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New England Notes 
A deadly spray 
The Apple Outlook. •— Everything 
points to a large crop of apples in New 
England this season. The trees are full 
of blossoms, and no damage seems to 
have been done by the late Spring frosts, 
except to peaches here and there. The 
apple situation has been Complicated in 
several ways. To begin with, the Eu¬ 
ropean demand has fallen off tremend¬ 
ously, but this situation may be remedied, 
of course, before tlie next crop comes on. 
Then the unprecedented demand for cider 
has led some growers to disregard their 
usual practices. They have given less 
attention to the spraying of their trees, 
and have made uo attempt to sort the 
fruit, but have sold it. at a given price 
per bushel, all the apples, good, bad and 
indifferent, being taken away by tin; 
buyer for cider making. Of course good 
orchardists are opposing this practice. 
The increase in the production of eider 
has led naturally to a greater production 
of pomace, which is of interest to farm¬ 
ers because apple pomace has been found 
of considerable nutritive value. Dairy 
fanners, and those who are fattening 
cattle, should not fail to obtain a copy 
of Bulletin No. 205, of the Massachu¬ 
setts Agricultural Experiment Station at 
Amherst, Mass., which tells how to dry 
the pomace so as to insure its preserva¬ 
tion and greatly enhance its economic 
value. 
Williams Apples Profitable. — I 
was interested when visiting the famous 
Iiittinger fruit farm in Belmont. Mass., 
recently, to find an increased planting of 
Williams apples was being made. The 
Williams apple matures very early in 
the Fall, ami while o e excellent quality 
when eaten immediately, will not stand 
shipping. Consequently it is seldom 
grown in a commercial way. The Ilit- 
finger farm, however, is located so near 
the Boston market that a delivery can 
he made in an hour or so. In such a 
location the Williams apple has proved 
very profitable because it is sold while 
in its prime, and makes an appeal on ac¬ 
count. of its fine appearance. These ap¬ 
ples on the Hittinger farm are not 
picked, but are allowed to fall on a cush¬ 
ion of straw or hay spread on the ground 
under the trees. This practice, of course, 
greatly reduces the labor, and is made 
possible only because of the speed with 
which the fruit is sent to market I 
might say that on the same farm a con¬ 
siderable planting of Buerre Bose pears 
is being made, this variety having proved 
the most profitable of all pears because 
of the fact that it will keep a Ioug while 
and is much sought for by commission 
(non. 
Early Beets and Carrots. —For 
some years I have been recommending 
the planting of early forcing carrots and 
early beets, not only for use in the 
Spring, but also for canning. Other peo¬ 
ple who have followed the plan have been 
pleased with the results. Indeed, some 
garden makers who thought they did not 
like carrots have changed their mind 
when they have eaten the French forcing 
variety, which will mature in time to be 
eaten with the green peas and is exceed¬ 
ingly sweet It is a small carrot, of 
course, but it is large enough to can. 
The early Short Horn is also a quick-ma¬ 
turing carrot of flue flavor, but a little 
larger. While the average garden maker 
may wisli to plant Chantenay or Dan¬ 
vers Half Bong for Winter use. not a 
few amateurs with a limited amount of 
ground are finding that they need only 
the early kind when they make successive 
plantings. It is much the same with the 
early beet known as Eclipse, although 
1 tetroit Dark Bed is remarkably sweet 
when small, and a very good beet for 
canning, but it can also be left to mature 
for Winter. This variety is especially 
recommended to people who like a good 
growth of beet tops for greens. 
Early Cabbage. —A tremendous busi¬ 
ness in the sale of early cabbage plants 
is done in New England. It is not com¬ 
monly realized, though, that early cab¬ 
bages when only partly grown, and be¬ 
fore they have formed heads, are de¬ 
licious. They can be used as a salad 
Another fact overlooked is that a fine 
crop of cabbage leaves for the chickens 
can be grown if the early cabbages are 
not pulled up, but only the heads cut 
Off, leaving a small surface from which 
new foliage can start. 
Value of Acm Phosphate. —Now 
that stable manure in increasingly hard 
to get and pretty high in price, market 
gardeners are leaving to use their fertil¬ 
izer appropriation more carefully. One 
way to make this money go a long way 
is to spend a part of it for acid phos¬ 
phate. Barnyard manure, as is well 
known, is not a complete fertilizer. Acid 
phosphate supplements it better than 
anything else. In some instances re¬ 
markably good results have been obtained 
when acid phosphate has beeu used with¬ 
out manure or any other commercial fer¬ 
tilizer, Acid phosphate is also being 
taken up by poultryinen who have gar¬ 
dens. They have found that it makes a 
first-rate absorbent under the perches, 
and increases the fertilizing value of the 
poultry droppings. One part by weight 
of acid phosphate, mixed with four parts 
of dean dry poultry manure, make a 
splendid, quick-acting fertilizer. Scatter 
2 lbs. of acid pnosphate per week on the 
dropping boards for every 10 or 12 birds 
and you will have about the right pro¬ 
portion. E. I. FARRINGTON. 
■and it costs only two cents 
a gallon to spray with 
Hall’s Nicotine Sulphate. 
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