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Produces plants with large branching roots which 
resist winter conditions. Leafier, out-yields other 
varieties and is of better feeding value. Booklet, 
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sample free. Will also send testimonials from 
patrons in your locality. 
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Alfalfadale Farm, Excelsior, Minn. 
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list-dozens of varieties of Timothy, Clover, 
Alfalfa, Corn Seeds, etc. Do not buy until you 
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STOECKER SEED CO, Dept. 2 PeorU, Illinois 
Clover Seed 
Our high grades of Grass seeds are the most care- 
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Our seeds are selected and cleaned to 
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the crop to pay for themselves. Samples and 
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Threeearliestvesetables in cultivation for 10c. One 
packet each, Robinson’s Earliest Tomato, Earliest 
Round Red Radish, Earliest Lettuce. 10c to new 
customers. Regular price 30c. CATALOG FREE, 
C. N. Robinson & Bro., Dept.Sl, Baltiniore,A1cI. 
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Over 700 illustrations of vega- 
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ford’s GlotyCabba^e 
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cabbage. One planter says: “From 
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Another says: “ From 1000 Glorv 
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heads.” 
Glory makes the best liead of 
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few loose leaves, and can be 
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FORD SEED CO., Box 24, Ravenna, Ohio 
IIeati.xg a LItti.e Greekiiouse.— One 
of the chief difficulties in manai^ing a very 
small greenhouse is the heating. I have 
seen many efforts to keep plants in a 
small structure by the aid of kerosene 
stoves .a very unsatisfactory method, and 
not wholesome for the plants. I have 
heretofore told about the building of my 
miniature greenhouse, a little lean-to on 
the east end of my office building, which 
gives me a bench room 4x10 feet, a two- 
foot walk, with a potting table in the 
north end. This was built mainly for the 
starting of the early plants of tomatoes, 
peppers, eggplants, etc., for the frames 
later in Spring. And yet I get a great 
deal of fun out of it with fio4vers of va¬ 
rious sorts. , 
Small Fuel Consumption. —In the 
beginning the heating was the problem. 
I Imd about concluded to put a stove in 
the poppers and eggplants are started and 
potted. I can start enough plants in the 
little house to use a large number of 
frames for transplanting. In fact I 
start a great many more plants than I 
have any use for, and sell them readily 
to my neighboi*s for enough to pay for 
running the greenhouse. When most of 
the plants are out in the frames I start 
Cannas and the Begonias and Gloxinias, 
A Backyard Garden. —Some years 
ago. when living in West Philadelphia I 
occupied a dwelling on a little street 
called St. Mark’.s Square, running from 
Walnut to Locust street. The house 
faced west and there was a backyard to 
the east about 40 feet deep and 20 feet 
wide. The centre of this yard was occu¬ 
pied by what was intended as a grass 
plat, but there were few .sprigs of grass. 
A narrow brick walk ran around this, 
A Patch of Staked Tomatoes 
the cellar and run a flue around the little 
house, when I saw in the catalogue of a 
Chicago company what they called a tank 
heater, a little cylindrical boiler with 
ash-pit and a stove top. I concluded that 
if it would heat a tank it would heat pip¬ 
ing. I bought the boiler and over 100 
feet of two-inch piping, and a 15-gallon 
expansion tank, for $.‘{0.0.5. The boiler 
part is only 10 inches in diameter and 11 
inches high. The flow pipe comes straight 
up through the office floor alongside my 
desk and to the expansion tank in the 
corner of the office. This is the highest 
point of the little system, and fi*om there 
the piping runs down grade all the way 
back to the boiler through a return coil 
hanging under the bench of the green¬ 
house, consisting of nine rows of two- 
inch pipes, each nine feet long. This gives 
me a very rapid flow, for hot water or 
cold will run down hill faster than we 
can force it up hill. This apparatus has 
been in use for several Winters, and most 
of the time the little boiler is run with 
the draft shut off, and a single hod of 
coal runs it 24 hours in the coldest 
weather. I have an open grate in my 
office in which I make a fire in very cold 
weather, but in ordinary Winter weather 
with the door of the greenhouse open I 
get plenty of heat in the office. AVith 
the door shut, the main difficulty is to 
prevent the little greenhou.se getting too 
warm. At night I get the pipes well 
heated, fill the boiler with coal aujJ shut 
off the draft at bedtime and go to bed, 
and at seven in the morning I always find 
the house over 60 degrees. In fact sev¬ 
eral nights ago, when a cold wave was 
roaring, I ran the fire till nearly 11 
o’clock and then put it to keep, and in 
the morning when the outside temiiora- 
ture was 18 I found the little house ther¬ 
mometer standing at 72. and but a single 
hod of coal, hard coal, had been con¬ 
sumed in 24 hours. 
AL\riety of Plants.— This little ar¬ 
rangement has solved the heating of a 
small house better than any I have ever- 
seen. Dui-ing Fall and early A\4nter I 
bloom bulbs in flats and pots and get lots 
of flowei's. and in Summer I bloom tuber¬ 
ous Begonias and Gloxinias in it to per¬ 
fection. Then early in February I clean 
out and start my tomato seed, and trans¬ 
plant them to flats to get strong enough 
to go into the frames in March. Later 
with r.arrow borders next the high hoard 
fences. In front of the house was a little 
plot outside the front porch, enclosed by 
an iron railing. This plot, about 5x10 
feet, I devoted to tuberous Begonias in 
Summer, as the street was overshadowed 
b.v tall trees that arched overhead, and 
there was very little sunshine. The Be¬ 
gonias did well there and make fine bloom. 
Intensive Culture. —In the backyard 
next the rear of the house I had a frame 
of a few sashes, and by using the pulver¬ 
ized sheep manure heavily I managed to 
make the poor soil give me a crop of let¬ 
tuce for Fall and up to Christmas and 
afterwards parsley, radishes and beets. 
The remainder of the central plot was de¬ 
voted to onions, string beans and outside 
lettuce and radishes. On the borders I 
planted flowers of various sorts. The 
everblooming Begonias bloomed all the 
time. A'ines like the hyacinth bean and 
the wild cucumber ran over the fences, 
and at the east end I had Shasta daisies 
and annuals of various sorts. China 
asters did well in the partial shade, and 
it was a wonder to many how many vege¬ 
tables I got out of that little yard. One 
city woman, who had probably never seen 
a garden, wondered at my lettuce. “AA'hy, 
I thought they cut it off bushes.” How 
awfully green city-raised people are. In 
some of the newer sections around me I 
found that they were abolishing the old 
high fences and dividing the back yards 
with woven wire fences. This gives a 
great advantage in backyard gardening, 
for the old high fences are a great nui¬ 
sance to the gardener as well as being 
ugly. The wire netting furnishes trellises 
for ornamental climbers, and a co-opera¬ 
tion of neighbors in beautifying the yards, 
and the open view stir.s' up a competitioa 
in making the centres of the yards useful 
and beautiful. Then, too, the dried ma¬ 
nure that can be had in sacks, bone dust, 
etc., will enable the city backyard gar¬ 
dener to enrich bis ground well, for these 
back yards are generally made of the 
poor clay dug out of the cellars, and 
lightening and enriching the soil is im¬ 
portant. My soil in AA'est Philadelphia 
was fortunately a light micaceous clay, 
and easily enriched. AA'ith a little glass 
in a frame it is wonderful how much can 
be gotten out of a very small space, and 
how much of beauty one can gather into 
a backyard. w. f. massey. 
Another Chance to get 
our famous 
Golden Nugget 
Flint Corn 
G olden nug. 
GET’’ is certainly 
King! It is head 
and ears above any flint 
com on the market. 
Thousands of 
farmers have tried 
it out only to be¬ 
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tic friends, as at- 
tested by our 
records in out of¬ 
fice. “Golden 
Nugget” excels 
tor Hardihood, 
Productiveness, 
Size of Rat, etc., 
and it matures in 
80 to 90 days. 
Peck, $1.25; Bushel. $4.00. 
delivery charges. 
We offer to send you our new. Illustrated Ca- 
^log for 1917 and also a packet of W. & D.’s 
Best Garrots, a packet of \Vhite Tipped Scarlet 
Radish, a packet of W. & D.’s Giant Pyramidal 
Mignonette and a packet of W.&D.’s Giant Zin¬ 
nia—also an extra packet of your own favorite 
fio^r or Vegetable Seed, to be named by you— 
all for 10c, stamps or coin. Also a choice col¬ 
lection of Our “Masterpiece” Asters 
3 packets—White, Pink, Blue. Sold regularly at 
20c a packet, 60c value for 2Sc. 
WEEBER & DON, 119 Chambers St., N.Y. 
Customer paying 
Quick Maturing 
—Heavy Yield 
Isbell’s first choice corn ma¬ 
tures in 85 days after planting. 
With its deep-rooted, hardy 
stalks it defies draught and is 
a consistent heavy yielder— 
an Isbell product famous for 
many years. 
Nearly every stalk produces 
two large ears of golden yel¬ 
low dent corn that weighs out 
more pounds of shelled corn 
per bushel of ears than most 
late varieties. 
Isbell’s First Choice 
corn is only one of the many 
excellent varieties that we 
grow. We specialize in Seed 
Corn. Write for free samples 
and prices. 
Isbell’s Farm Seeds are 
Michigan grown, you buy di¬ 
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money-saving feature. And 
you get high quality seeds. 
Isbell’s 19 IT seed annual 
is now ready. Write for a 
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831 Pearl Street Jackson, Mich. 
Hoffman’s Northwest Clover Seed 
Selected from the states 
along the Canadian bor¬ 
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adjacent to the Black Hills 
and Rocky Mountains. 
“NORTHWEST” CLO¬ 
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The superiority of “NORTH¬ 
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been acknowledged. Clover 
Seed, Alsike and Timothy 
Seed grown in the Northwest 
have a like advantage. It is 
earlier, because of the short 
season in which it matures— 
hardier, because of its sur¬ 
vival of Northwest winters— 
more^ productive, because 
of its extreme vitality. 
NORTHWEST” Grass Seed 
succeeds where other fail. 
Less “NORTHWEST” seed 
need be sown per acre. 
Hoffman’s 1917 Catalog 
Is full fof valuable hints forgrow- 
Ing crops. It offers Seed Oats, 
Corn, Potatoes, Field Peas and 
Beans. Alfalfa and Grass. Seeds. 
It IS free, with a packet of seeds 
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Landisville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
CARDEN 
GUIDE 
It is diderent from the usual seed catalogue in that 
it gives detailed instructions as to the culture of 
plants and flowers. It treats in a thorough and up- 
to-the-minute way how the best results can be obtained. 
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