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T5hf>  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  2G,  1916. 
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Garden  and  Farm  Notes 
this.  To  make  real  light  syrup  and  sugar 
one  needs  to  watch  the  evaporator  closely, 
skimming  and  wiping  the  sides  of  the 
evaporator  with  a  wet  cloth  to  keep  out 
every  possible  speck  that  will  darken  it. 
Run  the  sap  low  and  keep  the  fire  hot 
(don't  let  it  burn  now).  The  deeper  the 
sap  is  run  and  the  slower  the  lire  the 
darker  the  syrup.  Perhaps  it  is  just  as 
well  not  to  have,  it  too  light  colored,  after 
all.  Last  Spring  father  sent  INK)  pounds 
of  maple  sugar,  put  up  in  10-ponnd  pails, 
to  a  brother  out  West.  He  said  it  was 
so  light  the  people  were  a  little  suspicions, 
hut  as  he  vouched  for  its  purity  he  hud 
no  difficulty  in  selling  it  all  at  115  cents  a 
pound.  The  syrup  is  drawn  oil'  into  pails 
and  left,  to  settle  before  sugaring-oiT.  The 
sugar  and  syrup  is  never  put  into  the 
cellar.  If  your  maple  trees  are  in  swampy 
land  better  have  it  drained. 
Vermont.  lr.  souTirwowm. 
Growing  Cabbage  and  Tomatoes 
I  am  located  in  a  community  with 
very  good  markets  for  cabbage  and  toma¬ 
toes.  Will  you  give  information  mi  tin* 
culture  of  these  two  plants?  I  have  State 
road  to  the  town  of  Caibondalc  (20.000). 
which  is  only  six  miles,  and  am  only  20 
miles  from  Scranton  with  Stale  road  all 
the  way:  you  can  readily  see  with  an 
auto  truck  a  man  has  excellent  markets. 
I  am  operating  a  200-acre  dairy  farm.  I 
have  about  20  acres  of  sandy  red  shale 
which  is  well  drained  and  can  be  worked 
early;  will  be  able  to  give  this  land  a 
good  dressing  with  cow  manure.  Could 
volt  give  me  advice  as  to  culture  and  fer¬ 
tilizer?  P.  A.  D. 
Way  mart.  Pa. 
Here  in  South  Jersey  we  find  our 
greatest,  profits  in  early  tomatoes  and 
grow  Karliunu  exclusively.  For  a  retail 
market  where  earliness  is  not  so  essen¬ 
tial  Bonny  Best  makes  a  more  desirable 
variety.  We  sow  our  tomato  seed  about 
February  20  in  a  hothouse,  then  along 
the  first  of  April  the  young  plants  are 
transferred  to  cold  frames  and  from  there 
to  the  field  about  May  1st  to  10th.  If 
•  on  were  not  over  anxious  to  get  the  very 
earliest,  tomatoes  you  could  start  the 
plants  in  a  hotbed  or  even  cold  frame  and 
set  them  in  the  field  as  “pull-up'*  and  not 
“block*’  plants.  The  extra  transplanting 
could  be  avoided.  These  “pull-up**  plants 
are  far  less  expensive  to  grow  aud  set, 
and  when  extreme  earliness  is  not  desired 
they  are  all  right.  The  main  thing  is  to 
have  them  well  hardened  off  or  stocky. 
Tomatoes  require  plenty  of  plant  food. 
The  soil  should  be  broadcast  with  manure, 
at  the  rate  of  10  tons  or  more  per  acre, 
and  then  400  to  1.000  pounds  of  a  fertil¬ 
izer  having  about  ■!  per  cent,  nitrogen  and 
S  per  cent,  phosphoric  acid  used  ns  a  side 
dressing  after  plants  are  set.  We  set 
our  tomatoes  in  rows  4Vj  feet  apart  each 
way.  Thoroughness  of  cultivation  will  do 
much  toward  bringing  out  a  full  crop. 
('abbage  also  requires  a  soil  well  filled 
with  manure.  In  addition  some  high- 
grade  fertilizer  drilled  in  the  row  at  the 
rate  of  000  pounds  per  acre  together  with 
Thorough  cultivation  will  be  found  bene¬ 
ficial.  For  the  early  crop  we  find  nothing 
ahead  of  Early  Jersey  Wakefield.  Plants 
should  be  set  just  as  early  in  the  Spring 
as  possible,  and  the  plants  should  be  well 
hardened.  We  grow  ours  in  a  cold  frame 
and  sow  the  seed  about  November  20. 
Where  this  has  not  been  done,  the  next 
best  plan  would  be  to  start  them  in  hot¬ 
beds  and  transfer  to  cold  frames  to  har¬ 
den  off-  before  planting.  Early  Jersey 
Wakefield  can  be  grown  in  rows  2(4  feet 
apart  and  plants  IK  inches  in  the  row. 
Other  varieties  and  the  later  crop  re¬ 
quires  a  greater  distance.  With  either 
of  these  crops  we  find  the  essentials  to  be 
strong  plants,  thorough  cultivation  and  a 
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the  best  sugar  makers  never  do,  they 
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