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76 THE SOUTHEKN PLANTER. [January,
SHOULD LET TREES GROW
BIGGER.
Attention was lately called by
Arboriculture to the way farmers rob
themselves when they cut down small
trees. The writer says that ten years
ago he saw in Virginia about thirteen
thousand apple barrels held together
by hickory hoops, to make which
sixty-four thousand young hickory
trees had been cut down. The barrel
hoops had been sold for about four
hundred dollars. If the trees had
been allowed to grow they would have
been big enough in a few years for
cutting up into carriage spokes, and
would have produced at the present
price of thirty-five dollars a thousand,
spokes worth more than eight hundred
thousand dollars. This is the kind of
forestry argument that ought to appeal
to owners of brush lots.
BURKE'S GARDEN, VIRGINIA.
—
Burke's Garden, Virginia, is Southern
headquarters for the "Choice
Goods." Late reports from the beat
Pairs and Live Stock Expositions 0»
this continent remind us of the very
close
ners
relationship between their win-
and leading members of th«.
Burke's Garden herds and flocks of
cattle and sheep. This applies with
special force to our leaders—Shorthorns
and Hampshires.
Two of these shows in particular
viz.: Kansas City Royal and International
at Chicago by setting forth animal
excellence year after year, whose
quality has been conceded by all foreign
judges to be of superlative degree—attract
world-wide attention.
Anything that
even down to
gets a place at either,
fifth, is given entre to
select circles. In fact, only the choicest
specimens which succeed in running
the blockade of judges at county
and State fairs ever get to these final
round-ups. At the Royal, the Grand
Championship was won by Ruberta's
Goods. She is dam of the Sweepstakes
cow at Richmond last year
viz.:
den.
Rubertress, from Burke's Gar-
This cow—and, by the way, it
is quite unusual for a calf to win
sweepstakes over a long string or older
first-prize winners—claims for sire
a $3,500 son of Choice Goods, and half
brother to Best Goods, now in use by
the Burke's Garden Co. This same
line of breeding—viz.: "Choice Goods"
—also furnished to the International
a Grand Champion in the handsome
Junior Yearling, "Scotch GoodB."
Among distinguished matrons amongst
the red, white and roans, we mention
the $2,000 Golden Lassie, mother of
Gondomar, first or second yearling at
Iowa, Nebraska and other of the largest
Western State fairs; of Good Lassie,
who topped the Jones sale last
June at $980; Imp. Bonnie Bella Roan,
by brother to Lavinia, a Virginiabred
cow, the first to bring $2,000 this
season, and daughters of Grand
Champion Nominee. W. B. DOAK.
I S 6 8 P° rfy y ears Experience and Reputation. Fifteen Thousand Satisfied Customers. f QAQ
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ck guaranteed to prove satisfactory or purchase price paid for same re- I71/0
funded. Thirty Thousand dollars Paid In Capital and our Reputation behind guarantee.
Ask your Banker about us. Why purchase plants from unknown or inexperienced growers,
taking the chance of losing your crop? when you can buy from the Original Cabbage
Plant Grower, plants rure to produce satisfactory results.
PRICE: In lots of 1 to 5,000 at $1.50 per thousand, 5 to 9,000 at $1.25 per thousand, 10 000 |
and over at $1.00 per thousand '
f. o. b. Young's Island, S. C. Our special Express Rate on
Iflants is very low. Our Cabbage Plants are Frost Proof. To produce the best results
they should be set in the South Atlantic and Gulf States in December and January. In the /
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Centra! States just as early in spring as land thaws sufficiently to get the plant root in the soil.
Send for our Catalogue ; it contains valuable information about fruit and vegetable
growing, home mixing of fertilizers, etc. We grow a full line of Strawberry plants, Fruit
trees, and Ornamentals. Special terms to persons who make up club orders.
We are sowing this season six thousand pounds of cabbage seed.
Wm. C. Geraty Co. Box 6 Young's Island, S. C.
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Ear'y Jersey Charleston Large Henderson's Early Early
Wakefield Type Wakefield Succession Winning- Statdt Summer
I am located on one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina, our climate is mild,
just sufficient cold to harden and cause plants to stand severe freezing after
setting out in the colder sections. I guarantee satisfaction or money refundea. Express rates to all
points very low. £tT~ Prices: 1,000 to 5,000 at $1.50; 5,000 to 9,000 at $1.25; 10,000 and over at $1.00.
Special prices on large lots. Send your orders to
JE*. "*7*7\ TO\?TIjES, Pioneer Plant Grower
Telegraph Office, Young's Island, S. C. Martin's Point, S. C. Long Distance Phone, Martin's Point, S. C.
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HAVE YOU BEEN TO JAMESTOWN
If so, you no doubt received free, one of these buttons from
the S. C. exhibit, ''given you by the N. H. Blitch Co., the
largest Vegetable and Plant farm combined in the world.
We will be glad to have your orders for cabbage and garden
plants of all kind?, raised in the open air. Special express
rates. Prices as follows:—1,000 to 5,000 at $1.50 per 1,000; 5,000
to 10,000 at $1.25 per 1,000; over 10 000 at $1.00 per 1,000, f.o. b.
express office Meggct t, S. C. We guarantee count, make good all bona-fide
shortage, and give prompt shipments. All seeds purchased from the most
reliable Seedsmen, guaranteed true to type. We have extra early or large
type "Wakefield, the Henderson succession and fiat Dutch varieties of cabbage
plants. Send all orders to
fl. H. BLITCH CO., Meggett, S. C.
ARGESTmmm TRUCK GROWERS ON EARTH
200,000
CABBAGE PLANTS
91.50 per 1,000. Varieties, Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield and Succession;
1,000 Peony plants, $25.00 per 100; Hardy Phlox, Pinks, Golden Glow
Japanese Ornamec^al Grass, Coreopsis, Digitalis, Hardy Pinks. Any of the
above can be planted now or any time during; the winter.
Address MARK T. THOMPSON, Florist, Rio Vista, Va.
TELL THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT.
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