The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-01

Q. Would sweet potato vines hurt COW giving milk? Mrs. D., Route 3
 A. No. they are splendid feed but give sparlngly at first and avoid
 feeding large quantities at any time and never when vines are wet. c. In digging sweet potatoes now for the table, how do you keep them from rotting, which | notice they do in few days? Mrs. R., Quinton A. It is best to dig only what you need for immediate use, as green. immature tubers don't keep. Wrap ping in paper or spreading in cool dry place is helpful Sprinkling with lime will help and If equal parts of sulphur be added still better re- suits are obtained. This same treat ment aids in preventing rot in Irish potatoes and onions.
 Q. The potato bugs are eating my young tomato plants. Will the same remedy 1 used for killing them on potatoes answer and not be injurious
 to the vines? F. S.. Verbena. A. The same remedy will answer and with no danger to the tomato plants. Most any poison powder or prepared insecticide is effective
 against potato bugs. A preparation made in Birmingham known as black deathsis very effective for most leaf eating insects.
 Q. I have some young haekberry shade trees that are all the time covered with ants. Are these ants
 injuring the trees? They don't look healthy. N R.
 | A. If you examine the trees you
 are likely to find a white deposit In | cracks, holes and cervices, and the l foliage may be infested with fungi. | The antsg are cleaning the trees. a l job you should have done before now, and they will most likely save the trees The foliage and trunk could | be cleaned off quickly with q lime and sulphur spray, formaula for | which appears nearly every day in | these columns.
 Q. Should tender varieties of pot | ted hydrangeas that are through | blooming be stored away and allowed to die down? Miss F. A. No, it is not advisable. They should be taken care of as potted
 plant until late in fall. They may then be allowed to die off and stored away in their pots until following spring.
 Q. Could I move a, small grape
 vine now and save 1t? l. C., East Lake
 A. By cutting back and taking up carefully you may succeed. After
 moving, water for a while.
 Q. Which is the best one of the various kinds of shallots and multi plying onions? w. H.
 A. The various names applied to these types of onions are indefinite, misleading and have different names in certain localities. Some sorts pro- duce no top sets or buttons. multi plying only from root divisions, whils others multiply but little if at all from roots but reproduce large clusters of small sets at apex of seed stalks. There are many varieties most all of which 1have never been classified or given permanent name. Most of those that produce top buttons are called scullious, but there are many different types of these.
 All multiplying onions are good and one can scarcely go wrong.
 A. I am anxious to grow turnips but my soil is stiff red clay and I always fail. What fertilizer would help? J, H.. Lincoln.
 A. Break up deep and thoroughly, then broadcast 300 to 1000 pounds lime to the acre. Lay, out in drills, use in drill all the animal manure you can or in it's absence good leaf mold or woods earth. In addition drill 400 to 600 pounds high-grade complete fertilizer to acre. Mix in furrow and then plant seed.
 Q. Do Cape Jasmines make. seed and could onetgrow plants direct from seed? Miss C., R. F. D. l. A. The Cape Jasmine in its native tropical countries produce vital seed. but little seed are planted, because so easy to root cuttings and thus produce blooming plant within two years.
 Q. My single Mexican tube roses are wonder to my neighbors After they are through blooming do you let them remain m the ground? Mrs. W. P.
 A. Tube rose bulbs ought to re- main in the soil until the first frost because the bulb continues to grow after the plant ceases to bloom They should then be taxen up, dried off. stored in dry sand until next spring and then reset.
 Q. Is there any grass I could now