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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION new orchard the trees will grow faster, the roots go deeper and many of the Orchard and Garden insect pests and diseases will be more easily controlled. THAT soil and climate combine to make the Puget Sound country al most ideal for the cultivation of tulip, hyacinth and other bulbs on a commercial scale, bat that until farm labor can be obtained far more cheaply than at present, it cannot become a strong competitor with his own country is the verdict of G. Hylkema of Helle gom, Holland, who returned to Seattle recently after a visit to the United States government's experiment bulb farm near Bellingham. Mr. Hylkema has been interested in the bulb industry in bis native land since boyhood and for the last dozen years or so has been acting as foreign representative for Van Zanton Brothers, who own one of the largest bulb nur series in The Netherlands. He is in Seattle on his tenth consecutive annual visit to tho United States and has travoled over all of Europe and most of America in the interests of that firm. Puget Sound Climate. "The Puget Sound climate is much the same as that of Holland's," he said, "and the soil, too, seems admirably adapted to bulb culture. This is tho con elusion I reached after looking over the government bulb farm at Bellingham. On previous trips to the Pacific North west I had heard much of this bulb farm, but not until this trip did I find timo to visit it. Yesterday 1 spent moat of the day on tho ground. "Tho results the government has at tained are most ereditablo and en couraging, but from what I have learned regarding tho labor market here, it eeoms scaroely probable that bulb growing will be made a eommer eial success in competition with JIol land, though a protective tariff might some time equalise things. In our bulb nurseries our, hands aro paid an aver age of a week for a twelve hours day, while hero labor of equal skill and reliability would command at least 'three times that amount, perhaps more. Different (Standards in Holland. "Five dollars a week does not aocra large to Americans, but in Holland a farm or garden laborer counts himself ifortonate in getting it, especially since wo pay onr hands that wage the year around, doducting nothing for time lost on account of bad weather conditions or other misfortunes. A. man can sup port a lnmily on that wago in Holland, but his standard of living is by no means as high, for the high coat of Jiving is with as in Holland r.nd meat is more costly there f an here. , " Although bulb culture is aa old in dustry and one of importance in Hol land, it is by no means a large one. Only a very smnll section of the king dom, a narrow tract fifteen or twenty Wiles long between Haarlem and Ley den, is adapted to it. It is in this mall district that virtually all the bnlbs exported are- grown, although Holland sends to tin Unite! States and Canada $1,000,000 worth of bulbs an Dually, and still larger quantities to other countries. Holland, in fact, sup plies the world with bulbs, only one small district in Southern France com peting with us. Bulb Gardens. "The bulb gardens, or nurs?rieis, lie near the scacoast and to make thorn several feet of sand, in some places ten or twelve feet, is removed and carted away to uncover the sandy loam in which the bulbs reach perfection. But to enrich this loam fertiliser is brought from all over the kingdom by railroads and the canals which thread the bulb frrms. Skill and much patient labor, be sides capital, is needed in the produc tion of bulbs on a commercial scale. Hyacinths, for example, must be cul tivated for five years before the bulbs are ready for the market. And the land on which they are cultivated is worth $2,500 an acre. Land worth $1,000 the cheapest used for bulbs will do for tulips. The winters in Hol land, like those of Puget Sound, arc mild, and the bulbs need little protec tion from frost, but the ground is mulched four or five inches deep with traw each fall to prevent the strong Winds from blowing ths sandy soil way. "Tho presence of the many canals pakesirrigation easy, but much skill must be used in keeping just the cor net amount of moisture in the soil." Waste Crop SOMETIMES the waste crop is like the small boy's apple core "they ain't a-goin' to be none," says the Fruit Grower. But even in lean years on fruit, truck and other farms, there is enough wasted erop to add greatly to the farm's financial statement for the year, providing that which went to waste went, instead, into cans. Homo canned vegetables and fruits are more highly prized than the reg ulation commercial product, and any quantity above the needs of the family finds a ready sale. There is one lesson the homo eanner may learn with profit from the canning factory. The com mercial factory seems able to get more eanned products from a given quantity or vegetables and fruit that the house wife, and this difference of handling, cooking and packing. Home Canning Outfits. Homo canning outfits vary in kind from an open hot water boiler to cook ing under steam pressure. The latter method offers a quicker process of handling, as it requires only about fif teen minutes to thoroughly cook a batch. But with either kind of outfit several hundred cans of fruit or vegetables can be handled daily with only a moderate household force to do the work. Tho home canned goods shonld be at tractively labeled and the qnality of the goods and pack carefully inspected. The selling value is in tho qnality of the goods, which means that seeds and grow ing plnnts require careful selectiion, fer tilizing, cultivating and handling at the richt time. The higher the canned pro duct averages in appearance and palat- ability tho moro money it will brinig on tho market. Tho second grade will sell for less, but oven so it will earn a fair profit. Beceipea for Canning. nome canning outfits aro coming in to larger use each year. Manufacturers supply buyers with recipes for canning and preserving according to co.iimereial canning standards. Can manufacturers, label markets, and those producing other supplies aro seening lao irauo ui m homo eanner. A broker told recently how this bust ness is growing to proportions that at tract the wholesalo grace- and grocery broker. To get a carload shipment the broker drove through the eountry buy ing one hundred to one thousand or more cans of fruit or vegetables lrom tne farm housewife. The gids aro graded re labeled and distributed through the retail grocer trade. . It is said the consumption, or nome . . , . - : . nf canned looo. is incroaiiiK v 21 prt con'; a year. In this connection there exists an opportunity lor a num ber of people. Dried Sweet-Corn. If vou ere to hunt through the grocery stores of a dozen cities it is almost sure vou couia not una a pounu n' nld-fashioned dried Eweetcorn. Hark ing back to the days of our boyhood, tasting again in memory tne paiaif ravishing succulence of sundried sugar seasoned to taste and dressed with sweet milk, we realize the poverty of language. But the younger generation, though it may thinfe tne contrary, uu never reached the height of corn flavor unless it has made a feast of this well nigh forgotten delicacy. ' Someone, one dozen, or one thousand, who elect to sun-dry sugar (not field, but sugar) corn this season; who will pack it in half and pint round strawboard boxes, place a label reading "Aunt Hester's Sun-Dricd Sugar Corn," with the rec ipe for preparing it also printed there on, is going to realize a higher price for corn than they ever knew in all their lives. ideal, and a rough rock wall fronting the ocean would serve splendidly to protect the garden, and the stones could be covered on both sides. Muehlen beckia complexa, the wire vine from New Zealand, could be grown on the ocean side, right next to the wave- washed sands, and in a short while would so cover and bind the rocks to gether as to make a permanent protec tion. On the seawall in its native country this vine flourishes right in the ocean spray. It would be preferable to have this wall widest at bottom and batter or slope from each side to a narrow top. If a core of good soil could be provided and flat or broken rocks "rip-rapped" up the sides success would be assured. On the inside of the wall could be plant ed, with assurance of vigorous growth so many sorts of plants that no attempt will here be made to speeify. Care should be taken in watering until the plants are firmly established or the soil will be washed away. A light but very frequent spraying should be the pro gramme. While building, the soiil shonld be kept rather wet and packed, and after each watering look over the wall and fill all chinks and eracks where soil has washed away or settled from surface. The common cobbles or boulders are the very poorest of all material for such work. Quarrieid or slab stone is best, and if it is soft and porous so it will hold water and grow mossy the effect will be much more pleasing than with hard impervious rock. More of this class of work would add a pleasing varieity to many local gardens. 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Addrca THS, RKCrSTKAX, (hr-7-IStoM) CnrvaUii, Oregon CTJLTIVATIKQ THE OECHABD. ROOTS of fruit trees go deep into the soil and for this reason many farm era who have orchards think there is no need to cultivate them. This is a mis take as great benefit can be derived from cultivation. This is especially true durinff drv seasonB as the stirring r. j of the soil causes the roots to grow deeper into the ground ana enao.es tnem tn sret the necessary moisture. Disease spores on fallen leaves and fruit can be destroyed by turning under the sod. Very often insect pests breed under the trees and by stirring up the sou these places are destroyed. In the spring as soon as the ground is in fit condition is the best time to com mence cultivating. The cultivatioin should continue while the tree is malt ing its season's growth. After the last plowing it is a good plan to sow Borne crop which can be turned under as a fertilizer the following spring. 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