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from the career and experiments
of our friend (and cousin to most of
our members) Sidney Stabler, a native
of this neighborhood and a graduate
of the Maryland Agricultural College
He is "making good" in a remarka
-ble degree. His experiments with corn and
crimson clover with different fertilizers,
and deep and shallow planting, are
very instructive. See Rural New Yorker of
June 28th 1913 for the article by D. Steffins.
Volunteer, Ellen Farquhar, "Trimming to
-mato vines." Experiments at various
experimental stations have developed the
the fact that the increas in crops, due
to trimming is great. Plants started in Green-
house April 1st set out in field June 1st
headed back July 24th Augus 8th Sept. 5th
At each trimming the leading branches
were shortened about six inches and
most of the side shoots beyond the first
cluster were removed. Training tomatoes
on wires, from 5 to 10 feet high is becomming
common practice: the sunlight reaches all
the fruit increasing the yield. Mary T.
Kirk read "doping the soil to make flowers
thrive. Potassium permagganate 1 oz to 6 ozs
of water is found beneficial. It kills some
of the injurious organisms in the soil and
is especially effective in killing the green
fly which infests rose bushes. Take care
not to make the solution stronger than
the proportions given.

2nd article a "butterfly farm" in Kent
England is providing the owner with