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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER Tuesday, November 4, 1902. MISUNDERSTANDING CONCERNING VALUE OF ARTICHOKES. your columns signed "Jack J ohn- son." I suppose this is a nom de plume, and that the writer was ashamed to sign his name to such nonsense. It is hardly worth while to discuss these matters with one "PROPAGATINC SCUPPERNONG undertakes to correct one who has GRAPES." made a long life study of these things. The root of a plant used t x -rr Ta-v TnVincnn -T ;0 oItt oAmnin rx Something About Their Value as a tw at a Alwavs the Product of n,d tJifi scion in its first trrowth. and Feeding crop -now xo urow 1. Steins. afterwards thestem makes its own Edltofof The Progressive warmer. - . - . .1 , -i Editor of The Progressive Farmer: roots, for all material to form roots According to tne writers long I have just noticed the article in must come from the leaves above, perience in growing and handling which are the laboratory of the plant artichokes, the most serious mistake for manufacturing material for is to grow them on same land more growth both above and beneath the than two years in succession. They ground. We have one apple now need changing the same as do other grown which for over one thousand crops. Many seed dealers who offer ,1 . ' e I 1 1 1 A 1 -f OOTT !"! -WYV vears or more, or irom tne time 01 articnoKe iuuers iur aic oaj v - I . .. T 1 ill A 1 who suDDOses that crossing of varie- the old Rmans, has been grafted on ly one planting is needed, tnax.ine . I -.1.-... !! tiV made bv trraftimr or buddincr. crab apple roots in Europe and m artichoke being perennial win repro If this was true all of the nursery- this country and it is the same apple duce itselt year alter year wimoui rrrmm Annie trees would be crabs, to-day that it was when the old Ro- the trouble of replanting or cultiva fnr tW nrp nil crafted on seedlinsr mans errew it along the Appian Way. tion. True enough. So will most oth ornh nnnle roots. Cross breeding in According to Mr. Johnson it would er crops grow volunteer, but what do r-x - - "1 I n . 1 1 1 plants is only done by crossing the by this time be nothing but a crab they amount to I ArticnoKes wnen - " I W 1 I I A A. . 4"MS YTT flowers of one species on another for uncounted millions ol the .Lady permitted to sprout up auu Bxuw without cultivation, always grow so thickly together that they form an overabundance of. tops, with but few and small tubers. In this condition they can be likened unto a sowed field of corn, which furnishes an abund ance of fodder, but very little grain. To secure a large yield of tubers (and that is the main object in grow ing them), they should be planted and cultivated every year, same as pota toes, and it pays big to do so, when the large yield of tubers is consid ered. As freezing and thawing, while in tho ground, does not in the least in jure the tubers of artichokes, it is much the better plan to plant them in OrtnVpr nr November. The writer ... - , cuts the largest tubers to aboi'-' $r V A-' which will be what is called hybridiz- Apple, the highest-priced apple on ing, or crossing flowers of different our markets to-day, have been graft- varieties of the same species on those ed on crab apple roots. of another variety and growing from the seed thus produced new plants having partially the characters of each parent. I would inform Mr. Johnson that roots are always the product of stems, and that whatever root the plant is grafted on, the subsequent growth is always whatever the top is, for the material growth is al ways elaborated by the leaves. A piece of wild Bullace root will en able the Scuppernong vine to make W. F. Wake Co.. N. C. MASSEY. One Need of the South. Editor Gilbert M. Tucker, of the Albany (N. Y.) Country Gentleman, writing of his recent trip South, says : "Another crying need of the South by no means peculiar to the South, but specially, even appallingly, appa- Tvnt rm the lirfa -fnllnwpn a larger growth in one season than Farmers, Congress visitors-isxatten- it would without it, but all the roots tion to forestry. The present van- formed thereafter will be true Scut- . . . . dalism is pertectly horrible, xou see perilous rout juat us ; wy , from wjndowg hour after hotir the sap water that comes from the hundreda and hundredg of pine trees ground must be elaborated by the for turpentine in a fashion times c - J V the size of a quail eM plants them in three and one-half Scuppernong foliage and the top and unnecessarily destructive to the f 0t TW th the tube with two or three inches of soil. They will then be in the ground toget an early start in the spring, and through the means of an early start, will grow a strong stalk before- the cut worm season begins. While if the plant ing be delayed until spring, the ground is often too wet to plow un til late, and the cut worms often greatly injure the young plants be fore they get a good, start, and in reality often make the difference be tween a good crop and a failure. A wealthy hog raiser of the writer's acquaintance, and who has made a very valuable farm by rais ing hogs for the pork market, says that he would not be without a large annual patch of tame artichokes, and that his herds have been entirely free from hog diseases since they have been allowed to root to their hearts content in an artichoke patch. There is no doubt that very much of the mortality among hogs is di rectly due to indigestion caused by an exclusive corn diet. Every wide awake hog raiser will admit that growing pigs and fattening hogs do very much better and make a much better quality of bacon, when they have been fed on a mixed diet. Grass, shorts, pea meal, cow peas, sugar beets, mangel wurzels, etc., are all good healthy hog and stock feed. But artichokes are much the cheaper, when the very large yield of tubers is considered. The foliage of arti- root will then be Scuppernong and nothing else. We commonly bud plums on peach roots, and if Mr. Johnson's ideas were true we would have them half peach and half plum, while we know that we get the same variety of plum every time. I can show him hundreds of Scuppernong vines bearing the purest of Scupper nong grapes which were grafted on Bullace roots. Mr. Johnson says that in his way of planting few of the cuttings will live. He is certainly not a good hand at handling cuttings. Let him take off the cuttings late in the fall and tie them in bunches and bury them in the earth upside down till' spring. Then set them in the proper position and see how many more will root. But if he takes pieces of the Bullace roots about four inches long and makes a split in the middle of the root and through this inserts the end of the cutting after trimming it wedge-shaped and then set it, not one in a hundred will fail, but will make as large plants in one season as the cutting without the root will in two. Mr. Allen Warren of Green ville, Pitt County, originated this trees, but a little quicker and easier than the more rational method. You stand in any one of scores of large sawmills and watch the great tree trunks coming in on a belt carrier in rapid and endless succession, tumb ling right and left alternately to whirling saws which reduce them to boards in a twinklirg; and the rapid disappearance of the forests grows in the mind into a prophecy of com ing evil that should frighten the peo ple of Georgia and Florida into tak ing some effective action before it is too late especially as forest growth is, for many reasons, of inestimable value, agriculturally as well as com mercially, in these States. Talk about killing the goose that laid the golden eggs! These lumbermen and turpentiners are straining every nerve to annihilate the very breed." chokes is also very greedily eaten by horses, cattle, and sheep. Artichoke tubers are an excellent food for all kinds of stock and poul try, and their great value as condi tioners is fast becoming recognized. They are a splendid milk producing food for cows during late autumn and early spring, when green grass is scarce. The writer feeds arti choke tubers to his horses (all stock must learn to eat them) in connec tion with sunflower seed, oats and corn, from October to June. His horses prefer the tubers to corn, or even oats. They help form a change of feed, clean the worms out of them, and keep them healthy, sleek and fat. Artichokes should never be grown on swampy land, if a good yield of tubers is desired. Well drained land under-laid with gravel near the sur face is the ideal land for them, al though they do well on any good corn land. The Mammoth White French, White Jerusalem, and Red Jerusalem varieties, are the best for general cultivation. They do well in every State. Seed tubers can be obtained from almost all reliable seedsmen. There is a long-standing prejudice with many farmers against the cul tivation of the artichoke, and indeed many have good reasons for preju dice. As there are wild and tame rye, wild and tame lettuce, wild and tame parsnips, etc., so th6re are wild and tame artichokes. Almost every vegetable and cereal cultivated and .sed as food for man or breast, has its namesake in a noxious, and oft times troublesome weed. The wild artichoke is merely a bad weed, pro ducing" very few, small and tough in nutritious tubers, and is about as hard to exterminate as is the Can ada thistle. The tame artichoke may be very easily eradicated by sowing the patch to oats, or plowing under the growing plants when about two feet high. Why, "it's as easy as roll ing off a log." J. C. SUFFERN. Piatt Co., 111. The November Everybody's prints David Graham Phillips' estimate of the Democratic boss of New York, David B. Hill, which will be read with interest at this juncture. In a broad way Mr. Phillips deals with plan, and Mr. Johnson can see, there Hill's career and details his strong a vineyard of Scuppernongs and and weak characteristics. He makes others of the same Vulpina class the point that while all the ether dis- bearing the same variety that was tinguished American politicians have grafted on them. two sides, the public and private I would advise Mr. Johnnson to side, Mr. Hill has but one. Politics study plant life a little and know are sweetheart, wife and children to what he is talking about before he him. Ditching, Drainage, and Some Other Kindred Matters. Editor of The Progressive Farmer : It is better to prevent lands from washing into gullies, but if such is the case they should be stopped by throwing pine brush, (top upward), shavings, or cornstalks into them, and if Bermuda-grass is already on the place, throw some of that in also. If trees are wanted, drop walnuts, hickory-nuts, pecans, or other seeds among the trash. All mountain or hillsides should be kept in timber, grass, or small grain if possible, and every tillable acre should represent a great sponge, capable of holding a quantity of wa ter, and returning it when needed. Lowlands with clay subsoil, and springs hear by or under hillsides (if good water preserve the springs for use) require ditching three feet deep, and tiles, brick, poles and plank used for the surface or sur plus water to pass off rapidly into 1 I
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