7She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Notes Erom a Maryland Garden 
Our lovely Fall weather continues. It 
is now the 20th of November. We are 
still getting out lettuce from the open 
ground, and no sashes have as yet cov¬ 
ered the frames. One morning we had 
the mercury down to 30, but the day fol¬ 
lowing was mild as May. The trouble 
with the farmers is the long drought, for 
we have had nothing more than a light 
shower since early, and the Winter grain 
is needing moisture badly. The late com¬ 
ing of frost put the sowing of wheat 
much later than usual, and the first week 
in November found our farmers drilling 
wheat. The early sown i , in serious 
danger from the Hessian fly. 
The tomato crop was very good, though 
there were serious losses in the extremely 
hot weather. One large grower told me 
that he lost at least 4,000 baskets that 
were literally cooked on the ground. /The 
canners, however, are in very good spirits. 
They have had a fair pack and fair prices. 
There will be a considerable amount of 
sweet potato canning; more than usual, 
because of the difficulty in getting coal 
for the curing bouses, and more of the 
crop is being rushed to market than usual 
by reason of the fear that they may be 
lost in storage. The Department of Agri¬ 
culture is advising consumers to put in 
their supply of Irish potatoes for the Win¬ 
ter. This indicates a rise in price later. 
The price now is too low for growers, 
though the city consumers are paying good 
prices for potatoes. 
Many people are now cleaning up fallen 
leaves. I never do this till Spring. They 
are blowing and tangling in among the 
Chrysanthemums and making a good Win¬ 
ter mulch. A late-sown bed of lettuce is 
also .iust showing its leaves above the 
dead leaves from the maples, and the 
plants will have good protection^ till time 
to transplant them in the Spring. My 
Princess of Wales violets look very com¬ 
fortable with their green leaves resting 
on the bed of maple leaves they have 
caught on the fly, and I would not have 
the leaves removed on any account. And 
in the Spring cleaning they will not be 
burned, but will be packed down in a 
heap in an odd corner and a little earth 
thrown on to keep them from blowing 
awav, and the garden will get them when 
rotted. Then, just now as we are pre¬ 
paring to cover the garden with its Win¬ 
ter blanket of manure, we clean out the 
dead eggplants, tomato plants and every¬ 
thing that the frost has destroyed, and 
these too go into the compost heap. The 
heap made last Spring is now getting fine 
and black, and will add a great deal of 
humus to the garden. 
A correspondent asks me why sweet 
potatoes grow better in poor soil than in ^ 
rich. He said that his sweet potatoes 
made enormous vines and only strings in¬ 
stead of swollen good roots. It is well to 
get facts straight. It is not a fact that 
sweet potatoes grow best in poor land. 
They grow best in light, sandy, warm soil, 
it is true, and such soils are often thinner 
and less fertile than heavier soils. In a 
garden, where the owner thinks he has 
made the soil rich because he has been 
liberal with the use of stable manure, he 
has simply got it unbalanced. There is 
nitrogen enough to make a rank growth 
of vines on the sweet potatoes and big 
tops on the Irish potatoes, but very small 
and few tubers or roots. This is because 
the soil is not rich, for a really rich soil 
has an abundance of all the elements of 
plant food, while such a soil is deficient 
in phosphorus and potassium, which are 
essential to the making and storing of 
starch, . and the potatoes are largely 
starch. My garden is rich, for it has been 
covered with manure annually, and also 
has had all the ■a.shee from a hardwood 
fire, and in Spring acid phosphate at the 
rate of 1,000 pounds an acre. It will 
grow big sweet potato vines and big, too 
big, sweet potatoes, and will make heavy 
crop of Irish potatoes with immense tops, 
too. If your garden makes immense tops 
and small and few potatoes, it is not rich; 
it is simply one-sided. w. f. massey. 
Hiving Bees 
Can I save a swarm of bees I found in 
a barrel? I do not know how long they 
have been in the cask, but there is no 
way to get the honey out that I know of 
except to kill the bees, and I would like to 
save them if possible, if I could get them 
into a hive. There is no one around here 
who keeps bees. t. t. m. 
Avon, Conn. 
You can get the bees out of the barrel 
by inverting it and putting a box (• hive 
of suitable size over it and then iiura- 
ming on the sides with a couple of sticks 
for 15 or 20 minutes. 'Phis will cause the 
bees to crawl up in to the upper box or 
hive. The combs with the honey can then 
be cut out of the barrel at any time, as 
there will be only a few stray bees left 
in it. The bees in the box should then 
be put into a modern hive, having mov¬ 
able combs. Usually such a hive can be 
obtained from some beekeeper near by. 
It -will be necessary to feed thefie bees 
sugar syrup if there are no stores in the 
hive. We would then advise putting them 
down cellar for the Winter. 
“On, mamma. I’m frightened!” came 
from little Tommie in bed. “What are 
you frightened about, my son?’’ “I hear 
somebody on the roof.” “Oh, well, go tc 
sleep, my boy; it’s only your father tak¬ 
ing off his shoes before he sneaks through 
the scuttle. He’s just got home from the 
club in his airship.”—Yonkers Statesman. 
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there was no heat given off in the cellar to spoil my fruit and vegetables. 
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He was a farmer and the furnace an 
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