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1 i'l ivi- : M ft 1; J- i V i 5S0.(4) THE PROGRESSIVE What Farmers Want to Know Dy W. F. MASSEY and protected for 'winter use. It cotton was so would seem that some way. could be wrote to.rae iow every n,,n i seem that some way. couia be wrote to .rae wanted to nuS 110 . r j! Tiwu a t.:.u r .. . " Fant earl.. suggested ior nanaung irua auu puiaioes xor tne Norther ' who sweet potatoes, . pumpkins, onions, kets. I did all. inf. my power u that , at that time ul r a" The May Garden CUTTING asparagus cut close down on the crown and leave no stump, but be careful not to injure plantedin prolific bearing the Black Beauty is hard to beat. . them that, at that time r inc was told today that what is known as for anyone making the early i-01 the Georgia collard -can. easily be -potato profitable was as bad grown, and the outer leaves fed to ever' had been, because of the the pigs, and the collards : put in abundance and low price of thT i..nV.p inrl oAvrrl with mm tta1W notntoc ,0'd : cw .ndTeaveo. rHor.diihr.oU.h.u.d K. been and pin brush on poles leyated , TOs springal. through ,h nlanted in Aoril. but it is not too late ; wuc ana kcPi mcc u w x"u -uy ine doii weeA r t: . - a , w ' nArrn i . the new shoots just, starting., ii is now.n tne.cuuings vau uc -. -v. . . : - . rArritArv.ui,'.,. " 4w:ir.01 this O , i April, but it is not too late ; little and kept . nice and" fresh for .threatened by the boll weevil on X t-j n...i. " nrintM nee " northern and pactum k-j . . lue- ""fcr.-1', - .-, . .. " : v" "vlucr ot this This letter is evidently from a city, territory, they are now askin-r'air man. I have been doing just what he ,: about growing Peanuts as a crop to suggests year after.,y ear. ia The Prot take the place of . cotton. They have gressive Farmer;. arid. Mrs.Patterson , never-grown peanuts and the. curious' has shown- how, mariy vegetables can r thing;, about it i&r that all seem tn well to stop cutting early m june, noies oetween me eariy uvutgeauu and then fertilize heavily, and culti- drop the roots in straight. ; Lay by vate clean the remainder of the sea- the Irish potatoes with a. good, fur son to get a strong--growth' of crowns-row to each side pf. the rows: V v.- .. - - , Leeks in. the sted bed tnusi dc-tcepi te' 'tiaa trom tne garacn:m jvmicr. wy " , '-r oa"c -rop, tor none 1 To keep a" constant' succession of clean and cultivated till time to; set: , .There is; no difficulty in keeping tlOJthe?n talk about Irish potatoes this snap beans my prac'ticeMs toplaht in their permanent place. -1 usually late crop of Irish potatoes if they, are; .?Png,-when the prospect for profit w one row at-a time. When a row transplant them in July, but, if space kept dark and just above the freezing - better than it : ever was. .And W is uo and well out of the seed leaf 1 becomes vacant and the plants are point, but sweet potatoes neea more ril, ;u f 15ie Sf-vvigiit Coun- into the ground and plant something else on top of them, in this way al ways getting a little more humus ? making material in the soil. :t ' Even ' in a home, garden there is ' often a difference in the soil and'dif ; ferent .treatment is needed. One end 7 of my garden is rich and maintains Vail the improvements I can give it because there is a strong clay right tinder the surface , sandy" soil, while : in the other end of the garden it is harder to "maintain the fertility be cause there is a depth of sand sev eral feet before the clay is reached, I), and in that end of the garden more : effort- is needed" in- restoring and maintaining the humus which it espe cially needs. . Therefore on all the garden the crops . that have done f their work are turned into the: soil - instead of being taken off. The early 'fi. green pea vines are turned into the soil as soon as the crop is off, and' ri- so with all crop remains which will decay quickly. i' v- . : : : .-. The early beets like the . Egyptian "ii get poor in quality iri; summer, and- it v ..' is better to make a succession by sowing seed" of the Model-or the Eclipse in .May. A third sowing of 4; the Dlood turnips, is : also maae. in. & June or. Jnly for winter use. k .Trans plant the celery, plants 'from the April ; - sowed seed as soon as theyare. large l enough tb . handle, nipping the tap vi; foots and setting, them two. or three ' ;Jnche .in; .the, rows to make strong plants for the setting later for the ' crop.V- I have recently ..told . how . I grow celery. Now do not throw that ; issue away and later write to tne to - tell it all over, again. Plant a few rows of Stowell's Ever-, green sugar corn as soon as the pre . . vious planting gets 10 inches high. Seed of the Early Flat Dutch cabbage or the Fottler's Brunswick ' sowed ; early in May will make nice heads in late summer and fall. Late cabbage : ' and collards ' should ' not be sowed this early. Cauliflowers should be pushed - to plant another row, and as fast as the strong 1 they can be transplanted in ' careful treatment. And we have often - -: beanssorf a row get too old I dig them late May or June. ' ' ' told just how they should be treated .. , ? .. ... j. - eitne.r in me curing nousc ur. uaiiits. Cantaloupes, watermelons and cu- Pumpkins are easily kept till Christ cumbers will be greatly helped by mas, if .?noT alowed " tOv get frozen, light dressings of -nitrate of soda Onions only need a dark place and around the hills, but not touching; do not mm little freezing if not the plants. Lettuce, too. responds., disturbed when frozen, but will be very quickly to nitrate. The best let tuce for heading now is the Hanson, as it stands warm weather much bet ter than the Big Boston. The Wont ties-in Virginia ' whr a aim... r. r .""r- ,w' warmer is a peanut grower, just as every one south of there is a cotton grower and they will tell you that peanuts have : as ;", many fluctuations in com mercial profit as cotton, and are no more suited as a one-crop means "of making a." living than cotton or to- bcco. - - ": ; THE BUSINESS FARMER'S CALENDAR: SEVEN THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK AUD NEXT " SCREEN the house thoroughly against flies and mosquitoes. Keep' stables clean to prevent flies breedfng, and drain all stagnant' water to prevent mosquitoes. . ". 1. Save all the bur and crimson clover seed, likewise the Abruzzi rye. Prices of all these promise to be "out of sight" next fall. 3. As the days become longer and hotter, let the boys have Sat urday afternoons for fishing, swimming or baseball. Join in the fun yourself. ' ' . 4. How about those plots of forage crops for the hogs? The suc cessful hog man so plans and plants that the hogs have something to graze on every month in the year. v S Don't forget that upon your efforts depends the success of the garden as a isaver of grocery bills;. As soon as one crop has matured, ; follow it with another, ; r "' ; . . .- v - 6. Where there is a probability that too little stalk growth will be made, provide nitrate, of soda or sulphate of ammonia for putting around the corn and cotton. 7. Kill, the weeds and bushes in the pasture and thus give the grass and clover, a chance. . better for not freezing, but kept Cold and dark.- Carrots.1 keep best in the Th.ere are many and many , thou rows: where they grew, as alsopars. ?andsf farmeni who have fine farms, nips, salsify and late beets. Collards . good stocky fine, homes well furnished sand with ; every - convenience; who . never, saw a cotton plant, and are so foolisnj as 'to hirik?that men can farra j and tnake money, in' the: growing of corn' anlvvheat and; oats and the raising, of hogs and sheep and cattle, with never a; cotton plant on the land And the're are some we know in the South who' are farming so that if; their cotton V crop was entirely lost ,they Vbuld not go' bankrupt. There are. men even in the South who have made corn, wheat, pats and stock far more profitable than' the all-cotton men have made .their cotton. Why. then, "whe'h '. any t - disaster threatens the cpttohrgo tor 'Veal farming in stead of, hunting " up, l information : '' aboutr some; crop ithat "you imagine I may take" the place of cotton. Get to -farming' witnr cotton ah(d give ; t help enough ' with other ;crops .to enable you tosucceed even if the whole of . the cotton .is- lost; ; derful or New York is also good and. makes larger heads'than, any other. ; are easily kept by turning the plant over with the head to the north and then piling the soil over the 5 stem Compost for Flower' Pots "AAILL you tell nie how I can pre v pare florist's soil? Our land has Onions muYt be- keot absolutely andlower part of the head, leavine no sand,' but' generally a, red cfay soil ; clean. Yon must get right down to the top open but shaded from the ..Works easily but. notwithstanding this crop and pull out by hand every sun- Late cabbage , will keep well in the use of manure' and what , not I weed and sbear of grass. v Onions- the same way, and it is not necessarv caiinot make a good soil for pots and ' planted-from-sets are apt to run to to take either of, them up till wanted - beds. When ,1 get the rocks out of it . seed, and if this is allowed the onion for use or sale. Then! any family can ? usually have too l stiff a fi'oil for, ? 1- -1 1 f 1 . 1 a. it jl. ' nrrrtur o cmlii. C i. 1 . inrrrkiiriv pm. .IT itM. : ' &.t, o. ouijjiuj ui mc icnuer -, inings 6ys ' iiuxik3. . and put up all they will need in winter My practice is to cut grass sods an of tomatoes, green peas, snaps, pump, inch thick in the, "spring and put kins, eggplants and rhubarb and can down "a! layer ;of these, grass side also PUt UD in the ran , h rlA down. ' rVv'r e with . crnnrl -stable mm kll w II M. m U -w mmw m- k 1111 J .. II 4 LI4 v - manure-and then put on another lay er of sods and . so on, building up a square flat. hean. This is let He till midsummer and then is chopped m down froni.top to bottom andTepir in a flat heap. By the fall this jrill be a mellow." nile of comoost. better is hollow and worthless, but if the seed shoot is nipped , out as soon as it starts the onion can be saved. . , . v Pmiutr mmw Vim mm irMlf AOrlir n tko month. The Pimiento pepper will blberries ' and huckleberries and bear clear through the season till anv "u,ts that may be in surplus. All. frost and produces more than any th.ese things i are easy ;wheri the farm pepper I have ever grown. Pumpkins er on.ce , makes a real effort to make can be-planted in the corn field; they an alI"the-year garden. . tnee too much room in tVi a rr- rA a. ' wiiy not Uo to farming? a mellow, oile of comoost. IM TMt? s e A . anu gerajiiums i 7 lttt. section of the country where sare rather stiff.- But for things? need- wuuu k, grown, ana where the -ing a lighter soil mix in sonic sano. are deoendent on omv (fnm o j c.no mtten V and fitnrV wnn f 1. it. 1 i. i.. Lihteil . -. , ""vii oijf ivtti . mum. u uui iiic itircai. i-v ieir products gets very low in it. 'Our difficulty here is that -while farmers a; k ;a r -!4..4.....w-fc .v-."m 4uucs are t" ou,"6l' ti,,u,"s7J u4 mirai better suited to the. northern condi : of soda. It will usually get too hotV tions, r Thty are apt tQ rot feu-r 5y thvcnd of the month vines in the South r ; When heads-appear bend leaves over . t . ' . ' - " a t ff . ' T- T.'- ' .' I .... ..vrtlt O VI V .Tnem 10 Keep on tne sun. . - . , . - a th; tomjitoe. evefv n hay and stock, when arty leaf .mold, from-the forest tp T : , nMv T. v "'"eir products gets very low in it. 'Our dif ''uI:k0,U f owing till after, yent 'the - leaf .blight. Sow seed now fcfi ft? f C?urse do we can 'f& P,enty of blucgrass sods, the middle of May, for there js noU- - for late piants to give their hW-S. Sf L th.ey have other things to our soil is so slight that we have To ing gaiucu My scuing inem. our iiu wne the soil is well warmed. .Eggplants, this "are more "tender than tomatoes .'ami ' .la . . r 7 ."z- "... . " z anu mississrom jiri ar crnnH . : ----- vnw iiys .attempt to; harden them; off ..as v ' " ' J-C"cs n .the South, because the ma--, and rerai.im.:K.tr -In a rather we do early; tomatoes. will simply get ' Cftmtt c-. . f,ty ?f the, grower, have allaheir ' stiff sbif.r' 'in .uVirJ the ebmoosf 1:! them sturited ancVtakea .long time,to . ieye.witlialf,inch: n the. early ones are. failing For W r7"'Hoii ineir way ealm: hunt up clay to make it-, cofflpa" sowing the Success, Stone; Globe cotton 1! ything threaten the enough for -some things. Roses de- xr:--;--! ? . ' . ' UIC- COttOn CrOD and tilers ie of l,"-'- i:Li .1 J. .f Aa nek - "Kin. 111 a ciav son ir-ir-is mauv '- .v ;,tow bplh to. me that.a good servlce l:'wk Jmp bak-r ' : f x -:-J?W rmfpr. hi readerlf: wb'u d: : , laterandhc-fm KnWSAC9 iliTi crop. tbtake AheKilm&'MVkrt mmt xlhiwfowio9 AnM???' . . . r those. ot the, J aucK ueauiy. of most economically nandled no hi, . nS " IWbiy-a "op th kno uahV' 1 tV-:
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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