B»c RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
793 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
One good quality the Progressive straw¬ 
berry possesses is sweetness. We have 
been eating them because they are the 
earliest in my garden, though not sO early 
as some other varieties. Yesterday a 
friend brought us a box of his Klondyke 
beri-ies. They are larger than the Pro¬ 
gressive, but for acidity I would prefer 
green gooseberries. Then, placed along¬ 
side the Progressive, the dull color of the 
Klondyke is very apparent, for the glossy 
red of the Progressives accentuates the 
dull red of the other. While I do not 
place much confidence in the Progressive, 
or in any of the everbearing sorts as 
commercial berries, their comparative 
earliness and quality will commend them 
to the home table. 
]My earliest peas are the Nonpareil, a 
selection of the Alaska type. These were 
ready for the table May 15, and will soon 
be succeeded by the much better early 
peas of the Gradus class. M e always 
grow a few of the extra early sort to 
have some to be in with ahead of most 
of my neighbors, but we let them alone 
as soon as Sutton’s Excelsior, Laxtou and 
Gradus come in. But with annual heavy 
manuring and the liberal use of acid 
phosphate my garden is getting so rich 
that even the dwarfest peas grow too 
rankly and need support. 
There is no end of new tomatoes—new 
in name at least. This year two varieties 
new to me have been received. These are 
the Puritan and the Red Head. I rather 
expect that no one could distinguish 
either of them from many other sorts. 
I have ceased to look for any great im¬ 
provement in tomatoes. But the va¬ 
riable nature of the plant calls for the 
greatest of care to keep any variety 
true. I am trying a new extra early 
tomato, not new in the catalogue of the 
seedsman, but in my garden, and I am 
looking forward to trying to fi'nd whether 
it is simply Earliana or Maule’s Earliest 
under a different name. I have but a 
couple of dozen plants, for my main de¬ 
pendence for early tomatoes is the Bonny 
Best, the best all-around tomato I have 
ever grown. Evidently starting as a se¬ 
lection from Chalk’s Jewel, it is better 
than that variety in earliness and late¬ 
ness. That is, it holds on through the 
season. Some amateur gardeners take a 
great deal of interest in growing the 
Mammoth tomatoes of the Ponderosa 
type. I prefer medium-sized fruits and 
more of them, for the monsters bear too 
few. 
I never get the robust growth on the 
Black Beauty eggplant that I get on the 
New York type of various names. I grow 
some of both types and always have to 
nurse the young plants of the Black 
Beauty far more carefully than those of 
the New York. Still, the Black Beauty 
gives us the first fruits and more of them, 
though never so large as the New York. 
I need both, one for earliness and pro¬ 
ductiveness, and the other for size and 
show. The New York type suits the 
market gardener, for the city people buy 
by the eye, and will take the biggest 
eggplants rather than the smaller Black 
Beauty, just as they will take a Ben 
Davis apple from alongside the Grimes, 
because it looks prettier. 
Usually in this neighborhood there are 
a thousand or two acres planted in canta¬ 
loupes. This year the area is very ma¬ 
terially reduced. The ditficulty in getting 
the New York manure freighted on the 
railroads, and the great price demanded 
for it have had a great deal to do with 
the result. There will be a marked in¬ 
crease in the tomato area probably. Most 
growers were slow in planting Irish po¬ 
tatoes, and many fields were not planted 
till the first of April. Probably it will 
be better for the growers, for the potatoes 
that come in the middle of July will prob¬ 
ably have a clearer market than the 
June crop will have, as the old potatoes 
will be getting out of the way. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
“What do you suppose has come over 
my husband this morning, Sophia?” ex¬ 
claimed a conscientious little bride to the 
new servant. “I never saw him start 
down town so happy. He’s whistling like 
a bird.” “I’m afraid I’m to blame, mum. 
I got the packages mixed this morning 
and gave him bird seed instead of his 
regular breakfast food, mum.”—Chicago 
News. 
How the Armies’ need for 
meat was answered 
I N a fighting man’s ration, meat is 
the important item. Twenty 
ounces of fresh beef, or its equivalent, 
is called for daily. 
To supply the meat needs of an 
army that was suddenly expanded 
from 100,000 to 1,500,000 is a tre¬ 
mendous task. Added to the needs of 
the Allies, it is a staggering one. 
The American stockman and the 
American packer may justly take 
pride in the way they have met these 
needs. 
During 1917, stockmen sent to 
market nearly 2 , 000,000 more cattle 
than during 1916. Yet at the end of 
1917, the Department of Agriculture 
reports more cattle remaining on 
American farms than at the beginning 
of the year. The production of hogs 
has also been increasing. All of 
this in spite of high feed prices, and 
scarcity of labor. 
How the packers have done their 
part is shown by the fact that in one 
week, Swift 8c Company was called 
upon to supply the Allies and the 
American Armies abroad 24,000,000 
pounds of meat and fat—enough to 
have fed America’s peace-time army 
for more than six months. 
An order of this size means the 
dressing of 13,000 cattle and 200,000 
hogs. 
To move the finished products, 800 
freight cars were needed. Of these 
650 were from the Swift refrigerator 
fleet. 
Three days after the order was re¬ 
ceived by Swift 85 Company, shipments 
began, and the entire amount was 
rolling seaward within a week. 
Since January 1, 1918, over 400 
carloads of our products per week 
have been shipped abroad on war 
requirements. 
The nation’s meat supply machinery 
has stood the test. 
Not once has there been a failure on 
the part of the American farmer or the 
American packer to supply the govern¬ 
ment’s needs. 
On their part. Swift 85 Company 
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mental guarantee of profit and with a 
limit of 9% return on capital employed 
in the Meat Departments, which means 
about 2 cents on every dollar of sales. 
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