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A Farm . arid -Home. Weekly for the Carolinas, Virginia, Tenrtessee and Georgia.
?g RALEIGH; N. C, FEBRUARY 14, 1907. : f ::
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INDEX TO THIS WEEK'S PAPER.
a Well Planned Garden. .............
Are You 21 Years Old?
Bordeaux Mixture: How to Make It. . . . ...
Climatic Advantages of the South, A. L.
. . French ... . . .
Eggs for Hatching, Uncle Jo. . . . . . . . . ......
v.nriv Potato CroD. W. P. Massey. .... ... . . .
Growing Large Onions, W. L. Kivett. . . . ... .
Gardening for Home and Market, Sincere. . . .
Hard-Thinking as a Money Crop, T. J. W.
Broom . 1 . . . . . . .
-TTnw a Tin'Can Will Help You, H. H. Hume. .
Important" Gardening Notes . , . . .... ...... . 1
T, awns. Laying -Them Off and Caring for
Them, Mrs. Walter Grimes . .
Hotate Garden Crops, H. H. Hume. .'. . . ...
Some Gardening Hints, Mrs. P. C. Reade.
Test Your Seeds Before Planting, Dr. F. L.
OUR GARDENING SPECIAL.
We are very .proud of this week's paper our
Gardening Special. (We first planned it for a
Gardening and Trucking Special, but the Garden
ing articles proved so numerous that we have had
to postpone our Trucking"Edition to some later
date.) Take the articles as they come and con
sider them a moment. Two articles from Prof.
Hume, formerly Horticulturist of the North Caro
lina Experiment Station, have first place and
you will thank him for his suggestion. about the
simple tin. can device for transplanting, while his
advice about rotating garden crops deserves espe
cial attention. Too many farmers who are very
careful about field rotation neglect this principle
entirely in dealing with their gardens.
While our other articles deal in a general way
with garden, crops including two or three strik
ingly helpful letters by our women readers we
have also a special letter on onions by Mr. Kivett
and one on potatoes by Prof. Massey. And right
in conection with this reference to potatoes, we
are reminded of our spraying article on page 16.
When the potato crop can be increased 52 per
cent by spraying, it is worth while to consider
this prevention of damage by diseases and insect
pests; and. when, as has been demonstrated, mis
spraying can be done at a cost of a dollar an acre
a time, it becomes difficult to think of a better
way to invest the money.
A well-planned garden is vastly better than
one with poor plans or none at all. It is possible
to profit not a little from the garden-planning ar
ticle on page 7 and the elaborate; diagram which
accompanies it. It pays to "have a place for
everything" even in a garden.
Purity in seeds is sought by every progressive
farmer, and it is not less important that the seeds
should be live, strong, and yigoro.ua iu
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IMPROVED TOOL&, IN GARDEN WORK
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Some farmers we hope there are none in The Progressive farmer Family put off garden
work on the women of the family and even then leave thejm with pnly the poorest of tools.
From seeding to harvesting it pays to use modern and up-to-date implements. "The use of a
wheel hoe " as the Illinois Experiment Station says, "saves iabor, even when much of the tillage
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minating qualities. A simple method of testing
with some important data as to percentages of
viability of different seeds is given by Dr. Stevens
on page 5. It is a seasonable article.
There are other excellent features of this
week's paper not bearing on gardening topics, but
they must go oyer for comment on another page.
We have enough good gardening matter to satis
fy one general inspection of the paper.
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HOW A TIN CAN WILL HELP YOU.
A Suggestion That You Will. Do Well to Remem
ber at Transplanting Time.
Messrs. Editors: Many different receptacles
may be used in which to grow plants so as to
have them of good size before putting them out
in the field. Flower ppts, paper pots, tomato
cans, split wood boxes and paper bags are perhaps
the most important. Of these, paper pots, tiu
cans and split wood boxes are best, though for a
few plants, paper bags of two-pound size, made
of heavy glazed paper, answer well. Cut them to
four inches in height, fill with three inches of
soil and plant seeds in them.
Tin cylinders made from old tin cans or from
tin secured from the tin-smith, are excellent. If
made from old tomato or corn cans, the cans
should be placed in a fire and heated just enough
to cause the tops and bottoms to drop off. The
seam can be melted apart, too, but it takes a little
too much heat, 'enough to seriously injure the
quality of he tii, so it is best to open them by
cutting fron top jto bottom. Then wrap a bit of
wire around thenf to hold them in place, or bend
the edges Iwith i stove-pipe joint so they will
catch and hold in: the form of a cylinder, no bot
tom and of course no top. Set these on a board
in the frame orj kitchen, or somewhere, where
it is warmj fill ydth good soil and plant seeds of
tomatoes, feggrplant and peppers, cucumbers,
melons, j cantalqupes and squashes for the early
crop. When the! plants are well grown and the
weather! is j rightj transplant by scooping out a
hole deep enough: to receive the can, set the can
in place1, unlock! the joint or slip the wire off and
there' stands the )lant in its ball of earth. Draw
the earth Up about it, and that plant will never
know it has changed its quarters.
1 H. HAROLD HUME.
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GOOD GARDEN AND A GOOD DAIRY USTTAUiY MEAN GOOD FARMING.
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important Gardening Notes,
up all rubbish and burn it before draw-
the manure. Plan the garden with long
rows so it can bo cultivated with a horse. It is
not necessary that one vegetable shall occupy a
whole rbwi '
Build ai hot-bed or cold frame and start early
vegetables- tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce. Radishes
can be grown for early use in cold frames with
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Give the garden a dressing of well rotted stable
manure! Additional manure or fertilizer can be
added as needed when planting.
Does the garden contain a strawberry bed, and
are there a few rows of black-cap and red rasp
berries, blackberries and currants along one side?
If so, the old . wood should be taken out and the
ln ni-alo! trimmpd f!nt. them uoll harlri Rn there
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will be a large number of new fruit laterals form
ed. If the garden does not have these luxuries,
make arrangements to set some this spring.
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