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Y ou know where the 
ANIMAL MATTER 
in Armour Fertilizers comes 
from. You may have grown 
the hogs and cattle. 
Armour Fertilizers are GOOD 
for your land — GOOD for 
your crops—GOOD for your 
pocketbook—GOOD for your 
disposition—a GOOD all 
’round investment. 
From the farm — 
back to the farm 
Armour Fertilizer Works 
Atlanta, Ga. Jacksonville, Fla. Greensboro, N. C. New Orleans, La. 
Nashville, Tenn. Baltimore, Md. Chi< ago. Ill. 
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f% A IP ■ A p O Irish Cobbler is early, and Raleigh late variety. 
r II I II I II V” ^ From a bumper crop, free from disease and 
* ^ * *■ * ^ ■■ ^ with splendid vitality. Write for prices. 
Irish Cobbler—Sir Walter Raleigh Belle Alto Farms,Wemersville, Pa., M. H. McCallum, Mgr. 
CloverSeed 
Our Ingh grades of Grass seeds are the most care¬ 
fully selected and recleaiied. Higliest in Purity and 
Germination. Wo Pay tlie freight, t’atalog and 
Samples Free if yon mention this paper. 
CLICKS SEED FARMS, Smoketown. Lancaster Co., Pa. 
.CLOVER AND GRASS SEEDS 
* Selected carefully for Purity and Germination. 
IJearclless Itarley— Seed Oats—Seed Corn. State 
your wants and ask for Samples. Catalogue Free. 
The Eikenberry Bros. Co..Hamilton,Ohio 
SAMPLE OUR SEED 
Three oarliotttvcirctJiblefi In cultivation for 10c. One 
packet each, Robineon’a Earlieat Tomato, Earliest 
Round Red Radinh, Earliest I^ettuco, 10c to now 
customera. Rcarular price 30c. CATAIXIG FREE. 
C. N. Robinson & Bro., Dept.51, Baltlmore,/Ad. 
niTQ SENSATION; Record yielder. Extra fine seed. 
" Also SEED CORN. Sami)les and catalogue free. 
THKO. JtUKT & SONS - Alelrose, Ohio 
ONION SEED ‘f^Vr"rrTc: 
J. B. QUIRK 
Nokth Madison, Ohio 
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Tested, fresh, full of vigor —the kind 
you can depend on—pure, genuine, un¬ 
adulterated. Our customers our best advertise¬ 
ments. Everything in field, farm, vegetable. 
nents. Everything m held, larm, vegetable, 
flower seeds; fruit, shrubbery, trees, plants of 
all kinds. Get it now! Our new. different and 
oriirinal complete 1917 PURE Sebd Book and Plant- 
INO Guidk. How to srow a prize ccardon. Alao 
desalo Hat. Free for poatal. A work of art. 
Tinted in four colora. Hundreds of pictures. 
Aak today for your free copy. A poatal 
brings It. 
RALLOWAY BROS. A CO. 
Bon ^7 • Waterloo. Iowa 
D 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, lUL 
DIBBLE’S 
Seed Farms 
comprising nearly 2000 acres, the 
source of all that is newest and 
best in Farm Seeds that we have found in 
actual field tesf on our own Farms to be 
adapted to the peculiar needs of Northern 
and Eastern Farmers. 
Make no experiments this year when all 
kinds of Farm Seeds are high and so much 
depends on the crop. Our experience of 
thirty years farming' is at your service. 
Dibble’s Farm Seeds are of but one grade, 
the highest possible quality. 
SEED OATS—the best two varieties. 
SEED CORN—Best 8 varieties Flint 
and Dent for crop and the Silo, average 
germination above 95%. 
SEED POTATOES —Slocks of a 
dozen kinds still on hand. Every bushel 
from fields that were free from blight. 
D. B. Brand ALFALFA CLOVER 
and GRASS SEED above 99.50% 
Pure, Field Peas, Soy Beans, Vetch, etc. 
Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog. /0 Samples Farm 
Seeds and Dibble’s iku) Alfalfa Book FREE 
L_ Edw 
Edward F. Dibble Seedgrower 
Box B, Honeoyc Falls, 
Oi'er 100,000 bushels in stoci 
sdgrower - 
s. N.Y. 
Headquarters 
for Farm Seeds 
I Quality bred six years. Germination 
Leamingtariy test, 97%. i»8 huahei, with baga. 
8EK1> U.. acres, 1916, yielded 317 bushel cars. 
.MEAltOW FARM, IIAKTHWALE, NEW YORK 
SEED CORN 
Yellow flint type. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Circulars free. 
€11 AS. TANK Elt, Pleastnt VsIley.H.r 
BLUE RIDGE SILO CORN 
$2 25 per l)nshel with sacks. Ahso Sweet Clover Seed. 
K. BAKTON, Box 29, Falmouth, Pendleton Co., Ky. 
ImprovedGOLDEN DENT GOURD SEED CORN 
bred for 30 years on the Kureka Stock Farm. Pro¬ 
duces over 100 bush, shelled corn to the acre. Write 
for samj)le and circular. 
Kdward Walter, Dept. B. West Chester, Penn. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
COLLINS’ SEED 
ylelflR bnnipercropfl. Fineet fitralim 
of profit vnrletlefl, proved ami 
improved by yeaiH of eelectlon. 
Get our 10-day test offer 
j Arthur J. Collins & Son, Box 77, Mooreslown, N. J. Book F roe 
SEED CORN 
BELLE ALTO—GOLDEN DENT 
Won all first prizes Berks County Exhibits 1916. Big 
yield per acre. Small shank, easy to husk, well-filled 
tips and butts, thoroughly ripened. Write for prices. 
Belle Alto Farms,Wemersville, Pa., M.H. McCallum,Mgr. 
' to work the m.fliiure into the ground. 
Then put the lime on the surface and 
work it in if desired. Mixed together in 
the soil the lime will still set free at 
least part of the ammonia, but thi.s wilt 
no* be lost, since it will be absorbed and 
held in the soil. U.sed on top of the .soil, 
however, the ammoniti would be lost. 
'Phis would be particularly true with ben 
manure, and will explain why we so fre¬ 
quently advise against mixing the hen 
manure with either lime or wood ashes. 
There is sure to be <a loss whenever this 
is done. Those who expect results by 
using lime on top of the lawn or sod 
should remember that they cannot exjiect 
full success through such a method. Jyime 
on top of the grass in a wet time does 
not work down in the soil to be.st aa- 
vantage hut* frequently lumps and re¬ 
mains on the surface. The object of 
using lime is to mix it as thoroughly as 
possible through the upper jiart of the 
soil. It is not used as a plant food, but 
the object is to have it reach every part 
of the soil if possible, so as to sweeten 
it, and this can only be done when it is 
thoroughly mixed all through. A lump 
or bunch of fertilizer or manure would 
attract the roots of the plant and thn.s 
carry out its mission, but the lump of 
lime left in the soil will not give the 
needed results. That is why we con- 
stantly_ advise farmers or gardeners in 
using lime to spread it on the rough fur¬ 
rows and work it thoroughly into the 
soil. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—August Schrader, self- 
styled divine healer, whose trial on a 
charge of fraudulent use of the mails 
wtis interrupted by his illness, died Feb. 
28 at the County Hospital at I.os An¬ 
geles, Cal. Francis Schlatter, also a 
“healer,” and Schrader were indicted for 
the alleged receipt of money for “blessed 
handkerchiefs” sent by mail; 
Albert A. Sander, Charles W. M’lin- 
nenberg and George Vaux Bacon were 
indicted in New York March 2 by the 
Federal Grand .Tury which for five days 
had been investigating the alleged spy 
plot in which American newspaper men 
were said to have been sent to England 
to make ob.servations for the German 
Government. The three are aecnsed of 
setting on foot a military enterprise 
against Great Britain. Sander and 
Wunnenberg of the Central Powers Film 
Company appeared before Federal .Tiulge 
Sessions and pleaded not guilty. The 
indictment explains that Sander and 
Wunnenberg gave Bacon at least .$1,000 
to defray his expenses, that Bacon 
sailed for England on the Nienw Am¬ 
sterdam, after having obtained a pass¬ 
port on August 2.5, and that from 
various points in England he sent in¬ 
formation to German officials through 
persons in Holland and Denmark. 
Three States—Tennessee, Alabama 
and Georgi.a—were threatened March 
4 with disastrous floods. Streams in 
some sections had overflowed their 
banks, driving hundreds of persons from 
their homes. No loss of life was re¬ 
ported, but property damage already 
lias been large. 
Ten men from the coast cutter Yam- 
acraw died March 4 in a raging storm 
off Ocean City, Md., in a futile effort 
to save the crew of the oil steamship 
Louisiana, aground on a bar two miles 
out. 
March 5 an acre of ground suddenly 
sunk into an iron mine at Wharton, N. 
•T.. in some places sinking 150 feet. The 
damage to shafts, machinery and gal¬ 
leries is put at $.50,000. No one was 
hurt. 
March ,5 Fritz Kolb, a German ohem- 
i.st, was arrested at Hoboken, N. .7., on 
the charge of unlawfully having explo¬ 
sives in iris possession. In Iris room the 
police found bombs, picric acid. T. N. 
and incendiary disk.s. He is under 
suspicion of being concerned in the 
Black Tom and Kingsland explo.sions. 
March G two men were jtrrested in New 
York City, a Hindu and a German, 
whose rooms contained explosives. Both 
admitted tlnit they were engaged in 
plots against British rule in India, hav¬ 
ing received large sums of money 
through Wolf von Igel, who was hela 
here under suspicion of plotting to blow 
up the Welland canal. 
Statistics compiled by a shipping man 
March 6 show that .53 steam.ships of 
American and other neutral countries 
have been prevented from sailing for 
European ports since the German block¬ 
ade decri'e of .Tannary 31st or are tied 
up at Halifax indefinitely. Had they 
sailed as scheduled they could have tak¬ 
en away about 230,000 tons of cargo 
and fourteen of them would htive carried 
mail. 
Disposing of irrigation rights in the 
North I’liitte River valley in Nebi’a.ska 
worth more than $2,000,000, a Nebraska 
Supreme Court decree upholding validity 
of the State’s water law of 1805 and 
sustaining the water claims of the Trl- 
State Land and Farmers’ Mutual Canal 
Companies, was March G put into effect 
by the Supreme Court. 
Fire March G damaged the plant of 
the Carstens Backing Company# 
Tacoma. Wash., the loss being estimated 
at .$325,000. 
5’he constitutionality of the com¬ 
pulsory workmen’s compensation laws 
of New York and 'Washington and of 
March 17, 1917 
the Iowa workmen's compensation law, 
voluntary upon employers, was upheld 
March G by the Siijireme Court. 
The spectacular trip of Lieut. Hans 
Berg across the Atlantic with the ctip- 
tured British steamship Appam came 
to naught March G when the Triiited 
States Supreme Court decreed the ves¬ 
sel should be returned to her British 
owners. The court's decision was un¬ 
animous. .Tustice Day, who read the 
opinion, said that the Appam’s use of 
a T’nited States port when she might 
have reached a neutral port 3,000 miles 
closer was a clear violation of the neu¬ 
tral rights of the United States. The 
courts of the United States, the opinion 
added, caniuit be used as arbiters by 
belligerents nor the ports of the T''nited 
States as a refuge for prizes of ti bel¬ 
ligerent. The Appam, a ves.sel of 7,700 
tons, was in the command of Capt. 
Henry G. Harri.son. She was valued at 
.$1.2.50,000, and when she left Dakar, 
French West Africa, for Pl.vmouth, 
England, carried a cargo worth $1,000,- 
0(X). She was captured by the German 
raider Moewe. Immediately after she 
made the roads her refuge the Briti.sh 
and .African Steam Navigation Com¬ 
pany, the original owners of the ves.sel, 
filed a libel again.st her. Bart of her 
cargo had been auctioned for .$700,(H)0. 
but the proceeds were held up pending 
a court determination. 
FARIM AND GARDEN.—A gift of 
.$20,000 a year for three years by the Na¬ 
tional Canners’ Association for an in- 
ve.stigation of food poisoning, with spe¬ 
cial reference to canned goods, has been 
accepted at Harvard University. The 
gift was received with the understand¬ 
ing that the investigation would be con¬ 
ducted and^ its results published with 
full academic freedom. 
The New York Conservation Com¬ 
mission has announced the appointment 
of .Tohn W\ Titcomb a.s fish cnlturist to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
Dr. Tarleton H. Bean last December. 
Senator Dore of Bawnee County, 
Kan., introduced a bill into the Legis¬ 
lature March G making an appropria¬ 
tion of .$25,000 to exterminate the Eng¬ 
lish sparrow in Kansas. The hill re- 
tpiires the State fish and game warden 
to pay a bounty of two cents for each 
.sparrow delivered to him, and it author¬ 
izes the counties to pay an additional 
two cents to the hunter. 
WASHINGTON.—March 4 the Bresi- 
dent took his oath of office for the sec¬ 
ond time. Chief .Tn.stice White ad¬ 
ministered the oath. The ceremony took 
place in the Bresident’.s room at the 
Capitol. The public oath of office was 
taken March 5.^ Mrs. Wilson accom¬ 
panied the President in the inaugural 
jiarade, thus e.stablishing .a new jirece- 
dent. 
'Fhe Sixty-fourth Congress exitired 
March 4, after a filibuster had killed the 
passage of the armed .ship bill. Tin* 
Senators who killed this bill were five 
Democrats and seven Republicans, 
Stone, Missouri; La Follette, 'Wiscon¬ 
sin ; O’Gormnn, New York; Cummings, 
Iowa: Vardanian, !Mississipi)i; Works. 
California; Lane, Oregon; Gronna, 
North Dakota; • NonT.s, Nebraska; 
Clapp. Minnesota; Kenyon, Iowa. .4p- 
propriation bills amounting to .$51L- 
380,000 were killed by the filibuster; 
these included appropriation bills for 
army, sundry civil, general deficiency, 
rivers and harhor.s. and military ac¬ 
ademy. 5'’his Congress passed appro¬ 
priation bills amounting to $1 ,.3.52,000,- 
000 . 
Report on Maine Crop 
This has been a .severe Winter in this 
section, heavy snowfalls all Winter. 
Farm produce is high. Potato crop, 
about the average; farmers who held 
what few potatoes they had. sold for 
$3 to ,$.3.,50 per bu.. recently, have 
dropped back to $2.75 per bu. at time of 
writing. Farmers are planning to raise 
more potatoes next season. Early Win¬ 
ter interfered somewhat with plowing. 
Hay crop good, best for years pa.st. 
Timothy hay, loose, $14 to .$1G per ton. 
Oat crop good and housed in fine con¬ 
dition, quoted at .32 lbs 80c. Apple crop 
short, not the attention given to this 
crop that should be. Small fruit growers 
have incretised the past year, and ob¬ 
tained good prices for their product. In 
sections strawriierries are made a spe¬ 
cialty, good local markets help tliis 
product. Dairying is carried on in sec¬ 
tions of this country, and is on the in¬ 
crease. Jerseys and H'olsteins predomin¬ 
ate; good grade daii'y cows are in good 
demand, and buyers pay from $75 to 
.$100 for fresh cow.s. Poultry raising 
has increased considerably in the past 
few years, in sections poultry raising 
has been made a specialty, good price.s 
have prevailed all season. Live fowls, 
20c per lb.; dressed fowls, 22c to 2.5c 
per lb.; eggs strictly fresh, 46c per doz. 
Butter (dairy), .38c per lb. Onions, $13 
per bag; Baldwins and Spvs, $3.25 to 
$4 per bbl.; cabbage. 6c per lb.; stiuash. 
Gc per lb.; beans, yellow eyes, $7.50 per 
bu. Cracked corn, $1.1714; corn, 
$1.27^/^; bran, $2.05; cottonseed meal, 
$2.40 per cwt.; gluten meal, $2.25 per 
cwt.; pea beans, .$7..50 per bu. Brown 
middlings, $2.05; lard. IGc per lb.Loo.se 
straw, .$5 to $7 per ton; pressed, $10 
per ton. w. ii. n. 
Washington Co., Me. 
