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SPRAYING 
MEANS 
Prevention of 
Food Famine. 
SPRAYING 
MATERIALS 
MEAN 
that every dollar you spend for 
spraying is an investment to be real¬ 
ized in better crops. You cannot 
make poor investments and expect 
profitable returns. 
WHY NOT PLAY SAFE. 
■WE MANUFACTURE- 
CONSEQUENTLY OUR GUARANTEE 
STANDS FOR SOMETHING: 
Bordeaux Mixture 
‘(Paste & Powder) 
Arsenate of Lead 
(Pasty & Powder) 
Calcium Arsenate 
(A most cflleiont j.oison 
for llio Least Expense) 
PARIS GREEN 
Vitrio 
(Horde-Lead of 
highest analyGs) 
Fish Oil Soap 
Blue Vitriol 
Egg Preserver 
(Water Glims) 
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proposition to Dept. R., N. Y. 
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Top Dress with Nitrate of Soda 
Feed the Crop; 
not the Bacteria 
Every form of Nitrogen fertilizer, 
except Nitrate of Soda, must be 
broken down by bacteria and 
changed into Nitrate before it can 
become available for crops. Such 
bacterial action always results in 
costly Nitrogen losses. 
Nitrate of Soda 
is already nitrated! It does not 
have to undergo changes—but is 
immediately and wholly available. 
That’s why Nitrate is the quickest, 
surest, most economical source of 
Nitrogen. 
WM. S. MYERS 
Chilean Nitrate Committee 
25 Madison Avenue New York 
Big Crops—Big Profits 
Make every acre you plant 
unlock its fertility, release 
its plant-food by applying 
'oULVERIZre 
LIMESTONE 
Pure grade, superior quality, 
highest percentageof carbonates. 
Finely pulverized—its fertilizing 
value shows in first harvest. Non¬ 
caustic; safe and easy to spread. 
Use it for big crops and profits. 
Get our Lime Booklet Free. 
THE SOLVAY PROCESS CO. 
506 Milton Avenoe, Syracuse, N. Y. 
A Bunch of Farm Notes 
I’arti-colobed Apples. —The Delicious 
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apple figured ou page 1308 is quite in¬ 
teresting, although it does not show any¬ 
thing uncommon. Pitch freaks are quite 
common in all red vari 'ties. Every pick¬ 
ing season the men will cali my attention 
to many peculiarly marked apples. Black 
Gilliflower is especially apt to how these 
strange marks. A very comm n appear¬ 
ance is as though the red color were put 
on with a transfer pattern and the pat¬ 
tern had slipped. Sometimes it will seem 
that a quarter of the pattern had slipped 
around so that there is a strip from stern 
to blossom end with no coloring, and a 
quarter of tin 1 way around the apple a 
similar strip with twice as much color 
as the rest of the apple. These strips 
will ho the same width and sharp as a 
paper pattern. In other cases the color 
will appear to have been put on in nc::‘- 
nnw sections, but too soft, so tha*- *.t 
drained down from the stem end. In >ne 
such case the appearance was perfect, 
even to the drop of extra dark color on 
the rim of the blossom cup. Some other 
apples sometimes show a strip of red 
from the stem to the blossom end of the 
apple. In this case it is not often more 
than a quarter of an inch wide in the 
middle, but is sharp edged and different 
from the usual blush. R. I. Greenings 
will sometimes show a similar dark green 
line. 
Hand Picking Beans. —If there are 
enough beans to warrant it (page 1400) 
the best way is to get one of the machines 
such as are used in the bean houses. This 
consists of a hopper to hold the beans 
and fet'd them out onto a narrow belt 
which is kept moving by the operator’s 
foot. There are holes to drop the poor 
beans and a place to hang a bag for the 
good ones. Such a machine is not ex¬ 
pensive. and with a little practice as 
good work can be done as in a regular 
bean house. 
Skunk Farming. —Tt might be well 
to warn F. E. Brimmer (page 1401) to 
beware of the Conservation Commission. 
Apparently he has violated the law in 
several ways. If he does not have a 
license to keep fur-bearing animals in 
captivity lie is likely t«> get a present of 
some free board at the expense of the 
State. If he has such a license he will 
find that his bond is forfeited if he keeps 
any skunks which were caught in the 
open season. The fact that the animals 
would surely be killed if he did not keep 
them has no bearing on the case, for it 
seems to be the intention of the State 
game laws to punish severely any at¬ 
tempt to save the life of any wild crea¬ 
ture. From what is said by those who 
have to administer these laws we must 
conclude that this is also their attitude. 
Wells in Quicksand. —The note on 
page 1400 interests us. although we have 
no solution to offer. A well a few hun¬ 
dred feet from this house was sunk 
through a bed of quicksand to a depth 
of about 60 feet, and a great deal of 
money has been spent in trying various 
suggested remedies. This well is now 
abandoned and has probably 30 to 40 
feet deep of sand in it now. In another 
place a windmill pump had to be dis¬ 
carded because the quicksand cut out the 
valves so often. The method which gave 
the best promise of success is to sink a 
tile casing with cemented joints far 
enough into the quicksand layer so that 
a layer of a few feet thick of fine gravel 
can be put into the bottom. In may cases 
this has seemed to give a permanent cure. 
This gravel filter must be large enough 
and thick enough to prevent the forma¬ 
tion of current enough to carry the sand 
through it. In a well of small diameter 
which is used a great deal there might 
be too great a current to make this prac¬ 
tical. ALFRED C. WEED. 
Wayne Co.. X. Y. 
Wheat looking well; some farmers are 
plowing. Wheat, $2.30 per bu.: oats, 
00c; corn, $2; potatoes, $2; apples, $2. 
Dressed hogs, 25e per lb.; beef, I s * to 20c 
lb.: live chickens, 30c lb.; turkeys, live, 
45c lb.: ducks, live. 25c lb. Butter. 65c; 
eggs, 65c; lard. 32c lb. Hay, $32 per 
ton; straw. $12; corn fodder, 10c per 
bundle. Wages are high aud farm hands 
are scarce. o. b. 
Washington Go., Pa. 
This Fruit Grower 
Gets 90 % Perfect Apples 
The 1918 apple crop of a Ne w York or- 
chardist was 16,000 barrels. He sprayed 
with Orchard Brand Spray materials 
and his apples were 90% perfect. 
/TJ.RANDFATHER was willing to bite around a worm hole, but 
consumers today are not. There is no market for gnarly, worm 
eaten fruit. 
Orchard Brand Arsenate of Lead is a standardized product which 
is highly efficient in controlling the codling moth, bud moth, apple 
and plum curculio, canker worms and other foliage chewing insects. 
Fruit growers very generally prefer the dry or powdered form 
because it is light and fluffy and can be more accurately weighed out 
than the paste form. 
Mixture, Bordeaux- 
BrandT 
Spray Materials 
A conmlete line of standard¬ 
ized Insecticides and Fungi¬ 
cides manufactured by the 
largest chemical company in 
America. 
The standardized Orchard Brand Bordeaux 
Lead and Zinc-Bordeaux, each manufac¬ 
tured in dry and in paste form, have a 
large use in spraying operations. For 
spraying potatoes no other preparation 
possesses so many advantages as Orchard 
Brand Arsenite of Zinc. For dusting po¬ 
tatoes Orchard Brand Lazal is the ap¬ 
proved remedy. 
The control of insects and fungous dis¬ 
eases is strictly a chemical matter. Right 
spray materials in right proportions must 
be used at the right time. Do you need advice ? We maintain a 
Special Service Department, open to fruit growers everywhere. We 
welcome and answer inquiries promptly, without charge. If you 
have a spraying problem, address 
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“Finest Apples 
I Ever Grew” 
“The finest apples I have ever 
grown were sprayed with Pyrox. One 
year I thought I would save a little in the priced and was 
talked into trying “something just as good;” but never 
again, for the crop that year was far from being as good 
as when I used Pyrox.”—C. H. Stokes, Medford, N. J. 
If you want the highest quality fruit, spray with 
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«"*<>» HANK *Yai»TKf*C9 
‘‘The Spray 
That Adds to 
Your Profits” 
Pyrox is a smooth, creamy paste which is all ready 
to use by simply mixing with cold water. It sticks like 
t paint and protects the fruit throughout the growing 
season. Pyrox is just as good for potatoes, tomatoes, 
\ currants, strawberries, etc., as it is for apples. 
Get this Pyrox Crop Book. It tells how to protect your 
crops against bugs, worms and disease. Send for a copy 
today. A postal card will bring it. 
Bowker Insecticide Company 
43-A Chatham St.. Bostoo 1002 Fidelity' Bldg., Baltimore 
