•PH RURAL NEW-YORKER 
737 
The best 
protection 
for silage 
and 
investment 
The Craine is the silo built 
with triple walls. Outside the 
inner wall of upright fitted 
staves is a wall of Silafelt water- 
and - frost - proofing. Binding 
both is the spiral smooth-finish 
Crainelox covering—no hoops, 
no lugs, no weak spots, but 
protection in every inch of 
space. Rain, juice, ordinary 
frost, air—nothing penetrates 
the Craine. A permanent 
building that pays you richly 
every year. 
You can lebuild your old broken 
down *tave silo into a new, perma¬ 
nent, handsome Craine and save halt 
the cost of a new silo. Do it. Write 
today for full particulars. Get our 
Agency proposition. 
Craine Silo Co., Inc. 
Box 110 Norwich, N. Y. 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
In regard to the growing of head let¬ 
tuce. discussed on page 673, I would add 
that the main reason for the superior 
heading of lettuce in California is not va¬ 
riety nor soil, but the favorable lettuce 
weather they have in Winter, aud which 
we cannot, get uniformly here at any sea¬ 
son. Then, no matter how we enrich a 
sandy soil, we cannot make the heads 
made in a mellow, rich clay loam. We 
can make, with such soil in cold frames, 
just as well headed lettuce as they make 
in California in Fall and to midwinter, 
but we cannot make the California heads 
in Spring. I have made in frames let¬ 
tuce that closed in as solid as Flat Dutch 
cabbage, but iu the soil I now garden 
in. a sandy soil. I have never succeeded iu 
heading any variety as I have in the clay 
loam. Varieties like the Hanson and 
New York or Wonderful varieties of the 
Curled India type will head fairly well 
in the open ground in Spring, while the 
butter lettuces, like Big Boston, will bolt 
to bloom with the first warm weather. 
The California Cream Butter lettuce will 
head closer iu the frames at Christmas 
than the Big Boston, which is big mainly 
from its wide-spreading outer leaves. 
We have been having what the Virginia 
folks call “the long season in May,” for 
it has rained for 10 days, a cold north¬ 
eastern storm. Good weather for lettuce, 
but very hard on the sugar corn, string 
beans and tomatoes. And yet the tomuto 
plants in the seed bed for the late plant¬ 
ing have grown. The peas, too, seem to 
like it, and are filling pods rapidly this 
end of the first week in May. The effect 
of the late frosts on the grape vines is 
now the most noticeable, thing in the gar¬ 
den. Here the seventh of May a few 
shoots are putting out. and the next prun¬ 
ing will be to almost cut down the entire 
vine to clean out the dead wood. Every 
spur and its young shoots were destroyed 
in late March and April. I am using dry 
Bordeaux mixture made into a powder, 
and blown on the Rambler roses to pre¬ 
vent the mildew which is sure to attack 
this class of roses, and I notice, too. that 
the 10 days’ rain has not washed it all 
off, for the blue tint, still adheres to the 
leaves. T am every year finding dusting 
more convenient than wet spraying, both 
for insecticides and fungicides. I intend 
to fight the rose chafers with the calcium 
arsenate powder this Spring. It certain¬ 
ly cannot do worse than the M'elrosine 
did for my grapes last Spring, when I 
incautiously depended on it to destroy 
the rose bugs on my grapes, uot knowing, 
as the manufacturers told me later, that 
it would not. kill rose bugs till they get on 
rose bushes. They were certainly safe 
on grapevines. Rather a peculiar in¬ 
secticide. The calcium arsenate has been 
the most surely effective arsenate that I 
have tried. 
The Florists' Exchange notes the pro¬ 
duction and exhibition of a p*ink daffodil* 
in England. The white one of the Nar¬ 
cissus tribe, Mrs. Langtry, was once 
highly praised, aud I still grow it. but 
it is of the Leedsii type, and not near so 
good as the big trumpet yellow ones, like 
Emperor. Golden Spur and Glory of 
Leiden. It. is hard to guess where the 
reddish tinge comes from in the Narcis¬ 
sus family. As a rule, it seems hardly 
possible to get a pure yellow flower in a 
species making red or pink ones. For 
instance, we have never obtained a pure 
yellow Verbena. It would seem just as 
liard to change the yellow and white of 
the Narcissus to pink and red. The 
weather kept me out of the garden, and 
now I have added to my losses the cur¬ 
rants and gooseberries that have been 
cleaned up by the little, dirty currant 
worm, entirely denuded of leaves and 
fruit. Strawberries are not so short as 
feared, and the size of the fruit is extra 
good. w. F. MASSEY. 
Rhubarb as a “Quencher” 
Here is a good expedient on a hot day 
in the field when thirsty and no water 
near at hand : Take along a stalk of rhu¬ 
barb in the pocket, 5 or 6 in. long, and 
when throat is dry aud parched, bite off 
an inch or so of the rhubarb, chew it 
and swallow the juice. Tt quenches thirst 
much better than water, is cooling and 
very refreshing. Give this to the hired 
man and he will thank you for it at the 
end of the day, especially if he likes sours. 
New York. w. P. D. 
A DAY’S WORK 
Blasting Stumps with 
RED CROSS DYNAMITE 
A charge of dynamite is the usual agency 
employed to take out a stump. Sometimes, 
however, it is used in lighter charges to loosen 
or split the stump before pulling. For either 
purpose Du Pont Red Cross Dynamite is quick, 
efficient and economical. 
Clear more of your stump-land this year. Be 
sure Du Pont—the name of the world’s largest 
makers of explosives—is on every box. 
Your dealer sells Red Cross Dynamite or 
will order it for you. 
Write for the Farmers’ Handbook of Explo¬ 
sives telling how to use Red Cross Dynamite 
for land-clearing, ditching and tree-planting 
and other farm work. 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours 8C Co., Inc. 
Equitable Building May Building 
New York, N. Y. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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When you move, 
take your Harder along 
That’s another advantage of the Harder Silo. 
It’s easy to take down and re-erect. It goes 
wherever you go. Imagine such a thing with 
a concrete, tile or brick silo. 
The Harder Silo makes the best silage because the 
staves are strong and tight. It will withstand a cyclone 
and last a lifetime because of its sturdy construction and 
firm anchorage to the 
