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643 
The Home Acre 
The Farmer’s Home Garden 
The extension 
service of 
the Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural College 
has is.sued 
compact planting 
tables for 
liome gar- 
(lens, including a 
farmer’s 
garden cov- 
ering a space 72x150 feet. 
The follow- 
ing table is given 
for quantity and time 
of planting, also 
distance between rows 
and plants: 
Numbar 
Amount 
Crop 
of 
of 
Bows 
Seed 
Rhubarb* .... 
G hills 
Asparagus. 
2 2-3 
Cabbages . 
2 
Buy Plants 
Cabbages . 
1 
H\ 07.. 
Peas . 
2 
11-3 qts. 
Peas . 
1 
] pt. 
Radishes. 
1 
1 oz. 
Lettuce . 
«> 
V 2 oz. 
Spinach . 
2 
n % oz. 
Turnips . 
2 
1 oz. 
Onions . 
2 
1 1-2 qts. 
Par.snips . 
4 
IM: oz. 
Beets . 
2 
3 oz. 
Beets . 
2 
3 oz. 
Carrots . 
.‘1 
1% oz. 
Carrots . 
O 
• » 
IV 2 oz. 
Celery . 
2 
Buj' Plants 
Tomatoes . 
3 
Buy Plants 
Potatoes . 
4 
1 peck 
B(‘ans . 
.3 
IVa qts. 
Beans . 
;{ 
IV-z qts. 
Beans . 
2 
1 qt. 
Beans . 
4 
11/2 qts. 
Swis.s Chard... 
2 
2 oz. 
Corn . 
4 
1 pt 
Corn . 
4 
1 pt. 
Cucumbers .... 
% 
Vt oz. 
Summer Squash 
Vi 
14 oz. 
Pumpkins ..... 
1 
1/2 oz. 
Winter Squa.sh. 
1 
1 oz. 
♦Six hills,—'balance of 1st row asparagus. 
Tlie IciiKth of time necessary to grow 
vogetaLles from seed to table quality var¬ 
ies in each case, also with different var¬ 
ieties and different seasons. Radishes 
may be grown in three weeks, lettuce in 
12, snapbeans in eight, cabbage in 14. 
In order to keep the garden producing, 
a second vegetable of short season should 
be planted after the first is harvested. 
The space occupied by peas, radishes, 
lettuce, spinach, turnips and onions can 
be set to late celery (in rows four feet 
apart) after the.se crops are harvested. 
The ground should be cleared so as to 
set celery jdants by August 1. Sow one 
package of Giant Pascal seed in a small 
plot of ground about April 20. 
Trim tomato plants to one central 
stem and tie up to a stake. 
Lettuce, radishes or spinach may be 
planted either side of the Winter s(iuash 
as these crops will be harvested before 
the squashes need the room. 
Cultivate frequently; maintain two 
inches of loose soil mulch on the garden 
at all times. 
Radish seed may bo sown wfith pars¬ 
nips, about 10 seeds to the foot. The 
radishes serve to mark the rows until 
parsnips come up and may be pulled for 
the table before parsnips need the room. 
Plant turnips in space occupied by 
peas. Sow White Egg seed 1 oz. to 400 
feet of drill. 
The amount of various crops should be 
varied to meet the tastes of the individ¬ 
ual family. Probably different persons 
will desire to eliminate certain vege¬ 
tables altogether and double or triple the 
amounts of others and even add some 
vegetables which do not appear in this 
plan. 
Dewberry Culture 
Would you inform me as to the cultiva¬ 
tion of the dewberry? Does it bear crop 
first and second season after planting? 
Do they need tying to wire, or stake, or 
niuhdied; also directions as to proper 
pruning? Are they profitable as com¬ 
pared with blackberries? G. W. S. 
Sherman, N. Y. 
The dewberry is merely a blackberry 
with a trailing habit of growth, and, like 
the raspberry, has the ability to make 
plants by rooting at the tips of the cane, 
though better plants are grown from root 
cuttings just ns the blackberry and red 
rasjiberry are growui. The plants ai’C 
<rommonly set in five-foot rows and four 
feet apart iji the rows. The young canes 
grown during the Summer are trained in 
along the row's, and the following Spring 
are tied up to stakes. Various methods of 
training have been tried, and now all com¬ 
mercial growers use the stakes. The 
canes are allow’ed to lie on the ground in 
Winter as a matter of protection. In 
your section the canes will be safer if 
lightly covered. The canes of the dew- 
berry, like those of the blackberry, are 
biennial. That is, they grow one season 
and fruit the next, and then die. Dew¬ 
berries planted this Spring should have 
the canes cut back and new canes grown 
for fruiting next year. Then as soon as 
the fruiting is over the canes that have 
fruited are cut out and the plants w'ell 
cultivated to encourage the grow'th of the 
now canes. The only pruning practice! 
with the dewberry is the cutting out of 
the old canes. The dewberries cultivated 
for market are mainly the Taicretia, which 
is earlier than the blackberries and usual¬ 
ly sells for a higher price. The earliest 
Tima 
DlRtance 
Distance 
to 
between 
between 
Plant 
Plant* 
Rows 
48 
in. 
48 
in. 
48 
in. 
48 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
18 
in. 
30 
in. 
Apr. 
20 
18 
in. 
30 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
Di 
rill 
30 
in. 
Apr, 
15 
Drill 
30 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
2 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr, 
15 
12 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr. 
12 
4 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
4 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
2 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
5 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr. 
20 
4 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr. 
20 
4 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr. 
20 
3 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr, 
20 
3 
in. 
15 
in. 
Apr. 
20 
6 
in. 
24 
in. 
May 
15 
24 
in. 
30 
in. 
May 
1 
12 
in. 
30 
in. 
May 
15 
Drill 
24 
in. 
May 
15 
Drill 
24 
in. 
May 
15 
Di 
rill 
24 
in. 
May 
15 
Drill 
24 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
12 
in. 
18 
in. 
May 
15 
12 
in. 
30 
in. 
May 
15 
12 
in. 
30 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
48 
in. 
GO 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
48 
in. 
GO 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
48 
in. 
GO 
in. 
Apr. 
15 
60 
in. 
84 
in. 
dewberry is the Austin. 
It is 
a berry 
of 
fine quality. 
hut 
only suit(!d 
for a local 
market or home use, as the fruit is too 
soft for distant shipping. The Lucretia 
is about the only variety grown for early 
shipping. Then there is a late variety, 
the Atlantic, which ripens in August and 
runs into September, This is a good ship¬ 
per, but as yet has not been tested enough 
to show w’hether it will be profitable or 
not. I am inclined to think that no late 
berries will pay well unless in a season 
when the peach crop fails. Berries com¬ 
ing in in Augu.st and September will be 
likely to be overlooked by the people who 
are then buying peaches. w. F. masset. 
Mixing of Sweet and Field Corn 
How far fi-om each other is it consid¬ 
ered necessary to plant .sweet corn arrl 
yellow field corn to make certain they will 
not mix, even though they are in line with 
prevailing winds? What i.s the usual 
amount of fertilizer used to an acre of 
sweet corn? Walter a. Roberts. 
Maine. 
The corn silk of the corn ear corre¬ 
sponds to the pistil of a flower. The pol¬ 
len is produced in the tassel. This pollen 
blows around in the air, and if it does 
no fall upon the corn silk, kernels will not 
develop on the cob. An ear of corn in a 
field may be i)ollinated or ci-osswl by a 
Inindred different stalks besides with it¬ 
self, and if a stalk stands by itself most 
of the pollen from it will be lost, so that 
the ear can fill out only a few kernels. 
Fields of corn growing within a thousand 
feet of one another are apt to cross-pollin- 
ate to a slight extent, provided the two 
fields are maturing at the same time. For 
commercial purposes, how<>ver, one field 
may be maturing at the same time with¬ 
in .‘>00 feet of another without severe dan¬ 
der of cross-pollinating, but for commer¬ 
cial seed purposes the distance between 
varieties cannot be too great. Different 
varieities may be grown next to one an¬ 
other, without danger of mixing, provided 
the one variety is three weeks earlier in 
maturing than the other. 
About 500 lbs. of fertilizer analyzing 
3-9-0, will be used per acre at planting 
time in mo.st .sections. Of cour.se, the 
amount u.sed depends upon the variety of 
sweet corn and the soil, but some should 
always be used to start the crop. 
E. W. PEBAUN. 
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dear,” said IMrs. Youngbride, “I decided 
today that we would make our own.” 
“Oh, did you?” said her husband. “Yes; 
I bought a churn and ordered buttermilk 
to <be left here regularly. Won’t it be 
nice to have really fresh butter?”—Bos¬ 
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