The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1131 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The value of an old sod is well shown 
a field immediately opposite the gar¬ 
den on the other side of the street, or 
rather the road, for out here only with 
this block between me and the city limits 
there are so many vacant lots that the 
city authorities have not concluded to 
finish the street. So I run the lawn 
mower to the middle of the street and 
thus extend my lawn, and the people who 
drive by respect it, and the worn track 
is well on the other side. But as to the 
sod. This whole block between me and 
the city limits was for 10 to 15 years , 
left lying in sod. It was neither mown \ 
nor pastured. The grass grew up rankly j 
and fell and decayed. Then when the 
war in Europe made the growing of food 
crops important, this land and all the 
grassy lots around here wer A put into 
cultivation. The old Blue grass sod and 
its accumulation of humus for many years 
was plowed under and planted to corn. 
Of course it made a good crop, and the 
cultivator planted it a second year and 
now has it in corn for the third year and 
il has on it now the heaviest growth of 
corn for miles around. Of course this is 
merely robbing the land of its aceumula- 
1 ion of plant food, but as this was a sandy 
kill of no great original fertility it shows 
well the lasting influence of a real dense 
sod. These three crops of corn have not 
had any manure or fertilizer applied. The i 
influence of the long standing sod is well 
shown when compared with immediately 
adjoining land which has been run down 
by the same process of cropping year 
after year. • 
The Department of Agriculture is us¬ 
ing every effort to find any further infec¬ 
tion of the potato wart other than that 
found in Eastern Pennsylvania. My son, 
who is associate professor of vegetable 
pathology in the Virginia Polytechnic In¬ 
stitute (the State Agricultural College) 
is spending his vacation in investigating 
the matter for the Department of Agri¬ 
culture. He has been all over Long Is¬ 
land. and is now in the Virginia counties 
on the lower end of this peninsula, and 
proposes to investigate all sections of Vir¬ 
ginia. With the limited section where it 
has been found quarantined, and no other 
infection discovered, it may be possible to 
clean it out of the country. .So far no 
other infected sections have been found. 
The present infection is a small area in 
Luzerne County, Pa., and nearby coun¬ 
ties. It has been found in gardens in 27 
towns in Luzerne. Schuylkill and Carbon 
counties, in an area 12 by IS miles in 
extent. It has been imported from Eu¬ 
rope, along with anarchists and other 
diseases of society. The section in Penn¬ 
sylvania is quarantined, and planting of 
potatoes prohibited in the infected sec¬ 
tion. If no other section is found in¬ 
fected there will be an attempt made to 
sterilize the soil where it has been found 
by the steam pan method. Varieties of 
potatoes that have been found resistant to 
the disease will be imported from Europe 
for trial here. It is of rather modern 
origin in Europe, for the first report was 
of specimens found in Hungary in 1S0G, 
and is already widely distributed on the 
continent and in Great Britain. It is 
fortunate that the area in Pennsylvania 
where the disease exists is not in a com¬ 
mercial potato growing section, and only 
in small gardens, and if it has not gotten 
hold elsewhere it can probably be stamped 
out there, since no seed potatoes or others 
have been sold from that mining section. 
The wart can he carried to fresh loca¬ 
tions on farm implements used in infected 
soils, on the feet of pedestrians in such 
sections, and on the feet of farm animals 
or wild ones. It may spread from plant¬ 
ing diseased tubers or tubers that have 
been in contact with diseased ones, or by 
potatoes that were grown in infected soil 
and not attacked, but carrying the spor¬ 
angia from the soil. Anyone who notes 
warts on his potatoes should at once re¬ 
port it and aid in stamping it out. The 
present investigation is intended to be a 
thorough search for new spots of infec¬ 
tion. Fungus diseases seem constantly 
to increase in variety and spread. The 
green peas grown for canning in Dela¬ 
ware and Maryland have become badly 
infested with root rot. which has been in¬ 
tensified by planting the same land in 
peas year after year. Whole fields in 
Delaware have been destroyed and plowed 
under. And now the alarm spreads in 
Southern California over the nematodes 
that make root-knot on their cantaloupes, 
and are causing serious losses to the 
growers. It seems that the business of 
traveling sprayers is to become as com¬ 
mon as the thrashing outfits. 
W. P. MASSEY. 
Mildew on ROS2S 
Will you let me know what is good for 
mold on rose bushes? R. a. s. 
Windsor, N. Y. 
Mildew on roses is remedied by sul- 
i bur. Dust flowers of sulphur freely over 
the affected foliage when with with dew. 
so that the sulhpur will stick, or spray 
with liver of sulphur, three ounces in 10 
gallons of water. The liver of sulphur 
solution appears the better of the two, 
but the dry flowers of sulphur is often 
unite efficacious. 
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The City of 
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Goodrich marked up its adjustment mileage be¬ 
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