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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
It is setting .somewhat more like 
Spring. The first cutting of asparagiis 
has been made two weeks later than in 
some seasons, the spinach is running to 
seed and the mocking-birds are liere. 
These do not come with the robins, and 
we rarel.v hear the morning song of the 
mocking-bird till frost is about over. 
My fir.st i)lanting of corn appeared above 
ground Ai)ril IDth, and now, five days 
later, it can be seen all down the rows. 
The market growers have largely finished 
the planting of the cantaloupes, water¬ 
melons and ciicumbei-s, and have spotted 
out the tomato plants in the frames. 
My early tomato plants have had the 
sashes entirely off them for a week, but 
knowing the treachery of April I have 
not yet trusted any in the open garden, 
though the stakes are set for them and 
the soil well manured. Those set out 
without stakes are easily protected by 
the cardboard protectors, but when set 
to stakes it is rather hard to protect 
from fro.st, except by bending the jdants 
over and covering with the soil. 
The .short-tailed field mice have as 
usual (tone a great deal of damage in 
the tnlij) bed.s. Tliey seem to be es¬ 
pecially fond of tulip bulbs, while hy¬ 
acinths nearby are not damaged. No¬ 
ticing as the tulips appeared that there 
were vacancies and continuous failing 
of plants I opened every mole run in 
several places and stuffed in the bran 
and Paris green that had l)cen made up 
for the cutworms, and I have not .seen 
a tulip attacked since- Hereafter I 
shall get this into the runs in AVinter, 
for they work all Winter. 
A seed-sman friend said to me that 
the talk about gardens in the ’backyards 
has made the work of the seedsmen dif¬ 
ficult, as the putting up of such a host 
of little orders has involved .a very large 
amount of w()rk. He said that he had 
sold potatoes in orders of a single quart 
for the backyard planting. If the back¬ 
yard gardeners do not -11 get discouraged 
this season they may accomplish some¬ 
thing another Hummer. I’assiug along 
one of our .streets a few days ago I no¬ 
ticed one front lawn broken up and 
planted in English peas, onions and kale. 
Potatoes are already getting some¬ 
what tower in anticipation of the com¬ 
ing of the great Virgina crop in a little 
over a month. They are retailing now 
in small quantities at rate of .$2.40 a 
bushel, which is considerably less than $4 
of some time ago. 
Our county agent had a call from a 
grower whose tomato plants were at¬ 
tacked by an in.sect, big bugs and little 
bugs, he said. I went out with the 
agent and found the man busy sotting to¬ 
mato plants from hotbed to frame, and 
tlie soil in the hotbed was literally full 
of gray root aphides, hut we did not 
find any of the big bug.s he had de¬ 
scribed, and which were probably in his 
imagination. Tlie use of one* of the 
solutions of sulphate of nicotine Avas ad- 
vi.sed and doubtless will clear the plants 
of^ the pest. But one of the strange.st 
failures of our tomato growers is the 
general neglect of spraying, and the con¬ 
sequent loss of leaves from blight. Of 
course Avith most of the leaves gone 
tliere can be no proper development of 
the fruit, and the result is the vei-y gen¬ 
eral low average of i)rodnction per acre. 
And the same neglect is noticed in other 
crops. In field after field of muskmelons 
one can see areas of rust Avhich could 
have been prevented. And while -many 
Avill spray their potatoes to destroy the 
Colorado beetles they fail to understand 
that the poison could be used with the 
Bordeaux mixture and the early blight 
prevented at .same time. In fiicL as our 
county agent remarked, tliore are very 
many who do not do as avoII as they 
knoAv how. w. r. Massey. 
battle hydroaeroplanes is also under way. 
The ncAv Avireless station Avill have a 
sending radius of approximately three- 
fourths of the distance around the globe, 
making pos,sible direct communication 
Avith the Philippines and other insAilar 
po.ssessions of the United States. The 
aerial structure Avill be more than 700 
feet high. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—April 21 
Avas “Agricultural JMobilization Day” in 
all the farming communities of New York 
State._ Gov, Whitman so designated this 
date in a proclamation issued on Ai)ril 
p. The purpose was to aAvaken the 
farmers to the realization that they will 
be called upon to settle what the Gover¬ 
nor terms “the greatest food production 
problems that they haA’e CA’er been called 
upon to meet.” The farmers assembled 
in their respective communities through 
their organizations. Reports were made 
to them bearing on the present situa¬ 
tion and plans will be formulated to meet 
the food production problems. It is the 
Governor's ambition to have this Htate 
surpass all former records in food pr.>- 
duction. 
In view of the heavy militarv needs 
and in order to maintain the exp( rt of 
wool a.s far as possible, the Briti h War 
Office has decided to take steps to ac¬ 
cumulate a considerable reserve of aa'ooI 
in Great Britain and has prohibited all 
sales of wool or tops until further notice. 
It has also suspended distribution of 
wool by the Government until after May. 
Manufncturesr are nrgc'd to economize 
as much as possible in the u.se of wool, 
utilizing substitutes AvliercA'cr they can 
f<»r the needs of civilians and leaving 
Avool stocks for the GoA’ernment or for 
export. 
At the suggestion of Herbert C. 
Hoover, chairman of tre National f'om- 
mission on Food Supply, and Col. Theo¬ 
dore Roosevelt, 282,000 Boy Scouts of 
America are going to begin raising food¬ 
stuffs. especially beans, to feed the armies 
of Europe and the ])eople of America. 
Messages explaining the plan were re¬ 
ceived from Mr. Hoover and Col. Roose¬ 
velt and read to .S.OOO Bov Scouts avIio 
gathered in the Hippodrome, Ncav York 
City. April 21, to plan the focxl raising 
business. 
Florists who ‘have suffered heavily 
froin tornadoes are now discussing the 
possibility of forming a mutual Avind- 
storm insurance company. They already 
have a flourishing Florists’ Hail As.s()- 
ciation, AA'hich insures against hail 
damage. 
George F. Fish. Avho has been called 
the “celery king” of NeAV Y’ork, died 
April 11, aged 58 years. He AA'as born in 
Kalamazoo, Mich., and came to this city 
and established his business in 1SS8. Il'e 
bought a large tract of land at IMiddle- 
towu, N. Y., Avhich he turned into a cel¬ 
ery farm. He is survived by a AvidoAv and 
five sons, all of the .sons being in the 
cele7\v business. 
That the fanners may huA’e all possi¬ 
ble time in their fields. Federal .Tudge 
Clayton postponed all trials but one at 
-Montgomery, Ala., April 28. He said 
fimm the_ bench: “It being deemed at 
this pai'tieular time a AA’i.se exercise of 
the court’s patriotic duty to afford every 
p().s.sible facility and means to stimulate 
and encourage farmers in the increased 
])riKluction of foodstuffs, for this reason 
the May term of court is postponed.” 
WASHINGTON.—Authority for the 
Gwernment in the event of a severe food 
crisis to purchase proA’isions »n(l dis¬ 
tribute them to the people a-d to fix 
maximum and minimum prices Avas asked 
of Congress April 20 by Secretary David 
F. Houston in a letter to the Senate in 
Avhich he suggested food legislation of a 
more drastic nature than that in force in 
an.v of the EnroiTcan (countries with the 
possible exception of Germany. The Sec¬ 
retary Avonld liaA’o the GoA’ernment’s con- 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—T’nder militai’y orders 
the restricted zone about the Iliuningtou 
Arms-Union Metallic Cai-tridge Company, 
at Bridgeport, Conn., was extended April 
20 to a full half mile. No one aau'is per¬ 
mitted to leaA’C the lines Avithout u pass. 
It was admitted by the police that tons 
of ammunition, rifles of all calibre, and 
makes, poAvder and dynamite have been 
uncoA’er^ in the homes and from places 
where it had been buried in this locality. 
With a reverbei-atiou that shemk Jer¬ 
sey City and NcAvark and other nearby 
Jersey towns, a gas tank on the plant of 
the Seaboard By-l’roduct Coke Company, 
in Kearny, N. J., close by the Hacken¬ 
sack River, on the Newark meadows, ex¬ 
ploded April 22 and huge tongues of 
flames shot forth, setting fire to four 
large buildings being erected there. In 
the ensuing fire the plant Avas completely 
wrecked, at a loss of $200,000, and one 
man, believed to be the night Avatch- 
nian, Avas burned to death. One man 
Avas arrested on suspicion of being con¬ 
cerned in the explosion. 
April 20 it Avas announced that 20 of 
the largest shoe factories at Lynn, Mass., 
AAcre closed as a result of the high price 
of leather, and other factories Avere ex- 
pecte(l to folloAV. Prom 15.000 to 20,000 
operatives Avere thus out of AA’ork. 
Preliminary Avork on construction of 
one of the most poAverful wireless sta¬ 
tions in the world lias begun at the Pliil- 
adelphia navy yard. The constructhm 
of a huge hangar, Avhicb wWl h®use eight 
trol of the food situation as nearly as 
it is possible to make it. He ashed that 
his Department be giA’Cn authori^v to 
license and supervise the operation of all 
plants, mills, packing bouses, canneries, 
slaughter houses, brcAveries, distilleries 
and all other establishments in which 
foodstuffs, farm implements and suppli(>s 
and all other articles used for agricul¬ 
tural purposes are manufactured or 
handled. He suggested but did not defin¬ 
itely advocate the reduction or prohibi¬ 
tion of the manufacture of malt and (lis- 
tilled liquors, saying that $145,0W,000 
Avorth of food grain is used in these in¬ 
dustries annually in the United States. 
Reports received at the Navy Depart¬ 
ment from the Phi’adelphia Navy Yard 
state that the tAvo German interned ships 
the Ki'on Prinz Wilhelm and the Pj-inz 
Eitel Friedrich have been put in rcacli- 
ness for service, thanks to the skill of ex¬ 
perts AA’orking under American engineer 
officers. The efforts of the German crews 
to make the ve.ssels useless have been ren¬ 
dered futile. 
April 24 the French Avar commission 
aridved in Washington, having been pia*- 
eeded by the Brtish commission. Pj-o- 
visions for supplying money and food to 
the Entente Allies Avere first discussed. 
The purchases Avhich Great Britain has 
been making in this country recently 
have averaged about $7,000,000 a day. 
Much of the supplies she has been buy¬ 
ing haA’e been for Russia; in fact , for 
all of the other allied countries Avith the 
exception of Italy, Avhich has been buy¬ 
ing direct. The proposed loan of $8,000.- 
0(W,(X)0 Avould largely be spent in pur¬ 
chases here. 
