The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-24
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Is GEN. dozen. This line OIL
fourteen sashes, cost me about
the lettuce crop has paid so
of the cost of the cost, and
me will now be sown to beete
dishes and as these Will come
Fly in spring, [ can set two egg
to each sash and protect them
The glass till the weather is we'll
IA, and can thus have the egg
Is earlier in summer.
Mother line of sashes Of similar
aber has in it now onions nearly
Rdy to bunch, and lettuce plants be-
zen the onion rows that Will now
thinned out for spring heading.
t1ese two lines of sashes have the
#{&ou bleg glazed Sunshine SaShes on
s<3dem, and no frost penetrates them.
Then L have two other frames with
A&mgie-single glazed sashes. In one OF
s8&hese I have pansy plants for spring
4 Mowers, and in another some late sOWn
@&abbage plants that will be kept IN
the frame and hardened off for spring
EDett.ng and sales. Whenever l nave
aRnrged our Southern truckers to use
glass on frames Instead of cloth 1 am
met with the statement OF the great
Ncost of the glass. But the fact is that
glass is, first and last, not only better,
b but cheaper than cloth. l shall come
#veTy near making the first cost Of the
u frames this winter and spring, ana
will have the sashes good for many
@years while with cloth this cold De
Mcember 1 could not have made the
crop 1 have, and the cloth will not last
5Exnore than two seasons at best. Next
28Eummer / hope to build a small green
l#hOuSe where l can work at all times
In comfort, and can add Towering
Splants to my sales.
sS A neighbor of mine, one Of our larg-
sKest truckers, has hundreds of sashes,
oh no N "a
u january, and sells them by the million
TO the New Jersey truckers, who pre-
n Ter them to the Wfntered over plants
Ss4rom the South. When the cabbage
E6iants are out he beds sweet potatoes
IN the frames. and the Jerseymen take
these, too. by the millions. In fact,
last spring he had a hilton and a half
|@plants grown for him on contract, for
Tear that he would not have enough
TO supply the demand, and he sold
the whole.
| One Of the best paying crops here
last summer was the cucumber crop.
|&Some made as high as 5000 an acre
before the market broke, and the
&neighbor I have mentioned shipped As
S6carloads. Who eats all the cucum-
83bers? That has often been a question
to me, for just now the men who are
wing them in heated greenhouses
IRE getting from 500 to $3.50 per
ozen. and yet go to the most fash
N3Dnable hotels and restaurants in the
MITES and we rarely see any one eating
sucumbers. l like to grow them, but
xGelG ON eat one except after 1t Is
Fpickled. Yet millions and millions Of
~4nem are eaten.
In the open ground the spinach,
ling to the dry weather in the fall,
very late and small. but seems t.
md the cold very WELL The curled
l&3 6otch kale is now in very fine eating
INC tjon, for the frost seems to make
~ 1nOre tender. Lettuce plants outside
S6Ge living very we'll, and will be trans
y nted for heading just as soon as
sc ground will admit of being work
For this outside planting l have
\ Zee varieties of lettuce. First and
psf hardy is the Wonderful, known
% as the Shellem lettuce. Then ]
We Hittinger's Belmont, a lettuce
at is largely grown in greenhouses
Birth and third, the new Black Seed
H. Big Boston, which is a great i'm
Movement on the old Big Boston as it
& akes smaller spread Of outside
n yves and can be set closer, while the
81 head is just as large.
1 have always found that the lettuce
NJ at comes in headed in April pays
tier than even the lettuce in the
inter frames. But there is one thing
H. nave long ago learned about lettuce,
ID 10 that is that tn best lettuce can
~ be grown with liberal use OF sta
8& manure and fertilizer both. The
M IDS will be fairly good with only
Us nure Or only fertilizer but for the
40 st we must have both supplement-
sa the manure with a fertilizer high
Il IN ospOric acid and potash
ass4n fact in gardens where there has
1&en simply an annual application Of
sssof4Dle manure it will be found OF
ID 4Esat advantage to use acid phosph ate
aT4nd potash literally. In old gardens
sss 1T have been dressed with manure
xsAnually we often find an excess Of
1trogen and lack of phosphates and
AUotash, and people say their land is
no rich to grow potatoes, for the run
p tops. 1t is not that the soil is too
K1ch, but that it is unbalanced, and
weeds the mineral fertilizers that make