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if desired, especially for

Remove from fire, but keep the ham
In the liquor in which it was cooked
until cold; then remove from the con
tainer and allow to drain.
| Take off the skin, score the fat in
! inch blocks. and cover with coating
of brown sugar and crumbs. Stick
with cloves inch apart.
Bake in a slow oven until nicely
Drowned, basting at intervals with one.
half cup of water and one tablespoon.
full OF vinegar.
Plant Snap Beans in March
II your garden has light. well.
drained fertile soil, snap beans should
do well in it. AS they require only
I Sky days from the time of planting
to bear fruit, they come at time
when they can be taken care of with
out neglecting other crops. Besides
that, they are legumes and will add
much nitrogen to the soil.
Plant snap beans in rows or hills,
says w. l. Floyd, professor of horti-
culture, University a Florida. Guilt
vate them frequently and shallow, but
do not cultivate when the leaves are
wet.
# the plants turn yellow, apply a
small amount of nitrate of soda. Some
of the favorite varieties are Refugee.
Stringless and Red and Black valen-
tine
Farming Suggestions for Spring
by c. x. McQuarrie. state agent Flor
ida Agricultural Extension Division)
Conserve moisture with all crops
by keeping a dust mulch formed on
the surface of the ground. Disk or
spike tooth harrows, small cultivators
or weeders are the usual tools used in
mulching. Indications are that the
spring will be dry; therefore. all the
moisture in the soil will be needed for
planted crops.
Small grain crops will give larger
yields. if moisture in the soil is con-
served for their use. Stir the soil
with a weeder and secure larger oat
and rye yields. But do not keep up
this cultivation of small grain crops
after they show signs of booting.
Now is the time to plant corn and
other staple crops. But before plant
ing the soil should be thoroly pulver-
lied. The seed should be planted
deeper than usual, because of the dry
season When planting. it is well to
follow the planter with roller in
order to compact the soil about the
seed. This will result in better garm-
ination. Stirring of the soil should
commence soon after, or even before,
the seed come up.
Sugar cane planted last fall or win
ter is no doubt up. What has been
said about conserving moisture with
other crops apply with cane. Prob
ably no other crop requires more
water than sugar cane; for that rea-
son mulching is very necessary.
If the small grains show little vi
tally, a top dressing of about 100
pounds nitrate of soda to the acre will
greatly increase the yield. Nitrate of
soda should be applied on freshly pull
verified soil and worked in immedi-
ately with a weeder or harrow.
No cropping system should exclude
|legumes-velvet beans, cowpeas, pea
nuts, beggarweeds, or some other plant
famous for its ability to take nitro
gen from the air and store it for the
use of the plant. These are among
the most profitable crops.
DO not make the mistake of plant
ing all your land to just one or two
crops. Don't take one or two chances
when you can just as easily take more.
Raise enough food crops for your own
use and try to have surplus to sell.
Spinning Qualitis Of Meade Cotton
Variety Developed by United States
Department of Agriculture is Suit
able Substitute Cor Sea Island Cot
ton.
Comparative spinning tests OF
Meade and Sea Island cottons conducts
The tests were intended to demon
OF Agriculture show slight difference
in strenitfl q. the fibers, the Sea Island
being superior by small margan.
The tests wer intended to demon
strate to growers and manufacturers