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What Does 
Silage Cost? 
Acres used and cultivated 
time and again, and gone 
over to get the fodder are 
the big items in cost. 
Nitrate, as Top Dressing 
worked in when cultivating, 
will cheapen production. 
Bigger, better stalks and 
bigger ears will result. 
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**Corn Cultivation** 
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25 MadUon Avenue. New York 
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R U R A G N 
Notes from a Maryland Garden | 
This is the end of the ^first week of 
March, and the month so far has been 
very lamb-like. Kveryoue is trying to 
use the fine weather to the best advantage. 
The great difliculty with everyone is the 
scarcity of labor. Those who employ a 
large foi'ce have less difiiculty in getting 
hands, for the negroes like to work in a 
gang, iind we who only want one hand 
have great difliculty in getting any. Witli 
a big garden and no help an old man can¬ 
not get along rapidly. Still our peas 
went into the ground this week, about two 
weeks biter than usual for the Alaska 
type, hut about the usual time for the 
wrinkled peas. Lettuce in the frames, 
which was intended to have headed about 
this time, lived through the visit of 
Saskatchewan, but is now just getting 
fairly into growing. Tlie early tomatoes 
are up aud rather later than usutil, aud a 
sowing has been made in a cold frame for 
the main crop immediately to follow the 
early ones. I am using Bonny Best for 
the earliest; have seed planted of two 
new varieties sent me for trial, tlie Burl- 
tau aud the Red Head. I ra.ay h.ave some¬ 
thing to say about these later, but really 
I expect very little now from new to¬ 
matoes. We seem to have about retiched 
the limit in tomatoes both as to earli- 
ne.S's and quality. I have tried nearly 
every new introduction since more tluin 
40 years ago T paid Col. George Wtiring 
.$5 for 20 seeds of the Trophy, the first 
of the smooth and solid tom.atoes of to¬ 
day. Previous to that the only solid ami 
meaty tomato ivas very rough, aud the 
only smooth one was very Iiolloiv. The 
introduction of the Trophy marked an erti 
in tomato culture. 
Our tomato grower.s are very much dis¬ 
satisfied at the price set by the Govern¬ 
ment for toniiitoes sold to eanners. They 
claim, and very proiierly, that nmler pres¬ 
et': conditions and the uncertainty of the 
crop .'i>21 a ton is a price that leaves no 
jirofit to tlie grower, and they very 
shrewdly suspect that the ]>riee was sug¬ 
gested by the association of the eanners. 
4 here will be very little contracting at 
this price, as the gr<.twers believe tlmt it 
will be better to shii> to the general city 
markets. If the eanners and the Goveru- 
nient get the tomatoes they will Imve to 
pay more than .$21 a tftn. AVith a season 
like tlie last one, when tomatoes did not 
avertige liere three tons nu jicre, and it 
costs over $50 an acre to grow them, to 
say nothing of gathering and hauling to 
the factory, there is no inducement to 
plant toimitoes. The Government will 
guartinlee jirofit to tlie eanners over costs, 
but who is to guarantee the farmer? It 
is prohiilile that there will be a great re¬ 
duction in the area planted, and a small 
pack if tlie figure is to stand. 
It is also evident that the area in early 
Irish potatoes iu tiiis section will be very 
mucii reduced. Our growers know that 
there is a A’list store of pot.-itoes iu tlie 
North, and tliese potatoes must be, sold 
tills ►Spring, and tlie rushing of the great 
stock of old potatoes on the markc’t is 
dreaded as tending to bri'ak the market 
for tlie early crop southward. 
I am sowing some spinach seed. This 
is the first time for many year.s that I 
iiave sown spinach iu the Spring. I have 
usually found tliat the crop sown the 
last of September lasts as long in the 
Spring as a Spring-sown crop. But this 
season the Fall-sown crop is nearly or 
ipiite dead, aud there is not enough of it 
that will grow to pay for keeping the 
ground idle, or nearly so; kale, too, was 
killed, aud we are sowing this, too. For 
home use the Southern curled mustard 
gives the quickest growth of greeus.from 
Spring .sowing. 
A correspondent at Bansville, N. Y., is 
interested in knowing about when our 
early potato crop will‘he on the market, 
as he is anxious to know if the crop will 
bo early enough to interfere with the sale 
of tlie old potatoes. If I wore in Now 
York State and Imd old potatoes on hand 
I would try to sell them as rapidly as 
liossible. for the sooner they 'are sold the 
better it ivill be for growers North and 
South, for thei’o will be loss on both sides 
if all come ou the market iu a mass. 
w. F. :massey. 
Ts there no way of stopping these cy¬ 
clones?’’ asked a traveller who was re¬ 
lating his experiences In the Far ^Yest. 
“No,” replied the narrator. “The best 
way is to go along with them.”—Credit 
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