American Agriculturist, March 24,1923 
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BERRY PLANTS 
strawberry plants, earliest, latest, largest, most 
productive and everbearing varieties. Raspberry, 
blackberry, dewberry. Loganberry, gooseberry, cur¬ 
rant, grape plants. 
VEGETABLE ROOTS 
Asparagus, rhubarb,- horseradish, hop, sage, mint 
roots. 
VEGETABLE PUNTS 
Cabbage, cauliflower, beet, celery, onion, egg plant, 
pepper, tomato, lettuce, parsley, sweet potato plants. 
FLOWER PLANTS & BULBS 
Delphinium, holl.vhock, Canterbury bells, foxglove. 
.Sweet William, phlox, poppy and other perennial 
flower plant.s; aster, pansy, salvia, snapdragon, 
verbena, zinnia, strawflower, begonia, geranium and 
other annual flower plant.s; dahlia, canna, gladiolus, 
peony, iris, bulbs; roses, shrubs. 
Catalogue Free 
HARRY D. SQUIRES, Hampton Bays. N. Y- 
QUAKER HILL FARM 
SEEDS 
PEDIGREED STRAINS 
Developed by Plant Breeding Experts 
HIGHEST YIELDING IN MANY TESTS 
Adapted to Northeastern States 
INSPECTED for DISEASE FREEDOM 
and PURITY 
CornelliA^n and Empire Oats 
Alpha Barley Robust Beans 
Cornell No. 1 I Corn 
CERTIFIED SEED POTATOES 
Write for inieresting bookiet giving records, 
descrijitions and prices 
K. C. LIVERMORE, HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
A Hardy Ensilage Corn 
Get your Ensilage Seed Corn, direct from i 
reliable growers in the famous West 
Branch Valley of Northern Pennsylvania. 
Every field producing this corn was 
thoroughly inspected by a disinterested 
committee of experts. Every bag is certified 
and guaranteed by the growers to be mature, 
of high quality, purity and germination. 
A sk your County Agent about this genuine West 
Branch Sweepstakes Ensilage Corn. Write us 
for sample, prices and complete description. 
WEST BRANCH CO-OPERATIVE SEED 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. 
Box A, Williamsport, 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 choice Gladoll bulbs for $1.00. One Spirea or 
two Concord grapevines free with every order of $4.00 or 
over. 5 Spirea 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. 
ISSfi! West SBrarich 
mu SWEEPSTAKES IJJSBljS! 
RARE GLADIOLUS 
Have a good beautiful plant early 
and often, a mixture of rare kinds. 
100 large Bulbs for $3.00, 30 for $1.00. 
Also a choice standard and collection, 
100 for $2.00 or 40 for $1.00. All 
postpaid. R. J. GlBBfNS, Mt. Holly, New Jersey 
OBVER Mb tlMOTHY 
$ 4.00 
BUSHEL 
Sweet Clover $7.00: Alfalfa $7.00; Red Clover 
$12.00; Sudan $6.00; Grimm Alfalfa $20.00: 
Orchard Grass $2.00; Red Top $2.00: Blue 
Grass $4.00; Caneseed $2.60; Alsike $10.00; 
Timothy $4.00; sacks FREE; Satisfaction or 
money back; we ship from several warehouses 
and save you freight; 6 per cent discount on 
6 bushel orders; Order from this ad or write 
for samples, but get your order in as prices 
are going much higher. 
MEIER SEED CO. aa Salina, Kansas 
CLOVER & TIMOTHY 
One of the greatest Grass Seed Values Known. Investi¬ 
gate. Alsike Clover and Timothy mixed—fine for hay 
and pasture. One of the cheapest seedings you can 
make, grows everywhere. You will save 1-3 on your 
g rass seed bill by writing for free sample and big Seed 
uide, offeri^ Field Seeds, all kinds. Write today, 
American Field Seed Co., Dept. 515. Chicago, III. 
Frostproof Cabbage Plants 
I’leld-hanleneil, can be .set six weeks before home-grown 
Plants, and will liead four weeks earlier. Early .lersey and 
Uiarleston Wakefield, Copenhagen Market, Succession, Flat 
Dutch. Prices: 500 for $1.25; 1,000 for $2.25 postpaid. 
By express; $1.50 per 1,000; over 10,000 at $1.00 per 
i.OOO, Other plants ip season, write for price list. 
PIEDMONT PLANT CO.. ALBANY, GA. 
LIMITED QUANTITY OF 
Hubam Clover at $12.00 per bushel 
Hubam originated here. Certified seed 
Alabama Hubam Clover Ass’n, Inc. 
NEWBERN, ALABAMA 
CHOICE SEED CORN 
Bield selected rack ilried 9.SG’ germinatio.i Iiiii)rove<t 
t haiiipibn Yellow Dent Seed Cor.', at $2.ri0 per buslicl on 
the ear. Kipens in about 125 days a id an enormous 
yieldcr. Has averaged over 1' 0 busbe s she. lid cor.i to t' e 
acre. W. W. WEIM AN, P. 0. Box 469. Hummeist w’. Pa. 
POTATfiPQ Carman, Cobbler, Green Mt., Six Week.-', Cii'-.p, i 
viniut,} Ro.se. Russet, Others. C. W. FORD, FISHERS. Is. Y. 
way to the Pennsylvania line. In shape 
it suggests the barn planned by the 
city agriculturist, which was to be a 
half a mile long, but deciding that his 
finances were insufficient, he concluded 
to retain the original plan as to length, 
but to make it only ten feet wide. The 
county also takes in part of the Monte¬ 
zuma Marshes, the State’s biggest 
swamp, famous for cat-tails and bull¬ 
heads. Some of the county, especially 
the southern end, is just “fair” land, 
but around the city of Auburn is a 
large area which it seems to me com¬ 
pares favorably with the best of the 
beautiful “Finger Lake Region,” and 
it was in this fat section that our gen¬ 
ial host lived. 
Now, I do not propose to describe 
this farm, for the winter twilight was 
already advancing out of the east when 
the heavy farm team drove into the 
yard. The fertility of a region is meas¬ 
ured to a great extent by the size of the 
houses because rich land ultimately 
blossoms into big, imposing farm 
homes. This particular section has 
many big farm houses, and this was 
one of the biggest. In fact, the Madam 
was bewailing its size and the amount 
of work necesary to care for it. Much 
of Western New York had a sunburst 
of prosperity almost a hundred years 
ago, when the Erie Canal (opened 
throughout its length in 1825) meant 
what was then deemed swift and cheap 
transportation to tidewatei*. More¬ 
over, there was no Mississippi Valley 
at that time to flood the markets of 
the world. 
A Corn-Belt Farm in New York 
T his particular farm has wonderfully 
good land — gently rolling — most 
of us Hill Farmers would call it very 
level. I notice that whether land is level 
or hilly depends in a great measure 
upon where you have been brought up. 
It was land where it was little trouble 
to grow wheat, and corn, and clover, 
and alfalfa, and where any normal 
year filled the great barns and made 
towering stacks of straw outside. Cer¬ 
tainly it was notable in one respect be¬ 
cause it was really a Corn Belt farm in 
New York State. 
There were the great barns—bigger, 
probably, than the westerner would 
have built. There was a tremendous 
stack of wheat straw in the barnyard. 
There were the shotes and brood-sows 
—47 of them, he told me—not cooped 
up in tiny pens after our foolish eastern 
custom, but wandering around the 
barnyard among the cattle. There were 
draft horses in the stalls, and, most 
distinctive of all, there was a herd of 
Polled Angus cattle, fellowshipping 
with the hogs and burrowing into the 
strawstack—every one of them as black 
as a crow, and, except to the eyes of the 
master who cared for them, as alike as 
two peas from the same pod. O yes, I 
almost forgot to say that there were 
two or three Holstein cows, too—a sort 
of left-over from a one-time somewhat 
numerous herd. The owner told me 
that these black-and-whites were the 
best-fed animals on the farm. They 
were in just nice condition—nothing 
more;—but all the Angus to the eyes of 
a dairyman were “hog fat,” but prob¬ 
ably they did not appear that way to a 
man accustomed to handling beef cattle 
and to seeing animals that were really 
fleshy, according to show-ring stand¬ 
ards. It is surely true that in their 
ability to make and retain fat easily, 
the beef breeds and the dairy breeds 
are very far apart. 
Beef Worth Raising 
I T happened that a “baby-beef”—the 
real article, not a skinny grasser calf— 
had been killed the day before, and the 
carcass still hung in the barn to chill. 
I went out and took a look at it. Now, 
I am accustomed to seeing farm-butch¬ 
ered dairy cows, but I am not accus¬ 
tomed to seeing meat like that. The 
light did not shine through it, even on 
the skirt and flank. It was an Angus 
steer, something more than 400 days 
old, that had never been hungry, and 
its dressed weight was quite a little 
more than a pound for every day of its 
life. I have no doubt that the folks 
who got the steaks from that carcass 
were able to cut them with a fork with¬ 
out trouble. It represents about the 
last word in tender, juicy beef. It was 
sold to an Auburn butcher for 15 cents 
per pound, a very good price as the 
farmer thinks of beef, and yet less than 
it was worth as compared with the 
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