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At Walton, Ky.,lives Chas, L. Griffith, a banket 
and farmer, actively interested in the Richmond 
Alfalfa Club, which owns a Jeffrey. Mr. Griffith 
says: “I pulverized 150 tons in days, at an 
e.xpense of about 34 cents per ton.’' We receive 
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only solution to spreading? lime in any form, ground 
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Middletown, Conn. 
Office and Factory, Portland, Connecticut 
Dept. A 
Quaker City Feed Milts 
Grind corn and cobs, feed, 
table meal and alfalfa. 
On the market 50 years. 
Hand and power. 23 
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a quick reply and a ’‘square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
f Use of Wood Ashes 
j I have a qnantit.v of wood ash from a 
! mill which burns nothin}>: but shavings of 
soft wood. What is the percentage of 
potash? .May it be used to the best ad¬ 
vantage for a peach orchard? j. t. 
New Jersey. 
Aslies from such wood, if imre and nn- 
leached. ought to contain about 4 per cent 
of potash. IMost of such ashes, however, 
are tin-own out where the rain wasln-s 
through them, taking out a part of the 
potash, and they are often mi.xed with 
sand and other waste, so that no one can 
tell what they rrally contain without an 
analysis-. If there is any large quantity 
of tlie.se ashe.s, the only safe way to do 
about buying would be to take a fair s.-un- 
ple and send it ro the experiment station 
at New I’rnnswick for analysis. Then 
figure on the amount of potash contained 1 
in the a.^hes for making a price. That is 
the safest way in buying- any largo quan¬ 
tity of fertilizer. 
Splitting of Trees 
AVliat is the (-anse of my apple and pear 
trei's having cracks in them which have 
come during tlie cold spell? Some of them 
have cracks from the ground nearly to tin- 
top. 'File cracks in the body of tiie trei-s 
arc nearly three-quarters of an inch wide, 
and I think nearly to the center of the 
tro('. Thm-mometer has been 24. 22. 18 
:ind 12 below zei-o for the last week. Will 
it kill or injrne the trees? V it. jr. 
Sharon, (’onn. 
.\s to the splitting of trees we have 
some of it, but no general complaint from 
the State. It is frequently taking place 
and I see no prevention. It is not con¬ 
fined to any one side of the tree, so we 
canndt say it is sun after severe freezing. 
It is not liecause of excessive wet, but 
usually when dry. It is common in forest 
trees as well as apple and fruit trees. We 
h.-ive an Ameri(-,-ui linden that split two 
or three years ago. It closed up consider¬ 
ably and .seems to he healing over. One 
could apply somothing like fresh cow ma¬ 
nure to prevent air getting in freely, and 
this would assist nature; or any material 
that' would not injure the tree and shut 
out the air would be good. This is spoken 
of in Bailey's “Fruit Orowing.” lie says 
pi'el back the hark and cover over with 
gas tar or similar material. A. 'r. .s. 
“Asleep at the Switch” 
I note what S. B. W.. Geauga Go.. O.. 
says on page 1.^572, Dec. 1 i.ssuc, in regard 
to selling his tomatoes to a Cleveland can¬ 
ning comiiany for .'i!l2 per ton delivered to 
Madison, O.. and they all had to be good 
and smooth. Now. I think S. B. TV. was 
surely “a.sleep at the switch” when he al¬ 
lowed these canning people to put a thing 
like that over on him when we were pay¬ 
ing ■$! for a small half-bushel basket of 
tomatoes of an inferior quality, and the 
local grocers were selling them at the ratci 
of from $120 to .$140 per ton. Onr friend 
ft. B. TV. is only located about .80 miles 
from where I am living, or about that, 
and he would not be comiielled to come 
that far to unload his goods (tomatoes) 
at th(‘ price we paid lie coiil.l have sold 
iin entire w-agon or truck load in a short 
si)ace of time, as tomatoes of a very poor 
(piality sold at the store retail for not less 
(ban ()C per pound. The road is jiaved 
all the Avay from Madison to Cleveland, 
the same as the brick roads hi the city, 
and he could have almost made a good 
filing out of them by carting them to 
Cb'velaiid in a gaideii wheelbarrow. 
Of course, where the distance is so 
great, and the roads so bad that (he mid¬ 
dleman had a w-hack at him. there might 
he some excuse for the canning (-omiiany 
taking his soul and the balance of the 
.‘lo-cent dollar, hut where the conditions 
are so fine there is no excuse for one being 
held up in such a manner; tln-y would 
better get together and hire some kind of 
rig and beat this next year, 
Ghio. C. FURMAN SMITH. 
I Preparing Winter Radishes 
Will you give some way of preparing 
Vi infer radisln-s for the table? M. e. c. 
AVinter radishes may be prejiared in 
iiiiy way suitable for turnips. The usual 
way is to peel, boil whole in salted water, 
and then sei-ve with cream sauce poured 
over them. They may also be cut in dice, 
boiled, then drained, seasoned with pep¬ 
per. salt and butter, and served wBh a 
little chopped parsley siirinklod over them. 
They are also good sauted; that is, cut 
ill dice, boiled, then drained and tossed 
Jn a frying-pan in hot butter 
Don’t Give Up 
the Garden! 
'"T^RUE, help is scarce and you are 
trying to grow more and bigger 
crops than ever before. But you 
don’t need to go with¬ 
out plenty of crisp, fresh 
vegetables. They mean 
too much to the house¬ 
wife in planning the 
meals for the men folks 
imME 
and to the health of the family. The garden will 
pay, too, in dollars and cents, saving on grocery and 
meat bills. Make garden this year with an 
Seed Drill 
and Wheel Hoe 
It is a wonderful labor-saver and runs so easily that the wife or one of the 
young folks can push one. It will sow accurately and at even depth, cover the 
seed, firm the soil, cultivate, weed, ridge and level the soil—all as fast as yon care 
to walk. Easily changed to wheel hoe and back again. With one of these Tools, 
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They are made strong, simple and durable and in 30 combinations at 
prices ranging from $4.50 to $30. 
We also make an extensive line of Cultivating, Spraying and Potato 
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82 Years in Business 
$ 10 , 000.00 
Backs this saw. 
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Portable 
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Only $13.15 saw made to 
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Box 3, Belleville. Pa. 
D 
this Simplex 
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ITCHING 
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Farm crops are sure to bring good prices this year, but 
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If you would like information or advice about the needs 
of your soil or crops, write our Agricultural Service 
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Boston (for many years Director of the R. I. Experiment 
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Owing to the Railroad eotigestion, order your Fertt- 
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