The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-27
PLANTATION TOPICS.
THE SECRET OF GROWING CAULIFLOw-
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the caulihower, and this deliciou
vegetable is still rare luxury
! But, certain essential condition
being assured, it is as easy to gro,
as the cabbage. The grand secre
of Its culture lies In two words
ihaniire and moisture. Given these
in sufficient quantity mark thi
last condition-sand the grand flowe
head comes rs a matter of course. /
you are accustomed to manure heavil
for cabbages, double the dose for you
caulifowers. Plant four feet apar
each way, cultivate frequently, keepin,
the soil loose and mellow. When tn
plants are well grown and the tim
approaches for them to commence t.
hean, mulch around the plants, or
better still, the whole bed to the deptl
of. two inches or more with stabl'
manure, Watering the plants through
the mulch, if the weather be dry. Ii
this climate caulifiowers, like cabbages
must be grown during the cool seasons
of fall and spring, making the plant
ing for. fall crop in July, August, Oh
September, according to the latitude
and season, and for the spring crop
from November to February, giving
those planted in the fall slight winter
protection.
THE WILD GOOSE PLUM AT THE NORTH
The Country Gentleman says some
good words for this plum as follows
GA few young trees on our grounds
fruited for the first time this year.
| Although of quite moderate quality,
this plum, we think, is destined to be.
come extensively planted. In appear
ance and texture it considerably resem-
bles the old cherry plum, being bright
red, fibrous and juicy. The speci-
mems generally measured an inch or
more in the shortest diameter, and
| about an inch and third of an inch
and half long. The time of ripen-
ing was the first and second week in
August. Specimens picked while yet
hard, and with light shade of red,
and placed in a drawer, ripened in a
few days into a brilliant red. From
this we infer. that they would be adj
mirably adapted to distant conveyance
to market. Many of the plums were
stung by the curculio, but the thick
skin and character of the flesh pre-
vented the larvae from doing much or
any harm, and the fruit was invaria-
bly, good and fair. We think this
plum might be extensively planted
for market, even in the north, as it
will grow vigorously on soils not
adapted to the common varieties of
the plum, and it is not affected by
the black knot, and we question if
the curculio, with moderate amount
of attention, will ever do it much in
jury. 1t is hard to tell beforehand,
however, what these insects may I'M
dertake or accomplish"
VALUE OF THE TAP-ROOT OF TREES.
Trees procured from nurseries will
be found to have had their tap-roOts
cut off, and the nurserymen contend
that this is benefit rather than
damage. Be this as it may, we can
not well transplant trees with the tap
root entire and uninjured. To have
trees with perfect tap-roots, as nature
designed, they must be planted where
they are to grow, and grated or
budded without removal. Some con-
tend that this would give us healthy,
thrifty, long-lived orchards, such as
are seldom seen nowadays. Cultiva-
ton, throughout, is an artificial pro-
cess, and the argument from natures
methods is not always sound; but we
are inclined to think there may be
something in the suggestion we have
quoted, Experiment, however, is bet
ter than theory in such matters. Let
the plan of planting the seed where
the trees are to grow and grating the
seedlings in their original position be
tried
MEASURING CORN IN THE CRIB.
The Southern Rural Gentleman says
that the following rules have often been
put to the most critical test by the most
thorough, as well as the most practical
mathematician of the southwest, and
the people using them may rely upon
their being accurately correct.
If measured in feet:
LIST. Shucked Corn; measure the
length, width, and depth of the crib in
feet; multiply these three dimensions
together, and their. product by eight,
then cut off two figures to the right;
those on the left will be so many bar
rels, and those cut off SO many hun
dredths of barrel.
I'd. Unshucked Corn; multiply
the three dimensions in feet, as in rule
first, and their product by five and two
thirds cut offtwo figures to the right,
and the result will be barrels and
hundreths, as in rule first.
measured in inches:
Sd. Shucked Corn; take the di-
mansions in inches and multiply them
together; take one half of the product
and divide it by 215G, and you have
the bushels ofshelled corn, which divide
by 3 to reduce to barrels.
4th. Unshucked Corn; multiply
the dimensions as in rule third, and
then take one-third Of their product,
and divide it by 2150, the result will be
as in rule third.
MAKE THE FARM ATTRACTIVE.
How to make life in the country
more attractive and pleasant to their
children, a correspondent of the Coun-
try Gentleman says, is subject that
should engage the attention of farmers
as class. Yet how generally is this
thought left to village and city resi-
dents, who make the country a summer
resort to escape the heat and dust of
the city for brief portion of the year.
Contrast any country district adjoin-
ing or easily accessible to any of our
great cities with sections more remote,
and how great the difference. The
and is better titled, the fences in better
and all improvements which
enhance the value of the property, and
promote the happiness of the inhabit-
ants, are vastly superior. Some Of
these are doubtless due to superior
and correspondingly higher
prices for the products of the soil, but !