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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Here it is the twenty-third of March, 
and we have just planted our early Irish 
potatoes, fully a month later than usual. 
The Longfi ‘How late wrinkled peas are 
just in the ground. With these I make a 
double use of part of my woven wire 
feuee. I plant some Lima beans in four- 
inch pots, and, as soon as the peas get 
too old for the table T pull them away 
and knock out the beans and set them in 
place of the pea's. In this way I last 
year got the two crops from the fenoe, 
and the crop of Lima beans was partic¬ 
ularly fine. This Summer I intend to 
set the succession tomato plants for the 
canning crop on the fence closely and 
train to single sterns. [ have been in 
the habit of setting this crop as is usual 
here in field culture and ltd them tumble. 
But I have always got so much better 
results from my early crop trained to 
stakes that I will try training the late 
ones. I can set them 20 inches apart j 
along the fence, and train to single stalk. 1 - 
and I believe that I can get a better 
crop than giving all the room they want 
on the ground. I like to get my early 
tomato seed grown as far North as prac¬ 
ticable, as I find them earlier than seed 
grown here. But the canning crop is 
bettor raised here from carefully selected 
seed, since ear lines* is not an object with 
these. Still, while not selecting for early 
fruit, I always select the best specimens 
that ripen with the first flush of the 
maturing fruit, believing that these pos 
sess the greatest vitality. 
Hiding in the country these bright 
sunny days I find the atmosphere odorous 
with stable manure that is being hauled 
[ from the cars at the stations, where the 
| piled-up manure is steaming, for there 
are a great many who failed to get the 
| manure in the hills for their cucumbers, 
cantaloupes and watermelons in the Win¬ 
ter as usual and are now hurrying to 
prepare for the planting. In many fields 
the hills are alrady prepared for the 
planting in April. [ noticed that some 
had been able to get pretty well rotted 
manure on the cars from New York. 
What the difference in price is I did not 
learn, hut the New York manure ecsts 
more and more every year. The gasoline 
motors have made the supply smaller and 
that, combined with the liigh 'cost of 
everything, makes manure cost three or 
four times as much as formerly. If the 
price of the products keeps pace with the 
manure there may be no loss to the 
grower, and assuredly, in the long run. 
the hind gets more benefit for the manure 
than from commercial fertilizers. Still. 
I believe that the crops can lie made 
more economically on turned-under clover 
with the commercial fertilizers in the 
hill*. The clover will give the greatest 
amount of humus-making material, which 
will maintain the crops to the end. while 
the readily available fertilizer will give 
the start. 
Did Your Potatoes 
Blight and Rot? 
Were your potato vines standing up, apparently 
healthy, and a few hours later lying on the ground 
—black and dead? 
This is the work of potato blight which attacks 
the vines during cool, damp weather in late July 
or August. It kills them before the potatoes are 
able to size up. It causes the potatoes to rot— 
either in the ground before they are dug or after 
they are put in the cellar. 
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The prospect seems to indicate a much 
smaller planting of tomatoes. The ean- 
ners have still on hand a great quantity 
of last Summer’s canning, and have failed 
to realize a profit on the product, because 
of the liigh price paR for the tomatoes 
last Summer. T do not hear of any con¬ 
tracts being made here, though it is re¬ 
ported that in the upper countie* they 
are contracting at SM." a ton. Our grow¬ 
er* would lie very glad to get any such 
price. The sweet potato crop last Sum¬ 
mer was nuusually large in area and 
yield. Millions of bushels were put into 
the storage houses, the owners of the 
large houses buying all they could lay 
hands on lale in the season. I hear that 
these commercial storage houses have 
made money on their purchases, and are 
still shipping potatoes at every warm 
spell chance. The crop paid everyone, 
and the result is that there will be a 
still larger area planted to sweet pota¬ 
toes this Spring. Then, too, from what 
I have seen riding around, there will be 
a larger increase in planting cucumbers 
than of cantaloupes, because they paid 
better last Summer than cantaloupes. 
These fluctuations in the truck crops are 
common year after year, and if the canta¬ 
loupes put more money into the pockets 
of the growers this Summer the next 
season will find them planting more melons 
than cukes. I tilt the wiser growers 
adopt the opposite method, and are apt 
to hit the markets better. 
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