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Copenhagen Market Cabbage. —This 
is one of the newer things which has 
proved good. It makes a capital suc¬ 
cession to the Early Jersey Wakefield and 
is a little later than the Charleston 
Wakefield. It is better for Spring sow- 
ing than for sowing in the Fall and win¬ 
tering over, for I found that treated as 
we usually do the Wakefield here, it is 
inveterately disposed to run to seed in 
Spring. But sown in a frame in Feb¬ 
ruary or early March it has not this bad 
habit. For a regular succession of cab¬ 
bage through the season I know nothing 
better than Early Wakefield, Copen¬ 
hagen Market, Succession and Late Flat 
Dutch. 
Apples In The Eastern Coast.— 
Many years ago, in the height of the 
groat peach industry in the northern part 
of the Eastern Shore of Maryland I tried 
to convince the fruit growers that apples 
would be of more permanent value, as 
the experience everywhere had been that 
the peach industry must die out, but I 
was met with the declaration that we 
could not hope to compete with New York 
State in growing apples. But the peach 
growing did die out, and here and there 
a few planted apples, many at first plant¬ 
ing only the Summer varieties, which 
proved profitable, and are still so. Then 
later experiments were made, not with 
the Baldwins and Greenings of the 
North, but with Winter apples better 
suited to the local conditions. The York 
Imperial has been found to grow finely, 
and make splendid fruit all over the pen¬ 
insula. But the increase came with the 
introduction of Stayman’s Winesap. This 
fine apple seems to be peculiarly fitted 
for perfecting its fruit on the peninsula, 
and while the books issued by the New 
York Station. “The Apples of New York,” 
makes the Stayman fairly good, but not 
suited to New York conditions, on the 
Delaware-Maryland peninsula it develops 
into what I consider the best of all Win¬ 
ter apples. Large plantings have been 
made and are constantly being increased, 
and especially in Delaware, and at the 
Maryland week shows in Baltimore the 
apples from the Eastern Shore make a 
large showing, and of the finest quality 
too. These Winter apples have been 
favored by the use of cold storage, and 
the large growers all put them in stor¬ 
age in Philadelphia. The peninsula is 
rapidly gaining a reputation for apples 
fully as great as she had formerly for 
peaches, while in some sections growers 
who take proper care of their trees are 
still finding the peach profitable. 
Making An Asparagus Bed.—A 
Maryland reader asks me how to make 
an asparagus bed, and whether it is ne¬ 
cessary to excavate and pave the bottom. 
There are many old practices in garden¬ 
ing which have been proven needless. I 
remember well in my boyhood an old 
asparagus bed, which had been dug about 
two feet deep and the bottom paved with 
brick. Why the pavement no one could 
tell me. The deep bed of compost was 
doubtless a good thing, and we would 
do a great deal better with many things 
in a heavy soil if we did more of the 
English gardeners’ trenching. But I long 
ago satisfied myself that the common 
practice of transplanting asparagus roots 
is not only more expensive, but it takes 
longer to get a crop than where the seeds 
are sown in their permanent position. 
Five years ago I made an experiment to 
show the difference between transplanted 
roots and those left undisturbed. I sowed 
a row in the manner I shall describe, 
and grew the plants one year. They 
were then thinned out and the thinnings 
transplanted to other rows. The undis¬ 
turbed roots gave me fine asparagus the 
second year, while the transplanted roots 
did not give any till the third season, and 
today the shoots on the undisturbed roots 
are stronger than those on the trans¬ 
planted ones. In preparing a bed I dig 
trenches a foot wide and 15 inches deep 
as early in Spring as the ground can be 
worked. These are filled half full of fine 
rotten manure packed down. A light 
cover of soil is added and the seed sown 
thinly in the row, the trenches being 
four feet apart. As soon as the seed¬ 
lings are a few inches high they are 
thinned to two feet apart, and the soil 
is worked to them as they grow till level. 
During the Spring and Summer two ap¬ 
plications of nitrate of soda are applied 
alongside the rows, care being taken that 
it does not touch the plants. This is 
done at rate of 150 pounds an acre, and 
the cultivation is clean till Fall. The 
whole bed then is given a heavy applica¬ 
tion of kainit and covered with stable 
manure for the Winter. The next Sum¬ 
mer the process is repeated, and the fol¬ 
lowing Spring cutting can begin. But the 
annual feeding should be kept up. for 
heavy feeding is the way to make fat 
shoots. If it is desired to cut the half 
white shoots the earth should be well 
ridged over the rows in Spring and the 
shoots cut under ground as soon as they 
show, but I want only the green shoots 
and cut on the surface or nearly so. 
Most of the eastern markets are now pay¬ 
ing more for green asparagus than the 
blanched. Growing asparagus from seed 
and the roots undisturbed will give cut¬ 
tings a year sooner than the roots, and 
is far cheaper where one has to buy 
either. Read this in connection with my 
reply to another on page 94. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Available Bulletins. 
The satisfaction which silage has af¬ 
forded as feed for dairy and beef cattle, 
has led the University of Missouri to pub¬ 
lish Circular No. 72, “Silage for Horses 
and Mules.” This may be secured from 
Agricultural College, Columbia, Mo. It 
advises substituting two pounds of silage 
for one pound of bay. Horses at hard 
work should not be expected to eat large 
quantities of silage, and its feeding should 
be gradually increased. Do not use 
spoiled silage. If dry corn is put in silo 
one pound of water should be added for 
each pound of corn fodder. It is prac¬ 
tical only on farms where water can be 
supplied, and the silage is unequal to that 
which is ensiled at the proper time. The 
Experiment Station at Columbia, Mo., 
has issued circular 71 discussing “Shock 
Corn for Silage.” Corn silage, clover 
hay and grain is a superior ration for 
breeding ewes. Bulletin No. 120 of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Colum¬ 
bia, Mo., deals with “Rations for Breed¬ 
ing Ewes” and above in particular. This 
bulletin should be in the hands of every 
feeder. 
Protect the temper of your tools, and 
it will increase their disposition toward 
work. Prof. Wilson of Colorado says: 
“When you make sparks or turn blue 
spots on the edge of a tool you are in¬ 
juring it. There are two ways by which 
heat may injure the metal of the tool. 
One way is by drawing the temper, and 
the other is by burning the edge causing 
it to crumble. Be patient when grinding 
tools, take plenty of time and do the work 
thoroughly, and you will be rewarded by 
having tools that will hold their edge and 
will do good smooth work.” 
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the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, of 
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The grower, Mr. Joseph A. Fagan, described the crop 
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