Jhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1083 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
A Maryland correspondent writes of 
his troubles with the boll worm, which 
eats his sugar corn ears, and asks for a 
remedy. Everyone who grows sugar corn 
in this climate knows that he usually 
finds a caterpillar in each ear. Starting 
from the silks or pistils where the eggs 
are laid, this larva eats into the ear and 
downward. Dusting the pistils with lead 
or calcium arsenate will destroy a great 
many. I find, too, that they are more 
fond of some varieties of corn than others. 
The Black Mexican is always with me 
more clear of worms than other sorts. A 
very late crop is also less damaged by the 
worms. This season the sparrows have 
helped. I find ear after ear with the tip 
of the husks frazzled and the worm gone. 
Then later the blackbirds, finding the 
ears partly opened, began to open them 
further and to eat the corn, and by the 
time the corn was past the roasting ear 
best state the ears were very badly rid¬ 
dled. Now that a planting is just be¬ 
ginning to tassel (August 11) I am doing 
nothing to prevent the moth from laying 
eggs, trying to note the dates of the brood 
or broods. We can get good seed ears if 
we get the corn ripe between broods of 
the boll worm. 
Our truck growers here have this sea¬ 
son had a very valuable lesson in co¬ 
operative marketing. The newly organ¬ 
ized farmers’ association has maintained 
fair prices for their crops. Heretofore 
the brokers, as they are called, the regu¬ 
lar buyers and speculators, have had their 
own way, and have paid the farmers just 
what they pleased for their goods, always 
paying little enough to give them a wide 
margin on the shipment. This Summer 
the agents of the association have been 
kept posted on the markets North, and 
as all produce is sold at the railroad* sta¬ 
tion at auction, if the brokers do not bid 
a fair price the association ships the 
goods in its own cars after paying what 
the market shows to lx* fail - . This has 
had the effect of making the cucumber 
and melon crops more profitable than ever 
before. It has also had a great influence 
in correcting bad practices of the growers. 
Every season there has been great com¬ 
plaint about the shipment of cantaloupes 
too green to sweeten up. and the practice 
of shipping green melons was doing great 
injury to the crop grown here. This 
season will about stop that practice, for 
wlien a man drove up wth a load of green 
melons he was simply directed to take 
them home to the pigs, for the association 
would not even put them up for a bid. 
This association differs from the great 
and successful produce exchange of the 
Virginia counties south of us^ _That or¬ 
ganization is a great commission agency. 
The exchange has its dealer in any town 
north large enough to take a carload of 
potatoes at a time, and that dealer has 
the sole sale of the exchange products in 
that town. Every carload is sold before 
shipping, and the growers are charged •') 
per cent commission. They ship for all. 
either stockholders or not. Rut at the 
close of the season the surplus is divided 
among the stockholders in proportion to 
the amount of their shipments. The 
stock is prevented from speculators by 
the exchange being always ready to admit 
a stockholder, who buys one share at $“>. 
The Early Irish potato crop shipped by 
the Virginia exchange has not been as 
profitable this season as heretofore, but 
has saved the growers from any loss. 
Over $5,500,000 worth of potatoes were 
sold, and the shipping of the sweet potato 
crop is now beginning. The sweet potato 
crop in this county promises to be large. 
Our growers do not attempt to compete 
with the Virginia growers in early Sum¬ 
mer and Fall shipments.' They prefer to 
make the mature crop and to store a 
large part of it for Winter and Spring 
shipment, though some are shipped in the 
late Fall. Millions of bushels will be 
stored this season. w. F. MASSEY. 
Vermin-proof Corncrib 
R. Ti. W. recommends inverted buckets 
and concrete piers for corncrib. But we 
tried it. Rats run over crusted snow¬ 
drifts. They will run up a board or tool 
handle leaned against the crib. Our only 
remedy was a concrete crib floor, and wire 
lining to tin - roof. That saved the corn 
from vermin and birds. Use *4-incb 
mesh wire, fit well. J. G. 
Norristown, Pa. 
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