The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
227 
1920 
Catalog Free 
£ 
Red Clover, Alsike, 
Mammoth, Alfalfa, 
Sweet Clover 
Buying Hoffman’s 
Clovers means that 
ou get — (1) Seed of 
Jghest purity, fr^p from 
weeds; (2) Strongest 
germination; (3) Plump 
seed, of good color; (4) 
Hardy seed that will sur¬ 
vive extreme winters- 
You can buy Hoff¬ 
man's Clovers—test them 
—if they are not aatis- 
factory, return them — 
get your money back, 
with freight. 
Samples free .. If 
you believe in good seed, 
write us today for samples 
and new Catalog. No 
charge.... Have a full 
line of Seed Grains and 
Grasses—Oats—Corn—■ 
Peas—Beans—Potatoes, 
etc.—highest qualities only, 
paper when writing. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc., Landisville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
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8 John B AsrTo.-n4fo •; 
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The Earliest- 
ITOMATO 
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Is our "JO TIN BAKU.' - Worth 
25o per packet. To introduce our 
HARDY NORTHERN GROWN 
FEEDS, wo will semi packet of the 
above aud one each of the following, 
for 10c: “1200 to 1“ Beans, Beet, 
Carrot. Cucumber, Lettuce, Onion, Par- 
Biiip, Radish and superb Asters. Ihie 
bill for 10c, with each order. Money 
back if not satisfied. Catalog of Seed 
Bargains FREE. PEND TODAY. 
J. W. JUNG SEED CO.. 
Station 8 Randolph, Wis. 
Po Uou Believe - 
In farmers’ 
Cb-OpemtivtAssociations? 
We certainly do. We belong to the Farm Bureau our¬ 
selves and have made special preparation to take care 
of co-operative orders. For t wenty years we have led In 
t he A1 f alfa product ion movement. We were t he tlrst to 
Introduce this plant Into the corn belt, first to sell guar¬ 
anteed seed, and first to offer the now famous "Dakota 
30." Get our prices on this as well its "Grimm." 
Sweet Clover is one of our specialties, the greatest soil 
builder and the best pasture plant In the corn belt to-day. 
CLOVER and GRASSES 
Wo will sell you a pound or car load. Wo aak for tho moat 
critical buyers and can please you. 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
are grown for tho most critical trado. Write for catalog. , 
WING SEED CO., Box 333 • Mochanlcsburg, O. 
162 Bushels to Acre 
(Record for 1918 and 1919) 
Improved Golden Nugget 
Field Corn Seed 
A high-producing flint corn 
Over 95% germination, actual test 
Price $4.00 per bu., f. o. b. Warwick, N. Y. 
Cash with order—25c. sample ear 
J. E. SANFORD : Warwick, N. Y. 
REFERENCE: 
L. D. Greene, Mgr., Orange Co. Farm Bureau 
Middletown, N, Y. 
First National Bank, Warwick, N.Y. 
Larger quantities than ever before 
arc being imported. This seed is unlit to 
lSOw. Most home-grown seed is of pom-quality. 
Iso ii i- very necessary to use care In buying 
‘Our Field Seed Hook tells‘‘How to Know iiooil 
■Seed" and why imported seed is poor stuff. It, 
as well as samples, are free. We have all other livid 
seeds that are practically Weedless. 
0. M. scon & SONS CO., 170 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
CONDON’S GIANT 
EVERBEARING 
TOMATO 
“QUEEN OF THE MARKET." Big Monoy-Mak«r. Large, solid 
fruit} excellent cenner. To Introduce to you 
our Northern Grown "Suro Crop" Live 
Scodn, vro will mull you 1 2f> o eeda of Con- 
don's Qlent Everbearing 
Tomato and our Main- ■ B J 1 1 “ 
moth 1920 Garden und 8 
Farm Guido. Telia how. when and what 
to plant for ploaaure Qui profit. Send 
poatal today. 
CONDON BROS. , Seedsman 
Hock River Vatin/ Sent Farm 
Box 194 ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS 
COUNTRY We supply any book that 1ms to do with 
It O O K S country life: the furm, the llower. fruit or 
vegetable, garden, trees, shrubs, landscape gardening, 
plum- uinler gloss, soils, fertlllzsrs, plant itlaes-m, bisect posts. 
Rsr.lon architecture, outdoor sports, etc. l-’rom thousands of hooks 
we have selected the 700 best. Fond stamp for 06 pp. catalog No. 3. 
A. T. UK 1. V MARK CO. Inc., 4 Is-A W. 37th St., New York City 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Mr. Webb (page ST) is perfectly right 
about the .Stayman tipple. Some Staymau 
apples are brought here from West Vir¬ 
ginia every Fall, and I have had them 
sent to me from the upper Piedmont eoiiu- 
try of Virginia. But these apples, while 
rather brighter in color than ours, were 
entirely different in their flesh and flavor. 
They were rather dry and mealy, while 
the same apple grown on this peninsula 
south of Dover are brittle, spicy and 
juicy, in fact, the finest of all Winter ap¬ 
ples *o my taste. The book on “The Ap 
pies of New York” makes the Stayman 
not. worthy of culture in New York. It 
seems to be. an apple for sandy soils and 
moderate climate. It stands cold storage 
well. - . 
C. D. Lyou (page 100) is very amusing 
in his comments on sweet potatoes. The 
yarn class, to which the Nancy Ilall be¬ 
longs, has three times the amount of! 
sugar of the dry yellow potatoes. Then I 
the idea of going up to Ohio (not down! 
as lie says) to find good sweet potatoes.; 
when we grow all kinds of them here by 
the millions of bushels! I suppose that 
Mr. Lyon has been trying the Nancy 
Hall by steaming or boiling it. That sort 
of cooking is an insult to a good potato. 
Many more of the dry yellow potatoes are 
grown here than Nancy Hall, for our 
growers cater to the preferences of the 
Northern people. But it is hard for me 
to understand why anyone should prefer 
the dry potatoes to a jelly-like Nancy Hall 
or Georgia Pumpkin yam, or the Barba¬ 
dos, baked, as we always cook the yams, 
the dry potatoes are choky and far less 
sweet. It. seems to be a matter of local 
taste and cooking. To one accustomed to 
sweet potatoes like Nancy Hall the dry 
ones needs sugar over them. There is no 
sogginess nor rank flavor in the Nancy 
Hall, but a jelly-like sweetness which I 
said would make a New Englander think 
he was eating his favorite pumpkin pie. 
It may get the qualities Mr. Lyon 
charges if grown up in Ohio, but let him 
come clown here into a real sweet potato 
country, and try one baked and peeled 
and buttered, and he may learn to appre¬ 
ciate a good thing. 
Iu fact, fruits and vegetable find their 
best locations. I never ate a sweet potato 
Man's oldest occupation is agriculture. 
No other pursuit, however important in 
its way, can take foremost position from the'pro- 
ducers of food. You take pride in saying, “I am 
a farmer.” So do we. On our great farms— -Cliff- 
wood and Fairview—we raise improved stock 
seeds and conduct thorough, practical 
soil tests. By every method known to 
the science of seed improvement, we 
maintain our established position as 
the leading mail order seed house 
of America. 
Box 144 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED COMPANY 
America Largest Mail Order Seed House 
La Crosse, Wisconsin 
gt-own as far north as Ohio, and do not 
think that the Southern, or yam class, can 
possibly reach their sweetness in Ohio. 
Nor do I think that any sweet potato can 
develop its full character north of South¬ 
ern New Jersey and the Delaware-Mary- 
laud-Virginia peninsula. Some things can 
be grown better in Ohio than here, but 
the sweet potato is not one of them. Men 
all the way down the South Atlantic coasts 
who grow thousands of bushels of the dry 
yellow sweet potatoes, do not eat them, 
but grow Nancy Hall. Barbados, Norton 
Yams and similar sorts for home use. sim¬ 
ply because they have found them so much 
superior to the kinds the Northern people 
| like. It is largely climate and soil that 
determine the quality of any vegetable. 
Ohio can doubtless grow sugar corn far 
better than we can. She cau grow wheat 
better than our sweet potato soils ever 
can, but when anyone tells us to go to 
Ohio for sweet potatoes, it is to laugh. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Grafting and Growing “Pomatoes” 
Two years ago I grafted six Stone to¬ 
mato cuttings on six Irish potato stalks. 
I set them out iu garden on May 10. Ou 
September 20 I dug 10 medium-sized po¬ 
tatoes from the stalk and gathered 14 ripe 
tomatoes (ordinary Stone size) and left 
five green tomatoes and two ripe ones on 
the stalk. I exhibited stalk with toma¬ 
toes and potatoes at the Roanoke fair and 
called them “pomatoes.” They attracted 
much atttentiou, and while I haven’t 
grown any since, I am still receiving in¬ 
quiries about how to grow pomatoes. Will 
you advise me if you know of anyone try¬ 
ing this method of growing tomatoes and 
potatoes on same stalk? 
Virginia. geo. ii. reed. 
This work is not uncommon. At the 
agricultural schools it is quite frequently 
done in teaching the art of grafting. We 
have had several notes about it recently. 
Of course, the seeds of the tomato will 
uot produce similar plants, but it is 
thought that continued selection from 
grafted plants may change their character 
somewhat. 
, Musketry Instructor (to class) : 
■-Now. boys, you must remember that your 
rifle is your best friend. Treat it as' vou 
would your wife. Wipe it over with' an 
oily rag every morning.”—Melbourne 
Australasian. 
A Tomato That Ripens 
In 110 Days From Seed 
Ford’s Red Rock Tomato is very 
smooth, deep red; flavor is superb; ripens evenly. 
Stays good for a long time; we have yet 
to see a better shipper. Probably the best can¬ 
ning variety on the market. You can learn more 
about this great Tomato in 
Ford’s 1920 Catalogue 
It gives you a remarkable list of the 
remarkable seeds. Just put your name on a 
post card. 
FORD SEED COMPANY 
Box 24, Ravenna, Ohio. 
—CLOVER SEED- 
Be specialize iu the host seed obtainable. Good 
Seeds meau satisfied customers. When you buy out- 
seeds you have the best that grows. 
FREIGHT PAID BAGS FREE 
Our Clover. Alsike. Timothy. Alfalfa and other Eanu 
Seeds are the most carefully selected, Duality is 
guaranteed. Rohrer’s seed book aud samples free if 
you mention this paper. 
P. L. ROHRER 
Smoketown, Lancaster, Co., Pa. 
Seed to bo worth planting at all must 
not only grow, but must grow a profit¬ 
able crop. For years we have been supplying 
seed practically free from weed seeds and dead 
grains, the only kind that will shown profit. 
Samples and our Field Seed Book, which tells 
exactly “How to Know Good Seed." are free. To save 
losses from weeds, you need this information. 
Write Today. 
O.M. SCOTT & SONS C0., 70 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
D SEEDS 
GOOD AS CAN BE GROWN 
Prices Below All 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 
and your neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHUM WAY, Rockford, IIL 
SWEET CLOVER 
REST paying farm crop known. Best fertilizer 
and soil-builder known. Grows anywhere. I 
grow, buy and sell sweet clover /,eed Write for 
sample seed and full and complete instructions 
for growing and handling the crop. 
T. I.. PHILLIPS, liux 155. Aurora, III. 
SEEDS GROWN in the NORTH 
Seeds that are grown in the north produce earlier crops and bet¬ 
ter yields than if grown further south. This has been proven 
over and over again. Gelseeds you know are northern grown. 
Harris' seeds are raised near the Canadian border and are there¬ 
fore by far the best for the northern states. They are sold direct 
from the grower to you at wholesale prices. 
Every lot of seed is tested and the percent that germinates is 
marked on the package. You do not have to guess how 
thick to sow. and can always get uniform results. , 
We raise Vegetable seeds. Farm seed and very choice Flower w 
seeds and plants. Cat¬ 
alogue free. If you raise 
vegetables for market, 
phase ask for Market 
Gardeners’ price list. 
Harris Seeds 
Label on every Lot 
Tells how man 
According to our tests 
98 percent 
seed^rminates 
