Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
6IlEs VALUABLE HINTS
u FOR FALL GARDENING
Frank Fooshe Suggests Greens
That Can Be Had the Year
ss' $50 Around.
sAUER KRAUT is MENTIONED

y Eermented or Picked State Prefer
-sAblc to Drying for Cabbages-Ad-
+ 81 Rises Against Drying Green Butter
s. beans.
s.s.Looks to me like you are wasting
valuable space in these notices about
& the; best ways of drying cabbage" said
I.Frank Fooshc. director of the gar
r"ciub Of the American National
Bank, yesterday What anybody
South for Is Just a little more than
] can see, when it is so easy 10 make
I this vegetable into saucr kraut or
? Kssp 1t through the entire winter by
heeifnG the heads in out in the open
or storing them in cellar. 1t mat
tiers not how we'll a cabbage might
( be, dried, II would hardly ever be as
good as kraut. which is one of the
very. best things TO be had in the
winter.
"Hans was not SO far wrong last
winter when he answered in reply to
.. question as 10 whether he would
!, put UP any kraut with cabbage SELL
ing around 500 ton that he would
have to put up barrel or two at
least for the sake of his digestion.
While great many people boot at the
idea OF any good feature about cab
baEe In any form, and most especially
AS kraut, yet, as a matter of fact in
this picked or fermented state the
acid formed is just about as good for
the system as buttermilk. and that
means nothing better. Preservation
Through fermentation is one of the
Oldest methods known to the huma n
family, and it is a great misfortune
that it is not practiced more. not only
with cabbage. but with snaps, corn
and other vegetables
DOES NOT FAVOR DRYING
GREEN BUTrERBEANS
Then, too l am not very strong
on, this, thing of drying green butter
beans where one has to go to the trou-
bio OF blanching them and handling
i with much care otherwise. To dry
Them this way they have to be picked
before they are mature, resulting in
A'oonsiderable loss in quantity as COM
pared with letting them ripcn and then
gather them. 1t is also very ques-
uonable whether the quality is much
improved by drying them in this i'm
mature stage as compared with iettinir
; them fully mature. Where they are
allowed TO ri7cn, II is we'll to keen
them gathered off the vines for the
tWofold reason of not having them
exposed to rain or dew and keeping
the vines bearing. Nor should any
FISK be taken on butterbeans, navy
beans, snaps or peas with weevils
which can readily be prevented by the
use OF bisuphide of carbon The
formula Is one ounce to 100 pounds
which can be applied by putting the
product in tight closed vessel with
This volatile fluid in pan on top OF
the contents. AS the fumes are in
1lammable and highly explosive, great
caution must be used against exposure
to fire or burning lights. This treat
ment does not affect them for table
use.
EASY HERE TO HAVE GREEN
THINGS ALL THROUGH NyISTEt,
But, In addition to the reasons
have already given against the drying
of.cabbaSe. spinach and such, there
is another of great Importance. 1t is
SO easy here in the South to have
green things all the winter tina,
largely take the place of cabbage
where these cannot be had. First of
all, there Is the old collard. which has
given TO both North Carolina and
Georgia the signal honors OF State
name appliedAro a vegetable variety.
In every day 'barlance the collard is
hard to beat. and 1t is gaining it's way
westward. though wherever you see
a. whole garden set out with these
winter greens you can pretty well
count on that as the home of a North
Carolipian (Georgians rarely getting
this far from home)
Then there are the salads-kale,
mustard. turnips. rape. spinach. let
tuce, radishes, etc. Because Of making
roots also, turnips probably hold first
place In this group, though spinach is
pretty hard TO keep in the back
ground where 1t can be made 10 come.
On account of the ease in getting a
stand, raoish como in for more i'm
portant place than their real food
value would give them, as one of the
great troubles with the small seeded
crops at this season is getting a good
stand. Perhaps the hardest of these
is rape. which, in addition to being
about the best green feed for sheen.
hogs and chickens during the winter
is mighty fine human food. Any OF
the green crops can be sown during
the month of September. though the
sooner the better
CARE TO BE TAKEN IN
PLANTING TURNIPs
I'm planting turnips care should be
taken to plant the root varieties apart
from the salad ones. The Southern
prize. or seven-top, are especially com.
mended for salad in The early spring
While great many have fine result.
from sowing these various crops In
small beds. 1t is preferable TO plan
them in drills, where they can b.
worked II is Of great importanc,
also to have view to net years gar
den In planting these little crops
which stand over till spring. Ere
Qucntly 1T happens that these small
plots are SO badly arranged as TO ma
the symmetry and best results of mex
years work.
September is also the beginning O.
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