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Corn-Golden Bantam Tomato— Chalk s Jewel 
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Garden and Farm Notes 
Warm Up Seed Potatoes at Once 
Somehow the lessons taught by experi¬ 
ence are remembered, usually because ex¬ 
pensive. Thus I got one, a few years ago, 
which rises fresh every year as seed time 
approaches. Potatoes for seed, to be at 
their best, must be wintered at a tempera¬ 
ture so low as to check any starting of 
sprouts. Such seed brought fresh from 
storage bin is not in condition for plant¬ 
ing, and will not germinate until warmed 
up. Finding myself short of seed, I or¬ 
dered from a seed house the return of 
amount wanted from a lot grown by me 
the previous year, so that the only differ¬ 
ence between the two lots was in storage. 
My seed had been brought from cellar 
and spread in the sun for a number of 
days; the other was cut and planted the 
next day after removal from storage 
house. The result was that while I got a 
complete stand from the home-kept seed, 
not one-third of that from the storage 
house germinated. 
Experience since has convinced me that 
my failure to warm up the seed before 
planting is the solution of the problem, 
hence I am writing to urge all growers, 
whose seed is free from sprouts when 
brought from the cellar or pit, to spread 
on the ground in the sun for as long a 
time as possible before planting. I want 
at least three weeks, and if any night is 
cool, cover with sacking, blit be sure to 
remove early in the morning to prevent 
sweating. Potatoes thus exposed will 
start larger, healthier sprouts, when plant¬ 
ed, than if put into the ground direct 
from the cellar. If spread thin on the 
ground the sprouts will not start for 
weeks, but the eye will swell, giving prom¬ 
ise of just what the grower wants later— 
a stout stalk. This is one of the little 
things which yield big returns. Warm up 
all seed before planting. 
G. M. TWITCH ELL. 
late crop. This year I am also growing 
a few Redheads as early tomatoes. I do 
not think they are as early as Bonny 
Best, but they are wonderfully prolific, 
round as a ball and very solid. For late 
I shall sow some Bonny Best, also some 
Redhead, Puritan ITill and Greater Balti¬ 
more, also a few of the Ponderosa just 
for show. 
There is every prospect that an enor¬ 
mous area will be planted in sweet pota¬ 
toes this Spring. The Northern people 
will probably he able to get them cheaper 
than usual, wh’le I fear that the growers 
will overdo the crop The general opinion 
among tomato growers is that the crop 
should bring $20 a ton. Few canners will 
contract at that price, I think, and the 
chances are that, there will be little con¬ 
tracting, as both parties seem to prefer 
to take the chances on the general mar¬ 
ket. Very few early tomatoes are shipped 
from here, but those who are prepared to 
forward the plants get good prices for 
their crop. Tomatoes usually bring a 
paying price for all that go north up to 
the first of August, and often later than 
that date. 
Forty years ago when I urged more 
planting of apples here I was met with 
the idea that we could not compete with 
the North in apple growing. Now the 
orchards planted of late years are bring¬ 
ing such fine returns that large orchards 
are springing up all around here. The 
Eastern Shore Staymans and Yorks are 
making a reputation and bringing fine 
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- We are trying to iurnish Red Clover entirely 
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_ "How to Knots Good Seed**. 
. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 360 Sixth St, Marysville. Ohio 
Special prices on 5 and 10 bushel lots. Send for price 
list on Ensilage Corn, Pedigree Barley. Spring Rye. 
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W. F. MASSEY. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
I am planting some fruit trees. I may 
not live to see the fruit, and should have 
planted' them years ago. But with only a 
big garden I hesitated, till now I find the 
garden too big for an old man nearly 
fourscore. We, who have for years been 
buying the apples we eat. ai’e surprised 
by the fact that with all the thousands 
and thousands of apple trees that have 
been planted of late years, the retail price 
steadily advances. Now apples have 
reached the climax, I suppose, for I have 
stopped buying them when the grocers 
say $1.20 per peck tor any fairly good 
apples. I suppose one reason is that so 
many people plant apple trees and then 
neglect them, failing to spray or culti¬ 
vate well, and the scale and rust and 
starvation destroy them. 
The early tomato plants are nearly 
ready to go into the cold frames. We 
generally get them there by the middle 
of March and then keep them as cool as 
possible, trying Vo get the stems a pur¬ 
plish color rather than the lively green 
of the tender plants. Treated in this 
way and gradually accustomed to the open 
air we usually set them in the garden a 
little after the middle of April, keeping 
a good supply in reserve in the cold frame 
to guard against accidents But when 
there is prospect of a light frost I have 
cardboard protectors to set over them. I 
have found that it pays well to train 
tomato plants to stakes with a single 
stem. They make earlier, better and more 
fruit than on the ground. East Spring 
I set a lot of plants of same age side by 
side. Half of them were staked and 
trained to single stems. These not only 
gave the first fruits, but gave the heaviest 
crop per plant. Trained to one stem the 
plants can be set two feet apart in three- 
foot rows, and we get: more plants in a 
given area. Allowed to take their natural 
habit on the ground they must be four 
feet apart each way. We are using Bonny 
Best for the early crop. If I were grow¬ 
ing for the early market I would plant 
a good strain of Earliana. but the Bonny 
Best is so much better I am willing to 
wait a few days for it. The.advantage 
of the Earliana for the market gardener 
is that it is early, ripens its whole crop 
early, and can be ■ cleaned out lor some 
illiflgMs 
Good Fruit and 
How to Grow It 
This is the year to plan* rr h<' market 
demand will be strong next few 
years. Kelly’s trees are hardy, well- 
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You*ll Never Regret 
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Kelly Bros. Wholesale Nurseries 
606 Main Street. Dansville, N. Y. 
arnes’ Trees 
are New England grown 
hardy, vigorous and true 
to label —no better trees 
grown. Our supply is short, 
though, and many items 
will be exhausted be¬ 
fore Spring. Avoid 
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The Use of Nitrate of Soda 
We read a great deal about nitrate of 
soda, but so far have seen no directions 
for using it. We have a small fruit farm 
and garden, and would like to know of 
something that will force growth and how 
to use it. * % W. J. 
Stafford Springs, Conn. 
Nitrogen is the forcing element of plant 
food, and nitrate of soda is the most avail¬ 
able form—therefore most active. The 
nitrate looks somewhat like common salt 
but darker in color. When put too close 
to young plants in full strength it will ! 
scald or burn them. We would not ad¬ 
vise the use of more than 125 lbs. to the 
acre at one time. It can be crushed fine 
and scattered along the hills or drill about 
four inches out from the plant, and hoed 
in. Some ga-rdfhers mix it thoroughly 
with about three times its bulk of good 
soil and then use it like any other fertil¬ 
izer. In some cases the nitrate is dis¬ 
solved in water (by putting it in barrels) 
and then poured over a pile of sifted coal 
ashes. The ashes hold the dissolved ni¬ 
trate and will carry it when they are 
spread on the ground. When used in an 
orchard we scatter it evenly over the 
ground out as far as the branches extend. 
Do not put it up close around the tree 
trunk. 
The Barnes Bros. Nursery Co. 
Box 8 Yalesville, Conn. 
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Improving Sandy Land 
What would you consider the best way 
to raise field corn on sandy ground? What 
variety do you ....k would do best, and 
what fertilizer should I use? My ground 
is sandy from one to three feet, with clay 
subsoil. I wrote some time ago to the 
New Jersey State Experiment Station 
and they advised me not to farm such 
land at‘all, but I have got it now, paid 
for it, cleared it and want to get some¬ 
thing out of it. J. F. 
Eaton town, N. J. 
Our judgment is that the agricultural 
station is about right. Still, we know 
how you feel about cultivating that land. 
You cannot expect to get much from it 
until you can fill it with organic matter. 
We would start this year with a good 
dressing of lime. That Avill help com¬ 
pact the soil and make it hold moisture. 
Then plant one of the quick-growing flint 
varieties, using at least 500 lbs. per acre 
of one of the ready-mixed corn fertilizers 
or of a mixture containing one part dried 
blood and three parts acid phosphate. 
Give good culture and at the last culti¬ 
vation seed in the corn on each acre one- 
half bushel of rye. six pounds Alsike 
clover and one pound of turnip seed. Cut 
the corn at the right time and let the 
cover crop grow on, to be plowed under 
next Spring. 
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