Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1907 — FARM AND GARDEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FARM AND GARDEN

MARKETING ‘TRUCK. Good Potatoes Should Be Smooth, With Shallow Eye*. Truck growing Is a modern horticultural outgrowth due to Improved facilities for rapid transportation. Be fore the advent of extensive steam navigation and the present great extension of railroads each city and town depended for Its supply of vegetables ►on Its immediate surrounding country. Today the most distant states in the Union are sending truck by boat and train load to the great northern centers of population. There is nothing that

THE 1-3 BARREL VENEER BASKET, gives the pride and profit than to beat bls neighbor Into the market with early potatoes. Such potatoes have to be handled carefully and are usually shipped in the one-third barrel veneer basket, shown in the cut, which Is also used for shipping llmas, snap beans, peas and cucumbers. Good potatoes should be smooth, free from knobs or second growths and should have shallow eyes. Varieties should not be mixed in the same barrel or package. It hurts their sale to have long potatoes mixed with round ones.— Maryland Experiment Station.

Nitrogen In the Sugar Beet. The results of some German experiments show that the presence of nitrogen in the beet may reduce the quality of the juice and be detrimental to the manufacture of sugar. The quantity of injurious nitrogen found In the root varied with the kind of seed. The use of a single nitrogenous fertilizer, whether in the ftirm of nitrate or ammonia, increased the quantity of nitrogen in the beet, but the use of barnyard manure up to about twenty-seven tons per acre under conditions of a normal rainfall produced no injurious effect. When a heavy application of nitrate of soda up to about 1,000 pounds per acre is masie the injurious effetft may be largely reduced by the addition of potash and superphosphate.

Cutworms. The successful method of fighting the cutworm is based on the fact that he is fond of sweets. The sweet tooth is as well developed as that of any candy loving boy. Into a pint of molasses or any sirup stir thoroughly a heaping teaspoonful of parts green. Mix this with a pailful of bran or other finely ground feed. Scatter a little of the mixture in the hills or along the rows where the worms are at work, suggests a writer in lowa Homestead. They wilt eat it and be killed if you have been careful to secure good fresh parts green.

Beat Tools the Cheapest. So much of the work of the garden is done by hand that a farmer is inexcusable w’ho does not provide himself with the best tools that are made. Some do not appear to realize that as much improvement has been made in tools for garden work as for cultivating and harvesting farm crops. When he sees the weeders and cultivators operated by horsepower, he will find that the amount of work necessarily done by hand has been greatly reduced and is not at all burdensome.—American Cultivator. Early Norther Potato. Few potatoes have done so much for the farmer as the famous Early Rose, both in its own self and in its numerous progeny. The smooth, long, small eyed potato known as the Early Norther is much like its parent, but is earlier

and even more prolific, according to American Agriculturist. Even in poor seasons it has been known to yield more than sixtyfold. It seems to be destined to become a rival of the important early sorts. Horse Talk. Don’t compel me to eat more salt than I want by .mixing it with my oats. I know letter than any other animal how much I need. Don’t think-because I go free under the whip I don’t get tired. You would move up if under the whip. Don’t whip me when I get frightened along the road or I will expect it next time and maybe make trouble.—Farm Journal.

EARLY BOSS SEEDLING POTATO.