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lyrox beats 
home-mixed sprays 
T IME and labor were never more valu¬ 
able than now. Besides being a slow, 
time-consuming, mussy job, home-made 
sprays can’t compare with Pyrox in con¬ 
dition, uniformity and reliability. 
Pyrox, a smooth, finely milled paste, is 
a perfect blend of deadly poison and 
powerful fungicide that does three things 
at once: Kills leaf-eating insects and re¬ 
pels flea beetles and leaf hoppers; controls 
disease; invigorates plants. Extra high 
in copper. Ideal for home gardens. 
Pyrox mixes easily with water, sprays 
through finest nozzles in a fog-like mist 
that covers foliage thoroughly, and when 
dry sticks like paint. Based on 25 years’ 
experience with sprays. Jars, cans, drums, 
barrels. 
W “SS 
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£/ Bowker’s ' 
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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 —Highgrade 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 
the powerful triple-duty spray 
Kills bugs—controls diseases—stimulates growth 
Bissell Dual-Purpose Orchard 
Ai ' a ’ 
With trees to right, soil is pulled away and with 
trees to left, soil is thrown back. Returning on 
same track leaves soil level as with a Double 
Action Harrow —Disconnect right section and 
attach behind left and you have a regular 
Double Action Harrow—A Real Dual-Purpose. 
The Handy Control is equally efficient with 
disc in either form. There is a BiSSELL for 
every tillage need. Write for particulars. 
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ALBA MARL 
90% Lime Carbonate 
NATURE’S SOIL REMEDY 
Cures Sour Soils. Quick Acting. 
Aids Fertilization 
Increases Crop Yield 
LOW in COST 
For prices and details write to 
ALBA MARL LIME COMPANY 
Charles Town, Jefferson County, W. Va. 
BOLENS POWER HOE 
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It seeds, it cultivates tsx Spa!*? 
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The BOLENS has a patented 
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HOW WE RAISE 200 
BUSHELS OF CORN 
TO THE ACRE 
Robert I. Weiley 
W E have been requested a number of 
times to write our method of raising 
200 bushels of new corn per acre. We 
have long and thoughtfully considered 
this subject and have set down the three 
following rules in their order of impor¬ 
tance. There must be; perfect seed, an 
ideal seed bed, an abundance of Plant 
Food. 
In obtaining perfect seed, we let corn 
mature fully on stalk then cut, shock and 
let stand until fodder is perfectly cured. 
Husk and hang at once up to dry. We 
select only smut-free, large-eared, long¬ 
grained and easy-husking ears. The 
larger the ears the better. My father and 
w r e boys following him have gotten our 
seed corn in this way for the last fifty 
years and our stand has been about per¬ 
fect every season. Before planting time 
in spring we take down the corn, discard 
all that has not cured true and plant the 
rest. We need not test because we pick 
only mature dry ears to put away for 
seed. 
Crib Corn Not Good Seed 
Not only is the germination of our seed 
100 per cent, but the vitality is also well 
nigh perfect. Our neighbors all about us 
have the same rich loam soil but too often 
they plant corn from the crib. I would like 
to take you about our corn fields and 
show you the result of planting good 
seed and crib corn. Sometimes a field 
beside ours must be replanted and very 
very often the corn is backward and 
produces a great number of nubbins on 
the stalks that survive. 
An ideal seed bed ranks second in im¬ 
portance because we can grow a good crop 
of corn in ideally prepared soil with good 
seed when we would fail even had we an 
abundance of plant food in soil slovenly 
gotten ready. I 
Our conception of an ideal seed bed is 
one that is plowed as soon as possible in 
spring so that clods, insects, bugs and 
worms will be destroyed by the heavy 
frosts. Thorough harrowing and com¬ 
pacting must follow plowing, preferably 
after rains. Then when the corn is 
properly planted—we plant in rows three 
feet apart with kernels 16 inches apart— 
the weeder-harrow is run over it twice 
before the corn is up. When corn is out, 
cultivate. If harrowing and cultivating 
have followed showers the soil must be 
in the most perfect condition that it 
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there will be few weeds and the moisture 
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Plant Food Needed 
An abundance of plant food is in the 
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yield. We might raise 300 bushels of new 
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applying a high-grade, well-balanced 
fertilizer but we always prefer lime and 
manure since lime is more lasting in its 
effects. 
The time of applying the manure makes 
all the difference in the world. The right 
time to apply it is during the previous 
summer and fall or winter direct from the 
stable. Spread it thick. The wrong time 
to apply manure, especially strawy stuff, 
is just before planting time. Oftener 
than not such manure plowed under 
without giving the ground a chance to 
settle produces the most harmful effects. 
When the summer is dry the strawy 
manure takes to itself what moisture 
there is and the corn must suffer. 
If you possess a rjch soil and use fair 
judgment and skill and are not afraid to 
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Farmer gets 93 bushels of New 
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bushels to the acre. The oats stood up 
well, straw was heavy, grew to good 
height and grain was very plump. These 
oats are better than other varieties used 
here and I am perfectly satisfied—Pat¬ 
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Other Farmers say: 
“New Victory Oats better than any 
other used in this section.” 
“New Victory Oats yielded me 83 
bushels to the acre.” 
“New Victory Oats the best we have 
ever raised.” 
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varieties this year.” 
Mail the coupon below for complete 
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