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Improved andPedigreed Seed 
pedigreed barley, Cornell’s two favorites. 
PKATHEKSTON No. 7, six row. ALPHA, two 
row. Por description see our advertisement Pebru- 
arv 17th issue or send for circular. Price, Peather- 
ston No. 7, $2.00; Alpha, $2.25. 
pedigreed seed oats, cleaned through 
thoroughly eq-uipped warehouse and treated for 
orevention of smut. Varieties — COENELLIAN, 
VICTORY, CROWN and GOLDEN RAIN. For 
description see our advertisement February 17th 
issue or write for circular. All varieties, $1.50 per 
busliel. 
SEED CORN, New York State grown from se¬ 
lected ears in special fields. 
Pedigreed CORNELL ELEVEN and Improved 
OIL DENT. For description see our advertisement 
February 17th issue or send for circular. Screened, 
$.1.00 per bushel. Tipped and butted for accurate 
planting, $5.00 per bushel. 
CERTIFIED SEED POTATOES, HIRUCO NUM¬ 
BER NINES for seed plots, $3.00 per bushel. 
GREEN MOUNTAINS and IRISH COBBLERS 
treated seed, $3.00 per bushel. BLISS TRIUMPHS 
special stock treated, $3.50. In bushel boxes, $4.00. 
For description see our advertisement February 17th 
issue. 
SOY BEANS, Black Eyebrow, an early sort. 
Bids fair to be most popular sort In New York and 
Pennsylvania. Price, $4.50 per bushel. 
HUBAM SWEET CLOVER, Scarified, high ger¬ 
mination and purity. Grown in New York. Price, 
small lots, 50 cents per pound, postpaid. Bushel 
lots or over, 40 cents per pound. 
All prices bags free, freight paid. All orders to 
be accompanied by 25% cash. 3% may be deducted 
it sending all cash with order. 
Investigation through Farm Bureau or Agricul¬ 
tural Colleges invited. 
HICKOX-RUMSEY CO., INC., Batavia, N. Y. 
MAULE 
SEED 
BOOK 
SendTodcu) 
for yourcopij 
WM. HENRY MAULE, Inc. 
2154 Arch St„ Pliila,* Pa. 
This is a Wonderful Box of 
Seeds and will produce 
bushels of Vegetables, 
Fruits and Flowers. 
The following 10 Packets 
of Seeds will be mailed to 
any. address for only 10c. 
1 Plrt. (300 seods) Cabbage—60“day—Produced heads in 60 days. 
1 ** (600 ** ) Lettuce—Earliest or 12-day—Record breaker. 
J ,, ** ^ Radish —Red Bird — Earliest of all reds. 
* 4 , ** ) Vegetable Peach—Fine for preserving:. 
* (1000 ** ) Turnip—SWks.orSnowball—Quickestgrower. 
, •« ** ) Tomato—EarlyTree—best of all Erect grower. 
* (26 ** ) Garden Berry—Fruits in 4 months from seed 
—good for Preserves and Pies. 
1 (60 *• ) Aster-Bouquet-lplantisagorgeousbouquet. 
1 (1000 ** ) Poppy-Firefly-Mostgorgeouspoppieagrown. 
I (2000 *• ) F!oworS"27 varieties—Great mixture—Won¬ 
derful colors. 
I Guarantee you will be more than pleased. New 1923 
Seed Book of the best Vegatable and Flower seeds, 
many Novelties in Colors, free to all. Order today. 
F. B. HILLS, Seed Grower, Box 40, ROSE HILL. N. Y. 
A Hardy Ensilage Corn 
vour Ensilage Seed Corn, direct from 
pliable growers in the famous West 
Branch Valley of Northern Pennsylvania. 
Every field producing this corn was 
tnoroughly inspected by a disinterested 
committee of experts. Every bag is certified 
by the growers to be mature, 
ot nigh quality, purity and germination. 
4 8k yimrCountyAgent about this genuineWest 
Branch Sweepstakes Ensilage Corn. Write us 
tor sample, prices and complete description. 
WEST BRANCH CO-OPERATIVE SEED 
GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. INC. 
Box A, Williamsport, Pa. 
CHOICE SEED CORN 
f'li-iml''} rack dried 98% germination Improved 
the 1“™ ^ ®'low Dent Seed Corn at $2.50 per bushel on 
in about 125 days and an enormous 
anrp “'’craged over 130 bushels shelled corn to the 
- • W. WEI MAN, P. 0. Box 469, Hummelstown, Pa. 
to load barley for Oswego, but this 
industry has gone, and for reasons un¬ 
connected with the 18th amendment. 
Today the main product is milk for the 
one cheese factory. Timothy hay grows 
exceptionally well, but the difficulties of 
marketing at present seem insuperable. 
The little hamlet had once two piers 
running out into deep water and a 
wharf-house where, the barges loaded 
hay and where coal was delivered at 
ve^ moderate freight rates. Now all 
this is gone and the grinding ice floes 
have carried away the timber of the 
dock. No one seems to know just why 
—but the tiny port is dead. Along the 
western horizon go the big freighters 
on their steadfast way between Chicago 
or Duluth and Ogdensburg or Montreal, 
but no more do the little steamers make 
Point Peninsula a port of call. It is 
hard to escape the feeling that somehow 
the Golden Age was in the past. 
In the Good Old Days 
In the old days every farmer was a 
fisherman when the famous Chaumont 
ciscoes came into the Bay “about elec¬ 
tion time.” Once literally thousands 
of barrels were caught and salted. Then 
came a period of years when the cisco 
almost disappeared, but once again 
some very good catches have been made 
within the last two or three years. 
I feel a particular interest in this 
community—these folks who are hold¬ 
ing this particular sector of the agri¬ 
cultural battle front under such rather 
special difficulties of isolation and lack 
of market facilities. It has occurred to 
me that local cooperation might result 
in the ownership of a community barge 
which should take hay to, say Oswego 
and should bring back coal and lumber 
and fertilizers. Then too, it might be 
that our great Up-State Public Service 
Commission could order some steam¬ 
boat corporation to give freight service 
when it was needed at rates that were 
not confiscatory. This is just a sug¬ 
gestion in behalf of a community which 
have more than their fair share of 
difficulties. 
CORN FOR SILA(JE 
During the week of September 18, a 
representative of the Department of 
Plant Breeding of the College of Agri¬ 
culture visited the fields of a Farmers’ 
Cooperative Association near Williams¬ 
port, Pa., and inspected the West 
Branch Sweepstakes corn grown by 
this association. 
There are several varieties of corn 
grown and sold under the name Sweep- 
stakes. Such information as is avail¬ 
able indicates that the corn grown by 
this association and sold through its 
representatives is earlier in maturity 
and gives a higher percentage of dry 
matter than other corn sold under this 
name but derived from other sources. 
It is suggested that growers desiring 
this corn should be careful to see that 
it comes-from an approved source and 
from inspected fields. Orders are now 
being placed by dealers for the supply 
for the coming year, and it is desirable 
that they also acquaint themselves with 
the sorts recommended by the county 
agents and the College of Agriculture. 
—P. P. Bussell, Department of Plant 
Breeding, New York State College of 
Agriculture. 
The Handwriting on the 
Hay Market Wall 
{Continued from 'page 211) 
will result in the poorer land being 
thrown into pasture and the tillable 
land l^ing worked in a shorter rota¬ 
tion with more corn, more clover, more 
manure, a better balanced farm busi¬ 
ness, and a more permanent agricul¬ 
ture. If this business is once organ¬ 
ized, it will not easily be abandoned for 
the old type of hay farming again. 
Will the hay raisers see the hand¬ 
writing on the wall, or will the change 
come by the old time-honored starva¬ 
tion method? 
Northern grown, from selected stock seed, thoroughly recleaned twice in our own seed- 
house and tested both for purity and germination, frequently produce maximum crops when 
ordinary seed is a failure. 
In Dibble’s Heavy-Weight Oats, we offer the heaviest and most productive American grown 
oat. The straw is tall, strong and stiff. The grain is thin-hulled with average weight of 42- 
44 lbs. per measured bushel, although we have had several crops of 47 lb. grain. Yields have 
been reported to us of 80-82-87-90-92 and up to 118 bushels per acre, right here in the 
Middle and New England States. Why not grow this kind of a crop on your farm? 
Dibble’s T'lventieth Century, extra early, extremely productive, grain weighing 34-38 lbs. 
On our own farms growing from 100-150 acres annually, they have given us a yield during 
eight to ten years of over twice the average of the U. S. for the same period. Scores of our 
customers have written us that “Dibble’s Seed Oats have doubled their crops.” We make a 
special low price on 10 bushels or more delivered. 
FREIGHT PREPAID TO YOUR STATION / 
Write at once for 10 sample packages of Dibble’s Farm Seeds which include " 
both kinds of Oats, Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog and Special Price List—Free. 
Address 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE SEEDGROWER, Box A, HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
Headquarters for Seed Oats, Corn, Barley, Soy Beans, Field Peas, Alfalfa, 
Clover, Grass Seeds and Seed Potatoes. 
SKINNER APPLE M2 PEACH SIZER 
117 1 II?* AJI L* Comimct, convenient and less 
Does Work Ol rive Machines, pensive to install and operate. 
Combines self-feeding hopper, roller grading belt, 
cull belt, sizer, distributing system. Dependable, 
thorougk, widely used by experienced packers. 
Built by World’s 
largest manufacturers of 
packing house machinery. 
Write for detailed information 
SKINNER MACHINERY CO., Fourth St., DUNEDIN, FLORIDA 
The Grimm Maple Sugar Making Utensils 
The Leading Sugar Makers 
are using Grimm Spouts. 
If interested in knowing 
why, . write for Catalogue 
“C” telling us the number 
of trees you tap. 
We can ship from stock 
all Utensils used in a 
Sugar Camp 
No. 4'Spout With Hook 
G. H. GRIMM COMPANY, RUTLAND, VT. 
Yielding ability thoroly tested. Inspected for disease- 
freedom and purity. Condition and delivery guaranteed. 
Write for records, descriptions and prices. Ask your 
County Agent about them. 
QUAKER HILL FARM 
K. C. LIVERMORE 
Box R, HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
Potatoes 
Deans 
Cornell No. 11 Corn 
LIMITED QUANTITY OF 
Hubam Clover at $12.00 per bushel 
Hubam originated here. Certified seed 
labama Hubam Clover Ass’n, Inc. 
NEWBERN, ALABAMA 
WOOD ASHES 
Hard Wood, Unleached, $13.00 
per ton in car or less. 
W. H. LEIDY SWARTHMORE. PA. 
SEED POTATOES. PURE STRAIN BRAND 
*• ALDRIDGE SONS, FISHERS, N. Y. 
Showing Cattle — Dairymen can 
secure good reputation for their live 
stock by taking pains to place them in 
a show ring in the best of condition. 
Clip long hair, scrape and polish horns 
and hoofs with linseed oil, to which a 
little yellow ochre has been added, wash 
the skin and hair with soap and polish 
with the palm of the hand. 
SPmERS 
GASPORTtN-Y 
Gatalo g 7ree 
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CABBAGE SEED 
Danish Ball Head 
True Danish Grown 
Tested seed. $1 per half pound, postpaid. Write 
FARMERS’ SERVICE CO.. Inc. 
150 North Street Middletown, NewYork 
Spraying the Home Garden” 
In this little book, by B. G. Pratt, you will find 
in concise, interesting language, a wealth of in¬ 
formation on insects and diseases that infest 
trees, shrubs, vines, vegetables and flowers—with 
simple instructions on the control of these pests. 
In addition is a chapter,“My Rose Bed.” Writ¬ 
ten for the amateur, this booklet is of equal in¬ 
terest to the commercial fruit and truck growers 
sent prepaid for 2c stamp. Address Dep’t 50, 
B. G. Pratt Co. 50 Church St. New York 
