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A'lner’ean A^ieulturist, February 24,1923 
Do your crops 
brin^ top prices? 
The best grades of any crop fetch the big prices. 
Intelligent use of commercial fertilizer will not only 
increase your yield per acre, but will better the 
grade. For instance, the Ohio Experiment Station 
found a yield of 8.4 bushels of wheat, with 49% 
shrunken kernels when no commercial fertilizer 
was used, while the yield was 28.33 bushels with 
only 16% shrunken when a reasonable amount of 
fertilizer was applied. Potatoes are larger and more 
mealy, and corn is better filled out and the kernels 
larger, when suitable commercial fertilizer is added. 
Royster’s fertilizers represent 40 years experience 
in furnishing properly balanced plant food for the 
various crops. They merit your confidence. It will 
pay you to learn the true story of fertilizer. Write 
freely to F. S. Royster Guano Co., Baltimore, Md. 
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Two tons of good clover hay are equivalent, in feeding value, 
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and cut down your feed bills — 
AND DON’T FORGET- 
These two tons of good clover hay have put two tons of 
Plant Roots-t—Fertilizer Material — into your soil. This is 
why you get better crops following clover. 
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THE 
SOLVAY 
PROCESS 
COMPANY 
Syracuse, 
N. Y 
Fertilizer Foresight 
Early Buying the Only Safe Way 
PAUL WORK 
CHEAP FEED 
from your own land 
T he most economical cattle feed is that raised on your farm proTid. 
ing you get good yields per acre. One ton of alfalfa or clover is worth 
two tons of common hay as a milk producer. When preparing fields for 
grain, harrow m one to two tons per acre of SOLVAY and sow alfalfa or 
clover. The feed bills you save will pay for the SOLVAY many times over. 
N O permanent pro¬ 
gram for maintain¬ 
ing soil fertility can be built upon com¬ 
mercial fertilizers alone — unless we 
except the muck soils, which con¬ 
sist largely of 
decaying v e g e - 
table matter. On 
the other hand, 
the increasing 
scarcity of man¬ 
ure has led the 
commercial vege¬ 
table grower t(7 
depend more and 
more upon the 
concentrat- 
ed plant foods 
for crop produc¬ 
tion. With fer¬ 
tilizers as with 
seeds, it is neces¬ 
sary to work out 
requirements well 
in advance and to place oi’ders early. 
In this way the gardener has the ad¬ 
vantage of more thoughtful planning, 
of ability to get just what he wants, 
and of a more favorable position for 
securing price concessions. If one waits 
till planting time, he must use the ma¬ 
terial that is available in a nearby 
town. If the local dealer has 4-8-7 
and he wants 4-12-4, he is “out of 
luck.” The early buyer is able to as¬ 
semble his needs into one large order, 
and he has time to correspond regard¬ 
ing prices and sources. There is time 
also to join a buying pool, or for sev¬ 
eral neighbors to get together and 
order a solid carload of assorted items, 
so saving in both price and freight. 
Fertilizer buying is easier than seed 
buying. The value and adaptation of 
the different varieties are more defi¬ 
nitely known. After a few years of 
expei'ience and consultation with neigh¬ 
bors and specialists, one can build a 
fairly definite program for his own 
land and 'crops, though, of course, some 
quotations will remain unanswered. 
Home mixing should be carefully 
considered by vegetable men on account 
of the saving in cost and because it is 
thus possible to know not only the 
analysis, but also the sources. 
Food for Cabbage Thought 
Three dispatches do not make a mar¬ 
ket, but three items appearing in the 
New York Packer for January 27, throw 
some light on the close of the late cab¬ 
bage deal in Wisconsin and New York. 
The first reports advances at shipping 
points of $10 per ton in the former 
State, adding that the total of remain¬ 
ing stock probably amounts to 225 
cars, nearly all in the hands of a few 
large operators. Two reports from 
New York conflict slightly, perhaps be¬ 
cause one writer is a little more of an 
optiiuist than the other. Advance in 
loading point prices to $15 or $18 has 
encouraged shipments and supplies 
seem liberal. Shrinkage this year has 
been heavier, than usual on account of 
the stock being overripe at storage 
time. The average is said to be close 
to 25 per cent, with the range from 
15 to 30 per cent. It is not hard to see 
how the 15 per cent man ‘might make 
money and the 30 per cent man lose. 
Such is the difference between men and 
between the sort of storage conditions 
which they provide. It is expected that 
present prices will bring about fairly 
rapid movement of remaining stock. 
Federated Fruit and Vegetable , 
Growers, Inc. 
Wide publicity has been given dur¬ 
ing the past few weeks to the establish¬ 
ment of the Federated Fruit and Vege¬ 
table Growers, Inc. This is a nation¬ 
wide cooperative which has come into 
existence through the effoi’ts of the Na¬ 
tional Fruit Committee of the Ameri¬ 
can Farm Bureau Federation. Since 
the fruit and vegetable fields find much 
in common in their marketing prob¬ 
lems, the project was extended to in¬ 
clude both groups. The new concern 
has taken over, lock, stock and barrel, 
the North American Fruit Exchange, 
which has maintained a national selling 
organization for the past 12 years. 
The new organization is to handle car- 
lots for local cooperatives and large 
individual growers. 
By PAUL WORK 
Many growers and 
seedsmen are offering 
Washington Asparagus seed and plants. 
This variety was originat.;d by Prof. 
J. B. Norton while he was with the 
United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. The work was done at Concord, 
Mass. It takes some years to try out 
a strain of asparagus; also pollen is 
carried by wind for long distances. 
Hence it is well for the buyer to be 
sure that the stock offered is genuine 
and that its purity has been properly 
safeguarded. 
Watering the Young- Plants 
Recently attention was called to the 
part which the character of the soil 
plays in regulating the water supply 
of young plants growing in green¬ 
house or frame. After all, the most 
important factor is the man at the end 
of the hose. This gentleman has the 
opportunity to advance. or retard 
gi’owth, to discourage damping off and 
to encourage hardening. His eyes must 
be wide open to see the weather, the 
progress and condition of the plants 
and the condition of the soil. 
The general rule calls for morning 
watering. This gives the plants chance 
to recover from the shock and chill, 
and it permits the surface of the soil 
to dry off somewhat before night. High 
temperature and abundant moisture 
are two factors that greatly favor the 
damping-off fungi which attack the 
stems of young plants at the base. Aft¬ 
ernoon watering may be necessary 
after plants have become large, when 
strong sunshine makes the demand 
especially heavy. In cloudy weather 
small plants may often go for several 
days without water. 
The skilled hand at watering soon 
senses the need of the plants much as 
he does his own needs. As he moves * 
along with his hose, he is conscious 
that the seedlings at the edge of the flat 
or bed are a trifle smaller, or that cer¬ 
tain spots of soil dry out a bit more 
quickly than others. His seeing eye 
catches these differences, and his guid¬ 
ing hand supplies the extra need long 
before it could be discerned by the visi¬ 
tor. Thus the plantman makes every 
condition as perfectly uniform as pos¬ 
sible, and then, in watering, he has the 
opportunity to make adjustments here 
and there throughout bed or house that 
could never be controlled by tempera¬ 
ture, soil or ventilation. The result 
is not only excellence, but also uni¬ 
formity in the finished plants. 
Foreign Apples Hurt Danish 
Orchardists 
A recent dispatch from Washington 
states that farmers in Denmark are 
taking out their orchards to plant pota¬ 
toes and other more profitable crops. 
Southern European apples, added to 
competition from America and Aus¬ 
tralia, have made it unprofitable for 
the Danes even to pick their crop, it 
is said. 
The fruit growers of British South 
Africa claim they can supply all the 
big markets of the world with fresh 
fruits in the middle of our winter as 
soon as they can get refrigerator 
steamers to carry them. The African 
fruits arrive in England when other 
fresh fruits, such as peaches, plums, 
nectarines and melons are not avail¬ 
able. In 1921, 806,891 boxes were 
shipped from Cape Town. 
Honey Producers Looking Toward 
Export Market 
Interest is being shown by New York 
State honey producers in export outlets 
for honey in Europe. A recent Can¬ 
adian government trade repoi’t states 
that in 1920 Great Britain received 
6,302,100 pounds of honey from foreign 
countries, of which 1,900,100 pounds 
came from Chile and 7,716 from the 
United States. There is considerable 
production of honey in the United 
Kingdom itself. 
British imports of honey are inva¬ 
riably packed in barrels, kegs or tins. 
Popular packages are the 300-pound 
barrel and the 150-pound keg. Most 
of the Californian and Australian 
honey is received in cases containing 
two tins, each holding , five gallons (60 
pounds). This honey is imported mainly 
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