The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-24
THE FARM AND TIE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO HOUSE
WIFE AND AGRICULTURIST.


Onions and CauIinower for Pickles.
FertiIizing WatermeIons - sOrg-
hum-HOw to Produce n Corn Crop.
Sorghum Forage Plant.
We have spoken of cucumbers, the
most important pickle vegetable.
Whether onion or caulifiower is to be
regarded as second in importance. must
be left to each individual to- settle.
Both are extensively used for pickles
and there is more or less profit derived
from their culture for this purpose.
In the South we can grow picking
onions much easier than we can grow
perfect caulifiower. With proper care
We can grow, it. but our climate de-
mands that we grow it as an early
crop. maturing in June or July rather
than late in the fall as is the case in
the North. This is disadvantage for
the pickle-makers want their materials
in the fall or early winter rather than
in the summer
Where there are no irrigation facili-
ties 1t is almost impossible to keep
eaulifiowers growing through July and
August in Southern latitudes. They
have to be started early-plants ready
to set out as soon as severe weather
is over and pushed rapidly during the
moderate weather of spring to make
their culture fairly successful.
1t is essential too to use a good
strain of seed from an early variety.
Ike the SNOWFALL or kindred sort, diff
1erlng only in name. There are nu-
merous synonyms of the SNOWFALL. BY
getting seeds from a scotsman familiar
with Southern climatic conditions the
amateur can make a start with suita-
bic seeds. The soil must be full of
soluble plant food from applications
made considerably in advance of plant
ing. no rank, heating manure should
be used
Cauliflower can be grown in the
south without irrigating, but fortunate
IS the grower who can make use
OF some artificial watering without too
great expense. One good watering in
due time before the occurrence of a de-
layed rain will sometimes be eyerv-
thing to this crop. In the absence of
all watering facilities a higher regard
must be had for intelligent cultivation.
Mulching is an eXpedient easily made
N9S VI ny many In the South a ton
of pine straw will go long ways in
mulching a thousand or more of cauli-
MOVERS. 1t is readily provided to hand
during the comparatively leisure period
OF our usually open winters
Any good commercial fertilizer af-
tording to per cent. of available
nitrogen, 10 to IL of phosphoric acid
and TO of potash and one ton of il
broadcasted on the acre would. if the
land is of fair quality to start with.
put 1T in condition to produce as an
average seven and one-half tons of
pickle caulitiower. Many a Northern
grown cultivating land worth 5000 or
$500 an acre would think this a very
poor return for his expenditure; but
such a crop on Southern soil val
be accepted as a fair return for all the
expense of making such a crop. There
are occasions when a Southern acre,
under intelligent cultivation, would
yield double the quantity stated, but
in putting the yield at seven and one
half tons, 1t is simply with the inten-
ton of avoiding all exaggeration re-
garding the matter. y If 5000 heads can
be made to average three pounds of
flower, it may even be regarded as
something far removed from a failure
The only question is to find the market
eager to take the product at the price
the grower should receive for it. The
waste from an acre of cauliflower
should go some considerable ways to-
wards making 500 pounds of pork or
something else