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THE R.UBLAL NEW-YORKER 
January ou. 
Truck Farm Notes. 
EES AND VEGETABLES—Much 
has been said about the value of bees 
to the orchardist but I have seen noth¬ 
ing concerning their value to the vege¬ 
table grower. Several years ago we no¬ 
ticed that we were getting a lighter set 
of cantaloupes, squashes and watermelons 
each year. At first we did not under¬ 
stand why, but after a while we became 
aware of the fact that there were no 
bees in the neighborhood. AVe found that 
we could work in these crops for an en¬ 
tire day without seeing over half a dozen 
bees. There were other insects, but even 
they were few in numbers. About that 
time a neighbor over half a mile away 
secured three colonies of bees. The next 
season there was a slight improvement; 
more bees were seen, but still there did 
not seem to be enough, so we secured a 
colony for ourselves. Now there are 35 
colonies of bees on the place. We see 
any number of them working in the blos¬ 
soms of these vegetables, and there is a 
good set on all. In addition we find the 
bees quite profitable in themselves, but 
that is another story. 
Heat Under Eggplants. —The egg¬ 
plant is a crop that many growers do not 
undertake to grow. The idea prevails 
that it is the most difficult of all vege¬ 
tables to start. It is not as easy to han¬ 
dle as some crops, but neither is it as 
difficult to grow as many imagine. The 
chief requirement is heat. It is a tropi¬ 
cal plant, needs plenty of heat to start 
the seed, and plenty of heat thereafter. 
Bottom beat is just as essential as top 
heat. There should be heat from be¬ 
neath for starting the seed and heat from 
beneath when they are transplanted to 
frames. The first is usually given but 
many do not supply any heat when the 
young plants are transplanted. This is 
essential for best results. A mild ma¬ 
nure-heated hotbed covered with sash 
provides a suitable place for transplant¬ 
ing eggplants before they are ready for 
the field and is also comparatively cheap. 
Copenhagen Market Cabbage.—• 
Great interest centers in the new Copen¬ 
hagen Market cabbage. It is the earliest 
round-headed cabbage offered today. 
Some claim that it is earlier than the 
Early Jersey Wakefield. We do not find 
this to be the case. It is next to Early 
Jersey, and a very desirable cabbage. It 
matures its crop more evenly than does 
the Early Jersey Wakefield, but there is 
one thing to be avoided. Many growers 
sow seed of Early Jersey Wakefield in 
cold frames in the Fall about November 
20 and winter the plants over in these 
frames. Such plants are ready early in 
the Spring and are practically frost¬ 
proof. The Copenhagen cannot be handled 
that way. Plants carried over shoot 
right up to seed without making heads. 
To avoid this it is necessary to start the 
seed in early Spring. One can sow in 
a cold frame and force them hard. A 
better way, though, is to start seed in a 
hothouse and then transfer to a cold 
frame to harden off before setting in the 
field. The hardening off should not be 
so severe as to check growth too much, 
otherwise the same condition will exist 
as with the wintered-over plants. 
Collars For Cabbage. —Last year in 
cooperation with the New Jersey Exper¬ 
iment Station we tried out 
2 m a few tar paper cards as a 
means of controlling cabbage 
N maggot. These cards were 
I j 5 ' two inches square, and were 
cut half way in on one side 
and then had a short cross cut 
in the middle. This permitted them to 
slip over the stem of the cabbage plant. 
We used 40 cards and happened to get 
them in a part of the field where the 
maggot was exceedingly numerous. The 
plants on either side of the row with 
tar paper cards were nearly all infested 
with from one to ten maggots. Out of 
the 40 plants with tar paper collars 
around them only one showed injury. 
These cards or collars are inexpensive 
and where maggots are known to be 
plentiful it will pay well to use them. 
They should be especially valuable for 
the home garden. To be effective these 
collars should be put on just as soon as 
the plants are set. The odor of tar is 
so objectionable that the adult fly will 
not lay eggs near the stem of a plant 
so treated. These cards have been re¬ 
commended as a means of controlling cut¬ 
worms, but we did not have enough cut¬ 
worms the past year to try out their 
value in this respect. 
Jersey Club Tomato. —This is a new 
one for preserving. There is a ready de¬ 
mand for limited quantities of egg to¬ 
matoes in most markets for preserving 
purposes. The housewife when buying 
these tomatoes considers first the quality. 
The average grower thinks little of qual¬ 
ity. He gives preference to the variety 
giving the largest yield and he likes to 
have the tomatoes quite large so as to 
reduce the cost of gathering. That has 
been our position exactly. This year we 
tried out some new varieties from the 
New Jersey Experiment Station. There 
is one of especial merit that they call 
the Jersey Club tomato (No. 71)8191). 
This variety beats anything I ever tasted 
in the way of flavor. When a housewife 
once becomes acquainted with this she 
will want no other variety. It is not 
a large tomato, and plants are rather 
delicate when small, but it yields well 
and is certainly fine in flavor. It is well 
worthy of being put on the market. 
Babbits And Lima Beans. —There 
has been a call for reports of actual dam¬ 
age to crops by game. This past year 
we planted a one and one-third acre block 
of Lima beans near a rye field. Just as 
soon as the beans come up the rabbits 
commenced to chew them off. They 
worked mostly at night, but we would see 
them occasionally in the daytime. We 
replanted and replanted, but even then 
there was at least one-fifth of the block 
upon which we could not secure a stand. 
From the part where we did finally secure 
a stand we sold $187.63 worth of Lima 
beans. According to my figures those 
rabbits destroyed at least $46.87 worth 
of beans, besides making it necessary to 
purchase extra seed and put in extra 
time in replanting. Who pays the bill? 
trucker jr. 
Buying Manures. 
I HAVE 15 acres in sod that I want to 
put in corn, but the soil is not 
very well supplied with humus. 1 
have a man on it who owns all his 
stock and gets half of all grain on the 
farm. This being the first year of his 
five-year lease and there not being much 
manure on the farm, he proposes that I 
buy the manure, he to haul and to apply 
as his part of the deal. Railway haul is 
between 50 and 60 miles. Will it pay? 
New Jersey. l. e. 
We think so, though it will depend on 
the c-are this corn crop receives. Manure 
on sod with good culture is usually a 
good investment for the first year of the 
rotation. 
“Yep,” said the Western boomer, “the 
grasshoppers descended on our State last 
year and ate a path a mile wide from one 
border to the other; but were we dis¬ 
couraged? I should say not. We just 
fenced in the strip and turned it into an 
automobile highway, and now you can't 
buy property along it for less’n ten dol¬ 
lars a foot.”—Puck. 
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