The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-02

list as chief enemy. He visits the patch
when the melons are nearly grown anu
best, a mouth fun out of each satisfying
his wants or curiosity. l have tried Va
rious devices, ana he has sooner or ia'e e,;;
solved the problem oil theh an
for me, but ore, to wit: Take
d stake eight feet long. nail
piece four feet long across the TOP To
each end OF this cross piece fasten with d
string about two feet long a circular piece
of bright tin about twelve inches ia oianl-
eter. Set up this stake in your patch
and no crow viii come nigh i. Inc WIND
Keeps these tins constantly revolving, ana
the reflection keeps mis- crowship away.
For the fled mice that scratch up the
seed and eat them, / poison "A quantity
of seed ana place Jne or two on top OF
the Mills when planting.
To poison the seed soak them about
n day. This makes the hull soft. Make
an incision in the hull with knife and
insert some of the poison. Sc stryehnine,
arsenic or rough on rats ie careful
that you do not insert any Of the poison
in your own cuticle.
on several occasions. On June 18th TO
| 17th the rain fail was very excessive, and
was repeated July Sth TO 18th. From the
effect Of these two heavy rains my crop
never fully recovered. Stiff clay soil,
such mine is. and prepared as outlined
in this article. need but very little rain.
My crop last year might have been bet
ter with shallow breaking. hut this was
the first year ! ever had excessive rain
falls on my crop during the summer sea-
son. After July 18th, we had 10 more
rain till autumn.
Harvesting.
Tho crop commenced 40 ripcn August
list and continued for about thirty days.
/ I hauled them 10 local markets and sold
on the streets. My melons being So much
larger than any others here. J have
monopoly whenever 1 begin to sell AS
keep all imperfect melons cut or while
small l have but very few unmarNetable
melons from first crop. What few there
are l manufacture into watermelon cider
Tho second crop being always inferior 20
the first. If not marketable. Z also pul
into cider. Vines which We're planted early
always, IL seasons are suitable, make a
second crop for me. This cider is fcr-
mented somewhat similar to grape wine.
and will keep for any length vi time. Thus
no part OF my crop goes - waste.
The cost of making gallon OF elder,
including sugar etc, but exclusive" Of
melons, is about 12ia cents. a thirty-iive-
pound melon VIII make about two gallons.
IL sells very readily here for 81 II gallon.
] sold all had pat up, u" gallons, before
Christmas. Ii is - new drink the process
for fermenung having only been known
for two years past
/ save the seed out of my largest melons
only, none less than htty pounds. the
Jumbo much larger. and have found. 10y
experiments, that the rows Ci seed next
10 the heart are somewhat a." best No
melon, however favorable it's environ
Wents or rich the soil. viii grow very lit
tie larger than its parent. 3 have had "a
great many people to tell me thAt the
seed out OF g small melon would -roW aS
large a melon as seed from a large One,
if given equal chances. haEe found
out better. TO MY cost. AS well expect a
large horse. sired and ioaleA by pony
parents. Any melon can. however. be
grown larger year hy year hy proper st-
lection of seed AMI judIcious 'uiiitHiiHn,
tin a limit is reached Any Tong melon.
such as mine are, viii GroW lLFstf imam
round one.
the Texas pumpkin vine growing $50 ia~t
as 10 Wear the pumrhiu out , have e.