1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
725 
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
A Stay Ix Proceedings. —Nature has 
evidently served a writ of injunction 
upon the frost this year and the corn 
and other belated crops have been 
hustling to round up before it should 
be dissolved. Jack must have gone a 
roving, and meanwhile up in the field, 
the pumpkin vines are still fresh and 
gieen, with blossoms in evidence. Down 
in the garden, the cucumber vines are 
still yielding their quota of pickles, and 
the tomato vines are still ripening their 
fruits. I got scared one afternoon, fear¬ 
ing that frost was coming that night, 
so I pulled up a good many of the vines 
and covered them up. I had no need 
to do this, for there was a change of 
programme and the vines left standing 
are still doing their duty. This is a 
pretty good record for this locality ami 
October 3. It is fortunate indeed, for 
an early frost this year would have 
wrought almost untold ruin to the corn 
crop of this State, and many others as 
well. These conditions make some 
changes in our own plans at least, but 
we can all well afford to wait and 
change a little for the ripening of the 
corn. I had aimed to sow considerable 
rye before this, but other crops refused 
to give possession of the ground, and 
thus we are late. Some of the ground 
is ready, and we shall seed that and 
fit the rest as fast as the crops will 
give place. If we get too late for pro¬ 
fitable sowing of the rye, then we shall 
dust on the turnip seed, for the cover 
crops are what we are after. We 
wanted to sow early, not only for the 
Winter blanket, but for the vegetable 
matter to turn under in Spring. We 
shall endeavor to make .good the defi¬ 
ciency in Spring by a heavier coat of 
manure. 
A Heavy Contract. —That is about 
the size of it, as to our gi-apes. Be¬ 
tween the rows, they have been pretty 
well cultivated, both this and last year, 
so there they are pretty clean. But 
along the rows, the grass sod is some¬ 
thing awful. Surely it must be strong 
soil that will produce such outlandish 
sod. But w'e want the ground clean 
around the vines, and thereby hangs 
the tale of the big contract. Bone and 
muscle are too expensive just now to 
dig out and clean the rows, so we have 
been experimenting with a portion of 
the ground. It was late when we start¬ 
ed, and but little could be accomplished 
this Summer for the rush of other 
work. W^e are well enough satisfied, 
however, with what has been done, to 
continue the work still further. Al¬ 
most any amount of w'ood and coal ash¬ 
es are available, and may be had for 
the hauling. In June, we hauled what 
we could and piled them around the 
vines as far as they would go. My 
man, who has been in charge here for 
two or three years, says that the good 
results are plainly visible, both as to 
yield and quality of fruit. Our work 
has been confined to the higher, harder 
knolls, where previously the vines and 
crop have shown lack of vigor, and al¬ 
though a very hard year here for the 
grape crop, the fruit has been better 
when thus treated. Down under the 
ash heaps, the results are plainly visi¬ 
ble, and what was previously the tough¬ 
est of tough sod, is now a mass of veg¬ 
etable mold that fairly crawls in the 
hand. I believe this plan will be far 
cheaper in the end, than cleaning out 
with grubbing hoes and spades. 
Earthworms. —On May 19 we plant¬ 
ed a patch of Early Sunrise potatoes. 
The ground had been plowed twice and 
pretty well worked previous to plant¬ 
ing, so that barring a small clay spot, 
the soil was in fair condition, and cul¬ 
tivation was sufficient to keep the 
ground clean of digging time. Just a 
little way beyond these, was a patch of 
Carman No. 3, the first I have ever 
grown. They were not planted until 
June 1, and also had fairly good culti¬ 
vation. By force of circumstances it 
fell to my lot to dig both patches by 
hand, and it w'as a time long to be re¬ 
membered. In all my potato-digging 
experience I never dug in such hai'd 
ground. A hoe would have been no 
good at all, as a fork could hardly be 
driven into the soil. Both patches 
were fine, both as to yield and quality, 
but how they ever made room to grow 
in, is w'hat puzzles me, for the ground 
was a poser, as to texture. What was 
the matter? Well, I think the angle- 
worms caused it. The ground was full 
of them and tunneled like honeycomb. 
I have long knowm of sowing salt to 
rid the ground of them, but have had 
no personal experience, but something 
will happen sure. My present plan is 
to manure heavily and plow at once, 
then seed to 'rye, then plow again in 
Spring as early as the ground can be 
worked and plant out earls'’ cabbage. 
After the Spring plowing, either lime 
or unleached wood ashes w'ill be applied 
with no miserly hand and worked into 
the soil, while fitting it for the plants. 
We will then see how it fares with 
angleworms. J. e. morse. 
Michigan. _. 
OPINION OF THE SCIENTISTS. 
Opinion ok the Scientists.—I can sym¬ 
pathize with the Hope Farm man with his 
drunken cows. Call it whatever you like, 
they act in every way the same as a per¬ 
son who has partaken too freely of intoxi¬ 
cating liquor. He is in about the same 
box as I was some months ago, when I 
entered into an argument with a practical 
land suiweyor and civil engineer in regard 
to measuring an acre of land on a side 
hill. I called on The R. N.-Y. to help me 
out, but according to the opinion of most 
of the scientific men who answered my 
question, I got the worst of the argument. 
Ilotvever, I am of the same opinion still, 
as the forest trees grow as close together 
on our steepest mountain land as they do 
on a level field. The spears of grass are 
as close together on our steepest meadows, 
and when we plant our strawberries we 
plant in row's S'/i feet apart, regardless of 
the slope of the land, and different parts 
of our fields vary from perfectly level land 
to that of .an angle of 25 or 30 degrees. 
Other things being equal, we get just as 
large a yield from the rows on the steepest 
land as from those on the level. With 
all honor and respect for our learned and 
scientific men who are doing a good work, 
although there may be no alcohol in ap¬ 
ples, or there m.ay be no more land on a 
side hill, the action of the cows indicates 
that the fruit must have undergone some 
change after being eaten, and M-dien I 
count the several extra rows on a steep 
side hill acre as compared with a level 
acre as measured according to law' by a 
civil engineer. I fail to agree with them on 
these two questions. All judges of grow'ing 
farm crops connected with our agricultural 
fairs dig one rod of one row', and taking 
the number of row's to a rod. surface meas¬ 
ure. estimate the cron on that basis, so 
that the farmer with his crop on ,a steep 
side hill has the best end of the bargain. 
Massachusetts. george g. W'alkek. 
Z/ver Pills 
That’s what you need; some¬ 
thing to cure your biliousness, 
and regulate your bowels. You 
need Ayer’s Pills. Vegetable; 
gently laxative. 
WASN’T IT LUCKY THAT 
the runaway auto at Zanesville, O., fair, ran Into 
Page Fence? It had already counted over a score of 
killed or injured before It struck the fence. 
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One-Iialf and one-third barrel, regulation 
sizes with Panel Ends. Samples and 
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APPLE BARRELS-®“ or short sizes. Ii 
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car or 100 lots. Prompt ship 
R. GILLIES, Marlboro, N. Y. 
Farm "Wagon only S31.95. 
In order to Introduce their Low Metal Wheels with 
Wide Tires, the Empire Manufacturing Company 
Quincy, Ill., have placed upon the market a Farmer’s 
Handy Wagon, that is only 25 Inches high, fitted 
with 24 and 30-inch wheels with 4-inoh tiro, and sold 
for only $21.96. 
This wagon Is made of the best material through¬ 
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wheels and fully guaranteed for one year. Catalogue 
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who also will furnish uotal wheels at low pricesmado 
any size and width of tiro to lit any axle. 
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hurts much loss than a braise, crash ortear 
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ight cost and certain onres. 
Two big booklets telling how 
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AFreeTrial 
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NEW HOLLAND MACHINE CO., 
_Box 152. New Holland. Pa. 
95 large 
handsome 
steel range 
without high closet or reservoir. With 
large, high roomy warming closet, tea 
sheivesand reservoir just as shown in 
cut, |16.95. Reservoir is porcelain on in¬ 
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old style. The top of this big range is 
28x46 inches, has 6 cooking 
holes, large room y oven 20x 
18x13 inches with square 
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have steel ranges with much 
larger and smaller ovens, 
sizes to suit all.) The body 
ofthis high grade range is made of 
cold rolled steel, top and all castings of 
best No. 1 pig iron. Crate; we use im- 
$ 
3 
.90 
Heater 
just as illustrated. Burns 
hard or soft coal or wood. 
Has drawn center grate, 
corrugated fire pot, cold 
rolled sheet steel body 
heavy cast base, large cast 
feed doer, ash pit door and 
large ash pan, swing top, 
double screw draft regula* 
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t('p ring came plate, foot 
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We have heating 
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Hot blast, air tights, 
kindthatretailsfor$3.()0, 
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provedduplex grate, burns wood or coal. Nickle trimmings 
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HUBBARD’S 
CRASS GRAIN 
FERTILIZER 
Used on the famous Clark hay fields since the beginning of the experiments. 
Prices and terms on application. 
THE ROGERS & HUBBARD CO., 
MIDDLETOWN, CONN. 
Makers of Hubbard’s “BLACK DIAMOND” Fertilizers. 
