The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-29
WITH THE FARMERS
By Prof. w. F. MASSEY

plants raised sage every year fror
seed. bu, now use the Holt Broad Lea
Sage, that never blooms or seeds am
grow IT from cuttings
Parsley is indispensable. SOW SEQ,
carly in spring outside. and keen tn,
bed over till the following snrinc
/ when II VIII soon run to seed, Will,
i the new sowing will come on by III,
time this is done and pulled up. Seee
can also be sown In early fall. ant
! viii run through the whole of the NOV,
! summer But to guard against hav;nr
| no parsley in winter ] set some of the
/ fali-sown plants in cold frame alonr
with the cabbage plants and thus Gel
plenty all winter If that outside is
I hurt
"A dozen hot bed sasnes used on three
or TOUR separate frames will be found
| Il very interesting and profitable ad-
lunct TO any garden. and one can usual
~ find ready sale for any surplus
pants IN the spring. Permanent crops
IKE rhubard and asparagus, OF course
nave plot TO themselves The rhu-
parp manure Very heavily, and every
tnir1 year take UP part of it and
the next year. as find that it thrives
| better for change of location at in
tervals.
You can get very early rhubarb bv
turning barrel over the hills and
I packing fresh heating manure between
me narrels' The shoots Will put up
bianched and pink In the dark barrel
ana be extra fine
RMS is but a series of hints nc 70
now manage an all-the-year garden
ana there is not a day in the year that
we cannot go into the garden and mot
something Tor the table. and keeping.
Inc garden constantly ut worIs nras
col ne
cut worms that breed in weeds and
grass. CIV"
Use Balanced Fertilizer.
Ieopie often write to me that their
garden soil is so rich that they cannot
gro" irish potatoes, as they run to
,ops ana make no potatoes. The trou
ole is not that the soil lis too rich hnt
that the plant food in IT is NOT nron-
cry balanced. They manure the gar
oen every spring with stable manure
ana mus get q great eXcess of nitrogen
INTO the soil. and the office of nitrose,,
Is 10 promote the vital activity Of tho
pl"n'' ana hence they get big potato
Us me pig tops arc no inconveni-
ehce' Tor plenty of foliage Is AN adj
vantage. since the formation of starch
is done by the green leaves. and st,rcb
Is essential to the making of potatoos
nut II is also found that the Starch
VIII not he made and stored unless tba
pNnnts nave plenty of phosphorus and
~ bo'"ss'"lil as well as nitrogen. and YOU
manure. """'e
Hence In my garden. apply the
manure every spring, of course aud
''ch aud AT the rate of 1000 nornds
Al acre mixture of per cent Mos
pnoilc acid and 10 per cent potash
lth these added TO the soil Won can
fnrI o'E tops and big potatoes, too.
The garden can be made the mos,
pro'ltdoie part OF the farm and tho
source OF more comfort and tood ,b.r
any other equal area. Try 10 hava IN
all the year garden
IN Nnhsemond County; Il want TO
grow several acres of late cabharos
10 mead IN November and early Decam-
men shall | SOW the seed ana
,o oat them? am planting
700 i"rseiN OF the big stem Jersey
sweet potatoes. for shippinr Nor,b
Have Intended to use a no.. cen, ta
t"'7er under them. Please give ~.
Your suggestions" AS / have bnforo
','"'ca'ed Inc seed for late cabbocc.
s"oaio be sown late In June Or earIv
'n!y I'm your section. Make m. SOD
"cd convenient to water ana tho so,,
very rich. Then see thar Tho n,.n,s
never suffer for lack OF water hui
grow them on rapidly and &c, stron~
n'"nls' Tor at that season in summer
,,,, nv" iarSe plants to Transplant,
well and they should have st.n,. ne
stout as Il lead pencil Set the nI,,,,s
august in very heavily manuroa
SOIL and best in soil NATURALLY, un,s,
''p" 'hem on by good cultivation and
sue Dressing OF nitrate of soda yin
neip, They should head in la,a NJ
Ncmber i''e NO
for sweet potatoes pillow The Ian,
"n"'.oW, not over four inches for w..
""h' a hard bottom to proven, tn M
'"'oes getting long and striuvv +,
~ mean pY per cent fertilizer
mat 1T has : per cent ammonia g.,
too high for sweet potatoes
need little nitrogen. wo,,Id .h
MAKE mixture Of 500 MOUND. of ,n,',
F""sPh"tc' NIFTY pounds of nitrato NJ
SOFA, and fifty pounds Of suI,ha,
potash and use this amount an acro g,
me burrows. Bed on this ana s,.,
rants sixteen inches apart. ana c,,It,.
me clean and lay by with swcnn
.nat VIII throw moderate hill ~
Chestnut Right.
is there any remedy for mo a.
case that is killing tho cbos,m',,. o'S,
""r mountain country? is the hono,.
me bees gather from the mountain TO-,
poisonous? Wm alsike clovar - IVY
on our steep hills that have bc,n
Shrunhed of for pasture?'' no rcmo,,.
nns peen discovered for stopping ,hn
"'Ehi in chestnuts Bees YIN ,a,
s"'ner poison nectar. and the honev
made ny them is always good. \vhe,h.,.
"'SIhe c'oNor VIII thrive on your buls
cannot say. but assume that /, oh,
WI grow on low land that is too
Vim pr o'her clover. Orchard grass
~ thrive on Your hills, and MAKO a
very good pasture If YOU sow sn,n
,net grasses to I'll up the gaps in
'''t 'uEsocks Of orchard grass
..u., lover aud Pen sickness.
cloy.r ".t Is Tho reason land gets
'-Sick or pea sick, so TIM, ,bos,
plants VIII no, GROVE" Gencral t,.'
because the soil has gotten ac,a
%"n 'he iesuInes and the bacteria ina,
neip mem cannot thrive in ac.d SOL
'V""N Lining viii at once restore tho
Il