175 
For More and 
Better Fruit 
Kill the scales and clean up 
your trees during mild winter 
days. 
The Barium-Sulphur insecti¬ 
cide and fungicide (both in¬ 
gredients active) is more ef¬ 
fective and much more easily 
handled than lime-sulphur so¬ 
lution. A fine, dry powder 
which quickly dissolves in cold 
water. 
Ask for Free Bulletin 
explaining B T S advantages. Our 
Service Department gives free advice 
on spraying operations. You are in¬ 
vited to consult us about any spray¬ 
ing problem. Address 
l 9 
General Cltemicalr 
Insecticide Dept_2S Broad St.. N-wYork'X. V®* 
Put your faith in S. & H.! 
On 1200 acres of trial and 
propagating grounds at Paines- 
ville we prove our stock before 
we sell. Good seeds, plants and 
trees are ready this season, 
as for 66 previous years. 
Write tonight for your 
catalog. 
Storrs & Harrison Co. 
Nurserymen and Seedsmen^ 
Box 69 
Painesville, Ohio 
SEED PRICES 
SMASHED! 
Back to Pre-war Prices 
Send for big, fully illustrated cata¬ 
log, and see for yourself. There 
are no better seeds at any price, 
none surer to grow, none that give 
more satisfactory crops than “For¬ 
rest Honest Seeds” in Forrest 
Honest Packets. Write today. 
The Forrest Seed Co., Inc. 
Box 32, Cortland, N.Y. 
!DEN SEED 
Prize-Winning, Big Yielding Sorts 
Select from Isbell’s 1921 Cata¬ 
log of Michigan Grown Seeds, 
seeds with early maturity, rug¬ 
gedness and hardiness bred 
into them. Isbell’s seeds 
are the result of 42 years’ 
experience — make big 
profits. 
Isbell's 1921 Catalog 
. , . Write today for this JTDfTfr 
free book— a wonderful guide to ■ t C 
better gardens. 300,000 Isbell customers buy 
from this book. It will pay you, too. A postcard will do. 
S.M.Isbell&Co., 407 MechanicSt.,fackson, Mich. 
IW RURAL NEW.YORKER 
« 
Notes From A Maryland Garden 
Recently I threw out the question as 
to why the shortening days in the Fall 
are warmer than the lengthening days of 
Winter and S’’ * (I f. As I expected, I 
have received s. in which the old 
superstition iu regard to the moon and 
the imaginary signs which the medical 
almanacs still keep up in the ancient 
picture of the poor fellow with his bowels 
open and surrounded by the imaginary 
animals concocted out of* certain star 
groups, shows up. There is nothing 
which has had a greater influence iu 
maintaining the superstition of the moot; 
and the signs than this ancient almanac 
cut. It is about time that the almanac 
makers drop it out, and give us facts 
in place of imaginations. As usual at 
this season of the year we are getting the 
annual predictions about the weather 
for the coming year. One of the pro¬ 
phets says that as Venus ruled the earth 
iu 1920. Mercury will govern us iu 1921. 
when in fact a Jersey mosquito will 
have more influence. 
Now as to the season temperature, the 
rays of the sun, coming to us through 
millions of miles of space and atmos¬ 
phere are simply radiant energy which 
sets up similar energy in the soil atoms 
and produces heat, and all through the 
Summer heat is produced by this radiant 
energy and is stored iu the growth of 
trees and crops that is the energy of 
position, and can be changed into radiant 
energy when we burn the wood growth. 
The radiant energy of the sun through 
unuumbered ages made the ancient for¬ 
est growth, now the energy of position 
waiting for us to change it again into 
radiant energy. The heat in the soil 
caused by radiant energy in the Summer 
and Fall sunshine holds the heat later, 
and by the time the days begin to length¬ 
en the soil has cooled and the earth is 
blanketed from the radiant energy of 
the sunshine by the Winter clouds and 
snow, and only when clear of snow do 
the rays waken up heat in the earth. 
In the North the blanketing effect holds 
sway longer than southward, as there 
is less cloud southward and Spring thus 
marches up the coast. Thus the sunny 
weather of the past Fall maintained the 
heat in the soil, and the prevailing winds 
coming from the South have so far driven 
back the cold from off the northern snow 
and ice. Recently the heavy rains have 
made a bank of moisture which has robbed 
the north winds of their cold and de¬ 
posited it in snow in the North and 
cheeked the flow of the cold southward. 
If the Weather Bureau fails iu their 
predictions, with all the telegraph at 
their disposal, how can the would J be 
weather prophets know anything about 
the weather mouths iu advance? One of 
these prophets says that the weather in 
January and February will be “change¬ 
able.”. It would be a miracle if it were 
not. The Weather Bureau is still the 
only prophet we can to any extent relj 
upon. It often fails us, but the astrolo¬ 
gers fail vastly more frequently, and the 
weatherman will always beat the moon 
and the signs. 
I should have had my frames started 
with the onion, cabbage and beet plants, 
but the weather having been flooding us 
with rain almost daily has prevented any 
gardening. But the frames are covered 
with four inches of horse stable manure 
and the rains are filtering it into the 
soil, so that we are not losing anything 
by the delay. All the rough stuff iu the 
manure will be taken out and thrown on 
the general compost pile when the frames 
are prepared, but now we are getting the 
extract in the soil. Some acid phosphate 
will be added in the preparation. Because 
of the outrageous price for coal we have 
not had any plants in the little green¬ 
house, and will not fill the boiler pipes 
till we start sowing tomato seed in early 
February. w. F. massey. 
A Late Christmas 
The Granite Bay Terrace Association 
of Branford, t’onn.. is going to have its 
community Christmas tree January 22. 
Don’t laugh. You see. it’s this way: At 
Christmas everybody is either busy or 
sick. Now at this time they have kind 
of forgotten about Christmas; the kids 
have eaten up their candy, and now Santa 
will wake them up again. We have a 
Santa who gets the kids all around a real 
tree and tells them all about Christmas, 
then the members exchange presents— 
some presents, I will say—and then the 
oats. Try this late Christmas once and 
you will always have it “that way.” 
Connecticut. albert hillman. 
I! 
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WOOD’S 
Famous 
Southern 
Ensilage 
Corns 
Wood’s Famous Southern Grown 
Ensilage Corns enable farmers to 
grow more silage on every acre. 
For years these corns have enjoyed 
a splendid reputation for ensilage 
^ purposes, particularly in the North 
and West—making larger and bet¬ 
ter crops than corns grown in other 
parts of the country. 
The past year was very favor¬ 
able for curing and maturing. We 
offer corns cured under natural 
conditions—unsurpassed in vigo¬ 
rous germination. 
“As a Silo Filler It 
Has No Equal” 
—that’s what one farmer says about 
it. An Ohio farmer writes: “It is 
the host silage corn 1 ever raised.” 
Another writes: “Somp of the 
strongest land made 100 bushels to 
the acre.” 
Write for prices of these corns 
that produce the most silage from 
the least land and labor. 
T.W.WOOD & SONS 
Richmond Seedsmen Virginia 
HARRIS 
SEEDS 
The Most Successful Gardeners Use Harris’ Seeds 
That’s one reason they are successful. Another is that, to succeed, a gardener must be a shrewd man 
and he knows where to buy seeds to the best advantage. 
»? ar m« 8eec * s ai .® {frown in the north and produce eayjier and better crops than seeds grown further 
south. I hey are raised with modern scientific methods of breeding which keeps t hem up to the highest 
possible standard for quality and yield. * 
Harris seed* are Sold direct to the grower at wholesale prices. We do not sell to dealers at a lower price. 
ixr e •* a x { a o el on every lot of seed telling just how maim seed out of wo will grow. 
We raise Vegetable seed, Flower seed and Farm seed, all of the very highest quality. 
Catalogue free. If you raise vegetables for market ask for our Market Gardeners price list also. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO., Box 61, COLD WATER, N. Y. 
How Many Acres to Fill YOUR Silo? 
It’s bound to take a few less if you sow our special Old Virginia 
Ensilage Corn, because it makes more fodder to the acre than any 
sort we ever heard of. One year’s records will prove it to 
you; try it this year. 
For the vegetable garden we have a special Beet, Cabbage, 
Onion and Corn that we know you’ll like, because they’re so 
good. Our 1921 catalogue, giving retail and wholesale 
prices, tells the whole story of Ford’s Sound Seeds; your 
name on a postcard will bring a copy free. 
FORD SEED COMPANY " 
Box 24 Ravenna, Ohio. 
Artistic Plantings 
UOME grounds can be made attractive at small cost 
by 1 the artistic planting of ornamental trees and 
shrubs. Send us a rough s-ketch of your grounds and 
we shall be glad to suggest a complete planting plan. 
Our ornamental and fruit trees are all 
northern grown, clean and true to name. 
Write today for our 1921 Nursery Book. 
Come and see our stock. You’ll be welcome. 
THE BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO. 
® ox ® Yalesville. Conn. 
RHODES DOUBLE CUT 
529 S. DIVISION AVE.. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH 
'THE only 
1 pruner 
made that cuts 
from both sides of 
the limb and does not 
bruise the bark. Made in 
all styles and sizes. All 
shears delivered free 
to your door. 
Write for 
circular and 
prices. 
