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DEVOE Wagon and Implement Paint 
will protect your farm wagons and implement* 
and make them last longer. Ordinarily a gallon 
of it will paint all the wagons and machinery on 
a small farm. Comes ready for use in five colors. 
Blue, Green. Yellow, Vermillion and Black. All 
the colors are durable. 
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DEVOE Varnish Floor Paint 
is the best wearing varnish paint for hard used 
floors. Can be used inside and outside. Water, 
snow, ice or sun won’t hurt its high lustre. Comes 
in eight colors: Dust color. Terra cotta. Red, 
Green. Light slate. Oak, Walnut and Light drab. 
It’s economy always to use DEVOE. And this applies to our 
complete line of Paint Products—our Varnishes, Stains, 
Enamels and Brushes. During the 166 years we have been 
in business it has been <Jur policy always to make the best 
finish for every surface and to guarantee that they will 
give satisfaction. 
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you to the nearest DEVOE Agent. And we will send you the 
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DEVOE 
The oldest paint manufacturing concern 
in the United States, founded in 
IVew York 1754. 
DEVOE & RAYNOLDS CO.,Inc. 
NEW YORK CHICAGO 
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J Dept. N2 101 Fulton St. 
New York, N. Y 
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It Takes Water 
To Produce Milk. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Our first cutting of asparagus was 
made April 17. fully 10 days late. April 
lias been chilly till in the latter half of 
the month we have had some real Summer 
davs. with noon temperatures up and 
above SO degrees. The effect on vegeta¬ 
tion has been wonderful. The maple 
trees, which on the 20th showed only 
bloom, had leaves nearly half grown by 
the 25th. The garden, too. showed tne 
effect of the heat. Spring-sown spinach 
hurst from the seed leaf, and promises to 
he ready to cut early in May. The early 
Irish potatoes have got big enough for 
a few beetles to he looking around for a 
place to lay their eggs. When a few 
more get around I will use the dust of 
calcium arsenate, with twice the hulk of 
slaked lime (air-slaked) added. The old 
beetles do not eat much, but I kill some 
of them, and each one of the females 
hilled means a lot of larvte that do not 
hatch. I have tried all sorts of arsenates, 
hut the calcium arsenate cleans up biting 
insects more quickly than any other form 
] have fried. The caustic effect of the 
lime lias some effect, too. 
All of my early tomato plants have 
stakes set to them. There is such a great 
advantage in this training to a single 
stem, enabling us to plant more closely, 
and actually not only getting the fruit 
earlier, hut better and more of if. I have 
tried for several seasons the difference 
between plants of the same lot which have 
been treated exactly alike, one set trained 
to stakes and one let tumble on the 
ground, and have such results from the 
stakes that I will experiment no more 
with early tomatoes on the ground. It 
is not so had with the late varieties which 
have heavier foliage. These do not sun- 
scald so badly. I propose to try some 
of the late varieties on part of my woven- 
wire fence and merely tie them out, in 
their natural growth without pinching, 
giving them room to spread out. I be¬ 
lieve there will he still less sunscaid. 
Sunscald in midsummer is one of the 
greatest sources of loss here. I am never 
troubled with it in the early varieties 
trained to stakes, hut all early plants 
tumbled on the ground will usually have 
a large part of the fruit made worthless 
by the scald. 
“Can early potted tomato plants ho 
grown for sale at a profit at $5 per 100?” 
asks a young man starting in greenhouse 
work. To get good plants established in 
3-in. pots at planting time you have !«» 
nurse them and burn coal for two and a 
half mouths at least, and if the space 
under glass is heated and used for this 
purpose alone, you will at present price 
for coal make little or nothing from to¬ 
mato plants out of pots at 5c each. I 
grow the plants primarily for my own 
use. aud the boiler that heats the little 
greenhouse also heats my office when the 
greenhouse door is open. But I am rather 
compelled to let my neighbors have some 
plants from the surplus, and I find that 
these early plants cost, all that I get for 
them, and that 1 would not undertake to 
grow them for sale, expecting profit now 
when sold for 5c each. Years ago it could 
he made profitable, and the large florists’ 
establishments still grow them for that 
price as a sort of side issue. If I were 
growing anything in the plant line for 
sale 1 would not grow early potted plants 
or plants transplanted to cold frame un¬ 
der present conditions for $5 per 100. 
Florists supply them in order to keep 
their customers for the things that pay 
better. 
It seems to me that the commercial 
greenhouse men will have to advance, like 
everyone else, if coal keeps soaring in 
price. Last Rummer 1 put in my usual 
supply for the Winter, but the long Win¬ 
ter cleaned it up before we could do with¬ 
out tires, and I had to pay $13.50 a ton 
this Spring, and they say that it will he 
higher. 
It seems to lie a curious state of affairs 
when hundreds of thousands of apple 
trees are planted every year that the price 
of apples in the greengrocer stores mounts 
higher annually. Now our dealers here 
have quit giving any price per peck or 
bushel, and tire asking SI a dozeti for 
apples fit to eat. At an Italian fruit 
Jtand l noticed some undersized June 
i ink tomatoes, and. asking the price,, the 
dealer said: ‘‘Three for 25 cents.” I 
nope that the Florida grower got his 
proper share, hut I doubt it. 
^ ith new Irish potatoes quoted at $17 
a barrel in New York, there should be a 
good profit for the growers unless the 
railroads took too much or the commis¬ 
sion merchant’s returns get the wilt dis- 
ease there were a good many potato 
tops frozen in Florida in early March, and 
potatoes once cut to the ground do not 
mako the crop they promised. The grow- 
TV' 1 vegetables have to take all the 
risks of the weather and the markets, 
• u when a season promises to be a profit* 
able one to the native growers the spec¬ 
ie ring 
ulators 
F u rope 
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at once bring in cargoes from 
right kll0C ' k t , tl< ‘ t ,rice - This is all 
hut ii f, ie jTivoulators and consumer, 
•'rower" \vi ** a *Tf mischief with the 
Hind V>f S U ‘ n tbc grower gets but one- 
h life ,-i, i l C ‘ Jns, l ,nei S dol,i,r ‘ 1S 
1 Ir f somewhere on the 
,o , ‘ e, w r, T alt «ver the 
v, ,'Vhat they intend 
Jigetable crops for the 
advise them 
they woidiM 71 !l "- uuor Sauized section 
lat.VY-ou!,, -' t, ' r f , or * et it. for the iso- 
roads g fhe lie. 1 l V i mm ‘* v °f the rail- 
feitiliVfo. V, ba ‘ Svt ‘ an< i barrel maker, the 
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Northern markets, 
that if they are 
Leading fanners and dairy¬ 
men are using the 
FULLER & JOHNSON 
FARM PUMP ENGINE 
because they know’ that a contin¬ 
uous supply of fresh, pure water 
makes cows give more milk. They 
have found that they can depend 
upon the Fuller & Johmon Farm 
Pump Engine every 
day in the year. 
This engine eomes com¬ 
plete, fits any pump and 
on any well platform. 
Our free booklet No. 
17-A gives valuable facts 
on farm water supply. 
Write for it today. 
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Established 1840 
Builders of Farm Engines 
50 Rowe Street 
Madison. Wis. 
ONLY WATER 
GROUND RODS 
CAN GIVE SURE 
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That’s why thousands of farmers have chosen 
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