The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-20
THE NEWS AND observer TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST 20 1901

starve for years before thew can make y
living at their profession. At the college
in Raleigh, the great majority of young
men from the farms come to study
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mechanical work or electricity or engi-
neering. Some OF them are fitted for
these pursuits and will succeed. but /
fear that the mapjority will have to go
back to the farm without the educa-
ton that would have fitted them for
success there. Some day when the
farmers comprehend what there is in
agriculture i'll the South they will send
their boys to study it and keep them
mere to build up the State, instead of
roaming the earth in other lines for
which their State has fitted them and
then lost their services. But / fear l
ON neglecting my correspondents For
tunately they are fewer than usual.
Several friends have written to ask
how to keep the early crop of potatoes
grown here. l have to answer that in
all the central and eastern part of the
State it cannotb done, and the early
potatoes should be disposed of as soon
as possible or used for the growing of
a late crop which can easily be kept
A Rutherford county friend sends a
sample of grass for name and saws that
it came where he sewed Bermuda grass
seed but it looks so much like a grass
common there that he fears it NAV not
be Bermuda. Doubtless he has Bermu-
da, which in some sections is known as
wire grass. The specimen sent is Ber-
muda grass, and | doubt it's value in the
mountain country. It's true place is in
the coast region of the cotton country,
and there it is the best grass that can
be grown for pasture.
A Mecklenburg friend wants to know
how to propagate the Logan berry. The
Logan berr yis cross between a rasp-
berry and a blackberry. tt looks like a
large red blackberry and tastes like a
raspberry. 1t is very slow plant to
increase as it does not sucker like the
blackberry and will not grow from root
cuttings like the raspberry. The only
way to increase it is to have some
plants established in pots, and start
them to growing in the warm green
house in February and then take off the
young shoots and root them in a prop
agating bed. Hence it will be seen that
only those who have the facilities and
skill can do much with them. But the
plant is hardly worth the trouble, as it
is a very shy bearer. l have had three
or four plants for three years and have
had in that time about dozen or less
berries. 1t is simply a curiosity.
A Buncombe country friend sends
some terrapin bugs, Murgantia Histronica,
and wants to know how to kill them
as they are destroying his cabbages.
These bugs are suckers and can not be
killed with poison. Trap crops of mus
tard around the cabbage will attract
them and then you can sprinkle kero-
sene on them and kill bugs and plants
too.
Ahousekeeper swantst know how to
kill bed bugs. Dissolve half d pound of
soap and a quarter of a poGl:d of salt
peter in gallon jar of warrn rain water
and shake it till quite milky. Then
with a sewing machine oil can inject the
liquid into every place where the bugs
can hide. and it will kill bugs and eggs
Keep this up at short intervals and
you will keep clear ofthem.
From Forsythe County: II have a
lawn, part sown@in so and part in 1900
with the mixture you advised me. Have
been cutting every ten days. Shall
continue the moving or let it seed"
Never let grass seed on a Lawn. Seed
forming is an exhaustive process and
weakens the plant. Regular moving
with the lawn mower is the way to keep
a good lawn. OF course N very dry
weather the moving must be suspended
for a while, but as fast as the grass gets
tall enough for the move" to bite, cut
it and let all the cut grass lie. Dur Col
lege lawns are treated in this way and
have been for twelve years and there is
no better grass i'm the State.