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KEEP THE WEEDS OUT 
and Your Garden Growing 
It’s easy — and a 
pleasure — with a 
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Kills the weeds and breaks the hardest crust into 
a level, porous, moisture-retaining muleh. Works as 
fast asyou can walk. Cuts runners. Aerates the soil. 
"RestWeed Killer Ever Used.” Works right up 
to plants. Guards protect leaves. Has easily- 
attached shovels for deeper cultivation. 
Requires no skill. A boy cau ran it, and 
do more and better w o r k than ten 
men with hoes. 
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Dept. 16 
David City, Neb. 
SULCO-V.B. 
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Farm, Garden and Orchard Tools 
Answer the farmer’s big questions: 
How can I grow more crops with 
least expense? How can I cultivate 
more acres and have cleaner fields? 
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ot row. Every tooth can be raised, lowered or turned 
to right or left. Lever 
adjusts balanceof frame 
to weight of driver. 
Light, strong and com¬ 
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make n complete line of 
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you as man Y gallons as you 
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The RURAL. NE 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The old folks used to tell us that, no 
matter how late the boring, the trees will 
always be in full lea., the tenth of May. 
They have certainly got to hustle this 
Spring, for it is now past the middle of 
April, and the maples are just showing 
bloom, and even the south' wind blows 
chilly. The market growers are rushing 
their cucumber and melon seed in the 
ground according to calendar, hut I fear 
that a cool, wet spell will mean replant¬ 
ing. Still it is important to get these 
started early, and growers can afford to 
risk loss of seed. T am content to wait 
and make more certain in my garden 
planting. No tomato plants risked out in 
the chilly air yet, 
The peas do not seem to mind the cool 
weather, and will soon be blooming, and 
he Spring-sown spinach likes the weather. 
The Fall-planted onions are swelling rap¬ 
idly, the plum and pear trees are shedding 
their bloom, while the peaches dropped 
them last week. I have seen no damage 
to the bloom so far as I have observed, 
hut no one can tell anything about peaches 
till the “June drop.” This sixteenth of 
April we should, under ordinary con¬ 
ditions, be cutting some asparagus, but 
the closest scrutiny fails to discover a 
shoot, and it never feels like real .Spring 
till the asparagus comes on the table. 
Correspondents seem to think that I 
can fully identify any plant by its seed, 
and T get numerous samples for which a 
specific or varietal name is desired. In 
garden seed I can, of course, tell them 
that a sample is a bean, but only in a 
few cases can one tell the variety from 
the seed. One friend sends black beans 
and wants the name and quality. Of 
course. I have to say that it may be a 
wax bean or a green bean; all that. I can 
say is that it is a bean. Now and then 
an old friend, so distinctly marked that 
no mistake can he made, turns up. A 
returned soldier sends some beaus he 
brought from France, where he found 
them good, and he wants me to try them. 
They are our old friend, the Wren’s Egg 
or London Horticultural* bean, a really 
fine bean, though not much grown now. 
I shall plant his beans and give them a 
chance to climb, for. though there is a 
dwarf form of this bean. I have no in¬ 
formation as to this sample. 
Last Spring a New "York man sent me 
seed of what he said was the finest squash 
grown. I planted a number of hills of 
these, and the squashes were really fine, 
but they ran worse than a pumpkin, and 
tried to take the whole garden. There¬ 
fore, I shall have to go back to the old 
Pattypan, as I cannot give half the gar¬ 
den to a few squash vines. 
The sweet potato beds are beginning 
to show sprouts, and the area planned for 
this season is very large. Millions of 
bushels were grown here last Summer, 
and they are still on the market, and 
everyone seemed to make money on the 
crop last season, though as in every crop 
planted, some farmers will excel while 
others fall down, to cut the average. 
What is said in The It. N.-Y., page 
7G5, about the pen or crate scheme for 
growing potatoes in a crate in the back 
yard reminds me of another method for 
growing a lot. of small potatoes on a 
small piece of ground. Just at the close 
of the Civil War, when I was working ai 
rented farm and trying hard to get solne- j 
thing to eat, an Irishman told me that I 
could get a very large crop of potatoes . 
on a small piece of ground, as was often 
done in Ireland. lie offered to show me. 
He prepared the ground and laid off beds 
six feet wide, with a narrow alley be¬ 
tween them, not more than 2 ft. wide. 
The cut pieces of potato were placed a 
foot apart each way and covered with soil 
from the alleys. He instructed me to 
keep shoveling in the soil as the potatoes 
grew, so as to just keep the tops a little 
above the surface. I was interested in 
the scheme and kept at it till the alleys 
were several feet deep and the beds were 
three feet above the surface, and the tops 
seemed inclined to mature. It seemed 
that every buried joint of the potato tops 
in their three feet of effort to keep above 
the soil had made hunches of potatoes 
and masses of roots, and that the earliest 
roots seemed to have died. The whole 
bed was crammed with potatoes, everv one 
of which was a culling. They measured 
up very well., hut were too small. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
W-YORKER 
NEW WAY of Heatinq 
cell arless Hou ses 
Complete outfit of 
Hot Water Heat 
*131 
The outfit consists of an IDEAL-Arcola 
Radiator-Boiler and 4.5, or 6 AMERICAN 
Radiators and Special Expansion Tank— 
everything except labor, pipe and fittings, 
which any local dealer will supply. See 
prices below for various sizes of outfits. 
i\ 
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Here is the greatest comfort for farm life offered to you at pre-war 
price. The IDEAL-Arcola heating outfit will never wear out. It 
will outlast the building itself. There is no other contrivance which 
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Nothing else is as safe or as easy to run. It is the solution of the 
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IDEAL-Arcola Radiator-Boiler 
Farm Home Heating Outfits 
No. 
Any Dealer will furnish in sizes to suit rooms and climatic conditions. 
“ 2 R S “ e ID ^ L_Ar , c . ola w i! h 100 of Radiation $131 
“ 3-B.^ 200 » » HI 
** 4-B “ '* « •• 250 M « 934 
5-B. •* 300 “ •• 270 
1- A Size IDEAL-Arcola with 135 sq. ft. of Radiation $150 
2- A “ “ “ 200 “ “ ini 
3- A " “ “ “ 265 “ « 234 
4- A ” “ “ *’ 330 " ** 279 
„ 5-A “ " “ » 400 “ « 327 
Prices include Expansion Tank and Drain Valve. Prices do not include labor, pipe and 
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For 
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For 
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Same water is used 
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Buy now at pre¬ 
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complete! 
IDEAL-Arcola outfits con¬ 
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delivers the soft, radiant 
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The THRESHING PROBLEM 
QA| Urn Threshes cowpeaa and soybeans 
^ rom the mown vines, wheat, 
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WILSON FEED MILL 
For grinding corn in the ear and 
small grain. 
Has special crusher attachment 
which first breaks the ears of 
corn, which can be shoveled right 
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Send.for Catalog 
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/ Big Reduction 
OTTAWA FNCIWE 
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Only 
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Ilea Chpan FiipI There Is no noed touaoex- 
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as gasoline, and thoy use less fuel having 
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90 Dav Trial You have 90 days fn which to 
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Low Prices ^ 
How This Was Done 
advancing daily, 1 reduced my prices to nearly 
. pre-war level by cutting my manufacturing cost, 
increasing my factory production. Now my factory 
is the largest in America selling exclusively direct to 
the user, and giving the very highest quality engine. 
When 
^ I reduced 
.my manufactur¬ 
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you the benefit. I am 
no profiteer. Before 
deciding on any en¬ 
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get my Big Special 
Offer and Liberal 
Factory Brices. 
Geo. E. 
Long 
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. “ , ■ year to pay are my terms to any re- 
Imp o mao. Make your engine earn enough to pay 
while you use it. You can’t atTord to be without an 
Ottawa and you noed not pay more than my price. 
Soecial you °! on who read «oo<i 
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