THE RURAL NEW-YORKKR 
65 
1915. 
The Home Acre 
Keeping Hubbard Squash. 
W HAT is the best way of keeping Hub¬ 
bard squash in Winter? I have no 
trouble in raising them, the very 
finest: have tried storing them in a dry 
cool place and in a dry warm place. 
They usually begin to decay about a 
week after harvesting and by New Years 
are about all gone. I am keeping them 
this year very dry and very cool, 36 to 
38 degrees, but they are decaying just 
the same. J. W. H. 
Hartford, Conn. 
I am convinced that the successful 
storage of Hubbard squash depends as 
much on harvesting as on the treatment 
later on. As a rule the Hubbard is a 
good keeper. For best results it should 
be mature before gathering and this 
gathering should take place before frost. 
When picking, use care not to break the 
stem. They keep best if stored on racks 
in single layers, giving plenty of heat and 
ventilation at the start and then main¬ 
taining the heat at 50 or above during 
the entire storing period. They should 
keep until Spring quite well. 
Clay Soil for Cantaloupes. 
C ONTEMPLATING some cantaloupes 
for local market, we broke up sod 
that has stood for 12 or 15 years; 
it is good clay ground. Would that be 
suitable for them with the treatment 
that you have before suggested? w. k. 
A heavy clay soil is not the best soil 
for cantaloupes. A clay loam well filled 
with thoroughly decayed vegetable matter 
will sometimes produce good cantaloupes 
for the main season crop. Such soils 
will not produce them early. As a rule 
a clay soil is cold, is inclined to bake, 
and it is quite difficult to get the young 
plants above ground. When once start¬ 
ed though they usually make a very rank 
growth. I prefer a sandy loam which 
has been in clover sod. This sod can 
be plowed in the Fall, and because of 
the texture of the soil it is fairly easy 
to make a good seed bed, and also to 
furrow out rows so as to get some well- 
rotted manure under the hills. On a 
clay soil that has been in sod for 15 
years it will be very difficult to get a 
good seed bed, even if it is already turned 
under. As a rule such a soil would be 
in better shape for cantaloupes a year 
hence than it would be this year. 
Manure for Tomatoes. 
G IVE me an idea of how to grow 10 
tons of tomatoes per acre on ground 
where the stand of Crimson clover 
has failed, and where rye has not suc¬ 
ceeded in making a growth on account 
of the drought. Land has been fertilized 
for a number of years for berries; limed 
last Fall, 1600 pounds to acre. Would 
you advise stable manure at $2.25 per 
ton, or a heavy dressing of high-grade 
fertilizer to get profitable results? 
Elm, N. J. d. M. c. 
To get a maximum yield of tomatoes 
one must have a soil well filled with vege¬ 
table matter. I take it that you have 
been using fertilizer alone for a number 
of years, and that the only vegetable 
matter in the soil is that from the berry 
plants that have been turned under. If 
that is true I would use mostly stable 
manure, even if it did cost $2.25 a ton. 
If desired a small quantity of high-grade 
fertilizer can be used to give the plants 
a quick start, but I would invest heav¬ 
iest in manure, and depend on that to 
bring out a full crop. Manure costs 
$2.50 a ton cash at our railroad station, 
but it is being used for tomatoes at the 
rate of eight to 12 tons to the acre. In 
all our trucking work we find that the 
underlying principle of success is in hav¬ 
ing a soil filled with humus. We get 
humus by using stable manure, catch 
crops, cover crops, etc. We also use 
large quantities of fertilizers, but we 
find its use most economical on soil well 
filled with humus. trucker jb. 
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Destroying Gypsy Moth. 
HAT can I put on Gypsy moth eggs 
to destroy them? j. s. M. 
Westboro, Mass. 
The State Forester, F. W. Rane, fur¬ 
nishes a dilute preparation of creosote 
which is applied to the egg clusters. Here 
all land owners are supplied by the one 
who has charge of such work in our town. 
If your local moth agent will not supply 
it write Mr. Rane at Boston, n. o. m. 
NOTES FROM A MARYLAND GARDEN. 
O UR first snow fell on the 24th of De¬ 
cember, about two inches, but it has 
made a nice blanket over the lettuce 
frames to protect from the cold that fol¬ 
lows the clearing of a snowstorm. 
Last night at 10, after getting the 
pipes hot, I put the little boiler that 
heats my miniature greenhouse in shape 
to keep, did not look at it till seven this 
morning. At that time the mercury out¬ 
side recorded 32 degrees above zero, an 
unusual cold for this section, and the 
little greenhouse stood at 52. The little 
boiler is simply a cylinder 11 inches high 
and 10 inches in diameter inside, and one 
hod of hard coal runs it 24 hours. This 
little boiler heats a coil of eight pipes 
each, nine feet long, hanging under the 
plant bench and all heating is done on 
the return. The expansion tank stands 
in the corner of my office at the highest 
point of the flow, and from there the 
grade is all down hill to the boiler. I 
have always found that water, either 
hot or cold, runs down hill faster than 
I can force it up hill, and I get a more 
rapid circulation, while the expansion 
takes off all air. The little boiler of 
course sits on an ash pit and has an 
ordinary stove top above, and the heating 
is amply sufficient for the little lean-to. 
Outdoor gardening is of course at a 
standstill, but the coat of snow is a 
good protection on the spinach, which 
we are cutting up to two days ago. The 
salsify is locked up till the soil thaws 
and the leeks likewise, and the snow 
will be let alone on the sashes till the 
weather moderates, for it is equal to a 
mat as a protection. 
Just now the first of the catalogues has 
arrived, and as usual the seedsmen are 
offering some novelties. The majority 
of these so-called new things will be 
soon forgotten, while now and then one 
sticks and becomes standard. I try a few 
of the most promising of the new things, 
depending largely on who offers them, 
for it is great fun testing them even if 
found to be of no improvement on the 
older things. But for the crop I always 
stick to the old proved varieties. Then 
shortly the Congressmen will be sending 
their little packages of very small papers 
of common varieties of seeds. These 
make very fair feed for the sparrows, and 
they usually get them, for if they were 
really first-class seeds the quantity sent 
is always too small to amount to any¬ 
thing, and I never take any risk with 
them. It is to be hoped that the incom¬ 
ing Congress will finally do away with 
this hoary fraud. Some years ago I 
made an address before the House Com¬ 
mittee on Agriculture in opposition to 
this seed distribution. One member 
stated that he had sent out his entire 
quota of seed and then bought seed to 
send to his constituents. Asking him 
where he bought them he said: “Right 
here in the Capitol, for the city Con¬ 
gressman do not want them.” How will 
that do for petty grafting, selling Gov¬ 
ernment seeds? w. f. massey. 
Maryland. 
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