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PREVENT DISEASE WITH SEED DISINFECTANTS 
SEED DISINFECTANTS 
Only Article# Quoted “Postpaid” Can Be Mailed 
These are the successful result* of a deliberate and painstaking determination by some of the 
world ■ foremost agricultural chemists to discover and Invent the finest seed disinfectants that science 
can devise. Ask for booklet giving further information in regard t.o Semesan products. 
Semesan Products Booklets 
which we supply will show you how to make more 
money from your crops, by increasing yields and 
preventing disease. Ask for the ones you are in¬ 
terested in. 
VEGETABLES-FLOWERS 
Disease Control—Better Stands—Sturdier Plants 
with SEMESAN 
Don’t trust to luck for success with vegetables 
and flowers. Do what you can to control condi¬ 
tions. Treat your seeds, corms, bulbs, and seedlings 
with Semesan! Used as a dust or in solution with 
water, Semesan reduces seed rotting and damp¬ 
ing off, is highly effective against many seed- 
borne diseases, even prevents contamination of the 
soil by certain seed-borne diseases. One ounce 
treats 16 to 80 pounds of seeds at a cost of M, 
cent to 1 cent a pound of seed. Price, by mail 
postpaid, Yt oz. pkg. 10c; 2-oz. pkg. 45c; lb. $2.45; 
5 lbs. $10.25. Not postpaid, 2 ozs. 35c; lb. $2.25; 
5-lb. pkg. $9.90; 25-lb. pkg. $45.50. 
VVe can supply SPECIAjL, SEMESAN — A Grass 
Disinfectant for Brown Patch. Ask for Informa¬ 
tion and prices. 
POTATOES 
Lower Cost and Better Potato Yields 
with Improved SEMESAN BEL 
Closely checked tests in 16 states have proved 
that any potato grower can usually expect better 
returns from his seed if he treats it with 8emesan 
Bel before planting. At an average cost of 31 
cents an acre this quick dip treatment—by reduc¬ 
ing seed piece decay and seed-borne scab and 
Rhizoctoma—increased the average yield 11.6%. 
Result—lower growing cost and more profit! No 
mussy soaking. Treat your seed as fast as you 
can dip It. One pound treats 60 to 80 bushels 
of seed—easily, quickly, inexpensively. Prices by 
mall postpaid, 4-oz. pkg. 55c; lb. $1.65; 6 lbs. $7.00. 
Not postpaid, 4 os. pkg. 45c; lb. $1.50; 5-lb. pkg. 
$6.75. ., 
The effectiveness of Red Copper Oxide in con¬ 
trolling “Damplng-on” is attested by the work 
conducted at a number of Agricultural Experiment 
Stations, among them the agricultural stations 
of the states of New York, Massachusetts, New 
Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania. 
The record of Cuproclde has become widely known, 
and its use rapidly extended. Write for the leaf¬ 
let which gives uses and methods of treatment. 
Cuproclde is non-poisonous. 
Prices: Prepaid, 4 oz. 35c, 1 lb. 90c, 5 lbs. @ 
80c per lb. 
CORN 
Make Sure of a Better Corn Yield 
by Treating Seed with SEMESAN JR. 
Seed corn treatment with Semesan Jr. amounts 
to real crop Insurance. At the extremely low 
cost of 1 Mi cents an acre, it reduces seed rotting, 
checks seedling blight and certain seed-boms rots 
of root and stalk—gives corn the healthy start 
necessary for a big yield. Circular 444, Illinois, 
where the average yield increase has been about 
8 bushels an aore, says Semesan Jr. is “one of 
the best disinfectants for seed corn now on the 
market . . .” Treats both seed field and sweet corn 
by the quick, easy dusting method. Only 2 ounces 
needed per bushel. Prices: By mail postpaid, 2-oz. 
pkg. 15c; 4 ozs. 30c; lb. 75c; 5-lb. pkg. $3.25. 
Stop Vermin 
A preparation to prevent worms and maggots 
from eating roots of radishes, onions and other 
underground vegetables. Sow it with th# seed. 
r, r oV* i< k 1 lb. 00c. Not prepaid, lb. Me, ft lb*. 
91.85, 10 lbe. $8.85. 
OATS 
Check Oats Smuts Now 
with New Improved CERESAN 
To control destructive smuts, improve your oats 
stand and produce a bigger, cleaner yield—invest 
5 cents an acre in New Improved Ceresan seed 
treatment. Besides giving excellent control of 
smut, this easy dust treatment in actual three- 
year tests increased the average oats yield 18%. 
Recommended by many State Colleges. May be 
applied as long as 8 months before sowing. No 
duet in drilling, no drill damage, no change In 
drilling rate. Same treatment may be used on 
wheat and barley. One pound treats 31 bushels. 
Postpaid, lb. 70c; 5-lb. pkg. $3.00. 
Formaldehyde 
Cannot be mailed. 
Tree Tanglefoot 
Is a sticky substance, which is easily applied 
with a wooden paddle in a band around the tree. 
It sticks any insects which try to climb the tree 
fast. Will not injure trees. Once applied re¬ 
mains sticky three to four months in all kinds 
of weather, or ten to twenty times as long as 
any other known substance. A pound makes 
about 9 lineal feet of band. Needs no mixing, 
always ready for use. Far superior to any other 
material or device for destroying Canker Worms, 
Gypsy, Brown-tail and Tussock Moth Caterpillars. 
Make application about March 1st. Also good for 
covering wounds caused by pruning trees or other 
injury to the bark. 6 oz. 30c, 1 lb. 65c, 5 lbs. $3.00, 
10 lbs. $5.65, 25 lbs. $12.00. 
STOP 
DAMPING-OFF! 
WITH 
CUPIIOCIDE 
The Red Copper Oxide That Stay* Red 
The effectiveness of Red Copper Oxide in eon- 
trolling “Damping-on” is attested by the work 
conducted at a number of Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Stations, among them ths agricultural sta¬ 
tions of the states of New York, Massachusetts, 
New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania. 
The record of Cuproclde has become widely known, 
and its use rapidly extended. Write for the leaf¬ 
let which gives uses and methods of treatment. 
Cuproclde Is non-poisonous. 
Prices; Prepaid, 4 os. *5c, 1 lb. 90e; Not Pre¬ 
paid, 1 lb. 85c, 6 lbs. @ 80c per lb. 
Dear Sirs: I have been buying your seeds since 
1914 and have always found them satisfactory. 
David H. Christy, Ohio. 
FORD SEED CO., RAVENNA, O. 
