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20 TEXAS AIAn AC.
NOVEMBER
THE PLANTATION.
COTTON-PICKING should, in all reason, be completed this month. If the
cotton growers put in no more crop than could be gathered up to the last
day of November, they would hold the control of the markets in their own
hands, and would have leisure for other work, now neglected or slighted.
Oats, rye, clover, and grass seeds may still be sown. If sweet potatoes were
not housed last month, do not delay later than the fifteenth. Gather during
dry weather, and do not leave the tubers exposed to the sun. Some use
houses, differing in their construction. The surest, though most tedious
plan, is to store in pumps. Select a dry knoll or ridge; give each pump
about four feet of base, and build the potatoes up as high as possible; at
every four feet in the length of a long pump, or in the centre of each round
one, build in amongst the potatoes a small ventilator, formed by nailing three
clapboards together, and let it protrude above the covering of dry grass and
earth. After covering properly, with dry crab-grass and six inches of earth,
put a roof over all and the potatoes will keep until midsummer. If streng-
handed in proportion to the cotton yet to pick, after gathering and storing
a fine lot of peas, pumpkins, etc., start a few plows to breaking up the corn
ground and covering up corn-stalks and other trash. If too heavy a cover
of trash be on the ground, have it dragged into piles, with a heavy harrow,
and litter the stock-yards deeply with it; but by no means burn it.
GARDEN CALENDAR.-NOVEMBER.
CENTRAL TEXAs, ETC.-Referring to last month's directions, sow peas,
cabbage, radish, carrots, spinach, turnips, parsnips, lettuce, beets, salsify,
onions, leeks, etc. Transplant cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, endive, celery,
etc. Although peas may be sown this month, there is considerable risk in
it; and it is best to defer any thing of a general sowing until next month.
Bishop's dwarf, blue imperial, dwarf marrowfat, and others of that habit are
best to sow now, as, in case of severe weather, they may be easily protected.
Asparagus-beds should now be dressed, applying manure plentifully. Make
up compost-heaps, and accumulate manure in every way.
If hot-beds are needed, as they will be for egg-plants, tomatoes, etc., pre-
pare them as follows: mark off the ground six inches each way larger than
the frame on which the sash is to rest. Throw out the earth to the depth of
three inches at the back and nine at the front of the intended bed. The bed
must be formed of fresh dung from the horse stable, or cotton seed; perhaps
bagasse might answer. Whatever material is used, must be of a proper de-
gree of dampness to heat well-not wet, nor yet dry.
THE FRUIT GARDEN AND ORcHnRonD The propensity, in most apples and
pears that have been pruned to a tall, naked stem of six or eight feet, to
throw out sprouts and suckers, we believe to arise from the necessity for pro-
tection from the direct heat of the sun.
By low training we mean that a tree should have stem enough, say two
feet, more or less, to suit the fancy of the grower and position of the tree;
admitting of its being tilled around. And this whether the tree be intended
for a dwarf or to attain the largest size. In all cases the stem should consist
entirely of the wood of the graft-the grafting or budding being done under
or near the surface of the ground.
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/28/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.