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THE RURAL NJtCW-YOKKKK 
February 21, 
AN INEXPENSIVE GREENHOUSE. 
Part II. 
Tomatoes. —If a crop of either rad¬ 
ishes or lettuce is about one-third grown 
about March 15, and you have good 
stocky tomato plants in three-inch pots, 
or three-inch square dirt bands, they can 
be planted in beds about 16x18 inches 
each way, and will make a slow sturdy 
growth while the former crop is matur¬ 
ing. For dirt bands we have a printer 
cut out strips 8x14 inches of about No. 
12 manila paper, then take a block three 
inches square and fold round same, and 
pin together, this makes a band three 
inches each way and costs less labor of 
folding, about $1 per 1000, and is an ex¬ 
cellent device to grow tomato plants in. 
The plants should have been transplanted 
once before being planted in these bands. 
Bonny Best, or Crackerjack, we have 
found the most desirable for forcing. 
They are both good size, (the former the 
larger), smooth, and heavy producers, 
each variety setting fruit easily indoors 
during April and May. 
Temperature. —As soon as the rad¬ 
ishes and lettuce are out of house and 
tomatoes are in bloom, do not water too 
heavily or frequently, allowing soil to dry 
out slightly between each watering. Keep 
temperature higher, 60 deg. to 65 deg. at 
night and 10 to 15 deg. warmer during 
bright days is about right. Do not fer¬ 
tilize with nitrogen during blooming per¬ 
iod, rather use potash and acid phosphate 
in available forms. 
Pollination And Top-Dressing.— 
Each day pollinate blossoms by tapping 
plants lightly with a stick padded with 
cloth at end, so as not to bruise the 
plants. When fruit is set in four or more 
clusters some growers top their plants, 
so as to get into market ahead of the out¬ 
door grown tomatoes. As soon as a good 
lot of fruit is set. increase the allowance 
of water and sprinkle a mulch of fertil¬ 
izer over beds. We use the formula men¬ 
tioned for radishes for this purpose, ap¬ 
plying at rate of ton per acre and water 
it into soil, never loosen up the soil on 
benches for this purpose as a lot of feed¬ 
ing roots will be destroyed. This may 
seem contrary advice, but is borne out by 
experience that cost us many bushels of 
tomatoes, as every time we have tried 
cultivation we have invariably lost one 
to two entire clusters of bloom. When 
fruit is expanding rapidly water should 
be given daily, on every other day at 
least. If this is not attended to regular¬ 
ly, black rot at blossom end of fruit is 
almost sure to set in, a trouble that is 
caused by dry soil, or lack of potash or 
both, and possibly no other cause either 
indoors or outdoors. Tomato plants that 
are to be set in benches March 15 should 
be started January 1, or better December 
15, and transplanted once; tnen on sec¬ 
ond transplanting into pots or dirt bands 
you will have fine, sturdy plants. 
Tying Up. —As soon as growth com¬ 
mences when plants are placed in per¬ 
manent bed, supporting should be resort¬ 
ed to. Fasten a binder twine or two- 
ply jute firmly to top of house, and fasten 
lower end very loosely to base of plant, 
and as plant grows simply twist it round 
the string. This is a simple and very 
satisfactory manner of support. Each 
plant should be trained to single stem, 
and all suckers removed as soon as they 
appear. If growth is too dense the ends 
of leaves may be removed so as to allow 
sunlight to reach fruit. Tomato plants 
should be sprayed with Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture every week or two, till fruit is large 
enough to be discolored; 4-6-50 formula 
is right. When fruit is large size we 
use fuugine, purchased from seedsman. 
Marketing Tiie Crop. —You may 
think you have no market, either for 
radishes, lettuce, or tomatoes, but pro¬ 
duce a good quality of each, or either, 
and take them to the storekeeper from 
whom you purchase groceries, etc., and 
you will be surprised how soon you will 
have a good demand for more stock than 
you can grow. 
Plant Growing. —If growing vegeta¬ 
bles does not appeal to anyone there are 
many other lines open, vegetable plants 
being sold in our community by tens of 
thousands each season, as many farmers 
and village residents regularly purchase 
their plants in preference to trying to 
grow them in warm rooms, a practice 
which makes, usually, crooked, anemic, 
yellow plants. Tomato plants are great¬ 
est in demand in this section followed by 
cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, eggplant, 
pepper, celery, sweet potato, etc. To¬ 
mato, eggplant, pepper, require the warm 
parts of the house, and the other plants 
the cooler portions. Flats are usually 
used for this purpose, made by purchasing 
boxes about 12x18 inches or some size 
near those dimensions, and saving them 
in such manner that the finished boxes 
are about 2 y 2 to three inches deep. A 
few holes or cracks should be in bottom 
of each flat for drainage. The plants 
should be transplanted into these flats 
about 1% to two inches each way, and in 
this manner are easy to take to some 
store for sale, as they will easily stand 
a week or more if unsold. A good rich 
soil should be used but not too rich, and 
as soon as plants are making a nice 
sturdy growth, withhold water so as to 
harden them off. Y~ou want to avoid a 
long soft growth, which is not desirable, 
as a tomato plant six inches high and of a 
dark green color is much more desirable 
than a light green plant 12 inches high. 
Cabbage can easily be hardened off, and 
placed in a cold frame March 1, and 
lettuce can be sown in the Fall and given 
slight protection during Winter. 
Flowering plants may appeal to some 
in preference to vegetables, and a good 
trade can undoubtedly be worked up along 
this line, but as my experience has been 
entirely with vegetables and cut flowers, 
I do not feel qualified to give information 
on this end of the business. A low nar¬ 
row house, such as has been described is 
not very well adapted to growing cut 
flowers, though I have seen good quality 
grown in such houses, elmer j. weaver. 
Plowing Soil for an Orchard. 
I have a number of acres of old 
meadow land and an acre or so of old 
land that I wish to set out to peaches in 
the Spring. It is a clay soil with a 
gentle western slope, and good drainage. 
It has not been plowed in a number of 
years, and has not had a great deal of 
manure. Will you advise me just how 
to go at this proposition, as I have never 
had any experience with peaches? I wish 
to know just when and how to plow this 
soil. Would you advise subsoil plowing 
in dead furrows for the trees? F. L. j. 
If that soil is heavy clay loam, plow 
as deeply as possible without turning 
up too much subsoil; as early as bottom 
of furrow will crumble without packing 
when squeezed* in the hand. Double disk 
to keep level, and finish with a smoothing 
harrow. Soil should be mellow and 
moist with all of the Fall and Winter 
rains stored in soil and subsoil. This 
is the most important factor of all, for 
if dry weather follows trees will not be 
stunted, which they certainly would be 
if dry weather followed setting in a dry 
poorly prepared soil. Your idea of plow¬ 
ing in narrow lands, subsoiling dead fur¬ 
rows and setting will perhaps make set¬ 
ting of trees easier, but care should be 
used to get furrows straight. On that 
type of soil I would set trees 20 feet 
each way ; yearling trees cut back to two 
feet are best. I would drill or broadcast 
500 pounds of 2-8-10 fertilizer when 
fitting land; beaus or an early small 
variety of flint corn may be grown. I 
would not plant them till about June 1, 
using a harrow between tree rows till 
then, then planting five rows three feet 
apart, leaving a four-foot space next 
to tree row. Clover seed sown at last 
cultivation will make a good cover crop 
to plow under the next May. I would 
not double-crop after third year, but 
cultivate till about August 1, then sow 
cover crop. Oats sown thickly about 
August 10 make a good growth if you 
object to a crop that lives through the 
Winter. The New York Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station at Geneva has found 
that fertilization did not show any re¬ 
sults on their clay loam apple orchards, 
therefore if your trees make good growth 
after trees occupy whole laud probably 
cover cropping alone will be sufficient. 
Good yearling trees should be obtained 
for about 10 cents each and it would be 
well to go to a nearby nursery and per¬ 
sonally select them, and be guided some¬ 
what by their advice as to varieties. For 
in your location varieties tender in bud 
will often winter-kill, and especially if 
your soil is really heavy, as much of the 
soil in Seneca County is. 
WM. M. KLING. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
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