The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-11
their earliness will make them Hlofe
profitable,

profitable.
For garden corn. I use the NoIAo
corn for the earliest planting as II
stands the cold better tiaan sugar cofii-
But early tbs month / start the su<
| gar corn and keep up q successioii :.
| paintings till middle Of July. 1 90 not
use the extra early sugar corns OF
| North, but plant h Country zen
tleman and the Stowell Evergreen
as these will do fairly we'll in the
South, while the early sorts are worth
less in a Southern soil and climate.
For the earliest beets. l use the
| Egyptian. but not many OF them. lol
the Eclipse is nearly as early n OF
better quality. For family use, the
old Rassano beet is excellent. n
market growers do not like II, as us
big top make it harder 10 puncii
and the light color is not fancled. But
the quality of the RasSano Is pet'er
than any other early beet. My earnest
beets were soWn in a frame In carry
January and are now quite large. bu'
the sowing outside should usually De
in February, for if the young plants
get into the rough leaf without dam
age from frost, they will stand a sooo
deal of freezing later.
Radishes are among the early
things to SOW in the home garden.
I am now. the last of March, using
a crop grown in the cold-frame. Early
French forcing carrots are grown IN
the same way
The early Irish potatoes should
have the ground narrowed level just
before coming up and then the weeder
can be used on them till a few
inches high when the cultlvator
should take it's place. Begin to spray
with Bordeaux mixture in which Paris
green or lead a%rsenate is mixed as
soon as the beetles are seen craving
around. These old beetles do not eat
much, but they do eat some, and all
that you kill of them Will save a
great many young from Matching. Al
ways use the Bordeaux mixture TO
carry the poison so that you Will be
warding off the early blight at same
time. ] use a ten-gallon compressed
air sprayer. The air is pumped in
Just as It is pumped into a bicycle
tire, and wheh there is a good pres
sure, the stop cork on the little hose
is opened and it sprays right along
till the pressure fails. / use it ais
for embarrassing fences and out
! buildings.
Tomato plants that have been hard
ened off in The frames can now pc
set outside. After they are set, be-
gin the spraying with Bordeaux mix
ture to prevent leaf blight and rot. If
frost threatens, turn the plants down
and shovel the soil over them till the
cold passes. l have carried them
through a hard freeze in this way.
Sow onion seed for sets very
thickly and on land not too rich. hut
| only fairly fertile make HUE
trenches and fill them nearly half
full of seed, for we do not want them
to grow too large. I SOW the SEED
of Tait's Queen for setting. in the fall,
as they are the earliest. We nave
been eating those planted last tau
since the middle of February. Where
seed of the Prizetak er onion We're
sovn in frames in they can
now b. transplanted if not. done IN
March.
Dust the early garden peas and
early ~cahbages with tobacco dust TO
prevent the lice or aphis gettins start
ed on them. Tobacco in some form
is the best preventive Of plant lice of
any kind. All the garden books
written by Northern men advise
early sowing of parsnips n satisfy.
But DO not follow h S advice in the
South. The last Of June or early
July is time enough for these plants
Which are apt to run to seed if soWn
carly in the South. Grow elephants in
pots till they are large and strong and
do not set them till the soil is Well
warmed. and then put them in as rich
soil as YOU can find and II
heavily, too.
Sow seed of Succession abbages on
sunny border for summer heading, bat
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