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Hour With a 24‘^d 26‘ 
ORIGINAL KEROSENE TRACTOR 
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“I threshed 18,000 bushels grain this summer v/ith the Waterloo Boy 
Tractor. It required 15 gallons kerosene an^cl about a qu^t o| cylmdet 
oa for a tcnhourday.** E. C. Haraldson. Hanley. Sa8k._ _ 
As Efficient in the Field as at the Belt 
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wide rear wheels which grip the ground firnily, pulling three H inch 
bottoms 7 inches to 8 inches deep, without packing the soil. 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The Progressive strawberries tire now 
lilentifnl on our hoiiie market. A while 
baek it looked as though the plants were 
going to give up the joh. Put the rains 
came and then they hurst into bloom and 
fruit. I find that the best results from 
these everbearing strtiwherries are secured 
by treating them rather as annuals. Set 
the plants in Spring and k'feep all bloom 
off till the regular Spring varieties are 
done. Then let them come on and they 
will give fruit right through till frost. 
Train the runners into the rows, and the 
next Spring let them make the full early 
crop and turn the plants under after 
planting a new bed. I find that after they 
have made a full Spring crop the later 
fruiting is rather insignificant. They are 
selling here now (mid-September) for 15 
cents a box. Those have one advantage 
asid.e from the season, and this is that 
they are far sweeter than the Spring ber¬ 
ries, 
I’lie intense and long-continued drought 
and heat is well shown by my Dahlias. 
’I'liey came near giving up the ghost, and 
not a flower has been jirodueed up to this 
time; they are .iust showing buds. If 
frost holds off till the usual date I may 
yet get a fair bloom, and probably better 
flowers than if they had made so’tne hot 
weather flowers. 
The same long heat and drought af¬ 
fected the Gannas, though we did try to 
keep them alive with the hose. 1 have 
been testing some of the newer ones. 
Olympic is a strong grower and makes 
an enormous head of pinkish carmine 
bloom. Panama is a peculiar shade, a 
sort of orange red with broad yellow 
edge and dots. Orange Pedder is a splen¬ 
did plant, carrying fine heads of pure or¬ 
ange color. Jane Addams is probably 
the best clear yellow. The new Fiery 
Gross, for which I jiaid !)!2 and got a 
piece with a single bud, makes a very 
large and fiery red flower, but so far has 
not shown the enonnomsi flower head 
promised. The season is back of that, 
however, and the plant has not had the 
best chance. The same is true of a nmn- 
hcr of others of the 115 newer sorts that I 
planted in the Spring. Their true value 
is yet to be determined. 
The last planting of sugar corn is just 
coming in (September 21) and will be 
ready for the table probably in a week. 
The" last planting of string beans was 
made the first of September. I am al¬ 
ways willing to take some chances with 
beans early and late, and generally win 
out, though sometimes the late and early 
frost catches me. 
Taist 'Winter, when T usually Imy my 
supply of garden seed for the whole sea¬ 
son, i failed to got okra seed from tlie 
source from which my garden seed al¬ 
ways comes. When time came for plant¬ 
ing I eonoluded that instead of writing 
to my regular seedsman I would buy a 
jiaper out of the seed boxes at one of 
the stores and see what it would make. 
Well, I have okra, it is true, but it is a 
good samiile of seed sold in the boxes, 
evidently bought up from the i-efuse of the 
crops tliat got ahead of the iiicking from 
some gardener, ’riiere are dwarf plants 
and extra tall plants, short pods and long 
jiods, and no pods at all, broad-lobod 
leaves and slim-eut leaves; a mongrel 
stock all through. This is the kind of 
stuff they put on the (lovernment to give 
the Gongressmen tafl’y to spend. I did 
not anticipate that I would get as true a 
tj’pe of I’erkins okra as I would have got¬ 
ten from the firm I generally buy seed 
from, but I did expect that there would 
be some approach to the type, while real¬ 
ly there is hardly a true Perkins plant in 
the lot. This is the kind of seed the peo- 
jile who accuse the seedsmen of dishon¬ 
esty usually buy. 
T am heartily in favor of laws protect¬ 
ing useful birds and wild animal life in 
general, but when the game laws protect 
pests merely for the shooting by idle men, 
the laws become a nuisance. We have 
here a close season for rabbits or hares. 
Now, these prolific creatures cannot be 
exterminated, and. protected, they become 
posts. They live in my garden and will 
neatly top a whole row of string beans, 
and will eat the cabbage plants, but seem 
to know that the larger cabbages have 
had poison aj)])lied and do not touch them. 
Put they get plenty and live on the fat 
of the hind. ''V. F. massf.y. 
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Storing Gladiolus Roots 
Gommereial growers begin to dig Gladi¬ 
olus about the first of September, so as to 
have a long season for drying and dig¬ 
ging. Under garden cuUure they may 
he dug any time before liard freezing be¬ 
gins, but it is wise not to leave them too 
late, as unfavonihle weather may inter¬ 
fere with the drying. Dig with a fork, 
cut tojis off close to the conns, put in 
shallow crates, and set in a well-venti¬ 
lated place whore tin* roots will not be 
exposed to rain. '^Phe best place for Win¬ 
ter storage is a cellar without artificial 
heat, but free from frost, with a tempera¬ 
ture range of about 25 to 40 degrees. 
Small (luantities of the roots may he put 
in baskets, in layers not more than four 
inches deep, and hung up in the c-ellar. 
Where there is a larger quantity tliey 
may la* stored in crates under the sanie 
conditions, the crates stacked up ’'vith 
ample space for air circulation. The 
roots mmst not be frozen, nor do they 
keep well with higher temperature. 
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