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GARDEN TOOLS 
Answer the farmer’sbifirQuostions: 
How can I have a pood garden with 
1—* Ho- 
Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
No.308 
Drill 
and 
Wheel 
Hoe 
least expense? ifow can the wife 
have plenty of fresh v^ctables for 
the home table with least labor? 
77?OAr A (IP Combined mu 
-atr/I. and Drill Seeder 
solvra 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 hand¬ 
work in 60 
III 1II u tea. 
30 coin hi n- 
ntions.t4.50 
to tSO 00. 
Write for 
booklet. 
^^ems.nM’f’gCo.,Box 2 C.,Gren Ioch.N. 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Horse or Cow hide. Calf or other skins 
with hair or fur on, and make tlwni 
Into coats (for men and women), rolies. 
rugs or gloves wlien so ordered. Your 
fur goods will cost you loss than to buy 
them and be W'orth more. 
Our Illustrated catalog gives a lot of 
Information. It tells how to take olf 
and care for hides; how and wlien we 
pay the frelglit both ways; about our 
safe dyeing process on cow and horse 
hide, calf and other skins; about tlie 
fur goods and game trophies we sell, 
taxidermy, etc. 
Then wo have recently got out an¬ 
other we call our Fashion book, wholly 
devoted to fashion plates of inuifs, 
neekwear and other fine fur garments. 
With prices ; also tur garments remod- 
Bled and repairedo 
You can have cither book bv sendin - f 
your correct address naming wliloli, or 
botli liooks it you need botli. Address 
Fritsian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave., Rochester. N. Y. 
E quipped with 
Jessup force 
feed—positive 
and accurate. Light¬ 
est draft—seed box 
placed to rear of 
axle, relieves the 
horse s’ necks. 
Driven by both wheels—no side draft, yj 
Draw bars of J 
angle steel— ^ 
will not bend or 
twist. Crown Drills 
give long service. 
Send for catalog today 
Crown Mfg. Co. 
112 Wayne St., 
PHELPS, N. Y. 
WERTHAH 
PAYS 
HIGHEST 
PRICES 
.-v.ro R 
EMPTY 
BAGS 
CASH FOR 
EMPTY BAGS 
We pay highest prices and 
also freight charges. Be sure 
to get our prices before dis¬ 
posing of your bags. They’re 
worth money to you and we’il 
pay you best cash price for them 
as soon ns received and assorted. 
• Write us at once stating how 
Lmany you have. 
WERTHAN BAG COMPANY 
66 Pock Street St. Louis, Mo, 
Delivered prices Quoted on 
request. 
THE E. BIGLOW CO., New London, 0. 
The Use of Hen Manure 
Every year at thi.s time we have dozens 
of question.s about liaiulling hen manure 
so as to make it most elTective. There 
are many way.s of doing this, and when¬ 
ever we give onr own method we have let¬ 
ters from readers who think their own 
plan is better. 
Hen manure is rich in nitrogen, and 
quite deficient in both potash and phos¬ 
phoric acid. Tlie nitrogen is in such 
shape that unless tlie manure is kept dry 
a good -share of the ammonia will ho lost. 
The best way we have found is to keep 
the manure under the perches well dusted 
with land •plastei’, roiid dust, sifted coal 
ashes, or .some similar drier. Then we 
would .scrape it off tlie hoards frequently 
and store it in boxes or barrels under 
cover in a di'v place. If kept in this way 
the Spring will find it in di'.v, hard chunks 
or lumps, witho4it mnch los.s of ammoni.i. 
These chnnk.s must be crushed or ground 
fine in order to make it spread readily 
and be most effective. These chunks can 
be crushed by putting them on a hard 
floor and smashing them with a heavy 
spade or club. If there is a large amount 
of the manure, it will pa.v to run these 
chunks through a mill, and grind the ma¬ 
nure fine. This fine manure can be used 
alone like any other fertilizer, or to make 
it moi-e effective it can be mixed with 
chemicals. 
This year it will be next to impossible 
to bn.v potash at a fair price. If such 
potash could be used, a mixture of 400 
pounds of ci nshed miinure, 100 pounds of 
acid phosphate and 50 pounds of jiotash 
would make a good fertilizer for ordin.ary 
crops. Thi.s year, with potash out of the 
question, we would use 400 pounds of 
dided lien manure to 100 pounds of acid 
jihosphiite, thoroughly mixed together. 
This would make a good mixture for or¬ 
dinary crops. To obtain better re.sults 
under garden culture, 50 pounds of nitrate 
of soda lUiiy he added to this mixture. 
Many farmers lo.se much of the value of 
the hen manure through a failure to han¬ 
dle it projn’rl.v. When no didor is used, 
the pile of hen manure -will often he.at and 
•send off a good shai-e of its ammonia. 
I’hen, in using it.- so many farmers sim- 
pl.v throw out the large, hard chunks, 
without trying to crush it fine. Such 
manure will not give be.st results. While 
the manure alone is very good in supply¬ 
ing ammonia, and a small amount of pot¬ 
ash, it.s efi’ect will be greatly iiicreasi'd by 
the addition of acid prosphate. It ha.s 
now come to be uiulerstowd b.v many farm¬ 
ers that the u.se of phosphorus, along 
with any kind of manure, is an economical 
and profitable combination. 
TESrSM, 
Avoid uainff lime and frronnd Uzneatona 
whero not needad. U»o correct amount If 
they are required.Test soil at home wl 
SIMPLEX SOIL TESTER 
Automatically retristera amount of 
lime and ground limestone aoila 
contain antfrequire. Coata one- 
half cont per hold. I/ow in price. 
Cfuarunteed accurate. Money 
back if denired. Literaturo free. 
Address Simplex Mfs* Co.. 
Dept. 253-Blg Baltimore* Md. 
AT HOME! 
Free Cataloc Jn colors explains 
■ g how you can save 
money on Parra Truck or Road 
WagonSg alBo Btecl or wood wheels to fif 
anyrunning 
gear. Send for 
It today. , 
Electric Wheel Co. 
43 FlniSL*Quificy, 
Standard Fruit Books 
Successful Fruit Culture. Maynard... .$1.00 
The Nursery Book. Bailey. 1,50 
American Fruit Culturist, Thomas.... 2.60 
Citrus Fruits. Hume. 2.60 
California Fruits. Wickson. 3.00 
Dwarf Fruit Trees. Waugh.60 
Plums and Plum Culture. Waugh. 1.60 
Fruit Ranching in British Columbia. 
Bealby . 1.60 
Farm and Garden Rule Book . 2.00 
Live Stock Poultry 
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals. 
Plumb . $2.00 
Poultry Feeding and Management. 
Dryden . 1.60 
Swine in America. Coburn. 2.60 
Diseases of Animals. Mayo. 1.60 
Principles of Breeding. Davenport.2.50 
FOR SALE BY 
RuralNew-Y®rker, 333 W.30thSt., NewYark 
Buying Small Lots of Wheat 
.\.s a mombor of the Food Administra¬ 
tion and being desirous of helping as 
much as lies in my jiower it.s efforts to 
oonti-ol the use of food stuffs, I read and 
followed some advice whlcli one of your 
corri’.spondents, or perhaps .some one on 
the stafi', gave concerning the use of whole 
wheat. Upon this person’s suggestion 1 
invested in a small grist mill so that I 
could grind my own grain and have real 
corn, rye or whole-wheat bread when and 
as we needed it. I was able to grow 
.some very fine corn, hut when I went to 
the feed men I leiirnod to my surprise 
and dismay that the Administration was 
ahead of me, and h:id pi’ohihited the sale 
of. wheat, except to millers. So my poor 
little home grist mill is getting stiff in 
the joints from lack of use. Even in the 
<’urrent issue of your publication I see 
this good advice repeated, hut the ques¬ 
tion still reniiiins open. Who has the 
wheat, and where can a man buy it in 
small (luantities, say from two to six 
bushels at a time? .TOiix bodkin. 
New .Jersey, 
It. N.-Y.—This is one of the curious 
freaks of the price-fixing of wheat. Many 
like Ml’. Bodkin would like to use entire 
wheat, and could easily grind it at home. 
!is we grind corn oi- rye. Tlie use of .such 
home-ground meal would save wheat and 
flour, as it would -be economical. Yet un¬ 
der the ruling this nuiu cannot buy the 
wheat, since he is not a “miller.” lie 
might buy of some wheat-raising farmer, 
hut since the price is regulated most, 
farmers w’ould not care to bother with 
small lots unless they could obtain a 
higher price. 
AGAIN 
The Farmer’s Opportunity 
Farmers Obtained Record Prices for Produce last vejir. Should 
do .so Again thi.s year. 
used. 
Farms should be run to Capacity and Proper Fertilizers Lilierallv 
Use MAPES MANURES 
Their Standard Absolutely Maintained in Field and State lixperi- 
ment Stations. 
All during the war the Mapes Manures were made :uid are being 
made iireeisely as in the past, under phalge to supiily the Phosphoric 
-Void from Animal Bone and Guano, made available without acidity, no 
Bock or .Vcid Phosphate used. While they do not contain as much 
Potash as formerly, they do hold enough to greatly aid the present croj) 
to more perfect growth and development, and thus insure the hiilance 
of its necessary I’otash being taken from latent soil supplies. 
Onr splendid record with the State Experiment Stations of 101(5 
again maintained. 
We give below tlie average of all tlie Station Analyses which we 
liave received of our prominent brands for 1917. 
-1917 ANALYSES 
MAI'RS POTATO 
Ammonia 
Average of six State Station Analyses.. 4.05 
Guarantee.4.50 
GENERAL Sl’ECIAli 
Average of four .State Station Aiiiilysea. 7.20 
Guarantee. 7. 
TOBACCO STARTER, IMPROVED 
Average of four State Station Analyses. 5.2.” 
Guarantee. ,5. 
CORN MANURE 
Average of four State Station Analyses. 3.24 
Guarantee. ,3. 
TOP DRESSER, FULL STRENGTH 
Average of three State Station Analyses. 12.12 
Guarantee.12. 
TOBACCO MANURE 
.Average of two Stiite Station Analyses. .10.24 
(Juarautee.10. 
We are (Miually protid of the results in the field. They have been 
most excellent, fully suhstanti.-iting onr theory us to the advisability of 
supplying at least limited Potash to aid the crop to make a start, iind 
so enable it to iivail itself to the utmost of the latent .supplies of Potash 
in the soil. 
Order at once. TTider this year’s conditions it is the only w’ay to 
be sure of having your Fertilizer when you want it. 
The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Co. 
Central Building, 143 Liberty St., New York Branch, 239 State St., Hartford, Conn. 
a — 
Phos. 
Acid 
Available 
Tdtal 
Potash 
7.74 
0.0.S 
1.00 
8 . 
8. 
1. 
1 
G.22 
9.04 
1.(54 
(5. 
8. 
1. 
ROVED 
(5.14 
8.3.3 
1.12 
(5. 
8. 
1. 
7.07 
10.74 
1.07 
8. 
10. 
1. 
iOXGTH 
0.27 
8.3(5 
2.25 
5. 
8. 
1. 
0.34 
8.45 
1.82 
• • • • 
8. 
1. 
AsplnwaU, 
Potato 
Planter 
r Tho First SuccoMful 
Potato Planter. The 
only correct drop, one- 
fman, automatic, potato 
'planter. Doea all the work— 
ia(t the time. Needs nowatch- 
Planta more ocreaper day. 
Saves Expense of Extra Man 
Attachments for peas, beans and 
. . . . ’fertilizer furnished, 
when desired. Write for FRKK BOOKI 
containini; valuable information on 
this important crop, also attrac¬ 
tive folder illustratintr the 
Aspinwall complete line of 
potato machinery—Cutters, ' 
Plan ters, Sprayers, Disgersi 
and Sorters. 
World’s Oldest and 
Largest Makers of 
Potato Machinery 
Aspinwall Mfg. Co 
621 Sabin St. 
Jackson, Michigan 
IVlulctier 
& Seedier 
mulcher, smoothing harrow, cultivator,^ 
weeder and seeder—all In one. Forms dust mulch 
—a blanket of loose soil—preventing soil hardening 
and moisture escaping. Increases yield of com 
potatoes, oats, wheat, etc. Kills weeds. Flat teeth, 
especially adapted to form mulch. Lever and 
pressure spring control depth of teeth. Sold with 
or without seeding boxes for gra.ss seed, alfalfa, 
oats, etc. Teeth cover the seed to depth desired. 
Adapted for a large variety of work. In stock near 
you. Send for catalog. 
EUREKA MOWER 00., Box 842 , Utlsa, N. T. 
Four ilzss, 
3, 8, ID 
and 13 ft. 
Haul A Load Each Way 
Crops must be hauled to town, and 
fertilizer must be hauled home. 
Why Not Combine the Trips? 
When you take a load to town 
Plan to haul 
a load of 
SPRING FERTILIZER 
on the return trip 
Piny snfe nnd get your fertilizer stored in your own barn. War conditions 
have decreased the supply of fertilizer, and increased the demand. 
Late orderers may be disappointed. 
Co-operate Witli Your Dealer 
Fevv dealers have sufficient storage space to'carry large fertilizer stocks on 
—even refused than capacity car loads—40 to SO tons—are discouraged 
now-enable him to combine 
^ load. When your car arrives haul as soon as 
fh^car if vm, ^ return trips. Take part of the fertilizer directly from 
the car if you can. Hasten unloading—free the car for other uses. 
Order Spring F'ertlllsEer NOW 
^flroarJoLgeluon.'’ P^rtltoward relieviDg 
Send for literature to Department 19 
Soil Improvement Committee 
of the National Fertilizer Association 
Postal Telegraph Bldg., Chicago The Munsey Bldg., Baltimore 
