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SWEET CLOVER 
BOON TO NEW ENGLAND 
and EASTERN STATES 
SWEET CLOVER: 
REDEEMER of barren hill tops, washed lands, 
sandy plains, worn out pastures and weary crop lands. 
SWEET CLOVER: 
IN PLAIN FARMING—“Crops following a 
two year rotation with sweet clover will 
gain in yield from 25 to 50 per cent.” 
—H. A. McKeene, Sec’y. Illinois Fanners Institutes. 
SWEET CLOVER: 
FOR ORCHARDS—The greatest nitrogen-gath¬ 
ering, humus-making rotation crop in our agriculture. 
SWEET CLOVER: 
POOR MAN’S ALFALFA and the rich man’s 
too, till he gets plenty of hay and pasture. 
SWEET CLOVER: 
FOR DAIRYMEN—"/ consider it the 
greatest pasture plant in America today.” 
—Chas. B. Wing of C^hio. 
SWEET CLOVER: 
FORERUNNER OF ALFALFA—Innoculales 
the soil, kills weeds (alfalfa's greatest enemy) and 
enriches the land. Grows where alfalfa cannot get 
a foothold. 
Announcement 
Cloverlea Seed Co., the seed selling department of 
(iloverlea Farm, Blanchard, North Dakota, (2240 
acres) pioneer clover farm of that state, has established 
an Eastern Branch at Kinderhook, N. Y. 
Cloverlea Seed Co., is headquarters for highest 
quality northwestern grown SWEET CLOVER. 
All shipments are made direct from the West. 
DIRECT TO YOU Wc Paj thc Freight 
Send for new up-to-date treatise on sweet clover by 
Datus C. Smith of Cloverlea Farm, with prices, &c. 
Address 
CLOVERIEA SEED CO., 
SWEET CLOVER for Hay 
Prices and Circul.ar on request. 
E. BARTON, Box 29, Falmouth, Pendletoa County, Ky. 
Clover Seed 
Our high g aiios of Grass seeths are the most care¬ 
fully selected and reeleaned. lligliest in Purity and 
(■iennination. We Pay the freight. Catalog jiiid 
Samples Free if you mention this jiaper. 
CLICKS SEED FARMS, Smoketown, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
GLOVER: TIMOTHY ^il’u” 
Greatest Grass Seed Value Known—Investigate. Alsiko 
Clover and Timothy mixed—the finest grass grown for 
hay and pasture. Cheapest seeding you can make, grows 
everywhere. You will save M on your grass seed bill by 
writing for free s.ample, circular and big Co-operative 
Seed Guide, offering Field Reeds, allk'''ds. Write today. 
American Mutual Seed Co., Oept. 560 Chicago, lU. 
Our seeds aro selected and cleaned to 
beWEKDLEBS and free from dead grains. 
They will go muoh farther than ordinary 
field seeds, nearly always adding enough to 
the crop to pay for themselves. Samples and 
catalog including“How toKuov Good SeedB” tree. 
Ifrite today. O.U. 8 COXX & SONS CO., 40 Mala St.,llIarysvUlo,0. 
VICK’S iAt., GUIDE 
For 68 years the leading authority 
Now on Vegetable, Flower and Farm ror 
Readv Seeds, Plants and Bulbs. Better 1017 
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PDRN High Quality and Germination. Also 
UUiin sensation oats. Samples and catalog 
free. . THEO. BURT & SONS, Melrose, Ohio 
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D SEEDS 
GOOD AS CAN BE GROWN 
Prices Below All Others 
I will give a lot of new 
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I fill. Buy and test. Return 
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Over 700 illustration.s of vege* 
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ALFALFA 
AMERICAN NORTHERN GROWN 
For fifteen years our advice concerning the seedinii 
and care of Alfalfa meadows, ond our seed for sowing 
them, have been standard—the best that wap to bo 
had. The catalog tells how, and prices the seed, 
not Turkestan, “Dwarf Alfalfa,’’ which we refuse to 
handle, but the best of American grown seed, in* 
duding usually Montana, Idaho, and the great 
“Dakota 30,” which rivals the Grimm itself. 
■ I CAI CA Next to Hansen’s Siberian, 
MLiHLiM the greatest variety grown 
in America. We have the genuine; also limited 
amounts of the Siberian. 
CLOVER and GRASSES 
Mo matter how critical you stro we can please yon. 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
Are grown for tho most critical trade. Write for fred 
catalog. Lists many new and rare specialties. 
Wing Seed Co., Box sss Mechanicsburg, O, 
The House of Quality arid Moderate Prices. 
C. N. ROBINSON & BRO. 
HOT BED SASH 
rt|“ CYPRESS, wellmade 
with cross bar, blind 
UwU tenons.whlteleadedin 
joints. Glass, S2.00 per Box. 
Depl. 14 Baltimore, Md. 
GTisf RURAL NEvV-YORKER 
Ventilating Mushroom Bed 
I have made a frame for a mushroom 
bod 120 square feet. The bed i.s on the 
north and west sides of the house cellar 
with a hinged top window on the south 
side and one in the west corner. How can 
I get ventilation at highest point above 
bed, so as to carry off the rising moisture. 
Mas.sachusetts. c. it. w. 
In order to get ventilation from the top 
of your cellar through your windows I 
would suggest that you put the hinges of 
hanging windows at tho bottom of the 
sash frames. Then fasten a piece of 
.><trap about a foot long to the top of the 
window frame. Have a .screw head or a 
nail head sticking out of the top of the 
sash frame. Then by means (,f a series 
of holes in the .strai) the window may be 
fastened for any desired amount of open¬ 
ing. 
If you find it desirable to exclude the 
light or further to prevent floor drafts, a 
board casing may be built on inside the 
window, which would permit the window 
to spring open, hut all the air would have 
to go over the top of the casing in going 
out or coming in through the window. If 1 
the casing is fastened on hinges it can be 
let down ont of the way any time yon 
wish to take anything in or out of the 
cellar by way of the window. Perhaps 
Fig. 47 will help to explain something 
hard to describe with words. K, D. B. 
Preparing Hills for Melons 
I plant several thousand hills to musk- 
melon each year. Each hill must have 
compost applied. We have tried furrow¬ 
ing both ways with a plow, and it leaves 
the ground in poor physical shape, so 
poor in fact, that it is more economical 
in the long run to dig the holes with a 
spade. Can anyone suggest a tool or a 
quicker way of digging these hole.s than 
by an ordinary .shovel? L. w, c. 
Pemberton, N, J. 
This is a problem that many melon 
planters would like to solve, but have 
not been able to do .so to their entire 
satisfaction. Some planters have found 
the following iilan an improvement over 
furrowing both ways. With a furrow¬ 
ing sled such as is used for furrowing 
out corn ground, etc., the ground is fur¬ 
rowed first one way. Then deep fur¬ 
rows are opened with a furrowing plow 
at right angles with the marks made by 
the sled. After the ground is planted a 
one-horse cultivator, harrow or drag is 
run crossways of the deep furrows, be¬ 
tween the hills, which levels the ground 
and puts it in good mechanical condition 
for subsequent cultivation. K. 
Selling Witloof Roots 
I have about l.DOO very fine witloof 
chicory roots which I cannot use. Is 
there any market for these, and what 
price ought they to bring? a. M. F. i 
North, Va. ^ 
It is very much easier to sell the wit-1 
loof chicory salad than it is to sell the j 
roots. If you have a warm collar or a 
cold frame I would suggest that you bed 
these roots in an upright position, with 
the tops of the roots about six inch<>s 
under the soil. In such a place the salad , 
would be ready to harvest In about four j 
weeks’ time, after which it could be i 
packed in suitable containers and shipped ! 
to market. Also, it so happens that 
witloof chicory seed is very much in de¬ 
mand, and if you have a very fine strain 
you might save some of the roots over 
until Spring, and set them out in your 
garden in rows 2y> feet apart, with the 
roots six inches apart. u. w. d. 
GrKOW 
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anniversary, proved to be our banner 
year, shows that confidence in the 
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Each packet contains the result of 
our forty years of extensive operation 
and intensive investigation. 
Burpee’s Annueil 
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 tliirty 
Burpee Specialties illustrated in color. 
Never before have we issued a catalog 
with so many accurate color illustra¬ 
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upon request, A postcard will bring it. 
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mention Rural New-Yorker. 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 
Burpee Buildings Philadelphia 
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years seed growing experience. 
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.831 Pearl St, JacktoB, Micb. 
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The Beautiful rich colorings and soft 
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Dreer’s Giant Pansies are of strong growth, easy 
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Dreer’s Garden Book 
For 1917 
is used by thousands of gardeners, both amateur 
and professional, who regard it as authoritative in 
the solution of all their gardening problems. It 
lists all the old dependable varieties of Flowers 
and Vegetables as well as the worthy novelties, 
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Out! 
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Symmes Blue Hubbard Squash 
Test our latest innovation in theseed world—tho 
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416 Elm street Marblehead. Mass. 
fHoffman’s 
Medium Red, Mammoth, Alsiko, Alfalfa, and Sweet. 
Plump—high purity—hardy—strong germination. 
Buy your Clovers early enough to permit testing, be¬ 
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free if you mention this paper. Write us today, 
A. H. Hoffroan, Inc., Landirville, Lancaiter Co., Pa. 
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Jlost every Seedsman tests his Seeds but Harris is the 
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If 98 per cent will grow, we say so. If only 67 per cent grows 
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produce crops of the 
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Box 55, Coldwslor.N.Y. 
Harris Seeds: 
Label on every Lo:t 
Tells how many' 
will -— 
urow 
According to our tests 
98 percent 
ofthb seed germinates 
