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THE HIGH-PRICED WINTER VEGETABLE There is an unlimited demand from high-class hotel buyers for early vegetables, well grown as to quality, size and general appearance. They will eagerly seize any opportunity to get highelass, nearby products ahead of the usual market time, the price being a secondary consideration so long as the product is really above the average. Asparagus is first in line and offers unlimited prospects as to pecuniary rewards. The forcing of this vegetable is ▼my little practiced and a golden opportunity awaits the wide-awake grower who can put it on the market in December, January and February, when no other grass except canned goods is available in the markets. There are two of forcing grass. The diet is to force mature roots, dug up in the open, in hotbeds. The other, which gives larger spears of better quality, is to prepare the beds and force them without removing the roots. By the first plan the roots are used once and then discarded; in. the other way the beds are used over and over. The ordinary method under the first plan is to use field-grown, 3-year-old roots, procurable from any nursery. This method will give spears of the siae of r, pencil or so aid of no value exsept as soup asparagus for high-class bote's. By growing your own well -cultivated roots

_ from seed, thinning them out so that i ■ ; they can develop and using from 5 to i 7 year old roots, the spears will be two i ^ or three times as large. . - 1 For forcing asparagus in hotbeds, ' , double-glass sashes are recommended. ! 1 ; The beds should ber>\21-2 feet ' deep, filled with manure mixed with ' leaves. Place on the surface of the beds ' a few inches of leaf mold or sifted pot- 1 ting refuse. When setting the roots oare- f fully spread them out so that they do ' ( not touch each other. The proper dls- ' tance is from 10 to 12 inches apart each ' ( way, counting from the crowns. Press ' the roots firmly in position, sprinkle ' r lightly writh tepid water containing some 1 salt, and then cover them with a few 1 t inches of the leaf mold, so that the 1 tope of the crowns are about 2 inches * from the surface of the bed. Repeat this 1 _ sprinkling whenever the sop gets dry. If 1 the heat of the bed get® too low it must ' ^ be raised by lining with additional ma- 1 nure and straw mats, j It is of the greatest importance not to i , excite or force the growth too rapidly. ( I Let the heat gradually reach the roots, i , To quick forcing will profidee a quantity t of valueless, spindly spears. If bleached i I asparagus is wanted, the sashes should i I be kept covered in the xlaytime, "to ex- t ( elnde the sunlight. I » The permanent asparagus forcing 1 i plant aa used -in France and England is ' r ingenious, but expensive, and takes from ' i 3 to 4 years to be put into working op- 1

I oration. A patch of land of the richest soil, well drained, is selected. Asparagus seed is planted from 8 to 10 inches deep, on a 4-foot strip, any length desired, foot apart each way. Thia will i make a 4-foot bed. Alleys 21-2 feet wide separate the 'beds. The asparagus is cultivated and manured the same as in garden culture, until it reaches its maturity, which is the fourth yearfrom seed, or the third year if one-year-old roots are planted insteed of seed. In late fall, when the time for forcing . has arrived, the alleys between the beds dug out to a depth of 3 feet, and 2 wide. They are lined with bricks sheet metal. ' Pigeon-holes at intervals, of a few inches are made so that the heat of the fermenting material can strike the roots. If actual' forcing is take place these alley pita are filled with fresh manure mixed with leaves and the surface is covered with boards to retain the heat. Above the beds a rough structure of studdings similar to hotbeds, and about the same height, is made. They are fitted with doubie-glaas sashes on hinges, so they can be opened and closed rapidly the cutting proceeds. A double bed with one alley in the center and one on each aide, making a total width of 15 1-2 under glass at any desired length, will produce a wonderful paying crop, for outlay, of fine, large asparagus. The best sort for such forcing is the Early Argentenfl.

t This plan has the advantage of a i lasting investment. The size of the , asparagus, if properly cultivated, will , increase with age. After forcing ceases I the sashes and manure are removed and t the asparagus is allowed to grow into l foliage during spring and summer, the , i same as field. grown grass. 1 ' Forced asparagus is not bunched with 1 a buncher in the customary way. It is I tied up by hand, 6 or 8 spears to the ( ' bunch, making a bundle of about a ' qarter of the usual size. ' As to price, this depends entirely pon • the size and quality of the spears. They ' > will sell as high as $1 a t bunch for ' fancy grass and as low as 25 cents for I the small spears. 1 Radishes are one of the easiest vegeta- ( 1 bles to grow from seed to harvest iff ( ' hotbeds. The forcing kinds mature in . 1 from 3 to 4 weeks and do not require ^ high tempeature. In Europe they are . grown ag a by-product in the tows be- ] i tween cauliower and other erope and are . t gathered before the maim crop needs an - the allotted space. If special beds or , radishes alone are wanted an average r depth of from 12 to 18 inches of manure I with fi inches . of top aoil will suffice, i The^seed is broadcast very thinly and ! covered with half an ineh of light soil. , Sowings are made from November to r February, so as to market the crop when i it brings the highee prieea. ' The bunches should contain 10 or 12 radishes of uniform size, and only the

l tenderest, crispcst bulbs should bp used. i For such radishes hotel stewards will 1 pay in winter 50 cents a dozen bunches, i They should be ' packed in light half1 barrel hgskets for express shipments. ' The best varieties for forcing are the ! Cardinal Globe and Round Red Forcing, and in the white-tipped variety, French i Breakfast- There is no demand for alls white radishes. ! CAULIFLOWER FOR MAY MARKETS The sowing of lettuce is done outdoors ( in late fall. Plants are wintered over , in cold pits and transplanted into hotbeds in early spring, maturing after the . hothouse lettuce, and are marketed in April and May. If better grown than the truck that is shipped up from the Carolines and Florida, lettuce will pay 1 the grower well. The Boston Market, ' King and Belmont Forcing are good cabbage sorts for forcing. They ! to be' pushed ahead fast so as to form a solid heart, well blanched. Still ! more valuable are the French Romaines, ' of which the White Cos foreee well. This kind of lettuee has to be tied up in or- ! der to blanch well and to form a head. ! It will bring a higher price than the ' common head lettuce. All lettuee is expressed in half-barrel baskets. An eminently well-paying vegetable ' to force is early califlower. K eaa be ' marketed as early as May and brings good prices, for very little of this Tege- ! table is grown under glass in hothouses, s Southern field-grown cauliflower seldom

meet* the require® enta of high-ctoas hotels. . v \ ;f The a%ed Tor the earty trap ie sown in outdoor beds in September ; the plants . are transplanted at the end of October into eold pits anil are left over to winter under protection. In February they are transplanted into hotbeds, from A to 8 under a sash. To nse tbq surplus ppaee radishes are planted -between 'the tows. They will be. ready for market in May The best forcing sorts are the Early Dwarf-Erfurt and Early SnowbalL Early carrots may be forced in hotbeds and are lucrative -crop. The best furring varieties arc the French Forcing, Earty Scarlet Horn and Perfect Forcing d Carrot. Prepare your hotbeds in December or January, making them 2 1-2 feet deep. Cover them with 5 or fl inches of liih soil- or mold. Put sn the frames and as soon as the whole is sufficiently heated sow the seed broadcast, cover with half an inch. of mold and the double-glass sashes with mats. If the surface gets dry springle lightly on warm days. If the plants have 4 or 6 leaves thin them out to half an inch apart. t Care should be taken to keep the heat at 60 degrees in daytime and at 50 degrees at night. On extremely cold days use extra precaution, as carrots cannot jetaml low temperature so well as most forcing vegetables. The crop should be ready in April and May. Carrots are » bunched 5 and 6 together and shipped * in half-barrel baskets. -Country- Gentleman STERILIZED LAW RULED OUT ' Has a person afflicted with certain diseases or mental deficiencies, proved to produce ii» hereditary mental deficients, imbeciles and criminals in. persistent and increasing numbers, the right to have children ! Conversely, has the government, through the only certain means of an operation, the right to prevent such persons reproducing themselves in specified cases where a careful competent examining board has certified ; tliat there is a major risk of hereditj arv defectiveness I I The latter question has been answered in the negative by the New j Jersey Supreme Court in a case insti- ; tuted to test tlio ' sterilization law. That law is declared to contravene the Fourteenth Amendment, which thus takes-yon" another "tffie "Of- itt""" swarms of meanings beyond it® original one of guaranteeing the negroes the Since eugenics as a . State policy is still in nebulous stage, "the court, if it is proved by later experience to have erred at all. will have erred on the side of safety. Nevertheless, the constantly increasing percentage of imbeciles, insane and criminally inclined, and the fact that so much has been finally traced to heredity, places upon society the duty ">» itself by the most effective means possible. The history of - the Jukes family, the acknowledged fact that fecundity seems the least checked in those instances where society" Calls for the most check, all go to show th^riecesdity of some effective means of coriW The ease should go to the highest legal authority, reachable, so that if this means of protection is not available another mav be /devised. — Newark News. / Q Children Cry fOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR I A THE SUCCESSFUL FARMERS Money saved to make needed improvements on the farm, if put by systematically, will accumulate faster than you imagine, and the total sum, when se- . cured, will enable you to obtain improved machinery, more stock, or home comforts; that will make the farm yield 1 greater returns and make life better worthAhe living. The Security Trust . Co. will serve you. : 39,00# VOICES And Many Are the Voices of Cape Ma) C. H. People Thirty thousand voices — What a ' grand chorus! And that's the number i of American men and women who are - publicly praising Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from backache, kidney and bladder ills. They say it to Mend*. ; They tell it is the home papers. Cape i May C, -J3- people are in this chorus. , Here's a Cape May C. H. cans. Mrs. Julia Tomlin, Mechanic street, Cape May C. H., N. J., says: "My kidneys were badly disordered and the , kidney secretions annoyed me. I also , suffered from backache and pains la , my lridneys and mornings when I got up, I felt all/tired ant. When I hoard 1 about DcsHrt Kidney Pills, I gut -a hoot i from Corson's Drug Store. They soon made me weR I publicly endorsed Doan's Kidney P*Qi soma yean ago and at tMa type it give® me pleasure to eon- ' firm that statement." For sale by nil dealers. Price 50 eenta. , Fofter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, srie agents for the United State®. Remember the name — Doan's — and take no other. Iagrt Blanks, Typwittor Bflfca* 1 Rubber Stamps and Pads at Star M • Ware Stationery Department. i Read t^e Star aa£ Wave.