The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-05-02
SOUTHERN HOME AND FARM.
GsnrJeasng hints Tor Farmers.

w. NJ. X. writes out few hints in the
Farm and Fireside relative to the ar
rangsment of a garden for the farmer.
There ought to be q good garden on
every farm Not a little space fenced in,
with or without pickets, so small that all
the cultivation, except the blowing, must
be done by hand. There should not be
less than half an acre. Let this be long
and narrow, 50 that almost all the cults
walton can be done with a horse. Set
apart 100 feet nearest the house for small
fruit. Then strip four PAGES wide ::
also one at the farthest end of the garden
upon which to turn when cultivating
with the horse. Keep the strips in grass
or plant with potatoes. Lay off a path
eight feet in width from the house to the
main garden Plant no fruit trees with
IN the Enclosure.
The asparagus beds, which need no
after cultivation, should be the first ones
as you enter the garden. a single row
planted l8 inches apart in the center of
bed four feet in width will be suffi-
Cient, Top dr. IS each fall with four
inches OF well-rotted manure and one
nuShel of salt. Plant one row of Linneus
or Victoria rhubarb FIVE feet from the
row of asparagus and three feet apart in
tho rev. Top dresses annually with
manure only. -Four feet from the rhu~
barb plant four rows of strawberries
Let the rows be three and half feet
apart and the plants Is inches apart in
the row. Set only the strong growing
varieties such as Chas. Downing,
Downer s Prolific, Monarch of the West,
Springdae, Triumph of Cumberland,
Col, Cheney, Kentucky or the Cap
ta'l Jack, 4 Seeding, of the Wilson
Albany, and remarkably vigorous
growing sort, Five feet from the last
row set half a row of gOnseberries and
half row OF white curIants, three
feet apart in the row. Then, five feet
distant row OF red currants, the same
distance apart in the row. Next set four
rows Of raspberries in rows six feet the
plants being three feet apart in the row.
Let one row be Doolittle's Improved
Black Cap, on of the Mammoth Cluster
or Miami, one of the Philadelphia Red
and another of the Turner Red raspber
Ties. Eight feet distant set a row of the
Kittetinny blackberry, placing them
three feet apart in the row. Set four
rows of this variety eight feet apart
The small fruits will thus occupy s
space between the house and the Oper
garden Of about one hundred feet. Such
twelve persons an abundant supply O
vegetables and small fruits, and enough
20 can and dry for winter use. Foul
inches annually of well-rotted man
ure On he open garden would
not be any too much. The small
fruits should always be kept wei
cultivated and mulched each fall with {
good coating of partly decayed leaves
weeds and other trash. Care should bt
taken To cover the crowns of the straw
berry plants very lightly.
Should one prefer to plant the small
fruits 50 as To make continuous rows The
entire length of the garden, then one
sixteenth parto the garden, beginning al
one end, could be planted, allowing
proper proportion of space to each truit
as already indicated. That is, as the
COWS in the open garden wsuld be two
and a half feet apart, the currants
gooseberry and raspberry plants should
be set in rows five feet apart and the
blackberry plants seven and a half feet
After fitting the ground for seeds, and
laying off the row perfectly straight
two and half feet apart, begin a
one end and plant all the SEEDS
of one kind you wish and con
tlnue with other seeds until the work i
'ASHC' l1uItO III ttAlS way, tie CulIiNdJO
will enable one to do nearly all the hoeinl
required. One hours time each weei
viii be sufficient during summer. Their,
Is nothing to hinder any farmer from
having lettuce, asparagus, radishes anC
rhubarb by the last of March or the frs
of April, followed by gooseberries, cur
rants, strawberries, raspberries, blackber
ries and early tomatoes and other vegela
bles. If desired, the expense of a four
wire picket fence is uncomfortable whel
compared with what would be likely t,
be paid out for medicine during the year
where large family attempts to live OIL
TOO limited supply of fruits and vege
tables