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TAKING THE HAZARD 
FROM GRAIN FARMING 
Every grain raiser knows that the 
period between cutting and tliresil¬ 
ing is an anxious time. Much of 
the labor and expense put into the 
crop may be lost if the threshing 
is not done when the grain is just 
right for safe handling and clean 
separation. 
It is just as logical—and just as 
wasteful—to depend upon the con¬ 
venience of someone else to deter¬ 
mine the time of harvesting your 
grain as it is to depend upon the 
uncertain arrival of the custom 
thresher for the threshing of your 
crop. 
Whether you raise a few or a 
thousand acres, good management 
dictates that you have a 
so that you may be assured of getting 
every kernel of grain you raise, (io your 
threshing when conditions are just 
right, and when your extra help is 
ready to go to work. 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
I have seen very few potato beetles 
about, but the few must have done a great 
deal of egg-laying, for yesterday it was 
j apparent that the usual number of larvae 
| have hatched, and at once the dusting of 
calcium arsenate went on the plants. In 
planting time I determined to get away 
from the Cobblers, which are about the 
only variety planted here. I sent North 
and bought seed potatoes of the rid Rovee, 
one of the Early Rose type, but usually 
more productive than the Early Rose. 
Now I have the same result I have always 
noticed when seed from the North is used, 
and it seems to be that this is the reason 
of the greater productivity of our second- 
crop seed. These Northern seed potatoes, 
dug much earlier than we dig potatoes, 
get to sprouting in the cellar, and the 
sprouts are rubbed off 'before shipping 
South. The result is that the potato has 
lost something of its store of plant food 
to give the plant a start, and it starts 
with tho growth of lateral buds, siuee the 
terminal bud at the eye has been rubbed 
ofl. Hence, instead of a strong single 
shoot, they grow with a cluster of stems. 
Everyone of experience in potato growing 
knows that a plant with a string single 
stem will make a better crop than a clus¬ 
ter of stems. 
The large p>taio growers in the 
Middle States have found out the differ¬ 
ence between the disease-infected and 
healthy seed. Last year a farmer in the 
great potato-growing county of Monmouth, 
New Jersey, wrote to me asking*the best 
place to get the Southern seed potatoes, 
for he said that some he tried made twice 
the crop that he got from the Maine seed. 
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inquiring about the second-crop seed. I 
believe that I have mentioned the curious 
affection that has come into the crop 
from Northern seed down in Northamp¬ 
ton County, Virginia. This is a stunted 
growth and a complete failure in size 
and production of potatoes, while the 
plants seem perfectly healthy. I saw a 
large plot of potatoes just before digging 
time the first of June. This plot was 
planted from the same lot of seed pota¬ 
toes. planted the same day, fertilized alike 
and on similar soil so far as anyone could 
judge. One-half of the plot had grown 
to the height of S or 10 inches, and then 
stopped. The other half reached full de¬ 
velopment, and was iu full bloom, while 
the first half never showed a flower. But 
the stunted plants looked just as green 
and healthy as any iu the field, but they 
simply stopped when the potatoes were 
the size of a walnut. The owner said 
that he believed they would all have to 
quit the Northern seed and grow their 
own. But as all the growers iu that section 
are straining every nerve to get to mar¬ 
ket ahead of others the drawback is that 
the home-grown seed starts later and 
matures later, and unless every one of the 
growers would drop the Northern seed 
the competition would continue, though 
nil of them knew that the home-grown 
seed gave them larger crops. My pota¬ 
toes are like everything else iu the garden, 
later than usual, and it seems evident 
that while the plants are making a good ] 
many potatoes they are individually going 
to be rather small, solely by the manner 
of growth in cluster of stems. 
I am daily getting letters from sections 
in the South where the 17-year locusts 
have arrived, saying it is reported that it 
will be dangerous to use the blackberries 
this year. I tell *hem that I would hardly 
eat berries that the locusts have partly 
eaten, but I would not hesitate to use the 
good berries. Iu fact. I have passed 
through three locust spells, and never 
found that they ate the fruit to any ex¬ 
tent, and that most of the damage they 
do is to twigs and growth of young trees. 
With the thermometer scoring in the 
nineties an I plenty of moisture, bow 
things grow! Everything seem to he 
trying to catch up. But the early toma¬ 
toes. usually ripening by this date, are 
only the size of a walnut. There is great 
scarcity of plants for the canning crops. 
I have daily calls on the telephone, asking 
how many thousand plants l can furnish, 
and when I reply that I have only a 
hundred or two after setting my own late 
crop they seem disgusted, and have no 
use for a hundred or two. 
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