The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-07

then roof the trench over with boards.
Dip the roots and balls of adhering
earth into water when setting, but be
careful to get no water on stems or
leaves, for it will cause them to rot.
Black seeded onions are hard to keep
in the Virginia climate, hence, unless
one has a good ready market they
should not be grown in laFge quantity.
Growing the young plants under glass
and transplanting to the field when the
size OF a lead pencil ia good practice.
It avoids hand wedding and gives
better stand. better yield and an earlier
crop. But a number Of years of ex
periments convlhces the station that
the potato onion is the most profitable
one for Virginia. The station plants
the bulbs close together in shallow
marks fourteen inches apart, using
saven bushels Of seed on one twenty
fifth of an acre, or 175 bushels per acre.
From this small plot $50 worth OF green
bunch onions were sold aud enough
ripe onions were gathered for next
years seeding This would give an in-
come OF $500 per acre and seed for next
crop, and tde same land can be utilized
for q late crop Of CELERY or cabbage
after the onions are eff It must be
very heavily manured.
The station has not found. dwarf
pess earlier than the medium sorts, 18
Go "a inches high, while the latter are
much heavier yieI3ers than the dwarfs.
rne wrinkIed peas are Of better quality
chan smooth cnes. Alpha. Alaska,
Daap0t, Early Hancock, Nonparei',
Eclipse, First of All, Danial O'Rourke
and Rural New Yorker are good. Non
pare.l is q one crop variety, all the pods
maturing at the same time. Drill pe8s
thick in double rows in rich soil.
( OF the old snap beans, Extra Early
Valentine planted every week or two
for succession, is best. A new variety
called Seeding No II, received from
A n. Jones, Newark, N. j, was earlier
aud batter than Valentine. Burpee's
New Stringless is another new variety
Of great promise.
Many years OF teasing show that fer
Virginia at least, Henderson's D Narf
Lima is best of ell Limas.
Adams Extra Early, Nonesuch and
Evergreen are best varieties of sugar
corn. This is a delicious, wholesome
vegetable easily produced in large
qGantity, and should be much more
generally grown than it is.
Asparagus is another delicious and
health.giving vegetable, easily grown,
but generally neglected. In finely
pulveriz9d, deep, rich soil, throw out
deep burrows by running turn plow
both ways. Set one or two year old
plants four feet epart in these turrows,
the burrows being four or five feet
apart. Flants are set on fat hills made
in the furrow, spreading the roots out
we'll. AS the plants grow, fill in the
furroW, so that when the ground is
worked to level the crowns of the
plants will be four to six inches below
the surface. Apply rotted manure
heavily every year, in early spring,
working it slightly into the soil. A
liberal application of kainit is also ad
Level culture gives green
If white is preferred, ridge
up the rows six or eight inches. Co.
lumbian White does not require ridg
ing. Palmetto and Conover's Colossal
are both good varieties. Bulletin so
gives elaborate directions for construct
ing hotbed.
GRATING THE APPLE.
This is the subject of bulletin IS of
Kansas Station, which contains many
photographs of trees, one, two and
three years from the graft, taken up
with all their roots intact, showing the
root systems and unions resulting from
various methods Of grating.
The controversy which arose several
years ago over the relative merits Of
whole roots and piece roots, and long
or short root pieces, long or short
scione, and grating low or high On
Seeding stock, etc, led the Kansas,
TO enter upon q series OF eIab0r
ate experiments, which have been car
ried through the intervening years
Judge Wellhouse, Of that State, the
most extensive individual apple grover
iu the world, has also experimental
for many years in the same line, and
this bulletin gives the results reached
by him also.
The COZ clusions arrived at are as fol
lows: Whole root gratis possess no
advantage over piece roots. On the
contrary. unless the whole root stock