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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  24,  1023 
METCALF’S  QUALITY  SEEDS 
Red  Clover 
Fer  Bushel 
of  60  Lbs. 
Metcalf’s  Recleaned,  Medium ..  $16.00 
Metcalf’s  Recleaned,  Mammoth 
(Genuine )  .  16.50 
Indiana  Grown 
Alfalfa  WS? 
Metcalf's  Recleaned . $15.00 
Grimm  Alfalfa,  Certified ■ . .‘>0.00 
Our  alfalfa  comes  direct  from  the 
Western  Seed  Growers  Marketing  Co., 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 
Alqilre*  Per  Bushel 
A181Ke  of  e>0  Lbs. 
M etealf's  Recleaned . $13.00 
Peas 
Per  Bushel 
of  50  Lbs. 
Telephone — Best  Grown . $  7.50 
Alderman  .  7.50 
Thomas  Laxton .  7.50 
Gradus  .  7.50 
Canada  Field  Peas,  per  60  lbs.  .  4.50 
Metcalf’s  Seed  Corn 
Sweet  Clover 
Per  Bushel 
of  00  Lbs. 
Metcalf’s  Recleaned  White  Blos¬ 
som,  Scarified . $  9.50 
Metcalf’s  Perfect  Ensilage. 
Luce’s  Favorite . . 
Improved  Learning . 
Pride  of  the  North . 
Iowa  Gold  Mine . 
Sweepstakes  . 
Virginia  Late  Eureka . 
Early  Mastodon . 
90  Day  Golden  Dent . 
White  Cap  Yellow  Dent... 
Canada  Smut  Nose . 
Ixmgfellow’s  Yellow  Flint.. 
.$ 
Bushel 
3.50 
3.50 
2.00 
2. 00 
2.00 
5.00 
9  7; 
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2.2.  > 
2.25 
2  50 
2.50 
Per  Bushel 
of  45  Lbs. 
Metcalf’s  Recleaned . $  4.00 
Per  Bushel 
of  45  Lbs. 
..  .$  4.50 
Timothy 
Metcalfs  P 
Timothy  &  Alsike  Mixed 
Metcalf's  Recleaned . 
20%  Alsike 
Metcalf’s  Seed  Oats 
Alberta  Cluster . $  1.35 
Metcalf’s  Seed  Wheat 
Miscellaneous 
Red  Top,  Heavy  Seed... 
Best  Orchard  Grass . 
Fancy  Kentucky  Blue  Grass. 
Canada  Blue  Grass . 
Sudan  Grass . 
Winter  Hairy  Vetch . 
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.26 
.21 
.35 
.28 
.25 
.20 
Barley 
2  Row . $  1.75 
6  Row .  1.60 
Per  Bushel 
of  00  I.bs. 
Marquis  Type  Spring  Wheat.. $  2.50 
Spring  Rye 
All  Bags  Free.  Freight  prepaid  on  200-lb.  shipments,  or  over. 
Per  Bushel 
of  56  Lbs. 
Western  Grown . $  2.75 
Our  ambition  is  to  see  how  cheap  we  can  sell  the  best  SEED  obtainable. 
B.  F.  METCALF  &  SON,  Inc.,  216-2164  West  Genesee  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
DUY  your  seeds  direct  from  the  growers.  Secure  bedrock  prices 
and  highest  quality.  Soil,  climate  and  three  generations’ 
experience  combine  to  make  Woodruffs  Home-Grown  Seeds  pro¬ 
duce  paying  crops  of  choice  vegetables.  We  have  improved  many 
standard  varieties  and  have  introduced  a  number  of  new  ones. 
CUCUMBERS 
Wc  grow  Cucumber  Seed  by  the  ton. 
We  perfected  and  introduced  Wood¬ 
ruff’s  Hybrid  Cucumber,  a  slender  dark 
green  variety  that  yields  bountifully. 
We  also  offer  more  than  a  dozen  other 
standard  varieties,  including  Early 
Cluster,  Green  Prolific  and  Boston  Pick¬ 
ling  for  the  pickle  trade. 
TOMATOES 
Whether  you  grow  tomatoes  for  home 
or  market,  we  can  supply  your  needs. 
We  recommend  Early  Sunrise  for  extra 
early,  followed  by  John  Baer  or  Bonnie 
Best.  For  main  crop,  you  will  like  our 
new  Stone  or  Kelly’s  Red. 
ONION  SETS 
We  have  five  warehouses  devoted  en¬ 
tirely  to  the  storage  of  onion  sets.  The 
Japanese  Onion  Sets,  introduced  by  us 
in  1916,  have  created  a  sensation.  Yields 
of  1,000  bushels  per  acre  are  common. 
This  variety  is  a  good  keeper  and  oi 
fine  flavor.  We  also  supply  standard 
American  varieties. 
LETTUCE 
Our  Big  Boston  and  May  King  Lettuce 
Seed  is  selected  tor  us  by  expert  lettuce 
growers.  Many  market  gardeners  con¬ 
sider  them  the  best  obtainable.  We 
also  offer  a  complete  line  of  Cabbage, 
Curled  and  Cos  Romaine  Lettuce  „all 
carefully  selected. 
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k  F.  H. Woodruff  &  Sons,  1 9  Railroad  Ave.,  Milford,  Conn. 
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Clover  Seed 
Hoffman’s  new-crop  Clover  Seed — produced  on  clean  fieldc  —free  from  weeds — thoroughly 
cleaned— hardy — of  strong,  vigorous  growth.  Buy  our  tested  seed — result*  are  bound 
to  please  you.  Buyers  Not  Pleased  with  Seed  May  Return  It — Get  Money  Back. 
Hoffman's  1923  Catalog  offers  all  varieties  of  Clovers — also  Alfalfa — Seed  Oats — Corn— 
Canada  Peas — Soy  Beans— Cowpeas — Potatoes — etc.  Gives  valuable  growing  suggestions. 
Business  farmers  desiring  top  profits  from  their  operations  will  write  for  this  book  at  once 
— get  our  prices — order  their  spring  seeds.  Mention  thi*  paper. 
A.  H.  Hoffman,  Inc.,  Landisville,  Lancaster  County,  Pa. 
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THE  PASTORAL  PARSON 
(Continued  from  Rage  278) 
saw.  It  is  really  a  delight  now— so 
handy  and  so  much  more  roomy — this 
open  shelf  and  all.  Mrs.  Parson  has  two 
of  these  big  glass  jars  that  you  see  on 
the  store  counters  with  chewing  gum  in. 
We  have  coffee  in  one  and  cocoa  in  the 
other,  and  they  just  fit  in  this  open 
shelf.  Now  we  will  put  two  coats  of  oak 
stain  varnish  over  the  new  part  and  one 
coat  over  the  whole  thing,  and  it  will  be 
like  pew. 
Making  Old  Things  New. — It  is 
wonderful  sometimes  what  can  be  done 
with  a  thing  that  you  thought  of  throw¬ 
ing  away.  The  Parson  had  a  hand  griji 
that  he  bought  16  years  ago.  It  was  a 
tremendous  good  one  —  real  cowhide 
leather  in  it,  and  it  had  two  handles. 
But  it  had  so  much  wear — hardest  kind 
of  wear.  Then  one  of  the  handles  broke 
out  at  the  end,  and  it  was  quite  dis-  j 
carded.  The  day  before  we  started  on 
the  .Southern  trip  the  Parson  got  it  out 
and  went  at  it.  lie  got  a  piece  of  strap 
from  an  old  harness  rein  and  with  a 
copper  rivet  he  fixed  up  the  handle  as  ! 
good  as  new.  Then  he  cleaned  it  well, 
and  remembered  there  was  some  auto  top 
dressing  over  in  the  garage  in  a  can 
that  was  left  when  we  fixed  up  the  Ford. 
This  made  the  greatest  grip  dressing  you 
ever  saw.  Then  he  polished  up  the  brass 
part  a  bit,  and  you  would  be  surprised  to 
see  that  grip.  The  Parson  carried  it  to 
Washington  with  pride.  Then  Mrs.  Par¬ 
son  had  one  of  these  ladies’  hand  bags —  j 
a  sort  of  shopping  bag.  It  was  a  good 
one  in  its  day,  but  she  had  had  it  about 
15  years,  and  it  looked  a  bit  shabby  in 
itself  and  what  was  worse,  both  the  strap 
handles  were  all  worn  out ;  one  had 
broken  quite  in  two,  and  the  other  was 
all  strings.  The  Parson  went  to  a  har¬ 
ness  repair  man  to  see  if  he  could  have 
some  new  handles  made,  and  there  he 
learned  that  such  things  could  be  bought 
all  ready  to  be  put  on.  He  had  not 
dreamed  of  such  a  thing.  So  he  bought 
two  new  strap  handles  and  had  the  har¬ 
ness  maker  put  them  on.  lie  also  blacked 
the  bag  up  like  new.  Mrs.  Parson  was 
tickled  to  death  with  it. 
A  Real  Convenience. — Once  in  a 
while  you  run  across  a  little  thing  at  a 
very  small  cost  that  is  such  a  delight. 
At  one  idaee  where  we  visited  on  our 
trips  Mrs.  Parson  noticed  a  small  gar¬ 
bage  pail  in  the  kitchen.  It  would  hold 
about  10  qts.,  and,  best  of  all,  bad  a 
cover  like  a  garbage  can.  In  this  went 
the  scraps  from  the  table  and  other  bits 
for  the  chickens.  It  was  so  neat  and 
clean  and  always  with  the  cover.  It 
was  so  much  nicer  than  to  have  a  messy 
mess  standing  round  waiting  for  the  boys 
or  someone  to  take  it  over  to  the  barn. 
The  Parson  bought  one  the  other  day, 
and  now  Mrs.  Parson  wants  another  to 
put  potato  peelings  in.  It  would  be  just 
the  thing.  It  would  appear  to  be  up  to 
the  Parson. 
The  Ice  Chop. — As  the  Parson  writes 
the  boys  are  over  working  in  the  icehouse. 
We  were  going  to  cut  our  own,  aud  had 
it  all  marked  out  once  when  a  thaw 
came  on  and  then  a  terrible  freeze,  and 
our  labor  was  in  vain.  So  now  we  are 
buying  it  by  the  cake  from  the  big  dealer 
in  the  city  near  by.  lie  is  cutting  about 
a  mile  from  here.  It  costs  this  way  just 
about  50  cents  a  ton.  Most  of  the  farm¬ 
ers  about  here  buy  it  this  way.  It  is  a 
case  of  the  horses  doing  the  work  instead 
of  yourself,  aud  they  are  not  busy  this 
time  of  the  year.  But  the  cakes  are 
something  enormous.  They  are  30  in. 
long  and  2  ft.  wide  and  measure  just  16 
in.  thick.  AVe  pull  them  up  in  the  icehouse 
with  block  and  fall.  These  big  cakes 
ought  to  keep  good  much  better  than 
smaller  ones.  and.  being  so  big.  you  can 
afford  to  take  time  to  use  the  pulley 
blocks,  and  it  saves  a  lot  of  pulling  and 
lifting.  We  fill  the  cracks  between  the 
cakes  with  snow  and  put  some  snow  be¬ 
tween  the  layers  and  try  to  break  joints 
with  the  cakes.  Let  us  hope  they  come 
out  better  than  they  did  this  year.  We 
have  tried  to  follow  the  advice  given  us 
through  The  R.  N.-Y.  readers,  but  we 
could  not  make  a  “shaver”  out  of  an  old 
crosscut  saw,  as  we  did  not  have  any 
such.  We  want  to  buy  one  of  these  all- 
iron  shavers,  such  as  the  icemen  have. 
We  have  had  several  of  these  shavers 
with  wooden  handles  and  that  break 
right  away;  the  last  one  we  bought  was  , 
absolutely  worthless,  and  it  cost  $1.25.  j 
We  have  got  10  tons  in  the  icehouse  now 
and  may  put  in  a  couple  more  tons 
tomorrow.  It  is  Saturday,  and  the  hoys 
will  be  at  home  to  help.  Old  .Tim  gets 
a  ton  at  a  time,  and  trots  right  along 
with  it.  Six  cakes  make  a  good  big  ton. 
On  going  over  to  the  barn  just  now,  the 
Parson  finds  the  boys  are  pulling  up  the 
ice  with  Old  .Tim  on  the  pulley  blocks. 
George  and  His  Govt. — As  we  have 
no  way  to  sell  milk  and  no  time  to  make 
butter,  the  Parson  has  figured  it  out 
with  George  that  perhaps  we  could  buy 
dry  cows  and  keep  them  till  they  calved 
and  sell  them,  getting  pay  for  work  and 
hay.  George  bought  a  cow  for  $40 
about  the  first  of  October.  She  was  a 
big  Guernsey,  eight  years  old.  We  had 
plenty  of  silage  I  he  neighbor  gave  us  for 
the  use  of  the  silo,  and  fed  her  almost 
nothing  else  till  January.  There  was 
quite  a  little  corn  in  the  silage,  and  the  j 
cow  was  in  prime  condition  .  She  was 
the  hardiest  cow  you  ever  saw  and  would 
eat  meadow  hay  like  clover,  so  she  lived 
on  that  during  January.  We  never  gave 
her  a  quart  of  grain  till  she  calved — the 
last  of  January.  It  was  a  fine  heifer 
calf,  and  we  gave  it  a  great  start  on  its 
The  extraordinary  size  and  beauty  of 
this  new  strain  of  Snapdragons  is  attract¬ 
ing  the  attention  of  flower  lovers  every¬ 
where.  In  dimensions  of  spike  and  flower, 
these  Snapdragons  are  nearly  equal  to 
Gladiolus,  yet  they  can  be  grown  quickly 
from  seed,  yielding  a  plentiful  supply  of 
strikingly  beautiful  cut  flowers. 
Beckert's  1923  catalog  illustrates  10  va¬ 
rieties  of  these  flowers.  The  following 
four  make  an  especially  fine  collection: 
Apple  Blossom — delicate  pink :  yellow  lip 
and  white  throat. 
The  Rose — clear  deep  rose-pink. 
Ruby  Giant — carmine  shading  to  scarlet, 
yellow  lip.  Gorgeous  color  effect. 
Canary  Bird — clear  delicate  canary  yel¬ 
low.  Unusual  purity  of  color. 
SENT  POSTPAID 
Single  packets,  25  cents  each ;  four 
packets,  one  of  each  variety,  90  cents. 
NOTABLE  NEW  VEGETABLES 
Here  are  just  a  few  examples  of  the 
multitude  of  new  and  superior  vegetable 
seeds  offered  by  Beckert’s  this  year.  Every 
housewife  will  be  interested  in  the  many 
new  and  good  things  they  will  bring  to 
her  dinner  table : 
1.  Beckert’s  Early  Coreless  Carrot — 
smooth,  cylindrical,  blunt-pointed ;  re¬ 
markably  sweet  and  tender;  earliest 
to  grow  to  full  size. 
2.  Beckert’s  Perfection  Plume  Mustard — 
finest  mustard  for  salads  and  garnish¬ 
ing. 
3.  Beckert’s  Table  Queen  Squash — deli¬ 
cious  ;  entirely  new  in  taste  and 
cooking  quality ;  serve  like  baked  po¬ 
tato ;  easily  grown. 
4.  Beckert’s  Perfection  Peas;  King  of 
Denmark  Spinach;  "Wayahead”  Toma¬ 
toes;  Golden  Evergreen  Sweet  Com, 
and  other  _  notable  developments  which 
will  surprise  and  delight  you. 
1923 
CATALOG  FREE 
Beckert's  1923  illustrated  catalog  of 
flower  and  vegetable  seeds  is  a  practical 
and  valuable  book  of  instruction  on  suc¬ 
cessful  flower  and  vegetable  culture,  writ¬ 
ten  especially  for  the  home  gardener. 
Free  on  request. 
Beckert’s  Seed  Store,  Dept.  R., 
North  Side,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Please  send  me  your  1923  Illustrated 
free  catalog  of  Vegetable  and  Flower 
Seeds. 
Name 
FuM 
Address 
IRISH  COBBLER  SEED  POTATOES 
Very  littie  Irish  Cobbler  seed  Uavailable.  We  have 
a  few  hundred  bushels  lett.  In  the  Suffolk  County 
tests  last  year  this  seed  yielded  452  bu.  per  A.  as 
compared  with  the  highest  yield  in  the  test  of  481 
bu  per  A.  Our  »eed  was  reported  free  from  Mosaic 
and  Leaf  Roll.  h.  B.  SWEET 
17  Clarendon  Bidff.  UTICA.  NEW  YORK 
VICK’S 
and  Floral  GUIDE 
For  74  veare  the  leading  authority 
NOW  on  Vegetable,  Flower  and  Farm  For 
n  j  Stece.  Plants  and  Bulbs.  Better 
Heady  than  ever.  Send  for  free,  copy  today.  1“2J 
JAMES  VICK’S  SONS  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
30  Stone  Street  The  Flower  City 
CABBAGE  Pt ANTS.  Raspberry, Blackberry, Dewberry JfStraw- 
berry  plants,  (  a  Privet,  Sweet  Potato  seed,  Asparagus 
roots,  vegetable  »eed.  Cat.  free.  M.  N  IOSCO,  Vineland  N.  . 
