The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-11-01

weeks they make nice plants but
some people tell US that they viii moi
make good yield of potatoes. Such
plants do we'll at the North I knor,
and few months hence hope to
have knowledge covering that point
here. For potatoes to dig in August
and September we have plot set out
on old land from April 10Th to MAY
10Th. The old land had been plowed
a couple OF months previously and
was simply ridged with the plow,
dressed up with the hoe, little com.
mercial fertilizer applied along the
'top of the ridge and the pieces OF
vine laid foot apart, across the top
of the ridge in the usual mannerand
then pushed into the soil at their
middles, with a stick made round op
two sides at the lower end so as not
to cut the vines, and heel set heav
lily on the soil at that spot so as to
close up the hole made with the stick
and to make the soil solid so that it
would not dry out. The rows are
l40 feet long. Some have no fertil-
izer, others have two and others four
quarts of Gould" and "Stowe." The
''tour quarts Stowe row showed col
or and growth far ahead OF all others
for quite while but the difference
grows beautifully less with each
weeks growth. Digging time" alone
can tell the tale of their relative val
he and whether it paid to use either.
For potatoes to dig next spring
and early summer we had new land
with two years grass and trash on it
broken this spring and after it was
plowed dropped mixture of clay
and eora,siss t,ssas .-sn-lik e, line az. each
fourth furrow then dragged the
ground with the planker. The seed
came up well. In August the olays
will die off leaving their dead bodies
just where needed aud the conchs
will cover the ground. In Septem-
Der, late these vines will be raked
into winrows and ridges formed over
them and cuttings put out with con
siderable confidence that we shall
reap crop the following April, May
and June if pigs and cows don't for
close the first mortgage they hold on
everything in Florida.
RADI SHES.
A quick growing variety OF short
red planted December 1st in the gen.
eral garden with a little "Mapes" in
the drill, always well mixed with the
soil, gave us our first ones to use in
thirty days and continued good for
one month. We also planted Decem
ber 25th, and were using freely from
them by February 10th. January
25lh we planted again with 2 quarts
of Mapes to 25 feet Of drill hoping to
produce surprising results. | ind
this record in my diary: SIN use in
thirty five days; many seeds did not
come up. Has not met my expecta>
tions." Later paintings than the last
of January | consider useless as gen
orally our April is too dry and hot to
make good radishes on most sandy
soils.
SNAP BEANS.
Our experiments with only lew
hills OF wax beans in fall OF 'Sl en-
courage us to plant some about Oct.
1st from which we would expect to
pick during November and for
month or so till frost would be likely
to nip them This would give Snaps"
after the cow>peas have ceased to be
good. We did not receive our main
supply of seed till too late tor early
spring planting. 1t was February
9th when we planted ours on ground
which had yielded crop OF white
mustard. Trenches were opened
with the spade and compost applied
at the rate Of four pounds ger foot OF
row. Rows placed about two feet
apart. They were nicely up by March
18th and in bloom by April 5th, but
plants were too small, presumably
on account of drouth) and the leaves
lacked color The variety was
l"White wax" April 18th we applied
one qnart of "Sto we" to each 25 feet
of row and hoed in. In ten days the
color improved much aud pods were