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spray with Pyrox. It’s the best insurance 
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Pyrox, a blend of deadly poison and 
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gardens. 
Pyrox is a finely milled paste that 
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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 
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the powerful triple-duty spray 
Kills bugs—controls diseases—stimulates growth 
Enables you 
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75 to 700 bushels of long 
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Eliminates culls and dirt at the same 
tints. Due to patented endless belt, there 
is less than 3% variation in size from Gov¬ 
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potatoes. Thousands in use. Operates 
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Fulwood’s Frost Proof plants will produce headed cabbage 
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Seasonable Crop Hints 
What the Man in the Field is Thinking About 
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For blight, destroying bugs, fleas and beetles, spray with a 
Yellow Jacket Traction Sprayer of 
THE OSPRAYMO LINE 
Strong constant pressure drives fine spray mixture home 
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FIELD FORCE PUMP CO. 
Dept. 10 
ELMIRA, N. Y. 
the first thing that the farmer is 
thinking about for his coming field opera¬ 
tions is the right kind of seed. The second 
thing that gives the good seed a elose rub 
in importance is the right kind of place to 
put it. With good seed, and the right 
kind of a seed bed, he can feel about his 
crop that “well begun is half done.” 
A Dull, But Necessary Job 
Well the writer remembers going to 
work by the month some twenty-odd 
years ago for an old Yankee farmer, 
of being set to dragging a piece of ground 
for oats. What a dull job harrowing 
always was anyway! The horses were 
“green,” the walking was heavy, but 
finally it was done, or at least I thought it 
was done. Then the old farmer came out 
to look it over. 
“A fairly good job, my boy,” he said, 
“a fairly good job, but I guess we’ll drag 
it just a couple of times more for good 
luck.” 
I remember that that farmer nearly 
always had better field crops than his 
neighbors, and in thinking about it in 
after years, I realized that the chief reason 
for his good crops was the care he took in 
getting them into a proper seed bed. 
Whether fall plowing or spring plowing 
is best, is a much-argued question. Much 
depends upon the crop to be planted, 
but as a usual thing, fall plowing not only 
has the advantage of getting the work 
done before the spring rush, but for many 
crops fall plowing makes a better seed 
bed. 
Good Seed Bed Important 
In preparing a seed bed for cereals, 
yields from different dates of seeding show 
that once the land is fit to work, every 
day’s delay makes loss of grain. That’s 
the reason farmers worry so about getting 
their grain into the ground in a late season 
like this. One of the best ways to tell 
when land is ready to be worked is to take 
up a handful of soil from different parts 
of the field, squeeze it, and if it crumbles 
when the hand is opened, the harrow may 
be started. It is good practice with sod 
land to start cultivating with a double 
angle scrape and the double disk harrow. 
This saves almost one-half of the turning 
and cuts the sod at two different angles, 
pulverizing the land without backsetting 
the sods. When the right tilth has been 
obtained, the land should be rolled before 
seeding, then finished with a smoothing 
harrow for cereals, grasses and clover.— 
E. E. Roe, New York. 
GASOLINE POWER SPRAYERS TOO 
Sunflowers for Silage 
T HERE seems to be a growing interest 
among dairymen in trying out, in a 
small way at least, sunflowers for silage 
purposes. In some sections, especially 
where the season is a little short for corn, 
sunflowers are rapidly becoming a satis¬ 
factory substitute. The best time to cut 
them for silage is when 25 to 50% of the 
plants are in bloom. 
Some farmers who have tried out sun¬ 
flowers claim that their cattle will not eat 
them. This is due to the fact that the 
cows have to acquire a taste for them; 
but once they acquire the taste, they like 
them as well as they do corn. 
Sunflowers are hardy and while they 
prefer rich soils, will do fairly well on poor 
soils. They are much more resistant to 
frost than is corn. The chief variety 
grown for silage is the Mammoth Russian. 
Mixed Right in Corn 
Seed may be planted the same time as 
corn, and may be planted with the ordi¬ 
nary corn planter in much the same way 
that corn is planted; or by an ordinary 
grain drill by stopping a certain number 
of the holes to make the proper distance 
between the rows. The rows are usually 
28 to 36 inches apart and the plants spaced 
about a foot apart in the row. From six 
to eight pounds of seed per acre are neces¬ 
sary, when the crop is planted alone. 
When planted with corn, of course much 
less is used, probably not more than 
three pounds. 
When notfusing sunflowers for silage, 
the seed is very valuable as a poultry 
feed. 
If you have not tried it before, you 
might find it interesting to plant a few 
rows on the edge of your cornfield without 
the corn, and a few rows mixed with the 
corn. Then at silo filling time, notice the 
yield, mark the place where it goes in the 
silo, and note whether the cows eat it 
and whether it has any effect on produc¬ 
tion when you feed it during the winter. 
Getting Started With Alfalfa 
TN 1917 to 1922, the acreage of alfalfa 
in the State of Michigan increased from 
52,000 to 221,000. In New York State, 
alfalfa acreage increased from 5,000 in 
1900 to over 119,000 in 1920. The reason 
for this increase is that farmers have 
found that with proper care, alfalfa can 
be grown on most farms. 
The first thing to decide, if a man is 
interested, is whether or not his own 
farm will grow it. He wants first to 
try it out in some way that wall not in¬ 
volve heavy expense. Probably the 
simplest trial method consists in mixing 
a few pounds of alfalfa seed, say about 
six pounds per acre, with the regular 
grass or clover seed mixture. If the 
alfalfa grows, it will increase the yield 
of hay and the quality of seed. More¬ 
over, it will inoculate the ground for a 
full seeding of alfalfa later. If it does 
not grow at all, then probably one should 
be careful about wasting effort and 
money in further trials. However, the 
above mentioned experiment will not be 
fair unless the ground is naturally lime¬ 
stone, or has a good heavy application of 
lime. 
Why Alfalfa Fails 
The chief reason for alfalfa failures in 
the past has been poor seed. The bulk 
of the seed has been grown in warm 
climates and will not stand our hardy 
northern winters. It is absolutely neces¬ 
sary to make sure that the seed is north¬ 
ern grown, or that the grimm variety is 
used. If alfalfa has never been grown 
before on a field, the seed or the soil must 
be inoculated, either by cultures which 
may be obtained through your county 
agent or the State college, or by an 
application of soil obtained from some 
field where alfalfa has grown. 
Land which is liable to be flooded or 
has a poor natural drainage will never 
grow alfalfa successfully. Heavy clay 
will grow it if there is good drainage. 
Soil must be fairly fertile. Sour or acid 
soil is absolutely fatal. Not only must 
lime be used, but in heavy applications. 
Many times a good stand of alfalfa is 
ruined by being cut too late or by being 
pastured too closely. 
Why not give it a trial this spring." 
A good stand will enrich the soil and 
when fed to cattle, will cut down the 
grain bills. 
Spring is the Time for Courage 
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supporting. There arises at once a demand 
for more labor and motive power with 
its increased overhead, and labor is high. 
Maybe a lot of folks had better buy 
their concentrates than to raise them. 
I am sure of it unless the change and 
readjustment is slowly developed and 
we learn how, through experience. As 
years go by my respect increases tor 
those who get along, even if I couldn t 
subscribe to their methods as the best, 
but they may be best for them. 
