THE R.UKA.L, NEW-YORKER 
1157 
The Home Acre 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 
Spinach. —The first sowing of spinach 
is up and nearly large enough for cut¬ 
ting, and the crab grass has tried to 
beat it, so that there base been a great 
deal of weeding. The second sowing will 
now be made, and about the last of Sep¬ 
tember I expect to make the sowing for 
Spring cutting. The earlier sowings are 
made in rows in order to keep the plants 
clean from the persistent crab grass, but 
the last sowing will be made broadcast, 
for the plants always seem to winter 
better by protecting each other. I had 
always thought that broadcast sowing of 
vegetable crops was a lazy man’s plan, 
but noting the success that the Baltimore 
truckers have by late broadcast sowing 
I determined to try it, and have found 
that it is best for the crop that is to 
winter over. 
Fall Onions. —With the coming of 
September the Fall planting of onion 
sets is one of the leading matters to be 
attended to. I plant sets of the Norfolk 
Queen for early green onions and the 
Yellow Potato onion for ripe onions, and 
also use the offsets for green onions 
after the Queens are used up. This Nor¬ 
folk Queen is not the little Queen of 
the Northern catalogues, but a large 
white onion, and very early. It is sim¬ 
ilar to the Pearl, but earlier and larger. 
So far as I know it is sold by Norfolk 
seedsmen only, and came to them from 
Vilmorin Andrieux & Co. of Paris. I 
have sometimes had them large enough 
for use the last of February 
Eggplants. —I have grown this year 
two varieties of eggplants, Maule’s Ex¬ 
celsior of the New Y'ork type and Black 
Beauty. The Excelsior seems to be rath¬ 
er more prolific than the Black Beauty, 
but is apt to be pinkish in color and 
somewhat elongated, while the Black 
Beauty is round and glossy black. For 
home use I rather prefer the Black 
Beauty. 
Pole Beans. —The Berger Green Pod 
stringless bean, a climbing bean, has 
given a wonderful crop this season, not 
only of the green pods nearly all Sum¬ 
mer, but an abundance of the ripe beans 
for Winter use. This bean is called by 
some the White Kentucky Wonder, and 
it comes in very nicely here, where 
the navy beans do not do as well as 
northward. It seems to be an improve¬ 
ment on the old Dutch Casokuife bean, 
the cornfield bean of our fathers. 
Late A\ atermelons. —As an experi¬ 
ment this season I planted watermelons 
after the early Irish potatoes in order to 
see if we could mature some late .melons. 
These are now full of young melons about 
half grown, August 31. Of course we are 
now in the midst of the watermelon sea¬ 
son, and I can buy fine melons cheaper 
than I can grow them in the garden, but 
I thought to get some after the season 
was over when I could not buy them. 
Perhaps I may fail, but I will have had 
the fun of making the experiment. 
Tomatoes. —The early tomatoes were 
cleaned up some time ago, and the land is 
now in kale and spinach. The vines were 
not dead, but the later fruits on these early 
plants are inferior, and the later varie¬ 
ties came in with their finest product and 
we no longer had use for the early ones. 
These later plants of Matchless, Magnifi¬ 
cent, Success and Globe are now giving 
us a super-abundance of splendid fruits 
and will continue to do so till frost. 
Then, when real frost threatens, I 
gather all the well-grown green toma¬ 
toes and wrap each in paper and store 
in a crate in a cool place, bringing a few 
at a time into a sunny window of the 
kitchen to ripen, and in this way I have 
had tomatoes for slicing till Christmas. 
Tomatoes are grown here on thousands 
of acres, and for canning purposes we 
can buy them cheaper than we can grow 
them largely in the garden, so that we 
only attempt a slicing supply and for 
daily cooking from the garden. Not¬ 
withstanding the lower prices paid by the 
canners it seems that a larger area has 
been planted to tomatoes this year than 
last, and the crop is unusually heavy. 
While not paying largely, the tomato crop 
is very useful to our farmers in bring¬ 
ing in cash money in the Fall. Hence 
there is a field of tomatoes on every farm. 
Asters. —In the flower garden the 
most showy thing is a bed of China 
asters of the Crego type. 10 feet wide 
and 30 feet long. In the favorable weath¬ 
er they have made a wonderful growth 
and bloom. The flowers are selling to the 
trade for 75 cents a hundred, and I am 
careful to leave the finest and best for 
seed, for I find that I can get excellent 
results from home-grown seed. This 
same bed was in asters two years ago, 
and this Spring there were still many 
volunteer plants. In setting the bed I 
kept these in order to note what the 
flowers would be, and I have been grat¬ 
ified to find that these volunteer plants 
are making as many and as fine flowers 
as those from the purchased seed. There¬ 
fore I shall save more seed than ever. I 
have a large quantity of peonies, but it is 
useless to grow them here. They grow 
all right, but do not make flowers enough 
to make them profitable for bloom. 
Maryland. w. F. MASSEY. 
Raising Rabbits for Market. 
Babbits have long been enjoyed as pets 
and occasionally raised to supply the 
home table, but comparatively few peo¬ 
ple know of them as a marketable pro¬ 
duct. Common rabbits six months old or 
“full grown,” bring ,$1.50 per pair in New 
York markets, while smaller ones sell by 
the pound, bringing 17 or 18 cents per 
pound. Possibly Belgian hares sell for 
more, but these are the prices paid in the 
past two years for common rabbits. 
Our experience began with just a pair 
given the little girls for pets. We all fed 
and played with them, and when there 
was more than a houseful of little ones we 
could not think of killing them. During 
the Winter we pressed into service all the 
empty colony houses. When those were 
full and still newcomers to provide for 
we decided to make a shipment of them. 
Neighbors smiled when we shipped rab¬ 
bits, but when the check came we smiled 
and began to consider our bunnie colony 
more seriously. 
There is very little expense to their 
keeping; we buy only a little grain for 
them. Hay is raised on the place and 
for the rest, it is mostly waste from the 
house and garden. We have learned 
about them only from experience and from 
a small bulletin put out by the U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. They are quite 
hardy and require only a little good judg¬ 
ment used about their food and care to 
bring quite good results. 
Individual hutches are necessary for all 
mother rabbits and for the old males. 
Dry-goods boxes answer the purpose quite 
well if one does not wish to build a rab- 
bitery. Have roof and floor water-tight, 
the front made to admit plenty of light 
and air, but to exclude the storm. Sup¬ 
ply each hutch with a nest box about 18 
inches square with a small hole cut in one 
side, and plenty of dry straw or leaves. 
Hutches shoul 1 be cleaned every week or 
oftener. 
Young rabbits can be kept in flocks of 
15 or more for several months. Of course 
their pen must be large aud airy to fur¬ 
nish them a place to exercise An old 
granary or corncrib furnished a place for 
our flock. In these days of silos and 
green cut oats, etc., it stood empty. 
Boards were laid on the slatted floor, and 
how the bunnies do love to scamper 
around in there. We feed them hay and 
grain always. The grain is more often 
oats but varied with wheat bran, cracked 
corn or mixed grains. 
They are given water once a day and 
some kind of green feed such as green 
clover, dandelions, narrow dock, or almost 
any weed, cabbage, turnips, carrots, let¬ 
tuce, apples and potato peelings, and al¬ 
most everything that grows. The dan¬ 
ger lies in their over-eating of green foods, 
while too young. It causes a looseness of 
the bowels and finally death. 
The litters should come every 00 days 
and number from six to eleven. Wean 
them at about five weeks old, taking out 
two every day until all ar* out. Any ac¬ 
tive boy or girl can care for six or eight 
mother rabbits and realize a nice lot of 
pin money therefrom. 
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