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IShe RURAL N E W- YORKER 
April 27, 
Is the seed corn situation worrying you ? 
SCOTT’S SOY BEANS 
The Best Cow Feed—A Substitute for Corn 
Thousands of bushels—Nearly every variety—From 
the earliest to the latest 
YELLOWS 
Ito San 
Elton or Chestnut 
Ilollyhrook 
Mikad\> 
Ilaberlandt 
Mammoth Yellow 
Mongol 
BROWNS 
Early Brown 
Ohio 9035 
GREENS 
Medium Green 
Morse 
Lexington 
BLACKS 
Sable 
AVilson 
Pekin 
Jet 
Ebony 
Black Beauty 
Sooty 
Mammoth Black 
Mixed Soy Beans at Low Prices 
T HF. Soy B'^an is a solution to the seed corn shortage—insur¬ 
ance against crop failure—a legume that in a short time pro¬ 
duces several tons of hay (better cow feed than alfalfa) per acre 
and makes pasturage that will fatten hogs ])rofitably, due to the 
large protein content. 
Planted with Corn 
S OY BEANS produce at practically no cost a ton or more of 
ensilage per acre, much richer in protein and fat than corn 
ensilage. They do not lessen the growth of the corn, for the soys 
are continually storing up nitrogen in the soil, the very element 
most needed by corn. There should be 
A Field of Soys on Every Farm Because— 
They are the cheapest sanrcc af protein. 
They are the cheapest source of nitrogen. 
They are the cheapest hog feed (with com). 
They are more profitable as grain than oats for 
instead of robbing the soil they improve it. 
They will grow on practically any soil. 
They will add greatly to the feeding value of 
silage. 
They will increase by at least 5 busheh per 
acre a wheat crop which follows them. 
Our catalog tells more about Soy Beans. Ash for it and special prices. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 
60 Main Street Marysville, Ohio 
We can supply INOCULATING MATERIAL and all kinds 
of field seeds, including Cow Peas. 
INOCULATE 
ALL LEGUMES and DOUBLE the CROP 
Prepared for soy beans, field peas, alfalfa, sweet 
and other clovers, garden peas and beans, navy 
i)e!ins, vetch, etc. 1-Acre 60c; 2-Acre 95c; 6-Aere 
Postpaid on receipt of price. 30-paee 
lecnme book, free on request, 
THE EGQERT CHEMICAL COMPANY. CANTON. OHIO 
....J PLSHTS $2 per thousand, 
r0 oIlQ lOnialO Pepper and Potato, S3, ex. 
Iv press collect, Poftpaid,60c perbundred 
fabbaffL 
\j ^ Special Prices large lots. Plants are open 
field grown and are stocky, tough and hardy. Full 
••ount—carefully packed—immediate shipment. 
OAKLIN FARM, _ » _ SALISBURY, N. C. 
SWEET POMTO VIHES 
.Sprout Plants, Asparagus roots, California Privet, 
Ked Skin Potato, Early and Late Vegetable Plants. 
Catalogue Free. MICHAEL N. B0R60, Vineland, N. J, 
P.ahkaffoPtanfn Frost Proof, early and late varie- 
baDDagerianiV ties, postpaid. 300-|l; 500—11.50: 
1.000—$2.60. Tomato plants May loth. Write for prices. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. J.T. COUICIU. I SOUS, Frieklin.Viriini* 
» Uf P C X of all the leading varieties delivered by 
w W C C I parcel post. 26 plants, 20e ( 60 plants, 35c ; 
■tfaxaxfl 100 plants, 60c; 600 or more, SOc per 100. 
rU I A III By express, charges collect, 1,000 plants, 
Q| nyxc 5,000 or more, tl.BO per 1,000. 
rLAII I M H. AUSTIN, _ VELTON, DELAWARE 
AenavAsiic ROOTS, HORSERADISH S^ CABBAGE. 
Asparagus beets, OHIOH PLAHTS, LETTUCE, toma¬ 
toes EGG PLANTS, PEPPERS and CAULIFLOWER PLANTS. 
Send for Price List. J. C. Schmidt, Bristol, Pa. 
Horseradish, Asparagus, Sage Plants: f^e^g.leg: 
etable Plants, Eggs for Hatching, Crates audBaskets 
and all kinds of Berry Plants, etc. Catalogue free. 
I.. J, Parmer, Box 8)80, Pulaaki, N. Y. 
GRAPE BASKETSWf;'. 
liendled by using my machine. Inexpensive, simple and a 
labor saver. Write 0. B. HOLMES, Bentcn Berber, HicbieeD 
Rmrlor Tisiiito Granges, Farmers' Clubs, write for 
|}||lUi;i ■ Wliic Farmer agents wanted. 
THEO. BURT & SONS, • Melbosk, Ohio 
lllnetrated Catalog Free. Buy Direct 
oeeQrOraTOSS from arthcr aldridse, ruherf, n. Y. 
BOOKS on all subjects of fanning by leading 
authorities are for sale by The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
Don’t Buy Just ALFALFA 
DEMAND the HARDY Dakota AL¬ 
FALFA GENUINE GRIMM, BALTIC, 
DISCO 19A, DISCO IIC, and 
DAKOTA commercial ALFALFAS. 
Our stock is complete, thoroughly recleaned 
and tested. Write today for FREE SAMPLES 
of the GUARANTEED SEEDS and your copy 
of the 1918 DISCO Seed Book. 
Dakota Improved Seed Co. 
807 Lawler Street 
Mitchell, Sonth Dakota 
Alfalfa 
Cow Peas 
Soy Beans 
Also Maine-Grown Seed Potatoes— 
Seed Oats—Clovers, including Al- 
falfafrom rugged Northwest—Can¬ 
ada Peas—Co wpeas—Spri ng Grains. 
Hoffman’s Farm Seeds 
Samples 
Free 
I 
Hoffman's 1918 Seed Book is full of val¬ 
uable hints. It is free, wi^ samples, if 
you mention this paper. Write today. 
A. Hs HOFFMAN, Inc. 
LandUvHle, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
SEED 
CORN 
Learning, a 120-day corn; Early Yellow 
Dent, a 90 to 100-day; Y el low Dent 
Whit. Cap, a 90-day, and Mammoth en- 
silag. corn—all ear tested and shipi>ed 
upon approval. Ask for price list. 
C. H. & J. GRAVES, Antwerp, Ohio 
TESTED SEED CORN SV"" 
1 Bu. nhelleil or S.Eara, # 4 . 
From Field untouched br frost. 
JOHN LORTON LEE, • CARMEL, N. V. 
For Sal i-White Dent Seed Corn 
test 905( germination. $5perbu. Averaged 90 bu. 
shelled corn per acre. 6. THOMAS POWELL, Glen Head, L. I. 
SEED CORN 
THEO. BUBT & SOX8. Melrose, Ohio 
CwaalPInvar ^**^*'’'^''******‘- ^hite. Scarified. SlsBu. 
uWBqIUIOTuT Sows fi acrcH. A. llaoRiingilalc, Schanaclail;, N.T, 
DMluLna. ®“v«e, Carman, Cobbler, Giant, Orean Mt., Ohio, No- 
lOlaTOB. blisht,Queou,Six-Weeke. Otlicra. C.W.Ford.Fithcrt.N.T, 
The Corn SHuaHon is Serious 
r The Government tests on nearly all kinds show it to be far below the average and a large V 
percentage unfit for planting. Before April 1 st we had a limited supply of high test Eureka I 
which we quickly sold. Several thousand bushels grown for us we rejected as not up to our 
high test. Fortunately for our customers we have just secured 
10,000 Bushels of Ross’s Eureka Corn 
which germinates Peru satisfactorily. Big demand for this Corn—buy quick. We also have a fair supply of 
genuine Learning, Red Cob and V/hite Cap Yellow Dent, all good ensilage varieties, and a limited amount of flint 
corns, such as, Sheffield Longfellow, Canada 8 rowed, as well as a good supply of Rhode Island White 
Flint, the corn that made Rhode Idand famous for its pancakes and the best substitute for wheal flour. Can also 
furnish Marquis Spring Wheal (limited amount). The best kind this section. 
Send for oar 120-page catalogue, mailed free. Gives description and price on complete line of grass, 
field, and vegetable seeds, also latest improved Farm Machinery. Potatoes are lower. We have a good supply 
of Aroostook County grown stock. You cannot aflord to miss our catalogue. 
BROS. CO., 67 Front Street, Worcester, Mass. 
ROSS 
Garden and Farm Notes 
The Virginia Peanut 
Bullptin 218 of the Tir?rinia Experi¬ 
ment Station at Blacksburg disousse.s 
peanut culture, which just now is of great 
interest to the country. It seem.s that 
Virginia ranks third among the States in 
peanut production, and in the last census 
was said to produce 4.285,.340 bushels. 
As they sell at about 75 cents a bushel, 
this means an important proposition for 
Virginia. The picture at Fig. -31 (> shows 
the leading varieties of peanuts grown in 
that State. Most of us are interested 
merely in eating peanuts. Although the 
crop has been grown as far north as New 
England, it will only be found there as a 
novelty. All onr_ rentiers, however, are 
interested in knowing something about the 
crop which is easily raised in the Sonth, 
and, being a legume, not only gives a 
profitable yield, but improves the soil. As 
with cottonseed, new uses of the peanut 
are being constantly developed. It is not 
only eaten roasted or made into various 
candies, but the oil and butter have now 
become leading articles of commerce. 
There can hardly be too many peanuts 
grown in this country, and this is one of 
the crops Avhich will help win the war. 
Improving a Waste Spot 
I have a garden jdot 18x30 ft. in our 
back yard, in which I wish to grow vege¬ 
tables this Summer. Seven or eight years 
ago this spot was part of a fine grove, 
but in grading the lot the top soil was en¬ 
tirely removed from the garden spot for 
a depth of about two feet, leaving nothing 
but yellow sand. The first year after the 
house was built nothing grew in this 
sand except a few cockleburs. ’The fol¬ 
lowing year about 2^/4 loads of black dirt 
from the river banks was spread over the 
on the lime and rake it thoroughly into 
the soil. If you cannot get acid phos- 
jihate, perhaps you can buy a quantity of 
fine ground bone; 10 lbs. of that would 
be good. Otherwise we .should use 25 
lbs. of the fertilizer you mention. We 
should spade and rake in the lime thor¬ 
oughly, and after a few days begin to 
plant. You can either broadcast this 
fertilizer all over the patch and rake it 
in, or plant and then scatter the fertilizer 
along the hill or drill, dropping it in an 
even stream about three inches out from 
the plants, and working it thoroughly in 
with a hoe or rake. The latter plan will 
probably give you best results. Keep the 
ground thoroughly .stirred up as far as 
possible through the Summer, and as fast 
as the early crops come out have plants 
of cabbage or other later crops to put in 
their places, and so far as possible cover 
the crop again with rye and clover at 
the end of the season. You will find that 
the clover will, grow better and better 
with each year, and by following out this 
plan of cover crop, lime and fertilizer, 
year after year, you can bring that soil 
into a high state of fertility. 
Cannery Price for Tomatoes 
In “Notes from a Maryland Garden,” 
page 449, you .state the government places 
a price on tomato canning stock at ‘♦.$21 
per ton.” Was the price fixed for the 
whole of the United States at .$21 or 
Lcndinfi Varieties of Virffinia Peanuts 
sand, making a layer about 1% to two 
feet deep when pressed down. An at¬ 
tempt was made to start a lawn on this, 
but it w’as a bard struggle, and finally 
nothing w’as left but quack grass and 
cockleburs. Last Sitring T di'cided to 
try a little garden. In April I sjtaded 
what sod there was under, adding as 
many le.aves as I could get. I used .some 
potato fertilizer for the root crojis, nit¬ 
rate of soda for the green crops and some 
fertilizer which I obtained from the gar¬ 
bage disposal plant for hotli kinds. Ilow'- 
ever, as was to be exiiected, the vege¬ 
tables did not groAv exactly luxuriantly. 
Almost all the vines w'cre undersizt'd, as 
was the fruit or root, such„ as the toma¬ 
toes and carrots. Beginning in the mid¬ 
dle of the Summer I jtlanted Alsike clover 
in some spots for <a cover crop, and later 
rye ami vetch in others, finally covering 
practically all the plot. The clover did 
not grow' at all well. The rye came on 
pretty well, but only a little of the vetch 
grew. Just before the first snow fell I 
covered the wdiole plot with two or three 
inches of leaves, and on top of this has 
lain about two feet of snow or more all 
Winter, and about three inches of ice is 
there yet. As soon as this ice has melted 
I plan to rake up the leaves to give what¬ 
ever is left of the cover crop a chance 
to grow until the first of May and then 
spade it .all under. I have jdanned to 
spread 20 lbs. of hydrated lime oyer the 
ground after spading and rake it in, also 
to use 10 lbs. of acid phosphate if T can 
get it. Am I right? If so. how should 
the phosphate be applied, before spading, 
with the lime or with the seed w’hen 
planted? Manure of any kind seems to 
be out of the question for several reasons. 
Since writing the above I find that jt 
will probably not be possible to get acid 
phosphate alone. I can get a fertilizer, 
however, that is said to contain nitrogen 
4 per cent, phosjthorns 10 per cent, pot¬ 
ash, none. Could this be substituted suc¬ 
cessfully? If so how much would you 
recommend to use? K. F. B. 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
Of course, you cannot expect to make 
over such soil at once, especially since 
you cannot supply stable manure to give 
what is known as life to the soil. In 
time you can make this plot very produc¬ 
tive, but you cannot hope to do it all at 
once. Such soil needs lime and organic 
matter in order to make use of plant 
food. Your plan thus far has been right. 
Spade under the rye and also the leaves 
which you have taken off. Then scatter 
was tliiit only in certain sections? Our 
little factory here is trying to contract 
at 40c per bu. of (50 lbs., whicli would lx- 
.$1.3..32 pt>r ton. c. m. it. 
(^aiitoii, Mo. 
It seem.s that the price of ,$21 a ton 
was simply a price offered or proposed 
by the food supply purchasers for the 
Army and Navy as a ba.sis for the oan- 
ners to hid on. It is now announced that 
the government has no intention to fix 
a price for tomatoes, and it will be left to 
the agiaannent between growers and cjui- 
ners. In other word.s, the jtrice will he 
governed by the supply and demand. It 
is said that the canners here will be will¬ 
ing to contract at .$26 a ton. The gen¬ 
eral opinion is that the growers will be 
slow to contract in advance at any price, 
as there is an impression that the crop 
will bring .$.30 on the general market. 
Since the restriction in price has been 
annulled it is proba()le that there w’ill be 
a very large area planted if the labor can 
be had. This peninsula packs more to¬ 
matoes than any similar area in the 
United States, and the price here gen¬ 
erally rules. The price will be governed 
to a great extent by the way the price 
holds up in the general city markets for 
daily consumption. Tomato growers be¬ 
lieve that the city price will hold good 
all through the sea.son, as the working 
people are employed at good wages, and 
there will be a great deal of home can¬ 
ning done, for there wlil be a general 
inclination to store food. 
W. P. MASSEY. 
Gi'ARn THE Fence Wire. —Take an or¬ 
dinary sickle guard, saw off the two pro¬ 
jecting eai% fasten your wire securely 
in the bolt hole, making it long enough to 
reach the w’ire to be grounded. As the 
guard is pointed, it drives in the ground 
very easily, using a heavy hammer and a 
bar, and if possible alwmys solder the 
wires, as a good contact is most impor¬ 
tant, anti the best time to do this is com¬ 
ing when the frost leaves the ground and 
it is soft; the further down you drive the 
guard the better the earth contact, and if 
possible use no wire smaller than No. 9. 
If smaller use two or three by twisting 
them together. JOS. A. KOSS. 
North Dakota. 
