S»« RURAL NEW.YORKRR 
1269 
Garden and Poultry 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
What wonderful croppers the rimieuto 
poppers are. Today (October 1.0) I feath¬ 
ered what will probably be the last i)ick- 
ing, since frost is probably not far off. 
Rut the plants are still loaded with half- 
grown and .smaller pods. Wc have been 
picking the pods since early June, for 
the plants were forwarde<l under gla.ss 
just as we do the early tomato plants. 
'I'lie early tomato plants have played out, 
but the peppers are as green and flourish¬ 
ing as they were in June. Unlike the 
l>eppe'rs, the eggplant siinply stopped 
bearing, although the plants were very 
large and thrifty. The cool nights did 
not seem to damage the plants, but the 
fruits seemed to stop growing. 
AVhile the individual flower.s on the 
Dahlias have been finer than usual in 
this moist and cool season, the flowers 
have not been produced in their usxial 
profusion. Seedling plants which last 
year I considered doubtful but kept for 
another season, have developcei into won¬ 
derfully fine flowers. I am fond of grow¬ 
ing perennials from seed, for it is very 
interesting to watch the results of cert.-iiu 
crosses one has made, though the great 
majority will not .show any improve¬ 
ment. 
The latest ripening sugar corn gives 
us some good ears, as .this crop is usually 
clear of the boll-worms that infest every 
ear in the early part of the season. We 
find, too, that it is important to save 
se(‘d of the sugar corn as well as the field 
corn in the same locality where it is 
l)roduced. One reason for the failure of 
the early varieties of sweet corn south¬ 
ward is the fact that all the st>ed sold by 
seedsmei has been grown too far north, 
and corn never does its best when moved 
far south or north of the place where it 
is grown. After a few years it will get 
acclimated iind Avill give far better re¬ 
sults. Rut as a rule with most of our 
vegetable seed it is better for the 
home gardener to get his supply every 
Spring from the best sources. Climate 
has a great effect on the stocks from 
which the seed are produced, and while 
there are some things we can save hero 
to advantage, w© would better buy most 
of our garden seed. One would suppose 
that tender things like string beans 
would be better grown southward, while 
the fact is that we get the best beans for 
seed from the north, and, of course, the 
be.st English pens and cauliflower seed 
from Denmark will always have the mon¬ 
opoly. France gives ns the best radish 
and celery seed, and of all the Avorld the 
flanary Island-s furni.sh the only true 
“Rermuda” onion vseed. Our Southern 
States can produce the best watermelon 
st'ed, and all our melon growers depend 
oil Rocky Ford for their cantaloupe seed. 
J'lie private gardener is too apt to save 
his seed from the rt'fuse after eating the 
eailiest and la-st, and so the stock de- 
teiiorates if the practice is continuc'd for 
some years. Many years ago a friend 
told me that he had the finest <‘arly Eng¬ 
lish pea, Vvhich had-been saved in his 
family for generations, and he wished 
me to try some of them, lie said they 
were tall growing and Aery i»roducthm. 
I had little faith in seed of garden peas 
saved in Maryland, but 1 planted a short 
row of these, gave them a good tall brush, 
fully six feet high. J’hey Avent to the 
top of that brush l)efore sdioAving a iloAver, 
and grcAV hanging half Avay doAvn. They 
Avere evidently a degenerate strain of the 
Md Early Kent. The usual extra early 
jieas from the seedsman had made their 
crop before a pod was filled on the tall 
plants. I advised my friend to throAV 
them away and get some real early peas 
Avhich he AA’ould not have to stake. 
Rut in the groAving scarcity of good 
seed there tire some things that avo <-an 
produce and saA'C our own seed. Tomato 
seed Ave can save if Ave select carefully 
from the plants that produce the best 
and most, and for the early varieties the 
earliest and best fruits. Lima beaus avo 
can save here, and usually find that by 
careful selection we can. greatly improve 
the cropping capacity. But from South¬ 
ern Maryland southward the small Lima 
is more productiA'e than the large varie¬ 
ties, and. to our taste, of better quality, 
too. Eggplant seed Ave can also profitably 
save by selection Rut there are some 
things the home gardener cannot affofd 
to groAA’. though he may groAv them AA-ell. 
►Spinach, for instance. Though high in 
price at present, the siiinach seed is usu¬ 
ally so cheap that it does not pay to let 
a croiA stand for seed Avhen avo should be 
getting something else in the ground. In 
fact, the home gardener who tries to save 
seeds in the best manner Avill usually pay 
far more for them than he could buy 
equally good ones for from the seetlsmen. 
AV. K. MASSEY. 
Blood for Poultry 
Would the blood from slaughtered hogs 
be safe feed for foAvls in mash, and also 
for pigs and hogs when boiled with tur¬ 
nips? How much can I feed, and hoAV 
.much can I afford to pay for it? Roston 
ship feed sells at .$2.55 per 100 lbs.; hom¬ 
iny, $.3.25 per 100 Ib.s., and corn, ,$.3.85 
per 100 lbs. ,T. K. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
I haA'e often fed fresh blood in small 
amounts to both fowls and swine Avithout 
noting any ill effects, and there is every 
reason to think that if a regular supply 
could be obtained this fresh blood AA-ould 
take the place of beef scrap and milk for 
both fowls and pigs, but it must be under¬ 
stood that fresh blood, like fresh meat, 
Avill spoil very quickly, and . hen taiut< 1 
it becomes a dangerous addition to the 
live stock me^u. For this reason the 
blood from many slaughter-houses is dri 1 
and ground into a fine meal which Avill 
keep for some time. It is then bagged 
and can be shipped long distances and at 
-a much lower rate than aa-ouUI be the case 
with the fresh article. I am unable to 
state a fair commercial price for fresh 
blood, as .so much depends upon the cost 
of transportation and the trouble of get¬ 
ting a frc'sh supply every few days in 
cold Aveather and eA*ery day in Avarm 
weather. Everything considered, I Avould 
not recommend feeding fresh blood except 
where it could be obtained fresh every 
day, and then I AA-ould feed it to SAvine 
instead of poultry. c. s. u. 
Storrs Rations 
"Will you inform me in Avhat proportion 
I should feed the folloAving grains to my 
young poultry for both groAvth and egg 
production? I hav ; ncAV corn, oats and 
buckAvheat. For drj- mash I can get 
gluten meal, bone meal, fish scrap, beef 
.scrap, bran, middlings and Alfalfa meal. 
I would like a good dry mixture from the 
above, if possible. Could you give me 
the ration used at Storrs, both grain and 
mash? My corn Avas caught b}- the early 
frost and frozen to some extent. The ma¬ 
jority Avill harden, but shrinks somewhat 
on the cob. Will this corn be just as 
good for feeduig purposes as others? 
PennsylA-ania. N. }l. I. 
The rationsi used at Storrs in the 
fourth contest AA-ere as folloAvs: 
Scratch grain: Cracked corn, 00 lbs.; 
Avheat, 00 lbs.; white oats, 40 lbs.; bar- 
lej-, 20 lbs.; kafir. 1 lb.; buckwheat, 10 
lbs. 
Dry mash: Coarse Avheat bran, 200 
lbs.; cornmeal, 100 lbs. ; gluten f»‘od, 100 
Ihs.; ground oats. 1(K> lbs.; standard mid¬ 
dlings, 75 lbs.; fish scrap, 45 lbs. ; beef 
scrap, 45 lbs. ; loAv-grade flour, 25 lbs. 
The rations for the fifth contest Avere 
greatly simplified by using for the scratch 
grain equal parts b.v Aveight of cracked 
corn and Avheat, and, for the dry mash, 
equal parts by A\-eight of wheat bran, 
cornmeal, ground oats, flour middlings 
and meat. The meat might be eijual 
parts of beef and fish scraps, or either 
alone. 
With the grains that you IniA-e at hand, 
I should use equal parts of the corn, 
oats and buclvAvheat as scratch grain. For 
the mash, equal parts by Aveight of corn¬ 
meal, gluten feed, AA'heat bran, AA'heat 
middlings, and either fi.^h or beef scrap. 
Add some such succulent food as cabbage, 
mangels or other A-egetables, and .instead 
of buying Alfalfa meal, fe ’’ a forkful of 
i-loA’cr hay daily. 
I do not knoAV to Avhat extent the corn 
alone is damaged by early frosts, though 
it AVouId, of course, depend upon the stag'e 
of maturity Avhich it had reached before 
freezing. Corn fodder as a Avhole is reck¬ 
oned as losing at least 25 per cent in 
A-alue by a hard frost Ix'fore maturity. 
_ yr. B. u. 
Cornstalks for Litter 
Is sand absolutely necessary in chicken 
coops having Avood floors, or can corn¬ 
stalks cut to 1%-inch lengths be substi¬ 
tuted for it? To purchase enough sand 
for my coops Avill cost $15 to $18, Avh'Ie 
cornstalks cost nothing, having a large 
iluantity and no use for them exeejit for 
fertilizing. E. A. u. 
NeAv Jersey. 
$and is neither absolutely nor rela¬ 
tively necu.ssary in chicken coops that 
are prov-dwl with other litter. Cut corn¬ 
stalks should make good litter to cover 
board floors, and you are fortunate in 
being able to get them AAithout cost. 
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