PHILIPPS' 
The  Home  Acre 
What  We  Learned  in  1915 
The  season  of  15)15  was  peculiar  in 
the  fact  ♦  hat  we  did  not  have  the  long 
Summer  drought  which  has  afflicted  ns 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  in  the  bet¬ 
ter  distribution  of  the  rainfall  there  was 
a  success  with  some  things  with  which 
we  had  not  heretofore  had  a  fair  chance, 
for  unfortunately,  I  have  not  yet  got 
any  irrigation  system  established  in  my 
garden  beyond  the  hose,  and  all  know  the 
inefficiency  of  hose  irrigation. 
Several  years  ago  I  adopted  the  meth¬ 
od  of  covering  my  garden  all  over  thick 
drop  to  21  above  zero  with  the  earth 
cover.  Some  varieties  of  tender  plants 
stand  more  cold  than  others.  The  Black 
Valentine  bean  for  instance  will  often 
come-  through  a  light  frost  if  the  frost 
is  washed  off  with  the  hose  early  in 
the  morning. 
Bast  Spring,  in  order  to  test  as  fairly 
ns  possible  the  difference  in  earliness  of 
tomatoes  claimed  to  lie  the  earliest,  I 
grow  plants  of  Fariiana.  Bonny  Best  and 
John  Baer.  The  seed  were  sown  in  the 
greenhouse  within  an  hour  of  each  other, 
and  the  plants  treated  exactly  alike  in 
every  respect.  Then  they  were  set  out 
in  rows  side  by  side  with  a  like  ex¬ 
posure,  and  were  all  given  the  best  of 
care.  Earliana  came  in  first.  Bonny 
Best  less  than  a  week  behind  and  John 
Baer  two  weeks  later.  I  had  similar 
results  in  1914.  when  I  paid  $1  for  a 
paper  of  the  John  Baer.  While  the 
John  Baer  is  a  good  tomato  it  is  no 
better  than  Bonny  Best  and  hence  is 
not  needed,  for  1  get  the  main  crop 
plants  like  Success.  Stone  and  Globe  in 
before  Bonny  Best  gets  inferior.  This 
year  I  shall  use  Earliana  and  Bonny 
Best  only,  for  early  tomatoes.  Stone 
1  shall  drop,  as  it  is  less  productive  than 
Success.  For  the  main  and  late  crop 
I  will  use  Success.  Red  Rock.  Mississippi 
Girl  and  Globe,  the  last  for  pink  fruit. 
For  a  cabbage  succession  after  the 
Early  Wakefield  I  will  use  the  Copen¬ 
hagen  Market,  Succession  and  Fottler’s 
Brunswick.  These  will  bring  me  to  the 
Late  Flat  Dutch  for  Winter  use. 
Heretofore  I  have  been  growing  my 
cantaloupes  according  to  the  same  meth¬ 
od  used  by  our  large  market  growers. 
This  is  with  manure  in  the  furrows,  with 
the  fertilizer  added,  and  this  bedded  on 
and  the  seed  sown  on  a  flattened  ridge. 
But  I  found  that  the  vines  failed  early, 
and  I  attributed  this  to  the  mass  of 
rough  manure  right  under  them  and  not 
well  mixed  in  the  soil,  Last  Spring  I 
used  the  ground  where  my  Fall  spreadin  t 
of  manure  had  been  made  and  did  not 
put  any  more  in  the  furrows.  Then  I 
ran  out  furrows  and  used  fertilizer  alone 
in  them,  having  some  complete  fertilizer 
left  on  hand.  This  was  bedded  on  and 
the  beds  almost  entirely  flattened  and 
the  seed  planted.  The  result  was  that 
my  vines  kept  green  far  longer  and  I 
had  au  unusually  good  crop  of  the  Eden 
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ly  in  the  late  Fall  with  stable  manure. 
This  is  let  lie  on  the  surface  all  Winter, 
and  by  careful  experiment  I  have  found 
that  this  gives  better  results  the  next 
season  than  where  the  manure  is  turned 
under  at  once.  Then  too  I  always  have 
onions,  spinach,  cabbages,  etc.,  in  the 
garden  in  Winter,  and  the  manure  on  the 
surface  has  a  value  as  a  protective  mulch 
l’or  these  crops.  It  is  well-known  to 
experienced  gardeners  that  fresh  manure 
applied  to  garden  crops  in  the  Spring 
d<es  not  have  its  best  effect,  and  as  I 
tan  buy  only  fresh  manure  I  must  get 
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melon  growers  have  long  since  found  out 
this,  and  they  now  prepare  their  land 
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in  the  furrow  and  let  it  lie  there  till  Spring, 
and  they  find  that  they  get  far  better  re¬ 
sults  from  the  manure  than  by  getting  it 
and  applying  it  in  the  Spring. 
Another  thing  I  have  learned,  and  that 
is  the  easiest  way  to  protect  tomato 
plants  after  they  arc  set  out  and  frost 
threatens.  I  have  tried  all  sorts  of 
plant  protectors,  and  many  of  them  are 
gOod,  but  it  is  a  great  bother  carrying 
them  out  and  fixing  them  over  the  plants. 
I  lmv.e  found  that  the  best  way  is  to 
run  sharp  ridges  east  and  west  three 
feet  apart  (for  1  plant  tomatoes  in  three 
foot  rows  and  two  feet  apart,  and  train 
to  single  steins  on  stakes).  Then  set  the 
plants  along  the  base  of  the  ridge  on  the 
south  side.  Then  when  frost  threatens 
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over  against  the  ridge  and  shovel  tlie 
soil  over  it  in  nearly  an  upright  condi¬ 
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them  than  where  they  are  bent  to  the  Gem.  The  mots  found  manure  well 
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of  early  string  beans  and  beets,  etc.  They 
thrive  wonderfully  better  on  the  sunny 
side  of  ti  slight  ridge.  Then  there  is 
no  more  efficient  frost  protection  than  an 
earth  cover.  I  have  tried  it  over  the 
rows  of  string  beans  with  perfect  suc¬ 
cess  when  the  mercury  dropped  below 
the  freezing  point.  Years  ago  I  saved 
occupy  the  ground  that  I  can  use  to 
better  advantage  in  early  Summer.  Hence 
1  will  stick  to  my  old  favorite,  the  Late 
Flat  Hutch.  I  find  that  it  will  not  do 
to  try  to  get  Brussels  sprouts  early, 
the  sun  destroys  them.  But  by  sowing 
the  seed  in  July  I  can  have  them  come 
on  nicely  about  frost  time  in  November. 
BUSSEY  PLOW  CO.,  BOX  R  North  Berwick,  Maine-'  I  a  lot  of  tomato  plants  when  we  had  a 
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