The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-09
FARMERS READING.
From the Western RuraIist.l
y - Hints for August. 81

4si..,a From the Western RuraIistl So
- = ~ Hints for August. -
August il one of the months In the
calendar which, If sbiotted out, would
prejudice many of the interests in
life. Its bright sunshine and mid
summer dryness enables the husband
man to thresh his grain with speed,
or TO stack it in good order out of
harms way. It's glowing temperature
lis the delight of the Summer crops,
such as hemp, tobacco, and Indian
corn, as also of the refreshing melon
and the thirst sating peach. 1t is in
this month, too. that the vegetable
gardener must pitch such crops asxhe
desires to be benefited by the genial
showers and milder temperature Of
Autumn, as the various turnips, lex
cept Ruta, which ought now to have
been growing for some six weeks or
two months and Winter greens and
salads I, e.sfs ss2
z August, though not the warmest
month in the year, is most exempt
fremCchilly evenings and cool morn
ings., This uniformity of temperature
renders moonlight excursions aud
evening parties at watering places
very enjoyable, and, in religious COM
munities, makes this month popular
for holding associations and camp
meetings. 70 ''''l .g.ts,
uo All biennials, grown as food for.
man or beast. must still be kept free
of weeds, otherwise midsummer.
drouth will harden the leaves and
render them incapable of enlargiag
the bulb, or roots, by new assimila-
tions during the growing weather Of
autumn In such a state of case,
sparsnips generally, and satisfy and
carrots sometimes, run to seed, and
become, in kitchen sparlance, sticky
and ,1orthless. $500
WINTER CABBAGE. -@sa'aa~
Upon freshly MANFRED ground,
plants put out as late SIS August will
head before cold weather; but, to in
sure good growth, the ground should
be stirred occasionally and the plants
always kept free from grass and weeds.
TURNIPs
August is the proper time to sow
Red Top, Flat Dutch, or any of the
common varieties of the turnip, bear
ing always in mind that the sweetest
and best favored for cooking are
| those that do not begin to bulb until
the cool weather of October and No.
vember. Except IN new ground, or
upon meadow or clover land prepared
| for first crop turnips cannot be grown
successfully without hoeing. But hoe
ing is an operation in the cultivation of
tu-nip crop sown broadcast, so ted :
| Gus and 50 exhaustive of time as to be
inaduiis ible'when the crop exceeds a
quarter or half an acre. No man famil-
lar withsth use of good drill would
/ think of cultlvatlng the turnipY crop
| broadcast lobe sure of good stand
1T is best to use fresh seed although
turuip seed vegetate for several years
when we'll preserved In cases where
the family desire to cultivate but one
variety, we think the Red or Purple
Top is best. The various winter
green's do best when sown toward the
| last of August y Scotch and purple
/ Gale are good varieties, and make a
good yield, especially when lightly
covered with evergreen brush during
iIs slln nr9 .s1BW8naeUD ..sass.
VANS AND POTATOES
The red and white yam continue to
grow to the end of the season. but by
the frstof A August Will have become SO
we'll furnished with small! roots as to
| securelfa rapid extension Of the vine,
and the crop should now receive a
final dressing and last killing up, as
the leaves and vines will soon cover
| the whole grQupdr~,rF ! 80 y
] & The. common Res, patata and the
Lebanon, or -Sulpher Yellow, begin to
Il bulb much spoger th;u the va and
I will be- In eating cotid itiou early in
August. and a fact which is not gener-
ally understood by growers aud coE-
s 80 Ms es i ssI srS ,lyss'na
varieties get the igngrowth before the
| END OF the growing season, and. If not
used. begin TO itea3t Asb that q bulb,
seeming plump. I'D sagnd, when
coo ked has saste Ike those sfFcesed
with srqst- eFThs dealer may a. #a.ss
distinguish sued potatoes oy aOoasxa
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Decay peuetfatfag Me- ufax Of The
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