XXXII. No. 4.
Good Gardens
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A Farm and Home Weekly.
The Carolinas, Virginia, -Georgia, aifd Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917.
$1 a Year ; 5c. a Copy
and Orchards Save Money and Health
THAT "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is largely true;
certainly plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables the year round
promote as no medicine ever can the family health. Moreover,
the farm family with a good garden and orchard is in position to be
largely independent of the grocery store.
But we must come to know that the garden and orchard, to be
really profitable, must have the painstaking care and attention that
is requisite to the success of any worth-while enterprise. It is not
enough that we put a. fence around a piece of ground, plant a few
seeds, and call it a garden. The land must be made rich, the soil
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'must be finely prepared, varieties of vegetables best suited to our
conditions and coming on so as to give us a succession must be sel
ected, careful and thorough cultivation is necessary, and insects and
diseases must be fought to a finish.
Nor is the making of an orchard merely a matter of setting a few
trees and then leaving them. The soil and its plant food needs must
be studied, varieties of fruits adapted to our conditions must be sel
ected and set with the utmost care, and then pruning and spraying to
give the tree the proper shape and to control insects and diseases
must follow; "No spray, no pay," has come to be an axiom among
all" successful orchardists.
"Orchards and gardens to save grocery, and doctor's bills" should
be the slogan all over the agricultural South, and, with the resolution
to have them, let us aim likewise, to make them the best that can be
had. Doig this will mean work and study, but the returns will
amply justify the effort.
DON'T FAIL TO READ- Paw
An All-the-year-round Garden 4
The Spring and Summer Garden . ...... 6
Farm Work for February, 7
Pruning and Spraying the Home Orchard . . . .
Nitrogen : Where Obtained and Forms in Which It
It Used . . .: . . . . . x. . . . .
Sue Things to Do This Week and Next . . . . .
Speak Quickly to North Carolina Legislators .
The Exodus of Labor From the South and the Remedy
Borrowing From a National Farm Loan Association
Is the Homestead Law a Blessing or a Curse? . . .
The "Limited Liability" Feature in the Rural Credits
Act .... . . . ......... . . .
Rural School Work in February . . . ... .
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