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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
There are no more provoking pests than 
the short-tail field mice that now and then 
break into one's greenhouse and destroy 
things. For the second season they have 
destroyed my first sowing of tomato seed. 
I had about 200 plants in a fiat which 
were nearly large enough to transplant 
into other fiats, and given more room. 
One night’s raid of the mice finished 
them, and another fiat has been sown 
and covered with glass to keep the mice 
out, and poisons and traps are set for 
the mice. It seems that their main ob¬ 
ject was the rough manure placed in the 
bottom of tiie box. for they rooted for it 
in a box just fixed for sowing eggplant 
seed, but which had not been sown. But 
the damage i.s not to be repaired complete¬ 
ly, as two weeks’ time has been lost, and 
that throws me hack with the early to¬ 
matoes. It is very provoking not to be 
able to sow any seed without a clos ■ 
glass cover on the box. 
The wary little beasts last night did 
not show up at all. notwithstanding the 
nice poison and traps waiting for them. 
As they seem to hunt for the manure, I 
have fixed a box with well-poisoned ma¬ 
nure in the bottom, and have filled it with 
mellow soil, pressed down smooth, as 
though sown to seed >f some sort. I have 
covered it with panes of glass, lej ing 
very pretty holes for them to get in. Then 
there is poisoned cheese and snapper traps 
set and waiting for them. My old gar¬ 
dener was taken ill. and had to go to the 
hospital, and i.« still unable to work. But 
for the first time for several years men 
are begging for jobs, and there is no diffi¬ 
culty in getting the ground dug for the 
early crops. We usually expect about 
this time the hardest cold wave of the 
Winter, and then the gradual fading 
away of cold. But now it is the 17th of 
February, and for several days the weath¬ 
er would pass very well for April. At 
sunrise this morning the mercury stood at 
HO, and hv noon the temperature was 
nearly 80. We are promised colder to¬ 
night. and there are tidings of real Win¬ 
ter and a big blizzard in Canada, so we 
will be likely to g«-t some of the chill of 
it. But with the early potatoes and peas 
in the ground, and frames sown with va¬ 
rious things, we can weather a pretty 
good cold wave, since we have had so lit¬ 
tle of cold this Winter. But the fickle 
March is yet to come, and it may he 
Spring weather of mid-Winter cold, for 
March is a very treacherous month. 
I never had any difficulty in getting a 
good stand of plants from the New York 
Improved eggplant, hut there seems to he 
a weakness in the early seedling stage of 
the Black Beauty. Not that they are 
more liable to “damp off.” but that the 
seedlings seem to he naturally feeble and 
hard to get into a strong growth. Sown 
at same time and treated exactly alike, 
the New York Improved will push ahead 
of the Black Beauty in the greenhouse, 
and yet after both are grown and in the 
open ground. Black Beaut.v will give the 
earlier fruit, like a slow-growing apple 
tree fruiting far sooner than a rapid- 
growing one. An ugly, mean-growing Ah 
bemarl l’ippin apple tree will be profit¬ 
ably fruiting before the rapid-growing 
Northern Spy has made a bloom. Black 
Beauty eggplant never reaches, with me, 
the dimensions of the New York Im¬ 
proved, but aside from earlier fruiting it 
will make a greater number of smaller 
fruits. If you want to grow the fruit of 
the eggplant for the Fall shows, do not 
use Black Beauty for that purpose, for 
size counts at the fairs rather than qual¬ 
ity, as witness the mammoth pumpkins 
alongside the regular Yankee pie pump¬ 
kin. Fine quality seldom goes with big¬ 
ness in fruits and vegetables. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Comparison of Fuel Values 
What relation has a ton of soft coal, 
mine run. to a cord of hard wood, for 
fuel? c. G.E. 
McKeesport. Pa. 
Too many unstated factors are present 
to give a very definite answer, but the 
chances are that, weight for weight, the 
wood will give about half, or a little 
better, the heat of the coal. No much de¬ 
pends on the way the fuel is used that 
only a trial will give dependable figures. 
HE drudgery of starting a garden and the dis¬ 
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The Care of the Home Garden” is the nam 
of a valuable and instructive manual on pai 
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Address 410 Main Street 
PIAU To Prune with the PLUNGER TREE 
P A\f PRUNER, Write for CIRCULAR. 
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Read what Sweeney 
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HULL BROTHERS. 
Gentlemen: The “Friend” Gasoline 
Power Sprayer, purchased of you last 
spring, was a perfect success. The 
cost of operation was very little, and 
a pressure of from wo to 150 lbs. was 
maintained. IVe sprayed more in one 
day than we could in three days by 
hand, and did far better work. 
Sweeney Brothers, S, 19, igor. 
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