The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-24
TransplantinE.

Raising vegetables in boxes or frames
and then transplanting them later is be-
coming more general in our farming ev-
cry year, says the Germantown Tele-
graph We find that better results are
obtained with great many of our plants
in this way. and future experiments
may show us that some of our pants now
sown in the open garden will do better
if started in boxes and then transplauted
The so-called new onion culture has little
more for its recommendation than that
of transplanting instead of sowing direct
in drills early in the spring We can
give much better conditions to the seeds
for termination in a small place than
when drilled into the field where they are
to remain permanently. We can also
avoid extremes of weather or moisture in
this way until the plants have fair start
in life, so that they are better able to re-
sist rain, cold or drought
Success in transplanting, however, de-
ponds upon several small points that can
not be emphasized too much, for careless
transplanting is very apt to ruin the
whole crop. The plants should be kept
out of the ground as short a time as pos
sible, and while removing them to the
field keep them moist and in the shade.
A few hours of the hot sun may diminish
their vitality so that they will never re-
cover A cool dayor late afternoon should
be selected. A cloudy day right after a
storm is a most excellent time for plant
ing, although it is not necessary to wait
for such weather. However, there is con-
siderable danger run by transplantiug
right in the middle of the day, when the
sun is hot. Quite percentage of the
plants will be injured either while they
are out of the ground or after they have
been transplanted. In buying plants
from any distance, danger of losing some
of them is pretty strong. 1t generally
pays to raise the plants somewhere on the
farm. 1t can be done at half the cost of
buying them.
In transplanting, the holes for the
plants need TO be puddled thoroughly
The plants dipped into this water will
have sufficient water around their roots
to keep them growing. But when trans
planting is done on large scale this be-
comes very laborious work First, the
holes must be made, and then the water
poured in by hand and the plants set in
position. The very work of carrying the
water to fill the holes for an acre of plants
is quite stupendous A better way is to
puddle the plants before they are taken
TO their separate holes. Dig large hole
convenient to the field and fill it half full
of very rich COW manure, and pour
over this several pals of water.
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that the roots will all be covered, shad-
ing them from the sun, and take them
out only as needed for planting. In this
way manure and water will cling to the
roots and Keep them moist for a long
time The plants get good nourishment
from the manure, so that they start i'm
mediately into growing
After the plants are put into their
places in the field the soil needs to be
pressed around their roots very firmly
and carefully. The firmer the plants are
fixed into the soil the less destructive
action can the sun have on them. After
they have been planted try to pull them
up with one leaf. If they resist well they
are all right.