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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2, 1921 
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Hubam— 
The Mast Promising Legume 
Introduced in Recent Years 
This new Annual White Sweet Clover 
has been acclaimed by authorities as the 
greatest of all annual legumes. It has 
shown six times the growth of medium 
red clover, and promises to save a year 
in crop re. ntion in the corn belt. Grows 
5 to 8 fee: ‘ame season sown. Early ma- 
turity. Greatest forage and green ma¬ 
nure crop ever discovered. Grows well 
in any climate. 
The Supply Is Very Short 
There n ut a very little Hubam available 
for distribution, and now is your chance 
to get in on the ground floor. 1 to 1 1-2 
pounds only required per acre for seed 
production. 
We have a limited amount to offer, cleaned, 
scarified and certified by the Michigan Crop 
Improvement Ass’n. To be released only for 
demonstration purposes in lots of 1 pound or less. 
$7 per pound. $4 per %• $2.25 per Vi- 
SEED DEPARTMENT 
Michigan State Farm Bureau 
*27 N. Cedar Street Lansing, Michigan 
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MEDICINAL PLANTS 
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Price < 11 . 00 . sample 10 cents 
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Garden Notes From New England 
High-Priced Fertilizers. —One thing 
which has greatly disappointed the farm¬ 
ers and gardeners of New England is the 
failure of fertilizers to take the expected 
drop. This fact was brought out strongly 
at the union agricultural meetings re¬ 
cently held in Boston. It seemed to he 
the general opinion t.Tvat much less com¬ 
mercial fertilizer than usual would he 
used this season, and when it is used 
much care will he exercised in obtaining 
kinds which give the best result for the. 
money invested. It’s pretty good reasoning 
that the use of fertilizer in a large way 
can be dispensed with, unless it is going 
to increase the yield sufficiently to pay 
the cost, plus a reasonable profit. In the 
face of downward prices for all agricul¬ 
tural commodities, it seems unwise to buy 
heavily of high-priced fertilizing ele¬ 
ments. Am it happens, too, manure seems 
to be rather more plentiful than for sev¬ 
eral years past., at least in some sections 
of New England, and of course the gar¬ 
den maker who can get manure at a rea¬ 
sonable price will naturally use it freely. 
It is well worth remembering in this 
conneetion that acid phosphate combined 
with manure makes an extremely valua¬ 
ble fertilizer. Acid fertilizer is expensive, 
but a comparatively small amount of it 
used in this way is justified because the 
acid phosphate not only provides plant, 
food in itself, but also helps to conserve 
the nitrogen part of the manure. Market 
gardeners commonly buy manure in car¬ 
load lots, and then pile it in the fields. 
Backyard gardeners do the same thing in 
a small way. Now there is always con¬ 
siderable loss from these piles, and ex¬ 
perience seems to show that, a hundred 
pounds of acid phosphate to each cord of 
manure will practically do away with 
this loss. If you can make your manure 
go much farther than usual by adding 10 
per cent of acid phosphate, and at the 
same time provide a much more evenly 
balanced form of plant food, you would 
seem warranted in doing so. The man 
who makes a kitchen garden and has a 
certain amount of manure available will 
probably he wise to spend whatever extra 
money he has for acid phosphate alone 
rather than for a mixed fertilizer to sup¬ 
plement his manure heap. And. by the 
way. some interesting experiments have 
been made to show how to derive the most 
benefit from barnyard manure, or rather 
how to prevent waste to the greatest de¬ 
gree. It is a very common practice to 
haul the manure onto the fields and to 
spread it in piles, hut the best data seems 
lo show that this is a very much more 
wasteful plan than to spread it as fast as 
it is hauled, and to take it from the sta¬ 
bles daily. 
Smalt. Fruit Possibilities. —It seems 
to me an unusual amount of interest is 
being shown in small* fruits, especially 
among people who have small places. 
Perhaps this is because of the high price 
which berries and grapes have been bring¬ 
ing the past few years, and also because 
of the automobile trade which is reaching 
out into the country districts within easy 
driving distance. Many people are find¬ 
ing that they can sell all the small fruit 
which they can raise at the side of the 
road, and in this way the women of the 
family are adding materially to their in¬ 
comes. Naturally a tendency towards in¬ 
creased plantings of strawberries, rasp¬ 
berries. currants and grapes results. The 
demand for grapes has become especially 
brisk, due no doubt to the fact that many 
people are making wine at home. Of 
course it may be that they want the fruit 
for grape juice, but judging from what I 
have seen and heard the amount of wine 
made has exceeded that ever known be¬ 
fore. Perhaps this same tendency ac¬ 
counts for the increasing popularity of 
the elderberry, which is said to make very 
good wine. I see that an improved form 
of elderberry is being put on the market, 
and is said to grow much larger fruit 
than the kinds which are found along 
the roadsides. As a matter of fact, the 
elderberry is really a very ornamental 
shrub, and well worth growing if for no 
other purpose. 
The Idaho Raspberry.—I have tried 
most of the new raspberries as they have 
come out, but have not yet experimented 
with the Idaho red raspberry, which I 
expect to put in this season. This berry 
is said to bo unusually robust, and should 
be well adapted to Now England. More- 
over. if what is said about it is true, it, 
should bo especially valuable in the small 
backyard garden, as tho plants do not 
make a very rampant growth and do not 
become very tall, but branch freely and 
produce large berries in groat quantities 
all through the Summer months. I un¬ 
derstand that it is not a good berry for 
shipping, being soft, hut that would not 
prevent its sale by the roadside and in 
nearby markets. 
Fruit and Vegetables. —Some of the 
market gardeners are paying considerable 
attention to fruit, having found that they 
can combine it. nicely with other crops. 
Richard ITittinger, of Belmont, Mass., is 
one of the chief exponents of the double 
culture method. He has many acres cov¬ 
ered with pear trees, with currants grow¬ 
ing in the rows between the trees, and 
each Summer the intervening space is 
given over to beans or some other vege¬ 
table crop. All the land is kept in the 
finest tilth, and great quantities of fer¬ 
tilizers used. The vegetables pay all the 
expenses of getting the fruit trees into 
hearing. While this intensive planting 
involves some danger, it can be made a 
success with intelligent care and super¬ 
vision. I know of another market gar¬ 
dener who covers the ground beneath his 
young trees with some root crop, like 
beets. 
Tame on Potatoes. — I think that 
many potato growers will be interested 
in a new method of handling lime which 
is being discussed widely. It is well 
known that lime has a tendency to cause 
scab, and for that reason is not used on 
land where potatoes are to go in. Yet 
the crop itself is improved by lime, as 
far as yield is concerned, at least in some 
soils. It is said that if lime is applied 
between the plants when the latter are 
well grown, no harm will be done, be¬ 
cause it will he too late for the potatoes 
to become infected that season. More¬ 
over, the presence of the lime in the 
ground helps perhaps to keep down blight 
and other troubles. Certainly the plan 
does not involve much risk, and may he 
worth while experimenting with.— fWo 
should experiment with limestone, if at 
all.—Eds.] 
Com petition in Lettuce. — Green¬ 
house men in New England are con¬ 
fronted with a very serious menace in 
the influx of California lettuce, which 
has flooded the market this season. An 
enormous amount of this lettuce has been 
sold, with the result that the New Eng¬ 
land growers have had a hard time to 
tkispose of their products at anything like 
decent prices. This California lettuce 
apparently is of the Iceberg variety. The 
heads are hard and solid, so that they 
can he thrown about without damage, 
and the white color appeals to most 
housekeepers. Unless the New England 
growers find some way to meet this com¬ 
petition they are in danger of being put 
out of business. They grow mostly Ilit- 
tinger or May King, which is much looser 
and green. Whether they can change the 
variety or not remains to be seen. Prof. 
Harold Tompson, at the market growers’ 
experiment station in Lexington, has 54 
kinds of lettuce under trial, but is not 
ready yet to report upon them. It may 
be that the difficulty can be overcome by 
better merchandising methods. If the 
growers should get up their lettuce in 
special packages, making it more dis¬ 
tinctive and more appealing to the eye. 
perhaps they could overcome the lead 
which has been obtained by the California 
article. The situation is a serious one, 
though, and decisive action of some kind 
must be taken before another season. 
E. I. FARRINGTON. 
Edwin : “Give me some trifle for a 
memento—a lock of your hair.” Angeline: 
“Do you call that a trifle? I guess you 
don’t know how awfully expensive hair 
is nowadays.”—Boston Globe. 
“A nruRCir fight.” said .Tones, “is just 
like a dog fight in a garden.” “How’s 
that?” asked Smith. “Why,” answered 
Jones, “nothing is settled hut the garden.” 
—Ladies Home Journal. 
