, 806 .- : ::THE FLORIDA DISPATCH,, FARMER AND FRUIT-GROWER. Ocro3Z: f 13j 18925] -- 1 gRRM]' R Ji'lD] 'i'le1El R Harvesting Oowpeas. ing labor-a hard commodity to get The points which depend on soil ... The cowpea named "Unknown" is here-and in any case it would soon quality and call for judgment are: i, STAWBBBBY OULTDBB. 6. our best. This was introduced pay for itself in laborsaving.For the settling of the ground to compactit very pea flavoring and a peculiar aroma ; 2, the thickness of the mulch layer, Applying: the Fertilizer. new from Georgia four years II for butter making, no June pasture fed and 3, the tendency of this mulch layerto Editor Farmer and Prnlt-G rower: ago. I was surprised last spring whena will equal pea meal; it gives a full gold compact with the moist soil below it. I am raising strawberries on my gentleman sent me six of the seeds, tint, and a particularly pleasant aroma First. Packing to retain moisture. miles north of Hawthorne describing it as an entirely new thing and delightful after-taste. How our The firmer the ground the better it re- place, two , with clay three to five feet from the They are, old, and bear the same name butter epicures have not discovered it tains moisture, but if too firm roots surface. I am anxious to get the very as when first introduced. Strangethat I don't.know. I have fed it to Jerseys cannot penetrate it freely and secure best strawberry fertilizer, and to know some of our enterprising seedS. and Holsteins; it is far. more distin- the air necessary to their growth. The the number of applications needed and men did not sooner find it out, and guishable in the Holstein than in the practical aim is to get it just so solid quantity each time, and the proper more singular still, that they have not Jersey, making the former a better that it will not retard root growth. In time to fertilize, and any other infor- given them a new name. butter cow than the latter in qualityand clay soils the rain alone will some- mation that would be valuable for me My entire crop last winter was sold quantity. Of cburse it must be times settle the soil too much, and it to know relative to the growing of in New Orleans at $1.50 a bushel of judiciously fed ,or it will run cattle all must be loosened up for the roots' sake. strawberries. I am also anxious to 60 pounds to the bushel. As a pre- to beer Bearing this in mind- you Loamy and sandy soils nearly always have the names of some reliable parties paratory crop for this section.for corn, wish a very superior article of butteruse require artificial packing. The Cali- who in irrigating plants for water- it excels any other-move effective all the cowpea meal you can. I fornia farmer is prone to secure this ing put also the names of parties than red clover.I I have tried it in every way, and more solidity by shallow-plowing.: This groves, pull the plants by handwomenand 'especially on those distinct breeds, gives him the desired solidity, but he who bore wells. If you can give me . the boys-and throw seven rows,into and find nothing to equal it for qualityand loses the chemical benefit of oxygen this informatipn or give me names with I will one, one puller taking the center row, quantity.-Country Gentleman. and his ground fails to' absorb much of parties to correspond , the favor and thank three others .at each side, putting,in .. rainfall, and sometimes in stiff soils his fully appreciate winrows the entire length of the field, A good application of Paine's Baltimore seedbed is too dense for the young you very much. or, if leaves are greenish, throw into O. S. G. Lime to the grove 80 to 90 days roots. C. W. AGIN. previous to the application of commercial Madisonrille, ,Ohio. tramp cocks. Be sure and catch hold fertilizers is undoubtedly the finest investment Occasionally he tries deep-plowing, You will find in our advertising col- of the plant below first shoots; by doingso the grower can make., See ad. but follows it by the same harrowingthat umns a number of good fertilizers. For your plant is easier pulled up by the on page 816. It will give you larger followed the shallow work This the first application-to be made about operator, and you do not break off the crops, finer fruit and make your soil hold leaves the soil too loose and it dries commercial fertilizer applied! afterward.Cultivation . the 15th or 20th of October-blood and side shoots and shell your peas. .. out rapidly. In my opinion, the absence - bone or cottonseed meal will do very Should it rain, by being' so loosely for Moisture. of the splitting action of frost in well to make plant growth. Apply thrown together it will run through this State renders deep-plowing of the half a ton per acre in a drill made close them like a sieve. After a couple of To begin at the beginning: I be- greatest value, but, before evaporation- alongside the row with the Plant, Jr., hours' sun, the top ones will be dry.. lieve in deep-plowing for all soils, begins for good, the soil must be firm hand-plow, and covered with the same With four-tined forks, place between light and heavy. Not necessarily and solid to carry the moisture. , by a reverse motion. soil and peas, turn carefully over bottom throwing over with the moldboard, Second. The top mulch layer. In For the second application use any on top; don't shake, as pods will but breaking and loosening the soil heavy soils worked fine a very shallow good brand with not less than ten percent burst when dry and all leaves withered. and letting in the air to a depth of layer of soil is enough, but as the soil of potash-and more than that Rig up your wagons for hauling in ; never less than nine inches; better J 5 lightens and becomes sandy, this layer would be still better. This may also tack some old cottonseed bags or other or 20. If this be done early in the must be deeper, because such soil is be applied in a drill, as described material on bottom of your wagon season every drop of rain is taken up much more porous. Sandy loam is, in above; but the writer always found it body if there are any holes or openingsin as it falls, and, besides the chemical my experience, a very difficult soil to t.oso; better service if placed directlyin it (there generally are); same at benefit of the aerating, the moisture handle in this respect. The mulch is the row, a small handful between permanent end, which is the one at, absorbed. Whatever the nature of extremely porous and I have had the each two plants. A single stroke of a horses' tails. The end at the end gate the soil, early deep-plowing stores up moist soil hardpan under a.top mulch h"e, or a prong-hoe, will draw away of wagon must swing down to unload. moisture. Then, having gotten the layer six inches deep. My present enough earth to make a hole for the We back wagon to door, empty from moisture in the soil, the next step is plan is to begin the summer witha fertilizer, and another stroke in the that end; this drops bottom of it to six to retain as much as possible throughthe three-inch mulch, as neap as may be, opposite direction will cover it. Thisis inches of the ground, thus no shelled dry season. and then cultivate alternately deep slow and tedious, but with good: peas are lost. Firm soil, whatever its nature, retains and shallow. The deep cultivation plants and a fair season it will pay well In the field have "two men loading, moisture better than loose soil, breaks the forming hardpan and the for all extra labor. The fertilizer is by one on each side of the wagon, and to and the more solid the ground is in next shallow drive campacts it again, this plan deposited where the groundwill use 4-tined fork, lift from the bottom, April, the better will it hold moisture some of the soil going back to the not be hardened by the constant ground, to save shelling; not in any through the summer. But as even the moist ground, some becoming mulch.In . trampling in picking time, and the case to stick the fork in the top as they most compact soil will lose largely this way hardpan can be preventeduntil plant roots can feed on it undisturbedall would in loading hay. The two men through evaporation this must be pre- September and often later._ To through the bearing season. Applya may keep two or six wagons moving, vented, as far as may be, by some cultivate such soil atone depth, either ton per acre, or a ton and a half if: according to distance from barn they covering or mulch, and the most con- deep or shallow, invariably makes your purse will bear it. The writer may have to haul to. Let your loaderfill venient mulch is a layer of the soil hardpan at that depth. Heavy soils has applied as high as two'tons per flush to top, rounded a little in center itself. The efficacy of this.layer in do not hardpan in this way, and with acre, and believed that the last half ; let one boy or woman follow up preventing evaporation is inverselyas them the mulch can be, and indeed ton paid a better return than the first each forker and gather up all dropped its porosity; if the soil be heavy, must be, kept distinct from the moist ton and a half. plants or pods. Put into a long shed; adobe in nature, and in fine tilth, a soil by cultivation. _ For irrigating outfits consult our ad- they must not be tramped, as by so shallow layer is enough; if lumpy, or Third. Preserving mulch layer. ' vertisers, all of whom we can recom doing they will heat, no matter how loose and light, the mulch layer must In sandy, light soils the tendency is mend.-ED. seemingly dry they may appear. be deeper. Right here comes in muchof for the moist soil to hardpan below the I Thresh at once by women or men the confusion in discussing this subject mulch layer; in heavy soils, the ten- Chinese Cabbage (women do all mine), each operator The loose top soil or mulch is dency is for the mulch layers to run having two hickory,gads, one in each not active soil at all, it is a mere into and"become part of the moist soil. Editor Farmer and Fruit Grower: This is introducedby hand, and about four feet long; run blanket; the active soil in which the Summer cultivation in the former must some of a new the Chinese vegetable population of through a large fanning mill to prop- plant does its growing is the firm bed be directed mainly to preventing Hard- the city of Jacksonville, who raise etly clean. By this method I gather, of moist soil below the mulch. Once pan; in the latter, to keeping the top and sell it thresh, clean. bag and deliver at depotfor the rains are over, the cultivator layer loose and free from the moist large their quantities, It forms among :25 cents a bushel of sixty pounds.I ought never to disturb this moist soil, ground below. It ought therefore to a large head' like countrymen.Savoy cabbage but is much put by my seed for ensuing year in unless it be to cut off a slice to be con- be done as often as either of these more tender than the former., The barrels, hogsheads or bags; put some verted into mulch, or, in sandy soils, ends requires.-Pacific Rural Press. ribs be substitutefor turpentine In them at once, then some to prevent hardpan; but the cultivator 4 can prepared as a more in March, and I lose none by ought to stir the mulch or blanket soil September, October and November are asparagus.I have a small quantity of seed on weevil. We have no threshing machine just as often as there is any tendencyon the very time to make a good applicationof will'forward going around now. I should its part to run into or become part Paine's Baltimore Oyster ShAll Gaa hand and a little packageto advise any one, if.only growing twenty of the moist soil below it, for therebythe Lime. This article will regulate the reader of this that wishesto any paper becomes thin. soil, making it more adhesive, thus enabling - of blanket too give it a trial, for ten cents. acres peas, to purchase a threshing it to hold for a longer time commercial ALBERT FRIIS. machine; by so doing he could thresh To my mind there is no question of fertilizers applied afterward.See . st. Nicholas,Pla.,October S,189*. directly the field or fields, thus sav the great benefit of early deep-plowing. ad. on page 810. . . \ W i -