The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
353 
Garden and Farm Notes 
Profitable Crops 
Trying New Crops.— One of the most 
important questions, when one starts or 
is engaged in any business, is, “What 
particular product can I handle which 
•will be the least trouble or work and give 
the largest profit?” Especially is this true 
■when competition is so keen, and more 
especially is it true with the gardener or 
fruit grower whose living and home de¬ 
pend on the result of his labor. Some 
will say stick to the well-trodden path, 
let well enough alone, and are not willing 
to make any experiment with untried 
things. Those people will never help 
broaden man, or be the means of giving 
birth to things that will be of more bene¬ 
fit than some of the well-known lines they 
always follow. In the gardening and fruit 
business, experimenting on new lines* is 
very important to those engaged in the 
business. One cannot hope to compete 
with a person in the same business un¬ 
less he is willing to venture into new 
fields and try the unseen and unknown 
things. I have known quite a few people 
who depend on the “other fellow” for any 
improvements he may work out. that they 
may profit thereby. If a new variety of 
rivaled for Fall. The most labor attached 
to this crop is the setting of the plants. 
After this is done there is no more at¬ 
tached to it than to the spinach crop. To 
make an ideal plot for growing fine head 
lettuce, put a good coat of well-rotted ma¬ 
nure on a clover sod. plow in November, 
and let it lie without harrowing. Early 
in the Spring, as soon as the soil is dry 
enough to work, sow 2000 lbs. of phos¬ 
phate 5-8-6 per acre, then harrow until 
soil is very fine, level with drag, and set 
plants (that have been wintered over) in 
rows 12 in. apart each way. Care should 
be taken not to set the plants too deep, 
or they will grow too upright and not 
make a large head. 
Class 3 ; Fall Cauliflower. —Early 
Dwarf Erfurt. Some will probably take 
exception to the variety named, but I have 
tried a number of varieties, Snowball and 
Dry Weather included, but can find none 
that is as x'cliable as Early Dwarf Erfurt. 
I have never had much success with 
Spring cauliflower unless it is set between 
my lettuce in the cold frames. Six plants 
are set under each 3x6 sash the first 
week in March, and as soon as the lettuce 
is cut in April and May the cauliflower 
has plenty of room, but to set it out into 
open ground at the same time early cab¬ 
bage is planted, it will not head good and 
solid, as the weather is too hot for it. 
The seed should be sown the 15th of 
May. and the plants transplanted the first 
Pick GRAPES from your own garden! 
Plant vines in yonr yard, on arbor, trellis or along fence and have delicious 
grapes for table, juice or jelly. 
Can’t you picture their rich fruity fragrance and taste their aromatic sweetness? 
They are easy to grow and'require little care. 
We offer four best varieties in two-year roots, delivered to you parcel post. 
Each 
Per ten 
Per 100 
Concord (black). 
.40 
$3.00 
20.00 
Moores Early (black). 
.50 
4.00 
30 00 
Niagara (white). 
.50 
4.00 
30.00 
Catawba (red). 
.50 
4.00 
30.00 
PLANT SOME VINES THIS SPRING 
The Plot, 30x90 Feet That Yielded $202 in 1923 
fruit or vegetable is put on the market, 
they will say “Let George try it first and 
if he is successful with it, then it is time 
enough for me to take it up.” While it 
is true that the safest plan is to stick to 
the things that are tried and true if one 
will try some of the newer things while 
holding on to most of the dependable ones, 
he will often find something that will be 
of great benefit to him. But what does 
this sermonizing lead up to? Simply to 
tell of some of the most profitable and 
least troublesome crops that I have proved 
in the last few years of my 45 years ex¬ 
perience in the vegetable and berry busi¬ 
ness. In naming the vegetables in the 
classes I have put them, I have taken 
into consideration the possibility of any 
enemy attacking it and thereby damaging 
the crop. 
Class 1 ; Spinach. —Victoria or King 
of Denmark for Spring planting and 
Bloomsdale Savoy Leaved for Fall. There 
is very little work attached to this crop, 
just sowing, two or three workings with 
hand cultivator, and cutting. Five crops 
can be harvested from the same plot in 
one season, or two crops of spinach and 
one of lettuce off the same plot in one 
season. Sow Victoria or King of Den¬ 
mark as soon as it is possible to work the 
ground, in rows 1 ft apart. When the 
spinach is half grown, after running 
through with wheel hoe to loosen up the 
ground, sow seed again between the rows. 
The first planting will all be cut off by 
the time the second planting is ready to 
work. Spread a good coat of well-rotted 
manure on ground after cutting the second 
crop and plow. Run harrow over the 
ground occasionally to keep it in loose 
condition, and to prevent weeds from 
growing. The first of August broadcast 
1.000 lbs. of phosphate, 5-8-6, to the acre, 
and sow Bloomsdale Savoy Leaved. When 
half grown, sow between rows. When the 
first planting is cut and the second plant¬ 
ing is half grown, sow again where the 
first planting is cut. I am only advising 
this procedure where one is limited for 
space, or is trying to get the most pos¬ 
sible off a small plot. 
Class 2; Lettuce. —Big Boston, Un- 
livaled, and New York, all head lettuce 
for Spring planting. Big Boston and Un¬ 
week in July in rows 30 inches apart each 
way. A clover sod plowed under the pre¬ 
vious year is an ideal plot for this crop 
also. Very little work is attaohed to this 
crop. In speaking of little work attached 
to these crops, I mean in comparison with 
work attached to an onion or similar crop 
where a lot of hand weeding is necessary. 
Besides keeping the soil well tilled, there 
is spraying with a weak solution of Pax'is 
green just as the heads begin to form to 
kill the green worm. This one spraying 
will answer. When the heads are as large 
as a baseball, the leaves should be tied 
over the head to blanch it, and if at that 
time any black specks are on the head, 
the worm is easily found and picked off. 
Class 4 ; Celery. —Easy Blanching 
amd Emperoix These celeries are not as 
susceptible to blight as Golden ,Self¬ 
blanching. The seed should be sown about 
May 1st and the plants transplanted from 
July 15th to 20th. Celery does not grow 
well until the nights begin to get little 
cool, and if it is set too early the hot 
weather retards the growth, and it will 
not grow as rapidly as when set later. 
Set plants 6 in. apart in rows 2% or 3 ft. 
apart. If manure is applied to this crop, 
spread it broadcast before plowing, then 
after the plants have stax'ted scatter phos¬ 
phate 3-8-6 alongside of plants and work 
it in with hand cultivator. This will 
enable one to work very close to row, 
which is very essential to kill the young 
weeds that are just start in a. so that hand 
weeding will not be necessai’y. 
Now as an appendix. The following 
amount was sold this year by the writer 
of this article, from a plot of ground 30 
x 00 ft. Lettuce, $77; followed by cauli- 
flowei*, $62; spinach, $33; followed by 
celery, $30. Total $202, on about 1/16 
of an acre. The lettuce and cauliflower 
occupied 20 x 90 ft, and the spinach and 
celei-y 10 x 90 ft. Of the lettuce crop, 
75 per cent was salable. One of the men 
who helped transplant the plants set them 
too deep and 50 per cent of those was not 
marketable. The cauliflower was 90 per 
cent salable. The celei’y the same, and 
the spinach 50 per cent, as the third sow¬ 
ing was an entire failure on account of 
Wight. WM. PERKINS. 
New Jersey. 
We have grown grape roots fifty-seven years for garden and vineyard planting, 
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Box 15 
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Fredonia, N. Y. 
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202 W. Genesee Streot - - Syracuse, N. Y. 
Berry Plants 
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YELLOWS” 
IMMUNE 
CABBAGE 
The “Yellows” Resistant Cabbage we offer is either 
tested seed or actually raised under “yellows” condi¬ 
tions to insure immunity. 
All Season Resistant for early and mid-season. 
Price, per oz., $1.00; lb., $3.75; 1 lb., $14.00. 
Wisconsin No. 8, for late shipping. Very solid head 
from eight to ten pounds. Pi-ice, per oz., $1.25; lb., $4.S0; 1 lb., $16.00* 
Bugners for late home market. Sure heading, solid, ten to fourteen pounds 
head, loz., $1.25; M lb., $4.50; 1 lb., $16.00. 
ONION (Eastern Grown) 
Southport Yellow Globe. Southport Red Globe. Our own eastern grown 
seed from selected bulbs. The best long keeping Onion known, 
loz., 25c; lib., $3.00; 10 lbs., $29.00. 
SWEET CORN—Two Winners 
Carefully saved seed of high germination from our own farm in Michigan. 
Very earliest in season and bred for freedom from flintiness. 
Mammoth White Cory. One of the earliest large ears for the Market 
Gardener. 10 lbs., $1.60; 50 lbs., $7.50. 
Golden Bantam. The sweetest and best known sweet corn—about five 
days later than Mammoth White Cory. 10 lbs., $1.90; 50 lbs., $9.00. 
CUCUMBER 
The Vaughan. A very fine 
long white spine dark green cucumber. Shipped in boxes brings greenhouse 
prices. Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c; Y± lb., $1.10; lb.. $4.00. 
MELONS 
Hoodoo (Hearts of Gold) Introducer’s Strain. Oz.,25c; J^Ib.,75c; lb., $2.50. 
Milwaukee Market. Sweetest large melon. Oz.,25c; J^lb., 75c; lb., $2.50. 
MARKET GARDEN CATALOG ON REQUEST 
Vaughans Seed Store 
10 WRANDOLPH ST. 41-43 BARCLAY ST. 
_CHICAGO - NEW YORK 
