The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24

bageS turn the heads down to"dluS
the north and bank the soil over the
stem and the lower part of the head,
leaving the top open where the sun
will not shine on it, and the heads
will bleach nicely.
Carrots 1 SOW late in July and let
them stand I'm the rows where they
grew, for they get sweeter after frost,
and are perfectly hardy and keep
better in this way thar II up.
Parsnips and satisfy, Of course. we
leave out, as they will grow nearly all
winter.
Several ask whether the rank late
growth made. on cotton could not be
saved as feed. l have never known 1t
tried, and 1 would fear to feed 1t to
pregnant cows, as it might cause abor-
ton. for the dark of the roots Will DO
this, and the bark and stems may DO
1t.
Ripe pumpkins can not be kept
very long. Put them in a cool and dry
place free from frost. You can peer
and slice them and can them just as
you would tomatoes or anything else.
The canning factories are putting up
pumpkins largely now. We have also
canned eggplants and had them nice
in winter for making into cakes and
frying.
II have a pear tree bearing fruit,
but unsound, and now the leaves have
fallen, leaving the remaining pears
hanging with no decay in the wood"
Some pears, like the Madeline, always
decay SOC at the core without any
apparent disease. The falling of the
leaves may have been caused by the
wet weather coming after the dry
weather had ripened the leaves and
the new growth pushed them off.
Several correspondents say that
their ensilage corn is still very green
and are in doubt as to whether to cut
at once or to wait on it longer with
risk Of frost. / would wait awhile,
and even if struck by frost, if the
cor is cut n shocked at once and
then put into h silo rapidly it will
corn into the silo and never found
that it made much difference in the
quality Of the feed. If it is rather
dry, it should have some water spray
ed on it while filing the silo.
Late turnips for table use can be
taken up and covered in heaps with
soil. Those planted in rows and
wanted for spring salad will be all
the better for a furrow thrown to
each side as a winter protection.
Where sowed broadcast, they will be
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boughs laid over them. The Seven
Top turnip is very hardy and one Of
the best for green's, but for table use
in winter, L like the Long White
French, which is as hardy as a pars-
nip, and the Yellow Aberdeen, which
can be taken UP and covered in heaps
and will not get pithy in winter.
A fig tree that regularly drops it's
fruit is evidently a seeding from the
dried Smyrna figs sold in the stores,
and nothing can be done for it unless
you had the little wasp that sets the
seed in Europe. They have this in
sect now in California and are sue
ceeding with the Smyrna figs. I have
raised hundreds of seedlings from the
dried figs and never found one that
Woul hold it's fruit to ripen. Had
over = hundred of them at n time
at the Experiment Farm in Raleigh,
and had to dig them all up. Get
plants of the figs that set their own
fruit, such as the Celestial, Brown
T have seen men who professed to
be farmers hauling baled cotton seed
hulls home from town to feed. I have
seen a farmers team backed up at a
supply store" at a railroad station,
loading bales of poor timothy hay,
when the man who owned the team
could have had far better hay of his
own. had he farmed instead OF mere
ly planted cotton. / have seen a farm
er's wagon going out OF town with a
lot Of Western bacon sides, the white
fat sort that is vastly inferior to what
he could have raised at home. On
the other hand, I have seen on the
farm Of a Southern farmer, who real
1y farmed, a grocer's wagon from h
n~eighboring town loading with home
cured hams and bacon. That man did
not parcel out his land to be ruined
by yearly tenants. He farmed it him.
self. and made a bale of cotton an
acre, and told me that his cotton cost
him fou and a half cents a pound,
and h bacon was made at the same
cost. But he had hay and fodder and
sheep and hogs and cattle, and had
made it all since he home
ragged from ~AppomattoX.
We do nAt-uSa lime aS a fertilizer