The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-11
AGRICULTURAL.
The Work Needed in the Vegetable
Garden in April.
The Proper Care of Cows and Calves
The Poultry Yard-Bees and ,Ass
How to Swarm Them Hs.ssssslEsa
Minor Farm Notes.j
HINTS FOR APRIL.

Tomatoes should be planted out TIL
month, and more seed sown for later crops.
Corn, lettuce and radishes should be sow
at intervals OF ten days during the month.
Beets, carrots, parsnips and satisfy shoult
be planted this month, II not already plantet
In sufficient quantity.
beans, oucumbers squashes and melons
may still be- put In, thus affording an ample
succession OF crops.
Parasitic insects are n prolific source o
trouble to the garden, and great care will
have to be taken to protect young plants, this
month, from these enemies. Most everyone
has his own plan for destroying them. The
studs from carbolic soap, spinkled over the
plants twice week, will keep away great
many. Ants may be kept away by small
pieces Of fat meat, raw or cooked, placed on
the ground near the plants. In addition to
these precautions every good gardener
should examine his plants daily and catch
and kill such parasites as have not been kept
away by other means
VEGETABLES.
Beans.--Dwarf or bunch beans require no
support and may be planted In hills or drills,
the latter way being preferable Tor some va
rieties. Make the drills 10 Inches apart, an
Inch and q half deep and drop. the beans .
Inches apart In the drills. Keep clear OF
weeds. Pole beans should be planted In hills
three feet apart in q quick. warm soil. In
planting the Lima, place the eye down. Three
plants to the hill are enough. A rich sandy
loan Ia best for beans-a well-rotted compost
In which stable manure figures largely, La
understood to be the most grateful fertilizer.
Beets.---The same soil aud preparation as
for turnips. Sow In drills about one foot
Ax,N t,S,t flsl
10 stand ten inches apart. We usually make
two trimmings: first to give the plants room.
while very young; and second, and final
thinning, after the beets have attained to
sufficient slze for cooking.
Cnbbapes.-Put out In good ground, so soon
Rs the plants are large enough to handle
safely. Waiting for plants to attain TO large
aize before transplanting Is all wrong. To
guard against cut worms wrap green leaf
OF some kind around the stalk, letting 1t ex.
tend half an inch below the surface Of the
ground.
Carrots.-The carrot, like all other root
crops delights In q sandy loan, deeply titled.
For early crops SOW In spring, as soon as the
ground is In fair working order; for later
crops SOW any time until the middle OF June; ;
COW In rows about fifteen inches apart, thin
ming out to three or four inches between the
plants
Cslcattnbers.- -Cucumbers succeed best In
warm, motst, rich. loamy. ground. They
there Ia prospect Of settled, warm weather.
Egg Plds,ts.--About the same as tomato In
relation to soil and culture.
Irish Potdtoes.--The potato, like all robust
growing vegetables, can be grown with vary
Ing euccess on soils Of all kinds and In all
conditions Of fertility, but the soil best suited
to 1t Is o sandy loam In all heavy soils 1t Ia
more subject to disease, and the flavor is also
much Inferior. Manure is applied either In
the rows or hills, or broadcast over the hills
ossIv tDd In ha In m hoip
preferable.
Tetts.ce,-It Ia in order to SOW lettuce at al
most any season when one feels 30 inclined.
A very rich and rather most soil Is best.
Metons. These require about the same
treatment as cucumbers. A warm, moist,
rich, loamy soil suits them best, though 1t
must be we'll drained. There Ia no danger OF
getting the melon patch too rich. The vines
should never be moved after they have COM
menced to blossom. About the same culture
and conditions apply to both water and musk
melons, or cantaloupes.
Olsra.-This Is Of easy culture and grows
freely, bearing abundantly on any ordinary
garden soil. 1t is sown at the usual time OF
deep, setting the plants from two to three
feet apart, according to the variety.
Oniona.-Onion sets are, we suppose, all In
the ground ere this. 1t Is not too late to plant
them, however, Ii you have them to plant.
They want rich aud thoroughly pulverized
soil.
HrYslea - Succeeds best In rich, mellow
coll. and should be put In Immediately. Spade
the bed deep and thoroughly. making the SUR
face fine and smooth, and sow the seed In
drills fourteen inches apart and half an inch
depr,. When the plants are two or threeiu
hirl. thin them To six or eight inches apart.
Tn thinning, leave only the best and finest
eurled plants. Is used for garnishing and
lSvoring soups and stews.
Psas.-Sow the dwarf varieties. that grow
not nyer fifteen inches high, In rows two feet |
mart: these varieties that attain the height |
Il two or three feet, ia rows three feet apart
nd the rows OF the tallest sorts four Ieet
mart. This refers to English garden peas
ot to our Southern field peas.
Hwsnips---The soil shoGtd be mellow, ueep
III e II 4 rich vegetable character. In our
me country d enpply of well rotted hard