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Saturday, February 24, 1917 Giant and Stowcll i Evergreen, ahd wonderfully sweet Last summer keep a succession of these'till August these melons retailed in Philadelphia 1 planting each time rows enough for 75 cents to $1 each. I shall plant to insure pollenizatian. .- Black Val- this variety for family use. cntine beans are the earliest, sowed' . : . . soon as clanger irom irosi is over. WanU tO KnOW About Slrawber- soon as these are up I plant Bur-. ; . (5) 245 nes as Ac ennn nce's Green Pod Stringless and Tait's Celestial, the last 4or wax beans. It : A FRIEND writes :A man who has is the heaviest cropper of all .The f bound volumes of The Progres best cantaloupe is the Golden Pollock - sive Farmer came into my office to or the Salmon-tinted Pollock from day and said that he had looked Colorado. Plant as soon as the soil ' through the last two years and could is warm. Never soW salsify-forej find no specific information about the the middle of June. It makes its besTplatiting, care and varieties of straw growth in the fall, and in fact grows berry, dewberry, blackberry, grapes, all winter. Parsnips can be sowed : asparagus ahd horseradish! He wants at the same time. Better sbw some such information as any one who has Dwarf Essex rape; for the chickens. ; never grown these wants." Sow early in March .in rows and-it - This seems rather strange, ' for . I will give you more, greens than col-' have . written " fully several times lards. Collards you can sow in June " about T all these things.- It -will not and transplant like cabbage : and - be practicable to tell all he wants to grow for winter use. Sifted- coal know in a single issue of The Pro ashes, if you take out the cinders, gressive' Farmer.' Hence I will take will have a good effect in making a . them up one at a time," beginning clay- soil lighter. pora .'seedsman, this week with strawberries, refer to our advertising-columns. - : . . - - - - wl l c j tul It Is Their Own Fault Nitrate of Soda on Wheat . XTT,r , ; " - : A NEW. Orleans seedsman complains HATreturnsv cpuJdI ;; expect Auhatauggested -tQ an ; inquirer " from .100 -pounds oiiitrate , of that he could get seed of the Broad soda or. sulphate of ; ammonia on Windsor. bean from , any: of -the wheat? . j r '' ...a 1 ' Northern seedsmen- He says that he Years ago 1 tnaa yerjrgooa success -sells a great many; of them, for. there from such application of nitrate arg v hundreds ; of acres Ranted in of soda on wheat in, tjie spring ;just.theni around New Orleans: Now ; I as the growth ;begari, and' applied am always; gld to have new informa when tne leaves -were ary, alter tion, and am glad to know that these pounding the-nitrate, fine.; ; :t ; - beans can. be. had from Southern ' - - . , ' - 4. . .... - . ., K. . , seedsmen. . But the leading 'seed rhr houses plied, every year with" their cata "U7HAT is .the best cantaloupe for logs, while;. I rarely get one from ' ' family use and local market the South. Hence when some one Here where T live the cantaloupe asks; where to get certain things I crop is planted ' by. the ''thousand naturally J refer ; to the' catalogs I acres. Our, growers "get seed from ' have at hand ' from; houses in which Colorado every year. - They use the I have confidence. The' Southern Salmon-tinted ' Pollock largely, ' get seedsmen should keep : their - cata ting the seed from the seed breeders'," loes on : file. withV me; -While " I association at Rocky., Ford, " Col. lr have Confidence: in the New Orleans- Growing Cantaloupes" . : TickIafestej Stetr, August 12, Wdgta 730 Ponadt Vain Greatly Redact by these '. BIoodSackiag Parasites , .iiiii 4 '- V- - v.r ,- Sana Steer Fr fnm Ticks uai F4 aa SaaM Feed, October 12. Weiclit 10 IS Paoadit liaa ot Z8 raaaa 285 Pommels Hocipesis f OF SO mere is a ; newi cantaloupe , now grown to some extent - and the seed is gotten from the same: placeVf This is the Honey Dew. It 'is a .sntobth skinned melon,-, white in color arid with orange-colored i fleshl ? It' 71k seed"' house named, I; do . not know what he offers, as I have not his "catalog and I find- on' my . sliejyes only one Southern seed catalog. ; Wants' a Formula You vcan add ' from $5 to $10v ing vats to eradicate tick's. You per head to the value of your ; can then raise more and better cattle by dipping them ; a few ; cattle and .afrbrd to import full- times in a conaete dipping vat.: bred bulls. Fifty cents per head is all it costs . - . . . t , ; . : ; Ticks meisaahca V Tests pf .the U.S. Department , -xttle mean lean profits. Dip of Agriculture show that a cow p? ping vats mean profitable, healthy heavily infested with' ticks will stoick-- the kind on which your give 42 less milk;'the hide wiU ' banfc will lend you money.' luring from 50c to $1.25 less; T ; , ' , . " beef one-quarter to one-half cent : - A postal card Will bnng you less per pound. Well-bred cattle free instructions for building a p shipped into tick infested terri- conaete dipping vat or any other - tory have a Very high death rate farm building. : high per cent. . , ' matetial bsed for the most en- These losses can be eliminated dunng engineering structures , by systematic dipping. Co-oper-. ate with your neighbojs in build-; . .."V o , ca a It can be used to equal advant age for your farm buildings. SPEED Si X conabinetj jwitk good; judgment counts in business no w-i-days. ; : e C-'i- Grap FOOD supplies balanced nourishment for sturdy - muscles and active brains. "There's a Reason" Ho change in priced quality' or size of, package. V " llflLL ,ytu kindly give me a or-, I have been adviied to use ;200 pounds fish' scrap, 200 pounds of acid phosphate and 1(X) pounds, of .nitrate, of soda under the crop and then 400 pounds of burned shell lime on top the rows after planting. What do j you think of this?" .'' The mixture would, give rou an ex cess of nitrogen-in proportion to the phosphoric acid and no-potash, for there is .a bare trace of potash in the:fish, Then"400-p6unds of Jime-an acre is a, dressing too light: to amount to -inucht and ,lime; is nqtest '. used as a ' topdressi.ng but should be : ap-. plied all .oyer the land and well har-' r5wed;ill before -planting.! Then I do: not like! the-use . of iiitrate. of- soda before planting, for it is better usfed' as a .'side-dressing after the" plants are in iull growth,. if needed. A mix ture of equal parts of cottonseed meal and acid phosphate, well mixed, will ''give you a better proportion of phosphoric acid in proportion to the nitrogen and would give about 1 per cent 'of potash. If this is used liber ally, one-half-in the furrow and one half broadcast you will need no side dressing, for the cotton roots spread all over the ground, and should have part of the fertilizer broadcast at the start. ' Use lime liberally on your land for the general purpose of restoring the sweetness of the soil and for its general effect in releas ing potash in the soil, and for its effect on the physical character of the soil, but do not use it simply as a fertilizer. ' ' . . If you have neighbor! who do not read The Progressive Farmer, send t their names and we will send -them some sampla copies. Thehi call pn -tham aud ask thm to aub- yscrlba. Portland cement association -X '- Office at , ATLANTA Hurt Building , DENVER . Ideal Building NEW YORK . -401 Park Avenue S ALT LAKE CITY : . --KearB Building -' CHICAGO v 111 West Washington St. INDIANAPOLIS MerchanU Bank Building PARKERSBURG Union Trust Building r SAN FRANCISCO V Riako Building DALLAS Southwestern Life Building KANSAS CITY " Commerce Building PITTSBURGH , . Farmers Bank Building SEATTLE Northern Bank&TrustBIdg. CONCRETE FOR PERMANENCE : -ill- ID DON'T BE satisfied with a tobacco you can get along with. Find the tobacco you can't get along without. VELVET is a nat urally mild tobacco its mildness improved by natural ageing. A naturally good flavored tobacco made smoother, mellower by nature s pa tient ageing method. Try it and see if Velvet isn t the tobacco you can't do without. 1 m LEAN SEEDS nd all kinds of grass and CloTer. Alfalfa. Bwaet Clow." Timothy' 1 and all kinds of grases and hm grain I of highctt quality. Sample and special Ice Hut: with book of information free. taloa rre. ' low hid og rrrmi i ,;, When writing to advertisers, say: "I m, vrrlting you as an advertiser' In TJie Progn-s-. slve Farmer, which guarantees the reliability ' Ol till (UVt'l IIBIIJK H win.,, . ... JOBt. 11 . DU MIIMttlti rW Y l'lTTTr:
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