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February 2G, 1021 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
'Uhe 
Choice Parts of Selected Grains 
give to 
Grape*Nuts 
its health and body building value 
This Wheat and malted harley food 
is so processed and baked that the 
nourishing Qualities and pleas¬ 
ing flavor are fully brought out 
Healthful-Satisfying ~ There's a Reason 
Seed Prices SMASHED! 
Back to Pre-war Prices 
Drop a Postal for our Catalog and See for Yourself 
It makes no difference whose seeds you have been using, there is no better seed 
than FORREST’S. No seeds that are more sure to grow, no seeds that will 
make a more satisfactory crop than “FORREST HONEST SEEDS”, grown 
and imported by FORREST (himself) for the last twenty-three years. 
In buying FORREST’S Seeds you are paying for no blue sky, immense city 
rents or high salaried help kept the entire year for one short selling season. 
Timothy, Clover, Silo Corn and all farm, garden and flower seeds are offered 
at rock bottom prices. Quality and satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. 
Send postal today. 
THE FORREST SEED CO., INC., Box 32, Cortland, N.Y. 
Harris Seeds From the Grower 
We are large growers of vegetable, farm and flower seeds 
and sell direct to gardeners and farmers at wholesale 
prices. We do not sell to other dealers. 
The percent that germinates is marked on the label 
So you can tell at once how thick to sow. HARRIS SEED 
are bred as careful as thoroughbred live stock and produce 
very much better results than seed commonly sold. We 
raise some very choice flower seeds and plants. 
Harris Seeds 
IVfife for free catalog, and if 
you raise vegetables 
* for market, ask 
for Market Gar¬ 
deners Whole¬ 
sale Price List 
also. 
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Joseph Harris Co ^ 
Box Bi.Coldwotcr, N.f. 
Label on every Lot 
Tells how many 
will 
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I According to our tests 
w ‘ 98 percent 
of this seed germinates 
GARDEN SEED 
Prize-Winning, Big 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. 
lsbeCPs1921 Catalog 
Write today for this FS9FF 
free book—a wonderful guide to ■ 
better gardens. 300,000 Isbell customers buy 
from this book. It will pay you, too. A postcard will do. 
S.IVL Isbe!i& Co. 413 Mechanic St., Jackson, Mich. 
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 SEED- 
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 335-71 Ogden St., Newark, N. J. 
Get Big STARK SEEP Catalog 
prices. Address Box 1036 
k STARK BRO’S, Louisiana, Mo. 
- Since IS 16 
mm 
Pruning the Grape 
Part I. 
A Complicated Subject. —Much has 
been written and published purporting to 
be instructions in various methods to be 
pursued. The writer doubts however it 
any person has ever learned practical 
grape pruning from any, or all, of such 
published directions. He would not, how¬ 
ever. blame those who would teach, in 
printed type, how to make an orderly 
plant adapted for bearing and to matur¬ 
ing its quota of fruit out of an unwieldy, 
tangled mass: neither would he blame 
those who attempt to understand printed 
instructions on "how to prune the grape.” 
Rather is the fault with the plant itself 
because of its rank tangled twisting habit 
of growth. A novice or an amateur 
might know an entire book on grape prun¬ 
ing “by heart.” yet when he approaches 
a trellis or arbor covered with a thrifty 
growth, even if only one season’s growth 
of vines, he is helplessly lost in a maze 
of confusion. Of course, the interested 
learner should get eomdtWiug, certain 
ideas and principles, out of any treatise 
on grape pruning, if it has any claim 
for practicability. There are diagrams, 
that in part at least, illustrate what the 
instructions read, that are very helpful. 
LOVER SEED 
Timothy, Alfalfa, Clovers, Seed Oats, 
Seed Corn, Seed Grains and Grasses. 
Write today for Rohrer’s 1921 Catalog. It is 
FREE. Every bag of seed is guaranteed to 
please von. We specialize in the Best Seeds 
obtainable. Write for this book a t once. Seed 
Samples free if you mention this paper. 
P. L. ROHRER & BRO. 
SiWOKETOWN. LANCASTER CO., PENNA. 
Chaufauqua System of Grape Training 
PkacTice Needed. —As compared with 
pruning fruit trees the grape stands out in 
favor of letting one “practice”; the fruit 
tree is readily damaged beyond redemp¬ 
tion by the inexperienced or careless 
primer/ He can only spoil or cut off one 
season's fruit crop of the grape, even 
though he becomes perplexed, and angry 
enough to cut it off at the proimd ; it will 
spring forth from the ground with re¬ 
newed vigor. In a fruit tree, one can cut 
off a large limb by mistake, but be can¬ 
not “cut it on” ; neither will it grow on. 
The beginner should not try his hand on 
a neglected or improperly pruned arbor 
or trellis; but rather on a systematically 
pruned vineyard where wires and posts 
are intact, and where he lias an oppor¬ 
tunity to observe what was done at last 
previous pruning; here then he should 
study "cause and effect.” With the vines 
dormant and not hidden by foliage—they 
should be dormant—he will not be able to 
comprehend it all : yet though he has no 
one to show him, if he has “read up” and 
discussed the work, he ought soon to “get 
through the woods” and into the clearing. 
“Canes,” “vines” and “fruiting spurs 
are terms that are used differently and in- 
t wchangeably by different authorities, so 
that the amateur would better never ban 
been introduced to them. 
General Character. —Beginning a; 
the ground, if the plant be of bearing 
age, we have a coarse, crooked stalk, cov¬ 
ered with a stringy, brownish bark. This 
stalk or trunk is about four years old— 
we will say it is that age. Tt reaches to 
the lower wire, which is. or should lx 
about 30 in. from the ground ; here the 
cane forks into two prongs or arms that 
extend in opposite directions along tlx 
wire, a distance of approximately -1 ft 
Among the fixed, established and. tlx 
CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER 
Wakefield, Winingstadt—Copenhagen, Glory—Ball and Round Danish 
Snowball—Dwarf Erfurt—Dry Weather Danish Giant 
DANISH SEEDS DIRECT TO THE GROWER 
I also carry American grown 
Beets, Carrots, Cucumbers, Lettuce, Onions 
Radishes, Mangel — Celery French Grown 
M. KLITGORD, Importer Box R, LIMA, N. Y. 
My Prices Will Please Vcu. ask Foe Them 
BURPEE’S 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
% Packets for $1.00 
Burpee’s Bargain Collection 
To help reduce the } ifih cost of living, 
we have prepared this special BARGAIN 
COLLECTION containing 25 regular large 
si/.e packets ol Burpee’s V egctable Seeds. 
One packet each ci the following' 
Beans: Stringless Green Pod . . $.15 
Saddleback Max..10 
Beets: Burpee's Columbia. -10 
Detroit Dark Red..05 
Cabbage: Enkhui/.en Glory. 10 
Carrot: Chantenay . 05 
Sweet Corn: Golden Bii.tam. . . .15 
Stowell’s Evergreen.-10 
Country Gentleman.15 
Cucumber: Fordhook hite Spine .10 
Lettuce: Burpee’s W^yahead.. 10 
Burpee’s Brittle Ice..10 
Musk Melon: Emerald Gem...-10 
Watermelon: Halbert Honey... .10 
Onions: Yellow Globe. 10 
Australian Brown.10 
Parsnip: Offenham Market. 10 
Pea: Burpee’s Profusion. 15 
Radish: White Icicle. 10 
Burpee’s Scarlet Button .. . .10 
Spinach: Burpee’s Vi'toria. 10 
Tomato: Spark’s Earliana.10- 
Burpee’s Matchless.15 
Turnip: White Egg. . 10 
Rutabaga: Purple Top Yellow. . .05 
If purchase I separately, this seed would cost $2.60. 
The BARGAIN COLLECTION complete will be 
mailed to anv address in the United States or Canada 
postpaid tor $1.00. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE CO. 
Seed Growers 
Philadelphia 
Eniffin Single-cane Four-arm System 
writer believes, undisputed principle in 
grape culture is this one: The youngest 
possible growth should be preserved. An¬ 
other very important factor is the utter 
elimination of all excess, unnecessary 
wood or vine growth ; what is “unneces¬ 
sary” is what is not needed to form the 
groundwork, so to speak, for a normal 
crop of well-ripened fruit next season. 
Studying the Vine. —Booking over 
this mass of vines—and he should look it 
over and study carefully before making 
even a single cut—he will observe that 
among the vines there, is all the current, 
and some of last year’s growth with va¬ 
riations in character; some vines’are very 
slender, with their buds all close to each 
other, say about 3 in. apart, on opposite 
sides of stalks or stems—not opposite 
each : others are of a ranker and much 
coarser growth. The former are known 
as "fruiting” canes, the latter as “bull” 
canes. If the plant has made a natural 
or normal growth, then, probably the 
horizontal arms or prongs referred to 
above may be and should be eliminated 
from a point close to. and in front of the 
cane nearest tojrunk; the vines growing 
out from these may be clipped off so ns 
to facilitate discarding this arm off wire 
to be thrown away ; an experienced pruner 
does not bother with the trimmings that 
adhere to upper wire; that is a matter 
for those who follow to clean up the 
vineyard. c - F - BLET - 
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Hybridized Potato Seed 
E VERY valuable new variety of 
potato originates from a par¬ 
ent seed ball. Hybridized seed3 
produce many new kinds, colors, 
shapes, sizes and qualities. Some 
that you plant may prove to be 
new varieties of great value. 
Hybridized potato seeds offer a garden 
novelty full of interest arid money-making 
possibilities. Let your boy or girl experi¬ 
ment and develop new kinds of potatoes. 
It is easy, fascinating and profitable. 
Packet with full directions, 15 cents; 4 
for 50 cents; 10 for Cl. Order now and tell 
friends about this offer. This may be your 
last chance to obtain these vanishing seeds. 
Gr~~2ory 1921 Catalog Free 
Write today for free 80-pnge 
Gregory 1921 catalog. It de¬ 
scribes and illustrates our 
vegetable and flower seeds 
and gives valuable cultural 
details. 
J. J. H. Gregory & Son 
Established in JS56 
40 Elm St., Marblehead, 
Mass. 
■SWEET! 
CLOVER 
Profitable crop. Splendid Hay 
and pasture—quantities of seed. 
Better for soi 1 than alfalfa. Not 
attacked by clover diseases. Seed 
very low in price this year showing 
big returns on small investment. 
All about growing and harvesting 
your clover in Scott's Field Seed 
Book. Write for free chart, an¬ 
swers clover questions. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 
64 Sixth St., Marysville, Ohio 
OPD SEEDS 
Grown FromSelectStock 
— None Better —50 years 
selling seeds. Prices below all 
others. Buy and test. If not 
O.K. return and I will refund. 
Extra packets sent in all 
orders I fill. Send address for 
Dig Catalogue illustrated with 
over 700 pictures of vegetables and 
flowers of every variety. 
R. H. SHU MW AY, Rockford, III. 
