America^ Aj?riculturist, February 24 ,1923 
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The United Factories Co., 
$1000 Gets 200-Acre Farm 
Income, $1,000; 8 cows and team, tools. Implements, 100 
bu. oats, .lO bu. potatoes, fodder Included if taken soon; 
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$5,800 takes all, only $1,000 needed. Details and photo page 
110, Catalog—Bargains 33 States. Copy free. 
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150 R Nassau Street New York City 
SEED CATALOG 
Will Interest You 
'S 
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T HE ALLEGAN NURSERY AUtgan, Mkh.. Box Z 
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A. A. Berry Seed Co., Box 1015 Clarintfa, Iowa 
Glass Cloth 
a transparent wa¬ 
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Cat. Free. TURNER BROS., Desk 25, Bladen, Neb. 
FRUIT TREES 
Greatly reduced price,. Di¬ 
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Peaches, apples, p^rs, plums, 
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TES.VESSKE XtRSERY (0., Box 119, ('levelaiid, Tenn. 
450.000 
200 varieties .Also Grapes,Small Fruits,etc.Best rooted stock. 
Genuine. Cheap. 2 sample currants mailed for 20c. Descriptivf 
pricelist free. LEWIS ROESCH, Box Pf Fredonia, N.Y. 
CHOICE SEED CORN 
Field selected rack ilriod 98% gorminatioii Improved 
tnampion Yellow Dent Seed i'orn at $2.50 per hu.shel on 
the ear. Klpens in about 125 days and an enormous 
Wider. Has averaged over 130 bushels shelled corn to tlie 
acre. W. W. WEI MAN, P. 0. Box 469, Hummelstown, Pa. 
ASTERS White, Lavender, Rose, lOc 
My 1923 Asier and Flower Seed List mailed FREE 
with each order. Write today. 
MTHUR brown. Aster Grower, MARlEm, N. Y. 
Feach Trees 20c, Apple Trees 25c 
each Postpaid. Send for 1923 datalog of Fruit Trees, 
Plants. Guaranteed Garden, Flower and Farm Seeds. 
y'bKN XCRSERY & SEED HOCSK SENEYA, OHIO 
Strawberry Plants 
FOR SALE. Ask for Cata¬ 
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Mrseradisb and other plants. J. Keifford Hall, Reid's Grove, Md., R. No.l 
strawberry—DEWBERRY The Big Money Crops 
Grape Vines, Privet Hedge and other Plants that Please, 
Asparagus Seed, WASHINGTON, and standard varieties; 
Cantaloupe, Tomato and other Seed that Yields. 
^IAL: Asparagus Crates, and waterproof linings. Catalog Free. 
V. R. AL LEN. 7 Lane Road, SEAFORD, DEL. 
iSTRAWRFRRY pi ants per 1000. History and 
SrVo rLAMIO, valuable illustrated book 
Qu wi ll learn. Add. Mayers Plant Nursery. Blerrill, Hick. 
Hard Wopd. Unleached, $13.00 
per ton in car or less. 
W. H. LEIDY SWARTHMORE. PA. 
,W00D ASHES 
POTATOF^ Bliss, Cobbler, Green Mt., Six Weeks, Queen, 
nxULJ King, Robu, Russet. Others. C.W.Ford.Fishers.N.Y. 
SEED POTATnP^ Dibble’s Russet and No. 9. 
rUIAlUES Burton N. Ketch, Cohocton, N.Y. 
CERTIPikd seed potatoes, pure strain brand, 
••B. ALDRIDGE SONS, FISHERS, N. Y. 
4 %, • • 
by brokerage and merchant firms, from 
whom the wholesalers and blenders 
purchase their supplies and repack in 
glass receptacles. 
The value of honey depends almost 
entirely upon the quality of the indi¬ 
vidual sample, and important factors 
are whiteness of appearance and 
flavour, which should be delicate and 
free from strong influence, like pep¬ 
permint. 
DWARF TREES NOT PEACTICAL 
Dwarf apples have a certain appeal 
for the amateur fruit grower and for 
the home garden, but they have no place 
in commercial orchards in our Eastern 
States. It is true that dwarf trees have 
many advantages, aside from their 
small size, which consumes little garden 
space, and the amateur may find them 
to his liking. Even the best of the 
dwarf varieties, however, are weak and 
they are not adapted for large plantings. 
Some years ago it was hoped that 
dwarf varieties could be made a com¬ 
mercial success and repeated efforts in 
New York State and elsewhere have 
been made to prove the possibilities of 
tbeir use, but the experiment station at 
Geneva, N. Y., as one authority, has 
shown that dwai'f apples cannot be 
made a commercial project on farms. 
For a very small orchard or in the 
garden, however, the dwarf apples make 
possible a greater variety of fruit than 
if standard size trees were grown. Some 
of the varieties are attractive ornamen¬ 
tals, if properly cared for, and so add to 
their usefulness for home planting. 
Varieties Not Different 
There is a general belief that dwarf 
apples are of different varieties and 
characteristics than our standard sorts, 
but this is not necessarily the case. The 
dwarf trees are merely those which 
have been made to grow smaller than 
normal trees of the same variety, and, 
although generally lacking hardiness, 
they may be fully as healthy and may 
produce fruit of the same size and 
quality as their bigger brothers. The 
dwarfing is usually accomplished by 
grafting scions or cuttings from stand¬ 
ard varieties on some root stock which 
dwarfs the top. 
To secure true dwarfs, summer prun¬ 
ing is usually necessary in addition. 
The standard scions grafted on so-called 
Doucin and French Paradise stocks 
usually produce a good dwarf and these 
stocks are now widely used. Trees 
grown on the French Paradise stock 
are true dwarfs, while those of the 
Doucin stock are only half dwarfs. It 
is true that the dwarf apples bear 
slightly earlier than standard sorts, but 
not^ enough so to make them any more 
desirable commercially. 
PLAYS FOR RURAL PEOPLE 
A new style of play is here for coun¬ 
try audiences. The city-made plays, 
like the city-made school books, are 
passing. A new type for both have 
come. When several years ago there 
was published a three-act play called 
“Between Two Lives,” there was ush¬ 
ered in a new form of drama and a 
new era of play acting for dramatic 
expression in the country that will have 
far-reaching results. The wonderful 
success of this play on the amateur 
stage has led to the production of many 
others of a similar nature that now 
makes it possible for every country dis¬ 
trict to have its dramatic club for the 
entertainment of its own people, inter¬ 
preting the life and manners of farm 
people that leads to elevation, farm 
contentment and the glory of the farm 
home. Following the publication of 
“Between Two Lives” has come an¬ 
other worthy pioneer, “The Cross Roads 
Meetin’ House,” a three-act play that 
presents the problems of the church in 
rural communities, pleasingly and sym¬ 
pathetically interpreting the life and 
characteristics centering about the his¬ 
toric communities of rural America. 
Two other pleasing one-act plays with 
a country flavor and high dramatic in¬ 
terest are “Don’t” and “The Will.” 
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