1903 
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EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
Co?fDTTTONS VS. Theokiks. —The ab¬ 
normal weather conditions of the past 
few months have put us face to face 
with some problems not altogether easy 
of solution. The continued rainfall ot 
the Autumn months so compacted the 
ground that the snow and rain of the 
Winter and early Spring could he car¬ 
ried off only by surface drainage. Most 
plowing was done here in March and 
early April, and that ground has fared 
rtasonably well, as it could hold the 
water which came during that time. By 
May 15 the dry weather nearly put the 
plowing out of business, and the puzzle 
then was to study out some method ot 
making seed grow out of clods or fine 
dry dust. Those days we were listen¬ 
ing with wide-open ears for the weather 
man down at the station to whistle for 
rain, local showers or anything that 
would help us out. We went on pulver¬ 
izing the clods and planting the seed in 
a dust mulch, hoping all the time for 
better things to come. After awhile the 
rains descended and the floods came, and 
we had to hunt up some extra surface 
drainage. I noticed, however, that the 
early plowed ground that had been 
thoroughly tilled during the dry weath¬ 
er, kept moist and mellow, while the 
later plowed either refused outright to 
admit a plow or else turned up in clods. 
So 1 still hold fast to the theory of plow¬ 
ing just as early as possible and keep¬ 
ing the cultural tools busy until plant¬ 
ing time. 
Proving Some Things. —By reason of 
circumstances entirely beyond our con¬ 
trol we started late this Spring and first 
early vegetables had to go by the board. 
I am testing some varieties of peas to 
see just what variation there is in ma¬ 
turing under as nearly as possible like 
conditions. Unfortunately I had but 
three varieties which I cared to test at 
hand, viz.. First and Best, Nott’s Excel¬ 
sior and Champion of England. I want¬ 
ed to include Gradus, for I believe that 
to be one of the best sorts in cultiva-. 
I 
tion. Satisfactory seed could not be 
procured in time so it was omitted. I 
am anxious to see just how many days 
variation there will be, for 1 believe 
that excepting the hot weather of late 
July and August, an almost continuous 
sticcession may be had from early June 
in this latitude to time of killing frosts. 
The pea question lies very close to my 
heart or rather appetite, and the serious 
question is to get if possible, an un¬ 
broken succession from extra early to 
very late. I am pretty well convinced 
that the midsummer difficulty, under 
fairly favorable soil conditions, may be 
entirely overcome by deep sowing and 
generous mulching. This of course is 
impracticable except for a table supply. 
Early Tomatoes. —Sometimes a dif¬ 
ference of two or three days in the 
planting of a crop almost means the 
difference between success and failure. 
From May 25 to 29 inclusive the early 
tomatoes were set out, and this may 
tell in this case what a day will do in 
transplanting. We were sorry to have 
to give up the Fordhook Fancy for this 
year, but the extremely bad weather of 
last season made us entirely short of de¬ 
pendable seed, so the Dwarf Champion 
must take its place. The plants were 
grown in fiats, on the average 16 to the 
flat. They were fine sturdy plants as one 
could desire, many of them budded and 
blossomed. The plants in the flats were 
set into a wagon, thoroughly soaked, 
and hauled to the field. They were 
wheeled along the rows in wheelbar¬ 
rows, the soil was cut in squares and set 
ill the holes as fast as they were made. 
The sun was coming down the short way 
nuich of the time, and we earnestly long¬ 
ed for a friendly shade tree, but the 
plants never wilted or in any way 
showed that they had been disturbed, 
and now with favorable conditions we 
look lor an early crop, with reasonable 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
show of success. This, practically, is 
the same plan we have pursued for sev¬ 
eral years, except we have always grown 
in pots instead of flats. I think there 
will be little difference in the two ways 
as to results, but either one, in my 
judgment, beats the plan of growing in 
the hotbed until setting time, and then 
pulling them up by the neck and stick¬ 
ing tliem in the ground. 
Sweet Corn. —Four varieties of sweet 
corn. Black Mexican, Early Minnesota, 
Stowell’s Evergreen and Peep o’ Day 
have been planted. This last is an en¬ 
tirely new variety to me. We have long 
been in search of a vai’iety of good table 
quality, extra eaiTiiiess and free from 
the smut, so common to most extra 
early sorts. If this variety fills the bill 
as to these points we shall be glad to 
give it a front seat. We are also timing 
the Black Mexican to see just how many 
days it will require to make the trip 
from the planting bag to the tabie. Its 
quality is excellent, and barring the ten¬ 
dency of turning steel blue or even black 
as it matures, it is really a desirable va¬ 
riety. Other plantings of Early Minne¬ 
sota and Stowell’s Evergreen will be 
made in order, if possible, to keep the 
line unbroken from the start until frost. 
Potatoes. —Two varieties of early po¬ 
tatoes are on the docket for this year’s 
trial, the Early Sunrise and another, 
name unknown. The former we have 
never tested, but it comes highly recom¬ 
mended, and from its appearance it 
ought to be a good one. The latter is 
of extra fine quality, or said to be, but 
I judge that neither one is extra early. 
They will be tested as to speed and if 
they make good eating size in 50 to 65 
days under existing conditions, I shall 
call them pretty good. J. e. morse. 
Michigan. 
Hints About a Telephone Company. 
J. W., Weston, Ore—Twelve farmers want 
to put up a rural telephone. The main 
line will be about 10 miles long, with pros¬ 
pects of being extended. We want to use 
poles and wire part way and barbed wire 
fence the remainder. Is such a line prac¬ 
tical? Which would be the best way to 
go about it? What proportion of expense 
of main lljie should each one bear, living 
dilferent distances along the line? What 
would be the probable expense of line? 
After main line is completed, should more 
patrons wish to come in, on what condi¬ 
tion should they be let in? 
Ans. —That’s right. Build your own 
lines and run them, too, as other farm¬ 
ers are doing. Build strictly first-class 
as far as possible, but build your line by 
all means in some way. Use barbed wire 
ouly when absolutely necessary; 2x4 
scantling 12 feet long may be spiked to 
fence posts every seven or eight rods if 
posts are well set. Poles set 10 rods 
apart and not less than four feet deep. 
Use on all lines only the genuine B. B. 
(best best double galvanized iron) tele¬ 
phone wire; No. 12, weighing 165 pounds 
per mile in half-mile coils. It is far bet¬ 
ter than cheap steel wire and more dur¬ 
able. No. 14 is too light. Always use 
the best long-distance telephones. Call 
a meeting and organize a board of di¬ 
rectors, president, vice-president, secre¬ 
tary, treasurer and one more—five in 
all. Find out how much each one will 
give. The mutual plan is good, but the 
cooperative plan with five-dollar shares 
is better. Give credit for poles, labor, 
cash, etc. While running expenses will 
be from 50 cents to $2 a year for each 
telephone it is best for all, stockholders 
ana non-stockholders alike to pay $1.25 
or $1.50 per quarter, and each according 
to stock taken gets back his share of re¬ 
ceipts after actual expenses are taken 
out. This plan is the best, as it fits 
everybody and allows for improvements, 
etc., on a strictly business basis. 
M. Q. N. 
The Ensee apple was in full bloom when 
the May freeze came and in the afternoon 
many live blossoms could be found. There 
Is a big crop on it again this year, and I 
am impressed with it more and more as 
the years go by. The tree never was 
manured nor watered, and Is not in very 
good ground, but it is doing as well as it 
could be expected. If it turns out to be 
too common it will not be pushed. We 
have a new plum that seems to be an ac¬ 
quisition. It is as late as the Damson 
and much larger and sweeter and very 
long, also a freestone. W'e always thought 
it a Damson till the fruit ripened, but 
we can see the dilYerence now In the 
growth. u. T. cox. 
Ohio. 
The milk business is the farmer’s hope 
in New York State. If managed intelli¬ 
gently it will bring a sure and steady in¬ 
come and a good one. If the dairyman 
works with the light he has and can learn 
from farm papers, farm Institutes, etc., 
more about fodder crops, how to raise and 
care for them, he can be practically in¬ 
dependent of the weather, and his income 
will go right on, while his neighbor who 
is depending on raising hay or grain may 
not have enough to pay help and taxes. 
J. A. e. 
Weedy Hay. —I made a clipping from a 
local paper the other day which showed 
that a farmer who had some second-crop 
clover, kept that until his cows began 
giving milk. When that was fed out he 
began feeding some nice Timothy hay cut 
the year before the clover. His cows im¬ 
mediately fell off in milk 10 pounds a day 
until on a small herd the difference was 
30 pounds. He then began feeding the 
weedy hay, and they commenced to come 
up at about the same rate, and at the end 
of three or four days were giving as much 
milk as on the clover. If that statement 
is all straight, it looks as though there 
might be'something in whiteweed which 
we had not suspected. f. w. c. 
R. N.-Y.—We have found whiteweed a 
regular daisy for feeding horses. 
Mamttia Parasite 
1,500,000 Children in 90 Days 
Now is the time of the year when the 
scab parasite gets in its fast, disastrous 
work on flocks of both large and small. 
Keep a sharp eye on both sheep and 
lambs. At the first sight of falling wool 
examine closely for the scab parasite. 
It is a fact not generally known that a 
female scab parasite in 90 days’ time i.s 
the parent of 1,500,000 offspring; which 
in itself is sufficient proof of how rapid¬ 
ly this scourge may spread among your 
flock. A guaranteed cure for scabs is 
Chloro-Naptholeum Dip. The guaran¬ 
tee not only applies to scabs, but to 
ticks, which are also ravaging flocks at 
this time of the year—to lice, grubs, sore 
mouth and foot rot. Chloro-Naptholeum 
Dip will not make the sheep or cattle 
sick as common old-style dips will do. 
It stimulates and freshens the skin, and 
causes a better growth of wool. It saves 
time, trouble and the health of the 
sheep; $1.50 pays for a single gallon can 
of Chloro-Naptholeum Dip; 5 gallons, 
$6.75; 10 gallons, $12.50, freight prepaid. 
Write direct to The West Disinfecting 
Co., Inc., 4 E. 59th St., New York, if you 
cannot locate the local agent in your 
county. They send free, on request, 
their book, “The Preventive Treatment 
of Sheep and Cattle Diseases.” 
They quote all customers of Chloro- 
Naptholeum Dip special rates on sheep 
dipping tanks, so low in price that 
everyone can afford to buy them. 
Chloro-Naptholeum 
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