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Cy>c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2.'?, lOlS 
Burpee’s 
Sweet Peas 
SIX STANDARD SPENCERS 
^t)* packet each of 
the following : 
Chenib, rich creamy rose 
Decorator, rosy terracotta 
Hercules, soft rose pink self 
Jack Tar, bronzy violet-blue 
/kite, large, pure white 
beautiful orchid color. 
The Burpee Leaflet on 
Sweet Pea Culture” with 
eachcollection. If purchased 
separately the above would 
cost 65c. 
Burpee’s Annual 
Tlir IcodiiJQ Americatui^.td Catalog 
216 pages, vyith 1-03 color- 
illustrations. It is mailed 
free to those who write for it. 
A post card will do. Write 
for your copy today and mention this paper. 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 
Burpee Buildings Philadelphia 
BUISTS 
EARLY 
MORNING STAR 
EAS 
An ideal pea for 
l.iio home grower. 
Very easy of culti¬ 
vation, reaulriug no 
sticks and entirely, free 
from runners. Easy to 
pick, as they grow, so 
compactly that practi¬ 
cally a handful can be 
grasped at a time. Ee- 
markal)l.v productive- 
pods well Wiled with peas of 
jhe most delicious liavor. 
J'ositivelv the earliest pea in the world, ready for 
picking in 42 days. They are hardier, more jirodue- 
tl ve and withstand greater changes of weather than 
;iny other viirlety. If you appreciate the pleasure 
of liaving jteas of unsHr()assed quality on your table 
early In the season you will certainly plant Hulst’s 
Karly Morning Star. Pkt., 10c.; pt., 25e.i qt., 45c. If 
wanted by mail, postage extra. 1 pint weighs 1 lb. 
Write today for our 1910 Gorden Guide. It tells you about 
the '‘Morning Star” as well as all the other HUIST'S 
K(5edB—the seeds of the-'OOyear prestige”—and gives 
yon detailed cultural Information for every montli 
of the your an<l every part of the country. We will 
be i)lea.sed to send it to you free on request. 
Frae Flowar Seads with ordars of 80e and over 
ROBERT BUIST COMPANY, 
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Hoffman’s Northwest Clover Seed 
Selected from the states 
along the Canadian bor¬ 
der and from the districts 
ad jacentto the Black H ills 
and Rocky Mountains. 
“NOivTHWEST” CLO¬ 
VER is 
Earlier, Hardier 
and More Productive 
The superiority of "NORTH¬ 
WEST’’ Alfalfa Seed has long 
been acknowledged. Clover 
Seed, Alsike and Timothy 
Seed grown in the Northwest 
have a like advantage. It is 
earlier ^ because of the short 
season in which it matures— 
hardier, because of its sur¬ 
vival of Northwest winters— 
more productive, because 
of its extreme vitality. 
NORTirWEST” Grass Seed 
succeeds where other fail. 
Less "NORTHWEST" seed 
need be sown per acre. 
Hoffman’s 1918 Catalog 
Ib full fof valuable hint, tor grow- 
tng cr<WH. It ofl'erH Sord Oatn, 
Corn. Potatoes. Field Peas and 
heanB. Alfalfa and Graea Scoda. 
It la free, with a packi^t of eoeda 
aaxnploa. if you mention tblapapor 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc. 
Landiavitle, Lancoatur Co., Fs. 
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I authorities are for sale by The Rural New- 
I Yorker, 333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
l.'iiipiior niul get vegetables fur the meals 
of the next <lay or two. If the dcscriiition 
of fonditions in the region between the 
Itofky Mountains and the Ohio Kiver is 
I I'orrect, there are many other jilaces 
! where siicli a farm would jiay well to one 
who had the nerve, experience and busi- 
ne.ss ability to carry it on. 
Wayne (V>., X. Y. ai.fkki) c. weed. 
Beans on Upland; Spring Wheat 
1. Will the yellow-eye bean, known 
as the Main or Dot (a .small dot on each 
side of eye) grow on upland? These 
beans give good yield on low lands, and 
seem to be free from disease. The land 
I intend to plant is light sandy loam. 
2. 1 would like to know something about 
Spring wheat, when to sow and how 
much. w. W. K. 
Tuscarora. X. V. 
1. T'ho yellow-eye bean referred to is 
I practically immune to disea.se, is a fair 
lyielder, and is by its upright habit of 
'growth, less lialile to weather damage 
jwheii riiiening than otlier sorts. These 
I beans do eiinally well on any good soil, 
excepting clay or heavy clay loam; also 
they mature in a shorter season than do 
some of the other varieties. HeaiiS re¬ 
quire a light covering. One iiieli is deep 
eiiongli. 2. I do not know of any .'‘Spring 
wheat having been grown in tliis jiart of 
the State. In my boyhood days, when a 
.Tune frost killed the Winter wheat iTop. 
Spring \\ Imat was tried out, but jiroved 
a complete failure. There i.s a good deal 
of Sill ing wlieat grown in the Province of 
Ontario, Panada. On a recent visit to 
.tlieir ('olh'ge of Agricnltiire at Ouelpli, I 
saw many samples of Siiring wlieat, hut 
I even there Winter wlieat jirevaihs. Bet¬ 
ter sow oats or barley as a Spring grain. 
Monroe ('ounty, N. Y. li. E. cox. . 
! Eradicating Wild Mustard 
'I'he seeds of the wild mustard, if pre- 
Ivenifd from germinating, by deep burial 
'or by a thick mat of grass roots above 
I them, or by any other means Avill retain 
their vitalit.v for years, and will ger- 
niinati' as soon as conditions are made 
favorable. Personally, I have known 
thi'iii to retain their vitality under sod, 
for a iieriod of 4.3 years, and-to germinate 
in immense mimhers as soon as the fiidd 
Uvas jilowed-. That was when 
I was a boy, and we completely ridded 
the field of them by idaiitiiig and culti¬ 
vating, and jicrsistent ’hand-pulling for a 
period of nine years, so tliat, during the 
next .two years, not a plant appeared. 
Hut 1 will, not attempt to estimate the 
cost. 
Thoroiigli rotting will destroy the 
seeds, hut they will resist the rotting 
ordinarily praetised with- farm nianiires. 
Thorough cooking will destroy them, hut 
they will resist the scalding ordinarily 
ipractised- in preiiaring pig and chicken 
feedk. Thorough grinding will destroy 
them, hut many will e.scape the coarse 
grinding ordinarily practised .when grind¬ 
ing provender. Thorough nia.stication 
and digestion will Jlestroy them, but 
many will escnix' these iirucesses and’ be 
voided intact. .\iid some will e.scape all 
these infliieneesiand he ready to germinate 
when' spread nixin the land and in favor¬ 
able conditions. I have seen, it stated 
that the increase of ti single seed, pro¬ 
vided all were saved and iilanted under 
favorable conditions, would, in live years, 
be am-iily sunicient to seed a fanner of 
160 acres, and, without making any cal¬ 
culation •my.self, I believe -the statement. 
Tlie only possible means by whiclr one 
can get the uiiper *1011x1 of tliis Weed is 
to alhjw the seeds to germinate, and then 
destroy the resulting jilaiit. . 
lYild •mustard may be held in check 
by spraying with a solution of copperas 
or blue vitriol. Either liquid is fatal to 
all jilaiit life, but the hairy leaves and 
transverse veins will retain the poi-son 
juntil the plant is killed, ■while the smooth 
1 leaves and longitudinal veins of most 
kinds of grains will allow it to run off 
before sei'ious harm is done. They may 
also be kept in check by mowing them 
about the time the plants begin to blos¬ 
som. Set the cutter-har rather high, so 
as not to cut the grain too closely, and 
no harm will result. Most kinds of grain 
I will continue growth with no injury, and 
but a .slight check, but the mu.stard will 
do neither. Hut the nio.st economical 
mi'thod of handling it, is a continual 
seeding with millet, and cutting the mil¬ 
let for hay. meantime seeing to it that 
all niamire applied is so thoroughly well 
rotted as to destroy all seeds of the mus¬ 
tard. The millet will be ready for cut¬ 
ting before the mustard seed matures, and 
a continual r<’-seediiig will (‘radicate the 
weed. I believe that it is largely 'the 
Iiresence of wild mustard in our grain 
iields that has reduced the average yield 
of oats, in Yennoiit. by nearly 10 bushels 
lier acre during the past few years, and. 
1 believe that unless it is controlled, it 
will, eventually, make the growing of 
small grain unprofitable in many iiarts 
of New England. c. o. o. 
A Little Pumpkin Story 
The Spring of 101,3 I bought a jiacket 
of “Sugar” pumpkin seed.s, which jiro- 
(Inced a good lot of little pumpkins of a 
variety of shaiics and difl’erent shades of 
yellow, as well as also varying in qual¬ 
ity, but on the whole averaging very good 
for sauce and pies. 
One vine of the lot especially attracted 
my attention, being late in getting started, 
and, aided and ass-i.sted by my cutting 
away the sweet corn that had retarded 
its growth, and refreshing showers of 
rain in just the nick of time, the little 
vine was taking on a new lea.se of life, 
with great ha.ste putting forth great ro¬ 
bust leaves, and to help along,towards the 
fnltilment of the great aim in its life, I 
nipped off all the side branches, thus con¬ 
serving all of its energy direct to the end 
in nature whicli is the goal of all the 
growing things in my garden. 
Presently the watched-for fruit bud ap- 
jieared, and I ob.served* would be in bloom 
on -the ’Jl.st of August, and early the 
morning of that day I was up and 
hand fertilized that blossom with pollen 
from the male flowers of that most ex¬ 
cellent of .sipiashes, the “Delicious,” im¬ 
mediately tying it closed to guard against 
the po.ssihility of any bees bringing to it 
jiollen, from other flowers. 
After a few weeks of rajiid growth so 
late in the season, the sturdy little 
pumpkin chaiigi'd from the dark green 
to a bronzy golden yellow, differing in | 
fonn and color from ‘all the others, as I 
those others had from each other, and ! 
'when cooked was extra fine, the best of 
them all. Xow, I wi.sh some export hor¬ 
ticulturist would toll me whether the fe¬ 
male blossoms of pumpkins and squashes 
are in any degree self fertilizing. I have 
not believed that they could-he, and if so, 
then the progeny of this juimpkin coird 
not he otherwise than half Delie.ous 
s(iuash, could they? 
Hut the. children of that pumpkin in 
1616, and, the many grandchildren of it 
tliat 1 raised last year, although every 
one of .them, so far as we have yet 
eaten of -them, are exceedingly tine, in¬ 
deed most excellent, for pumpkins, not 
one of them hears in any Avay any re- 
semhlaiice to a sqna.sh. However, the 
quality of them is so choice, cooking up 
so tine and quick, that I guess they do 
inherit some of the Delicious s<iuash qual¬ 
ity, 'though in looks showing no sign of 
it. They are tine, anyway. 
And now I want to tell yon a new way 
of making pies from them that T have 
invented. 'Po a mess of the .stewed 
pumpkin add the milk and other lixings as 
for pie, hut, with no crust, hake in a 
deeper dish,* than a jiie )ian, same as one 
soiiiefimes hakes a custard. Eaten with 
a teaspoon in one hand, and in the other 
buttered “war bread.” biscuit or gems, 
it’s more than eipial to a common piece 
of AVM. Ga DRKW. 
Ohio. 
Liquid Smoke 
I notiee an inquiry about liquid smoke. 
T have iiseil it for .several years with sat- 
isfaetieii. It is much more convenient 
than the old stylo or method of smoking, 
and does not entail tlie danger of tire, 
neither does it dry out the meat as'does 
the heat of the smoke lire, and it seems 
to preserve the meat very nicely when 
jiropi'i'l.v applied as per diri'ctions accoin- 
lian.ving each bottle. We have used Init 
one brand of “smoke,” but with this we 
can tell no ditTerence in the flavor of the 
meat from meat smoked by the old 
method. *!• 
I’emisylvaiiia. 
Mieeey : “T would only marry a man 
who has liv<‘d and suffei'(*d.” Hilly ; ‘ I 
suppose what you want is a widower.”— 
Melbourne Leader. 
A Baked 
Cereal Food 
DifFerent from the usual 
run of toasted or steam- 
cooked cereals, 
Grape-Nuts 
is baked in giant ovens— 
baked for nearly twenty 
hours under accurate con¬ 
ditions of heat, so that the 
whole wheat and malted 
barley flours may develop 
their full, rich sweetness. 
You don’t need sugar on 
Grape-Nuts. 
“There’s a Reason'* 
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These exhibitors certainly won on quality, and 
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