The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-21
IN THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.

Grief Notes of the scnson-J1i king
seeds of Several yarieties-The
"a FertiIizcr-PruningF Fruit Trees
and Plants.
For many years this gardener has made
It practice to mix several varieties to-
gether Of certain vegetable crops where
the object is to grow vegetables either for
home use or for market and when 1T is
not intended 20 save seeds of the same
Frequently we have mixed as many as six
or eight different kinds together, but as
a rule the average has been three. 1t
IS very rare that the plan fails TO give
the very beet satisfaction. Let the tur-
nip raiser try the plan once and he will
be quite sure to repeat the practice. There
are good and sufficient reasons for the
practice. Sometimes a particular vari-
ETY. has matured very imperfect seeds,
perhaps che scotsman may have palmed
off old seed. Seed apparently good, but
have lost their terminating power.
Then there are varieties that differ
greatly in their character of growth
| such a difference as exists, say, in the
long red beet and a turnip beet or al
most fat kind as in the long or cow
horn turnip and the Early Flat Dutch.
One variety may be early, another late
and still another only medium. Difference
of color may not be worthy of considera-
ton for practical purposes, and yet this
difference may count for something in
making an attractive appearance on the
market stand.
Growing Turnips.
In the case Of turnips II is more general
| ly the rule now that the sowing is made
in drills; so that the crop can be culti-
waited with plow and hoe. The old-fash-
| Toned way of sowing broadcast is rarely
| followed. Where 1t is 1t will certainly
pay to mix well together at least four
kinds of turnips such as Flat Dutch,
| Cow-horn, yellow Aberdeen and yellow
| Rutabaga. II at all practicable, we
should add two more, the Early Milan
White and the Kashmere Purple OF this
mixture sow three pounds of seed evenly
as possible per acre. Begin to pull the
turnips as soon as they become large
enough to use. The early kinds viii be
ready for this in a very few weeks after
! they come up. The Aberdeen and the
Rutabaga will be the last to occupy the
| SOIL and in mild winters the last vestage
of them may remain well into the spring.
| Broadcast turnips should always be gone
over with the hoe as early as possible,
| thinning somewhat whenever the plants
are evidently too thick from the seeds be-
! ing washed together by rains and destroy
| ing such weeds as may have taken hold
along with the turnips. AS a general
| thing 1t will pay to sow turnips In drills,
so that they can be cultivated with the
| plow. To make the largest possible crop
on the land the rows need not be wider
apart than IS to 20 inches. Just wide
enough for a sweep of that width to run
| through TWO or three times in Ssptem-
ber On clean, rich land broadcast sowing
is still very satisfactory way of grow
! ing this excellent vegetable; excellent for
man and beast and fowl, and we should
| go back to growing the turnip more ex-
tensively than we have been doing lately.
On good soil under the plan of mixing
varieties it is easy enough to make 500
bushels of turnips from first to last.
Twice this can be made with good atten-
ton to manuring and cultivatiug, Tur-
nips boiled with cotton ssed.si to which
some wheat bran is added is an, excellent
nilk-producing food, and there Is every
reason why every farmer and gardener
should grow a goodly sized area OF them.
More anon of mixing seeds q, of either
| plants.