The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-10-25

edCu aIIeTnaCo row scattered some
conch peas. BY the last of Jdue the
clays had made about as much growth
as they would and a furrow was
opened Just along side of them and
they were turned under into it and
the clays in the other rows were
pulled bv hand and placed in the fur
row made by turning over the peas
with the plow and then all was neat.
-ly dressed up with the hoe. 1t has
thus far cost me as follows: Peas SO
conts. five quarts, planting, 40 cents
plowing in, 25 cents, hand work $l25
Total SO 40. AT cost of about
$1.60 | expect to open these trenches
with the plow, pull the conch pea
vines in October, place them in the
trenches, make two rounds with the
plow and dress up by hand. If I am
able to do that at this expense l will
have my one>sixth of an acre tertillz>
ed and ready to set out at an expense
of 81, or $24 per acre, G. two>thirds
Of cent per plant. When growing
my experimental cow>peaed cabbage
l applied to one plant near it, which
was given no other manure, nearly
three times the cost of this in MapesA
manure and it did not equal the plan
growing over the buried pea vines,
in fact was far behind it, No plant
in the general garden plot, having
about one third cent of Mapes' plow.
ed in and other treatment equalllng
as much more, ever equalled the one
grown over py.. vines. One .particu-
larly vigorous plant wife tried TO,
force by liquid manure TO an equal
growth with the easv-Feaea one, but
T5 Iievet -cC.t sfesr',. @s--r s-ss-A. !.
SQUASH.
We have not succeeded to our sat.
isfaction with these. The nearest we
approached it was when we planted,
Oct. LIST. xo hillsl over buried green
stuff. We think it we had planted a
month or six W ceks earlier we would
have had nice squashes during Nov.
and Dec. AS 1t was, the,frost caught
them though they gave us little re
turn. Planted Jan. 18th, they have
done no good.
COW PEAS.
These are "good to have around"
The pioneer settler wants something
that don't take much coaxing and COW
peas will suit hlmSin this respect, AS
! a snap bean they are nearly as good
as common green beans at the North.
Planted at any time from March Till
July the conch will yield bountliully
during Sept. and Oct. On Jan. 25th
we planted the pole-cat variety and
had them to use from April 25th till
May 18th. The Gay" variety
planted in March gave a return in
early June. The same put iD a few
week, later gave nothing but vines
10 turn under for fertilizer. One
neighbor tells US we planted in the
"wrong time OF the moon" We evil
IDENTIFY did something wrong but
though we have au IDEA what it
wasn't we have none as to what it
was. AS a
WATERMELONIST
we don't CLAIM TO nave succeeded.
On row land plowed in January and
planted in April We failed. Some
hills planted in Aug. on buried green
stuff started tair growth but tailed
to fruit aud after couple OF months
gave up the effort. A stray vine
coming up in August, near small
niyht-soil aud black surface soil com
post heap, made fine growth, shed
ding many OF its leaves near me roots
but gave us a ripe melon Dec, 18TH.
But such late me,onS lack flavor aud
sweetness. Our experience as to
MUSK MELONS
is somewhat similar. Though they
made a tair effort on the new land
and would have ripened nice melon
had the cows let them alone. This
was quite contrary TO What.w had
been told, Tor we had been warned
thai they needed large quantities OF
le,tiIlzers. But on Old laud, planted
January 25Lh, they have perslstently
refused to be coaXed 10 even make d
] respectable effort.