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rather heavy soil my tenant is following 
practically the plan proposed by S. F. B. 
I believe in order to maintain the neces- 
.sary plant food in the soil, either green 
croiis or manure must be occasionally 
turned under. Although these heavier 
soils will wear longer than those of a 
lighter character, in my own case corn is 
raised on well-manured land to fill the 
silo. Cattle are kept through the Winter 
to work down the straw stack, and are 
fed the silage in addition. This gives us 
a large quantity of manure for the fields. 
This year there arc on this place .30 acres 
of the heaviest hay we ever cut. ii. E. c. 
Pruning Tomatoes; Pea Weevils 
1. Would you tell me something about 
taking off the lower leaves of the tomato 
plant to stimulate the growth of fruit 
stems? I have about 100 plants and have 
time to bother with them, and would like 
to get all I can ont of them. 2. What 
shall I treat peas with? I want to save 
some over for seed, but la.st year all my 
home-grown seed had bugs in it (00 per 
cent grow for all that). Could we use 
treated peas for the table? c. J. M. 
Iroudequoit, N. Y. 
1. In very exceiitional oases the hywer 
leaves of the tomato plants are removed 
to permit the entrance of the sunlight 
when the plants are too close together. 
What are frequently removed from the 
lower part of the jylants which are trained 
to a stake are the side branches, which 
start out from the main stem, between a 
leaf and stem. If these side branches are 
rubbed off as they stavt all the strength 
of the vine wull naturally go into the de¬ 
velopment of the main stem, which is 
trained or rather tied to a stake. The 
lower leaves are removed only when the 
plants are standing too close together or 
in greenhouses when the lower leaves be¬ 
come infected with disease. The yield 
per plant is reduced by training it to a 
single stem, but the plants can stand 
much closer together and the yield per 
given space can be tripled by training 
and the quality of the fruits will be im¬ 
proved. 
2. In all probability your pea seed 
was infested with pea weevils or pos.sil)ly 
with the more common bean weevils. The 
treatment for either pest is practically 
the same. As soon as possible after the 
seed is harvested and cleaned, it should 
be fumigated, if infestation is suspected. 
The miiterial used is carbon bisulphide, 
which looks like gasoline and is just as 
explosive. The seed is placed in a tight 
bin or barrel. For every bushel of seed, 
one-fourth ounce of the carbon bisulphide 
is iLsed by pouring it into a shallow sau¬ 
cer placed on top of the seed. The seed 
container is then covered up for a day. 
after which the seed is aired ont by iionr- 
ing it into other containers. Cover the 
seed tightly to pi-event reinfestation. 
The eating value and germination will 
not he injured. ^ n. -w. pe b. 
Growth of Potatoes 
I have two fluids of jiotatoes, same va- 
rii'ty of seed, the one planted last week in 
.\l)ril, the other jilanted May 17-18. The 
field planted in Ajiril has one stalk to a 
place, but in the field planted in May 
thei-e is anywhere from one to six stalks 
from ciich seed piece. Do j’ou snjipose 
that the many stalks mean small potatoes 
at digging time, and, if so, would it he 
of any use to thin them ont by hand, 
pulling ont all but one or two stalks to a 
place? Of course thiit would mean a 
great dciil of work, but if it meant the 
difference bi'tween a salable or a non- 
salahh' croj) it would pay to do it. 
Catawissa, Pa. k. a. b. 
The eyes of the jiotato are the terminal 
buds of the branches, for the potato tuber 
i.s rc'ally an underground stem in com¬ 
pressed shape and stored with starch for 
the future growth and reproduction of 
the plant. If this compacted stem has 
not sprouted, and had the .sprouts rubbed 
off, the growth will be made by the ter¬ 
minal bud, and there will be one strong 
shoot. But if the potato has sprouted 
and the sprouts have been rubbed off, the 
growth will be made by the lateral buds 
I on the shoot, and there will -be a number 
of shoots made. Where the potato sjironts 
in storage and the sprouts are rubbed off, 
these sprouts h:ive decreased the plant 
food stored in the potato, and hence the 
growth is weaker than from an uiispront- 
od potato. It is all well enough to sprout 
I the potatoes just before planting in order 
I to promote earliness, provided the 
sprouts are kept entire till planted. In 
.Tilly 20, 1918 
digging early potatoes I never expect to 
see as good a hill from a cluster of shoots 
as from one strong stalk. In my garden 
I am now digging by hand a plot of Irish 
potatoes planted from bought seed. It 
is evident that some of the eyes had 
sprouteil and been rubbed off, for I have 
the strong growth of the terminal buds, 
and from other piece the cluster of shoots, 
showing lateral growth, and it is very 
noticeable that the bunch of shoots does 
not give the large potatoes. My potatoes 
were planted the last of Febrnai-y. There 
is a notion here that no potatoes planted 
in May will ever make a crop, and that 
unless planted in March or very early 
April one would better defer the planting 
Pods or Clusters of Grasshopper Eggs 
Fig. JfSl 
till late June or July and make the late 
croj). I do not think thinning would do 
good. W. F. MASSEY. 
Trouble with Corn Smut 
I have planted a piece of land, to sweet 
corn for several years ; the corn is getting 
badly smutted. Is there any cover crop 
that I could sow and plow under in the 
Spring to correct the smut? \Wiat I 
mean to say is, could I sow a cover crop 
after the harvest of corn and plow under 
in the Spring? I would like to know if 
that would partially correct the .soil, or 
would I have to seed it down for one 
year? .i. w. \v. 
Ilolliston. Mass. 
The recent articles on cover crop.s Avill 
give you information about the best seeds 
to use. In Northern New .Tersey we use 
a combination of rye, Alsike clover iind 
turnips. Of course, these crops will not 
cure the smut disease. About the only 
thing to do when that trouble becomes 
bad on the corn is to put the land in 
other crops for a couple of years. If that 
is done, the germs of the smut have no 
Stages in the Life of a Grasshopper 
Fig. JfdS 
“host plant” on which to live, and they 
Avill die out. One single season in a 
cover crop will not entirely kill ont the 
smut. We should sow the cover crop in 
the corn this Fall, and next Spring plow 
it under and plant the ground to iiotatoes, 
cabbage or similar crops. Then, after a 
couple of years, it can come back into 
sweet corn. We have heard the theory 
advanced that a cover crop and a heavy 
coat of lime will entirely rid the ground 
of smut, but we do not believe it is safe 
to rely upon that theory. We have? 
grown eight or nine succeeding crops of 
corn year after year on the same ground, 
by plowing under cover crops each year, 
but Avheu smut or corn ivorms became a 
real nuisance, we find it necessary to give 
up corn growing on that land for at least 
two years. 
Wheat, $2.20 hu.; corii, $1.70; oats, 
7nc; hay, $30 per ton ; potatoes, Hue hii.; 
apples, .$2.75 per bn.; eggs, 30c; hnt- 
t(‘r, 50c. The outlook for wheat appears 
good. Corn was planted with poor seed, 
iind had to be replanted by some of the 
farmers, while some cornfields were look¬ 
ing fine, but during last week avc had 
two or three very hoiivy rainstorms, which 
washed some hillside fields very badly. 
Sweet cherries in my locality will be 
scarce. w. C. J. 
Berks Co., Pa. 
