The record., 1913-06-05
Potatoes and Tomatoes.

duclng the cost OF living ana De-
cause of this fact should occupy
a very important place on the
farm. At the same time with
careful management and careful
selection one may have the soil
full of plants all the time,
which will furnish vegetables
during a long period.
With an orchard well cared for
in connection with the garden,
the home Gamer can be used
very economically, for it will
permit the surplus fruits and
vegetables to be canned for
home consumption during the
winter at all seasons of the
year. At the same time saves
much fruit that was allowed to
go to waste on the ground. or
perhaps fed to the stock. The
farmer who has a good garden
with a great variety of vegeta-
bles, who at the same time has
a small canning outfit, thus al
lowing his wife to entrench be-
hind a barricade of canned veg
ables. fruits and preserves, has
in a great measure solved the
high cost of living and is GER
tainly on the road to success.
The ideal soil for the garden
is a sandy loan and if possible
have the land level, for cultiva-
ton is more effective and the
loss from washing during our
heavy summer rains is not so
great as when the garden is on
a hillside. At the same time
it should have good drainage so
that the soil is always mellow.
A cold frame should have q
place in the garden for the grow
ing of plants that are to be tran
splanted to the permanent gar
den. They are very inexpensive
to make and at the same time
they are very convenient and
effective.
BY careful planning and with
a good rotation of the crops, one
can have fresh vegetables during
the entire growing season. 1t
is also important to have a
systematic rotation, for different
crops require the element of
plant food that have been sup
piled to the soil by the judicious
use of stable manure and COM
mercial fertilizers, in varying
proportion. DR.. A. Oemler in
his book Truck Farming in
the South, makes the following
points very clear and they are
as important in the garden as on
the farm.
LIST. To have a crop which
succeeds another as dissimilar in
composition and the demand
it makes upon the soil as posi-
BILE.
End. Never to have plants
of the same family succeed
each other as; melons should
not follow cucumbers, toma-
toes should not follow egg
plant.
3rd. To make the heaviest
applications of manure to such
crops as require most as cabbages,
onions, and to have other crops
succeed these requiring less. az
tomatoes, eggplant, so that in
the end the entire garden may
be gradually brought to the
same degree of fertility.
Among all garden crops it is
perpaps safe to say that to-
lmatoes stand out more than any
other crop. They are used by
canning clubs in their tenth
acre contests, and besides being
easily grown they are one Of the
best crops to can for home con-
sumption. In closing this arti.
Gle | wish to point out a few fun
dimental things to be remem-
bered in their culture.
Because of a bacterial blight
tomatoes should never follow to-
matoes, egg plants, or potatoes.
The ground should be well pre-
pared. getting a perfect seed
bed by deep and careful blowing
followed by thorough narrowing.
Good tillage before any Drop is
planted, increases the available
ity of the plant food already in
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