Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-03
Garden Crops on the Farm-Farm
Gardening.

Garden Crops on the Farm-Farm
Gardening.
American Agricultural.
The farmer who continues to "a Use the
same crops that he grew before towns and
manufacturing villages sprang up all
around him, makes a great mistake. in
the older states at least, there are but
few farms not within an hours or two
hours' ride of q market. 1t is worth
while for farmers in such localities, to
consider if they can afford to raise field
corn when sweet corn will pay them much
better. 1t is true that sweet corn needs
high manuripg, but when the ears are off
there will be a heavy crop of tho very
best fodder. The cars will bring In ready
money, just how much will depend upon
the market, but cafe to say, more than
any crop of ripe corn would be worth.
1t ia a mistake to grow late potatoes, to
be dug when every one else has potatoes,
and prices ara low, while early potatoes
will bring several times the price of
late ones. 1t Is 30 with other
crops. There are but few garden vege-
tables thst may not bs grown as farm
crops, and 1t is a mistake to raise farm
produce that will bear transportation
from a distance, instead of that suited to
a near market and must bs disposed OF at
once. A farmer, en- the other hand,
would make a mistake, werehe to devcts
his land to a new set Of crops at once.
He should determine to grow those
things that pay the best. and to gradu-
ally work into q more profitable kind of
farming. ThoEe who propose to do this
will find sweet corn and potst pes excsl-
lent crops to begin with. Others will
pay better, but these are best to prepare
the land for other and mora profit ble
crops. 1t would have been better had
the land been prepared for these last fall
but as this was not done, make 1t ready
as soon as it is safe to work it. Ills not
our object just now to give directions for
growing the crops, but rather to suggest
what may be cultivated. Wherever
there are manufacturing villages,
early cabbages are always in demand, and
salable vegetable. Beets, parsnips, car
rots, turnips, onions, ETC., as we'll as
spinach may be sown In rows far enough
apart to be worked by horse implements.
The distance between the rows is to be
governed by the width of the horseshoe
or cultivater, which should close up as
narrow as twenty inches. A market
gardener SOW such crops twelve or fifteen
inches apart, but the farm gardener has
cheaper land, and can give more space II
he can gave labor, aud substitute horses
for hands. Those who propose to under
take farm gardening, will do we'll to be-
gin with sweet corn and sweet potatoes,
and not undertake other garden.crops
until the land has been in cul
tlvation with these tor one season. An.
other was to prepare the land for garden
is, to pillow, harrow, and sow 1t to buck.
wheat. When this is in flower, plow il
under and SOW 1t again to huckwheat.
Turn this under at the proper time, and
In September, or at the usual time, go n
the land with rye, to be plowed In nexi
spring. The object should be to bring
the land, a few acres at q time, into con
dition to raise any garden crops. The
rapidity with which this can be done will
depend IN the amount of manure at com
maud for the purpose. 1t will be worth
while for all farmers, who are within
reach of a market, 10 give this subject
proper thought, and be ready to com
mence the coming spring to make a farm
garden.