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BURPEE’S ANNUAL 
THE LEADING AMERICAN SEED CATALOG 
Burpee’s Annual is a complete guide to the vege¬ 
table and flower garden. It fully describes the 
Burpee Quality Seeds, with a hundred of the 
finest vegetables and flowers illustrated in the 
colors of nature. If you are interested in garden¬ 
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TryltThisYear 
If you have never tried to 
improve your brand of seeds, 
why not try it for 1920? We 
have some new varieties which 
will make your vegetables sell 
better than vour neighbor's and of course we 
have the older varieties too. One of our 
best “new” things is 
Ford’s Glory 
CABBAGE 
Which we think is quite superior to any 
early cabbage. ’We also have new 
beets, new tomatoes and new grains 
.which mean more profit to you. They 
can all be found in 
Our Big 1920 Catalogue 
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FORD SEED CO. 
Box 24 Ravenna, Ohio 
BLUE” I 
Make better gardens. All 
aro tested for purity and 
vitality. Ilavo been 
giving satisfaction for 
over DO years. Bo sure 
and try our 
5 FINE VEGETABLES 10c 
One large packet each of 
Bean, Beet, Lettuce, Rad¬ 
ish and Tomato— postpaid. 
All are heavy yielding and ex¬ 
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Large CATALOG FREE 
Gives helpful cultural directions 
and offers strictly huth-grado 
seeds at fair prices. \Y ri to for it, 
fa Livingston Seed Co. 
Box S‘i-1 Columbus. Ohio 
Soil and Fertility Notes 
Hauling Out Manure 
I would like to know which way is 
the best to put manure on the land, to 
haul it direct from the stable on. the land, 
or let it rot up in the barnyard? I have 
noticed people putting on the land from 
the stables, and it seemed so strawy that 
much of it blew off before one was ready 
to plow it under. w. j. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
Other things being equal, we think this 
is largely a labor question. Manure 
never contains more plant food than the 
day it is dropped. There is usually more 
or less of a loss from it when left in the j 
barnyard. In some cases this will be a 
heavy loss from drainage or fermentation. 
Tu other cases the manure is well cared 
for on a concrete floor under shelter, and 
there is little iJ ( >j Of course, most of 
the manure is made during the Winter, 
when there is not so much to do. If it. 
can be hauled out and spread day by day; 
the work is finished by Spring, so that: 
when the ground is fit plowing and seed-1 
iug may begin at once. If the manure) 
is kept in the barnyard until Spring the 
job of hauling ir. out interferes with plow¬ 
ing at a time when labor is worth most. 
That is what we mean by saying that it 
is really a labor question. On fairly 
level land in sod. there will not be much 
loss if the manure is spread on the ground 
day by day. Such loss will be but little) 
[more than would occur in the barnyard, 
las the manure is usually piled there. In 
I most of the dairy districts we see farmers j 
hauling manure every day in Winter, and 
often spreading it right on the snow. As 
a rule, the plan followed in any pro¬ 
gressive section by the majority of far¬ 
mers is quite sure to be right. Of course, 
a market gardener may prefer to use well- 
fermented and tine manure. In that case 
it will pay him better to pile or compost 
the manure, and let it thoroughly decay 
before hauling it out. 
Value of Corncobs 
What are corncobs used for? I saw in 
the paper where they are sold for $l.o5 
per bu. L. J. 
Millville, X. .T. 
We have never quoted such a price in 
The R. X.-Y. A full ton of corncobs will 
contain not far from five pounds of nitro- 
geu. five of potash and a very little phos¬ 
phoric acid. A bushel would weigh about 
’20 lbs., so that the fertilizing value of a 
bushel would be too small to consider. 
The cobs have value as fuel, but five cents 
a bushel would be a large price. The cobs 
are used for fuel. Some particularly large 
ones may be used for making pipes. 
Here’s How to Have the Best Garden 
In Your Neighborhood 
Profit by the example of some of the most 
successful market gardeners in the country and 
plant Forrest’s Fertile Seeds. 
No matter how small or how large the garden 
you are planning for the coming season, vigorous, 
fertile seed is your first essential to success. Be 
sure to send for our catalogue. From it you can 
order one of the special collections we have made 
up for small gardens. For the more pretentious 
home or market garden, you can choose from a 
catalogue in which only the more desirable vari¬ 
eties are listed. Unproved novelties have no 
place in our catalogue. 
If you want a real garden this year,—one that will 
be a source of pride and profit,—send for our cata¬ 
logue, and from it, order Forrest’s Fertile Seeds. 
FORREST SEED CO., Box 32, Cortland, N. Y. 
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for 
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of 
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Fertile 
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-CLOVER SEED- 
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Our Clover, Alsike. Timothy. Hfait’a tuid other Karin 
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P. L, ROHRER 
Smoketown, Lancaster*. Co., Pa. 
Ijirger quantities than ever before 
are being imported. This seed is unlit to 
.sow. Most home-grown seed is of poor quality. 
I so it is very necessary to use care In buying. 
’ Our Field Seed Hook tells "Howto Know Good 
_ Seed” nml why imported seed is poor stuff. It. 
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M. SC9TT & SONS CO.. 170 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
Lime on Potatoes 
Mr. W. H. Smith of Xew Brunswick, 
Canada, recently wrote about his prac¬ 
tice of using lime on potatoes. He now 
explains his plan as follows: 
The following is the way I applied the 
lime. We planted the potatoes on barn¬ 
yard manure in drills, or as you call them 
over here, hills. We then covered them 
up with a drilling plow. In about 10 
days we worked the drills down again, 
and then plowed them up again. Then 
we hauled the lime up the drills and put 
it our iu small lots and covered it up and 
then when slaked or fallen, spread it with 
a shovel, and we found that it did not 
cause scab to the potatoes. In fact, the 
lime would not come near the potatoes 
being at the top all the time. The only 
advantage, we thought, in doing it that 
way. was to got the lime on the field be¬ 
cause we usually had a slack time for 
the horses just then, and after getting the 
potatoes were too busy plowing and sow- 
iug wheat on the land. That is the way 
we used to do the job and found it worked 
w ell. W. H. SMITH. 
We never heard of this plan before, aud 
from our own experience it would seem; 
us if the lime would be worked down iutoj 
the soil by cultivation and thus help 
spread the scab disease. 
Big Oat Yietd in Ohio 
I grew from one seed, oue single seed of 
oats. 5.426 sound kernels (actual count), 
42 heads, an average of over 100 grains 
per head. Heads ranged from 12 to 18 
inches: 5.400 graius again planted yielded 
60% lbs. of recleaned oats, an increase of 
yield from amount of seed sowu 12,400% 
Is there any record of the largest amount 
ever grown from oue seed ? I have no 
seed for sale. T. F. D. 
Henry Co., Ohio. 
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Average purity of above 99.50''o maintained 
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The Cream of the Crop 
Every lot Northern grown and tested in our 
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famous 10-day - money-back-if-you-want-it guarantee 
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D. B. Alfalfa. Northern dry iand grown. The 
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D. B. Red Medium and Mammoth Clover. Of tha choice qu»li:y. 
Fancy A Isike. Splendid slock oi superior grade seed. 
D. B. Timothy. Average analysis for years above 99.70s. 
Dibble’s Alsike and Timothy Natural Mixture. Containing over I -5 
Alsike with less than I $ of weed seeds. The seeding bargain of the year. 
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Harris’ Northern Grown Seed Corn 
Seed grown in the north is the only corn that should be 
used when the seasons arc short. 
We have some very early Dent and Flint varieties that were 
raised in Western New York. They are well adapted for 
raising grain or for the silo anywhere in the northern states. 
Use Harris’ Seeds for the Garden 
The' are home grown a«d bred with the gi-entest care and are 
fur'sunerior to ordinary seeds. The.' are tested and the percent 
that grows is marked on the label, flower seed and plants direet 
from our farm to you. 
We 
raise them with the 
same care as 
vegetable seeds. 
' If you hare trouble 
getting: really good 
deads try Harris*. 
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Joseph Harris Co.- 
Box 21, Cotdwater.N. V 
Harris Seeds 
Label on every Lot 
Tells how many 
will 
Grow 
According to our tes ts 
98 percent 
ot'tills seed germinates 
R. N.-Y.—So 
the limit. Can 
far as we kuow that is 
anyone beat it? 
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