The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-19
Miscellaneous.
A PLAN FOR THE BOYS.
How Those on the Farm Can Make Some
Money.

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by A. H. Craig, Mukw nago, Wis in Farm.
ers' VO Gel
One thing [ neglected TO tell you
in regard to growing oabbages. Do
not press your fingers against the
oheads to see il thev are hard enough
for market. WhyP Because they
are liable TO rot as a result of that
pressure. L the head looks all right,
or suitable, pick it, but do not feel
of it as is often done when seeking
market stock.
Now, viii q you are doing a little
market gardening why not raise a
few G plants and celery? As celery
is a delicious vegetable (of course, it
isn't a vegetable) every garden
should furnish a small supply for the
household It is easily grown and
when properly cared for is very
crisp. Many gardeners recommend
the self blanohing varieties, because
it requires less labor to produce it
You want the best, don't you? OF
course you do. You want stalks
that are full of Juice and will break,
or snap, like young carrots. Dry,
tough celery is no good. 1t may be
a little more work TO follow my ad-
vice, but once try it and you will
say it will produce the finest you
ever saw.
When your plants T ready TO set
take a team and plOw a regular dead
furrOw in your garden. About three
times across will make it as deep as
is necessary. Now go to your hog
pen and get the hest fertilizer in ex-
istence and scatter it freely in your
trench Hoe in dirt enough to cover
up nicely. In doing so make a bank
so you u pl ace the plants against
it with roots quite low down, then
pull the dirt up on the plants so as
to cover nicely. The moist counda
ton for the roots will aid materially
in keeping the plants from dry ing
up. Soon they will start TO grow
and you will be surprised TO see how
fast they will sh rot up. When they
are about eighteen inches above the
ground we will bank them for blanch-
ing. Take old boards, fence boards
are good, and bring them up on each
side of the row and tack on at each
end and mi idle a three-inoh end of
a lsth. The ends of the celery will
stick up a little above the board,
and being strong stalks will hold the
boards while you hoe the dirt up
against them. The stalks will now
grow from the center and in two or
three weeks you will have the most
delicious celery you VI ate. Stalks
will gro half as large as your wrist
and solid. The flavor will b. all you
can desire. l prefer to set Hender
sons or era Words Half Dwarf.
Sow the seed early in the spring, for
summer use, transplant in a bed,
and have large, strong plants when
you set in your furrOw. Set four
inches in the row. Itis pretty close,
but you want so get all you can in
hat row.
Egg plant is not 80 easily grown.
The seed should be sown not later
than first OF April in a box where
there is lots of heat. You can do
this in the house if you do not have
mOr convenient place. Transplant
when large enough in another box.
They damp off easily when small, so
look out for a good sun and heat.
Get the smooth purple variety.
Set out the garden when you do TO-
matoes. They grow best where the
ground is very rich with rank ma
nure. Look out for potato bugs.
When once in the garden they are
bound to grow, d or drought.
They will keep until Christmas if put
on a cool, dry cellar bottom.
Now, boys, in all your garden
work kill the weeds before they get
rooted. Do not wait for them to get
out of the ground. Move the dirt
when their silky threads are getting
root and they will never bother you.
have seen fields of cOr this year
where weeds were just awful to look
at. Some times there is an exouse
for weeds when is is hot and much
rain, but usually a weedy corn field
can furnish no excuse Better raise
only ten acres of corn and have the