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American Agriculturist, February 10,1923 
C’AH PULL 6 PLOWS 
but 3 plows at a fast speed is the 
factory Guarantee. 
An Ideal Tractor for Fitting. It’s 
Crawler Traction prevents slipping, 
miring or packing of the soil. 
STEEL MULE owners do more aaes per 
day at less cost than any of their neighbors. 
Write for new catalogue today. 
atE^J/[ai^in£^']ractor Qi. 
1345 Benton Street, Joliet, lUinoii 
SKINNER HYDRAULIC 
BARREL HEADING PRESS 
VOUR packing 
^ equipment 
should include 
this well built, 
practical barrel 
press. Operated 
either by motor attached or by 
pulley from line shaft. Entirely self 
contained with pump mounted on 
base casting. Valves which raise 
and lower the hydraulic plunger are 
part of main base casting. Pump 
consumes no power except when 
actually pressing head into barrel. 
Work controlled by double foot 
pedal action. 
Other features of 
the Skinner Barrel 
Press appeal to 
busy packers. 
Write at once for full 
particulars and prices. 
Skinner Machinery Co. 
Fourth Street 
Dunedin. Florida 
KEYSTONE EVAPORATOR 
Famous Everywhere 
because one man can operate without help of any 
kind. Our new Keystone Heater increases capacity 
40 per cent. l;ses all waste heat. 
Write for Catalogue 
SPROUL MFG. CO. 
Delevan, N. Y. 
state 
Number 
of Trees 
You Tap 
Fruit Book—FREE 
Our FREE Nursery Book describes standard 
Varieties of Apples, 
Peaches. Plums and 
Cherries. Also 
Small Fruits and 
Ornamentals. 
We have an especially 
fine lot of one an 
two-year-old Apple 
Trees ready for early 
shipment. Many ex¬ 
perienced fruit grow-. 
•rs are entliusiasticl 
over them. 
Write today for Nursery Book and Price List, 
A 
Box 15 
NURSERY 
Yalesvllle, CoBii. 
the best fertilizer by test 
THE JOYNT BRAND 
Pure, Unleached, Haudwood Ashes. A complete and profitable 
fertilizer for all growing crops, fruit, tobacco and truck grow- 
top dressing and seeding down. Agents Wanted. Corre¬ 
spondence Invited. .Afffireaa John Joynt Co., Lucknow, Ont., Can. 
450,000 
^00 varieties. Also Grapes, Small Fruits.ete. Best rooted stock. 
Genuine, Cheap, 2 sample currants mailed for 20c. Descriptive 
Orice list free, LEWIS R0E8CH, Box F, Fredonla, H. T. 
Strawberry Plants 
Potatoes 
perrenial and inexhaustible wealth 
is in her water-power. It has the 
American shore of the St. Lawrence, 
with its rapids and in addition a multi¬ 
tude of small streams along with some 
respectable sized rivers that come 
tumbling down out of the Adirondacks, 
and these mountain streams have a 
permanency in time of drought that 
is entirely unknown in the rest of the 
State. Manly tens of thousands of 
horsepower have already been de¬ 
veloped and as yet there has been 
made only a beginning. There is 
surely enough potential water-power 
available to light every home and turn 
every wheel in this whole region. Cur¬ 
rent for general heating purposes is 
another matter, because to warm an 
ordinary home means a tremendous 
consumption of power. 
The People Themselves 
After all, the most interesting fea¬ 
tures of any region is not the agricul¬ 
ture or the geography or the geology, 
but the people themselves and I feel 
that the North Country is particularly 
interesting in this respect. Sometime I 
hope to write concerning the racial 
stocks of our New York State farm 
people. In any case I must confess 
to a warm liking for these folks who 
live up here within sight of the realm 
of His Majesty, King George. 
There is—or was—one man of the 
North Country of whom I would like 
to set down a word of tribute and re¬ 
membrance. 
I think it must have been at least a 
quarter of a century ago that I first 
met Andrew Tuck of Lisbon, and this 
acquaintance was renewed and ripened 
through subsequent years. I think he 
deserves to be numbered in that fine 
group of farmers who in simple, un¬ 
pretentious ways have adorned the life 
of our State. He was a most succes- 
ful farmer, a loyal friend, a man of 
stern standards of morality, a genial 
philosopher, a devout Catholic and a 
very courtly Irish gentleman. Many is 
the time I have led him to talk of his 
youth and life in what was still the 
pioneer period of this corner of our 
State. Best of all I liked to have him 
tell—with his chuckle and twinkling 
eyes—of how many years ago—long 
before the days of the Raines Law and 
local option, he, as one of the old Ex¬ 
cise Commissioners induced another 
member of the Board to stand with 
him, and the two of them as a majority 
of that body refused to issue a liquor 
license and thus made Lisbon “dry” 
in the days when men stormed or 
jeered at him as a crack-brained fana¬ 
tic. Thus locally he anticipated the 
18th Amendment by forty years. 
He himself came up out of incredible 
struggle and poverty as the child of a 
very recent Irish immigrant, but he gave 
to all his sons a university education 
and was himself a prophet and leader, 
zealous in all goodwox’ks. Not so many 
years ago full of days and honor he 
laid down his tasks and went “over 
there.” So I give you remembrance 
and greeting—Sir Andrew Tuck. 
FOR SALE. Ask for Cata¬ 
log telling all about the 
w great Early Frost Proof straw¬ 
berry. “Horsey” and 40 other varieties. Also Raspberry. Dewberry- 
Horseradish and other plants. J. Keifford Hall, Reid’s Grove, Mi, R. No.l 
Carman, Cobbler, Nobllght, Russet, Mountain. 
Ohio, Rose, others. C. W. Ford, Fishers, N. Y. 
Looking Ahead With The 
Poultryman 
{Continued from page 111) 
pected, of course, consisting of a down¬ 
ward sweep as spring approaches, 
hovering on a lov^ level till fall, then 
rising again, reaching the high point 
in November and December instead of 
in January and February as many be¬ 
lieve. The same comparison with 1922 
seems reasonable in the cSse of poul¬ 
try prices. 
To what extent producers should try 
to expand further depends largely on 
the individual case. Brqadly speaking, 
larger results from the investment and 
energy now being expended rather than 
indiscriminate expansion seem to be 
advisable as we can’t tell much about 
what is beyond us in 1924. Too many 
people must not abandon other lines i 
and go into poultry production or the ' 
balance will be destroyed again. And : 
destruction of the balance, the econo- ! 
mists tell us, is what usually causes a | 
period of prosperity and expansion to 
come to a close and be followed by one 
of contraction and depression. 
Have taken the American Agricul¬ 
turist for 12 years an^ like it.— Adel- 
BERT Cole, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. 
115 
A complete fertilizer service 
to suit your individual needs 
Developed after consultation with representatives of the De¬ 
partment of Agronomy of the State Collegp of Agriculture. 
Gif 
FERTILIZERS 
Dependable Quali^ 
1. High Analysis Mixed Fertilizers — 
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per ton. Use high analysis fertilizers, ap¬ 
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2. Acid Phosphate — 
guaranteed 16% available Phosphoric 
Acid,- thoroughly cured, milled and 
screened, containing a minimum of 
moisture. 
3. Raw Materials — 
for shipment in straight, assorted or less 
than carload lots. The best quality ma¬ 
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Prof. E. L. Worthen of Cornell says— 
“The Grange League Federation Fxchange de¬ 
serves credit for having devloped a most pro¬ 
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which New York farmers should appreciate. It 
will enable them to secure readily the necessary 
fertilizers or fertilizing materials to follow the 
recommendations of the College of Agriculture. 
It is indeed a service long needed in our New 
York agriculture and I trust farmers generally 
' will accept it as such,” 
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Let the G. L. F.—a farmers’ organization, owned by farmers,— 
buy your fertilizer for you. 
Your local G. L. F. agent will take care 
of your requirements, or if there is no 
local agent in your community, write 
t 
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Dept. E, Byrne Building, Syracuse, N. Y. 
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makes good the very first season and three or 
four years therealter. Fields must he sweet to give 
bumper crops and SOI .VAY makes them sweet, 
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Many interesting facts are in the 
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THE SOLVAY PROCESS CO.. SYRACUSE , N. Y. 
Sonderegger’s Golden. 
The originator says it is 
the sweetest corn in the 
world and 1 think he is 
right. I have never found 
one sweeter and 1 advise 
everyone to try it. It contaSns about B per cent 
sugar and 6 cent less starch than the early white 
varieties. Price, lOe per packet. (28) 
color of Grimes and kMpins qoaii 
yoonff. Hardy everywhere. 
Write for large free catalog of Treea and Seeda that Grow. 
Sonderegger Nurseries & Seed House 
47 Court Street. BEATRICE, WEB. Carl Sonderegger. Pres. 
TREES AND PLANTS 
Direct from grower at lower prices. Apple and PeA<i}« tv*®*- 
Asparagus and Berry plants. Privet and ^Barberry hedging. 
Guaranteed. Write for new price llsta 
WESTMINSTER NURSERY D«k 25 We*tiiuMter, Md. 
000 SEEDS 
" ^ Grown From Select Stock 
None Better— 53 years 
selling good seeds to satisfied 
customers. Prices below all 
others. Extra lot free in all 
orders I fill- Big free cata¬ 
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vegetables and flowers. Send 
your aiwl neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHUMWAY. Rockford. Ill- 
Pure Strain Brand Seed Potatoes! 
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i.'G. ALDRIDGE SOSS Established 1S89 Fishers, h. Y. 
