1904 
93 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NOTES ON SQUASH GROINING. 
Best Soil; Best Fertilizer; Best Cul¬ 
ture; Best Location; Best 
Method of Keeping. 
The kind of soil best suited to the 
growth of a squash is deep, rich and 
mellow; a gravelly clay also gives good 
results. I am not acquainted with the 
climatic conditions of Delaware, but 1 
can see no reason why it would be more 
favorable than southern New England. 
I would not advise a sandy loam If very 
dry for squashes, as they require con¬ 
siderable moisture. If not too dry there 
Is a good prospect of growing a paying 
crop of Winter squashes on run-down 
loam deficient m vegetable matter. In 
the first place plow deep, and harrow 
well. Check off the rows five feet apart 
each way, leaving two vines to each 
hill, the object being completely to 
cover the soil with vines. On richer 
soil they would need to be hinted far¬ 
ther apart. Dig out large round hills 
15 to 18 inches across and three to 3% 
inches in depth, in which scatter well 
a handful of high-grade fertilizer con¬ 
taining not less than \ x k per cent of 
ammonia, 10 of .available phosphoric 
acid and five to six actual potash. At 
least two per cent of the ammonia 
should be in the form of nitrate, re¬ 
mainder from dried .blood and pure 
raw bone, or high-grade tankage. The 
phosphoric acid should be at least six 
per cent from bone; the potash should 
be from nitrate or muriate, or both. 
Mix the fertilizer well with the soil in 
the hill, then cover three-quarters to 
one inch with clear soil, drop about four 
seeds and cover with about one inch 
of moist soil, (if soil is very light and 
dry cover a little deeper than this), 
firming down well on the hill, as soon 
as the plants are well up, start the cul¬ 
tivator and go over the ground every 
week or oftener until the vines com¬ 
mence to run, then apply 800 to 1,000 
pounds per acre of the same fertilizer 
broadcast, which should be well culti¬ 
vated and hoed in; this would probably 
be the last cultivating. The object in 
broadcasting the fertilizer is that the 
Hubbard and similar varieties of 
squashes send out roots at every joint 
and broadcasting the fertilizer places it 
where all these roots can feed on it. 
On sour soil, or heavy soil, lime would 
be a benefit, but not on a vary dry or 
sandy loam. 
I think the best method of keeping 
squashes is to place them in racks some¬ 
thing after the manner of onions, racks 
to be made of slats, and so one can 
easily reach across. Racks can be built 
one above the other, and high enough 
so that squashes can be seen and ex¬ 
amined. By placing one layer in each 
rack it allows the air to circulate freely 
around each one. Room should be very 
dry and kept at a uniform temperature 
of about 60 degrees. Great care should 
be taken in handling the squashes not 
to bruise them in any way. 
New Haven, Conn. e. e. buuweee. 
An Old Orchard in Maine. 
J. .1/. P.. Xciccastle, Me.— 1. Will it pay to 
re-top large sweet apple trees, a foot or 
more in diameter? I have heard that sweet 
trees will not do much grafted over. Is it 
so? 2. Is the waste from shingle machines 
(shingle hair) a better mulch for appl ■ 
trees than, sawdust? 3. In an orchard of 100 
trees should they be all of one variety? 4. 
Is there any objection to pine needles as a 
mulch for gooseberry bushes? 
Axs. —1. Trees a foot in diameter may 
be top-worked if unsatisfactory, but care 
should be used that too much of the top 
is not removed in any one year. Cut off 
about one-third of the top this year and 
insert scions on stubs not more than 
two or three inches in diameter. Next 
year remove more of the top and insert 
other scions, and the following year 
complete the work. So far as I know the 
flavor of the fruit has no relation to tin* 
value of a tree for grafting purposes. 
Tolman Sweet is often used as a stock « 
for top-working. 2. Shingle edgings, or 
“shingle hair,” make excellent mulch for 
either apple trees or strawberries, and I 
regard it as superior to sawdust. As is 
the case with sawdust, it is better to use 
material that is not quite fresh, and it 
should not be allowed to pack too close¬ 
ly about the base of the tree. We have 
found this material the most satisfactory 
ever used for Winter protection and 
Summer mulching of strawberries. 3. 
This will depend partly on the purpose 
of the orchard. For home use it is ad¬ 
visable to have a succession of varieties, 
but for commercial purposes plant few 
sot ts. It is not advisable to plant a solid 
block of 100 trees of one variety unless 
there are other trees in the immediate 
vicinity. In large orchards it is consid¬ 
ered a safe plan, to say the least, to 
make every third or fourth row of a dif¬ 
ferent variety. 4. I believe a mulch of 
dry earth, provided by cultivation, is 
the best mulch for all small fruits. No 
harm, however, can come from the use 
of pine needles. w. m. munson. 
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