The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
829 
For 50 years we have made fine all-wool 
men’s suitings and sold them to the largest 
clothing makers in the country. 
Frankly, we have felt there waa something eco¬ 
nomically wrong when we regularly found suits 
made from our own fabrics selling in stores for $50 
to $70. 
We reasoned, why not make our own cloth out¬ 
put into tailored suits and sell direct to the wear¬ 
er. The price could be ever so much lower because 
we need ask no more than our regular manufac¬ 
turing price on the cloth, plus the actual cost of 
tailoring. 
That’s our story — and its worth $25 to $40 sav¬ 
ing to any man, plus the satisfaction of a tailored- 
to-measure garment. 
WE SEND YOU THE 
CLOTH SAMPLES, 
style book and easy meas¬ 
urement blank, you make 
your selection and in 
about two weeks 
you have your suit. 
Write TODAY for 
samples of cloth; 
you’ll be amazed at 
the fine quality and 
handsome patterns 
for spring. 
We also make boy’s 
Knicker Suits for 
only $9.50 (or 10,95 
with extra pants) 
usingsame fine cloth 
as for men’s suits. 
All-wool cloth 
$1.50 to $3.00 
per yard. Suitings, 
cloakings, and skirt¬ 
ings. All cloth 56 
inches wide. Sam¬ 
ples free. 
Write at once saying 
just what you are 
interested in. 
VALLEY 
CLOTH MILLS 
Ashuelot, N. H. 
Dept, D-l 
Strictly ALL-Wool 
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MERRY GARDEN AUTO-CULTIVATOR 
will double the returns from your truck farm or 
nursery. It solves the labor problem, A bo.v 
can do as much work as four men with 
hand cultivators. 
With a Merry Garden you can cultivate, disc, 
harrow and weed in any soil. It straddles 
narrow rows, works between the wider ones and 
gets close to roots if desired. Easy to guide, 
back and turn around and light to handle. 
All mechanism is of the latest approved design— 
2 h. p. Evinrude water-cooled motor, completely 
incased gears, Bosch magneto, trouble proof 
lubrication. Atma Air Cleaner. 
Try It For Five Days 
Guaranteed to do all we claim or money back. 
Price $230 f.o.b. Cleveland. Ohio. Write for 
free descriptive literature. 
THE ATLANTIC MACHINE & MFC. CO. 
2634 E. 79th Street Cleveland, Ohio 
LIVE DEALERS WANTED 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
June opens up with a glorious sunshine 
and a warm d'ay following a spell of cool 
nights that closed the record for May. 
The late tomato plants set yesterday and 
at once showered well with the overhead 
irrigating pipe, look this morning as fresh 
as though still in the transplanting bed. 
.These late tomato plants were sown in a 
cold frame, and those intended for the 
garden were transplanted into another 
frame, both without sashes. The plots 
set out yesterday were of these trans¬ 
planted ones, and they had made a great 
mass of new roots. The plants left where 
sown are much taller than these, but 
lifted, they made only the main tap root. 
If these plants are set out, no matter how 
much water is used they fall over at once 
and take some time to recover. And yet 
it is just such plants that our commercial 
growers who sell to the canners must use. 
,Very few do any transplanting previous 
to the final one. But the crop this sea¬ 
son. for the canners will he very short, 
and few of the canning houses will open 
for business at all. 
Some of the daily papers in the North 
are fearing that the great reduction in 
the acreage planted in cotton will cause 
the South to lose the supremacy in cot¬ 
ton, because the European nations will 
grow more and more in India and Africa. 
There need he no uneasiness on this score, 
for they have been using every effort to 
get independent of the Southern crop for 
the past 50 years, and still need our cot¬ 
ton. But the mere reduction in the acre¬ 
age planted will not be of permanent 
benefit to the South unless it leads to an 
entire abandonment of cotton planting and 
the adoption of farming with cotton as 
the leading crop. So far the planters 
have kept the land so constantly exposed 
to the sun in the .clean culture of cotton 
year after year that all the bacterial life 
in the soil is destroyed, and the humus 
used' up, and only the old dead mixture 
of sand and clay is left to hold fertilizers 
to make the crop. And the land and the 
planter have grown poor, while the fer¬ 
tilizer manufacturers have waxed rich. 
The only thing that will save the South 
from these periodic disasters is to grow 
cotton in equal area with other crops in 
good rotation, in which the legumes will 
figure largely as soil restorers until the 
soil development through good farming 
will enable the real fanners of the South 
to make as much cotton on one-third the 
area as they have grown on the whole. 
With corn to sell, wheat to sell and oats 
to sell, some dairy products and some 
pork and beef, the fluctuations of the cot¬ 
ton crop will not make the widespread 
distress that the low price now does. 
Good farming will save the South, and 
the thousands of young men now study¬ 
ing in the colleges of agriculture are the 
men who are going to stop the old waste¬ 
ful methods. We old folks will not live 
to see the consummation of our hopes, 
but we have sown the seed in the minds 
of the young men of the South, and the 
result is certain. At. present there has 
been a reduction in the acreage planted, 
but if tomorrow the price of cotton re¬ 
turned to a profitable figure, the great 
majority of the planters would next 
Spring forget all about the hard times 
and will go planting every foot of their 
land in cotton again till the next crash 
comes. 
But this is not garden news, and June 
always has something interesting in the 
garden. The tall peas of the marrowfat 
type are now ready for use, but the crop 
is short, like peas in general have been 
this season. I have one 100-foot row of 
Longfellow just coming into bloom, but 
I fear this is too late, for the heat and 
mildew will be apt to spoil them. Long¬ 
fellow peas now in use are good, but the 
crop is very short. One reason is the 
swarming of the English sparrows. 
Someone stole my gun, and the sparrows 
seem to know it, for the pesky thieves sat 
on the late peas and picked off the blos¬ 
soms and dropped 1 them on the ground. 
Pure cussedness! w. F. massey. 
“How old are you?” asked the judge 
of a woman witness. “Thirty,” she re¬ 
plied. “Thirty!” exclaimed the judge. 
“I’ve heard you give that same age in 
this court for three years.” “Yes,” re¬ 
turned the witness, “I am not one of 
those persons who say one thing today 
and another thing tomorrow.”—Credit 
Lost. 
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Postum Cereal 
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nerves or digestion. 
It should he boiled at 
least twenty minutes. Then 
Postum Cereal will reveal 
a true coffee-like richness 
of color and flavor. 
Theres a Reason 
Sold by grocers 
Made by 
Postum Cereal Company, Inc. 
Battle Creek,Michigan. 
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PAINT 
$ 1.25 
PER 
Gallon 
ORDER DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
We will send you as many gallons as you 
want of good quality red or brown 
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low prices. We can save you money by shipping 
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freight within a radius of three hundred miles. 
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Factory: 372 WAYNE ST., JERSEY CITY, N. J. 
Water Power 
Make your own electricity. A small stream gives 
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FITZ STKEL WATER WHEEL 
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y Makers of all types of farm water wheels 
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This Year’s the Time ! 
Sometime, you’ll surely use Areanddee 
Celery Bleacher. Then you’ll be sorry that 
you didn’t investigate before, when you 
realize what profits might have been yours. 
Areanddee is less than half the cost of 
boards, yet it lasts five years or more, and 
does better work. 
Use R & D Celery Bleacher 
Write to us tonight and ask for a sample. 
It will show you how much easier is the 
Areanddee way. Two men can apply this 
new celery bleacher at “high speed’’—and 
not be dead tired when they’re through. It’s 
not too early to find out about 
this money and labor saving 
method. Write now—we’ll send 
l 1 ^ you a sample and prices. 
The Russelloid Company 
Dept. R Harrisburg, Penna. 
