1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
380 
A WAY TO BEAT THE CUTWORM. 
Last Spring I had a fine lot of cab¬ 
bage plants I raised in my greenhouse. 
When the weather was favorable I trans¬ 
planted about 500 of them in the row 
out in the garden. Next morning more 
than half of them were cut off by cut¬ 
worms. I replanted again and again, 
till I must have planted between 2500 
and 3,000, and I got about 150 plants to 
grow; the rest were cut off by the cut¬ 
worms. I had 1,000 tomato plants yet 
in the greenhouse, which I did not wish 
to feed to cutworms. How could I beat 
them? To tie paper around each one 
would be quite a job, and I did not 
like to put down bran and Paris green, 
as I don’t like to have poison lying 
around. I also wanted pots to trans¬ 
plant into from the benches, and I re¬ 
solved on the following plan: I had a 
roll of scrap roofing and a round block 
of iron or piece of three-inch shaft four 
inches long. I cut up the roll into 
strips 10 inches wide and the width of 
the roll, 36 Miches long. Then I cut 
each strip (10x36 inches) into strips 
4x10 inches; rolled them around my 
block and drove in three small tacks at 
the seam, the points of the tacks bent 
METHOD OF PROIECTING 
small canning factories to put up their 
surplus fruits when the market price 
goes down so that it will not pay to 
ship them. The small factory comes in 
the nature of an insurance policy upon 
the orchard. There is always a demand 
for good canned goods. They can be 
kept indefinitely. There are a number 
of small canning factories upon the 
market now. Most of them will do the 
work recommended. Full instructions 
how to can are usually sent with each 
factory. I do not recommend these 
small factories for canning such things 
as corn, peas or beans, though some 
manufacturers claim their small outfits 
will do such work. These products are 
much more difficult to can than to¬ 
matoes, peaches, apples and berries. 
Special machinery can be purchased for 
canning the more difficult products 
when more experience is acquired. 
Virginia. R. h. price. 
Apple Culture in New York. 
<8. IF., Gowanda. X. 1'.—I have a piece of 
gravelly loam that lias been hard worked 
for several years without much being put 
on to it. I am going to set out 100 apple 
trees this Spring 40 feet apart, with peach 
trees for fillers, manuring around trees. 
1 have contracted for peas for canning 
factory and will put in with some com¬ 
mercial fertilizer with them. I wish to 
growagreen manure crop after the peasare 
off, and wish to know which would be the 
better to sow; clover with the peas (also 
if this is practical) or sow buckwheat 
after the peas are cut. Will hand cultiva- 
AGAINST CUTWORMS. Fig. 133. 
over on the iron and made a perfectly 
strong tube 3x4 inches. I transplanted 
into these pots and removed to cold 
frame to be hardened. In a week or 10 
days the plants had grown till the roots 
showed at the bottom of the pot, and 
the pots were full of roots. The pots 
can be handled at this stage without 
the soil falling out of the bottom if 
kept damp and bandied gently. Then I 
scooped a hole where they were to grow 
in the garden, placed in the pot and 
filled up the hole with soil. Then by 
jarring or shaking the pot a little it 
could be drawn half way out, leaving 
the soil, roots and plant undisturbed 
and the pot forming a protecting collar 
around the plant. I leave them this 
way till the cutworm season is over, 
when the pot can be drawn off over 
the top of the plant and used again. In 
this way the plant has no setback and 
gains a week or more over plants set 
out the usual way. I did not lose one 
plant treated this , way, and I used the 
pots several times for eggplants, cucum¬ 
bers and later tomato plants, and still 
have them to use again this year; 100 
square feet of roofing will make about 
360 pots, and they can be made in less 
than two hours. A piece of three-inch 
pipe four inches long or more will make 
a good former or block, of course a 
larger pipe for a larger pot. Pot and 
method of use are shown in the picture. 
New Jersey. r. thomas. ! - 
Home Canning Outfit. 
T. P. E.. Peabody, Mass .— I saw in The 
R. N.-Y. lately something about canning 
vegetables commercially. I would like to 
inquire if it is feasible for a man to start 
a small canning business, say by raising 
his own stock at first, and then branching 
out. 
Ans. —Yes. This is the method I 
have advocated for beginners to start 
with for about 15 years. I suppose 
something near a hundred small fac¬ 
tories have started along this line in 
different States, following this advice, 
and I have not yet heard of a single 
failure. As an illustration I might 
state that when I first undertook some 
experimental work along this line at 
Texas Experiment Station, there were 
several large company canning fac¬ 
tories idle and rusting down in different 
parts of the State—perishable monu¬ 
ments of failure. The main cause of 
failure was due to lack of experience. 
Men who had been connected with 
these enterprises advised me that it was 
no use to try to make the canning busi¬ 
ness a success. Now, the business has 
grown so much from these small be¬ 
ginnings that many orchardists have 
tion for three or four feet around the trees 
for two or three years do, so that crops 
that need no cultivating can be grown 
between the rows? 
Ans. —I should if possible plow up 
and cultivate a short time after peas 
were off, and then seed heavily to 
clover, one-third of seed Alsike and two- 
thirds Medium or Mammoth. I would like 
this better than to seed with the peas, 
and if early peas were sown there would 
be plenty of time to get the corn crop 
in. I would not in future grow any 
crop except a cover crop between trees. 
With us apple growing is not given very 
great attention, nothing as much as it 
deserves, because grape growing is so 
easy and profitable. Clover as above 
noted and vetch is used in orchards 
here; both are very satisfactory. I 
would hardly be able to choose between 
the two. But do not try to grow crops 
between trees. It never pays after the 
first year. You may get something out 
of it, but the trees have to pay for it. 
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