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The Readers' Service gives information 

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1911 



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Strokum is a finely shredded prep- 

 aration incorporated with a vegetable 

 extract harmful to the caterpillars 

 but absolutely harmless to the trees. 

 Stiokum fills in the chinks of bark, 

 so caterpillars can't crawl under it. 

 They won't crawl over it. 



Mail us $2.00 and we will send 

 Special 5'ou, express paid, enough 

 q« Strokum to band ten trees, 



er averaging: i foot in diame- 

 ter. West of Mississippi, 50c extra. 



Strokum Stops 

 Caterpillars 



Don't make the mistake of waiting until 

 the caterpillars begin to crawl before you 

 protect your trees. Band them with 

 Strokum now. They can't crawl under 

 it — they won't crawl over. Easy to ap- 

 ply. Is not unsightly. Guaranteed not 

 to injure your trees. One banding lasts 

 entire season. Easy to remove. Leaves 

 no disfiguring evidences. Use it this 

 month. Next may be too late. Send 

 for booklet. 



Strak.tford Oakum Company 



161 Cornelison Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 



RROWS AND CULTIVATES, 



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With Clarks's Original "Cutaway" Double Action 

 Harrow and Cultivator you can do more different kinds 

 of work with less effort than any other. It is the 

 only Disk Cultivator that completely embodies the 

 double action principle. It will do the work of several 

 other disk machines that would cost you several times as 

 much; do it more thoroughly, because it has 4 gangs 

 instead of 2. Cuts the soil twice, throws in opposite 

 directions, fills the hollows, leaves land level and true 

 The draft is always from the center — suitable for light 

 team. All single action harrows run in half lap. Gang 

 frame adjustable for cultivating rowed crops. Jointed 

 pole. We make a "Cutaway" for every crop. Send 

 today for our new catalogue, "Intensive Cultivation." 

 It's Free. 



CUTAWAY HARROW COMPANY 



902 Main Street, Higganum, Conn. 



Write for Our If f> £_• ,• 



Free Book on Home Refrigeration 



It tells you how to select the Home Refrigerator— how to know the good from the 

 poor — how to keep a Refrigerator sweet and sanitary — how your food can be prop- 

 erly protected and preserved — how to keep down ice bills — lots of things you should 

 know before selecting ant; Refrigerator. 



Don't be deceived by claims being made for other so-called ' 

 * 'porcelain' ' refrigerators. The ' 'Monroe' ' has the only real por- 

 celain food compartments made in a pottery and in one piece of 

 .solid, unbreakable White Porcelain Ware over an inch thick, 

 with every corner rounded, no cracks or crevices anywhere. 

 There are no hiding places for germs — no odors, no dampness. 



WMonroe' 



The Lifetime Refrigerator 



The leading hospitalsuse the ' 'Monroe' ' 

 exclusively and it is found today in a 

 large majority of the very best homes. 

 It is built to last a lifetime and will 

 save you its cost many times over in a^ Always sold DIRECT 



1 -,, r j J j . , ;,, • and at Factory Prices. 



ICe bills, food waste and repair bills. Cash or Monthly Payments. 



The "Monroe" is never sold in stores, but direct from the factory to you, freight 

 prepaid to your railroad station, under our liberal trial offer and an ironclad 

 guarantee of 'full satisfaction or money refunded." 



Easy Payments We depart this year from our rule of all cash with order 



■^ - and will send the "Monroe" freight prepaid on our 



liberal credit terms to all desiring to buy that way. 



Just say, "Send Monroe Book," on a postal card and it will go to you by next mail. (10) 



MONROE REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, Station 13, Lockland, Ohio 



There are two varieties of this wonderful bean 

 or pea (I say "pea" because the plant and 

 the flavor of the pods when cooked are like the 

 cow pea). The pods of French Asparagus do not 

 usually grow over two feet long with me, but the 

 plants are very prolific. The seed is red. The 

 other variety is known as the Japan long runner 

 bean. The seed is black and with me the pods 

 grow from twenty-four to forty-two inches long. 

 The vine makes very little foliage, but produces 

 great quantities of pods. 



Profit in Sweet Potatoes 



CONSIDERABLE profit is made in the South 

 by growing sweet potatoes for market. 

 While they are grown in the Northern States for 

 home use, I don't think it would pay to grow them 

 for market as the northern season is short and 

 the crop would not have time to fully mature. 

 In the South they are profitable to grow even for 

 hog and other stock food. Soil that would pro- 

 duce only twenty bushels of corn per acre will 

 produce from fifty to a hundred bushels of sweet 

 potatoes. 



First make a seed bed in which to start the 

 plants. In a very sunny place in the garden 

 dig a trench one and a half or two yards square 

 for each bushel of seed potatoes, and six or eight 

 inches deep. Fill up the trench with some good 

 manure, spread the potatoes over it and cover 

 them two inches deep. Do this in the South 

 early in March and about a month later in the 

 North. This bed should furnish plants for setting 

 out in four weeks from the time the seed was 

 planted. 



Sweet potatoes will grow on almost any soil, 

 but their preference is for a rich, loose, sandy loam. 

 Green cotton seed and commercial fertilizer used 

 together are the best fertilizers. For a large crop 

 use sixty bushels of cotton seed and six or seven 

 hundred pounds of fertilizer to every acre. If 

 cotton seed is not obtainable, use the fertilizer 

 alone at the rate of one thousand pounds per acre. 

 A fertilizer containing 8 per cent, phosphoric acid, 

 7 per cent, potash and 3 per cent, nitrogen is best. 

 Do not use stable manure alone as it contains too 

 much nitrogen, which produces vines and foliage 

 at the expense of the root crop. 



Dig the soil early in the spring with a 2-horse 

 plow, making it fine and loose to a depth of twelve 

 or fourteen inches, and about three weeks before 

 setting out the plants lay off rows three feet apart. 

 Distribute the fertilizer in the furrow and run a 

 small shooter or shovel plow in the furrows to 

 mix the fertilizer with the soil. Then ridge it 

 over by running twice along each side of the fur- 

 row with a shovel or turn plow. It is not necessary 

 to have a very high ridge; four inches above the 

 level of the soil is sufficient. Set the plants two 

 feet apart on the ridges. The fastest and easiest 

 way to set out the plants is to get a board, one or 

 two inches wide and three feet long with a notch 

 cut in one end, and use this to push the roots into 

 the soil. The best time for setting them out is 

 just after a rain. 



After the plants have made vines, pieces of the 

 vines can be removed and used for planting addi- 

 tional beds. These cuttings take root and grow 

 the same as the plants, but the cuttings form tubers 

 more quickly than the plants; therefore, in the 

 South, they can be set out as late as the last of 



July. 



Give sweet potatoes a throough cultivation 

 every two weeks so as to keep the soil loose and 

 free from weeds and grass. After the vines cover 

 the soil no cultivation will be necessary. 



The Yellow Yam or Pumpkin Yam is the best 

 variety to grow as it keeps better and is sweeter 

 and better to eat than the other sorts. 



Potatoes should be harvested some time in 

 September or October, before or just after a frost. 

 Dig them on a clear, sunny day when the soil is 

 not wet. If the field is small, the potatoes can 

 be dug with a spading fork. 



Let the potatoes he out in the sun and thoroughly 

 dry; then carefully gather them up so as to avoid 

 bruising. Store as you would other root crops, 

 in a dry, frost-proof place where the temperature 

 will be even. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



