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Why Grow 
Scabby Potatoes? 
You needn’t 
if you use 
lnocSul 
Inoculated Sulphur 
It will positively over¬ 
come the scab organism 
and keep the crop clean, 
bright and marketable. 
Inoc-Sul is dependable insurance 
against potato scab. It cleans up 
infected fields—it keeps uninfected 
fields clean. It is inexpensive and 
easily applied, requiring no special 
machinery. Broadcast by hand, 
fertilizer or lime broadcaster, or 
seed drill. 
Inoc-Sul strikes at the very root 
of the potato scab evil— it overcomes 
the scab organism IN THE SOIL, not 
merely the scab on the seed, as does 
seed treatment. 
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out cost or obligation, tell you all 
about Inoc-Sul— what it is—where 
to get it—how to use it—how it will 
save your market losses. Tell us 
how many acres of potatoes you 
will plant and the name of your 
dealer. 
TEXAS GULF 
SULPHUR CO. 
Desk B, 41 East 42nd St. 
New York City 
Inoc-Sul is the best form 
of sulphur for any farm 
use—dusting seed, preserv¬ 
ing manure, fertilizer, soil 
corrective and livestock. 
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Fertilizer Sower 
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Good distribution is assured with the 
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fertilizer saved and better crops. Force 
feed prevents fertilizers from clogging or 
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Steven9 Fertili¬ 
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for two horses 
but can be ad¬ 
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Sows in rows 
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ELLIS KEYSTONE AGRICULTURAL WORKS 
Pottstown - Pennsylvania 
Squash Insects 
Will you tell me what to do to keep 
squash vines from being destroyed by in¬ 
sects? Will any kind of spraying.or 
dusting effectively protect the vines from 
these pests? Will planting the squash as 
early as the season permits give them a 
better chance to grow away from the 
beetles? v. K. 
New York. 
Two insects are particularly trouble¬ 
some to squash growers, the squash bug 
and the vine-borer. The adult bugs win¬ 
ter under vines and trash in the garden, 
so all vines should be destroyed as soon as 
the crop is off. Many remaining bugs 
will be killed in that way, and their Win¬ 
ter harbor removed. There is no contact 
spray that will kill the adult bugs with¬ 
out damaging the tender vines, but dusts 
or sprays with a nicotine base are useful 
repellants, and some growers report good 
results from soapsuds with a mechanical 
mixture of sulphur. These adults soon 
lay eggs which will be found in masses 
under the leaves. If it is possible to get 
children or others to hand-pick these egg 
masses and adults, much of the later 
trouble will be saved. The young bugs 
may be killed by contact sprays of mod¬ 
erate strength, but are difficult to get at. 
In combatting the vine-borer, early 
squashes as trap crops may be planted, 
the borers in the vines being destroyed 
when they are pulled and burned. The 
regular crop is planted as late as is safe¬ 
ly possible, and suffers much less. On a 
small scale many vines may be saved by 
cutting out the borer, if this is done in 
time. Look closely for any that show 
signs of flagging strength, and examine 
the stems near the ground for a whitish 
appearance and softness of texture. Slit 
the vine lengthwise at such spot, spread 
slightly and remove the borer found. Then 
throw earth over the cut spot. It is a 
good plan to bury the other joints of the 
vine to encourage rooting at these points 
and thus provide additional strength for 
the plant. 
The striped cucumber beetle sometimes 
is troublesome on squashes. Useful re¬ 
pellants are tobacco dust or a mixture of 
air-slaked lime and fine sulphur. 
Spraying for Oyster Shell Scale 
What is the matter with my trees? 
The twigs are covered with brownish 
scales like on the twigs inclosed, e. w. 
North Creek, N. Y. 
The twigs were covered with oyster- 
shell scale, the scale deriving its name 
from the likeness to an elongated oyster 
shell. This is the most common and the 
most easily controlled of scale diseases. 
You should spray the trees with a dor¬ 
mant spray of lime-sulphur, using one 
gallon of lime-sulphur to eight of water, 
making application before the leaves are 
out. Other materials will also control 
the insect, such as a miscible oil, but 
since lime-sulphur is thoroughly reliable 
for the control of oyster-shell scale, with 
no chance for injury to the trees, it is 
usually preferred. H. B. T. 
Information About Cranberry Culture 
I wish to get nil information available 
regarding a cranberry bog. There is a 
creek running through center of it. I 
understand that they dam it up, put a 
gate with a screen on one side and when 
cranberries are ripe (hey put the gate 
down to raise water over cranberries, and 
when cranberries rise to top of water they 
lift or open the gate with screen on and 
catch the cranberries in a basin and shov¬ 
el them into baskets. This bog has never 
to my knowledge been planted in to cran¬ 
berries, but man who owned this place 
some years ago used to pick several bar¬ 
rels of crapberries. Could make about 
six acres cranberries on it. I never saw 
a commercial cranberry bog and I would 
like to get all the information possible. 
IIow much is a good, developed, cranberry 
bog worth per acre? w. J. c. 
New York. 
The great bulk of cranberries are picked 
from the dry bog by scoops. There is a 
small section in Wisconsin where water 
raking is sometimes practiced. When this 
is done the water is raised sufficiently so 
that the berries still attached to the vines 
float and can be more rapidly taken off by 
the scoop because they are all at one 
level. If the water is raised higher than 
the vines, the berries are submerged. I 
have frequently seen berries still on the 
vines after they had been flooded all Win¬ 
ter. A bulletin on cranberry culture, is¬ 
sued by the New Jersey Station at New 
Brunswick, will give the information you 
want. E. C. W. 
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