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The Very Best Onion? 
We wouldn’t like to call any variety 
that until it had been tested with every 
other variety, hut a.s far as we can see. Ford's 
Ohio Yellow Globe has no superior. Although 
it used to be a local variety, its fame has spread 
until it is now known from coast to coast. You 
can learn all about it by sending for our 1920 
Catalogue. 
Ford’s Ideal Beet and 
Glory Cabbage 
are two varieties which have meant a 
lot to market growers. They will mean 
bigger and better crops to you if you use them— 
better results in every way. 
Free Catalogue? Yes, Indeed! 
and it’s chock-full of information about 
seeds and planting that you can use 
from day to day. A post card'will get it—all 
we need is your name and address. Send the 
card today. 
FORD SEED COMPANY 
Box 24 RAVENNA, OHIO 
166 Bushels to Acre 
(Record for 1918 and 1919) 
162 Bushels of Ears 1918 
166 Bushels of Ears 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. 
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SOY BEANS 
•Sweet clover, alfalfa, red and alsike clover. garden 
pea. vetch aud other legumes do their best when 
treated with _ 
Acre si/.e $1.00, 
six for $5.01) pre¬ 
paid. State kind 
_anted. 
more virulent than others^Full of pep. Gives 
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booklet. It tells you how and why. 
ftlcQueen Uaoteria Po,, if ox 4, Hattie, Ohio 
Seed to be 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 wtll show a profit. 
•Samplesaud our Field Seed Book, which tells 
exactly ' How to Know Good Seed," are free. To save 
losses from weeds, you need this Information. 
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0. M. SCOTT & SONS CO., 70 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
2*2 CROP SEED POTATOES 
Cobbler—Mills Pride—Giants iLate) 
SUPERBA (White) and Red Skins 
SEED CORN— Yellow and While 
^'Circular Free *4 
MINCH BROS., Bridgeton, N. J. 
Bordeaux Mixture 
Will you let me know how to uiakt 
Bordeaux mixture? h. t. 
Torrington, Conn 
To make a stock solution weigh out a 
certain number of pounds of copper sul¬ 
phate. Place the same in a gunny sack 
and hang in a barrel. Pour into the 
barrel as many gallons of water as there 
are pounds of copper sulphate in tin 
sack, letting the sack of copper sulphate 
hang just below the surface of the water. 
In another barrel slake a certain num¬ 
ber of pounds of lime, then add watei 
until there is one gallon of water foi 
each pound of lime used. Thus, for ex 
ample, we have, say 25 lbs. of copper sttl 
phate in 25 gals, of water and iu another 
barrel we have 25 lbs. of lime iu 25 gals 
of water. This is our stock solution 
For a 4-4-50 mixture dilute 4 gals, of 
stock solution of copper sulphate with 21 
gals, of water. Prepare lime in tin 
same way: 4 gals, copper sulphate, 2' 
gals, water. 4 gals. lime. 21 gals, water 
equals 50 gals. Bordeaux mixture. 
T. IX. TOWXSF.M). 
Cover Crop to Protect Wheat 
^ hat cover crop could be sowed oi 
planted with Winter wlieat that would 
tend to lndd snow, such ns wheat stubble 
d-M-s. for new seeding? Oats do not stand 
up firm enough in my estimation. Am 
I right? A. C. T. 
Michigan. 
This is a new one. We never heard 
of it before. A good “catch” of grass and 
clover in the wheat, started early, should 
make growth enough to hold some snow. 
Me do not think our common Spring oat> 
would answer. In the South the farmers 
sow a Winter or turf oat in the Fall. In 
that climate it comes through the Winter 
like wheat. We have tried it iu Northern 
New Jersey, where it made a very heavy 
Fall growth, but died out iu Spring. 
These Winter oats might answer. Some 
of our older farmers seed turnips and 
rape with grass aud grain. That would 
give the growth to hold snow, but some of 
the plants might live over to put seeds 
in the grain. Who can tell? 
Fertilizer for Strawberries 
I have three-fourths of an acre of land, 
part of which I wish to set to straw¬ 
berries the coming Spring. Land is a 
sandy loam and in poor condition. It is 
impossible to get stable manure, so will 
have to use chemicals. I have been think¬ 
ing of using acid phosphate and potash. 
M hat would you advise, aud how much 
per acre? s. O. w. 
Rhode Island. 
M e should use at least S00 lbs. of one of 
the high grade fruit fertilizers or a combi¬ 
nation of 100 lbs. of soda. 150 dried blood.) 
100 muriate of potash, and 650 acid 
phosphate. The phosphate and potash 
alone would not answer on that soil, as 
we think it too light. Our own plau 
would be to use 000 lbs. of the mixture 
iu a wide strip along the rows when the 
plants are set out. and 400 more in 
August scattered along the rows and well 
harrowed in. 
Uses for Marsh Hay 
Wlutt good use can we make of the 
many acres of marsh hay all over Michi¬ 
gan? B. S. 
Michigan. 
This is pretty much a local problem— 
depending on the sort of farming done 
aud the market. There is some feeding 
value to this hay. Where steers or dairy 
cows are kept this luty cau be fed with 
silage, stalks or tame hay. We know of 
cases where horses have been wintered 
on it. with a little grain. It makes good 
bedding when properly handled and of 
course adds to the manure. In some 
eases it is cut and hauled out on light 
land and plowed under like straw. Nur¬ 
serymen or dealers will sometimes buy it 
to use in packing goods. In our country 
we should cut such hay and haul it iuto 
the hill orchards for use in mulching the 
trees. It would pay well for that pur¬ 
pose. In Southern Ohio many acres of 
orchards are handled in this way with 
great success. Such orchards are not 
plowed, but grass, weeds—anything that 
will decay—are hauled tip front the lower 
laud and spread under the trees. Fer¬ 
tilizer is scattered on top of this mass 
and finds its way down with the rains. 
‘ That burglar insulted me.”—“How?” 
“He demanded my money or my life.” 
“Well?” "All I had with me was half a 
crown, and he took that in preference 
to my life.”—Melbourne Leader. 
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Forrest’s 
Fertile Seeds for 
Fruitful Harvests 
Where will you get your seed this year ? 
You know the importance of vigorous, 
fertile seed of course. Did you ever stop 
to think that the faults of imperfect,seed 
are multiplied many fold in the crop you 
harvest? Care in seed selection is the 
first essential of a bumper crop. 
Send for Catalogue 
Seeds for Farm and Garden 
Use our catalogue in planning for this year’s crop 
of Corn, Oats and Potatoes. We have a special 
Pasture Mixture that gives a luxuriant growth of 
forage of high feeding value. Our seed - has been 
harvested and stored under conditions that assure 
best possible results. 
Early Wonder Silage Corn. 
Gives heavy, leafy growth, 
large ears, formed early. You 
cannotfillyour silo with better 
feed. 
Northern Wonder Oats. 
Earlier than ordinary varieties 
and give heavier yield. Injured 
less by dry weather than any 
oats we have ever grown. 
We are producers of high-grade seed, especially for market 
gardeners, and our catalogue lists, for the home gardener also, 
seed of the same high standards of fertility that professionals 
depend upon us to furnish. Send for our new catalogue, 
FORREST SEED CO., Box 32, Cortland, N. Y. 
Potatoes. Smooth, sound, 
northern grown, free from any 
of thepotatodiseasessometimes 
affecting seed. Standard sorts 
for farm and market growing. 
Timothy and Alsike Pasture 
Mixture. Much higher in feed¬ 
ing value than timothy alone. 
Our Alsike rarely winter kills, 
and gives remarkable increase 
in bulk of forage. 
CARFF’S 
5000 bushels. Tested 
and sure to grovr, 
Finest quality. 20 
Mppia ’ leading varieties. 
^ Q £ U Alsoseedoats, barley. 
^. grass seed. etc. 
LURN Samples on applioa- 
YWmi tlon. 1200 acres. Be 
sure to get our new catalog. 
Write today. W. N.SeurtTA "tons. 
New Carlisle, Ohio. 
Weeds are alfalfa's worst enemy the 
first year. The tlr-t thing to think 
laboufc in buying alfalfa is purity. Our seed is 
'especially set asted and clennad to be free fr 
weeds.We have !he o linary aud several other 
varieties. Ask for Field Seed Book giving special in¬ 
formation on alfalfa, ant 'tl>' .•Kao.' Good Seed." 
0. M. SCOTT & SINS CO., 370 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
