126 
lyrox makes a big 
difference in potato crops 
Ask your dealer for 
the new PYROX 
SPRAY GUIDE. Free 
but worth many 
dollars to you. 
I T has been proved conclusively that 
Pyrox increases yield and lowers pro¬ 
duction cost. Be a good business farmer 
and give yourself this extra profit. 
Pyrox is both a bug killer and a blight 
controller—a perfect blend of deadly 
poison and a fungicide extra high in 
copper content. What’s more, Pyrox in¬ 
vigorates—makes sturdy plants, healthy 
dark-green foliage, longer growing sea¬ 
son, bigger and higher quality tubers. 
Ideal for home gardens . 
Pyrox, a finely milled paste, mixes 
quickly and completely; sprays readily. 
Mist-like under pressure, it covers the 
whole plant. And, it sticks! Jars, cans, 
drums and barrels. 
You can now buy all your spray materials from 
the complete Bowker Line 
Bowker’s Arsenate of Lead-Dry powdered and paste. 
Bowker’s Calcide-HighgTade calcium arsenate ; quick-acting. 
Bowker’s Bodo—A ready-mixed Bordeaux, 10% copper. 
Bowker’s Lime Sulphur— Concentrated liquid and dry. 
Bowker’s Dusting Materials— Sulphur, Copper, etc. 
Nicotine Sulphate. 
BOWKER CHEMICAL COMPANY 
49 Chambers St., New York 
AE Q U& -PAT. OTP, 
TRADE HARK REGISTERED 
the powerful triple-duty spray 
Kills bugs—controls diseases - stimulates growth 
; AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY 
Dali 
nver 
American Fence is made of full 
gauge wire, full weight and full 
length rolls. Use American Fence 
for economy—long life service and 
more dependable stock and crop 
protection. 
Ask your dealer for Arrow Tee 
Steel Fence Posts—built like a 
Railroad Rail—with larger anchor 
plates which lock the post into 
the ground as driven. Frequent 
notches provide means for attach¬ 
ing every line wire if desired. 
CLOVER 
$7 50 bushel; Grimm Alfalfa 
S25.00; Alfalfa $8.00; Sudan 
$3.50; Red top S2.00; Ken¬ 
tucky Blue Grass S3.50; 
Caneseed $1 00; Kaffir $1.50; Millet $1.00; Red Clover 
$13.00; Alside $9.50; Seed Corn $2.00; Milo Si.50; 
Unhulled Clover $5.00—we live where it grows, ship from 
several warehouses and save .you freight. Satisfaction or 
money back; order from this ad or ask for sample; 5% dis¬ 
count on five bushel orders; get your order in while stocks 
are complete 
MEIERS SEED & GRAIN CO. 
SALINA, KANS. 
TRAWBERRIES 
TOWNSEND’S e .i l „ Catalog Now Ready 
AND HOW TO 
GROW “EM” 
s.. 
8k M ivlllwlanu J Century 
America’s leading strawberry plant guide. Written 
by a lifelong strawberry grower. Up-to-the-minute 
advice on varieties and Cultural directions. Valuable to 
every strawberry grower, and it’s free for the asking. 
Fully describes and illustrates tbe leading standard and 
new varieties of Strawberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, 
Grape Vines, etc. Everything quoted at wholesale prices, 
direct to growers, which means a saving of 25% to 50% 
on every order. H 
E. W. TOWNSEND & SONS, 15 Vine St., Salisbury, Md. 
American Agriculturist, February 9 
“He Who By the Plow.. 
An A. A. Radio Talk Broadcast From WE A 
A 
VERY wise man By HALSEY R. KNAPP and kindred 
a long time ago Director, New York State Institute of Applied That is, some 
A Agriculture at Farming dale, L. 1. boys d o. AN]) 
said that “He, who 
by the plow would 
thrive must himself hold the plow or 
drive.” There is much of sound and 
homely good sense in Poor Richard’s 
statement. Necessity and custom have 
decreed that he who plows shall also drive, 
and modern plows have made this pos¬ 
sible. But no one has yet invented a way 
to learn to plow except to plow. 
But many people do not wish to plow 
these days. That is well. The American 
plowman is the most productive of any 
in the world. He makes the best use of his 
time and gets the greatest results. Be¬ 
cause this is so, we shall always need more 
people off the farms than there are on 
them to consume the products of the farm 
and to insure a reasonable return to those 
who are farming. 
We may as well reconcile ourselves to 
the fact that this is no longer a rural 
democracy. It is a far cry from the day 
when the Pilgrim Fathers landed on 
Plymouth Rock down to the present day. 
There are more people in town and city 
than in country and the coming years will 
increase the difference. THE MAJOR 
POWER IN MATTERS OF GOVERN¬ 
MENT AND SOCIAL WELFARE IS 
NOT NOW IN THE PALM OF THE 
STURDY PLOWMAN. 
We have also men and women in the 
city who do not know the ways or things 
of the farm. They, and their fathers, did 
not come from farms. So evident is this 
that the Dairymen’s League deemed it 
worth while to send a cow down to a 
New York City Park in order that the 
city children might know what the foster 
mother of the human race is like. With 
the best of intentions, such people do not 
understand the point of view of the man 
who lives on the land, and likewise the 
countryman does not appreciate the view¬ 
point of his city neighbor. And this will 
increase with the years. 
Out of this situation comes misunder¬ 
standing, friction, antagonism and that 
thing we call the country and city 
problem. 
HOW SHALL WE SAFEGUARD 
THE FUTURE? In part, at least, by 
providing an easy transfer from city to 
country and country to city so that our 
people are about the same in standards 
of life, in culture and in ideals wherever 
they live, or whatever they do. 
Many a country boy dreams of the 
things of the city—its massive buildings, 
its great factories, its banks and busy 
marts of trade. His heart grows warm 
and his eyes grow bright as he paints a 
picture of these things with himself the 
central and controlling figure in the years 
to come. 'Often his dreams come true. 
The world has use in its schools and 
churches, in its counting houses and 
factories for the country boy. 
But the city boy has his rare moments, 
too, when he lives in another world. He 
fills it with trees, and birds and green 
grass, and open spaces, and cows 
WONDERS IF 
DREAMS MAY NOT ALSO CO 
TRUE. May it not be that the corl 
needs this kind of boy, that his conti 
tion would be worth while, just 
country lad has made a place for him 
in town to his own and the nation’s ; 
The Institute of Applied Agricultu 
Farmingdale makes some of these i 
come true. It offers training fori 
farming occupations—by means of I 
class room it is true, but more by ij 
of actual practice with the school fij 
herds and orchards on the school 
and on private farms operated by 
cessful farmers. It applies Fra 
motto, teaching not only what and ; 
but HOW. 
The School year consists of the 
from October to April. During tin 
mer period, the growing season ini 
State, the student is on the farm doing! 
things that farmers are doing, lean 
the meaning of a day’s work and ga 
that which no classroom or teacher j 
impart. 
He follows this plan for three years! 
graduates with a foundation of so[ 
teaching, reinforced by and testei 
actual practice under proper conditi 
and with proper supervision. He is j 
position to do that which he ought 1 
able to do—TO MAKE HIS LIVING! 
THE FARM ACCORDING TO AM 
ICAN STANDARDS, to command! 
respect of neighboring farmers 
render service in many ways to the i 
munity in which he lives in partial ret 
for the opportunities he has enjoyed] 
The Institute accepts any applij 
of good character who is at least sis 
years of age and who has completed! 
eighth grade work or its equiva 
Most of the students are about eigb 
at time of entrance. High School gn 
ates may complete the course in 
time, but no student is awarded I 
diploma of the School who is deficienj 
farm experience or whose record in ] 
tice is unsatisfactory. 
Shorter courses, eight weeks to i 
year in length, are offered to special.1 
dents. Tuition is free to residents oil 
State. Expenses are very modenf 
Some students, through wages recei 
during the summer period, are 
pay their own way. It would seem! 
under such conditions no student 
real desire need be deprived of trainiit 
be a farmer. AN EDUCATION TH 
DID NOT COST SOMETHING] 
TIME AND EFFORT WOULD 
BE WORTH HAVING. 
Is this training worth while to a I 
boy too? I have worked with 
of them and I think so. In fact, I 
he will profit most of all because he bri 
to his work an understanding and 
ciation of those things which a Scl 
finds it difficult to teach and the 
edge of which makes school-train® 
0 Continued on page ISO) 
“Speaking of spreading and applyin 
who crops something like 150 acres 
run a picture of a manure spreader, 
of spreading manure and about the 
of the greatest labor savers that farm 
is a picture of “spreader in action.” 
that a spreader is a great labor-saver 
j manure,” writes a western New York farm®! 
in Wayne County, “I would suggest that; 
That will show A. A. readers the easiest w$| 
most economical. The manure spreader is 1 
machinery men have given to farming.” Abovfl 
We agree with our western New York frkMJ 
and is hard to beat for quick uniform spreacMl 
