The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-19
Autumn Farm and Garden Notes.


Autumn Farm and Garden Notes.
II is time now to start the fall garden.
Put the soil in good condition with pIow
and harrow. using the roller. too, If you
have one. Where the soil is light. as the
result of much sand or vegetable matter.
it is impossible to fit it properly without
using a roller. If we have no regular roller
we use a heavy iron-bound barrel to
firm the soil. Where one has only small
garden such roller and rake can be
made very good substitutes for the harrow
and roller, but one who cultivates an
acre or more cannot well afford to be
without these implements, a general and
proper use of which by southern farmers
would add greatly to the outcome of their
crops. The roller is more essential on
the southern farm, in fact, than II is on
northern farms. The lighter the soil and
the hotter the sun, the more indispensi-
BILE is the roller.
Turnips.-Few farmers of garden
ers in the south fail to sow
turnips. The greater the num-
Der of stock the larger the arear of this
valuable crop should be sown. The farm
er who has once experienced the value
of turnips and cotton seed boiled together
as a ration for mich cows in the winter
and spring need not be told how desira-
bic II is TO nave plenty Oh luIHtpS rum
October to March or still later. With
turnips and cotton seed, little bran and
little good long forage, fodder corn, shucks,
bermuda hay the farmer need not see any
falling off in his product of milk 1--WE VIII
not mention the barley or other grain
patch or the burr or crimson clover patch
in this connection just here. We will
speak of this separately.
1t is very frequently the case that the
rutabagas sown in July or early in Aug
est rot very badly. 1t is not well to trust
10 these entirely. During the latter part
of August and along through September
the Yellow Aberdeen turnip should be
literally sown. 1t is the surest, the best
English or rough turnip that has yet
been discovered. When it roJs or fails to
give satisfaction there will be general
failure of the turnip crop unquestionably
We have commended this variety for the
past twenty-five years, and we have never
had any cause to regret doing so. The
farmer who gets good seeds of it, and they
are true to name, will most certainly con-
tinue to use 1t for his chief reliance there
after For table purposes the COW horn
and the fat Dutch are desirable kinds for
early use. but for late "after-Christmas"
use the Yellow Aberdeen will be found
the most desirable, the most profitable.
BY all means, SOW turnips literally this
fall They are desirable for man and
beast Many will find them a very fair
source of income. Some farmers will find
some profit in growing turnips event az
10 or Is cents a bushel. 1t depends upon
the soil, the manuring and the cultivation
whether the yield will be 100 or six to
eight hundred bushels per acre. We have
always found it advantageous to mix sew
eral varieties together, one-third each
say of the Cowhorn, Flat Dutch ana
Aberdeen drawing out, the hrst-named
from time to time in November and De-
cember-before the very severe freezes
occur, leaving the Aberdeen to the last.
Cold does not affect it inJuriously like
it does the two first mentioned. 1t does
not get "pithy,' either.
The latter part of November, or little
earlier, the soil should be drawn up
around the turnips to the depth of sew
eral inches so as to protect them from
the freezes. If you care to make crop
of wheat extra on the same soil open the
water furrow with scooter and SOW
a half bushel of seed of some good varl-
ETY. of wheat and cover with harrow Cor
a rake. If preferred, oats or barley or
rye or clover can be the extra crop. II
the turnips have been laid by early, as
they may be in October, early in the
month, or by the middle, then oats or the
other crops may be sown. In time past
we have found this an excellent plan.
Wheat, even in three feet drills, can be
made to produce fifteen to twenty-five
crop will come off in time TO allow OF
sweet potatoes being set out in June.
Cut the wheat as low as possible and
bed on the stubbles, after applying 200 or
800 pounds of some good mineral fertilizer
along the stubble. That quantity of cot
ton hull ashes alone used as fertilizer
will make royal crop of potatoes. These
three crops, all in the course of thirteen
or fifteen months, will most certainly be
entitled to the denomination intense cul-
ture." 1t can be done to very great salts
faction. Try it once on one acre. If nc
more, and report the results to the Morn
ing News next fall, and after the pota-
toes have been harvested.
Spinach.-If our reader is an experienced
market, gardener near a fair market, he
need not be advised to sow spinach. 1t Is
a salable and a profitable crop. Certainly
IN every home garden there should be
enough of 1t sown to provide the family
with dish of spinach every day from
November to May. Sow a row or two eacf
of Large Prickly'' the Long Standing
and the New Zealand" From previou:
experience it is probable you have YOU
own preferred kind. If so there is no neeC
Tor suggestions. As we have said before
IN this column Swiss Chard" is another
desirable salad plant. Some prefer 1t Il
spinach. You can sow it now, or yot
can wait and sow it in the early sprint
as succession to the spinach. 1t, thu
chard, stands the hot weather of sprint
ana summer better than spinach. Thu
TWO constitute the very cream of sala'
plants. You will hardly care for mustard
or turnip greens or collards or any othei
boiled dish after once indulging In spinach
and Swiss Chard.
II viii soon be time now to make I
planting of onion sets for early greer
onions. Get the soil In readiness beddini
up high, much higher than for pota
Toes and with rows two feet apart n
ariils along the beds an inch or an incl
ana half deep drop the sets two 10 thre'
inches apart. Cover with a rake and rol
AZ the same time procure fresh seed
ol me Prize Taker or like kind and SOW n
Wen prepared seed beds 10 make plants &
sei out from November 10 February. Thil
- me best way to grow onions. II Is wei