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LICE  MAKE  SCRUBS  OF  COWS  OR  HENS 
There’s  no  use  expecting  real  profits 
from  cows  or  poultry  if  you  permit  lice  to 
feed  on  the  animals  that  you  must  look 
to  for  your  returns. 
Why  not  learn  this  winter — RIGHT 
NOW — how  easy  it  is  to  kill  every  louse 
on  your  farm.  You  can  really  do  this 
with  surprising  ease  and  at  slight  expense. 
Graylawn  Farm  Louse-Chase  has  taken 
the  dread  of  lice  from  thousands  of  far¬ 
mers.  Just  a  little  of  this  clean,  harm¬ 
less  powder  will  kill  every  louse  and  mite 
on  the  worst  infested  animal.  Necessary 
only  to  sprinkle  on  certain  parts,  as  di¬ 
rected,  from  handy  sifter  can,  to  make 
a  quick,  thorough  clean-up.  Sounds  too 
easy  to  he  true — but  we  not  only  guarantee 
to  return  your  money  if  you  are  not  satis¬ 
fied,  but  will  pay  10%  more  for  your 
trouble. 
We  can  make  this  guarantee  because 
Louse-Chase  makes  good  every  claim. 
Equally  effective  on  cattle,  horses,  swine, 
or  poultry.  Kills  ticks  on  sheep  without 
staining  the  wool. 
LET  HENS  TREAT  THEMSELVES 
Just  put  Louse-Chase  in  dusting  boxes 
and  the  lice  will  have  to  go.  They  can¬ 
not  live  where  Louse-Chase  is.  Try  it 
now,  and  have  clean,  profitable  hens. 
Used  by  leading  agricultural  colleges 
and  big  breeders.  Large  farm  size  pack¬ 
age  $1.00;  poultry  size  60c.  If  dealer  is 
not  supplied,  order  direct. 
Use  Graylawn  Farm  Scab-Chase 
for  skin  diseases,  scabies,  etc. 
$1.60  and  76c  packages. 
THE  GRAYLAWN  GUARANTEE 
lour  money  back— plus  10%— If  not  satisfied 
Graylawn  Farms,  Inc. 
Dept.  J.  Newport.  Vt. 
IPUSECHASE 
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Countrywide  Produce  Situation 
While  the  North  is  still  buried  unusu¬ 
ally  deep  in  snowdrifts,  the  farmers  in 
South  Texas  are  tending  their  trans¬ 
planted  onions  and  giving  to  early  po¬ 
tatoes  the  first  irrigation  and  cultivation. 
The  Florida  potato  crop  is  also  under 
way,  melons  are  being  planted,  and  such 
hardy  crops  as  cabbage  and  lettuce  are 
moving  to  market  actively.  A  great  deal 
of  plowing  is  being  done  from  Virginia 
southward.  Most  of  the  numerous  Winter 
storms  have  been  rain  instead  of  snow, 
south  of  New  Jersey,  and  the  season  in 
the  South  is  earlier  than  usual.  Most 
parts  of  the  West  have  had  too  little 
snow  to  protect  the  grain  crops  from 
freezing  and  thawing,  but  the  damage 
seems  limited  in  extent  and  not  as  yet  a 
serious  matter. 
PROGRESS  IN  TRUCK  RAISING 
Aside  from  the  heavy  snowfall  in  the 
Northeast,  the  Winter  has  been  mild. 
Too  early  blooming  of  fruit  trees  is  feared 
in  some  parts  of  the  South.  An  early 
season  is  seldom  good  for  the  fruit  crops. 
Peaches  in  Texas  are  in  (full  bloom. 
Texas  is  doing  her  best  to  become  a  sec¬ 
ond  and  larger  California,  going  in  heavily 
for  truck  and  small  fruits  under  irriga¬ 
tion  and  striving  to  improve  the  grade  of 
the  output.  The  section  that  used  to  he 
marked  “staked  plains’’  on  the  old  school 
maps  is  becoming  a  truck  garden,  watered 
from  deep-flowing  wells.  Along  the  south¬ 
ern  border  of  the  State  the  Rio  Grande 
Valley  and  several  smaller  irrigated  sec¬ 
tions  are  shipping  an  increasing  quantity 
and  variety  of  Winter  produce.  Onions, 
melons,  tomatoes,  cabbage  and  spinacli 
have  been  the  specialties,  but  strawber¬ 
ries,  peaches  and  lettuce  are  becoming 
important.  Vigorous  efforts  and  plans 
are  being  made  to  raise,  grade  and  pack 
cantaloupes  according  to  the  California 
standard.  The  pressure  of  new  truck- 
raising  sections  early  and  late  makes  it 
harder  for  the  Northern  growers  to  ob¬ 
tain  profit  by  producing  crops  out.  of  sea¬ 
son.  Excellent  head  lettuce  from  Cali¬ 
fornia  is  crowding  the  hothouse  product, 
and  even  the  late  Fall  crop  is  threatened 
by  mountain-grown  lettuce. 
VEGETABLK  MARKETS  WEAK 
The  produce  markets  show  the  usual 
Winter  steadiness,  although  potatoes 
have  sagged  off  further  in  some  markets. 
Potatoes  are  so  far  down  that  some  West¬ 
ern  farmers  figured  it  would  have  been 
money  in  the  pocket  not  to  have  dug  the 
crop.  Some  of  them  from  Nebraska  west¬ 
ward  did  leave  their  potatoes  in  the 
ground.  Eastern  farmers  will  watch  with 
a  good  deal  of  interest  to  see  how  much 
potato  acreage  these  hard-bitten  West¬ 
erners  will  have  courage  to  plant  this 
season. 
Onion  markets  continued  weak  on  ac¬ 
count  of  heavy  imports  from  Spain  and 
the  poor  quality  of  stored  domestic  onions 
late  in  the  season.  Some  markets  are 
off  $1  from  the  highest  reached  in  early 
Winter.  Good  cabbage  still  brings  $30 
to  $40  per  ton  in  the  cities,  and  more  in  j 
small  lots. 
APPLES  IN  BRITISH  MARKETS 
The  British  apple  market  slumped  dur¬ 
ing  the  first  part  of  February,  owing  to 
liberal  supplies,  especially  those  of  West¬ 
ern  boxed  apples  rather  too  ripe  for  suc¬ 
cessful  export.  The  general  range  of 
Eastern  apples  is  $4.50  to  $6.50  per  bbl., 
including  leading  varieties  and  grades,  in 
London,  Liverpool  and  Glasgow.  It  is 
something  of  a  joke  on  our  English  cus¬ 
tomers  to  be  paying  more  for  Ben  Davis 
than  for  Newtowns  and  other  choice 
kinds,  but  old  Ben  stands  late  shipment 
and  knocking  about  the  markets  better 
than  any  of  them.  England  has  taken  a 
liberal  supply  of  American  apples  this 
season,  greatly  to  the  relief  and  benefit 
of  the  markets  here. 
Fresh  orchard  fruits  in  full  variety  will 
soon  fill  the  big  markets  nearly  all  the 
year,  if  South  America  and  Africa  keep 
on  with  fruit  production  as  they  have 
begun.  Chile  and  Argentina  have  some 
good  fruit,  and  are  trying  to  raise  more, 
but  they  have  much  to  learn  in  packing 
and  grading.  South  Africa  has  learned 
the  business  of  shipping  plums  and 
peaches  of  choicest  pack  and  quality,  and 
seems  in  line  to  capture  the  Winter  mar¬ 
ket  here  and  in  Europe.  The  choicest 
Varieties  of  fresh  fruits  from  the  South¬ 
ern  Hemisphere  reach  our  markets  at 
about  the  time  the  domestic  supply  is 
beginning  to  give  out.  G.  B.  F. 
Weight  of  Jersey  Black  Giants 
Several  readers  have  asked  how  large 
the  Jersey  Black  Giants  will  grow.  What 
is  the  record  weight?  M.  L.  Chapman, 
secretary  of  the  Jersey  Black  Giant  So¬ 
ciety,  says  that  he  has  seen  a  Black  Giant 
cock  which  weighed  14  lbs.  This  bird 
was  vigorous  and  in  good  condition.  The 
largest  cockerel  of  which  we  have  record 
was  a  bird  grown  in  New  Jersey,  which 
weighed  1314  lbs.  Cockerels  weighing 
from  11  to  1214  lbs.  are  not  uncommon. 
The  standard  weight  for  the  Jersey  Black 
Giants  is  8  lbs.  for  pullets,  10  lbs.  for 
hens,  11  lbs.  for  cockerels,  and  13  lbs.  for 
mature  males.  Young  capons  will  average 
about  10  lbs.  as  grown  in  New  Jersey. 
There  have  been  cases  where  young  capons 
reached  12  lbs.,  and  there  is  a  reliable 
report  of  one  old  capon  which  reached 
a  weight  of  18  lbs.  and  a  few  ounces. 
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A  ton  of  MICHIGAN  LIMESTONE  will 
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These  two  tons  of  good  clover  hay  have  put  two 
tons  of  Plant  Roots — Fertilizer  Material — into  your 
soil.  This  is  why  you  get  better  crops  following 
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Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Largest  Agricultural  Limestone  Mill  in  the  World. 
Capacity  1800  Tons  Per  Day 
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