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and Market Gardeners 
Tell You About 
Their Experiences 
With The Utilitor 
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This Booklet Today 
This new booklet of Utilitor owner testimonials com¬ 
prises one of the most interesting recommendations of 
power farming equipment of this type ever prepared. 
One reading of this “YES” booklet will show you that 
today the Utilitor stands among truck raisers and 
market gardeners a necessary part of their program of 
food raising. 
In fact, this machine is serving satisfactorily not only 
those in your particular business but berry ranchers, 
fruit raisers and many others who gain their living 
from the soil. 
The Utilitor’s dependability, usefulness, and service¬ 
ability to cut costs and increase working efficiency has 
measured up to the expectations of hundreds of owners. 
If there is, or has been, any doubt in your mind about 
usefulness and economy of operating a Utilitor on your 
place, write for a copy of this “YES” booklet and read 
for yourself what Utilitor owners know about this ma¬ 
chine —through actual use. 
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“I Can Recommend It Especially For 
Orchard Work” 
Glassboro, N. J.,June 24, 1920 
Dear Sir: In answer to your inquiry 
of 16th in regard to my UTILITOR, I 
will say it is doing all the “horse” 
work on my small farm of 15 acres. I 
can recommend it especially for or¬ 
chard work, as I am using it in or¬ 
chards and vineyards. It does better 
work in such places than a horse. 
Yours truly, 
(Sig.) Thos. J. Ferrell. 
"Have No Horses and Am Farming 
About 10 Acres” 
Curwensville, Pa. 
“Glendale Farm” July 1,1920. 
Dear Sir: In reply to your inquiry 
as to the use of the UTILITOR. Hav¬ 
ing used it about six weeks for real 
farming I can recommend it very 
highly. Have plowed all my ground 
with it, disced and marked out. Have 
no horses and am farming about ten 
acres this year. Am perfectly satis¬ 
fied with the machine so far. 
Yours truly, 
(Sig.) John R. Hudson. 
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Italians who will work through the day 
for a reasonable stipend if carried back 
at night. In this way this man is getting 
a lot of concrete work, ditching and the 
like, accomplished. 
Apple Scar. —It’s a pity that scab has 
become so prevalent throughout Middle¬ 
sex County on McIntosh, for there are 
few places where this apple can be grown 
to better advantage, and orchardiste had 
planned to set out a great many trees dur¬ 
ing the next few years. 
Roadside Selling. —There is always 
sweet among the bitter, and so while the 
wholesale market for apples is not as 
promising as might be wished, the prac¬ 
tice of selling at retail by the roadside 
is opening up new avenues for the dis- 
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sibilities along these lines, and they may 
help to solve a much-mooted question of 
establishing a direct link between the 
producer and the consumer. 
Protection from Frosts. —With the 
approach of cold weather it is necessary 
to anticipate the coming of frosts, al¬ 
though the gardener hates to think of the 
time when his choice plants will be black¬ 
ened ruins. Much can be done with the 
use of straw if thrown over young lettuce 
plants on cold nights. It will keep them 
growing well into the Fall. Other plants 
can be covered with paper or cloth. If 
tomatoes are grown close together it is 
not a difficult matter to make a light 
frame, over which muslin can be thrown 
on cold nights. Care should be taken, 
however, that the cloth does not touch the 
plants, for if it does the frost will pene- 
Tomato Plants Protected From Frost 
posal of apples, as well as other fruits. 
It is no longer a case where only the 
farmer who lives on the State road can 
utilize this plan. Co-operative organiza¬ 
tions are being formed to conduct stands 
and handle the produce of its members. 
Albert R. Jencks, formerly agricultural 
adviser for the Middlesex Farm Bureau, 
has purchased a large fruit farm in West 
Acton, which is several miles away from 
any main artery of travel, but this dif¬ 
ficulty has been overcome by buying a 
little plot of ground on the much-traveled 
highway between Concord and Lexing¬ 
ton, where he has established a booth, 
to which he takes his fruit and other 
produce by automobile truck. Although 
he started handling only his own goods 
trate and do about as much damage as 
though there were no covering at all. 
This is a point often overlooked by the 
beginner. 
Good and Bad Vines. —I have been 
impressed with the beauty of the vine 
known as Clematis paniculata this season. 
In New England it is used very commonly 
for draping over farmhouse doors and 
porches, and I know of no vine which is 
better suited for the purpose. Its foliage 
is thick enough to make a good screen, 
and yet not heavy enough to shut out 
all the air, and when the vine is covered 
with a foamy mass of creamy white flow¬ 
ers. it is a handsome object. The fact 
that it blooms so late in the season is 
one of the advantages of this vino. Some¬ 
times I find the trumpet vine or Bignonia 
radicans planted on farm buildings, but I 
would not recommend this vine for such 
purpose. While its trumpet-like flowers 
are ornamental, the stalk makes an cx- 
Clcmatis Paniculata on Farmhouse Hack Porch 
in this way at first, his neighbors soon 
became interested, and requested him to 
take along their surplus -to dispose of on 
commission. He tried this plan for a 
short time, but found that it involved too 
much bookkeeping. lie now buys his 
eighbor’s offerings outright, and while 
he has to be careful to avoid getting over¬ 
stocked, hie transactions are all for cash. 
Canning Farm Produce. — Another 
way in which Mr. Jencks is solving the 
problem of farmers and fruit growers 
living in a remote section is by having 
much of his fruit and some of his vege¬ 
tables canned. He has made arrange¬ 
ments with several women who do the 
work for him at a fixed price, and his 
salee are all at retail, either on his stand 
■ to private parties reached through 
I Circulars. There seem to be many pos- 
ccedingly vigorous growth, and has an 
unpleasant habit of tearing off shingles 
or opening cracks, if it has its own way. 
Even the Wistaria needs to be watched 
because of a similar tendency. This vine 
is strong growing enough to force its way 
under beams and to tear window sills 
apart. Vines of this kind are much bet¬ 
ter given a position on an arbor or trellis, 
although the trumpet vine is often 
trained over dead trees or large rocks in 
such a way as to make them tilings or 
beauty. One other vine often advertised 
and highly recommended is the kiulzu 
vine. It is true that, no other vine grows 
so rapidly, but. on the other hand, tew, 
if any, other kinds spread to sucli an 
extent. The, kudzu vine may become a 
real pest if not watched very carefully, 
and all the shoots grubbed out. When 
a heavy screen is wanted, I think notn- 
ing can equal the Dutchman’s piPG 
leaves of which overlap like shingles on 
a house, and form a perfect curtain. 
F. I. FAK1U.NC1T0N< 
