The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-04-17


WatermeIons and CantaIoupes, OF
Course.-Every farmer should have
some cantaloupes and watermelons,
but these are better in a patch to
themselves. Any old sandy hill will
make watermelons If the hills are
we'll MANFRED, and the drier the land
the more juicy the melons, strange to
say. Catalogues need stronger
ground and well MANFRED hills or
rows. The Jones and the McIver are
the best watermelens for home use
and the Kolb Gem for shipping. For
cantaloupes, plant Rocky Fords and
Hackensack.
Okra, Parsley and Pepper.-Then
for gumbo soup, plant few okra
seed. The White Velvet is the best,
The green soft pods can be cut and
dried and kept for making soup in
winter. Every housekeeper likes to
have some parsley for dressing
dishes. Sow row or two of the
Green Double Curled sort. Mint
comes in handy, even in prohibition
places, for making mint sauce for
lamb in spring. A few roots set in
damp, out of the way place will keep
you supply. Then the good woman
of the house wants mango pickles in
the fall. Sow a few seed of Ruby
King pepper in bed and transplant to
rows three feet apart later. If you
like hot pepper sauce, SOW some seed
of Tabasco pepper. These will grow
six feet high and give a great crop
of little pods, and they will make vim
egar hot enough for topper.
OF course you sowed some garden
peas in February, but if not, you can
still sow some Premium Gem peas,
and can again SOW some in late Au-
gust for fall use.
Be Sure to Have Tomatoes and
Squash Observation-Disclosures every
one wants. For very early ones you
had better buy the plants unless you
have some glass and a hotbed or
frame. But in the South it is neces-
sary to SOW late crop as the early
ones are apt to play out in the heat
the last of June. Sow the seed in
May and transplant after some early
crop. Then in the late fall when the
vines are full of green fruit and frost
threatens, gather the tomatoes and
wrap each in paper and pack in boxes
and put in cool place just where
they will not freeze, and bring out a
few at time into a warm room
where they will soon color up. +
have had tomatoes to slice in this
way till January, Summer squashes
you will have, of course. The White
Patty Pan is best.
Radish and Sage.-In September
sow some Chinese Rose-Colored Win
ter Radish seed, and as the weather
gets cold mulch the rows with coarse
manure and you can pull nice rad
lshes all winter, for | have done il
winter after winter in Raleigh. Then
you will want some sage, at hog-kill-
ing time for sausages. Sow some seed
in a bed and transplant after some
early crop foot apart and you can
cut it green to the ground in the
fall, and have enough for the neigh
borhood when dried in the shade.
Then it any one wants the plants, sell
them and sow seed again next
spring, for the young plants are bet
ter than the old bushes.
Make Your Garden Work All Year
Kound.-In short, have Il garden and
keep it at work all the year round.
Then if you will get a few hotbed
sashes and make a frame for them
you can have fresh headed lettuce to
eat all winter, parsley and radishes
and French carrots A garden kept
at work all the time and abundantly
supplied with manure and fertilizers.
and by having good large garden
you can supply the home market with
nice vegetables and at least pay all
the cost Of what your family eats.
The garden kept at work and kent
clean will not breed cut-worms, for
they breed in the weeds and trash
left in the common gardens in the
country.-W. F. Massey, in The Pro-
gressive Farmer.