The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-29
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aSaiaskShsA2ssasa21 outside. Can / pile
w. +. Massey. the potatoes on the
concrete floor, or Will ! have to put
IN shelving? The cellar is six feet in
the clear thirty feet long and four
teen .eet wide. and extends under
kitchen and dining-room Walls eight
inches thick, and there is one win
dow on each side and three-foot door.
How much heat will be needed, and
can | keep Irish potatoes and onions
IN the same CELLAR"
Tho cellar can be made use OF to
Aeep sweet potatoes If YOU put in n
stove TO make heat after storing. The
best wa% TO store is 10 put the pota-
toes in Slated shipping crates in the
field, handling them very carefully.
Then pile the crates so that the air
can circulate freely around them. After
all are in start a fire, and run the tenn
perature up 10 S5 or 90 degrees. and
keep il up. with windows open. till the
POTATOES are well dried off from the
sweat they Will go through after stor-
ing After that temperature OF 40
10 20 degrees will be warm enough.
But the windows should be darkened.
for the darker YOU make the cellar
the better. After drying off the sweet
potatoes YOU can put in Irish pota-
toes on the floor, and onions in crates
or on shelving. Watch the tcmpera
ture III winter. and not allow it to get
warmer than 30 degrees, and lower
temperature Will be better for the Irish
potatoes and onions. In fact. the
onions will do better in an outbuiidinE
that is close and dark. and. even If
frozen slightly. Will keep better than
IL kept too warm. y temperature of
40 degrees is warm enough for the
Irish potatoes. and it might be best
to partition off the coolest end Of the
cellar for them. Total darkness is best
for all
Varieties of COwpcns.
II have an extra early cowpea of "A
creamy whitish color, which / thought
scotsman Tor pure New Era and he
sent me . pea that is Il blush gray
color. Please tell me which is the
right color for the New Era?" The
scotsman doubtless sent YOU the true
New Era. as the color YOU describe fits
1t. The pea you have is probably the
Warren Extra Early.
The Warren pea is early as the
New Era, and in color is very similar
10 the late pea, called the Unknown
and Wonderful Then there is Il large
white pea with a black eye that is
Very early. and have grown two crops
OF it in a season on the same land. 1t
-
and earlier. The New Era is very
similar If not Identical with the pea
long grown in Piedmont North Caro-
lima under the name OF Revenue. 1t
Was found growing as Il volunteer by
. revenue officer in North Carolina. and
they gave it that name II is bush
and Nonrunuing pea. and about the
most prolific in seed OF any l know
The Warren Is also = good seed maker
shaded Lawn.
II want Your advice about my lawn
under oak trees. turned under crop
OF rye in the spring ard sowed Sofa
beans. which are now about three and
a half feet high How shall turn
these under. and how long will it be
necessary for them TO decay before |
can get Il good firm seed bed for lawn
grass. and what sort OF fertilization
should ] use. and what kind OF grass
seed?' happen 10 know your SOIL
the blood-red Piedmont clay. a soil that
Will hold fine sod ii not drawn on
too much by the spreading roots of
the oak trees. ] do not think that YOU
can turn under that great growth and
get the land in condition for sowing a
lawn this fall. In fact, | do not think
that il is necessary. and would NOW
the Soy beans and cure them for hay.
and Then break the land thoroughly
ana harrow in 800 pounds of acid
phosphate an acre. Your red land does
not specially need potash and the
legume roots will leave YOU plenty OF
nitrogen Work the land very smooth
ana grade il perfectly. Then SOW an
abundance Of Seed. far on this depends
the future Of a'1awn ] would SOW !,
mixture two-hfths red top grass and
three-iifths Kentucky blue grass and
SOW nifty pounds OF the seed an acre.
Get the extra clean blue grass seed
SOW the seed At any time during the
fall up to November, but September
VIII lie best Brush the seed in lightly
with rake or smoothing harrow, and
then scatter about four pounds an acre
OF white clover seed. as you cannot
Keep this mixed with the light grass
seed Getting Il good stand this fall.
give the grass heavy dressing OF to-
bacco dust III the spring, which YOU
can set from any of the smoking to-
hacco factories, and then as soon in the
spring as tho grass will catch the
lawn mower, start the mower and
Keep it cut weekly IN favorable wealth
az and let the cut grass lie where IL
id!lS, and 1t viii soon disappear Lei :
ing the grass get 50 tall that il has
10 be rakcd off is a bad practice the
cut grass VIII decay and help the sod
II cut NJ the right stage and left there.
4heh after the blue grass gets well rs
tablishcd dust the lawn over occasion
ally in spring with air Stacked lime and
brush II IN with a lawn rake. for the
duo grass is limestone grass and i'm
our red clay needs little lime about
once In 1--WE years.
But You can maintain a blue grass
SOD and ! advise the red top merely
Tor the start. as it comes in ouickiy
and gives the slower blue grass a
chance Annual top dressing with ?
GOOD fertilizer Is also important. bu,
90 not use stable manure on the lawn
as That iavcrs the growth OF weed,
and crab grass. The tobacco dust /,