St. Tammany farmer., 1921-10-08

the opportunity is being overlooked
for making money by producing lof
the summer trade.
Here is a tip off to an enterprls-
ing gardener in the vicinity OF each
of our four large towns: Manage TO
have sweet corn for sale from the
beginning to the end Of the usmmer
season-May to October. This can
easily be done by successive plant
ings Of early varieties of sweet corn
like Adams Early or Golden Ban
tam, and Country Gentleman anu
Sentelrs Evergreen for middle ana
late season. The earliest varieties
can be planted in late August or
early September and make crop
before frosts. 80
For salad plants and greens dur
ing midsumer Cos lettuse and New
Zealand spinach, in view OF the
SCARCITY Of any greens at this season,
ought to be profitable. This variety
of spinach is not true spinach ana
is adapted to hot weather.
It is indispensable to a summer
gardener here to have some kind OF
irrigation plant and with our flow
ing wells this would be easy to pro-
vide for. When other gardens are
burned up the irrigated garden can
still have an abundance of vegetables
Of a considerable variety. A con-
siderable variety displayed on the
vendors wagon will greatly increase
trade, particularly if everything ex.,
hibited to the purchaser is fresh ana
attractive in appearance.
OF course, it Is no use trying 20
raise a garden on a poorly drained
tract of land. An up-to-date garden
er will have his entire garden under
laid with tile pipes four or five inches
in diameter, about three feet deep,
and in rows about three rods apart.
To those who know nothing about
| irrigation it may seem strange that
we advise both drainage and irriga-
tion for the gardener. 1t is almoss
impossible to irrigate properly with
out a first-class tile-drainage sys-
TEN, for, as irligators know, it i:
easy to "waterlog" the land and
absolutely ruin it. In a very large
measure drainage in a country witn
fair rainfall is substitute for irri
cation. In this parish it is only I'll;
| gardener, truck growers and orch
ardist who need give any attentio:
to irrigation Drainage alone is SUI
ficient for the general farmer. BIZ
the gardener or truck grower whit
produces for a summer and fal
market can profitab1y install com
lplete system of irrigation to stimu
late growth in excessive dry seasons
IGood drainage, however, insure
against loss of crop from drought
The truck grower is very intensiv'
farmer, to whom day or two or
week earlier on the market means
great deal, and there is hardly al
improvement Of any kind which i
not valuable to him; SO. he vii
usually require both drainage an
irrigation But there is no kind o
farmer in this country who can a!
ford to be without drainage.
Although in this article we hay
considered chiefly the advantages Q
good health to ourselves and the al
, tractiveness to the summer visitor
which would come from farm an
| garden development In this paris1
there is the further very importar
consideration at the beginning tha
) when we have farms. which produc
not only enough to supply us wit
] | all kinds of food which can be grow
and which will have surplus to shi
4 out, that will be a new and gres
day of general prosperity for TIL
parish, beyond any that it has ev4
r experienced, in which everyone ca
. share. Drainage is the key, the ne
) essary condition precedent, to tn;
1 prosperity.