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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
P ROFIT AND LOSS.—Mr. Wakeman 
(page 212) seems to have been un¬ 
fortunate in his shipments. He lost 
money on early apples, while I know of 
men here who annually make money with 
them, and while doubtless there are peach 
orchards that have been neglected and 
have got so full of disease that the best 
thing was to pull them up, yet right in 
this section is a large orchard, cared for 
in the most exact way, which has cleared 
the owners over $25,000 a year for the 
past two seasons. Shipping tomatoes 
north late in the Fall is a pretty sure 
_ way to get a freight bill, for the North¬ 
ern growers are then crowding the mar¬ 
ket to get out of reach of frost. It is 
all a matter of a man’s understanding his 
business and watching the markets. If 
Mr. Wakeman would put tomatoes on the 
market from mid-June to mid-July he 
would make enough to pay the freight 
and a good profit besides. 
Tomatoes. —A correspondent writes: 
“You made a very unfavorable report on 
the John Baer tomato in The R. N.-YL 
I notice that a great many reports are 
being published that differ from yours. 
IIow is this?” It is hard for everyone 
to agree on any matter. I found that 
the John Baer with me was not as early 
as Earliana by a considerable period of 
time. It is really a very good, smooth 
and solid red tomato, but to me looked 
so much like Chalk’s Jewell that I could 
not see the great difference that some see. 
It appears to me that the John Baer and 
Bonny Best are both selections from 
Chalk’s Jewell. In regard to the John 
Baer I take the following from the field 
notes of one of the leading seedsmen of 
Philadelphia on his test farm last Hum¬ 
mer : “This is a fine, medium to large 
tomato, red-skinned, good cropper, shape 
similar to Bonny Best. Would class it 
as a good second early sort.” A test 
like this by a skilled grower with many 
other sorts at hand to compare it with 
is worth far more than the reports of 
amateurs who have not the means for 
comparison. I am trying the John Baer 
again right along with Bonny Best, 
Chalk’s Jewell and Earliana, and the 
seed is already sown in the greenhouse. 
Then I shall plant all in the open ground 
to compare earliness under perfectly 
natural conditions. The John Baer is 
certainly a good tomato, and so are 
Bonny Best and Chalk’s Jewell. 
Strawberries. — 1 Trucker Jr. well says 
that Gandy is a fine market berry on 
some soils. Here it does finely on the 
black low lands reclaimed from swamp. 
But on our high dry soils the Chesapeake 
will beat it a long way. Gandy is es¬ 
pecially adapted to the best strawberry 
soils, the moist black soil. 
Rose-Chafers. —If that carbolic emul¬ 
sion will destroy rose-bugs it will do a 
good work, for here they will destroy all 
our grapes if not checked, as they swarm 
on the unopened blossoms and eat them 
up. Last Summer I found that spraying 
with lead arsenate, one pound in 35 gal¬ 
lons of water, with two quarts of corn 
syrup added, seemed to be effective. But 
I intend to try the carbolic emulsion too. 
Sparrows. —Sparrows are very thick 
in the denser parts of our town, but out 
at my place I keep a little Winchester 
rifle loaded with small shot, cartridges, 
and whenever a flock makes its appear¬ 
ance I go to gunning. They have learned 
that my garden is a dangerous place, and 
now I seldom see one here. 
Value Of Legumes. —The editor says: 
"If it. were possible for farmers jn the Far 
North to use Crimson clover, cow peas 
and Soy beans, as is done in the South, 
that northern section would be a garden 
spot.” And then they would not need 
the weedy Sweet clover, as I have told 
our friends who are insisting that I am 
wrong in not wanting Sweet clover down 
here. And what a garden the South 
would be if every farmer fully understood 
what he can do with the legumes that 
are so especially suited to his needs. But 
I had some well-ripened peas of the early 
Black Eye cow pea sent me last Fall 
from Iowa. The grower went there from 
Arkansas, and says that he has got this 
pea well acclimated in Iowa. Another 
grower in Michigan sent me seed of what 
they call the Michigan Favorite cow pea, 
and said that he had ripened 50 bushels. 
Thus it would seem that in some varieties 
the Southern cow pea can be acclimated 
in the North. A dairyman in Vermont 
wrote me that ho is growing an early 
cow pea. and finds them very useful. An¬ 
other man on Lake Erie, in Ohio, wrote 
that he sowed some cow peas and made 
a failure, but he sowed the same land 
again the next season and made a fine 
crop, as the previous sowing seemed to 
have inoculated the soil. 
“Remf.m her Tiie Potato.” — I fear that 
many will remember it sadly this season, 
for thousands of farmers all over the 
South are planting early potatoes in their 
despair of cotton, and I fear the result 
will be disastrous to many. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Nursery Trees by Parcel Post. 
The picture shown on page 393 repre¬ 
sents a package of nursery trees sent by 
parcel post from Missouri to New York. 
The picture shows a number of trees and 
their comparative size. The postage on 
these trees was 49 cents, and they came 
through in excellent condition, rapidly, 
and so well packed that the roots were 
in good shape. Many nursery men are 
not making much use of parcel post in 
the shipment of trees. For strawberries, 
bush fruits and similar plants or vines, 
the parcel post offers good opportunities 
for shipping, and most nurserymen are 
making much use of it. Somehow they 
have not taken it up extensively for nurs¬ 
ery trees, yet the picture shows what can 
be done with yearling trees in this way. 
Most planters are now agreed that they 
prefer the yearling trees, well grown, but 
not too large. The advantage from plant¬ 
ing these little trees is now well under¬ 
stood ; it is easier to plant them, and by 
cutting them back to a single stick of 
whip we may have full control of the 
growth and shape of the head. There 
are those who still prefer the larger tree, 
but we think the majority of growers are 
coming more and more to the smaller- 
sizo. but thoroughly well-grown nursery 
stock. Where a grower has patronized 
the nurseryman for a number of years, 
and has full confidence in his judgment 
and integrity, it might easily be ar¬ 
ranged to have the nurseryman trim the 
trees before they are shipped. By clip¬ 
ping off the tops as agreed, some of the 
cost of shipping by parcel post could be 
saved, and the package made smaller, and 
thus less liable to be injured. The same 
thing could bo done in clipping or prun¬ 
ing the roots after the buyer and seller | 
came to understand each other so as to 
know just what was wanted. We think 
this plan of parcel post shipping for 
trees will develop, and it is a good thing 
to encourage. 
Quince Trees as Fillers. 
W OT LD it be practical to plant as 
fillers, quinces, in a one-year apple 
orchard, in the tree rows only? 
Elevation 800 feet, soil red clay, apple 
trees 36 feet apart. What varieties 
would you advise? I was thinking of 
planting one-half each of Van Deman 
and Meech Prolific. I understand some 
varieties are shy bearers and poor ship¬ 
pers. There is an old quince tree in my 
yard that the natives claim to be 50 
years of age. It will bear every year. 
Shipman, Va. g. m. j. 
It would be a practical plan to plant 
quince trees as fillers in a young apple 
orchard that is set in rows 36 feet apart. 
The quince trees need the same culture 
and spraying as apple trees. They will 
grow very slowly and not interfere with 
each other for many years. The Grange 
is the best variety for general purposes, 
and I would advise planting about half 
of it and the rest to Van Deman and 
Champion. These two are later in ripen¬ 
ing and this is an advantage in market¬ 
ing the crop. Meech is a good quince, 
but has a neck at the stem that is an ob¬ 
jection in the way of shape. Trees can 
be had from most nurseries. 
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