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10 (J) A Professor Massey's Editorial Page. What Farmers Want to Know. PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTr. eleaner of weeds. This wu ui rUh bottom land. SWEET POTATOES Probably the best and that plan can be kept up. If the land la kept potato to grow for the Northern marketa u m, lupplled with phosphoric acid and potash, almost Big Stem Jersey. By bedding under glass ln iat! indefinitely. It Is a good way to clean foul land. March you can get the plants as early as it but after getting the weeds down I would length- be safe to set them out. and with the P0U. " ... . 11 vinmA lrnti annum no ohia r v . the rotation and bring in some email . wem ia thg Uiur&tib iu jui; oau 111 august at least. TDIOTHY FOR HAY. YouTcan sow-timothy FOUR-YEAR ROTATION. One reader on strong moist land ln the South in the fall, and a rotation for four years, but does not want tn en crops SrT?TTlfPO fTtlPV OflV mlOStfnTIfl that arO en- . . m . 1 ll. - J V n f nrlll X .n.nOT. n tV.,, to -V. j- rr umiiiiio " ajj get a crop pi nay in tue Byriu, ouu mai, cut uu wiu( o wicio is uu oureuaer in tJia ' a i i a . linn T om nnt nn PTlCVPlO- ....... .. mi n . i 1.1 .....I.. t i j mi a j x . u" ureij out ui in i". - be the last or tne umomy. nmoiny is tuo yuyuiai neignuoruouu. mai ueeus ot mieriere V I mAl. T am nnf a moch ?1 Tl 1 f. nor & builder. . . . . . x ifnnd f V o iu IV. Vi i. .1111 . ycuia,, x x..-- - - nay, put not me nest u any "cttUD. u.uv.u . cmuug ww.wum- uu, iui no wu Btiii ieed th with you can get Peavlne hay Is worth several times peas for hay and disking the stubble fine for as much as timothy for cows. Ana as a grass 'grain, ana using iuo pounds or acia phosphate an acre on tne smau gram, ana ionowing the second crop of peas witn crimson clover on which all thi manure is appuea to oe turned under for con again, ana peas sown in tne corn. Such a rota tlon should enable him to feed a good deal i stock and make a good amount of manure so that In a few rounds he would have heavy crops of corn, wheat and oats. . 250o PROFIT IN ONE YEAR. T'HE farmer who has every acre in " harness, well fed and properly cared for, is the man who is making his farm ing profitable in these days. Tile drain age is a wonderful aid in bringing many types of soil into proper business relation with the farmer. These soits have, per haps, been making only half a crop per year and an occasional complete failure may have resulted during years when ordinary conditions were the least favor able. We had such a piece of land on Sunny Hjme Farm, naturally strong soil but so filled with wet-weather springs that no dependence could be put upon it. Being only a little piece, about two acres, we had passed it by in our hurry to tile the larger fields. A little swamp grass and Japan clover and these of little feed value because of being com pelled to grow on water-sobbed land were produced on the field annually. Thirty dollars worth of tile was laid in this piece of land the past winter, the sail throughly prepared and planted in corn. A hundred and twenty bushels of corn, that is making W least $125 worth of pork, is being harvested from the little piece, so we feel that the $30 of tile and the $20 worth of work ex pended in laying them is time and money well expended, considering that the im provement will last for a century, and d piece of lar.d that was nothing- but an eye-sore has bet n made a little fat beauty- spot for all time. A. L. French. and yet a man who seems to have naa nut cme tlmothy j nave seen coming South Is dead straw stover. As he does not Intend to grow cotton ? ?osiage stamp, auu tuat uu mo - from which seed nas been tnresnea. n you want wouia iouow corn wiia iwo crops or small grali i .lix.. Ta11 ma all ahmit hiltidtnfT' a COld . . . i x x. .....1,1 x v. A. .t. ' .11. t ..... vmrt winoa. w - " - nay ror cows, umotny is auout tue iiuuiobu omu eitner wueat ur uaus, luiiuwing eacn croD wit .J.... . m 1 Vl -WTTT tn niTl It." .... 1 XI - . . .- . . . .... etUl USC ouu uun . y Only this and nothing more. Now, as I have said, I am not an encyclopedia, aflfT I do not waste time on a man who wants valuable Information and does not think it even worth a two cent stamp. Then, too, I never advise any one in regard to things I know nothing about. I have simply a general idea of bofbssor m asset, the way cold storage plants are Imilt, and have seen the frost-covered ammonia gripes in them, and know that they cost a good deal of money to construct and run. But ! never had any stock in a cold storage plant, never built one, and never ran one, and I do not know of any one less qualified to tell a man how to build or tun such an establishment. If our friend will write and enclose a stamp to the Superintendent I the Cold Storage at Market and Twelfth Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., he will tell him, I sup pose, who builds these affairs and who can tell' him how to run them. 'SWEET POTATO HOUSES. A sweet potato liouse should have double, deadened walls. If the walls are left hollow, the outer sheathing Should be made tight by covering with paper and then weatherboarded. Ceil inside and overhead. ht you pack the walls with sawdust, you will nly need to sheath roughly on the outside. If the spot is high and dry, and no water can get tin, dig out two feet and use the earth to bank the IJides. I make them ten feet wide and as long as deeded, but the width can vary as one wishes. The main thing is to have means for heating to a $iigh' -temperature when the potatoes are first put Jlu. This should be done with the ventilator at fcop open to let off the moisture. The heating f-ian be done by a furnace at the north end and a 3ue like a tobacco barn run through the house. 3n fact, a good tight tobacco barn that is furnish ed with furnace and flues can be turned Into a --ftOfOd potato house, but will need more fire heat. In cold weather than a house especially built to keep out frost. Ceiling the house overhead will ' Jtaake a cock-loft above, and this can be used to hay the natural crabgrass that comes spontaneous- llme- Thls wU1 basten the nitrification of til ielp by covering the ceiling between the JoisU iy 0n the rich? truck lands. If cut at right stages, abundant humus ln your soil and will sweeten tut ith sawdust, and packing the loft with straw. ia worth more. You can make better grass hay 80il- After drying off the potatoes at a high temper- ln the various parts of the "South by sowing lib- J . . -ture there will seldom be any need for fire heat rally of tall meadow oats grass, tall meadow SOME FALL VEGETABLES. Parsley thathai afterwards. The nearer you can keep the tern- fescue and alslke clover. Timothy will hardly been growing all summer can be cut down bow erature at from 40 to 45 degrees the better, live over a summer after mowinsr ln this climate, and make a fresh mrowth for winter. Seed ol Jf in warm spells it tends to get higher, open up jl lettuce sown October 1st of the Wonderful, nd let In some night air and close up in day TrxT 0mT-a Shellem. lettuce will maka nlanu that can be set limn vnwxiAii v wiui oiounoi uuo icauor jjuus ' m . . .0(i that when cutting corn off at the ground he has 011 rldea In November and wUl Jl - xv. t xi . x. In snrlnsr. fir tha nlnnta run h mat thlCKiy in tue jraiuy wcatuer, wuiuion ia. aim section, r ' w - i "CLEANING LAND OF WEEDS. "Rich land in a Kreat deal of rotten corn, and asks if it would the Boutn BldeTof a board fence or building the mountain section, very foul. Peas covered not be as well to let the corn, which has peas transplanted ln March to head. Nvith weeds and soy beans likewise. Clover seems among it, stand till ripe and then gather the jcorn '. . J ' ; MJ- to do better. How shall I relieve this?" Do as and turn cattle into the field, and put the land DON'T BUY POOR LAND-A young ma t did on similar land in the Virginia mountains. In oats in the spring. Cattle will, doubtless, little means should never buy poor land. L8 i"vvm vwiu tut lug OltU, Mill DUnOU 1VU VlUVOl vx x w w v . wu mx wx xx ww una AAovt UlO lua b bU UIQ U1I7U W UU atO aUlo iiW ,Jv . . LAWN UNDER OAK TREES. It is hard to get grass where a lawn Is covered all over with trees, especially the surface-rooting oak treei Under such conditions the best thing you can do is to prepare the soil as well as possible and sow plenty of seed. I would sow a mixture of two thirds Kentucky bluegrass and one-third redtop, and would use five bushels of seed an acre that la. I would make the soil gray with the seed &nd then rake them in nicely and roll. Then if 701 j get ct guuu oiauui duuii mo aTTxx mu rr ci iu uig spring as soon as It can bite the grass and keep it going weekly in growing weather, letting all the cut grass lie to mulch the sod. Give a top dressing of raw bone meal every spring. SCOURS IN CALVES. For scours or dlarrhet In calves, it Is best not to check it too suddenly, Castor oil and laudanum given under direction of a competent veterinarian Is excellent But I have had good success by diluting fresh milk with water and thickening it with parched wheat flour and giving this three times a day. It Is also ia4 that a tablespoonful of dried blood given lull luted milk three times a day will cure It. I haw not tried this. In very stubborn cases oak bart tea is recommended. LIME AGAIN. The best lime for black swamp land la fresh water-slaked lime, either that burnt from oyster shells or the stone lime. Al ways buy fresh lime and slake it for yourself and do not freighta lot of water In the so-called agri cultural lime. On land of this kind I would use not less than 30 bushels an acre of the among it at last working. Cut the clover the next Peas, for they will still eat them. The only dlf- its improvement. A poor man with poor tSDrincr anrl turn th and at aam fm mm annx4 fleultT 1b that the' tram nl nor nf thAanfl f vat hoiiv iianiioannAi ntAn mt 1100 an acre0 clover again and repeated this several years, and weather may pack it and make It hard to work ten acres of rich land near market than $10 -tound that I was getting heavier crops of silage the next season unless the stock are takea off In acre for 100 acres away back In the woods and heavier clover, and. that the land was getting time for the frost to pulverize It. thin land. Cowpea Thresher A Koger Pea and Bean Thresher Threshes and cleans cowpeas and bov beans from mown vines as jerfectly as any up-to-date wheat thresher does its work. Less than 2 oi broken peas; leaves vines in fine condition for baling. En dorsed by Prof. Massey. 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