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"Side” Oats for Seed 
A Heavy Yielder 
Priced Right 
I F you grow Oats—here is an ad you 
should read. And here is an Oats you 
should sow. A kind that will pay 
you! It is not something new—but has 
proven a good dependable variety by 
seven years’ actual use throughout all 
Eastern and Northern States. Read of 
its record below: 
This Improved White Russian Oats is 
medium early—makes great heads, long 
and well-filled. Formation of heads 
tends to one side of stem, the growth 
resembling that of a horse’s mane. 
The straw is stiff, very stiff—does not 
lodge—carries well its weight of grain 
until fully ripe—even on the level plains 
of North Dakota where storms have 
full sway. This variety resists rust 
wonderfully—has suffered very little 
when other oats were destroyed by 
rust. 
Grain of Improved AVliite Russian is plump— 
very solid. There is no waste space within—the 
hull being very thin, and the actual kernel itself 
surprisingly large. This makes Improved White 
Russian an Oats of the highest feeding value. The 
seed is highly cleaned and recleaned over four 
machines—carries no weeds whatever. Weighs 
43 lbs. per bushel (not clipped). Beautiful in ap¬ 
pearance. Sound in germination. 
The yield of Improved White Russian is enorm¬ 
ous. Note the field shown above that made 100 
bushels per acre. Many Eastern growers had 75 
to 85-bushel yields. Space prevents, or many 
splendid letters from customers could be printed 
—letters about the yielding ability of this excep¬ 
tional Oats. 
Improved White Russian is hardy, prolific and 
profitable. It will pay you to replace your other 
oats with it. Results will please you. Sow three 
bushels-by-weight per acre. Your growing crop 
will doubtless attract the attention of neighbors 
who will be anxious buyers for seed of it for their 
crops next year. Improved White Russian will 
please you and pay you! 
(All bags free— and freight prepaid as 
r rice* stated below) 2 to 14 bushels at $1.45 
per bushel, 15 to 34 bushels at $1.40 per bushel, 35 
to 74 bushels at $1.35 bushel, 75 bushels and over 
at $1.30 bushel. Bags are free. We pay the freight 
on 10-bushels or more to any railroad station in 
Penna., New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, 
Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Conn., Mass., 
andR.I. 
These offers of freight and bags are important 
—note them closely. 
If you don’t like this Improved White Russian 
Seed when you receive it, return it—and we’ll 
do the same with yoUr money, and pay round- 
trip freight. If our offer was not genuine, this 
paper would not print our ad. Order today. 
A. H. Hoffman, Inc., Box 60, Landisville, Lancaster Co.. Pa. 
“Victory Plants” 
5 Butternut trees, $1.00. 5 beautiful Virginia Cedars, 
$1.00. 100 Gibson or Dunlap and 100 Everbearing Straw¬ 
berry plants for $2.00. 1,000 choice Strawberry plants for 
$3.50. 25 cbolce Gladoli bulbs for $1.00. One Splrea or 
two Concord grapevines free with every order of $4.00 or 
over 5 Spirca V. H. for $1.00. 1,000 fine Concord 
grapevines for $40.00 or $30.00. 20 or 12 Concord grape¬ 
vines for $1.00. 12 Gooseberry bushes for $1.00. 100 
Asparagus roots for $1.00. Not the cheapest, but the best. 
Live and let live prices. All above small bargains post¬ 
paid. Catalogue worth seeing, free. 
THE ALLEGAN NURSERY 
Allegan, Mich. 
CLOVERtav 
gQ Blue Grass, $4 ; Re£ Top,^ $2; Orchard 
4 &U Grass.'^.sir’Alfalfa. $7: Bed Clover, $12; 
—— Sweet Clover, $6.50; Sudan, $6: Grimm 
Per Alfalfa, $20; Alsike, $10; Cane Seed. $2; 
n saeUs free. Ship from several warehouses 
xSU. and save you freight. Satisfaction or 
money refunded. Order before another advance. Write 
for samples. MEIER SEED CO., SALINA, KANSAS 
CHOICE STRAWBERRY PLANTS All standard variO' 
ties, $3.75. Guaran'eed first-class or money refunded 
CATALOG. MRS. FILENA WOOLF, Allegan, Mich 
American Agriculturisi, March 10,1923 
Where Folks Travel Little 
What Is to Become of Sections Like This? 
I HAD thought that By J. VAN WAGENEN,JR. mainly to this particu- 
more than 25 years lar fact, 
of Farmers’ Institute work had enabled The same-reasons that render this a 
me to see—if not all the agricultural 
highways and byways of our state— 
at least conditions representative of all 
of them. Recently however, I came to 
a locality which had all the interest and 
charm of novelty. It was the com¬ 
munity of Point Peninsula. The place 
is a part of the North Country and by 
road is thirty 
miles west of 
Watertown. The 
Point juts boldly 
out into Lake 
Ontario and es¬ 
capes being an 
island only by 
virtue of the 
narrowest possi¬ 
ble neck of land 
—a sandbar with 
a causeway and 
road so close to 
water level that 
when the winter 
gales sweep the 
lake, the waves 
sometimes pile 
j. VAN WAGENEN, JR. the gravel (“shin¬ 
gle” as the salt 
water beach dwellers would say) up on 
the road in such quantities as to inter¬ 
fere with passage. 
On this low, windswept peninsula are 
something more than 7,000 acres of 
land, about fifty farms, five school dis¬ 
tricts, one post office, one country store, 
one (Grange hall and one little Metho¬ 
dist church, and say half a dozen 
houses making up the tiniest of hamlets. 
I forgot to ask if there was a resident 
physician. If not, I wonder what these 
farm folks do when gripped by the 
sudden terror of illness at midnight or 
when a child is to be bom into the 
world. 
East and south there are broad arms 
of water, north there is water and the 
narrow trail to the mainland but west 
there is only the wide expanse of the 
open lake—200 miles of water with only 
an island or two on the horizon. Eighty 
years ago in a speech in Congress 
which is still a classic of its kind, 
Proctor Knott characterized the Great 
Lakes by that happy phrase “The Un¬ 
salted Seas.” 
Agriculturally the Point is not bad. 
Indeed except for its isolation it would 
be reckoned among our better lands. 
There is little outcrop of, lime rock 
on the higher parts and I noted some 
granite boulders, wandering lost rocks, 
brought down from the north-east by 
glacial ice-sheet. But on the whole it 
is a level, deep and rather fertile soil. 
There are several tractors—and trac¬ 
tors do not come to very rough or in¬ 
fertile regions. Once they tell me the 
Point was covered with wonderful for¬ 
ests and the first adventurers were 
lumbermen but men have been farm¬ 
ing it now for a hundred years. 
There are many cows, but only five 
or six silos, the meaning of this being 
that hay grows easily while the late 
spring and the relatively cool days and 
nights do not fit corn. On the other 
hand if you do grow corn it is hardly 
necessary to worry over early frosts 
because the big lake while it soaks up 
heat all summer so that sultry nights 
are unknown acts like a giant hot 
water bottle when the cool October 
nights draw on. Large bodies of water 
are wonderful equalizers of tempera¬ 
ture variations and the peach and grape 
regions of our state owe their existence 
rather poor locality for corn, make it 
almost ideal for oats. The oat is a cool 
weather plant. Its worst enemy is 
burning hot days and this is the reason 
why Jefferson is the banner oat county 
of the state, growing an average of 
some seventy thousand acres. 
The Point is on the whole level but 
has some roll—not the dead flatness of 
some of the adjacent mainland. The 
trees with their tendency to lean and 
with their branches inclining toward 
the east and south, testify to the sweep 
and persistency of the lake winds that 
gather force over many watery miles. 
I doubt if there is another community 
in our state of equal size which is so 
isolated. In summer it is a matter of 
a boat or a twelve mile drive to the 
nearest railroad. After winter gets 
thoroughly settled down and the ice 
on the Bay gets firm and safe, you can 
drive across the ice from Three Mile 
Bay or from Chaumont—a distance in 
either case of six miles. This tempor¬ 
ary winter highway over the literally 
trackless expanse is marked by a long 
straight line of cedar brush set in the 
ice because even to the islander accus¬ 
tomed to the Bay and the landmarks, 
it would be no joke to be caught at 
night or in a blinding snow storm with¬ 
out these friendly guides. There is 
another factor that must be reckoned 
with in crossing big sheets of ice and 
that is the formation of pressure ridges. 
Ice fields miles in extent do not remain 
smooth and unbroken like a frozen mill¬ 
pond. In warm thawy days ice ex¬ 
pands like any other substance and in 
the case of big areas this expansion can 
only be taken care of by the ice buck¬ 
ling up into a very abrupt, definite 
ridge, three or four feet high and miles 
long. They tell me that every winter 
these pressure ridges occur in almost 
exactly the same place. We met one 
that was difficult to get over. In fact 
we drove along it for perhaps a mile 
until we found a place where a team 
could cross. Going back our driver 
who was a landsman declined to take 
the chance of crossing in the dusk so 
we took the road over the isthmus—a 
long twelve miles. I think too that he 
felt better when he remembered that 
there was good firm soil instead of 
water beneath him. 
It is not a Benighted Community 
Let me make one thing clear. This 
may be an isolated community but the 
people who came to the Institute were 
fully the equal of any audience you are 
likely to gather in the state. They 
were farm folk to whom you may prop¬ 
erly apply that fine adjective “cultured” 
and their names were English names 
betraying their New England ancestry 
—yet another example of the qualities 
of the Puritan stock. 
But in talking with them I found a 
note of pessimism regarding the future 
of the Point, Many of the old families 
who had achieved some measure of 
agricultural success are selling or rent¬ 
ing their farms and going elsewhere— 
perhaps to educate their children— 
perhaps to be a little nearer to the rest 
of the world. And it seemed to be uni¬ 
versal testimony that the new comers 
lacked the fine standards of the older 
generation. 
Then too, there seems to be some un¬ 
fortunate economic conditions. Years 
ago there was a great deal of barley 
grovm and schooners tied up at the dock 
100 Bushels Oats Fex Acre^Read Below 
OYER 15,000 FARMERS HAVE PROVED THE SUPERIORITY OF G. L. F. SEEDS. 
ORDER YOURS TODAY! WRITE 
Coop. G.L.F. Exchange,Inc.,Syracuse, N.Y. Seed Dept 10 
To be of high quality, 
purity, anci germinability, 
and to be free of all mix¬ 
tures or adulterations with 
ported, southern grown or otherwise inferior seed. 
Field Inspecting G. L. F. Clover Seed 
in the Northwest 
Farm Leaders Use G. L. F. Seeds 
ON THEIR OWN FARMS 
. J. Lowell, Master National Grange 
OHN Baeeon, Cornell Crop Specialist 
'. E. Ceoss. President Hort. Society 
EEED Van Wagenen, Je.. Agricultural Writer 
1. A. Rodgees, Pres. Canning Crop Association 
iHAS. Wilson, Former Comm, of Agriculture 
I. C. Bueeitt, Vice-Director of Extension 
G. F. Waeeen, Farm Management Expert 
H. E. Cook, Agricultural Writer 
Albeet Manning. Master State Grange 
S. L. Steivings, Overseer State Grange 
Jay Coeyell, State Leader County Agents 
Geoege Slocum, President Dairymen’s League 
Enos Lee, President Farm Bureau Federation 
are 
guaranteed 
