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Notes From a Maryland Garden 
Here is the middle of October nnd we 
seem to have got back to normal condi¬ 
tions. Last Fall we had had frost la'forc. 
this, while otir average date for killing frost 
is the last week in this month. .Inst now 
all the Summer and Fall vegetables are 
abundant; string beans and I^ima beans, 
tomatoes and eggplants, as well as the 
more hardy things, and the growth .sinee 
the rains terminated the terrible Surnmt'r 
drought has been wonderful. We are 
now using the last planting of sugar corn. 
We have also another planting of string 
beans, the Black Valentine, which were 
planted the first of September. I always 
like to take some risks with frost early 
and late. This last planting of beans 
may yet get caught, as they are just in 
the blooming stage. But if they are 
caught it is only some seed lost, while if 
they make beans we will have a fine lot 
to can or pack in brine for the Winter. 
Our Be<l Head tomatoes suffered from 
the drought, and a rather unfavorable 
spot made a poor crop. Still I regard 
them as promising among the perfectly 
globular st)rts. In my experience I have 
neA'er found that a tomato that is as 
round as a baseball ever gets as large as 
those of a compressed or flatter shai)e, 
while usually growing fairly solid. The 
shape would seem to show some ancestry 
of the Cherry tomato, the original globe- 
shaped tomato, and always small. The 
Sa'-oy cabbages, the best of all I'all cab¬ 
bages. are now in their prime, while the 
Fl.-it Dutch for Winter storing are just 
beginning to head, and will keep all the 
betier if not headed till late November. 
'I'iie fJroen Curled Scotch kale has made 
great heads, but we do not care for it 
till the frost has had a chance at it and 
made it more tender and sweeter. And 
with i)lenty of spinach at hand we do not 
need any other greens. 
Sonu' years ago, tiring of the monotony 
fif Norway maples on all of our streets, 
I jdanted on the wide grass border be- 
tw('en the concrete sidewalk and the 
street curb rn the. front of my premises 
some Cedrela sinensis trees. This is the 
nursery nan\e. but really I think that it 
is an Ailanthus, far lighter and more 
graceful than the old Ailanthus and with 
odorless flowers. The tree is a rapid 
grower, and from the character of its 
foliage and branching never casts a dense 
shade like the maples do. but for beautyi 
it far excels them. I rather suspect that 
in cultivated ground they will sucker as 
badly as the old Paradise tree. But my 
street border is mown as carefully as the 
enclosed lawn and no digging done. 
rCedrela sinensis is an ornamental 
tree, with large feathery foliage, .similar 
to Ailanthus. but denser in growth, and 
without disagreeable odor when flowering. 
The Ailanthus can be distinguished by 
some coarse serrations near the base of 
the leaflets. Mo.st of the Cedrelas are 
tropical trees, but C. sinensis is hardy 
ns far north as Massachu.setts.—Fds.l 
I have about 50 feet of the old privet 
hedge left next the side street, and it is 
jiretty. for it is not sheared like a flat- 
topped wall, but with a cross section'of 
a truncated cone. Yet I often think that 
I will have to do away with it, as T did 
with the part alongside the garden, for 
the plant is such a robber of soil fertility 
and moistur<> that tlume is quite a space 
of the lawn inside of it where we can get 
no good grass. The more we try to en¬ 
rich it the more the privet grows and robs 
the s])ace. We took it away from the 
garden and put there a wooden wire fence 
with steel posts .set in concrete, and now 
we grow all sorts of climbing vegetables 
on the fence, whih* we could grow noth¬ 
ing with credit inside the hedge. The 
last hard Winter took the leaves off and 
I was really hoping that it wotild be so 
damaged that I would remove it at once. 
But the leaves were all killed and the 
new ones soon came out. .lust now we 
are getting the lettuce in the frames and 
getting the sashes ready to use when .Tack 
Frost comes. w. F. .M.A.S.SEY. 
Winter Radishes; Water Glass Eggs 
1. I have a .SO-ft. row of fine-looking, 
so-called Winter radishes, but they are 
very tough and hot now. Wil. you tell 
me how they are to be used and also how 
stored for Winter use? 2. AVill you also 
tell me if it makes any difference when 
eggs are put down in water glass so long 
as they are fresh? A friend questioned 
the keeping qualities of September eggs 
so di.sposed oL c. E. B. 
Plymouth. Mass. 
1. If Winter radishes such as Black 
Spanish or the White (’hine.se are to be 
in the very best condition for storage and 
Winter use. they should be planted during 
the first i)art of August. You say that 
your Winter radishes were large, tough 
and hot by the middle of September. This 
would indicate that you had planted them 
too early, and that they had become too 
old for the best use in Winter. Radishes 
for Winter use are stored about the mid¬ 
dle of November by pulling them up, and 
twisting off or cutting off the toi)s. leav¬ 
ing the roots with the radish. The rad¬ 
ishes may be stored in mounds or i)its 
outofdoors, or they may be packed in 
sand in a cold cellar. If they are placed 
where it is too warm, they may become 
pithy or start growth. By covering them 
with sand where the temperature can be 
maintained at about 25 to 40 degrees, 
the.v should keep crisp and fresh until 
used. 
2. It makes a great difference in the 
keeping quality of eggs as to when they 
^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
are put down in the water glass. Those 
eggs which are put down early in the 
heav.v laying season seem to have much 
betti-r keeping qualities than those pro- 
ductMl after the hens have been laying 
heavily during early Summer. You will 
be im<-re.-<ted to know that cold storage 
men disj)ose of the egg,-: first which they 
put in last. Furthermore, sterile eggs 
can be kept better tlniii fertile ones, and 
only those eggs should be ]iut down which 
are clean to begin with, because if it is 
nece.ssary to wipe ofl' the dirt which ad¬ 
heres to the sh( 11. it would carry away 
the natural mucous coating of the shell 
V Inch heli)S to imaintain the eggs in ex¬ 
cellent condition in the waterglass. 
K. W. I). B. 
A Crop of Sunflowers 
J. W. C., on page says. “Since 50 
plants of moderate size will turn out one 
bushel of seed, how much could be raised 
per acre?” Had .1. \V. C. done a little 
figuring he would have found as follows : 
An acre is 4.3.5G0 square feet. That be¬ 
ing the case, suppose that he plant his 
seed or plant one foot apart in the row 
and the rows three feet apart. In that 
case 50 plants would have taken tip 50 
feet lengthwi.se and three feet to the 
other row, or 1.50 .square feet. By divid¬ 
ing the 4.‘1.5()0 square feet by 150 he would 
have got 200 bushels per acre, and I doubt 
very much that he could get this yield. 
I have never raised very many sunflowers, 
but it seems to me that his figure of one 
bushel from 50 plants is a little large. 
iVere he to get that yield, I find that by 
planting one foot by three feet, the yield 
is 200 bushels ; planting two feet by three 
feet, 145 bushels; three feet by three feet, 
yield 07 bushels; one foot by four feet, 
yield 217 bushels; two feet by four feet, 
yield is 100 bushels. 
Is it possible that we here in the East 
have overlooked a valuable feed not only 
for poultry but for hogs? From the above 
figures, were they to work out in practise, 
winch I very much doubt, we would have 
a world of easy feed, And in the larger 
amount I think that that which would be 
taken by the birds would not amount to 
anything on the whole. I wish that some¬ 
one who has rai.sed this on a large scale 
would tell us how it is grown, planted, 
distances, and the yields. Also the meth¬ 
ods of harvesting and of shelling, as well 
as storing for future uses. 
Rhode Island. kichakd lake faux. 
R. N.-Y.—We would like to have rec¬ 
ords of actual yields on a large scale. 
We have grown a few plants under high 
culture which made tremendous heads, 
and 50 plants would have given a great 
quantity of seeds. We could not take 
such big plants as the basis for an acre 
yield. It would be like saying one hen 
made a profit of .$10, therefore 1,000 hens 
will make $10,000. The sunflower crop 
can be made very valuable where the cli¬ 
mate permits the seed to dry. With us 
too many of the heads mould and decay. 
Care of Seed Corn; Lumpy Cement 
1. I have an acre of yellow flint corn 
which I purposely planted for seed. About 
00 per cent of the cornstalks bear two 
good-sized cars; some even have a third 
small ear. The corn was the finest in 
this vicinity and I would like to make it 
into seed. Will you give me full instruc¬ 
tions how to cure it and care for it until 
next Spring? 2. I have several bags of 
cement which got a little wet. and is now 
in lumps. If I should turn it into a ]h)W- 
der, would it be good for a floor in a lien- 
house, and in what proportion would I 
have to mi.x it? ir. n. 
Raynham Center, Mass. 
1. Good seed corn will be in demand in 
New England next Spring, and yoii should 
have no trouble in selling all you h.ave. 
Let it remain until the stalks are nearly 
dry, then remove the ears with a butt. 
Do not remove the husks, but fold them 
back and use them for fastening the ears 
together, preferably by braiding. The 
ears should be kept where they will not 
freeze until after the first of the year. By 
that time only about 12 per cent of mois¬ 
ture will remain, and freezing will do no 
harm. Do not put the corn in a crib, but 
suspend it from the ceiling or on racks 
in a barn or some other place where it 
cannot be reached by rats, and where the 
ventilation is good. That is about all 
there is to the saving of seed corn. 
2. It is not advisable to use cement 
which has become wet. It probably woidd 
not prove .satisfactory and your time 
would be wasted. E. I. F. 
An Increase of Pension 
I am a veteran of the Civil War. Some 
time within a few months a pension bill 
was passed by Congress granting an in¬ 
crease to all veterans of the Civil War. 
I have never seen that it was signed by 
the President, and I can find but one man 
who has, and he is not very positive. I 
tell them I could find out by writing The 
R. N.-Y. M. n. 
Maine. 
The United States Commissioner of 
Pensions sends us the following: 
“The Act of June 10, 1918, amending 
the pension law of May 11. 1912, provides 
the minimum rate of $30 per month for 
soldiers and sailors of any age who served 
90 days or more during the Civil IFor 
and were honorably discharged, and who 
are now receiving a lower rate. Tho.se 
who are 72 years of age, or over, and who 
served six months, are entitled to receive 
$32 per month; those who served one 
year, .$35 per month; one and one-half 
years, $38 per month ; and two years or 
over. $40 per month. These increases 
will date from June 10, 1918, and will be 
granted automatically, without applica¬ 
tion of any kind, to all soldiers and sail¬ 
ors now pen.sioned under the Act of May 
11, 1912, who have attained the required 
age and served the necessary length of 
time. 
“Soldiers and sailors who served during 
the Civil War, and are pensioned at lower 
rates under some other law, but who are 
entitled to pension under the Act of May 
11, 1912, will be required to file an appli¬ 
cation under that Act in order to receive 
the benefits of the new law. In such cases 
the increase, if allowed, will begin from 
the date of filing the application in this 
bureau (or from the date of attaining the 
age of 72 years thereafter), and not h’oin 
June 10. 1918. If, however, they have 
once had their pensionable rights deter¬ 
mined under the Act of May 11, 1912, 
they may have their pension renewed 
under said Act upon written request, and 
the new rate of increase in such cases 
shall begin from June 10, 1918.” 
“Can the doctors give the relatives of 
that rich man no hope?” “None what¬ 
ever. They say he is likely to live for 
years.”’—Baltimore American. 
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