RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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SAVE MORE GRAIN 
. Help Win the War 
"Give us food, men and muni¬ 
tions,” say the allies. But more 
important than anything else is 
FOOD. For food, the world 
looks to America, and America 
looks to the farmer. Every bushel 
of grain that you can produce is 
wanted, and a good big price is 
waiting for it. Save your grain 
by threshing it with a 
Red River 
Special 
the thresher that BEATS OUT 
the grain instead of waiting for it 
to drop out. It’s the thresher 
that’s built by thresher experts— 
men who know how to get grain 
from the bundle to the sack the 
quickest and surest way. 
If you are a thresherman doing:custom 
work, you will find the big money¬ 
making runs are easy with a Red River 
Special. Save the farmer enough more 
grain and time to pay his thresh bill. 
Easier than ever this year with high 
prices for grain. 
If you want a machine for home thresh¬ 
ing, write and leam aboutour“Junior,” 
the small thresher that makes home 
work pay. Write for circulars. 
Nichols & Shepard Co. 
In Continuous Business Since 1848 
Builders Exclusively of Red River Spe¬ 
cial Threshers, Wind Stackers, Feeders, 
Steam and Oil-Gas Traction Engines 
Battle Creek Michigan 
Destroys Smut 
Treat all seed grains with For¬ 
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and annihilates potato scab and 
black-leg. Our new big Hand 
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FORtOfflDif/yOE 
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This book is free and should be read 
by every farmer in business for profit. 
Formaldehyde is approved by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, Your dealer 
sells Formaldehyde prepared by our lab¬ 
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100 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK 
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I Model 
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Prevents crop failures; reclaims abandoned land. 
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Box 534 Owensboro, Kentucky 
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WILLIAMS BROS,, 432 W. State St., Ithaca, N. Y. 
New Methods in Asparagus Culture 
I had had iny oyo ou the piece of 
grouud w hich I used foi' iny first asjiara- 
gus patch for some time, not knoAving 
wliat use I would eventuall.v put it to. hut 
fi'om its location thinking it would prove' 
useful for some special crop, as it .sloped 
due south in such a way that it was ex¬ 
posed to the sun nearly all day. It was a 
piece of about two-fifths of an acre, and 
as it was ;i little out of the way, tlie 
owner wlio lus'ceded iiu' had neglected it 
and it was a poor pii'ce of soil. The tirst 
year I cropped it, tlierefore, I luit in 
wheat and Winter vetch, cutting it early 
for hay and lettii;g tin' aftermath of the 
vetch stand: T jihiwed it next Siiriiig for 
potatoes, h.iviiig fertilized it heavily for 
both crops, and once more put in wheat 
and vetch as a cover crop. 
Ill the meantime I had run across my 
strain of asparagus and dt'cidi'd to take 
chances on this jilot with it. I had only 
.300 roots of my own strain, so bought 500 
roots of I’aliiH'tto and 500 roots of Itarr’s 
Mammoth. I have never been able to 
notice any dilTi'reiice to spi'ak of hi'tween 
till' three varieties. eNcept that Barr's 
Mammoth is a trifh' later and somewlmt 
deeper green in c,dor. 
I had ha<l a very small bed in the veg¬ 
etable gaislen, which during my absence 
had been jdanted, and jilanted in the old 
styh', rows two feet .-ipart and one foot in 
the row; the slioots came up thin, and I 
determined to give the next lot I planted 
jih'iity of room. I ran the corn marker 
hotli ways aei-.iss the jilot find iilanted a 
root at each intersection, thus making 
flu' plants staml iBo feet a|)art each way. 
Out of the l.dOd roots I bought I reject- 
('d .'too that looked jioor to uu', iiiid would 
sti'oiigly advise jinyoiie contt'mplating 
planting a.sparagus to buy almut half as 
many roots again :is uec'di'd. and I'eject 
on('-third of tin' lot ; jdanting ])oor roots 
is a wa.ste of time ami money. I ran the 
“scooter plow" along the furrows oue 
way, having previously laid in a liberal 
(luantity of manure, ami worked it iu 
this way. I jilanted in the usual manner, 
and broadcast a mixture of 300 ])ounds 
acid j)hosi)hate, 14 per cent, and .'tOO 
pounds kainit on the piece. Kainit was 
cheap tlien, hut, of course, is almo.st un¬ 
obtainable now'. 
I sprayed for the beetle several times 
the tirst year, jind gave good culture, fill¬ 
ing in in the usual manner as the shoots 
gr('w up, and as they hranched, working 
ejirth to tliem ju'i'tty well .-ihovo tlu' 
level of the other ground, to ;:nppoit 
tliom against winds, etc. This is very 
important the tirst ye.-ir. In August I 
gave the plot a liberal coat of manure, 
and quit cultivating, not. even working 
the manure in. 
Early next year I la'gan to see that I 
had struck something unusual, as the 
shoots came up vei-y thick aud strong, 
and, although my fingers itched to cut 
soiiH', I resisti'd the temptation and gave 
th(' idot good culture :uid an extra <'oat 
of manure iu August, sjiraying twic(' for 
the beetle during this year. The next 
Spring I got shoots o\ ('r an inch in diam¬ 
eter, and weighing as much as live ounces 
in a great many cases. I thought it a 
pity to cut some of them before they at- 
taiiH'd their full growth, hut every tiiu" 
I let soiiU' .stand they hraiiclu'd before I 
knew, rendering them, of course, worth¬ 
less for market purposes. After some 
study I hit uixm a jilaii to prevent this. 
I had some galvanized iron tubes made, 
two inches iu iliaim'ter and 1.5 inches 
long, aud as st)on :is a promising .stalk 
showi'd, drove the tube around it iu tin* 
ground for two or three iuclies, deep 
enough for the' tube to be supported up¬ 
right by the gi'ound. I’lie rt'siilts were 
very satisfactory. The tubes excluded 
most of the light, and the stalk grew :il- 
most to the toji of the tube before even 
starting to branch, and the color became 
several shades lighter. 
I kept ou experimenting, and linally hit 
upon th(' plan of putting an old Mason .iar 
to]) acro.ss the top of each tube; this gave 
me stalks t)f a beautiful yellowish green 
color, weighing in many cases 8% ounces 
each, and all the stalks were tender and 
edible to Avithiu an inch of the butt: 
those raised without the jar toi»s were 
also tended, but the color was not so at¬ 
tractive as the others. All the stalks 
could now be allowed to grow to the full 
Unlock The Soil! 
Get big yields. Go down deep to the root of things and 
unharness the energy that shallow cultivation fails to reach. 
DOUBLE ACTION 
DISK HARROWS 
increase the acreage'yield 
The rigid frame gives double cultivation, mello'ws and /eve/s the land. 
This is important to you —saves teams, time, labor. Learn about it. 
WRITE FOR YOUR COPY OF OUR BOOK 
It is full of valuable information about proper soil cultivation. Accom¬ 
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Free 
Upon 
Request 
The 
Cutaway 
Harrow Co. 
668 Main Street 
Higganum, Ct. 
Maker of the origi¬ 
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Harrows and Plows 
21c 
PER ROD UP 
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KITSELMAN BROS. Box 230 Muncie, Ind. 
The Cure for a Billion Dollar Was 
year—if you own no spreader, you are 
not only losing out on the bigger yields 
and profits that should be yours, but you are con¬ 
tributing to a billion-dollar manure waste, and stop¬ 
ping your ears to the world-call for food. 
We have facts and figures to show that iu scores of cases 
the use of an International Flarvester spreader has added to 
crops more than enough to pay for the spreader in one year. 
The dealer will show you the new No. 8 Low Corn King, 
Cloverleaf or 20th Century. This is the latest International 
Harvester spreader, the popular 2-horse, light-draft, narrow- 
box machine with the remarkable new spiral wide-spread. 
For the small-to-average farm this is bound to be the spreader 
success of the year. Look it over from tongue to spiral, see 
it at work, and you will agree with us. 
In the Low Corn King, Cloverleaf and 20th Century lines 
are larger spreaders too, with disk or spiral wide-spread, all 
of narrow, easy-handling width; low, of remarkably light 
draft, strongly and simply constructed. Write us for cat¬ 
alogues and see the local dealer for a satisfactory money¬ 
making Low Corn King, Cloverleaf or 20th Century spreader. 
Interaational Harvester Company of America 
(incorporated) 
CHICAGO USA 
Champion Deering McCormick Milwaukee Osborne 
