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Vegetable-Grass-Flowers 
Good old reliable New England 
quality seeds—known by their deeds 
—their prolific productivity. 
Sold without premiums. Their qual¬ 
ity alone occasions the enormous 
demand. 
72 pages profusely illustrated of our 
130-Page 1924 Year Book devoted to 
careful detailed description and prices 
of Ross Seeds. You will surely find 
just what you want. Write for your 
free copy today. 
Order Soon 
Have your seeds on hand just when 
you want them. Avoid Spring 
shipping delays. 
ROSS BROTHERS CO. 
WORCESTER, MASS. (1724) 
ROSS’ 
EUREKA CORN 
Popular 88 years. Produces more tons of good material for silo. 
Regular grade 60 cents 1-2 pk.: 90 cents peck: Bushel (66 lbs.) 
$3.00: 10 bushels or more $2.76 per bushel. 
Inquire prices on hand picked grade 
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 60-lb.SI 6. BO 
ALSIKE— Metcalf’s recleaned; per bu. 
of 60-lb. #1 2.00 
SWEET CLOVER— Metcalf's Scarified 
White Blossom; perbu. of 60-lb-SI 2.00 
TIMOTHY — Metcalf’s recleaned; per 
bu. of 45-lb.$4.70 
Other Mietcalf Specials: 
Include Telephone, Alderman and Thomas I.axton 
I’eaa, Alberta Cluster tbits and reeleaned Timothy 
and AUlke, 20% Alslke. 
Bags tree —freight prepaid on 250 lbs. 
Wr e today for free catalog illustrating the value, quality 
and service offered you in field seeds and farm supplies 
by the mail order department of the Metcalf stores. 
Your banker will gladly tell you about our responsibility 
B. F. Metcalf & Son. 202-204 W. Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y. 
CABBAGE PLANTS 
Fulwood’s Frost Proof plants will produce headed 
cabbage three weeks before your home grown plants 
aud 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; 600 for $1.75; 1,000 for $3.00. 
First-class plants and safe arrival guaranteed. 
P. D. FUL WOOP - - Tifton, Ga. 
FROST-PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS 
EARLY JERSEY. CHARLESTON WAKEFIELD, FLAT DUTCH, 
COPENHAGEN MARKET and S0CCESSI0N. Prompt ship¬ 
ment of line plants TOMATO PLANTS. EARLIANA, RED- 
FIELD BEAUTY, LIVIN^^^ 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 
CA^iAGE PLANTS 
Five million fine outdoor grown "FROST PROOF” 
Cabbage Plants. Wakefields, Copenhagen, Allhead, 
Succession. 300, 8*1*00; 50U, 8*1.25; 1,000, 812.00. 
Mailed postpaid. Expressed. 10,000, 8*15.00; 5,000, 
8*8.00. Tomato Plants, 300 , 8*1.50 ; 500, 8*2.00; 
1 000 , 8*3.00, prepaid. Expressed, 5,000 , 8*10.00. 
Sweet Potato Plants— Porto Rico Yams. Big Stem 
Yellow Jersey, 300, 8* 1.50 ; 500,8*2.00; 1,000, 8*3.50, 
prepaid. Expressed, 5,000 , 8*15.00. Cash. Fine 
Plants, well packed, good order delivery guaranteed 
or money refunded. J. P. Counclll Company, 
Wholesale Growers, Franklin, Virginia. 
Frostproof Cabbage Plants T 
$ 1 . 50 ; 1,000—$2.50. Insured,postpaid, well packed. 10,000. 
express.collect,$17.50. Tomato,Sweet Potato, May deliv¬ 
er. Write forjrarte^^ 
MAPLE GROVE PLANT I 
Franklin, Virginia 
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. 
CDflQT in I f FH Green Mountain Seed Potatoes. 
rnUJ I IV1I.LLU certified N. Y. State College of 
Agrieulture. Famous Reeves Strain. Practically disease 
free. Walter Miller, tVlIltamstowo, Oswego Co., New York 
CERTIFIED SEEdToTaToeY COBBLER^ 
H. F. HUBBS - Kirkville, N. Y. 
HEAVY 
ALBERTAA ATC 
CLUSTER, CANADIAN GROWN 
(Weight 46 lbs. to measured bu.) 
$1.20 per bu. of 32 lbs. Freight paid on 9 bu. or more. 
B. F . METCALF & SON, Inc. s 2 Y 0 R 2 Ac8i E w - Gcnesee *fe. y 
SEED CORN—10 Carloads Ensilage Seed quantity 
of Yellow Flint." Samples and prices on application. 
Germination good. IIAUUY YAH., Warwick, Orange Co., N.T. 
FOR SALE— “WILSON’S” Soy Beans $3.25 Bush. 
Cow Peas.•••• 3.25 
Mixed Cow Peas. . 3.00 ‘ 
Joseph E. Holland Milford, Delaware 
Qnu Don no Blft c k Eyebrow, $4 per bu. 
OOy Deans TTS0H. BRUMFIELD S TYSON Edgewood, Maryland 
GENUINE Martha Washington ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
Extra large selected Northern grown roots. $ 1 5 per 1,000; 
$2 per 100. Howard No. 17 Strawberry Plants, $12 per 
1.000; $2 per 100. Shipping charges collect. 
WILFRID WHEELER Concord, Mass. 
Stand well Oats and Cornell 
Eleven Corn, make a eombina- 
We guarantee prompt ship- 
Kobeon Seed Farm, Hall, N. Y. 
Certified Alpha Barley 
tion that Is hard to equal, 
ment on all seed. 
Alpha Seed Barley 
New, heavy yielding, heavy weight 
grain. Thomas Haslett, Hall, N.Y. 
Trailing Arbutus in the Garden 
Can arbutus be transplanted? What 
time of the year, and will it grow in the 
garden with other flowers, or should it 
be planted in its new home under the 
same conditions as before it was moved? 
Muskegon, Mich. c. w. F. 
The trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens, 
requires an acid, peaty, well-aerated soil, 
such as is congenial to our native blue¬ 
berry. Wild plants may be transplanted, 
preferably in Fall or very early Spring. 
They should be lifted with an abundant 
mat of soil, so that the roots are not dis¬ 
turbed, and should be shaded until new 
roots are formed. If lifted in the Fall 
an abundant mulch of leaves should be 
given. Every effort should be made to 
approximate natural conditions. It is 
very unlikely to grow in the garden with 
other garden flowers, but would find a, 
congenial home among shrubs that require 
rather sandy acid soil. 
Aster Culture 
The cover picture for March 22 showed 
a flower garden conducted by Ernest 
Hahn of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hahn now 
gives us this little note about the way he 
grows asters: 
As to aster culture, they grow for me 
like a cabbage plant. If I want them 
early I sow them early; I have sowed 
them as late as June and had the very 
finest flowers. Always sow them in beds. 
They grow very rapidly; when large 
enough set them in rows 3 ft. apart and 
1 ft. in the row so they may have horse 
cultivation, and it gives a person a bet¬ 
ter chance to cut. When cutting, cut 
stems as long as possible, even with an 
extra bud, before the flower is entirely 
open, then put them in a jar of water in 
the cellar until morning; then they will 
be ready for market without wilting. 1 
always change on a new piece of ground 
every year. The black bugs will bother, 
but we hand pick them ; they then will 
soon disappear. I had the loveliest Chrys¬ 
anthemum asters last Fall I ever had. 
Any aster does well for me; once in a 
while I lose one by the yellows, but not 
enough to speak of. ernest iiahn. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Record Strawberry Yield 
East week the Hope Farm man told of 
a gardener on Cape Cod who grew 10,000 
quarts of strawberries on half an acre. 
Tell us more about this. J. 
A mistake was made in the figures. 
The following report of the case is made 
in The Farm Bureau News, published on 
Cape Cod: 
Eighteen thousand quarts of straw¬ 
berries per acre is some yield ! Joe Monez 
of Teatieket hit this place when he har¬ 
vested 150 60-quart crates from a meas¬ 
ured half acre last Spring. 
Mr. Monez has been growing straw- 
b°rries in Falmouth for a number of 
years. He is one of the pioneers in that 
voluminous industry for which his town 
is famous. He, like others who began when 
strawberry growing was in its infancy, 
has had the usual run of luck—good and 
bad. Years when the money from his 
strawberry crop was barely enough to 
clothe the family; years when all the 
money from the crop failed even to pay 
for the fertilizer and the baskets; then 
years when returns were very satisfac¬ 
tory and the joys of living on Cape Cod 
were multiplied manifold. 
Joe knows what it means to grub a 
clearing out of a Cape Cod wilderness 
like the pioneers of old, and from his 
labors make a home, raise a family, and 
establish himself as a true, staunch 
citizen. He has lived through years of 
privation; years when unscrupulous 
Americans have deceived him; years 
when the sweat of his brew has been 
paid for many times over by his not un¬ 
derstanding the ways of unreliable com¬ 
mission men, the science of modern busi¬ 
ness methods and the tricks of the trade. 
But in spite of it all, silver linings ap¬ 
peared through the clouds from time to 
time, and today Joe is recorded as hold¬ 
ing the record for the greatest yield of 
strawberries on a half acre of ground. 
The land was cleared and stumps 
pulled from this half acre in the early 
Winter of 1921. The following Spring 
Howard 17 strawberries were set in rows 
5 ft. apart with plants 14 in. in the row. 
About five weeks after setting, fertilizer 
was applied —• maybe a tablespoonful 
around each plant. In the early Spring 
of 1923 10 bags of a 4-8-4 fertilizer were 
used over the whole bed. Of course all 
runners that formed in 1922 were prop¬ 
erly placed by hand, as is the custom in 
this section ; the rows were kept clean. 
Joe has nearly 2 y 2 acres in strawber¬ 
ries. They are all the Howard 17 va¬ 
riety, and he doesn’t want any other kind 
for the present. He claims they are a 
better plant than the Echo, and invaria¬ 
bly bring more money. He also raises 
from 500 to 1.000 bushels of t vrnins each 
year, has a good sizable pota o crop, and 
raised a little sweet corn this year for 
the first time to sell. He has a horse, a 
cow, a pig, and 15 hens, which is quite 
typical of those residing within the 
strawberry area. 
I 
"Pyrox 
for mine l ' 0 
Crops cost too much 
to risk with unreliable sprays 
T HE real business farmer never thinks 
of growing vegetables and fruit crops 
without carefully selected sprays. For 
their job is to protect his profits. He 
knows he can trust Pyrox! 
Pyrox, based on 25 years’ experience 
with sprays, is a deadly poison and a 
powerful fungicide, extra high in copper. 
Bugs can’t live, disease makes little prog¬ 
ress where it is sprayed; plants grow 
sturdy, fruits luscious, vegetables fat and 
firm under its invigorating power. Ideal 
for home gardens. 
Pyrox is a smooth, finely milled paste. 
Easy to buy—in jars, cans, drums and 
barrels; easy to mix; easy to spray through 
finest nozzles. Sticks! Your dealer has 
it or can get it for you. 
You can now buy all your spray materials from 
the complete Bowker line. 
Bowlter’s Arsenate of Lead—Dry powdered and paste. 
Bowker’s Calcide—Highgrade calcium arsenate ; quick-acting. 
Bowker’s Bodo—A ready-mixed Bordeaux, 10% copper. 
Bowker’s Lime Sulphur—Concentrated liquid and dry. 
Bowker’s Dusting Materials—Sulphur, Copper, etc. 
Nicotine Sulphate. 
BOWKER CHEMICAL COMPANY 
49 Chambers St., New York 
r seauc-pxr, or*. 
the powerful triple-duty spray 
Kills bugs—controls diseases—stimulates growth 
Established in 1880 . 
True 
Send for 1924 Catalog 
O UR new 1924 catalog tells how 60,000 
ot our trees have a certified, true-to- 
name Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ 
Association seal fastened through a limb 
to stay there until the tree bears true-to- 
name fruit as guaranteed by us. 
Orders will be filled in order of their 
receipt as long as the stock lasts. Write 
for catalog and get your order in early. 
Packed by Expert* 
Our 44 years of nursery experience has 
taught us the proper method 
of handling and packing young 
trees so they reach you in 
proper condition. 
Write today for your copy of 
the Fruit Book 
Kelly Bros. Nurseries 
1160 Main St., Dansville, N. Y. 
MALONEY TREES 
Fruit and Ornamentals, Vines, Shrubs, 
Maloney A-l quality, selected from the 
choicest stock grown in our 400-acre nur¬ 
series. Direct to you at cost plus one 
profit only. Hardy, fresh dug, healthy, 
true to name—Write for free descriptive 
catalog firivlncr valuable information about 
nursery stock. We prepay tra nsportion 
charges. See catalog. 
MALONEY BROS. NURSERY OO.. INC. 
Oansville’s Pioneer Nurseries. 45 Main St., Oansville.N. V. 
arrues 
Peach Trees 
We are perhaps the largest 
f rowersof PeachT rees in N ew 
ngland. Our seedlings are 
grown from disease-free seed 
and budded from healthy stock. 
These Trees develop magnifi¬ 
cent root systems in our fertile 
soil. A third of a century’s ex¬ 
perience has taught us how to 
grow PeachTrees that you can 
depend upon. Our stock also 
includes Apple, Pear, Plum and 
Cherry Trees and a variety of 
Small Fruits. 
Our Fruit Book will interest you. Write 
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'THE BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO. 
The Original Barnet Nureery, Eslahliehed 1890 
Box 8 YALESVILLE, CONN. 
Anyone who has ever bought 
Anyc 
“Ho’ 
loyt’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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(Founded 1818) 
DEPARTMENT C-107 BALTIMORE, MD. 
