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Dk RURAL NEW-YORKER 
and goodly work which country people 
are doing. In all history the city folks 
have made the most noise' and kicked up 
the most 'dust, but in the end the solid, 
conservative element-'df, the country has 
dominated the situation. History is not 
going to change. It’s going to move a 
little faster. .-.That new.life which is com¬ 
ing to all of us will not ..mean entirely 
the labor of producing things. We cannot 
and will not live the old life of giving the 
handlers 65 cents of the dollar. That 
wicked system has already passed away 
from thousands of farms, and the sun¬ 
shine of the change is shown in the homes. 
You may smile at this hopeful outlook 
arid call it the enthusiasm of youth, but 
I know that along with other changes 
there has been going on for the past 25 
years a slow and solid development of 
thought. It has not come to a head as 
it has among town workers, but it will 
he better seed when it does come. We 
are going to make farming more profit¬ 
able, and ice arc going to do it ourselves. 
H. w. C. 
Country Garden Notes 
Farmers should take more pains with 
their gardens, especially in these days 
when vegetables can be made to take the 
place of high-priced meat. It can be done 
with little work if only one thing is ad¬ 
hered to—do not let the weeds get a start. 
Let me say, without boasting, that I 
have proved what I am advocating twice 
over the past season. I have supplied my 
small family with all of about half a 
dozen vegetables, lettuce, beets, corn, to¬ 
matoes. beans, and at least part of what 
was needed of half a dozen more sorts, all 
in a city plot 24 ft. square. It was done 
by planting almost indiscriminately one 
vegetable after another as its planting 
season came on, in single rows, one row 
of a sort at a time, just 15 in. apart. It 
will not. answer to plant vines that way, 
and so I had no cucumbers. 
Something in the soil did not favor 
onions or turnips, and cabbage did only 
fairly well. Parsnips, of which I usually 
have a surplus on a single 24-ft. row, 
will be small now, as the seed turned out 
to be old and did not grow till replanted 
twice. They are still growing, after the 
20th of October; so are beets, beans and 
carrots, for only light frosts have as yet 
reached the city. If I had unlimited land 
I would put tomatoes and vines by them¬ 
selves for space, but corn and tall peas 
are all right in. the 15-in. rows if the 
rows are run north and south. 
Think of the little work involved in 
planting. After that all that is needed is 
to drag a hook or skeleton hoe through 
the rows about twice a week. Neglect 
to do this and it is hardly worth the 
while to do anything. A weedy garden 
seldom pays. No weed should be allowed 
to live more than a week. The work is 
then easy and light. Plant such sorts as 
will mature in time—corn, beans, peas, 
lettuce, beets—up to the middle of July, 
say at four evenly divided times. 
Keep a compost heap of half-rotted fer¬ 
tilizer made up of manure, sods, leaves 
and the remains of the vegetables. Cut 
up the vegetable stalks, corn. peas, cab¬ 
bage. etc., just as soon as the crop is off, 
and throw them on the compost heap. 
Sprinkle some of this fine stuff in the 
rows several times in the growing season, 
whether you manure before turning the 
garden over in late Fall or Spring or not. 
J. w. c. 
Bark Injury of Apple Trees 
I had some trouble with five-year-old 
Delicious apple trees last Winter. The 
bark on the southwest side of the tree 
cracked, some a few inches, some a foot 
or two long, which I laid to frost injury. 
What can I do to prevent it again next 
Winter on other trees? I thought of 
wrapping the trees with building paper, 
or perhaps I can buy wood veneer to 
wrap them. The trees grew thrifty and 
stroug, and the Delicious was the only 
variety affected. . E. L. L. 
The splitting and cracking of the bark 
is probably the result of freezing and 
thawing action during the Winter months. 
Trees that have been growing rapidly are 
more likely to be injured than ones which 
have developed somewhat slowly. I note 
in this instance that the bark splitting 
occurred on the southwest side of the 
trees, which is likely to indicate that 
rapid thawing of the frozen bark by the 
bright sun at some time during the Win¬ 
ter was probably a factor in the injury. 
Where there is danger of this sort occur¬ 
ring it can often be prevented by shading 
the trunk during the Winter. It is ob¬ 
vious that the north side of the trunk 
will not require any shading. Wood 
veneer might be used as you suggest, but 
I would only cover the portion of the 
trunk which is directly exposed to the 
sun during the Winter, and the veneer 
protection should be removed in early 
Spring. Veneer protectors completely 
covering the trunk are sometimes left on 
the trunk indefinitely, making the bark 
tender beneath, and further, the result is 
that borers often cause serious damage 
before they are detected. Any material 
that would shade the trunk during the 
Winter would be satisfactory, provided 
it did not attract and harbor mice. Corn¬ 
stalks have sometimes been used for this 
purpose, but unless they are stripped of 
their leaves and applied in a thin layer 
they are likely to attract mice. I would 
also urge caution in the use of any build¬ 
ing paper material which contained much 
tar. M. A. BLAKE. 
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time that would be required with a motor 
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