The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-01-02
WHERElNeTHE sopTHsHAs Tue
ADvARTAaE OVER TIE
NORTH:

NNt
ADVANTAGE OVER TAE
NORTH:
Farming in summer is the North.
ern mans idea Of farming at al.
sumner has It's advantages, but II e
not the whole thing. In the South.
some crops that thrive in summer
at the North refuse to show cause IN
the summer at all. Others modify
their character The apple that Is
Ia good fail apple in Pennsylvania Is .
good fall apple in this section. and
Cannot Be made q winter apple By
any threats d are persaation. Many
things that any summer crops in
New York are winter In the Caro-
Iiinas. NY misguided strawberries
Ibaye been full II blossoms in the last
few days, although what they hope
Ito accomplish by it l have no idea.
Possibly it is the native enthusiasm
which wants to show the Yankee
what cansbe done by a genial SLY and
a suitable soil.
This erratic notion Of the crops
confuses my Pennsylvania notions Of
proper agriculture. We get to the
field where turnips where sowed in
1.-The summer, and they are as green.
as the cedars OF Leganan. Cabbage
plants are from six to ten inches
lhigh, and acting as though they
wanted to be set in the rows. Wheth-
Ter they have sense enough to know
what is good for them is too many
for me, but in a few days they VIII
lie transpianted to another location
land given chance to show what
they can do. If they freeze some
might, the joke will be on them.
Last week carloads Of lettuce went
tout from the Wilmington district for
1.-The Northern markets! This stun
lis all grown out Of doors. 1t is the
prize lettuce of the country, and It
appears to enjoy such winter as we
lhaye here as much as a eanadtan en-
Iioys ten feet Of snow and the Their.
mometer fifty feet down in cellar.
The successful farmer says you can
raise good cabbage in this part Of the
county. Then the stranger tries and
fails. He plants it in February, and
iby the time 1t is fit to try to head the
hot season is on, and Mr.. Cabbage
Ipines away like an invalid who arriy.
led too late, and the whole cabbage
proposition is set down as a prepos-
ferrous humbug. The successful far.
mer turns things wrong side out. He
plants his cabbage in the fall, and by
the time you begin to hunt the al.
manac along in March to see IL the
sign is right to SO wcabbage seed, the
real cabbage farmer Is hunting the
market quotations from Baltimore
Ito Washington and New York to see
what favored mortal shall get his
stuff.
The men who raise lettuce get
ready in the early fall They plant
their crop and take 1t OF by Christ.
mas, and then put out another crop
and send that to the Yankees about
moHngtlme in the spring. It Is q
revelation to go into a lettuce farm.
ing community. They make a bust.
ness Of 1t over in Fayetteville. A
man who has a garden about as big
as the oyershot Of a Pennsylvania barn
makes a box around 1t about a foot
high. Over this he stretches a can
vas cover, and he plants his lettuce,
Ion a frosty night the canvas cover
is rolled over the box, thus shutting
out frost. At other times the box is
left open, The lettuce grows rapidly
with such care, and after It gets a
little size 1t Is placed. in rows a foot
apart each way. It Is expected to
grow to such heads that each one oc-
cupies the square foot allotted to 1t,
Ia few weeks develops the crop,
The boxes are usually ten feet
wide and as many feet long as the
garden permits. Fayetteville Is
until 1t looks as II the whole town
was fed exclusively on greens. But
1t is the long table les that Fayette.
vile gets out Of the lettuce beds, Tor
the product Is always In demand at
the season when It Is ready for ship
ment, bringing three or four dollars
a barrel Id the markets Of the North.
IrTha aXtant az the 1ettiice Industry