The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-10
The Scrap Book.

How Salt Helps Fertility-While the
soda and chlorine of salt have no manural
properties there is often decided effect
from using salt as topdressing for land
that has organic matter. Only very small
amounts are used per acre. and thus used
the salt hastens decomposition, and this
sets free whatever carbonic acid gas or
ammonia the organic matter contains.
Salt is usually thought of as a preserVa-
tive. 1t is so when in amounts large
enough 10 pickle what il is applied to.
When carbonic acid gas is liberated, that
acts as a solvent on the inert potash and
phosphate that the soil contains, thus Of
ten serving in place of those minerals at
much less cost than If they were bought
and applied
Small Celery Best.-There is a great diff
ference in the quality of celery, and this
makes the size a matter of comparatively
little account. The giant varieties of eel
cry are now superseded in favor of dwarf
kinds that are crisp and nutty in flavor.
Something, however, depends on the :oil
and method of growing. A moist soil
makes the celery grow much fuller of its
native juices than one which is dry. The
soil can hardly be too rich, for the quicker
the growth the better it is, whatever the
in growth becomes stringy. and if it is
checked by drought 1t will have compare
lively little Of the characteristic celery
flavor.
Planting Cabbag es.-The Arkansas ex-
pertinent station last year set out one lot
of cabbage plants at the same depth they
grew in the bed, or with the first leaves
about four inches above the soil From
these twenty-five plants they grew six
teen heads, which weighed thirty-four
pounds Another lot of twenty-five plants
was set down to a point half way between
where they stood in the bed and the first
leaf, or two inches deeper than the first
These made twenty-one heads that weigh
ed seventy Eight and three-fourths pounds
The third lot of twenty-five plants was
set four inches deeper than the first or
down to the first leaves. These gave TWEEN
ty-four heads, which weighed 102 pounds
gain of sixty eight pounds in favor OF
deep setting The yield was exactly three
times that of those set shallow or lust
as they grew in the bed This would be
an important difference where one was
setting plants by the thousand. as soma
gardeners and farmers do
In growing the small early cabbapaa
which are grown in the South, thew usu-
ally set them about two feet apart each
way, which would allow more than Oo11
plants to the acre, and this difference he.
tween shallow and deep setting. if carried
out on 10000 plants would result in a
crop of 40SOO on the deep set plants and
1880 on those set shallow.
Prepare for Turnips: Land should no
prepared for the rutabaga and turntn
crops. Let it be well plowed and finely
worked, and be enriched with fermvard
manure and acid phosphate. Rutabagas
ana turnips are best grown in rows about
two feet apart. This gives the onnortu~
nifty OF working them with the cultivator
several times Rutabagas should he sown
at the end of this month and carly An An
gust, whilst turnips may be sowi1 a month
later we would urge upon all who keen
cattle and sheep especially thai thev
should make an effort to have a good SIM
ply of these roofs for winter feeding
WHIST in themselves not showing Nv
analysis high nutriive value vet exne
rience has proved that stock fed with them
IS better able 10 utilize other feeds of n
higher nutritious value, and thus mako a
better return on the cost of feeding. They
also tend largely to keep stock in good
heahh ana with good appeutes Two or
thIee POUNDS OF seed will SOW an acre if
drlli Is used. If sown broadcast. about
twice that quantity Will be needed , The
plants should be thinued out so \ 6 10 stand
ABOUT nine inches apart in rows. If from
bled with the turnip fly when first corn
mencing 10 grow dust with quick lime In
which little kerosene has been mixed
From hfteen TO twenty tons Of rutabaoas
can easily be grown to the acre. We have
grown from thirty 10 thirty-dye tons TO
the acre frequently, sp