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General Farm Topics 
Burpee’s Annual 
The Leading American Seed Catalog, 
contains the latest and most reliable informa¬ 
tion about the “Best Seeds that Grow.’’ 216 
pages with 103 colored illustrations of the 
latest novelties and hundreds of illustrations 
of every variety of V’egetable and Flower 
Seeds. It is sent free to those who write for 
it. A post card will do. Write for your copy 
today, and please mention this publication. 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 
Burpee Buildings Philadelphia 
BLUE” 
Make better gardens. All 
are tested for purity and 
vitality. Have been 
giving satisfaction for 
over 50 years. Be sure 
and try our ^ 
5FlNEVEGEIABLES10c>^ 
^ One large packet each of (| ll^ 
Bean, Beet, Lettuce, Rad¬ 
ish and Tomato—postpaid. 
All are heavy jaelding and ex¬ 
ceptionally Hue in quality. Try them, 
Large CATALOG FREE 
Gives helpful cultural directions 
and offers strictly hiffh-crade 
seeds at fair prices. Writeforit. 
, Livingston Seed Co. 
Box 2SS4 Colambasi Obio 
Making Firewood in Southern California 
The picture taken in Southern Cali¬ 
fornia last November, .shows one of our 
rc'aders. Mr. Oron N. Cadwell, making 
firewood of a cliestiUit tree, the seed of 
whicli he jdanted -40 years ago. 
Mr. Cadwell was boi-n in Centerville. 
Allegjuiy County N. Y., Feb. 35, 3S00. 
In .November, 3SG8, he moved to Car- 
pinteria. Cal., wliero he has lived since. 
Few men of SS have either the strengtli 
or disi)usitiuii ti> handle such a strenuous 
job as the picture sliows. ’I'he trees in 
the background are live oaks, the most 
beautiful of California oaks. 
with real reason, as valuable “Spring 
medicine.’’ Rhubarb contains numerous 
crystalline bodies, known botanically as 
rapbides, which under the micro.scope 
have the appearance of needles. They 
consist of calcium oxalate, which in some 
sami)les reaches a i)roportion of 35 to 40 
per cent. Rhuharh also contains tannic 
and gallic acids, sugar, .starch, pectin and 
various inorganic .salt.s. 
Alfalfa on Grain Stubble 
I have read with great interest the dis¬ 
cussion as to tlie feasibility of obtaining 
a stand of Alfalfa by seeding without 
j)n'i)aration of the soil and using a com¬ 
paratively small ainonnt of seed. Seven¬ 
teen yeai'S ago I seeded my first field of 
Alfalfa, using, by the advice of an (‘X- 
perienced fiiimd, 32 iionnds of seed to the 
Culture of Caraway 
Caraway is sown in rows, on well- 
))repared soil, 15 to 38 inches apart, dur¬ 
ing May or June. S('eds si)aced approxi¬ 
mately an inch apart in the rows are 
Covered from onc-lialf to one inch deep. 
After the see<llings become Avell estab¬ 
lished they are thinned to stand six or 
eight inclies a))art in the row. In Eng¬ 
land caraway is commonly grown v’ith 
coriander, both crops being planted in the 
.same row. The coriander, a cpiick matur¬ 
ing jdant, is harvested before flowering 
stmns of the caraway a))pe:tr. Thins, the 
advantage of securing two croiis from the 
same plot with the same cultivation. 
ALFALFA 
AMERICAN NORTHERN GROWN 
For fifteen years our advice concerning the scedintf 
and care of Alfalfa meadows, and our seed for sowing 
them, have been standard—the best that waa to bo 
had. TsiS catalog tells how, and prices the seed, 
not Turkestan. "Dwarf Alfalfa,” which we refuse to 
handle, but the best of American grown seed, in¬ 
cluding usually Montana, Idaho, and the great 
"Dakota 30," which rivals the Grimm itself. 
PDIUU Al FAI FA Hansen[s Siberian, 
UlfllnlVI HLrHLrft the greatest variety grown 
in America. "We have the genuine; filso limited 
amounts of the Siberian. 
CLOVER and GRASSES 
No matter how critical you arc we can please you. 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
Arc grown for the most critical trade. Write for fred 
catalog. Lists many new and rare specialties. 
Wing Seed Co., Box ass Mechanicsburo. O. 
The House of Quality and Moderate Prices. 
Making Wood From the Chestnut 
You Need 
This Book 
in making up your garden 
planting list. Conditions 
are abnormal in the seed 
business this year. The 
demand is far out-running 
the supply. The tempta¬ 
tion to lower quality is tre¬ 
mendous. Protect yourself. 
Buy of a seed firm that has 
maintained a high standard 
of quality for years. 
The descriptions and il¬ 
lustrations in our 1918 Catalog are true-to-lif6. 
It is a safe guide in selecting varieties either for 
honie or market. 
Send.for your copy today—free-. 
J. J. H. GREGORY SC SON 
215 Elm St., Marblehead, Mass. 
acre on giaiii stubble. I sowed the .seed 
hroadeast in the early part of Ajiril and 
harrowed it in, obtaining a perfect stand. 
This field lias cut good crojis continuously 
since then up to two yc'ars ago, when over¬ 
irrigation killed out inneli of the Alfalfa 
and brought in Rlne grass and Timothy 
1 have used this method ever since, sowing 
less seed at times and at otlier times more 
according to the depth of the soil (as high 
as 35 iionnds on dei'p, fertile land and as 
little as eight iionmls on iioor and sliallow 
soil). I have never failed to get a satis¬ 
factory stand hat once, a lu'avy freeze 
killing the young jdants just as they got 
above the ground. w. c. 
Ronlder t’o., Colo. 
Our seeds are selected and cleaned to 
be Wekdlkss and free from dead grains. 
They will go much farther than ordinary 
field seeds, nearly always adding enough to 
the crop to pay for themselves. ? 5 Hniples and 
■ catalog including“Ilow to Know GoodSeed* «roe. 
Urhe today. O.M.SCOITA; bU.NS tO.,loO Mam St.jMaryiTilU.O. 
Properties of Rhubarb 
AYill you give some iiarticulars about 
the iilaiit rhuharh and its value as food, 
and also of its medicinal merits? 
New York. *'• 
The garden rhubarb. Rheum rhaponti- 
cuin. does not - possess high food value, 
hut it exerts a beneficial effect on the 
liver and digestive tract, which, with its 
cooling and rcfri'shing acid flavor, makes 
it a iiopnlar addition to our Siiring die¬ 
tary. While the leaf stalk is wholesome 
and bemdicial, the leaves themselves ap¬ 
pear to ho dangerously acid, as there arc 
many reiiort.s of seidons illness resulting 
from eating the foliage, boiled like 
spinach. The rlinharb of the druggists 
is the erect rhizome or so-callcd root of 
Rheum iialmatum, also called R. officin¬ 
ale, and pridiahly of some other species. 
It is collecti'd and dried in China and 
Tibet, where the plant is native. Medi¬ 
cinal rhubarb root is al-so produced un¬ 
der cultivation in I'rance and Fngland, 
but is said to he less active than when 
slowly grown under native conditions. 
The medicinal properties of rhubarb are 
peculiar and valuable, as it combines ca¬ 
thartic and astringent qualities; it is 
also tonic and stomachic, and in small 
(loses invigorates the digestion. Its great 
value is in the combination of several 
properties, which can hardly be shown, 
separately, hy chemical analysis. No 
doubt the edible leaf stalks carry some of 
the tonic properties, hence are regarded, 
'I'liorongii cult, bullion should hei given 
either, during tlie growing ,sea.son. 
('araway seed is usually harvested the 
year following that in which the crop is 
]ilant(‘d. Heads are cut from the plants 
with sickles or .shears 30 or 12 inches 
above the ground and spread on sheets of 
canvas cloth to dry sufficiently that they 
may he thrashed ivitli a light flail. Be¬ 
fore being stored or packed for use the 
seeds must he thoroughly dried by .spread¬ 
ing them in thin layers and turning them 
occasionally. -\n artificial drier of some 
sort will be found a great aid in drying 
the seed. From 500 to TOO pounds of 
seed per acre is considered a good aver¬ 
age yield. 
Although caraway is usually classed as 
a hieiiiiial jdaiit it often Ixairs .sinnl tin' 
same year as planted. In case seeds are 
sown as soon as mature and given sonic 
sort of iirotcji-tion over Winter, espee- 
ially in the No-rtliern Fnited States, six 
or eight wi'eks time may be gained in 
maturing the croii. K. I., kikkpatrick. 
Use of Gas Lime 
Do not let your Garden 
be a failure this year by lack of 
know'ledffe of what to plant, 
how to plant and when to plant. 
DREER’S Garden Book for 1918 
jjs an authoritative guide to all garden work 
for both veget«ables and fiowers. Cultural 
directions by experts. 
256 paacs, four full patre color plates and 
four full patre duotonc plates; also hundreds 
of photographic illustrations. 
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Hoffman’s 
Medium Bed, M.-miniotli, Alsike. Alfalfa, and Sweet. 
Piuiiip—high purity—hni-dj—hlroiig geiiiiiiiatioii. 
Buy your t'lovers early enough to permit test iiig. be- 
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A. H. HoHman. Inc., Lsndisville, Lancattcr Co.. Pa. 
Can you givi' me any information as to 
the quality of lime obtained from a gas 
jilaiitV I)(M‘s it lose any of its strength in 
the proce.ss of purifying tln^ gas?^_\Vonld 
it iiay to draw this lime at 50 to 75 cents 
1 '- r load? IIoAV should it be put on the 
laud? J- «• 
New York. 
As you probably know, quicklime is 
lisi'd to remove impiiritie.s from the gas. 
When this work is dune it is no longer 
(luicklime, hut most of it is much the 
same as ground limestone, or lime car¬ 
bonate. The gas lime contains impurities 
absorbed from the gas, and some of these 
when fre.sh are injurious to the seeds. 
After the gas lime has been exposed for a 
couple of months the.se impurities pass 
out, and then the gas lime will give about 
the same results as ground limestone, and 
will be safe to use. If the lime has re¬ 
mained exposed long enough to wash the 
impurities out, it may he used like any 
other form of lime, and can he handled in 
much the same way as ground limestone. 
At the price you mention it is a good bar¬ 
gain. 
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A limited supply for sale. F. O. B. Port Chester, N Y. Ex¬ 
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couditions. Early maturity. 
Prh-es, 1 bus., $4.00 (afl-lbs.) Peek, $1.00 
ki “ Z.OO qt.. .20 
Ha,s not missed maturing in 40 years in tliis locality. Ex. 
eellent meal corn for live stock and superior for table use. 
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