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How To Get Big 
Fruit Crops 
H undreds of thousands 
of dollars worth of fruit 
is lost each year by growers 
who fail to properly care for 
trees. Experts Seldom Suf¬ 
fer These Losses. 
If you are not reaping a maximum 
yield from your trees and do not know 
the reason, “Ask Mr. Favor.” 
Mr. Favor is a nationally recog¬ 
nized expert on fruit growing. For 
many years he was editor of one of 
our foremost Fruit Journals. He was 
also associated with two state experi¬ 
ment departments. 
Mr. Favor’s experience is at the 
disposal of any one interested in fruit 
growing. This does not mean users 
of Hayes Apparatus alone. It means 
you —no matter where you live or 
what apparatus you use. 
Just “Ask Mr. Favor ” about any 
problem that bothers you. He will 
reply in a personal letter. 
Also send at once for a copy of Mr, 
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—“Successful Spraying.” 
Write for Big Spraying Guide 
This Guide is a real text book — a 
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Finely printed and durably bound. 
Published price $1.00. We will, how¬ 
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HAYES PUMP & PLANTER CO. 
Dept. T. GALVA, ILLINOIS 
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quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
THE MAPES 
MANURES 
The Standard for Generations. 
§ Basis Bone and Guano. 
§ No Rock Used. 
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*3 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 
PERUVIAN GUANO CO. 
Central Building, 143 Liberty St., New York 
Branch : 239 State St., Hartford, Conn. 
Lime on the Potato Crop 
I enclose a clipping that will interest 
you. If you and I live a few years more 
we shall hear another tune from those 
farmers. I knew farmers who coukl not 
give away their potatoes even, they were 
so scabby they would not take them at 
the starch factories. It will surely prove 
your reiterated statements that lime is 
bad for potatoes. v. T. L. 
The clipping, which follows, is taken 
from the Aroostook Republic of Caribou, 
Maine: 
“A good many farmers in the vicinity 
of Caribou are cutting down their orders 
for fertilizers, and propose to use Aroos¬ 
took* lime in connection with a half ton 
of fertilizer per acre. Others have can¬ 
celled their orders altogether and will 
seed down their potato ground to clover 
and will raise grain this year. Arrange¬ 
ments are being made to set up a lime 
pulverizing plant in Caribou, rock carry¬ 
ing as high as 90 per cent, and carbonate 
having been found within a short distance 
of the village. The plant, which will be 
in operation early in February, is the 
roller process, converting the rock into 
a fine, smooth powder. The use of this 
material by two of our leading farmers 
last year made a difference of 50 barrels 
of potatoes per acre, and its effect on 
clover is simply wonderful, in some plaees 
making it grow luxuriantly where it could 
never be made to grow before, and in¬ 
creasing the crop wherever used.” 
There is no question about the value 
of lime for clover and similar crops. You 
can use lime to grow a fine crop of clover, 
then plow that under and, with a small 
quantity of chemicals, grow a good crop 
of potatoes. That is the nearest we can 
advise to using lime on the potato crop. 
The lime will sweeten the soil. This will 
make conditions most favorable to the 
growth of scab germs, and if there are 
any of these germs on the seed or in the 
soil the lime will surely wake them up 
to life and multiplication. It is true 
that we have a few reports from farmers 
who say they have used lime direct on 
potatoes, and dug a fine, clean crop. We 
do not deny it. We had a neighbor who 
said his baby was suffering with cholera 
infantum. lie gave the little thing a 
dinner of corned beef and cabbage and 
the child recovered! We do not doubt 
his statement, but at the same time we 
try no such remendy on our own chil¬ 
dren. We think those farmers who began 
using lime on potatoes will regret it. 
Selecting Seed Potatoes 
T planted two lots of potatoes; the 
first lot were hill-selected seed, but were 
touched by the frost .Tune 20, and did not 
do well. The other lot. planted a little 
later, were hut slightly affected, and pro¬ 
duced a fair crop, though they were not 
hill-selected: in fact were simply the 
medium size potatoes, and were not 
originally saved for seed. I bill-selected 
seed from each lot, but am undecided 
which to plant the coming season. 
Ilolliston, Mass. w. E. g. 
In deciding for myself I should be 
governed entirely by the quality of the 
potatoes. It is not easy to understand 
what another means by “touched by the 
frost.” If the leaves were injured ma¬ 
terially the per cent of starch must be 
reduced in the tubers, for it is in the 
leaves that the starch is elaborated. At 
the same time I prefer seed, of all kinds, 
gathered when coming; that is, before 
fully ripened, as after that point is 
reached changes take place in cellular 
structure which in my experience retard 
germination. If those hill-selected pota¬ 
toes are dry and mealy when baked I 
should, in my own practice, use them for 
seed. If below the others in quality 
then start again and this time by the 
unit breeding system, the only one to be 
thoroughly relied on. In this take a 
given number of the same general shape 
and weight and cut each one to the same 
number of pieces, then plant each potato 
by itself, that is, mark the extremes of 
each potato and give them uniform treat¬ 
ment. At digging time save the product 
of each potato, and next year you will 
have the foundation on which to build 
a strain after your own fancy. Follow¬ 
ing this rule and using seed from the 
best producing potatoes certain results 
are pretty sure to follow. Yield should 
be increased, greater uniformity insured 
and disease resistant qualities made pos¬ 
sible. All the while we must keep in 
mind the necessity for feeding the crop 
with health promoting food, and with 
this complete protection from eating or 
sucking insects and fungus diseases. We 
talk about seed running out, but usually 
it is the man and not the potato. 
Maine. G. M. twitciiell. 
What can the word “comfort” mean 
in winter, but cozily heated rooms 
throughout the ‘whole house? It 
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heated or if some one has to tend 
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NEW IDEA costs 
but little more than 
one good stove, is easy 
to install and eco¬ 
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Write for complete 
catalogue and name 
of nearest agent. 
Our engineers—heating 
specialists—will advise 
you without charge. 
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Box 50 - UTICA, N. Y. 
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Plenty of Nitrate 
in Chile 
The amount of Nitrate in 
the Chilean Deposits is 
720,000,000 Tons 
At present rate of world’s con¬ 
sumption, deposits will last for 
300 Years 
Shipping conditions are improve 
ing. American farmers should 
learn the FACTS. Write for in¬ 
formation. 
WM. S. MYERS 
Chilean Nitrate Committee 
25 Madison Avenue New York 
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