Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-06-03

times. with smaller farms and better
cultivation. There should be the great
est possible range of production when
markets are easily reached. Farmers
and their sons and daughters should
aim to produce novelties, or at least
articles which are not commonly un-
derstood by landowners and for which
good prices are paid.
A few gardeners make Il large profit
from satisfy. sometimes called vegeta-
BILE oyster. This is one of the neglect
ed products for which there is Il quick
sale. Many prefer it to the oyster,
whose flavor it has Il hint of, with all
the disagreeable features of the BIZ
valve flavor left out of it.
1t can be cooked in many ways. AS
a soup. served with bread or crack
ers, it is delicious. Fried. either by
itself OF in a batter, it is quite as APP
petizing as the real oyster when cook
ed in that way.
Boiled, sliced ~lengthwise, when ten
der and fried in butter, like the par
snip. it 20 becomes a favorite.
Especially is satisfy a valuable addi-
ton to u somewhat limited list Of
winter vegetables, because it can be
dug in the fall and stored in the cellar,
OF it can be left in the ground over
winter and dug in the spring, when it
will be found deliciously fresh and of
fine flavor.
The culture of this plant is of the
simplest. 1t likes a rich garden loan
made mellow to the depth of a foot
and a half. Sow it in rows for con-
venience in c%ultivating and keep down
the weeds. If the seedlings stand too
thick in the rows thin them out SO
that the plants will be at least two
inches apart. Sow quite early in the
season.
Watch the catalogues of reliable seed
houses for novelties. The Trophy
marked a new era in tomatoes and
was really the first with smooth eX-
terror and solid inside. We had had
smooth tomatoes before. but they had
big seed hollows inside. and all that
we had with solid meat were exceed
ingly rough. like the mammoth Chihua-
hua.
But the production of the Trophy
was a success because it put this solid
tomato inside a smooth skin. and ever
since it has been the effort of breed
erS to keep it there. The best efforts
of the breeders should now be devoted
to the maintenance of the earlinesS of
the extra early sorts. with increased
smoothness. This has been attained
in the Earliana, Globe. Success and
others.
Then there are the cucumbers of
which every scotsman has his special
strain. Of these | have found that
there is nothing better than the COM
bination of the White Spine and Long
Green known as the Davis Perfect.
1t is longer and simmer than the
White Spine and earlier than the Long
Green and, in my opinion, deserves its
name.
Never follow the fall crop of lettuce
with lettuce, for it is sure to be 1T
tackled by the wilt. This crop needs a
change of soil as often as possible. 1t
is easy to raise lettuce in the winter in
a room that has an eve and moderate
temperature. This is better than mid
summer lettuce and sells at fancy fig
ures. Lettuce is raised with least trou-
BILE in spring and fall.
When soil can be worked in the
spring lettuce, radishes. onions and
peas should be planted in the open
garden. All of these can stand on
siderable frost. 1t is we'll to put in
some early potatoes. The early vege-
tables bring big profits.