RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1041 
Garden and Farm Notes 
Orange Hawkweed, or Devil’s Paintbrush 
On page 041 is an inquiry rogarcling 
this weed wliifh, by the way. is so postif- 
crons that it needs two or three names to 
express its meanness, and was introduced 
into this State some 40 years ago under 
the name of angel’s paintbrush, and for 
several years was cultivated almost uni¬ 
versally as a flower. In fact, for a num¬ 
ber of years, no flower garden was con¬ 
sidered comi)let.e without a good-sized 
bed of it. Finally it escaped cultivation 
and has now completel.v overspread hun¬ 
dreds of acres in Central Vermont, where 
it has the name of being the most pestifer¬ 
ous weed ever known. It does not de- 
senm quite so bad a reputation, however, 
because it thrives best on thin, rocky, 
worn-out soil, so jmor that no otiier plant 
can exist, and most of the fields that it 
has overrun were practically worthless, 
anyway. It is very shallow-rooted, and 
deep plowing, heavy manuring and seed¬ 
ing to grass or clover will completel.v ex¬ 
terminate it until the soil receives a re¬ 
seeding. The seeds Avill not germinate in 
a good Timothy sod. It is easily 
smothered by any close-growing crop. 
)>rovided the soil is deep and rich enough 
to produce !i heavy foliage. 
On soils that are incapable of cultiva¬ 
tion it may be killed by repeated spray¬ 
ings with copperas or blue vitriol, or an.y 
of the commercial weed destroyers. The 
foliage is rough and hairy and will re¬ 
tain the spray unfil it has had time to 
do its work, and few perennials will suc¬ 
cumb to spraying as, quickly as this. 
Common salt applied at the rate of IS 
pounds per square rod will also kill it. 
as stated. Hut it wilt kill all other 
vegetation, also, and when it has leiiched 
away so that vegetation can exist th<‘ 
paintbrush will be the first plant to ap¬ 
pear. C. 0. ORJISREE. 
Notes From a Maryland Farm 
The crop of cant.aloupes has oeen cut 
to almost nothing b.v the protracted 
drought. The melons ripened so small 
that they could not be packed in (he usual 
l.“ crates, and crates had to be cut for 
them. My own melons were planted out¬ 
side the Skinner irrigation; the vines 
dried up and the melons rij)ened about 
the size of my fist. And yet it is strange 
how sweet and good those little nudons 
were. Now that the potatoes are all dug. 
the Colorado b<‘etlos have swarmed on 
the eggplants. The potatoes seem (o be 
their first choice and next the eggplants. 
If there are no eggplants handy they will 
swarm on the tomatoes. Prompt use of 
the lead arsenate will clean them up. 
But it is wonderful how rapidly they will 
devour a big plant if one’s attention is 
taken elsewhere for a few days. 
The Nanticoke blackberr.v is now in its 
prime. It is a splendid berry, though 
too soft for shipping. But, coming after 
all other blackberries hav(‘ gone and 
running through August, it is very wel¬ 
come in the home garden for its fine fruit, 
and “cussed” for its gigantic canes brist¬ 
ling with fishhook spines. It is almost 
impracticable to cut out the old canes, 
because of the immense growth of the 
new ones, and even with long-handled 
clippers it is a task to prevent their run¬ 
ning wild. Then the roots are so long 
that suckers appear 10 to 15 feet away, 
and it finally becomes a problem whether 
the fine fruit pays for the terrible nuis¬ 
ance of the cane.s the remainder of the 
year. 
That part of the garden under the 
Skinner pipes makes a ver.v striking con¬ 
trast to the remainder. Outside the reach 
of the water string beans planted at same 
time as a row inside the water ai’e dead, 
while the row watered is giving u; fine 
beans. Cabbage outside the reach of the 
water is neaidy dead, while other cab¬ 
bages under the pipe are wonderfully vig¬ 
orous and growing. And still I shall 
have to wait till the monthly repfud of the 
meter comes in in order to tell whether it 
pays to water a garden with water at 
30 cents per 1,000 gallons. In this flat 
country between the sea and the bay the 
wind helps the broiling sun to take cvei’y 
drop of moisture out of the soil, until one 
wonders how an 5 ^ plant can live. The 
tomato fields seem to be standing the heat 
and drought better than most things, and 
what .seems odd to me is that right along- 
sid(' of my garden is a field, not ear so 
fertile as my garden, jtlanted in tonuitoes, 
which seem to grow far more luxuriantly 
(hail my late ones. That field was in 
cantaloupes last year, and they had the 
first stable nuinure the bind has had prob¬ 
ably in a generation, while my garden 
has been covered with manure, s ipple- 
mi'iited Avith acid jihosphate. every year 
for 10 years. And yet the tomato plants | 
out there seem greener and better than j 
mine. One retison. T assume, is that the ' 
land has been more deeply cultivated, and 
that th(' roots have been driven down 
mon' di'eply in the, soil and are getting 
moislure that mitie do not get. I believe 
that if I had gone throttgh my rows Avith 
.a spading fork and had loosened the soil 
deeply Avithout turning it there Avould 
havi' been dilTi'rent results. Soil in both 
places light and sandy. 
It is under such Aveather conditions as 
are now prevailing that the hedges of 
privet shoAv the damage they do to biAvn 
and garden crops near them. Last Win¬ 
ter for the first time striiiiied the leaves 
from my Amoor Biver jirivet hedges, and 
I really Avished that they AA-ould be killed, 
so that I could have a good excuse for 
grubbing all out. I did grub out a. line 
along the street m>xt my garden, tind 
imt an ornamentiil Avirc fence there But 
in another place I left a hedge that is 
overgroAvu .solely as a Avindbreak to the 
cold frames. Now tin* roots haA’e pmie- 
irjited till' frjimes, and I shall have to 
move the frames. AV. F. jiassf.y. 
Boiling Small Lots of Sorghum 
On page 095 iMr. O. G. Crandall of 
Wisconsin told of making small lots of 
sorghum syrup from Tiome-groAvn sorg¬ 
hum. There have been .several calls for 
further information, and Mr. Crandall 
noAV sends the folloAving: “I knoAV of no 
simiile Avay of getting the juice out of the 
cane but by pressure, the cane being run 
betAveen rolls. 1 submit a sketch, shoAvn 
above, of a homemade mill Avhich Avill do 
for experimenting where one cannot get 
his cane to a cane mill. My father experi¬ 
mented Avith just such a mill as this as 
early as 1855, from Avhich greAv a o.tXM)- 
gallon plant. As shown in the picture, 
to make press turn tAvo i-olls 0 in. across 
and 10 in. long. Bore 1-inch hole and 
insert 1-iuch shaft, opposite ends of shafts 
fitted for cranks. LoAver roll shaft titis 
snug in inch hole, but the upper hole is 
slotted so that the slotted bearing may be 
Avedged doAvn as may be required to bring 
the rolls as close as desired. Fasten this 
machine to tAVO upright posts in any suit¬ 
able place. .Tuice should be boiled soon 
after being pressed out, otherAvise it may 
sour, as cane juice is acid. 
“In regard to boiling in open kettles, 
iron kettles are not the best, as cane 
juice is acid, and iron has a tendency to 
make the syrup dark. Still they might 
be used. A sheet of galvanized iron 
nailed on to a frame of the same size, 
made of 2x8 .soft pine plank, set on a 
little arch of brick or some such material, 
makes a good pan to boil in. as it is easy 
to get at the scum. Fill in as much juice 
as you can boil at once, and do not add 
any more juice, but boil to a finish. Add¬ 
ing to partly boiled juice the green Avill 
boil in and make it strong and black. 
Let it simmer slowly at first.’, till the 
white scum shoAA'S, then boil gently to the 
finish.” 
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on the Farm 
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The Internal Gear 
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for pulling over bad 
roads and up hard 
grades by applying 
power near the rim of 
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