The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-05-03
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they will stand more chance to produce sound
tomatoes than the early vines. if they get plenty
of rain soon. Taken altogether, the outlook for
the truck farmer this season is truly discourag
ing. hear many farmers express their determi-
nation to plant more corn and SOW more grain
and set out more sweet potatoes. Rye and bar
ley will be tried in this section on uplands this
fall, and some experiments with buckwheat will
be made; clover and timothy will also be tried
But different crops will call for machinery, and
many farmers have no money to purchase tools
Moving machines grain drills, harvesters, sulky
rakes and threshing machines will be necessary
to carry on such farming.
But to return to the work on hand for May
potatoes are doing fine on bay land and promise
a good crop. They should be kept clean; q slight
hling should be- done at once as the crop in this
section will be ready to harvest the last of this
month.
Corn is looking fine and should be worked at
least every two weeks. If we'll worked the corn
will make in dry weather and be ready to lay by
on the first OF June. The last working will be an
excellent time to plow cow peas in the corn-fed
and will pay well, if the land is hammock.
cow PEAS.
Now is the time to plant COW peas where there
is vacant land or where other crops have been
injured by unfavorable weather.
CABBAGE.
Finish harvesting the cabbage, and where corn
is planted in between pull up the old cabbage
stalks and carry them away. as they will injure
the corn or potatoes planted between the rows.
BEANS.
The late beans will be in this mouth, and as the
weather is getting hot. care should be taken to
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until they get cool before packing. II they are
put into the crates while warm from the hot sun
it may cause them to arrive in market in bad
order.
TOMATOES.
Tomatoes should lay spread tolerably thin, at
least six to eight hours after picking before they
are wrapped and packed. Then all that have
been injured by the worm will show it, and the
sound ones may be easily picked out. Tomatoes
to bring good price should be well sorted and
none sent to market but the best. 1t does not
pay to send poor truck to market. 1t costs Just
as much to send the poor ones by crate as it does
the BEST and often causes the best to bring poor
prices.
CELERY
This is good time to SOW celery seed if you
have not already done Prepare bed in
in a good moist piece Of ground made rich,
and SOW in rows about q foot apart in drills
Sow very thin and either cover the bed with old
fertilizer sacks or make a low frame aud use lum-
Der, old rails brush to keep off the hot sun
unless you have coldframe vacant, such as WAS
spoken of in November issue. glance over
that number of your file will sharpen your mem
ory and save great deal of writing.
When plants up clean out grass and weeds,
and if needed thin out plants to give others
chance to grow. When three inches high transplant
from four to six inches apart in the bed or in
other words, thin outplants in beds and set them
out in other ground, and in from three to four
weeks they will be ready to put in feld-shape
where wanted. ....
There many ways OF cultivating celery
that person must use his own pleasure as to
the method. Some cultivate level and some
plant in trenches-that is to dig trench foot
wide II to Is inches Deep and set plants Is to 90
inches apart. When the plant gets IL to Is inches
high and begins to bunch then fill in the trench
with earth, an inch or two at time, until the
trench is full and when the ground is all level let
the celery grow up as long as it will and upst