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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1916 



Give Your Home a Setting 



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HELLER BROS. CO.. Box 121. New Castle. Indiana. 



happy. To own a separate cottage even though 

 an humble one, where a man and his wife may live 

 and have a garden, often brings more contentment 

 than one can imagine. 



As to the wise application of labor: I know two 

 men, each owning 4-acre gardens. No. 1 keeps his 

 surface shuffled over by the use of a wide, thin hoe, 

 killing all weeds before they are half an inch high. 

 No. 2 is always struggling in a sea of weeds three to 

 fifteen inches deep. I saw two men digging for a 

 wall foundation. One threw out the earth and 

 stones and later threw in the stones again. The 

 other tossed the stones behind himself as he shoveled 

 in the ditch, and lifted out the soil only. Some- 

 times one man can do more alone than two together. 



I was told recently by a skilful small farmer, that 

 "I never plan my work while I am laboring. For 

 one half hour daily I walk over my place. During 

 that time I am the boss farmer. I note the work 

 that needs to be done first and give the order; then 

 I become a laborer for the balance of the day and 

 carry out the order." 



Third, the saving of manure and its application. 

 Few crops can use it green to best advantage. To 

 ferment and compost it is costly and often wasteful. 

 Some manures will ruin a crop, as for instance hen 

 manure applied to potatoes, beets, turnips. Several 

 substances, like North Carolina ground rock or 

 kainit, conserve and enhance the value of the drop- 

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 while. Every field ought to have an experiment 

 plot to determine its special needs. 



Connecticut Hollister Sage. 



Blotch, A Dreaded Apple Disease 



THE apple blotch, a comparatively new disease, 

 which is threatening the apple crop is, more- 

 over, the most serious disease of the fruit with which 

 the orchardist has to contend. 



It first appeared in the southeastern part of the 

 United States and was considered a southern disease 

 with which our northern growers would not have to 

 contend; but it has spread gradually north and west 

 until the central western states are infected, and I 

 have found it in three widely separated counties in 

 Pennsylvania. 



It attacks the young wood, making small cankers 

 which persist for three or four years and which serve 

 as centres to continue the disease in the tree. It 

 also attacks both the blade of the leaf and the petiole; 

 when the latter is injured badly the leaf drops per- 

 manently. The greatest injury is to the fruit. 



The blotch injury first appears, from six to eight 

 weeks after the petals fall, as a dark slightly sunken 

 spot with or without a fringe margin. It grows 

 larger, and in case of a bad infection the spots 

 coalesce, the result being a brown or black surface to 

 the apple which is more or less cracked, depending 

 upon the severity of the attack. 



All varieties are not attacked with equal severity. 

 Those which are very susceptible to it are Missouri 

 Pippin, Ben Davis, Limber Twig, Dominie. North- 

 western Greening, White Winter Pearmain, Hunts- 

 man Faronte, Arkansas Black, Maiden Blush, Haw- 

 thornden, Smith Cider, Tolman Sweet, Fameuse, 

 Wagener, Gano, Willow Twig, Gilpin, Mammoth 

 Black Twig, Stark, Mann. Those moderately 

 injured by it are McAfee, Ralls Genet, Yellow Bell- 

 flower, Ingram, Northern Spy, Stayman, Fink, 

 Minkler, Wealthy, Rome Beauty. Slightly injured : 

 Jonathan, Grimes Golden, Winesap, York Imperial, 

 Rhode Island Greening, Rambo, Baldwin. 



Unlike the scab, dry weather has but little effect 

 upon its spreading. The attacks are about as 

 severe in a dry summer as in a wet one. 



Apple blotch can be controlled by spraying with 

 bordeaux mixture, made with three pounds copper 

 sulphate, four pounds lime to fifty gallons of water. 



The first application is made three weeks after the 

 blossoms drop. If, however, at this time the weather 

 is damp use concentrated lime-sulphur diluted one 

 part to forty of water to prevent bordeaux injury to 

 the young fruits. 



The second application is made from two weeks to 

 one month after the first application, using the 

 3-4-50 bordeaux; but again, if the weather be wet, 

 substitute lime-sulphur. The third spray is ten 

 weeks after the petals fall, using bordeaux. Arsen- 

 ate of lead can be added to the bordeaux now to hold 

 the insects in check. 



Penna. Harold Clarke. 





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