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What Farmers Want to Know
d w. f. massey;
. . '.' Sweet Potatoes . Rotting.
WHAT is the matter with my sweet
potatoes? : I- dug them the first
of November and. they were nice as
anv one could wish. Had the vines
cut off as soon as nipped by frost and
let them stand till No.vember 1. Dug
pie buying ginseng, do not want the
cultivated roots. The editor ot . the
Rural New Yorker recently visited
;the dealers in such, things in New
York, and found that they" unani-
- Tim riioarmiYi; imi
fight the boll weevil, rotate crops,
grow fted for stock and Improve the
land by , the use of legumes, and "after
a: little while you will get over the
scare. : . . ' . . :
: Ikndlins Mnrjre.
I NOTE, that - you advise spreading
manure as soon as hauled to the
field, instead of piling, as saving la
bor. If It is not possible to plow un
- der at once, being left exposed to the
sun,, would - not -the -manure lose- a
great deal of its strength, and value,
ana wouia uoi mo auum, iM A a3 tnQ old sort?,"
mucn or more tnan inesavmg oi ia- , j ,nave . neYer seen a really white
bor in piling till ready to spread-and vpW , hovQ ,c6on cnrna nf .
plow. under? I have .the impression:- Very light color that I intend to plant
-Velvet Beans.
TS THE white velvet bean as early
mously said that the cultivated roots, that manure. lying on the surface de-, Qrder to find out whether it is ear-
wm uot n. uuB u ,wu"ua ui,. , , lier. than the Old sort or not. - The
niiianHtv on hand, said he would like Your imoression is altogether - - A .
them and brought them-to .the barn veryfmuch to get rid of the stuff., If wrong. It loses, when,spread, some' "1 ' T 7 LXaTrnrnPr of
. V 4. 4 1 1 n 1 XX V..t 11 " -r--
inside. as n irosiea.- ; :nft iftli ft hfiar n it ' that is hv mak
4 You want to know what is the mat- lng tno matUre crop and selling the
ter with your, potatoes after you have dry roots, and not by selling plantings
done all you could have done to spoil ts tQ 0ther people. . - -
them: . You' handled them in sacks , j , - - - -
and that -bruised them. You left them . : . . rrL- ' . A
in the cold,: barn and that chilled. ' What Rind pi Lime? ,
them. You put them in a cool place, T T HIGH is best to use, ground lime-.
f Y stone, burnt lime, or lime marl?'
then if he makes it profitable we will - ting it liethere all winter is the best -
way to handle it. One of the experi
ment stations made an experiment by r
spreading manure "on one plot in the 'T WA
: l
fall and plowing it under. On anoth-
and that finished them. This is what
is the matter with them.' To keep
I . regard it as .mainly a matter of
v Broonisedge. ; ;
raised.;, in - the - Cumberland
Vnllfiv e1 Ppnnsvlvnnia. whp.rfl Wfi .
r nlnt. it waa'lP.ft. on thA Riirfar all . " . " . . :-.r . . . . .. . M-
. . r.-. - usea tnree Dig norses io a Dig piow,
winter. On a third it was spread in and j am not familiar with conditions ' ;
the spring, and all plowed and plant- down here x would like to know j
ed to corn.: The plot where the ma- Droomsedge has any fertilizing value
nure lay-all winter on top of the nA wo. .
ground made by far the best crop of
BwBi yuw, . uuiu u- , corn. , Spreading directly from the
aiea'Careiuuy in .uasiteis.' or uua.es, iici6u, ueo-ny iwme a uiuuu. gruuuu .rfaMaa MToa iQv.rtT.
and stored, at once where a high tern- v limestone or marl as of . burnt lime.
perature "can be maintained till they One; thousand pounds of burnt slaked
stables saves labor and manure, too.
have sweated and dried off, and then
a' place where the temperature is not
above 50 will do. Mine are still in
the- baskets they were .'picked up in
the field, in, and are as bright as they ,
were in the digging: But they were
dried off at a temperature of 85 de
grees, uuu are uu w . iu. o : uiuuex auu
temperature,- and we never touch .
them except to 1 take some out for
cooking. ; : I have" not - seen 1 a 1 rotten
one yet. . , Sweet potatoes may not
get actually frosted, and-yet if chilled
when first dug4t will have th same'
effect .You dug them-too late and
"chilled; them, and, of course they
lurneu. oiacK insiae. - . - . -
lime is a fair 'dressing, - but it will
take about a ton of the ground rock
or marl, and it depends on what the
freight will be as to which! should be ;
nsed. One bf the enthusiastic, advo
cates of ground limestone; Mr. Joseph;
v U Fertilizing Alfalfa.
I HAVE a good stand .of alf alfa sown
, this .fall. It was limed,' manured
What shall I ' apply
plowed under?!
v You have plowed under a grass "
sod 1 in Pennsylvania, doubtless, and
.found good from it. v Broomsedge, so
called, is not a sedge; but as true a
grass as timothy, and it will help the
soil if plowed under. It will be rath-.
er slower to decay than a timothy sod, r '
and its., growth generally indicates k
acidity in the soil. Lime should be
, Tobacco After Legumes. ; " ,
TOBACCO dealer says: 'We no
XTL tice in your paper an inquiry t as
to the advisability of growing bright;
tobacco after' peas.- - ;Would -Just . like
to say, by no means do this, for the
simple reason that it will grow your
tobacco, too x coarse and fibrous' for
wrappers and give you a bony texture
and inoculated
now?"
. Give it . 400 .pounds of acid phbs-iNSPread after plowing it ,in:to hasten v
- ' - its decomposition. Broomsedge is far .
better ta.turn under than.no sod.. .
T TNTIL RECENTLY the untold FertUe acres, the favorable conditions, and the
simple wants of the people, have arrested, in agriculture, the operation of
that great law the survival of the fittest It has been said that "anybody canl":
farm. That was, but is not true. 'The unfitted in agriculture will have to
yield for the same reason that many ? little factories, located off the lines o
.transportation, furnished with inadequate power,; machinery and brains' have
been abandoned. Many hillsides 'will be lef t to cover their nakedness with a :
new growth of hardy vegetation. It will thus be seen how weM equipped a
' farmer should be; how fertile in brain, in imagination and resources; how full of
wisdom, of enthusiasm, of faith; how quick to see, how prompt to execute, how
patient to endure under difficulties, if the fertility of hislancl is to be transform.
- ecf into abundant and perfect fruits and flowers. P. Roberts,' ',' ' , -
r Killing Sassafras. - - " -
HOW shall I exterminate sassafras
bushes?" - "V .V
: Cut them off at the ground, but db
not grub .them. Then next summer,
do not allow any to grow. Keep the
tops mowed off and the roots will die. .
Grubbing them out and then letting
,,them grow another season to repeat
the grubbing will only- increase them.
' No plant can lojig;;survive if not al-
lowed to make reen leaves.
Wing, : advises eight to ten tons, an -:
acre, and, of course, no farmer is "go-
ing. to freight and handle that much.
Some of these ground rock advocates
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YiQ VA Q 0"eri t OqI CSV ahmit tflO annual tAn vasoln rr nP esnm r nrlll am
suitable for nothing but the common- " " HLZ .T:": .T 1
bituauvi uavuio xit. u u uv uuio . uvou wj .... tug uuu guuu. OUU 1V.UUC3 UUt UCCU
TtVi.ot a an A Aft nnntivla tt m .twin ; iP ' i-. - , . .. . ,. ''h
potash an acre.. You can apply these ' v" V J :$tZttWetd
at any time, for -they, do not leach rnELT, TOsVm&hfni' nhmit thft irinr-
from the soil as nitrogen does.An 1' ida beggar weed,: and its adapta.
tion to North Carolina?' t . .
ing the organic t matter; lLbut if the - the stable manure.
lime is properly slaked before apply-
in er this p.At hft ignored, an if it did
o -0 :
est kind of a filler.'' -
The great majority of the growers
unite in Bay ings that they cannot grow
clover, r I suppose : that it; must be a4tlW - - -maft- ua nitriflnafW
decay; there for. 'The limestone and
7-
Red Top Grass.
,. ;Let the Florida people have ,the
beggar weed. ,It is of no value in.
North Carolina; Stick to scowpeas.
. and soy beans" and crimson clover,
But this is a matter for the Southern
. experiment f istations i to ; investigate;
Organic matter, from a f resh?ciearing
, of a forest growth does not: seem to
affect - the crop: unfavorably, and it:
would seem that the nitrogen carried
r by the- legumes is .the cause. But
, mere is room nere ior some goou ex
perimental : work; for . if i a tobacco
. grower in the1 bright tobacco sections
w cannot' practice ; a. g6od; rotation and
improve his soil, it j will " be.' a" heavy
drawback to good farming,- Probably
a hoed crop of some other kind-between
. the peas and .tobacco '. would
' remedy the eviC'-.-.v'.'.' ' '.'"'''v'.':.r
W ILL red top 'make good hay here
in Onslow County, North Car-
Double Glazed Hotbed Sashes;
olina?"
marl are all right-if you can afford
to use them as heavily as " needed to
equal burnt lime. ; :;. ' i fine in a mixture with, heavier grasses,
:,;):.;bt-irte.;.toot- .crop mv-l
-. tho. the hay is : excellent.': Iu a mlx-5 e?Z i.S-V'S
well, and you can mix- it with " the
earlier grasses- like the meadow fes-
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Ginseng;
A CORRESPONDENT -writes : "The
Progressive Parmer and other pa
pers speak of 'ginseng suckers..' " Are
you not prejudiced in1 this matter?
'As a matter of fact, is not .ginseng a
paying-xrop? I know that. it is ex
pensive arid requires a good deal of
work-in. the preparation, but with
reasonable success would it not pay?"
5 Ginseng- grows wild only in the
cooler mountairiBections, and will not
tnrive in warmer climates. That Is
Sorghum Bagasse.
HAVE .bought . several ' hundred
bales of the sorghum 'pummies' to
use as a fertilizer, which cost me two
cents a" bale of 50 'pounds. What Is
;the value of this as a fertilizer?" . J
y Ifmight be used as an absorbent
-of manure In the barnyard, but as a
; . fertilizer . it - has very little value. It
has about one-fourth of one per cent
of nitrogen, one-tenth of one per cent
of phosphoric acid, and less than one-
fourth of one per cent of potash. . In
fact I had rather have pine straw or
. oak leaves, as the stuff Is "acid farid
would have to. be composted with
. .Ye,; and .a hay Tery easily cured, vPL
-but a light crop per acre. Red top is -n,, . ; v.f-:
These have been advertised In . The
mine
Louisville, Ky.; Any of the, green-s
house building firms in New York or
v u v . muu , iun wvo i diaoD) nuu , l ; W it T thorn v"
make a -good second cutting -after
these. vWhere timothy does well It
is good to mix with timothy, but' tim
t othy will not amount to much - in
your section. ; ".'W;.-.-: ;.
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Early Garden Peas;
In the Boll Weevil Section;
BOLL -weevil . has us; useless " to
"plant cotton. ' What ;do you think
of Spanish . peanuts" as a money crop
lime during tne winter to make.it of Tplicte ?lot011L ' '
any value;; - - : I V 1 think that while you .may grow
' - . .. peanuts, you, do not want, anything,
" - it 1 s V-si Tiu't. rv " 'In the place of cotton." In the" sec-1
iuaKuig auu riiuipuaic. - tlons where the boll weevil ha hn
PLEASE name, three of the best ;
J I use Nonpareil,-Nott's! Excelsior,
and Amerfcan Wonder for the ear-
liest. The last two are very dwarf, -but
eood bearers and of pond nnnHtv"
Nonpareil grows rather taller and is $
also a good bearer. ;.;:.,;'., . s-k ,
Fall Strawberries.
A NUMBER of ' letters have been re-
I1T E USE a good 'deal of acid phos- longest, ; they have founjl that' they ', --elved asking :,wbere to get' the
VY; phate In mixing fertUizer, .and 1"; can. still grow cotton if they practice fuperb strawberry. You can get them;:
am told that it Is made by. dissolving' ;,a good . rotation of crops and farm from W. P. Allen, Salisbury Md.;;
the rock in sulfuric acid. ' Cannot we well., Of course, ftll-r.dtton: nnA iovrv ; wnos advertisement appears' In The
one thing against it in many of the buy the rock and, acid . and make it year cotton on tne same land is out Progressive Farmer. .He .issues a
Bectlons, people have been writing ourselves?" ':.. .;, -v:. of .the question,. and if the boll weevil - and8?mo inustratedxatalog'
about. . Then if any one haa ma k a a 't.ii n c.mftii win a '
i. ' 11Vi J JX MUUVV Xt IUIO Jll . I DUIBII . nill.VUIJ KUUU 1111 11 1 L Will . 1
"Mr.'J.i'D.-lHjriett, Spencer, . N,' C lend i
a beautiful ear of corn one car of a X25
buihel yield on an acre. JIU plan follow :
1 hare ground hrokn vrv ' .i. nt..
In fln conflltlon; in fact. I almost cultivate
IS! ffifflf 8 B??ril M ekwHi-M JM can buy it. on be a blessing in disguise. "Farmers
market You would need costly.: make money at farming when they
Zl Ln tnZi 18 8t"1 Alined tanks and other apparatus. fa& well in parts of the' country
.Ing maao ny men selline root .i.m n j n .T . '
rt;'nt,of. i V Z "u Blilli Ia uananng ne acia, anu wuerc couou nas never been grown. v""uon, in ia. i almost cultivate
as you can buy it nor as goodi
never, been grown,
if they farm well. Stick to cotton. Iff.papuue a great deal of