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Fruit Notes From Missouri 
McDonald Blackberry. — For the It would seem that others, with minds so 
first time in a number of years the Me- inclined, might do likewise whenever 
Donald hybrid blackberry-dewberry failed there was a local market of some promise, 
to bloom freely. I attribute this to an And it is quite possible to develop a taste 
abnormal cold wave in the last days of and a demand for flowers, where little 
March, when from sunny mild weather interest is being shown, by judicious dis- 
at 2 p. m. the mercury dropped that night plays of fine specimens. There are few 
to nearly zero. The Japanese persim- people who are not ready to admire and 
mon, a quite reliable bearer, was also covet the splendid flowers which love, al- 
barren, doubtless from the same cause, lied with industry and science, has pro¬ 
duced in recent years. l. R. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
while the natives produced full crops. I 
have been unable to report on the Mc¬ 
Donald ip recent years on account of set-- 
ting a new plantation and failing to se- Notes on an Ohio Garden 
cure a staminate mate to furnish pollen Iyagt g ummer was a dry season, but the 
for that pistillate. I have no reason to “banana” squash, which I believe is the 
doubt the competency of the Early Har- same as the Abyssinian squash, did well. 
» -1. a partner, but instead I ex- It 
perimented with a little known kind pj n ^ see( j planted, most sprouted and 
named Early Wonder. The vines of the started to grow, but died before the sec¬ 
ond leaves showed. The only ones that 
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new planting have made a very strong 
growth, and with a favorable Spring 
should produce a heavy crop. For the 
most satisfactory main-crop blackberry 1 
have settled on the Eldorado. It has size, 
quality, vigor, and is here almost immune 
January 19, 1924 
jar in the house and am wondering just 
how it will come through. 
We had over 60 stalks of bloom in the 
clump of tiger lily. About half of them 
were of the very double variety and at¬ 
tracted much attention. Several asked 
for bulbs, and with doubt I dug into the 
hills in September. I found the bulbs 
packed so tight they came out in great 
white masses, like mushrooms. I did not 
count them, but there were enough for all 
my friends, and many, many to be re¬ 
planted. The double ones seemed to have 
increased almost as well as the single. 
A neighbor offered to assist us in cov¬ 
ering a bare place along the west side of 
the house by giving us some roots of Eu¬ 
phorbia. Since then we have read that it 
is poisonous to many people, and not at 
all desirable to have close to the house. 
I wonder if someone else will suggest 
something which will cover this bare spot 
on which even “love-in-a-tangle” will not 
do well. It is on the west side, and is not 
much more than a hard clay bank. 
The little folks developed a wonderful 
interest in gardening about the time I 
began to transplant from the cold frame. 
They practiced with all the tiny weeds I 
took out, setting them around most ten¬ 
derly. Later I found a few spare Salvia, 
some Canna bulbs, some four-o’clock seed, 
and a couple of extra tomato plants. The 
little ones set them out in a bed of their 
own, according to their own ideas, and 
watered them faithfully and dug around 
them regularly until the plants could not 
help growing. Such joy as the first red 
tomato brought, and how delicious it tast¬ 
ed on the supper table! And they col¬ 
lected their own Salvia and four-o’clock 
lived had been planted where there was 
a lane from the hog lot to the feeding 
pen. The soil was well drained, but 
heavy, aud well enriched with rotted ma¬ 
nure. From five plants we had a dozen 
squashes averaging over 20 in. in length. 
_ , „ The little Fordh-ook squashes did not do 
from rust, more so than any other kind so well as usual. Potatoes did well both 
I have tried, with the exception of Tay- jg ‘J® f a * e den W^did” not* have success 
lor’s Prolific, a still later variety, once l ith late potatoes in this neighborhood ^ to ^ve for th?s year 
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~ ,, , spaces very tew. and it will De a matter 
stock, representing a Kieffer-Japan pear wSd’have^rfm! of plant- of elimination rafter than of addition, I 
cross, was sent me some years ago. It is ing tbern over> . g u t the ground is well 
now a large tree, has never blighted, and drained and receives every bit of manure 
its fruits are beautiful specimens, much from the henhouse close by, and we have 
never failed to have an early crop or 
beans, and beans until heavy frost. There 
is no doubt about hen manure being good 
for Lima beans. And a little forest of 
bean tents is the nicest place in the world 
for baby chicks to run, so we plant our 
Lima beans in the chick yard where the 
little chicks are started. 
The Dahlias planted between the can¬ 
taloupe hills grew well, but the dry 
weather delayed their blooming, and we 
handsomer than the Kieffer, as large, but 
rounder in shape. Were their quality 
equal to their looks they would be a 
treasure. At any rate they lack the re¬ 
pulsive, musky flavor of the Kieffer, and 
are unexcelled when canned. I think we 
must look to Japan crosses to secure im¬ 
munity from blight. I have heard a nur¬ 
seryman of 
am thinking. But new r seasons always 
bring changes and surprises, and even a 
very small garden may furnish thrills the 
w'hole season through if one plans it 
right. MRS. E. E. L. 
Keen, but Nervous Amateur: “I 
say, old chap, w r hat shall I do if they 
ask me to sing?” Candid Friend: “Do? 
Why, sing, of course—it’ll be their own 
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_ „ experience claim that pear had only a very brief season of flowers 
trees grown on Japan stocks would not from them It was with impatience that 
& .... , , , I waited the digging .time. I so wanted 
blight, but surely that is too good to be tQ see wha( p TOSpects I had for next year 
true. » from the tubers I bought last Spring, 
-r-, The young tubers tvere not. so large as 
Dahlia Culture.—W e are about to they ‘ woul(1 have been with more mois- 
experiment on a new line, in the direc- ture, and some hills look very doubtful, 
tion of flowers, with the object of building It was not until I saw their indifferent 
CONTENTS 
up a trade in cut flowers during the sea¬ 
son of outdoor growth. Last Fall we 
created a mild sensation with our first 
crop of named Dahlias. There were be¬ 
tween 30 and 40 varieties of the best- 
known market sorts, most of them single 
size that I bethought me to consult a 
Dahlia dealer as to the best varieties for 
such conditions as we have here. Had I 
Consulted him in the Spring before or¬ 
dering, I might have let alone a few of 
tlie varieties I ordered. The dealer _ I 
wrote to sent me a carefully marked list 
of those Dahlias which ought to do well 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JAN. 19, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Soy Beans in Indiana . 79 
Growing Cotton North and South . 79 
Notes from the Southern Tier . 80 
Soot as Fertilizer ... 82 
Questions About Marl .. 82 
A Hoosier Looks to New York . 90 
Hope Farm Notes .94, 95 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Plain Talk from Leading Dairymen ...77, 
What Kind of a Dog . 
The Useful Ox Team ... 
How to Handle a Hide 
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were planted on good garden soil and, 
with few exceptions, made a full, vigor¬ 
ous growth. They had a fair amount of 
cultivation with the hoe, but were not 
watered or mulched. The earliest began 
conditions. It was comforting to see that 
he did not recommend high-priced ones. 
I shall refer to his list before 1 order 
new tubers again. 
My garden experiences last year re¬ 
minded me a bit of some of “Mother 
Bee’s” letters. She is always trying out 
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to bloom iii -August, while others were something new which has been given her 
very tardy, waiting till in October for 
no perceptible reason. Single varieties 
or sent to her. My garden has been neg¬ 
lected for several years while the little 
ones demanded attention, and I had a 
very limited variety of plants 
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ties in number were set in rows 60 yards 
long. The flowers of these Dahlias were 
a revelation to us, as well as to quite a 
number of townspeople who came to see 
them. Why the capabilities of the Dah¬ 
lia should have remained so long un¬ 
known is a mystery, and from what I 
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But in 
some way last year my friends and 
neighbors heard of my ambition to better 
the condition of my garden, and contri¬ 
butions began to flow in. I had planted 
in the cold frame seeds of snapdragon, 
perennial pinks. Salvia, larkspur and 
pansies. The plants I shared with my 
neighbors, and they in turn gave me 
Iris roots, forget-ane-not plants, peren- 
It was 
nial peas and one or two shrubs. 
, . . , . not long until it became a real puzzle to 
to the beauty and ease of growing this j inow w here to put nfy donations. My 
flower prevails throughout much of the garden space is limited to a corner of the 
Mississippi Valley. There was a never- vegetable garden which is next- 
The water hyacinth, for which i sent, 
ending interest in comparing the many 
was a constant source of fun. I set the 
different varieties, while the long rows, three tiny plants with their trailing roots 
gorgeous in many hues, formed royal ave- of inky black in a five-gallon jar half 
, , . , . .. .-x filled with rich soil (rich in loam soil and 
nues through which visitors never tired J U , . _\ „„a «iwi fw mu™ 
to walk with exclamations at each sue 
eeeding beauty. As a result of this ad¬ 
miration for what was to most a prac¬ 
tically new flower, orders for bouquets of 
Dahlias began to come in almost daily, 
and continued till frost rang down the 
curtain on our flower show. A number 
of visitors also left orders for roots to be 
delivered in the Spring. The result of 
this experiment with flowers has spurred 
us on not only to enlarge our Dahlia 
planting for next year, but to add to our 
not in manure) and filled to the brim 
with water. Everyone asked me if I 
thought my plants would fill that jar. 
They did look very lost floating around 
on top. During the cool days of early 
Summer they grew so slowly I was tempt¬ 
ed several times to move them into a 
smaller jar. but when really warm days 
came they took a growing spell, and then 
it was my turn to laugh. My friends 
marveled at the way in which the little 
plants increased, and spoke of “Pigs is 
Pigs.” Before long the top of the five- 
gallon jar was covered, and the next 
plantlefcs trailed over the side and spread 
their would-be roots into the air. I start - 
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An Automobile Tire Tether . 
Various Feed Questions . 102 
Limited Feed Mixture; Location of Silo.., 102 
Keeping: Fish Scrap ... 103 
Cow and Calf Questions .. 103 
Fattening: Ration for Steers ... 108 
Ration for Holstein ... 103 
Faulty Ration . 108 
Protein Percentage in Feed ... 108 
Feeding- Millet Hay and Bean Pods . 108 
THE HENYARD 
Death of Fowls ... 106 
Feeding- Cabhag-e; Stray Hens .. 106 
Improving a Mash ... 106 
New York State Hen Contest . 109 
Control of Roupy Colds . 109 
No Trouble Selling Duck Eggs ... 109 
Diseased Wattles .'.. 109 
Poor Laying . 109 
Methods of Feeding . 109 
Henhouse of Field Stones . 109 
Egg-laying Contest . 112 
Skimi-milk Replaces Meat Scrap . 112 
Diagnosis and Treatment of Poultry Di¬ 
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HORTICULTURE 
Natural Storage for Apples . 79 
Improving a Poor Lawn ........ 80 
Lippia for Lawn in California . 81 
Damage from Dust Sprays . 81 
Height of Tank for Irrigation . 82 
Hedges and Wind-breaks . 82 
Essentials of Growing Celery . 83 
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Setting Trees With Posthole Digger 
Treatment of Orchard in Sod 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day . 
Day by Day in a Busy Home .... 
The Rural Patterns ... 
A Trio of Filet Laces and Insertions 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Filtering Cider . 80 
Care of Old Cemeteries ... 81 
For the School Bill . 86 
Is It Gold in the Well? . 86 
Auto Hogs in Alabama . 86 
The Useful Farm Cat . 86 
Various Market Notes . 89 
Lien Under Foreclosure . 91 
Raising School Taxes . 91 
School Taxes in Two Districts . 91 
Management of Undivided Estate . 91 
Property and Inheritance of Husband or 
Wife . 92 
Sale of Entailed Property . 9* 
present collection of roses, Irises, G’aai- ed another jar of them. I 
, . but it was a little embarrassing when my 
oli and peonies, until they are of a pro- fl . iends began to as k when it would bloom. 
portion to furnish flowers to the public, j bac j decided I must have received a non- 
Another good feature was that few dcliv- blooming variety. It took the really hot wife’s Senamte Es 
(l aT * find hot nights of August to bring Husband s Rights in Wife s Separate Ls 
enes were requested ; m nearly every-ease forth the bloom buds of this tropical *£ & ’Medians * 1!!! i.!!!!!!!!!!!!!' 93 
plant. And when it did start to bloom, Reinforcing a Granary . 93 
not a morning but I found from five to 
seven tall stalks of large, butterfly-like 
blossoms of a most delicate lilac color. It 
was marvelous how rapidly they grow, 
and as quickly fade, I wintered the large 
customers telephoned tlnor orders- and 
came at a specified time in their cars. 
Personally I am delighted to add flowers 
to our fruit farm products, for to me 
their culture is a fascinating pleasure. 
Editorials ... 96 
A Discussion of Rural Education . 9/ 
Trouble With the Trespass Law ... 97 
A Snow Story . -.•••■:. 
Countrywide Produce Situation . 
Publisher’s Desk ... 
