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Scott’s Sweet Clover 
The Universal Plant 
Sweet Clover is discussed at length 
'in Scott’s Field Seed Book. Our 
Sweet Clover Chart answers 37 
questions you may want to ask. 
Write today for this valuable in* 
formation. 
On every continent it has 
been grown successfully. 
Where formerly considered a 
Weed, Sweet Clover is now 
recognized as one of the most 
valuable crops. 
Like other clovers it has fallen 
in price to a low level, its accom¬ 
plishments are all out of proportion 
to the sowing cost. 
Sweet Clover is a Safe—Sure 
and Profitable crop. 
Safe —because the clover dis¬ 
eases do not attack it. 
Sure —because it thrives on 
practically any soil and withstands 
severe weather. There is no better 
time to sow than Winter. 
Profitable —because of the rich 
hay, abundance of early and late 
pasture, and the enormous amount 
of seed produced. Furthermore the 
large decaying roots release to the 
soil great quantities of stored upNi- 
trogen which future crops may use. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 54 Sixth St., MARYSVILLE, O. 
VflKRO 
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Makes Gardening Easy 
Selected and tested seeds properly spaced 
in thin tissue. Planted a row at a time as 
fast as you walk. No back-ache, no 
drudgery, no thinning out. 
PAKRO selected and tested seeds also 
offered in usual loose seed packets. 
Trial packets Vegetable and Flower SEEP- 
TAPE together with our new catalog 
handsomely illustrated in color sent any 
address on receipt of ten cents to help 
pay postage and packing. 
American Seed & Seedtape Co. 
Dept. N 365-71 Ogden St., Newark;, N„ J, 
GARDEN SEED 
Prize-Winning, Biig Yielding Sorts 
Select from Isbell’s 1921 Cata¬ 
log of Michigan Grown Seeds, 
seedswith early maturity, rug¬ 
gedness and hardiness bred 
into them. Isbell’s seeds 
are the result of 42 years’ 
experience — make big 
profits. 
BsbelPs 1921 Caitatog/ 
Write today for this /CMP JTJ7 
free book—a wonderful guide to “ *“ K - B ~ 
better gardens. 300,000 Isbell customers buy 
from this book. It will pay you, too. A postcard will do 
S. M.lsbelS&Cc. 411 Mechanic St.,lackson, Midi. 
Ford’s Glory C&bhage 
and Ideal Beet 
stand well ahead of the ordinary vari¬ 
eties. If you try them this year, you 
will always have them in your gar¬ 
den—and they are only two of the 
specialties shown in Ford’s 1921 
Catalogue which gives retail and 
wholesale prices. Your neighbor 
who has such a fine garden prob¬ 
ably has a copy and uses it; 
send us your name and let it 
show you what we have. 
FORD SEED CO. 
Box 24 Ravenna, Ohio. 
Gregory’s Honest Seeds 
Dollar Thrift Garden 
Collection of 
Vegetable Seeds 
This is a money-making, money- 
saving selection. In choice of 
varieties we have met the pract¬ 
ical needs of the home garden. 
Gregory’s one dollar postpaid 
collection includes one full size 
jacket each of sixteen 
me vegetables, including 
Beans, Beets, Cabbage, 
(,’arrots, Corn, Cucurn be rs, 
Lettuce, Muskmelon, 
On ion,Parsnip, Peas, Rad- 
\ isli. Squash, Pumpkin, 
Tomato and Turnips. 
nought separately these six¬ 
teen kinds of vegetable seeds 
would cost $1.55. 
Our 1921 Catalog Free 
Write today, also, for Gregory’s 
1921 Catalog of vegetable and 
flo wer seeds. It tells about every¬ 
thing for your flower and vege¬ 
table gardens, with valuable! 
cultural suggestions. 
J. J. H. Gregory & Son 
30 Elm St. 
Marblehead 
Mass. 
Have a Successful Garden^ 
Harris Seeds are used by the best market garden¬ 
ers because by careful selection and breeding we 
have wonderfully improved some varieties. Private 
gardens can obtain better results because all varieties are 
tested and the percentage that will germinate is marked on the 
label so you can tell just how many will grow before you sow 
them. Harris is the Seedman who tells you the result of his J 
tests. Send for our free Catalog of Vegetable, jk 
Field and Flower_ 
Seeds — Find out 
about the Harris system 
and buy these superior 
seeds direct from 
our farms at whole¬ 
sale prices. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO.^ 
Box 61 Coldwater, N. Y. 
Harris Seeds 
Label on every Lot 
Tells how many 
will i 
Crow 
According to our tests 
98 percent 
of this seed germinates 
Loss in Milling Buckwheat 
I read with much interest article OH 
page 136 on “Loss in Milling Buckwheat” 
and will here give my experience along 
that line. In my locality we have both 
the old stone buhr mill run with water 
power and the latest improved flour mill¬ 
ing machinery run by steam power. Last 
Fall I took 25 bu. of good, clean, dry 
buckwheat to this mill run by the old 
water wheel, all to be ground into flour, 
and when I received my flour I had 
exactly 450 lbs. of flour or 18 lbs. from 
every bushel. I did not weigh the hulls 
or middlings, so “of course I cannot tell 
as regards to that. I have patronized 
this same mill for the last 15 years, and 
the most flour I have obtained from a 
bushel of buckwheat is 24 lbs. My 
nearest neighbor took 5 bu. of buckwheat 
the same day to this other mill, and ob¬ 
tained 34 lbs. of flour to a bushel, or to 
be exact, 174 lbs. of flour from the five 
bushels. We were talking the business 
transaction over together, and wondered 
who was being stung. We decided to 
have a “pancake bake” some evening, 
which we did, and tried both flours and 
found that the flour which was made on 
the stone buhrs, and for Which I only 
received 18 lbs for a bushel, was far su¬ 
perior to the other. In fact, there was 
such a difference that after eating the 
“slapjacks” from my flour, he refused 
to use his'flour, and obtained flour from 
this other mill. 
His flour was of a very dark color and 
of course, must have contained a very 
large amount of middlings, while the flour 
I had was much whiter and finer. I 
sold my flour for O^c per lb. and he 
sold his for 5e and he made more on 
the transaction than I did. Buckwheat 
at that time was bringing $1.40 at the 
mill with a charge of 30c per bu. for 
flouring. It goes to show that the millers 
are not dishonest, as you will see by this 
article. Both millers were perfectly 
ihonest, only one obtained more flour, of 
very inferior quality in comparison with 
the other. Of course, if one has never 
tasted buckwheat cakes made from the 
flour from the "old stone mill,” one would 
think that the latter flour was “fine.” In 
comparing the two together will say, 
there is as much difference as there is 
between “graham pancakes,” and wheat 
flour pancakes. 
The old saying holds good in this case, 
that “the proof of the pudding is in the 
eating.” c. T. G. 
Ohio. 
Waterproof and Interior Finish for 
Concrete 
1. I have a basement stable with a 
poured concrete wall. I wish to give it 
a skim coat on the inside that will make 
it. white and glossy. Is there any way to 
do it? 2. What should I use on the out¬ 
side to make it waterproof? w. ir. L. 
1. To make a skim coat for the interior 
make a creamy wash of one part cement 
and one part sand, using one-half pint 
of the lye and alum solution to each pail 
of water. If the finish must be more 
glossy, it can be painted with a gloss 
paint. Paint will ordinarily peel off from 
concrete,* due to dampness in the con¬ 
crete. The above method will prevent 
dampness affecting the paint. 
2. To render an outside cement, wall 
waterproof, make a solution as follows: 
Dissolve 5 lbs. powdered alum and 1 lb. 
of lye in 10 qts. of water. Put one-half 
pint of this solution in a pail of water. 
Thicken to a heavy wash with pure ce¬ 
ment and apply to the wall. 
W. BRONSO N TAYLOR. 
Spreading Chemical Fertilizers Separ¬ 
ately 
I note with great interest your con¬ 
tention favoring the home brew on fer¬ 
tilizers. Why mix them at all? Will 
they not be as effective spread separately 
on the land? w. A. K. 
Where only two or three chemicals 
are used, say on grass or grain, they 
may be spread separately without loss. 
For potatoes or garden crops we think 
it will pay to mix. When five or six 
different chemicals are used in a com¬ 
plete mixture it would be less labor to 
mix beforehand and make one applica¬ 
tion rather than to go all over the field 
several times. 
“For the land’s sake” use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.— Adv. 
February 19, 1921 
Burpee’s Sweet Pea seed 
is grown on Burpee’s 
Floradale Farm in Cali¬ 
fornia. To introduce 
Burpee’s Sweet Peas 
to new customers we 
have prepared the special 
n L0RADALE COLLECTION FOR 25c. 
" Floradale Fairy— rich cream, 
yellow; Orchid— lavender self; 
Fiery Cross— scarlet; Cherub cream with 
rose edge ; Margaret Atlee —pink. 
This Floradale Collection of Sweet 
Peas is worth 60c, but it will be mailed to 
your door postpaid for 25c. We want you 
to grow Burpee’s Sweet Peas. Send a 
quarter today and the Floradale Collec¬ 
tion will come to your door by return mail. 
Burpee’s Annual, the leading American 
Seed Catalog, will be mailed to you free. 
Write for your copy today. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE CO., Seed Grower*, Philadelphia 
For 40 years, STOKES SEEDS 
have been noted for reliability. 
This quality is reflected in our 
catalog. It is truthful in men¬ 
tioning weaknesses, conser¬ 
vative in praising points of 
merit. The usual confusion 
of varietal names is avoided 
by using the name given by 
the introducer. The origin, 
history, culture and use of 
nearly every item is clearly 
stated. 
.4 copy will be sent Jree 
on request . 
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. 
Write today for Rohrer’s 1921 Catalog. It is 
FREE. Every bag of seed is guaranteed to 
please you. We specialize in the Best Seeds 
obtainable. Write for this book at once. Seed 
Samples fi^ Q jf you mention this paper. 
P. L. ROHRER & BRO. 
SMOKETOWN, LANCASTER CO., PENNA. 
Vegetableancl Flower; 
New Improved Strains, 
All tested,surelo jirow. 
Send for CstGiog 
Hart &Vick 64 StoneSt. Rochester N.Y 
| Cornell 
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I CORN 
A limited supply for 
seed purposes may be 
bad from the original 
source; 
Brightside Farms 
You have read about 
this corn and its advan¬ 
tages. Address 
R. E. Mosher, Aurora, N. Y. 
Buy Right-HIGH GRADE SEEDS 
WILSON EARLY SOY BEANS $4-60 ; 20 Bush., $4.20. 
Red Clover, $13.80 Bush. Yellow Danvers Onion Sets 
$2.50; 20 Bush., $2.25. LAITON £ 1.AYT0N, Inc., Georgelown, Del 
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