1961 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER- 
757 
EVERYBODY’S GARDEN, 
Mixing VEOETABLEa.—I take The R. X.- 
i'., and find it a first-class agricultural 
paper, but there is one point that ought 
to be more fully written up in all the 
farm papers. That point is the mixing of 
vegetables of all kinds. Most farmers do 
not use sufficient care in planting the dif¬ 
ferent varieties, but put them all in the 
same field, and often side by side. There 
is one other point 1 wi.sh to hit and that 
is the difference in quality of v.arieties 
which T think are as diverse as black and 
white, M. I’, s. 
Stowe, Mass. 
The first point touched upon certainly 
is an important one, and is no doubt 
the source of no end of trouble and dis¬ 
aster to both the farmer and the gar¬ 
dener. I think, too, he is right in saying 
that jt is not so fully discussed as its 
importance demands. This lack of dis¬ 
cussion probably arises in great meas¬ 
ure from the truism that “what can’t 
ho cured must be endured.’’ While the 
old saying above quoted is true and 
very aptly applies in this case, yet the 
lack of care and forethought in planting 
and sowing greatly aggravates the mat¬ 
ter. As to the full .extent to which 
varieties of grains and vegetables will 
mix 1 for one have to plead ignorance, 
and I think this predicament is of 
pretty general application. 1 do know, 
however, that what many of us are 
prone to call mixing, as of potatoes, is 
entirely traceable to soil conditions or 
the inborn tendency of going back to 
the original. At one of our fairs this 
Fall I saw two baskets of potatoes, and 
except in color, they were totally dif¬ 
ferent as could be imagined, yet the 
grower told me |that both were (the 
Green Mountain. Whether this varia¬ 
tion came from soil conditions or the 
tendency above alluded to, I am entirely 
unable to say, but I fully believe that 
one or the other was responsible. I do 
not believe potatoes will mix if planted 
side and side, yet 1 have seen some 
very queer happenings. Starting a few 
years ago with a single tuber 1 grew the 
variety two years, and in the second 
crop was nearly a bushel of an entirely 
new type, unlike the other in size, form 
and color. 1 certainly never had grown 
it before, and did not remember to have 
ever seen it before. 1 called it “going 
hack to the original,” which was a 
pretty long name, but I had to let it 
go at that. Many of these mixtures, 
both of grains and vegetables, as mix¬ 
ing from the neighbors’ fields, (he agen¬ 
cies of the bees, winds, etc., arc un¬ 
avoidable ills, and must be endilred. 
As to our own i)tantations, some fore¬ 
thought and judgment will help us out 
to some extent. Precautions as to dis¬ 
persing similar varieties as widely as 
liossible, idanting with reference to 
time of maturity, etc., are all helpful. 
1 believe it useless to speculate as to 
safe distances in planting and sowing, 
for the wind and the bees are hard to 
control, and their influences are no 
doubt widely extended. Very early and 
late varieties of corn are safe, I think, 
if planted side by side, but those ma¬ 
turing at anything like the same time 
lire unsafe even at quite a diistance. 
Pumpkins or squashes will mix at the 
lieast -opportunity, but the changes I 
think are not visible until the second 
•year. Beans will m,ix, when planted 
close together, but at how great a dis¬ 
tance I am unable to say. Peas would 
very likely mix, but personally I have 
paid little attention to this point, as 
I always change seed every year. Dif¬ 
ferent varieties of musk or watermelons 
should be kept as widely apart as possi¬ 
ble, but 1 hardly think there would be 
danger of mixing the two kinds. 
QrAMTY. —Soil and climatic condi¬ 
tions enter so largely into the quality 
of vegetables tliat much of the wisdom 
concerning it is but guess work after 
all. A fine quality of fruit or vegetables 
under certain conditions will be a fail¬ 
ure under other conditions. So that 
the safe rule is to make an experiment 
station of each farm or garden, and thus 
choose the sorts that best suit our per¬ 
sonal cxjnditions. I certainly believe 
That ,a closer acquafntance with our 
individual surroundings would prove 
almost invaluable to nearly all of us. 
Busy Times. —If we catch up with our 
needful work this Fall we shall have 
only a late season to thank, for there 
is still so much in sight that we hardly 
know what to do first. In the garden 
line most of the vegetables are secured. 
A few potatoes, beets, cabbage and also 
a small amount of celery are still ex¬ 
posed. The gathering of these is but 
the work of a day or two, but there is 
early cabbage ground to prepare, which 
requires the hauling of manure and the 
plowing. Then there is onion ground 
which sadly needs the same treatment. 
Our present plan’ is to sow some peas, 
and that ground must be manured and 
jilowed. The sowing' will be delayed 
just as long as possible, but we desire 
to fit the gromid as soon as convenient 
now. There is also a piece of straw¬ 
berry ground requiring some attention. 
This year early tomatoes were grown 
there, and the ground was kept entirely 
free from weeds. Now the work will 
be to remove all the vines and plow 
down all the manure that we can cover. 
The ground will have to remain uncov- 
.ered during the Winter, but in the 
Spring we hope to plow under another 
coat of manure, and if strawberries do 
not thrive, it will not be for lack of 
feeding the ground previous to setting 
the plants. . -i. e. morse. 
Michigan. 
PAINTING FRUIT TREES AGAINST 
RABBITS. 
I see that Prof. Alwood advises wash¬ 
ing fruit trees with white lead and oil 
to stop rabbits from gnawing the bark. 
1 do not like to put my opinion against 
the experience of directors of agricul¬ 
tural experiment stations, but at the 
same time 1 would not allow anyone to 
paint over my apple trees with white 
lead and oil. It may keep the rabbits 
from gnawing the trees all right, but 
1 would consider it injurious to the 
trees. My plan (and I direct others to 
do the same) is to wash the trees every 
May with a wash made of potash, one 
pound to eight quarts of water, to clioan 
them of every foreign substance that 
may form on the body of the tree. This 
keeps the bark clean, smooth, bright 
and healthy, which I deem is as es¬ 
sential to the health of the tree as to 
keep the body of a person clean 'so the 
pores may fulfill their functions. White 
lead gives the bark a coating which 
neither water nor rain can get through, 
and 1 would say would have a tendency 
to kill the bark. To keep mice or rab¬ 
bits fi'om gnawing the bark I would pre¬ 
fer to i)lac;e about the trees wire cloth 
with quarter-inch mesh. This would 
not be expensive. To keep the insect 
which lays the egg for the borer away 
I would use finer wire, say about 12 
meshes to the inch. This cut up in 
strips large enough to encircle the trees, 
and brought together and fastened with 
wire, is quickly done, and not very ex¬ 
pensive. The wire cloth may be cut a 
little larger than wanted at first, so 
as to bring it around over the edge, 
so as the young trees grow the wire may 
be let out a little to give room for the 
tree. I certainly woukl not use white 
lead paint. edwix iioyt. 
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