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T1IH RURAL, NEW-YORKER. 
WORKING THE GARDEN HARD. 
I paid a visit last Fall to a market gar¬ 
dener in another portion of this county. 
As we looked over his small farm I saw 
a patch where it looked as if he had 
mowed and drawn away a large quantity 
of weeds. 1 asked him what crop he grew 
upon that piece of ground, lie said that 
was the ground occupied hy his crop of 
early peas. After the pens were harvested 
he let tin* land grow to weeds. A market 
gardener should do better than that. My 
peas are grown in lands from 15 to 20 feet 
wide, a vacant strip six feet wide (well 
manured) is left between each land (or 
bed) of peas. In these vacant strips, at 
the proper time, I plant Hubbard and De¬ 
licious squash seed. The squash vines are 
beginning to run just about the time the 
peas are picked, pulled and out of the way, 
so that I get two crops each year from 
my field of early peas, while the person I 
was visiting only gets one. I remember 
years ago the principal of the seminary in 
this town had a desire to make every 
square foot of his garden produce a profit, 
as his salary as principal was none too 
large, and this man, hy his skill in making 
plants grow and yield, would get more 
from a small piece of ground than any 
other person I ever saw. I used to enjoy 
visiting his garden. On the north side of 
it was a tight board fenct .six or eight 
feet tall. At the bottom of the fence on 
the south side in well-manured soil he 
would plant Hubbard squash. The vines 
were not' allowed to run on the ground 
and so take up valuable room, lie would 
train the vines upon the side of the fence 
just as though they were grape vines, 
keeping them in place by pieces of leather 
cut from an old shoe find tacked to the 
fence. Some of the useless laterals were 
cut out and when Fall came there was a 
fine lot of squashes grown upon what to 
other persons would probably have pro¬ 
duced nothing. T have seen Winter 
squash grown upon the south side of a 
barn in the same manner. I. d. b. 
Mammoth Clover In Ohio. 
0. K. fl., Lancaster, O .—I have n piece of 
ground that I would like to sow to Mam¬ 
moth clover tills Spring. The ground Is of 
a low black nature, nnd other clovers freeze 
up during the Winter. Will some one tell 
me If tills clover could he sown With oats 
and make as good a stand till Fall as to 
sow the clover hy Itself? If you sow the 
clover alone when and how would you sow 
It (the ground was In celery last year), or 
would you prefer some other quick growing 
clover? 
Ans. —From the description givenofthe 
land it is not the kind that will hold the 
tap-rooted clovers over Winter. But if 
Mammoth can he started in time, it will 
make a wonderful growth before Winter 
comes again. 1 would not undertake to start 
with oats. The oats will he almost sure 
to lodge before they ripen, and when¬ 
ever they go down, the clover will he 
smothered out. I would much prefer to 
sow the clover alone. I do not think it 
necessary to plow the land, as it can 
doubtless be got in the finest possible 
condition with the roller and disk har¬ 
row, following the latter with the former, 
but after sowing the seed on a rolled sur¬ 
face cover with a light drag harrow. I 
would sow not less than 12 pounds seed 
per acre, and sow after the middle of 
April, when danger of light freezes is past. 
After a rain work tin* land over, sow the 
seed, and cover and then it will come 
rapidly on, and give the weeds (if there 
are any) a tough fight to keep them down. 
Tf sown with oats and it proved a suc¬ 
cess, a good stand .after the oats are 'off, 
the clover will make a good growth before 
Fall if the weather favors; otherwise it 
will be a failure, or at best a disappoint¬ 
ment, but if sown alone in the Spring 
it will have the benefit of all the rains 
of the season and the hot sun that it 
loves so well, and that helps it to do its 
utmost. If a crop is desired for next 
year, sow Alsikc seed. This clover, while 
not so large as the common Red, or 
Mammoth, will make a strong thick 
growth, and as its roots sprangle out, 
instead of tap-roeting, it stands the Win¬ 
ter when others will be ruined. Alsike 
clover is very popular in Wisconsin to 
use on low boggy lands where the other 
clovers are a failure. For seeding with 
this kind of clover, only about one half 
as much seed will he required as of the 
other kinds, the seed being so much 
smaller. john m. jamison. 
Ross Co., O. 
Strawberries for Four Months. 
The Spring of 1906 was favorable for 
setting strawberry plants early, and as I 
succeeded in getting my Fall-bearing 
strawberries set early, they commenced to 
ripen the last of July, enough for table 
use, and August 2 I commenced to ship 
to Buffalo and Glean, and shipped two or 
three times a week until October 10, when 
the big snowstorm came, so I could not 
pick again until the 17th, when 1 picked 
25 quarts; the 24th I picked 27 quarts, 
making nearly three months’ time of the 
Fall crop. The Spring crop of other 
varieties gave us berries from June IS to 
July Hi, making a long time that we en¬ 
joyed strawberries from our own fields. 
New York. samuel cooper. 
Northern Spy Apples. On page (JO a 
•reader In New York asked about what vari¬ 
eties he should graft on Northern Spy." What 
Is the matter with Spy?" asks a Massachu¬ 
setts man. This” Is the answe-*: 
“One reason of my wishing to top-graft Is 
that the Spy Is a shy bearer one year, the 
next overbears, and the fruit does not color 
well, making It a poor seller. The Spy and Ben 
Davis stock are excellent to graft on, and 
by top-grafting one can bring Ills trees Into 
bearing earlier. Also, one Is then sure of 
getting varieties true to name. From what 
I can learn from others and observation, 1 
now think I will graft to HubbnrdBton, Bald¬ 
win, King and Greening.” a. it. o. 
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