Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-08-12
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EDITOR SOUTHERN .CCLTIAATOR :
In your A" Thoughts for the Month"
III the July number, you stir your
readers up to be looking after
their ruta-bagas. and your Gardening
! Correspondent also sounds the Tur-
nip noe. | will not dispute with
/ you aboIt the ruta -baoas, as [ know
nothing OF them, doubtless they are
fire. proof; but of the other kinds l
can speak by the card.
In the latitude Of Memphis. to wit :
35 deg. North. SOW Johnny-Reb
( Good VI Landreth has adopted this
seeding at last, under the name of
"Seven>tOp," on account Of its top
,bosh y from the 10Th to the 10Th of
August. The Old women have a be
: lief that We always have "seasot,'
during the first week in September.
not day sooner. Remember that
have planted acres for the market,
and have grown 900 or more BUSH
els to the acre, and have recorded
my experiences. from year to year, as
carefully as if the fate of nations de-
pended on il, and | say that next af-
ter my thorough manuring | always
followed Peter Henderson to the let
ter and deep filth, the time of plant.
ing is most important. The habitat
of the turnip belongs to the British
Islands, with maximum temperature
say OFF, degrees, Now if you ex-
pose your tender plants to a temper
AZURE of 80 deg, you sap their vital
| y at the beginning. The result will
be no growth until the weather cools
down and the dews become copiouS,
then your turnipS have endeavored to
shield themselves against the sun by
throwing off enormous tops, which is
done at the expense of the ROOTS
And you will find that the roots are
woody stringy and hollow, with lit
tie pungent favor. Therefore don't
plant until the climate begins to APP
proximate that ia which the plant
thrives best. Let your ambitious
neighbors, who do not read the CuL-
tiUdtOr, go ahead and waste their seed,
but do you nothing of the kind.
Lay on your manure to an extent
that approximates waste. Plough it
under and with all weeds and grass
the more the better-and continue to
turn them down as they get four or
FIVE inches high. Do not let them
get too far ahead, otherwise, they may
be in the way of operations when We
come to get the crop in. Continue l
say. to plough under, and pulverize
and mix the manure with the soil un-
ill the time indicated above, ther il
you have shower turn over the
ground as rapidly as possibly, this
should depend upon the soil, very
rich land nearer, and vice versa) on
the fat surface (crook an old bayonet
or new one if you like-for an
opener and SOW the seeds, and SOW
them pretty thick. Half an inch deep
is sufficient. Cover with your foot as
you return from sowing. and run a
roller over the whole surface, so as tn
compress the soil. IF you have no
season commence operations late in
the afternoon. plough narrow land,
harrow, lay of, sow and |
roll, and be sare you roll. There is
an abundance of time before the 10th |
Of September in which to make the /
roller. If you have fifty tons of ma
nure, undertake no more than half an
acre. If you have twenty-five tons,
set out to put in but quarter acre
and if you have no manure, do not
throw away valuable time, which
might be pro6tably spent at the
COunty-seat tavern, in attempting
turnip crop; for without manure, and
that in lavish quantities, you will
take nothing from snch an attempt
However, L II not bore you about this
manure business. as l presume you
Gcorgians have about learned how to
do without it. l am sure you will be
all right if Bi-pbosphate happens to
''pan out" You have it up and down
and around and about with old
''Super," and now / see you are strip
ping for scrimmage with Obi" /
bet Oh obi" if he is well groomed.
But this is not turnips, it is "chaff."
When your turnips have made three
Or four leaves, and are thrifty, and
past the bugs, (these latter will not
lurt much in S :ptember) thin ont
eaving one turnip at every eighteen
inches, and hoe the ground clean. -
Possibly the second hoeing may be
necessary, if so, give it, Put on the
manure somebody try little BIZ
too), plough deep and fol-
ow all other Instructions and l war
ant a pavement of turnips. If you I
re one degree South of Memphis.
liant five days later; North, five days
.arlier. One degree of latitude,
makes five days difference in time, re-
member.
GEORGE W. GIFT.
Memphis. Tenn, July 18th. 1873.
p. S. know nothing of Charcoal as