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Staking  Tomatoes  in 
than  the  Egyptian.  I  plant  a  few  o£ 
the  Egyptian  and  the  Eclipse,  but  the 
Egyptian  soon  gets  poor  in  (piality, 
while  the  Bassano,  despite  its  color, 
maintains  its  quality. 
I  have  dropped  the  White  Velvet  varie¬ 
ties  of  okra.  The  pods  get  hard  too 
quickly.  I  find  that  the  Perkins  is  the 
best,  and  earlier  than  the  White  Velvet, 
and  the  pods  keep  tender  till  of  a  good 
size. 
Black  Beauty  is  the  ideal  eggplant, 
not  so  large  as  the  New  York,  lint  more 
productive  and  earlier.  We  do  not  like 
to  let  the  eggplant  fruits  get  to  the 
mammoth  size  often  seen  in  the  markets. 
We  use  them  before  the  seed  have  de¬ 
veloped  to  any  extent  and  they  are  far 
better. 
My  asparagus,  like  everything  else  in 
the  garden,  has  its  Winter  blanket  of 
manure.  This  will  be  plowed  to  the 
rows  and  some  nitrate  of  soda  applied 
as  soon  as  the  first  shoots  appear  at  the 
surface.  Ridges  over  the  rows  are  made 
more  to  get  the  effect  of  the  sun  on 
them  than  to  get  to  cut  under  ground, 
for  we  prefer  the  green  asparagus  and  cut 
near  the  surface.  But  as  a  rule  iu  all 
our  vegetable  crops  we  like  level  and 
shallow  cultivation.  We  hill  early  po¬ 
tatoes  to  gain  the  sun  warmth,  but  we 
get  late  potatoes  deep  in  the  ground  and 
conserve  moisture  in  Summer  by  level 
shallow  cultivation  and  no  hilling  to 
dry  out.  In  short  I  study  every  year 
to  improve  in  methods  or  cultivation  and 
varieties  of  plants. 
Early  Ohio  is  better  than  Irish  Cobbler 
which  the  market  men  grow  almost  ex¬ 
clusively,  but  I  do  not  want  it.  Sir 
Water  Raleigh  is  the  best  late  potato 
in  my  experience.  W.  F.  MASSEY. 
Maryland. 
“Yellow  Blight”  in  Peach  Trees 
A  New  One  in  the  Cure-all  Line 
Enclosed  you  will  find  leaflet,  distrib¬ 
uted  by  a  dealer  in  farmers’  supplies. 
Perhaps  it  is  not  new  to  you,  as  you  have 
greater  opportunities  to  meet  them  than 
I  have.  But  if  Mr.  Gray  can  put  that 
one  over  there  is  one  born  every  minute 
for  sure.  One  thousand  lasts  10  years; 
that  is  going  some  and  then  some  more. 
I  stretched  myself  beneath  1,500  peaeli 
trees  last  Autumn,  looking  for  borers. 
How  foolish  of  me !  E.  c.  i\ 
Gloucester  Go.,  N.  J. 
The  circular  is  signed  by  “Charles  W. 
a  Vermont  Garden 
to  prevent  this  and  that  is  to  get  down 
on  one’s  knees  under  the  tree  and  dig  the 
borers  out,  and  to  keep  it  up  year  after 
year  or  even  twice  a  year  if  possible.  We 
cannot  depend  on  some  mysterious  treat¬ 
ment  that  some  tree  doctor  says  will  last 
seven  to  10  years,  and  at  the  same  time 
cure  all  other  diseases  fruit  trees  are 
heir  too,  yet  so  mysterious  it  cannot  he 
explained  or  the  principle  it  works  on 
known  to  anyone  except  the  man  who 
does  the  work. 
Some  might  confuse  the  term  “Yellow 
Blight’*  with  peach  yellows.  This  is  a 
serious  disease  that  cannot  be  cured  by 
killing  borers. 
A  letter  to  Mr.  Gray  (enclosing 
stamped  envelope  for  reply  )  asking  for 
particulars  concerning  his  treatment 
brought  forth  the  following  statement : 
“I  have  agents  to  get  me  the  work  but 
not  to  do  the  treating  as  I  have  to  do 
that  myself  ns  I  cannot  put  same  on 
the  market  ns  it  is  of  a  different  nature. 
T  will  call  if  you  wish  any  and  gi.ve  you 
an  estimate  on  your  trees.”  Further  he 
says:  “If  you  will  tell  me  where  to  meet 
you  I  can  call  any  Sunday  if  it  does 
not  make  any  difference  to  you.  I  will 
be  busy  weekdays  for  the  next  four 
weeks.” 
No,  thank  you.  We  still  feel  that  six 
days  a  week  are  sufficient  for  doing  the 
work  of  the  farm.  Wo  try  to  follow  the 
commandment  to  “Remember  the  Sab¬ 
bath  day  to  keep  it  holy,"  and  we  feel 
that  having  this  man  treat  our  peach 
trees  with  such  a  mysterious  material  of 
a  different  nature  that  cannot  be  put  on 
the  market  would  hardly  be  keeping  fai.th 
with  the  Giver  of  that  commandment. 
Besides  we  have  absolutely  no  time  for 
these  so-called  tree  experts  whose  chief 
interest  in  you  lies  in  securing  a  good 
large  fee  for  some  of  their  mysterious 
treatments  that  are  absolutely  of  no  val¬ 
ue.  We  believe  in  holding  on  to  our 
money  and  using  it  for  the  cultivation  of 
our  orchards  together  with  such  care  in 
spraying,  etc.,  as  is  recommended  by  our 
experiment  stations  and  reliable  farm 
papers.  TRUCKER,  JR. 
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your  breakfast.”  Billy  :  “Faults  for  my 
b’ekfast.”  Mother:  “Oh,  Billy,  that 
wasn’t  much  of  a  grace.  ’  Billy :  “Well, 
it  wasn’t  much  of  a  b’ekfast.” — Punch. 
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•  March  4,  1916. 
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(Concluded  from  page  370.) 
I  had  excellent  success  Iasi  Summer 
with  Kendall  Giant  sugar  corn.  It  is 
a  second  early  of  good  strong  growth 
and  makes  fine  large  ears.  Golden  Ban¬ 
tam  is  so  good  that  I  always  plant  a 
little,  though  it  makes  very  little  here. 
In  fact  none  of  the  extra  early  corns 
amounts  to  much  here.  For  the.  earliest 
dependable  Corn  I  plant  the  Norfolk 
Market  corn.  This  is  not  a  sugar  corn 
hut  an  early  dent  and  a  great  improve¬ 
ment  'on  the  old  Adams  Early,  growing 
stronger  and  making  longer  ears.  Then 
of  course  1  stick  to  Stowell’s  Evergreen, 
and  for  the 'latest  the  Egyptian,  which 
is  a  Maryland  development  of  the  Mam¬ 
moth  sugar  corn. 
I  am  old-fashioned  enough  to  prefer 
the  Bassano  beet  to  the  Egyptian.  It 
is  light  colored  of  course,  and  lias  the 
big  top  that  the  market  men  dislike, 
but  it  is  early  and  far  better  in  quality 
Gray,  Tree  Expert.”  All  we  need  do  is 
to  quote  the  following: 
We  positively  guarantee  this  treat¬ 
ment  to  cure  Yellow  Blight  and  all  dis¬ 
eases  iu  Reach  Trees,  b.v  destroying  the 
Borer,  the  cause  of  all  the  trouble.  Y id- 
low  Blight  cure  works  with  best  results 
in  all  trees,  toning  them  up  and  pro¬ 
ducing  50  per  cent,  more  fruit  and  foli¬ 
age  by  replacing  the  trees’  original  vital¬ 
ity 
One  treatment  lasts  seven  to  10  years, 
continually  feeding  the  tree  and  Yellow 
Blight  1ms  never  been  knoVvn  to  return 
to  a  tree  once  treated.  My  treatment 
positively  makes  sickly  trees  healthy  and 
well  trees  grow. 
First  of  all  we  know  there  is  no  such 
thing  as  “yellow  blight.”  The  term  is 
used  throughout  the  circular  with  more 
or  less  of  an  air  of  mystery,  so  as  to 
work  on  the  imaginations  of  those  who 
know  but  little  concerning  the  diseases 
common  to  fruit  trees.  A  tree  badly  in¬ 
fested  wi,th  borers  will  sometimes  turn 
yellow  and  die.  There  is  one  sure  way 
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