Thursday, March 11, 1909.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
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FRUIT, TRUCK, VEGETABLES.
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DO YOU GROW FIGS?
Some of the Best Varieties of this
Delicious Fruit.
When man was living in primitive
purity we find the first mentioned
tree placed for his benefit to be the
fig. (Gen. 3: 7). The leaves, be
ing of a broad and thick nature, were
used for making aprons. And this
fruit has accompanied man in all his
wanderings since his expulsion from
the Garden of Eden.
There are many reasons for this
fact. The fig requires less dressing
of the land, less pruning, less atten
tion, has no borers,1 no tent cater
pillars, no yellows. The goat even
doesn't nibble it. It is practically
immune from the depredations of
animal and insect enemies, and from
luese many advantages we may sup
pose it to have been adopted by the
human family in all its periginations,
since for men it was a food, a shelter
from the sun's scorching rays, and a
medicine both internally and exter
nally. When we consider the ease
with which this fruit can be propa
gated, and its persistent way of tak-j
ing care of itself, there seems to be
no wonder that it so clung to man
and his habitations.
To propagate the fig you simply
get cuttings from 6 to 7 inches long
of young wood last year's growth
preferred -from J inch in . diam
eter down. Place them in some good
well-broken ground, (take a row in
the garden) , set them at an. angle
of 45 degrees, with the top just
above 'the ground, firm the soil
around them, and you will get at
least 90 per cent to live. This
should be done during February and
March before the buds swell too
much. I have known these cuttings
to bear fruit that ripened the first
year. If they attempt to set fruit,
brush it off, so that the growth may
all go toward making wood. J,
The countries lying adjacent to the
Mediterranean Sea produce the j fin
est figs on earth, .The United States
Department of Agriculture some
years since furnished me with quite
a variety from those parts of J the
world. Many of them, I found to my
sorrow after waiting for years, hop
ing and trusting to "sit under my
own tree and eat thereof" refused to
yield ripe fruit especially those
large, late varieties, and I would re
commend these varieties to be j not
planted unless you wish "barren fig
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trees, uameiy, reagusuaia, auu-
atic, White Marseilles, White Genoa.
1 But you can safely plant, and ex
pect to eat fruit therefrom the next
year, three kinds: Brown Turkey
(known also by other names) a me
dium size but delicious fruit; Celes
tial (white) the earliest, well adapt
ed everywhere in eastern North Car
olina; Black Ischia, a Grecian fig,
that is, as its name implies, dark, but
a fine large flat fruit (from stem to
bud) doesn't bear until it assumes
tree size then you can sit under
your own fig tree, get whipped cream
and eat them and feel thankful that
you can enjoy this combination.
My favorite "sweetness" these
spring days, when the appetite goes
"whim-dazzling," is fig preserves
flavored with lemon, spread with
good home-made "cow butter" on
light bread. j
E. D. PEARSALL.
Pender Co., N. C. j
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How to Control the Two Worst In
sect Enemies of Cabbage and Col
lards. Whole fields of cabbage and col
lards are often almost utterly de-
lowed, in all of its details, you need
have little fear of cabbage lice. I If
from failure to do so your crop be
comes infested, you have trouble cut
out for you. Pull up and remove all
badly infested plants; crush with the
fingers the lice on the others, or spray
with soap solution. Both of these
methods are laborious, expensive i.nd
only palliative at best.
When danger of severe freezing is
over you should fertilize your ab-
bage heavily, cultivate rapidly and
well, and they will, to some extent,
outgrow the ravages of lice.
The Terrapin or Harlequin bug,
while not very destructive t in the
spring, does a great deal of damage
later. The comparatively small num
ber that appear in the early spring
should be hand-picked, else they will
multiply and spread to the later fields
in such numbers as to ruin them.
Like the louse, they suck the inner
juices of the plant and cannot be
killed with poisons. Hand-picking
is the only effective remedy
I set my crop of winter cabbage in
rows 5 feet apart and in late Feb
ruary I sow turnips and mustard in I
rows between. These act as a trap
crop, the bugs preferring them to the
cabbage. I hand-pick the bugs. The
turnips and mustard are quickly
ready for market, and the bugs and
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stroyed by insect pests. It is imper
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worth thousands of pounds of cure.
The cabbage louse is the only in
sect that gives much trouble with
cabbage set in the; fall and winter
The lice multiply and flourish in
cool, damp weather, almost disap
pearing in the hot summer. To keep
the plants from being infected the
seed should be sown in land remote
from growing crops) of the cabbage
family. The plants should not . be
set near growing fields of collards,
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ventative measure, the plants, after
being drawn should always be treat
ed by being immersed for 20 minutes
in a solution made by dissolving one
pound of any ordinary soap In four
gallons of water. '
! You may not be able to see any
lice on plants, but, to be on the safe
side, you should treat them anyway.
It will do them no harm, and may
be the means of doubling the value
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eggs that escape hand-picking are
removed with them.
O. L. B. PENNY.
Wake Co., N. C. .
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