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April 27, 
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EARLIANA TOMATOES IN OHIO. 
I was much interested in Mr. Jcannin’s 
article, page 273, on growing tomatoes. 
Our methods and crop results arc in many 
respects similar. We also grow the 
Earliana, mostly for early crop, but aim 
to have these so early that the crop is 
about all marketed when prices get below 
$1 per bushel. Extra earliness being our 
object, we do not set the plants so close in 
cold frames—75 to too plants to each sash 
(3x6 feet) being about right for us. We 
usually set good stocky plants thus about 
April 10 to 15. We choose a bed with a 
solid clay bottom, and four to six inches 
of well enriched but tough clay soil on 
this to set the plants in. This sticks to 
the roots better than a loamy soil when 
the plants are taken up, with a large flat 
shovel, after thrusting a shovel down be¬ 
tween the plants, cutting a square chunk 
of dirt to each plant. Before taking them 
up wg give them a thorough soaking. 
Otherwise we water sparingly. 
We usually leave a bed of these in the 
greenhouse planted about 3x3 inches and 
sometimes closer, which we set out quite 
early, as we feel more able to take some 
risk of frost with these more inexpensive 
plants, while with favorable weather con¬ 
ditions they sometimes come along about 
as early as the larger plants set out later. 
If water were not withheld from them 
they would grow tall, soft and spindling, 
but wc let them get so dry that they ac¬ 
tually wilt several times before setting 
out, and toward the last keep them al¬ 
most at the point of wilting for several 
days until about 12 hours before they are 
to be set out, when wc give them a very 
thorough soaking. Two years ago wc set 
a patch with such plants early in May. 
About the 14th it got very cool. I watched 
the thermometer till 10 o’clock, when it 
seemed as though the temperature would 
not drop enough for frost, but on getting 
up after midnight I found that the tem¬ 
perature was within a degree of freezing, 
and when I got away from the building 
the grass was frosty. I hurried to the 
tomatoes, and their leaves were already 
stiff with frost. T then got all the avail¬ 
able help out and three of us went to cov¬ 
ering the plants with unfolded newspapers. 
The others got the papers ready and hur¬ 
ried them to the field. When the sun be¬ 
gan to shine over the hill we had covered 
about 3,000 plants, but still quite a lot 
were uncovered. There did not seem to 
be any difference between those that were 
covered and those that were not, as none 
were much injured except the Fordhook, 
Fancy and other broad-leaved kinds, 
which were not treated in the beds like 
these. They were nearly killed outright. 
Our experience is that Earliana will stand 
heavier fertilizing and richer soil than the 
later varieties of tomatoes, and I have 
never succeeded in getting a good crop of 
Earlianas from small late-set plants. Con¬ 
sequently we grow Earlianas only for first 
early, followed closely by others. 
Marshallville, O. c. w. 
The Harlequin Cabbage Bug. 
J. J. M., Greensboro N. G .—I send a species 
of bug; can you tell me what it is and how 
to get lid of it? It id very destructive to 
truck plants, especially turnips, cabbage and 
collards. It first makes its appearance early 
in the Summer on the seed mustard stalk, 
then to the cabbage and collards. This 
Spring it has made its appearance two 
months earlier than before. 
A ns.— The bug is known as the Harle¬ 
quin Cabbage bug, and is sometimes 
known locally as the “Calico bug” or 
“Abe Lincoln” bug. It is a southern pest, 
but has now extended its northern limits 
into Long Island and southern Ohio. It 
is very destructive on cruciferous plants 
in the South. There are several genera¬ 
tions of the insect each season, as it re- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
quires only two or three weeks for it 
to complete its life-cycle. The adult 
hugs hibernate during the Winter under 
all kinds of rubbish. In early Spring they 
appear and attack the first cruciferous 
plants accessible, including even wild spe¬ 
cies, like volunteer mustard. With the 
appearance of a cultivated crop, the bugs 
migrate to that. It is rather a difficult 
insect to control, but much can be done 
by clean culture, as the Insects hibernate 
near the old cabbage fields. Thoroughly 
clean up all rubbish on or near the field, 
Then in the Spring, when the old, hiber¬ 
nating bugs appear on mustard and sim¬ 
ilar plants, spray them with pure kero¬ 
sene, killing both the bugs and the plants. 
Some gardeners sow a row of radish on 
the border of the cabbage field early in 
the season to attract the bugs where they 
may be killed with kerosene. The insect 
is difficult to reach with insecticides, as 
the sprays must be made so strong that 
they may injure the plants. Recent ex¬ 
periments indicate that a 10 per cent kero¬ 
sene emulsion and a solution of whale- 
oil soap at the rate of two pounds in four 
gallons of water will kill the young bugs 
or nymphs. m. v. slingerland. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
A Woman’s Suggestion. —In all articles 
on the thinning of fruit, I have never seen 
the use of scissors recommended. They do 
the work rapidly, accurately and without In¬ 
jury to the fruit spurs. Use a pair of shears 
with handle large enough to fit; the hand 
easily, hold end of branch firmly with left 
hand, and snip fearlessly. Cannot be used 
for peaches. iieadek. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
Dust Spray on Grapes and Apples.—I 
am raising apples and grapes by the mulch 
method, and have been successful, especially 
in grapes. 1 have used the dust spray for 
two years now, and I think it is as far 
ahead of liquid as liquid is over no spraying 
at all. I control scab fungus and Codling 
moth on apples, and rot and fungus, mildew 
and other troubles on grapes to perfection. 
It was Impossible to find a sign of disease 
in mv grapes last Fall. * C. v. 
I.ake Crescent, Minn. 
Testing Fruit Varieties. —Mr. F. II. 
Ballou, in Bulletin 178 of the Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station, makes tlie following very sensi¬ 
ble statement about new varieties of straw¬ 
berries : 
“Just as it is unwise to praise too highly 
a new variety from the experience of a sin¬ 
gle season's trial, so it is equally unwise un¬ 
conditionally to condemn a new variety be¬ 
cause of its comparative failure at the out¬ 
set. But experience is proving that the ear¬ 
marks of either a high degree of excellence 
or of utter worthlessness in a new variety 
are often so clearly apparent to the close 
observer who lives among his plants, tliat. a 
reasonably accurate estimate, for tliat local 
section of the country, is quite likely to be 
placed upon a new variety when it has borne 
its first crop. The varieties most difficult 
to give a proper and satisfactory rating on 
the scale of merit usually fall within tlie 
great ‘middle class,' and prove to possess 
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dollars for over-praised and high-priced nov¬ 
elties which, generously stating the truth, 
really possess no superior merit: when com¬ 
pared with standard sorts of like classes of 
grains, fruits and vegetables.” 
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