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VOL. 1 JANUARY 1928 NO. 1 Our constitution states that one of the objects of this association shall be disseminate information on vegetable growing , the plants grew very rapidly, the cucumber beetle was easily controlled, and cucumbers wenla produced earlier than on unprotected hills which happened to sprout earlier. On tomatoes results have been very satisfactory. The variety grown was Penn State Earliana. On the protected plants the first ripe fruit was about five days earlier than on unprotected plants. In quantity of fruit markfcted, however, protected plants averaged about twelve to fourteen days earlier. This was proven in 1926 by blocks of 1400 and 8600» and in 1927 by blocks of 6000 eacK The plant protector sieems to aid the plant in several different ways. If set immediately after plantin^g it reduces planting losses by checking e^poration. These protedtors maintain a ijwnsiderably higher average daytime temperature and also protect the plant from the rough spring winds, which check the growith of the more tender plants 80 severely, and freiquently even cause the loss of quite a f^. Apparently very few flea beetles found their w»y under the prote'Ctors. Thus far no check has been oibtained on the value of these protectors against frost. However, in 1926 a neijghbor suffered severe damage to plants und^r protectors, but mot ventilated, while others exiposed by accidental tearing received less injury and some of these escaped entirely. Fertilization of first cluster fruit buds, taking place under the protectors, is very high resulting in as many as 14 tomatoes on the first cluster. This is an important item. In the first two or three pickings in 'loth seasons the protected plants produced the heavier crop, but the important factor was the wide difference in quantity of early fruit. w^m'mmm'mim^mrf •"tt'^mi^mmjfmn POT GROWN PLANTS ARE BEST Dr. J. E. Knott, State College, Pa, It has been recognized for many years thalt plants which have been igrown in individua'l pots or containers miatured a little earlier and mone uniforimly than those in flaits ^r beds, even when the spacing was the same. This is due largely to the fact that there is little if any injury to the roots when set in the field. Each plant has its clinging ball of soil which contains the whole root system. Th'is can ps from the results on the^ three, yet some hints may be found in the response of these crops to various fertilizers. The conclusions on the given crops are applicable for soils similar to the one on which these experiments were conducted. The value of complete fertilizer is shown in the experiments, Except for potatoes, nitrogen in readily available form was profit- able. It increaa(ed both the early and the to!tal yields of cabbage, and the early yield of tomatoes. Phosphorus and potash Increased the early and total yields of all crops. The largest gains were for phos- phorus, even for the heaviest applications in thie experiment. Manure increased the yields of tomatoes and potatoes, but not of cabbage, as comipared to commercial fertilizers. The solidity of cabbage heads and tihe canning quality of tomatoes were not affected by differient commercial fertilizers. Heavy applications of manure lowered the flavor and acidity of the tomatoes slightly, but did not affect the quality of cabbage. The gain for manure on tomatoes was greater when the rainfall was heavy in the early part of the season. Dividing the application of nitrogen did not increase yields of any crop in ithe experiment. The chief benefit of nitrogen sleemed to come very early in the season, and consequently a plentiful supply at first was better tiian repeated smaller applications. The various facts indicate that an early crop cannot utilize manure as a source of plant food so well as crops requiring a longer season. Readily available nitrogem is more beneficial to early crops. For learly crops cm medium to heavy upland soils, applications of complete fertilizer up to 1000 pounds or more to the acre, of a 4-12-4 or 4-16-4 mixture, will be profitable. The nitrogen may be reduced or omitted for midseason or late crops, especially if a covfer crop or other organic matter has been plowed under. Orops on li^ht to medium soils will likely need more nitrogen and potash than they require on tHe heavy silt loami and clay loam in the experiments. The phosphorus may be relatively less. Half a ton or more of 4-8-4 or 5-10-5 mixture would be a good treatmeait for early crops, while 3-12-6 ini^ght be bbtter for midseason or late crops. Cakrlunn nitrate and cyanamid have bee^n as good as nitrate of soda for all crops, while tankage, dried blood, and sulphate of am- monia have not. The comparisons were on an equal nitrogen rather than an equal cost basis. Supterphosphatie is the best carrier of phosphorus. Thete is mo difference between muriate and sulphate of potash, except in price, which is in favor of the former. SWEET CORN AND THE CORN BORER H. N. Worthley, State College, Pa. Sweet corn is a valuable market garden crop in many sections of Pennsylvania. Growers are concerned, quite naturally, ovfer the possibility that the European corn borer, now present in three- quarters of the area of the State, may become a serious limiting factor in the production of this imiportant crop. IT- n Sweet corn suffers more than field corn. In the older infested territory, sweet corn is mom badly damaged than field cora. This is not because the former is more attractive to the egg-laying borer moths, ibut because the stalks of sweet corn are able to support f ewser borers, aoid 'because the presence of one or two borers in an ear renders it unfit for sale. Borer damage twofold. Direct damage to the ear is caused bty borers tunneling about among the kernels. Holes in the husks denote a badly infested ear, but lightly infested ears cannot be detected with- out stripping down the husks. Tl^ damage is not confined to the tip of the ear, as is usual with the com ear worm. Indirect loss is caused iby borers in the cob and in the shank of the ear, as well as by tho^ present in the stalk. The activities of these borers interfere with the normal functioning of the plant, which may result in poorly formed ears. Fifteen to twenty borers per stalk will cause collapse of the plant and total loss of the crop in sweet conn, while 0113 of two borers present in an ear will hurt its sale. How can loss be avoided? Except for a narrow strip along the lake shore in Erie county the European com borer is not yet present in Pennsylvania in sufficient numbers to damage sweet com to an^ extent. The whole fight w^ich is being waged against the borer is aimed to prevent a serious increase in its numbers. For the present, Penhsylvania sweet com growers are advised not to make any chamges from the usual varieties, planting dates, etc., but they are urged to join the com farmers in the effort to dispose of all c^orn crop . refuse that may harbor living borers. The full grown borers pass the winter in corn stalks, stubble, and co. '*u *'>:r. ^J^my^: 3.00 2.00 1.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 5.00 3.00 2.00 5.00 3.00 2.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 Turnips 5 Cabbage (Danish type) 5 Cabbage (Red) 5 Cabbage (Savoy) 12 Stalks Celery (easy blanching) 12 Stalks Celery (green variety) 3 Pumpkins (any pie variety) 3 Squash (any winter variety) Worthy exhibits of other vegetables not listed above will receive ribbon premiums. This is our own paper, a growers' paper. Here are contributions from three Pennsylvania vegetable growers. Mail Secretary W. B. Nissley, State College, Pa. an account of your experiences, ideas o^ complaints. KINKS FOR 1928 G. E. Smith, Ex-Pres. V. G. A. of Pa. Bethlehem, Pa. Plainer than ever are we impressed with the fact that we must see ai market reasonably certain before planting a crop. Our markets will take 20 to 40 bushels of spinach and on May 18th some of us extra early fellows had 50 or 60 bushels and received half price for it. We had our rows open for peas and planted the main crop of second early, on March 7 about a week before the frost was out of the ground, during the day it thawed a little and was windy and enough dry soil could be scraped up with a hiller to cover them. They came up well, blossomed earlier than my neighbors, and will all be sold before others arrive. Just this year we realize that a cultivator shovel has but little use among vegetables. Many a time we have stood back anxious about the crop as it became necessary to run a cultivator shovel near the row, as deep as the seed was planted. Now we are doing it mostly with discs, which scrape the top and disturb the roots but little. Discs set deeper on the outside and shallow next the row prepare what seems to me to be the ideal plant bed. We are not afraid to run discs shallow when the crops are well advanced. I have been practicing green manuring faithfully but now am beginning to inquire whether commercial fertilizers do not have a place in the sun above green manure. Possibly one-half ton of acid pliosphate per acre will grow more crops than a green manure crop Showing a fertilizer value of $50 present in the green manure crop. The maggot gun is a wonder. The job is done in less than half the time. It will care for a row of radishes or turnips at a slow walk if the operator, when a six inch nipple and a service L are attached to it, which equipment is needed for all operatioms. LABOR SAVING DEVICES AND METHODS ON AN OIL COUNTRY MARKET GARDEN P. A. Ross Bradford, Pa. Our farm contains about ten acreas and is located just outside the limits of a city of 18,000 population and is on the banks of a large creek that floods over our land every year. This assures good soil and a plentiful supply of every weed that was ever invented. The season nere is short hardly ninety days between frosts, as we are located 1400 feet above sea level. We grow 26 varieties of vegetables and practice intercropping to the last degree, our garden is planned in the winter and the location of our crops is changed every year. We apply ten to twenty tons of n ^ r/ r^ manure to the acre according to the requirements of the particular crop. Our land is also limed accordingly. Our spinach crop gets first shot at the lime. We also use nitrate of soda on our spinach and other crops that respond to it profitably. We use several tons of complete fertilizer that contains an abundance of phosphate. We plant our hardy crops such as beets, carrots, onions, spinach, lettuce etc. as early as possible in rows 28 inches apart, planting nearly our entire land, only reserving enough to assure us a succession of some of above crops, later on when its time to plant com, tomatoes, cauliflower, etc., we distribute fertilizer between rows with Planet Jr. distributor and then tear up the soil with Bolens tractor. This mixes the fertilizer with the soil, destroys the weeds, and gives us fresh stirred soil for planting sweet corn, tomatoes, cauliflower, celery, peppers, and all long season crops. The rows are now 14 inches apart. Our cultivating is taken care of with wheel hoes when plants are small and with tractor thereafter. We conduct our warfare on diseases and insects with Peerless duster. We use best strains of seeds and tryout everything new to find somethimg better. The earliest hardy crops will he out of the way before the long season crops take full possession of the soil. It must be understood that some vejgetables will not grow well with others of a different family. Our land is prepared with hired teams. All other work is done with labor saving devices of various kinds in our own equipment. I will enumerate them in the order of their importance on our type of market garden. 1st Planet Jr. seeders and wheel hoes. 2nd Multibrush washer, 3rd Bolen tractor, 4th Saxmayer bunch tyer, 5th Peerless duster, 6th Meeker harrow, 7th Bruner weeder and other devices of our own make which are subject to only occasional use but which are nevertheless im'portant. As a result of the adoption of some of the later devices we are operating with about a third of the help formerly required. Would say that we are subjected to competition from large city market and cheaper growing districts via long haul trucks, but by maintaining a high standard of quality and supplying our market with clean fresh looking produce, we not only hold our market when we come on, but can obtain higher prices. THE ART OF RAISING CELERY Ralph K. Garrahan Forty Fort, Pa. Here inl Luzerne County the seed for early celery is sown about the first of March. We find that the better method is to prepare a seed bed at one end of the greenhouse bed rather than sow the seed in flats. The seed is sown in drills about i/4 inch deep and covered lightly with sand, the seed bed covered with burlap and watered thoroughly. The soil must be kept damp until the seed sprouts which will be in ten days or two weeks, then the burlap is removed and the bed watered to wash off the sand. Then keep the plants growing by proper watering and cultivating between the rows until they are big enough to transplant. When the rough leaves appear the seedlings are transplanted into flats, spacing them either ll^ or 1% inches apart each way. The flats are kept in the greenhouse for two or three weeks and then carried out to the cold framed where the plants are kept growing by careful waterinor and ventilation until they are set out in the fleld. It is also necessary to dust or spray the plants with Bordeaux mixture while they are .n the cold frames so that they will >be free from blight when they are set in the field. As soon as all danger of frost is over, usually about the middle ■»■*»— IWWH- ^Y of May, the plants are set out in the field. We prepare the celery field by applying^ a heavy coat of manure and sowing rye the pre- ceding fall. In the Spring another application of manure is given the field and the rye plowed under. After the soil has been worked into good condition by harrowing and smoothing the rows are marked out 30 inches apart and the celery planted 6 inches apart in the row. After the plants are established we apply 4-8-10 fertilizer along the rows, a ton to the acre and in a week or two apply nitrate of soda along the rows, 400 pounds to the acre. Celery must be cultivated thorough- ly and often. This is best done by means of a riding cultivator, al- though a single horse cultivator will do no harm. Cultivation is started as soon as the plants are set in the field and continued until the crop is dug^ up for market. After the plants have been in the field a few weeks they are sprayed with a 4-4-50 solution of Bordeaux and then sprayed every ten days or two weeks until the crop is harvested. An irrigation system is also necessary to raise celery. We use the Skinner System of overhead irrigation and have portable lines so that they may be carried from one end of the field to the other as needed. As soon as the celery is big enoug'h we bleach it for market by using boards and paper. During the warm weather celery will bleach in about 10 days in the boards and in about two weeks in the paper. As the weather gets cooler it will take longer for the celery to bleach. When the celery is bleached we tie two stalks in a bunch with a Felins tying machine, wash it, pack it in crates and send it to market. The last few years we have been getting from 75 to 90 cents per dozen bunches and get about a thousand dozen from an acre. For the early celery we raise nothing but C. E. Garrahan's Easy Bleaching and find it to be far superior to Golden Plume in blight Tesistancp and oualitv Practically all of our late celery is C. E. Garrahan's Easy Bleach- ing although we do raise an acre or two of French's Success for real late. The seed for the late celery is sown out in the open as soon as the ground can be worked and as soon as the plants are big enough they are set out in the field. This is usually about the first of July. Bor late celery the rows are 36 inches apart and the celery planted six inches apart in the rows. The late celery is kept in a good healthy growing condition by spraying, watering, and cultivating the same as the early. An application of 4-8-10 fertilizer is applied along the rows after the celery is established but no additional nitrate is added as in the case of early celery. About the first of October the celery is hilled up with a celery hiller and then in a week it is hilled up a little higher. During the last week in October the celery is stored in trenches and the trenches covered with boards nailed in a V shape. As the weather gets colder the trenches are covered with manure to keep the celery from freez- ing. Care must be taken not to put too much covering on the trenches or the celery will be kept too warm and bleach too soon- After the celery is bleached it is hauled out of the trenches into the packing shed as needed and prepared for market. By these methods we have celery from August until February. 1928 CONVENTION VEGETABLE GROWERS* ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA i SOUTH BEND, INDIANA* SEPTEMBER 10-14 !- PENNSYLVANIA YE6ETABLE 6R0WERS' NEWS Published quarterly by the Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers* As- sociation. OFFICERS President, Gilbert S. Watts, Bellwood, Pa.; Vice-President, J. M. Huifington, State College, Pa.; Secretary-Treasurer, W. B. Nissley, State College, Pa. VOL. 1 OCTOBER, 1928 NO. 4 IMPORTANT NOTICE In Article III Section 1 our Constitution provides that the an- nual dues be $2.00. At our last meeting a motion was made and carried to reduce the annual dues to $1.00 for a period of a year. It was hoped that a larger membership could be secured as a result of the reduced fee in as much as many vegetable growers also are mem- bers of one or more other growers organizations. At the next meeting we shall hear how the reduction has worked. It now aippears that the action taken last January was not in accord with our Constitution which provides in Article VIII that: "The Constitution and By Laws of this Association may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any annual meeting provided that notice of such proposed amendment is included in the call for such meeting." No such notice was given last year. As matters now stand if no further action is taken the $2.00 fee provided by the Constitution automatically will be in effect another year.. In order that this may be changed, if it is the wish of the majority to make a change, the Secretary, as required by the Constitution hereby notifies members of the Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers' Association that action will be taken during the January meeting on a proposed amendment to reduce the annual dues to $1.00. W. B. Nissley. c VWBH PENNSYLVANIA GROWERS AT NATIONAL MEETING The 1928 Convention of the Vegetable Growers Association of America, held at South Bend, Indiana, September 10-14, met with a number of our members present; C. E. Garrahan, Bill Evans, Bob Walton, Gilbert Watts and several others whose names we are sorry we do not have. Indications are that the next Convention of the V. G. A. of A. will be in an Eastern city, possibly New York, in which event Pennsylvania Growers should turn out en masse. Ask the fellows who have been going whether any live grower who specializes in vegetables can afford to miss these meetings. t-t-t PROGRAM SHAPING UP FOR JANUARY MEETING Several strong speakers already have been "signed up." Every effort is being made to bring this program u^p to, and if possible above, the high standard of the ^od programs which we always have enjoyed. Full details of the program, a reprint of the vegetable premium list and other last minute information about what will go on of interest to vegetable growers in Harrisburg, January 15 and 16 will go in an "Extra" edition of the News about January first. A^d don't forget there is absolutely going to be a vegetable growers' dinner and there positively ain't goin' to be no long winded speeches whatsoever. You can come expecting to enjoy yourself. Particu- lars later. ^t-M SAVE VEGETABLES FOR THE SHOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE Now; is the time to set aside fine squashes or pie pumpkins and to store selected cabbage, celery, root crops and so forth. There is no question about this vegetable show, it is going to be, that is sure. Several already have given assurance that they will exhibit. Remember the premiums really are substantial, two hundred dollars in all with separate classes for greenhouse grown products, for mushrooms, for the various outdoor vegetable crops, and a class for the best display of a variety of vegetables attractively arranged. t-t-t PITTSBURGH GROWERS MAKE TOUR The latter part of August the Pittsburgh vegetable growers motored to State College on a two day tour and stopped at several vegetable farms. The tour went over big with 85 growers taking part. This proposition of learning by seeing is getting to be a great thing. When Pittsburgh growers alone can .come out so *r* U .-> n strong why can not the Association as a whole arrange a profitable tour next summer? Let's talk it over at Harrisburg. What are other local associations doing? If we knew their stories we would print them. Won't the secretaries of the Phila- delphia Association, the Indiana County Association, the Monroe County Association, the Erie County Cabbage Growers' Association and others send their news to the secretary of the State Association. t-t-t PENNSYLVANIA VEGETABLE GROWERS INVENTORS Every vegetable grower is a sort of inventor at some time or other. Unique home made devices, special tools, irrigation appartus, washers and other means for saving labor and time are common among growers. Mr. P. A. Ross, 142 W. Corydon St., Bradford. Pa., has on the market a vegetable washer. Mr. Furman of Northumberland, Pa., is the inventor of a maggot gun, used to apply corrosive sublimate to early cabbage, onions, radishes, turnips, etc. This gun is handled by S. T. Post, Northum'berland, Pa. The Philadelphia growers have a home-made celery washer that is in common use in their section. They also have a special machine for applying celery bleaching paper. These are only a few of the outstanding devices. If you have some home-made device that might help other growers send a description of it for a later issue of the News. t-t-t EARLY SWEET CORN GROWERS ATTENTION Allegheny County growers found the rather new variety Burpee an unsually desirable extra early yellow sort, approximately two weeks ahead of the old type Golden Bantam. Quality is considered good. In the same section Whipples Yellow is popular. Th^ ears are large and come on earlier than Bantam. Possibly quality is scarcely as good as Bantam. t-t-t GET THE MONEY OUT OF LATE CABBAGE All forcasts point to greatly reduced yields of late cabbage this fall. It will be a good time to watch closely market quotations from the large consuming centers and to go slow on cutting prices. - 1 m^ ARE YOU READY FOR PLANT GROWING OPERATIONS? If a sash or other plant house is to be built, or the old one needs repairs, the job will be easier and go faster now. Are hotbeds and coldframes ready for use? How about soil for plant growing? It is mighty nice to have an abundant reserve stored under shelter where it will not be soggy when needed. By the way is there water in the tractor radiator or in any parts of the sprayer pump or pipes ? Thousands of dollars of damage in such equipment is suffered each year when Jack Frost sneaks around some fair night. If you don't believe this visit some farm engine or pump foundry next January and see the stock of replacements being made up for the rush orders that come every spring sure as the birds. -t-t-t- BOOST OUR MEMBERSHIP The Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers' Association now has per- haps two hundred mem/bers. We must admit our Association is young, it is only a few years since it left the parent Horticultural Association. Nevertheless we could and should have a membership two or three times larger than it is at present. At the national Convention growers from various states were asked to report doings of their respective state associations and to state approximate num- tbers of their members. In proportion to the imporUnce of Penn- sylvania as a vegetable growing state our Association lagged away down the list. Doubtless this is because most of us are producing f orv local markets and it is mush easier to secure large memberships in regions which grow primarily for shipment. Be that as it may we must have a larger membership if we are to represent adequately the vegetable growing industry of Pennsylvania. Long distance truck shipping is bringing outside produce into every part of our State daily. Competition for our markets, which are among the best in the world, is exceptionally keen and there is not one of us who has not felt its pinch. We can Hot head off competition but we can gather to-gether in larger groups to study our common problems, to exchange up-to- minute facts on varieties, sources of seed and so forth and last, but by no means least, to gain the enthusiasm that comes fromr the re- newal of old friendships and the making of new acquaintances with the live men in our business. Let every one of us bring grower friends into the Association. Start now getting them to thinking of coming along to the meetings in Harrisburg.