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Questions About Crops 
Paul Work Answers 'Some Growers Problems 
W ILLIAM REISERT is one of seven 
brothers operating adjoining farms 
at Valley Stream, Nassau County. He 
gardens some forty-two acres, but his 
total acreage of crops is far more than 
this, for most of the land is used twice. 
He plants four acres of New Zealand 
spinach. This plant is not a spinach 
and does not even belong to the same 
botanical family. It does make high- 
quality greens in midsumme., when 
true spinach is out of the running. It 
grows quickly, is thick-leaved and suc¬ 
culent, and it gives a heavy yield. The 
New York market accepts New Zealand 
spinach in quantity during the hot 
months, though it does not find as 
ready sale during the spinach season. 
What Is a Good Stand of Beans? 
M. C. Gillis last year conducted a 
careful experiment at Cornell to de¬ 
termine the best spacing for garden 
beans. Three varieties, Red Valentine, 
a light grower, Stringless Greenpod, 
making a medium sized plant, and Refu¬ 
gee, which spreads wide, were planted 
State College for examination and 
advice, or to me here at Ithaca, N. Y., 
and we will try to find out what we can 
about the difficulty. If I understand 
correctly, your trouble is entirely dif¬ 
ferent from the ordinary blight or leaf 
spot which can be controlled by spray¬ 
ing with Bordeaux or by dusting. I 
shall be glad to hear from you again 
if I can be of further service. 
THE CULTURE OF SCULLIONS 
Kindly give me some advice on planting, 
cultivation, fertilization and harvesting for 
so-called winter onions or scullions? — D. Y. 
G., Pennsylvania. 
I assume that you want bunch onions 
to sell in the spring. For this purpose 
two kinds of onions are commonly used; 
multipliers and Egyptian, or tree onions. 
The former are perhaps more com¬ 
monly used, and they multiply by divi¬ 
sion of the bulb underground. Fart of 
the planting is left after the .market 
crop has been pulled in the spring and 
by fall each set has developed a number 
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How a practical potato grower modified liis power duster. 
concentrates the dust cloud about the plants 
The canvas 
and thinned to stands of two, three and 
six plants per foot. With all varieties 
the close planting was favored. The 
work is being repeated this year, with 
an added stand of 12 per foot. 
We would like to hear from gard¬ 
eners on this subject. Does your ex¬ 
perience check the experiment? Do 
you think the stand of twelve per foot 
will prove too thick? A postal will do. 
“BURN” IN CELERY 
I have been troubled with “burn” in the 
hearts of yellow celery. During last Septem¬ 
ber and October when the plants were about 
mature, the leaves and stalks of the hearts 
turned brown, then black and finally rotted. 
This season fully 90 per cent of the plants 
were affected. Is this due to type or con¬ 
dition of the soil, location, exposure or faulty 
culture? I have been growing Golden Self¬ 
blanching only two years. This year the burn 
was much more serious than last year. Green 
and Easy Blanching rarely show a burned 
stalk. I do not spray either variety and 
have little evidence of blight, unless this is 
a kind of blight. — W. L., Pennsylvania. 
As far as I can learn, not very much 
is known of this particular trouble. In 
the trial gardens at Ithaca we have 
suspected that trouble such as you de¬ 
scribe is worse where the water supply 
is not adequate. We have not been 
troubled with it on varieties other than 
Golden Self blanching. The pathology 
people say that the cause is not very 
definitely established, and they suspect 
that it is somewhat similar to tipburn 
in lettuce which is sometimes occasioned 
by the inability of the outer portion of 
the leaf to get sufficient water. I doubt 
if snraying will help materially. I 
should try giving at least a part of 
your field a heavy application of well 
rotted manure this spring. Leaving a 
bed of ground unmanured, you would 
have a check on this treatment. I 
should watch weather conditions also 
and see if you can note any connection 
between drought and the trouble. If 
you have irrigation equipment, the 
effect of water would also be worth 
studying. 
I would suggest that next season you 
send sample plants either to the Penn 
of small bulbs. These may be taken 
up and replanted for the next season. 
They are very hardy, and will remain 
in the ground year after year, but this 
is hardly good commercial practice. 
Plantings are usually made about six 
weeks before freezing weather, and they 
make a start in the fall, so that they 
can get on very rapidly in the spring. 
Sometimes they are given a little pro¬ 
tection in the form of a mulch of straw 
or strawy manure. 
The Egyptian, or tree, onions are re¬ 
produced by means of small bulbs 
which develop on the top of the plant 
where seed forms in the ordinary 
onions. With these also a part of the 
planting is left after bunching in the 
spring. The bulbs are harvested when 
mature and are set out again in the fall. 
The onion bulb of either kind may be 
planted rather thickly in rows twelve 
or fifteen inches apart. They are 
given ordinary cultivation to’ keep 
weeds down, and are ready for bunch¬ 
ing without very much attention. They 
are ordinarily grown on rich market- 
garden ground which has had an 
abundance of manure year after year, 
and so commercial fertilizer is not 
necessary. When they get large enough 
for bunching they are pulled, the rough 
outer leaves and skin are removed, and 
they are tied four to ten in a bunch, 
according to market custom, and sold. 
If we can help you further, please let 
us know. 
Cereal Pests—Before threshed wheat 
is placed in the bins, sweep them out 
well, removing all of last year’s grain, 
and fumigate the bins with carbon 
bisulphide before putting in the new 
wheat. If this is not done, and the 
wheat begins to heat, fumigate with 
the bisulphide, using one pound to 100 
bushels of grain. 
CATTLE BREEDERS 
PUBLIC SALE 
On Wednesday, August 1st, 1923, at 
the farm of C. W. Sewell, will sell at 
Public Auction. 35 head of Pure Breed 
AyrshireCattleaud four headof horses. 
Keating Summit, Penna. 
HOLSTEIN BULLS FOR SALE 
Sons of 
DUTCHLAND C0LANTHA SIR INKA 
F1SHKILL FARMS, Hopewell Junction, N. Y. 
HENRY MORGENTHAU. Jr.. Owner 
H0LSTEINS and GUERNSEYS 
Fresh cows and springers, 100 head of the finest 
quality to select from. Address 
A. F. SAUNDERS, CORTLAND. N. Y. 
HOLSTEINS 
Two car loads high-class grade springers. The’ 
kind that please. One car load registered females. 
Well bred, strictly high-class. Several registered 
service bulls. J. A. LEACH, CORTLAND, N. Y. 
H0ISTFIN Rill I Born Dec. 7th, 1921. Sired by a 
nULOlEin DULL 33-pound Son of King of the 
rontiacs. Dam is 24.95-pound daughter Changeling But¬ 
ter Boy. He is nicely marked, splendid individual, well 
grown and ready for service. Priced to sell. 
FRED. A. BLEWER 
__ , Owego. N. Y. _ __ 
HIGH-GRADE HOLSTEIN COWS 
fresh and close by large and heavy producers. 
Pure bred registered Holsteins all ages ; your 
inquiry will receive our best attention. 
Browncroft Farm McGRAW New York 
HIGH GRADE HOLSTEIN HEIFER CALVES $1S 
each; registered bull and heifer calves. $25 up; registered 
bulls ready for sendee, and cows. Address 
SPOT FARM. TULLY. N. Y. 
FOR C A I 17 Franklin County (Vt.) Jerseys. 
1 V/IV BALL Grade and registered, all ages. 
both sexes. Send for booklet. 
R. L. CHAFFEE, Secretary ENOSBURG FALLS, VERMONT 
SWINE BREEDERS 
125-PIGS FOR SALE-125 
Yorkshire and Chester White Cross, and Chester and 
Berkshire Cross. All large growthy pigs, 6 to 7 weeksold, 
g? bOeach ; iI to8 weeks old, $5.50 each; 8to 9 weeks old. 
5>b.UUeach. 1) pure-bred Berkshire pigs, barrows or sows, 
fcb.oO each, i weeks old; and 20 Chester White. 7 weeks old, 
8b.ft(l each: hoars of the above breeds $8.00 each. All good 
clean stock, bred from the best of stock that monev can 
buy. i will ship any part of the above lots C. O. b. to 
you on approval. 
WALT ER LUX, 388 Salem St., WOBURN, MASS. 
Big Type Poland China Pigs 
Gilts and Boars for sale. Sires; Ford’s Liberator and 
Ford's Big Tim. Moderate prices. 
STEPHEN H. FORD, 402Slewart Building, Baltimore, Md. 
Big Type Polands 
prices. Write me. G. 
Boars, Sows and Pigs 
for sale; good ones; low 
S. HALL, FARVDALE, OHIO. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT H1GHWOOD 
Granc champion breeding. Largest herd in America. Free booklet. 
HARPENDING _ Box 10 DUNDEE, N.Y. 
GOATS 
'I O get the best choice, buy Milk Goat Bucks Now. 
1 Buy Bred Does in October. Buy Kids and 
Yearlings Notv. 
S. J. SHARPLES, R. D. 5, NORRISTOWN, PA. 
BABY CHICXS 
STRICKLER’S QUALITY AUGUST CHICKS 
BIG HATCHES AUGUST 1-8-15-22-29 
Large heavy-type Barron English s. c. White Leghorna of 
superlative quality mated to pedigreed cockerels. Each 
£™ headed by Lady Stores' Pen cockerels (Dams records 
240 to 271 eggs . ach in pullet yearj. Highest quality 
y'«2 rous chicks by special delivery parcel post prepaid. 
100% sa-e and live delivery guaranteed. *9 per 100, *44 
per 5 00. *85 per 1000. Also husky pure-bred Barred Rock, 
R. I. Reds and W hite Rock chicks. *11 per 100, *54 per 500! 
LEONARD F. STRICKLER, SHERIDAN, PA. 
CHICKS for July Delivery 
Our 19th Season producing good strong 
chicks from heavy-laying strains. S. C 
White and Brown Leghorns, $9.50 per 100; 
Black Leghorns, $10 per 100; Barred 
and White Rocks. $12 per 100; Anconas, Black 
M'norcas, $11.50 per 100; White Wyandotte*. 
n a a • . V C - U f/ ls - S1 j Pe r J00. Mixed, $8.50 per 100. 
Order direct from this ad. We guarantee 95 3 live de¬ 
livery. Catalogue free. 
20th CENTURY HATCHERY 
Box R ____ New W ashington. Ohio 
~f baby chicks^ 
S. C. Rhode Island Reds, 12c each 
Barred Plymoulh Rocks, 11c each 
S. C. White Leghorns, . 9c each 
Mixed or Off Color, . . 7c each 
-.These chicks are all hatched from free range stock 
bate delivery and satisfaction guaranteed. Descriptive 
booklet free. 
Chicks 
W. A. LAUVER 
McALISTERVILLE, PA. 
600 White Leghorn Breeders, one year old, 
Sl.OOeach. 10 Weeks’ Old Pullets, Aug. 10th 
delivery, $1.00 each and up. Thousands ready. 
HUMMER’S POULTRY FARM 
FRENCHTOWN, N. J., R. 1 
LARGE STOCK flue Poultry, Turkeys,(Scene, Duck.,Guineas 
Eggs, low: cn tab 
am-. Collies, rieemis’ Chicks, stork’ 
PIOMCKH FARMS, Telfnrd, Penn.jl.iu.ia’ 
HILLPOT 
DUALITY 
Post Prepaid. Safe delivery guaranteed 
anywhere east of Mississippi River. 
REDUCED PRICES—PROMPT DELIVERIES 
„„ 100 50 25 Barred Rocks $13.00 $7.00 $3 75 
While Leghorns $10.00 $5.50 $3.00 R. I. Reds 15.00 7 75 4 00 
Black Leghorns 10 00 5.50 3.00 White Rocks 15.00 7 75 4 00 
Brown Leghorns 13.00 7.00 3.75 White Wyindotles 18.00 9.25 4.75 
W. F. HILLPOT Box 29, Frenchtown. N. J. 
