1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7 
A NEW IDEA IN CEMENT POSTS. 
Portland cement is used in many 
ways, and a very durable post is made 
of it. There are some objections to 
stone posts of any kind; for instance, 
the difficulty of fastening the fencing 
material to them. The new idea post 
seems to avoid this difficulty. It con¬ 
sists of having the root or bottom of 
the post made of cement and the main 
post of wood. As it is up from the 
(ground it is not apt to decay, and in 
ca<e one does so, another can be sub¬ 
B 
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stituted easily. The simple diagram 
given will show at once just what my 
idea is. The cement * part, B-D, lis 
cast with a jog, C, to take end of 
post, A. Two bolts are used in clamp¬ 
ing them together. In moulding, run 
two smooth, round sticks through 
mould at B. It would also be well 
to reinforce the cement poot at the 
top, each side of the holes, with old 
inch pipe or any size one happens to 
have. This is an ideal post for any 
purpose, for any kind of fencing can 
be used, and easily stripped and 
changed. w. f. henderson. 
Massachusetts. 
FARMING IN MARYLAND. 
•/. G., St. Michaels, Md .—I am in need 
of advice from The R. N.-Y. I have just 
moved here from Massachusetts; have 
bought a small farm. The land was idle 
last season and is covered with grass and 
weeds now. I low deep should I plow, and 
is it best to plow under the rubbish or burn 
it? What crops should I raise next season? 
Is it best to set out peach trees on a water¬ 
front point of land? 
Axs.—Your land in that bayside sec¬ 
tion is generally a heavy clay loam, ly¬ 
ing very flat, and but a few feet above 
salt-water level. You are in one of the 
it level and shallow, and can put in your 
wheat on a general level with a few plow 
drains for surface water. 
But on a small farm there I would 
give attention to small fruit. You can 
grow the finest of strawberries, dew¬ 
berries, blackberries and raspberries, and 
can put them in Baltimore in three or 
four hours, or in Philadelphia nearly as 
quickly. Plant a small orchard of a 
variety of fruits. You can put in cold 
frames with hotbed sashes and can grow 
head lettuce and ship to Baltimore in 
Winter and Spring at a great profit, 
for I have done it on a large scale in a 
county north of you. While trucking 
in general in the open ground is not 
so well suited to your soil you can soon 
learn to grow things under glass that 
will pay well. This is a development 
that should begin on the Eastern Shore 
till we have large establishments as they 
have north, forcing vegetables in heated 
greenhouses. I was at Cleveland, O., a 
few weeks ago, and went around there 
among the gardeners, and I saw house 
after house, some of them covering an 
acre in one house, and all of them plant¬ 
ed in lettuce grown by the use of im¬ 
mense hot water and steam boilers. They 
told me there were 17 acres there under 
glass in lettuce alone, and other places 
on Lake Erie as at Ashtabula and To¬ 
ledo had many more acres than Cleve¬ 
land. I thought if these people, in a 
cold climate, where the sun shines at 
rare intervals in Winter, could get rich 
growing lettuce, cucumbers and toma¬ 
toes under glass, what could we do 
down here in a milder climate, where 
Winter sunshine is the rule and not the 
exception, and where less coal need be 
used? In fact, I had at that very time 
as good lettuce outdoors here as I saw 
them cutting under glass at Cleveland, 
and we can grow as good in simple 
sash-covered frames as they grow in 
heated houses. I saw there, too, acres on 
acres of celery, for which your soil is 
well suited, and they had each plant 
wrapped to near the top in brown paper 
to blanch it. And I tested their celery 
and found it fine and far better than the 
Kalamazoo celery that is grown on black 
muck soil, for celery on a clay soil is 
always more brittle and nutty-fiavored 
than on a muck soil. I would like to 
see all of our small growers learn the 
value of glass, for the Eastern Shore 
should be all one great market garden 
for the great cities that are so easily ac¬ 
cessible around it, each section giving 
attention to the crops that best suit its 
soil. One gardener at Cleveland, O., 
told me that his coal bill is over $40,000 
a year, mainly for growing lettuce, while 
we can grow it without a cent for coal. 
I have a frame right by my kitchen door 
now filled with lettuce handy for the 
cook to get at any time, and I have it 
there all Winter. w. f. massey. 
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How to Make and Use CONCRETE 
best wheat-growing sections in the 
whole country, and the land, when 
properly drained, is productive in both 
wheat and corn. Peaches down on the 
salt water have never been a commercial 
success, and I would not advise you to 
plant an orchard with a view to market¬ 
ing to any extent, though of course you 
will want some for home use. Your land 
is better for apples and pears than 
peaches, and in my boyhood that sec¬ 
tion had many immense old cherry trees 
that seem to have disappeared. But 
cherries and plums will certainly thrive 
there. You will need a good strong 
team to plow the land properly, and it 
should he broken six to eight inches 
deep. But subsoiling, that is so useful 
on the rolling lands southward, is of 
little use in that flat clay soil. You say 
that your farm is small, but do not give 
the area. On a small farm there I 
would arrange the fields for general 
cropping in three parts, and would 
adopt the plan that has been very suc¬ 
cessful in other parts of the Shore, of 
corn, followed by wheat, and then 
clover, mown one year. But do not 
adopt the plan too common in that sec¬ 
tion of grazing the clover to the bare 
ground. Get out all of your manure on 
the second growth of clover during 
Fall and Winter and turn all under for 
corn. But in the first place look after 
the drainage, and if you can get a good 
fall put in tile drains, so that you can 
abandon the old practice there of ridg¬ 
ing the corn for drainage, and can work 
Every farmer should know how to make and use concrete. All the agricultural colleges are 
devoting special attention to this most important subject. Many farmers have ninety per cent, 
of the material necessary for a moderate concrete building on their own farms. We manufac¬ 
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anteed absolutely uniform and free from adulterations. 
To make good concrete you 
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You can’t afford to experiment. 
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