The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-24
FARM AND GARDEN

which overlap well on the delicious
blackberry. and then grapes until De
cember. Meantime an abundance OF
canned fruit to last till fresh berries
come again next season, says X NJ
Kellogg in the Farm, Field and Fire
side. These are not the stale berries
bought on the market, but fresh and
clean directly from the garden and
worth double as much as the stale ones
bought in town.
/ think I know something of the cost
of growing berries, and While l con-
cede that they cannot be grown as
cheaply in a small way as the Whole-
sale grower would produce them, yet
will contract to pay the hired man his
wages. buy the plants and do all the
work connected with them till they are
ready to pick, at two cents per quart
for strawberries, raSpberries, currants
and gooseberries: blaclQberrieS for three
cents and grapes for half cent per
pound, and have them all ready for
picking. and the latter work can be
done for less trouble than go can go
to the grocer for them.
Besides, if purchased, you must pro-
duce something else to get the money.
Then you must pay for picking at least
two cents per quart, boxes and COM
missions to dealers or at least three
cents more. You buy crate and carry
them home and before you can eat
them or can them up, they are stale
and have lost their flavor. You nave
so many that you are rushed to get
rid of them before they spoil, and eat
too many at once, often bringing on
serious disorders, and then go without
for q considerable time; in fact, most
farmers go without them pretty much
altogether.
In the eyes of the law it is not a
crime to deprive your family of these
cheap, God-given. delicious luXurieS,
but it is an offense against them, and
the rush of the boys from the farm
to the cities where they see these
things in great profuSlon. bears evil
dence that it ras more to do with the
breaking up of families so early in life
than any other one thing. steady
diet of ''hog and hominy," pork and
tomatoes, makes both boys and girls
restless and they long for a change.
DIR. Vaughan, Dean of the Medical
Faculty of the University at Ann Ar
Dor in lecture before the State Hor-
ticultural Society, pointed out that
there We're many families seriously af-
fected by a disease closely resembling
scurvy. and the only effectual remedy
yet found were the rich fruit acids
All such diseases had yielded promptly
tation of your bills for medicines dur
ing the year will show it to be con-
siderably more than the cost of the
fruit garden, and SO in many cases
you can take your choice at the same
price; so unless you really enjoy grunt-
ing and sickness, you should begin at
once to prepare for the spring plant
ing.
Select the highest and best piece of
i !,
house as possible so the good wife and
children can step out and pick the
berries just before the meal Have all
rows long so the work can be done
with the horse with as little hand work
as possible. Draw out at once and
spread a coat of well-rotted manure,
or il you do not have this, use fresh
manure and let the winter rains wash
the juices down into. and incorporate
should be raked off and not plowed
under, as it seriously Injuries the
ground in case of drouth.
Next to the fence set a row of dSpar-
agus. Fifty or a hundred plants will
supply all the family can eat and it
is fully equal to green peas. Five feet
from this row and three feet apart,
set twenty-five Palmer, fifty Older or
Conrath and twenty-five Gregg black
y.
set twenty-five Hansell, twenty-five
Marlboro and fifty Cuthbert red rasp-
berries. Another row, same distance,
set twenty-five Western Triumph and
twenty-five Taylor blackberries and
then a row of grapes; two Early Ohio,
two Moore's Early. five Delaware and
Meyer. ten Worden, ten Concord and a
| few Agawam for early winter This
is the permanent garden which should
| Ia ST several wears
Now we set for strawberries. fifty
! Warfield. twenty-five Bederwood, fifty
Haverland, twenty-five Lovett. fifty
Greenville and fifty Enhance. With
/ this put such vegetables as you need.
I am perfectly we'll aware that I
have provided for several times as
much as any family of six can eat. but
I wanted the children to have some
thing to take to town and sell for their
pin money. You will be astonished to
/ see how much money you can pick up
\ from such a garden, to say nothing of
/ interesting the children in the work
| and the general good cheer it will in
! fuse into the home life.