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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 W. 30TH STREET, NEW YORK 
Garden and Farm Notes 
Trouble With Melons and Cucumbers 
T have been ti’ying for 20 years to 
raise eantalonpes and euenmbers. and 
have never succeeded in doing either. 
Just as the vines begin to bear they die. 
This year my vines start to die at tip 
end of vine on etienmbers. and the melon 
vines die from the hill out. There is a 
small gi-een-l(K)king insert on melon vines, 
under side of leaf. IMea.se advise me 
what to do next year to combat the 
trouble. II. D. L. 
Taylorville, N. C, 
The preparation for growing can¬ 
taloupes and cucumbers is important. 
Our large growers here in JIaryland pre¬ 
pare their land in January, run out fur¬ 
rows five to six feet apart and fill them 
half full of stable manure. M'his is let 
lie to decay till planting time in April. 
Then a liberal addition is made of a good 
grade commercial fertilizer on the ma¬ 
nure, and a furrow is thrown over from 
each side. The bed thus made is flat¬ 
tened somewhat and the seed put iu with 
a garden seed drill. When a good stand 
is secured the plants are thinned to 20 
inches apart, and as they start to run a 
tahlespoonfnl of nitrate of soda is scat¬ 
tered around each hill. Then spraying 
with Bordeaux mixture is begun before 
any signs of leaf rust or blight appear, 
every 10 days till fruit is set. Tt may be 
that your plants are attacked by borers, 
or that your soil is infected with the wilt 
disea.se. If the wilt, then the remedy is 
plant in iininfeeted soil. For the borer, 
dust some Paris green armind and hill 
up to the stems over it. From what you 
say, you have aphides on the leaves. 
The various kinds of the Aphis family 
have been unusually abundant this year. 
Using a strong decoction of tohacco stems 
in the making of the Pordeaux mixture 
will help de.stroy these, or yon can get 
the sulphate of nicotine sold by seedmen. 
under the names of Ahino and P.lack 
Leaf 40, and spray with a dilution of 
these. w. f. massey. 
Harvesting Lima Bean Seed 
I have some Fordhook Lima beans and 
am going to let them remain on the hush 
and save them for seed. Will you tell me 
the right time to iiick them so they will 
keep until time to jdant next year? I 
was thinking of picking them when they 
turned yellow, oi- would you wait until 
they dried up a little more than that? 
After I pick them I will keep them in 
baskets in a cool dry place until they get 
dry. A. T. B. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Lima beans intended for seed may be 
gathei'cd soon after the )>ods turn yellow, 
as they are in an advanced stage of ma¬ 
turity and their vitality is then in no 
danger of being impaired. If gathered at 
this stage of ripening the pods should be 
s|)i'ead out thinly in an airy place under 
cover until thoi-onghly'cured, when they 
may he luit in baskets or hags until 
wanted for next season’s planting. TiMieu 
the weather is clear and warm during 
the rii)ening period I have always allowed 
the pods to ripen thoroijghly on the vines. 
If this can he done, it .saves curing them 
after they are picked. ' K. 
Grapevines Under Cloth 
I have put cliGc.secloth tents over some 
Tinifera gi’upe vines, aiul it occurs to 
me that itorhaps to treat the better elas.ses 
of gi'aj>es under cheesecloth might he bet¬ 
ter than spraying or bagging. At Tariff- 
ville, (’onn.. I saw acres of chee.seeloth 
covering tobacco and thought how much 
benefit such treatment would be to grapes. 
Have you tried it? E. W. 
Oakville, Md. 
I know of no test made with the use 
of cloth tents for the protection of grapes. 
Certainly the fact that the vine is covered 
with cloth is but little protection against 
the mildews, nor would such covering pro¬ 
tect against the grape root-worms, as 
they emerge fi-om the ground, around the 
base of the A’ine. However, a covering of 
this description would j)rotect against the 
grape leaf-hopper, but such jirotectiou can 
be assured cheap<>r through cultural 
methods and by spraying. It seems to 
me that a cloth tent could not he left to 
cover the vine for a very protracted peri¬ 
od, as the shading effect upon the leaf 
would seriously interfere with the color¬ 
ing and maturity of the fruit. With the 
covering of the cluster alone the fruit 
attains its noyiual color largely from the 
coloring matter elaborated in the loaf. 
As I see it. the cloth tent woiild serve its 
greatest purpose if put on just before the 
fruit became palatable for the birds. And 
as E. W. suggests on the rarer sorts, not 
in an extensive way. f. e. gladwin. 
Raspberry Canes Dying 
I have a small patch of red raspberries 
in the garden that looked very well this 
Spring, but about the time they blos¬ 
somed the canes began to die. about 
half the canes being dead now. The 
new shoots seem thrifty enough. 
Can you tell what the trouble might be, 
and is there a remedy? 
Canaan, Conn. j. b. t. 
There is quite an assortment of dis¬ 
eases and insect pests that afflict ra.sp- 
berry canes, Anthracnose, caue-hlight 
and crown-gall are among the diseases. 
MMie only effectual remedy for all of them 
is to remove and destroy all alfeeted 
plants, cane and root, and refrain from 
planting other raspberries in the same 
ground. I think from your brief des¬ 
cription that the cause of the trouble is 
insects. The cane-borer attacks the cane 
near the tip, causing it to wilt and often 
bend over at a sharp angle. The im¬ 
mediate remedy is to cut off the tip be¬ 
low the grub that does the damage and 
burn it. If this reme<ly is deferred till 
fall it will he nece.ssary to remove and 
destroy the entire cane. The cane-mag¬ 
got causes mischief somewhat like that of 
the cane-borer and can be detected in the 
same way. The remedy is similar. Cut 
and destroy the canes as soon as the 
wilting is discovered. The raspberry 
root-borer works at the base of the canes 
and is, I suspect, the cause of your trou¬ 
ble. It often girdles the cane ju.st above 
the crown, causing its death. The injury 
is often noticed early in the season when 
vigorous canes suddenly wilt and die. 
The only remedy is to remove and de¬ 
stroy the infested canes and roots as 
soon as the trouble is disccovered. 
w. H. n. 
The Moon Man Once More 
I read the article in The R. N.-Y., 
page 935, entitled “The Inflence of the 
Moon on Plant Growth,” and would like 
to know, as the moon controls the tide, 
as it surely does, why not the earth? 
Try this: Lay a board on the grass in 
the first quarter of the moon, and the 
grass will continue to grow; do the same 
in the last quarter and the grass wjU 
die. When a hog is butchered in the 
growing moon the fat will fry out and 
moat shrivel up and when butchered 
when the moon is waning, does not near¬ 
ly as much. Hero is another: When the 
moon decreases the moat in the legs of 
the salt water crab will turn to a watery 
•substance, and as the moon fulhs, the 
crabs fill with pieat again. Don’t ask 
me why, for I don’t know, but I do know 
it to be a fact as I lived seven years on 
Puget Sound and have caught hundreds 
of them. C. J. M’lTBECK. 
R, N,-Y.—Granting any of those 
things (and we doubt them all), how 
does Dir. Whitbeek prove that the moon 
has any connection with it? 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, August 
31-Sept. 9. 
Kankakee Interstate Fair. Kankakee, 
Ill., Sept. 1-7. 
Nebraska State Fair, Liuculn, Sept. 
2- 9. 
Itndiana State T'air, Indianapolis. 
Sept. 3-7.’ 
Minnesota State Fair, Ilamline, Sept. 
3- 8. 
Northern Nut Growers’ Association, 
annual convention, Stamford, Conn., 
Sept. 5-0. 
Illinois State Fail’, Springfield, Sept. 
7-15. 
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Deer Park, Solehury, Pa., Sept. 7-8. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse. N. 
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Agricultural Society of Queens Nas.san 
CVnmties, .sev!enty-sixth annual exhjhi- 
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Dairy Cattle Congress, AVaterloo, 
Iowa, Oct. 1-7. 
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Oct. 12-20. 
National Dairy Show. Columbus. O., 
Oct. 18-27. 
Amei’ican Pomological Society, regular 
biennial meeting, Boston. Mass.. Oct. 
31-Nov. 4. 
Short courses in agriculture. Rutgers 
College, New Brunswick, N, J.., open 
Nov. 20. 
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