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Your experience cannot be at variance. 
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of our 130-page 1924 Year Book (72 pages 
devoted to seeds). Look over our wide variety 
of prices before buying seeds. 
ROSS BROTHERS CO. 
WORCESTER, MASS. ( 1021 ) 
ROSS’ 
EUREKA CORN 
Tlia Wonder Ensilage Corn. 50 cts. H pk-: 9 °c. Pk.; $2 
bushel, $2.75 per bushel, 10 bushel or more. Hand picked 
a few cents higher. Write for 128-page free catalog. 
Ross Pros. Co. Worcester, Mass. 
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The cost of Alfalfa Seed )9 a small item when 
Bpread over the life of the crop—five to ten years. It 
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certified “Grimm” Alfalfa, Clover, 
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Sox 15-C Lindisvills, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
THERE’S BIG MONEY IN 
4 The biggest profit crop you 
■ A U can raise. We have some of 
A the finest strains of Telephone, 
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B. F. METCALF A SON, Inc. 
202 W. Geneaec Street Syracuse, N, Y. 
CARFF’S 
Seed Corn 
|5000 bushels extra 
selected and Bure to 
grow. 10 leading varieties. Highest 
yielders. Wonderful for ensilage. 
Also Seed Oats. Barley. Alfalfa, 
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experience. 1400 Acre farm. Send 
for samples and free catalogue. 
W.N.SCARFF & SONS 
NEW CARLISLE, OHIO 
CABBAGE PLANTS 
Fulwood's Frost Proof plants will produce headed 
cabbage three weeks before your home grown plants 
and will stand a temperature of 20 degrees above zero 
without injury. I have twenty million now ready. 
Varieties: Jersey Wakefield, Charleston Wakefield, 
Copenhagen Market, Succession and Flat Dutch. Prices 
by express, any quantity, *2.00 per 1000. By parcel post, 
postpaid, 200 for *1.00; 500 for *1.75; 1,000 for *3.00. 
First class plants and safe arrival guaranteed. 
P. D. FULWOOD - - Tifton. Ga. 
FROST-PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS 
EARLY JERSEY. CHARLESTON WAKEFIELD. FLAT DUTCH. 
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TIFTON POTATO COMPANY, Inc. Tifton. Georgia 
9ft finn nnn Frost-Proof Cabbage Plants, To- 
£U,UUU,UUU ma to. Pepper and Potato Plants 
beading varieties, labeled, postpaid. 200, 75c; 500, % | .80; 
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Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. 
Omega Plant Company Omega, Georgia 
SEED CORN— 10 Carloads Ensilage Seed quantity 
of Yellow Flint, Samples and prices on application. 
Germination good. IIAUICT VAIL, Wurwlck, OrangoL'o., N.Y. 
Pedigreed Potatoes 
Certified Rural, Russet and Irish Cobblers—yields 
of 300 to 562 bushel per acre for 11 years First 
prize and sweepstakes ribbons at Cornell State Po¬ 
tato show, Feb. 1923 and 1924. 
GARDNER FARMS Box 400 Tully.N.Y. 
Sunnyside Strain nSTmSS Seed Potatoes 
Grow bjg crops of smooth white potatoes. Selected 
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RILEY BROS. Sunnyside Farm Sennett, N. Y. 
CERTIFIED SEED POTATOES 
- Kirkville, N. Y. 
H. F. HU BBS 
Alnha Rarlpv New - heavy yieldin h'. heavy weight 
Ripnd uCOQ Dariey gram. Thomas Hasletl, Hall, N Y. 
Cu/opI P.lnvor QonH Alfalt£ *. etc- Priced right. Inocu? 
Oncol UlUVol OBCU lating Bacteria for bushel, anyle 
game, OOc, postpaid. E. E. BASIL Latty, Ohio 
COPENHAGEN SEEDS 
Finest quality. Immediate delivery. Six packages, SOc. 
Address CHILSON, Woodmoni Road, West Haven, Conn. 
FOR SALE-TRUE DANISH BALL HEAD CABBAGE SEED 
Imported direct from Odense, Denmark. *2 per lb. post¬ 
paid. C. J. Stafford RouteS Cortland, N Y. 
Homemade Lime-sulphur 
The New York Experiment Station 
gives the following method for preparing 
homemade concentrated lime-sulphur. As 
the scale is “coming back” there will be 
a renewed demand for biting sprays: 
“Homemade concentrated lime-sulpliur 
is prepared by mixing 40 lbs. of lime in a 
container with a little water to start the 
lime to slake. After lime is moistened in 
this way, the entire amount of water, 50 
gallons, is added. When the lime is about 
two-thirds slaked, SO lbs. of high-grad 
sulphur are added and the mixture eookec 
ior 45 minutes after the boiling point is 
reached. Water to take the place of that 
lost in the cooking is added until the mix 
tore is brought back up to Ihe 50-gallon 
mark. The mixture is stored in air-tight 
containers until needed. This concen 
trated solution is then diluted at the rate 
of 1 part to S parts of water for use as 
a delayed dormant spray.” 
White Grubs 
In my garden there were so many 
grubs that it would seem to an outsider a 
commercial breeding spot, and that I had 
grubs for sale. Sometimes I would fill a 
box 7x4x4 with them and watch ducks 
and chickens devour them in less time 
than it takes to write it. Now they must 
be got rid of, and here is what I did: 1 
went to a re-haiulling tobacco house close 
to my home and purchased half a ton of 
tobacco dust in bags and spread about 700 
lbs. all over the garden, 87x90 ft., in 
April or early May. When I dug my gar 
den as usual the following Spring not a 
grub did I uncover, and no .Tune bugs 
Before I made the above application the 
garden would have June bugs by the hun¬ 
dred, but no grubs now. This is no 
given as a remedy for everybody, but sim 
ply what I did to oust the grub in my own 
garden. I think half the quantity would 
have been sufficient, but I wanted to be 
sure. 
Kentucky. 
LOUIS REIIM. 
Tobacco Dust for Cucumber Beetles 
I would like to hear through your 
columns what experience some of your 
readers may have had with the nicotine 
dust treatment for striped hugs .or cu 
comber beetles. The companies that sell 
this stuff claim, of course, that it ae 
tuall.v kills these pests, but I would like 
to hear from actual growers of melons or 
cucumbers as as to what results they 
have had, and whether it is not so ex¬ 
pensive as to be impractical for com 
mercial growers. 
If this substance can overcome the 
hugs it will be a great help to the growers 
of melons everywhere, and since canta 
loupes seem to sell better every year, it 
means a good deal to the local growers 
I have always kept the bugs off by using 
a repellant, and have always succeeded 
in getting a crop, but if there is an easier 
way, I want to find it, as I consider that 
my melons pay me better than anything 
else I raise. There is a good chance for 
lots of men in supplying their home mar¬ 
kets if they will co-operate with each 
other and try to displace the shipped-in 
cantaloupe with good home-grown melons, 
instead of competing against each other. 
I find the most money in raising the 
early kinds, as the early melons always 
sell easily and bring good prices, besides 
having better weather to ripen, and less 
risk from frost. However, let anyone 
raise the late ones who wants to; it only 
helps one if all my neighbors have the 
late kind. 
Another thing I would like to ask: 
In using a cone on the end of the duster 
pipe in using nicotine dust, as I have 
seen illustrated, can this be used when 
the plants are larger and have runners? 
I have had lots of trouble from the bugs 
when the vines were half grown or more. 
Ashtabula Co., Ohio. n. w. 
Harvesting Small Fruits on Shares 
A surprising number of questions like 
the following^ have been presented to us 
this year. Farmers have grown several 
acres of small fruits like strawberries, 
raspberries or blackberries. This will 
be the year of fruiting, but for some 
reason the planter is unable to handle 
and sell the crop. A neighbor offers to 
pick and handle this crop on shares. The 
question is what part of the money to 
give to the neighbor for this service. 
This matter will vary with different lo¬ 
calities but generally speaking the man 
who has brought the crop up to fruiting 
is entitled to two-thirds of the income. 
The man who does the work of picking 
and selling and caring for the crop this 
season should have one-third, the cost of 
packages and picking being divided 
equally between the two parties. 
Dr. C’rabre had almost succeeded in 
dismissing Mrs. Gassoway, when she 
stopped in the doorway, exclaiming, 
“Why, doctor, you didn’t look to see if 
my tongue was coated!” “1 know it 
isn’t.” said the doctor wearily. “You 
never find grass on a racetrack.”— 
Everybody’s Magazine. 
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