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Ttrt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 1020 
Same lair Price As 
Before The War 
and the same p\rre, 
wholesome heverade so 
many have enjoyed, for 
j/ears. 
Instant 
POSTUM 
has a pleasing coffee * 
like flavor hut. is more 
economical than coffee 
and has the added value 
of absolute freedom from 
caffeine or other. harm¬ 
ful ingredients/ 
“There's <3 Teas on ” 
Made by • 
Postum Cereal Company.. Battle CreeL-.Mich. 
KBanner 
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with a heavy brass or galva- 
capacity 4 gallons. It has a 
brass, 2-inch diameter 
pump. A few strokes and 
you have a strong press¬ 
ure to deliver a fine, misty 
spray, or a coarse spray 
(as you desire)through the 
automatic brass nozzle. 
The No. 22 Banner is built 
for hard service. Be sure 
to ask your dealer for it 
by name. 
Write for special literature on 
this sprayer and price for brass 
or galvanized iron tank — if your 
dealer cannot supply you. 
D. B. SMITH & CO. 
Utica, N. Y. 
We make 50 different styles 
and sixes of sprayers. If in¬ 
terested in smaller or target 
sprayers send for catalog. 
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When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you'll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
on nil markets for its length. The staple 
of the Durango variety runs from 3to 
iy± in.—has a strong, fine, silky staple 
and a bright whiteness of color. This 
variety has been grown most exclusively 
in the San Joaquin Valley. The Pima 
variety averages 1% in. staple. These 
long staples are used almost exclusively 
for the manufacturing of automobile 
tires and the manufacturing of thread. 
Cotton land, on account of the revenue 
derived from it. is rapidly going up in 
price, yet there are many districts in 
California with good cotton land that 
can be had at a very reasonable price. 
K. i\r. TURNER. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
A correspondent sends me some printed 
circulars sent out by certain parties who 
tell the farmers of the wonderful profits 
to be made in ginseng and other plants 
and in the growing of mushrooms, naming 
extraordinary prices for the mushrooms, 
which are seldom reached. The same 
party sends list of garden seed at very low 
prices. It has been well shown that' ost 
of the money made in giuseng is made by 
just this class of dealers—the men who 
sell the roots for other people to plant 
and make fortunes from, while they are 
content to make it out of the suckers. A 
woman away down in Tennessee writes 
for full information on growing mush¬ 
rooms, as she has been informed that 
they can be grown in anyone’s cellar, and 
sell for over $1 a pound. She was not 
even on a railroad, and unable to com¬ 
mand a constant supply of horse dung, 
and proposed to grow mushrooms for 
shipping north. I told her that the par¬ 
ties advertising and advising people to 
make money growing mushrooms were 
only interested in selling the spawn at 
two or three times the price she could 
get it from the regular seed trade; that 
she could grow some mushrooms if she is 
fond of them, blit that there was no 
possibility for her to make money from 
them. 
There is always an abundance of gar¬ 
den seed of unknown pedigree or age that 
the fakers can buy up and put up in pa¬ 
pers at half the price of good seed, and 
the grower only runs the risk of get¬ 
ting no plants or getting inferior crops, 
when by buying only the best seed from 
dealers of old-established reputation the 
grower will be truly economical. There 
is nothing one buys that is a worse waste 
of money than low-priced seed. 
There is a beautiful white bean, as 
large as a Lima bean, which I have grown 
years ago as a curiosity for its big pods, 
a foot long. It is entirely worthless as 
a bean, either for stock or humans. Sev¬ 
eral years ago one of these seed fakers 
got hold of this beau, the proper name 
of which is Canavallia ensiformis, and 
sent men out offering it at an astonishing 
price per pint, and calling it the Chick¬ 
asaw Lima bean. At once I began to 
get letters from farmers who bat invested 
in seed, sending me samples. Some had 
invested as much as .$.10 in the vorthless 
seed, on the representations ot he fakers 
that they made wonderful crops and were 
very valuable as stock food. The fact 
is that it is believed they are not only 
worthless, but somewhat poisonous. I 
did all I could to warn the Southern 
farmers about the fraud, but the thing 
keeps bobbing up every Spring, and only 
a few days ago I had a letter from a 
farmer indosing a few of the beans and 
asking how best to cultivate and harvest 
them. There is another variety of the 
Canavallia which is useffel as a rapid 
climber. I received it first from a corre¬ 
spondent. in Mississippi, who called it 
Jack bean. This variety has seed of a 
pink color, and makes even larger pods 
than the dwarf white one. It matures 
seed here in an unusually late season, 
hut usually is green when frost arrives. 
The oddity of the clusters of white flow¬ 
ers and the immense pods make the plant 
interesting, but as a farm plant for for¬ 
age it has no more value than the white 
one. 
So do not bite tlie Chickasaw Lima 
bean. Another friend iu the South sent 
us another ’".Tack bean.” This one was 
an old friend, the tyacinth bean, and 
really a handsome flowering vine, its 
purple pods being as pv ty as the bloom. 
I mentioned recently hat the Japanese 
kudzu would have a va ve aside from any 
forage value in checking he further waste 
of the red-gullied hillsides of the South¬ 
ern Piedmont. This wonderfully rapid¬ 
growing plant sends out runners DO feet 
LUCKY BOY 
Fall-Bearing: Strawberry 
Bigger, sweeter and more productive than any 
other ever-bearing strawberry. No more trouble 
to grow than a standard variety. Blossoms cut 
off once in the Spring is all that: is necessary. 
Fruits until hard freeze. Frost lias no effect. 
Price prepaid 
23 Plants.$3.<><> too Plants. $7.50 
30 Plants. 5.00 500 Plants.25.00 
Townsend Strawberry Plants 
Are 100% Perfect 
S TRONG, healthy, vigorous, heavy 
rooted plants dug fresh every 
day for your order. 35 the leading 
standard varieties— 4, the best Ever- 
bearing—including the 
Lucky Boy, Fall-Bearing Strawberry 
Lucky Boy which is claimed by all who 
have grown them to be the best Fall- 
bearing berry yet. Don’t fail to get 25 
or 100 plants to start this season. Get 
your order in early. April is the Straw¬ 
berry planting time. 
Take No Chances on Cheap John Plants 
We have tlie largest stock of piauts in the 
country and no one can give you more for your 
Dollar than Townsend. Take no Chances on 
Cheap John Plants. 
We Have What You Want 
Now growing in our Nurseries waiting for 
your order. Orders can usually 1* filled same 
day received if wanted. 
See R. N.-Y., Page 469—March 6th for Prices 
Or ask for our Catalog No. 30, will go by return 
mail. 
Special Prices for April on the following 
10% off list price and we pay the Charges 
Aroma Dr. Bum'll Dunlap Early Ozar 
Klondyke Glen Mary Gandy Missionary 
Haverland Sample Ford Townsend’s Late 
Peerless E.B. WORLD’S WONDER 
The abort art some of the best Icnoion ro rictics in 
the country ichich we ure long on at this time 
anti orders mast be seat in ot one*' to get the 
Special discount — and prepaid charges to you. 
E. W. TOWNSEND & SON 
25 Vine Street :: Salisbury, Md. 
Old Reliable Nurseries 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
We are offering millions of high-grade plants at 
wholesale prices. Guaranteed irne-to-name and 
please yon or your money refunded. Ever nearing va¬ 
rieties. Progressive,Superb. Peerless. Idea1.101; Min¬ 
nesota, $10 per M. .Standard varieties. Amanda, liu- 
hacli. Big Joe, Klondyke. Missionary. Dunlap, **> per 
M. I.upton, Elate. $* per M. t'liesaoeake. < 'elborns 
Early. $10 per M. Send for descriptive catalog. It's free. 
E. W. JOHNSON & CO..R. F. D. No. 4, Salisbury, Md 
opePI AI nie y° u 8 r ° w 4i e k esl 
OT LU/lL berries and asparagus. 25 early, 
25 midseason, 25 late straw berry plants, 25 black 
raspberry plants and 25 genuine W^;hington as¬ 
paragus plants, all for $2- postage paid. Interesting 
illustrated circular free 
A. B. Katkamier, *. : : Macedon, N.Y. 
NOW IS THE TIME 
To Order Plants 
STRAWBERRY BLACKBERRY 
CABBAGE TOMATO 
All Varieties 
Wo will gladly liiatii you onr PKIC'E LIST 
CALEB BOGGS & SON CHESWOLP, DELAWARE 
Tomato and Cabbage Plants 
all varieties; open field grown Prompt shipment. 
200—SL 500—SI.75, postpaid. B expross, S2pthous¬ 
and. Sweet potato plants SZ.aO thousand. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. Special price largo lots. 
JEFFERSON FARMS, .4 litany, Georgia 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
All leading varieties.including the bestof the Ever- 
bearing Kinds. ASPARAGUS ROOTS and TOMATO 
SEEDS OUALITY BEST. Prices reasonable. Catalogue 
Free. V R ALIEN,Grower and Distributor,Scatord. Delaware 
Strawberry Plants For Sale fiesto 
select from. Also the fall-bearing, Send for free 
catalogue. J. KEIFFORD HALE, R No. 2. Rhodesdale, Md. 
Strawberry PLANTS 1%,‘dAmHmitXs 
Catalogue Free Basil Perry, Georgetown, Del- 
