The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-05
Farm Miscellany.
A PLAN FOR THR BOYS.
How Those on the Farm Can Make Some
Money.
by A. h. Craig, M~ukwonago, Wis, in Farm
ers' Voice.

our berry bushes last week and an
ticipated a nice little bank account.
Father might have said: "Don't
count your chickens before they are
hatohed." In the counting line
father may be right, but we must an
tioipate some kind of a hatch or we
won't set the old hen. Father will
SOW wheat, expecting to count ff-
teen or twenty bushels per acre, but
insects, drought, heat, cold, may de
stroy it. Possibly the same thing
may OCCUR to your berries Or your
vegetables. But we must not Rntici-
pate failure only onoe in a while, If
you see signs of failure, work the
harder 80 as to save a part. Careful
Judgment will assist the hoe and
oultivator.
Now, let us return for q moment
to our garden plan where you drew
the rows of bushes and plants. Of
course, you want a row or two of
peas, beets, carrots, p~arsnips, tur-
nips, onions, lima beans, a part row
Of lettuce, satisfy, radish, a place
for cucumbers and two hills of CIT
ron. Of oourse, increase your variety
as you feel inclined. Let the early
potatoes and sweet corn go in an
other place. Don't plant that early
Cora sweet corn. The best you can
make of it is only fs to look at and
say, "We had green corn for din
ner." Plant that sweet, JUICY Black
Mexican. Is is a little later than
Cora, but quality will more than
make up for being behind. And
don't stop with one planting /; put in
three, so as to have moe corn until
frost. After the first planting wait
about three weeks for the second,
then two weeks after for the third.
Be sure and row so you can cultivate
with a horse. Better row three feet
as a rule, although twenty eight
inches will do If you have the right
cultivator. You might except onions
by setting or sowing three rows and
having one of them half way between.
This center row you will take care Of
with a hoe.
Some one says, Where are you go
ing TO put your cabbage and toma-
toes? For late cabbage plant one
row the same as you would any seed.
Have the hills about eighteen inches
apart. When the plants are large
enough to transplant, thin out each
hill, saving the moist ones. If any
hills are missing you can supply by
taking up those close by without
hardly checking their growth if you
will carefully remove with dirt. The
early cabbage, out of which we pro-
pose to get some pin money, we will
treat differently. We will raise our
plants in a hotbed. Well, how do
you make a hotbed? Just as easy as
piling up wood, and a good deal
easier than cutting it. First, select
your place. A tiptop place is the
south side of a building, because the
sun makes it 80 nice and warm. Look
out for the caves and the probability
of hens. Hens and hotbeds don't do
we'll in the same yard. The hens do
not respect the plants and the boys
do not respect the hens when they
are caught scratching for angle
worms. Of course, you can put up
a wire-woven fence around your
hotbed. Do so, by all means, if the
place is the only one you want and
you think a stray hen might come
that Way. 1t won't take all the hens
TO make you malone can do that.
Well, you have selected the place
for your hotbed. Early in November,
before it freezes up, let US put it in
order. Dig d trench about four feet
wide, twelve feet long and one and a
half feet deep. Put u post at each
end for a framework SO support the
corner. Have the back side of frame
a foot higher shan the front side. By
banking up you will have a pit two
feet deep ready for horse n
next first day of March. Cover dur
ing the winter with boards, so as TO
keep out the snow. When you put
in the n stamp it down just as
hard as you ban. Successful heat
ing depends very much upon how
tight you pack it. Cover the ma
nure with very rich soil-say, about
four inches. Get loose soil, so the
plants can thrive we'll. Before put
ting on the soil thoroughly wet the