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THE FARM JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED rs tor
RURAL DIRECTORY OF
MADISON COUNTY
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PUBLISHED BY WILMER .ATKINSON COMPANY
PUBLISHERS . OF THE FARM JOURNAL - WASHINGTON SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA ..
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Capital and Surplus, $300,000.00
LARGEST AND STRONGEST BANK IN. MADISON COUNTY "Security First"
W. C. WILLIAMS
BREEDER OF DOUBLE STANDARD POLLED HEREFORD CATTLE
Buyer and Feeder of all other Live Stock
Your Business Solicited
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the lowest-priced merchandise to be found. The goods will prove it.
Schuster Bros., O. P. O.
ANDERSON, INDIANA
Alexandria Bank
S. G. PHILLIPS, President Resources Over $500,000.00
DOES a general banking business. Has a Saving Department, on which interest is compounded quarterly. This bank has fiduciary powers and acts as Administrator, Guardian, Executor and Receiver. This bank has one of largest fire and burglar proof vaults in Eastern Indiana and will rent you a safety deposit box for $1 and up per year.
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SOME FACTS AND FIGURES
Madison County, with a total of 3,258 farms in an area of 450 square miles, is distinctly a farm county. More than 93 per cent. of the entire area of the county is in its farms, and more than 71 per cent. is under cultivation. The farms are, as a rule, of more than average size, less than 6 per cent. being under ten acres. They are almost without exception profitable and correspondingly valuable. The farmers, as a class, are the most prosperous folks in the county. In view of the number of farmers, that is in itself a statement of the wealth of this section.
The farm population of Madison County is almost exclusively native born white. There are but few foreign, and only four negro farmers in the entire county, according to the most recent United States Government statistics.
It is interesting to note the number of farms in the county operated by their owners. Of this class there are 2,056 or 63 per cent. One thousand two hundred and sixty-nine or 61 per cent. of them are reported free of mortgage debt. This is an exceptionally large percentage. Of the balance, the remarkably low mortgage indebtedness of only 21 per cent. of the en- tire valuation is carried. Even in the absence of other statistical figures, these mortgage statements alone would indicate exceptional prosperity among Madison County farmers.
The largest single crop, and the one produced most generally through- out the entire county, is corn, of which 4,157,170 bushels were produced in 1910, a notably bad crop year, but the latest for which authoritative figures are available. Following closely on this for quantity is oats, with a total of 795,090 bushels; wheat comes next, with 505,744 bushels, and potatoes fourth, with 102,377 bushels. The combined total value of these four crops was in excess of three million dollars.
Everywhere is an atmosphere of hard work. Everyone takes work seriously and as a matter of course. There is no false pride about it, and no failure to realize its importance and its necessity. Rich farmers' wives, and sons and daughters, take pride in their fine butter, their eggs, their vegetables, their chickens and their stock. The relations between the people of the farms and the people of the county seat are most cordial. The farmers deposit their savings in the local banks, and deal in the local stores.
This directory is published in the belief that it will serve to acquaint the residents of one end of the county with those of the other. We be- lieve it to be accurate. We realize, however, that even in the most care- fully compiled and printed books certain errors are bound to appear, and we apologize in advance for any such that may be found by our sub- scribers.
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Save a little this week, more next week. Think Savings-Talk Savings and you will soon get the HABIT.
Bank With a Good Bank
Commercial Bank and Trust Co. ALEXANDRIA, INDIANA
There's a home side, a fun side, an educational side and a practical side to the Kodak on the Farm.
Eastman Kodak Agents for Anderson and surrounding territory
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MADISON COUNTY ADVERTISERS
W. H. Aiman, Grain and Seed Dealer, Pendleton
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Alexandria Bank, Alexandria . 4
Anderson Banking Co., Anderson . '2
The Anderson Daily Bulletin, Newspaper and Publisher, Anderson 172
Anderson Herald, Newspaper, Anderson 167
Anderson Trust Co., Anderson. Cover Leslie H. Biddinger, Grain Dealer, Chesterfield 165
B. L. Bings Sons & Co., Clothing and Furnishings, Anderson 151
W. H. Bireley, Drugs, Alexandria .
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By-Lo Store, Hardware and Paints, Anderson
166
The Citizens Bank, Anderson
Citizens State Bank, Elwood . 153
Commercial Bank & Trust Co., Alexandria 6
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Elwood Call Leader, Newspaper, Elwood
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Elwood Daily Record, Newspaper, Elwood 155
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Elwood Trust Co., Elwood . 158
The Fair Department Store, Department Store, Anderson
Faith Home Furniture Co., Furniture, Anderson Cover
The Farmers Trust Co., Anderson 150
Hill Stage Co., Automobiles and Garage, Anderson 150
Jennie Lorenz, Poultry Breeder, Alexandria 169
The Markleville Bank, Markleville. 160
Wm. F. Milligan, Real Estate and Loans, Portland . 155
National Exchange Bank, Anderson 152
The Nichol Hardware Co., Anderson 170
Peoples State National Bank, Anderson 154
Rapp's Cut Price Store, Department Store, Anderson 161
Rowland Title Co., Abstracts of Titles, Anderson 149
Schuster Brothers, Clothiers, Anderson
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F. H. Smith, Hardware, Anderson 175
Joseph Sobel, Furniture, Anderson
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Spring Steel Wire Fence Co., Anderson
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V. Stanley & Co., Cattle, Swine and Poultry Breeders, Lapel
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State Bank of Lapel, Lapel . 156
Stein & Canaday, Furniture and House Furnishings, Anderson 153
Vinnedge-Mccullough Agency, Real Estate and Insurance, Anderson 168
H. A. Walser & Co., Druggists, Anderson 162
Chas. F. Wiley Co., Department Store, Elwood 155
W. C. Williams, Cattle Breeder, Anderson . 2
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SPRAYING FORMULAS
FUNGICIDES .- Bordeaux mixture is made by taking three pounds of sulphate' of copper, four pounds of quicklime, fifty gallons of water. To dissolve the copper sulphate, put it into a coarse cloth bag and suspend the bag in a re- ceptacle partly filled with water. Next, slake the lime in a tub, and strain the milk of lime thus obtained into another receptacle. Now get some one to help you, and with buckets, simultaneously pour the two liquids into the spraying barrel or tank. Lastly, add sufficient water to make fifty gallons. It is safe to use this full-strength Bordeaux on almost all foliage-except, perhaps, on extra tender things, such as watermelon vines, peach trees, etc. For these it is wiser to use a half-strength mixture.
FORMALIN .- This is also called for- maldehyde, and may be purchased at drug stores. Its principal use is to treat seed potatoes to prevent "scab." Soak the whole seed for two hours in a mixture of one-half pint formalin and fifteen gallons of cold water .; dry the seed, cut, and plant in ground that has not recently grown potatoes.
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BORDEAUX COMBINED WITH INSECT POISON .- By adding one-quarter pound of Paris green to cach fifty gallons of Bordeaux, the mixture becomes a com- bined fungicide and insecticide. Or, instead of Paris green, add about two pounds of arsenate of lead. The advan- tages of arsenate of lead over Paris green are, first, it is not apt to burn foliage even if used in rather excessive quantities; and, second, it "sticks" to the foliage, etc., better and longer.
INSECTICIDES .- ARSENATE OF LEAD .- This is the best insecticide for chewing insects, and is for sale by seeds- men. Use about two pounds in fifty gallons of water.
WHITE HELLEBORE .- This, if fresh,
may be used instead of Paris green in some cases-worms on currant and gooseberry bushes, for instance. (It is not such a powerful poison as the ar- senites, and would not do so well for tough insects such as potato-bugs.) Stcep two ounces in one gallon of hot water, and use as a spray.
FOR SUCKING INSECTS .- Now we come to another class of insecticides, suited to insects which suck a plant's juice but do not chew. Arsenic will not kill such pests; therefore we must resort to solutions which kill by contact.
KEROSENE EMULSION .- One-half pound of hard or one quart of soft soap; kero- sene, two gallons; boiling soft water, one gallon. If hard soap is used, slice it fine and dissolve it in water by boiling ; add the boiling solution (away from the fire) to the kerosene, and stir or violently churn for from five to eight minutes, until the mixture assumes a creamy consistency. If a spray pump is at land, pump the mixture back upon itself with considerable force for about five minutes. Keep this as a stock. It must be further diluted with water be- fore using. One part of emulsion to fifteen parts of water, is about right for licc.
CARBOLIC ACID EMULSION .- Made by dissolving one pound of hard soap or one quart of soft soap in a gallon of boiling water, to which one pint of crude carbolic acid is added, the whole being stirred into an emulsion. One part of this is added to about thirty-five parts of water and poured around the bases of the plants, about four ounces per plant at cach application, beginning when the plants are set out and re- peated every week or ten days until the last of May. Used to fight maggots.
WHALE-OIL SOAP SOLUTION .- Dissolve one pound of whale-oil soap in a gallon
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of hot water, and dilute with about six · gallons of cold water, This is a good. application for aphis (lice) on trees or plants. For oyster-shell or scurvy scale use this spray in May or June or when the tiny scale lice are moving about on the bark.
TOBACCO TEA .- Place five pounds of tobacco stems in a water-tight vessel, and cover them with three gallons of hot water. Allow to stand several hours ; dilute the liquor by adding about seven gallons of water. Strain and ap- ply. Good for lice.
LIME-SULPHUR MIXTURE. - Slake twenty-two pounds of fresh lump lime in the vessel in which the mixture is to be boiled, using only enough water to cover the lime. Add seventeen pounds of sulphur (flowers or powdered), hav- ing previously mixed it in a paste with water. Then boil the mixture for about an hour in about ten gallons of water, using an iron but not a copper vessel. Next add enough more water to make, in all, fifty gallons. Strain through wire sieve or netting, and apply while mixture is still warm. A good, high- pressure pump is essential to satisfac- tory work. Coat every particle of the trec. This is the standard San Jose scale. remedy, although some orchardists prefer to use the soluble oil sprays now on the market.
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PYRETHRUM, OR PERSIAN INSECT POW- DER .- It may be dusted on with a pow- der bellows when the plants are wet; or one ounce of it may be steeped in one gallon of hot water, and sprayed on the plants at any time. It is often used on flowers, in greenhouses, on vegeta- bles, etc.
BISULPHIDE OF CARBON .- This is used to kill weevils in beans and · peas, etc. It comes in liquid form and may be had of druggists. When exposed to the air it quickly vaporizes into a poisonous and. explosive gas which is heavier than air and .which will destroy all insect life. (Caution .- Do not inhale the vapor, and allow no lights near.)
Tobacco stems, tobacco dust, kainit, soot, freshly-slaked lime, dust, etc., are often used as insect preventives-in the soil around plants to keep away grubs, worms and maggots, or dusted on to discourage the visits of cucumber bugs . etc. (Note .- The first four are excel lent fertilizers as well as insect pre- ventives.)
Crows and blackbirds frequently pull up planted corn. The best preventive is to tar the seed, as follows: Put the seed into a pail and pour on enough warm water to cover it. Add a tea- spoonful of coal-tar to a peck, and stir well. Throw the seed out on a sieve or in a basket to drain, and then stir in a few handfuls of land plaster (gyp- sum), or air-slaked limc.
A NEW FUNGICIDE .- Some orchard- ists are now using the following self- boiled lime-sulphur spray, instead of Bordeaux, claiming that it is less liable to spot or burn fruit and foliage: Put cight pounds of unslaked lump lime in a barrel; add enough water to cover. When the lime begins to hicat, throw in eight pounds of flowers of sulphur. Constantly stir and gradually pour on more water until the lime is all slaked ; then add the rest of the water to cool the mixture. About fifty gallons of water, in all, are required. Strain. Two pounds of arsenate of lead may be added, if desired, to the finished mixture, which then becomes a com- bined fungicide and insecticide, and may be used in the same manner as advised for Bordeaux-arsenate of lead. (Special note .- The self-boiled mixture is not the same as the lime-sulphur advised for San Jose scale, which is too strong for trees in foliage.)
If you do not care to bother with making spraying mixtures at home, they can be purchased, already prepared, of seedsmen. For only a few trees or plants, the 'extra cost of these factory mixtures is not great.
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SPRAYING CALENDAR
PLANT
APPLE (Scab, rot, rust, codling moth, bud moth, tent cater. pillar, canker worms, cur- culio, etc.)
ASPARAGUS (Rust, beetles.)
BEAN (Anthracuose, leaf blight, weevil, etc.)
CABBAGE
(Worms, lice, maggots, etc.)
CELERY (Blight, rot, leaf spot, rust, caterpillars.)
CHERRY
(Rot, aphis, slug, curculio, black kuot, leaf blight, or spot, etc.)
CURRANT GOOSEBERRY (Worms, Icaf blight.)
GRAPE (Fungous diseases, Rose bugs, lice, fica, beetle, leaf hopper, etc.)
MELONS CUCUMBERS (Mildew, rot, blight, striped bugs, lice, flea beetle, etc.)
PEACH (Rot, mildew, leaf curl, curculio, etc.)
PEAR AND QUINCE ... (Leaf blight, scab, psylla, codling moth, blister mite, slugs, etc.)
PLUM (Curculio, black knot, leaf blight, brown rot, etc.)
POTATO (Flea beetle, Colorado beetle, blight rot, etc.)
TOMATO (Rot, blight, etc.)
FIRST APPLICATION
When buds are swelling, but before they open, Bor- dcaux.
Cut off all shoots bclow surface regularly until about July 1st.
Treat the seed before planting with bisulphide of carbon. (See remarks.) When third leaf expands, Bordeaux.
Pyrethrum or insect pow- der.
Half strength Bordeaux on young plants in hotbed or seedbed.
As buds are breaking, Bordeaux; when aphis ap- pear, tobacco solution or kerosene emulsion.
At first appearance of worms, hellebore.
In spring, when buds swell, Bordeaux.
Bordeaux, when vines be- gin to run.
As the buds swell, Bor- deaux.
As buds are swelling, Bordeaux.
When buds are swelling, Bordeaux.
Spray with Paris green and Bordcaux when about 4 in. high.
When plants are 6. in. high, Bordeaux. .
SECOND APPLICATION
If canker worms are abun- dant just before blossoms opcn, Bordeaux-arsenical mixturc.
After cutting ccases, let the shoots grow and spray them with Bordeaux-arseni -. cal mixture.
10 days later, Bordeaux.
7-10 days later, repeat.
Bordeaux, after plants are transplanted to field. (Pyre- thrum for caterpillars if necessary.)
When blossoms drop, Bor- deaux-arsenical mixture.
10 days later, hellebore. Bordeaux if leaf blight is feared.
Just before flowers unfold, Bordeaux-arsenical mixture.
10-14 days repeat. (Note: Always use half strength Bordeaux on watermelon vines.)
When fruit has sct, repeat. Jar trees for curculio.
Just before blossoms open, . Bordeaux. Kerosene emul- sion when leaves open for psylla, if necded.
When blossoms have fallen, Bordeaux-arsenical mixture. Begin to jar trees for cur- culio.
Repeat before insects be- come numerous.
Repeat in 10-14 davs. (Fruit can be wiped if dis. figured by Bordeaux.)
NOTE .- For San Jose scale on trees and shrubs, spray with the lime-sulphur mixture in autumn after leaves fall, or (preferably) in early spring, before buds start. The lime-sulphur
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THIRD APPLICATION.
FOURTH APPLICATION.
REMARKS.
When blossoms have fallen. Bor- deaux-arsenical mix- turc.
8-12 days later, Bordeaux · arsenical mixture.
For aphis (lice) use one of the lice remedies mentioned elsewhere. Dig out borers from tree trunks with knife and wire. For oyster. shell scale, use whale.oil soap spray in June.
2-3 weeks later, Bor- deaux-arsenical mix. ture.
Repeat in 2.3 weeks.
Mow vines close to ground when they are killed by frost, burn them, and apply a mulch of stable manure.
14 days later, Bor- deaux.
14 days later, Bor- deaux.
For weevils: Put seed in tight box, put a cloth over seed, pour bisulphide of carbon on it, put lid on and keep closed for 48 hours. Use 1 oz. to 4 bus. of seed.
7-10 days later, re- peat.
Repeat every 10-14 days until crop gathered.
Root maggots: Pour carbolic acid emulsion around stem of plants. Club root : · Rotate crops; apply lime to soil; burn refuse; treat seed with formalin before planting.
14 days later, re- peat.
14 days later, re- peat.
Rot or rust is often caused by hilling up with carth in hot weather. Use boards for summer crop. Pithy stalks are due to poor seed; or lack of moisture.
10-14 deaux.
days, Bor-
Hellebore, if a second brood of slugs appear.
Black knot: Dark fungous-looking bunches or knots on limbs. Cut off and burn whenever seen.
10-14 days, repeat, if necessary.
2 to 4 weeks later, repeat.
Cane-borers may be kept in check by cutting out and burning infested canes.
When fruit has set, Bordeaux · arsenical mixture.
2 to 4 weeks later, Bordeaux.
For lice, use any of the lice remedies. For rose bugs, use 10 pounds of arsenate of lead and one gallon of molasses in 50 gallons of water, as a spray. Or knock the bugs into pans of kerosene every day.
10-14 days, repeat.
10-14 days, repeat.
Use lice remedies for lice. For striped bugs, protect young plants with a cover of mosquito netting over each hill. Or keep vines well dusted with a mixture of air-slaked lime, to- bacco dust and a little Paris green.
When fruit is one- half grown, Bor-
deaux.
NOTE :- It is safer always to use half- strength Bordeaux on peach foliage.
Dig out borers. Cut down and burn trees affected with "yellows."
After blossoms have fallen. Bordeaux-ar- senical mixture.
8-12 days later, re- peat.
Look out for "fire blight." Cut out and burn blighted branches whenever seen.
10-14 days later, repeat.
10.20 days later, Bordeaux.
Cut out black knot whenever seen.
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Repeat.
To prevent scabby tubers, treat the seed with formalin before planting.
Repeat
in 10-14 days.
Hand-pick tomato worms.
mixture is a fungicide as well as a scale cure, and if it is used the first early Bordeaux spray may be omitted.
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PLANTING TABLE FOR VEGETABLES AND BERRIES
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VARIETY
For Horse Cultivation Have Rows
For Hoe or Wheel- Hoe Cultivation Have Rows
Distance Apart in the Row
Depth to Cover
Time to Plant in the North. Outdoors (Sec Foot-note)
ASPARAGUS, Seed ASPARAGUS, Plants
21/2 ft. apart 4 ft. apart
1 ft. apart 3 ft. apart 2 ft. apart 4 x 3 ft. apart
3 in. transplant in 1 year 1 in.
2 ft. Thin to 4 in.
5 or 6 in. 2 in.
March-April March-April May 10-15 May 20-25
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BLACKBERRY, Plants .. S ft. apart
CABBAGE and CAULI- FLOWER, Plants ..
21/2 ft. apart
2 ft. apart
16-24 in.
CARROT
21/2 ft. apart
1 ft. apart 2-3 ft. apart
Thin to 5 in. 6 in.
1/2 in.
CELERY, Plants
3-4 ft. apart
CORN, Sweet CUCUMBER
4 ft. apart 5 x5 or 6x4 ft. apart
Same Same
8-12 in. Scatter 15 seeds in hill; 1/2 in. thin out later
CURRANT and
GOOSEBERRY, Plants . . 5 x 5 ft. apart
EGGPLANT, Plants LETTUCE MELON, Musk
MELON, Water
21/2 x 21/2 ft. apart 21/2 ft. apart 6 ×4 ft. apart 8x8 ft. apart
5 x4 ft. apart 2×2 ft. apart 11/2-2 ft. apart Same Same
Thin to 6-10 in. Scatter 15 seeds in hill; 12 in. 1/2 in. thin out later
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BEAN, String BEAN, Lima
21/2 ft. apart
-Pole, 4 x4 ft. apart Bush, 21/2 x 11/2 ft. apart 2 x 11/2 ft. apart 21/2 ft. apart
1 ft. apart 6 ft. apart .
Thin to 5 in. 2 ft.
1 in.
March-April April. Or in the fall
Early kinds. April; late kinds, June March-April Early crop, May; late crop, early July First sowing, early Ma: May 15
2 in.
April. Or in the fall June 1 March-April May 15 May 15-20
Thin to 3 plants to a pole 1 in.
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PLANTING TABLE FOR VEGETABLES AND BERRIES-Continued
VARIETY
For Horse Cultivation Have Rows
For Hoe or Wheel- Hoe Cultivation Have Rows
Distance Apart in the Row
Depth to Cover
Time to Plant in the North, Outdoors (See Foot-note)
ONION, Seed
21/2 ft. apart
12-15 in. apart
Thin to 4 in.
1/2 in. 1/2 in.
March-April Early April
PARSLEY
212 ft. apart
1 ft. apart
Thin to 6 in.
PARSNIP
212 ft. apart
1 ft. apart
Thin to 5 in.
1/2 in.
March-April
PEPPER, Plants
21/2 ft. apart
2 ft. apart
20 in.
June 1
PEAS
3-4 ft. apart
21/2-3 ft. apart
Continuous row
3-5 :. 1.
March-April
POTATO
3 ft. apart
2-21/2 ft. apart
12-18 in.
4 in.
Early, March-April;
RADISH
212 ft. apart
1 ft. apart
Thin to 3 in.
1/2 in.
March-April
RHUBARB, Plants
4 ft. apart
3 ft. apart
3 ft.
2 or 3 in.
March-April
RASPBERRY, Plants
6 ft. apart
5 ft. apart
Red, 2 ft.
Early spring
SPINACH
21/2 ft. apart 8x8 ft. (Bush Squash Same
1 ft. apart
Thin to 5 in.
1 in. 1/2 in.
March-April (or fall) May 15-20
SQUASH-PUMPKIN
4 × 4)
STRAWBERRY Plants
.. 4 ft. apart
3 ft. apart
15-20 in.
Have crown April. (Pot-grownplants level with in August) ground
TOMATO, Plants
4 × 4 ft. apart
4 x 3 ft. apart
May 25-June 1
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NOTE .- Planting time varies according to season and locality; dates given above are only approximate, and are based on latitude of Pennsylvania: allow about five days difference for each 100 miles north or south of this State. Do not work soil in spring while it is very wet and soggy; wait. Plants set in autumn must be well mulched with strawy manure, leaves, etc., during first winter. Successional sowings of corn, peas, etc., may be made later than the dates given.
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FARMERS' BULLETINS Sent Free to Residents of the United States, by Department of Agriculture Washington, D. C., on Application.
NOTE .-- Some nmmbers omitted are no longer published. Bulletins in this list will be sent frec, so long as the supply lasts, to any resident of the United States, on application to his Senator, Representa- tive, or Delegate in Congress, or to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Because of the limited supply, applicants are urged to select only a few numbers, choosing those which are of special interest to them. Residents of foreign countries should apply to the Superintendent of Documents, Gov- erument Printing Office, Washington, D. C., who has these bulletins for sale. Price, 5 cents each to C'anada, Cuba, and Mexico: 6 cents to other foreign countries.
22. The Feeding of Farm Animals.
27. Flax for Seed and Fiber.
28. Weeds: And How to Kill Them.
30. Grape Diseases on the Pacific Coast.
Farms.
203. Canned Frui's, Preserves and Jellies. 204. The Cultivation of Mushrooms.
205. Pig Management.
206. Milk Fever and Its Treatment.
213. Raspberries
218. The School Garden.
220. Tomatoes.
221. Fungous Diseases of the Cranberry.
224. Canadian Field Peas.
228. Forest Planting and Farm Manage- ment.
229. Production of Good Seed Corn.
231. Cucumber and Melon Diseases.
232. Okra: Its Culture and Uses.
234. The Guinea Fowl.
86. Thirty Poisonous Plants.
88. Alkali Lands.
91. Potato Diseases and Treatment. 99. Insect. Enemies of Shade Trees. 101. Millets.
104. Notes on Frost.
106. Breeds of Dairy Cattle.
113. The Apple and How to Grow It.
118. Grape Growing in the South.
121. Beans, Peas, and Other Legumes Food.
126. Suggestions for Farm Buildings.
127. Important Insecticides.
128. Eggs and Their Uses as Food.
131. Tests for Detection of Oleomargarine. 134 Tree Planting in Rural School Grounds. 137. The Angora Goat.
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