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Come 
you can 
1 easily 
start, this 
spring, in 
the prof¬ 
itable business of contract 
ditching for tile drainage. 
BUCKEYE 
Fraction djtcheH 
For All Soil Condition* 
Every Buckeye owner is mak¬ 
ing money—and there are hun¬ 
dreds of them. A reasonable 
down payment secures the 
machine. Besides a comfortable 
living you can pay the balance 
out of your earnings in a few 
months. 
Write today for Catalogue 3 and 
new terms. 
The Buckeye Traction Ditcher Co. 
FINDLAY, OHIO 
Makers also of 
Buckeyo Open Ditchers 
Trench Excavators 
and Tractors 
BUSH AND BOG PLOW 
does work no other machine can do. 
It cuts down bushes, demolishes bogs, 
and does all kinds of hard plowing and disking. 
It is big and strong and withstands terrific 
strain. Ask your dealer about it. If he doesn’t 
sell CUTAWAY (CLARK) implements, write us 
at once for free catalog. There are no substitutes. 
THE CUTAWAY HARROW COMPANY 
Muker of the original CLARK disk harrows and plows 
839 MAIN STREET f HIGGANUM, CONN. 
Weight 660 pounds 
24-inch disks 
forged sharp 
Four-horse hitch 
Dust-proof hard¬ 
wood bearings 
BUSH AND BOG PLOW 
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and worry, saves buying so much meat, gives better satis- E 
faction to the help. A good garden will be almost impossi- S 
ble in your busy life without proper tools. They cost little 5 
and save much hard work. 
WHEEL HOES 
AND DRILLS 
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-III sow, cultivate, ridge, furrow, etc., better than you can 
with old-fashioned tools and ten times quicker. A woman, 
boy or girl can do it. Can plant closer and work these hand 
tools while the horses rest. 38 combinations 
from which to choose at $2.SO to $12. One 
combined tool will do all of the work. 
Ask your dealer to show them and 
write us for booklet, ’’Gardening 
With Modern Tools" Free. 
BATEMAN 
M’F’G CO. 
Box 22 
Grenloch.N.J. 
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SPORICffiES—SMUT 
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Value of Horse Manure. 
When is horse manure most valuable, 
when raw or when it is burned? IIow 
does it compare with cow manure? 
New Britain, Conn. j. s. 
Manure is never worth more than when 
it is fresh. It never gains plant food by 
storage, but loses it more or less slowly. 
The plant food may become more avail¬ 
able by composting or fermenting but 
more or less of it is lost by heating or 
drainage. Burned or “firefanged” ma¬ 
nure is not as rich as fresh manure as 
some of its ammonia is lost through the 
heat. 
Nitrate of Soda on Wheat. 
Would nitrate of soda spread on wheat 
in Spring, 200 pounds to the acre, prove 
profitable, or what other ingredients 
would you advise? Would the best, way 
to spread this be to broadcast by hand, 
or how would you apply it so as to get 
200 pounds on the acre? J. A. T. 
New York. 
The thing to remember about nitrate of 
soda is that it contains nothing of fer¬ 
tilizing value except nitrogen. It is in 
effect a stimulant or whip to force the 
crop into a quick, strong growth early 
in the season. On wheat which was well 
seeded last Fall on strong land, or well 
fertilized, we think the nitrate alone will 
pay. If the soil is poor or not fully 
fertilized we would not use the nitrate 
alone, but acid phosphate, and if possible, 
potash with it. The proportions are usu¬ 
ally one pound nitrate, three acid phos¬ 
phate and one muriate of potash. If you 
use the nitrate alone you can mix, say 
300 pounds of land plaster or dry soil 
with it, and broadcast the 500 pounds 
per acre evenly by hand. 
Nitrate of Soda on Garden. 
I have read in The R. N.-Y. that land 
which has plenty of manure on it can be 
made more productive by the use of ni¬ 
trate of soda. If this is true, what 
amount should be used on a quarter of an 
acre that is used as a family garden and 
which produces a great number of dif¬ 
ferent vegetables? w. I,. G. 
Virginia. 
Are you sure you read that in The R. 
N.-Y.? We have explained many times 
that nitrate of soda contains a soluble or 
available form of nitrogen. Stable ma¬ 
nure also contains nitrogen—which fact 
is its chief value. When this manure is 
well rotted it will contain enough avail¬ 
able nitrogen to supply garden crops, and 
in such case it is doubtful if nitrate of 
soda would pay. If the manure is fresh, 
coarse, or not well rotted, it must decay 
more or less in the soil before it will be¬ 
come available. In that condition or in 
a cold season or in a naturally cold soil, 
the manure alone might, not start the 
early vegetables off rapidly, and in such 
case a small quantity of the nitrate 
would help if used when the seeds were 
planted. It is usually a mistake to use 
the nitrate with large quantities of well- 
rotted manure, for too much soluble ni¬ 
trogen forces a rank/, tender growth of 
the plant. This would suit some plants 
like lettuce, but would not be suitable 
when seeds or solids heads are wanted. 
Wax Shavings for Fertilizer. 
Will you advise me whether shavings 
from the wax cylinders used in business 
phonographs are of any value for plants? 
Binghamton, N. Y. m. l. t. 
The shavings from this wax has abso¬ 
lutely no value whatever as a fertilizer. 
They would really do more harm than 
good, as fats and wax of this kind re¬ 
tard, rather than increase the availability 
of plant food in the soil. There is noth¬ 
ing to it. 
Renewing Old Meadow. 
I have a couple of acres of hay about 
four years old. It’s run out a good deal. 
I wish to enrich it a little this Spring to 
get as big a yield of hay as possible pre¬ 
paratory to plowing under in the Fall and 
planting oats and peas iu the Spring. 
What is the cheapest fertilizer I can use 
to stimulate the hay somewhat? Ma¬ 
nure is too expensive. If I should use a 
commercial fertilizer let me know how 
much to use and what the approximate 
cost should be. g. w. 
Connecticut. 
In such a case we should use, say 150 
pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. This 
will stimulate a quick growth of grass 
and if the season is moist give a profit. 
But why plow in the Fall and leave bare 
through the Winter? Why not break up 
after this hay is cut and sow buckwheat, 
turnips and rye? This can be plowed 
under in Spring for the peas and oats. 
A TEST THAT HAS LASTED 
37 YEARS 
I am the owner of a Stude- 
baker wagon I bought in 1877 
from a man by the name of 
Blauvelt, in Paterson, N. J. 
He bought it the year previous 
at the exposition in Philadel¬ 
phia, 1876, making the wagon 
about 38 years old. It has 
been in use ever since and 1 _ ill 
am using it now. His btudebaker came 
He s7ri»g vTn';, N. Y. from the “Centennial,” 
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A WAY back in 18 76—the year of the '‘Centennial” in Philadelphia 
—Dealer Blauvelt of Paterson, N. J., bought a Studebaker Farm 
Wagon there and sold it, a year later, to Henry DeRonde of Spring 
Valley, N. Y. 
The wagon has been in constant use ever since, and is in use now— 
a long term of service for a wagon. 
But Mr. DeRonde’s wagon is a Studebaker, and long-lived Stude¬ 
baker Wagons are found all over the United States. 
Built for lasting service 
You see, it is the way the Studebaker 
is built that makes it last so long. Air-dried 
wood, tested iron and steel, good paint 
and varnish, all count. 
But the main (act is that Studebaker 
has been building wagons for 63 years 
and knows how. 
Studebaker could not afford to build a 
cheap wagon. The motto of the house 
for six decades has been: build not the 
cheapest, but the best. 
Any wagon salesman will tell you that 
a Studebaker wagon is built to last And 
long after an ordinary wagon has been 
sent to the scrap heap a Studebaker keeps 
right on doing its work and earning money 
for its owner. 
Suppose it does cost a few dollars 
more, isn’t the increased life of a Stude¬ 
baker worth h> 
Studebaker Buggies and Harness are 
also built to outlast others. 
STUDEBAKER, South Bend, Ind. 
NEW YORK CHICAGO DALLAS KANSAS CITY DENVER 
MINNEAPOLIS SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND. ORE. 
Adv. 2035 
Studebakers last a ‘lifetime 
Get Those Boulders 
Out of Your Way 
You might be getting good hard cash every year by growing 
r crops where the boulders lie. Get rid of those big stones 
fand stumps now —don’t keep on dodging them. You can 
f shatter the biggest boulders, and get them out of your way for¬ 
ever with a few minutes work, when you use the economical 
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Use Atlas Farm Powder to restore 
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blast the subsoil and release rich 
new plant food. Use it to blast 
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those trees outstrip trees plant¬ 
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