The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-25
GARDEN AND FIELD Possibilities

The following correspondence to the
Aberdeen Examiner is worth a place
in the scrap book Of every farmer.
Utilizing land to the best advantage Is
one of the great secrets Of successful
farming. Much of the advice here
given comes too late for this year, but
1t can be taken advantage OF next year:
Editors ExAMISER:
II am no big farmer or truck raiser
but | want to offer a few remarks that
may draw out other and better infor-
nation from more experienced sources.
In the garden mustard and lettuce can
be planted in January or February, in
open seed beds 4 feet wide and rs long
as you wish. 10 April these will have
been used, clear away and spade up the
bed, adding some good rotted barnyard
manure, then plant squashes and culti-
vate well; mulch the vine with grass or
leaves and you will have squashes till
frost. Plant onion sets in December
two drills In a row; 10 March plant
corn between the onion drills in the
middle Of the row. Take up the onions
in June and work out the corn. After
you have eaten the coru or sold it in
the roasting ear take the fodder from
the stalks; work up the land with a hoe,
don't need any more fertilizer; then
plant pole beans about 6 or s inches
from the corn stalks, LIST to Goth of
July, and you will have beans till frost
in your old corr stalks, three paying
crops on the same land. In the same
row with spring turnips two drills to
the row in turnips) plant tomatoes,
okra or red pepper; take the turnips
of In April or May and work out your
plants, II tomatoes. fertilize a little,
working it in with a hoe. After early
May peas which are best for this eli
mate, plant egg plants or butter beans;
plant cautaloups or cucumbers in same
row with bunch heans, 4or 5 feet apart.
In May or first of June the valentine
bean will be out OF date; pull up the
stalks and cultivate your cucumbers or
caDtaloups, they will need no fertilizirg
or they will fire up" In July or Au-
gust put your remaining cabbage
into kraut or quarter the heads and
pickle In brine for winter use. Break
up the old cabbage ground. harrow it
well and SOW turnips 10 drills; take the
turnips off in December, sell or bank
them like sweet potatoes; put more
manure on the land broadcast and bed
up for spring planting again, as it is
generally too wet 10 plant in January
There are lots of other vegetables that
may be doubled up this way and the
same land made 10 produce two OF
three good crops the same year, but il
would take too much space to enumer.
ate them.
IN the cotton field one row OF cottor
and one row of Irish potatoes. both
well fsrtilized. will make 100 bushel.
Of potatoes and one bale Of cotton t,
the acre. The potatoes planted in Jan
uary In every alternate row aud takeI
off in May, the cotton planted in Apri
and the Irish potato row thrown TO tn,
cotton row Ia June. The rows original
y being q feet apart, this gives tn
cJtton u 3 foot" row, and We hav,
seen the limbs lap in the row on ordi
nary cotton land. OF course the manur,
that was under the Irish potatoes ha,
much To do with it. In the cor feel,
on fresh land, IL common crib full O
''punkins" can be raised on "A few acre
OF land without 10 the least interferin,
with the yield OF corn"
Yours,
ONE WHO HAS TRIED.