The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-12-10
Some Questions Answered.

A w. Westbrook, Fairplay, Ark--Wlli
YOU let me enter your department aIIu
answer some questions, and question some
answers % "Old Subscriber, at hoou-
town. S c., wants to know II three-yGdr-
old cotton seed would come up Il me
have been kept 'ry and We're Souliu 81
the start they will all come up KNOW
by experience. Two years ago was
short of planting seed and my Wiie haG
about a bushel in basket she had use use,
for hen nest for live years 10 my hlioNi-
edge | planted them. they come up aS
good a stand as | ever saw, ana mace pet
ter cotton than planting from new SEED
(O Mr. Miller Columbus, Texas. want
ed TO know how to make honey vinegar.
Take one part honey, three parts water.
mix and shake well. Tt viii make good
vinegar in from -hree to i've weeks, ac-
cording TO the temperature.
3D have seen several inquiries IN
Farm and Field this year wanting 10
know how to make apple vinegar. rake
apples. mash them up out 10 one Salioh
OF apples, add one gallon OF water, or 10
one gallon OF cider ada one gallon water,
if aDDleS are used squeeze and strain as
soon as they work. hppics or cider work.
ed this way will make good vinegar IN
from three to five weeks. OF course this
is not pure apple vinegar. but IT IS strong
enough for all ordinary purpo es, such as
picking. sauce and so forth
ca | want to know what is the name
of the earliest irish potato of good size
and eating qualities TO plant in this coun-
try middle ArkansaS). We have q pOta-
to calico the Early Triumph that was TWO
weeks earlier than others when we first
begun to plant it, but ii Is as late now
as any and has lost its color, which was
deep red.
%. | want to know how grape vines are
propogated.
Comments Jur correspondent says:
IF 3-years old cotton seed were sound
at the start and were kept dry they will
all come up" Probably he did not count
I'm n given number of seeds and then
counted the lumber of plants that re-
suited. / have heard it claimed that well
kept 2-year old cotton seed would come
up, except such Of them as are faulty.
and that the plants would be more Wig
orous. But | 20 not remember that any
one had advised the planting OF 3-year
old seed. As a general rule the seeds
of plants gradually lose their vitality
(D do not ealI at this moment what
poI9plsuoo Mou 81 olglod qslII 10 Al7lJuA
the earliest.
(5) Grape vines are prop2 gated mainly
by cuttings of the previous years we'll
matured canes. These are made about
Is inches long, or aSS, and inserted in the
ground in a slanting position so that the
uppermOSt eye is about at thc surface.
The cuttings strike" better when set in
sandy soil. Some varieties are propagat-
ed by laying, which consists in laying a
cane down In "A trench several inches i'm
depth ana covering " n .Oil at inter
walls, leaving an eye exposed about every
u to j. inches. After the branches put
forth from these g. grow 4p six or
eight inches, or more, in height the soil
Is filled in around them. Other eyes put
ting forth from the covcTy,. portions are
destroyed as soon as they appear When
year Old take up the roc tee. vines and
cut them apart and plant. PrOpagating
by cuttings IS more easily and rapidly
effected and is to be prefe. red. except in
varieties of the SCUDpcrIDng TYNE