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GARDEN AND FARM 



ALMANAC 



Typical Contents 

 (Partial) 



Animal Diseases and Remedies 



Analysis of Soils 



Guide for the Best Annual Flowers 



Composition of Milk of Differ- 

 ent Breeds 

 How to Build a Storage Cellar 

 How to Make Cloth Waterproof 

 Iceless Cold Storage 

 How to Make and Use Concrete 

 Breeds of Ducks 

 Amount of Wire for a Fence 

 Points on Feeding Your Cattle 

 Measurement Table for Lumber 

 Raising Pigs for Profit 

 Cost of a Greenhouse 

 Rations for a Horse 

 How to Build an Ice House 

 The Best Lawn Grasses 

 First Aid to the Injured 

 Average Period of Incubation 

 Principles of Garden Planning 

 Value of Hay as a Food 

 Heating the Greenhouse 



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DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. , Garden City, New York 



Winter in the South 



DECEMBER is the month for planting out 

 asparagus roots. The soil must be plowed 

 deep and thoroughly fertilized. Use horse manure 

 and turn it well under. If you put down enough 

 manure now it will last several years, and you 

 won't have to make new beds every season. As- 

 paragus will do better the second and third years 

 after setting out the roots than it will the first 

 year. Old asparagus beds may be given a dressing 

 of manure in 6-inch furrows on one side of the rows, 

 but for the best results put manure on both sides. 

 A little kainit used with the manure will increase 

 both quality and quantity of the crop. 



Set out cabbage plants in the middle South about 

 the last of the month. 



Be sure that the hotbed sash is in good condition. 

 Tomatoes, pepper, and eggplants may be started 

 this month in it. 



How all weedy soil, turning under the weeds so 

 that they may decay. This also helps to hold the 

 moisture in the soil. 



Cultivate onions often to encourage rapid growth. 

 Sets planted in October should be large enough to- 

 use by this time if they have been pushed by the 

 use of good fertilizer and frequent cultivation. 



Garden peas and more sweet pea seed may be 

 sown about the middle of the month. 



Spade the flower beds deeply so that the winter 

 rains can thoroughly soak into the soil. Spread 

 a good coat of manure over the soil before spading 

 it if possible. 



Some varieties of lilies do not arrive from Japan 

 until this month; plant them, however, in the 

 lower South just as soon as they are received. 



Tuberoses and dahlias may be planted in Florida 

 below the frost line. 



Prune fruit trees, vines, and rose bushes during 

 the month. It is also a good time to make cut- 

 tings from rose bushes, figs, pears, and pomegran- 

 ates. 



It is also a good time to make drain ditches and 

 to build terraces and fences; also to dig up or blast 

 out stumps in the fields. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



Winter Gardening In Florida 



NOVEMBER, and not January, really begins 

 the year in Florida. Tourists scatter along 

 into the state all through October, but the rush 

 begins about November 1st. If you come here 

 with the expectation of staying from two to six 

 months, rent a cottage by all means and have a 

 "winter" garden, which will give an abundant 

 supply of green vegetables all the time you are in 

 Florida. A cottage with plenty of garden space 

 can generally be rented for about twenty dollars 

 a month, and you can save at least one quarter of 

 this amount if you get out of the soil all the pota- 

 toes you want to eat, and all the carrots and fresh 

 greens. You can put seed into the ground as early 

 as September or October, and as late as the first 

 of January. I made my first garden in December; 

 and even then got enough out of it to pay for the 

 work and considerable over. Of course, you are 

 liable to have tender plants caught in a frost. 

 Three or four frosts can be expected in the course 

 of a winter. Have a few bushels of pine needles at 

 hand, and some newspapers, to cover over the 

 plants without touching them. 



The soil of Florida seldom contains lime, 

 although it has a limestone strata far below the 

 surface. Sour soil is the result. Lime is cheap and 

 easily obtained here in the state; we can buy it by 

 the car load for about forty dollars. Commercial 

 fertilizers will be needed, sometimes, to supply a 

 little potash; but where barn manure can be 

 obtained it covers all needs. Legumes, like cow 

 peas and velvet beans, grow here as if they would 

 never tire of growing; and after being mowed for 

 hay, all of them leave a splendid material to plow 

 under for humus. 



If you are to stay here for more than a single 

 year, I advise you to commence making a compost 

 pile. Make it of any vegetable material that you 

 can rake together, especially the leguminous. Let 

 it decompose for a year or so, with plenty of lime 

 intermixed; then spread it and plow under. All 

 around the lakes (and they are everywhere) you 



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