•D* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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reds and whites for 25 years. I find 
many men talking of farmers and advis¬ 
ing them who are surprised that they gain 
so little of their confidence. The trouble 
is they are not willing to lead the farmers’ 
life and thus do not understand it. Where 
can there be confidence without under¬ 
standing? it. w. c. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The intense drought which has held us 
since July still holds the middle of Sep¬ 
tember. Farmers- are having great diffi¬ 
culty in getting their Crimson clover seed 
sown. It is perfectly useless to sow it 
in the dust and it is getting late for it. 
In the garden the turnip seed and the 
spinach sown for Fall use have failed. 
I now have some spinach sown under the 
irrigation pipe which will probably 
grow. I could not got the space till the 
early tomatoes had practically failed and 
the crop finished. Tomatoes from seed 
sown the first of. June and not irrigated 
are now furnishing us fairly good *omit- 
toes. They are the Globe, and would 
have been fine had they had any rain. 
The pimento pepper seed on the market, 
seems to have gotten badly mixed. For 
two seasons I have failed to get them of 
the true type. There was this Summer 
but one plant in thirty which made the 
true, rounded, conical form. All the rest 
are the fiat, tomato-shaped sweet peppers. 
The seed came from seedsmen with the 
best of reputation. The pods are sweet 
and good, but are not the true pimento. 
A correspondent in South Carolina sent 
me two beans which looked like ordinary 
red kidney beans. He said that a man 
there was selling them for forage pur¬ 
poses, and was asking $.‘15 a bushel for 
the seed. lie wanted my advice about 
them. Of course I told him that 1 could 
only guess at them, but would plant the 
two beans and find out what they were. 1 
planted them and they soon started to 
climb. I gave them a pole, hut they soon 
outstripped it. and caught one of my plum 
trees. As there were no plums T allowed 
them to climb. Now the vines are strung 
with pods two to tlur-e feet long. They 
are botanieally Doliehos sesquepedalis. 
and known as the yard-long bean. 1 have 
informed my correspondent that he need 
not pay $25 a bushel, as lie can get them 
from most of the leading seedsmen. 
Doubtless they will make a fairly good 
forage plant. They bear pods in pairs, 
like the cow pea, and make fully as 
m y pods, and as the pods will make 
from 15 to 20 beans in a pod, they will 
pi -bably make more seed than most of 
the cow pens. The two beany have made 
a great mass of foliage and have climbed 
JO feet or more. Tl is an old plant na¬ 
tive to the West Indies, and barring the 
length of its pods T see n<> real botanical 
difference from the cow pea. which is 
classed as a Vigna. while this is assigned 
to Doliehos. I believe that the two beans 
will ripen over a pint of seed. 
It is strange that so few farmers in all 
the States realize that they have an ex¬ 
periment station to which they can ap¬ 
peal for help. A farmer writes that bis 
watermelons, planted on the Gulf Const 
in February and March, were struck by 
salt spray from a storm and dropped 
their young fruits, but grew and pro¬ 
duced a crop later, but one-lmlf these 
were lost by rotting just as they ripened. 
He found some white worms (larvae 
probably). He wants me to tell him 
v hat is the cause of the trouble. I might 
guess at it. but guesswork makes poor ad¬ 
vice. ITc lives not far from bis State 
experiment station, where they would be 
glad to study specimens of the diseased 
melons, and yet he wanted me to guess 
at it. Of course I told him to send speci¬ 
mens to the station. This is but one 
sample of similar letters. Whenever a 
disease or insect, appears which you do 
not know bow to treat, send specimens to 
the station in your State. They are 
there for the purpose of investigating 
and studying all troubles of plants and 
soils. W. F. MASSEY. 
The husband looked up from the news¬ 
paper he was reading to say: “I see 
Thompson’s shirt store has been burned 
out.” “Whose?” asked bis wife, who was 
slightly deaf. “Thompson’s shirt store,” 
said the husband. “Dear me,” said the 
wife sympathetically, “who tore it?”— 
New York Globe. 
2 % Loss Against 4 : 7 % 
Government Figures Indicate Value of 
“ The^mpletg-' Dormant Spray ” 
Our 8-year-old orchard atKearneysvillc, W. Va. 
Dipped in SCALECIDE, root and branch, 
before planting and sprayed annually with 
SCALECIDE since. Cultivated for three years; 
in alfalfa for five years (all hay removed). 
Only fertilization light application nitrate of 
soda before blossoming in 1919 and 1920. 
I JJE GUARANTEE that, if you 
' * will divide an orchard, your worst 
or best, in two parts equal in general 
condition, and for three years spray 
one part with SCALECIDE according 
to our directions and the other part 
with lime sulfur, giving the same sum¬ 
mer treatment to both parts, the part 
sprayed with SCALECIDE will be bet¬ 
ter than the part sprayed with lime- 
sulfur—in the judgment of three dis¬ 
interested fruit growers—or we will 
refund the money you have paid for 
the SCALECIDE. 
A CCORDING to U. S. census report, in 
A 1910 there were 151,322,840 bearing and 
65,791,848 non-bearing apple trees—a total 
of 217,114,688. In 1920 there were only 
115,265,029 bearing trees— a loss of 47%, 
because in 10 years the non-bearing either 
became bearing trees or died. During the 
same 10-year period, in our own orchards we 
have not lost 2% in old or younfc trees, altho 
in 1910 one-quarter of a 3,000-tree orchard 
which we took over was dying and today we 
have 21,000 apple trees from 1 to 40 years old. 
Why Have We Not Lost 2% in 10 Years? 
The answer is largely because our young trees were 
dipped in SCALECIDE before planting—apple trees, 
root and branch; peach trees, tops only—and they 
have been sprayed annually with SCALECIDE ever 
since. SCALECIDE controls scale, fire blight canker, 
pear psylla and aphis—and it does more; it has 
an invigorating effect upon trees and foliage, insur¬ 
ing plumper fruit spurs and a better chance for fruit 
the following year. Reduceyoirrlosses—use SCALECIDE. 
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BOOK 
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