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Bov Labor. —The scarcity autl high 
price of labor have driven us to have 
recourse to boys as helpers on the fruit 
farm more largely than ever before. I 
believe that observation has given me a 
fair understanding of boy nature in rela¬ 
tion to farm work. The characteristics 
of one boy apply in more or less degree 
to all, notwithstanding that I admit there 
is proper division of them into what we 
call “good” and “bad.” How boy labor 
succeeds depends on whether we direct it 
in accordance with its natural inclinations 
or attempt to govern it by manhood 
standards. If the latter, we shall usually 
be doomed to disappointment. I do not 
refer to berry-picking, but to straight-out 
manual labor, that consists mostly in 
hoeing. Here is some advice: Don’t as¬ 
sign two or, much worse, a bunch of boys 
to a job and then leave them without 
supervision; don’t, place a boy away off 
by himself at some monotonous labor. 
But splendid work can be secured from 
boys by giving them an adult as a leader, 
to work alongside of them all the time. 
This adult, however, must not be of the 
sour, silent, fault-finding type; he should 
be talkative, jolly and also tactful; in 
short, lie must be a person who can make 
himself liked by the hoys. Under such 
leadership the work of many boys will 
approximate that of a man who receives 
much higher wages. Boys will work with 
contentment where they have company 
and ('an listen to and engage in conver¬ 
sation. In such an environment hoys will 
take criticism in good humor and try to 
do their best to please. I enclose a pic¬ 
ture of two wee hoers. brother and sister, 
who years ago came to me unspoiled, and 
who did astonishingly good work among 
the strawberry plants. Since then the 
boy has been in France, and the girl is 
**iim*i in 
fruit or as good a keeper as the Muench 
which has many characteristics of the 
wild post-oak grape, of which it is a 
cross. These two, however, make an ex¬ 
cellent combination. I suspect that the 
Fern would be more satisfactory under 
the Munson system of training on time 
wires. It is a prodigious grower, and 
requires lots of room. All pistillate 
better pollination than i,, r 
that the character of the 
chief factor. The Xintn 
line. The true Wilder is 
heavy bearer of splendid 
grapes showed 
years, proving 
season is the 
was especially 
very fine, a 
grapes that ripen after the Concord, but 
I find that the greater part of my row 
is not true to name, and will have to be 
grafted or uprooted to give place to the 
true strain, which I shall proceed to mul- 
fcPjy* , L. R. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mb. 
A New Potato from New Zealand 
Bulletin 171, Office of Foreign Seed 
and Plant Introduction, describes a re¬ 
markable potato received from Mr 
Charles G. Hallett, Teteko, New Zealand 
Mr. Ilallett gives the following descrip: 
tion of it: 
“Tubers of a peculiar potato that grows 
in this district. I was given one little 
tuber by a government overseer of rab- 
biters, who had taken some tubers from 
the spring in which they grow, and had 
grown them in his garden for a year or so. 
lie assured me that frost does not affect 
the plants when growing in this spring. 
The tubers I am forwarding you grew in 
my garden from the one I received from 
the rabbiter, so they have been out of 
water for two or three generations. 
“On the northern side of the Rangitaiki 
2 -no Yomifj Gardeners in Missouri 
married and a mother. I wonder if they 
could now sens.e. and with regret, the 
precionsness of the innocence which en¬ 
veloped them in those far-away days.? 
Grapes and Prohibition. —The pres¬ 
ent season has answered the question of 
what effect prohibition will have on the 
grape industry. It will stimulate it b\ 
an increased demand. This has been our 
most profitable season in the vineyard. 
The general price per pound has ruled a 
cent higher than ever before, and the 
demand has kept pace with the ripening of 
(lie fruit. For iin first time numerous 
orders have come in for 100-lb. lots, and 
we have not had to advertise and push 
the sale. I notice a general reticence as 
to the final form these large lots are to 
take; it is for anyone to guess whether 
they go into bottles fermented or unfer¬ 
mented. I cannot understand how the 
Government, even if it. were bo minded, 
could exercise espionage over the indi¬ 
vidual home. 
Damage by Birds. —Last season, for 
the first time in years, the oriole, so de¬ 
structive to the grape, was practically 
absent; this year there were very few. 
I am hoping that this pest is leaving this 
region to an extent, that will relieve the 
vineyard of its greatest peril. The pil- 
ferings of some other birds which eat the 
whole grape are unnoticed', hut this va¬ 
riety of the oriole merely punctures a 
grape for a drop of juice, and will rapidly 
repeal this operation on every grape on 
its side of the bunch. 
Grape Season. —The season of no other 
fruit extends so exactly across the full 
lapse of a month as does that of the grape. 
The first cuttings vary little from the 
first day, and by the thirty-first the vine¬ 
yard is about emptied of fruit, except the 
corner occupied by the two late Texans, 
Fern and Muench, which are just lx'ein- 
ning to acquire some sweetness. These 
two grapes will carry on to the middle of 
September, and the Muench, if snek»d 
can be held on till October. The Fern 
is as large as the Catawba, of which it 
is a cross, and has large, showy bunches, 
hut so far it has not proved as regular 
River, in the Bay of Plenty district, op¬ 
posite the old Maori settlement Waiohua, 
where a splendid spring of fresh water 
issues from the base of a hill and flows 
between banks heavily fringed with water¬ 
cress to the nearby river, a remarkable 
instance of a plant forsaking its normal 
environment may he observed. There 
watercress and potato plants flourish to¬ 
gether, and tubers are found among the 
cress roots from 12 to 18 in. under water. 
Some of the tubers are almost in midair, 
others may he found snuggled into the 
bank fiber, and the foliage of cress and 
potato mingles on the water surface. It 
may be that the* plants are dependent for 
their growth upon the earthy particles 
held in the cross roots, and also that there 
is some fertilizing quality in the water 
which drains from the great volcanic area. 
The potatoes when cooked are not at all 
mealy, but waxy. They grow to a fair 
size, and are fit for eating as early as Au¬ 
gust. 
“I forwarded some of the tubers for 
testing at the Moumahaki Experimental 
Farm last season. The manager’s report 
on the trial is as follows: 
“ ‘Some of the ‘water-potato’ tubers 
were planted on August 111, 11)10, in the 
potato variety trials, having the same 
treatment, soil and manures as the 66 
other varieties planted on the same date. 
The potato in question came away vigor¬ 
ously, and is distinct in foliage, with a 
large blue flower, bearing seed apples 
naturally. The crop was lifted on Febru¬ 
ary 0, 15)17, an 1 was free from disease. 
The yield was as follows: Marketable 
tubers (table and seed) at the rate of 11 
tons per acre; pig-potatoes, 1.87 tons; 
total, 12 87 tons. The cooking test made 
on February 0, by boiling, showed that 
the potatoes kept their color 24 hours, hut 
they could not be classed as good cookers 
“Despite the negative result recorded in 
the last part of this report, the circum¬ 
stances surrounding the growth of the 
tubers in the Rangitaiki spring may indi¬ 
cate, if only slightly, a possible reversion 
of this long domesticated plant to an au- 
eoptrnl habit.” 
