The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-05
ANSWERS TO
INQUIRIES
Questions on All Sorts of Sub
jects For the Farm.
SCIENTIFIC, PRACTICAL ANSWERS

The Rest Time to Apply Fertilizers For
CottOn-Garden Truck That Can lie
Planted In February-A Remedy For
the "AppIs Tree Aphis"-rhree Balanced
RatiOns For Mich Cows.
QUESTION. a newcomer from
Wisconsin, l would like to know what
garden truck can be planted In Febru-
airy. Are there any insect enemies to
vegetables at that early season? II 80,
how can prevent their ravages?
ANswER-In South Georgia, where
you live, you can plant in the garden
by Feb / all the harder vegetables,
such as green peas, onion sets, or onion
seed either, turnips. cabbage, spinach,
beets, lettuce, radishes, carrots, pars-
nips, satisfy, etc. Should there come
very cold weather when the plants are
just coming up you might protect them
with coat of leaves or pine straw, to
be taken off as soon as the weather
moderated. Irish potatoes should be
planted at this time, and also mustard
and collards
About the middle of the month, plant
some good variety of garden corn, and
for succession, plant patch every two
weeks until June; also plant successive
crops of garden peas every ten days or
two weeks until the last of April Many
persons in your part of the state plant
their gardens in January, but from a
long residence in the same latitude, l
am convinced that from Feb. to 10 is
the best time for this purpose There
is no piece of ground on any farm that
pays half as well, or that affords one
tenth part the satisfaction, that is de.
rived from well prepared and we'll
cultivated vegetable garden, and yet it
is too much the custom for our farmers
to turn over the garden to the care of
the women folks, grudgingly letting
them have "a load or two of stable
manure, all of which, they think,
should go to1the raising Of cotton. A
half acre devoted to the garden will fur
nish palatable' and nutritious food for q
family for the greater part of the year,
and yet how few good gardens do we
meet with i'll the country.
Be sure to highly enrich your ground,
and break it from 10 to IL inches. or
even deeper if practicable. Plant in
rows clear .across the garden, so that
cultivation, can be done with the pillow,
then workFwell, and though accustomed
as you are'to the rich soil of Wisconsin,
you will be- astonished at the quantity,
quality and variety of vegetables that
can be produced. ON q half acre of Geor-
gia soil.
There are few, if any. insect pests to
contend with so early in the season.
Should the cut worms commence their
work, go over your garden very early
every morning, and wherever you find
plant cut off, scratch down in the
ground and you will almost certainly
find the worm within inch of the sur
face; when found you can have the sat-
isfaction of crushing the life out of him,
or better still, throw him to the chick
ems. There are other plans suggested
for getting rid of the cut worm. but this
is the most effectual and therefore the
best. Should you find any insect at.
lacking your young tnrnips. radishes or
cabbage plants, dust over them some
ashes or plaster, or best of all. some
pyrethreum, or insect powder. The lat.
ter being expensive, should be mixed
with four times its weight of common
flour and then kept tightly closed for "a
hours before using. You will find this
very effective. State Agricultural De-
partment.