LARGE DELAWARE SWEET POTATOES. Fig. 87. 
plenty of sunlight is ideal for Chrysanthemums and 
carnations. As we are not compelled to have our 
blooms at a certain time we don’t worry over crown 
or terminal buds, but select which we think will give 
ns the best bloom. 
Carnations are planted out in field in Spring and 
lifted in September, and planted in benches. Our 
blooms are good. Rust is unknown owing to the 
dry climate. With regard to bedding plants, we are 
restricted in our selections. We can only use the 
hardy ones on account of the cool nights. Coleus, 
LIME-SULPHUR FOR GRAPES. 
At the close of the season of 1910, from many 
sources came complaints of injury to grapes from 
spraying with commercial lime-sulphur, this injury be¬ 
ing especially manifest by a delayed ripening period. 
Accordingly I decided to make a few trials of com¬ 
mercial lime-sulphur and Bordeaux in the college vine¬ 
yards. Two rows of Concords were selected. The 
vineyard is situated on a side hill, with perfect air 
and water drainage. The rows extend up and down 
the hill, not parallel to the base. The numbering on 
the chart begins at the lower side of the vineyard, 
thus giving the higher numbers at the higher part of 
the rows. In all other respects they were as nearly 
alike as the average run of Concord grapes in a vine¬ 
yard row. On either side of the two rows selected 
were other rows of the same variety sprayed with 
the regular lime-Bordeaux, using the 3-3-50 formula. 
On the two rows selected we used the soda-Bordeaux 
because we thought the season might require the 
spraying to be continued longer than we would care 
to have it with lime-Bordeaux, the latter staining 
the fruit to such an extent late in the season. This 
soda-Bordeaux was made by using copper-sulphate, 
four pounds; soda (Babbitt’s lye), one pound two 
ounces; water, 50 gallons. Both rows were sprayed 
at the same date, and as rapidly as could be done, so 
that no change in atmospheric conditions could have 
any influence. All atmospheric conditions were re- 
BANANA “KING OF THOUSANDS.” Fig. 89. 
1. Stevens of the College Horticultural Department, 
assisted in the execution by Mr. A. J. Brundage, a 
graduate of the college. a. t. stevens. 
Conn. Agricultural College. 
R. N.-Y.—Two years ago it was confidently pre¬ 
dicted that lime-sulphur would make Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture “a back number.” Time has shown that while 
lime-sulphur has great value as a fungicide there are 
still cases where Bordeaux is needed, so that we shall 
need both preparations. 
260 
“In a few cases the work of this Laboratory has 
been used in settling disputes, but it is not the policy 
of the Department to furnish expert evidence in the 
settlement of private claims. The Laboratory is at 
the service of anyone who wishes to have seeds 
tested, and the only practical and satisfactory way 
to use our facilities is to have the testing done be¬ 
fore the seed is planted.” 
A FLORIST IN THE FROZEN NORTH. 
[It would seem as if both ends of the country were 
stretching out in horticulture. At the South we hear of 
new crops, while gardening is creeping up toward the 
North Pole. Below is given the story of growing Chrysan¬ 
themums at a point 400 miles north of Toronto, Canada.] 
I might say that our system is pretty much the 
same as in the States. Our climate is much colder; 
THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Salvias, etc., do not do very well, so we have to fall 
back on the old-fashioned herbaceous plants. Carpet¬ 
bedding is out of the question. 
L T p to six years ago this country of New Ontario 
was practically unknown save as “the frozen North,” 
when the Ontario Government started building the 
Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway. Since 
then, owing to the discovery of gold and silver, and 
an agricultural area of twenty million acres, New 
Ontario has become famous for its agricultural pos¬ 
sibilities. The railway is operated by a commission, 
whose chairman, Mr. J. L. Englehart, an enthusiastic 
horticulturist, has done splendid work in furthering 
the interests of the farmers, and also in the improve¬ 
ments of the various stations and surroundings. In 
the matter -of vegetables, roots and grain, I am not 
an expert, but being connected with some of the 
agricultural societies I may say that the soil and cli¬ 
mate are well suited to the development of grain and 
vegetables. Oats run from 100 to 135 bushels to the 
acre; Fall wheat, 43J4 bushels; Timothy, four tons 
to the acre, and potatoes, all fine and mealy, from 
400 to 600 bushels to the acre. d. kerrigan. 
New Ontario, Canada. 
March 2, 
corded. The first application was made June 30, the 
second July 19, and the third and last August sixth. 
I-rom this latter date the weather conditions were 
such that no further spraying seemed necessary. 
By the diagram shown on page 263 it will be seen that 
the number of diseased berries was practically nothing 
with both sprays, there being a total of 168 under the 
lime-sulphur sprayed vines, and 93 on the Bordeaux 
sprayed ones. It could also be seen that the first ripe 
fruits appeared as soon on the lime-sulphur sprayed 
vines as on the Bordeaux sprayed ones. As to ripen- 
ing, the adjoining rows on either side where the lime- 
A SATISFACTORY CABBAGE FIELD. Fig. 80. 
temperature anywhere from zero to 50 below; two 
nights last week it dropped to 56 below zero. Our 
greenhouse is 30 x 75, heated by hot water, and we 
have no difficulty in keeping up temperature no mat¬ 
ter how cold it is outdoors. The general Chrysan¬ 
themum cuttings are put in in March, and when 
rooted are put in flats. As soon as weather permits 
they are put in cold frames, where we give them air 
on all possible occasions, so as to make them hardy 
and short jointed. In May we plant in benches 10 
inches apart. During growing season we give them 
an occasional top-dressing of bone meal or sheep ma¬ 
nure, and once a week we give them liquid manure, 
alternating between pulverized sheep manure and 
cow manure. We also give them a top-dressing of 
lime and soot mixed, and when buds are forming a 
dose of nitrate of soda, one pound to 50 gallons of 
water. The climate here being dry at night with 
A THREE-CENT PRODUCER’S DOLLAR. 
Here is a story of the thrce-cent dollar; a story 
of how I sold 37 bushels of $1 apples for three cents 
a bushel. In the latter part of October I threw a few 
dozen apples in my grip and brought them to New 
York. I showed them to a well-known commission 
man. He said that red apples like them were in good 
demand at $1 a bushel. I shipped him 37 bushels, 
packed in bushel hampers. They were rigorously 
culled; all undersized, wormy, misshapen or off-colored 
ones were thrown out, so that the apples shipped were 
better than the samples shown. Here is the return 
I got: 
Get. 30. 37 baskets apples at 35 cents.$12 95 
Commission . $1 30 
Cartage .'. ..!!!'.’** 1^5 
Express and freight. 333 
’—— 6.48 
$6.47 
The baskets cost me $5.20 delivered at my station. 
Deducting that from $6.47 leaves me $1.27 for my 37 
bushels selected red apples. That $1.27 is what I get as 
interest on my investment, for cultivating, spraying, 
picking, culling, packing and hauling 3 T / 2 miles to 
market. I expressed surprise that he should have 
sold them so cheap when I saw much inferior apples 
retailing at 50 cents a peck. He said that was the 
way the retailers did; they held up their prices no 
matter how cheaply they bought. I then remarked: 
“I would just like to trace this lot of apples and 
see what the dealer is actually selling them for. Give 
me his name and address.” 
He hesitated, then said he didn’t know the man’s 
name. I asked him to look it up. He looked over 
his books and said he did not have the name; that 
it was a cash sale and that he kept no records of 
cash sales. s. m. r. 
R. N.-Y.—If the Collin bill had become a l&w last 
Spring this commission man would have been obliged 
to give name and address and the price at which the 
apples sold. There is no business on earth in which 
the seller is so completely at the mercy of the buyer. 
ROBERTS PEAR. Fig. 88 . 
Bordeaux had been used, were used as checks. No 
ripening took place on these at an earlier date than 
on the lime-sulphur treated vines. These, to be sure, 
are but one season's results, and so far do not show 
that lime-sulphur at the strengths used at least is de¬ 
terrent to ripening, and so far seems to control grape 
diseases as reliably as Bordeaux. The work will be 
continued another season more extensively than in 
the past. I lie work of this test was outlined by A. 
