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632 (4) j Dy W. Masscy -y- be nipped Dut as-soon as sten and the throuj ,: ohioite : will :;be; saved. Pull . the soil i keep ; ' -vo-,) vfrATni-tfrp' nnionis-f so -that the .mate? THE P?XmES3IVE FARMER jh.' But why. should you try ta d?a-pownUn yourd'. oni w -'--- , t ' . . . - ? r-v, a Well ae bulbs will fornr on'.the-surface . i.seed from- the- North; and a. an : ' Gro and Spring Potatoes . J 1$Kta"H : : rT ttaf. writp snmethinff on crow- ones, wnicn wm aiwavc . . . A : r- -niipt M&ic never allowing the seed bed to lack in jrish and sweet-potatoes and and later every year and less nrnH, DlSCk Dicuit . for.Water.-Set.the.plants.. early,. ml rf thenu tive. I would not plant horned W u " ! eptemDcr in. gwu au uaiuionj 'v j had thought that A naa written so Aingiisii peas n, tney were given m i or red land? - , v tentive of moisture, and. use 1,000 to much 0f thesexrops dat our readers v in spring, for I know that I can The black medic, Medicago lupulina,. , 500 nounds Df a, mixture of equal v Mrtr f:rPH n tatn talk. To better croo and earliVr k u.. 8 .a will prow anvwhere, but it has .npt rf8 mttnnseed meal and acid phos- - i-. t,irich nnhtnpe T seed enwn hv tliA rrvi , s ine ,, w - , . f , . - -. i UW a idle uvu -vr; lv.i.v'- o-- j .v. vcuidl Srrn crr.. the value of the bur clover, Medicago pha'te. Plant two feet apart in rows aeniicuiaia. Plant two feet apart in rows' n -ther in late june, 0rearly July ers in the North; three feet apart and cultivate rapidly.'. fnvpr' liffhtlv at " -? ; - . . , 4 i in uvv l . v v . - - -. o x 1. wo ounces oi seeu snoum give p"- tiQonA thn work the soil to them October will ".. tL-: ;ti iAir1t r,,lfivafPKfl1- String Beans Irish Pnratnes ,' tv of olants for an acre. - -i . . Ka rattipr tat tn set nlants. lhatde- , 4 j 4. i,:n 1 ALILU it oav, me hpttr n -n 1-WAMT frt tfrnw a latf cron of Irish . , ... r j low am level, aim uu uui h J . vv r . - ' - acu my IX'sSnotllakeTesma5!. the fY the so,! and early but keep dus(. .""W&Ztel potatoes. Lannot l take tne smau fu;f fuA " Qcnfl Ke nff u" cent a . hnshpl ipf .1,." IT. 4V" w " -a.., -ri.i ic m -r- Kiantpt nn tnp sou to retain moisture. ,. . w ' -r -.w - v nnen anri Zisvr4 then :Zt na wXt?'a Wlth e,e Wiu"grow till'frost cuts the ."II the seed re. v .ead arsenate before head.ng. . , topsand theSy should be .prayed ev- lfZT . Cut the-potatoesin half as soon as Z. 7 '. "V ten days to ward off late blight, W you can sen. them. The seeds-, due and plant and,cover.lightly. Then Late Cabbage, Rutabagas and OniODS- and if beetles appear add Vi poUnds e" " .e'r. b.ean,5 Pown by., . " - . ' . r i J . . .e l.J 1.(1 a nr tho . F vivaatuuai KtUWClSJIl inP Nrtrfh ' covef the whole Dea lour incnes uecp t.t pact? fpit ip nhont thp nature of au diacua i exv,o y .v - - uw Black hoot on Koses . WHAT causes- the black- spots on ; my- rose bushes ? The leaves turn yellow and fall." r .The; black spot is ' a . troublesome disease on roses. It can be prevented by spraying 'with Bordeaux mixtufe, but that makes ,the bushes look bad. Better spray -with a mixture ; of ;3 ounces of ; copper carbonate and 1 quart' of commercial ammonia,: and when well mixed', and ;all :the:;copper dissolved, ;tajld 25 gallons of "water. This will not discolor the leaves. , bagas and onions. - r:: 11 ZT 'ate,' for ihey will be full of A, mellow, sandy loam will suit - --.- Certain cl:m"tM m hpcf frt ''i: these crops, but the cabbages, will be ,"n.Ssr seedS,'and the snap beans are g ; besjsuited by a heavier-loam that is Jt ex .eluded. A temperature ot .n N y k statPand . naturallv moist like bottom land. Sow 35 to 40. is warm enough. . seed 'of the late Flat Dutch cabbage Sweet potatoes differ in thejrna iri July, and see that the seed bed ture. You know, of " course, how- to -on-contracts made in advance. Melons Not Setting Fruit ? "KTY WATERMELONS and. canta- Afl loupes have been blooming finely but do not set.fruit..:yvhat can I dor. Simply vait.tilLth'e -fruit-sets. You " doubtless ; see a; lot; of .wide open blooms andUhese "never make fruit, though they- kre essential to the fruit making for t4ey; a'rt'tHe staminate or male flowers "that1 "furnish the' pollen" 16. set the pistillate or female". flowers, which never 'open 'so wide and yellow. But while you-may not have' noticed, them they are- there" all the same and the fruit will; dome" in dufe. time. v h ' f " Aphis cn Cabbage HATS OFF TO "UNCLE MAT OVERBY" 7, MR: M. F. OVERBY bf Gap was hefie Monday and paid Us a pleasant visit. A ' Uncle Mat is on the shady ide of 70,: and he has lived and prospered and . grown; slick and fat with the i passing years, right tn the top of the. ridge of" " L Sauratown Mountain . During, his. long career he has watched tobacco risg and ' watched it falL Some years high,' some years lowaI ways uncertain. But he . , : has never yet "experienced a year that wheat bread and ham meat didn't taste; ' ..mighty good, arid that corn and 'fodder didn't fatten stock and cattle. He has v always, made it an unvarying rule to firsj produce at home the supplies needed I "at home .to eat, and iKen go in for tobacco, and make as much of it as he could. ' Ahd this is the sane and sensible way. So as he sits and Tuminates and philoso- ' ' phizes in the sunset of his life, Uncle Mat finds himself a pensioner on no man. On the contrary he owns a comfortable home, a full corn crib,' and keeps at all -times on his table a stack of; apple pies twelve inches high, with the outside i made out of wheat bread, His smokehouse is -never empty;-and the sunshine ' does notshimmer through the cadaverous, proportions of his mules. No biting MarcK wind ever swept away one of his cows. Uncle Mat's name on a note is , counted to be mighty good stuff in Stokes countytand he has money In the bank. He owns besides broad acres of 'good land,. lives at home quietly, and is able to help his neighbors when he wants to. And so there you are. Dan . bury Reporter. ' ' - ' " ; Black Rot in Sweet Potatoes T AM pending you a ; sample plant A taken from my sweet potato field. -The whole. patch died out, hardly a good plant being left of the Nancy Halls." --V" J .The .trouble. js black rot from bed ; ding diseased potatoes. The best f' Wayv to get' good bedding stock istto make "cuttings of the ends o the vines 'in late, July. -Make them a yard long 'and. coil them around your hand and set the ;whole coil in the hill except v ; the -tip of the cutting. They will all grow and make bunches of small po tatoes, which will keep more easily than ; the; early plants and will be healthy and better for bedding. Then . do not bed' inthe, same, place every " year. y'Ji.i;'V. .:'.'::'.'!-':. ' ' ' '. Early Cabbage THE lice are killing my cabbage. Please tell me -what Ao, do for them Make a strohg'decoction 6f tobacco by putting tobacco stems in boiling ""water and spray, with this when cool, : . Or get tobacco dust from the smpk mg tobacco factories ' liberally on the plants. Or get Richmond seedsman some of the con ceritrated - nicotine called Black-leaf 40and .'dilute th baceo in some remedy for aphid Apple and Pear Blight 'Tf ROM" Mississippi:" "Can I grow cabbage, to head about April so that l ean sell to the strawberry buy ers?"' ,s " You should be able to make cab bage, in your section by April. Sow etA r( F.arlv Tersev Wakefield .never suffers for Jack of water and-js; set "the plants on slight ridges and cabbage about the' 20th of Septem . fertile. .-..Get strong plants to - set- in ; cultivate - them a's long Vs ;the vines" be'r. Getting good strong plants, set Cmiddle August: . Set them two- and a ;will - allow, finishing- with a good thein in' November in open furrows , half to three feet apart and fertilize sweep. As soon as the tops are nip-"two and a half feet apart and running with ,1,000 to 1,500 . pounds v an ;acreped' by frost clean off the vines arid' eastand west, setting them deep of. high-grade fertilizer, strong es- dig the potatoes on a sunnv dav. "and PnmmK tnVnvpr thp stems. Use 1,500 r V A diict ihi 'PeciaHv in nitrogen and phosphdric leave them along the rows in the'sun pounds 'an acre of a mixture of equal nr'fTrnmt acid..Two-thirds cottonseed Tmeal and during the-day, To keep' them in parts of ' cottonseed meal and acid .uuc-uui u tuu iwaputtic vyin tuaiw. a .wimc , ine, uest way, - wnere a ; phosphate, bet the plants io gooa leruiizer ior caDDage, ana tne quantity is grown, is to have . unart m hi furrows. Work them out is for soraviriff T6- - V; Ac - , V vuaC miuc iur me purpose, wim -well the first of March anaauur form-is the sovereign' v V - v -wim sawuusi nitrate ot.soaa as a siue nr nlant 1 rp ' vrb. .-"v"- . uiwi -in,. me tooi mat can in this vav urge tne.. rapm. and a half feet apart and in these be ooened or closprl.- Tlin tiaA o ; -Jj iAj Kv Anril. place the ; fertilizer and bed on it. furnace like a tobacco barn with flues -: ,-"" ' -flatten the. peas about halt way arid , running overhead to a chimnev't'sit THESE seem't'o'be quite prevalent 'i0? the 'seed rather thinly on the the farther end. - When the potatoes" this season; . The only thing: that be.ffs;in July. For table use there .is are all in, open the ventilator and.fW -can be done Ms. to; watch for the ap- "dl ""K l4. cll,cl ao to-raise the .temperature to 85 Pruning Tomatoes T HAVE been advised to write to you I t- :t nf;nn i' t-Ptrard to prun 0., A ua .than the-yellow rutabaga. 1 his is the or SO. decrees ti tli? nnt!.. a,.:. inW'tnmaroes to get tne shoots ahead of-it into sound, wood. -Long White French or Rock turnip, off from the sweat they always go best yield.' I have been told they The: blight seldom goes farther-in f.ow?. with.tpps like, the rutabaga .through -after, storing. After' this a - srrould be pruned and topped at a cer: - apples than.the twigs, but in the'.pear u i! Tc.um ' V - icmperature ot 45 to MJ will be warm tain stage."- it twilh take a ;whole branch or the i whole tree. . But ,by watching its first appearance jicai 111c . ups ui iuc i r branches, as sh'own bv the shriveling .of the' bark, vou can cut tiut and save I plant onion : sets .of the Norfolk ' -r i-ir.. . n r" o-ardens where : ' , - . " . if i Ulllllil a I a tl..-All - o j ' """V4 V1" - ... -.v w. ... .wo ivining neeviIS in Teas - room isscarce tney can ubf- , ; kill the. whole limb. , , inches apart and mulch them heavily - - ' - , k " i ;row thfee feet apart and two iceJ ' - . between the rows with sfahlp mannrp - TjLEASE tell ttip 'Iiaw rn.U - ". ' . . .... jr.- -ft-pc about r. 5 T - . . 7-- t . : : " " "r " "vii Vai uwu m tne fnwstraincuw , J 'WOWmgWDMge . . the same time I olant sets of the YpI. EnRlish oeas. Last V.!ir T tJ.t . . . V 8 i j .tonninsr them M TJROM , Mississippi: "Can I- make low Potato. onion for rip'e onions and, ina quart jar and sealed the same and tt,l' rrh to too of the stake. xi.--: k-PDt lieu - .sweetest 6f, turnips and keeps all enough,' and this you can maintain in v To' t the heaviest 'yield give winter without getting pithy. ' your climate bv manasrin thV v.ntl. : S l Ml t nA let them Of onions I have.written tUl every tor, and will seldom nee'd 'artifitial -fake their natural growth and tuoW one is probably tired of reading it heat. OIHhe-ground an(1 do "not o Killing Weevils in Peas ;wmter caoDaec dv sciune m uc sccu. iuivuns yniou matces sets at tne me weevils, nut whon' .n anf-n nf tober?. What amount of seed should root and never makes seed. It is the the seed- this spring none of them he "nalce Thw will ve early frult" I use to get plants for an acre ? When earliest, ripe onion. I note further came up.'.',. . - ' - ; . :nff and keen them off the ground. "Should they be sown? What kind and that you say that you have one-quar There is no wonder that none' of- There are thousands of acres of to- amount -of fertilizer? How, .many ter acre of onions planted from sets-, them came up. if vou sealed imW toM Irown arotmd me here, and they crates can i expect trom an acrer ; in reDruary.and that thev are lust' oeas in a iar..wuu tL.i,A!.j -liiL.,. -j 1 t,- Ku- fnur feet , e 1.1 t ' t '""I viicxiiiuai iiiixcu arc sec- auuui tin vv. - .1.1. In vour climate sow seed of the- forminer and eomv tn rppH. Tf vn.i. nn. j, - I ? . " . ., .. ,.4x eroWtn t .11 w i r , .44 ' 11 .V 1 . 4 1 ;" -v" menu xo uestroy -weevils the a loweu to take tneir iitu- . . L t . JatTOutch cabba ge in the latter allow the seed stalk.to grow you will liquid is serin'- a', vessel on top heranTnoVne ever 'thinks of pruning part of July. , Get . strong, plants by . have.no onion. The seed stalkshoukh peas ' and rthe fames' - allowed' to sink any y. I . " - ' -
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