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By that painting, we mean any 
painting that needs to be done. 
When it gets to be this time 
of j r ear most of us kind of 
like to put off things until next 
Spring. If you do that with 
your painting, it’s going to 
cost you more to paint, just 
as sure as corn grows on a 
cob. Cost more, because you 
will have to use more paint; 
and because paint itself may 
then be costing more. 
If you can’t get the time this 
Fall to do your painting, then 
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be wise enough to buy the 
paint at once, that you will 
need for next Spring. 
And while you are thinking 
of paint, drop us a postal for 
a valuable piece of advice 
called — “Figure Your Paint 
Costs with a Brush—Not a 
Pencil.” It will show you how 
to < save money on both your 
paint and your painting. 
Remember that Lowe Broth¬ 
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by the one best dealer in each 
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Because of the increasing scarcity and 
high pricefof stable manure and high grade 
fertilizers, some other source of nitrogen 
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if maximum production is to be con¬ 
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A good legume crop may take from the 
air and put into the soil as much nitrogen 
per acre as is contained in 500 lbs. of Ni¬ 
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as is furnished by 8 tons of manure. 
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Garden Notes From New England 
Insuring Chops. —I understand that 
the plan of insuring growing crops, which 
has been started this Summer, is to be 
extended to apples, cranberries and vari¬ 
ous other kinds of fruit. So far the plan 
has been confined mostly to potatoes, al¬ 
though one company has been insuring 
sweet corn growers to some extent, es¬ 
pecially in Maine. The limit of sweet 
corn has been placed at $100 per acre. 
Forms have been prepared for other veg¬ 
etable, grain and fruit crops, and if the 
idea proves acceptable to the farmers 
much insurance of this kind probably will 
be written next season. Aroostook Coun¬ 
ty potato growers liked the idea well 
enough to take out a considerable number 
A Roadside Farm Bulletin. Fig. 444 
of policies this seasou, aud insurance 
there was written as high as $*250 an 
acre at a six per cent rate, although the 
schedule calls for $200. Growers in other 
parts of New England did not seem so 
responsive, but perhaps' that was due to 
the fact that they placed a much higher 
ultimate value on their potatoes than did 
the insurance companies. In any event, 
many of them tried to get insurance when 
the slump came, but were denied the op¬ 
portunity. You can hardly blame the 
company for turning down applications 
from farmers who know they are certain 
to have a loss, and want it covered with 
insurance at somebody else’s expense. 
This is such a new wrinkle that it is hard 
to predict how far it will go, but I see 
no reason why it shouldn’t appeal to 
farmers who place all their eggs in one 
basket, as it were, and are bound to be 
hard hit if the single crop which they 
grow happens to fail. 
The Best Blackberries. — I think the 
Taylor is the best blackberry that can be 
grown in New England. Several other 
kinds have been tried out, but few of them 
give the general satisfaction of this berry. 
One of my neighbors who grows it quite 
extensively, and has tested practically 
every kind offered in New England, con¬ 
siders it the finest of all, whether grown 
commercially or for home use. The fruit 
is large, nicely colored, and is produced 
in immense quantities, even when high 
culture is not given the plants. In my 
own patch I have been trying out the 
Blowers, a much-advertised variety, and 
while it grows thriftily and bears very 
good fruit, it has not proved quite so pro¬ 
lific as I should like to have it. The 
plants have wintered without difficulty 
on my place, but growers in other parts 
of the State report heavy losses last Win¬ 
ter. Probably their plantations were 
somewhat more exposed. I think this is 
a good berry for home gardens which are 
somewhat sheltered, but I should hesitate 
to plant it in a large way. There would 
be uo better home berry than the W-achu- 
sett, except for the fact that it rusts very 
badly. It has the one great advantage 
of being almost thornless, and for this 
reason is liked by such members of the 
household as have to do the picking of the 
fruit, but because of its tendency to rust 
cannot, be warmly recommended. 
Damage from Apple Scab. —Apple 
scab has caused considerable damage in 
Massachusetts this season. Reports from 
Middlesex County show that more than 
xx.xxx. vr-. Lucre 
have been badly infested. This will mean 
a heavy loss, as the farmers of Middlesex 
County have been specializing on McIn¬ 
tosh apples for several years, and have 
contemplated planting much more heavily 
in the future. Probably the rainy weather 
during Spring and early Summer has 
been responsible for so much trouble, and 
growers are hoping that this will not be 
a general experience. The County Horti¬ 
culturist says that the farmers have been 
using too weak a spray in the past, and 
suggests substituting homemade Bordeaux 
mixture for the usual lime-sulphur mix¬ 
ture. Even if the lime-sulphur is used, 
it should be made much stronger than in 
the past. 
Additional Fruit Notes. — Undoubt¬ 
edly an increasing proportion of the an- 
ples marketed this year will go out in the 
new standard bushel box. Scores of farm¬ 
ers have signed a statement to the effect 
that as they have used up their old boxes 
they will purchase only those of the new 
size. Inasmuch as vegetable growers are 
also adopting the new box, it is likely to 
come into general use throughout New 
England before long, even though the 
Massachusetts Legislature declined to 
standardize the box. The New Rugland 
p ruit Show, which has come to be an 
event of no little importance, will be held 
in Hartford, Conn., this year. This is 
the first time the show has ever gone to 
Connecticut, and the orchard men of that 
State are preparing to make it a big dis- 
P] fl y- I he date is November 5-9. ami 
C. Mills of Milford will have charge 
of the details. 
Tying Up Cauliflower.-— There are 
few crops which the amateur finds greater 
satisfaction in growing than cauliflower 
let cauliflower is a very erratic crop’ 
Sometimes on the South Shore of Massa¬ 
chusetts, where it is produced quite large¬ 
ly, it is a tremendous success. In other 
seasons, and for apparently no reason, it 
is. almost a failure. In Vermont it is 
said that there is no necessity for tying 
up the heads, but this plan is always* fol¬ 
lowed around Boston. The work is done 
as soon as the plants are well developed, 
for if the curd is exposed to the sun it 
turns brown. Any soft string or a strip 
of cloth may be used to hold the leaves 
together over the curd. In some market 
gardens a sharpened stick or nail is thrust 
through the leaves. It is also important 
to tie up the endive, for unless it is 
blanched it is almost too bitter to suit 
most people. This work must not be 
done, however, when the plants are wet, 
for then they will rot in a short time. 
Endive should be ready for eating in three 
weeks from the time the blanching is be¬ 
gun. 
Roadside Bulletins. —In a recent ar¬ 
ticle I described a somewhat elaborate 
roadside bulletin board, by means of 
which one farmer advertised what he had 
to sell. It is possible to have a simpler, 
but almost as effective, signboard with 
the same arrangement of lettered strips 
to stick upon the grooved uprights. The 
accompanying illustration, Fig. 444, shows 
a bulletin board of this kind which I came 
across on the South Shore recently. Be¬ 
ing painted white, it attracts immediate 
attention, and, as will be noticed, the 
name of the farm is painted on a perma¬ 
nent board at the top. 
Tiie Corn-Borer. —Very little is being 
heard about the European corn-borer this 
seasou. although a large staff of men is 
at work throughout the field. The borer 
doesn’t seem to be doing very much dam¬ 
age in private gardens, and I have heard 
much less complaint than last year from 
market gardeners. This doesn’t mean 
that the pest has been exterminated, by 
any means, but apparently it is not going 
to prove as disastrous a visitant as was 
The Work of the Corn-borer. Fig. 44 5 
at first feared. I do not think any great 
attempts are being made to kill it out, 
but efforts are being made to keep it trom 
spreading to new territory. It uses many 
different vegetables as vehicles for travel¬ 
ing from place to place, aud special re¬ 
quests have been made to rhubarb grow¬ 
ers to cut off the stalks short enough so 
that the pests cannot be transmitted by 
this means, E. l. Farrington. 
