32 
~~ 1686 Shumway’s 
T POUND NET 
WHEN PACKE) 
Supreme Plant Food 
: All Commercial Fertiliz- 
ers must contain among 
other things, these three 
~ basic chemicals in some 
_ form or another, Ammonia, 
~ Phosphoric Acid and Pot- 
ash. But the secret of 
good fertilizer is the pro- 
=, portion of each, In the 
~ form it is offered to you, 
this plant food not only has 
-just the right proportion 
» but is highly concentrated, 
, so that a little goes a long 
way. Odorless, ‘soluble, 
harmless, efficient, easy to 
apply. A wonderful, well balanced tonic for all house 
plants. Sprinkle on the soil in the pot, just enough at 
a time to cover the surface. One pound is enough for 30 
house plants for 3 months. 1 Ib. carton, 35 cts.; 5 Ib. 
bag, $1.50. 



1691 
Vigoro 

\Ce{eo] *>{e To Be Used For Food 
Production Only 
Your garden will pro- 
duce more and _ better 
vegetables this year if you 
apply VIGORO to the soil. VIGORO is a scientifi- 
cally compounded plant food, clean, free from un- 
pleasant odor and easy to apply. This ideal plant 
food gives to the garden plants the necessary ele- 
ments in just the right proportion for rapid and 
sturdy growth. Postpaid, 5 Ibs., 80 cts. Not Prepaid, 
nee 80 cts.; 25 Ibs., $1.45; 50 Ibs., $2.35; 100 lbs., 
70. 
= 
\¥ FERTILIZER 
FOR FOOD PRODUCTION ONLY 
1688 Milorganite Fertilizer 
Analysis Total Nitrogen “Organic” 6% 
Available Phosphorie Acid 2% 
Milorganite contains no weed seeds or harmful bac- 
teria. It_is safe and easy to use, does not burn vege- 
tation. Fine for Lawns, Shrubs, Vegetable or Flower 
Garden. It supplies the soil with the elements plants 
need for healthy, continuous growth. 1 Ib., 25 ets.; 5 
lbs., 80 cts., postpaid. Not prepaid: 25 lbs., $1.10; 50 
Ibs., $1.75; 100 lbs., $2.75; 500 lbs., $12.50. 
STimM-()-PLANT 
A -remarkable all-year-round fertilizer in 
tablet form, odorless, effective and easy to use, 
Applied to plants when, where and as needed, 
Growers of fine flowers, shrubs and vege- 
tables use these wonderful little tablets. Stim- 
U-plant increases production, heightens colors 
and improves the quality. They are fine for 
evergreens and all garden and potted plants. | 
Use these tablets on all your plantings. Packed in five sizes: 
10 tablets, 10 cts.; 30 tablets, 25 cts.; 100 tablets, 75 cts.; 500 
for $2.50; 1,000, $3.50. 

1690 


1742, Hammond’s Slug Shot 
It is harmless to plants, both vege- 
table and flower, yet it is powerfully 
effective against leaf-eating insects 
and fungus. It can be used on vege- 
table plants without fear of harm to 
humans. 
Use SLUG SHOT by dusting on damp 
plants to combat the Mexican Bean 
Beetle, Potato Bug, Cabbage Worm, 
Slugs, Sow Bugs, Army Worm, Currant 
Worms, ete. It is the safest, most ef- 
fective and most economical general 
purpose insecticide and fungicide 
available. It is a product proven by 
over half a century of successful use. 1 Ib. Round Per- 
forated Tin Top Canister, 37 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.35, postpaid. 
Not prepaid: 25 lbs., $4.75. 
1750 Shumway’s Bug Finish 
Recommended as the Best and Surest Killer 
A fine powder, easily distributed by duster. Thor- 
oughly reliable for killing currant worms, potato bugs, 
cabbage worms, lice, slugs, etc. Cheapest and most ef- 
fective remedy. 1 lb., 30 cts.; 5 Ibs., $1.35; 10 Ibs., $2.25; 
postpaid. 
a 
1747 RED ARROW ‘ Red Arrow Garden Spray. 
B INSECT SPRAY 7 
A non-poisonous Flower 
SPYRETHRUN SDAP) 

and Vegetable Garden 
Spray scientifically blend- 
ing Pyrethrum and Rote- 
none with Soap. Simply mix with water, Harmless to 
animals. Kills Red Spider, Mealy Bug, Rose Chafer, 
Mexican Bean Beetle, Aphids (plant lice) and other 
Chewing and Sucking insects. 1 0z., 35 cts.; 4 oz., $1.00; 
1 pt., $2.85; 1 qt., $4.95, postpaid. : 






in each shipment. 
in recent years. Complete instructions how to use it sent 
R. H. Shumway-—"The Pioneer American Seedsman”’—Established 1870 
Fertilizers, Plant Food, Tools, Insecticides, Fungicides and Vermicides—POSTPAID 
Greatest Discovery \w 
THOMPSON 
TAMUN & 

Miracle-Working Powder for Indoor and Outdoor Gardeners 
HERE ARE THE FACTS AS REPORTED 
@ Roses treated with Vitamin B-1 pro- 
duce buds five inches in diameter. 
Roses transplanted while flowering never stopped growing one minute. Snap Dragons grew 6 feet 
tall with gorgeous long flowering spikes. It’s really amazing the marvelous results obtained with 
fruits, vegetables and flowers by using this new discovery. 
1752—(40 Pellets) Sufficient to make 
800 gallons of Solution 
Use Vitamin B-1 
Post- 
paid 
5 
Post- 
paid 
1753—(200 Pellets) Sufficient to make 
4000 gallons of Solution 
$100 
On all Seeds—Plants—Bulbs—Shrubs and Fruits. You will 
be amazed at the increased Growth—Vigor—and Blooms, 

1726 Acme Dawg-Gone. &< £ ® 
away from Evergreens. Remove cap and 
hang tube of Dawg-Gone (opening down) 
in the lower branches of trees at the 
points of approach. The odor slowly 
emanating from the open tube will keep 
dogs at a distance from six months to a 
year, winter or summer. Tubes, 35 cts. 
each, or 3 for $1.00. 
Rid: you r 
1727 Acme Ant-Kill. home and 
premises of the embarrassing and health- 
injuring ant nuisance. Kill the ants in 
the nest. Ant-Kill syrup is sold in con- 
nection with safe patented service cups 
which gives protection to birds, chickens, 
pets and children, Each, 35 cts. 
1728 Acme Arsenate of Lead. (P7¥,) 4°" dust: 
ing. Solves the problem of controlling practically all 
leaf-eating insects in an efficient manner, Db., 50 cts.; 
4 lbs., $1.25. 
s Dry. The 
1729 Acme Bordeaux Mixture. {022 ngbag 
for curing and preventing black rot, mildew, blight, leaf 
curl, scab or other fungoid diseases on fruits and plants. 
1 lb. will make 5 gallons liquid. 1 Ib., 45 cts.; 4 Ibs., 
$1.10. , 
1730 Acme Rotenone Garden Guard 
A garden insecticide and fungicide for use as a dust. No 
water, no mixing, no muss. For use on cabbage, cauli- 
(Dry.) For dust- 
flower, tomato plants, melon vines, and other vegetables, © 
flowers and shrubs. 1 ]b., 50 cts.; 6 lb. bag, $1.35. 
: F ild 
1731 Wettable Dusting Sulphur. reece te 
fungus and similar diseases of plants there is nothing 
quite so satisfactory as sulphur dust. 2 Ih. package, 50 cts. 
One of the most de- 
1732 Acme Lime Sulphur. pendable of all in- 
secticides for dormant spraying and the destruction of 
fungous parasites on woody plants and shrubs, 1 Ib., 
45 cts.; 5 Ibs., $1.75, postpaid. 
A caustic 
1734 Acme Fish or Whale Oil Soap. By Re 
soap made from pure fish oil, valuable for rose bushes as 
a wash, and for the leaves and bark of plants or trees to 
kill eggs and scale. The ideal spreader, and a remedy 
against aphis. 1 Ib., 45 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.65. 
The old reliable nicotine 
1735 Black Leaf 40. spray fer aphis of all kinds 
on plants, trees and shrubs. 
Also excellent to rid poul- 
try and poultry houses of lice. 1 oz. bottle (makes 6 gal- 
lons), 1 oz., 40 cts.; 5 0z., $1.25; 1 Ib., $2.50. 
For black spot on 
1736 Grape and Rose Dust. F07,,Plack ,spot_on 
dew on grapes and flowers, blight and leaf-eating in- 
sects. 1 Ib., 45 cts.; 5 Ibs., $1.75. 
1 ° A poisonous insecticide in pow- 
pies Paris Green, der form; for insects which 
chew. 
Y, Ib., 26 cts.; 1 Ib., 65 cts. 
For the control of cutworms, 
i Snarol. slugs, etc. Non-injurious to vegetation 
and very economical to use on account of its insolubility 
in water. 214 Ibs., 75 cts. 
Protects all kinds of 
1740 Tree Tanglefoot trees against attacks of 
creeping or climbing insects. One tree saved is worth 
; a hundred times 
the cost of the 
a pplication. 
Treat all your 
shade and fruit 
trees with 
Tanglefoot. <A 
single applica- 
tion lasts nearly 
38 months. One 
pound is suffic- 
ient to make a 
band 12 feet 
long and 4 in- 
ches wide. Com- 
plete instruc- 
tions on how to 
oy use on every 
package. 6 oz. can, 55 cts.; 1 Ib., 95 cts.; 5: Ibs., $4.00; 
10 Ibs., $7.50; 25 Ibs., $16.00. 
snails, 





1733—Acme Vegetable and Flower Garden — 
Dust. A nicotine arsenical dust (or spray) for 
control of many common varieties of both 
sucking and leaf-eating insects. May be used | 
without restrictions on vegetables, flowers, 
shrubs, vines, etc. Contains two of the larg- 
est-selling insecticides used by commercial — 
growers. A proven product. Adequate supply. 
1 Ib. cartons 55c each. 4 Ib. bags $1.35, Post- 
paid. 
1670 SOIL-SOAKER 
Like All Night Rain—Really Soaks the Soil 
Water seeps through entire length of canvas hose gently—no 


spray—puts water where you. want it—all soaks to the roots, 
Made of scientifically treated, mildew resistant canvas, one end — 
screws to water hose, other end closed. Water seeps through every 
Pore, soaks directly into the soil over an area of several feet on 
all sides. No spray—no waste on walks, driveways, in street—no 
excessive evaporation. Ideal for lawns, terraces, flower and vege- 
Savings on water bills, 
as much as 25%. Sizes—12 foot, $1.25; 18-ft., $1.75; 30-ft., $2.75; a 
table gardens, hedges, shrubs, trees, etc. 
50-ft., $4.50, postpaid. 
1751 Greentox. Kill and Repel Leaf Eating and 
Sucking Insects—Without Poison. eer 2 
Greentox is a Super Rotenone Spray containing 
spreaders, wetting agents and patented fumigants that 
actually kills insects. . 
flowers, vegetables and fruits of practically all the in- 
sects that will attack them. Nonpoisonous 
beings. Oz., 35 cts.; 6 oz., $1.00, postpaid. 
1748 SHEPS PLANT SPRAY 
(Non-Poisonous) 
Get rid of destructive insects. Use SHEPS 
Plant_Spray. Kills and controls both sucking 
~ 
to human 
to humans, birds, animals and pets. 
“burn” delicate leaves or flowers. Makes 
green, healthy, lustrous foliage. No soapsud 
solution needed—simply mix with water. 
d PRICES POSTPAID 4 
12-02. Bottle (makes 4 gals. Spray Solution)... 
8-0z. Bottle (makes 16 gals. Spray Solution). 
Pint Bottle (makes 32 gals. Spray Solution). 
Quart Can (makes 64 gals. Spray Solution). 
Dubay Seed Disinfectant 
Treat Your Seed and Bulbs 
Prevent Diseases—Increase Profits—Directions in 
Every Can 
Will not 


1760 Costs only 1% to 
New Improved Ceresan. 52°18 only 1% to 
bushel, Unusually effective in controlling bunt or. 
stinking smut of wheat, covered smut and stripe of bar- 
ley, and oat smuts. Frequently improves the stand and 
yield of grain 1 to 5 bushels per acre. One pound treats 
32 bushels of wheat, oats, or barley. 4 oz., 40 cts.; 1 lb., 
85 cts.; 5 lbs., $3.75. 
1761 Semesan. For treating vegetable and flower 
Seeds and brown patch in lawns. 
Diseases often reduce germination and result in poor — 
stand, lowered quality and reduced yield. Kill these 
harmful disease organisms on the seed before planting.— 
One ounce treats 15 to 30 pounds of seed. . 
2 0z., 40 cts.; 1 Ib., $2.65. 
1762 New Improved Semesan Bel. F2", ‘224; 
potatoes. Potato diseases cause a loss equivalent to the 
yield of 1 acre in every 5 or 6 acres planted. Much of 
this loss can be prevented by treating seed before plant- 
ing with Semesan Bel, the instantaneous dip disinfect- 
ant. One pound treats 16 to 22 bushels of seed. 2 oz., 30 
cts., 1 1b., $1.65; 5 Ibs., $7.50. ‘ 
1763 New Improved Semesan Jr. 2", ‘re*ting 
and sweet corn. Our corn crops are reduced over 80 
million bushels annually by diseases that are carried 
on the seed. Destroy these costly diseases by treating 
your seed corn with Semesan Jr. Use 1% oz. per bushel | 
of seed. 11% oz., 20 cts.; 1 1b., 90 cts.; 5 lbs., $3.50 
For treating 






1695 

and chewing insects but absolutely harmless — 
Ys 0z., 10 cts.; 
For treat-_ ” 
This is the New Modern Way to : 
This single spray can rid plants, gi 





































