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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 17, 1024 
How do You 
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T housands of Duro Water Systems 
are being installed this year in farm 
and suburban homes. Additional thous¬ 
ands have been purchased for city homes 
in hard water towns to pump soft, free- 
lathering rainwater from cistern to bath, 
laundry and sink. 
Are you still lugging water ? Think 
what it would mean to have a Duro 
System—plenty of running water—just like city water service—piped 
to kitchen, bathroom, barn and garden. Can you imagine any 
greater comfort or convenience for the few dollars it will cost? 
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A Duro System is a sound investment—not an expense. It saves time eliminates 
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There are Duro Systems not only for residences, but 
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even villages with elevated water tanks. They are 
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Duro Pumps and Systems have many advantages. 
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Frank L. Whitty, Western New York Manager , 
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New England Notes 
Squash Vine-borers. —In some sec¬ 
tions of Massachusetts the growing of 
squashes has been almost given up, ow¬ 
ing to the ravages of the squash vine- 
borer. Not a few amateurs have been 
unable to get any squashes at all for two 
or three years. For that reason a new 
bulletin ' from the Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station at Amherst, entitled “The 
Control »of the Squash Vine-borer in 
Massachusetts,” should have an unusual¬ 
ly wide distribution, as it shows a means 
by which the insects can be killed in the 
egg stage, thus protecting the plants 
against the slightest injury from borers. 
The plan in brief involves the use of 
Black Lead 40 at the strength of one part 
to 100 parts of water. The spraying 
must be done four times, at weekly in¬ 
tervals, beginning the first week in July. 
This plan practically eliminates the 
borers, but if a few of the pest remain 
they can be cut out in the old-fashioned 
way during the middle of August. It is 
in this particular way. The high bush 
blueberry, for example, is now being rec¬ 
ommended as one of the finest native 
plants to use for ornamental purposes. 
Landscape architects say that there is 
hardly any other shrub which has such 
beautiful foliage in the Fall, or which 
holds its bright red leaves so long. It 
has been found to stand shearing well, 
and can be grown as a round, compact 
ball. There is every reason to believe 
that this blueberry would make an ex¬ 
cellent hedge, and small plants can be 
transplanted without difficulty if plenty 
of earth is taken with the roots. 
New Vegetables. — Among few new 
worth-while vegetables the Swiss chard 
called Fordhook Giant may be mentioned, 
because it is a sort of double purpose 
plant, being handsome enough to have a 
place in the flower garden while at the 
same time supplying a surprisingly large 
amount of food. This Swiss chard is 
blue-green in color, with crinkled leaves, 
and makes a plant from two to three 
inches in diameter. The leaves may be 
boiled for greens and the thick stems used 
as a substitute for asparagus. Swiss 
chard is one of the indispensable vege¬ 
tables for small gardens, as a short row 
Protecting Plants With Paper Collars 
preferable to have the material applied 
with a high pressure spray pump, but the 
spray is 90 per cent effective even when 
applied with a low-pressure, small-ca¬ 
pacity outfit, like the knapsack pump. 
All sides of the stems must be drenched 
at the base of the plants, but the leaf 
stalks and the under surfaces of the 
leaves should also be sprayed. This new 
method of dealing with the squash vine- 
borer will be of as much interest to the 
home gardener as to the commercial 
grower, and if it is followed there is no 
reason why there should be any lack of 
squashes in Massachusetts the coming 
season. 
Garden Helps. —There is nothing new 
about the plan of putting little paper col¬ 
lars around tomato plants and other veg¬ 
etables which commonly fall a prey to 
the cutworm. Yet it is one which ama¬ 
teurs seem to overlook. It is particular¬ 
ly easy to carry out this method of foiling 
the cutworms when plants are started in 
paper pots or in dirt bands, because the 
pots or bands need not be removed when 
the plants go into the ground. If pots 
are used, the bottoms can be pulled out, 
and iu any case the paper will soon rot 
away, but it will last until the stems are 
too large and coarse to suit the appetites 
of the bugs. It is a better plan to raise 
plants in these paper pots in a cold frame 
than to set the plants directly in the 
earth. It isn't possible to get quite as 
many plants in a frame, but they can be 
moved with less difficulty and with less 
loss, as there is no disturbance of the 
roots. 
When starting melons and cucumbers I 
use baby cold frames, which are simply 
small boxes having a light of glass over 
the top. These frames are set over the 
hills where the seeds are planted. Later, 
when the plants are up and danger of 
frost is over, I remove the glass top and 
substitute a square of mosquito netting, 
which fits tight to the frame and effectu¬ 
ally excludes flea beetles and striped 
beetles. It isn’t possible to cover all the 
squashes with these frames, but the 
striped beetle is kept away from them by 
dosing the ground around the plants with 
a strong solution of Black Leaf 40. which 
kills the larvae before they reach the sur- 
face. 
Blueberries for Ornament. —Some 
of the plants which are being advocated 
for decorative purposes are not really 
new. although they have seldom been used 
will keep the average family supplied all 
Summer, new growth appearing as fast 
as the leaves are removed. Like New 
Zealand spinach, it is a true cut-and- 
come-again vegetable, and it is easier to 
start than New Zealand spinach. Some 
gardeners carry Swiss chard well into 
the Winter by placing a portable cold 
frame over it when cold weather comes, 
and if the plants are well protected in 
a frame they will start growth again in 
the Spring long before any vegetable iu 
the open garden is ready. An interesting 
new cucumber, called Early Crisp, comes 
from New England, and is especially 
valuable for home gardens because of the 
rapidity with which it matures. In 
some instances fruits ready for the 
table have been harvested in less than 
two weeks from the time the blossoms 
drop. This variety has been obtained 
by the simple process of saving seed 
from the first perfect cucumber that has 
matured each season, beginning with 
Early Russian, long known as a fast¬ 
growing variety. E. I. Farrington. 
Fertilizers for Strawberries 
Quite a number of unsigned letters 
have reached us lately, asking us to give 
the best fertilizer for strawberries. We 
cannot understand why these questioners 
should not sign their name to such a 
question. Where there is only a small 
patch of berries we should advise the pur¬ 
chase of one of the ready-mixed fertilizers 
designed especially for small fruit. That 
will probably pay better than an effort 
to purchase the chemicals in small quan¬ 
tities for home mixing. Where there is a 
large acreage and home mixing is de¬ 
manded, we would suggest one part (by 
weight) of nitrate of soda, one part each 
of tankage, cottonseed meal or dried 
blood, three parts of acid phosphate, and 
one part of either muriate or sulphate of 
potash. These parts are figured by weight 
and not by measure. This combination 
will answer well. In ease one has a good 
quantity of chicken manure, a home mix¬ 
ture can be made by using 5 lbs. of dried 
and fine chicken manure, 1 lb. of nitrate 
of soda, 4 lbs. of acid phosphate and 1 
lb. of muriate of potash, or in that pro¬ 
portion for larger quantities. We should 
- use half of the fertilizer at the time of 
planting, and the other half scattered on 
the rows in August, and thoroughly 
worked into the ground with cultivator 
or hoe. 
