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1918 
Seed Book 
Offers seeds for every farm crop 
and tells how to grow them. Specializes 
in Alfalfa, Soy Beans—Field Fea^Seed Po¬ 
tatoes—Seed Corn for silage and cribbing. Hoff¬ 
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ALFALFA 
AMERICAN NORTHERN GROWN 
For fifteen years our advice concerning the seeding 
and care of Alfalfa meadows, and our seed for sowing 
Jhem, have been standard—the best that was to bo 
bad. The catalog tells how, and prices the seed, 
not Turkestan, “Dwarf Alfalfa,” which we refuse to 
handle, but the best of American grown seed, in¬ 
cluding usually Montana, Idaho, and the great 
“Dakota 30,” which rivals the Grimm itself. 
I'DIiiU Al CAI PA Next to Hansen’s Siberian, 
UcflnilTl HLiHLiH the greatest variety grown 
in America. We have the genuine; also limited 
amounts of the Siberian. 
CLOVER and GRASSES 
No matter how critical yon are we can please yon. 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
Are grown for the most-critical trade. Write for free 
catalog. Lists many new and rare specialties. 
WING Seed Co.. Box 8S3 Mechanicsburg, O. 
The House of Quality and Moderate Prices. 
0 EverlastfaifiS % Ijn 1 
Immm Alfalfa 
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■Uhe RURAL N 
iiig of buckwheat is needed, so as to 
cover the ground and hold the rye back. 
When conditions are right, the buckwheat 
makes a quick start and covers the 
ground rapidly, while the rye grows 
slowly, being shaded by the buckwheat. 
When the wheat is cut in September 
the rye is usually three or four inches 
high, and of course is cut off with the 
buckw’heat straw. If the ground is 
moist the rye starts growing again, covers 
the ground through the Winter and gives 
a crop in the Spring. It is not possible 
to grow a full crop of grain iu this way, 
but a fair crop of buckwheat and a rea¬ 
sonable crop of rye may be expected. On 
good soil in a moist season we have 
known this combination to succeed, and 
we have known it to fail, depending on 
the soil conditions and the way it was 
handled. In some cases clover is seeded 
with the buckwheat and rye, and will 
make a fair stand, but anyone who tries 
this must clearly understand .that the 
soil must be strong and the season must 
he moist. 
Use of Nitrate of Soda 
In view of the supply by the govern¬ 
ment of 100,000 tons of nitrate of soda at 
cost, a few notes on the subject may be of 
use. 
Many people have a way of describing 
all chemical fertilizers by the one word 
EW-YO R K ER 
mix it with lime; the lime will act upon it 
in such a way as to set free all the am¬ 
monia. This contains all the nitrogen. 
Nitrate should never be u.sed on land that 
has recently been top-dressed with lime; 
the same result will occur. Crush it up 
fine before spreading it, and remember 
that 50 or 100 pounds to the acre is only 
a very little per square yard, and if it is 
used as an apiilication to individual plants 
a very small handful is equal to a very 
heavy dressing per acre. K. D. SCOTT. 
Testing and Treating Seed 
On page 440 are three pictures taken 
from a bulletin of the Colorado Experi¬ 
ment Station. Fig. 219 shows the popu¬ 
lar method of treating seed oats to pre¬ 
vent smut. The oats are spread out on 
the barn floor and sprinkled as shown 
in the picture. A solution of one pint 
formalin to GO gallons of water is used. 
This is siiriukled over the oats until 
they are quite wet, then they are shoveled 
into a pile and covered with a sack or 
blanket for six hours. The gas formed 
from the solution spreads all through 
the pile of oats and destroys the germs 
of smut, then the oats are spread out 
and dried ready for seeding. A new 
method is to take the pint of formalin 
alone and spray it from a small atomizer 
over the s«ed oats, then cover them as de¬ 
scribed above. The advantage of this is 
Florida Field of Cahhaf/e, February lo. Fig. 220. flee paye ' ^Ci, 
“phosphate,” even factory-mixed fertiliz¬ 
ers containing some nitrogen being wrong¬ 
ly classed under the one name “phos¬ 
phate.” The question was recently asked 
the government is selling?” It was the 
the government is .sellling?” It was the 
nitrate proi)o.sitiou the man had iu mind, 
llis mistake is a very general one. Table 
salt sometimes looks much the same as 
sugar, hut the two have different uses 
and properties; so also the nitrates differ 
from phosphates. Nitrogen in any form 
has the effect, on plants, of darkening the 
green and increasing the growth of the 
leafy portion, and at the same time stimu¬ 
lating root action. 
In the cold days of early Spring nitro¬ 
gen is the one plant food most lacking in 
the soil; this is one reason why early 
groAvtli often seems so slow, iind why 
young crops appear yellow and starved 
at this time of year. The use of nitrate 
of soda at such a time helps a crop to 
tide over an uncomfortable period, en¬ 
courages the formation of roots and the 
sjieedy outgrowth of dark green, healthy 
foliage. 
The greatest returns from its use are 
obtaiued from crops the whole of whose 
top growth is harvested; thus, the hay 
crop can be about doubled by the use of 
100 pounds of uitrate and 100 pounds of 
acid phosphate per acre. Compare the 
cost of this with the value of a tou of 
hay. It is much better to make a little go 
a long way. and use your supply over a 
large area, rather than to put it on heav¬ 
ily. Fetter money returns will he made 
this way. 
A very useful general mixture can he 
made by mixing 50 pounds nitrate with 
100 pounds acid phosphate. This repre¬ 
sents a fertilizer containing about three 
per cent nitrogen and 10 per cent phos¬ 
phoric acid. 
Nitrate alone will greatly help early 
cabbage, increasing its weight and the 
succulence of the crop. A light dressing 
on onions in the early stages is also very 
beneficial. It is very strong medicine, 
and a little and often should be the rule 
with gardeu truck. Be careful never to 
to avoid using the solution and drying 
the oats. 
The other pictures show two methods 
of testing seed corn. In one case sample 
kernels of the corn are taken from the 
ear and planted iu little boxes or flats, 
as .sboAvn in Fig. 217. If the corn is 
vital it will sprout and grow, if not it 
will remain dead in the soil and this 
gives a line on its Aitality. The other 
method is shown in the other picture, 
A pile of canton flannel is put on a plate 
and well moisteued, the com is also 
moistened and spread out on the flannel 
so that the kernels do not touch. Then 
the eud of the flannel is brought over 
the seed and kept fairly moist. This 
will show whether the com is viable 
or not, and by keeping records showing 
the ears from which the com came and 
the number which sprout, you cau tell 
what proportion of your seed is vigorous 
enough to grow. The condition of the 
seed com is so bad this year, that this 
testing is absolutely uecesstiry. 
Disking for Oat Seeding 
Last year, in an effort to he patriotic 
and help the food problem, I planted a 
three-acre piece of sod land with Golden 
Bantam sweet com for the canning fac¬ 
tory. and used iy 2 tons of the best fertil¬ 
izer I could get. In ordinary years this 
would be called a good piece of land to 
plant, but there are several places that 
should be drained, and last year showed 
them up at their worst. The piece was 
water-soaked for a month after planting, 
so that no cultivating could be done, and 
the com, of course, never grew as it 
should. I would have got something from 
it. however, but the early frost on Sept. 
7 killed all my chances, and I got nothing 
hut some frosted fodder. Most of the 
fodder was cut from the piece, perhaps 
half au acre left, much weatherbeaten. 
Would it be practical to ruu a disk and 
then a smoothing harrow over this as 
early iu the Spring as possible, and sow 
to oats? w. A. It. 
If the disk cau be put down deep so as 
to work the ground thoroughly, you can 
get a fair seeding of oats in this way. A 
light scratching will not answer, hut there 
must be a deep, thorough working with a 
team heavy enough to haul a weighted 
disk barrow. 
March 23, 1918 
Strawberry Plants 
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