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Interest ' to ;'&at Farmer; i? nem s NEW 1L WHAT FABJIEES TVANT TO KNOW ' ABOUT LEGUMES. Prof. Messey In Progressive Farmer, ' Land, that was in red clover was turned and crimson clover sown. Clover came up well but Is dying put And the land is covered with sheep orrPl." It Is evident that your soil botten acid, and clover will not acid soil, while the Rheen sorrel delights in such condi tions. Plow the land well and har row in 25 bushels of slaked Ume an am- and cultivate In corn and loi low the corn with winter grain and eoori tn rinver ifv you wish, ana l think the clover will grow. Curing Crimson Clover. A correspondent in Wake Cdunty, North Carolina says that he has no difficulty in curing crimson clover fnr hav. He nuts it In cocks and lots it lie in rain or sun and has fine hay. Wants to know the nce oi a ciover huller, and would like to quit tobac co and make some other money crop, and thinks he can make peas and crimson clover seed money crops. The clover huller is an expensive ma chine, costing about $400. and if the whole neighborhood gets to growing crimson clover for seed. , it would pay some one to own and Operate the machine for all the farmers. But I would in that section not only grow the peas and clover, but would make a regular three-year rotation of corn, oats, peas, and cotton, and " would .have crimson clover on the" land every winter. Where Corn Follows Legumes, -Where corn - comes after peas and clover and manure - is scarce, it will pay to use acid phosphate liberally rabbit-foot clover grows the soil will be found inoculated for crimson clo ven If 'there was, an undarrdraln in stead of the - usual side-hill ditclr above the terraces" on tne Georgia hills, the , terraces; would be much safer and '.the ditch would not make a gulley. : Then, too, if there is, a lot of surface . rock, I think , the best place for them would be In a deep the legumeswere able to ' give the ditch above .the terraces. I Then, too, farmer a rich return of grain or tor- I'LAXT MOBE LEGUMES; WHY DOXT you? As long ago as the .time of .Virgil It . was known that", it benefited the land to grow on it occasionally a crop of clover or vetches or. lupines. Not until . recent years" was It known ex actly why these and related crops-- i know, that If "the hills . are' deeply plowed and subsoiled and . humus making material gotten into the soil with leyel culture of hoed crops, there would not be - the slightest need for a terrace., I have, cultivated as steep red hills as any one .and never made a torrace nor a gulley., But I always had a sod to turn for a ' hoed crop and got the grass back there as soon as possible. 4- .To Keep Sweet Potatoes. , I notice a request from a reader in North Carolina in regard to keeping sweet potatoes I would like to give my plan, , which is Inexpensive and practically safe. First, be sure your potatoes are ripe before you dig them. This you may know by going over your patch beforehand and taking from it ' sev eral potatoes Cut them in half with a sharp knife and lay them up.If the cut places heal over readily and is a white meally color, your pota toes are ripe. If it heals over and presents . a dark color, your pota toes are not ripe and should not be dug. When you dig your potatoes handle carefully. Throw out all cut or bruised potatoes, clean out a place where you expect to have ydur hill and make it a permanent hill. . Spread some fine, straw, and pile your potatoes down upon the straw. ou.lu u. J .v': 7a o Vrm 1 When all havebeen gathered cover Piedmont section tore ta aa abun- then CQVer dance of potash in an Insoluble state, ; pjje- with dirt, .leaving a small open and acid .phosphate ca irrying 30 per , J on hill, from which you 'rt-nKS may teke thepotatoes as they are release the potash and plenty of or- game matter uuui yeas auu will also have a tendency. Sowing Peas and Soj Beans. . It does not matter, how, much dirt you place around the bottom of the hill. Now cover -over all with boards The best way is to put the land in 0 some other covering so that the fine order and. then sow with, the hill wjll be kept perfectly dry. As wheat drill set to sow two bushels of y0u remove the potatoes the .'dry dirt wheat, and it will put the seed in and straw will fall in among the oth- about right, and there will be a far er potatoes and will absorbe any mois more uniform stand than where they ture that might arise, are merely harrowed in and some -I almost always have potatoes, and covered too deep while others are not they are good the year around, but covered at .-all.. j some will rot under any kind of man- Lespedeza on Grass. agement. Be sure to :keep your, hill "Land now in oats witn some red- dry- Home and Farm. age and at the same time enrich the land on which they grow, although for a score s of centuries and -' for much longer, no doubt the best far mers ' have grown these crops as a GUMPTION OJTTHE FAEM. ; Old earth is never u late on ita rounds. . It arrives, on time because t it keeps on moving. A good exam ple for &li)6t us who are -engaged In scratching its surface forr substance and ; shelter.-, -;, A..' ; X. v-v XS: You . can't overwork the harrow. Be sure your wife will find you. OUti ''X' V X:: ; S, That weed right in the hill is your woibt enemy. v':- V;- ' v - Don't: let the weeds get , a startr-; kill 'em while they are ' ; a-borning. Easiest way. - .. ",' ' Too often the extravagant who reeular' nart ' of their, rotation, and 1 start out in the parlor-car come back have profited by so doing. . - in- the freight. ; r r: In fact, it would seem strange that When you . hoe corn, thin it out in this good year'1911, where should be to not more than three , good stalks' and need of. our, or ; anyone s urg- to the mil. , iNature aoesn t line to ine the farmers of the; South to grow more of these crops. One who con sidered only the great value of les- be crowded. It isn't the mark of a good teamster to getjn off the road late at- night, umes - to the man; who wishes to do j nor to ; leave th& horses . uncurried the best farming, and the long time this value has been known of all men, would "almost certainly conclude ' it sems to i8K that every farmer would regard, it" as an, essential part or nis m " ' 11 ' 1 v ior two or tnree aays. . ; , - A cheerful spirit gets j on. quick, - . SA grumbler in the mud will stick. ,.' It is less work to hoe twice soon after the crops come up than it is to work to plant every possible acre to hoe once after . the weeds . get high, top and timothy. Would it pay to sow Japan clover seed on tbis? I Suggestions for Spring Cleaning Now that we are beginning to think Redtop and timothy are neither one about the spring cleanup, a sugges- of them permanent pasture grasses, tion for a good cleansing and disin- Timothy sowed last fall -and pastur- lecung wasa iar wuris, area wans, ed this summer will probably disap- stables, etc., is in order. 4 .For ordin- pear with the sumemr. Lespedeza ary purposes tne wen-Known nme seed sowed on this grass will help wasn will be found excellent It is the pasturage, and will res eed itself Prepared from freshly lime as fol ia the fall and will probably improve !s; - ' . . the pasture. But to establish a per- j Take ounce ot 1Imf to J xnanent sod you should use more per- lons. of boiling water, adding as you -manent grasses. Timothy roots very' stir one -teaspoon- -(level full, not ahallowly and stock will pull it out heaping) of table salt. This will if pastured while young. Then a jmake a wash oof . proved germicidal newly-sowed pasture should be gra2- 'Pwer most germs and effect ed, very little the first year. Better i ually sealing them in when used on sow orchard grass, tall meadow oats ', drysur faces. grass and bluegrass, and if you keep' The United States Government for the sod top-dressed annually, you muIa for a -whitewash, where in id can finally get a good sod of blue- dition t0 tne deamstag effect durabil grass. We have where I live mag-'1 is desired, Is as follows: nificent sods of Kentucky bluegrass' Slate. half a bushel of lime with on deep, sandy land that has been foiling water; cover for an hour; well manured and. limed. The or-: strain through a fine sieve and stir in chard grass and tall ' meadow oats ' a PeCK or sait ssoivea in enougn .grass will come quickly and will pro tect the slower bluegrass. Cutting Alfalfa. "Having a good stand of alfalfa sowed accoiding to your directions. When should the first cuttting be warm water to do the work thorough ly; boil three pounds of rice to a thin porridge and sti" in while hot. Soak half a round of glue in cold wa ter for an hour, then bring to boiling Doint by setting the vessals in a pot of boiling water over the fire; stir into made?" As soon usually as a bloom tt,0 Hmo mivtnro tnaotor witii half can i)e seen here and there. At that, a pound of Spanish whiting. Now time, if you Will examine the base of j -pour into this 5 gallons of hot wa tne plants, you will find the secqnd:ter; stir for three minutes from the growth starting, and it is important bottom: cover to exclude dust and let to cut before tfiis gets tall enough, to be caught by the mower, or the se cond crop may be less. As a top dressing after mowing, apply 300 pounds of Thomas phosphate an acre. Tarleties of Peas. . For an early pea- the variety now called the New Era, also known as the Revenue, is best. It is very pro ductive of peas, but makes a lighter crop of hay than later ones. The Unknown or Wonderful is the heav 4est qropper, but rather late.' Proba bly the best hay-maker -will be either the large-seeded Black or the Clay. The best thing to mix with them is the Tall Yellow soy bean. Haft a bushel of each an acre will make a good mixture Chufas and Peanuts. it alone for two days. Apply hot when you are ready to use it. A pint of the mixture will cover a square yard of1 the surface. This wash is used by the govern ment in and around army posts and forts, and is very durable, being sec ond only in this respect to paint Chicago Bulletin of Health. Anconas Although tnis is by no means a new breed of chickens, to the student of noultry lore, yet - most people know little about them. They were first known to civilization in Ancona. Ttaly, from, which place they were im ported into England in about 1845. They have been known more or les j ever since that time, but during the ' past ten years or ; so they, have been Wants to grow chufas for pigs and Fev5ed; an Pushed to the front both wants to know., of course, what fer tilizer and how much to use, for it seems that our Southern farmers think that they must have a special formula for every crop grown. I of ten give formulas with a twinge of conscience, .not knowing what their land particularly needs. Now as to chufas. The inquirer is ' in a pea nut section, and "it does not cost any more to grow an acre of peanuts than an acre of chufas so far as. I have observed, for I never grow chufas, and I know that an acre of peanuts Is worth three times as vuch for pigs as an acre of chufas, and an acre of wect potatoes will give far more feed than an acre tf chufas and cost no more. There are two crops some times grown,, for- pigs, chufas and artichokes, and I do not think that either are worth ; growing as compar d wrm cowpeas, peanuts or sweet potatoes, or rape or crimson clover. Crimson Clover in Georgia. TW111 crimson clover do well here in a three-year rotation of cotton, corn and oats, the oats to be follow ed by peas and the peas by clover? 7ould under-draining help hill land?" There is no doubt that crimson clover will thrive with you as you suggest. Wherever the little wooly-headed some of these crops,-. ' " -This is what one might . reasonably expect; but it Is far from what one would find were he to start out onf a tour of observation over the farms of the South. Instead, we fear, he would find thousands and thousands of acres, already poor, on which corn or cotton has been planted further to de plete the land ; ' hewould ; find thou sands and thousands of acres of Iantf left bare all last winter, getting poor er with every heavy rain,- upon which a cover crop would have grown,' giv Ing a fair yield of hay or oasturage and . maklne the , land, better; he would find thousands "and thousands of acres left idle' all sumemr long- land which, if planted to one of these leerume crops might yield large quan tities of the fed so much needed, by Southern farm 'animals anq leave the land richer at the season's end; be would find thousands and thousand?- of acres on which, instead of legum inous crops being grown regularly every two or three years, as wonl naturally be expected, they are grown only at long intervals, and in some cases scarecely at all. All farmers. know that the legumes are good for their soil, good for thei live stock, and good for their pock etbooks, yet nine farmers out of everj ten will freely admit that they do not plant these crops as extensively as they, should. This is certainly one instance in which we do not do af well as we know. and because wc do hot, all of us lose money ever: year. Isn't It time for us - to', ge' down to hard thought for a little 'while and see if it will not pay us to be guided by the facts in the case rather than' by the wrong habits of farming which have acquired mastery over us? '- . '- - Legumes . will . not do everything. They will not imake? poor .land ric: In. a single season;, by themselves, theyv-will not . make poor land rich at all, for they draw, heavily upon the. mineral elements of plant food; they will not make big crops on land too poor , to grow anything . else, nor wil' most of them thrive on sour or sog gy soil; they will not do well unde? neglect or mistreatment; they, wil not entirely take the place of othe crops. They, have their limitation? as do things eartfily, tnd many far mers have been disappointed simply because they expected to plant a cro of cowpeas, for . example, on poor and, poorly-prepared, harvest a big rop, and have a rich field the net year. Planted liberally, however, ar part of a sensible rotation, given good care, fed to good live; stock or return ed to the land, they will surely and rapidly improve the soil and add to the farmer's profit.- By their helD the South can be made the'' richest farm ing section in America, without, tbem it will go backward instead of forward.- " Isn't it evident folly for a farme to go on from one season to anothe' paying 20 cents a pound for the nitro gen he uses on his cotton and corn, when by. working out a system of ro tation so that these . cros could fol low a legume be could get this nitro gen for nothing? The feeding valine of a croo of clover or soy beans will pay handsomely for the raising of the crop and leave the soil improvement from its growth a clear gain. " A leg ume crop every "other year on all cultivated lands we could in ten years double, the average corn crop and average cotton crop ol the South, without any increase at all in our fertilizer bill. . How can we expect to escape the reproach of bad farm ing,, if we neglect such a great and evident means of salvation ? If you want to get mor&x money out of your farm and, to, make it richer, plant more legumes. You, know you should do It.' Why not begin, now. Progressive Farmer. in England and in this, country. Tn size they are very much the same as the Leghorn with practically the same kind of comb, wattles, and the white ear-lobes. The males carry a full flowing tail. The back approaches the tail with a little more of rise than the Leghorn. In fact, to the casual observer . they would seem to be lit tle more than a mottled Leghorn. They have a yellow, skin and yellow, shanks, : with perhaps a mottling .of black. The color of plumage is a sreneral ground color of glossy black with about one feather In five tipped with" black, producing a speckled or( mottled appearance from head to tail. ' : - :: -, Promoters of this variety "claim wonderful egg records from them. In dividuals laying 270 in a yean We do not believe they are better in any. way than the Leghorn, but are very similar, and for any one who fancies Placing a half gallon of kerosene, the style of their plumage more than a hnttiz nt MThnHo npH and nnon. that of any of the Leghorn family ; tity of coal tar in a, bucket and fill they would; be the thing for them to 1 ing with water I thoroughly sorayed adont and we do not think ; they the roosts, nests, cracks and crevices would be disappointed. f and found to my delteht that the lice " " 1 soon d'sanpeared and by a freorent , !Ieare many men wltn the apnlicatton of the above Dreoaration idea that to haye a good time means , have neve been bothered again by to , shoot: something, win something lice. R. O. Clagett. or drink something. : I ' r ' '" Getting Rid of Chicken Lice. . What I have found to be the best means or (ridding a chicken house . of lice I; learned by accident. , ' I had been , spraying the houses with a preparation? which I , had pur chased and. dqsting with a patent powder and never,, thought of looking for lice as I believed the two prep arations I was using were doing their work. .- ' . , ' - -:.'-' Going in "the pen' one day I became covered ; with chicken lice and the more I felt the : lice the more I thought of the noor chicken, and it I also gave me enough of the lice kill- ! T l a . 1 ci i uau oeeu usiug.. and it does much, more good. Borrowing. tools and sending them home dull or rusty, doegji't make the other fellow grin. Better save up and buy yoiir own. v V . Again we say: c Test the seed-corn before 'plantli?, for there's much poor, seed ins the country this-'yeaV And, also, treat the seed ; potatoes to prevent scab. ' , . v If . you put stonesunder the post. of your corn house, have them thid Enough "and large enough so that the frost will not get below trem and break them to pieces. -" Pon't cultivate the potatoes whe m: in bloom or coming out. cuJesr. you want a lot of stunted little tu bers. Cultivate them before they get that big, and hoe them clean of weeds. .From May Farm Journal.' Plant Some Pumpkins.. Be certain to persuade the good man to raise pumpkins for the cows and hogs this year, but be postlvely certain that they are not all used that" way. They are gaining ground in the South, . for home eating. Send some to market, a few at the time, and make pin money off" them. Pumpkin oies'are delicious, but few Southern people know how to make them,, Ex- eriment, as I did, andIearn. It will ay you, but be sure to add a little nolasses to your-batter, some spices ' pinch of flour and plenty of ,but kpr and sugar. Bake without uutic rust. Mrs. D. in . Progressive Far- If you want to spray a few "short ows in your garden and haven't p -nray p?iim, tbe . solution may be an-" iled with a watering not or a boom Tf applied this way, ..It will require ? arreat deal more of the solution, and 1 't-.can not be so well done as If a; spray pumbs used. But if yon get t.ei "ves covered thoroughly this way 't will be Just as effective as if ap plied with a spray pump. .. The pota to -bug. Is aho -very fond of the egr plant, and sometimes attacks the" to mato. It they should attack them spray the same as the potato 6 Embi oidery, Lace& and Sill Trimmings Have Just A A -complete line of k arid boys new sr.rjn suits. A FEW SPECIAL! . ' j; Just Arrived ; Vlarquisettes' delicate shades - Fancy; Chiffons. White lace brocades. LSON1 DEPARTMENT STO TO .' 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