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THE KUKAL NEW-YOHKEK 
The Home Acre. 
GARDEN PLANTING. 
Will you tell me the earliest dates 
when I can plant a garden safely in 
Orange Co., N. Y.? I desire to plant the 
following vegetables: Spinach, lettuce, 
radishes, eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, beets, 
parsley, pepper plants (green), musk- 
melons, Summer squash, pole limas, 
string beans, corn (Golden Bantam, 
Country Gentleman). Of course I un¬ 
derstand that a cold or very wet Spring 
would postpone the date just as reverse 
conditions might advance it. 
The accompanying diagram represents 
things as fairly as I can. and it is drawn 
pretty close to scale. The garden is only 
for private needs, and I hope in time to 
bring it all into good fertility. It has a 
warm exposure, but afternoon shadows 
sere thrown by the church, but not till 
the latter afternoon. I have on it two 
loads horse manure, a large quantity of 
decayed forest leaves, and will use about 
two bushels lime. The grapes are closely 
pruned and run north and south. Weeds 
are luxuriant in the arbor. Can I put 
any vegetables in the arbor? I had clo¬ 
ver on the clay last Summer and I am 
loosening it with coal ashes. 1L S. P. 
Newburgh, N. Y. 
The hardier vegetables, such as spin¬ 
ach, carrots, beets, radishes, onions, etc., 
may be safely planted as early as the 
ground is in good workable condition, 
while beans, melons, squash, cucumbers 
and corn, should not be planted until the 
soil becomes warm, and the temperature 
at night does not go much below 55 de¬ 
grees. Tomatoes may be set out at this 
time, but egg plant and pepper should be 
delayed until the temperature remains at 
60-65 degrees at night. Early lettuce 
should be sown in the hotbed, greenhouse, 
or window garden about March first, and 
if the plants are properly hardened be¬ 
forehand they may be safely planted to 
the garden as soon as they attain a 
height of two inches. Make a second 
sowing as soon as first plants are ready 
to set out, likewise a third sowing when 
second lot- of plants are ready for set¬ 
ting out, and so on until the season be¬ 
comes too far advanced and weather too 
warm for the lettuce to head. 
Spinach may be sown every two weeks 
or so from the time the ground is fit 
to work until about the 25th of May, 
when the sowings must he discontinued 
until the middle of September, when one 
or two sowings may be made for Fall and 
early Winter use. Radishes may be 
sown as soon as ground can be worked, 
and successive sowings can be made 
every 14 to IS days until about August 
25. The Early Scarlet Turnip White 
Tip is the most satisfactory radish to 
grow for home use. 
The round smooth peas may be sown 
as soon as the ground can be worked; 
they will bear considerable cold without 
being injured, both before and after they 
are up, but if there is no object in having 
them come on very early, it would per¬ 
haps be better to delay planting until the 
ground becomes somewhat warm, when 
the early, midseason and late varieties 
may be sown the same day. A pint of 
seed will sow about 36 feet of row. After 
the peas are cleared off, the ground may 
he planted to string beans, early sweet 
corn, cabbage or celery. 
Of carrots and beets, make two sow¬ 
ings, about two months apart. Musk- 
melons, cucumbers and early and late 
sweet corn, may be planted in the same 
ground all on the same day. The hills 
for melons and cucumbers should have at 
least two shovelfuls of well-rotted stable 
manure well mixed with the soil. In the 
plan the rows are represented at 3Vi feet 
apart, and the hills of melons and cucum¬ 
bers six feet apart in the rows, which 
are represented by the large dots. The 
hills of corn are represented by the small 
dots which clearly illustrate the man¬ 
ner of planting. The tomatoes, pole 
limas, squash, peppers and eggplant 
should also be manured in the hill with 
old well-rotted stable manure. One shovel¬ 
ful to each hill of liana beans will be suf¬ 
ficient, while the tomatoes, etc., should 
have two good shovelfuls to each hill. 
In all cases, mix well with the soil. 
The soil for lettuce, spinach, radishes, 
carrots and beets should be well enriched 
with heavy applications of well-rotted 
stable manure applied broadcast and 
spaded in and well incorporated with the 
soil. Five to six tons of well-rotted 
manure used broadcast and in the hills 
for such things as indicated, will not be 
too much for a piece of ground of this planting, or would the crop b; likely to 
size. In all cases of vegetable produc- be similarly affected? The variety is 
tion the ground should be quite rich, that Irish Cobbler. I find that they a”' worse 
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PLAN FOR A HOME GARDEN. 
possible, particularly the succulents, as 
tenderness and flavor cannot be secured 
when the growth is tardy because of in¬ 
sufficient nourishment. Avoid manures 
containing shavings or sawdust, as they 
will quickly sour the soil and very ma¬ 
terially reduce its productiveness. K. 
Black Streaks in Potatoes. 
I have some potatoes that appear per¬ 
fectly sound on outside, but about 50% 
are black streaked inside, and unfit for 
cooking. Would these be satisfactory for 
it caused by fertilizing, or is it a dis¬ 
ease? c. R. s. 
Madisonville, Tenn. 
Dark streaks and spots in the flesh of 
potato tubers, if scattered through the 
tissues and not confined to the vascular 
ring near the stem end. are usually an 
expression of a physiological trouble 
caused by unsuitable soil or by a lack of 
water at some period during growth, but 
if in well defined circles near the stem 
it is likely to he the result of infection 
with the Fusarium wilt or the late blight 
March 28, 
fungus, Phytophthora infestans, and 
should be rejected for planting stock. It 
is not definitely known whether potatoes 
affected with physiological brown-spot 
will produce as large a crop as healthy 
seed, but it is good practice to plant 
nothing but healthy-looking tubers, nor¬ 
mal in appearance both inside and out. 
V. 
Fertilizer for Early Tomatoes. 
In your second article on early toma¬ 
toes a quick fertilizer was suggested. I 
am starting about 400 plants, and wish 
to know the very best fertilizer to put 
in the hill when I set them in the field 
about March 15? What do you advise? 
San Diego Co., Cal. A. s. li. 
When procurable, well-rotted stable 
or cow manure may be used with profit 
in this quantity of one good shovelful to 
the hill, or if the ground has recently 
produced a heavily manured crop, no 
further fertilizing will be necessary. In 
the absence of well-rotted manure use 
commercial fertilizer containing one to 
two per cent, of nitrogen, in the form 
of nitrate of soda, eight to 10 p r cent, of 
phosphoric acid and six to eight per 
cent, of potash. Confine the use of this 
fertilizer to a strip about two feet wide 
along the course of the row, and use 
600 to S00 pounds to the pere. K. 
“Is that a man or a deer in the thick¬ 
et?” “I guess it’s safe to call it a deer,” 
opined the guide. “If it had been a man 
he would have taken a shot at us by tics 
time.”—Washington Herald. 
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I53i FOR OVER FIFTY -FIVE YEARS 
RAISE CORN AT 12c A BUSHEL 
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you to equal this record. Perhaps you 
can beat it. 
It cost Mr. White just $42.- 
50 to raise his corn. (Offi¬ 
cial figures.) 
The committee valued the 
7733.9 pounds of stover pro¬ 
duced at $8.00 per ton, 
amounting to $30.93. 
The difference between $42.- 
30 and $30.93 is $11.57; 
and this is what it cost Mr. White 
for the 97.9 bushels of shelled com 
(12% moisture) raised on his acre. 
(Official figures.) 
re it out for yourself: 97.9 
bushels of shelled corn cost $11.5 7—one 
cost 1 1 io cents; or in round numbers 
12 cents per bushel. 
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interest you, write to us promptly. 
You remember that the com¬ 
petition was for the most pro¬ 
fitable acre of corn raised 
in New England. 
You probably remember also that 
The Coe-Mortimer Company 
had nothing to do with the judging or 
with the awarding of the prize. I his 
was all done by a disinterested com¬ 
mittee from the Massachusetts Com Show, 
and the records were approved by The 
Director of The Connecticut Agricultural 
Experiment Station. 
This is what Mr. L. S. White 
of Connecticut did in The Coe- 
Mortimer $500.00 Corn 
Contest in 1911. 
$1,000.00 Prize Cup for Best Corn Raised in the United States. Won 
at the New York Land Show, 1911, by Mr. Wm. H. Dorin of Virginia, a 
user of Coe-Mortimer Fertilizers. 
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