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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  17,  1923 
25th  Anniversary  of  Forrest’s  Seeds 
You  Can  t  Get  More  Value  No 
Matter  How  Much  You  Pay 
For  eighteen  years  we  have  had  one 
grower  on  the  Island  of  Amagar  in  Denmark 
(where  the  best  Danish  cabbage  seed  is 
grown)  grow  our  Danish  Cabbage  Seed.  He 
is  one  of  the  very  few  growers  in  Denmark 
that  owns  his  own  land,  grows  his  own  cab¬ 
bage  and  selects  the  heads  to  be  set  out  for 
seed.  He  is  considered  one  of  the  best,  if  not 
the  best,  grower  in  Denmark,  and  commands 
a  higher  price  for  his  seed  than  many  other 
growers.  Our  Copenhagen  market  cabbage  is 
grown  by  the  same  grower. 
NOTE  OUR  LOW  PRICES. 
Copenhagen  Market 
$3.00  lb . 80c  Oz . 30c  Pkt... ‘..5c 
Glory  of  Enkhuzen  ( Origination  Stock  from  Holland) 
Lb... 
..$3.00  J4  lb  •  • 
. . ,80c 
Oz 
. 30c 
Pkt.. 
Early  Jersey  Wakefield. 
No  Better  Stock. 
Lb... 
..$2.25  54  lb. . 
Oz 
. 20c 
Pkt.. 
Late  Flat  Dutch. 
Lb... 
..$2.25  lb. . 
Oz 
. 20c 
Pkt. . 
Selected  Onion  Seed. 
10  lbs.  and 
over. 
Per  Lb. 
Lb. 
Va  Lb. 
Oz. 
Pkt. 
Globe. 
. $1.80 
$2.00 
.65 
.20 
.05 
Globe 
: .  1.25 
1.35 
.40 
.15 
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iobe . . . 
.  1.40 
1.50 
.50 
.15 
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.  1.25 
1.35 
.40 
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1.35 
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Southport  White 
Southport  Yellow 
Southport  Red  G1 
Yellow  Globe  Dan 
Red  Wethersfield 
Our  twenty-fifth  anniversary  catalogue  gives  you  correspondingly  low 
prices  on  all  farm,  vegetable  and  flower  seeds.  Just  drop  a  postal  card. 
THE  FORREST  SEED  CO.,  Inc.  Box  32,  Cortland,  N.  Y 
The  Most  Successful  Gardeners  use  HARRIS’  SEEDS 
That’s  one  reason  they  are  successful.  Another  Is  that,  to  succeed,  a  gardener  must  be  a 
sbiewd  man  and  one  who  knows  where  to  buy  seeds  to  the  best  advantage.  Harris’  seeds  are 
grown  in  the  north  and  produce  earlier  and  better  crops  than  seeds  grown  further  south. 
They  are  raised  according  to  modern  scientific  methods  of  breeding  which  keeps  them  up  to 
the  highest  possible  standard  as  to  quality  and  yield. 
Harris’  seeds  are  sold  direct  from  our  farm  to  gardeners  at  wholesale  prices.  We  do  not 
sell  to  dealers  at  a  lower  price.  There  is  a  label  on  every  lot  of1  seeds  telling  just  how  many 
seeds  out  of  100  germinated  in  our  test.  We  raise  Vegetable  seeds,  Flower  seeds  and  Farm 
seeds,  all  of  the  very  highest  quality.  Catalogue  free.  If  you  raise  vegetables  for  market 
ask  for  our  Market.  Gardeners'  price  list  also. 
JOSEPH  HARRIS  CO.,  Box  23,  Coldwater,  N.  Y 
Certified 
*  Blue  Tag  a 
Seed  Potatoes 
Their  actual  use  has  shown  a  yield  2  or  3 
times  greater  than  from  the  use  of  local 
seed. 
They  are  healthy,  selected,  high  yielding 
strains,  grown  under  rigid  inspection. 
Machine  graded  and  hand  sorted  to  con¬ 
tain  only  sound  tubers  weighing  2  to  12 
ounces. 
Packed  in  even  weight  sacks  holding  8,  10 
or  11  pecks  as  ordered. 
The  Blue  Tag  on  every  Bag  is  your  pro¬ 
tection  against  inferior  seed. 
Let  us  know  your  requirements  and  the 
variety  you  prefer.  Attractive  prices. 
Our  supply  is  limited.  Don't  delay. 
N,  Y.  Coop.  Seed  Potato  Ass’n,  luc. 
103  Byrne  Bldg.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  A 
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DIBBLES 
Northern  grown  from  pedigree  stock  seed,  on 
soils  especially  adapted  to  the  best  development, 
of  each  variety,  are  unexcelled  as  to  purity, 
quality,  ’  vigor,  freedom  from  disease  and  pro¬ 
ductiveness.  For  this  Spring's  planting,  we 
offer  a  stock  of  around 
100,000  BUSHELS 
which  were  taken  direct  from  fields  where  the 
vines  ripened  naturally  or  grew  green  until  killed 
by  frost  in  the  late  Autumn.  Our  list  comprises 
“The  best  fourteen  varieties” 
extra  early,  early,  medium  and  late,  a  selection 
approved  by  Dr.  William  Stuart  of  the  U.  S. 
Department  o  Agriculture,  whom  we  consider 
the  greatest  American  authority  on  potatoes. 
The  best  potato  for  main  crop  is  Dibble's  Russet, 
a  variety  that  we  have  foundto  be  more  vigorous 
in  growth,  more  free  from  disease,  and  more  pro¬ 
ductive  than  any  other  sort  now  grown  on 
American  soil.  Scores  of  our  customers  have 
written  us  that  Dibble's  Russet  “has  doubled 
their  crops."  If  your  crop  last  season  was  un¬ 
satisfactory,  or  if  your  seed  is  “run  out”  now'  is 
the  time  to  get  new  stock  seed.  Seed  potatoes  are 
cheap  this  year.  W e  have  a  few  thousand  bushels 
of  Dibble's  Certified  Russets  at  most  attractive 
prices.  Send  at  once  for  Dibble’s  Farm  Seed 
Catalog,  10  sample  packages  of  Dibble’s  FIYt'E1 
Farm  Seeds  and  up-to-date  Price  List  i  IxIjIj 
Address ,  Edward  F.  Dibble  Seedgrower,  Box  B,  Honeoye  Falls,  N.  Y. 
HEADQUARTERS  for  Seed  Potatoes,  Com,  Oats,  Alfalfa,  Clover,  Grass  and  All  Farm  Seeds 
THE  MAILBAG 
The  Strawberry  Leaf-roller 
What  is  the  best  dust  or  spray  to  use 
for  strawberry  blight  that  is  caused  by 
worms  which  curl  the  leaves  and  hatch 
into  moth  in  the  Spring?  Soon  the  berry 
patch  looks  as  if  a  fire  had  gone  over  it. 
There  were  quite  a  few  worms  in  my 
new  berry  bed  last  Summer.  w.  b.  it. 
North  Wales,  Pa. 
I  suppose  the  insect  troubling  the 
strawberry  plants  of  W.  B.  II.  is  the 
common  strawberry  leaf-roller.  The  light 
reddish-brown  moths  appear  during  May 
and  lay  their  pale  green  eggs  on  the  under 
sides  of  the  leaves.  The  eggs  hatch  in 
about  one  week,  and  the  caterpillars  roll 
the  leaves  and  eat  off  the  epidermis  until 
the  leaves  dry  up,  turn  brown,  and  look 
as  though  scorched  by  tire. 
Frequent  spraying  with  arsenate  of 
lead  paste,  3  lbs.  to  50  gals,  of  water,  or 
with  powdered  arsenate  of  lead,  1V2  lbs. 
to  50  gals.,  is  the  best  means  of  control. 
In  order  to  make  the  solution  stick  to  the 
leaves  and  spread  over  them,  it  is  best  to 
add  2  or  3  lbs.  of  laundry  soap  (dissolved 
in  hot  water)  to  the  spray  mixture.  One 
application  should  be  made  as  the  plants 
begin  blossoming  and  a  second  about  two 
weeks  later.  Strawberry  beds  about  to 
be  abandoned  should  be  plowed  under  and 
not  allowed  to  remain  as  breeding  places 
for  the  insect.  glenn  w.  herrtck. 
Crushing  Stones  for  Fertilizer 
I  notice  in  traveling  through  North  and 
Northwest  New  Jersey  that  almost  afl  the 
farms  are  very  stony.  Do  you  think  it 
would  pay  to  purchaser  a  stone  crusher 
and  travel  from  place  to  place  crushing 
the  stones  into  dust,  thereby  relieving. the 
farmers  of  the  (tests  and  turning  it  into 
fertilizer?  Are  the  stones  composed  of 
fertilizing  composition?  james  durst. 
No.  We  can  safely  say  that  it,  would 
not  pay.  Some  stones,  like  forms  of 
granite,  contain  quantities  of  potash,  and 
for  many  years  costly  experiments  have 
been  made  to  render  this  potash  available. 
There  are  dozens  of  processes  for  doing 
this,  taken  out  under  patents.  One  of 
the  most  promising  consists  of  crushing 
the  dust,  putting  it  into  a  solution  of 
chemicals  and  then  passing  an  electric 
current  through  it.  This  was  tried  in 
New  England,  where  potash  is  needed  in 
the  soil,  and  is  contained  in  many  of  the 
rocks.  The  process  costs  too  much  for 
profitable  working.  Several  parties  have 
tried  putting  crushed  rock  on  the  market 
as  a  fertilizer.  It  did  not  pay.  You 
could  not  hape  to  crush  rocks  to  dust 
with  an  ordinary  rock  crusher.  You 
might  find  some  work  at  crushing  rock 
for  road  work,  but  this  idea  of  turning 
rocks  into  fertilizer  is  a  dream  which  we 
advise  you  promptly  to  forget. 
Sewage  Pollution  of  Well 
The  sewage  of  the  house  is  coming 
down  from  a  sink  into  the  ground.  The 
well  is  situated  3S  ft.  lower.  The  surface 
of  the  water  is  14  ft.  from  the  ground. 
Is  it  possible  that  the  sewage  should  pol¬ 
lute  the  water?  We  noticed  the  taste  of 
the  water  changes  somewhat.  E.  P. 
Branchville,  N.  ,1. 
Yes;  it  is  perfectly  possible  for  a  cess¬ 
pool  or  other  accumulation  of  house  sew¬ 
age  to  pollute  a  well  38  ft.  distant,  and 
if  the  well  is  below  the  sewage,  the  like¬ 
lihood  of  its  doing  so  is  increased.  In 
general,  the  underground  flow  of  soil 
waters  follows  the  grade  of  the  surface, 
and  a  well  situated  on  a  lower  grade  than 
a  cesspool  and  between  it  and  a  stream 
toward  which  surface  water  flows  is  in 
greater  danger  of  contamination  than  one 
on  a  higher  level  than  the  source  of  pol¬ 
lution.  There  are,  however,  underground 
channels  and  obstructions  to  the  natural 
course  of  water  that  make  it  impossible 
to  say,  in  any  given  instance,  just  what 
may  happen.  m.  b.  d. 
Origin  of  Indian  Summer 
I  have  been  interested  in  reading  the 
accounts  of  the  time  and  origin  of  Indian 
Summer.  Perhaps  the  legend  as  told  me 
by  an  Oneida  Indian  will  be  of  interest: 
“In  the  Fall  Indian  lazy,  no  gather 
crops;  snow  come,  cover  everything  up, 
so  Indian  starve.  Great  Spirit  sorry  for 
Indian,  potaoes  not  dug,  corn  not  gath¬ 
ered,  so  He  send  Indian  Summer  to  give 
Indian  another  chance  to  gather  crops.” 
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State  inspected.  Order  direct  or  send  for  free 
catalogue  describing  29  varieties. 
M.  S.  PRYOR,  R.  F.  D.,  Salisbury.  Md. 
STRAWBERRY  and  Raspberry  Plants 
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Genuine.  Cheap.  2  sample  vines  mailed  for  20c.  Descriptive 
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little  care.  Small  Fruits  to  bear  second  year— Cur¬ 
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Price  list  free.  David  Kodway  Hartly,  Delawait 
CERTIFIED  SEED  POTATOES 
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years.  Two  first  prizes  New  York  State  Fair,  1922 
Plant  them  to  insure  big  crops  of  smooth  white  po¬ 
tatoes.  Beautifully  illustrated  circular  on  request. 
Also  Green  Mts  and  Cobbler*.  K1I.EV  JtttOS., Seimctt, N  I. 
Certified  Russet  SEED  POTATOES 
Strain  led  Russets  2  years  in  Starrs  Station  Test.  Write 
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