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METCALFS QUAUTY SEEDS 
Red Clover 
Alfalfa 
Per Bushel 
of 60 Lbs. 
Metcalf’s Recleaned, Medium.$16.00 
Metcalf's Recleaned, Mammoth 
{Genuine). 16.50 
Indiana Grown 
Per Bushel 
of 60 Lbs. 
Peas 
. Per Bushel 
of 56 Lbs. 
Telephone—Best Grown.$7.50 
Alderman. 7.50 
Thomas Laxton. 
Gradus . 
Canada Field Peas, per 60 
7.50 
lbs. 
7.50 
4.00 
Metcalf’s Recleaned.$15.00 
Grimm Alfalfa, Certified . 30.00 
Our Alfalfa comes direct from the West¬ 
ern Seed Growers’ Marketing Co., Salt 
Lake City, Utah. 
Per Bushel 
of 60 Lbs. 
.$13.00 
I’er Bushel 
Alsike 
Metcalf’s Recleaned. 
Sweet Clover 
Per Bushel 
of 60 Lbs. 
Metcalf’s Recleaned White Blos¬ 
som, Scarified. $9.50 
Per Bushel 
of 45 Lbs. 
. $4.00 
Timothy 
Metcalf’s Recleaned. 
Timothy & Alsike Mixed 
Per Bushel 
of 45 Lbs. 
Metcalf’s Recleaned. $4.50 
20% Alsike 
Per Bushel 
of 32 Lbs. 
Metcalf’s Seed Oats 
Alberta Cluster. $1.35 
Metcalf’s Seed Corn 
Metcalf’s Perfect Ensilage.$3.50 
Luce’s Favorite. 3.50 
Improved Learning. 2.00 
Pride of the North. 2.00 
Iowa Gold Mine. 2.00 
Sweepstakes. 3.00 
Virginia Late Eureka. 2.75 
Early Mastodon. 2.25 
90 Day Golden Dent. 2.25 
White Cap Yellow Dent. 2.25 
Canada Smut Nose. 2.50 
Longfellow’s Yellow Flint. 2.50 
Miscellaneous Per Lb. 
Red Top, Heavy Seed.26 
Best Orchard Grass.21 
Fancy Kentucky Blue Grass.35 
Canada Blue Grass.28 
Sudan Grass. 25 
Winter Hairy Vetch.20 
Per Bushel 
of 48 Lbs. 
. $1.75 
. 1.65 
Barley 
Metcalf’s Seed Wheat of'e^Lbs!’ 
Marquis Type Spring Wheat. $2.50 
2 Row. 
6 Row. 
Spring Rye 
Western Grown. $2.75 
All Bags Free. Freight prepaid on 200-11). shipments, or over. 
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QUAKER HILL FARM 
K. C. LIVERMORE Box R, HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
American Agriculturist, March 3,1923 
’ t 
As I View Gardening 
It Is Apparently a Question of 'Who Shall Do It?” 
jyi’ARK TWAIN once 
By H. E. COOK 
said that a great 
deal had been said about the weather, 
but nothing had ever been done about it, 
and so a great deal has been said about 
the farmer’s garden, but during my 
memory at least nothing startling has 
been done to make it what it ought to 
H. E. COOK 
be. As I see the 
case, it is not a 
technical one, but 
rather a psycho¬ 
logical, tempera¬ 
mental and eco¬ 
nomic one com¬ 
bined. The per¬ 
son is rare who 
does not like 
fresh green vege¬ 
tables and knows 
their health value. 
To the housewife 
who must pre¬ 
pare three meals 
a day, vegetables 
not only have a 
health value, but their possession be¬ 
comes an actual tonic to her nerves. 
I often wonder how women stand up 
under the strain of originating three 
meals each day, 1,095 during the year 
and say 40 to 50 thousand during a 
lifetime, besides the extras, and still 
keep a normal level mind. Really the 
marriage license ought to bind a man 
to at least work a garden, on the 50-50 
plan if nothing more. But what should 
be and what “does he” are often as far 
apart as the poles. When we find a 
situation that is 
so deep seated 
that it has be- 
c o m e chronic, 
there isn’t much 
use of expect¬ 
ing to put 
things right by 
shaking a wand, 
we must find 
out what the 
causes are that 
have produced 
the case. 
It is the dairy 
farm garden 
that interests me 
and doe& a ma¬ 
jority of our 
readers in New 
York. If a 
trucker’s family 
does not have 
plenty of vege¬ 
tables, looks to 
me like stingi¬ 
ness or cussed¬ 
ness, But hold 
on, won’t I have 
to apologize, for 
what’s the dif- 
erence between a trucker scrimping on 
vegetables and a dairyman on milk? 
Garden making is not one of the im¬ 
portant jobs on most farms like milk¬ 
ing, field seeding, haying and harvest¬ 
ing. It is a piece of work that is 
done either during spare time or by 
some member of the family not em¬ 
ployed in the regular service. Probably 
I am not far astray to say that the 
wife, with some assistance from the 
children, is the chief garden maker. 
Please print the word some in Italics, 
for children do not like garden mak¬ 
ing. 
Tf the wife is a natural executive 
this is probably the best general plan 
for a good garden. In the winter she 
gets the seeds, starts the tomato and 
pepper plants, sees to it that stable 
manure has been applied preferably 
in the late fall from composted piles 
left from top-dressing meadows, has 
the plowing done both spring and fall 
if possible, and also provides for a 
dressing of chemical manure after 
spring plowing and before harrow¬ 
ing, or rather leveling, for on land in 
garden tilth there isn’t any harrow¬ 
ing to do. 
Put the Men Folks to Work 
Then she can watch out for ddys 
when he:, husband or some of the men 
folks can help her with the first or 
early planting, in getting the aspara¬ 
gus bed cleaned off, the pie plant patch 
spaded and cleaned. Two varieties of 
Because the women folks like garden¬ 
ing is no reason why they should be 
expected to do it all 
peas should be planted 
about that time, one 
early like the American Wonder and a 
late, like the Telephone or maybe a 
third. Champion of England. Put in 
some early potatoes, garden beets, 
half-long orange carrots, prizetaker 
onions, sowed thick, and thinned for 
early use, lettuce and radishes (there 
are many good varieties), spinach 
and parsnips. It is pretty safe to’plant 
a first planting of golden bantam corn 
at this early planting. If it freezes 
down, it is a short job to replant and 
the work is done while steam is up and 
she has the man power under control. 
I find what the man needs most at 
this time after he is once under way 
is to be told exactly what to do and to 
feel that he has no responsibility in 
the matter. Under these circumstances 
if he is judiciouly handled, not scolded 
for the mistakes he makes, he will 
stay until this first planting is done. 
I suggest to the foreman in this case 
that she judge not from the standpoint 
of perfection, but rather from a 
probably “no help at all” point of view. 
That is where psychology comes in. 
Now if this preliminary adventure 
has worked out all right, the later and 
final one will be easier. Now comes 
the second planting of corn, string 
beans and lima’s, if you can grow them, 
cucumbers—summer and winter squash, 
set out the tomatoes and peppers. Sow 
a few more radishes if you like them. 
To be cure the job is only begun, but 
the same engineering ability that has 
gone so far will 
find a "way 
through. Ratljer. 
than to fall; 
down by the 
way there mhy 
be some young 
folks in the 
neighb orhood 
who would help 
if paid for their 
labor. Just be¬ 
fore the Fourth 
and during 
school vacation 
if the farm men 
folks fail tfl 
make good, 
maybe there are 
children in the 
family who 
would under 
good manage^' 
ment weed and 
hoe. 
I can’t see 
a n y t h i n g un¬ 
righteous in the^ 
wife taking over' 
this business 
where it is rea¬ 
sonably possible to do so, but when she 
has to leave her work and the children 
are galloping off, more energy than 
would clean up two gardens or the men 
folks are equally inelastic, then it’s an 
outrage. The garden job is for the 
whole family because the value of it 
is for them all and it ought to be so 
considered. But I think it is the wife’s 
job to order and arrange arwd stand back 
of it until the last old blanket is taken off 
the tomatoes and cucumbers in the fall. 
I am perhaps committed to this plan 
because frankly I don’t like to tend the 
garden. But I do help out under the 
general direction of Mrs. Cook. She 
wants a garden, and she gets it, and has 
flowers in it. Now this garden wouldn’t 
take a prize at a garden show, but at 
the same time we seem to be living from 
it all through the season with small 
fruits on the side. 
I haven’t said much about the techni¬ 
que of gardening because I don’t know 
much about it. As I see the situation,, 
however, the main thing is to get a 
few standard plants to grow, fairly well 
that will most interest the rank and file , 
of farm wives and families. In justice 
to the much discredited men folks let 
us say that the mornings and nights 
chore of milking and caring for stock 
absorbs the time that others who make 
a garden during these hours. Some 
folks fail to reckon with that. Maybe 
it is a fundamental cause why the dairy¬ 
man’s garden is not always what it 
should be. 
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