The evening leader., 1918-12-06

toes should be preceded with a legume
crop plowed in at least three months
before the potatoes are planted. The
seed for spring potatoes should be cut
up two or three days before they are
used, and spread out in a cool, shady
place in a layer not more than two
inches deep. The planting should be
not more than five inches deep, with
space of sixteen to eighteen inches
between hills, if the grower desires to
get yarger percentage of No. rs
than No. rs. The fertilizer should
not contain more than l per cent nj
trate of soda, 2 per cent sulphate of
ammonia, l to 2 per cent organic am
monia, per cent sulphate of potash
and Z to per cent phosphoric acid.
After legume crop has been plowed
in on the. field, only 800 to 1000
pounds of commercial fertilizer per
acre would be necessary, but if a le-
gume crop has not been pct into the
i soil, the grower would need 1,500 to
1000 pounds of fertilizer per acre. 1t
is necessary to spray with Bordeaux
mixture to keep off the blight, and
the speaker recommended poison
bran mash to kill cut-worms. The po-
tato crop should mature in so or 80
days, and show handsome profits in
South Florida.
In purchasing cabbage seed they
should be true to name, and the speak
er recommended the Charleston Wake
| field, the Jersey, and Henderson's Ear
ly Summer. This plant should be set
out about the first of November and
| the crop can be expected to mature in
80 to 100 days.
Some Of the farmers brought white
Leghorn chickens to the meeting and
DR.. Wyman explained clearly the rea-
sons why particular hen which he
help before the audience was not and
could not be profitable egg producer.
A white Leghon cockerel was exhib-
lifted to the audience, and he was
shown to have no ability to transmit
laying efficiency. The doctor said it
was waste of time to feed such
chickens with the expectation of max
ing any money from egg production.
Eighty eggs year per hen are not
enough to show a profit.
Dozens of questions were asked by
members of the audience and prompt
ly and fully answered by DR.. Wyman.
One town lot owner in Oldsmar sup
piled his family with Irish potatoes
the first half of this year by planting
his potato peelings day after day in
trenches in his back yard. !
Dr.. J. c. Martin, president of the
Oldsmar Farmers alliance, delivered
very fine inaugural address, telling
a variety of ways in which this alli-
ance will benefit the new settlers at
Oldsmar. The work will be timely
and practically eevry week, giving the
farmers just the information they
need at the right time.
| The lecture on chicken raising will
be continued next Monday night, with
additional information on home gar
| dening. By common consent it was
agreed that the men can smoke at the
meetings.
! Rev. ]. W. Windham, secretary of
the Tri-County Sunday School asso-
citation, which includes Hillsborough,
Pinellas and Pasco counties, delivered
a very interesting address to the Olds-
mar people on the effort being made
to place religious education on the
same practical and organized basis as
secular education. This is being done
regardless of denominational lines
with the intention to help all denomi-.
nations in their religious education of
young people. Mr.. A. Mcpherson, of
Tampa, also addressed the meeting.
He is vice president of the HILLSIDE
iooSi Soolley CUlitdy SCliOOi dSSOCid-
tion and told many interesting facts
about the progress that has already
been made in Florida along these
/ lines.
/ Among the new arrivals at Oldsmar
are Mrs. M. B. Tinker and her%on,
Bunham Tinker, who have Joined the
real estate staff of the Reolds Farms
Co., at Oldsmar. They were accom-
panied by Mrs. E. E. Burnham and
are delighted with Oldsmar and ex-
pect to live here permanently. Mrs.
Tinker expects to begin the construc-
tion of a beautiful bungalow shortly.
They droyawn from Detroit by way
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very popdIsr and will be continued
| tn ron 0ho1It tho winter seaSon nor