American Agriculturist, April 7,1923 
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BERRY PLANTS 
strawberry plants, earliest, latest, largest, most 
protiuetive and everbearing varieties. Kaspberry, 
blackberry, dewberry. Loganberry, gooseberry, cur¬ 
rant, grape plants. 
VEGETABLE ROOTS 
Aspariigus, rhubarb, borseradisli, hop, sage, mint 
root s. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
Cabbage, cauliflower, beet, celery, onion, egg plant, 
pepper, tomato, lettuce, parsley, sweet potato plants. 
FLOWER PLANTS & BULBS 
Deipbinium, hollyhock, (fanterbury bells, foxglove. 
Sweet William, phlox, poppy and other perennial 
flower plants; aster, pansy, salvia, snapdragon, 
verbena, zinnia, strawflower, begonia, geranium and 
other annual flower plants: dahlia, canna, gladiolus, 
peony, iris, bulbs; roses, shrubs. 
Catalogue Free 
HARRY D. SQUIRES, Hampton Bays. N. Y. 
» 
QUAKER HILL FARM 
SEEDS 
are SUPERIOR because 
1. Each strain was developed by plant 
breeding experts. 
2. They have averaged highest yields in 
farm bureau and college tests. 
3. Field and bin inspections by disinter¬ 
ested persons show the disease free¬ 
dom and purity. 
Oats, Barley, Corn, Potatoes, Beans 
Write for Descriptions, Records and Prices 
BUY DIRECT FROM GROWER 
K. C. LIVERMORE, "S’' HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
FERTILIZERS 
Croxton Brand 
Commercial Fertilizers 
ALSO RAW MATERIALS 
Carload or less Carload lots 
NITRATE OF SODA TANKAGE 
SULPHATE OF AMMONIA BONE MEAL 
ACID PHOSPHATE MURIATE OF POTASH 
BLOOD SULPHATE OF POTASH 
Inquiries should state whether carload or less carload 
and in commercial mixtures, analysis desired. 
N. J. FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL CO. 
Factory: CROXTON, JERSEY CITY, N. J. 
Office: 38 RECTOR STREET. NEW YORK 
A Hardy Ensilage Corn 
Get your Ensilage Seed Corn, direct from 
reliable growers in the famous West 
Branch Valley of Northern Pennsylvania. 
Every field producing this corn was 
thoroughly inspected by a disinterested 
oommittee of experts. Every bag is certified 
and guaranteed by the growers to be mature, 
of high quality, purity and germiuatiou. 
A sk yourCouutyAgent about this genuineW est 
Branch Sweepstakes Ensilage Corn. Wi ite us 
for sample, prices and complete description. 
WEST BRANCH CO-OPERATIVE SEED 
GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. INC. 
Box A, Williamsport, Pa. 
West Bra 
Pedigreed Potatoes 
Irish Cobblers, and Certified Rural 
Russets. Yields from 300 to 562 bushels 
per acre, for ten years. First Prize 
and Sweepstakes medal over all vari¬ 
eties at Cornell Potato Show, Feb. 23. 
j\_ddr^8s 
GARDNER FARMS, TULLY, N. Y. 
You should 
Use our 
FBOST PROOF 
cabbage 
pi ants 
and get your cabbage into the markets four to six weeks 
earlier’than- you can .liy using bome-grown hot bouse 
plants. Early .Jersey ami Cbarleston Wakefields, Succes¬ 
sion and Flat Dutch. Prices by exiiress f. o. b. here— 
♦ 1.2.) per 1,000; 5,000 for .$.5; 10,000 for $9; 25,000 for $20. 
bhould you wish plants shipped by parcel post, aild one 
dollar per tbousami to above prices. Satisfaction guaran¬ 
teed or purchase price of plants refunded. 
S- M. GIBSON CO. YONGES ISLAND, S. C. 
aoVER AND ■HMOTHY 
$ 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 $2.50; Alslke $10.00; 
Timothy $4.00; sacks FREE; Satisfaction or 
money back; we ship from several warehouses 
and save you freight; 5 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 hi^er. 
MEIER SEED CO. aa y Salina, Kansas 
^BBAGE PLANTS 
1 Frost-Proof Cabbage Plants and have 
cabbage three weeks earlier than you will with 
, ^^.■Etpwn plants. Varieties. .Jersey Wakefield, Charles- 
■v,” ."/taefleld. Succession, Flat Dutch and Copenhagen 
Prices by express: $1.00 per thousand. By 
nm,*''', postpaid 500 for $1.25; 1,000 for $2.25: 
; ™>Pt sbipuient.s. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re- 
tiuiied. p. D. FULWOOD, TIFTON, GA. 
binder Ta 
Samples Free. 
n 
CAR LOTS, Per Lb. 
Small lots a shade higher. 
Agents wanted. 
BURT & SONS, UKLROSK, OHIO 
This characterization would be true of 
the center of the island. There is some 
good land around the western end, but 
more and more it is being converted 
into building lots or taken over for 
great country estates. I remember 
when Hicksville was the center of a 
tremendous “cuke,” or pickle industry. 
No one ever speaks of “cucumbers” 
where they grow them, but always 
“cukes.” Now, various causes—per¬ 
haps most of all the cucumber blight— 
has largely extinguished the business. 
Expressed in square miles of cultivated 
land on the “East End” is not so very 
important, but expressed in terms of 
production and values per acre, it is 
most impressive. 
The North Shore grows a great va¬ 
riety of crops—some of them very spe¬ 
cial ones. The outstanding products 
are potatoes, cauliflower, cabbage and 
cabbage seed, Brussels sprouts and 
lima beans. In growing cabbage seed, 
the mature heads are pulled in the fall, 
thrown into windrows in the field and 
covered with earth enough to prevent 
hard freezing, and then reset in the 
spring. Further east, on the northern 
fork of the island, is Point Orient, with 
much celery and onions, and a large 
development of overhead irrigation. On 
the North Shore dairying is well nigh 
unknown. 
A Thought for the Dairyman 
A t Grange dinners it has amused me 
.to see these very prosperous people 
taking the color out of coffee with the 
contents of tin cans of condensed milk. 
Luce’s Favorite, the corn which has 
become so very popular as a variety for 
up-State ensilage, was originally con¬ 
fined to this locality. 
The South Shore, especially “The 
Hamptons,” have a much less diversi¬ 
fied agriculture. Indeed, it is mainly 
made up of potatoes arid then more po¬ 
tatoes. Only the other day a man con¬ 
fessed to me that they did grow some 
patches of corn and hay, but added that 
they generally managed “to keep them 
back out of sight.” Everywhere on 
the island men are using quantities of 
commercial fertilizer, which seems un- 
bqlieveable to us dairymen. It is not a 
wonder-tale, it is the simple truth, that 
for potatoes on the South Shore the 
usual dose of fertilizer is from one to 
one and one-quarter tons per acre, and 
this amount is of high-analysis “com¬ 
plete” brands. It is true everywhere 
that the men who have learned to use 
the most fertilizer use the highest 
priced formulas. The South Shore has 
a good many foggy mornings, and high 
humidity, which favors the blight fun¬ 
gus and insuring the potato crop, means 
spraying with a thoroughness and fre¬ 
quency which up-State growers can 
hardly understand. The island de¬ 
pends almost wholly upon seed from 
Maine, Northern New York and Ver¬ 
mont. One large grower told me that 
the community experience with Ver¬ 
mont seed had been especially fortu¬ 
nate. While purchased seed has been 
the almost universal rule, the fact that 
tljis year there is plenty of native stock 
at rather low prices, wl^ile the imported 
seed is relatively high, will lead to a 
considerable use of the home-grown 
seed. 
Potatoes go in Early 
P OTATOES on the South Shore are 
planted at the earliest possible date 
—not in an elfort to catch the early 
market, for the business as a whole is a 
main-crop proposition, but because ex¬ 
perience has shown that early planting 
gives best results. Two years ago 
many potatoes were in on St. Patrick’s 
Day, but mid-March planting does not 
happen this year. On the evening of 
March 7 we had to both shovel and 
push to get two miles with an automo¬ 
bile, but I ought_ to add that a condi¬ 
tion such as this is almost without 
precedent. The South Shore has the 
warmest—I will not say the best—cli¬ 
mate in the State. According to the 
data of the Weather Bureau, the aver¬ 
age date of the last spring frost is 
April 20, and the first frost in the fall 
is October, or more than 200 days be¬ 
tween frosts, as compared with only 
120 days on the high lands of Central 
New York and only 90 days in the 
Adirondack sections of the State. It 
must be nice to live where you don’t 
have to worry about the corn frosting 
before it is fit for the silo. A climate 
like this makes possible a considerable 
list of crops^ that have no real place 
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FROM A KODAK NEGATIVE 
KODAK 
\ 
Story-telling pictures like the one above, 
picture records of your crops, buildings a^d 
equipment, selling pictures of your cattle, 
chickens or hogs—they all represent the call 
for an Autographic Kodak on your place. 
No. 3 A Kodak Junior is an ideal 
model for the farm. The prints 
are clear and .large, 3 X x 5 >^ 
inches, and the camera is a 
splendid example of the Kodak 
way to good pictures—simple, 
sure, inexpensive. Price, with 
single lens, 117.50. 
Other Autographic Kodaks $6.^0 up. 
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y. 
Long-Time Farm Loans 
This Bank has loaned to the farmers in New England, 
New York and New Jersey over $25,000,000 and has re¬ 
turned to them over $137,000 in dividends. 
If you operate your own farm or intend to purchase a farm, we are 
prepared to make a long-time, easy-payment loan. Interest at 5'/2%. 
Payments semi-annually. Loans run for 33 years but can be paid at 
borrowers’ option any time after 5 years. Local representative in 
every district. 
Look ahead! If you will need a loan this season write now for information. 
The FEDERAL LAND BANK o/SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 
Serving New England, New York and New Jersey 
LIMESTONE 
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valuable SOLVAY lime book—free! 
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