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PATENTED 
Shock Absorber 
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I p YOU realized what the Hassler Shock Ab¬ 
sorber would do for your Ford you would 
equip your car with it today. So you can 
find out for yourself and not bo discouraged 
by someone who has been “stung" by an in- 
ferl or co ntrivance we will let you try the 
For 
Ford 
_Cars 
5? ®*Pense and risk. Simply write today for 10-day 
Tnal Blank, fill out and return to us, and we will ar¬ 
range with our nearest dealer to put a set of Hasslers 
on your Ford without a cent of expense to you. 
Ron your ear ten days. Feel the greater eomfort* 
notiee how mneh easier U Is to drire. Get yoar wife’s 
opinion. Estimate how mneh the oraooth riding of 
th^e ear will save in tires, ol|« gasoline and np-keen. 
Then If you’re willing to mn 
your ear without Hasslers,the 
dealer will remore them and 
yon won’t be eat a eent. But 
you’ll say they are the best 
Inrestment yon erer made. 
Write for the FreoTrial 
Blankfiiiaw 
tratedCirenlar 
and Opinions^ 
of Users today, 
Roktrt H. Hssskr / 
Inc. I 
510 Naomi St. 
IndtanapoliSf 
Indiana 
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SAW YOUR WOOD 
SHELL YOUR CORN 
PUMP YOUR WATER 
ELEVATE YOUR GRAIN 
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Gives you a 12 h. p. engine for less than the cost of 
a 2 h p. Ford builds the best engine in the world— 
it will outlast the car — and you migrht as well save 
your money and use it to do all your farm work. 
No wear on tires or transmission. Hooks up in 3 
minutes. No permanent attachment to car. Cannot 
injure car or engine. 
Friction Clutch Pulley on end of shaft. Ward Gover¬ 
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If not satisfied. Ask for circular and special price. 
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Big Crops—Big Profits 
Make every acre,you plant 
unlock its fertility, release 
its plant-food by applying 
Pure grade, superior quality, 
highest percentage of carbonates, 
rinely pulverized—its fertilizing 
value shows in first harvest. Non- 
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Use It for big crops and profits. 
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The Threshing Problem 
Q I 1 Threshes cowpeaa and soy beam 
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KOGER PEA & BEAN THRESHER CO., 
Morristown, Tenn. 
FARMERS 
HANDY 
WAGON 
Low Bteel wheels, wide tires, make 
loading and handling easier. We fur¬ 
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carry any load. Plain or grooved tire. 
Catalogue sent free. 
EMPIRE MFG.CO*, Box 396, Quincy, lllr 
RURAL 
Starting Seeds in Hotbed 
(Continued from page 229.) 
of true leaves, though this work may be 
done when the plants are somewhat 
smaller or larger with good success. The 
use of flats admits of the plants being set 
out in the field with a block of earth ad¬ 
hering to the roots, which insures a much 
higher percentage to grow than when the 
plants are pulled from the seed bed and 
set directly to the field. Some growers 
tramsplant tomatoes, etc., in rows in the 
hotlx'd, but this plan involves more labor 
at plantinng-out time, in tlie way of dig¬ 
ging and transferring them to the field, 
and is of no particular advantage as far 
as I could ever see. 
Tomatoes should be set about three in¬ 
ches apart both ways in tlie flats; cab¬ 
bage 21/^ inches; peppers two inches; let¬ 
tuce 1% to two inches; celery two inches 
each way. Eggiilants being more tender 
are therefore more difficult to handle in 
all stages of growth. Tliis is one plant 
that succeeds best when potted; 2% inch 
pots should be used for the first potting, 
and later, when the pots have become 
fairly well filled with roots, the plants 
are to be shifted to or four-inch pots, 
and from these planted out in the field. 
Eggplant must be kept in good, healthy, 
growing condition at all times, for if they 
become stunted from any cause, they fre- 
qiientl.v do not recover until too late to 
make a crop. Li.te cabbage and celery 
are mostly sown in rows in the open 
ground and transiilanted to permanent po¬ 
sitions directly frem the seed bed. . These 
should be sown in drills eight to 10 inches 
apart to admit of working the soil with a 
hoe. When the jdants are well np they 
should be sown in drills eight to 10 inches 
aiiart in the rows. As stated above, seed 
for late or Winter celery should he sown 
soon as the ground is fairly warm. Late 
or Winter cabbage should be sown about 
the same time, or when the ground is 
fairly warm. 
Cabbage can he sown in the Fall and 
tlie plants carried over Winter, even 
where the temperature goes as low as 
eight to 10 degrees below zero, when prop¬ 
erly hardened and cared for, hut exper¬ 
ience is required successfully to carry 
them through. Therefore it is not at all 
advisable for the inexperienced to under¬ 
take it, as the experiment will more than 
likely result in failure. Many old gard¬ 
eners who in former years made prac¬ 
tice of carrying their cabbage plants over 
'Winter in cold frames, have abandoned the 
practice, as they can get marketable heads 
quite as early and with less labor and ex¬ 
pense from early Spring-sown seed. K. 
Pasturing Pigs in Small Fruits 
Through an error enough rye and vetch 
was sown in my acre of red currants (as 
Fall cover crop) for five acres, and con¬ 
sequently the ground last Fall looked like 
a lawn. If I turn young pigs into this 
rye next Spring will they injure the cur¬ 
rants, especially during bloom? I won- 
dei-ed too, if pigs would injure raspber¬ 
ries if I turned them in on the rye and 
vetch cover crop which I used last Fall? 
I low soon shall I allow the pigs to run 
in this rye? g. a. g. 
Fulton, N. Y. 
Wo will pass this on to our readers 
for actual experience. We should keep 
the pigs out and plow under this growth 
of vetch and rje. We have bad pigs dig 
and tear at the roots of young tx’ees so as 
nearly to ruin them. We think the pigs 
would work at the currant hushes after 
woi-ms and grubs, and make trouble. 
Without actual experience we should keep 
the pigs out. Has anyone actuallv tried 
it? 
N E W-YO R K E R 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rurai New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a Quick reply and a “square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
The Useful Hotbed 
(Continued from page 227.) 
celery iilants, from seeds started a week 
or teu days later than cabbage, should bo 
ready to plant out of doors by May lil. 
romatoes, eggplants and peppers by June 
I to 10. Sweet corn, cucumbers, melons 
and squashes, started in paper pots or 
old berry boxes in the hotbed, may be 
taken to the garden at the usual time for 
planting seeds of the same crops. Any 
crop carefully handled will respond well 
to hotbed surroundings and have several 
weeks gain on (to'>.s of the same kind 
groTvn entirely in the open. 
E. L. KIRKPATRICK. 
Si'.XDAY School Teacher: "Who killed 
Abel? Bobby: I don’t know, ma’am. I 
just moved here last week.—Melbourne 
Leader. 
Fertilizers 
Feed the Fields that Feed the World! 
world is asking for bread and meat. Bigger crops cannot be raised by 
increasing your acreage, the shortage of labor rriakes that impossible. To meet 
the demand for bread more grain must be raised on the acres you now cultivate. 
You must fertilize. You cannot ship 
away more fertility in the form of bigger 
crops unless you bring more fertility in. 
To raise more livestock, we must 
have more feed. The only way to grow 
more feed, is to add to your soils sup¬ 
plies of plant food. Upon the use of 
fertilizers depends both bread and meat. 
In the vast storehouses in the earth, Nature 
provided food for the soil, Nitrates and Phos¬ 
phates, just as she provided food for man and 
beast. These plant foods we gather from the 
four comers of the globe, and make into V-C 
Fertilizers that are balanced crop rations— 
that benefit the crop immediately—nourish 
it from seed time until harvest. The crop is 
not overfed on one element and starved for 
the lack of another. 
Freight is Congested— 
Order Early! 
We have more than 50 factories in the 
North, South, East and Middle-West. We 
are able to get fertilizers to you with a mini¬ 
mum amount of hauling, but the car shortage 
is serious. Fertilizers should be ordered early, 
so that the dealer can assemble his orders 
and have every car loaded to maximum cap¬ 
acity If you do not order now you may 
have to do without them! 
When the fertilizers arrive, haul them home 
and store in your barn until you are ready 
to use them. 
Wrin 
sell V- 
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Fertilizers. 
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The farmer can help by growing more 
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their mechanical condition—release 
“tied up’’ fertility by applying 
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This superior grade of Agricultural Lime is made from 
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Special Prices on Early Shipments 
Buy Now to Avoid the Spring Rush 
RODERT A. REICHARD 
15 W» Lawrence St. Allentown, F*a. 
Manufacturers of Animal Bone Fertilizers 
'Food Will Win the WaF^ 
LANOLme 
Immediate results for War Crops 
Order Now on Account of Car Shortage 
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New York, 101 Park Ave. 
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Rockland, Me. Boston, 45 Milk St. 
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