1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5oi 
EVERYBODY'S CARDEN. 
Vacation Day. —I have pretty nearly 
come to the conclusion that vacations or 
outings were never intended for people 
of the garden craft. In the early part 
of June we took a day to go fishing and 
we have not yet caught up with the 
work thrown aside to get that day off. 
1 told one of the men that I ought not 
to leave, but he quoted the old saying, 
“.411 work and no play,” etc., so I yield¬ 
ed the point. It was back to the old 
lake where I was reared from boyhood, 
aud I tried to convince myself that liv¬ 
ing over old times and visiting old 
haunts again would sort of put new 
blood into me. The fish were nearly all 
absent that day, at least we found very 
few ready to be sacrificed. Numerically 
we carried more minnows with us for 
bait than we brought back fish, and the 
quantity of bait would not suffer by 
comparison with the amount of full- 
grown fish. Now I have no objection to 
the recreation, for we all require it at 
times, but the trouble was I left two jobs 
that ought to have been finished before 
going. There was a little hay curing in 
the cock and a particular job of weed¬ 
ing and hoeing that I wanted to see fin¬ 
ished. It began raining next day after 
the outing, and it took more time to cure 
that hay after the wet weather set in 
than it was worth. The weeds, destroy¬ 
ed just at the right time, would have 
been easy to keep under control, but 
when the rain came they took advantage 
of it and when it finally got dry enough 
to get at them it took more time to get 
rid of them than was spent on the fish¬ 
ing trip. So the recreation was rather 
costly all told. 
F.(UK Weatiiek Work. —Counting to¬ 
day (June 27) we have had three days 
of fair weather in succession, the first in 
nearly three weeks, and the cultivators/- 
wheel hoe and hand hoes are fiying. We 
found during the wet weather that the 
crops were all retarded in growth for 
want of having the soil stirred about the 
plants. So as soon as the surface was 
dried enough to admit we began digging 
and the effect is already noticeable. The 
soil has warmed and dried rapidly, vege¬ 
tation takes on new color, and growth is 
plainly visible. Our soil is pretty heavy, 
and we find that once working over the 
ground calls loudly for more, to prevent 
baking and the mad rush of weed seed 
that is determined to grow. Last night 
1 finished the cup-of-cold-water garden, 
and left everything in apple-pie order. 
There were no weeds to be seen, the cu¬ 
cumbers (now blossoming and setting 
fruit), were sprayed with nitrate of soda 
and water, and the striped beetles got 
their dose of snuff, and all was going 
well. To-day that same garden needs 
the wheel hoe or cultivator again, there 
are weeds and weeds sticking up their 
noses, and the surface needs to be fined 
up more, else a few days of sun will 
cause great loss of moisture. There is 
plenty in the ground now, and I want 
to keep it there against the day of need, 
and working the surface fine is the only 
way I know of keeping it there. A part 
of the early potatoes that were worked 
only three days ago, as we thought for 
the last time, ought to be cultivated 
right away with the narrow-tooth culti¬ 
vator. The ground plainly shows that 
it needs more fining up. Generally 
speaking, famine follows feasting, and 
the rain once checked, we may need it 
badly before we get more. So we are 
rushing the finer tools now, to get as 
much dust blanket as possible. 
Odds ajvd Ends. —Our last picking of 
strawberries for market was finished to¬ 
day, and from now on not more than a 
table supply will be available. This 
gives no let up, though, as the red rasp¬ 
berries will be on next week. There is 
one consolation, however, they are quot¬ 
ed at $6 per bushel, and we shall be in 
time for part of the market cream. Both 
the red and black look promising now 
for a good crop, and the blackberry 
bushes are loaded beyond almost any¬ 
thing I have ever seen. From the pres¬ 
ent outlook potatoes will be ready for 
use about as soon as usual, but sweet 
corn will be away in the background as 
compared with previous years. Some of 
our plantings are about as forward as 
any I have seen; but where in previous 
years we have had it by July 7, it will 
be nearer August 7 this year I fear. The 
late cabbage and celery will be in the 
minus quantity this year, chiefly for the 
want of available ground. With both 
these crops poor preparation of the soil 
means failure from the start. So we 
preferred to put out no more than for 
family use, and keep the failure down to 
the minimum. This year is a sort of 
preparatory season, and with reasonable 
prosperity we hope to get matters a little 
better in hand, and make glad some of 
the waste places. There are six sowings 
of peas and we hope to keep up a suc¬ 
cession until well into the Autumn. We 
hope with the varying soils available to 
get them from June 10 or 15 to late Sep¬ 
tember, and if this is possible (which we 
fully believe), we shall be pretty well 
satisfied. The early tomatoes are as 
good as we have often seen at this sea¬ 
son of year, and encourage us to believe 
that extra early crops are among the 
possibilities here. In ordinary seasons, 
with the aid of the cheap plant protec¬ 
tors previously described, early May will 
be entirely safe for setting, and if so, 
gilt-edge prices will be an assured fact. 
That is the mark we have set and we 
shall try as nearly as possible to reach 
it. Preaching is always easier than 
practicing, but setting a high mark is 
always the first step in the march of 
progress. MonaE. 
Michigan. __ 
Yellow or White Turnips. 
J. A. 0., Lehighton, Po.—Which la better 
for cows and cattle, turnips or rutabagas? 
Is there a difference m any of the two 
kinds In feeding, also what machine Is best 
adapted to cut or break for feeding? 
Ans. —The following table shows the 
feeding values of these different roots: 
Pounds In one ton. 
Muscle Fat Pure 
maker. Forms. Fat. 
White turnips . 22 122 2 
Yellow turnips .... 26 212 2 
Here is an advantage in favor of the 
yellow turnips, and our experience is 
that in practice this superiority is great¬ 
er than these figures show. Our stock 
greatly prefer the yellow turnips, they 
keep better and are more satisfactory. 
They cost more to raise, as they ought to 
be drilled and cultivated, while the white 
turnips may be broadcast. The white 
turnips will probably give a heavier 
yield, but we grow the yellow in prefer¬ 
ence after trying the whites. If we grew 
white turnips at all we would broadcast 
the seed with Crimson clover in the corn 
at the last cultivation. This will give a 
fair crop and the turnips can be pulled 
in the Fall if needed. 
Apple Questions. 
Subscriber, Pennsplvauia.—Wlll you describe 
size, color, flavor and keeping qualities of 
the following apples: Salome, Ralls Genet, 
Willow, Ben Davis, Gano and Stark? 
Ans.— Salome is an apple of medium to 
small size, conical shape, red striped, of 
fairly good subacid fiavor, and is a mod¬ 
erate keeper. It is not especially desir¬ 
able. Ralls is the true name of the old 
variety that is often called Genet and 
many other names. It is small, fiat, dull 
red striped, and of excellent quality. It 
also keeps very late and the trees bear 
enormously. It was once a great favor¬ 
ite, but its tendency to overbear, when 
the apples become very small, and the 
lack of high color have been the means 
of letting it almost drop out of the list 
of modern commercial apples. It is ex¬ 
cellent for home use, especially when 
the fruit is thinned. Willow is a large, 
round, red striped and very late-keeping 
apple. Its quality is only poor to fair, 
and it has the bad habit of rotting on 
the tree. Ben Davis really is too well- 
known to need description here, but it 
is a large, red striped, long-keeping and 
regular bearing apple of miserably poor 
quality, in the opinion of most of those 
who eat it, but well liked by the grow¬ 
ers, who are making money out of it. 
Gano is like it in all respects, except 
that it is much deeper and more gener¬ 
ally red. Some think it more profitable. 
Stark is from medium to large in size, 
nearly round in shape, green with dull 
red stripes, and of mild subacid fiavor 
that is quite agreeabie. It bears well 
and keeps well, and were it not for its 
dull color would be a very profitable 
market apple. h. e. v. d. 
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have a growth of peas or clover to turn 
under try a revolving cutter. They can be 
made to fit any plow. beam. I assure you 
(if adjusted properly) they will work all 
right. The cutter is a sharp disk that re¬ 
volves and cuts through into the ground. 
You will naturally think that stones would 
dull and ruin the cutter, but they are tem¬ 
pered so as to stand stones surprisingly 
well. Last Fall I turned under six acres 
of very heavy peas, the land was quite 
stony, the cutter was but slightly hurt. 
When cutter gets dull put it on the grind¬ 
stone. I use a cutter made by the South 
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