Itlaloney's 
October 21, 1922 
Notes From New England 
Testing New Vegetables. —Sorghum no doubt of the 
Top, which is the name given by Luther anti many orn 
Burbank to a hybrid popcorn, developed planted just as 
by him. has made an excellent yield in as in the Sprin 
my garden (his year. I am convinced growers not Ion 
that it is going lo prove one of the best discussion as t 
of tlie novelties which the famous Call- planting stone ft 
fornia hybridizer has given to the East, there was a co 
Of course the demand for popcorn is not fruits should b< 
nearly so largo ns for some other crops, instead of in tin 
but there is always a market for u limited have a satisfaet 
amount, and judging from my experience, pouch trees, bei 
there is no reason why any family with any event, are 
a little ground available should not grow planted in the 
all the popcorn needed for its own use. the Spring. 
One particular advantage of Sorghum trees will thrive 
Pop. which is, I believe, a cross between planted before tl 
Kaffir corn and some variety of sweet being stripped o 
corn, lies in the tact that it will grow in a very bad praet 
extremely poor soil. Put it iu the sandy to be in disput 
corner where no other corn would make plan to mulch i 
anything like a decent showing, and it should not be 
will still give a good crop. The ears are freezes. Water 
of fair size, and the kernels pop wonder- tnge at planting 
fully well, being very large and fluffy, the trees need i 
and having very few “old maids." Pop- around the roots 
corn arid milk makes a fine breakfast taut matter. N 
cereal, and enough Sorghum Pop can be left. A piece o 
grown in a comparatively small space to 
give a family all the breakfast food it 
needs the year round. 
Burbank Tomato. —I am also very 
well pleased with the Burbank tomato, 
which I have grown this year for the. 
second time. It comes especially eaxdy, 
grows just about large enough for table 
use, and lias an excellent flavor. More¬ 
over. it is as prolific as any kind I have 
found. 1 have about settled upon Bur¬ 
bank and Bonny Best as the two toma¬ 
toes of particular worth for the family 
garden. This has been a very erratic 
season so far as tomatoes arc concerned. 
Early in the Summer they ripened very 
slowly, and sold as high as $S a bushel. 
Later they dropped to 50 cents a bushel, 
after which the price went up again to 
some extent. A canning factory in the 
southern part of Massachusetts "seems to 
be doing very well with tomatoes, many 
of the market gardeners in that section 
turning in their crops when the price 
gets too low to make shipping to Boston 
profitable. 
Crop Yields It educed. —At one time 
this Summer it looked as though there 
was to lie a tremendous crop of squashes. 
The planting was heavy and the vines 
grew well. Many garden makers report 
an extremely poor set, however. Others 
lost all their vines within a short time 
by the inroads of the squash vine borer, 
and the marketmen who planted acres to 
squashes lost heavily as a result of the 
wet weaiher. Squashes, of course, are 
usually planted in low land, and in some 
instances the fields have been entirely 
covered with water for two or three days. 
Most crops have suffered from the rain. 
Some time ago the maker of a well-known 
sprinkler system which 1 have wrote to 
ask what results 1 had been getting, and 
I had to tell him that there hadn't been 
time enough between showers for me to 
use it. There is every reason to believe 
that the market for Winter squashes will 
he very good this- year, as it was last. 
Care must be taken that the -quashes are 
not bruised, however. When stored 
squashes spoil early it is usually because 
they were not. handled with the proper 
care. People do not realize that they arc 
very easily damaged in spite of their 
hard outside covering. 
Potato Tuoi ki.es. —The losses of po¬ 
tatoes have been ex< eedingly heavy this 
year, late blight being responsible iti largo 
measure. In some instances whole fields 
of potatoes have been plowed under, no 
attempt being made to dig them. It is 
strange that gardeners will not learn the 
necessity of protecting their potato plants 
with a proper spray throughout the sea¬ 
son. The question comes up every year 
as to whether potatoes should be dug early 
when tin* vines are killed by the blight, 
or whether I hey should be left in the 
ground until cold weather comes. There 
really isn’t very much difference in the 
final result, particularly if the Fall is 
wet. The spores of the blight are pretty 
sure to be washed onto the potatoes left 
in the field when heavy rains come, while 
if the tubers are dug they will come in 
contact with the spores on (he surface. 
Probably the best rule is to dig the pota¬ 
toes early if they can be consumed at 
once, and to leave them in the ground if 
they are to be stored for Winter. 
The Corn Borer. —In spite of most 
energetic efforts the European corn borer 
continues to do an immense amount of 
damage. It has been very bad this year, 
and in not a few instances commercial 
growers have given lip harvesting in dis¬ 
gust, being unable to get enough sound 
ears to market. Even in home gardens 
the borer has been very prevalent. Some 
amateurs report they have had to pick at 
least two dozen ears to gel a half dozen 
for the table. Certainly it behooves 
amateurs and commercial growers alike 
to exercise the greatest care this season 
in cleaning lip the refuse. If they can 
feed the stalks to cattle that is a good 
plan, but the work should be done early, 
because the borer works bis way down 
into the stubble. It must be remembered, 
too, that the borer finds just as congenial 
a home in many of the common weeds 
and in other vegetables, like celery, as 
well ns in certain flower steins, particu¬ 
larly Gladioli. 
Fall Planting.—T here seems to be 
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