1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
561 
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
Wayside Happenings. —Outside of 
routine work, as the sowing, hoeing, 
gathering and marketing, there is no 
end of side lines to watch and care for. 
Day labor is $2 per day and upward, and 
often poor at that. The celery has rotted 
badly in the blanching boards from the 
excessively wet and sultry weather, and 
much of the late crop has been so thor¬ 
oughly drenched that it will never be 
cultivated at all. The wax beans were 
not planted until to-day, August 2; they 
were well put in, however, and if thor¬ 
ough culture will keep them ahead of the 
frost they will easily command 75 cents 
to $1 per bushel in the late pickling sea¬ 
son. As soon as they appear above 
ground they will be treated to a bath of 
nitrate of soda or saltpeter, an ounce to 
the gallon of water. This will be repeat¬ 
ed every few days until nearly ready for 
picking. The Lima beans climbing up 
twine strings over the south end of the 
house give us the promise of many feasts 
later on. I shall never bother with poles 
as long as I can get a hitch up in the air 
for a twine string. Once started on the 
string they seldom require any further 
help in climbing. We planted them just 
outside the drip of the eaves, and when 
ready for shooting up a small stake was 
driven close to each stalk. A large 
twine string was tied around the stake 
and fastened with a nail nine feet above 
in the edge of the roof. I started them in 
their crooked course arouna the string 
and they have been winding ever since. 
Some of them wound three or four feet 
up into the air before 1 got them clipped 
back. The vines are loaded with pods, 
and more are setting. It is the cheapest 
way I have ever found to grow the pole 
Limas, and if you happen to have an 
old and unsightly shed or building, they 
will paint it with a beautiful coat of 
green until killed by the frost. 
August Lettuce. —The plants from 
our earliest sowings are still in prime 
condition and bid fair to continue indefi¬ 
nitely. They were taken from the bed 
from time to time and transplanted 
among the tomatoes. They are of all 
sizes and seemingly of all ages, but the 
difference is only in the time of trans¬ 
planting. Some plants are as broad over 
as a peck measure and headed up like a 
cabbage, crisp and tender, while others 
are far smaller but every whit as vigor¬ 
ous. The tomato vines are calling loud¬ 
ly for the ground, and soon the lettuce 
plants must give way to the more ur¬ 
gent demands of the tomatoes. 
Tomato Wisdom. —“For ways that are 
dark, and tricks that are vain” the to¬ 
mato is sometimes peculiar. Many 
methods by many growers are scheduled 
as the one perfect way, but I am free to 
confess that “tomato wisdom” will not 
entirely perish with the passing of the 
present generation of growers. On ex¬ 
perimental grounds where they are sup¬ 
posedly grown in their highest perfec¬ 
tion, the single stake is quite commonly 
used. Others depend largely upon the 
trellis, while many leave them to wan¬ 
der at will and resort to cutting back 
the vines. Of course in the stake or trel¬ 
lis methods, cutting back must be fol¬ 
lowed to considerable extent. In practic¬ 
ing all of these methods I have often 
been surprised to find the very finest 
fruits of the whole season hidden en¬ 
tirely from view under vines that were 
rambling at will, with never a thing 
done to them outside of ordinary field 
culture. So the whole thing tangles up 
into a puzzle sometimes; but there are 
some plain facts after all. Staking or 
trellising will hardly pay for extensive 
market growing, while for limited 
grounds and small quantities of strictly 
fancy fruit, they are generally speaking, 
the best methods; usually the “best” 
method must be largely determined by 
the object in view. I believe that under 
any conditions, it pays to thin the fruit. 
Mulching is a very safe practice either 
with drought or excessive moisture. To 
sum up, staking or trellising is usually 
safe and will give results for small 
areas, but will hardly pay for market 
growing. Thinning will bring good re¬ 
turns under any circumstances. Mulch¬ 
ing with straw or coarse litter will pro¬ 
tect from rot in excessively wet weather 
and will gather moisture and add nitro¬ 
gen in hot dry weather. 
Late Pansies.— To-day my wife en¬ 
ticed me into preparing a pansy bed for 
the late Autumn bloomers. The location 
is warm and sunny at the south end of 
the house, and was used for the early 
lettuce bed. The ground has been well 
manured and thoroughly worked over 
several times. It was again and again 
forked over and thoroughly soaked with 
liquid manure before sowing the seed. 
Later on we shall set up boards around 
the bed and bank up well with soil, and 
with the help of a canvas for cold 
nights we hope to keep it in bloom until 
quite cold weather. A covering of ever¬ 
green boughs will hold the bed in good 
shape during the Winter and we hope 
the blossoms will greet us again even 
before the Spring snows are all melted. 
How does it pay to putter so? Well, the 
late Fall and early Spring blossoms of 
themselves are pretty good pay. Better 
than all that, the girls helped to sow the 
seed, and will care for the bed. This is 
one of the ways by which we are trying 
to keep them close to nature, believing 
that in that book they will find diversion 
from many useless things. Thus we 
think it a paying investment to “putter” 
a little. J. e. morse. 
Michigan. 
NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES IN 
SULLIVAN COUNTY, N. Y. 
July has been In some respects one of the 
most discouraging months farmers have 
ever known in this county. The early 
Spring was dry and cold, and as a result 
meadows and corn were fully two weeks 
behind the season July 1. Rain fell almost 
if not quite every day in the month, and 
for the most part the downpour was heavy 
and thunderstorms severe. Roads have 
been badly washed, and little hay was 
made during July; what was cut usually 
got wet and was not secured in the best 
condition. Many meadows improved, how¬ 
ever, during the month. The yield will be 
better than was anticipated six weeks ago. 
Corn is improving, but still backward. 
Buckwheat is most promising, and the oat 
fields are especially good. Potatoes are 
exceptionally good, vines are vigorous and 
tubers plentiful and large. Unless they rot 
the crop will be a heavy one. The growth 
of peavlnes is something phenomenal. Lit¬ 
tle attention is given to fruit of any kind 
in this part of the county, though western 
part of the county produces a great many 
very fine apples. The apple orchards in 
this section are much neglected. They arc 
for the most part cropped or mown, and 
the trees are allowed to take their own 
shape and to fill up with wood. Spraying 
is hardly ever attempted, and yet, strange 
to say, the trees are not this year visibly 
affected by insects. One is surprised to 
witness the heavy setting of promising 
looking apples on these neglected trees. 
They serve at least to indicate tne possi¬ 
bilities of apple orcharding in this county, 
if some one would go into it with modern 
methods and propositions. 
Sullivan County is now literally run over 
with city boarders. They are met in every 
corner and byway of the county, some in 
farmhouses where they pay from $5 to $7 
a week, and others in hotels and boarding 
houses where the rate runs from $7 to $15 
per week. Catering to this visitor trade 
has become the principal industry of the 
county, just as the tanning business was 
40 years ago. The farmers, however, are 
not awake as yet to the importance of this 
trade, nor to the influence that it must 
exert on the county during the coming 
years. Farm lands were never so cheap 
here as now. Few of the farms would sell 
for what could have been raised on them 
on bond and mortgage 15 years ago. Many 
of them would not sell for the cost of im¬ 
provements on the land. About the only 
demand is from city men who wish to es¬ 
tablish a country home, and I verily be¬ 
lieve there is no other place on earth where 
a city man can get so much for his money. 
We are four hours from New York City 
via two different railroads, and nearly 
2,000 feet above sea level where malaria is 
unknown, where the air is pure, the water 
cool and crystal, and the soil clean and 
healthful. There is no place on earth where 
food tastes better to children than on these 
rock-ribbed and rugged mountains. But 
here are our city guests seeking rest and 
fresh foods, and we have little to feed 
them. They bring a clean fresh market to 
our doors every Summer, and we neglect 
to supply it. Our meats come from Chi¬ 
cago, eggs from New Jersey, chickens from 
Ohio, fruits from Delaware and Georgia, 
and vegetables from Long Island and can¬ 
ning factories. At three of the best hotels 
in the county I ate canned tomatoes, canned 
peas and canned corn during the month 
of July. I saw some wild huckleberries 
from the neighboring barrens on these 
tables, but not a raspberry, a blackcap, or 
blackberry from the cultivated fields. The 
complaint among the farmers is that the 
hotel men send to New York for their sup¬ 
plies. Of course they do, because they are 
not able to get sufficient and regular sup¬ 
plies from local growers. Let any farmer 
propose in the early part of the season to 
furnish a given quantity of any fruit, vege¬ 
table, poultry or meat to these houses at 
New York quotations or a little in advance, 
and the hotels will be only too glad to 
make a contract for their supply. These 
houses have guests who must be fed three 
times a day, and they cannot wait for the 
occasional load of country produce from 
the neighboring farms. The farmer has 
the advantage of being able to furnish 
fresh supplies, and he will command the 
trade, if he furnish the goods regularly 
and of uniform grade. He can demand 
New York prices plus express charges from 
New York, and he will save besides any 
transportation or commission charges on 
his own goods. There is a future in this 
trade for some man who goes into it for a 
business. I firmly believe it will yet be 
developed. Farm produce several days old 
cannot always be shipped into this produc¬ 
tive county to feed visitors who hunger 
for the fresh, luscious and succulent native 
products. D. 
Bethel, N. Y. 
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