(luickly. Since several huii(lr('(l aiiioinohiles i)assefl 
liis house eveiy day. lie hoped to develoj) a trade 
li.irht at his door. In order to yet the trade and hold 
it. it would h<‘ necessary to yrow a variety of hiyh- 
(|uality ve,y(*tahies and to have a constant sipiply 
dnriny the .sea.son. Once more ho heyan to study his 
text hook on ‘"Market Oardeniny” for information as 
to the best lime to i>lant the dilTerent veyetahlos, the 
hiyhest ipiality varieties and time of maturity. 
Needless to say, the first season w.as filled with reve- 
Gf>e RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Attractive Roadside Stand of White Birch. Fig. 57 
lations of all kinds. Many plantinys were a success, 
while others were a dec.idi'd failure. The financial 
profits from the season's work were small, hut the 
cxiierien.ce yained has since proved to he very valu¬ 
able. Stranye as it may seem, those crops which liad 
been the easiest to yrow yielded the most and sold 
most I'eadily. Thei’efore the followiny year, the 
youny farmer decidial to yrmv more tomatoes, jio- 
tatoes, onions, iieas. lettuce and I.inia beans. 
.V ST'CCHSStFT’L .SEASON.—The season of 
was a decided succe.ss from every jipint of vimv. 
From early in the Spriny ui.til late in the Fall a con¬ 
stant supply of fresh and attractive veyetahles was 
kept on the rustic stand of birch alony the i-oadside. 
I'iy. oi. Customers of the .season before came hack 
and hrmmdit their frimids. At times it was nece.s- 
sary to have three people at the stand to woiit on 
the enthusiastic patrons. Evmi thouyh the crops 
yielded heavily, the eiyht-acre farm could not su])ply 
enouyh to meet the demand. 
TNCREASIXO cip ips.— This last season 10 acri's 
w(M"e added to the little heyinniny. The nunfher of 
hotbeds and cold fi"ames was incriaised for the pro¬ 
duction of eai'ly jilanls. which had always found a 
ready sale at excellent jirice.s. As a war emei"- 
yency measure, home yardens were heiny viyorously 
advocated. The yonny trucker riyhtly supposial that 
the demand for early veyetable plants would sur¬ 
pass anythiny that he had ever semi. d'lie result 
wa.s that when the uipirecedented demand came, he 
was ]»repar(‘d to take advantaye of the <'xcei>tionally 
hiyh price.s. 
ONIONS AND CAFLIFLOWER.—.Tnst as early 
in the Spriny as it was ])ossible to .stir the soil, .sev¬ 
eral bushels of onion sets were planted, because the 
yr(‘en onions ofi’ei-ed a continual sup])ly. and tho.se 
that were not sold to advantaye for yreen onions 
successfully in that vicinity. This crop cannot do 
well in hot weather. The secret of our friend's suc¬ 
cess was due to the fact that he had very la rye and 
\iyorou.s jilant.s to set out in the field vm'y ('arly in 
the Sju'iny. so that the early crop could develop dur- 
iny .Tune and early .Tuly; that i.s. before the hot 
weather could .sei'iously affect it. 
EARLY RI',.VS.—Eai'ly yarden jieas .sold wonder¬ 
fully well, because the customers always yot them 
when they were fi'C'sh jiicked instead of launy a week 
old. The result was that when lhe.v once had a 
taste of them they would want them every day. 
These jicas were planted in double rows which wore 
0^4 feet apart, Fiy. (iO. Each double row consisted 
of two sinyle rows six inches apart. The yrower 
iielieved that in this way he yot a larye yield, and 
the pod.s were kept off the yround much better, 
fairly peas were invariably followefl by late cab- 
liaye, hecause'’peas are a h'.yume, like clover, and 
when the vines are jilowial under they furni.sh con¬ 
siderable oryanic matter well filled with nitroyen. 
ST CCE'SSlflN f'ROIbS.—.Strawberries have pl’oveu 
theimselves to be yreat “money-yetter.s,'’ but when 
other work had demanded so much attention the 
.season before, the strawberry fiatch was the first to 
suffer, f’onseiiuently, when the limited supply sold 
.so remarkably well, the youny farmer resolved to 
yive the bm-ry field more candid attention for the 
followiny year. About the time the early strawber- 
rie.s, lettuce, jiea.s, caulitlowm-, radishes and spinach 
^\ele out of the way, the eai'Iy cabbaye, larye onions 
from sets, Summei- .sipiash and early beans were 
ready to supp'y the trade. In a week or two more 
crops were ready, such as tomatoes, sweet corn, jm- 
tatoes, cucumbers, beets, carrots aiid bu.sh Limas. 
.Several of these veyetahles are .staple, which means 
that if they are not sold one day they may be sold 
the iH'xt day or the lu'xt week, thm'eb^' makiny it 
po^ible to keep a .si)lendid display at the stand with¬ 
out haviny any of the produce deterioi'ate in (jualit.v 
or (plantit.v. I'otatoe.s may not apiiear to be a very 
remunerative croii where ipiick successions of veye- 
tables are in order; however, almost every house¬ 
holder who stopped for a few fresh veyetahles bouyht 
a half i»eck or a basketful of these lu'w jiotatoes 
whmi tlu'y saw them lucely disp|;p\(>d in small con- 
tainer.s. Thu.s, a few acres of potatoes hel]) to at¬ 
tract patrons and to hold their tradi*. Nearly half 
of the small farm was devoted to this staple pro¬ 
duct; a yood croj) was produced (Fiy. o'.)), and 
those that were duy early wi're succeeded by Fall 
crops, such as turniiis, radishes, lettuce and spinach. 
RLANNINd FOR ROADSIDE TRADE.—Thus the 
roadside traih* may he develojied into a splendid busi- 
ne.ss, ])rovided the yrower will arranye his plantinys 
so that he will constantly have a yood supply, a larye 
assortment and an attractive di.splay. Early in the 
S])riny and duriny the .Summer the antomobilists 
are anxious to yet the fi-esh yreens and veyetahles, 
but when it becomes cold and disayreeable in the 
Fall and duriny the Winter they will not stop. This 
is no obj('ction to this kind of trade. All the yrower 
lias to do is to plan ids cj-<)])])iiiy .system with tliis 
feature in mind. Surely tlm remarkable success at¬ 
tained by Itaymond Stillman at Eatontown. N. .T., 
shows that the iieiriile of the city are williny to deal 
directly with tlie producer even if tlu'.v have to yo 
to his dooi" to yet his products. All the yrower 1ms 
to do is to make it conveniimt and worth while for 
lh(‘ consumer to come to him reyularly. While Mr. 
Stillman lias jiroven that this roadside selliny can b(> 
made a commercial success, he has al.so pi'oveu that 
it is jiossible for a city man without previous exjie- 
rience to make yood at veyetable iiroduction, which 
is considered to he the most complicated and dif¬ 
ficult branch of ayriculture. It would have been 
very interestiny for us to have followed further de- 
v(‘lopnients in this particular enteriiri.se, but Mr. 
Stillman has recently been called to the colors. 
reduce the injui-ious work of San .lose scale. A;; a 
matter nf fact, what has happimed to the scab* is 
that which u.sually haiipi^ns to insects when thev are 
introduced into foreiyn conntritxs, the climate of 
which is favorable to their activit.v. The scale came 
to us oiayinally. almost, if not ipiite, without its 
natural enemies, mid while in that condition proved 
a most .serious and dilHeult enemy to meet. AVit'.i 
the passaye of time, native parasitic and pnelaceons 
insects have learned to prey upon it, and it is pro.b- 
A Few Potatoes Dug for the Early Fall Trade. Fig. 59 
able that lertain of its natural enemit's in its orig¬ 
inal home have followed it. 
M hadever the source, its natural enemies at the 
present time have reached a point in develoj>meiit 
where the scale is sufferiuy very .severely from their 
activit.v, with the result that it is now with us in 
New .Jei-sey, from the standpoint of control, om* of 
the easiest of the insects with which the orchardist 
has to deal. In fact, by rea.son of the increa.se iu 
natural enemies, it has now assumed the status of 
an Insect native to this .state, and there is little 
doubt that it. like other species, will have its ups 
and (hjwiis. That is, there will be a iieriod wdien its 
Work is of little moment, followed by a period when 
it becomes sulticiently abundant to do very sm-i.-ms 
harm, followinl. in turn, by a piu'iod in whi( h it is 
ayaiu of little consiMpienee. 
The first iioint of danyei- iu y(»ur correspondent's 
ideas is his appai'ent notion that the work of this 
parasitic enemy can be matei-ially increased oi" spia-d- 
ed up by artificial introduction. The fact is that this 
])articnlar parasite as already very widely distrib¬ 
uted, and that, therefore, its artificial introduction, 
because of the relatively small numbers which e.-cj 
be brouyht in in that wa.v, would be likely to be (.r 
little or no importance. 
The .second point of danyer is the inference which 
the reader may draw from his letter that the activ¬ 
ity of this parasite renders Winter treatment for the 
.San .lose scale unneces.sary. This is a mattiM- of 
yreat importance becau.se the neyleet of the Win¬ 
ter treatment would naturally yive the scale iu its 
pre.sent run-down condition the best opportunity that 
it could have to (h'veloii rajiidly enouyh to become 
seriou.s. 
It i.s my own belief that Winter tr(>atment for this 
insect .should not, in ciiiy case, be discontinued he- 
Onions From Largest Sets Develop Quickly. Fig. 58 
could be lett to develo[) into larye mature bulbs. 
Since the laryer .sets developed more (piickly than 
the smaller ones, it wa.s found to be worth while to 
yrade them- with homemade sieves into different 
sizes and plant them in separate row.s, so that those 
which develoiied first could be most easil.v found for 
early bunchiny. Fiy. 5.s. The.se early onions were 
succeeded by cucumbers and eyyplants. Very early 
caullHower yrew splendidly and sold at very fine 
prices becau.se he was the only farmer who yrew it 
Keep on Spraying for the Scale 
I Duriny the past Winter we have Inul a number of let- 
ter.s from fruit yrowers who think they have found a 
parasite which will de.stroy the .San-.Io.s(' .scale, and thus 
make it unneci'.ssary to yive the usual Winter sprayiny. 
Most of these people refer to the parasite which was dis¬ 
tributed some time ayo by Dr. 11. A. Surface of Renn- 
sylvania. We tri(>d to introduce this iiarasiti' on our 
own farm, but have l)(*(*n unable to see any beneficial ri'- 
sults from it thu.s far. One or two reports show that the 
jiarasite iias bi'en effi'Ctive. * In other cases the scale 
has laryely died out. and its di.sappearance is attributed 
to the para.site. It does not always follow that becau.se 
the scale dies oux thi.s parasite is entirely resjanisible. 
The followiny note from Dr. .1. T. Ileadl'ee. State En- 
tomoloyist of New .Jersey, contains what seems to us 
very sound advice in the matt(*r. ] 
HERE is no doubt whatever that natural ene¬ 
mies, amony which may be mentioned the para¬ 
.site which your correspondent has in mind, yreatly 
Peas Planted in Double Rows. Fig. 60 
cause (1) such procedui-e would yive the scale the 
be.st chance it could luive to develoi) the proiiortions 
of a serious pest; (2) .such procedure would do away 
with that reduction in plant disease which the pres¬ 
ent practice of trefftiny the orchard with Wiuter- 
.strenyth lime-sulphur yives us. 
I would urye uix>n you that you advise your read¬ 
ers not to desert the practice of treatiny the orchards 
during dormancy with Winter-.strenyth lime-sulphur. 
TH0MA.S .t. HKAIU.KK. 
