RURALISMS 
Pai-tsai,  or  Chinese  Cabbage.  Fig.  5 
>Sw\v  in  .Inly  in  rows;  begin  inn  nil  ring 
heavily  when  four  inches  high.  Harvest 
after  first  light  frost.  By  cutting  off 
all  green  leaf  tips  it  Can  be  cooked  with¬ 
out  penetrating  cabbage  odor.  It  is  very 
tender  and  mikl-flavored.  As  sewed  in 
soups  in  some  of  the  Chinese  restaurants 
here  this  cabbage  appears  very  slightly 
cooked,  being  chopped  and  added  to  the 
soup  just  before  serving.  Poultry  seem 
extremely  fond  of  this  cabbage. 
Hard  or  Soft  Woods 
Is  chestnut  timber  classed  as  hard  or 
soft  wood  in  a  contract  to  take  all  the 
hard  wood  on  a  lot?  s.  is. 
The  classification  of  woods  into  hard¬ 
woods  mimI  softwoods  is  a  botanical  one, 
softwoods  being  cone-bearing  trees  with 
necdle-liko  leaves  and  the  hardwoods  hav¬ 
ing  broad  leaves.  Softwoods  like  cot¬ 
ton  wood  are  therefore  classed  as  hard¬ 
woods,  while  the  hard  pines  are  Classed 
as  softwoods.  This  classification  is  car¬ 
ried  out  in  the  formulation  of  grading 
roles,  and  therefore  chestnut  natural Iv 
falls  into  the  hardwood  class. 
J.  T.  HARRIS. 
Trouble  With  Violets 
1  i  a vc  some  violets  in  a  cold  frame, 
from  which  I  have  been  getting  a  few 
tb'Wcr.'.  1ml  quite  a  number  of  the  leaves 
are  now  turning  yellow;  the  stems  seem 
to  dry  up  before  th>-  leaves.  Is  there  any 
way  to  prevent  this?  I  did  not  kuow 
but  that  it  might  be  duo  to  lack  of  fertil¬ 
izing.  I  had  only  about  u  wheelbarrow 
full  of  very  old  cow  manure  to  put  in 
the  frame,  two  sashes.  A.  f.  b. 
Stamford,  Conn. 
A.  F.  1».  does  not  make  a  clear  enough 
statement  of  his  violet  disease  to  deter¬ 
mine  just  what  may  be  the  trouble.  If 
the  leaves  are  covered  with  small  water- 
soaked  greenish  spots  that  eventually 
cover  the  leaf,  causing  it  to  die.  the 
trouble  is  the  violet  leaf  spot,  and  is  a 
rattier  difficult  disease  to  control.  The 
plants  should  be  kept  entirely  dry  at  all 
times,  and  in  a  healthy  growing  condition 
Water  should  be  applied  to  soil  under¬ 
neath  the  leaves.  Remove  all  diseased 
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My  Message 
to  Fruit  Growers 
and  Farmers 
During  next  few  months  many  of 
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through  countless  costly  experi¬ 
ments  what  was  right  and  what  was 
wrong. 
It  takes  time  and  conscientious 
effort  to  build  a  good  machine  of 
any  kind.  Your  orchard  has  taken 
the  work  of  years  to  bring  it  to  its 
present  production,  and  you  are 
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Hubbard  Squash 
I  had  a  piece  planted  to  Hqbbard 
squashes  last  Summer  of  about  75  hills, 
which  was  an  absolute  failure.  They 
were  planted  about  the  middle  of  May 
and  did  well  at  first  but  when  we  bad 
so  much  rain  in  July  they  started  to  turn 
yellow  and  vines  here  and  there  died,  and 
before  long  the  whole  lot  were  affected 
so  that  I  did  not  get  a  respectable  squash 
out  of  the  fid.  I  laid  the  trouble  to  a 
blight,  caused  by  the  damp  weather. 
Could  I  have  Saved  them  by  spraying 
with  Bordeaux  mixture?  Some  vines 
never  seemed  to  get  a  good  start.  Do 
you  think  that  was  due  to  a  condition 
of  the  soil?  w.  n.  B. 
Holton,  Mass. 
The  squash  being  of  tropical  origiu 
they  naturally  make  the  most  rapid  and 
luxuriant  growth  during  the  warmer  per¬ 
iod  of  our  Summer.  They  should  not  be 
planted  until  the  weather  has  become  set¬ 
tled  and  the  ground  thoroughly  warmed. 
While  they  will  grow  and  succeed  in  a 
way  in  almost  any  soil  that  is  fairly  pro¬ 
ductive,  they  much  prefer  a  deep  sandy 
loam  and  should  have  at  least  two  or 
three  shovelfuls  of  well-rotted  manure, 
well  incorporated  with  the  Soil  in  each 
hill.  If  the  weather  conditions  are  at  all 
favorable  and  they  are  properly  culti¬ 
vated  and  kept  free  from  injurious  in¬ 
sects,  there  Should  be  no  disappointment 
in  t Lie  crop.  The  past  season  was  very 
unfavorable  to  the  squash  in  many  sec¬ 
tions  of  the  country,  the  frequent  cold 
rains  being  very  much  against  their  pro¬ 
per  development,  and  it  is  very  probable 
your  crop  suffered  and  failed  from  this 
cause  alone.  Only  the  man  on  the  ground 
would  be  able  to  judge  the  exact  trouble. 
It  is  scarcely  likely  that  spraying  with 
Bordeaux  would  have  proven  beneficial 
iu  this  case.  k. 
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