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Garden Notes from Ohio 
It is “up-hill work” to make melon hills 
carefully and painstakingly in the Spring, 
to tend the little plants and spray them 
against the ravenous striped beetles, to 
see them bloom and set a real crop of 
melons, and then wither away and die in 
a prolonged dry season, and day after 
day pass without a melon on the family 
table. But, on the other hand, it is like 
coasting down hill to go through a little 
patch of pole Lima beans and gather and 
shell out a dollar’s worth in a morning, 
and that day after day. Something over 
$12 from 15 small tents, and all the fam¬ 
ily could use, is not a bad record, and yet 
there are people who say it is too much 
trouble to set the poles. Lima beans sold 
at 40 and 50 cents a quart almost the en¬ 
tire season in and around Cincinnati, and 
were very scarce. Our little patch is on 
the north side of the chicken-house, and 
receives all the droppings from a flock of 
75 hens. It has been the bean yard, also 
the run for baby chicks, for over 10 years, 
and seems to grow better instead of wear¬ 
ing out. It gets no stable manure, and 
seems heavy and cold, but we find the 
beans do not rot in the ground, as they 
do in warmer places, and the vines do 
not dry out, but stay green and bear 
throughout the season till frost. 
Eggs are selling at 44 cents, commis¬ 
sion price, and are scarce. Feed of all 
kinds is high. Corn was not good last 
year, wheat froze out badly last Winter, 
and a very late and wet Spring delayed 
the corn this year., so that it is going to 
.be even poorer than last year. Frying 
chickens stayed up all Summer, and hens 
were even higher. Those who had them 
and the feed to give them found the eggs 
too profitable to sell the hens, and those 
who did not have the feed found it hard 
to buy new stock and feed, and fewer 
^’people kept chickens. A few years back 
quite a few city people came out to the 
small suburban farms to raise chickens 
and sell eggs. Now there are almost no 
such poultry farms to be found, and the 
eggs and friers and such are coming in 
from the farms. A good many of the 
would-be poultry farmers have seen the 
wisdom of becoming middlemen, and are 
gathering together produce and marketing 
it in the city, making a much greater 
profit than when they raised the produce 
themselves. But the wiser city people 
are “getting on to it,” and a good many 
who buy their eggs from suburbanites 
keep a close watch on the daily market 
quotations, and pay each day 5 cents 
above quotation price for fresh eggs. The 
traction and train travelers going into 
the city in the morning are usually loaded 
down with well-filled dozen-size egg cases, 
or bumpy parcels holding dressed chick¬ 
ens, and quite a business is done “on the 
side” in the large offices, factories and 
stores. If your commuting husband or 
son or daughter is not too proud to carry 
such parcels, there is quite a nice bit to 
be made in such direct trading with the 
consumer. 
Cincinnati was slow to make the differ¬ 
ence in price between Leghorn and large 
breed friers, but for the past two or three 
years the prices have been quoted with 
5 cents or more difference, in favor of the 
large breeds. This is not only for the 
friers, but heavy hens, weighing 5 lbs. and 
over, receive the preference. Leghorn 
hens have to be almost given away. I be¬ 
lieve in some eastern cities white eggs 
are in demand, but about here there is no 
expressed choice in the market, and many 
individual customers will pay more for 
the large yellow eggs of the Barred Rocks 
and other large breeds. It is certain they 
are much more desirable for the small 
farm and suburban home, for they are 
not given to flying over fences or to wan¬ 
dering far, as the lighter breeds are. We 
have found Barred Ilocks satisfactory 
after 25 years’ trial. Some might say we 
are naturally prejudiced. Perhaps we are, 
especially this year, when we have pro¬ 
duced five-month-old roosters weighing 
over 7 lbs. 
Those who depend upon the late to¬ 
matoes for their canning will be short 
this Winter. The dry Summer hit the 
late plants at just the wrong time. We 
experimented with a new kind called the 
Ox-heart and found them both delicious 
to eat and a delight to can. Many of 
them were just the right size to can 
whole, and there were so very few seeds. 
They are of the purple-pink variety, some¬ 
what the color of the Ponderosa, and 
shaped very much like a beef heart. Quite 
a few ran over a pound in size, but the 
most of them were the size of a large ap¬ 
ple. 
The fruit season was erratic. It prom¬ 
ised to be a good season, but the early 
rains set the cherries and plums to rot¬ 
ting on the trees, the dry season cut short 
the berry crop, and the peaches were not 
of the best. Apples are good and fairly 
plentiful. Potatoes are good. The bins 
and shelves in the cellar look pretty good, 
and we ought to approach the season of 
Thanksgiving with grateful hearts. 
Clermont Co., O. MRS. E. E. L. 
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