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rrosted rotato beed 
La.st year potatoes generally were frost¬ 
ed before they were rijie. Would such 
seed be fit to plantV F. g. R. 
Hinsdale, Hass. 
There is only one way to make sure 
about this, and that is to ask the potatoes. 
Take fair specimens and leave them in a 
warm room e.xposed to the sunshine, or 
cut them in the ordinary way and plant 
the seed- pieces in flower pots or bo.xes. 
If the potatoes are strong and vigorous, 
they will send out good sprouts, aud’ you 
can tell from this growth whether they 
would ‘be -likely to grow wheu- planted in 
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The Sands of South Jersey 
On pago 1402 our oorrosiionchuit. Trxiek- 
or, Jr..’had an article on “The Sands of 
New .Ter.sey.” in which he told some of 
tlie -possibilitios of this light soil. That 
article ’has attracted- considerable atten¬ 
tion among farmers everywhere. For in¬ 
stance, the following letter was received 
from a farmer in ^Missouri. This man 
formerly lived in South Jersey, aud as 
we see does not have the highest opinion- 
as to the soil and .possibilities of his old 
liome. Trucker, Jr., was .very careful to 
make his position clear, and* he has no 
desire to start any ‘'back-to-the-sand” 
movement; in fact, for the average city 
man these sands should' ’he left severely 
alone. It is not likely that the “back-to- 
the-lander” would make a living and pay 
out on such poor soils. For tlie man who 
knows how to 'handle them-, liowever, has 
fair capital, and realizes that he must put 
money into this land in order to got 
money out of it, there are few better 
places in the country than South Jersey, 
when we consider the markets and the 
possibilities for dispo.sing of a crop. 
I was drawn to the article “The Samhs 
of New .Jersey.” page 14(12. While read¬ 
ing it I could not help smiling very 
broadly, especially Avhen you say your 
sands can put the fertile acres of the 
West in the shade when it comes to pro¬ 
ducing crops. Well, put "me ou record 
as’being from Hissouri, as T want to “be 
shown.” You see I was raised on- your 
sand in Atlantic county, five miles 'from 
Egg Harbor City. If you can change 
the sands tliey -have around there to com¬ 
pare anywhere near our soils within 10 
years (I will give you 10 years, not as 
.short a time as quoted--in your article), 
you eau do wonders. 
You surely are correct when you say 
some people have the idea that New Jer¬ 
sey is a big sand’bar aud capable of rais¬ 
ing sand burrs and mosquitoes. They ! 
surely do anyway around my old home. I 
adimt, by continually stuffing the soil 
(bettor say sand), you can in time get 
it so it will produce. But figure the 
time, money, fertilizers, etc., 41ils all 
takes, then where will you be? Espec¬ 
ially now when time is so precious, and 
labor so expensive. But you hit the nail, 
blit not on the head, when you say, “we 
have sometimes a mosquito or tw'o.” Why, 
I was sitting on my brother’s porch eat¬ 
ing a pear, andiliy giving one lick with 
my flat hand on -my deg I killed not one, 
but 17 mosquitoes. You certainly are 
getting good iirlces ’for your truck, ’hut 
that will not remain so. Let this war 
be over when tlie rich can travel abroad 
and you will see where your prices are. 
'Surely I am glad that your work may 
be successful and I 'believe it Avas past 
season as far as I could learn, la.st Sep¬ 
tember. But, take my brother there in 
Egg Harbor .for instance, I have .been 
away about 25 years, ‘been home to visit 
in that time five times, but my brother 
in all this time could not afford to pay 
me one visit. And yet with diim all 
hands work, men, women and children 
and 'harder than we, Avhile we leave our 
women where they belong—in the kitchen 
—and our women Avear shoes all year, 
while down there barefoot is the rule. 
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I Yorker, 333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
T am living near Lake George in the 
Adirondacks. Tlie people have nearly all 
given uj) working their farms, and are 
working for cottagers that come for the 
Summo.’. There is not enough produce 
raised here to supply the town, so that a 
great amount is brought iu during Sum¬ 
mer from Glens Falls by auto, 21 miles 
distant. _ As the supply at this time of ^ 
year is limited each farmer has a price of 
his own, so that I will mention the prices 
I can get for farm products: Potatoes, 
.$1.50 bu.; eggs, 60c and scarce; butter, 
50c; heavy cream, 70c qt.; dressed pork, 
18 to 20c; beef, 12 to 15c by the quarter; 
milk, 10c qt.; no apples at all; cows, .$50 
to $100; carrots, $1.50 bu.; onious, .$2; 
beans, 15c lb. medium quality hay, 
$14 ton. s. T. 
Warren Co., N. Y. 
HELP the HELP 
The Year Book of the Department 
of Agriculture contains this statement: 
“There is no question of the general 
value of commercial fertilizers in farm 
practice. The farmer who wisely and 
systematically applies commercial fer¬ 
tilizer to his fields will raise larger and 
better crops than his neighbor who, with 
similar conditions of soil, climate and 
rotations, and equal industry applied to 
cultivation, does not use fertilizers/’ 
This is another way of saying that a 
day’s labor on fertilized land will produce 
more than a day’s labor on unfertilized 
land; and that for this reason fertilizer is 
a good weapon against the high cost of 
labor. The hired man is costing you 
more. Make him produce more by put¬ 
ting him to work on well-fertilized land. 
A. A. C. FERTILIZERS 
increase the product of labor. They are 
crop producers. They are land builders. 
They add to the richness of the soil 
through the plant food they contain and 
in the greater amount of humus they 
leave in the soil. . 
Try them this year,—but order quickly, for 
the demand is large and the extra work placed 
on the railroads is making most serious delays. 
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