The RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
Notes From a Maryland Garden 
The chard lived over the Winter, and 
Is now growing freely (March 17). Sev¬ 
eral years ago I had some live over and 
supposed that it would at once run to 
seed, but it did not till it was too late to 
ripen the seed, and the plant made as 
good leaves as the Summer before. With 
a south wind and the mercury' outside 
at 00 at sunrise it looks as though Spi'ing 
is surely here. Rut when one remembers 
that it is just past the middle of March 
he fears the lions yet to come. 
The early peas are above ground and 
the last crop sown and Spring sown 
spinach appearing. I am growing this 
season two strains of Bonny Best tomato, 
the Campbell and the Langdon. both from 
seed grown by the Langdons. They claim 
that their special strain is earlier, but 
that the Campbell is very prolific. Then 
I have their seed of the Redhead, which 
they say is a little later starting than 
the Bonny Best, but that it outyields the 
Bonny Best in early fruit I tried the 
Redhead last year as one of the main late 
crop. I was not greatly impressed with 
it, but attributed this to the intensely 
hot and dry weather prevailing when it 
should have been at Its best. Hence I 
am trying it this season as one of the 
earliest. The plants' have been set in 
the cold frames, and we are trying to keep 
them in as hardy condition as possible, 
for it does not help them to get tall and 
up against the glass. 
I notice that in a recent issue a cor¬ 
respondent. P. P. K., Minnesota, says 
that it is the moles that eat roots and 
other vegetable materials. I think if he 
will study the matter more closely he will 
find that all damage from eateu roots and 
plants is done by the field mice which 
Use the mole runs. Catch a mole and ex¬ 
amine its stomach and you will find that 
he feeds on insects and worms, ne is 
responsible for the damage done, as he 
prepares the runs for the mice. 
You say that training tomatoes on trel¬ 
lis or stakes will not pay commercially. 
I am not at all sure of that for the early 
crop. Trained to stakes with single stem 
T find that plants of Mime variety and 
treated in exactly the same manner up 
to time of setting in the open ground will 
give me earlier, better and far more to¬ 
matoes on the staked than on the ground, 
and it is the early tomatoes time bring 
the money. The staked tomatoes were 
planted two feet apart and the others 
four by four feet, and of course the 
staked ones gave more and better per 
area, but they also made many more 
per plant. The late ones will not bring 
money enough to pay for staking, and in 
fact in late Summer seem to do better 
allowed to take their natural growth. Our 
farmers and the cahuers are still at a 
deadlock over the tomato crop this year. 
The growers say that if they cannot get 
the price they ask they will not plSht. 
and the canners say that if they cannot 
g»*t tomatoes for less than the price the 
growers demand, they will not pack any 
at all. The growers will probably risk 
the general market and the canners like¬ 
wise. The growers here are very slow 
to see the chance they have for greater 
profit in equipping with frames and sashes 
for the early crop. They could make fine 
profit in early shipping, and when the 
price falls North they could let the cau- 
ners have what they have left at their 
own price, having made more by shipping. 
I know of but one man who is prepared 
for the early crop, and he now has plants 
in the frames ready for six acres. When 
I read of people planting a dozen tomato 
plants I usually pity them for lack of 
room, for we plant nearly 100 of the 
early ones and more than that of the late 
varieties. And we eat them sliced, baked 
and fried, and in any other way, but we 
have them in abundance the year round 
by the aid of the cans, and we usually 
have an abundance to can. A dozen 
plants would be simply an aggravation 
in our family. w. f. MASSEY. 
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