RURAL NEW-YORKER 
37 
Garden and Farm Notes 
Market Garden Cultivator 
It seems to me, owing to the scarcity 
of farm help, that there could be a tool 
made, either spring-tooth or disk har¬ 
row, for one horse, to follow in the 
furrow after a plow. I saw something 
in The R. N.-Y. last Spring about the 
Boston market gardeners having such a 
tool, horse to walk in the furrow. Would 
vou ask for suggestions? M. A. 
* Burt, N. Y. 
The market garden cultivator has the 
handle and hitch at one side, so that it 
tra\fcls at the left of the fuiTow. I see 
no r. .on why almost any harrow or cul¬ 
tivator section might not be made to 
run that way The plow turns a very 
wide furrow in the mellow garden soil, 
and a horse drawing the cultivator, or 
harrow rather, follows in the furrow 
right behind the plow. It fines the lumps 
and saves a lot of work with rakes when 
preparing to drill beets, onions and such 
crops. Common harrows would not he 
used, because the horses would tramp 
the soil too much. c. B. F. 
Apricots Fail to Bloom 
Will you tell me why my apricot trees 
do not bear fruit? They are in a posi¬ 
tion to obtain sun and air .“IGO days a 
year. j. ir. s. 
Mousey, N. Y. 
Apricot trees do not come into bearing 
as early in life as the peach, i)erhaps 
these trees have not yet i-eached bearing 
age. Do not cut them out until you are 
sure they ai‘e old enough to bear fruit. 
In very cold sections they frequently 
winter-kill. If e.xainined in March it 
will be revealed if there are any blossom 
buds on the trees, and if they are winter- 
killed or not. If blossom buds are found 
and they are froicen, the heart of the hud 
will be dark; if alive they will show 
bright and fresh. K. 
Blackberries and Blackcap Raspberries 
I have a small patch of blackberries. 
I would like your 'advice as to what kind 
to put out; what I have are iNlersereau. 
They are good, but have rusted badly the 
last two or three yeans. How far apart 
should they be set, and how thick should 
they he allowed to get? Is it possible 
to keep them in bunches like blackcaps? 
^^'hat variety of blackcaps would you 
jidvise? What about l*lum Parmer? Is 
it better than the old varieties? P. V. 
Oxford, N. J. 
The Eldorado blackberry is nearly, or 
quite, rust-proof. This variety is valued 
especially for its rich sweet flavor and 
hardiness of cane. There is also an¬ 
other variety of quite recent introduction 
that has been named Joy by the intro¬ 
ducer. This berry seems to he of ex¬ 
ceptional value in several respects. The 
writer had it under observation the past 
.season, and noted the following: The 
plant is very vigorous, producing canes 
of such stocky and .sturdy growth as not 
to ie(|uire artificial svii)port in the way of 
staking. It is an enormous Ix'arer of 
hirgt', nearly round, coal black berries of 
splendid flavor. It is said by the intro¬ 
ducer to be of ironclad hai-diness and ab- 
.solutely rust-proof. The small patch un¬ 
der observation was surrounded by other 
sorts that were badly affected with rust, 
but the Joy showed not the least trace 
of rust. 
I’lants for horse culture should be set 
in rows eight feet apart and two to three 
fe( t apart in the row. For garden cul¬ 
ture where the work has to be performed 
by hand the rows may be about six feet 
apart. It is a hard matter to keep such 
plants as blackberries and red raspber¬ 
ries that throw up suckers from the 
roots, in hills. It may be successfully 
accomplished the first two or three years 
after planting, by promptly chopping out 
all suckers with the hoe, but one w’ill 
tire of the job by and by, and let them 
grow. Mo.st growers permit the plants 
to form a hedge 15 to 18 inches wide and 
keep all plants that come up outside of 
this strip cut out and destroyed with 
the hoe or cultivator. When plants are 
thus grown they are usually thinned to 
stand a foot or so apart. 
Blackcap varieties of exceptional merit 
are not numerous. Of the older sorts 
the Cumberland perhaps stands at the 
head of the list. It is a strong vigorous 
grower and very hardy. The berries are 
very large and of excellent quality. Plum 
Farmer is rapidly growing in favor. 
The growth is vigorous and the canes 
very hardy and prolific. Berries are 
large, of meaty texture and very firm. 
In quality it ranks very high. It has, 
however, one drawback that counts 
against it as a market berry, and that is 
its color, which is black with a grayish 
cast, which gives it a mildewed or mouldy 
appearance. Blackcaps are usually 
planted in rows .six feet apart and 30 
inches apart in the row. For garden 
culture the rows may be a foot closer 
together. k. 
Sweet Corn in Storage 
We have had several letters about 
frozen sweet corn preseiwed in cold stor¬ 
age. It seems that quite large quantities 
of sweet corn are kept in this way— 
used as “fresh” corn on the cob during 
the Winter. Mr. Madison Cooper ob¬ 
tained the following information for us: 
In response to an inquiry, Mr. Jas. 
S. Eckman, manager Booth Cold Stor¬ 
age Co., St. Paul, Minn., gives informa¬ 
tion on this subject, which was men¬ 
tioned in the September 1010 issue of 
Cold, as follows: 
‘Afost of the corn that we have stored 
in this warehou.se has been packed in 
boxes averaging 10 dozen to the box, but 
we have a great deal of corn that is 
stored in sacks just the way it comes 
from the farmer. We carry same in a 
zero temperature and there is no change 
whatever in the quality of the corn, un¬ 
less carried over a year. The only thing 
that must be watched closely is the han¬ 
dling after it is taken out of the freezer, 
because after it is thawed out it must 
only be cooked in boiling water about 
five minutes._ instead of 10 to 15 min¬ 
utes, which is the usual procedure with 
the fresh corn.” 
_It would seem that temperatures of 
15 to 20 deg. would answer the pur¬ 
pose of freezing sweet corn in storage 
very nicely for a period of four to six 
months or less, and although in this case 
zero was emi)loyed there is no reason 
why those who cannot well maintain 
zero temperatures should not be able to 
h.'indle sweet corn successfully. It seems 
that there are some great possibilities 
along this line. 
Sudan Grass as Hay 
When the farmers of the Soiitheastern 
States began experimenting with Sudan 
grass as a hay crop, the imprc.ssion got 
out that, while the hay crop could be 
grown successfully here, we would he 
compelled to send West for our seed. 
Sudan grass as a hay crop has passed 
the experimental stage, and is now one 
of the fixed sources of hay for the South 
Atlantic St.ates, yielding enormous crops 
of high-class hay. Where enough seed 
is used to get a thick .stand—20 to 30 
lbs. of seed per acre—the hay is fine and 
easily cured, being less damaged by rains 
than any other hay I have seen grown. 
I.ast year, a few farmers tried saving 
seed, 'and these showed up well when 
plant'd last Spring. One farmer failed 
to cut a piece of the grass last year. 
AVhen he began plowing the land last 
Spring for corn, he found that he had a 
dense stand of the grass self-.seeded. A 
few farmers tried saving more seed this 
year, and the seed saved seems fully 
equal to the best Texas seed. One far¬ 
mer near the North Carolina-Virginia 
line planted two pounds of seed, in rows, 
ami harvested 350 pounds of as good 
seed as I have seen, lie thrashed out 
the .seed in an ordinary grain thrasher, 
and, probably, failed to get all the seed. 
IIis stock seem to eat and relish the 
hay, ripe as it was cut, as well as the 
imported baled hay. 
In the eastern half of North Caro¬ 
lina, the Sudan grass, planted early in 
^lay, gives three cuttings, and then some 
Fall pasture, for the first light frosts 
do not always kill it. It seems to be a 
deep feeder, drawing largely from the 
subsoil. It is not a poor land crop, 
though, and one young farmer who sowed 
five acres of his tobacco land to the grass 
(against the advice of the county agent) 
had a complete failure. 
With this valuable grass added to the 
hay crops already being grown, it will 
not be long before the Northern farmers 
will have to look el.sewhere than to the 
South for a market for their hay. With 
the longer growing season and the ease 
with which the depleted soils can be built 
up, the Carolinas can easily grow hay, 
either grass or legume, at half the cost 
of growung it in the North. F. A. brown. 
I’erson Co., N. C. 
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