Prolonging Eggplant Storage 
It is generally conceded that the egg¬ 
plant cannot, be held in storage for any 
great length of time after the natural sea¬ 
son is past. However, it appears from 
the results obtained from an operation 
carried out this past season by a local 
grower that the season of this vegetable 
can he materially lengthened. 
A number of plants of the Black Beauty 
variety were set in the held early in May. 
They continued to bear until October 10, 
when there occurred the first killing frost. 
A day or two before this date there were 
cut from a number of plants 10 fruits. 
Two inches of stem were left on each one. 
They were then plaeed in an ordinary 
collar, and left for 10 days. At this time 
eight, of the fruits were selected and were 
dipped in melted paraffine, being careful 
to see that, all the plant was covered, and 
the end of the stem as well. These fruits 
were then packed in a barrel in cork 
chips, in which grapes had been shipped, 
('are was taken to see that no two touched. 
From time to time the eggplants were 
used until January 1. when there were 
hut two left. On this date one of the 
fruits was used, and it. was found to be 
quite as good as when put away. On 
March 15 the last one was taken from 
the barrel and used. It. showed one spot 
in which a rot had started. When pre¬ 
pared for use it was found to he wilted, 
tough, and the quality was poor. 
It would seem from this work that the 
eggplant could bo held safely until Jan¬ 
uary or perhaps later. It is the plan 
of the writer to carry on an experiment 
next Fall to determine the best conditions 
for the storage of this fruit and the limit 
that it might be kept in storage. 
Indiana. GKO. w. cociiran. 
greatest increase in apple trees, and on 
a trip I took through that part of the 
country n few years ago It was my ob¬ 
servation that, much the larger percent 
of the population, as well as the fruit 
growers, were Americans. C. R. KENT. 
Michigan. 
R. N.-Y.—We shall soon print more 
of these statistics—figures showing the 
numbers of non-bearing apple trees. That, 
will tell another story. The West has 
not been planting as freely in recent 
years as the Eastern growers. 
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Summer Asparagus. — A reader of 
The U. N.-Y. who was interested in my 
notes about the Table Queen squash has 
written tne in regard to the vegetable 
called Summer asparagus. My own ex¬ 
periences with this vegetable have not 
been very satisfactory, but probably I 
made a mistake, to which this correspond¬ 
ent calls attention. In her letter she 
says: “The reason why so many people 
do not care for Summer asparagus is be¬ 
cause they allow it to grow too large 
before cutting. It is delicious when cut 
about 0 in. in length and cooked quickly, 
without paring. Cook in a very little 
water for about 20 minutes. Add salt, 
pepper, butter and cream. When allowed 
to grow the size of a Summer squash it 
is coarse, tasteless and watery.’* No 
doubt many people have been misled h.v 
the silly name given this vegetable, which 
has nothing in common with asparagus. 
It is properly a variety of squash, belong¬ 
ing to a well-known group of Italian 
squashes. I am planning to try it again 
this year, and to follow the advice about 
using it early. By the way, 1 find a seed 
house in New Jersey cataloguing a squash 
under the name of Des Moines, which is, 
I am reasonably certain, tin- same squash 
which is being put out by other seedsmen 
as Table Queen. 
Fruit Tree Planting. —There is every 
reason to believe that large numbers of 
fruit trees will be set out the coming sea¬ 
son. Work of this kind has been neg¬ 
lected since the war, and many fruit 
trees have been killed by hard Winters. 
In Sou.c sections of New England im¬ 
mense damage was done by last Novem¬ 
ber’s terrific ice storm. Farmers, how¬ 
ever, me buying more carefully, and in 
some cases through a single source. The 
Windham County Farm Bureau, for ex¬ 
ample, has just placed an order for 1,348 
fruit trees, at a cost of $558.(50, with a 
New York State nursery. At least this 
is the report which comes from Wood- 
stock. It is stated that all hut 240 trees 
in the order will be apple, and it is in¬ 
teresting to note the varieties of apples 
which are most in favor. The order in¬ 
cludes 498 McIntosh Reds, 20(5 Baldwins, 
186 Delicious. 93 Northern Spy and 50 
Twenty Ounce. The rest of the order is 
divided among many varieties. The plant¬ 
ing of McIntosh Reds has spread by leaps 
and bounds all over New England, Fun¬ 
gus troubles have interfered somewhat 
with the prosperity of the McIntosh 
growers in certain sections, but on the 
whole this has proved a very profitable 
apple. It is interesting to find that the 
Baldwin maintains its popularity. There 
arc thousands of people who will buy no 
other kind of apple to put into their cel¬ 
lars, and this probably will be the case 
for a good many years. Northern Spy 
would be grown in much greater number 
if it didn’t take so long for the trees to 
bea r. 
McIntosh in Canada. —Some weeks 
ago I happened to be in Montreal, and 
was talking with Prof. W. J. Maeoun of 
the Ottawa Experiment Station. I found 
that he has been making some exceedingly 
interesting experiments with McIntosh 
seedlings, getting very much better re¬ 
sults than by crosses. lie now has seed¬ 
lings in hearing which give crops very 
much earlier and of equally good quality. 
In fact, there are several fruit growers, 
I understand, who are already testing 
trees of these varieties, some of which 
have been named. I wonder to what ex¬ 
tent such experiments are being paral¬ 
leled in the States. In any event, it is 
probable that the Canadian varieties will 
thrive in New England, and no doubt 
they will eventually be introduced here, 
giving us Summer apples of a kind which 
arc much needed. 
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Events of the Week. 
Season for Well Drilling.. 
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The Hudson Tunnel and Its Possibilities 
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