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XShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 2, 1918 
At 
KnvestTime 
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isPROVED 
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VAN BRUNT 
Fertilizer Disc Drill 
Y ou begin to recognize the value of the V'an Brunt Drill the 
first day you use it. You realize that in one operation it does 
the work of two or three operations ordinarily necessary—that 
it saves time and labor which means a lot to you right now. But 
you don’t fully appreciate its big value until harvest time when 
the increased crop yield tells its own story. 
Analyze the work of the Van Brunt 
Drill and you will find every part 
of the field properly seeded—no 
barren spots. All of the seed is 
in the ground at an even depth— 
all properly covered—no seed 
wasted. Every seed has a chance, 
every seed germinates at the 
same time — the crop matures 
evenly. With good seed and a 
good seed bed, the result is a big 
yield when a Van Brunt is used. 
A Van Brunt Drill pays for itself 
in a short time.. 
Various Vegetable Notes 
Seed Potatoes vs. Potato Peels 
I planted eight rows Irish Cobbler 
.seed potatoes, cut to one eye, and bar- 
vested 1(> 14-quait peach baskets of good, 
uniform size potatoes. I planted nine 
rows potato peels and harvested a little 
over one 14-quart peach basket of culls. 
About half a dozen vines in the lot pro¬ 
duced potatoes of a size and quality equal 
to those produced by the seed poUitoes. 
Half a row of th» set'd potatoes produced 
as much as the nine, rows of potato i>eels. 
Same quantiti(‘s of manure and fertilizer 
w('re Tised on both, same cultivation given. 
The vines produced by the peels were as 
large and as vigorous as those produced 
by the seed potatoes. In fact one could 
see no api)reciable difference. !Many of 
the p<'el vines had no potatocis on them— 
not even a trace. This e.xperiment showed 
A Potato Crop From Parings 
(hat peels (in Hrooklyn soil) i)roduced 
fine vines but no i»otatoes of commercial 
size. An extra idanting of peels—a 
short row—where the peels were pla<-ed 
I on the bottom of the trench, then the 
; manure, then the fertilizer, then covered, 
was a success' i)artially, as every vine 
lu'oduced from TJ to l(i cute little pota¬ 
toes. Has anybody ever planted seed po- 
I tatoes in this AvayV Other land here¬ 
about of about the same quality planted 
to Irish Ct)bbler seed potatoes, without 
manure or fertilizer, and receiving only 
one hoeing, ])roduced about the saim* yi<*ld 
as the land that was manured, fertilized 
and cultivated, jajiks a. waixwrigut. 
them at my table agree that they far sur¬ 
pass in flavor all other kinds and will 
keep fresh and tender all Winter, stored 
as other root crops. I have read recently 
that syrup can be made from them, simply 
by macerating and boiling; that a fair¬ 
sized' beet will make a cupful of syrup as 
good as cane syrup, and if that is true 
they might be a great helj) in the jiresent 
scarcity of sweets. I do not know wheth¬ 
er the syrup theory is true, but sugar 
beets are worth trying for their table 
quality. Lane’s Imiierial and Vilmorin’s 
Sugar are standard varieties, grown ex¬ 
tensively in the beet sugar sections of this 
country. w. A. I.ander.S. 
Monroe Co., X. Y. 
R. X.-Y.—Sugar beets make a good 
garden croj). but we doubt the syrup and 
sugar tlu'ory. A thick substance can be 
made by so.aking the beets and boiling the 
liquid down, but it usually has a dis- 
agree.able taste. 
Udo in Massachusetts 
I enclose a photograph, shown in out 
below, of .some two-year-old udo plants 
with which I am exi)erimenting in a small 
way. I think this will become a valua¬ 
ble salad plant. w. R. o. 
Seekonk, Mass. 
T'^do, botanically Aralia cordate, is a 
.Tapanese vegetable as yet little known in 
this country, tb.ough it is being tested in 
many localities by different experiment¬ 
ers. It is blanched like celery in the 
Si)ring, and requires little care, being an 
easily grown perennial. A simple meth¬ 
od of blanching and forcing it in Spring 
is to i)ut a diain idpe over it. The flavor 
is aromafic, the stems containing a res¬ 
inous matter tl.at is pine-like when raw, 
but excellent when proi)erly prepared. 
The stems are served raw as a salad, or 
cooked in any method used for celery. 
Udo is a heavy f(>eder, re(iuiring much 
the .same general condition as rhubarb. 
The seed is said to grow readily in a 
greenhouse or cold frame, sown one-fourth 
inch deej) in screened jiotting soil in 
March or April. The Department of Ag¬ 
riculture at Washington has issued an 
interesting Farmer.s’ Bulletin on the udo, 
its history and culture. 
Little Things About Lima Beans 
Features That Mean Elxtra Value for You 
The patented adjustable gate 
force-feed used on all Van Brunt 
Drills insures good seeding. Coarse 
seed, medium seed or very small 
seed can be planted with this ma¬ 
chine. The feeds are adjustable to 
handle any size of seed from alfalfa 
to the larger bearded oats, peas 
and beans. 
All the ground is seeded —no 
choking up in the seed box. Change 
in quantity of seed by the feed 
shifter lever is exactly the same 
in each and every feed. The force- 
feed compels the seed to leave the 
seed box in an even, continuous 
stream, but the seed is not crushed. 
No clogging wp—the Van Brunt 
successfully plants seed in mud, 
gumbo or trash. The seed is pro¬ 
tected from the time it leaves the 
seed box until it rea-rhes the bot¬ 
tom of furrow. 
Disc hearings guaranteed to 
last the lifetime of the drill. The 
furrow openers, the hard-working 
part of any drill, are made of highly 
polished steel. 
The highly perfected fertilizer 
feed caps distribute without clog¬ 
ging or choking, all kinds of com¬ 
mercial fertilizers, in any quantity 
that you desire. 
Grass seed attachment can be 
furnished. It sows broadcast or 
in drills, as you desire. Van Brunt 
Drills are furnished in any size 
and with equipment that will meet 
your requirements. 
The Van Brunt is the choice 
of thousands of farmers in the large 
grain growing belts. It has proved 
to be a profitable investment for 
t! ese farmers and it will for you. 
Potatoes from Parings 
The order of the day last season was to 
raise potatoes, so I thought I would see 
what could be done in that line. The 
accompanying picture shows 34 potatoes 
Udo, a Japanese Salad or Vegetable 
which were raised from 12 parings, each 
containing one eye. They were from me¬ 
dium-sized potatoes, and each paring 
placed in a hill by itself. Four of the 
hills produced four potatoes each, two 
produced three, and the other six hills 
each had two. All were at least medium¬ 
sized and several were much larger. 
Xew York. hary a. J.wobi. 
Sugar Beets in the Home Garden 
Let me suggest to those of your read¬ 
ers who have not tried them that they 
sow a few sugar beets for table use. I 
have grown them for years and value 
them very highly. They require general¬ 
ly the same soil and culture as other va¬ 
rieties of beets, but yield more because 
of their larger size, averaging half the 
size of mangels. All who have tasted 
We all know we want good soil, good 
.seed, and to i)lant our Lim.a beans eye 
down, after .Summer is assured. That 
is May 1() here, with a variation of live 
days in dilferent years. It is very easy 
to j)ut too much manure coiitaiiiiug nitro¬ 
gen on beans, causing them to go to vine 
and leaves, and drop their blossoms, but 
all beans are very fond of potash, and 
will also pay for a heavy dressing of acid 
l)ho.sphat(‘. Since we have not been al)le 
to buy potash we use all our wood ashes 
on the Lima bean patch; it is rather a 
light dose, but help.s. Since tlie toi>s of 
Lima beams are long, so also are the 
roots, and the phosphate, ashes and 
manure all should be sjn-ead over the 
laud, never put in the hill. Then the 
rows should be wide apart, and the jioles 
close in the row. We plant the rows 
seven feet apart, the poles three feet 
apart in the row ; then we t.-ike a b.ill of 
binder twine (cheaper twine will do), 
start at one end of a row. and tying to 
top of the first pole, take a turn 'around 
each ])ole to the other end of the row. 
This helps ketqi all the jxiles uj) in time 
of storms, and if .s<*veral poles are broken 
off in the late Summer no harm is done. 
The bean vines will go up the poles and 
on the .string from i)ole to pole; they 
need a little h<>lp to give now and then 
a vine a turn around the string, then the 
branches will come out all the way up 
the pole and shake hands fi-om jade to 
pole, so we have a hearing surface of two 
sides all the way from end to end of every 
I'ow, and every blo.ssom can get sunlight 
and form a bean. 
If the b(‘<ans are comixdled to cling 
around the ix)les one-half of the blos.soms 
will fall olf from want of sunshine or 
fertilization. Then this .solid n)w of 
vines loaderl with beans must have mois¬ 
ture. so we cultivate between the rows 
deeply before the beans start up the ])oles, 
to get a deep, loose soil for the roots. 
After that we keep the surface mellow 
with a harrow-tooth cultivator. Deep 
cultivation after the bean vines were well 
grown would ruin the crop, as it would 
cut off most of the feeding roots. At first 
the seven-foot space looks like a waste of 
land, but when picking time comes we 
find that is as close as we can plant and 
get a crop, keeping in mind always that 
it is a crop of beans that we want, not 
a crop of vines. The picking is easy by 
this plan, as the beans are in sight and 
the crops have justified the plan. 
Delaware. A. E. KITTENIIOUSE. 
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