The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-29


 government, and by railroads and seed concerns. In these little publications no detail of vegetable cultivation is overlooked and the information set forth is full of interest for expert enced truckers as well as beginners One of the recent booklets contains these directions for successive plant ings and rotation:
 Crops occupying ground all season: Beans, pole snap; beans, pole lima; beets, late; carrots, late; parsnips; corn, late; squash; pumpkin; toma- toes; onions (from seeds); potatoes; rutabaga.
 Successive crops: Radish; spinach; lettuce; peas; beans, dwarf; kohl-rabi.
 Early crops which may be followed by others: Onions, sets; beats, early; turnips, early; carrots, early; corn, early.
 l These directions are timely:
 "It is after the seeds have sprouted I that cultivation becomes of greater importance. The gardener should never permit the surface of the soil ] to become baked or even to become hard. Constant stirring with hand tools or a wheel cultivator should be practiced between the rows and about the plants. The rake is perhaps the | gardeners most valuable tool in cul- tivating. This can be passed back ward and forward over the ground until 1t is in an open mellow condi- tion. Where vegetables grow closely in rows it will even be necessary to supplement the cultivator by hand wedding. It is well, also, in some cases, to pull out weeds by hand, es- pecially where they grow. closely about the stalks of the garden plant"
 Protecting plants from the ravages of insects is one of the problems with which the gardener must deal Most of the vegetables may be successfully protected by spraying at intervals of two weeks with certain mixtures, which may be obtained at any drug store. Arsenite of lead should all ways be one of the ingredients.
 Let the home gardener in this sec tion vie with the farmer in an effort to increase food production and the south may yet come out with flying colors in feeding itself. Nothing is more vital to the south's welfare.
  Mineral Survey
 0G lMls State
 "A LTHOUGH Bulletin No. 19. pre- 62s senting the Statistics of the Production of Alabama for 1915," just issued by the university, with the imprimatur of Dr. Eugene A. Smith. state geologist, misses the most booming time in Alabama's history, yet it is full of interest and is of high scientific value. It shows our mineral wealth-the variety of our products and the development of the coal, iron, marble, clay, cement, graphite and other industries. The minerals are described in untechnical language that everyone can understand.
 In 1913 Alabama's coal production totaled 17,67S,522 tons. That was the highest record up to the year named. Then it began to decrease, but it is now far ahead of any previous record. The output will probably exceed 22,000,000 tons this year. Never was Alabama coal in such demand and the demand is at fancy prices.
 Bulletin No. 19 contains eighty seven pages and is bound with taste in thick, strong buff paper. The geo. logical survey of Alabama is one of the oldest in the country and every bulletin emanating from it is largely sought by representatives of capital and industrial developers.
 
 War May Last
 Five Years Longer
 r F there is any lingering belief U among the American people that the European war will soon be over it should be dissipated for the good of the country. We have entered struggle that will last indefinitely. It is the hope of the world that victory will rest with the allies at the end of