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the hotbed gives better

of moisture, furnishing u

I yor summer seed sawing it

on the sash on cold

spring and again

cold frame is the

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SEED T0 SOW IN COLD

the cabbage tribe, celery s from seed are staple

seeds to be sown in as with the protection they will grow lustlly while it ig freezing which can be sown

cold frame have the

of those in a hotbed in

they are always thick and

\vhile those in the hotbed

soft and spindly if

mentioned are for the

sowing When the weather

safer, say April 1 or bY

gardener may plant tomato, pepper and egg-plant seed and have fine plants to set in the ground by the middle of May. _ _ Heal lettuce may be planted _early in March and thinned to six

tar ahead of the outdoor crop. Radishes may be pulled for the table a month ahead ofthe season and if the range of frame is suffici- .ehtly large spinach may be ready by April 1. ‘

Th.e cold frame will perform near-

ly all of the valuable functions 0! the hotbed with the exception of not being available until nearly a month after the hotbed for seed sowing of the teuderer varieties.

Asters, stocks, snapdragons and

pinlts ure ideal cold-frame annuals. They may be_sown even in the late fall and left to germinate at their leisure. Sweet peas may be given an early start in pots in the cold frame, paper potg being very practical helps in this case and the

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young vines can be set in their per- manent places in April.

Marigolds may follow close after

the hardiest annuals and the pot

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one ofthe earliest sowings, Annual

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marigclds, or cnlendulas, ma he suitable for corn is somewhat lim-

lnrkspurs and- centaureas may be can be successfully grown j;,__is_un- sown in the fall and the growing doubtedly the best all round silage plants will winter nicely without crop when feeding value, palutalbil- losing a leaf lu a cold frame and ity and yield per acre are consid- they cun be moved easily in the ered. In 1922`at the Fredericton curly spring. under iield conditions corn yielded

Sulvins, petnnias and verbenas slightly over seventeen tons per

nre best planted in the cold frame acre and cost $3.56 'per ton in the ll there is no great hurry for them. silo. The Longfellow variety is In fact any of the annual plants popular at the 'illustration Stations will do excellently in the cold throughout New Brunswick, 'From frame if the time Of l1lBl1tlD8 is twenty to 'forty pounds of seed per Smded &C00l'dil'lg to their £61166!" acre is sown as a rule. it is usually ness, the most tender being BOW” Ecod practise to err on the heavy in mid April. ` ' sidenthen the farmer can narrow

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GROWING SUGCULENT CROPS FUR NEXT WlNTER'8

. FEEDING

(Experimental Farms Note)

rofughage led to cattle and sheep in the Maritime .Provinces Up to a tew years ago turnipe were practic ally the only succulent addition to the ration With higher prices for Iwhor the leedingof turnips has steadily decreased Turnips were gladually replaced Iby the oats peas, vetch mixtune (O P V) mst led as hay and late as silage and at the present time O P V, sun iluwers. corn and turnips are all gronn, .but unfortunately not to the extent they should be

.All classes or live stock mciud

ing cattle, sheep, swine and poul tr), will be benefited ii succulent crops form a part ot the winter rat lon All have a greater or lesser feeding value and all have a cox rective effect on digestion and the general health oi’ the stock. Mang les- while only grown to a limited

Turn ps are relished byvboth cattle

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extent, are ideal for bropd sows . . ‘ ' °m° 88": ty 2 °PPi°°t h°"°Ym°Cf\'f\'l and moving pigs and an-0 mr pou|_ in fiorlda. Mrs. Somers was Captain Rheba Crawford oi the try. Their use will-materially re- S3lV3t|°¥l AYmY» Who was called the "An el of B d "

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duce the concentrates ueually fed. Mr. Somers. crippled in France. is now a publisher

and sheep. At the. Fredericton Ex perimental Station turnips and clover hay make up the winter

lon of the breeding tiook of

and is fed without the use of centrates until the approach of

lambing season when the ration is somewhat reduced

concentrates added.

Sunflowers, corn and the 0.

V. mixture are prima-rily cow but can be used to a limited for other classes of stock. They are best fed in the form of silage. he area in the Maritime Provinc

ted. but in the districts where it

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stand. Sunflowers yielded at -the From a single feeding test made at; rate of 17.4 tons per zrcre at Fred- the Central ‘Experimental l¢‘urm,i ricton in 1922 and cost $2.91 per Ottawa. it was found that sunilow- g on _in the silo. From ten to fitteen`ers were practically on at par with 1 pounds ol` seed is used as n rule.;corn :when fed to dairy cattle for t

For the same your outs, pens andlinilk production Those xwrllxltn :irc m,§|_,-g

vcichss yielded 7.4 tons per acre'-being checked by iurther expcrl-= und cost $5.25 per ton. This mixturciments, il

was sown nt tive rate ot' three audi iSilo owners would ‘be well advis-

one-hall`buslxe'is per acre und madcred to ul-ow tt certain ncrt-age oi _

up of 2 'bushels oi oats, one -ibushelieaclx of the crops O. \I’. V., suni NOT Wont' WF_'\/E CIZNTS ftilleas unch one half fbusl1oliol'iiiowe1~s and corn. ‘ This would la,-1-, N _“mu bm `_H_u,]m mm ,lu .wi e cies. ie same-year turn sure them a crop each year ratwr ‘ ‘ ‘ _-_ '_ ‘_ _ 1 ' ieldcd at the rate ol' 15.3 ions rligltliail depend on one crop such ns 0;“_;(‘ilf‘_'i’:'”i;‘l’|‘ (;‘l.“f:__‘ff:ffi}i['\i',l""'ff.hf gettixlnincglle gelitali? rate or $AL82‘§ir)en\\iqi(1)\`irr-i-Q clzltlaillit sirlll i:l‘i>l’2i:f0'l,0\\'1‘:\1»i>~~'<l 'uh ililll IW

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