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Cotton-growing in Massachusetts 
I am interested in the accounts given 
in The R. X.-Y. about the growing of cot¬ 
ton by the Hope Farm man and others. 
I have raised the plants very successfully 
ap to the blossoming stage. They were 
started very late and grew remarkably 
well until cut down by frost. From the 
experience I have had with it, I believe 
cotton can be successfully grown in this 
latitude; that is, as far as getting the 
ripe bolls is concerned, but whether the 
venture would be a commercial success 1 
am unable to say as yet. 
The way I should go at it would be to 
raise them as tomatoes are grown. I 
should plant the seed about Feb. 22 and 
transplant twice; once into flats and 
then into the ground, which would he 
about May 16. I think at the last trans¬ 
planting they would he about 12 in. high. 
They transplant very easily and from the 
flat they would carry a good-sized ball of 
earth if they were set 4 in. apart in flats, 
as I set mine. I did not plant the seed 
until May, so they were very late; they 
would have nearly three months under 
glass, and become large healthy plants in 
that time. 
Tobacco and cabbage plants are all set 
here by machine; two horses, three men 
and the machine. It might be possible to 
grow cotton plants and set them by ma¬ 
chine ; perhaps they are set in that way in 
the South. Cabbage and tobacco plants 
are grown to about 5 in. in height, then 
pulled and bunched for the two men sit¬ 
ting on the rear of the machine to drop 
in the setter, one at a time. 
Tobacco seed is mixed with rotten 
wood or punk, sand or some similar ma¬ 
terial, to prevent too thick sowing, as 
the seed is very small, and sown broadcast 
in prepared beds covered with cloth or 
glass, cold frames; the soil is treated 
■with steam to kill weed seeds. A good 
sower will scatter the seed so the plants 
will be right to leave until ready to he 
•set in the field. Cabbage and tobacco 
plants are much alike in shape, and a ma¬ 
chine handles either very well. Peanuts 
and sweet potatoes can be grown here 
very well, but I start them both in cold 
frames. I think sweet potatoes could be 
handled by machine. Figs can also be 
raised here and will stand a hard Winter 
i:i a cellar or cold frame. They are easily 
grown from cuttings. I have fruited pine¬ 
apples also; they can be rooted from the 
sprout at the top of the pineapple, cutting 
it off so you can leave enough rind to hold 
the top together; set it in the ground or 
in a pot, and it will root and grow. They, 
look as well as a century plant in a tub. 
Bananas make a good show plant, and 
very large, a good center piece, but of 
course do not fruit. Fruit trees—dwarf 
varieties—grow very successfully and 
fruit in tubs or large pails. I had a 
small orchard in a roof garden of 19 ap¬ 
ple trees, six pear tree, four peach trees, 
four cherry trees and two or three fig 
frees, besides evergreens, arbor vitse, var. 
globosa, blue spruce, etc. Fruit trees 
make a fine show, both in flower and 
fruit. J. v. p. 
Springfield, Mass. 
R. X.-Y.—Last year cotton was pro¬ 
duced full of lint in several parts of New 
Jersey. This year a large experiment n ' 
transplanting cotton plants will be tried 
in the southern part of the State. We 
have for some years felt confident that 
cotton growing in Southern Xew Jersey 
will become commercially possible. As 
for the other suggested experiments, they 
are all interesting and worth trying. 
Catching Hawks 
I think O. .T. O.’s methods of catching 
hawks, page 250, rather tedious. You 
would not have time to do much else if 
you had to watch the hawk catch the 
chicken and follow up, set trap, and then 
watch the hawk come back. I have 
caught many hawks in the past. My 
method was to take a stake 4 to G ft. 
long and on top nail a small strip of 
board a few inches square, just enough 
to set a small steel trap on. Get a small 
bird and tie on the paddle of the trap, 
secure the trap to the stake and when 
the ground is covered with snow set the 
trap near grain stacks or near large trees 
where hawks frequent, and you will get 
the first that comes. The wind ruffles the 
bird’s feathers which the hawk can easily 
see and bird is as good bait as a chicken 
and not so expensive. chas. black. 
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