Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-02-23
The Farmers Garden.

The following was read by James V.
Mclane at a late meeting of the Eastern
Ohio horticultural Society:
A farmers garden is n among the
most useful things on a farm. Some
farmers think it an expensive luxury, or
at least they seem To think it so, for il
the good wife does not urge them mp, or
10 1t herself, it does not get very much
done.
Now with a little labor, and a little
skill in laying out and planting, wa can
have at a tTlting cost not only a good
supply Of vegetables, early and late, but
also a good supply Of small fruits, and
by proper care for their preservation a
farmer may have them on his table the
year round, and would this not bea lux
ury indeed.
But in LAYING Out q garden, DO not
cCntine yourself with a pallng fence
thirty by forty feet, but arrange SO you
can have rows ten, twenty, or better,
forty rods long, then plant 80 you can
cultivate with a horse and light Guilt
yatOr. How many Of us would grow
corn If We had Ia spade the ground
and then tend entirely with the hoe.
After your garden is properly laid out
and planted, do not 90 of and let the
weeds have control Of the lot, but com
o as soon as they make their APP
pearance, when il is a very small job to
kill them in the sun il clear, or smother
them in wet weather, little difference
which, ii we'll done; and ii you will 20
through in this way every ten days you
will find it il a light Job.
Now II you have a generous supply
Of Strawberries and raspberrles OF the
best sorts, you can uso all YOU want IN
their season, and have enough to dry to
furnish your family a regular daily sup
PLY until time 10 20 To- the garden for
them next season, and this Will do away
with the sending OF u hard earned
dollars To Turkey for her prunes, or to
Europe for their C~urrants, &c.
We will give a list Of sOme things that
will give satisfaction, and a farmer may
plant with safety, ii he will give the
proper after treatment.
Strawberries; Crescent, Monarch OF
the West, Cumberland, Triumph, F0r
est Rose, wilson and Jucunda.
Raspberries, DOOlittle, Mammoth
Cluster. lfor rich clay soil and above all
the GTegg.
Asparagus, Cnuoyer's Colossal Is the
best. and when We get a bed OF 1t We
have a guOd thing Of it for stays.
Beams, China Red Eye, Early Nalen-
tine. Black Dwarf Wax, and for pole
beans. take Case Knife, Giant Wax and
Lima, of which Dreer's Improved is the
best.
Beets; Egyptian, Early Bassino, Early
Blood TUrnip.
Cabbage; Early York, Large York,
Early Jersey Wakefield, Ok Heart or
sugar Loaf, B~loomSdale's BnilGck
Heart. New Early Flat Dutch, Fotler 8
Drumhead. Stone Mason.
Cucumbers; Early Frame, White
spine, Long tirecn.
Corn; Extra Early Adams, Crosbys
Early, Early Mammoth, Early Concord.
Musk Melon; Green Citrun and Gas
saba arc very fine, also Skillman's Fine
Melted.
Water Melon; Mountain Sweet,
Mountain Sprout, Ice Cream and gypsy.
For melons. select a warm, loose loan
and plant a. soon rs danger OF frost Is
past. VII
Onion; Early Red, Early Yellow
White Portage, Rel Wethersheld, Dan
yer's Yellow.
We have omitted many things that
are often grown in gardens, hut have
tried to embrace the best and most lm'
portant. and such as will give satiSiac'
non. With the addition Of Peas; Me
Leans little Gem, Carriers FIrst Crop,
Ianirrth's Extra Early ami Champion
of England will furnish a good success
Sion.