The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-08-02
LOTS OF THINGS
STILL TO PLANT.
LATE CABBAGE, TOMATOES CEL'
ERY, SQUASH, BEANS, ETC.
YET AVAILABLE.

YET AVAILABLE.
With food prices high and stiii
soaring it almost behooyes US tokno"
;rst exactly what and how to 90 TO
make both ends meet, so great is 'he
strain put upon the purse strings OF
the poop farmer; but be it as 1t may
he is still a great deal better off than
his Door town or city brother
The man in the city or town with
a meager salary, possibly with a
large family and not even ten square
feet of land upon which to plant
even q few vegetables,is in far slgnt
worse fix than is the country farmer
who has to go to town and sell eggs
and butter to buy the necessary
bread to eat with his vegetables be-
cause he has them perfectly fresh
and in bounteous quantities,and with
the addition of milk. butter ard eggs
IN saw nothing of fried chicken thrown
in for good measure. He also has
nice fresh fruits from the roadside
such as the following: blackberrles'
dewberries, plums, huckleberrles'
etc. vet all the while has nice Or
cbard soon to come into bearing.
The Door city mans family was'
up until a few years ago, a positive
"shut.in." No sunshine hardly at all
to rear his children to healthy man.
hood and womanhood. Numbers llv-
cd in the same room breathing the
same foul air until philanthroplcai
workers tried to rectify such condl-
tions.
There is yet worlds of work Tor
them to do, and a good one would be
to have different sections of the cities
and towns supervised by competent
leaders, with subdivisions and land
near these cities leased and worked
by these same poor little children,
giving them not only an insight into
the wonderful workings Of nature
but fresh air as well. Each should
have so many feet of land upon
which to raise his or her own vege'
tables that the family likes; and din
ners can be served each day in the
open, using some as walters still
giving a mental training of service
in after yerrs. Prizes offered for
best results, then exhibition days ap-
pointed; parents and friends invited;
mayors and high officials invited to
make speeches of encouragement to
the furtherance of more food pro-
ductions.
There are 80 many things that can
vet be planted before frost that 1t IS
staggering in its immensity.
] will enumerate a few that can
vet be planted and which will 60
long WAYS toward helping to feed the
family and have some to sell, viz:
Late Flat Dutch cabbage can be
planted upon rich soil, preferably
clay loan, and they begin to grow
we'll after being transplanted in
August. Give dressing of nitrate of
soda after it rains.
Tomatoes of the Stone variety.
Self-blanching celery would be we'll
to plant at this time, also squash, Gu
cumber, cassava, muskmelons, okra,
Irish potatoes; also Mexican June
corn and the regular old cornheld
bean of a variety that is quite scarce
and hard to find; still | think | have
located them in an Atlanta seed
house. These do theil best after the
cool nights in September.
Both the pole and bunch limas,
pole and bunch snaps, can now be
planted; rutabagas, too, must be
planted by August l, as they require
much more time to make than the
other turnips. They do best in black
lands with 600 pounds each OF cot
ton seed meal and acid phosphate bed
ded in rather flat,to retain the mols-
ture during the dry months OF Aug