The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-14

foot trellis and pruned just after the leaves fall immense crops may be grown much more cheapiy and satisfactory than by the old method of training on arbors These ripen in succession after the bunch grapes. and prolong the season through the early fall. The Thomas, Memory, James, Mish Scuppernong g-tender pulp flowers-are the varieties of the Rotundi- folia family usually grown. Of the bunch varieties, the Perkins, Lutie, Niagara, Concord, Delaware and Ives are stand ards.
 gro insure success they must be spray cd with Bordeaux mixture to prevent fungous diseases, or bagged with paper bags pinned around the punches soon after the berries are set. The season may be prolonged by allowing the bags to remain on the Ives until October. This variety colors long before 1t Is ripe and Is therefore usually eaten green. It rip ems thoroughly in the bags and becomes a delicious table grape.
 "The family may be continuously sup piled with delicious ripe fruit throughout the year by selecting best varieties or each species and giving proper attention to the trees and vines.
 "rhe fig is adapted to the southern states and furnishes ripe fruit from June to October, producing an early crop on the old wood and late one on the new growth The trees are sometimes in- jured by a severe frost after growth has commenced in the spring. but even if killed to the ground, which rarely happens, they replace the growth prompt ly and bear fruit the second year In the upper half of the belt trees should be planted on the north or west side of some house where the frost will thaw before the first rays of the sun reach them.
 f141 a4Y4fa seat. of Rayburn right in the Blue Ridge, trees laden with fruit.
 There are varieties of every species of fruit adapted to every section of the south; there are varieties of apples which will keep until strawberries ripen in May. For a number of years the writer had apples in abundance until strawberries came, in Hancock county. Georgia. The Shockley, Stevenson's, Winter and Yates are the principal varieties used for late keeping.
 The Dairy.
 "The dairy supplied by well bred and well fed cows properly milked and the milk intelligently handled. is lndspens- able to good living. As already remark ed the garden may be made to contri- bute liberally towards feeding the COW. There are so many delicious dishes that may be made by the aid of milk butter
 
 them that the dairy and poultry yard affording, like the garden, daily supplies that these mark the line between good and poor living.
 "The master of the house should not only furnish the best milk factory to be obtained and see that the factory is properly supplied with the best raw ma terial, but he should provide proper faeil- ities for caring for the product of the factory in the most cleanly and most economical manner
 "The pigs furnish a most profitable method of disposing of the by-products and waste from the other divisions and in limited number produce the lard and bacon for an ordinary family practically without cost besides contributing to the preservation of safe, sanitary conditions about the home by consuming waste pro- ducts which, if left to decay, might threaten the health of the family.
 "No southern home is complete with out one or more acres of Bermuda grass sod for the use of the COW, the pig and the poultry.
 The Poultry Yard.
 "rhe poultry yard intelligently managed will always be more than self-sustaining.