Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-02-06
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est, IS to rs days; All head Select
and Early Copenhagen Resistant take
70 to 80 days to make crop; Marion
Market, and Glory Fellows Resistant,
rs to IS days; Globe, 80 to 90 days
and Wisconsin All Season Fita, 100
to ITO days. OF the late strains, Wis
consin Ballhead, IS to IS days, is
81 to 100 per cent resistant. Wiscon-
sin Hollander and Wisconsin No. 8,
each 100 to ITO days, highly resistant,
but less so than that of the first
named. In all cases get seedlings
from non-infected fields or sources.
Carrots.
Everybody grows carrots. Just
lately varieties have been standard
lied. We believe this listing will
help you in finishing your plans and
making your order. There are eight
types: French Forcing is very early,
and belong exclusively in the home
garden. Scarlet Horn Classics the
same except that it is slightly larger
and shade less early. It calls for
a shallow, compact SOIL Nantes rates
next in earliness and in size. It is
listed for both home and market
garden. It is also called Coreless;
quality excellent.
The fourth, Red Chantenay, is the
most valuable general purpose varie-
ty. It is cut off for storage and
manufacturing, and rates as midsea-
son in habits of growth. Danvers
is also midseason and is a punching
type in common use. Imperator, al
so listed among the punching types,
rates from mid to late season in ma
turity. Long Orange, No. 7 in the
list is late; it is grown both for the
commercial market and for stock
feed. Finally, Oxheart is definitely
of stock feed values and rates mid
to late season. When this list is
printed in the Northwest Farmer we
suggest you clip it for later refer
ence in your scrapbook
Use of Peat.
We hear more every year about the
use of peat for potted plants and
garden use. Folks though seldom
know how best to use it. When you
wish to improve the soil you use in
potting plants or for greenhouse work,
put one inch peat at the bottom of
the container or flat and then mix
three parts of loan and one of peat
for the balance of the fill. Since it
generates no heat, peat does not be-
long in cold frames. Manure must
be used exclusively here. But in
composing for greenhouse, you may
well use one part of manure; two
parts peat and to of loan.
If you are composing leaves as
many folks do, to provide humus for
their soil, add five pounds of lime
and three pounds 1855 fertilizer
per cubic yard. For turf top dress
ing use one bale ~ Gu. yd.) per
1000 so. #. Peat may be used for
also; and for gardens. Work
it down eight inches or more. The
use of peat is very limited in gen.
eral agriculture unless the farmer
contributes his labor and you may
wish the complete story of the utiliza-
ton of peat and muck in your garden
ing operations. If so, write the Con-
necticut Experiment Station at Storrs
for Circular No. 142, peat and Muck
for Soil Improvement"
School Lunches and Farm Market.
We now recess for this week from
garden observations. Market con-
ditions always concern producers.
Many of our readers are members of
Parent-Teacher groups that sponsor
school lunches. They will be glad
to learn that the school lunch has
values for the farm in
dustry. We learn that $4,000 schools