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RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 10, 1917 
Northern Grown Alfalfa, Clover 
and Grass Seed above 99.50% Pure. 
Field Peas, Soy Beans, Vetch, etc. 
^ Qoofl Hate bright, thoroughly reclean- 
uCCU Udlo grain weighing, 45 lbs. 
and enormously productive. 
Cn/tfl r'nm stocks, best 8 varieties. 
JCCU vUI 11 Jqj cfQp or 
the Silo, average germination above 95 %. 
Seed Potatoes 
bushel from fields that were free from blight. 
Dibble's Farm Seed Catalog, Dibble s 
New Book on Alfalfa Culture and ten 
samples Dibble’s Farm Seeds—FREE. 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE SEEDGROWER 
Box B HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
Dibble’s Seed Farms comprising nearly 2^00 
aeres are Headquarters for rarm Seed*. 
Over 100.000 bushels in stock. 
ALFALFA 
AMERICAN NORTHERN CROWN 
For fifteen years our advice concemini the teedjnC 
and care of Alfalfa meadows, and our seed for sowing 
them, have been standard—the best that was to be 
had. The catalog tells how, and prices the seed, 
not Turkestan, “Dwarf Alfalfa,” which we refuse to 
handle, but the best of American firewn seed, in¬ 
cluding usually Montana, Idaho, and the fireat 
“Dakota 30,” which rivale the Grimm itself, 
pni^aa ras ra Next to Hansen’s Siberian, 
UIiIIVIItI HLrHLrfl the greatest variety Erown 
in America. We have the Eonuine; also limited 
amounts of the Siberian. 
CLOVER and GRASSES 
No matter how critical you are we can please you. 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
Are grown for the most critical trade. Write for fre< 
catalog. Lists many new and rare specialties. 
WiNQ Seed Co., Box 8S3 Mechanicsburq, O. 
Tht House of Quality and Moderate Prices. 
Start right by buying 
Eberle’s seeds, bulbs or 
plants. They cannot fail to 
thrive under fair conditions. 
.. Our large and varied stock con- 
tains every variety worth growing. 
Eberle’s 1917 Seed Annual-Free 
I'liis fulljr Illustrated book is brimful of 
liflpful information concerning the 
planting and cultivation of seeds, from 
largest farm to smallest garden. 
Get your free copy—today. 
FREDERICK W. EBERLE 
116 S. Pearl St.. Albany, N. Y. 
Clover Seed 
Our high grades of Grass seeds are the most care¬ 
fully selected and recleaned. Highest in Purity and 
Germination. We Pay the freight. Catalog and 
.Siiinpies Free if you mention tliis paper. 
CLICKS SEED FARMS, Smoketown, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Dakota Hardy A I FA I PA 
Does Not Winter Kill /-VL-il 
Our Disco Alfalfa and Seed Book gives full information about 
Dakota Grimm, Baltic and Registered Alfalfas. Sent free. 
DAKOTA IMPROVED SEED CO. 
807 Lawler Street - - - Mitchell, So. Dakota 
Sweet Clover and Ky. Blue Grass 
Prices and Circular on re<iuest. 
E. liarton. Box 29, FALMOUTH, Pendleton Co.. KENTUCKY 
SAMPLE OUR SEED 
Three earliest vegetables 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.t Dept.51, Baltimoroi/Ad. 
OOD SEEDS 
GOOD AS CAN BE GROWN 
Prices Below All Others 
I will give a lot of new 
sorts free with every order 
I fill. Buy and test. Return 
If not O. K.—money refunded. 
Big Catalog FREE 
Over 700 illustrations of vege¬ 
tables and flowers. Send yours 
and your neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHUMWAY.Rockford.llL 
IF you want books on farming of 
any kind write us and we 
will quote you prices 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
Treat All Seeds 
—take .no chances. Anyone can 
apply Formaldehyde. It is en¬ 
dorsed hy the U. S. Dept, of 
Agriculture as the standard treat¬ 
ment for seed grain smuts, potato 
scab and black-leg. 
FORMHlDEHynE 
' Farmer's Friend 
To insure a full yield you must 
destroy all forms of smuts, rust 
and fungus growth. Our Formal¬ 
dehyde sold by your dealer for 
35 cenls treats 40 bushels of seed. 
New hand book just issued — free. 
PERTH AMBOY CHEMICAL WORKS 
100 William Street New York 
Fimm 
GARDEN TOOLS 
Answer the farmer’s big qiicstiom): 
How can I have a good garden with 
least expense? How can the wife 
have plenty of fresh vegetables for 
the home table with least labor ? 
IRON AGE 
solves the garden labor problem. 
Takes the place of many tools— 
stored in small space. Sows, cov¬ 
ers, cultivates, weeds, ridges, 
etc. .better than old-time tools. 
A woman, boy or girl can 
push it and do a day’s band- 
work in 60 
minutes. 38 
combina¬ 
tions, $3.26 
to $15.00. 
Write for 
booklet. 
Bateman M’f’g Co., Box 2C,,GrerJoch,N.J. 
Our seeds are selected and cleaned to 
boWEKDLESS and free from dead grains. 
They will go much farther than ordinary 
flold seeds, nearly always addi^ enough to 
the crop to pay for themselves. Samples and 
catalog incIuding“How to Know Good Seeds” free. 
Write today. O.U.SCOXT & 80.NS CO., 40 Ualn 8t.,Uaryavillc,0. 
CLOVER AND GRASS SEEDS 
Selected carefully for Purity and Germination. 
Beardless Harley—SeedOats—SeedCorn. State 
vour wants and ask for Samples. Catalogue Prei'. 
The Eikenberry Bros. Co..Hamilton, Ohio 
C cen nnoil IMI*ROYEDE\Sir.AGE AT.SO MAM. 
OCCU uunil MUTII WHITE DENT. Highest quality. 
Shipped on appi'oval. $1.85 per bushel. Sacks 260. Saiuplo 
and Circular free. W. K. llull, Uechiims IJlver, Vu. 
SEED CORN 
Yellow flint type. Satisfaction 
gtiaranteed. Circulars free. 
CIIAS. TAN.NKIt, PleasiiitValley.N.Y 
CCCn PnDN High Quality and Germination. Also 
OCCU UUnii sensation oats. Samples and catalog 
free. THEO. BUKT & SONS, Melrose, Ohio 
O A T' Q SIBERIAN, SWEOISH SELECT, OHIO 8453 
OHIO 202. Selections from O. A. K. S. 
Write for samples. R. 0. EVANS 8 SONS, Venedocia, 0. 
DflTATflCC—Carman,Cobhler.GrecnMt., Norther,Ohio, 
r U I A I UlO Rose, Six-Weeks. Others. C.W. Foril.Fjihers.N.Y. 
LATEST MARKET METHODS SS'SS/S 
to grow and market fruit at paying prices. A 
practical, handsome illustrated monthly. Trial 
subscription .3 months for 10 cts. Address 
AMERICAN FRUIT-GROWER, Box321, Charlottesville, \'a. 
SPORICIDE 
SURE 
CURE FOR 
SMUT 
in oats. Simple to treat. Sent direct on trial where we have no 
agent. Free Booklet. Local Agents wanted. ElstablishedI905. 
SPORICIDE CHEMICAL CO., Atlanta, N.Y. 
Get Low Prices 
on Berry Boxes 
and 
Baskets 
Write for our 
FreeCatalog! Shows you how you 
can save money by buying direct 
from the larijest Berry Box and. 
Basket Factory in the Country. 
New Albany Eax& Basket Co., Box 111 New Albany .IntL 
FRUIT PACKAGES Catalog 
Best quality. All styles. Any quantity. 
c. N. ROBINSON BRO., Oepl. M Baltimore. Md. 
Insure yourself 
against accidents and 
loss of life even if it does 
cost a little more. There’s 
a “Berlin” Ladder for every 
purpose—strong, light, depend¬ 
able, low price. Write at once for 
facts, FREE. 
THE BERLIN FRUIT BOX CO. 
Berlin Heights, Ohio 
Rural Savings and Loan Association 
The Rural Savings and Loan Associa¬ 
tion was organized in December, 1914. 
Its present as.sets are .$10,5T0.()5. From 
its members it has in installment shares 
.$4,G9S.5.3; savings shares .$374..50; ju¬ 
venile shares ,$17.00; income shares 
$5,000; aconmulative prepaid shares 
$67; (Lvidends on shares $38.47; un¬ 
divided profits $.375.15. 
It loans its money on first mortgages 
within fifty miles of the central office ac¬ 
cording to law. Its dividend for the year 
1916 was 5.2 per cent. 
This association was organized among 
the emitloyees of The Rurai, New- 
Yorker. It takes members from any¬ 
where, and has already several city and 
country members outside of The Rural 
New-Yorker force. It was organized to 
demonstrate the advantages of the asso¬ 
ciations to encourage saving and wise 
and conservative investing, and for the 
puriiose of developing information and 
ability in the people who save money to 
take care of it and invest it for them¬ 
selves. This la.st is a feature often over¬ 
looked hy saving and loan people, hut is 
to our mind probably the most important 
)iart of the whole influence. 'When a 
yoting person saves of his own earnings, 
and takes a part in the inve.stment of 
it and draws its regular dividends, or 
sees its profits accumulating, no further 
argument is required to encourage a con¬ 
tinuance of the process. Having acquired 
the experience in this way when the In¬ 
vestor takes his money to invest on his 
own individual account, he or she has the 
experience and the confidence necessary 
to make the right kind of an investment, 
and is pretty sure to avoid gold brick 
securities. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The woman’s suffrage 
bill passed the lower branch of the In¬ 
diana I>egislature Feb. 22. It previously 
had been passed by the Senate and now 
goes to Gov. Goodrich. The bill gives 
women the right to vote for I’residential 
electors and practically all State officers 
except governor and sceretary of state. 
Woman suffrage advocates in Maine 
Feb. 22 won a fight of nearly 40 years for 
submission of the suffrage question to 
popular vote. The Senate, acting in con¬ 
currence with the House, passed unani¬ 
mously a resolution providing for a spe¬ 
cial election on September 10 to act on 
the adoption of a constitutional amend¬ 
ment granting suffrage to women. Maine 
is the second '^ttite in New England to 
adojit a referendum on the question, 
Massachusetts defeated the proposal in 
19L5. 
Numerous incendiary fires at New 
Rritaiu, Conn., Feb. 22, caused a general 
panic, and the city was put under militia 
guard. 
Thirteen persons are known to have 
lost their lives and more thtin 100 have 
been i-eported injured in a serio.s of tor¬ 
nadoes that swept parts of Alabama, 
Georgia and Mississippi Feb. 2.3. The 
most serious loss of life was in middle 
Alabama. Seven persons were killed in 
the Hollins-Midway, Stewtirtsville sec¬ 
tion of -41abama, and at Whitsett, Ala., 
four negroes were killed 
A cargo of sugar being shipped 'to the 
Allies was destroyed Feb. 26 when a fire 
started in Hold No. 1 of the trtimp stetim- 
ship Raysura, owned by the Bay Steam¬ 
ship Company, of London, which was be¬ 
ing loaded at a Brooklyn, N. Y'.. pier. 
The damage to the cargo was $100,000 
and to the stetunship ,$10,000. 
An avalanche .swept down on the build¬ 
ings pf the North Star mine, twelvejniles 
northoiist of Halley, Idaho, Feb. 2.5. de¬ 
molishing the eomiiressor house, v’jtre- 
honse and bunk lumse, smothering and 
crushing the slee))ing men in the snow 
tind debris. Fifteen were killed and as 
many injured. 
Common law marritiges. thousands of 
which have been contracted in this State 
since lf)07, when the statutory iirohibi- 
tion against them was erased from the 
dome.stic rehitions law. were validated by 
it decision of tlie Court of Aitpetils Feb. 
27. T'his stinelion of unions entered into 
without formtil ceremony arose frorn^ a 
workmen’s com))('ns!ition case in which 
,$6.92 a week wtis awarded a widow for 
the mtiintcntincc of herself and her chil¬ 
dren. The insurance carrier objected to 
the iiw.ard on the ground that the womtin, 
Anna Zciglcr, wtis the common law wife 
of John Zcigler, for whose death the 
compensation was awarded. The Court 
of Appeals sustained the award, at the 
same time giving its verdict upon com¬ 
mon law marriages. 
An express triiin on the I’ennsylvania 
Railroad was wrecked at Mt. T^nion, Pa., 
Feb. 27, causing the death of 21 persons. 
A freight train crashed into the express 
in a heavy fog. 
FARM AND GARDTON.—A i-emarka- 
ble expansion in the American potash in¬ 
dustry has resulted fi'om efforts to make 
the Fnited State independent of foreign 
sources for the potash used in munitions 
and for other purposes. Although the 
boom did not get under way until late 
in 1916 production during the calendar 
year reached a value ten times as great 
as that of 1915. The 1916 production is 
estimated in a preliminary report pub¬ 
lished Feb. 22 by the Geological Survey 
at 10,000 tons, with a value of $3,5(X).- 
000. The estimate is based on incom¬ 
plete returns, which to date have ac¬ 
counted for 8.8.30 tons. In 1917, the re¬ 
port says, with the boom in full swing a 
much greater total will be shown. Of the 
8.830 tons reported 5,750 ^vas produced 
from mineral and .3,080 from organic 
sources. Natural salts and brines yielded 
3,850 tons, alnnite and silicate rocks, 
1,900 tons; kelp, 1,110 tons; pearlash. 
200 tons, and miscellaneous industrial 
wastes, 1,7.50 tons. 
The annual meeting of the New .Jersey 
Association of Nurserymen was held at 
New Brunswick, N. .T., on Feb. 14. The 
following officers were elected for the 
coming year: Presidient, Carl H. Flemer, 
Springfield, N. ,J.; vice-president, .T. D. 
Eisele, Riverton, N. .7.; secretary ami 
treasurer, A. F. Meisky, Elizabeth, N. .1. 
Dr. Perley Spaulding from the Forest 
Pathology Laboratorj% U. S. Bureau of 
Plant Industry, gave a very interesting il¬ 
lustrated lecture on the blister rust of the 
pine. Addresses were akso made by Dr. 
Thps. .7. Head'lee on insecticides and spray¬ 
ing. There was an address by Dr. Mel T. 
Cook on diseases on different kinds of 
nursery stock and greenhouse plants. 
Senator Robinson, of the N'Cw York 
Legislature, has a bill to destroy roving 
cats. All cats must wear a license tag, 
the cost of which is 35 cents. Twenty- 
five cents of this sum is to belong to the 
county, city or town i.ssuing the license. 
I’lie 10-cent fee for issuing the license is 
to go to the State, the clerk retaining two 
cents as his share of the fee. Any one is 
permitted to kill an unlicensed cat “with¬ 
out civil or ci'iminal liability.” The bill 
has the backing of sportsmen, who state 
that roving and semi-wild cats kill game 
birds and small animals 365 days in the 
year. 
5YASHINGTON.—The anny appro 
priatiou bill, carrying about $250,000,000, 
was passed by the House Ft'b. 22 without 
a record vote. An attempt to add univer¬ 
sal training legislation was defeated on a 
point of order. In the Senate an effort 
will be made to attach as an amendment 
either the universal service bill, already 
favorably reported by the Senate Military 
Committee, or the measure just completed 
by the General Staff. During the closing 
hours of the debate in the House the ap¬ 
propriation for arming and equipping the 
National Guard was increased from $4.- 
000.000 to $7,000,000. The ttniverstil 
military service bill prepared by the Army 
"War College, and which will bo consider<>d 
by Congress, was made public Feb. 23. 
It provides for the creation and training 
of a Federal army in time of peace by 
calling each year, with proscribed exceit- 
tions, all able-bodied male citizens in their 
nineteenth year for 11 months’ continuous 
training, to be followed by two annual 
repetition courses of two weeks each. It 
provides for the expansion of the number 
of regular tirmy officers and proposF's that 
Stiite militiiis he absorbed by the Federal 
army, although it is recognized that some 
provision must be mtide for the States 
until they have organized forces of con¬ 
stabulary or some other power to prevent 
domestic disorder. For this retison it is 
proposed to continue the fiiitnicial support 
provided by the so-called Dick bill as 
amended prior to the iiassage of the na¬ 
tional defence act of June 3, 1916. The 
"War College plan to call to the colors 
men of 19 years would provide, it is esti¬ 
mated. 500.000 men each year. The pltiii 
could he 'easily elaborated to meet itres- 
ent emergency coitditions by calling re¬ 
cruits of 20. 21, etc., thereby raising the 
number by 500.000 with each new exten¬ 
sion of the age limit. 
Feb. 26 the so-called flood reclamation 
bill, regarded as a “pork” measure, was 
passed by the Senate. It had previously 
pas.sed the House. The hill carries $45,- 
000,000 approximately for “control of the 
floods of the Mississippi River and the 
Sacramento River and for other pur¬ 
poses.” If the bill becomes a law it will 
reclaim largely at the expense of the Fed¬ 
eral treasury 16,000.000 acres of Missis” 
sippi land held bj’ private owners, net¬ 
ting them a large fortune. Syndicates 
which have acquired these swamp lands 
in the lower Mississippi Valley, and will 
have the lands improved and enhanced in 
A’alue by Government aid are among thv 
chief beneficiaries of it. The bill author¬ 
izes the expenditure of .$10,000,000 each 
fiscal year up to a tottil of $4.5,000.000 
“for controlling the floods of the Missis¬ 
sippi River and continuing its improve¬ 
ment from the head of the passes to the 
mouth of the Ohio River.” 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
American Jersey Cattle Club, New 
Y’ork City, May 2. 
Holstein-Friesiau Association of Amer¬ 
ica, Worcester, Mass.. .Tune 6. 
American Seed Trade Association, De¬ 
troit, Mich., June 19 to 21. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
forty-second annual meeting, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa.. .June 27-29. 
Society of American Florists and Orna¬ 
mental Horticulturists. New York City, 
August 21-23. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 10-15. 
