April. 1910 
About Vegetables. 
The Kitchen Garden. 
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Operations for the Month. 
— Seed Sowing. — 
Seeds of any of the following may be 
sown during this month :— 
American Cress 
Broad Beans 
Broccoli 
Brussels Sprouts 
Cabbage 
Carrots (early sorts) 
Cauliflower 
Celeraic 
Celery 
Chervil 
Corn Salad 
Cress 
Endive 
Herbs (various) 
Java Radish 
Kale 
Kohl Rabi 
Leek 
Lettuce 
Parsley 
Parsnips 
Peas (oariy sorts) 
Portuval Cabbage 
“Radish 
*“Rampion 
Rape 
Red Beet (Long and Turnip) 
Salsify 
Savoy 
Scorzonera 
Sorrell 
Spinach 
Turnips 
White Beet 
— Planting and Transplanting. — 
Plant early Potatoes; also Potato 
Onions, and Tree Onions. 
Transplant Cabbage, Cauliflower, 
Celeraic, Celery, Chives, Herbs (various), 
Horse Radish, and Lettuce plants, and 
Mushroom Spawn. ] 
arrangement. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
— Preparing for Winter. — 
As winter approaches our chief con- 
cern in cultivating is to keep the soil 
Any beds that are 
being formied-at this season should be so 
wart: and sweet. 
erranged as to attract heat and throw off 
moisture qnite contrary to the summer 
Ridged land is always 
preferable for vegetables, being drier and 
warmer owing to a greater extent of 
surface being the 
Perfect drainage is essential to successful 
vegetable culture, and, therefore, existing 
drains should be looked to, to ascertain 
that they are working properly, or a good 
system provided where this has been 
exposed to sun, 
neglected. 
— Push on with your Sowing. — 
This is a season very favorable to the 
production of vegetables, because there 
is both heat and moisture to promote 
vigorous growth. Plentiful sowings can 
be made of all the vegetables tabulated in 
the preceeding column. 
— Keep the Hoe Going. — 
Ho» continnally among the crops to 
keep them.-clean, and have beds well dug 
the 
Thin 
aud manured for transplanting 
various vegetables now cominy on. 
out all crops which are overcrowded. 
— Tomatoes, — 
Early Tomato plants will be getting 
shabby-looking by now, and so few of - 
them will be in bearing that they will not 
be worth the ground they occupy. If the 
stakes are tu be removed from them for 
extra Jate plants it would be as well to 
treat them to a bath of bviling water or 
some fungicide. 
— Turnips. — 
Foll sowings of Turnips should now © 
be made. To have the bulbs crisp and 
tender the soil must be rich and in fine 
tilth. Rank stable or farmyard manure 
must not be used on Turnips, unless it is 
dug in and thoroughly incorporated with 
the soil several months beforehand. Its 
lute use on the beds will cause the plants 
to produce heavy bunches of foliage and 
correspondingly small bulbs. Tarnips 
should not be sown in plots previously 
occupied by Cabbages or any other 
‘ mature in about eight weeks. 
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They make a suitable succes- 
3rassicas. 
sion to Jeas and Beans. Turnips will 
give good results in any kind of garden 
soil that has been well worked. 
succeed best in light sandy situations. 
The seed should be sown in drills about 
They 
15 inches apart. A covering with half 
an inch of fine soil is sufficient. -As.soon. 
as the young plants are fit to handle, they: 
should be thinned tuo 38-inch intervals. 
at tificial 
Bone- 
Superphosphate is the best 
fertiliser to use on Turnip beds. 
dust and other nitrogenous mixtures will 
Too much 
The. 
ground should be no more than moist, 
In well-cultivated soil Turnips should 
cause the bulbs to split. 
watering is not good for Turnips. 
Swedes 
must be given more space than the white. 
sorts. 
Milk from the Soya or 
Soja Bean. 
The Japanese exchange). 
manufacture considerable quantities of 
milk from the Soya Bean, which is said 
The process 
(says an 
to be very nutritious. 
followed is simple, as the following para- 
graph shows :-—‘ The Beansare first of all 
softened by soaking, and are then pressed 
and boiled in The resultant. 
liquid is exactly similar to cow’s milk in 
water. 
appearance, but is entirely different in 
composition. The Soya Bean milk 
contains 92°5 per cent. of water, 3:02 per 
cent. albuminoid, 2:13 per cent, fat, 0-03 
per ceut, fibre, 1:18 per cent. uon-nitro- 
genous substances, and 041 per cent. ash. 
Some sugar and a little phosphate of 
potassium are added in order to prevent 
the elimination of albumen, and then the 
moisture is boiled down till a substance: 
like condensed milk is obtained. This. 
“condensed vegetable milk is of a yellow- 
ish colour, and has a very pleasant taste. 
hardly to be distinguished from real 
cow’s milk.’ 
E. BLACKEBY, 
BOOT & SHOK MANUFACTURER, 
226 Rundle Street, Adelaide. 
Cut Soles a Speciality. 
