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March 15, 1919 
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Lee Union-Alls 
AS comfortable as an old shoe. 
Sturdily made for hard usage. So 
much more economical and better in every 
way than old fashioned work clothing that 
you’ll be sorry they weren’t available 
sooner. Ask your dealer or write for de¬ 
scriptive pamph¬ 
let. Address y,. 
Department 2103 
The H. D. Lee 
Mercantile 
Company 
Kansas City, Mo., 
Kansas City, Kas. f 
South Bend, Ind., 
Trenton, N. J. 
One piece Like Your 
Union Suit 
All the latest 
yet practical as a plow 
Brief Mention of Elcar Points: 
Four-cylinder models have pow¬ 
erful long stroke Elcar Lycoming 
motor, developing 37J4 horse¬ 
power at 2100 r. p. m. Six cylin¬ 
der models have Red-Seal Conti¬ 
nental 3 l /i x 4 ,Hj inch engine. De¬ 
veloping 40 horsepower at 2100 
r. p. m. Two unit electrical 
system. 116 inch wheel base. 
Road clearance 10J4 inches. Full 
floating rear axle with spiral bevel 
driving gears. Timken roller bear¬ 
ings front and rear. Double uni¬ 
versal drive; tubular propeller 
shaft; copper cellular radiator. 
Easy-riding semi-elliptic spring 
suspension. Roomy and comfort¬ 
able bodies of beautiful design 
and durable finish; new “cathe¬ 
dral Pipe” upholstering. Equip¬ 
ment complete even to moto- 
meter. 
The new Elcar is a treat for the eyes. Pretty 
as a picture. Graceful lines. Beautiful fin¬ 
ish, put on the good old many coat way that 
stays beautiful. Everything in fittings and 
refinements comes with the car. It’s a car 
you’ll be proud of. 
Yet the Elcar is even a better car than it looks to be. 
It has a wonderful motor that’s powerful, speedy, 
flexible, easily handled. Driving is a real pleasure. 
Dependable service is sure in the Elcar. It’s made 
150# strong in every part. We previously built cars 
in the $3,000 class. It has been a wonderful school¬ 
ing toward putting real quality into cars selling at 
less than half that much. 
It doesn’t cost much to run an Elcar. An average of 
18 to 20 miles is secured to a gallon of gasoline. 1000 
miles are averaged to a gallon of oil. Tires give long 
mileage due to light weight and good balance. 
5-Pass. Touring Car, 4-cyl.engine S1175 
5-Pass. Touring Car,6.cyl.engine 1375 
4-Pass. Roadster, 4-cyl. engine 1175 
4- Pass. Roadster, 6-cyl. engine 1375 
5- Pass. Sedan, 4-cyl. engine 1625 
5-Pass. Sedan, 6-cyl. engine 1795 
4-Pass. Sportster, 4-cyl. engine 1175 
4-Pass. Sportster, 6-cyl. engine 1375 
Write for catalog illustrating and describing the 
eight 1919 Elcar Models. We gladly mail it to any¬ 
one interested FREE upon request. 
ELKHART CARRIAGE & MOTOR CAR CO. 
815 Beardsley Ave. Elkhart, Ind. 
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Garden and Farm Notes 
Nitrate of Soda on Corn 
Would it be possible to get from Mr. 
Alfred C. Weed-of Wayne County, N. Y., 
more definite information as to the use 
of Government nitrate for corn? How 
much does he use per acre of planted 
eorn? How does he apply it and when? 
Is sod plowed in Spring as good for eorn 
as for potatoes? j. j. R. 
New Brighton, N. Y. 
Last year we used nitrate at the rate 
of about 100 pounds per acre, put on 
with the drill after the seed was planted. 
We use a double disk drill, which will 
not disturb the seed like a shoe drill. The 
nitrate was put in the fertilizer box. It 
is not an easy job to sow nitrate in this 
way. The labor cost was perhaps twice 
as great as for the same amount of finely 
ground material. It was necessary for 
the man to stop every little while to 
pound up the lumps. On most of the 
land the fertilizer was applied a few days 
after the seed was planted, but I think 
on one field the nitrate went on first. 
The great benefit of this fertilizer was 
in keeping the corn and beans growing 
during a long period of cool weather. We 
feel sure that its use made the difference 
between a good crop of sound corn and 
a lot of soft corn. It might have a 
smaller value in some other places where 
the Summer weather is warmer. Usually 
the ice in the lake less than 10 miles 
north of us keeps the weather so cool 
that plants (especially fruit buds) do 
not start much before the middle of May. 
Then everything opens up at once, and 
we pass from early Spring to Summer 
almost at a step. The same lake keeps 
our Summers so cool that we find a little 
fire comfortable almost every week of the 
year. Some years the weather stays 
warm through October, and Learning corn 
will mature, but that is a gamble, and 
to be safe we must plant a corn which 
will ripen by the middle of September 
when planted the middle of May. The 
only ones that will do this are as early 
'as Golden Bantam or the earliest popcorn. 
Last year we planted popcorn, Golden 
Bantam and field corn the same day, 
expecting that the popcorn would blos¬ 
som a few days earlier. When the corn 
was husked it looked as though the pop¬ 
corn had begun to blossom about a day 
earlier than the other two, hut the first 
ripe ears of all three were picked on the 
same day. September 7. The seed was 
planted May 17. The field corn was 
about a foot high when the freeze the 
last of June hit it and set it hack. 
ALFRED C. WEED. 
Club-root in Cabbage 
I have a piece of land of dark loam 
soil which has been plowed and cultivated 
for 10 years without being seeded, and 
during this time I have raised cabbage 
on this ground four times. Three years 
ago I had a little club-root in the cab¬ 
bage. I have used plenty of horse and 
cow manure. What causes club-root, 
planting cabbage too often on the same 
ground or the use of acid fertilizer? B. 
Lancaster, N. Y. 
Club-root is a plant disease. It is 
often started on the seedlings when they 
are grown in soil containing the disease 
germs. Many old farmers burn a big 
pile of brush and then spade up the 
ground and sow the cabbage seed. If 
they were told by some modern scientist 
that they had sterilizzed the ground they 
would smile, but that is what the fire did. 
It destroyed the disease germs. Start with 
clean soil made so by heat or chemicals 
and use of lime. Watch the seedling 
plants and reject all that have hunches 
on the roots. Lime the field thoroughly 
and when the plants are set out scatter 
a little slaked lime around each plant. 
Seeding Spring Rye 
About Id years ago I was much inter¬ 
ested in rye, used to sow 75 to 100 acres. 
I wrote all over the world to learn who 
raised the most per acre, get samples of 
seed, etc. I found Japan in the lead, 
Ireland next and Germany a close third. 
I got in touch with a seed house near 
Berlin, which made big representations 
of a new Spring rye, and sent me a 
sample. I imported a hag of it. and 
owing to custom house delays I did not 
get it till May. I sowed it, and cut a 
good yield in August, and found it all as 
represented. For years following 1 got. 
an increased quantity. Having -noted 
that yon took considerable interest in 
rye, I wrote yon about it. and offered to 
let you have a bag at. cost, which you 
accepted. I expected to make quite a 
business of it. but found growers did not 
take kindly to the Spring for rye. and 
the price got so low that I dropped it 
the next year. frank iiyde. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
That is right. We seeded some of this 
rye in the Spring and it did well. It made 
plenty of straw and gave a good yield of 
grain in August. We gave up growing it, 
as Spring grain does not fit. well into our 
farming. The Winter rye suits us better, 
as it can be seeded as a cover crop after 
corn, potatoes or garden truck. Thus it 
protects the soil during Winter and gives 
a large growth for plowing under in 
Spring. Or. if we let it go to straw and 
grain, we can plow under* the stubble and 
plant cabbage or drill turnips, with rye 
again to follow. Spring grain means bare 
ground through the Winter and the loss of 
the early Summer crop. That was before 
the war. Spring grain might pay better 
with us now, but we find it next to im¬ 
possible to sell our rye at what we eall a 
fair price. 
Plowing Old Alfalfa 
T have an old Alfalfa field I wish to 
plow for corn. I am told that with a 
disk plow I can easily plow it with two 
horses. Is a disk plow the best? If not, 
what is? Will two horses do the job? 
Is a disk plow better, for cutting off the 
roots, than a common plow r ? .v. P. S. 
Allegan Co., Mich. 
We have used a disk plow on such a 
soil and found that less power was re¬ 
quired than with the ordinary plow. This 
was because the disk chopped off the big 
Alfalfa roots, while the other plow out 
or broke them off and turned them over. 
Some of these roots are as tough as small 
ropes. While less power was required on 
the disk the turning plow did a better 
job. It turned the sod over and left the 
underside on top to he worked into a 
seed bed. The disk chopped and tossed 
the sod over in chunks, leaving much of 
the sod exposed. More work was re¬ 
quired in smoothing and fitting for a 
seed bed. 
Soy Beans in Corn 
I have been reading various articles re¬ 
garding Soy beans in corn. I wish to im¬ 
prove my soil, hut at the same time I 
wish to get some corn. I shall only have 
six acres. I could get the corn cut all 
right, hut how could I cut the cornstalks 
and beans down to plow under? If you 
do not think Soy beans would do. what 
other means can you recommend so I can 
get something out of the «.il and still 
improve it? c. J. c. 
Yardley, Pa. 
There are a number of varieties of the 
Soy beans. The large late sorts will he 
rather uncertain in Bucks County. Pal, 
especially when sown at last cultivation 
of the corn crop. This date of sowing 
will, of course, depend on the earliness of 
the eorn crop. It is a common practice in 
the South to sow cow peas or Soy beans 
among the corn at last cultivation, and to 
cultivate them in. As this last cultiva¬ 
tion in your section will probably be in 
July I do not think that any variety of 
the Soy bean will mature. You may get 
growth enough with the I to San variety 
or the Medium Early Green to make it 
pay to sow them for the improvement of 
the .soil. It will he easy to cut the corn 
and then disk down the beans and turn 
them under, and harrow and tramp till 
the soil is in fine and well settled condi¬ 
tion, and drill in wheat with a good ap¬ 
plication of acid phosphate. It lias been 
shown by experiments, and more than 
one station, that corn with peas sown 
among it will make more corn than with 
no peas, and the same will be true of the 
Soy beans if well inoculated with the 
nitrogen-fixing bacteria, Where none has 
been grown it will be wise to inoculate 
the seed with a culture of the bacteria 
that live ou Soy roots. w. F. M. 
“I see a sterling old baseball player is 
going to part from the diamond forever. 
It must be painful." "Yes,” said the girl, 
“parting from the diamond is painful. I 
had to give hack an engagement ring 
once.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
