The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-22

should be wrapped In slightly damp
sphaEnum moss and in paraffin paper
and then wrapped in stout paper. and
they will travel in perfect safety. I
, have sent all sorts of young plants in
this way.
Growing Cowpess for Seed.
AT the prices that cowpeas have COM
manded for years past IT will make n
good crop to grow them, especially for
seed. The seed for the future will al
norths OF Mississippi. for in the lower
South they do not seed as freely as fur
Their north, and the seed peas should be
generally grown in Virginia. North
Carolina and Maryland The old plan
of gathering the peas by hand and
failing them out is too expensive and
has boon the cause of the high price
of seed to a great extent. aided. of
course. by the increased demand. For
seed. the peas should be planted in
rows three feet apart We have now
pea harvester that will gather the
peas, thresh and clean them as 1t goes
drawn by pair of mules. and carries
them out for sacking. OF course the
peas must be let stand till dead ripe
and no hay is made, but the vines and
the hulls all go back to the soil for
it's Improvement.
Then there is another machine that
threshes the peas clean from the cured
hay. and either of these is fur better
than. picking. OF course there
are machines that will hull and clean
the seed from the pods, but these in
volve the expensive gathering by hand,
and this Ia what we need to avoid. To
make seed pea-growing a success we
must do 1t on commercial scale, and
the seedsmen are always ready to con-
tract for crops OF special varieties.
Turkey Buzznrds.
Some States are repeating the law
protecting the buzxards and every
State should do SO, for there IS no
greater spreadcr of hog cholera than
the buZzard. once lost an immense
and valuable Berkshire boar, and
thought that 1 would save his great
hide / tackled 1t up on the end Of
my hoghouse to cure after sailing 1t.
Directly the buzzards saw it and
swoopcd down. Then shortly after that
the cholera broke out and / lost sew
enty-tlve out of 10 hogs. and it start
ed right where the buzzards came
down. SO long rs people fail TO bury
deeply all dead animals. the buzzards
will carry the disease all over the
neighborhood We can stop the great
er part of the hog cholera by destroy
ing the buzzards.
DuIb-Growing In the South.
An industry is growing up in South
west Virginia and North Carolina that
is destined to become of considerable
Importance. This is the growing Of
Towering bulbs that are used In i'm
mcnse quantities BY the Northern flor
lists for forcing in winter Years ago
the production of the bulbs OF the
tuberose was started at Magnolia, n.
g. and the conditions there wero so
favorable TO this plant that the pro-
duction of these bulbs has centred
about that point, until now nearly all
the tuberose bulbs used in this coun-
try and in England are grown around
Magnolia. But tuberoses went out of
fashion, as people got tired Of their
powerful odor. and the demand less
ened and the price fell low, and now
the growers are experimenting with
other bulbs, though still growing mil
lions of the tuberose
In Southeast Virginia n grower from
the channel Islands, where the narcis-
sus bulbs are very largely grown,
started to produce them near Ports
mouth, Va. and in Greensville County
and other places they are being grown
now.
Asking an importer in philadelphia
how he liked the Virginia grown Mar
clssus bulbs. he said that they are not
so large as the imported ones. but
seemed to bloom earlier. bu, he did not
like them. then asked a large floral
commission house. They SAID that tho
Virginia bulbs were taking the market.
as the florists found that they bloomed
earlier than the imported ones, and
ne had sold over n million OF them
told this To the importer. and he
said: oh, yes: we sold 200. 900 of them "
In the sandy soils OF Southeast Mary
land and Virginia the old Madonna llv.
LlNum candidum, thrives wonderfulIv
and makes bulbs that carry more flow
ers than the French ones, and il will
not be long before they take the p,oro
I French hq All
~ imported. We are gradually hndinr
out that in various parts OF this coun-
! Try we can find conditions favorable 20
any of the bulbs now imported, and
! gardeners are taking an irteres; in
these things. We have 4 Wonderfully
varied country. and soils and climates
! of every sort. and should develop the
cultures adapted to each
! Don't Ask Things Out of NV Line.
7 Some OF my friends seem to think
that am n sort of walking encyclopc
dia. and ask questions entirely out OF
my me. l am ready to undertake tho
/ reply TO any question in regard To
farming. but when man, as one in
Nansemond. writes asking what saw
mill 10 buy, and where to buy it, I sim
/ ply cannot say, for l never bought a
shwmill nor any interest in one in my
! life Another asks how to make The
mixed pickles sold in the stores. Better
ask Mrs. Key Then a young man who
/ is going to take part in n debate writes
and asks me 10 write speech for him.
Letters OF this sort are simply a waste
of time on the part of the writers.
Learning.
But we are living and learning, and
nave found out this season that good
strong soapsuds make one of the most
/ eHcctivc sprays against the plant lice.
! OF Aphides, that are apt to infest plants
In spring. and they are also good to
drive the green worms from cabbages.
| Use the waste suds from the weeks
wash and put them on the garden.
4 Farm Managers.
/ we hear many complaints from men
/ or wealth owning farms in regard TO
tho inefhciency of farm managers. This
/ is not to be wondered at. Business men
looking for efficient mon in commercial
Ire always expect to pay what such
men are worth. But when the same
man comes 10 own farm the manage
/ inent and Improvement of which, in a
nusinessiike way, demands as much
Drain ana energy rs in any ether pur-
SUIT IN NE, he thinks that man he