American Agriculturist, February 3, ^523 
Get to market early 
The early truck brings the top prices. The 
use of 1000 pounds of complete fertilizer to the 
acre will frequently add as much as $100 an acre 
to the value of the crop, because it will not only 
increase the yield per acre, but will hasten the 
maturity of the crop, and bring it on the market 
earlier than otherwise. There are two things to 
remember: first, pin your faith to a reliable old 
brand like Royster’s; and second, use a complete 
fertilizer in large enough quantities per acre to in¬ 
sure worthwhile results. 
For helpful information about fertilizer, write 
freely to F. S. Royster Guano Co., Baltimore, Md. 
ROYSTER 
tkld f^edTvriilizers 
Cabbage and Celery Growing 
Is Profitable If You Use 
Garrahan’s Seed 
CABBAGE 
ON E POUND . . . 
$10.00 
HALF POUND.. 
. 3.00 
QUARTER LB. . 
.■5.00 
ONE OUNCE. . . 
1.00 
CELERY 
ONE POUND. . . 
.$20.00 
HALF POUND. . 
10.00 
QITARTER LB. . 
H.OO 
ONE OUNCE. . . 
. 2.00 
Garrahan’s Easy Blanching Celery Seed, grown 
under my personal supervision on my owh fall, 
blanches early with a golden yellow heart. As 
a late celery it keeps well until the holidays. It’s 
very crisp and tender, with a rich nutty flavor; 
very unform in size and is free from pithy stalks. 
Garrahan’s Jersey Wakefield Cabbage (developed 
into large, sturdy heads like the Charleston Wake¬ 
field), is winning wide favor. Simply enclose 
your bank reference with your order. Pay nje 
when your crops are grown and you are satisfied 
my Seed is worth its cost. You are to be the judge. 
C. E. GARRAHAN 
MARKET GARDENER 
393 Northampton St., Kingston, Pa. 
Alienas Book of Berries for 1923 
If interested in making: more money from your farm or lot and more 
health and pleasure from your garden, you should have a copy of 
this book. It tells all about growing STRAWBERKIES, the most 
delicious of fruits. For years they have been the leading CASH 
CROP wherever grown. 
This Book of Berries gives simple understandable information about 
how and when to plant, how to prepare the land, and what vari¬ 
eties to grow for best results. Good plants, true-to-name, the best 
you can Duy, are fully described and reasonably priced. 
The information and descriptions are dependable, based on 38 years 
experience in growing, selling Strawberries and Strawberry Plants. 
It is the roost complete book of its kind—thorouahly relia- 
ile. It’s free to any one interested. Writeforcopytoday. 
The W. F. ALLEN CO. 
170 Markets*. Salisbury, Md. 
ALLENS 
PLANTS 
Where Pessimists Are Rare 
Mixing Optimists, Milking Machines and Investments 
R ecently i attend¬ 
ed a meeting of the 
Mannsville, Jefferson Co., Grange, one 
of the strong subordinates in New York. 
It was organized Oct. 23, 1873, and will 
be qualified for a semi-centennial next 
fall. They have one of the most beauti¬ 
ful and capacious Grange homes in our 
State and a membership of over 400 
prosperous, high-class people.. The de¬ 
gree work, with 
By H. E. COOK 
CLOYER 
ANDTIHOTHY 
BARGAIN 
Red Glover and Timothy mlxed>>the atandard 
ffraues cannot be surpassed for hay and pas- 
tore Contains (rood per cent clover, just ngrht 
* to sow. Thorouerhiy cleaned and sold on approv- 
I al. subject to ffovernment test. Ask for this mix¬ 
ed seed if you want our greatest bargain. iHave 
Pure Clover, Sweet Clover, Timothy and all 
Field and Grass Seeds Buy now. Prices are ad- 
* vaocing SAMPLES and lifi-p. catalog FREE. 
a. A. Berry Seed Co., Box 615 Clarinda, Iowa 
4 
50 
Per; 
bu.' 
TWUSAM 
Seed for test- 
Inif. Wonder¬ 
ful White An¬ 
nual Sweet 
Clover. Most 
prodaeti VC 
crop known. 
B!c money 
i n srowine: 
Hubam. 
tableaux and a 
highly trained 
drill team gave an 
artistic setting 
one cannot forget. 
As I studied the 
hall, the people, 
old and young, 
and the atmos¬ 
phere developed, 
I couldn’t believe 
that I was still in 
the same country 
that contains the 
hardships we 
read about every 
day in the news 
H. E. COOK 
columns of the daily press and in our 
farm papers. Not one word, not even 
an expression denoting disappoint¬ 
ments, was heard or seen. How could 
it be at a time, too, when we are pass¬ 
ing through a great agricultural crisis 
and .producing crops and products at 
far below cost? 
Were these people so provincial that 
they had not heard of an agricultural 
depression, or were they getting more 
for their products than the rest of us, 
that gave them this easy, contented 
air? How am I to coordinate this com¬ 
munity with the things I read about? 
One may have the 
most practical theo¬ 
ries, but they are of no use until prop¬ 
erly adjusted into the system and 
plans for the day. Of course, where 
the owner is the milker, he can make 
quick adjustments, at times uncon¬ 
sciously, because he is both theorist 
and practitioner combined. But where 
one party works out the idea and an¬ 
other makes the application the idea 
must be systematized before it will pay. 
I find the most ideal methods and the 
largest crops are not always the most 
profitable ones. I have milked three 
times a day and made an increase of 
milk flow thereby, partly because of 
more frequent milking and partly be¬ 
cause I fed more grain. But in our 
present business it is not worth while to 
get all of our cow washing and milking 
outfit into action with the necessary 
amount of scrubbing and sterilizing in¬ 
volved three times each day. We hear 
a good deal about “system” in indus¬ 
trial life. Well, it’s equally important 
in farm life, when a monthly check 
must be. made out foy every movement, 
however small or insignificant it may be. 
:i< ^ 
There are some things I would change 
if the power was at hand. One is to 
stop sending so many spare dollars out 
of our own communities and off our 
own farms to be invested in every con¬ 
ceivable activity and place on the map. 
As a rule, the individual amounts are 
small, but the aggregate is large. I 
have no way of finding out what per¬ 
centage returns interest, what amount \ 
does not pay dividends, nor how much 
of the principal is lost forever, nor is 
it particularly important that I should 
Where Real Pessimists Are Scarce 
Every farmer ehould know aboat It. 
Don’t delay. Our seeds northern 
^owDy recleaned and ertified. Abac* 
lutely dependable. Nothing better. 
Oar price lowest yet. Write for free 
sample. 62-p, catalog and circular de- 
Bcribing this wonderful crop. Have 
Glover. Timothy, Sweet Clover, etc. 
Field Seed Co., 
Chicago, III. 
American 
Dept. 1015 
CCrn DATATflKQ Dibble’s Russet and No. 9. 
OCLU iUiAlUCJ Burton N, Ketch, Cohocton, N. Y. 
WOOD ASHES 
Hard |Wood, Unleached, 
per ton in car or less. 
W. H. LEIDY SWARTHAl 
S13.(X) 
I am not going to try, for it isn’t worth 
while. But simply to say that here is 
a fine farming section largely devoted 
to dairying, with a uniformly steady, 
reasonable income for the years past, 
with savings of one sort or another 
made each in their own way to tide over 
any lean time that might by chance 
come along. Whatever the size of my 
complaining streak when I left home, 
it was very much reduced after a visit 
to this place. 
:K * * * 
Probably growing out of the fact 
we are making certified milk with milk¬ 
ing machines, I get occasional inquiries 
in regard to their practicability in com¬ 
parison with hand milking. In a gen¬ 
eral way, I wouldn’t advise anyone to 
install a milker, or not to do so. We 
have, I think without question, proven 
that they can be kept clean by follow¬ 
ing closely the Geneva methods, as de¬ 
veloped by Dr. Breed and his co-work¬ 
ers. Our milking is not a family job, 
but is done entirely by paid labor, and 
less and less do we get men who like 
to milk by hand and who are thorough 
hand milkers. I know very well that not 
every cow takes kindly to giving her full¬ 
est milk flow' to the mechanical milker. 
We find cows that are shrinking pre¬ 
maturely and by changing to hand 
milking the shrinkage will be checked 
and sometimes a gain is made. We are 
trying now to partially at least take 
care of this problem by changing them 
to a stable used as an overflow or auxil¬ 
iary stable not equipped with a milker 
and often by milking them by hand in 
he regular milking stables. 
know, but the important thing I do 
know is, that if for only a single year 
we could have these savings spent lo¬ 
cally on farms, buildings and live stock, 
an observer driving through would com¬ 
ment on the transformation. 
So far as farmers are concerned, 
there ^eems to be a false notion, that is, 
it seems to me like a false notion, that 
these foreign or away-from-the-farm 
investments have the earmarks of real 
wealth, while the same amount put 
into fertilizers, or drainage, or im¬ 
proved working equipment in the home 
and on the farm, is that much more 
farming, and is locked up'once for all. 
I’ll wager, to speak in up-to-date busi¬ 
ness terms, that the total amount spent 
at home in any county in New York 
State 'will be more of a “liquid asset” 
dollar for dollar than the money sent 
out through our well-organized Bank 
Bonding Departments, and surely there 
are vast sums being' taken by these 
agencies because leading banks now 
conduct a Bond Department. 
I suppose this idea will be criticised as 
an effort to hamper the development of 
industry, but why, pray tell, should we 
not care for home industry first? E :ery 
dollar we spend on our farms changes 
hands many times right at home, and 
a good many people get a little of it, 
but when it goes away for investment 
no one here gets a farthing out of it, 
and actually we are letting our locality 
get ragged and helping to put a fringe 
on some place we have no interest in. 
I suppose this question, after all, re¬ 
solves itself down to a ca.a£-.of local 
pride. Let us have moj 
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