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JShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
LYMAN’S 
Guaranteed Genuine 
GRIMM 
ALFALFA 
Proven Hardiest By 
Agricultural College Tests 
A Photo taken of one of the 47 Fields established 
In 1916 by F. Forbell, Alfalfa Specialist in Minne¬ 
sota Collesre of Agriculture. Liscomb Alfalfa was 
sown along side of Lyman’s Grimm. During the 
following winter most of the Liscomb, touted by 
some seedsmen as being very hardy, winterkilled 
•—but the Grimm came through the winter in excel¬ 
lent shape. Lyman’s Grimm has been equally suc¬ 
cessful all over the country. 
Heaviest Yields—Highest In 
Feeding Value—Best For Seed 
Summer Planting Recommended. 
Sow Grimm Seed which is known to be genuine. 
With each lot of my seed I furnish a certificate of 
its genuineness. Book, “How I discovered the 
Grimm Alfalfa” and seed sample Free, 
A. B. LYMAN, Grimm Alfalfa Introducer 
Alfalfadale Farm, EXCELSIOR, MINN. 
CRIMSON CLOVER 
The great soil improver and valuable 
for early green food, grazing and hay 
crop. Special circular free, also sample 
and price of seed sent on request. 
Alfalfa 
High-grade American grown seed. 
Write for sample and price of seed, also 
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in need of Farm Seeds of any kind, 
please write to us for prices. 
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wheat in this section, and a poor-looking 
field is the exception now, whereas they 
all looked poor early in the Spring; a 
record-breaking crop of both hay and 
wheat may be looked for, in this section 
at least. l. euppix. 
Lancaster Co.. Pa. 
Growing Onion Sets 
Will you inform me how to grow onion 
sets from seed sown in May? I know it 
is cheaper to purchase onion sets than to 
plant seed, also quicker, but we all like 
to try things on a small scale, either for 
the novelty or experiment. In growing 
sets from seed do I plant seeds in drills 
or broadcast, in both cases thiekly sown? 
Tlie iiart that has me guessing is how 
you keep the onion sets in small .sizes! 
I have ,iust planted seed on almost weed¬ 
less ground, rich, partly shaded, light and 
moist soil. Varieties. Yellow Globe. Dan¬ 
vers. Prizetaker. I have been told by a 
neighbor to sow thickly for small sets. 
Is this correct? w. L. 
Woodhaven, N. Y. 
Onion .sets are produced when the seed 
is sown .so thickly that it is impossible 
for the crowded seedlings to grow to their 
natural size. The seed is usually sown 
with the ordinary seed drill with a 
spreader attachment, so that the seeds 
are spread out in a row thn'e inches 
wide. The space between rows is about 
nine inches wide. From 40 to 100 pounds 
of seed are used per acre. The soil 
should he reasonably free from weed seeds 
and if it is in fair condition instead of 
rich the sets will ripen np in better con¬ 
dition. 
Planting should be done as early as po.s- 
sible in the Spring, and the s(4s should be 
pulled soon after the little bottoms have 
formed, and before the tops have died 
down. This usually occurs about the first 
of August, when the weather is warm and 
drying. Late-planted seed does not form 
desirable bottoms, and the necks of the 
sets will be thick and watery. No matter 
how dry and airy the storage conditions 
may be, such .sets would decay badly, and 
they would send out green shoot.? in stor¬ 
age and seed stalks when set in the field 
the next Spring. 
The Y'dlow Globe and Danvers .seed 
makes good sets ■when it is planted at the 
proper time, but the Prizetakers are in¬ 
clined to bolt to seed badly. They make 
their finest development when the seed is 
started in a hotbed in February and when 
they are the size of a lead pencil they 
are transplanted to the field to stand a 
few inches apart. e. tv. d. b. 
Hay, Ha/ Caps and Vegetables 
The group of pictures this week on 
pages 800 and 807 cover a great variety 
of subjects. Fig. 300 shows how cow-pea 
hay is handled in Virginia. This hay 
makes a coarse, rather heavy fodder, and 
the average Northern man in looking at it 
would hardly consider it of great value. 
In fact, however, the cured vines of the 
cow pea make the finest kind of fodder 
for all kinds of stock. OMie Southern 
farmers know how to handle this crop 
properly. It is best cured in cocks or in 
the shade, the main point being to iire- 
vent a too rapid wilting of the large 
leaves so that the water may be taken 
out of the stems. We are not making 
half as much mse of cow peas and Soy 
beans in tlie North as we ought to. In 
many places where Alfalfa does not thrive 
the Soy bean and the early varieties of 
cow peas would make an excellent sub¬ 
stitute for Alfalfa or clover, and improve 
the soil at the same time. 
q'he picture at Fig. 389 shows a hay- 
field in Southern New .Jersey, where hay 
caps are used. As Alfalfa works in upon 
the Atlantic coast, the hay caps become 
more and more necessary, for Alfalfa and 
clover, to do their best, must be cured in 
the shade or in the cock. The fodder 
will sweat in the cock to best advantage, 
and ill many cases like the present the 
hay cap becomes a necessity in order to 
save the crop. This cap of thick oiled 
cloth will shed water easily, and when 
one side is thrown up, as shown in the 
picture, during a period of sunshine or 
wind, the hay is well iirotected, throws 
off its moisture and turns up in good 
condition. In some parts of the country 
one great trouble with Alfalfa is the'fact 
that the first cutting comes at a naturally 
wet season, so that it is hard to cure. In 
Northeast Missi.ssippi, for instance, Al¬ 
falfa grows Tvell, but the first cutting 
must be made during a naturally rainy 
season, and under ordinary conditions it 
is almost impossible to save this crop. 
The u.se of hay caps, properly handled, 
will make a great saving under such con¬ 
ditions. 
In these war times every square foot 
of a backyard garden must be utilized, 
and plants with a long vine cannot be 
permitted to run all over the ground as 
they would be under field conditions. The 
picture at Fig. .388 shows a tomato vine 
trained up to a post. In this small gar¬ 
den every foot of space is needed, and if 
this big vine were permitted to sprawl 
over the ground, as is done in field cul¬ 
ture, it would require six to eight square 
feet. Here, however, a space of two 
square feet permits this vine to develop 
its fruit perfectly. Training up these 
vines is not practical on a large scale, 
but where space is valuable, tomatoes, 
melons, and even potatoes can be trained 
up in this way to good advantage. 
We have often had our say about a 
supply of asparague for the farm. The 
fact is. no one has any right to live in 
the country and not develop a good as¬ 
paragus bed. It is the easiest vegetable 
to grow; it comes on fii-st in the season, 
and will live for years even with very 
poor care. There is probably no other 
Spring vegetable so nourishing and with 
such a u.seful olTect upon the system as 
asparagus. The boy in the picture, Fig. 
391, knows this, and we do not blame 
him for hugging tight the two bunches of 
“grass.’’ He knows that the dinner will 
be 50 per cent more enjoyable with one 
of these armfuls properly served. It is a 
great mistake to attempt to live iu the 
country without a supply of “grass,” and 
if anything would justify the children for 
attemiiting a strike, it would be the fail¬ 
ure to provide them a constant supply of 
this fine vegetable. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. —The Federal Grand 
,Tury in New York June 7 returned in¬ 
dictments against nine persons, charging 
con.spiracy to violate section 2 of the 
e.spionage act, which is a capital oflemse, 
and an attempt to commit treason, pun¬ 
ishment for which is two years’ impri.son- 
meiit. The alleged plotters are: The 
Biirone.s.s Maria von Kret-schmau, alias 
Mine. Maria K. de Yictorica; Lieutenant 
Gommander ITormaim Wessels, alias 
Karl Itodiger, of the German navy: Jere¬ 
miah O’Leary, the anti-British agitator, 
whose jiiiblicatiou “Bull” is denied the 
use of the mails; 'Willard ,1. Robimson. a 
Sinn Fein orator; Albert Paul Fricke, 
alleged to have been the paymaster, of the 
group; John T. Ryan, a fugitive attorney 
from Buffalo, a Siuii Feiiier who frequently 
Tvas mentioned in the proceedings follow¬ 
ing the plot to blow up the Welland 
Canal ; Emil Kipper, an American citizen 
who is alleged to have materially aided 
the band in their operations, and Hugo 
Schweitzer and Rudolph Binder, the lat¬ 
ter two now dead. Two indictments were 
filed against each defendant. One charges 
cousiiiracy to commit espionage, the other 
conspiracy to commit treason. The es¬ 
pionage charge is based on the act passed 
.Tune 15, 1917, and provides death or 
thirty years imprisonment as the penalty. 
The treason charge is based on a jiro- 
vision of tlie criminal code and involves a 
lienaltv of two years imprisonment and 
.$10,000 fine. 
Sentences of life impri.sonment were 
imposed by a courtmartial .Tune 10 at 
San Antonio, Texas, upon 45 conscien¬ 
tious objectors who had refused to wear 
army uniforms. The .sentence w’as re¬ 
duced to 25 years each by Brig.-Gen. 
.1. P. O’Neil, who reviewed the records. 
The men will be sent to Fort la'aven- 
worth jirison. The slackers are nearly all 
from Oklahoma, and members of the 
Mennonitc faith. Some Meuuonites have 
refused to bear arms, but donned the uni¬ 
forms and accepted work iu non-combat¬ 
ant units. The convicted men refused to 
wear uniforms or work iu any army ca¬ 
pacity. 
Following the resting of the Govern¬ 
ment's case June 10 against Lawyer .To- 
■seiih Rutherford, successor to the late 
"Pastor” Russell, and seven of his ad¬ 
herents on trial for conspiring to cause 
insubordination iu the militai-y and naval 
forces of the country. United States 
Judge Howe in Brooklyn refused to dis¬ 
miss the indictments against the Russel- 
lites. I.etter were read from a number of 
drafted soldiei-s who had been encouraged 
by the Russellite leader to resist military 
service. 
'Tlie first mercanrile fleet this year from 
Seattle to the salmon fisheries on Bristol 
Bay has got stuck iu late ice iu Bering 
Sea and one steamship, the Tacoma, has 
been sunk, according to word received 
June ]() by the Department of Commerce. 
Mail lost when the Puerto Rican line 
steamship Carolina was sunk by a Ger¬ 
man submarine off’ the New Jersey coa.st 
included 40.000 letters, 42 sacks of new.s- 
papers. 54 sacks of parcel post and 37G 
registeriHl iiarcels. mailed from through¬ 
out the island between May 25 and 28, 
June 22, 1918 
inclusive, and at San Juan, May 29, the 
Post Office Department has announced. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The parlia¬ 
mentary secretary of the Briti.sh Min¬ 
istry of Food recently stated that 100,000 
additional acres of potatoes had been 
planted in Great Britain, while 120.000 
acres had been planted in Ireland. The 
margarine manufacture, he added, had in¬ 
creased fourfold since the war began and 
the country is now independent of mar¬ 
garine imports. 
Wheat storehouses of the Mormon 
Church in Utah are being swept clean for 
the first time in 30 years to add to the 
supply for American soldiers and the 
Allies overseas. The Mormons have 
turned over to the Food Administration 
more than a quarter of a million bushels 
of grain, representing the great reserve 
store kept up since the days of Brigham 
Young, through contribution by farmer 
church members of one-tenth of their 
crops. 
Champion Sylvia .Johanna, a .six- 
months-old Holstein bull calf, sold for 
.$l()(i.(ff)9 at the State Fair Park at Mil¬ 
waukee. JVis., June 5. The previous rec¬ 
ord price was ,$83,000. paid for the calf’.s 
mother. May Echo Sylvia, a year ago. 
The mother holds the world’s record with 
41.01 pounds of butter and 1.000.80 
pounds of milk for a seven-day period. 
The seller was A. C. Hardy, Brockville, 
Out., and the buyer, E. A. Stuart of 
Gconomowoc, Wis. 
Prote.sts and complaints against the 
scheme of coal curtailment to vegetable 
growing greenhouses which has been put 
into effect by P. B. Noyes of the Fuel Ad¬ 
ministration are being made to Food Ad¬ 
ministrator Hoover and Administrator' 
Garfield by farniers of New England and 
New Y’ork State. A revision of the plan 
giving ample coal to greenhouses produc¬ 
ing early Spring vegetables is asked. 
Among the protests received is one from 
the New England Farmers’ War Council, 
composed of three fanners from each of 
the New England States. A farmers’ or¬ 
ganization in Ohio also has voiced a jiro- 
test. CoiLsiderabie quantities of early 
vegetables are grown under glass in New 
England and New York State and dis¬ 
posed of in Eastern markets. The fuel 
allotment which has been granted them 
will practically put an end to this busi¬ 
ness for the remainder of the war, it is 
asserted. 
Tlie State of Illinois has issued an of¬ 
ficial quarantine against the common bar¬ 
berry (Berberis vulgaris and its varie¬ 
ties) becaiLse of its increasing the destruc¬ 
tive black stem rust of grains. 
The ninth annual meeting and exhi¬ 
bition of the American Gladiolus Society 
will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., August 14 
to 17. 1918. A. E. Kunderd, Go.sheii, 
Ind.. is president, and Prof. A. C. Beal, 
Ithaca, N. Y., is secretary. 
WASHINGTON. — Emergency esti¬ 
mates reaching approximately .$28,000.0(19 
to establish permanent airplaine and bal¬ 
loon stations on the Atlantic and Pacific 
coa.sts, in Hawaii and on the Panama 
Canal Zone were sent to the House Ap- 
liropriations Committee .Tune 0 by Secre¬ 
tary Baker. The destructive excursion 
of German submarines to the Atlantic 
seaboard is mainly responsible for the 
(‘stimates. It is understood that .sites 
have been .selected for 13 stations on the 
Atlantic, three on tlie Pacific, three in 
Panama and three in Hawaii. 
The entire output of steel and pig iron 
of the country was taken possession of by 
the Government .Tune (*> through the IVar 
Industries Board and will be concentrated 
upon mills and foundries engaged in turn¬ 
ing out munitions and vital war supplies. 
The names of men of draft age who 
have received commissions by the War 
and Navy Departments and are engaged 
on duty not strictly military are sought 
in a resolution aclopted by the House 
.Tune 10. This resolution directs Secre¬ 
tary Baker and Sei-nffary Daniels to re¬ 
port to the Hou.se names of all meu be¬ 
tween 21 aud 31 years of age (they are 
known as slickers) who have been as- 
signeil to clerical or non-military duty 
.since .Tune 5. 1917. 
Threats of the Gorman Government to 
resort to repri.sals and the flat refusal of 
the United States Government to be in¬ 
fluenced by these threats are set forth 
in an exchange of notes between the two 
Governments made public at the State 
Department .Tune 7. Ilaus Rulzer, the 
Swiss Minister, acted a.s iiitermetliary. 
Germany threatens to take action against 
Americans now under German control lui- 
less the United State roloase.s Gapt.-Lieut. 
Franz Rintelen, master plotter and spy, 
from his prison sentence which he is .serv¬ 
ing at Atlanta. The German Government 
suggests that Rintelen be exchanged for 
Siegfried Paul London, an alleged Amer¬ 
ican citizen arrested in \Yar.saw on espi¬ 
onage charges and sentenced to 10 yoar.s’ 
penal servitude iu Germany. A statement 
issued by the War Department shows that 
there are 133 American soldiers iu Ger¬ 
man prison camps aud 210 American civ¬ 
ilians. including merchant sailors, in¬ 
terned in Germany. The statement also 
shows that there are more than 5.00() 
Germans interned in the Ignited States, 
of whom approximately 1,310 are pris¬ 
oner of war. 
“Why did you leave your last place?” 
asked the boss. “I didn’t leave it. It 
left me.” “Rather strange, I should say.” 
“Not at all. I worked in an ammunition 
factory.”—G’redit lost. 
