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Just write on a postal,“Send 
me your NEW Bargain Fence 
Booh and Latest Low Factory 
Prices." It will come by next mail, 
free postpaid. I’ll also send you a 
sample to test. Then you will know 
why the BROWN FENCE LASTS 6 
TIMES LONGER THAN OTHERS. 
John Bruce, Cauthron, Ark., writes: "I put up 
140 rods of your fence seven years ago and it is 
nice and bright yet. Other fence I built about the 
same time is nearly ruined by rust.” 
That PROVES my quality—-the book 
PROVES my prices are lowest and 
WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF MONEY 
on the first cost. The long life of Brown 
Fence makes a still greater saving. You can’t 
afford to buy a rod of fence before getting my 
big 96-page Bargain Book. It is full of fence¬ 
buying pointers you will be glad to get. 
DIRECT freight 
FROM FACTORY PREPAID 
You know what Brown Fence costs 
you laid down at your freight station. 
Catalog shows 150 styles—Hog, Sheep, Cattle. 
Poultry and Lawn Fencing. Also Gates, Barb 
Wire, etc.— all at prices way below all com- 
petition. Get my book and sample, both free, 
before you buy. (16) 
The Brown Fence & Wire Co. 
Dept. 659 ^Cleveland, Ohio 
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The finest and most complete line of Lawn 
Fence in the Country—at Factory Prices! 
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— MR. FARMER 
IT’S WORTH YOUR WHILE TO GET 
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT 
BARIUM- 
PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
Containing 
28% PHOSPHORIC ACID 
7% BARIUM SULPHIDE 
Writ* for booklets describing this material 
and its'use on various crops. 
NITRATE OF POTASH 
Analysing 
42% ACTUAL POTASH 
15% AMMONIA 
One ton of this material contains as 
much Potash as 1750 lbs. Sulphate 
of Potash and as much Ammonia as 
1650 lbs. of Nitrate of Soda, 3400 lbs. 
of the two combined, and in buying 
this material you effect a substantial 
saving. 
NITRATE OF SODA 
Less carloads, $65.00 per ton, f. o. b. at 
New York, special price on carload lots. 
GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK 
Containing 32% Phosphoric Acid 
Get our prices on these and other fertilizer 
materials before you place your order. 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
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Your Buildings 
Against Lightning 
Don’t take chances 
with property and life. Prevent 
lightning damage by equipping your 
home, bam and outbuildings with 
SECURITY 
WATER GROUND LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS 
Only lightning protection system 
whose rods always have a perma¬ 
nently moist grounding. Made of 
99.8% pure Lake Superior Copper. 
Endorsed by National Board of 
Fire Underwriters and many State 
Insurance Exchanges. 
It’s easier to prevent fire than to 
stop it after lightning has struck. 
Write for Booklet Telling How. 
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504 Pine St., Burlington, Wis. 
The RURAL N 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Quite a number of correspondents 
write to me for information in regard to 
lands in Maryland and farther South. 
Some write about particular farms they 
have seen advertised. With every desire 
to help them it is not possible for me to 
give more than a general idea in regard 
to the lands of the States with which 
I am familiar. Readers of The R. N.-Y. 
must remember that I am not trying 
with these notes to sell land or anything 
else. I am not in the real estate busi¬ 
ness and hence am not posted as to dif¬ 
ferent farms. Then, too, as T have often 
said, it is essential that everyone intend¬ 
ing to buy land anywhere should give it 
a personal investigation, and to judge 
not only of the land itself, but its sur¬ 
roundings and social conditions. There¬ 
fore 1 must decline to give replies by 
mail to real estate queries. 
March came in lamblike. The rains 
prevented my potato planting for a time, 
and the crop has been hurried in. I 
plant the old Bovee because it is early, 
prolific, and better quality than the Cob¬ 
bler which all the market growers here 
plant, and I plant seed of my own grow¬ 
ing. We are still sating the garden crop 
of last year, for we have bought no Irish 
potatoes since last June, and may run 
till June again. The late crop was 
Peachblow. 
The extra early peas will soon be 
above ground if this warm sunshine con¬ 
tinues. A year ago it was hard to get 
anyone to work in the garden except the 
old feeble man who has always stuck by 
me. lie did good work, but naturally 
very slow. Now that his health has 
broken there is no difficulty in getting 
hands, but seldom men who have any 
gardening skill or taste, and I am no 
longer able to do the work entirely my¬ 
self. But that laborers are begging for 
work is sad evidence of the depression in 
business all over the country. 
Since I wrote the beginning of this 
article a number of readers have seen a 
little farm advertised in The R. N.-Y. 
not many miles from me, and they are 
writing to me for information about it. 
The advertisement located the place, but 
I know nothing at all about it, not even 
the name of the owner, and I wish here 
to say that I cannot waste time answer¬ 
ing letters about any land here for sale. 
I do not keep posted on farms and their 
value, and cannot tell anything about any 
land for sale. Any man would be acting 
very unwisely by buying land from an 
advertisement. Personal inspection is 
the only thing that will do. 
I have just sown a frame of three 
sashes in tomato seed. These are in¬ 
tended to come in after the early plants 
are still producing, but to lengthen the 
season without break. These will be 
kept with the glass dose till the plants 
begin to germinate. The bright sun will 
warm the soil, and the seed will germ¬ 
inate all right. Then in May I sow seed 
in the open ground to have plants full of 
the best grown green tomatoes to pack 
away for coloring up a few at a time, 
like the Floridas, and run the sliced to¬ 
matoes till Christmas or New Year. Of 
course there will be some tomatoes on the 
Bonny Best stakes all through the sea¬ 
son, but the flush will be over by the 
middle of July, and fresh plants will be 
more desirable. 
I have kept the Bovee potatoes from 
the last ones dug last July, and will plant 
them now; would have planted in Feb¬ 
ruary but the rains kept the soil too wet. 
These potatoes have sprouted some, but 
are still smooth and firm, and I prefer 
the variety to the Cobbler so generally 
grown here. w. F. massey. 
E W-YORKER 
Spontaneous Combustion in Hay 
Will you settle an argument? A says 
ho has seen hay in a stack heat to such 
an extent as to get on fire. B says it will 
heat, but will not get on fire on account 
of the moisture. Which is right? T. s. 
Glen Cove. N. Y. 
Our services as referee surely seem to 
be in demand. There have been many 
cases of spontaneous combustion reported. 
It is quite possible for chemical action 
inside a stack or mow of hay to create 
heat enough to start a flame. The Iowa 
Agricultural College and the Pennsylva¬ 
nia State College have issued bulletins on 
this subject. 
Install 
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for Automobiles 
Motor Trucks 
Tractors 
Motor Boats 
Motorcycles 
—all Farm 
Engines 
Pumps and 
Compressors 
piston rin^s 
that won’t leak 
Save fuel and oil—prevent 
carbon 1 —and increase the 
power of your gas engines! 
Put a SupemjC Ring in the top 
groove of each piston to keep 
lubricating oil out of the combus¬ 
tion chamber. It stops the waste 
of oil and cuts down carbon 
troubles. 
Install the real \ e<vv<.-I Roop Ring in 
all lower grooves. The equal 
radial pressure of its exclusive 2- 
piece design keeps gasoline from 
wasting past it. All your fuel is 
compressed into power — as it 
should be. 
These rings stand for 10 years of suc¬ 
cessful experience in the manufacture 
of fine piston rings. Your dealer can 
sell you a size and over-size of both 
rings for any engine ever made. Al¬ 
ways install the combination. 
McQuay-Norris Mfg. Co.,St.Louis, U.S. A. 
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Write for Free Book 
It explains why McQuay-Norris 
Piston Ring Equipment will in¬ 
crease gas engine power, save 
fuel and oil, and decrease car¬ 
bon troubles. Address Dept 
Gives a Better Salt Flavor 
Colonial^ 
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USE 
COLONIAL 
SPECIAL FARMER’S 
SALT 
for meat curing, butter making, 
cooking, baking and table' use. 
Pure, flaky salt, every grain sep¬ 
arate. Packed in non-leaking 70 
pound bags? Insist on this brand. 
If your dealer doesn’t have it 
send us his name. 
Manufacturec by 
THE COLONIAL SALT CO. 
AKRON, OH/O 
Chicago, Ill. Buffalo, N. Y. Boston, Mass. 
Atlanta, Ga. 
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‘ LIMESTONE 
—Nail it to the 
Barn Door 
Soil kept rich 
and fertile 
produces big harvests. Solvay sweetens the soil 
and brings all crops to quick, complete maturity. 
Highest test. Purest form. Easy to spread. Non¬ 
caustic—will not burn. Write for 
FREE Booklet. 
THE SOLVAY PROCESS CO. 
SOI Milton Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. 
and don’t forget 
It Makes Fertile Fields 
