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February 22, 1910 
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are the kind to plant to produce 
bumper crops, Early Ohios, Cob¬ 
blers, Rose, Manistees, Bovees, 
Queens, Giants, Moneymakers, Green 
Mountains, Gold Coins, Uncle Sams, Rural 
New Yorkers, Carmans, Sir Walter Raleighs 
and Dibble’s Russets, the last the best potato of 
the century, in any quantity from barrels to 
car loads. 
Dibble’s Russets round to oblong in shape, russet 
skin, more blight, disease and drought resistant than 
any other kind, enormously productive. 
In Pennsylvania last year where crop failures were 
common, Dibble’s Russets produced yields of 300-400 
bnsbels per acre. In Connecticut where crops were 
ruined by wilt and drought. Russets stayed green and 
outyielded other sorts two to one. Officially recom¬ 
mended as the potato to grow in Connecticut. Thou¬ 
sands of our customers state—“The best potato we ever 
grew.” Why not grow Russets on your Farm ? 
Catalog, Testimonials and Special Price List 1- REE 
Address-MwarA F. Dibble Seedgrower 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y. Box B 
From Our Farms to Yours 
CLOVER 
AT WHOLESALt 
We save you money. 
Buy now before ad vance. 
Crop Bhort. We expect 
higher prices. Don’t 
pies and 
,_Ilover, 
_ __ae;soldsubject to 
your approval and government test. Write today for 
samples, special prices and big Profit-Sharing SeedGuide. 
American Mutual Seed Co., Dept. 12® Chicago, Illinois 
W HITE CAP DENT SEED CORN for gale. 
and vigorous. None better. S3 per bu. 
«amplc for lOo. It. <\ 
.. Strong 
_ a per bu. Generous 
M iicKLF.V, Broguevllle, I’u. 
FRUIT TREES 
Shrubs, Koses.Pl ant s.Orna - 
mental ami Shade Trees. 
Everything for theOrchard. 
Fruit-garden and Lawn. 
But Direct from the Grower 
Wholesale prices Catalog Free 
GROVER NURSERY CO. 
67 Tru»t Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
On /,,1 p ni , n Ninety-eight p«rcent. Yellow 
seed oorn Fint. Tested 98*. $4 Bush. 
P, BOONE FIELD, Port Richmond, S. 1. 
Canada Field Peas 
Pnre Irish Cobbler potatoes. N. A. BAKKR, tetrport, S. T. 
, Get our low 1919 prices. Farm- 
Rmnor I Ulino eragents wanted. Sample free. 
DIIIUCI I nlllC tbEO. BURT 6 SONS. Melrose, Ohio 
, Sow unhulled white NOW. Best, S7 perbu. 
SweetClover Kxp. paid. A BL00MINGDM.F, Sctienecndr, N.T 
_ __ Illustrated Catalog 
Frets’Buv Direct From ARTHl’R Al.llKIlMiE. Fisher,, S.Y. 
I^orthern Grown Seed Potatoes. 
REES at Half Asenfs Prices 
Fruit Trees—Vines—Berries—Shrubs— 
Ornamentals—Roses 
Bearing Age Trees a Specialty 
FREE WHOLESALE CATALOG contains plant¬ 
ing and growing instructions. 
THE WM. J. REILLY NURSERIES 
66 Osslan Street, - Dansville, N. Y. 
Guaranteed by Certified Growe 
HORSEY-a New Early STRAWBERRY 
enormous bearer. As a market berry it is unex¬ 
celled as a shipper and seller. 30 other varieties. 
Dependable SKKD Corn. Best varieties 98 percent 
germination. Ring Barred Rock eggs. Catalog 
free. J. W. HALL, Marion Station, Maryland 
OATS 
Sensation—80, 92 and 97 bus |>er acre. 
Also Early Seed Corn. 
THE0. BURT & SONS, 
Samples free. 
Melroie, Ohio 
Wanted-Progrmive berry Plants. J. H., care 
g Stra 
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errn nADM 500 Bushels Extra Selected 
iDLlU LUItil Tested Yellow Flint Seed Corn 
ice quality. AVe have six or eight cars to offer. 
The Wing Seed Company, Mechanicsburo. Ohio 
ARM SKBS—Beit Only. Exp. paid on 1 Bu. OI more. Sweet Clo 
rer, uuhulled, »7 bu. Scarified, * 18 —Red, »26—Mammoth 
127—Alsyke, $21—Yellow Flint corn, 15—Timothy, $6.60. 
Millet and all farm seeds. ». BL00MINGDALE. Stbeneeudjr.il. r. 
Dibble’s Russet’s Potatoes 
and passed. Golden Eyed Wax Beans. Farmer’s 
prices. Charles Cottrell. Hoosick Falls, N.Y. 
F OR RALE—SWEET CLOVElt SEED. Unhnlled.White 
or Yellow. 20c. a pound. CECIL HIKING, Hayluriburp, Ha. 
INTERESTING GARDEN BOOKS 
A Woman’s Hardy Garden— Bp Mrs. 
H. R. Elu . 
Old Time Gardens—Bp A. M. Earle 2.50 
Flowers and Ferns in Their Haunts 
B« M. O. Weight .... 2.00 
Plant Physiology —By Duggan * . 1.60 
For sale by Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St.. N.Y. 
84 per bushel. 
FRED DECKER, 
Bags free. Order early. 
. Glenco Mills, N. Y. 
SWEET CLOVER SEED 
Prices and circular of information sent on request. 
E. BARTON, Boi 21. FALMOUTH. Pendletsn Co., Ky. 
TIMOTHYKSS 
Extraordinary big values. New tested recleaned seed. 
Quality guaranteed. Sold subject to your approval. Low¬ 
est prices on Sweet Clover, Alsike, Blue Grass, Clover, 
Alfalfa and mixed grass and all field seeds. Samples, 
prices and big valuable profit-sharing Seed Guide Free. 
AMERICAN MUTUAL SEED CO.. Dept.326.CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
Seed Com f Hi * h 
Germination 
Price bu. 
Golden Surprise (Pedigreed 
Stock grown on ear-to-row 
method).84.00 
lOO-Day Bristol. 3.25 
Improved Learning. 3.25 
All shelled and F. O. B. aloorestown, hags 
10 bu. 
837.50 
30.00 
30.00 
included. 
STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY, Moorestown, N. J. 
your own garden. Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries,Currants and 
•ries par excellence. Lovett’s Red, White and Blue Grapes are the best 
rown in 
loose berries par 
hardy Grapes in existence. Our Catalog No. 1 tells all about them. In it are also 
described and offered a full line of Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees Shrubs Vines, 
Roses, Nut Trees, Hedge Plants and Garden Roots. Send for it today—it is FREE. 
J. T, LOVETT, Inc,, Box 162, Little Silver, N. J. 
You Know What You Are Getting When You Buy 
610 LAND L,me 
A High Calcium Lime in Powder Form. It is sold under 
a GUARANTEED ANALYSIS. Shipped either in 50-lb. 
paper or 100-lb. cloth bags. Most dealers carry it in * 
stock; if your dealer does not, please write us. 
ROCKLAND & ROCKPORT LIME CO. 
Boston, 45 Milk St. Rockland, Me. New York, 101 Park Ave. 
.Propagating Grapevines. Currants and 
Gooseberries 
Will you toll me how to propagate the 
following from stock now on hand, grapes, 
currants and gooseberries? 
Perth Amboy, N. J. R> L. P. 
Grapes are mostly propagated from 
hard-wood cuttings. These are made dur¬ 
ing the Winter from wood of the previous 
year’s growth. The cuttings usually are 
made with two buds or eyes, hut. when the 
[joints are short three buds or eyes are of 
advantage as the cuttings will make a set 
of roots at the two buds under grouud, 
and make stronger one- and two-year-old 
plants than cuttings with but one set of 
roots, as is the usual case when but one 
eye is covered. The cuttings should he 
made from good, firm, well-matured wood 
only, and the stick severed close up to the 
lower bud, while there should he left 
about three inches of the stick above the 
top bud to serve as a hand hold when 
planting. The cuttings are usually tied 
in bundles of 50 oi* 100, and buried in a 
well-drained place in the open ground, or 
placed in damp sand in boxes or on the 
floor in a cool cellar, and planted out in 
Spring along about the first of May. 
The propagation of currants and 
gooseberries is very similar to the grape. 
The cuttings are made from wood of the 
previous year’s growth, and are cut in 
lengths of six to nine inches. They may 
lie made during the Winter and handled 
in the same manner ns the grape, or may 
be made in early Spring and planted im¬ 
mediately, but the best results, however, 
are usually obtained when the cuttings 
are made in the Fall or Autumn. Some 
nurserymen prefer making them in late 
August or early September; the leaves 
are stripped off and the cuttings buried in 
the open ground or in damp sand in boxes 
with the butt ends up. The boxes are 
then placed in a cool cellar where they 
remain until Spring, when the cuttings 
are planted in the open ground. The 
cuttings are usually planted in shallow 
beds of rich, mellow soil, about five feet 
wide in rows S to 10 inches apart, and 
about three inches apart in the row, the 
cuttings being inserted into the ground 
about half their length. If the soil m 
which they are planted is inclined to 
bake hard after heavy fains, it will be of 
advantage to cover the bed with a half 
inch or so of sharp sand, partially decayed 
lmrd-wood sawdust, or better still, old 
fine manure. Clean cultivation is essen¬ 
tial to success. 
The planting of the grape cutting dif¬ 
fers somewhat from the currant or goose¬ 
berry. They should be inserted in the 
soil at angle of about 45 degrees, and 
deep enough to bring the top bud slightly 
below the surface. These may he planted 
in slightly raised beds, as is done with the 
(currant, etc., or in the leveled ground. If 
planted in beds the rows should be about 
inches apart. If in the leveled ground 
rlie rows should he at least two feet 
apart, and the cuttings four inches apart 
in the row. A mulch of some sort of fine 
material to keep the ground from baking 
is always of advantage, but cannot al¬ 
ways be supplied. Therefore frequent 
stirring of the surface of the soil must be 
resorted to to prevent baking. As with 
'lie currant and gooseberry cuttings, clean 
cultivation is essential if good results are 
to be obtained. k. 
The Farmer’s Wool: the Manufacturer’s 
Yarn 
On page 120 L. P. Haight combs out 
my wool story. In the language of the 
farmer, I sold wool and bought yarn rep¬ 
resenting. respectively 07c and $5. The 
only other real statement I made that 
could possibly brush our friend’s fur the 
I wrong way was that “$13 minus 07c 
jequals big business,” and Mr. Ilaight him¬ 
self is not willing to get very far away 
from it in practice, if lie can help it, and 
in his revelations on page 126 proves the 
statement correct as far as lie goes. Then, 
as a peace offering, he expresses a willing¬ 
ness to deal with farmers in bunches to 
eliminate the retailers’ profit. What does 
he propose? To eliminate two handlings, 
but only one profit—the retailer’s. The 
retailer is so far outside his zone that he 
cares little whether lie floats or sinks, and 
he gives no other evidence to that effect 
when he intimates that the farmer, too, 
should cut. out his local retailer and send 
| his money direct to the city ami be a 
slacker to the welfare of his own com- 
jinunity. What a wonderful view our city 
[friends get from the “farmer’s stand¬ 
point!” Just turn back to page 126 and 
read that again. 
How about that 10-lb. fleece? ITis bus¬ 
iness is too big to handle it, and by the 
Admission endorses the suggestion of a 
need for smaller machines to benefit tin* 
farmer. Yes, I should certainly think I 
had not gotten what was due me if he re¬ 
turned 2 y 2 lbs. of yarn out of my 10-lb. 
fleece, but I should do more than think. 
I should go back for a few pounds more. 
No man could convince me by argument, 
or figures that any 10-lb. fleece I should 
send to the mill would contain only 2^4 
lbs. of yarn. If the balance got stuck in 
the machinery, as is intimated, it was still 
there for someone; it never vanished into 
thin air. If I didn’t get it, who did? 
Oh. the pathos of that innocent looking 
little phrase, stuck in the machine! How 
many 10 lbs. (multiplied by 10 or 20) of 
honest young manhood has gone to the 
mills of business, politics, adventure and, 
sad to say, mostly to the city, and only 
2*4 lbs. returned. The rest “stuck in the 
machine.” How many dollars (multi¬ 
plied) and representing the almost pain¬ 
ful savings of widows, orphans and work- 
ing people^ have been sent to the gor¬ 
geously painted mill of “safe investment?’ 
to provide support and comfort for old 
age or infirmity, and only 2%c or less 
come back, the rest “stuck in the ma¬ 
chine.” 
I must confess to a measure of surprise 
at our friend’s frankness in revealing 
business secrets in his effort to fill up the 
gap between first and last cost, but cer¬ 
tainly he ought to know. What an array 
of statements and a fine fleece of infor¬ 
mation. I am not going to dispute a 
single declaration, for Mr. Haight knows 
whereof he speaks, but just ask your 
readers to re-read and Fletcherize his de¬ 
fence. And. just here let me hazard a 
statement with but few figures. Let the 
farmer charge up every item of time ami 
expense required to grow his pound of 
wool, not forgetting to charge double time 
for the nights he spent in looking after 
the welfare of the young lambs that come 
early during a cold spell, then add 25o 
grower’s profit, since his wool shrinks “at 
least 50 per cent.” Then 22c for a mis¬ 
cellaneous fund, and the wearing of wool¬ 
en garments will quickly go out of fash¬ 
ion for most of us. Legitimate charges, 
why not? Does Mr. Haight make any 
charge in the manufacturer’s expense that 
cannot be met by one from the grower? I 
think not, and an equally legitimate one. 
And why so much concern for the farm¬ 
er’s overworked wife? One thing is sure, 
not many of them are overworked now 
from trying to supply the family with 
homemade yarn, and if it be true that 
“variety is the spice of life,” why not add 
a little seasoning to the humdrum in the 
form of spinning? Every farmer’s wife, 
health permitting, who is worthy that 
humble title, is going to keep busy any¬ 
way, for she knows that if we want tin* 
comfort of wearing woolen garments that 
.$3.42 per lb. has got to be dug up from 
somewhere, so what difference to her 
whether she spin yarn and save it or pick 
beans and earn it? 
Tt may he true that some fleeces shrink 
50 per cent or more, and if the market 
prices announced for the commodity be 
based on the lower grades, the better 
grades are not treated fairly. If based on 
the average, two classes are wronged. 
Good care is at a discount and shiftless¬ 
ness at a premium. The only fair way, 
it seems to me, is to pay for every fleece 
on its merit after grading, and we are not 
likely to get that by selling as individuals 
with small crops. 
Rut I fear some of your readers will be 
saying “narrow,” “selfish,” “a grouch on 
business.” I haven’t a worry about being 
too broad-minded, but as for knocking 
business simply because it is big, I plead 
not guilty. If manufacturing be one of 
the big foundation stones of our nation 
and government, as I think it is, it ought 
to stand squarely and firmly under the 
source of production that gave it its be¬ 
ing. The farmer is not jealous of the 
manufacturer; he only wants a square 
deal, to which he lias a right. There may 
be an occasional one who casts longing 
eyes toward the jugglers of big money, 
but I am thinking of the average whose 
needs are comparatively simple. His home 
and fireside, with hooks, papers and music 
mean much more to him than the banquet 
hall, the club or the theater. 
As to Mr. Haight’s solution, he may he 
going toward it, and we appreciate' his 
desire and effort to help us. but neither lie 
nor I will probably ever see the problem 
solved on just that basis. The country 
needs the city, and no whit less does the 
city need the country, and from many 
things we see some of its folks even seem 
to want the country too. We need the 
manufacturers, but is it fair for him to 
dictate Prices for commodities both com¬ 
ing and going? One of the. stock argu¬ 
ments in favor of big business and its 
right to accumulate wealth is that, it re¬ 
quires brains to organize and operate it. 
Granted. Did you ever hear of a man 
who had too big a brain to be a auccmsful 
farmer? And besides brains, the farm re¬ 
quires patience, energy, perseverance and 
drudgery if you wish to call it that. Win 
compensate one talent so far above an¬ 
other? The solution as I seem to see it 
lies not in a financial adjustment alone, 
but in a real spirit of brotherhood to 
which we have not yet attained, and out 
of which adjustments will come naturally, 
without request or demand. In an old 
Book we have, and I hope you have, may 
be found a lot of instruction valuable in 
bringing this about, and one old veteran 
speaks volumes in just a few words. Read 
them; it will do you good : Phil., 2, 1-5. 
Westchester Co.. N. Y. e. .t. liekert. 
