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THE KURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 20, 
Th<* nihivatious should be frequent and 
not uu»re than two to three inches in 
depth. The first cultivation should be 
deepest and the succeeding cultivations 
should gradually become shallower. Beans 
should never be cultivated*while dew is 
on the vines, since disease spreads very 
easily at this time. Fiitber the walking 
< ultivator or the two-horse cultivator 
may be used. The bean harvester is or¬ 
dinarily used. This machine is construct¬ 
ed on the principle of a large pair of 
shears which are set in a framework. 
The long sliear-like blades cut the bean 
plant just under the ground. Two rows 
are cut at a time and they are thrown to¬ 
gether in a single window. The heaps are 
(hen carried to the barn and thrashed 
after cold weather. A common grain 
(brasher cannot do the work well and a 
special bean thrasher is commonly used. 
F. w. L. 
APPLES—A BADGE OF SHAME. 
T HE picture on page 247 shows a cou¬ 
ple of apples as they came out of a 
barrel packed and irked under the 
New York law. TL.s barrel was bought 
by a man in Pennsylvania who expected 
from what he had heard of the New York 
law a fine pack and excellent fruit. At 
both ends of the barrel he found fruit 
like the larger apple here shown. This 
fruit was good in size and quality; quite 
satisfactory. When he got down into the 
barrel, however, he found fruit like the 
little one shown in this picture. Per¬ 
haps one-third or more of the fruit in 
the barrel was of this size and general 
character. Of course, this made a per¬ 
fectly disgusted customer. Tie had 
bought considerable of the fruit, expecting 
both to use and sell, and this kind of 
packing practically ruined bis trade, and 
certainly destroyed his faith in the hon¬ 
esty of New York State packers. It was 
a most unfortunate thing that some dis¬ 
honest packer palmed off this class of 
goods. It not only ruins the reputation 
of New York State fruit, but it destroys 
faith in legislation to try to improve the 
situation and give honest men a chance 
(o reap a fair reward for their skill and 
care in grading and packing. We have 
had many reports from parties outside the 
State regarding just this class of work. 
In one case in a neighboring State a man 
felt so sure of this New York law that 
lie bought several carloads of apples, 
packed and branded under the law. The 
tops looked right, and this man was so 
sure of the New York brand that he sold 
these apples without particular investiga¬ 
tion. His customers immediately began 
complaint, for in almost every case little 
apples like the one shown in the picture, 
and even worse, were found in the middle 
of the barrel. The average would be 10 
to 25 quarts of cider apples in these bar¬ 
rels which were packed and branded as 
first class. 
Any man who knows about the apple 
business will realize what a hideous in¬ 
jury this does to N"' York State fruit 
interests. There has’ been trouble enough 
in the past, but this will give us even 
a poorer reputation for our New York 
apples than we have ever had before. 
These men who feel that they have been 
swindled appealed to the authorities in 
New York to see if they could not obtain 
legal redress. They have been told that 
there is no chance for them. The excuse 
given is that this apple law was not 
made specifically a part of the Agricul¬ 
tural Law, and that therefore the Agri¬ 
cultural Department has no way of le¬ 
gally enforcing the law and bringing of¬ 
fenders to justice. The Attorney General 
apparently will not t - ’ n up these cases, 
and there the matter tests at present. An 
effort will be made during the present 
Legislature to amend the law in various 
ways, one in particular being to overcome 
this objection, making the law a part 
of the Agricultural Law, so that it can 
be enforced. We find at all the fruit 
growers’ meetings, and all through the 
fruit growing districts, a warm discus¬ 
sion over the law and its workings. A 
very large proportion of business-like 
fruit growers want the law changed in 
several respects. There are questions in¬ 
volved which ought to be thoroughly 
thrashed out through an open discussion. 
We shall give next week the views of 
several fruit growers who believe that 
the law ought to be changed, starting the 
discussion in this way in order that it 
may be fully carried out while the Legis¬ 
lature is in session. Evidently something 
has to be done, and done promptly, if 
we are to have any law in the State 
which will protect our apple growers and 
give them a fair show. 
VINES FOR SCREENING HOUSE. 
W ILL it be a practical success to use 
a perennial vine as a sun screen 
in Summer, and a wind-break for 
Winter, to be used on west exposure of 
bungalow? Bungalow has steel shingles, 
('an you suggest some paint or other 
treatment to overcome the enormous heat 
absorption of the same? it. F. B. 
Dunn Loring, Va. 
The native honeysuckle (Lonicera 
sempervii ns) or Hall’s Japan honey¬ 
suckle (L. Halleana) are admirably 
suited for the purpose. Both species are 
rampant growers and are practically 
evergreen. They will thrive in almost 
any kind of soil, and may be grown to 
almost any desired height. All that is 
necessary is to provide some kind of 
support for them to climb on and they 
will soon reach the top. When used for 
porch screens or wind-break perhaps the 
best support that can be provided for 
them is the two-incli-mesh poultry net¬ 
ting. For porch screen the netting may 
be stapled to the cornice for top anchor¬ 
age, and to a cross piece of 2x3, spiked 
to stout stakes driven in the ground for 
bottom anchor. For wind-break heavy 
posts of the desired height should be set 
firmly in the ground seven or eight feet 
apart, to which the poultry netting 
should be securely stapled, and to pro¬ 
vide additional strength or carrying ca¬ 
pacity at the top, a strand of No. 10 
galvanized wire should be woven in the 
upper meshes of the netting, tightly 
stretched and securely stapled to the 
posts. Set the plants 2*4 to three feet 
apart. One or two-year-old plants can 
be procured from any of the leading 
nurserymen or seed and plant firms at 
nominal cost. 
Steel roofing is a great absorber of 
heat and cold, being extremely hot in 
Summer and cold in Winter, and when 
used on low dwellings, without heavy 
sheathing beneath, the inhabitants are 
sure to suffer from these extremes dur¬ 
ing these seasons. Metal roofing should 
always be laid on seven-eighths matched 
sheathing. The wood will act as an absorb¬ 
ent and deterrent to the extreme heat or 
cold attracted and absorbed by the metal, 
and reduce its effect on the interior tem¬ 
perature of the dwelling to a minimum. I 
know of nothing in the way of paint or 
other like material, that will neutralize 
the effect of the sun on metal roofing. 
By painting the roof white, it will ab¬ 
sorb somewhat less heat from the sun, 
but the relief thus obtained will not be 
noticeable to any appreciable extent. 
K. 
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R epelling cabbage maggot 
—Noticing the inquiry how to keep 
the cabbage maggot away, I have 
used the following for at least 40 years 
with success. Get a barrel of fresh lime 
empty it on the ground under a shoe 
where it will not come in contact wit! 
any inflammable material. Pour over 11 
at least half a gallon of crude carbolic 
acid. It will gradually slake into a dry 
pink powder, then put it away in boxes 
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onion, radish, turnips, cabbage and cauli¬ 
flower as they break out of the ground, 
and over the cabbage and cauliflower 
ground after transplanting every few 
days, and after every rain. Do it the 
day you transplant your stuff before the 
fly gets a chance to lay the eggs around 
the stalks. The odor from the carbolic 
keeps the fly away. I use an old tin pail 
and garden trowel to apply it with. Keep 
it off your bands. m. j. h. 
Lamps For Destroying Moras.—I 
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be almost white with the moth or miller 
that lays the egg. being attracted there 
by the light. If lights were arranged so 
they could fly into them wouldn’t it be 
the means of destroying millions easier 
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