The RURAL NEW 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The man who said that milk is not 
good food has a great deal yet to learn. 
Every now and then some fellow who 
wishes to get iuto public notice tries to 
upset well-established facts and practice. 
I drink never less than a quart of milk 
daily. In fact, milk and eggs are the 
main foods I eat, beside fruit. I am 
nearly S3 years of age. I walk two to 
three miles daily, work in my garden and 
answer with my own fingers on the type¬ 
writer a dozen or more letters a day, 
beside other writing. I might add that 
I eat whole wheat dour bread. I do not 
believe that I would maintain my present 
activity if I left off the milk. 
The cross-bred plums from California 
are rupening and rotting. It seems to be 
very hard iu our humid coast climate to 
prevent the rotting of plums and some 
varieties of peaches. Spraying with self- 
boiled lime-sulphur is not entirely ef¬ 
fective unless the season is very dry. 
We are now gathering the gooseberries. 
We never gather green ones, as we do 
not cook them. We eat them raw. 
sprinkled with sugar, and like them bet¬ 
ter in this way than cooked, though some 
jam is made, too. Currants do not thrive 
in our hot soil. They grow for two or 
three years, bear a little fruit, and die. 
A row of currant bushes planted four or 
five years ago is now* represented by two 
plants in a very decrepit state. 
We tried a few of the Red Bird peaches 
on the market. They are a large and 
showy peach, though an early one. My 
daughter says they are the greatest waste 
of beauty she has seen. They are about 
the poorest thing yet offered in the peach 
family, tough and tasteless, not good to 
eat raw or cooked. But a large and 
showy peach coming in this latitude in 
June will catch the eye of the market 
buyer, and for a time the Red Bird may 
bring cash to the growers. The May¬ 
flower is small, but the best of the extra 
early peaches, so far, a great improve¬ 
ment on the Sneed. 
I am not a poultryman; have had too 
much experience in keeping the neighbors' 
chickens out of the garden, so that I pre¬ 
sume that on a small scale where other 
people fed the chickens there may be 
some profit in keeping them. But I would 
like to know if anyone ever made a living 
by devoting all his efforts to raising 
chickens and selling them and the eggs 
on the general market and buying all his 
feed? I have seen many try to do it. Of 
course, poultry of all sorts are desirable 
as part of the live stock of the farm 
I had a friend who owns as fine a farm 
as there is in this State, and his wife 
owns another one. Years ago he fouud 
the labor question so difficult that he 
rented his farm and bought a place of an 
acre or two with a cottage near town, 
and amused himself raising chickens. He 
raised a fine lot. and had no mishap. lie 
had kept no books, but came to the con¬ 
clusion that there was money in chickens. 
The next year he and his son devoted 
their time to the poultry, and kept, a l 
strict account. They had as successful 
a season as anyone, and sold at good \ 
At the end of the year they bal- * 
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anced accounts, anti found that they had 
made $7.50 a month each. My friend de¬ 
clared that lie would not work for that 
small wage. He sold the place and built 
himself a house in town. His son bought 
a flour mill and made a success, and sold 
his mill waste to the men who make 
chickens a business, and are content with 
$7.50 a month. Of course, there are 
poultrymen who sell certain breeds for 
shows at fancy prices, or to youug begin¬ 
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from chickens. Did anyone ever make 
money from chickens on the general mar¬ 
ket and buy all the feed? I have seen 
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tucks up her apron and dodges here and 
there about the farm outbuildings and 
directly comes in with an apron full of 
eggs. Her hens roam the fields, scratch 
tbe manure pile and root anywhere, and 
she gets more clear money from them 
than the man with an elaborate outfit. 
The cucumbers are beginning to go. 
and tbe crop promises to be a good one 
if the rains, which have started again 
after a little dry spell, do not spoil it. 
Our first roasting ears were on the table 
the Fourth of July. Rather later than 
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It was planted the last week iu March. 
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