Category: Horticulture

Eastern and southern farmers have much to gain by close study of the methods employed in the West to conserve moisture in the soil, because water saving is their problem, also. When an abundant, well-distributed supply of rain prevails, good crops follow. This order of things is not the general rule, however, as every crop […]

According to W. G. Dawson of Dorchester county, Maryland, ” Asparagus, when properly grown and carefully packed, is a good paying crop, and probably the most certain of all in the perish-able list. This is because the supply rarely* exceeds the demand, asparagus being used so extensively in its fresh state and for canning. As […]

L. C. Seal of Indiana discusses bean growing as follows : ” Did your young bean vines ever promise well, then suddenly yellow up and, perhaps, die, and you could not account for it? Maybe you hoed them one time when their foliage was wet. You should not have done so. Never touch snap beans […]

Beets are very readily grown on almost any soil, not too sandy nor too heavy, preferably a very rich, well-worked and deep loam. For earliest use the round forms should be chosen. Of these there are many that Are of quick growth. They are planted in rows 16 inches apart, as soon as the soil […]

Anyone who can grow cabbage can grow Brussels sprouts. Everyone who likes cabbage will like Brussels sprouts better. But the same carelessness that produces woody, rank flavored cabbage will have a like effect on Brussels sprouts. People who give the plant a fair trial in the garden and the kitchen soon swell the ranks of […]

The importance of having the garden well drained is not half appreciated. Of course, if the land is naturally Well drained there would be no necessity of doing the thing artificially. But if the land is low or pockety, it is likely to need draining. While water is necessary to crop growing, excess of water […]

We usually plant six or eight acres of cabbage of several varieties each year,” says H. A. Souther-land of Ontario county, New York. ” During the last five years we have found Burpee’s All Head earlier and Burpee’s Danish better than any we have ever tried. We have also grown All Seasons, but it gives […]

A warm, sandy soil made rich with stable manure, thoroughly composted, is generally considered the genial home of the cantaloupe, so far as regards the production of a crop. But quality is quite as important a consideration as quantity. To produce a large crop is an easy matter, but to produce melons of high flavor […]

Carrots are used both for table vegetables and for flavoring soups and stews. They are of the easiest culture. The seed is sown in rich, mellow soil, preferably with a few radish seeds to mark the rows and kept cleanly cultivated until they get a good start. If sown as soon as the ground can […]

” I own 40 acres in the suburbs of Chicago and value this land at $5,000 an acre,” writes Sivert Howelesen of Cook county, Illinois. ” The least profit these 40 acres have ever returned me was $3,000 annually. My principal farming has consisted in vegetables to supply the Chicago markets, mainly cauliflowers, and also […]