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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
December  1,  1923 
Giving  the  Telephone  Life 
Wherever  your  thought  goes  your  voice  may  go. 
You  can  talk  across  the  continent  as  if  face  to  face. 
Your  telephone  is  the  latch  to  open  for  you  any  door 
in  the  land. 
There  is  the  web  of  wires.  The  many  switch¬ 
boards.  The  maze  of  apparatus.  The  millions  of 
telephones.  All  are  parts  of  a  country-wide  mech¬ 
anism  for  far-speaking.  The  equipment  has  cost  over 
2  billion  dollars,  but  more  than  equipment  is  needed. 
There  must  be  the  guardians  of  the  wires  to  keep 
them  vital  with  speech-carrying  electrical  currents. 
There  must  be  those  who  watch  the  myriads  of  tiny 
switchboard  lights  and  answer  your  commands. 
There  must  be  technicians  of  every  sort  to  construct, 
repair  and  operate. 
A  quarter  of  a  million  men  and  women  are  united 
to  give  nation-wide  telephone  service.  With  their 
brains  and  hands  they  make  the  Bell  System  live. 
“BELL  SYSTEM” 
American  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company 
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to  dissolve  and  of  low  penetrative  value. 
The  third  salt  is  a  soft,  porous  flake— not 
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it  instantly  dissolves  and  evenly  penetrates. 
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New  England  Notes 
Unusual  Vegetables. — Visitors  to 
the  recent  vegetable  and  fruit  show  in 
Horticultural  Hall.  Boston,  were  inter¬ 
ested  in  some  of  the  novel  vegetables 
shown.  Most  of  these  vegetables  were 
not  really  new,  but  are  not  familiar  to 
the  average  garden-maker.  Martynia 
has  been  used  for  pickles  for  a  genera¬ 
tion,  probably,  yet  no  more  than  one  vis¬ 
itor  in  50  could  call  the  curious  hooked 
fruits  by  name.  Celeriac  or  turnip-root¬ 
ed  celery  is  another  vegetable  with  which 
few  persons  showed  any  familiarity. 
Some  of  the  specimens  shown  were  as 
large  as  the  ordinary  turnip.  This  is  a 
palatable  vegetable,  and  not  difficult  to 
grow.  The  black  parsnip  did  not  look 
very  inviting,  but  I  am  told  is  even  finer 
in  flavor  than  the  ordinary  parsnip. 
Amateur  garden-makers  have  been  grow- 
kohl-rabi  more  generally  in  recent  years, 
but  it,  too,  is  still  a  novelty  to  the  gen¬ 
eral  public,  rarely  being  seen  in  the  mar¬ 
ket.  It  is  practically  a  turnip  which 
grows  on  top  of  the  ground.  If  eaten 
when  about  the  size  of  a  tennis  ball,  the 
flavor  is  quite  as  good  as  that  of  any 
earth-bound  turnip.  Prof.  Horace  Tomp¬ 
son  has  been  growing  a  number  of  new 
salad  plants  and  greens  at  the  market 
gardeners’  experiment  station  in  Lexing¬ 
ton.  Many  of  these  plants  are  being  rec¬ 
ommended  by  physicians  for  their  dia¬ 
betic  patients.  One  of  these  novelties  is 
golden  purslane.  This  looks  very  much 
like  the  common  “pussley,”  a  weed  which 
every  garden-maker  detests,  but  is  a  little 
larger  and  with  lighter  %eolored  foliage. 
French  white  mustard  is  another  plant 
which  Prof.  Tompson  recommends,  say¬ 
ing  that  it  gives  much  piquancy  to  Swiss 
chard,  New  Zealand  spinach  and  other 
greens  of  that  kind.  From  across  the 
water  comes  a  green  vegetable  called 
orach,  and  there  is  a  red  form  which 
might  well  be  used  for  ornamental  pur¬ 
poses  in  the  flower  garden. 
Drought  Makes  Small  Squashes. — 
There  has  been  some  disappointment  this 
Fall  on  the  part  of  persons  who  have  vis¬ 
ited  the  shows  expecting  to  see  huge 
squashes.  There  have  been  some  good- 
sized  specimens,  but  apparently  the  dry 
season  has  interfered  with  the  growth  of 
these  vegetables.  Still  there  seems  to  be 
a  good  yield  of  squashes,  which  are 
among  the  most  profitable  crops  on  some 
of  the  market  gardens  around  Boston. 
Squashes  are  stored  in  heated  barns  or 
in  special  squash  houses  where  a  mild 
heat  is  maintained  throughout  the  Win¬ 
ter  months.  A  squash  house  in  New  Eng¬ 
land  was  shown  on  page  1415. 
Muscovy  Ducks.  —  Every  little  while 
I  read  something  in  the  newspapers  about 
quackless  ducks.  The  newspaper  men 
seem  to  -think  that  these  ducks  represent 
a  new  breed  with  unique  characteristics. 
Of  course  the  Muscovys  are  the  ducks 
mentioned,  and.  truth  to  tell,  they  have 
been  known  in  New  England  for  genera¬ 
tions.  They  are  the  ducks  which  were 
grown  for  market  before  anything  was 
known  about  the  White  Pekins.  It  is 
true,  however,  that  the  number  sold  was 
always  very,  small  because  they  could  not 
be  handled  in  any  such  large  way  as  are 
the  Pekins  today.  Every  now  and  then 
I  find  a  fllock  of  Muscovys  on  some  farm 
where  they  are  kept  for  table  purposes. 
The  meat  is  very  delicious,  but  it  is  a 
tedious  task  ito  get  off  the  feathers. 
Whatever  advantage  there  may  be  in 
having  ducks 'which  do  not  quack,  it  is 
offset  by  the  ability  of  these  birds  to  fly. 
When  I  kept  them  on  my  own  place  they 
were  as  likely  as  not  to  be  on  the  chim¬ 
ney  or  on  the  ridgepole  of  the  barn  as  in 
the  backyard  where  they  were  supposed 
to  stay.  They  had  the  daily  habit  of 
flying  a  considerable  distance  to  a  brook 
in  the  next  field,  and  then  laboriously 
walking  all  the  way  home.  A  pen  of 
young  Muscovy  ducks  is  shown  on  page 
1467. 
E.  I.  FARRINGTON. 
Frost-proof  Gardens 
Our  need  is  not  brighter  blossoms  but 
brawnier  ones,  for  our  gardens.  A 
glance  at  our  blasted  borders  the  morn¬ 
ing  after  ,  the  first  frost  is  convincing  on 
that  point.  Marigolds,  nasturtiums, 
Cosmos,  all  are  beautiful,  and  should  be 
at  home  in  every,  garden,  but  the  morn¬ 
ing  after  the  first  frost  they  are  specta¬ 
cles  of  woe,  as  melancholy  as  a  lost  hope. 
We  need  flowers  that  will  laugh  at  that 
first  frost — something  that  will  not  shiver 
and  die  at  the  mere  whisper  of  Winter. 
There  are  such  flowers — not  a  long  list, 
but  a  brave  one.  Chrysanthemums,  of 
course,  must  take  front  rank  in  such  a 
list.  Let  us  grow  more  and  more  of 
them.  They  respond  wonderfully  to  care, 
but  the  important  thing  is,  they  stand 
neglect.  For  country  gardens  the  tiny 
button  ones  are  most  satisfactory,  al¬ 
though  the  fluffy  ones  are  almost  as  easily 
grown.  November  days  are  not  half  so 
gray  if  we  fill  our  vases  with  a  little 
home-grown  sunshine. 
Gaillardia  is  another  boon  for  north¬ 
ern  flower  lovers — its  red  and  gold  with¬ 
stands  even  freezing  weather.  This  is 
one  of  the  easiest  of  flowers  to  grow,  and 
is  always  in  bloom.  Sweet  Alyssum  and 
mignonette  persist  after  hard  frosts,  and 
Verbena,  in  ordinary  years,  may  be  cue 
in  November.  Mourning  bride  stands 
rather  severe  frosts  without  scalding, 
and  Calendula  is  a  joy  for  late  cutting. 
A  little  protection  carries  this  flower  up 
to  the  snow  line  of  Winter.  This  is  but 
a  handful,  and  we  need  many  to  brighten 
dull  days — who  knows  more? 
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