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January 20, 191". 
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W)estclox 
Alarm 
F ive a. m. for fac¬ 
tory men who beat 
the time clock at 
the works. 
Big Ben gives ’em their 
breakfast call long be¬ 
fore the whistle toots. 
They used to pound the 
pillow right up to the 
last dot —until they 
learned a better way — 
as the paymaster soon 
found out. 
Give Big Ben a trial, your¬ 
self ; make your roll-over¬ 
time pay. 
You’ll like him face to face. 
He’s seveninchestall, spunky, 
neighborly—downright good. 
At your jeweler’s, $2.50 in 
the United States, $3.50 in 
Canada. Sent postpaid on re¬ 
ceipt of price if your jeweler 
doesn’t stock him. 
Western Clock Co. 
La Salle, 111., U. S. A. 
Makers of Westclox 
Other Westclox: Baby Ben, Pocket Ben, Bingo, 
America, Sleep-Meter, Lookout and Ironclad 
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Sowanyseed, 
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tilizer successfully. All-steel ftaib® 
wood or steel wheels. Hoe, Single Disc 
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pose. We also make Crown Traction 
Sprayer, Lime Sowers and Grass 
Seeders—backed by 33 years 
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12'Wayne St. 
Phelps,N.Y. 
S END for our new illustrated catalogue of the 
best new and standard varieties of STKAW- 
IJERRy PLANTS; large healthy plants, 
grown in our new ground’and at reasonable prices. 
\Ve are introducing the finest late variety yet pro¬ 
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W. S. TODD - - - Greenwood, Del. 
Rurpee’s 
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B URPEE’S SEEDS are grown not 
only to sell but to grow again. 
The fact that 191G, our fortieth 
anniversary, proved to be our banner 
year, shows that confidence in the 
House of Burpee continues to grow just 
as surely as Burpee’s Seeds Grow. 
Each packet contains the result of 
our forty years of extensive operation 
and intensive investigation. 
Burpee’s Annual 
for 1917 
The Leading American Seed Catalog 
is brighter, better and bigger than 
ever before. We have added twenty- 
two pages, making in all 204 pages, 
and best of all, you will find thirty 
Burpee Specialties illustrated in color. 
Never before have we issued a catalog 
with so many accurate color illustra¬ 
tions. Burpee’s Annual is mailed free 
upon request. A postcard will bring it. 
P Write for your copy today and 
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W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 
Burpee Buildings Philadelphia 
This Steel Forge^ 
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Make black¬ 
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OurFor^saro 
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much work as any forge costing twice as much 
and to be as represented or money refunded. 
SPECIAL OFFERS!! 
Until March 31. 1917, our special Forgo and Tool 
offers will be of great interest to anyone needing 
a forge. Superior goods at low prices. Prompt 
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C. A. S. FORGE WORKS, Saranac, Mich. 
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Don’t Burn Your STRAW 
Learn how to change your straw pile into 
Gold; how spreading straw, like spread- 
manure, is the most paying thing 
B straw owner can do. In¬ 
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Spreader. Always a good 
machine,but now,after three 
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Fully guaranteed. A postal — 
brings my Book. C. E. WARNER, Pros., 
THE UNION FOUNDRY & MACHINE COMPANY, 
923 Union Street. Ottawa, Kansas. 
COLLINS’ Fruit Guide 
■foY 1 Q 1 V which apples, peaches, 
A C/ X I pgaj-g^ gfg ^ pay tiest 
for large orchards and for home gardens. 
Includes special offers on proved varieties of 
fruit trees, berry plants, privet, rose bushes and 
ornamental plants. Get your free copy today. 
100 Berry Plants for $2 from May till October 
ARTHUR J. COLLINS & SON, Box 31, Moerestewn, N.J. 
Applying Wood Ashes 
We have saved up considerable wood 
ashes. IIow could we best utilize them, 
by mixing them with horse or cow ma¬ 
nure, putting on alone, or would it be 
better to mix with some other ingre¬ 
dients? E. R. G. 
This question comes up probably 500 
times each year in spite of all that has 
been said about it. We ^ould never 
mix wood ashes with manure. It would 
probably be the worst thing you could 
do, a.s the lime in the wood ashes will 
set free the ammonia, so that it will be 
lost. This has been explained a great 
many times, but many fanners are con¬ 
fused when told that wood ashes will 
cause this loss, while coal ashes will not 
make trouble. Never put wood ashes 
with manure or other organic substances, 
as it will surely cause a loss. We have 
never found it very profitable to mix 
wood aShes with any other chemical fer¬ 
tilizer. .They are very dry and powdery, 
and do not make a good mixture. AVe 
prefer to apply them separately. This 
Winter we are making quite a quantity 
of wood ashes. They are taken up sep¬ 
arately, and either stored in a dry place 
or scattered over the garden, or around 
the peach trees while the soil is bare. 
Handled in this way directly we get 
full benefit from them where they will 
do the most good, and we believe that 
generally .speaking it is more profitable 
to n.se them by themselves. 
Plant Lice on Cabbage 
Do you know any remedy for lice on 
Fall-.sown cabbage plants for Winter hard¬ 
ening? They are the same kind of lice 
that destroy cantaloupe vines. They curl 
the leaves so it is next to impossible^ to 
get any poison on them. Does the kind 
or quantity of manure affect them in any 
way? w. E. J. 
Henderson, Md. 
In all probability the plant lice which 
are infesting your cabbage plants are the 
same species which infest cantaloupe 
vines. The kind and quantity of manure 
n.sed in the soil has no definite effect re¬ 
garding the plant lice. Cabbage lice 
cannot be destroyed with a stomach 
poison, because they do not eat the fol¬ 
iage iipon which we usually apply the 
arsenical poison. Plant lice live by suck¬ 
ing the juices out of the plants, there¬ 
fore the only way left for us to destroy 
them is by means of a contact poison, 
or by applying a dust Avhich gets into 
their breathing pores and smothers them. 
A solution made up of one pint of to¬ 
bacco extract containing 40 per cent of 
nicotine sulphate, 100 gallons of water 
and six pounds of whale oil soap is very 
effective, provided it strikes the bodies 
of the lice. On a small scale a good 
grade of tobacco dust is used to good 
advantage provided it is applied when 
the foliage is dry. 
If your cabbage plants were growing 
in cold frames or hotbeds I would rec¬ 
ommend a method practiced in New Jer- 
s(>y by our very successful truckers. 
They frequently fumigate Iheir plants 
with tobacco smoke to destroy any aphis 
which may he on their cabbage, cauli¬ 
flower, eggplants and peppers. This in 
measure forestalls serious infestation in 
the fields. There are many patented to¬ 
bacco punks, papers and contrivances 
which wiieu lighted or evaporated will 
give off the desired tobacco fumes, all of 
which are effective when the directions 
are follow('d. However, the tobacco 
stems thein.selves are usually the cheap¬ 
est and the most satisfactory especially 
in greenhouses. A few dry stems are 
l)laced in several different dry pots or 
I i»ans and lighted. .lust as soon as they 
get nicely started, they are covei'cd with 
a good supply of stems, which have been 
soakod in water for a minute. Do not 
allow too brisk burning, nor the giving 
off of excessive heat. Experience will 
soon teach one how to get a dense heavy 
smoke which does the trick. The fumi¬ 
gating may continue until the next morn¬ 
ing, when most of the smoke will have 
worked out, for all fumigating is done 
in the evening. 
If your plants are growing in open 
beds, you could make a light frame about 
25 feet.long, 30 feet wide and a foot or 
two deep. Cover this with muslin which 
has been previously soaked in linseed 
oil and have an extra strip a foot wide 
all around the edges. Fumigation could 
be effectively carried on under such a 
hood and by covering the flap all around 
with a little soil the fumes could not 
escape until they had accomplished their 
purpose. R. w. D. 
Events of ihe Week 
(Continued from page 72.) 
commerce of liquor for personal use. 
After having been vetoed by President 
Taft, who held it unconstitutional, and 
having been repassed by Congress over 
his veto, the law was sustained by the 
Supreme Court by a vote of 7 to 2. 
The prohibition laws in West Virginia 
will be more stringently enforced than 
ever before as a result of the declared 
constitutionality of the Webb-Kenyon 
law and the amendment to the Yost law 
in that State prohibiting the importation 
in interstate commerce of liquor for per¬ 
sonal use. 
Still another victory was added by the 
“drys,” Jan. 9, to their long list of suc¬ 
cesses when by a vote of 55 to 32 the 
Senate passed the Sheppard bill making 
Washington “dry” after November 1, 
3917. The measure will now go to the 
House. 
Hundreds of persons had miraculous 
escapes from death and considerable 
property damage resulted at Hartford, 
Conn., .Tan. 9, when a new machine gun, 
shooting 500 bullets a minute, got be¬ 
yond the control of testers at the prov¬ 
ing grounds of the Colt Patent Fire Arms 
Company. The Colt factoi’y is in the 
southwestern section of Hartford, about a 
mile from the most distant point at 
which a bullet was reported. There were 
no fatalities. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Stocks of 
beef held in cold storage January 1 were 
much larget than a 3 "ear ago, the Federal 
Bureau of Markets announced. .Tan. 8. 
Frozen beef reported by 152 firms was 
155,000,000 pounds, as compared with 
126,000,000 pounds .January 1, 1916, a 
22 per cent, increase. Cured beef, re¬ 
ported by 179 firms, was .38,000,000 
pounds, as compared with 21,000,000 
pounds a year ago, an 8 per cent, in¬ 
crease. Other meats showed smaller in¬ 
creases. Reports on eggs, creamery but¬ 
ter and American cheese in storage Jan¬ 
uary 1 indicated decreases under the 
stocks a year before of 41, 8 and 13 per 
cent, respectively. Apples decreased 30 
per cent. 
Cornell University announced. Jan. 9. 
that beginning next Fall a uniform tui¬ 
tion fee of $1.50 would be charged in all 
colleges of the university. This pieans 
an increase of $25 in the colleges of arts, 
law and agriculture, the other colleges 
already charging $150. The increase in 
the cost of overhead charges of operat¬ 
ing the university makes the tuition 
raise imperative. It is estimated that 
based on the year ending last Summer 
it cost the university $410 to educate 
each studeut. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Central New Yoi-k Poultry and Pet 
Stock Association annual exhibition, 
Utica, N. Y., Jan. 15-20. 
Pennsylvania State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, State Horticultural Society, S'tate 
Breeders’ Association, State Vegetable 
Growers’ Association, Ilarrisbiu-g, Pa., 
,Tan. 23-25. 
Western New York H'orticultural So¬ 
ciety, Rochester, N, Y., Jan. 24-26. 
American Cranberry Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, Camden. N. .1., Jan. 27. 
Appleton Poultry Show, Appleton, 
Wis., Jan. 28-.31. 
Farmers’ Week, Ohio, State Univei-- 
sity, Columbus, O., Jan. 29, 30, 31, Feb. 
1 , 2 . 
Ohio State Dairymen’s Association, 
Ohio State Universitj', Columbus, O., 
Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 1. 2. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, Ohio 
State University, Columbus, O., Jan. 
30-31. 
Ohio Percheron Breeders’ Association, 
Ohio State University, Columbus, O., 
Jau. 31. 
Ohio Vegetable Growers’ Association, 
Ohio State University, Columbus, O., 
Feb. 1-2. 
Ohio Rural Life Association, Ohio 
State University, Columbus, O., Jan. 30, 
31, Feb. 1. 
Ohio State Corn Show, Ohio State 
University, Columbus, O., Jan. 29, 30, 
31, J''eb. 1, 2. Entries close Wednesday, 
Jan. 23. 
Machinery Show, Ohio State Univer¬ 
sity, Columbus, O., Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 1. 
Duluth Poultry Show, Duluth, Minn., 
Feb. 1-6. 
Wisconsin Country Life Conference, 
College of Agriculture, Madison, Feb. 
5-10. 
Annual meeting, Wisconsin Live Stock 
Breeders’ Association, College of Agri¬ 
culture, Madison, Feb. 5-10. 
State Cow Testers’ Association meet¬ 
ing, College of Agriculture, University of 
Wisconsin, Madison Feb. 6-10. 
Wisconsin Swine Congress, Demonstra¬ 
tion and Sales, College of Agriculture, 
Madison, Feb. 5-10. 
New York State Grange, Oneonta, N. 
Y.. Feb. 6-9. 
Farmers’ Week, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 12-17. 
New York State Vegetable Growlers 
Association, Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 13-15. 
American Jersey Cattle Club, New 
York City, May 2. 
Holstein-Friesian Association of Amer¬ 
ica. Worcester, Mass., June 6. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
forty-second annual meeting, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa,, June 27-29, 
