The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-03-30
Waterl,feI0nS.

AhSAl, SitllOy SOIL, WIFI IL Nfy StlD-
soil, is the best for watermclons. New
ground, free from grasses, is decidedly
the most reliable for a full and unfail-
ing crop. They may be put into al
most any kind of land, but it would
generally be at the risk of partial or
complete failure. / have grown them
on every variety of soil, from the poor
hilltop to the rich branchbottom.
The land should be thoroughly bro |
ken up by blowing close and deep-if
sub-soiIed, all the better. The manure
should be spread, or sown broadcast,
Immediately before the breaking, or,
at least, before the first blowing of the
crop. The land should be made suffi-
cicntly rich to produce sixty bushels of
corn to the acre. If large melons are
desired, check off the ground twenty
feet each way; if to be planted early,
make your hills about two feet in di-
anlctcr, and raise them six or eight
inches above the common level; if to
be planted late in spring, after all cool
and ungcnial weather is over, make
the hills flat, but little, if any, above
the level. BY reducing the distance
between the hills to six, or eight, or
even ten feet, the size of the melons
will be reduced one half, OF more, but
the number per acre will be largely in
creased.
Plant sin or eight seeds to the hill.
When turning off the sixth leaf thin
to two plants. Now plow and hoe
your crop. Run the bar of your pillow
next to the plants, turning the dirt
from them. If you have not previous
ly MANFRED, do it now, sowing broad
.. cast and blowing out the middles.
Leave the water burrows (last furrows)
very deep, even though you run
, through them several times with your
, plow to. accomplish the object. And
you must keep them open throughout
the season.
ing you must cross-plow, leaving the
water burrows deeply opened as before
Hoe and clean the plants. When the
vines have run two feet or more, place
Il light f,oeful of dirt on each near the
end. This is to keep them from being
blown about and twisted and damaged
by the wind. -.
Continue to plow every twelve or
fifteen days until the vines are near
meeting; but in no case, under any
circumstances, allow the vines to be
moved. If the land be grassy, better
let the grass grow than to move the
vines, for moving will destroy your
melons. In cultivating with the pillow,
as not to touch the ends of your vines
BY following the above method i
, have produced melons weighing sixty
flew pounds each from seed Of the COM
mon varieties.
or manures pure Peruvian guanO
has given me the most satisfactory re-
suits. l have used various CONNER
cial fertilizers, as cotton seed meal,
bone dust, etc, with ashes and COM
mon salt. One sack of salt added to
the manure for an acre, has always re-
suited in Il production of the sweetest
and highest favored melons l have
ever made. l do not doubt but the
lIangdon Fcrtilizcr is the very best, in
decd Il special manure fOr the water
melon.
or varieties, until lately, I have con-
sdcrcd the Mountain Sweet at the
head of the list. Year before last Col
James Crawford, of the firm Of Ntessrs
Crawford, Walsh, Smith Il Co., prcsen-
TED me with Il few watermelon seeds
he had saved in the course of his trav-
els that summer, and from them l rails
cd two melons only. With tho seed Of
these planted last year, and succeed
cd in making supply for this season.
| have christcncd it the "Crtwford
Mclon,' and do not hesitate to pro-
'''t''''' - VIZ va ttft III
or country. IT is hardy, prolific, flesh
crimaonrch, cNuuisitely rich and deli
. ciouS,-for n desert melon it j. without
peer. J. Dn\ANAN.
EuShla, Ma.
Some experiments have been tried in
Crossing the butlaIocS with domestic
cattle, and the result is highly satisfac-
) tory II breed ofanimnts being produc-
!, CT which retains many of the vaIuabIc
properties of both breeds. The animals
are large and strong; the chief objcc-
ton to them being that no ordinary
fence stops them fora moment, and
that they love the water 50 uuch that
they will swim and sport III it, even
when 1t is full of floating ice. We have
heard of COW and calf whose love for
athletic exercises was such that they
would jump frnnl 4 bank ten feet hirl,
into deep wafer when there was an
easy path close At hand. These person.
nj pcculinritic> are dra ,vbackS to the
| introduction Of buffalo blood into the
veins of family pets but on the other
hand, when properly cared for. these
animals mako most lrIiriouS hrnf and