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 "
 J1 A 'tPtGI! {ER drill it in a little furrow before the the sides as at the top. Now, sup.. ., the hot months for September's transplanting .
 FJ1 ] ER plants are set, turn a light furrow slice pose that, when we knew the droughtwas l may cause us to prefer get
 """ ...... on it with a hand plow and set the setting in, we should haul soil ting the plants from the North, where
 Strawberry Culture. plants the furrow,which is thus left a and fill the furrow or space between I they may be procured for $3.00 to
 Editor Farmer and Fruit Grower: little to one side of the kainit. those ridges up to a level with their $4.00 per 1,000. We have been
 Have been growing strawberries tops. This course would cover the more uniformly successful in importing 
 nearly twenty years, and in that time Non-RIdgiuff System for Potatoes. sides of the ridges and cut off their our plants. In growing
 have tried many kinds. I find that if The editor of the Mobile exposure, leaving, say only about one plants at home, sow seed in June and
 you have a kind that does well, it will agricultural foot of surface exposed immediatelyon July upon surface of ground and cover
 be a long time before you will find the Register fall argues against ridgesfor the top. There could be no evap with board or damp sack until germ.
 another that is better,or even as good, and his views crops sound at great length, oration directly from the sides of the inated, after which the plants will require -
 well are : ridges because of their protectionfrom protection from the sun's
 therefore if you have one doing In lands low flat and inclined rays
 case 01 -
 contact with the atmosphere, by lath screens.In .
 hold on to it. But improvements are the for
 to wet, ridge system
 being made every year, and new kinds be all well but and as a consequence the only mois the South it is better to plant in
 may enough,
 should be fairly tried, and remember, potatoes in case of lands high and naturallywell ture they would lose would be the beds, and the system suggested( by
 one season is not sufficient to bringout drained what are the ridges for, comparative little drawn to the general Prof. Massey, of North Carolina Ex.
 the good or bad in a variety. My ? Who offer surface by capillary attraction. periment Station, has been found to
 can a reason
 anyway
 rows are three feet apart, and set the able answer to this question ? Are The sides of the ridges would remain be the best. It consists in plantingthe
 plants about two feet in the rows. I made with view moist, and that moisture would ex celery in beds five feet wide and
 they a to securing a
 try to get my planting done by the end greater depth of mellow soil ? If so, tend through the ridge from" side to of any length desired, leaving five
 ot August, and find those set out at why not dig down for it instead of side, and hence would exist about feet of a space between each bed. In
 that time to give me the best crop, and it ? the roots or tubers of the crop. On the bed the plants are placed in rows
 laboriously scraping Really
 do not make runners in the fruiting there sensible up the other hand, if the middles between twelve inches apart and six inches in
 is only one argumentthat
 season. In fact, I can hardly get can be advanced in its favor- the ridges; were not filled, as the row. As soon as the plants begin 
 them to make runners at all. Culti- the admitted suggested, the sides of the ridges to grow-the growth dependingvery
 one by our contemporary:
 vate them well, let them make what "Potatoes can be gathered more con would be directly exposed to evaporation largely upon the variety, fertilityof
 runners they will. After the first when and cultivatedin and on that account would soil and climatic conditions-small
 veniently planted
 heavy frost 1 give them a good work. he adds : soon become dry and baked in a quantities of earth are placed aroundthe
 ridgesbut, as truly
 ing, thin the plants to a stand, so that "The main thing to worry over is to : drought, the effect extending inward plants, compelling them to grow
 they will be about six to eight inches be sure of having the potatoes to from either side to the roots of the more upright, not using any more
 apart. Can see no difference in the plants, leaving them without sufficient earth than will hold the leaves up.
 amount of fruit when cattle lot man gather. should not be plantedin moisture to admit of a utiliza right. This supporting of the plants
 ure is used. Cotton seed meal, potash,' Why ridges ? This potatoes question can be an- tion of the plant-food in the soil; and with earth should be done when the
 or old bone is used, but there is a swered easily enough. "That thus the crop would be both famishedfor lopping condition of the leaves de.
 great difference in favor of potash and ration of the soil which best conserves prepa drink and starved for food. mands it-but from three to five

. bone in fineness of fruit, brighter in i moisture to fall back on in time of No principle could be plainer. handlings will be found sufficient. To
 color, and does not rot so bad as when drought is to be preferred," says our Level preparation of the land for the facilitate this handling and to guard
 lot manure or meal is used during a contemporary. This clearly answers crop, and level afterculture, keeps against the getting of the earth between 
 wet spell. Use at the rate of 1,000 the question, as any reasonable per. the field constantly mulched with the leaves, the tops of each
 pounds of acid phosphate, and 500 son can easily see on a little reflec earth the same as it would be did we plant are held together with a single
 kainit to the acre. My soil is sandy tion. Presuming that the soil is well fill between the ridges on an approachof wrap of string while the earth is being 
 loam with clay subsoil, what is knownas pulverized, and is rich enough for drought. It supplies the plants shoveled in between the rows.
 high piney woods. Ship in crates results, the main obstacle in the way with both moisture and elements of The time of bleaching will, of
 holding twenty-four quarts, and have 1 of a fine crop of potatoes to be fertility at times when under the ridge course, depend upon time of trans-
 the berries picked right into the boxesin dreaded, in the lower South, is possi system they would be seriously robbedof planting, growth of plants, etc., and
 the field. Of course, you have to ble periods of damaging drought. Of each, while at the same time, it has in South Louisana, where September .
 be watchful. The Nunan Prolific has course all know that drought is not the slightest adverse effect. and October are nearly as warm as
 been the standard here for years, but brought about by evaporation. Fora --- ......--- July and August, it may be well to .

 is now being laid aside for better and time there has been a partial_ or entire Celery Culture. defer the transplanting of celery until

 more -productive kinds. suspension in the usual rains. The This plant, like the asparagus and the latter part of October, and duringthe
 J. SctlADELIiACH. atmosphere becoming dry and cauliflower, requires extra attention cold spells of the winter months

 The Florida growers think it best to "thirsty," as we say, rolls over the i in the South, and when this care protect the tender varieties with
 cut off the runners as they form, for surface of the soil and takes up accessible -''is given may be perfected and made straw. In this way the White Plume,
 they rob the plant and reduce the i moisture like a dry sponge,l 1 profitable. which is a very desirable table variety 
 future yield of fruit. There is no I carrying it away. In the old.fashioned 4 t The general crop of celery is of may be grown without interfere
 better machine for this purpose than high potato ridge there is three or necessity grown in winter, matured ence from frost.
 the small boy with his own knife. four feet of surface directly exposed. and bleached in early spring. :For By later transplanting we escape
 o When we say "his own knife" we to contact with this absorbing agent, I this crop the plants may be secured the fall drought, which is a very serious -
 speak advisedly I ,for he will lose knives and acted upon by i ii in the taking up I I in two ways, viz., (i) by growing obstacle where watering facilitiesare
 for you as fast as you can buy them. and carrying away of moisture. The them at home and (2)) by getting them not good. The months of February 
 The kainit is well advised, as that potatoes inside the ridge are about tt from the North. The difficulty of March and the first part of
 will prevent white bud. It is well to the same distance from the surface at: protecting the young plants during April comprise the most desirable
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