The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-25
GUHFORD COUNTY.
something More About GuilfOrd
Crops and Also Pertaining to
Chicken Raising and Other Live
Stock" EtC@lmprOycneHtS III
Agricultural Methods.
By ANDREW

Greensboro, N. c.. July 22.-ReSu-
lar truckers adjacent to greensboro
had almost a complete failure Of their
crops this spring, owing to the pro
longed drOuth. 1t was nearly as
hard on the city who eth
er had to pay extreme prices for IN
ferior imported rue from distant
points or DO without. The Irish pO-
tato crop was a complete failure. II
was hoped that when the general
run of surplus garden pro-
duct began to come in prices would
drop and the quality improve. 1t now
seems that the failed as bad
as the truckers and private garden
erS. Inferior cabbage from the
country are now coming in, and sell
for five cents a pound. Butter beans
are bringing 50 cents a quart, Irish
potatoes rs cents a peck, cOrnf1eld
beans scarce and selling at fifteen
cents a quart. Local grown tOma-
toes have been selling for 80 cents a
dozen until the past few days when
the supply improved in quantity. II
not in quality and have dropped ID
Is cents a dozen.
Praise be to the Lord, this CORE
spondent has been blessed with
bountifuI returns from his 2x4 gar
den, as Editor Reese insists on calling
t.The only failure was in Irish po-
tatoes which did not have a rain
from the time they were planted until
thew were dug up in bloom without
even a nodu1e of a potato visible to
make room for a CROP OF dwarf but
terbeans. While having none to
sell. my good sized family have had
plenty of everything in season from
that garden, snaps, beets, bers,
okra. ~cornfield beans. cabbage, roast
ing ears tomatoes, butterbeans,
squash and it is loaded now with all
these varieties, with a crop OF the
biggest kind of onion stored away,
a new crop Just on, with new crops
of collards, butterbeans. roasting
ears, satisfy and parsnip just coming
up for late fall and winter use. l
attribute my good luck this unpre-
cedently dry season to the fact that
last fall | had my whole garden not
only thoroughly spaded deep, but had
it bedded up to keep it we'll drained
in the winter and a heavy crOp or
| garden sass. cabbage. onions. kale and
rape were grown on every lnch or
| space. Then this spring it was again
spaded deep, planted on a level and
| has been cultivated on a level. And
the things are there to show Tor them
| selves, my happy rural retreat being
apparently the wonder of an lncreaS-
ing number Of flatterlng friends AND
/ have discovered how to grow crops
WlthOu putting a noe VI d pm" ~
them after they are planted. thus
saving work and sweat. Nobody be-
lieves it without they see it. and many
there be who have come and saw
And | ha~ve<125 chickens. Eat EN-
every day. Raised on a little bach
yard with the help Of the garden.
Fresh eggs all the time. Feed good
quantity of acid phosphate and cotton
seed meal mixed in chicken feed.
IJa,,an't Lost a one hE disease. NAN
cabbage heads and beets up on posts
the maximum height a healthy
chicken can jump. and In this way
| they get the. much needed exercise
and vegetation, at once and seem to
enjoy the sport. 1t is right amusing 10
watch an old fat lazy hen jumping
up and down after her dearly priced
b or beet or tomato When
she gets to the core pierced by the
| nail and pecks the nail once, she kind
| of ciucks in surprise. then tries it
! again and il she hits the nail the