Thursday, Octbber 7. 1909.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
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FRUIT, TRUCK VEGETABLES
WINTER LETTUCE.
It Can Be Grown in Cold Frames as
Well as in a Greenhouse.
I want to raise more; lettuce
on a larger scale. I have been
raising some very, fine of the
Big Boston variety in hot beds.
I was thinking of building a hot
house 60 feet long,. with a flue
to go up one side and come down
the other, side and enter the
chimney about where it entered
to go into the house, so that the
smoke and draft go up together.
Or would it be better for me to
build a furnace on a hill side and
1 i have hot bed with frames over
with a line of tiles to pass
through under the center to fur
nish heat instead of using ma
nure? C. F. Y.
Rowan Co., N. C.
(Answer by Prof. W. F. Massey)
I . fear that you will not succeed
in growing good lettuce in a hothouse
in your climate heated with a smoke
flue. A very skillful man might man
age it on benches, but it would take
constant care to prevent too much
heat to make good head lettuce, and
the smoke flue for heating green
houses is a poor and troublesome
contrivance, and is out , of date al
together. I know all about heating
greenhouses from long j experience,
auu uavu jreaia agu useu iu uuca,
and know that they are a trouble
some contrivance. The only proper
way to beat a greenhouse is with a
boiler and hot water pipes, or with
a very large house, with steam. Of
course this costs more in the first
place.
The difficulty in growing lettuce in
greenhouses in the South; is the dif
ficulty in keeping ' the house Cool
enough after a cold night followed by
bright sun. But you do not need a
greenhouse nor a hot bed to grow let
tuce. All you need is good glass
sashes ,and a rich soil in frames in'a
sheltered place, and some straw, mats
to cover the glass in cold nights.
Then by attention to airing by slip
ping down the sashes according to
the weather, you can grow the finest
lettuce. I have grown lettuce In cold
frames on a large scale years ago in
northern Maryland, where it Is much
colder than with you.
Fertilizing Pecans Winter Cover
Crop.
Will you please answer the
-following questions: (1) What
is the best fertiliser for pecans,
and how and when to apply?
(2) What is the best hay crop to
sow in fall after peavine hay,
which will come off in plenty
time to be followed by corn?
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(Answer by Prof. W. F. Massey.)
The best thing for pecans is stable
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manure, and acid phosphate. In
the absence of manure use any high
grade fertilizer mixture, spreading it
where the limbs reach, for the feed
ing roots are out where the limbs
extend.
Sow crimson clover at rate of 15
pounds of seed per acre on the pea
stubble after a light disking. If
clover has never been grown on the
land, get soil from a field where it
has been grown successfully and
scatter a barrel per acre before sow
ing the seed and harrow It in. This
will Inoculate the soil, j Cut the
clover for hay as soon as in bloom in
April, or you can let it die on the
land, and turn all under for corn and
make a fine crop planted In May.
You have plenty of time to make a
crop of corn planted in June, and the
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the land. Oats sown with the clover
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Picking and Keeping Winter Apples.
Messrs. Editors: This is our "off
year" for apples. We have a few,
however, and these we have to store
up rather early. For a while we had
a very wet season, and then later we
have extremely dry weather, and
these extremes are not good for the
fruit
About a week ago, I was up at the
Blue Ridge and noticed that some of
the best late fruit is falling a little
too early. Some that are engaged
in handling late fruit do not seem
to know that we are obliged to take
better care about handling our fall
apples during September than when
handling the winter apples after cold
weather comes on. Of late we have
had very warm weather, and since
the fall apples are about all falling
from the trees we try to save them,
out in handling the slightest bruises
cause them to rot.
Fruit stored up before frost should
oe handled with especial care. Of
course, the late winter apples should
all be handled so as to not get
oruised, but in a few days we can
expect cold or frosty weather, and
then where -apples get a little bruis
ed, but are kept cold, the bruises are
apt to get dry and the apples still
keep, if kept cold.
This morning, September 25th, we
have cold weather and slight frost
near the streams and we are glad
for the frost on account of the need
ed cold to preserve the fruit at
hand.
It is fashionable to have shelves
in cellars and storage houses to
spread out apples and such like
things, but I have learned that
drawers, or -boxes arranged like
drawers, do much better. Put these
shallow boxes up in frames or tiers
at the sides or ends of .the storage
rooms, and by their use they will
prove up for themselves. We can,
by such a contrivance, put twice as
much fruit, spread out, in a cellar
or storage room as if the shelves
are used. Slender crates are good to
use as drawers. I have both.
W. F. GRABS.
Stokes Co., N. C.
Keeping Manure in Heaps.
I am truck farming, and have
purchased a lot of manure from
the livery stables in town, and
as my land is all in growing
crops am obliged to pile manure
in heap until crop is harvested,
which will be a month or more
yet. How can I keep it from
heating? I bought this manure
for $1 per two-horse load, de
livered. It is as good , quality
as the average livery manurt.
Have I made a good Investment?
- : B. C. M. :
(Answer by Prdf. W. F. Massey.)
You are fortunate In1
getting the
manure for $1 1 delivered, for our
truckers pay $275 for New York
manure delivered at railroad station.
Pile it in a broad flat pile, and let
the teams drive Over the pile. Make
the pile not over j three feet high and
broad and flat, j Then by throwing
water on it, and having a basin of
soil around the .heap you can keep
the drainage thrpwn back on it and
rot the manure very nicely, though
there will be some loss always, but
In truck crops you can afford this
better than in general farming.
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