Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-02

VI SOUTHERN girls WHO nave h1u sue
cessful in raising tenth-acf of to-
matoes and who want to "gom," the
representatives of the DEPARTMENT of
agriculture and the state cdeges in
| charge OF the canning club in the
Is Southern states have wGxed out
what might be called a progressive,
four-year practical garden nd can
ming course for girls. The prpose of
this course is to start the rls with
one crop, and from year tegear add
new annual crops, encoura them to
run winter and glass-framt gardens,
and finally in the course Of feir work
to lead them to plant pereral small
and orchard fruits. 1t is Aped that
under this system the girsWill gain
knowledge of how to hanie wide
variety of garden vegetablesand trees,
and that the member by tn time she
gets ready to go to high school or
college will have garden perennial
fruits that readily can be cred for by
other members of her fami'
The first year of girls lubwork
throughout the Southern states con-
sists in raising tomatoes il tenth-acre
gardens. 1t is believed b those in
charge that every girl ihould first
master this plant and larn how to
utilize or sell it's producs before she
takes up other vegetables and fruits.
In sections where tomatoes suffer
from blight and wilt, bwever, it is
sometimes necessary 10 substitute
another garden crop.
T10 Gals f,
grow tomatoes on onehalf of their
garden space and devote the other
half of the space to one other crop,
preferably beans, peas peppers, okra,
beets or onions. The girls also are
encouraged to start winter gardens in
the late summer and fall on one
fourth to one-half Of the tenth-acre
plots. Lettuce. spinach and kale are
the crops RECOMMENDED.
The third-year girls grow three
crops, continuing the two that have
been grown the second year and
adding cucumbers, eggplant, fig toma-
toes, satisfy; persnps or horseradish.
In each case those IN charge of the
work select the ADDITIONAL vegetables
with reference to local agricultural
conditions, market demand, and suita-
bility for canning Many garden COM
binations other than those suggested
are possible. Forinstance, il the COM
munity is interested An canning soup
mixtures and Creole sauce, they must
secure from their gardens tomatoes,
peppers. okra and onions. In fruit
growing sections the girls are advised,
when conditions are right, to substi-
tute from 5 to 10 fruit trees for one
Of the vegetable crops. The member
then becomes responsible for the prun- |
ing, spraying and general care Of
these trees. NWt
The development of crops of peren-
NAL vegetables sad fruits is insisted
on at the end Of the third year, and
in many cases the work is begun at
the end of the second year. The
perennials are substituted for some OF |
the annual Vegetables and the girls |
are given credit Tor the condition of |
their bushes or trees which are not |
vet bearing and therefore do not yet
Weld a product that can be counted |
in the csnn;ng score.
1t is hoped that as a result of this
planting OF PERENNIAL fruits and veg
etables several thousand of the girls,
before many years, will have at the !
end OF their junior garden permanent
gardens containing some such profit
able coin binations as the following: \
StraWb4mie, ASPARAGUS andSs cher
ries; deWb.ffies, Tfigs sand pecals
rasberries irhatharbs and ! plpans; .car.
berries, currants and peaches; black
berries, rlgssad scuppemonse; straw
berries, aspsrasus and ounces; straw
berries. iigs and oranges; strawber-