The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

uI&LuEG OE RTO0uCG SUCCESSIVE CIODS
 As q general rule it is not profitable to give q vegetable plant space in your garden when it shows an inclination to cease growth, natures it's crop and goes into decline as nature intended. The thing to do Is to plant such garden vegetables at short intervals, have q fresh crop coming along of those things mostly desired and discard or destroy such vegetables that have expended their energy utilize the space for something else and thus keep your soil constantly improved in some productive and de- sirable crop. 1t Is astonishing, the quantity of stuff one can produce on n small plot of soil if all of it is kept busy
 Think About Fall Planting
 To mention fall gardening at this earIy date when many home gardeners have not yet picked their first mess of snap beans and perhaps not seen a single bloom on their tomato plants may seem premature, but it should be known that the market gardener or profes. sional truck grower is already at work laying his plans for fall production The amateur or home gardener should be doing the same. The planting of many vegetables peculiarly adapted for fall and winter production is too often put off until it is really too late for maximum production. The home gar. dener should recall the vegetables that he Is fond of and which he is accus- toued to buy in the fall and winter months because his own home garden Is barren They can be grown at home If preparations are made in time and the seed planted before to6 late for full maturity. It is not too early to plan the fall garden, whether it be only vege- tables that are to be grown, but flow CTS shrubbery, trees, etc. But few people seem to understand much about the nature of plants they have, result Tng too often in great disappointment. Whose fault IS it? There is plenty of reliable information freely available.
 Cold Kills Few Insects
 There can be no doubt but what cold winters do destroy many insects, but whenever farmer is deluded into the belief that cold weather will solve his insect problems, then he is in a fair way to wake up suddenly from any such doctrine is only a dream. The past winter was an exceptionally cold Oue- particularly on or near the gulf coast, and the cold persisted until very Late In many trucking sections the temperature went to 12 and IA degrees above zero, making a clean sweep of the early planted crops; killed most of the satsuma oranges, grapefruit and many other trees, shrubbery and flow CTS, never before killed in the memory of many natives. Farmers and vege- table growers in general thought that the loss of their crops through the freeze wOuld be compensated for by the de- strUctiOn of their insect enemies. The writer on a recent trip through the coast trucking section found the usual number of insect pests on the job and many truckers insisted that their insect troubles were greater this year than last
 Questions and Answers
 O. My cantaloupes planted some time ago are beginning to bloom but the plants have not made any runners yet to amount to anything. What is the trouble M A., Thorsby, Ala.
 fl CantaEoupes frequently bloom be- fore showing any considerable runners. butt soon afterwards if soil is fertile and