RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
19  J 
The  Home  Acre 
Notes  from  a  Maryland  Garden 
Your  intelligent  correspondent,  Trucker 
Jr.,  writes  very  feelingly  in  regard  to  the 
disastrous  season  for  tile  truckers  last 
year.  The  result  of  that  season  was  very 
similar  to  our  growers.  Strawberries  paid 
well,  and  also  did  the  cantaloupes  until 
our  Jersey  friends  choked  the  market. 
Early  Irish  potatoes  were  almost  unsale* 
able,  but  the  sweet  potato  crop  was  large 
and  remunerative.  It  would  be  well  if  all 
those  engaged  in  the  growing  of  truck  for 
market  were  as  level-headed  as  Trucker 
Jr.  But  when  any  particular  crop  pays 
well  then  the  plungers  rush  into  that  the 
next  season,  and  a  glut  is  made  and  no 
one  gets  profit.  It  is  far  safer  to  plant 
heft v fly  of  the  crop  that  did  not  pay  the 
previous  year.  But  the  men  who  succeed 
in  the  market  gardening  business  are  the 
men  who  stiek  at  their  regular  area  in 
the  staple  vegetables,  knowing  that  there 
will  be  occasional  seasons  when  some  of 
their  crops  do  not  pay,  but  never  losing 
their  heads  and  going  to  gambling  on  big 
chances. 
Yesterday.  January  7.  gave  us  our  first 
snowstorm,  a  real  one  five  inches  deep, 
and  this  morning  after  the  mercury 
dropped  to  15  above  zero,  a  temperature 
we  get  here  ofily  occasionally.  Last  year 
the  lowest  temperature  in  January  and 
February  was  20  above  zero,  and  our  first 
light  snow  came  February  3,  only  an 
inch,  and  the  only  real  snowstorm  we  had 
was  the  7th  of  April,  when  we  had  snow¬ 
drifts  with  the  blooming  Forsythias 
sticking  above  them. 
I  would  say  to  Air.  Baskctt,  in  regard 
to  the  dodder,  that  pieces  of  it  thrown  on 
a  suitable  host  plant  will  certainly  grow. 
Some  years  ago  I  had  a  farm  in  North 
Carolina  whei’e  the  front  porch  of  the 
dwelling  was  covered  with  Virginia  creep¬ 
er.  The  daughter  of  the  tenaut  strolling 
in  the  low  grounds,  brought  a  piece  of 
dodder  and  hung  it.  on  this  Virginia  creep¬ 
er,  and  in  a  short  time  it  entirely  envel¬ 
oped  the  plant. 
They  evidently  have  very  fierce  musk¬ 
rats  out  in  Nebraska.  Is  Air.  Tubbs  sure 
that  it  was  not  an  otter  that  caught  the 
wild  duck?  Our  mild-mannered  musk¬ 
rats  down  here  never  attempt,  anything  of 
the  sort.  Their  teeth  are  similar  to  those 
of  the  beaver,  and  its  chief  food  is  roots 
of  the  various  aquatic  plants,  especially 
water  lilies.  But  they  will  come  out  and 
eat  parsnips  and  especially  apples,  if  they 
find  them.  Doubtless  in  the  absence  of 
other  food  they  will  eat  mussels  and 
worms  to  some  extent,  but  mainly  they 
are  vegetarians,  and  so  cleanly  in  their 
habits  that  they  wash  every  vegetable. 
It  is  very  odd  in  the  host  of  “creations” 
which  Air.  Burbank  has  brought  forth, 
how  few  have  stuck  and  proved  of  value. 
Burbank  plum  is  good.  Something  is 
due,  of  course,  to  climate,  for  while  the 
Loganberry  is  valuable  on  the  Pacific 
coast  it  bears  so  scantily  here  that  it  is 
not  worth  planting.  The  Shasta  daisy  is 
about  the  most  popular  of  Air.  Burbank’s 
productions  and  is  really  a  pretty  thing. 
The  most  worthless  of  the  lot  is  the  Lu¬ 
ther  Burbank  Society,  and  it  has  done 
more  harm  to  Air.  Burbank’s  reputation 
than  anything  else. 
The  Hope  Farm  man  is  right.  The 
Christmas  spirit  is  what  we  should  main¬ 
tain,  the  spirit  of  service  to  others  as  in¬ 
dicated  in  the  Christmas  giving.  We  give 
tokens  to  our  friends,  let  us  continue  to 
give  our  best  service  to  mankind,  and 
everyone  feel  that  it  is  his  duty  in  some 
sort  of  service  to  try  to  make  this  old 
world  better  and  men  more  happy.  Keep 
the  Christmas  melody  in  our  hearts.  I 
often  think  that  if  Phillips  Brooks  had 
never  preached  a  sermon  nor  written  any¬ 
thing  but  “Little  Town  of  Bethlehem,” 
he  would  never  have  been  forgotten. 
Successive  Crops. — A  reader  says  that 
lie  has  been  interested  in  my  garden 
notes  and  wishes  me  to  answer  a  few 
questions.  “Please  tell  me  if  one  can 
follow  beans  with  beans  or  peas  with 
peas?  That  is,  can  I  plant  late  beans 
after  early  ones  and  late  peas  after  early 
peas?  Will  the  Brunswick  cabbage  be 
about  as  good  as  any  for  late  cabbages?” 
It  is  always  better  either  in  farm  or 
garden  to  follow  n  crop  with  one  of  a 
dissimilar  nature.  I  suppose  that  yon 
refer  to  string  beans  gathered  green  and 
to  the  English  garden  peas.  Doubtless 
for  a  time  you  might  follow  early  beans 
with  late  ones,  but  it  would  hardly  he 
practicable  to  follow  early  peas  with  late 
ones,  for  peas  planted  after  au  early 
crop  has  been  gathered  would  hit  the 
hottest  weather  of  Summer  and  would 
not  amount  to  anything.  Aly  practice 
with  string  beans  in  the  home  garden  is 
to  plant  a  row  or  more  of  the  earliest 
and  as  soon  as  these  are  well  up,  to 
plant  a  similar  quantity,  and  keep  this 
up  as  late  in  Summer  as  we  can  make 
the  crop.  Then,  as  the  earlier  rows  are 
cleaned  up,  set  later  crops  in  their  place, 
such  as  cabbage,  leeks,  borecole,  etc. 
Cabbage. — I  have  found  Fottler's 
Brunswick  an  excellent  cabbage  for  Fall 
use,  but  have  never  used  it  as  a  cabbage 
for  Winter  storage.  I  know  of  no  reason 
why  it  would  not  answer  if  started 
later.  But  for  the  Winter  storage  I  have 
never  yet  found  any  cabbage' better  than 
a  good  strain  of  the  Late  Flat  Dutch. 
I  sow  in  February,  in  a  cold  frame  here 
(North  a  moderate  hot-bed  would  be  bet¬ 
ter),  seed  of  Copenhagen  Market,  Suc¬ 
cession  and  Fottler’s  Brunswick  cabbage. 
These  are  set  to  follow  after  the  Fall- 
planted  Wakefield  cabbages  and  to  follow 
each  other  in  succession  till  last  Summer 
or  early  Fall,  the  Copenhagen  coming  in 
first,  Succession  next  and  Brunswick  last, 
and  the  Brunswick  will  last  till  the  Late 
Flat  Dutch  are  beginning  to  head. 
Southern  Tomato  Seed. — Another 
correspondent  asks  if  I  consider  carefully 
selected  tomato  seed  grown  in  the  South 
as  good  as  those  from  the  North.  I  have 
found  that  for  the  earliest  crop  it  is 
best  to  get  tomato  seed  grown  as  far 
North  as  practicable.  Therefore,  for  the 
Earliana  and  Bonny  Best,  the  two  earliest 
tomatoes,  I  get  seed  every  Winter  from 
a'  careful  grower  up  npar  the  Canada  line 
in  Northern  New  York,  for  by  careful 
test  I  find  that  they  mature  earlier  than 
seed  I  save  here.  But  for  the  main  and 
late  crop  of  tomatoes  seed  carefully  se¬ 
lected  from  one’s  own  garden  are  as  good 
as  any  that  can  be  had.  That  is,  pro¬ 
vided  the  selection  is  properly  carried 
out.  If  the  best  of  the  fruits  are  con¬ 
sumed  in  the  family  and  seed  saved  from 
the  remnant,  you  had  far  better  buy  your 
seed  from  a  reliable  seedsman.  And  as 
a  rule  in  the  family  garden  this  is  best. 
The  home  gardener  can  buy  good  seed 
far  cheaper  than  he  can  save  them  in 
the  proper  manner.  I  never  save  vege¬ 
table  seed,  except,  when  I  happen  to  have 
something  special  that  I  wish  to  experi¬ 
ment  with.  I  grow  my  vegetables  for  the 
table  and  have  not  time  to  spare  for 
seed  saving  properly,  and  haphazard  seed 
saving  is  poor  policy. 
W.  F.  MASSEY. 
80%  More  Efficiency 
World’s  Record  Breaker — New  Limits  of  Endurance 
HUDSON  this  year  brings  out  the 
greatest  feature  ever  offered  in  a 
car.  It  is  the  Super-Six  motor — 
a  Hudson  invention,  controlled  by 
Hudson  patents. 
This  motor,  in  official  tests,  has  broken 
all  world’s  touring  stock-car  records. 
In  a  startling  way  it  has  outrivaled 
Eights  and  Twelves. 
It  has  added  80  per  cent  to  a  motor’s 
efficiency,  without  adding  size  or  cylin¬ 
ders.  And  has  proved  itself  the  most 
powerful  motor  of  its  size  that  the 
world  has  ever  known. 
HAS  76  HORSEPOWER 
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The  Super-Six  motor  is  small  and  light, 
simple  and  economical.  It  is  the  usual  Light 
Six  size. 
But  this  size  of  motor  heretofore  delivered 
only  42  horsepower.  In  the  Super-Six  the 
same  size  delivers  76  horsepower.  That 
means  80  per  cent  more  reserve  power. 
Yet  the  motor  involves  no  experiment. 
The  only  new  feature  is  our  patented 
method  of  wiping  out  vibration. 
We  have  made  the  smoothest-running 
motor  in  the  world. 
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WHY  YOU’LL  WANT  IT 
In  usual  running  you  don  t  need  76  horse¬ 
power,  but  there  is  many  a  time  when  you 
do.  It  makes  hard  roads  easy.  It  climbs 
hills  without  effort.  It  means  quick  acceler¬ 
ation,  marvelous  flexibility. 
When  you  don’t  need  it  you  simply  run  at 
half  load.  And  a  half-taxed  motor  saves 
you  gasoline  and  oil. 
Note  that  this  extra  power — this  reserve 
power — is  just  the  power  which,  in  other 
motors,  is  wasted  in  vibration. 
This  smoothness  means  bird-like  motion. 
You  never  saw  such  quiet,  effortless  per¬ 
formance. 
And  it  means  doubled  endurance.  There 
is  almost  no  wear  on  the  motor.  Our  most 
grueling  tests — one  of  7000  miles — have 
shown  no  sign  of  wear  on  any  part  or  bear¬ 
ing. 
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This  size  of  mo¬ 
tor  is  legally  rated 
at  29.4  horsepower. 
It  actually  creates 
about  85  horse¬ 
power. 
Heretofore  it  de¬ 
livered  about  42 
horsepower.  Half 
the  power  created 
was  lost  in  friction 
caused  by  vibration. 
Now  that  same- 
size  motor,  with 
same  fuel  consump¬ 
tion,  is  made  to  de¬ 
liver  76  horsepower. 
All  because  we  have 
ended  vibration. 
Have  the  nearest  Hudson  dealer  take  you 
for  a  ride.  Note  the  marvelous  performance. 
It  will  make  you  a  Super-Six  enthusiast. 
You  will  not  want  an  ordinary  Six  when  you 
prove  the  Super-Six  nearly  twice  as  efficient. 
You  will  not  want  a  lower-priced  Six  when 
you  see  what  the  Super-Six  saves  you.  You 
will  not  want  an  Eight  or  Twelve  when  you 
see  that  a  Six,  with 
less  weight  and  less 
cylinders,  vastly 
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All  Records  up  to  100  Miles 
These  tests  were  made  at  Sheepshead  | 
|  Bay  with  a  7-passenger  Super-Six — a  tour-  1 
|  ing  stock  car — under  official  supervision  | 
|  of  American  Automobile  Association. 
100  miles  in  80  min.,  21.4  sec.,  averaging  | 
|  74.67  miles  per  hour,  with  driver  and  pas-  | 
|  senger. 
75.69  miles  in  one  hour  with  driver  and  f 
|  passenger. 
Two  laps  made  at  76.75  miles  per  hour.  f 
Standing  start  to  50  miles  per  hour  in  16.2  % 
|  sec.  A  new  record  in  quick  acceleration.  | 
out-pertorms  it. 
You  will  want  the 
Hudson  Super-Six. 
And  the  luxurious 
bodies,  built  with¬ 
out  regard  to  cost, 
will  make  it  seem 
doubly  attractive. 
Go  and  take  a  ride. 
7-Passenger  Phaeton 
$1375 
at  Detroit 
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