Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-04-13
AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN.
Interesting Letters from Hancock
County Farmers.


County Farmers.
LAsoIsR--I have b,eu interested in mari q
gardening in a sma way fora number OF year.
and the moderate amount Of knowledge which
has been acquired has come more through fail.
ures than TIN ough success6s. b lieve II TO be
waste of time and material to compete with gar
deners from states even go far north "a Massa
chusctts In raising those crops which are easily
| ard cbeaply shipped considered distance. For
instance. 1t Is found much more profitable to
raise the second early but larger poided peas.
such as the Gra,ius, than the smaller sorts which
are only few days in advance and come on to
the market ats time when 1t lie often gutted with
shipments of southern crops. In the heavier
crops, such as potatoes, this is not SO true, as
| the freight ard usually the difference In quality
on the imported article win hold the Maine
raised potato at the front. For medium TO
heavy soils any of the first early, round varie
ties are all right On light soil the shape does
not matter so much
Can the commissioner tell me what to use to
keep the leaf maggot out of beet leaves? This
l. an obstacle to the production of one of the
best paying crops to be had, labor considered.
RALPH T. YOUNG.
| NoTE--It offers me difficulty to find such
| treatment of the insects that are destroying
1 =
| can only say personally that some years since
| while raising patch OF beets insect that we
called the beet fly practically destroyed my crop
| that year, but mas never since trouble d me "
any extent. We raise beet~, however, on
small SCALE To trace the life hi tory of this In
| sect requires great deal OF time and attention
AMI belongs to professional experts. The best
way Is TO send these Injurious insects to the
| entomologist nj our upive. shy. He Will give
| you all the information he can In relation TO
Kidding your plants of them This is not
| very common insect and we And no remedies
sugget ted i'll any of our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
stoner.
| SEDGwIcK One reason why there are not
| more garden crops grown Il because of the old
| notion that the garden must be little plot by
itself and planted year after year until 1t gets
so full of weeds that It Is alhost impossible to
keep 1t clear by hand hoeing, and usually the
| plot is so cramp.d and the rows so near to-
ge,her that 1T is difficult to do much with the
| cuitiyator.
Let US plan to DO all our planting as far as
! possible, one piece. and have the rows equal
distances apart ard straight; then we can go
through the whole with the cultivator at one
time Perhaps the onions may not do their best
here. but do not fail to plant some, a even the
| solutions good eating for the family and
| those that do not get large enough to eat the
| fret year may be pulled and kept In dry place
| until the next spring and reset, when they will
| go on growing and in a few weeks You have
new onions.
| The outlook for orchards and small fruits is
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