FARM, GARDEN AND SEED ANNUAL 
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Four Outstanding Products 
for the Better Care of Lawn and Garden. 
Red Arrow Insect Spray. 
An exceedingly powerful, non-poisonous, vege¬ 
table insecticide. Harmless to plants, harmless to 
the soil, harmless to children and pets, but deadly 
to insects. Red Arrow Insect Spray will not burn 
the tenderest leaf, blight the most delicate rose 
petal, nor mar the perfect whiteness of the most 
immaculate blossom. Red Arrow Insect Spray is 
a new weapon for the gardener in his fight with 
his insect enemies. It makes the greatest advance 
in agricultural insecticides in a generation. 
The active ingredient in Red Arrow Insect 
Spray is derived from a daisy-like flower known 
botanically as Pyrethrum Cineraiaefolium, grown 
extensively in Dalmatia and Japan. 
It is the non-poisonous nature which gives it 
pre-eminence over other insecticides. It is abso¬ 
lutely harmless to plants or the higher animals. 
It can be used on fruits and vegetables just prior 
to their use for food with perfect safety. 
Effectiveness of Red Arrow is quite remarkable. 
It kills by paralysis. Paralysis is not rapid in all 
cases but it is very sure and insects properly 
sprayed never recover. The spray kills by mere 
contact with the body of the insects; it is not 
necessary that it be eaten. It is fatal to both 
sucking and chewing insects. 
Red Arrow is Economical and easy to use. The 
normal dilution is J4-lb. to 50 gallons of water 
or 1 oz. to 6 gallons. Mix fresh only sufficient 
for each day’s use. 
Prices: 1 oz., 35c.; 3 1 /2 oz., $1.00; 8 oz., $1.75; 
1 pt., $3.25; 1 qt., $6.00; 1 gal., $17.50. 
Being a non-poison it can be sent by Parcel Post. 
Prices postpaid within third zone (300 miles) : 
1 oz., 43c.; 3^2-oz., $1.08; 8-oz., $1.82; 1 pt., $3.32; 
1 qt., $6.12; 1 gal., $17.75. 
Driconure. 
The need for a high-grade, sterile, odorless, 
ready-to-use, dehydrated cow manure brought 
about the development of Driconure. 
The ingredients are just manure from high 
protein fed cows and quality peat moss function¬ 
ing as a humus making material and a reservoir 
for soil moisture. The composition is about 
thirty-five parts peat moss and sixty-five of cow 
manure—no straw, shavings or trash. 
Driconure is an organic food for soil organisms, 
which make chemical fertilizing media available 
as plant food. Driconure being natural food for 
these organisms, they multiply rapidly, helping to 
pulverize the soil into a loam, thereby increasing 
areation and water holding capacity. Driconure 
is concentrated five to one and will regain its 
original form when coming in contact with the 
soil mixture. It is easy to apply and easy to 
handle. 
Packed in 50-lb. bags (about 3 bu.). Applica¬ 
tion — 50 to 100 lbs. to each 400 sq. ft. for new 
seeding work or 50 lbs. as a top-dressing on lawns 
and gardens. Prices: 1 bag, $2.50; J^-ton, (10 
bags), $20.00; ton, $75.00. 
Platt’s Special Lawn Fertilizer. 
A better fertilizer for fine lawns. For more 
than twenty years tests have been run by the 
Rhode Island Experiment Station to determine 
the effects of different fertilizers. One of these 
formulae was called the weedless lawn fertilizer 
because of its nature in properly nourishing the 
grass and at the same time discouraging most 
of our troublesome weeds. This, of course, over 
a period of years, not immediate. Practically all 
fertilizers heretofore offered were either deficient 
in the proper plant food elements, neutralized the 
desired soil condition, or of poor mechanical con¬ 
dition. We have overcome these troubles in a 
convenient economical form; only 12 l /i lbs. per 
1000 sq. ft. or 500 lbs. per acre are needed for 
general use to promote a luxuriant growth of 
beautiful color. A small trial is the most con¬ 
vincing proof of its exceptional value. Platt’s 
Special Lawn Fertilizer is distinctly different from 
any other formula we know of, both in materials 
used and in ratio of plant food elements. It is 
a complete fertilizer for grass and not a mere 
stimulant. The guaranteed analysis is 10% Nitro¬ 
gen, 5% Phosphoric Acid and 5% Potash. 
It is impossible that a fertilizer for grass should 
be equally suited to trees, shrubs and flowers, as 
their requirements are different. In consideration: 
of the small amount required the cost will be 
found very low. It should be applied evenly, 
much the same as grass seed; not like ordinary 
fertilizer. 
Prices: 12lbs., 90c.; 25 lbs., $1.50; 50 lbs., 
$2.50; 100 lbs., $4.00; 54-ton, $18.50; ton, $65.00. 
Peat Moss. 
The greatly increased use 
of Peat Moss for horticul¬ 
tural purposes shows a better 
understanding of its value. 
Still there are many who have 
not yet become acquainted 
with its function of increas¬ 
ing soil fertility. 
Fertility is dependent upon water, air, sunlight, 
temperature, plant food in the form of chemical 
constituency, soil bacteria and texture. No other 
medium now commonly added to soils contributes 
more toward gaining these physical factors than 
Peat Moss. It adds organic matter—contributing 
to the formation of humus; it makes the land 
more pliable and improves its general texture and 
condition. It also contributes effective drainage 
thus ventilating the soil. It is a reservoir for 
moisture and air and it is these two fundamental 
physical factors that probably regulate the func¬ 
tioning of all others toward productive fertility. 
All Peat Moss is not alike. It differs in com¬ 
position as well as stages of decomposition and 
all cannot be used advantageously in gardening. 
To cover more fully some of the interesting facts 
about the usefulness of G.P.M. Peat Moss (a uni¬ 
form high-grade specially selected for horticul¬ 
tural use) a folder entitled “Peat Moss, Outline 
of Its Uses” will be sent free upon request. We 
are prepared to fill orders promptly for either 
single bales or car lots. Price per bale, $3.25; 
10-bale lots at $3.00 per bale. 
