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THE LEADING AMERICAN SEED CATALOG 
Burpee’s Annual is a complete guide to the vege¬ 
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finest vegetables and flowers illustrated in the 
colors of nature. If you are interested in garden¬ 
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Just now’ seeds are only seeds— 
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crop. S. & H. seeds meet your ex¬ 
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Our friends return each year. For 
66 years farmers and gardenershave * 
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Over 1200 acres of land are de¬ 
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The Storrs and Harrison Co. 
A 'urserymen and Seedsmei: 
Box 13-B Painesvillo, Ohio 
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FORD SEED COMPANY 
Box 24, Ravenna, Ohio 
Voes it Pay To 
fertilize Corn? 
A fifty-acre com field on one of our farms gave tis $24 
Increased yield for $4 invested in fertilizer this year. \\ o 
offer American Basic Phosphat e, a carrier of Phosphorus, 
containing 45% Lime filler instead of worthless filler of 
free acidity. The Phosphorus immediately available. 
Tested on our farms for twenty years and found to ho 
the very best for Alfalfa, Legumes, small grains or Corn 
of any fertilizer we have ever used. The best of all when 
figured on a unit basis. Cheaper Than Acid Phos¬ 
phate. Ask for delivered prices ou car lots iu territory 
north of Ohio River only. 
WING SEED CO., Box 333 Mechanicsburg, O. 
Better Postage Rate on Books 
In village and city the educational in¬ 
stitution that stands next to the school 
in usefulness is the library. In the back 
country there is little use of library 
books. Why the difference? Less need 
in the country? On the contrary, the 
back farm community, lacking the play, 
photoplay, pageant, the teeming world of 
the city, needs good reading most of all. 
Do we of the back country care less for 
good reading? This is wrongly assumed 
by some, but the fact is that the farm 
people are as liberal readers of first-class 
literature, when they have it. as any, as 
witness the growing popularity of first- 
class papers. The fact that while many 
cities can show an average library circu¬ 
lation of 20 books to the family per an¬ 
num, while the country districts of this 
nation scarcely borrow an average of one 
single volume a year from the public 
library, is due to none of these causes. 
It is just simply and solely lack of con¬ 
venient access to borrow and return the 
books, just what they want and just when 
they want to borrow and return them. 
For all those who live two to five miles 
from the village center this is well under¬ 
stood. This is the reason why in thou¬ 
sands of villages throughout this land 
there repose on library shelves hundreds 
of books that should be out doing their 
work in the farm homes outlying. 
It is clear that some daily convenience 
passing the door of the farm home is 
needed to supply the books when, as in 
the long Winter evenings, there is time! 
to read. Happily we do not need to wish 
for impossibilities. Here is the R. D. 
wagon passing the door every work day 
in the year, coining from the village back 
to it again, and sadly needing more local 
parcels to make it self-supporting. Then 
why do not the books go? Just simply 
and solely because we have not a practical 
rate for this carriage. It now would cost 
10 to 14 cents to borrow the library book 
by this means (I have tried it) and re¬ 
turn it again. It is perfectly convenient 
to call the library and have it sent out, 
and then to slip in an envelope to return, 
but who wants to pay 14 cents to read 
a book, and then return it? Fifty pounds 
of lard can go for 30 cents in the local 
zone, but iu case of the books, as we 
usually borrow or return but one or two 
at a time, only that first five cents a 
pound rate can be made use of. Twenty- 
five pounds of oleo can go for 17 cents; 
2o pounds of books from the library go¬ 
ing. it is true, to perhaps 20 different 
mail boxes, but calling the carrier not one 
rod out of his course, would cost about a 
dollar each way, so none go, to the joint 
disadvantage of farm home and of postal 
service as well. 
Would the farm people make use of the 
more practical rate, allowing a book to go 
each way on the local route for one to 
three cents? Does water run down hill 
more readily than up hill? If one were 
sceptical it might be well to pour a pail 
ou the ground and let him see. That is 
just what I have been doing in case of 
the books. By paying the difference we 
have in this township allowed the books 
to go out at a cost of one to two cents 
each way for the farm people. They 
have made vdry free use of this method 
and never objected to this reasonable cost. 
The rural delivery wagon (I ran it my¬ 
self to observe) was never over-burdened 
nor was a book ever damaged or lost iu 
transit or by failure to return. The 
farmers here; selecting by means of a 
printed list, borrowed just as freely as 
their brothers and sisters in town, and 
the service was just that much ahead. 
Think what this common sense privilege 
would mean to the 20.000,000 farm peo¬ 
ple in the back districts of the United 
States! More than many universities; 
for the library is the university brought 
to everyone’s door. 
How about the service itself? This 
extra carriage only used a small fraction 
of the energy going to waste. My wagon, 
horse and myself all weight about three- 
quarters of a ton. My cargo of mail and 
parcels weigh an average of one-thirtieth 
as much. The extra carriage is needed 
to make up a profitable load for our Uncle 
Samuel, who with his debts must he more 
thrifty. In fact, a more practical rate 
for library books over the R. D. lines 
would add several hundred thousand dol¬ 
lars to the revenue of this branch of the 
service, while doing a full million of good 
to the country homes, from the potato 
farms of Maine to the orange groves of 
California. Let us have your moral sup¬ 
port for this measure, soon to come up 
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■ Seed. Average analysi* above 99,50% pure, Re- 
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V Orchard, Blue and Sudan Grasi, Millets, Vetch, Rape, 
V Field Peas, Soy Beans, etc. 
W Dibble’s Seed Oats. Heavy weight, weighing 43-45 lb*. 
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Dibble's Seed Barley. Oderbrucker and Canadian Six Rowed. 
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Dibble’s Buckwheat. Japanese and Silverhull 
Dibble’s Seed Corn. Best nine kinds, both flint and dent (or crop or 
the Silo. Average germination above 95 “i. 
Dibble’s Seed Potatoes. Fourteen varieties, early.intermediate and ia»e 
in any quanity from barrels to .car load* and every bushel from healthy fields. 
Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalogue and Special Price List Free. Address 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE SEEDGROWER 
FERTILIZERS AND CROPS by Dr. L. L. Van 
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Check-row Planter on Eastern Farms 
I am having several inquiries regarding 
the use of the check-row corn-planters on 
our Eastern farms. Most of the farmers' 
would be planting from five to 20 acres 
of silage corn ou land more or less broken 
and sloping. Would a check-row corn- 
planter be advisable under these condi¬ 
tions? If you can secure for me the ex¬ 
perience of farmers who have tried them 
out in the East. I would be pleased to 
hear them for the benefit of the farmers 
of Chittenden County. 
Vermont. edw. h. lovelaxd. 
We will ask farmers who have used 
the cfieck-row planter under such condi¬ 
tions to give us their experience. That 
will be the best way to settle it. 
The Most Successful Gardeners 
Use Harris’ Seeds. That’s one reason they are success¬ 
ful. Another is that, to *ucceed, a gardener must be a shrewd 
man and he know* whare to buy seeds to the best advantage- 
Harris’ seeds are grown in the north and produce earlier and 
better crops than seeds grown further south. They are raised 
with modern scientific methods of breeding which keeps them 
up to the highest possible standard for quality and yield. 
Harris’ seeds are sold direct to grower at wholesale prices.£ 
Harris Seeds 
Label on every Lot 
Tells how man 
We do not sell to deal¬ 
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Therm is a label on every J 
lot of seed telling just * 
how many seed out of 
IOO tvill grow. 
W» raise Vegetable aoed.Flowor 
seed and Farm need all of the 
very highest Quality. Catalogue < 
free. Ir you raise vegetables for 
market ask for our Market Garden¬ 
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HARRIS CO. Bex 21, Coldweter. N.V. 
According to our tests 
98 percent 
of this seed germinates 
Clover Seed 
Hoffman s nevv-crop Clover Seed produced on clean fields—free from weeds-thoroughly- 
cleaned hardy —of strong, vigorous growth. Buy our tested seed — result* are bound 
to please you. Buyers Not Pleased with Seed May Return It—Get Money Back. 
Hoffman’s 1920 Catalog offers all varieties of Clovers—also Alfalfa—Seed Oats—Corn— 
Canada Peas Soy- Beans Cowpeas Potatoes—etc. Gives valuable growing suggestions. 
Bustness tarmers desiring top profits from their operations will write for this book at once 
get our prices—order their spring seeds. Mention this paper. 
A. H. Hoffman, Inc., Landisville, Lancaster County, Pa. 
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