HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1911 
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toes which he objected to as he did bean 
poles—too much crowding and consequent 
shutting out of air and light. 
The public at once heartily endorsed 
the new idea of caring for tomatoes and a 
few rushed off and built racks on the 
same plan for their tomatoes. The Cap¬ 
tain and the Early Bean Man had their 
poles out, however, and were reluctant to 
acknowledge the superiority of the new 
plan. It was found that each tomato table 
cost six cents for material and the bean 
racks about a like sum. It was conceded 
that by storing them under shelter in win¬ 
ter they would last five years, making the 
cost for each year but little more than one 
cent each—cheaper than poles, and when 
once made always ready. 
The Newcomer pruned severely, start¬ 
ing the vines over the tops of the tables 
with a single stem for each plant. The 
suckers were carefully kept off. 
Early summer was a continuous war¬ 
fare with weeds started by the excessive 
rainfall from the seed brought in with the 
manure or from other sources. Morning- 
glory seeds, a great garden pest, are said 
to lie dormant in the ground for seven 
years and then spring up with great vigor 
at the first opportunity. Gympson weed 
seeds—that plant now happily almost 
eradicated by the despised potato beetle, 
is said to survive in the ground even 
longer than that. 
Early in June the Early Bean Man met 
with a discouraging rebuff. Three suc¬ 
cessive boiling hot days, following a week 
of rain and cloudy weather, blighted his 
potatoes so badly that they died within a 
week. About that time, too, he discov¬ 
ered that he had planted the wrong kind 
of cabbages. He promptly pulled out 
what he had planted and put in a more 
desirable variety. This was enough to 
make a less determined man throw up the 
sponge, but he went bravely on making 
the best he could of the situation. 
The Newcomer, too, had his troubles. 
On June 13th, unlucky day, when the con¬ 
test was in full swing he fell from a cherry 
tree and fractured his left shoulder in two 
places. It then looked as if he would have 
to pull out of the contest and let the Cap¬ 
tain come under the wire an easy winner; 
but the Newcomer was not made of that 
sort of stuff. It usually requires three 
months to heal a break of that character, 
one of the most difficult known to the med¬ 
ical profession to hold in position. Three 
days after the accident, however, the New¬ 
comer was out, with his elbow bound 
firmly to his side and enough adhesive 
plaster criss-crossing his crippled shoulder 
to hold a kicking mule. He could not 
bend forward, but found a way to get at 
the weeds. Seated on a low, backless 
chair, he pulled weeds as far as he could 
reach and then hunched his chair along 
to a new spot. With the help of a light 
hoe, which he could handle with one hand, 
and a trowel, he kept at the fight every day. 
At first the public was inclined to pity him, 
but soon changed that to applause. They * 
said that a man who had the grit to con- 
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