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' RAItnRN SPFPIA1. J4m .,. (SS,.. : . .... - ; - ; . i . . . - , i i m EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly, for . The Garolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C Vol. XXXIII. No. 4. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918 $i a . Year; 5c a Copy A Year-round Garden For Every Southern Farm tt TITH but; soldiers and our allies neeaing every pouna ot wneat, - yy meat and tats we can spare tnem, tnis, as never oetore, isa time for economizing in the use of these foods. In doing this, one of our mightiest aids; H11 be found iri the year-round garden. We dare- mz&rsis the best of all warden fertilizers, and aomications at the rate of thmj forty tons per acre will be none too much. But do not forget tooij&jthis with a liberal application of ' acid, phosphate; f Then for the CKtll are grown mainly for their leaves or stalks, Ja KM- n uwuiMy " yrnro n my A t A r v . I; V1 '-t I -I V 7. ' - ' 4 m EVERYBODY MUST GARDEN IN 1918! A good examDle for all other women hnth in tnuin anA cnuntrv In pt hv Xfr T W. THoTrtt wf ftf fJnvprnnr Rickett nf North Carolina. She took Dart of the rroundi nbout the Governor's Mansion for a vegetable garden last year, and herself cultivated vegetables enough to furnish a large part of the family table. Read Mrs. Bickett's letter on page 6. Say the average Southern f amily consumes too much hog meat and fats, anyway; less of these and more of the wholesome vegetables would not only release more food to be shipped to our armies in1 France, but ... -. would give us a better balanced and more healthful diet as well.- As a mdney-saver, too, the good gar den is one of our best assets. The farmer with the year-round garden plus milk jcows, poultry, potatoes, syrup and meat, has little occasion to worry over the high. cost of living that is now so sorely taxing i ue man in town. But let us be sure that we have a sure- enough year-round garden. As" Prof . wassey wellsays: Vhog and hominy ' and black-eyed peas are all very well, but Without plentv of Food. fi-Psh they become very monotonous and unsat-' factory as a regular diet. : In makinsr a pooH iPiace a rich, deep, mellow soil first in niportance. In the gardenias in the "eld, fine crops on poor land are simply possible. Plenty of well, rotted stable Pace 4 7 8 9 10 DONT FAIL TO READ- Ten Vegetables You Should Try . Hotbeds and Cold Frames Implements for the Garden When and How to Plant Garden Crops . Buying Nitrogen in Commercial Fertilizers Caring for and Feeding the Brood Sow From Breeding to Farrowing . . ... ... 12 Don't Buy Potash Unless Certain It Is Needed 14 Effect of Cold Weather on the Boll Weevil . 14 The War's Supreme Lesson: No; Man Liveth to Himself . . r . V . ' . : .. - 15 All Waste Is Immoral . . .... . . 15 How to Time and Grind Valves v . . . . 19 About Purple Martins and Night Hawks . . 27 side-dressing of nitrate of soda will be of great help. Next in importance is the matter of keeping the garden busy. It is not enough to plant a spring garden and stop at that, leaving the gar den, afterthe first crop is off, to grow up in weeds. Aim at a constant succession of plantings, so that as soon as one crop is gone another will be taking its place. . , , Finally, let us not limit our plant ings to cabbage, onions beets, toma .toes and beans, but try some of the less known but equally valuable crops. Carrots, parsnips and salsify are splen did root crops that are too little grown in the South; asparagus, one of the best vegetables "that grows, is much too rare; while celery, chard and., cauli flower are all excellent and well worth . . growing. Every farmer in the South should aim at a year-round garden, and the time to begin it is noti?. 7 p ; v J,' I.- Si .f fci- I; f . I;); pi t - r 4 I m i ' ; Iff jM f 't j. if: . " ,1 w . " T' ----- -"'If. ,1- t Mi .--
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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