The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-25

Farm Notes.
Plant Strawberries Early.-So soon as
the strawberry runners have fairly rooted
it is best to take them up and set them
in new beds rather than wait until the
plants have attained large size. The small
er plant has much less leaf surface ex-
posed to evaporation, and it will become
well rooted more quickly than will those
set later in The season. If the runners
are cut as fast as they put forth from
the transplanted plant it win make a
large crown full of buds for next years
bearing. All the buds for fruit in the
strawberry are provided for the year be
fore it is to bear, and no amount of spring
cultivation can increase them.
Volunteer Grain Crops.-One of the evil
dences of the wastefulness of grain COM
mon in old-time harvesting operations is
found in the fact that when the country
was new a growth of grain from scattered
seeds left on the ground was quite usual
thing the following year. Sometimes, in
California these volunteer crops, as
they were called, were larger than the one
for which seed was sOwn. But this plan,
besides being eXhausting, developed both
insect enemies and fungouS diseases, SO
that it had to be abandoned. The Hessian
fly in wheat could be easily prevented from
propagating in all Northern ATTITUDES by
not sowing 1t early enough to let the leaf
get up before the first frost. But there is
always some grain scattered in harvesting
and this comes up and offers the Hessian
fly place for depositing her eggs early IN
the fan, raising one brood then that will
through the winter and attack the wheat
next spring.
Stable Manure in Summer.-It Is much
harder keeping stable manure from being
wasted In summer than it Is in winter.
Even in small amounts, manure will dry
up and be wasted very rapidly in hot
weather. If a large bulk of IL Is piled any,
where, the heat win be so great that il
win eXpel all moisture from the manure,
and it will be fire fauged. In such cOndi-
ton all it's valuable elements, except those
that are mineral, will be destroyed. We
have often seen heaps of stable manure
in fall that were so burned up In the in
side that scarcely any fertIizing value re-
manned. II is far better TO spread such ma
nure on grass land, as soon as the hay
crop is off no matter whether the field
is to be plowed in the spring or not. Rains
will wash down to the soil all the fertiliz-
ing material so fast as fermentation makes
it available, and the manure acting as
mulch will keep the surface soil moist UNI
der it when everywhere else the grass viii
be as dry as hay.
Growing Celery.-The best soil for cell
cry is adeep and moist loan, made as ricn
as possible. If you have black, mucky
land that is easy 10 keep moist in mid
summer but is not filed with stagnant
water at any time you can easily make it
rich enough for celery A good dressing
of wood ashes or sulphate of potash will
help make the latent fertility In the black
muck available. But we would advise
you to apply some nitrate of potash at
least TO the beds where the celery plants
With or tran
paintings before they are set in the open
ground, will secure strong, stocky plants
which will bear transplanting without in
jury. Very much depends on having
plants that are thick at the base. Then
cut off two-thrds of the leaf growth,
clipping the large leaves so as to expose
very little surface to the winds until the
plants are we'll rooted. If they then do
not grow rapidly, apply water in which
some nitrate of soda has been dissolved.
This will insure rapid and crispy growth.
Do not begin to earth up the celery unui
cool nights come. But before this time
collar Of pasteboard may be wound
around the plants, and its bottom set IN
the ground This will begin the blanch-
ing process. In some places the blanch-
ing is mostly done by setting boards
foot wide against the rows of celery leav-
ing just enough room at top for the leaves
to grow through. A. c.
Green Manuring in the south-The or
binary recommendation to turn under
green crops as fertilizer, when they have
attained their fun growth as all right for
the cold climates, but in Southern lal-
tudes, if a mass of green vegetation is COW
cred with soil during the warm weather,
fermentation is so rapid that acid conf
pounds are formed which prove poisonous
to growing crops. The effects are better
when the ferulizing crop is allowed to re,
main on the ground until winter or unll
the land is to be prepared for the next
crop. Tests at the South Carolina station
show that better results with legumes were
attained by allowing the vines to cure as
for hay, then turn them under. Plats upon
which vines were turned under green IN
August gave no increase to the succeed
ing crop. 1t is further found that in no
case did the value of the increase in inc
next crop due to leaving the vines upon
the surface, exceed that where the vines
we're allowed to mature and the crop "a'
cut and used as hay In southern loclh-
ties two renovating crops, peas and GRIM
son clover, can be grown in one year by
judicious rotation and alternating nitr0-
genous collecting plants with nitrogen con-
sumers, rapid improvement In the mecnau-
Ical condition and the chemical compouhIS
of the soil may soon be affected.-tafm
and Home.