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‘Pie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 12, 1924 
Berry, Vegetable and Flower Plants 
Leading varieties Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry" 
Gooseberry. Currant, Grape plants ; Asparagus, Rhubarb’ 
Horseradish roots;Cabbage, Cauliflower Celery, Tomato’ 
lCgg Plant, Beet. Onion. Pepper, Sweet Potato and other 
vegetable plants; Delphinium, Foxglove, Hollyhock, 
Canterbury Bells, Phlox, Pansy, Salvia, Aster, Zinnia, 
Snapdragon and other Perennial and Annual flower 
plants; Dahlia, Gladioli, Canna bulbs; Roses, Shrubs, 
Hedge Plants. Catalogue free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, Hampton Bay*, N. Y. 
Millions “ Frostproof ” Cabbage Plants For Sale 
Fine outgrown. Wakefields, Copenhagen Market, Suc¬ 
cession. etc. 300— $1; 600— $1.40; 1,000— $2.50, Mailed, pre¬ 
paid. Expressed, 10,000—$ 16 ; 100,000— $186. Cash. If you 
want early cabbage, set these plants. Good Order deliv 
ery guaranteed, or money refunded. Also grow Tomato 
and Sweet Potato plants. J. P, COUNCILL COMPANY 
Wholesale Growers FRANKLIN. VIRGINIA 
For Sale-CABBAGE SEED-Danish Ballhead 
Tested. $1 per half pound. Cauliflower Seed—Snowball, 
$1.25 per ounce. Onion Seed—Southport Yellow Globe, 
$1.50 per pound. Yellow Globe Danvers, $1.25 per 
pound. Cash with order. Postage paid. 
FARMERS’ SERVICE CO., Inc, 150 North Si. Middletown, N.V. 
Everybody 
Knows 
OSS 
Meed 
Ll Grows 
Vegetable 
Grass and 
Flower 
Seeds 
The good old 
reliable New England quality seeds. 
Known by their deed*, their prolific pro¬ 
ductivity. Sold without premiums. Their 
quality alone occasions the enormous de¬ 
mand. 
72 pages of our profusely illustrated 130-page 
1924 Year Book is devoted to careful detailed 
description and prices of Ross’ Seeds. 
You will surely find just what you want. 
Write for pour free copy today. Order soon. 
Have your seeds in hand just when yeu want 
them. Avoid Spring shipping delays. 
Frostproof Cabbage Plants 
$1.50; 1,000—$2.60. Insured,postpaid, well packet!. 10,000, 
express.collect,$17.60. Tomato,Sweet Potato, May deliv¬ 
ery. Write for varieties—prices. 
MAPLE GROVE PLANT FARMS Franklin, Virginia 
I Strawberry Plants sale 
My 16th Annual Catalog will still tell you about 
"Horsey” the great “Early Berry, ” also 35 
other varieties. Asparagus roots. Horseradish, 
Raspberry plants, Lucretia Dewberry plants, etc. 
Address, J. Keifford Hall, R 2, Reids Grove, Md. 
THERE’S BIG MONEY IN 
■ g I ’ L U* The biggest profit crop you 
I\ ^ can raise. We have some of 
I .X Ktl/ the finest strains of Telephone 
■ & Alderman. cvmi v <t7 7C 
Jk Per bushel of 5*i lbs. UNLI I. I O 
Bogs tree and freight prepaid to your station 
on :t bushels or over. Don’t buy cheap seed. 
We lmve the best stocks grown. Order now before 
stocks are exhausted. Also write for low prices on 
brst gross seeds. Ask for seed catalog. 
B. F. METCALF X SON, Inc. 
202-204 W. Genesee Street - Syracuse, N. Y. 
TIMOTHY SEED 
Ross Brothers Company 
Worcester, Mass. (im> 
ROSS 
EUREKA 
Ensilage Corn 
-gT_ - 
** W Never equalled or excelled in 
38 year's. 50c. M pk.: 90c. pk.: $3.00 
per bn. $2.75 perbu.in lotsldbu. 
m or more. Hand picked a little higher. 
ROSS BROTHERS CO., Worcester, Mass. 
Be Sure Your Clover is 
American Grown 
and check up on these Field Seed Prices. 
RED CLOVER — Metcalf’s recleaned, 
medium, guaranteed American grown; 
per bu. of GO-1 b. SI 6.50 
ALSIKE— Metcalf’s recleaned; per bu. 
of 00-lb. SI 2.00 
SWEET CLOVER— Metcalf’s Scarified 
White Blossom; per bu. of tiO-lb SI 2.00 
TIMOTHY —Metcalf’s recleaned; per 
bu. of 45 lb. S4.70 
Few dealers can equal Metcalf’s Recleaned Timothy, 
09.70% pure. S4.70 per bushel of 45 lbs. Metcalf's Tim¬ 
othy and Alsike Mixed, at $5.25 per bu. of 45 lbs. Cot¬ 
ton hags free and freight paid in 5 bu. lots 
B. F. METCALF & SON. Inc. 
202-204 W. Genesee St- - Syracuse, N. Y. 
THE BEAUTIFUL GLADIOLUS 
Send a dollar for 30 bulbs (will 
bloom tliis summer), including 
pink, white, scarlet, yellow, crimson, 
orange, rare purple, etc., with easy 
planting directions, postpaid. 
Send for free 20-page illustrated 
catalog of 125 magnificent varieties 
HOWARD M. GILLET, Gladiolus Specialist 
Box 253, New Lebanon, N. y. 
GLADIOLI I 
, RED, W H I T E. PINK AND YELLOW 
--- 1 Variety shades in both Red and Pink 
40 Selected Bulbs, assorted. 
lOO Fancy Bulbs, named varieties.. 5.00 
IIENKY EKBSMEHL, Batcliogue, L.I.N.Y. 
S1.00 
3.00 
FREE 
PIERCE BILB CO., Guarant-tested Bulbs, Be x 12, West Mtdway, Mass . 
D,.1K„ Twenty-one named varie- 
DUIDS ties, besides ruffled, primu- 
linus and mixed. Send for price 
list or send *1 for choice collection of 30 bulbs. 
Leon W. Bishop - Brldgewaler, New York 
Tool J’ l D il. $1 00. Dahlias, Cannas. Circular 
JU blaOtOlUS BUIDS A. SHERMAN. ChicopeeFalls,Mass 
GLADIOLI 
3d Mixed Bulbs, 6 colors. 
42 Fancy, 10 colors . 
Guaranteed to blossom. 
Colored Gladiolus Book, with cultural directions, 
DAHLIAS 
12 choice named varieties, $2. 
Where labels were lost, 12 for$l 
H 0. BENEDICT, .Meadow Brook, N.Y 
CORNELL No. M 
SEED CORN 
From the original source of tliis famous corn. Or¬ 
dinary seleet’n, S3 per bu. Special select n,54perbu. 
BRIGHTS1DE FARMS _-_ Aurora, N. Y. 
MARY WASHINGTON 
trust resistant ) 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
Queen of the Washington family. Largest, Earliest and 
Most Prolific Giant one-year roots, $17 per thousand. 
Choice varieties of Strawberry plants. Send for circular. 
JAYS. SKEHAN - Vineland, N. J. 
6ENUINE Martha Washington ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
Extra large selected Northern grown roots, SI 5 per 1,000; 
S2 per 100. Howard No. 1 7 Strawberry Plants, $12 per 
1 000; $2 per 100. Shipping charges collect. 
WILFK11) WHEELER Concord, Mass. 
W ashington—Mary Martha Aspnragus—Roots,Seed. 
Prolific—Early—llnst resistant. Send for price list. 
SAMUEL BURNLEY Seekonk, Mass. 
Everbearing Strawberry Plants 
S2 per 100; $15per 1,000, postpaid. Plants setouttliis 
Spring will bear Quantities of Delicious Berries tins 
Summer and Fall. BASIL PERRY. R.R. 5, Geornetown, Del- 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS $9 
New Ground Senator Dunlap. K,l “ 
HAMPTON & SON R. 7 Bangor, Mich. 
300 
r n Vw Lucretia Dewberry Plants mint, and sure 
to grow. $15 per M. Wm. E. Daly, Riverside, Michigan 
Certified Manchu—Midwest—Inoculation Dirt. 
C. B. NEW TON Bowling Green, Ohio 
FOR SALE— “WILSON'S” Soy Beans $3.25 Bush. 
Cow Peas . .... 3.25 
Mixed Cow Peas.. 3.00 
Joseph E. Holland Milford, Delaware 
Snnnyside Strain N«rN fl i»e Seed Potatoes 
Grow lug crops of smooth white potatoes. Selected 
13 years. Get our circular and prices before you buy. 
RILEY BROS. Sunnyside Farm Sennett, N. Y. 
CERTIFIED SEED POTATOES ^b S ble£s (1 
H. F, HUBBS - Kirkville, N. Y. 
Alnha CnnH Rarlpu New - heav y yielding, heavy weight 
Ripnd CDCU Ddlicy gram. Thomas Hasten, Hall, N.Y. 
Other Metcalf Specials: 
include Telephone, Alderman mid Thomas I.axtou 
Peas, Alberta Cluster Oats and recleaned Timothy 
and Alslkc, 20 % Alsikc. 
Bags free — freight prepaid on 250 lbs. 
Wr c today for free catalog illustrating the value, quality 
and service offered you in field seedB and farm supplies 
by the mail order department of the Metcalf stores. 
Your banker will gladly tell you aboutour responsibility 
B. F. Metcalf & Son, 202-204 W. Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Anyone who has ever bought 
“Hoyt’s Peach Trees” know 
what they are. We have a fine 
stock for this Spring. 
All trees of our own growing, 
4-6' high and 9-16" in diameter. 
Send in list at once and get 
prices and have varieties re¬ 
served. Address— 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons Co. 
Telephone 333 
New Canaan Conn. 
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Hoffman’s Seeds PAY!| 
Our“Lancaster County Sure Crop” is 
the best all-around Corn—a great 
silage Corn that also husks out 
well. Matures well to the North. 
Also “White Cap Yellow Dent” and 
other splendid varieties. 
Write today for free Samples 
and complete Catalog of all Farm 
Seeds. Hoffman’s Seeds Pay! 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc. 
Box 15-FLaDdisviUe, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
CABBAGE PLANTS 
We have about three millon spring grown 
cabbage plants, Early Jersey and Charles¬ 
ton Wakefields and Succession, now ready 
for shipping at the following prices: 
500 for. $1.00 6,000 lor.$ 7.00 
1,000 for. 1.50 10,000 for. 12.50 
f. o. b. by express 
Should you desire them shipped by parcel 
post add $1.00 per 1,000 to above prices. 
Your order solicited and satisfaction guaranteed 
S. M. GIBSON CO., Yonges Island, S. C. 
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. CHARLESION WAKEFIELD, FLAT DUTCH. 
COPENHAGEN MARKET and SUCCESSION. Prompt ship¬ 
ment of fine plants. TOMATO PLANTS, EARLIANA. RED- 
FIELD BEAUTY, LIVINGSTON GLOBE and GREATER BALTI¬ 
MORE. Postpaid, 250 for $1; 500 for' $1.60; 1.000 
for $3. Express Collect, $1.50 per 1,000. 
TIFTON POTATO COMPANY, Inc. Tifton, Georgia 
SEED CORN—10 Carloads Ensilage Seed quantity 
of Yellow Flint. Samples and prices on application. 
Germination good. IIAKKV V All,, Warwick, Orange Co., N.Y, 
Everbearing Strawberries in Colorado 
Different Conditions. —The question 
asked by one of your readers, H. J. T., 
on page 457, “What variety of everbear¬ 
ing strawberry would you suggest,” 
prompts me to write. The article ans¬ 
wering this inquirer offers little encour¬ 
agement to plant this wonderful strain 
of strawberries. I wonder if this class of 
berries is not better adapted to the dry 
Western soils, where moisture may be 
applied when needed, or withheld when 
not needed, or are the Eastern growers 
not subject to the market conditions we 
experience here? Whatever it is, the 
everbearing varieties are forging to the 
front in the West, and are fast crowding 
off the market the old, or June bearers. 
It is safe to say that in the vicinity of 
Denver 90 per cent of all strawberries 
now grown are of the everbearing kind. 
The only people planting the June va¬ 
rieties are the growers who have a ship¬ 
ping trade, and supply the mountain 
towns during June and part of July, or 
until their own section ripens the ever- 
bearing crop, which varies according to 
altitude. 
Crowding Each Other Out. —The 
growers in the Denver district have for 
years been running up against a hard 
proposition, because this market has been, 
and continues to be, the dumping ground 
for strawberries from all sections where 
climatic conditions favor the ripening 
earlier than our own. Thus, from March 
to June the Denver markets have been 
supplied with outside berries of various 
kinds and diverse quality. Consequently, 
when the home crop comes on the consum¬ 
ing public has had its fill of strawberries 
and are more interested in California 
Loganberries, raspberries and other ber¬ 
ries and fruit which arrive about the 
same time, and with which the home 
strawberry growers have had to compete. 
Everbearers Gaining in Popularity. 
—Although the June varieties have not 
been completely abandoned, it is safe to 
say that 75 per cent of strawberries 
grown the past few years have been of 
the better class of everbearer in the vicin¬ 
ity of Denver and the mountain districts. 
And as this new race is improving in size 
and quality it is also gaining in popu¬ 
larity. Unless something unforeseen hap¬ 
pens, the everbearers will eventually take 
the place of the June bearers here, and 
other places similarly situated. 
How Everbearers Are Handled.— 
On account of the conditions previously 
mentioned, no effert is put forth to grow 
or market a large crop during June, or 
until the smaller fruits are disappearing 
from the markets. However, growers 
whose specialty is strawberries, and de¬ 
pendent upon them for a living, have fig¬ 
ured out a plan by which a moderate 
crop is bad continuously until the mar¬ 
kets are able to absorb all that are grown, 
which means the last two months of the 
growing season in Fall. The plan is 
simple, but often laborious. The plants 
are set in the usual way in Spring, and 
grown under restriction; all blossom 
stems and runners are removed to July 
20. From then on a moderate number of 
the strongest fruit stems are allowed to 
fruit until August 20; after that, restric¬ 
tion ceases, and a very large crop is the 
result, which is all taken by dealers at a 
good price and profit to the grower. But 
this is merely the beginning. The re¬ 
striction of the mother plant has con¬ 
served much of the energy, usually wast¬ 
ed ; therefore the plants go into Winter 
quarters prepared for a record produc¬ 
tion the following June, should reports 
from the shipping State indicate a short 
crop or adverse climatic conditions favor¬ 
ing poor quality. On the other hand, in 
seasons of large supply, the Spring crop 
is curtailed or restricted by cutting or 
mowing the plants when in full bloom, 
which affects the first or June crop only, 
so far as the quantity is concerned, but 
produces a larger and firmer berry later. 
A patch thus treated is immediately cul¬ 
tivated, irrigated and mulched with well- 
prepared manure, and will continue to 
produce the finest fruit in whatever quan¬ 
tity the grower desires, depending upon 
the restriction, manure and management 
of the patch. Could you do this w r ith the 
June fruiting sorts? In the mean¬ 
time the patch set in the Spring will now 
come on and supplement the crop picked 
from the one-year patch, w T hich will now 7 , 
at the end of the season, be turned under 
and seeded to rye. 
Mountain-grown Everbearers. —The 
growers of head lettuce in the high alti¬ 
tudes have discovered that by a special 
method of culture the everbearing straw- 
berries are equally successful and far sur¬ 
pass in size and appearance those grown 
in the altitude of Denver, and as they 
have no competition, aside from crops 
grown lower down, a new industry, a fit 
companion to the head lettuce, is about t-o 
become a reality. On account of the 
short growing season and low tempera¬ 
ture, the everbearing plants are capable 
of fruiting little, if any, the first season 
planted; therefore growers do not en¬ 
courage fruiting, but remove whatever 
may set, and thus throw all the plant’s 
energy into the formation of fruiting 
crown for the following season. Some 
go a step higher after the plantation is 
under way, by fruiting the patches alter¬ 
nately, or every other season. By follow¬ 
ing the latter method a large crop of the 
finest fruit is had, ranging over a period 
of from eight to 10 weeks. In order to 
harvest a crop each and every year, two 
or three different patches are required, so 
that while one is fruiting the other is 
resting and forming strong crowns and 
buds for its forthcoming crop. The cul¬ 
ture of strawberries in the high altitudes 
is more simple, less expensive and re¬ 
quires little if any fertilizer, yet climatic 
changes and severe storms are not the 
only drawback. Irrigation is rarely need¬ 
ed and insects are unknown. No Winter 
mulching is necessary, and the crop grows 
luxuriantly with little attention. The 
regular June varieties where tried and 
when not destroyed by late frosts, pro¬ 
duced marvelous fruit, but it was up to 
the non-killing everbearers to produce the 
goods regularly. With these varieties, a 
frost during the blooming period has 
often proved a blessing, because it has 
thinned the blossoms so that the fruit was 
all first-class. Even should the entire 
crop of blossoms be destroyed by late 
frost, or a hail, we would still harvest an 
abundance of berries. You cannot stop 
the everbearer from fruiting. They are 
as sure as the annual tax. The varieties 
best adapted for this climate are Progres¬ 
sive, Peerless, Superb and Pride of Den¬ 
ver, a seedling from Superb and Fendall. 
World’s Champion, as some call it, is a 
seedling from Progressive, and judging 
from its behavior in the West, may even¬ 
tually supersede Progressive. 
Colorado. g. w. huber. 
Shelling Beans in a Clothes Wringer 
For many years I have been reading 
The R. N.-Y. with great relish ; the dem¬ 
onstrations are just fine. Reading 
Mrs. Ada J. Usher’s demonstration, “A 
Woman and Her Canning Business,” is 
worth a great deal to the readers of The 
R. N.-Y. One word of praise and some 
help to the readers, and I will just dem¬ 
onstrate. Many years ago an old friend 
came to see how I was getting along in 
my work, raising small fruits for Boston 
and local markets. I told him I was 
meeting with great success in selling 
small fruit; the market was good; every¬ 
thing sold that had the quality. He was 
growing vegetables for Bangor, Me., and 
among some of his vegetables were string 
beans. When some of the string beaus 
were too old he shelled them for local 
trade, and met with great sales among his 
customers. The great question with me 
was how he could shell so many beans by 
hand in a short time. He told me to take 
an old clothes wringer and fasten it to a 
box; set the wringer just right; one 
turned the wringer and the other put the 
string beans in endwise. They will go 
through all right as fast as they could be 
put there, and the pods would go through 
the rollers and the beans slip hack all 
right without a blemish on them. I have 
sold many quarts of string beans that 
were too hard for string and just right 
for shell beans, which find a ready mar¬ 
ket. The beans do not go through the 
wringer; only the shells. Green peas 
can be shelled the same way, which will 
save lots of labor, A. A, EASTMAN. 
