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“Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FRUIT PACKAGES Catalog 
Best quality. All stylf s. Any quantity. 
c. N> ROBINSON * BRO., Dept. M Baltimore. Md. 
TRAWBERRIES 
Send for new cata¬ 
log. Low prices for 
best plants. 100 Su¬ 
perb everbearing mailed for 81 east of Miss. 
(34th year onr acivei tisemeiit has been in R. 
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Potatoes 
—Beaiity, BoTee, Carman, Cobbler, King, 
Giant, Green Mt., Hebron, Hustler. Ohio, 
Moneyniaker,No*Bllght,Six-WeekH,Queen, 
Bose. Others. C. W FORD, Fishers, N- Y, 
GRASS SEED 
Pure Qualities. HV onderful values. Profits flltided with 
customers. Clover S8.25 per bu. Timothy 82.25. AUike 
Clover and Timothy $4.00. Sweet Clover $3.75. Alf^ 
fa $7.00. Other seeds in proportion. . All sold supjeOT 
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American Mutual Seed Co., Dept. 660 Cnlcafto, 11I« 
SWEET CLpVEJt 
White Blossoms-.the greatest money-making enm of toaa:^ 
Big money for the farmers who grow it.. Builds up land 
. - -—'—g crops while 
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best scarified hulled, high-germinating 
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.Sides are lieavy Book Board, Imita¬ 
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SEED POTATOES 
If you want the very best Aroostook 
County, Maine improved pedigreed Seed \ 
Potatoes of the best marketable va¬ 
rieties, either in car lots or less car lots, 
send for our Seed Potato Pamphlet. 
WM. S. SWEET & SON, Inc. 
CRAWFORD SQUARE. PROVIDENCE. R. I. 
Sweet Clover 
FOR THE ORCHARD — The ^eate*t nilrogen- 
gathering humut-making rotation crop in our agriculture. 
CLOVERLEA DIRECT TO YOU 
We Pay The Freight 
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highest quality 
northwestern grown 
Sweet Clover. 
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Cloverlea Seed Co. of North Dakota 
Kinderhook, N. Y. 
SELECTED 
SEED CORN 
8-rowed yellow flint, large kernels, tests 
perfect. per bushel with bags. 
Also 15 bushels home grown hairy v.-tch. 
T. H. KI.NG, Trumansburg, X. Y. 
Earliest Maine-Grown Sweet Com 
Sweetser’s Sunrise 
Pkt. 10c. Pint 30c. Postpaid 
ALLEN, STERLING & LOTHROP. PORTLAND, ME. 
niTO SENSATION: Record yielder. Extra fine seed. 
“ Also SEED CORN. Samples and catalogue free. 
THEO. BUKT & SONS - Melrose, Ohio 
SWEET Clover for Soil Building 
Prices and Circular on request. 
E. Barton, Box 29, Falmouth, Pendleton Co., Ky. 
ImprovedGOLDEN DENT GOURDSEED CORN 
bred for 30 years on the Eureka Stock Fiirm. Pro¬ 
duces over 100 bush, shelled corn to tire acre. Write 
for sample and circular. 
Edward Walter, Oept. R. West Chester, Penn, 
SEED CORN 
Yellow flint type. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Circulars free. 
CHAS. TANKER, PleasantVtIley.N.Y 
Will hold 52 issues, or more. 
Sent prepaid upon receipt of 
price, 50c. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
GLOVER 
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Don’t buy Field Seeds of any kind until you see pur 
samples and prices. We specialize on Guaranteed quality, 
tested Clover.Tiniothy, Alfalfa, Sweet Clover and Alsike; 
sold subject to your approval and gpvemment test. Write 
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FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO. 
SEEDS 
OF THE HIGHEST GRADE 
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We cannot say more for the SEEDS only “The Highest Grade.” 
Our Seed Annual is made up for the buyer who wants “The Highest 
Grade Seeds.” Let us mail you one and you be the judge. 
It is useful as a reference even if you do not buy. Just mail us a postal, 
we’ll do the rest. ___ 
Boston 
Pettier, Fiske, Rawson. Co. 
The Seed Store 
Faneuil Hall Square 
These Seven Cows 
May all be kept tor one year on the product of one acre* Keeping seven cows for a whole year on 
one acre goes a loug way toward reducing the cost of milk. Kureka Corn produced in one year on ono 
acre 70 tons and 800 lbs. of the best quality of ensilage. This enormous crop won our $60.00 gold prize. 
Wo offer $100.00 in crold to the flrnt party breaklngr this record with Roes’Eureka Corn* 
Look for our trade mark'-the man holding the stalk of corn. There has been much corn sold as Kureka which is 
Dot Boss' Eureka and docs not produce the same results. 
Ross’ Eureka Ensilage Com 
Grows tallest, has the most leaves, greatest number of ears. The four heaviest acres of this corn in one 
year gave a total ^ield of 200 tons and % lbs. This is not much above the average yield for Rose’ 
Eureka Corn if it is planted under favorable conditions. 
Sudan Grass is the latest forage crop, growing 7 to 9 feet. Produces more per acre than any other 
summer crop. Horses, cattle and pigs cat it eagerly. Sown broadcast or in drills. Include this in 
your order. Sheflield World’s Prize Flint Corn holds record for heaviest yield of Hint corn. 
Matures earlier than any other flint corn. Orass Seeds of highest quality, all varieties. Special 
mixtures for both wet and dry land. Superb TTtah-grown alfalfa. Send for our catalogue. Everything 
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BROS. COMPANY, 67 Front Street, Worcester, Mass. 
‘‘I Find You Have The Best 
Seeds In The Country— 
So Don’t ForgetTo Send MeYour Catalogue for 1917” 
So says one of our customers. Don’t you want one 
too? Harris’ catalogue is a real help to all who 
plant seeds. It gives true descriptions, pointing out 
the faults, as well as the merits of the different var¬ 
ieties. A label on each 
lot of seeds tells what 
per cent will grow 
according to out test. 
Ask for FREE Catal¬ 
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from the grower at 
wholesale prices. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO. 
Box 55 Coldwatcr, N, Y. 
Harris Seeds 
Label on every Lot 
Tells how many 
will 
According toour tests 
98 percent 
of this seed germinates 
New Fruits 
(Continued from page 318) 
by E. W. Kirkpatrick, who thinks it 
may be a seedling of Chinese Cling. 
Mibabelle Plums. —To American 
fruit-growers, Mirabelle plums are best 
described as golden-yellow, .sweet-flavored 
damsons. These Mirabelles are hardly 
known in America, but there are a dozen 
or more distinct varieties in Europe, 
where they are highly esteemed as des¬ 
sert fruits and for canning, preserves, 
compotes, prunes and tarts. This type 
of plum is represented hy four varieties 
on the New York Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station grounds—Drap d’Or, 
Reine Mirabelle, Late Mirabelle and 
Mirabelle—all of which are worthy at¬ 
tention. The small, round, yellow fruits 
are attractive in appearance and the 
sweet, pleasant flavor, whether eaten out 
of hand or however prepared in the 
kitchen, commend any of the four sorts 
to those who appreciate choice fruits. 
The trees are small, but vigorous, hardy 
and healthy and thrive w’herever dam¬ 
sons grow—indeed they are so hardy and 
healthy that they are commonly used 
in the Old World as a dw'arfing stock for 
other plums. French writers say that 
these Mirabelle plums come true to 
seed and that peasants establish their 
small plantations by planting the pits. 
The Empire Raspberry. —Empire is 
the most promising new red raspberry on 
the Station grounds, ' having hardiness, 
healthiness, produetivene.ss, and vigor of 
bush, and large, handsome, firm, well- 
flavored fruits as its chief assets. The 
canes need no Winter protection in this 
region; equal any other variety in 
productiveness; are unusually vigorous, 
reaching a height of six or eight feet; 
and last season, 1916, when anthracnose 
was everyw’here rampant, even on red 
raspberries, but a trace of this disease 
showed on Empire. The berries average 
larger than those of the well-known 
Cuthbert, are the same color, ripen 
earlier and have a longer picking sea¬ 
son. The fruits are mild, rich and 
sweet. The flesh is firm and without 
doubt the berries will stand shipment 
well and may be kept long. With such 
an array of good characters, it seems 
certain that Empire must take high 
standing among red raspberries. Empire 
originated in 1904 with L. E. AYardell, 
Marlboro, N. Y., and was introduced hy 
its originator in the Fall of 1916. The 
first hill of Empire, twelve years old, 
is still vigorous, healthy and productive. 
Good Luck Stram’berry. —Good Luck 
ranks among the best late strawberries 
on the Station grounds. In 1916 it sur¬ 
passed all other late varieties in yield, 
and provetl to 'be one of the best ship¬ 
pers. Imleed, the flesh is so firm that 
it is doubtful whether any other berry 
of any season will surpass it for trans¬ 
portation. Another outstanding charac¬ 
ter is that the plants are about the least 
susceptible of any sort on the Station 
grounds to leaf-spot. The fruits are large 
and handsome in color, both characters 
running uniform, as does the wedge-like 
shape. The quality is good for those who 
like a sprightly straw’berry, having be¬ 
sides sprightliness, a most distinctive 
flavor. Perhaps the fruit is too acid for 
dessert, but canued or cooked it is un¬ 
surpassed in flavor. The calyx, though 
a little too large and leafy, is a beauti¬ 
ful green. A defect in the variety is 
that the apex colors slowly, so that the 
fruits must be picked carefully to avoid 
green tips. Plants of Good T.uck must 
not be set closely, as they develop many 
runners. u. P. hedrick. 
Garden Preparedness for Michigan 
Starting Under Glass. —First let us 
take up the first doings of the grower 
who has a small house for starting 
something. The temptation is first to 
make a garden out of the greenhouse, and 
second to fill up all the space wfith seed 
boxes, and w’oe, woe. where to put them 
when the crowding leaves and roots de¬ 
mand more room and more food ! Early 
March is the time to start almost every¬ 
thing inside. The middle of the month 
I find amply early for the pot-grown to¬ 
matoes, but I like to get the cabbage and 
cauliflower under way now. To begin 
at the beginning, we must have a seed 
box. say two inches deep and of an area 
of square foot. I don’t mind han¬ 
dling a rather heavy box of plants, but 
March 3, 191T. 
w’ant my seed boxes light. The soil must 
be light too, friable, a kind that is rich 
and yet won’t bake on top before the 
seed comes through. Leaf mold mixed 
with your garden soil and a little sharp 
sand added will make this kind of soil. 
Planting The Soil. —If you want to 
use one box for a number of kinds of 
seed, be sure to choose kinds that come 
up about the same. For instance, cab' 
bage, cauliflower, lettuce and aster seed 
may all be sown in one box, or flat. All 
but the top half inch of dii-t should be 
coarse, just as it would be in the gar¬ 
den. Sift the top half inch pretty fine. 
Making a Kerf Graft 
Level it carefully with a straight stick 
that will go inside the edges of the box. 
Firm the soil just slightly. For these 
larger seeds make rows across the box 
with the edge of your stick, pushing it 
down till the furrows are a quarter inch 
deep. In planting the seed a little prac¬ 
tice will enable you to drop it from be¬ 
tween thumb and finger both evenly and 
rapidly. For best results I would aim 
at not over 10 seeds to the inch and less 
is better. When the seed is all sown, 
draw your stick, held angle-wise, straight 
across the box at right angles to the fur¬ 
rows, and presto, the seed is covered thor¬ 
oughly aud evenly. 
Care of Seedlings. —Set the boxes in 
a warm place, cover each with a pane 
of glass if possible, with a little stick 
A Whip-grafted Tree 
under the edge to let air in. The surface 
of the soil must not be allowed to get 
dry, nor must it be muddy. After the 
seedlings are up, about five days in the 
ca.se of plants mentioned above, see that 
they are in strong light to get sturdy 
growth. Pour the water between the 
rows with a small can having one side 
bent pitcher shape. Always water so 
that the ground will be wet to the bot¬ 
tom, otherwise a fungus will start at the 
base of the plants and whole rows will 
rot oil, and there will be no plants. If, 
in spite of precautions, the damping-ofl 
fungus does start, let the soil get as dry 
as possible without spoiling the plants 
and then stir the soil wdth a sharp .stick 
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