The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 22, 1919 
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/Vegetables 
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In again offering our Home Garden Collection of Vegetable 
Seeds, we have given critical attention to the varieties, 
selecting only those which have been tried and proven of 
excellent merit under widely different conditions of soil 
and climate. This Collection, if purchased separately 
from our catalogue, would cost $ 1 . 65 . 
One Packet Each of the Following for $1.00 
Beans— Bonn ft ful 
Beans—JVeto Hardy TTn.r 
Beans— Fordhook Bush Limn 
Beet— Detroit Dark lied 
Carrot— Selected Chanteiuty 
Corn— Golden Bantam 
Cucumber— Whit* Spine 
Lettuce —Black Seeded Simpson 
Lettuca— May King 
Onion— White Portugal 
Parsley— Double Curled 
Peas— McLean's Little Gem 
Radish— Scarlet Globe 
Radish— Long White. Icicle. 
Spinach— New Zealand 
Swiss Chard— Giant Luculhu 
Tomato— Selected Stone 
Turnip—WAife Globe 
NOTE—With each collection we will include a copy of our interest 
lng and instructive booklet, 16 pages and cover, devoted exclusively 
to vegetables and their culture. 
ORDER YOUR COLLECTION NOW 
Mail this advertisement, or present at our store, with cheek, money 
order, dollar bill, or stamps, and secure this excellent collection, 
sent prepaid to any point in the U. S. east of the Mississippi. Fot 
Points \Veat. and Canada add 2Gc—(#1.86). 
Our 1919 Spring Catalogue sent on request 
30.32 Barclay Street 
WHAT IS A FERTILE SOIL? 
The growing of erops depends on BIOLOGICAL rather than CHEMICAL phenomena. 
Make the soil fit for the development of the essential bacterial, life and yon have what is 
recognized as a fertile soil. Maintain this lertility and profitable crops will result. 
All organic matter in the soil, i. e., humus, manure or green crops turned under, must 
' -' "— "■-*-y used bj 
be broken down and transformed by these bacteria before It can be i 
i by the plant. 
SOIL MUST BE KEPT SWEET 
In order that these essential bacteria may exist and work. Thev cannot live under acid 
condition*. An acid eoil is of necessity baoterially dead, or. in other words, agriculturally 
dead. Dead soli can never be farmed at a profit. 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
ANALYZING 
16% Phosphoric Acid 7% Barium Sulphide 
is a mixture of an alkaline Balt of barium and phosphate of lime. Phosphorus and decay¬ 
ing organic matter are the two substances which constitute the key to profitable systems of 
permanent agriculture on most normal soils. Barium-Phosphate, in addition to supplying 
phosphorus In a most desirable form, 
SWEETENS THE SOIL 
AND PROMOTES THE GROWTH OF FAVORABLE BACTERIA 
Used in combination with manure or plowed under with green crops, Barium-Phosphate 
will produce profitable yields and build up the fertility of your land. 
It will pay you to write for our book which describes Barium-Phosphate and its uses. 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Inc. 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
Crops and Farm News 
DIBBLE’S MARQUIS SPRING WHEAT 
earlier than other kinds and produces more per acre 
than common Seed, often outyielding other sorts ten 
bushels per acre which would mean around $25 extra for 
you on every acre, if you had such a crop on your farm. 
» 
Marquis is the variety recommended by the Government 
experts as best adapted to the Eastern States. Marquis pro¬ 
duced last year in the Middle and New England States scores of 
yields of from 30 to 40 bushels per acre. One of our customers grew 
69 bushels from 2; another 403from 10 acres sowing but 15 bushels. 
SOW Spring Wheat Freely, The Government guarantees 
the price of the 1919 crop. In these times of reconstruction, here’s j 
a >crop to tie to. Raise wheat for the U. S. A. on contract. 
Dibble’s Marquis Wheat Stock consists of 4,200 bushels grown on one 
Farm, the plumpest, heaviest, choicest grain we ever owned. Pronounced by 
Charles Kennedy formerly of the U. S. Grain Corporation “The handsomest sample 
of the 1918 crop.” 
Price $3 per bushel, bags Free. Write today for Free Sample. 
Circular— “How to Grow Spring Wheat m the East" and Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog, the hand¬ 
somest and most complete Farm Seed Book of the year. Address— 
Edward F. Dibble Seedgrower 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y. Box B 
HEADQUARTERS for FARM SEEDS— Wheat, Oats, Barley, Com, Buck¬ 
wheat, Peas, Soy Beans, Alfalfa, Clover and Grass Seeds, Vetch, Rape, Millet and Seed 
Potatoes. In any quantity up to car loads and at prices you can afford to pay. 
No. 1 sweet potatoes, $1.75 to $1.80 %- 
bu. basket; No. 2, $1.25 to $1.15. This 
is Philadelphia market prices. White 
potatoes, basket, 90 to 80c; white tur¬ 
nips, 15 to 20c; yellow, 40 to 50c; car¬ 
rots, 50 to 00c; apples, $5, $£> and $8 per 
bbl., according to quantity; per % bas¬ 
ket, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75; some at $2 % 
basket. Onions, 100-lb. sack, $1.25 to 
$2.25; cabbage, per ton, $18 to $20; % 
bas., 25 to 30c. I am looking forward 
for a good year; everything is looking 
well. 1 have a cover crop on my farm 
and it looks fine; have all my seeds in 
and all of my manure, and am doing some 
plowing. c. P. s. 
Camden Co., N. J. 
Timothy hay, $27; clover bay, $20; 
corn, $1.40 per bu.; wheat, $2.15; oats, 
70c; rye, $1.50; rye straw. $10 per ton. 
Eggs, about 5c per doz. under New York 
quotations. Milk, SY^c per qt. on farm. 
Farm conditions here are very favorable, 
with the quantity and quality of staple 
crops above normal. Shortage of labor 
greatest drawback. 0. L. v. z. 
Somerset Co., N. «T. 
The weather is fine, robins are chirping 
in the orchard, and the sunshine, is all 
that could be asked for, even in the 
sunny South. More acres of inter 
wheat seeded last Fall than for many 
years; in this county grain and potatoes 
were a good yield, and many apples were 
left on the ground ungathered. Hay, $20 
at the barn ; corn, at the mill, $3 per 100 
lbs.; oats, ground, $2.75 per cwt.; 
dressed pork, 22c per lb., delivered; but¬ 
ter and eggs about the same price, 55c. 
Stock is wintering fine, farmers generally 
are keeping about all they can teed. Milk 
brings $3.77 per 100 for three per cent, 
milk at the Mohawk Condensery, five 
miles from here. We have a station here 
and 15c per 100 is deducted for deliver¬ 
ing at the condensery. L. D. H. 
Warren Co., Pa. 
Wheat looks very well; grass medium. 
Milk is selling for $3.00 at creamery ; $4 
at chocolate factory. Cows, $100 to $180. 
Wheat $2.20, corn $1.55. oats 78c, bran 
$57 ton; shorts, $00; cottonseed meal. 
$08. Hogs. 18c; steers 12 to 15c lb. live 
weight. Tobacco is in hands of the farm¬ 
ers, hut buyers are very slow in buying. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. J- h. n. 
This is a tine farming location. The 
farmer derives the principal part of Ins 
revenue from milk . The strike being over 
we hope for a good income this month. 
The majority of cows are Holstein, worth 
all the wav from $75 to $125, and rather 
hard to find. Horses are plentiful, hut I 
hear of no sales being made. Pork scarce. 1 
22c; beef, 7 and 8c live, 15c dressed. Old 
hens, 25c; yearlings, 35c lb. Eggs. (15c; 
butter, 65c; lard, 35c lb. Many fanners 
raise what feed they need; they buy some 
through the Grange. Other ways of buy¬ 
ing we pay for corn $3.35; gluten $3.05 ; 
wheat bran $2.85; cottonseed $3.40; oil 
meal $3.20; hay, $25 in the barn. One 
firm buys nearly all the apples, paying 
$1.25 cwt. Potatoes, $1.25 bu ; dried 
apples 13e lb.; dried beans 16c lb.; 
Wayne Co., Pa. J. r. b. 
This county is moderately hilly, and 
farmers’ products include a variety of 
which grain, stock and fruit are most de¬ 
pended on. On an average about as much 
grain raised as feed consumed, excerpt 
wheat and buckwheat; of these there has 
been considerable sold. A little more 
than the average amount of wheat sown 
last Fall and looking well so far. Some 
farmers market their own produce, while 
others sell to hucksters. Wheat, $2.15; 
buckwheat, $310. per cwt. delivered to 
car. Rye, $1.56; oats, 85c; corn, $1.80 
at sales. At the farm; Beef 16c, Tides 
10c, pork 22c. Not very many sheep 
raised. Chickens 25c. butter 55c, eggs 
60c, apples 60 to 75c, beans 16c, potatoes 
about 75c. Work getting slack in towns 
but farmers about all busy, taking ad¬ 
vantage of fine weather. 
Bedford Co.* Pa. A. B. 
Potatoes, $1.70 bu.; oats, SOo; wheat, 
$2; corn, $1.05; baled hay. Timothy No. 
1, $28; No 2. $26; good <4over hay. $30; j 
mixed bay, $28; wheat straw. $16; oat 
straw, $8. Chickens, live weight, 35c lb.; 
dressed. 40c. Eggs, 70c. Heavy pork | 
on foot. $15 cwt.; light pork, $19 cwt. 
Veal, 19c lb. We have a farm of ISO 
acres in Chester Valley. This past year 
farm yielded 67 bushels of oats per acre, 
33 bushels of wheat, per aere, 87 bushels 
of corn per acre, 115 bushels of potatoes 
per acre. Principal things raised are 
wheat, corn. rye. oats and potatoes, 
dairying is carried on extensively. Price 
for milk, 9c per quart, at. present, with 
additional for all testing over 4 per cent 
butter fat. 
Chester Co., Pa. b. w. j. 
Beaus, $5.50 to $6 per bu.; carrots, 50 
to 75c; potatoes, $1 ; onions. 60c; apples, 
$1 to $2; fowls, live, 33c; dressed, 40c. 
Hay, $20 to $23. The fanners usually get 
a little better prices where they sell their* 
products to private families. We have a 
Farm Bureau in Binghamton, which pub¬ 
lishes a monthly paper, and is doing a 
good deal toward getting the farmers 
waked up to their opportunities. Our 
more enterprising farmers are in good 
shape and many of them are getting 
ahead. E. P. M. i 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
KELLY* 
Good Fruit and 
How to Grow It 
This is the year to plant. The market 
demand will be strong for next few 
years. Kelly’s trees are hardy, well- 
rooted and fruit early. 
You’ll Never Regret 
planting Kelly Bros. Trees. The prices 
are right. The trees are all perfect 
specimens and our guarantee is your 
protection against loss. We offer you 
a big money-saving and reliable stock. 
Send for 1919 Free Catalog 
Kelly Bros. Wholesale Nurseries 
602 Main Street, Dansville, N. Y. 
GRASS SEED 
FREE SAMPLES- 
Wonderful Value 
Wholesale Prices 
Profits Divided 
with customers. Don’t fail to investigate these bargains 
Recleaned Tested Timothy 44.50 bu. Alfalfa $8.90, Alsika 
Clover and Timothy frt.;>0. Sweet Clover and other Gra-i 
and Field Seeds at proportionately low prices. 
All sold subject to State or Government Test under an 
absolute MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE. We are special 
ists in grass and field seeds. Located so as to save you 
money and give quick service. Send today for our lug 
profit-sharing, money-saving Seed Guide, which explain! 
all, fre*. Buy now and *ave money. Write 
American Mutual Seed Co., Dept. 626, Chicago, Ill. 
We are trying to furnish Red Clover entirely 
free from weed seeds and dead grains. The seed 
will go farther than ordinary seed besides adding 
greatly to the production. Ask for samples of 
Red and other seeds and catalogue telling 
“Ilow to Know Good Seed". 
0. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 360 Sixth SL, JUiysvlIlt, OMo 
SEED POTATOES 
AMERICAN GIANTS (Late) 
Prom Tuber-Unit selection. Second crop seed. 
Disease resi»tant. Heavy yielding. Grown 
on our Windernioor Farm, August, Septem¬ 
ber, October, 1918. Price, per bushel, •3.50; 
barrel, S6.75. 
STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY, Moorestown, N. J. 
SEED 
CORN 
IMPROVED LEAMING: 
Fine quality; thoroughly ripened t>efore frost; 
shelled, cleaned and graded, 8(3.00 bu; on ear. 
$4.50; sacks fiee. I rai*e my own eorn; buy it 
from the grower. F. W. PABST, Ripley, Ohio 
Seed Corn 
Extra selec¬ 
ted, sure to 
5,000 
BUSh ? i S SLoiulhig 4? 
rietira. Highest yieldere. Best show corn. Also soed oats, barley, 
alfalfa. Spring wheat. 1200 acres. Sample on request. Write 
today lor catalog, W. N. SCI IGF * SONS, New Carlisle, Ohio 
al,;. . p- J fi., n Lowest prices. Highest germin- 
bfioice deCO uom atlon. Extra Selected. No high 
priced catalogue and low overhead expenses enable us to 
save you 30% on your Seed Corn. Write today for samples 
andcircular. Fonrvariotles—Improved 90-100-day Yellow 
Dent, Reid’s Yellow Dent, Whit- Cap Yellow Dent (Ensil¬ 
age!, Early Minnesota No. 13. WOOOFICLO S FARM. Wycoroba, Pa. 
Seed Com 
Golden Orange, Flint, Giant, Ensil 
age. Yellow Pride. 85 bu. sacked. 
Special prices oncar lota Order Ear¬ 
ly. Harry Vait.Nsw Millar*. 0rs««a Cl., N.T. 
errn rHRM hall’s gold nugget. 
3LC.LF K. IN Largaat yieldiug 
Flint corn. 75 to 100 bu. an acre. Mature* 100 days. 
ARTHUR L. PlIRDY, Port Chester, N. Y. 
r ( Reid’s Yellow Dent. 
VaryProltfic. 
$4.50 per Bu. Sacked. 
SUNNYSIDE FARM. Westwood, N. J. 
For Sth-SEED CORN-v ,SM HfeVr 
Produced 150 bushels ear corn per acre P*IZ£ SEED—PRIZE 
CROP. “ TRT nr." SB per bush. J. C00DIRGT0H. Sian Has*. 1.1. 
CJTjrn rADW oo-oey SHEFFIELD yellow 
jEeEtU LI/a/V flint, dried in traces 
•4 for 70 lba. oars. F. J. POPE. Great Barrington, Man. 
COTT’S ALSIKE 
At special price. Goes three times as far as 
red. Ask for samples and seed book. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO, AM Sixth St.. Marysville, O. 
p„„J Deane Choice stock, Yellow Kyes, Red Kidneys 
OBBQ Deans $7 poi Bu. CALVIN UiKSII.No. Banniogton.Vl. 
DflTATflCC - Bliss,liovee,Cobbler, Longfellow, Ohio, Russett, 
ru I A I UlO No-blight,Mx-woeks. Others. C.W. Far*. Filters, N.l. 
NUT 
TREES Budded of best Northern varieties, most 
profitable of food producing tree.- 
Catalog free. INDIAN* NUT NURSERY, las 55. Rackparl, In*. 
WISCONSIN PED. HARLEY. Eleven acres yielded 
*» 1,070 (one thousand and seventy) bushels last two 
yoars. S2 (Two Dollars) per bu. Elton Soy beans $4.50 
per bu. Bags Free. FRANK GWYNN, West Mansfield, 0. 
Two Excellent Vegetable Books 
By R. L Waifs 
Vegetable Gardening.$1.75 
Vegetable Forcing.2.00 
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