rainfall on one acre, and allowing 10 
per cent, for evaporation, it takes about 
30,000 gallons to produce this rainfall.” 
When questioned, Mr. Seabrook said: 
“I am not able to say what depreciation 
may be or the exact cost of maintaining 
the irrigation plant. We can operate 
our engine and pumps at an expense <J 
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