the p::ggiessive faru
252 (4)
Wa Farmers Want to Know
Dy W. F. MASSEY
March and transplant. heaVily :m&; Department of . Agriculture 'in .
j - i 'iritii r AUiie vrt nnd Farmers Bulletin n5fik
mired soil' 'eight inches T apart ' arid Farmers' Bulletin entitled Wild On
,h the nlants along with nitrate of ions and Their Destruction. C
soda to head before the weather; gets .bulletin I think can yet be had on an
too hot. Seed for the fall crop are plication to the Secretary of AgriJ
sown early in August, and for the ture. , . ; . :.;
-winter ., frames Jn Septembers- For . The method for killing these ni, .
, A Garden Planting Crfendar
I PLANT the early garden peas the April, and in April sow seed outside
first good chance after New Year for the late crop. I use Earliana and
. . . I 4. efAiit the soring sowing use the Hanson or is based- on their "habhf of ,
X jffitff tu in ' la" tafloJU id for fall Big Bos- Every cluster of wild oniot
ylZZii. outside ton.- , found to contain one white bulh
most pans oi ic ouum v uo a succession un , ocpicxnu, , , i.i. kt,o ta t, ,r "Ui
to plant the sweet peas in October h - some iate ones to put down in : . transplant .; iikc Tu"?Z .i J. . J - ai"u Hnder Wd-
as will usually win winter just before stalks wi 1' get covered wrth little mg every. top, and the job is done.
irost.
heads and they are . very nice, after, r
Plant Asparagus-seed or set the . frosts . .
Second Crob Potato
roots as early , as tne son can uc - Lima beans are planted in May ai- ,11111' , : - -
worked. In eastern North Carolina tM. th(t RO-ret& warm. The smalls Green Curled Scotch kale, sow in T HAVE" I received from Mr: S T
the first planting of snap beans can Linia; or butter bean is best for the June or July and transplant liice ..cD-,: iXoston,:of i.Cper-v.aarles, Va'
be made the last of March; and if jcouth.a and after Jrost it is y
frost .threatens after they are up, als0 does well ; ; , . ; . ; : . Seed of the .Norfolk Curled s1ow tatoes, which1 1 have already stated
. throw the soil over them and uncov- , . . ' . in earjy September in rows 10 in
er after-the cold passes. ,v, , . Sow seed of parsnips and salsify apart . . compared: with the "Maine seed, and
! ;:;vv: V:; y .. r : jn June or July, as they are apt to ' - ' . . V- . I shall plant these with a great deal
4 Early beets are sown outside first pet overgrown in the South sown Spinach for fall use sow in August, 0f interest, . - in comparison with
Jn late February, and if jiot caught ly'in spring, as is done North. ', and .for. wintering oyer: for Spring . m -Northern ' seed. I .have always been
by frost as they come through they , September ; or early October. I
.will stand the spring' frosts' after ' Sow' seed r6f Rutabaga and Long the late spinach winters' better ; when potatoes or a. late crop grown here
jhey get the rough leaf. I sow beets White French turnips in late July, sown broadcast on heavily manured from cold storage seed will make the
in January in a frame under double- an(j the early flat turnips in August land. Y best seed for our spring planting
giazea sasnes, anu latc mc i" - , m and the success ot Mr. Loston's
oft- them in March to put on other
frames to harden off the early toma
to plants.'
Cucumbers, melons and squashes
are not planted till the soil gets
warm in late April, but they may be
planted in pots under glass in March
and set : out later without breaking
the'-.balls.'.This'. is. .very .often prac
, ticed with cantaloupes Jo get - the
crop early. "
Imake; myx first, planting pt ,c.prn
the'middle'PtMarchblit.at this time
. ; nlant tK Nnrfftlk '.'Markef rrirn."'and
.'"not.a sugar corn, for the sugar will
be apt to rot planted so early, v But
the next planting in ' April and the
isuccesslon.; crops . till August' are
. made of the Country Gentleman su
gar, corn.. ; . ,:.,;.:'.:, ", .Q:v:v-:v
1,1 vt;-7nY;: ;"'r-"' -- -. -7: v---..i
; Cabbage of the Succession variety
v to follow the early varieties is sown
in the open border in early March, and for winter keeping in Septem-
Seed of the Copenhagen Market cab- ber.
Tjae are sown under class in a fram
SELL SOME LAND TO GOOD WHITE
NEIGHBORS
IF THERE are th6se in Lee county who are land poor, they should list it lot
sale withtsome good real estate man at a reasonable price and let it be sold
to some fellow that will improve it and that can help you in doing things. We'
have too much idle land and it ought to be utilized in some way. '
Every time you sell off a tract of undeveloped land to some goodjellow '
-1 who opens and improves the property you have done one of the best things
for yourself and your community . You not only receive direct benefit from . :
. the sale of this dead land by realizing cash to meet your own obligations and
. make a way for you to better improve your surroundings,-but you have been;
the means of having come into your neighborhood a new citizen to help you by '
exchanging ideas in every phase of life, of the different industries, in helping
you build better school houses, better churches, better roads, paying taxes for
these advancements, and in fact you need the help for many reasons. Every
time we land another citizen we lighten the load that to some maybe very bur- -densonie.
Lee County News.
Barren Pear Trees
.- . .. . .-..- T '. .4.4 .4 . T m
in tne xortn snows tnat i have been
have' the great advantage of -the
4B t . A . ft . M M
- JNorthern sfien in tnat t dev.. art Anai
- tukv: wtiu Avjfc ' w uvu guui t kllUC
that they, do not sprout in the winter,
while the Northern seed, dug earlier,
'have usually sprouted in the cellars
and have had the sprouts rubbed off,
-and' they ..grow with a bunch of
shoots, while the home-grown seed
start ' with - the vigorous growth of
the,mairi stem, making a strong main
shoot instead of the weak bunch of
side shoots 7of the Northern seed.
' . Years ago I planted seed from New
York and' Maine alongside of myse;
cond crop seed,' and found that there
was hardly .'a; potato in the Northern
seed crop that would not , have been
classed as a cull alongside of the po
tatoes from my second crop seed. I
sent some of my seed to the New
York and Maine stations, and they
were to send me potatoes from them
to plant alongside of my seed again, ;
T7R0M Mississiooi: "I have some But the results of the first seasons
JL fine TCiVffpr npar trppQ foil . 1oit?tiy iiriA cii fi tli at the North
..otpicmuci , accu ui mc inencs. riant mcioiis ..in pni. uur w ouuin Carolina : What le-" 11 yill& uw&c.:1..?vw" .jj
and Italian onions are large crrowers nut the manure in the srume is best for low UnA? the same "season's seed. These
in a frame in Tanuarv and -furrows in winter nnH nHH fertiliser can. I tell wnen tfip cr.;i o- : prow till the frost cuts the tops a
. in February; These come in immed- Bed sweet potatoes in March un- iVietI Pear c which tail planting were, such tnat tne oiw
lately after the fall planted cabbage, der cloth or glass and set after the X? bear,. and have a little blight. Is ern stations dropped the experiment
The Succession cabbage comes into soil is warm. Irish potatoes I plant re anything I can do to make and went no, further. Several year
. head in early fall. Seed of the late in February, and' in the far South thm br . t . . ago . in visiting the tnick.Jarm
Flat Dutch cabbage are sown in "July "January is better "A good strain of . Ape Kieffer. pear is often imperfect around Norfolk I noticed that tnere
either in the hills and thinned to TrUti Tohnler i nQiiallv nlanteH. ln lts flowers and fails to produce was a ' great , deal of the disease
t ' .. . . v. - . ' . nnllA i.1 e !i rni . . ' -.1 t:.(. 1 1. r, v-mfT the
one plant or sown in a bed and Home-grown second crop seed zrelrlwuu lv !ct luc ine Known as- DiacK sunn fluv"6, ,j
1 transplanted. I have had good sue- better than' the Northern seed.' best thing will be to plant some trees Maine potatoes, while m a hew
oee frrYi it:rt : i,a ' : - - of the Garber and Leconte near the o-rnwn frtn tlie late f.rooarom iven
- :--f --.;-:" v . ixr..i.-.i-.. t iu4. 0..1A Jvieifers tosetthe fruit-on tliem rW-- tli -v?n e e were periectiy
Onion seed to make sets are sown feet and manure the hills' well and Lut ?ut the blighted. wood into sound healthy, : and -all of a better cow
very thickly in rows in early April add some fertilizer too. Cantaloupes wood' - than those from the. Northern seea.
1 and are ripened off and replanted in' are planted by the large growers in -I believe that 'we can make a mo
September for yearly green onions, heavily manured and fertilized rows Tnimp f or T ow I nA certain and better crop by PiaiUi
The Yellow Potato, onion sets are five feet apart and thinned to 20 legumes ior LOW Land -cold-storage seed in July -than by
(jiauitu ill,
Prizetaker
planted
later transplanted to rows IS . inches in sorinc and bed on it and flatten condition to olow? C.a n vmi mir the croo will be' better than i .
apart in March J ; the. Sputhport or the beds some before planting. Cu- me the address of the Virginia Pro- coiid crop, and the seed potatoes
the Danvers Globe onions .can be cumbers are planted in the same duce Exchange?" ; be fully as good, or better, for t
suwu m wuv 43 me .sun can uc wav. . auc ucsi esump tnr imi i: LODDier aoes nor ma.c as & :
worked, and in heavily fertilized soil .
in 15-inch rows and thinned to three - Eersr plants seed are nlanted in not
inches, they will make good onions .bed or greenhouse in early March but when the furrows turn ; shin v it Bliss..
,uv ..' v;ocayuVv4.;. ; i ? ; ana potieu inio inree-incn pots and 1! wo. wet. ine Eastern Shore of
-' X it ;,' , " : ' these shifted to four-inch: pots to .VirginiaProduce Exchange has its
; bow celery seed in rows on a -bor- grow Va . ' "
- .uci, pjciciduiy (un inc norin siae oi , setting ;in iate May. , iney are very
a fence or building in April. Trans- tender and ho effort is made to har
plant to another bed three inches den them like tomato plants, but they
apartvin itheows as -soon as large are kept under glass and growing till
enough to handle, so as to get strong the soil is .warm. - ' -. - '
plants; to set in August or Septem- " , -
rer. now to set and cultivate 1 will . Leeks are sown very early in
'4ell at. proper season, 1 spring and transplanted to open fur-
a tv Jugj . cciriacu as tney
sike clover. When the soil crumbles cond cropVas we sed to gflX tf
nicelv from the nlnw if i n -.Jui the Karlv Pose or the White-sKiim
Cantaloupes arid Squashes Will W
Cross
Getting Rid of Wild Onions FR0 Georgia : noticed a ittg--
ment some' time sinLC . . e5
PROM North Carolina: "I have a .squashes planted with cantaWK
..Plec of .red clay :soil infested would.be taken-by the worms i . .
with. wild onions, which got here in the cantaloupes let alone.
seed wlieat T i. 1.... , v .if.i. -oc1ies. Cticu"1,,
snrinff and trancnlante t 1 lu Know " there ways neara: tnai 4M"' ' ee p
SlS.tev 'n3r w?r t0 ?et of them." . - bers and cantaloupes will L
.'.ne large, wrinkled- garden peas grow to make lone white shanks Nnrth r,- a flu,ucn at the - cacn oxner . anu fact?
should not be planted lilI;March 'and . Leeks come in very Cicely in winter WL w a t8" tural Colleee would be ruin.ei Is th c !S
;APril.-1 sow seed of tomatoes fdf the before n'ota fact. SflW,
;Pebrti; ta:-.j,d.. taW perfect
a siiaiiuw dox either in o (Vrnhnir. ...i,... tL..: . . " . -f'1 imic in srnnvinfr tha rifVi iMnrmk-ms ! anu
m tun k & n . 1 1 1 1 1 w iiri r i n Mir rrvnir ' f -
4 W - - - -
' " . ;.
f,r hot bed under glass and later
transplants-frames under; glass :or
nature of various weeds and tk, w r w;it cross with c
' '.' v U.JL UUUV. Ul U1V111
e ' I. .44 . - wjy oi aestroyine them TT;e - ;,t.rietons
ouw, iciiuce seea .inebruarv.andron wHd ur".AV; ci
a"" ..tf.
Ell"w
1
. "v". WdS pupnsned by the bers will not cross-wiui ,