‘The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
467 
THE MAILBAG 
Paradise Regained 
The road to a beautiful gard 
is narrow but many there be tl 
find it. You must start rigl 
Begin with 
Seeds 
iGrow 
Chestnut Blight and Apple Trees 
Neighbors try to tell rue that apple 
trees will not grow on land formerly in 
chestnut; that the blight that killed the 
chestnut will attack the fruit, particu¬ 
larly apples. Do you know about this? 
This woodland soil is naturally good, 
loose soil, but infested with grubs. I burn 
brush, pile ashes around base of trees. 
Pennsylvania. l. g. 
Our own orchard is on such land, one 
end of it adjoining woods where the 
chestnuts have all been destroyed by the 
blight. The disease has never touched the 
apple trees. We have cleared off part of 
the dead chestnuts ami planted apple or¬ 
chards on the ground. There has been no 
trouble. 
^* ve F* nest 
ff I fordhook Vegetables 
For 25 c wewiiimaii 
one packet 
each of the following Vege- 
jf&A Seeds: Beet, Crosby 
|pEgypt i an Carrot.Chantenay 
Corn, Golden Bantam Let- 
tuce, Wayahead Tomato, 
Matchless. If purchased 
se parately this collection 
V5 mH would cost 50 cents. 
Complete collection for 
25c. F ive collections for 
$1.00, mailed to different 
Yamm addresses, if so ordered. 
BURPEE’S ANNUAL 
The Leading American Seed 
{.atalog will be mailed to you free upon 
request. Write for your copy today. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE CO., Seed Growers, Philadelphia 
They are bred to attain supreme qual¬ 
ities in vegetables e d Powers. 
Each kind of Ferry’s Seeds is grown 
in that part of the world where it reaches 
its greatest perfection. Then at the great 
Ferry trial gardens and greenhouses each 
season’s crop is tested out to see that 
Ferry’s standards are upheld. 
Send today for the 1919 Ferry “SeedAnnual, ” 
a beautiful and helpful book■ It It free. 
Ferry s Seeds are sold by dealers everuwhere. 
PRODUCE QUICK & POSITIVE 
Destroying Plant Lice 
What is the simplest method of ex¬ 
terminating the little green bugs or lice 
on plants, especially house plants? Where 
plants are small in seed bed and can be 
tightly covered can formaldehyde be used? 
F. M. H. 
Tobacco water or tobacco extract, di¬ 
luted in accordance with directions, con¬ 
trols green fly or^ aphis. This is the 
florist’s remedy. Kerosene emulsion, to¬ 
bacco fumigation, dry snuff or Persian 
insect powder are other remedies. For¬ 
maldehyde is not used for this purpose. 
The common decoction of tobacco is pre¬ 
pared by boiling stems or dust thoroughly ; 
then strain, and dilute until the decoction 
contains two gallons water to one pound 
tobacco. All seedsmen sell commercial 
tobacco extracts. 
Buisf Pedigree Onion Seed 
The growing- of especi- 
ally fine onion seed -/L, 
has long been one of k 
the specialties of our A/W i 
house. We grow only 
'tom pedigree mil • 
stock famous for tfra.-jL, Ufl 
purity and fine — i i [fg 
Quality. A ta ge 
number of varie- 
ties, each one of '^ 8 
which have proved of unusual merit 
is offered you. 
BUIST S ONION SETS—Eastern Grown 
Onion sets will mature full size onions 
in half the time reoutred by seed and 
will produce young green onions in 
five weeks. If you want to oe sure of 
real onions this reason write a once 
for our catalog and price list. 
Free Flower Seed* with orders of 50c. sad over 
ROBERT BUIST COMPANY 
5 So. Front street : PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
Your “victotf! [ pXt 1 
be a „rf, C HoS|c.4"tohSl 
‘ Gt e 8Collection for ,■ .y v egc* | 
•/TY^r-A Radishes in ro id- 
the eed3i pur . 
winter-These w> w0uld 
^/A\W\ chased separately , e 
W Li cost y?^l r n ffe Collec- 
7| VvV, send th L^J_ size d pack- 
i\ tion-20 tn {or on ly 
KISS,! SEEDS 
Stand for big yields. We offer the best that 
can be grown and can supply you with all the 
standard varieties. 
Readers of this paper need no introduction to 
Wing’s Alfalfa seed, Corn, or other field seeds. 
Try some of our specialties in vegetable seeds, 
and we will show you that they are equally 
good. 
Wing’s Red Sunrise Tomato 
has given splendid satisfaction both to market 
gardeners and home growers wherever grown; 
ripens its first fruits the same day as Earliana, 
80% more prolific, 30% more smooth fruits. 
Its main picking comes a week sooner than 
Earliana. Fruit is thick fleshed, with few see<] 
cells, and with a firm skin. Pkt. 10c. 
Wing’s New Just-in-Head Lettuce 
The earliest variety in our trial grounds, heavy 
yielding, lasts longer than any other sort we grow, 
and is the swoetest llavorod.a truly wonderful head 
lettuce that actually does make solid heads to al¬ 
most every plant on auy good soil. Pkt. 10c 
New Catalog FREE 
Describes tho very best and roost reliable sorts of vegetab'o, 
flower and field seeds, bulbs and somo new and rnro 
specialties which wo boliovo can not bo obtained through 
any othor American soedsman. This Seed Guido gives cul¬ 
tural directions and tolls how to plant for profit. 
Wing Soed Co., Box 123 , Mechanicsburg, Ohio 
(The House of Quality and Moderate Prices) 
GOOD AS CAN BE GROWN 
Prices Below Ail Others 
I will give a lot of new 
sorts free with every order 
I fill. Buy and test. Return 
If not O. K. — money refunded. 
Big Catalog FREE 
Over 700 illustrations of vege¬ 
tables and flowers. Send yours 
the carbohydrates being in sugar form 
would be very readily assimilated, not 
having to be changed from starch to 
sugar by digestive operations in the ani¬ 
mal. I also figured that palatabilitv was 
a large item in the feeding of live stock. 
I therefore purchased cane molasses and 
fed it to cattle, horses and to our herd of 
purebred Tamworth swine. Great suc¬ 
cess has attended our feeding in all cases, 
and when I can purchase molasses at the 
price of corn I think it pays to feed up 
to. 15 per cent of ration. The salts con¬ 
tained act as a tonic, and sleekness of 
coat and increase of weight and milk are 
the proof of feeding. I would not care to 
feed beet molasses or any molasses run¬ 
ning below d 0 per cent sugar or over six 
per cent ash. tiios. a. shikeds. 
Our high grades of Clover, Alfalfa, Alsike, Timothy, Seed 
Outs, Seed Cora, Maine Grown Seed Potatoes, Soy Beans, 
etc., are the most carefully selected and recleaned. High¬ 
est in Purity and Germination. Wo pay the Freight. 
Catalog and samples Free if you mention this paper 
P. L. ROHRER, - Smoketown, Lancaster Co.. Pa 
This wonderful corn, the creation of Dr. Frederick 
*? e Lue, noted Boston oculist, after 15 years’ ex- 
i P ft periments with every known variety. Only sweet 
$ corn for the gardener who courts the highest quality 
' * * n the k riefest period on the smallest land. A 
I* supreme product, rich in proteins, starches and 
rs sugar, a Golden Orange in color, 12 to 22 rows of 
long broad kernels, 2 to 3 ears to each short, stout 
stalk. Awarded a magnificent silver medal, the 
fl highest distinction and only like honor accorded by 
L H the ultra-exclusive Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society in 67 years. Matures 2 to 4 weeks earlier. 
Twice average size. Many imitations already ! Be¬ 
lllustrated Circular of Instructions. Price one-half oz. 
The variety that has proved disease resistant and 
high yielding 
PURE INSPECTED SEED 
For list of Farmer growers, write to Secretary 
Michigan Crop Improvement Association 
J. W. Nicolson East Lansing, Michigan 
In ease you can’t buy tenderloin 
_ With your small wad. 
You'll find it is good form to join 
A diet squad. 
—Credit Lost. 
FERTILIZERS AND CROPS by Dr. L. L. Van 
Slyko, Price, $2.50. The best general 
farm book. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
