7*e RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Sweet Potatoes, Lima Beans and Apples 
for Virginia 
1. Have you tried Godbey’s Golden 
sweet potato, and with what results? Is 
there any sweet potato that does better 
on the heavier loams? 2. Do you get 
satisfactory results from the large Lima 
beans? 3. At what date do you start 
your tomato seeds for early fruit? 
Which very early variety is suitable for 
canning? 4. What three apples arc very 
satisfactory to plant in your vicinity? 
Hampton, Va. e. d. p. 
1. I have not grown the sweet potato 
you refer to. Our large growers here 
use the Big Stem Jersey and the Gold 
Skin for shipping. Some Nancy Ilall and 
Hayrnan are grown for the home market. 
I do not know of any sweet potato better 
for a heavy loam than the I layman. It is 
early, productive, and the easiest to keep 
in Winter of any. It belongs to the so- 
called yam class. It is not of the best 
quality in Fall and early Winter, but by 
late Winter and Spring it gets very good. 
I prefer for home use the Nancy Hall. 
This is a dark pumpkin yellow, soft and 
sugary, and very good indeed. Our grow¬ 
ers have to grow the dry, choky Jersey 
potatoes, because they are the kinds that 
the Northern markets demand. The yam 
sorts will not submit to the Northern 
methods of cooking sweet potatoes. 
2. No, I do not get satisfactory results 
here from the large white Lima beans of 
any strain. The thick-seeded potato Lima 
does fairly well, but is inferior in quality 
to the large white Lima or the small 
Lima and butter bean of the South. I 
grow the small Lima because of its pro¬ 
ductiveness and its quality. I like it bet¬ 
ter than the large Lima and can get a 
good crop of it while I cannot of the large 
Lima. 
3. I sow early tomato seed in flats in 
the greenhouse the first week in February, 
transplant to other boxes as soon as large 
enough to handle, giving more room, and 
finally to the cold frames in March, to 
harden off and get stout plants for early 
fruiting. Bonny Best and Redhead are 
both early and both will make good can¬ 
ning varieties when sown later. 
4. For Summer apple. Yellow Trans¬ 
parent. For Fall apple, Buckingham. 
For Winter apple, Stayman Winesap. 
Grimes Golden is also fine for Fall and 
early Winter. w. F. MASSEY. 
Apple Maggot 
What causes some of my apples to be 
filled with small, brown, thread-like lines? 
It looks as though some minute worm or 
insect had bored back and forth through 
the fruit. The apples look all right on 
the outside. What can be done to pre¬ 
vent this trouble next year? A. N. s. 
North Stoughton, Mass. 
Probably the apple maggot is responsi¬ 
ble for the thread-like lines in your ap¬ 
ples. Much trouble of this sort is being 
reported from Eastern Massachusetts. In 
some places the pest is called the railroad 
worm, and it seems to have special fond¬ 
ness for Porters, Tolman Sweets and cer¬ 
tain other varieties. The maggots are 
progeny of small flies which lay. their 
eggs just under the skin of the fruit dur¬ 
ing the growing season. As soon as 
hatched the little worms begin mining all 
through the fruit. It is difficult to fight 
this pest, and in some sections the grow¬ 
ing of certain apples has been given up" 
on account of it. Cleaning up all the 
waste apples helps, and the pasturing of 
pigs in the orchard for a season or two 
has been recommended. 
E. I. FABKINGTON. 
When to Fertilize Asparagus 
I noticed an inquiry and answer on 
page 4. relative to applying manure to 
asparagus, particularly referring to the 
proper time to apply manure. Asparagus 
is a plant which has a most active and 
very large root system, and for this rea¬ 
son there is absolutely no danger in ap¬ 
plying manure in the Fall, because if the 
soluble parts of the manure do penetrate 
well into the soil some of the roots are 
sure to get the benefit. Our plan so far 
as possible is to apply manure in the 
Fall, spreading broadcast over the ground, 
not cutting the tops at all and leaving 
this on the ground until Spring, when 
tops, manure and all are harrowed into 
the ground. Also we apply manure in the 
Spring and harrow into the soil. 
One fact which is not often considered 
in relation to asparagus is that the buds 
for next year's crop of asparagus are de¬ 
veloped largely during the months of 
July and August, and fertilizer of any 
kind does the most good to the crop of 
next year rather than the year in which 
it is applied. Also one other fact, that 
there is danger of applying too much ma¬ 
nure to asparagus beds which have been 
■well established. Fresh manure can be 
applied any time during the late Fall and 
early Spring. WILFRID WITEELEK. 
Massachusetts. 
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