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In the last month I have asked thirty- 

 one of the largest cover crop growers, 

 and their reply is that with a reason- 

 able amount of care, and where the hay 

 is in strips, no danger will be experi- 

 enced. A man who wishes to grow fruit 

 alone and who starts out with a one or 

 two-year-old orchard has a very expen- 

 sive proposition. The cost of maintain- 

 ing his family in the country will be 

 greater than in the city. There is no 

 income and a very great expense for 

 five years. The only solution is the 

 cover crop and the money crop system. 

 Splendid vegetables can be grown in 

 any soil which will produce good fruit. 

 From a measured orchard acre one 

 farmer sold this year tomatoes which 

 brought a gross return of •f340. Another 

 man had fifteen acres in corn, which 

 averaged forty bushels per acre, besides 

 the valuable feed. From five acres of 

 strawberries another man cleared ?500. 

 Many farmers report yields of from 200 

 to 250 bushels of potatoes, while no- 

 where do roots such as stock beets and 

 carrots thrive better. 



The money crop system is to rotate 

 soil building crops with one of the 

 above named crops. Keeping the land 

 l)lanted in legumins for two or three 

 years, then putting in a money crop, 

 then plant a soil building crop again. 

 .\ well managed twenty-acre tract will, 

 in addition to growing thrifty young 

 trees, produce enough hay and roots for 

 four horses, four cows, fifteen hogs and 

 one hundred and fifty chickens. And 

 most important of all, when the trees 

 are six years of age and ready to begin 

 to bear large crops of fruit, the soil will 

 not be in an exhausted condition, as is 

 often the case where clean cultivation 

 is practiced, but it will be found to be 

 very rich, responsive, and very satis- 

 factory to handle. 



To the Growers of Roses 



This is to inform you that members 

 of the American Rose Society have been 

 raising money to co-operate in employ- 

 ing a trained plant pathologist to in- 

 vestigate diseases of roses. Sufficient 

 money has now been obtained to assure 

 this work, which is already under way. 

 Doctor I.. M. Massey of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture, Cornell 

 I'niversity, Ithaca, is conducting the 

 investigations. It is hoped that all 

 growers of roses will now take advan- 

 tage of this arrangement, not only to 

 obtain what little information there is 

 already at band, but to co-operate in 

 ways which will be suggested from time 

 to time. Through co-operation with 

 Dr. Massey, the growers will greatly 

 increase the efficiency of the investiga- 

 tion and obtain the greatest returns 

 from their investment. 



First of all it seems desirable to make 

 a rose disease survey such as will ac- 

 quaint us with the various diseases, 

 together with their range and the ex- 

 tent of injury caused by them in this 

 country. In order that this survey may 

 reach its maxinmm efficiency, it will 

 be necessary for the growers to co- 

 operate by sending specimens of dis- 

 eased plants. Franked tags will be sup- 



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plied on request. It is iioped that each 

 grower will interest himself in this 

 wc'rk sulliciently to collect and .send 

 diseased material, together with a brief 

 statement regarding varieties alTcctcd, 

 nature and extent of injury, time of 

 apjicarance of the disease, and other 

 points of interest which may have been 

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 stages in the development of the dis- 

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 usually be undesirable to enclose any 

 soil. ^^^^ere convenient, specimens 

 shoidd be mailed so as to reach Ithaca 

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