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“Ball-Band”isthe 
Vacuum Cured 
Rubber Footwear 
This means extra long wear 
because the Vacuum Process 
forces rubber and fabric into 
one solid piece that is tougher 
than either rubber or fabric 
separately. 
Look for the Red Ball and 
get the “Ball-Band.” For 
men and- women as well as 
boys and girls. 
Write for booklet picturing 
the different kinds of foot- 
wear we make. 
MISHAWAKA WOOLEN MFC. CO. 
333 Wafer Si, MISHAWAKA, INDIANA 
"The House That Pays Millions 
for Quality" 
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INSECT BAN 
TREE PROTECTIVE TAPE TREES 
A tai>e, saturated witli a powerful insect repellant, 
and enclosed ill a protectiiie sliiold. Positive protec¬ 
tion ncain.st Canker-vvorni, Brown Tail, Gypsy and 
Tussock Caterpillars-and scores of insects and worms. 
No Insect Can Go Near It 
A Band encircles the trunk—sanitaj-y, sightly. Some¬ 
thing now—absolutely effective—positive prevention. 
Write for booklet and sample. 
Agents wunted'everywhere— Sells at sight. 
THE EGGERT CHEMICAL CO., Dept 4, Canton, Ohio 
Aroostook County 
MAINE 
Seed Potatoes 
Selected stock in 165-lb., net weight sacks. 
$4.SO per bbl., cash with order. 
Bovee, Early Harvest, New Queen, 
Irish Cobblers, Uncle Sam, Gold 
Coin, Green Mountains. 
Order now: Tomorrow may be too late. 
E. MANCHESTER & SONS, Winsted, Conn. 
PEDIGREE POTATOES 
FOR FOUNDATION STOCK 
From high yielding strains developed by 
actual hill-weight and count since 1914. 
Four varieties. Send for catalogue. 
FAIRDEAL FARMS, 
New York State Certified Seed Potatoes b,?,hei'’ 
Green Mountain K. 0. B. AUSABLE VALLEY FARM. Keesewille, R.T. 
F or sale— selected YELLOW DENT. Tested, early ina- 
trirctl, dry secri com. ]»er buKh^l. Gre®u Mountiiin 
Seed Potatoes, >$6 per barrel. ROSEDALE FARM, Vineland, S, J, 
Acnafooiie ROOTS, HORSERADISH SETS, CABBAGE. 
Asparagus beets, onion plants, LETTUCE, toma¬ 
toes, EGG PLANTS, PEPPERS and CAULIFLOWER PLANTS. 
Send tor Price 1-ist. J. C. Schmidt, liristol, Pa. 
fl • I for this week only. Best ALSYKE .'JIC. Best 
opeciai alfalfa $I». a. BLOOMINGDALE, Schenectady, N. Y. 
Special Strawberry Offer 
100 Plants of the famous Cliesapeake and ,50 Pro- 
cressive everbearing, postpaid anywhere in New 
York or New England for SI; Elsewhere SI.25. Cat¬ 
alog of Hardy Berry Plants, Emit Trees and Orna¬ 
mentals ou I'eQuest. GEO 0. AIKEN, Box M, Putney, Vt. 
New Flowers for the Home Garden 
Evidently the war has interfered with 
the busine.ss of flower growing, for only 
a few -new kinds are offered this year. 
A few sorts, however, are particularly in¬ 
teresting and well worth growing in any 
home garden. Among them is the double 
morning-glory, which looks like a com¬ 
mon morning-glory in hoopskirts, and 
blossoms very freely. T^nfortunately, 
only a white variety has been evolved so 
far. The double morning-glory looks 
New Double Chry»anthemum Sunflower 
very pretty when grown among the old- 
fashioned kiniks. They will seed them¬ 
selves, too, and come up j-ear after year. 
Then there is the double Cosmos, a de¬ 
cided novelty. The Co.smos is a favorite 
flower with home garden-makers every¬ 
where, and the new type .seems likely to 
become highly popular. It needs to be 
started rather early, though, in order to 
have it bloom before frost comes. Some 
flowers will be found almost wholly 
double, while others will have a crested 
appearance. There are several different 
shades, and the effect is very pleasing. In 
looking over the catalogues you are 
likely to find the Lady Lenox Cosmos ad¬ 
vertised as a wonderful new .sort. It is 
a fi'ue flower, but if you live in the 
Xorthern States, do not try to grow it. A 
very long season is necessary in order to 
have Lady Lenox flower, and the chances 
are that it will be cut down by the frost 
before the buds open. If one wants to 
make a temporary screen or hedge, a 
mass of Lady Lenox plants will prove 
.satisfactory, for they make a thick bushy 
growth, and often reach a height of five 
or six feet by the end of the season. 
Many gardeners have become interested 
in the Chinese wool flower. It really is 
a variety of Celosia, or cockscomb, but 
makes a very large, spreading flower. It 
may be considered an improvement over 
any other cockscomb on the market, and 
is a handsome plant for bedding. Un¬ 
fortunately it is not so easy to start as 
the advertisements might lead one to 
believe. The be.st plan to follow is to 
sow the seeds in a box in the house in 
A])ril, .iust pressing them into the soil. 
Then the plants may be set out when 
warm weather comes. If the seed is 
sown out of doors, it is likely to rot in 
the ground. 
The cardinal climber, another much- 
advertised annual, should also be started 
indoor.s. preferably with one seed to a 
pot. This is a rapidly growing vine when 
once started, being a cross between the 
morning-glory and the cypres.s vine. The 
flowers are brilliantly red, and almost 
hide the plant, if the soil is good and 
the situation open to the sun. 
It was a woman who gave the world 
the red snnfloAver. At first this jilant was 
not received with open arms by garden- 
makers generally, but has uo5V come to 
have a jilace in many gardens. There are 
pink as well as red varieties, and while 
the plants do not grow' as rampantly as 
the old-fashioned sunflower, they reach a 
height of three or four feet, and can be 
given a place in any hardy border, being 
valuable for filling in vacant spaces. 
Several new' climbing roses have been 
introduced recently, and should find a 
place in every garden. Among the best 
is Purity, a jiure white rose, as its name 
indicates. It is hardier than Silver 
Moon, another and perhaps better-known 
white climber. Silver Moon has ju.st 
enough Cherokee blood to make it rather 
delicate in the Northern States, although 
it will often go through the M’inter safely 
if laid dow'n and covered with earth. 
Still another attractive new' climber 
is 'Wichmoss. This is the first mossed 
climbing rose which has been given to 
garden-makers. It is not especially 
showy, but it is a good rose for an arbor. 
For a climbing yellow' rose nothing bet¬ 
ter than -Vviator Bleriot has been sent 
out. It is the rose to choose if you 
w'ant a real yellow blossom, and not a 
pale creamy yelhnv, like those of some 
so-called yellow varieties. It is rather 
an unusual thing to have a new garden 
rose come from the Pacific coast. The 
rose called I.os Angeles is new' and re¬ 
markably fine, having petals of a pecu¬ 
liar flame pink hard to describe. Proba¬ 
bly this rose should be planted rather 
cautiously in the Northern States, as its 
hardiness has not been w'holly demon¬ 
strated. ^Moreover, it is rather ox- 
)iensive. 
Mrs. Henry M’inneti, a very dark 
crimson rose, now' this season, is much 
safer to plant, because it was originated 
in Canada, and therefore undoubtedly is 
perfectly hardy. It is one of the most 
beautiful dark crimson roses yet seen. 
The Pink Sunflower 
Many garden luakcis have a foiidne.ss for 
single roses, and they will be infatuated 
with Po.sji llugoiiis, or Father Hugo’s 
rose, a species discovered by^a missionary 
in China some years ago. This ro.se 
forms a gooih-sized bush, and the branches 
are covered with yellow blossoms, set so 
closely together that tlu'.v touch. The 
effect when the jilaiit is in full bloom is 
wonderfully flue. Cood yellow’ roses are 
rare, anyway, and Father Hugo’s rose is 
a welcome addition to American gardens. 
There is an evergreen climber which 
ought to he better known, hecau.se it will 
take the jilace of the tender Englbsh ivy 
in the North. It is called Euonyimis 
radicaiis vegctii.s, and will cling to any 
brick or stone wall. Its green foilage is 
unimpaired by the most severe Winter 
weather, and a well-established plant jiro- 
duces bright orange red fruit similar to 
that of the common bittersw'eet, the ber¬ 
ries being held for a long time. This is 
one of the best climbers which one can 
grow. E. T. FAHKINGTON. 
Massachusetts. 
Calcium Arsenate for Spraying 
On page 110 Pnif. P. J. Parrott is 
fpioted as saying. “For apjile orchards 
jirudence dictati's that growers do not 
dabble with it (calcium arsenate) too 
extensividy. even though it appears a 
liromisiiig' arseiiieal for this purpose.” T 
would like to have a di.scus.sion of this 
question, especially .since we have 2(K) 
pounds of this iioison on hand and in¬ 
tended using it on onr orchards this 
Spring. ^ 
1. Are all powdered poison largely cal¬ 
cium arsenate? Ours is. w'ith some lead 
in it. 'J. How' many pounds' of calcium 
arsenate per .uO gals, of water should be 
used? .3. M’ould it be within the “dicta¬ 
tion of iinidence’’ to use calcium arsenate 
for all .sprays but the blossom spray, and 
to use lead paste for that? 4. Why is 
calcium arsenate believed to be less effi¬ 
cient than lead paste for orchard spray¬ 
ing? G. W'. F. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
1. No. Load arsenate can be purchased 
in both jiaste and powder forms. Cal¬ 
cium arsenate is al.so now' obtainable in 
both forms. 
2. For most chewing insects commercial 
preparations of arsenate of calcium are 
used in the proportions of % lb. of the 
liowder or two lbs. of the paste to 50 gal¬ 
lons of water or Bordeaux mixture. If 
arsenate of lime is used in w'ater only add 
milk of lime made bj' slaking tw'o or three 
lbs. of stone lime to each .50 gallons. 
.3. As merits of calcium arsenate, espe¬ 
cially for spraying of fruit trees, have not 
been established, its use in orchards 
should be largely limited to experimental 
treatments. For the present, chief re¬ 
liance should be jilaced on arsenate of 
lead in orchards. Stocks of calcium arse¬ 
nate could w'cll be employed in spraying 
of potatoes. 
4. In the main there has not been much 
doubt as to the efficiency of calcium arse¬ 
nate. Generally it has given satisfaction, 
excejit in some experiments against cod¬ 
ling moth. Its safeness to fruit foliage i.s 
at present a more serious consideration. 
Bemember it is a comparatively new ai'- 
senical. For a time conflicting opinions 
may be expected, especially since .stand¬ 
ards for the poison have not been e.s-tab- 
lishcd, and brands of different manufac¬ 
turers vary in composition. 
P. .T. PARROTT. 
Mice Girdling Trees 
Gan you give any suggestions for pre¬ 
venting mice or moles from girdling fruit 
trees under the snow? Last Fall I treat¬ 
ed them with a sulphur solution, which 
effectually kept rabbits away, but I find 
this Spring the mice have ruined nearly 
all. If there is any remedy I would like 
to save what few’ remain another season. 
Hopewell .let., N. Y. s. 
Moles do not gnaw the trees. The work 
is done by mice and rabbits. The mice 
often work down under the ground be¬ 
low the smear of lime-sulphur. The only 
sure remedy is to use W’ire netting strips 
around the tree, and push them down into 
the ground. Even this will fail in a very 
snowy AYiuter, as the mice w'ill nest, under 
ground and attack the roots. A little corn 
poisoned by .soaking in strychnine W'ater 
and scattered around the tree W’ill help. 
Hydrated Lime for Spray 
Can lime-sulphur solution be suc- 
cessrully made by u.sing hydrated lime in¬ 
stead of the lump lime? Yes, if the hy- 
Climbing Rose Wichmoss 
drated lime was perfectly free from air- 
slaked lime and was made of approximate¬ 
ly pure calcium lime, but nearly twice as 
much would have to be xised, because hy¬ 
drated lime is nearly one-half w'ater. A 
good lime-sulphur solution cannot be 
made from lime containing large amounts 
of magnesia, as most of the common lime 
does, but must be fairly free from this 
mineral and also free from air-slaked lime. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. joii.x Q. wells 
