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FARQUHAR FARM TRACTOR 
I Burns 
Either 
or Kerosene 
I The new Farquhar is a truly general pur¬ 
pose farm Tractor equally efficient on draw 
bar or belt. Rated 3 and 4 plow outfit with 
I ample belt power to drive Threshers up to 
and including 27 x 45 Farquhar Vibrator I 
equipt with Self Feeder and Wind Stacker. | 
I In design, first consideration has been 
given to long life and durability. Frame, 
built-up type with spring mounting front 
I and rear. Motor, 4 cylinder Buda. Timken 
worm gear drive. Hyatt and Timken roller 
bearings used throughout. All moving parts 
fully protected and special attention given to 
lubrication. 
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kelly DUPLEX G MILLS 0 
One of the Easiest Running Mills Made 
Grinds oar corn, shellod corn, oats, 
whoat, barley, ryo, kattlr corn, 
cotton seed, corn in shucks, 
alfalfa, sheaf oats, or any 
kind of grain. Bagger has a 
double spout attached to 
oither side of mill. We 
furnish oxtra hopper for 
grinding small grain and 
ear corn at Die same time. 
Mado with doublo mot 
of grinders or burrs. 
Have a grinding surface ol 
just double that of most 
mills of equal size, there 4 
fore, do twice as much work Requires 26% less power. 
F*l>*cially adapted for gasoline eugiues. Wo mako 7 sizes. 
Writ* for Free Cataloq. 
DUPLEX MILL A Mfr'G. CO., Uox 320, Springfield, Ohio 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Manuring Asparagus 
A recent article on manuring asparagus 
seems to me inaccurate. No plant nor 
tree can utilize plant food until it puts 
forth leaves. An asparagus shoot is cut 
back during the cutting season. Its growth 
was not from plant food, but from the 
stored material of the preceding season. 
Plant food is not used till the cutting sea¬ 
son ends, and the plant is permitted to 
grow and put forth leaves, which is about 
June. Potash (if we had any) and phos¬ 
phorus can be spread at any time, as they 
do not leach below the cultivated top soil. 
If you spread nitrates before June, some 
will be wasted, and as nitrate of soda is 
about as quickly available for plant food 
as sugar is for coffee, it is better to wait 
till the plant begins to grow in June. 
As to manure, of course it should not be 
spread in the Winter. That is pure waste. 
Tf you spread it iu the Spring when you 
are plowing under the last year's growth 
and any weeds, you will waste some of it 
(the nitrogen). You will not waste the 
potash and phosphorus in (he manure, 
and you will gain some advantage (prob¬ 
ably) in having the vegetable matter in 
the manure work into humus, and per¬ 
haps the potash and phosphorus in the 
manure become somewhat more available 
in time for the growing season. But, iu 
practice, the best plan is to spread the ma¬ 
nure and nitrates when the cutting season 
ends, and you are plowing or disking the 
surface in preparation for the new growth. 
As said above, spread potash and phos¬ 
phorus in the Winter or Spring. 
Some writers advise cutting and burning 
the full-grown plants in the Fall, a great 
waste of needed vegetable matter, surely. 
The reason given is that some asparagus 
seeds will germinate and some small as¬ 
paragus plant will appear in the Spring. 
But that is not a practical reason. They 
are delicate and easily killed off in the 
Spring cultivation. This is the result of 
10 years’ practice and (when the old 
theories did not seem to me wise) of cor¬ 
respondence with Washington and Har¬ 
risburg and with Dr. A. D. Hall, of Eng¬ 
land. and especially the leading expert, 
now unhappily dead. Charles W. Pres¬ 
cott. of Concord, Mass., whose advice 
and experience I always followed. F. R. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
THE MAPES 
MANURES 
*1 The Standard for Generations. 
^ Basis Bone and Guano. 
No Rock Used. 
*1 Availability Without Acidity. 
*1 Crop Producers and Soil Builders. 
Use them and do your bit towards 
the present universal demand for food 
THE MAPES FORMULA AND 
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Central Building, 143 Liberty St., New York 
Branch: 239 State St., Hartford, Conn. 
Canadian Fruit and Produce Prices 
The Dominion Department of Agricul¬ 
ture gives the following prevailing prices: 
Quebec: No. 1 Ontario Spy, $9; 
Snows, .$10: Baldwin, Stark, King and 
Greening, $7 to $7.50; Golden Russet, $S 
to $8.50; Ben Davis, $5.50; No. 2’s and 
Domestic. 81 less per bbl. No. 1 Nova 
Scotian King and Golden Russet, $6 to 
$6.50. British Columbia and Washington 
boxed apples, $3.50 to $3.75. Potatoes, 
$1.30 to $1.40 per 90-lb. bag. 
Montreal: Florida strawberries, $1 
per qt. Auction prices: No. 1 Baldwin, 
$7 : No. 2. $6.30; No. 1 Pewaukee, $5.35; 
No. 2. $4.80; No. 3. $3.20; No. 1 Green¬ 
ing. $6; No. 3, $4.50; No. 3 Baldwin, 
$4.90; No. 3 Fallawater, $5.30; Golden 
Russet in bu. bkts., $2.15; Greening and 
Tolman Sweet, $2. Wholesale prices: 
British Columbia and Northwestern 
boxed apples. $3 to $3.50; Ontario boxed 
apples, $2 50 to $3. No. 1 red onions, 
$1.25 for 75-lb. bag; yellow onions, $1.50. 
Potato market fairly brisk. Quebec 
whites, $1.40; New Brunswick Green 
Mountain, $1.75 for 90-lb. bulk in car- 
lots. 
Ottawa: No. 1 Ontario Spv, $S to 
$8.50: No. 2, $7 to $7.50; No. 1 Green¬ 
ing. Baldwin and Stark. $6 to $6.50; No. 
2, $5.25 to $5.75; No. 3. $4.50 to $5; No. 
1 Ben Davis, $5.50 to $6; No. 1 Golden 
Russet, $6; No. 2. $5.50; No. 1 Nova 
Scotia Spy. $7.50; No. 1 Greening. Stark, 
Baldwin and Fallawater.$6; No. 2, $5.50; 
No. 3. $4.25 to $4.75; No. 1 King. $5.25 
to $5.75; No. 1 Russet and Nonpareil. $6 
to $(>.50. British Columbia Winesap, 
Wagoner. Spy and Rome Beauty, $3.25 
to $3.50; Delicious, $4.50 per box. New 
Brunswick potatoes, $1.75 to $1.85 for 
90-lb. bag; local potatoes. $1.25 to $1.75. 
Red and yellow onions, $1.50 per bag. 
Toronto: No. 1 Russet, Baldwin, 
Greening and Stark. $6.50 to $7; No. 2. 
$5.50 to $0; Spy, $1 higher. No. 1 im¬ 
ported Winesap and Jonathan, $3.40 to 
$3.50. 
Calgary: No. 1 British Columbia and 
Washington Winesap, $3.25; Baldwin, 
Ontario and Greening, $2.60; Rome 
Beauty, Newtown, Wagoner, Gauo, Ben 
Davis and Arkansas Black. $2.75; No. 2, 
25c per box less; No. 3 Ben Davis, $1.85. 
British Columbia potatoes, $47 per ton; 
onions, $50. 
Georgian Bay District: 1.800 bbls. of 
apples in storage. Export demand active. 
Local dealers selling at $4.75 to $5.25 
per bbl. for equal proportions of 1, 2 and 
3, 40 to 50 per. cent Spys. 
A(4 ¥1A* CHAW RECORD 
OP SERVICE OM FARMS 
Waterto0 Boo 
' Original Kerosene Tractor^ 
Uniformly solid construction, without any “weak spots” 
to cause trouble and costly delays—the tractor in which 
every part is built with scrupulous care to fully sustain 
its share of the strain in a hard day’s work—the tractor 
ot demonstrated working adaptability and capacity, of 
low operating cost, easy control, complete accessibility, 
trouble-proof ignition, smooth, even power—lasting serv¬ 
ice. These and other features make the Waterloo Boy 
The Tractor of Steadily 
Growing Popularity 
Owners of Waterloo Boy Tractors are their strongest 
boosters. George M. Breeding, of Milford, Ill., writes: 
Your tractor has given the best satisfaction. I plowed 
seventy acres of ground in eight days, with a 3-bottom 
John Deere Plow; did most of my discing with it, pulling 
, 8 ;‘ n ? h d.scs at a I times. $2.00 a day pays 
for all fuel and lubrication, when doing a full day s work 
-on light work it is much less. I consider it a very 
economical machine. The service given by your dis¬ 
tributors has been satisfactory at all times.” 
Jifi “M; e "i, yOU o illu3t U ted catal °g, 8 h owin 8 many 
uie tractor at work m the helds of many owners. 
JOHN DEERE, 5312 w. Third Ave. 
Moline, 
Two 
Speed 
12-25 
H.P. 
