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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HARRIS 
? GARDEN and*^ 
FARM SEEDS I 
Are standard for quality. Sold 
direct from the grower at whole¬ 
sale prices. There are none better 
—you don’t want to pay good 
money for poor seeds— so it will 
pay you to consider this 
point about Harris’ Seeds. 
You can tell just how 
many will grow before 
Harris’ Seed Corn Famous for its Vitality . » 
and Big Yields you sow them. 
Every lot of seeds is tried in soil or a germinating apparatus and the 
number out of one-hundred that grows is marked on the label. Every 
package of this seed that is sent to our customers has on it a little 
label like this showing the portion that germinated. 
Harris Marks Each Package Like This 
When sowing Harris’ Seeds you can tell 
just how thick to sow to get the right 
number of plants. 
Seed of which 75% will grow should be sown thicker than another 
lot of which 95% are good. But, unless the seed comes from 
Harris you can’t tell which to sow thick and which thin. 
According to our Tests 
96 per cent. 
of this seed germinates 
Send for our FREE Catalogue 
And Buy Direct from the Grower at Wholesale 
Harris’ seeds are raised on Moreton Farm and are sold direct to 
growers at prices many other dealers have to pay. 
The most careful selection and breeding is practiced to improve the strains of 
vegetables, field seeds and flowers. 
Harris Seeds 
Label on every Lot 
Tells how man 
will 
According to our tests 
98 percent 
of this seed germinates 
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JOSEPH HARRIS 
COMPANY 
Box 22 
Coldwater. N. Y. 
Cabbage Seed is Extremely Scarce 
this season but we are pleased to say we 
have some Danish Ball-head cabbage seed 
of a very fine strain and also other varieties 
including Copenhagen Market at reason¬ 
able prices. 
You cannot afford to use inferior seeds, 
no matter how cheap they are. So send 
toda\) for our free catalogue which tells all 
about Harris’ Seeds and bow they are raised. 
It will pay you to see this Catalogue 
Harris’ Seed Potatoes Selected 
by “Hill Unit” System 
Send Check or Money Order. No Stamps. 
FREDERICK S. De LUE, M. D., Experimental Farm, Needham, Mass., Dept. A 
This seed offered by the originator is 2 years in advance of that sold by com¬ 
petitors (as to selection). 
It excels all other early varieties in size, productiveness and quality, and all the late 
varieties in quality and early maturity. It is the one corn for the home or market 
gardenner who wants the greatest amount of highest quality corn in the shortest 
period of time from the smallest piece of land. Illustrated circular, “How to 
Know and How to Grow a Perfect Sweet Corn,” sent with order. Price, '/& oz., 
35 cts.; 1 oz. 50 cts.; 1 pint=12 ozs., $5.00; 1 quart, $10.00. 
Furnishes the sweetest and most luscious creamy nutri¬ 
ment you can imagine. Acclaimed the most important 
horticultural acquisition of recent years. Awarded the 
only medal given for sweet corn by the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society in 67 years. 
De Lue’s Golden Giant is the result of 12 years’ selec¬ 
tion from the product of the Howling Mob crossed with 
Golden Bantam and combines all the good points of 
both parents. 
Stalks very short and stout near the ground. Two to 
three ears; 8 to 9 inches long; cob of small diameter, 
carrying from 12 to 22 rows of long broad kernels of 
deep orange color 
GARDEN, FRUIT, FLOWER, HOME GROUND AND FARM 
BOOKS— Descriptive Catalog of the <!<><» bent books 
covering these activities—just out. Mailed for 3c. stamp. 
A. T. Db La Make Co. Inc. 13811 West 37th St. New York. 
FIELD SEEDS 
liV Our seeds are selected and cleaned to be 
WEEDLESS and free from dead grains. They 
— will go much farther than ordinary field seeds. 
nearly always adding enough to the crop to pay ior 
K M themselves. Samples and catalogue including 
“Jluw to Know Good Seed" free. Write today/. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 260 Sixth St., Marysville, Ohio 
ENSILAGE CORN tfjS&SSSS 
__—- stalk; some had 
fi. 10 acres from SO yielded over 85 bushels per acre. 
This seed field,cured and selected, is now being te»t- 
ed. $5 per bush. HOLLYWOOD FARMS, Scoltsburo, Va. 
DEPENDABLE SEEDS 
We offer the best that can be grown in vegetable 
and field seeds. 1919 Catalogue lists the loading 
kinds. Market gardeners ask for wholesale list. 
RANSOM SEED CO„ - Geneva, Ohio 
Cabbage, Celery, Onion Seed Grower! wtmjamsoy! vv. 
p _i Unhulled white is best. Bu. Sow now 
oweet hiover A. BLOOMINQDALE, Schenectady, N.Y 
Two Farm Girls from Ohio 
The girl shown on this page with the 
pony is an Ohio girl, Lillian La Vier. 
The pony’s name is Betty. This girl has 
many farm pets, but the pony leads them 
all. l.ike most other farm girls, Lillian 
knows how to care for all the farm 
stock, and she helps her mother raise a 
fine crop of purebred Plymouth Rock 
chickens each year. City life has small 
attraction to a girl like this, with the 
open country and the farm stock to en¬ 
tertain her. 
The other girl shown is also from Ohio. 
This is Florence Buchtel, and tin* flag 
shows that she is a loyal little American. 
It does not need the flag either to demon¬ 
strate that, for she is a knitter, doing 
January 25, 1919 , 
suiting in total shipments already nearly 
equal to the shipments of the entire sea¬ 
son from Northern producing sections in 
1!)17-18. As the crop was not very much 
larger this year it appears that remain¬ 
ing stocks are much less, and holders do 
not seem to be worried over the outlet 
for the balance of their crop. Something 
depends upon the buying power of the 
public. If unemployment continues to 
increase as in the past month or two, 
the results may be some falling of in the 
demand for farm products. Prices of 
standard yellow varieties are about 50c 
above the low points early in December, 
and range $1.75 to $2.25 in most city 
wholesale markets, and 25 to 50c below 
this range in tin* eastern shipping sec¬ 
tions. 
.NOT MUCH IIARl) CABBAGE LEFT. 
The cabbage market behaves as if the 
stock of long-keeping quality were becom¬ 
ing limited in amount. Sharp and continual 
An Ohio Farm Girl and Her Pony 
her bit for the lied Cross along with the 
older people. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
HIGHER PRICES AND HEAVY SHIPMENT ; 
CROPS CLEANING I P BETTER THAN 
l.AST SEASON. 
Prices have been going up most of the 
time this month, and growers have been 
quick to rush more stuff to market. Ship¬ 
ments of fruits and vegetables increased 
about 50 per cent during the first half of 
January, and are now considerably above 
the ordinary for this time of year. The 
open weather and the better supply of 
empty cars this year has favored the 
shippers. 
HOW MANY POTATOES COMING? 
Last year it was estimated that five 
to seven per cent of the whole white 
potato crop was frozen, partly in the 
fields and partly in cars. This year 
losses so far are slight from this cause. 
Ordinary shrinkage usually accounts for 
about eight per cent of the potato crop. 
About 10 per cent goes, to starch manu¬ 
facturers and for seed 'purposes. Fully 
two-thirds of the crop is used near home 
and less than one-third is loaded into 
cars. According to official report about 
170,000.000 bushels of potatoes were on 
hand January 1. Of these about 90.000.- 
000 bushels, or 140,000 cars, were re¬ 
ported in the hands of growers in North¬ 
ern States, including most of the leading 
shipping sections except the Pacific North¬ 
west. If from one-fourth to one-third of 
this stock on hand January 1 is to be 
shipped there would be from 35,000 to 
47,000 cars from these States, also a few 
thousand more from far Western States. 
Last year the principal Northern ship¬ 
ping States shipped about 50,000 cars 
after January 1. It is evident that the 
season this year in respect to the supply 
available for shipment is somewhere be¬ 
tween the short year of 1910-17. when 
only about 35,000 cars were shipped after 
January 1 to the end of the season, and 
last season, when 50,000 cars or more 
were shipped from the northern potato 
country. It other words, it is about a 
normal season for the late potato supply 
and markets may be expected to follow 
about the usual average course. 
PRICES HIGHER. 
The sharp advance made in the potato 
markets early in January brought up 
the price by tin* middle of the month 
to about the level of a year ago. The 
general wholesale price in city markets 
reached a level of $2.25 to $2.75 per 100 
pounds. Many markets advanced 25 to 
50 cents from low points. The cause 
seemed to be partly the favorable condi¬ 
tions for Winter shipment this year so 
that stock arrives in good condition and 
partly tin* realization of the trade that 
the reserves in the growing section are 
considerable less than they were last 
season. Prices in shipping sections 
ranged from $1.40 in the Far West to 
about $2.25 in Western New York. 
ONIONS ADVANCE-OUTLOOK FAIRLY GOOD. 
The onion markets made similar ad¬ 
vances owing to very much the same 
causes as were operating in the potato 
situation. The shipping season for onions 
began early and has been very active, ro- 
advances have occurred in all sections, 
and the general level is not far from $30 
to $40 per ton, bulk, and about $8 below 
that average in New York and Wisconsin 
producing sections, where most of the 
stock on hand appears to be located. In 
fact the chief excess supply this year 
appears to have been in New York State, 
but much of it lacked quality suitable for 
long keeping. The result was a surplus 
and low prices early in the season, but a 
relatively light supply of long-keeping 
stock of the late hard-headed varieties 
and a rapid advance in price. Somewhat 
similar conditions prevailed last year, 
when considerable stock was made unfit 
for keeping as the result of a hard freeze. 
APPLE SITUATION WELL IN HAND. 
The apple supply seems to bo largely 
iu the hands of dealers and the owners of 
cold storage stock. Shipments to mar¬ 
ket have been very rapid and early this 
year, and desirable stock from common 
An Understudy for Hiss Columbia 
storage seems to have nearly all been sold 
or disposed of to dealers at good prices. 
About two-thirds of the estimated boxed 
apple crop has been ship perl and over 
one-third of tin 1 estimated barreled crop. 
Prices of stock in common storage have 
a wide range because some of these ap¬ 
ples are already too soft to be in best 
condition for shipment. There is con¬ 
siderable demand for export to Europe, 
for which tin* stock must be in hard con¬ 
dition. Exports are reported netting 
shippers $(! to $8 per barrel, clear of 
marketing expenses. First grade Bald¬ 
wins and other standard varieties range 
in general wholesale markets $5 to $7 
pep barrel, and top grades of standard 
Western boxed apples range around $3 
per box. In view of the moderate re¬ 
maining supply and the export demand 
tli<‘ outlook is good, the only drawback 
being the effects of keeping quality of 
the stock owing to the early warm sea¬ 
son. g. B. F. 
